meantime authorities in balad bruce have freed a correspondent who was detained on suspicion of gaining unauthorized access to the computer systems of the state run news agency. russia's service was one of a number of journalists taken into custody this week in but critics say was a crackdown on press freedom his apartment was also searched because he says that he is still being treated as a suspect and is unable to comment on the investigation. in southern france about six hundred people have been evacuated to escape flash floods caused by heavy rain