that's where we should be very careful and cautious but we must remember that one dropped match could result in disaster the government understands its unconditional responsibility our main task today is to help the victims get back to their normal lives as soon as possible and as more than two thousand people have been left homeless. there are a lot of children elderly little people among them have given instructions to the governments and to regional authorities to allocate money to each and everyone who has and could losses this money is already being allocated we must provide housing to everyone who has been left homeless all the should be done before it gets cold i will assign certain contractors who will immediately get down to their work without any changes the government will live up to its obligations people are already uniting to help those who have lost everything in a single moment that's common practice around the world. but for now firefighters about one hundred eighty thousand of them are going from scene to

scene trying to put out fires and they're getting help from the military but the problem is the weather not only is it excessively hot we're we're seeing temperatures but this heat also sparking fires in fields and the winds are taking these fires and displacing them around so firefighters are going to one feed and put out the blaze then go to another and have to fight and how long will these fires continue to go we don't know but we do what we are hearing from ecologist that the damages to our forest preserves could take decades to recover from and the effects of these fires are even being felt in moscow where there is a thick heavy smog that's a blanketing the city my colleague mary of the national there is more continues to blanket the russian capital and multiplied by this heat over thirty five degrees so this is where it makes life here in the city just unbearable just challenging him.

well say they're struggling they're now surviving for more than a week already though the smoke from a massive forest and people fires in the central russia my colleague states has just been talking about has been covering most going down the central russian cities it's been even worse and earlier in the morning when visibility was just three meters but anyway we can still clearly feel that strong smell of burning and still it's very hard to breathe the reason feel like there is a lack of oxygen in this city and how facts praise saying that air pollution is a very high sometimes in some parts of the city it is a ten times higher than normal safety limits doctor is a sign that the concentration of colborne and all the dangerous substances is so hard that britain these air here in most go is equivalent to smoking two three packs of cigarettes in just a few are was with fires frightening cross russia panic is full we need them on people and the fear is a rising power over the impact it's going to have own people's condition and

people's health we have been able to speak to some people here on the streets of moscow does not listen to what they have to say about the holiday concerned about their children 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 or whatever 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 bombs fortunately this record breaking heat wave has been literally torture in russian it's people to major in but their worst news is that there is never any sign is going to stop anytime soon and measure alters is saying that it will only intensify within the next few days and they say that the temperature could even rage up to forty one. degree says so several temperature records how

would have been registered in russia this summer maybe more to come and in this situation we have to be stronger and have to protect ourselves as much as possible as it's obvious that this nightmare is far from over. because we have them on station to keep you updated on that huge developing story of the past couple of weeks r.t. dot com is the place to be the videos on there as well if you're affected by it let us know at r.t. dot com. developing news story a small russian passenger plane tonights crashed in siberia while it was landing in rainy weather details still sketchy coming through from the emergency services but it's initially been reported that of the fifteen on board eleven have died. and ton of twenty four was on its way from the capital of the cross and you are screeching to the northern city guard and hit the ground seven hundred meters from the runway while landing we know there are four crew members and eleven passengers

were on board. all those four survivors are all in hospital one of them we're here is in a critical condition firefighters and rescue is a still see the fire has been secured now but a search is underway for the black box recorder i would insist said they saw the plane swerving from right to left as it tried to land the last downturn of twenty four aircraft was manufactured more than thirty years ago. israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu says his country will take part in the united nations investigation into the storming of a garza bound aid flotilla the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon announced the probe into the raid where nine turkish activists were killed by israeli soldiers outrage over the deaths led to mounting international pressure on the jewish state paula slayer explains more. what we hearing is that in principle israel will agree to a united nations probe into the photo ready to back you may you know this is unprecedented it's also significant because on the ninth of june the israeli prime

