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 what people are able to gauge see say that 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 do 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 queen who in

alexandria kulaks house was burnt to the ground it was one of the many inverted nish destroyed by the fierce fire tools three people 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 that been left. when entire victoria which means victory so i think where we come from before. i think everything will be all right we've got enough help on our life has just started with the heat wave continuing and fires still burning throughout central russia many towns villages and homes remain an. 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 falling wires the electric shock killed him well as many have lost their houses to the fire kareena and alexandra remain great knowing that like so they could have lost a lot more sara fares. for a national. in the heat is set to stay with record breaking temperatures likely to keep russia roasting until mid august blankets of smog are still choking many cities including moscow artie's roof no snow is in the center of the capital as a record breaking heat wave continues to literally torture russia and temperatures are constantly go in our mosco the capital mosco is quite literally smoke rainfall for more than a week old readies the smoke from massive forests and people fires in the central russia has been blanketing the capital and all the central mission cities and now

the old boy on day very big veil of smoke as you can see behind me visibilities wide law and thus far is russian ministry were majesties is now reporting at least very mormon dozens of blasi zala continue to outrage in the area surrounding most and daily about two hundred half tears a burning bed to bowl so they smoke has badly polluted the air and specially say that their pollution is ten times higher than normal level and with a situation so war as one of the big war raises the impact is going to have people how to tie the knot right now i can feel quite clearly these sort of rather strong smell of burning in the air and is rather hard to breathe here and doctors recommend to ease what mast especially say that concentrations present ration health problems and all the dangerous substances is so haul you that breathe in

these here for a few hours is equivalent to smoking forty say grace a ways far as freddy's for all it's russia can take his old so you present him on people and the situation they had to reach is also extrude has a trick kid who has called for people to prayed for rain and this is. all the believers across russia are now doing these he has literally tortured precious seems made. it's hard to breathe until the exhaust fumes from cause we have this smoke now it's not pleasant. it's hot soon it will be like it is in the tropics bananas will grow on the birch trees instead of potatoes people will plant pineapples. but it was the last two weeks of being extremely difficult in moscow it's hard people don't feel like working it's hard to breathe when you wake up in the morning i feel some discomfort in my chest the sun makes my head hot so it's

impossible to work do business or whatever. for policies nor that all up to me six year old just say that they state will only intensify in the next days and the temperature could even reach forty one degrees says they say that their protein called strong may reduce the temperature in the city called moscow to thirty degrees says but only in the second harmful forecast here at our team live from moscow still ahead this hour of the your pm farmers getting some serious from this far. less than a decade ago hundred garion ducks were sold to everywhere across western europe and the c.i.s. but now the older of the stock farm house to seek other markets including egypt. because it's been very hard for him to sell it. but look at why joining the e.u. is leaving hungary's land of plenty starved of awful later.

russia's found right now makes its believe that the heat wave continues but there are those that take the plunge every year. during the russian paratroopers who are keeping cool while celebrating a special enforcement. of the online whistleblower wiki leaks is following up its massive exposé of afghan war secrets by posting a mysterious encrypted file called insurance the file size is huge about a hundred times bigger than most of the other files post it but so far no one has been able to decrypt it argues more and that has more from london. we knew very little about this file we do know it's one point four gigabytes which is quite a large file and as you say big and the over the documents much bigger than any of the documents the eighty thousand documents that wiki leaks posted last week it's name insurance and i mean it's not known why why they would have called it that but we can speculate some of what could be going on here is an encrypted file.

on the website so obviously we're not meant to be able to and experts all the experts in the business is saying that is that one file like this when one feels under threat in some way what they think will happen is that if any harm comes to judy national ourselves or any of his he will possibly even the website itself then the key will be sent out posted on the website and everybody will be able to open it and it will reveal some sort of huge secret now as to why wiki leaks mice have done this he may have made some enemies last week of course he made this posting of eighty thousand documents which revealed secrets about the afghan war that the u.s. authorities in the fighting forces wanted to keep secrets he may feel under threat because of that from them in some way but we should also examine the possibility that this is a publicist. if you just look at the timing it's monday morning here in london now

and this information has only recently been released this week there was a lot of news about wishy leaks because of the release of baseballs that is just starting to die down just as it is dying away he placed a file on his website called insurance and buy it in another news cycle that starts on monday this week it's got a lot of people talking about it because the file is encrypted and we can't see what's in it it's got a lot of people talking without him even having to post any kind of new information this last week's leak of the eighty thousand files was one of the biggest leaks in u.s. . military history and that is notable about it but there were thousands of files incident reports things that happened on the grounds that the u.s. military during the normal course of things doesn't want really want people to know but then that they were all of a sudden the public to me and of course it is shocking to see that information together and percentage for everybody to see but yes there has been some i'm told that that wasn't really anything new in it we do know that civilians were dying we

