she really has done a huge amount of damage to towns and villages and left thousands and thousands of people homeless here in the city they've got to refuse to answer is that people are able to gauge see. the people who have been left homeless staying there the moment they've had a huge amount of volunteers come forward bringing clothes and offering assistance to these people but we've been speaking to some of the locals who witnessed the fires burning their homes they described the shock of the situation and how quickly the fires tore through these towns there really wasn't much chance for the emergency services to reach the earth and anything about it now russia's finance minister has said that this is already run into millions and millions of dollars worth of damage so now it's going to be about trying to help these people who have been left homeless there with the situation we actually went to meet a family to find out how they were caping in the aftermath. it was supposed to be a new beginning instead it was a fiery end just one day after giving birth to baby victoria we know in alexandria

killings house was burnt to the ground it was one of the many inverted nish destroyed by the fierce fire tools three people's homes leaving devastation in its wake move. we've lived here for five years and now this is all that remains of a home now they have to stay in a refuge center one of two in the city that has been set up to help those are being left. when interviewed toria which means victory so i think where we come from before. i think everything will be all right we've got enough help and our life has just started with the heat wave continuing and fires still burning throughout central russia many towns villages and homes remain where emergency services have been battling to gain control of the situation. now the situation is under control at least eighty houses have burned down during the fire at least one

person died in this village probably when the man desperately trying to leave his burning house was struck by a falling one of the electric shock killed him. well so many have lost their houses to the fire kareena and alexandra remain great. they could have lost a lot more. for a knish. what a blanket of small continues to cover with a strong smell of smoke being felt across the city water being planned of the capitol and across russia to pray for rain out soft. called on wash to do you say visiting one of the worst affected regions in russia forecasters predict temperatures of up to forty one degrees celsius in moscow this week. still ahead this hour the european fall is getting some serious food for thought. less than a decade ago and garion ducks were sold to everywhere across western europe and the

c.i.s. but now that all are of this dog for us to seek other markets including japan and china it has been very hard for him to sell it because on continent. wide joining the european union is leaving home during his land of plenty of the sad. chinese authorities say they've managed to retrieve almost all of the barrels which was sweeping down the flooded river towards russia but the worry is that several drums are thought to be already leaking dangerous chemicals into the water to go to an office more from russia's far east. chinese authorities do say that they've managed to extract nearly sixty four hundred barrels out of the seven thousand that were washed into the sun or river four days ago as a result of a flood however the cleanup operation is far from over first of all three thousand barrels out of those which were washed into the water contain toxic substances

including acids which may be harmful to the environment and it's not clear how many barrels out of the remaining ones in the water contain these substances secondly chinese media has now reported that some of the barrels were damaged and have leaked some of the chemical substances into the sun corridor and they were detected by specialists all of this is of course raising a major concern in russia since the sun wherever joins the river which you can see behind me over there and that's a major source of fresh water in russia's far east in general and especially in the city of ask where i'm standing now and despite the fact that chinese authorities have now built eleven barriers to prevent the remaining barrels from reaching russia the big question is whether these barriers will be will be enough to collect the chemicals if indeed they got into the water unfortunately this is not a new situation for the locals here just last winter they saw a huge oil spill right on the wood which also arrived from china and they were not

able to drink fresh water only were able to drink it using special filters and the clean up operation was quite expensive as well of stories now see that if the chemicals really got into the water it should take them around a week to reach the russian chinese border and another week to reach out of school but they are already planning ways to distribute fresh water to the local population in case of contamination does occur to us specialists are currently monitoring the quality of the are moving at least twice a day and the russian emergencies ministry says that they will increase the number of monitoring stations in around a week but thankfully so far none of. have reported any abnormalities in the almost be called. the on line whistle blow away he says following up its massive expose their afghan war secrets by pasting a mysterious encrypted file called insurance the file size is huge about one hundred times bigger than most of the album files posted but so far no one's been