minister benjamin netanyahu is on record as saying that he will never allow an international probe that this states a dangerous precedent and you need to remember of course that previous investigations have never had any kind of israel participation previous international investigations and this is because israel believes that primarily the united nations and other international bodies prejudge it before actually coming here but what we're hearing now is that the israeli prime minister has tossed his defense minister to tell american officials where the is at the moment in new york that is what in principle will agree to handing over papers and putting forward it's augmenting what happened in this gaza flotilla raid it seems that international pressure has played its part the diplomatic fallout was unprecedented you had demonstrations a mosque just throughout the world you had countries pointing israeli ambassadors for some kind of explanation as to how they maybe had behaved in this process that and here in this well you also had many governments considering in fact some going

as far as to do so to actually report their ambassadors from here most israelis still believe that this was a deliberate provocation they do not believe that the gaza flotilla was a humanitarian aid they believe that they were a significant number of militants on board especially on board the ship and they do also think that there was an attempt to try and smuggle weapons into gaza having said that though they risk criticism and a lot of debate here among the israeli public as to how the navy conducted itself with questions being raised and some of these questions in fact were raised i mean to the on the israeli military probe it questioned and it actually put forth the suggestion that there had not been sufficient intelligence gathering and also that there were question marks over what over the way the handled itself so these are the questions israelis have as to why the navy in fact had to behave in such a way that it missed nine people dead but they. i haven't actually criticized the fact as to whether or not he was legitimate most israelis believing that it was and i want to also add on their point that there is a small voice within israel

a voice that does support the international community's call for the lifting of the blockade with some israelis holding demonstrations and some israelis saying that in fact this for taylor wasn't humanitarian effort and it should have been allowed to cross through into gaza paula slayer there our correspondent in tel aviv barack obama says the u.s. is still on track for pulling out all combat troops from iraq by the end of august but he also hinted that an american presence would remain in the country for the forseeable future by saying quote the u.s. sacrifice would not ended the war torn country i spoke to james doohan sello he's a writer of mideast politics and security he told me i was trying to work like the iraq war is not his business. the u.s. has has always been withdrawn from iraq as a bomber talked about today he was. unsure of the speeding up of the process of withdrawing from iraq handover to a more of a combat support than a combat role in the coming months and technically the country entirely by the end of next year what's interesting i think is that obama has always distanced himself

from the iraq war joe biden his vice president has been the emissary to iraq in recent months i think he's using this remind that he's the president to take u.s. troops out of iraq to be the same amount of support for his war in afghanistan where last month the u.s. experienced the biggest loss of the war so far it's a sort of irony that barack obama decided to make this announcement as iraq last month in jordan its worst month of violence for the past two years over five hundred people killed in shootings and bombings across the country so one thing you have are the rockies. and i feel that in terms of the government's ability to make policy and its ability to secure its own people significantly compromised. and barack obama has a new potential confrontation on his hands after iran's president challenged him to a face to face media debate but then responded to mike mullen statement on a u.s. talk shows saying that

a strike on iran is an option if diplomacy fails to stop the country's nuclear ambitions speaking a news conference in toronto on monday the iranian president went on to say military confrontation was not something his country was considering this all comes of course is around faces new international sanctions riddled by washington over the islamic republic's nuclear program. is a founder of the american political action committee he told me the admiral statements intended to show the military might of the u.s. . and the reason for the timing of that is because the u.s. is concerned and the obama administration is concerned that as they pursue this sanctions policy that. seems to be pursuing an appeasement policy in a way that is going to fail and they feel that the whole sanctions track will be ineffective if they don't do wield a credible military threat there's been some there was some internal deliberations within the administration and there was some concern that the iranians were not

taking the threat of the u.s. military response seriously enough and so these comments are really directed to three different audiences one is towards iran obviously to try to use the carrot and stick approach and continue to use a carrot and stick approach and emphasize that that stake is real to the extent that the iranians may not be taking it as seriously under the obama administration as under the bush administration by the second is to the domestic u.s. audience and in the u.s. there is some concern by many people that this this whole track the whole sanctions track is doomed to fail and so for the administration it's important especially with the elections coming up and so on not to be perceived as being weak on security and to hold this threat out seriously and finally the third target of course is the israelis and the israelis of course are concerned that this this whole new sanctions process is just something that will by the iranians more time