did know that the soldiers on the ground were covering up the rate at which civilians were being killed either by just playing down the numbers or by making calling civilians insurgents and that report. was really a detailed account of the pricing over the last six years and that is noticeable in it so. well neal she had an american journalist who published leaked pentagon papers on the vietnam war forty years ago has been sharing his views on the wiki leaks scandal with r.t. he thinks the web site's founder julian the song 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 the military and institutions are going to get. to get angry over this is a major embarrassment to these people that. a leak on this scale would occur particularly. 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 the sons who distributed. hallways have an ax to grind i. know chinese authorities say they've managed to retrieve all of the barrels which were sweeping down a flooded river towards russia where use that several drums are thought to have already leaked dangerous chemicals into the water. has more from russia's far east . 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 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 this city. where i'm standing now and despite the fact that chinese authorities have now built eleven barriers to prevent their 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 the 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 authorities now say 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're 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 them have reported any abnormalities in the ecology. and of course for more on any of the stories we're covering head on to our dot com there's also more than just the latest news that's to come up there for you right now learn about a role with some leading russians have played in u.s. history with our russian. american quiz. and news with a smile an alternative take on what's happening in russia and the fraud in our exclusive cartoon gallery only at our team dot com.

well the rich and first wild lands of hungary have made it an inevitable source for food production but farmers there say they're slowly being starved of business since joining the e.u. argues alexy been hearing about their point. this is one of the biggest bird farms in hungary more than ten thousand geese 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 how 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 it has 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 stock almost two fold. as the russian market i mean buyer in favor of the market but it turned out that europe 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 gary in forming suffered a serious blow to european union didn't want to. improve the situation in hungary he only wanted to get down get on markets and he have done it

they don't need our production they produce. enough meat enough line to produce everything they want to have getting 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 promises 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 nineteen ninety s. and now even they're all market is practically close to the. 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 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 these shops to have at least thirty percent of domestic production on their

shelves hungary has a moratorium on purchases of farmland by foreigners former 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 love budapest to extend it. looks euro chef ski r.t. reporting from hungary but they go about what else is dominating world headlines this monday the massive floods which are raging through northwestern pakistan have now killed at least one thousand one hundred people emerge and the workers are struggling to save thousands of others who are still trapped in situations being made worse by water borne disease where some of those in rescue camps suffering with fever and skin problems the un estimates that about one and a half million people are affected by the country's worst one soon rains in memory . and truckers in greece have suspended a weeklong strike and begun moving their vehicles the drivers agreed to resume

talks with the government which wants to open up their industry to competition that was part of the deal in securing bell out funds from the i.m.f. the strike seriously disrupted fuel and other supplies across the country and it also affected the vital taurus trade which is entering. it's peak period. coming up later on r t v russian athletes in the lead they won most medals at the european championships in barcelona more on their winning streak in our sports bulletin coming up next hour. russian paratroopers are marking the eightieth anniversary of the creation of their unit about five thousand blue berets are gathering in moscow to celebrate and. has been mingling with. this is the russians mountains turning into swimming pools because the barretts rivers and this is a tradition they have of celebrating their whole day they jump in the fountains of course usually it's frowned upon but this year russian authorities but usually

allow them to do so because this is extraordinary. the russia they're considered to be the most elite sports all for the russian army the remote is no one badass and the two distinctive features old thing uniforms are the stripey shirts. like he said the. great. during the cold war soviet so the soviet union i mean seeing the largest airborne force in the world's rivers forts in the word of god is sung during both and sites or it contains when i was doing the research into georgia south of said like you said they were formed eighty years ago the unit was formed eighty years ago in nineteen nineteen thirty one for the first time during war games outside moscow twelve people jumped out of the plane giving a start to the most wild. c. in the world and so the red army was the first one to implement their border units