able to decrypt it there's speculation on the web that a pulse was the archive could be distributed if anything happened to the site or its founder julian assange. i met spoke to him earlier about the criticism wiki leaks facing after its major revelation. of this material doesn't print the behavior of any. any military group. and i fly it has blood on them on all sides so we knew that. it had a great importance as a historical document from the primary source. of investigation we also know from those sorts of cases that were there with reviews. that we always get pushed back were never would be would be used by someone with a vision we always get that organization or its friends pushing back to try and steer the message away from you know it's

a pretty racist. american journalist published leaked pentagon papers on the vietnam war forty years ago has been sharing his views on the wiki leaks scandal with say he thinks the website's found son should be worried as well here in just over an hour's time. he was going to get there and he was going to be under the heat with the military and you know institutions are going to get. angry over this and this is a major embarrassment to these people that. a leak on this scale would occur particularly to apparently contain sensitive you know names of informants they could get people killed. so they were bound to go after people who make leaks like this whoever leaked it and distributed. always have an axe to grind. where one of the wiki leaks revelations was that song has been playing a double game with the u.s.

the documents are just as i'm about to billions of dollars in aid from washington while the spy agency was supporting the taliban among is now calling for america to review its policy there is the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee aussies but she unless you're going to curse solve explains. i agree with senator john kerry that it's high time and actually it's long overdue for the u.s. policy in afghanistan to be away calibrated but to accelerate their recalibration of years policy in afghanistan it would be very helpful even the next week killick exposure we'll disclose that link between the cia. and we'll provide top secret data for both the military and intelligence analyst and to the world public at large that will expose beyond their reasonable doubt the c.i. a criminal connection and fattal attraction to the dragon lords as

their cherished and protected assets in afghanistan in pakistan and beyond and this type of disclosure real facilitate and percipient they'd the most important decision for the u.s. commander in chief in his first and last presidential term that is to call it quits pack up and go home or to stow beating around the bush and unleash their war on drugs in this southern heartland of afghanistan that would be the only way for the u.s. commander in chief and one time u.s. president to exonerate his own and the usa credibility in the eyes of the whole world and to justify the nine of the nine years of the operation enduring futility in afghanistan. well you can find more of these going to walk on our

website at www dot com there's also more than just the latest news that a quick look at what else is online few at the moment. about the role which some leading russians have paid in u.s. history with american quits. and some news with a smile and it's hard to take what's happening in russia hun's a broad in our exclusive call to calorie all of that dot com. well the rich and first hollands of hungary have long made it an enviable source for food production but farmers there say that they're slowly being starved of business since joining the e.u. . he's been hearing about that plight. this is one of the biggest bird farms in

hungary more than ten thousand guineas and ducks bring quite a profit for its owner liver goose and duck eggs are in high demand he says his land is perfect for this kind of business in the countries in western europe in the u.s. we hungry keeper birds in open spaces want to claim an environment allows that that's why did the world a world produce. less than a decade ago hundred gary and ducks were sold to everywhere across western europe and the c.i.s. but now the owner of this dock farm has to seek other markets including japan and china because it's been very hard for him to sell it on continent he says that ever since his country became a member of the european union he had to reduce his stalk almost two fold. the russian market i mean buyer in favor of the market return now that you're apart from france wasn't interested in our products this seriously in fact that the demand and farm owners had to secure their stock because according to new

regulations keeping it was too costly before the collapse of the socialist regime and nine hundred ninety hungary was one of europe's breadbaskets its agricultural sector was a strong part of the economy and countries of the post soviet space actually imported hungary in products in two thousand and four the country was accepted into the european union but instead of greener pastures which e.u. membership promised and care in farming suffered a serious blow. didn't want to. improve the situation and really wanted to get down on markets and have done it they don't need our production they produce. enough meat to fly and they produce everything they want people to buy that production. but it is bad for us it's like a situation if a colony. brussels have a special program to develop regional agriculture and which promise bigger income

for farmers but experts say it has brought little result local producers have been losing more than a third of their revenue every year since two thousand and four compared to the nine hundred ninety s. and now even their own market is practically close to them i mean their foreign supermarkets flooded the hungarian market with cheap goods which are being far better promoted than domestic products and according to e.u. regulations we cannot these supermarkets to sell only our products the only thing we have managed to do to avoid a complete destruction of the local market is to push through legislation which obliges the shops to have at least thirty percent of domestic production on their shelves hungary has a moratorium on purchases of farmland by foreign as farmers say this is the only thing which keeps their agricultural sector from being completely overrun the ban expires in april next year and it's unclear whether the euro commission will allow budapest to extend it. lets us have ski r.t.