and so they they want reassurance from the u.s. . so son go to monday talk to me then. richen first of hungary of long made it an enviable source for food production is there now you say that since joining the european union in two thousand and four they've been losing business. he's been hearing all about their 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 and duck eggs are in high demand he says his land is perfect for this kind of business interest in western europe and the u.s. keeper birds. want to climb in the brain when allows that that's why did the world of 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 the farm has to seek other markets including japan and china

it has been very hard for him to sell it 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 by are in favor of the market return now that you're apart from france wasn't interested in our products this seriously in fact. and farm owners had to secure their stocks 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 membership promised and care in farming suffered a serious blow. didn't want to. improve the

situation and. only wanted to get down on markets and he have done it they don't need our production they produce. enough meat to produce our. 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 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'm glad 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 the 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 foreigners farmers say this is the only thing which keeps their agricultural sector from being completely overrun the van expires in april next year and it's unclear whether the euro commission will allow budapest to extend it. looks serious ascii art see reporting from hungary. the online whistleblower wiki leaks has followed up its publishing of classified afghan war documents with an encrypted file it's about one hundred times bigger than most of the other recently posted files no one's yet been able to decipher it laura emma tries to shed some light on the mystery. 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 than any of 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 more sort of what could be an encrypted file. on the website so obviously we're not meant to be able to. 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 do to national ourselves or any of his 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 revealed secrets about the afghan war that the us 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 here in london and this information has 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 by it's in another news cycle it starts on monday this week also 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. 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 it and that they were all of

a sudden the public to me and of course it is shocking to see that information. presented for everybody to see but yes there has been some i'm told that that wasn't really anything new and if we did 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 so by making calling civilians in. reports. that were in these really detailed accounts of the pricing over the last six years and that it's noticeable in itself. lauren the secrets on the wiki leaks website have been condemned by u.s. officials leaks and nothing new but the internet means they spread faster than ever before next to american investigative journalist neil sheehan he published pentagon papers about the vietnam war forty years ago.

first it was the u.s. troops killing civilians and journalists in iraq now more than ninety thousand classified documents about the war in afghanistan have been obtained by the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks and while this is being called the biggest leak in intelligence history this isn't the first time that important military information has been released to the process in public i'm here with neil sheehan former new york times reporter who released the famous pentagon papers which forever changed the american public's perception of the vietnam war mr she had first of all

a lot of people are comparing this story with the pentagon papers story but one major difference between the two is that the source in this case went to a relatively new and modern web site wiki leaks as opposed to in your situation the source came to you working for an established newspaper the new york times what do you think that says about the state of the media today is there any sort of significance we can draw from that especially when it comes to maybe investigative reporting well you know. it's sort of like trying to. but the you can't compare this to the pentagon papers it's not the same thing it's apples and oranges the pentagon papers was a major it was a it was not just of lead leak it was a flood obviously like this but after that. there's no comparison the pentagon papers was a record of the decision making on the war in vietnam at the highest level.

it was the secrets of the president and secretary of defense the secretary of state it was not tactical material it was nothing in it of any military security value it was full of major historical secrets and scandals this material that wiki leaks has leaked to the press is on the ground military stuff it's the nitty gritty of the war it's its values and its tangibility about the war itself but it's not high level decision making it's on the ground stuff but when you look beyond the information the source or the informant or whatever you want to call it felt more comfortable perhaps giving the information to julian assange is the founder of wiki leaks as opposed to giving it directly to a newspaper like the new york times or the guardian or is there anything significant about that to a bank well it will have to see i mean it could be a pattern of it he could just as well just as easily have given it to