. that wraps up our main news walk here in our team but stay with us farther joins us with a life business update. and i are welcome to the business program hey on our russian tycoon has offered to buy rival that he may have put ton in out of mining giant nickel off the accusing him of bad management there a path to says he could make the world's largest nickel but use the think could be more profitable through good leadership their profits were fell into town and into roth currently own blocking states akash rich mine. the u.k. is warning that russia's drought could cause a double digit rise in food prices before christmas rush is a may. food exporter the record temperatures this summer are expected to halt exports there are also fears the government could start an export ban to protect domestic supplies some experts say the inflation of goods like wheat dairy and meat

is scary and could push the country into another recession. staying with this and russia's agree to sell one hundred eighty thousand tons of wheat to egypt the african state the world's largest importer shonda slim the offer from the united states grain prices have shot up on the news. but the head of russia's that grain union believes the prices are overheated. from the only four fundamental factors do not support current green prices last week we reached two hundred forty dollars per tonne but this price is quite groundless according to the latest forecast of the global green council green reserves will reach one hundred ninety two million tons this year compared to last year's record volume of one hundred ninety seven million tonnes is that really such a big difference if the decrease is just five million tonnes but the average price has jumped from one hundred eighty dollars to two hundred forty some levels. car

giant after all of our the third star on holiday saying it's too hot to work workers that the toyota factory will lay down tools all this week after temperatures are predicted to top forty five degrees celcius the closure comes the blow to the company which is up production in recent months after abound in sales. russia's manufacturing growing at its fastest pace in april two thousand and eight figures out on monday show the sectors purchasing managers index rose to fifty two point seven last month from fifty two point six in june driven by rising commodity prices investors will be watching closely for signs of improvement across the world as states roll out july manufacturing figures through the day. betty be kept as become one of russia's top investment banks in just two years according to the financial times the firm's head credit expansion policy at a time when most lenders are cutting back but rivals say state own b.

has an unfair advantage with the government automatically adding it to every deal. after over a decade of debating russia has signed a law clamping down on insider trading the new version clarifies and defines concepts such as insider information a market manipulation among others business r.t. talked to the head of the federal financial markets service to find out what will change. you know i think at this moment a little reflects the current level of development of the market the understanding of the need for tougher regulations of this market and the experience that's been accumulated by the regulatory bodies and market participants the law is absolutely balanced i don't think it's going to be softened and as for the introduction of stricter measures i don't think we'll have to make a lot tougher it's more likely that the practice of law enforcement will be perfected but the luck of the trading law was the last obstacle for russia to adopt the memorandum of international organization of securities commissions what will

change now. we've taken account of remarks made to us by the international organization of securities commissions we've practically removed all points of criticism we've extended the time for storing documents subject to control and supervision we've imposed strict regulations for using confidential information we've introduced the right of access to banking secrets both of physical persons and legal entities and we already have the right to broker accounts that's why i think we've removed all obstacles we expect the international organization of securities commissions will carry out new checks in the good sense of the word with regards to this law its wording and its practical application and we hope that by the end of the year we'll be able to finish all the necessary formalities and procedures for joining the i ask you a memorandum of your. final check out of stock markets here in moscow the two main both of the right one point seven percent in elf named after that strong

manufacturing is energy majors are gaining at the price of like wheat holds near eighty dollars a barrel the country's top which is several there is up two and a half percent on the r.t.s. . here are also growing today after profit the french lead the m.p. pair of thought but almost a third in the second quarter over two year. the strength of his high street business is offset weakness in the investor by the vision the company shares up some five percent in paris for germany's top retailer metro isn't his main lose there in frankfurt after unveiling a fifteen percent drop in second for certain their profits. china says it's leap from 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 the beijing says astonishing eleven percent growth in the first half of the year has already put its g.d.p. at over five and a half trillion the world bank says china will overtake the u.s.

economy as the world's biggest by twenty twenty. update for this hour you can always find all stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business. culture is that so much about the experience i mean it's a reason to be

a lot of people are curious wages and to be able economy is far from a crisis but that cannot be said about gambling it's a growth industry it's. every month we give you the future we help you understand how it will get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world to join us for debt knology update on our g.

crosstalk is coming up here in our team but first a look at today's top stories firefighters are battling blazes in many parts of russia one of the record breaking heat wave lies well the wildfires have already

claimed at least thirty four lives and left over two thousand homeless small and continues to blanket several cities including most county. chinese authorities claim they've retrieved all the toxic barrels that swept into a flooded river and headed towards russia is thought some of the drums have already leaked chemicals which are threatening pollution downstream. and the all mine whistle blower wiki leaks is following up it's not some disclosure of american afghan war coverups that's posted a large encrypted file called insurance which some say can be deciphered if anything happens to the site or it's. because of the headlines after a short break peter the bell talks to his guests about reality t.v. and if it has any social value beyond entertainment.

if you. listen to. live. alone and welcome to cross talk i'm 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 play. and if you. live. to discuss the pros and cons of gambling i'm joined by richard we're going in stamford he's a professor at boston college and the author of the gambling debate.