hot people want to escape to the countryside 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 there's 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 government and to regional authorities to allocate money to each and everyone who has incurred 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 here we're seeing temperature 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 maria the national as they're small 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

people say they're struggling they're now surviving for more than a week already where the smoke from massive forest and people fires in the central russia my colleague states has just been talking about has been covering most go and all 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 feeling 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 doctors are saying that the concentration of colborne and all the dangerous substances is so hard that prevent these air here in most current is equivalent to smoking two three packs of cigarettes in just a few are was with why is frightening cross russia panic is all we need among

people and the fear is a rising power over the impact is going to have own people's condition on people's health we have been able to speak to some people here on the streets of moscow this now listen to what they have to say about that how are they concerned about it doesn't 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 you do all the tried to truly is hard to breathe and his character here knows now if we have to smoke now. it's hot soon it will be like it is in the tropics bananas will grow on the birch tree instead of potatoes people will plant pineapples bomb fortunately these record breaking heat wave has been literally kosher in russian it's people to major in but their worst news is that there is no sign is going to stop anytime. so i measure all this is saying that

these kids will only intensify within the next few days and they say that the temperature could even reach up to forty one degrees celsius 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. and the huge story for russia you can follow it all track the progress of this he wave on our website our home page or two dot com also our you tube channel as well as story developing news stories and other small passenger planes crashed in russia's president ask region in siberia what it was trying to land and rain the emergency ministry says that eleven people have been killed four of them are in hospital. we received information at nine thirty in the evening that and until now twenty four planes had crashed some seven hundred meters away from the runway

a while trying to land the fifteen people were on board eleven passengers including a child and four crew eleven people have died in the accident with four are now being treated in hospital preliminary reports suggest that three of the survivors are crew members and that the child was among those killed the fire has been put out and in this the gaiters and now working at the scene. and will be aiming to bring you more coverage on that of course as the details come through to us here at r.t. in moscow in just a few moments food for thought farmers in hungary say they're being starved of business by policies and that the country is being treated as a colony rather than a partner. for that israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu says that his country will take part in the united nations investigation into the storming of the guards about aid flotilla the un so great general ban ki-moon announced the probe into the raid were nine turkish activists were killed by israeli soldiers outrage

over the deaths led to mounting international pressure on the jewish state parties paula slayer has the story this morning. 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 wait years at the moment in new york that is all in principle will agree to handing over papers and putting forward its 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 in machos 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 most israelis still believe that this was a deliberate provocation they do not believe that the gaza tell it was a humanitarian aid if 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 by an internal 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 army 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 say that in fact this for taylor was a humanitarian effort and it should have been allowed to pass through into gaza. 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 foreseeable future by saying quote the u.s. would not ended the war torn country james damn slow spoke to me he's a writer of mideast politics and security he told me a bomber is trying to act like the iraq war isn't his business. the u.s.

has has always been maturing in iraq as a bomber talked about today he was. unsure of the speeding up of the process of drawing from iraq will hand over 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 distance himself from iraq was 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 too can 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 decides to make this announcement as iraq last month enjoyed 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 at the rock is. that 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 in his hands after iran's president challenged him to a face to face television debate. said he's ready to argue the issues which divide the country in front of the cameras when he visits the new united nations in september he really later also rejected comments from america's top military man admiral mike mullen who warned military action against iran is an option if diplomacy fails to stop its nuclear ambitions dismissed the threat is not worthy of attention and the turks recent tougher u.n. sanctions against his country over its atomic program calling them a scandal. or monday he spoke to me he's founder of the iranian american political action committee he told me admiral mullen statement is american saber rattling. 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 they are perceived 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 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. . the region fertile lands of hungary along made it an enviable source for food production but farmers there now say that since joining the european union in two thousand and four they've been losing business. he's been hearing about the 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 only countries in western europe in the us we keep or birds in. decline in an environment that allows that that's why did the world of world produce. less than a decade ago hundred garion ducks were sold to everywhere across western europe and the c.i.s. but now the owner of the stock 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 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 important 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. wanted to get on markets and they have done it they don't need our production they produce. enough meat to fly and they produce everything they want to hang 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 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 lebedeff or in 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 that's about one hundred times bigger than most of the other recently posted files and so far no one's yet been able to decipher it out is laura ever 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 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 was. 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 posts a file like this when one feels under threat in some way so what they think will happen is that if any harm comes to do to national 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 and 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 here in london and this information has been released last 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 from 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 there were 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 collated together and presented for everybody to see but yes there has been some talk that there 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 in their reports. that were in these girls were really detailed accounts of the price you know over the last six years and that is notable in itself. those lead secrets on the wiki leaks web site have been

condemned by u.s. officials of course nothing new but the internet means they spread even faster the before. talks to american investigative journalist neil sheehan who published pentagon papers about the vietnam war for two years ago.

first it was 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 intel. it's 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 you can of course it's an electronic age we're entering but

the you can't compare this to the pentagon papers it's not the same pulls in oranges the pentagon papers was a major it was a it was not just a leak 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 time to go 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 it's it's values it's tangibility about the war it's all 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 the founder. of wiki leaks as opposed to giving it directly to the newspaper like the new york times or the guardian or is there anything significant about that do you think well it will have to see i mean it could be a pattern of it if 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 heard previously use 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. it looks like what's what's incredible about this is that the military who are who are now saying

. is putting informants in danger which he may have done the times and the guardian and we were very were very careful spiegel to take out the names of informants probably in the original documents there are names of informants the military are incredibly curious to put this stuff on almost virtually on line within their own system apparently the all of this could have come from one soldier who obtained. when i was in vietnam the names of four hundred former would be would be it would be very carefully guarded you not many people would be able to get at that kind of material military seems to have gotten very careless again because of the electronic age or maybe 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 a chilean astonished then went to the new york times and the guardian very established kind of a mainstream news organ. ations 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 let's say it's in comprehensible ninety thousand or ninety two thousand pages of documentation to the average person it's absolutely income perhaps what 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 stories the news channel seem to be obsessed with who is joining us on general 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 chilian astonish has been placed under well he was bound 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 and this is a major embarrassment to these people that. a leak on this scale would occur particularly a leak that apparently could 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 the documentation people who make leaks like this whoever leaked it. who distributed. always have an axe to grind. and that's why they're there taking the action that's why 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 going to the tank that makes the war more tangible. nothing in there is far as i could see had been previously revealed what that meant to the guys that see it shows how difficult. how difficult the environment is to work in you don't know who to trust 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. that we don't have a draft anymore the sons of the middle class are not being drafted to being sent off to war. 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 happen 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's you comes out of their taxes they're not connected to the war well mr c. and i want to thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us. this is our team from moscow thanks for joining us this half hour these are our top stories battling blazes a state of emergency has been declared in seven regions across russia where wildfires have claimed up to forty lives present but that it 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 gaza about a ship that may. 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 country's readiness to govern itself. and the online whistleblower wiki leaks post a massive encrypted file and what some say is a p.r. stunt that follows its disclosure of afghan war cover ups. official break the latest edition of a cross talk show where people of his guest discuss the rise of gambling addicts regulation.

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 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 mcgowan in stamford he's a professor at boston callie.