reporting from hungary. ok let's have a check on what else is dominating the world's headlines today and the massive floods which are waging through northwestern pakistan have now killed at least one thousand one hundred people emergency workers are struggling to save thousands of others who are still trapped the situation's being made in spite of form disease with some of those in rescue comes suffering with fever and skin problems the u.n. estimates that about a million people are affected by the country's worst monsoon rains in memory. truck is in greece have suspended a week long strike to begun moving their vehicles the drivers agreed to resume talks with the government which wants to open up the industry to competition that was part of the deal in securing bailout funds from the i.m.f. the seriously disrupted fuel and other supplies across the country it also affected

the vital tourist trade which is entering its peak periods. a huge blast in southern gaza has leveled the house of a senior hamas commander killing him and injuring thirty two others are loud enough it was a known weapons and there's speculation that the device kids have accidently detonated palestinian officials say an israeli airstrike cools the explosion but israel's military denies this. eight people have been killed in kashmir is protests against india rule intensified on sunday security forces fired at thousands of demonstrators killing for an angry crowd and set fire to these station causing formula deaths i mean if since two inside exploded over thirty six weeks of protests. coming up soon russian athletes in the lead they've won most medals at the european championships in barcelona more no winning streak in all

sport fun date in an hour. and a russia's fountains are now makeshift swimming pools as the heat wave continues its scorching grip on the country but are all those who've been taking the plunge every year no matter what the weather's like there the russian power troopers were making the second of all give the eightieth anniversary of their creation of the branch this time even the police say they don't mind the troopers taking a dip so long as they don't disturb the public it's estimated that about five thousand blue berets will gather to celebrate in a. i think it's the daniel business news for us this morning in europe's stock market the start of the month. haven't they was going on goes up along the open sure. a little later but first the world's top aluminum producer russia's roussel says it's ready to. nickel coralie each owns

a twenty five percent stake. in the nickel and played a minor in two or three said we secured the majority of seats on the north bald claims was a through dylan faute is demanding the election is held again. the u.k. is warning that russia's drought could cause a double digit rise in food prices before christmas russia is a major food exporter but record temperatures this summer are expected to hold exports there are also fears the government could start an export ban to protect domestic supplies some experts say the inflation of goods like dairy and meat is scary and could push the country into another recession. despite those worries egypt says it will buy one hundred eighty thousand tons of russian wheat that's according to the head of egypt's role will tour of procurement administration egypt is the world's largest wheat importer by around five and a half million tons a year. we will call john duff diverse assented stuff on holiday saying it's too

hot to work employees at the toyota factory down tools all this week of the meteorologist said temperatures will top forty five degrees celsius the closure comes as a blow to the company which is up production in recent months of the rebound in sales. russian manufacturing is growing it is forced to pay since april two thousand and eight figures out this morning show the sectors purchasing managers index rose to fifty two point seven last month from fifty two point six in june driven by it grows in commodity prices investors will be watching closely for signs of improvement across the world as states roll out july manufacturing figures throughout the day. capital has become one of russia's top investment banks in just two years the f.t. reports the firm's chief credit expansion policy at the time when most lenders were cutting back roybal say states has an unfair advantage with the government automatically adding it to every deal. after over

a decade of debates russia has signed a law clamping down on insider trading the new legislation clarifies and defines concepts such as insider information market manipulation business or to talk to the head of the federal financial markets service to find out what it will change. but it took us a while to find a definition for insiders those who have access to insider information by the nature of their work since we're talking about the public organized market where fair prices are formed and the attempts to manipulate the market the made this includes employees of large companies trading once primarily who have access to information that can significantly affect quotes that means employees of financial institutions who work with documents of joint stock companies and with certain categories of clients and therefore have access to information on the volumes of applications and demand an offer on various financial institutions which could be used to influence quote. a particular section of the law lays out responsibility of