a newspaper and it would depend on the person he probably was attracted to because i had had previously used that material about an american helicopter gunships shooting firing in an ambush in iraq and some civilians were killed in that incident and maybe he felt that our side would would help him more. looks like what's what's incredible about this is that the military who are who are now saying that it is putting informants in danger which he may have done. the times and the guardian and we're very we're very careful beagle to take out the names of informants personally in the original documents there are names of it forms the military are incredibly curious to put this stuff on almost virtually on line within their own system apparently all of this could have come from one soldier who obtained. when i was

in. the names of the form it would be would be it would be very carefully guarded you not many people would be able to get that kind of material notoriously got very careless again because they're trying to create your movie and you put this thing all within their system and anybody can look it up and anybody can download it it's incredible and you know we're talking about the electronic age and how kind of releasing information is so different today than it was you know thirty forty years ago but at the same time julian assange she then went to the new york times and the guardian very established kind of mainstream news organizations to release the information that he had received why was it important for him to kind of pair up with these traditional mainstream news organizations when it came to releasing the information as opposed to maybe doing it himself because this material if he just dumped this material out there on the internet. it's in

comprehensible ninety thousand or ninety two thousand pages of documentation to the average person it's absolutely income perhaps where he had to give it to somebody if he was going to be effective with it and it seems when it comes to the coverage of this whole wiki leaks story is the news channel seem to be obsessed with who is julianna songe and what was his motivation as opposed to perhaps the information that was actually in the documents what do you make of that kind of coverage and the scrutiny of the. enough times has been placed under well he was bound to get there and he was going to be under the heat the military and it's going to get and we're bound to get angry over this and this is a major embarrassment to these people that. a leak on this scale would occur particularly a leak that apparently contains sensitive you know names of informants that could get people killed. so they were bound to go after him but that doesn't

negate the validity of the information of the documentation people who make leaks like this whoever leaked it and the sides who distribute it. always have an axe to grind. and that's why they're they're taking that they're that action that's where they're taking the risk so what you have to look at is how valid is this material to get some a bunch of kids make this up in a cellar or is this really military information. that gives you that maybe gritty the tank that makes the war more tangible nothing in there is far as i could see had been previously revealed what that material does it's just how difficult. how difficult the environment is to work in you don't know who to trust and you're dealing with a corrupt with with a corrupt government is the american public got to remember has very little contact

with the reality of the war there we don't have a draft anymore the sons of the middle class are not being drafted to being sent off to war as occurred in vietnam the soldiers in afghanistan are young men and women who joined because they they either want to be a soldier or marine or because they think they're going to get a college education and they'll survive it won't have they won't catch a bullet they won't catch an explosive it won't happen to them so the middle class just as. except financially which they don't see directly because it comes out of their taxes there are connected to the war well mr she had i want to thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us.

one of the key elements of democracy. which is so uncomfortable for me afford. who pays for the news. how dependent is this independent media. and who is behind the t.v. story. georgian media. and reality on. this is r t the global broadcast a from moscow good to have you with us this half hour and these are all top stories battling blazes a statement been declared in seven regions across russia where wildfires have claimed up to forty lives president vet of calls for the nation to unite in the

face of the disaster. bowing to pressure israel agrees to cooperate with an international investigation into the country's deadly storming of a gaza bound aid ship in may. and barack obama says the u.s. is on target to withdraw all its combat troops from iraq by the end of the month despite widespread concern about the occupied countries and readiness to govern itself. also online whistleblower wiki leaks posts a massive encrypted file in what some say is a p.r. stunt that follows its disclosure of afghan war cover ups. this is r t next an american computer programmer claims that he was given a high level request to aid voter fraud and help swing the two thousand and four election in george w. bush's favor it's a special report right now. mr

curtis if you would come forward. and ask the court reporter to swear the witness. mr curtis would you please state your full name for the record name is clinton eugene curtis and what is your profession i'm a computer programmer mr curtis are there programs that can be used to secretly fix elections yes how do you know that to be the case because in october of two thousand i wrote a prototype for president congressman tom feeney at the company i work for an o.b. to florida that did just that it would really going to lection it would flip the vote fifty one forty nine to whoever you wanted to go to and whichever ray she wanted to went to ever you wanted to win.