. >> 100,000 had acres of forest, an area three times the size of malta. 260 people used to work here. three years ago, the fire prevention budget was cut, as was the work force. >> we now have 50 people in charge of this. 50 people are fighting the fires. >> experts say the russian government cut back on forest fire prevention for financial reasons and claims the people responsible for forest protection are the ones intent on profiting from the situation. northwest of moscow, the smoke and stench from the forest fires has been blown as far as this weekendc home. the financial expert said he became an environmentalist because he could no longer bear to see the destruction of the fofosts. >> the people who have the say here are only interested in one thing. profit. profit at any price. >> he points to the evidence outside of his front door. the forest itself escaped the fire, but the trees are nonetheless doomed. to make way for a highway. he says environmental issues and protests by local residents were ignored. >> a highway could have been built along the edge of the forest, which wo

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could get bent we kept buckets and spades and tried to put it out but later the firemen came with malta pipes and mostly we put it out we didn't want to let the fire spread. here. and the same villages now actually set up a sort of sentry duty if you will through the night to raise the alarm should the flames return and that's how i came they are obviously to protect their village and their belongings but some haven't been so lucky the fires have been very very quick to spread and caught many villages unexpected and and burnt down the whole houses all to the ground and as i say three and a half thousand people have been affected by that two thousand houses have been destroyed by these fires and this is a report by my colleague tim a fake us here on the effect this is how this is had on those suffering. when darkness falls hours ahead of schedule. although it's already been five days since fires incinerated this village ash clouds are still so thick they block out the sun and. firemen continue to keep control as yet more flames break out but for a good read in their efforts don't matter

hold a one goal lead over a pleasant i can tell of each one up against olympiacos got out of him to malta and johnson eventis just kicked off against irish team shamrock rovers and liverpool are underway against macedonia side. elsewhere as it's in petersburg are one step away from the champions league group stage after beating remain inside their new rail one nil at the stadium on wednesday night two in their third qualifying round tie down a five the home side ahead after thirty three minutes and they hung on to the lead to win one in the on the night and on aggregate they now got into friday's draw for the champions league playoffs and it was a good day physicist also completed the signing of portugal defendant bruno alvarez twenty two million euros. and spartak moscow will also. find out their champions league playoff opponents on friday but meanwhile the club is concentrating on the domestic league where the red to once a current disappointing eighth they play bitter rivals in it at home on sunday and of also unveiled a new player ahead of the clash that he missed me back as the stor

ok and what about the other russian republics of the north caucasus we know it's very malta as nick region so what's the state of the fight against terrorism there. are north caucasus is a further trouble some region of just over a month almost forty militants were killed here and there have been operations and stand uncovered in every caria. russian authorities on cracking down on militants and the situation is that. we could say under control. let's not talk about the progress that the russian security forces are making there is russian officials have vowed to eliminate terrorism in the region. just a couple of days ago and a tourist a militant a commuter leiva gaba to use the march to mind behind the moscow metro bombings boys killed and dagestan till the recent progress by the russian authorities are cracking down on militants of all so. who is the most wanted terrorist not only in russia but internationally remains on the russian wanted list but most. militants are tracked down and killed the situation is actually hard because when some militants are eliminated they are family members

pilots were pressured to land in heavy weather conditions who do you delegation was travelling to malta seventy years since the twenty thousand post offices were massacred in counting of a moron russia polish relations i'm now joined by much a kocinski research fellow for the center for european policy studies overinvolved so many thanks for joining us here on today now alter the very positive rhetoric we've heard from president komorowski do you think that we're really seeing relations between russia and poland improving well yes the relations between poland and russia do improve we have moved away from the so-called cold war situation into a more working relations one where both poles and russians go recognize the importance of one another for example there is a new emerging triangle between poland germany and russia working closely to forming some sort of core group in the street in closer or a from well on the president komorowski has actually suggested that russia really needs poland in order to. cement those better relations with the e.u. do you think that he was right in the hand