government employees and workers of organizations who do inspections and have access to such information as a result of the way according to this law one of the key insiders is that federal financial markets service its employees assume a rather high responsibility as they have access to such information and moreover this law covers the actions of the central bank of russia in cases where it performs transactions on the financial markets except for those transactions in regard to monetary policy. and what kind of people are most likely to trespass the law same traders executive journalists be sure that under this law journalists over another important category of insiders presenting this fact are correctly was a matter of extensive arguments and discussions but i believe that the law provides for market security meaning that the media will not be used as an improper information leak to affect the market it takes one hundred eighty days for

a law to come into force so we have enough time to prepare the main legal because some provisions of this law will come into force in a year and criminal liability as well consequently be established over the next three years i think that we have plenty of. time is not only to make decisions on major issues but also to clarify and perhaps even amend laws which may have been indorsed by that time will there be a regulatory news service or the companies announcement concerning the share price . we're still looking at the issue of determining the terms for disclosing this information in the rest of the world information that significant to the market is disclosed not randomly but rather before the bidding starts in order that everyone should become familiar with it we have such plans i believe this will take place alongside the implementation of the law. time to check out the stock markets now here in moscow the altar opened on

a high on the strong manufacturing news energy majors are also gaining as the price of light sweet holds in the eighty dollars a barrel but my six is also gaining has just opened now. spread into the red in the first few minutes of trade investors head of manufacturing output for july out later today profits of. almost a third in quarter two to over two billion euros strength at its high street business offset weakness in the investment bank division kompany shares are up almost four percent in paris other financials are also on the news. and over in asia stocks are in the black in lunch time trading earlier fears due to wall street's weakness in the previous session have been raised so many games as well as largely due to improved results from the u.s. hong kong shares are up over one percent profit taking pressure mounting this continues the op would trend for the ball softer the markets rose in the previous

eight out of nine trading sessions. china says it's leapfrog japan to become the world's second largest economy the country's g.d.p. hit almost five trillion dollars last year a fraction below japan's but beijing says it's astonishing eleven percent growth in the first half of the. has already put this g.d.p. at over five and a half trillion the world bank says china will overtake the u.s. as the world's biggest economy by twenty twenty. that's the latest for this hour you can find most stories on our web site called slash business.

culture is that so much about the taxpayers' money mentoring is a should be the bottom people at area the wages of sin in the global economy is far from out of crisis but that cannot be said about gambling it's a growth industry and it's. every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world join us knology update on r g. would be so much brighter if you knew about songs from phones to pressure inside.

these phones totty dot com. well. this vote for bush. the bush

always adds by one vote for kerry for kerry so the people that are going to be validating this machine can stand there all day long and vote for somebody and it will be right every time but the guy can walk up here and if he hits the right buttons. they can flip the boat that.

the a little. a little. a very warm welcome to his home paul fail him ok this is a fun follow says the battling blazes in many circles by the record breaking heat

wave enjoying the almost plausible way he claimed to see four lives in that the two thousand take this small continues to blanket several cities including moscow. chinese emergency workers have managed to retrieve most of the toxic barrels that swept into a flooded river and were heading for but they're all fears that some of the drums have already beat the coals which is troubling pollution downstream. the online whistle blow wiki leaks is following up its not sit disclosures of american afghan war couple robb's it's posted a launch encrypted file for insurance which some say can be deciphered of any thing happens to the site or it's found. here those are the headlines here on the break. his guess about reality t.v. and if it has any social value beyond entertainment stay away.

if. any. of. the you. want to. follow in the welcome to cross talk on peter lavelle the wages of sin the global economy is far from out of crisis but that cannot be said about gambling it's a growth industry and it's only getting bigger home tightly regulated should it be and does government oversight condone gambling. and. to discuss the pros and cons of gambling i'm joined by richard.