that's michael grunwald from the time magazine so let's get back to our top story now here on r.t. and more than twenty people who are being killed thousands left homeless as fires raged across central russia let's cross now live to our correspondent stacie difference who is almost asian for us so stacey you know in the past week or so we talked about over three hundred russians droning there trying to cool off from this heat wave now we know the agricultural sector is taking a massive hit during this drought and heat wave and now you doing with forest fires just tell me how critical is the situation where you are looking right now. hello to you rory well just take a look at where i'm standing this destroyed house shows what can happen when record heat drought like conditions there is nothing here that stands out as to show what it used to be nothing here looks the same and the family that lived here got out ok everyone's alive but they came back today to survey the situation and they're heartbroken they're devastated of course they're happy to be alive but nothing that their own w

leak has been clearing from the surface of the water much faster than expected time magazine's michael grunwald thinks exaggerating the damage is a way for some to promote individual agendas. just about everybody has called this the worst environmental disaster that the u.s. has ever faced and i went down to louisiana last week. assuming that they were right there just doesn't seem to be a lot of evidence for that one of the scientists a type two so this is like a sunburn on a cancer patient so we don't know what we don't know and the long term impacts are certainly impossible to know right now but there's not much evidence that environmental catastrophes you know the media has an obvious interest in kind of hyping these things to drive ratings and certain politicians are using it to attack obama or some politicians were using it to you know to try to promote the idea that we need to get away from fossil fuels but nobody really has you know that much of a of an incentive to say well hey you know the data doesn't really seem to show that this is as much as it's been cracked up to be what's impor

now that was michael grunwald to your correspondent time magazine joining us from miami. our web site has a lot more to offer you whatever you want and here's some of what's online right now at. russian police detained a man attempting to hijack a plane at a moscow airport and he was reportedly demanding the media was the country's leadership. immigrants in arizona celebrated as a federal judge blocked parts of a controversial new law aiming to stamp out unions more. than some of the stories from around the world in the u.s. to fan secretary has cold in the f.b.i. to help find out how secret documents on the war in afghanistan were leaked they were published by the wiki leaks site on sunday giving classified details of the war robert gates says it has endangered american troops and allies and an aggressive investigation will be carried out the disclosure has increased calls to the war and manny countries including the u.k. . and france a woman has admitted killing eight of her newborn babies over a period of seventeen years but domini contrasts husband has been freed with

time magazine's michael grunwald right there so come up later this hour beefing up a region to produce the best meat in the world close up team brings you the details and box on another adventure revealing russia's most fascinating and little known area. in germany there are fears dangerous acts convicts could soon be living freely in the community it comes as the country looks forced to scrap its practice of preventive detention prisoners likely to re-offend can be kept under lock and key even when their jail sentence ends but the european court of human rights says that this is illegal tom bottom reports. shifty glances and nervous stares that's all we managed to see walter a church a murderer and sex offender now living in the german city of sabriel can he's got it all day every day by the least for policeman but he's escaped from his mind as before and locals are worried he'll do it again and seeing it is very dangerous for the people. in the area because they don't know that such people. such people as this close to them believe that the security and security of the. environment i

going to happen so i guess i'm trying to put a little bit of lid on some of the hype that was michael grunwald senior correspondent at time magazine he was joining us from. all our zone as governor is appealing a federal ruling that skirt the state's controversial new immigration law parts of the legislation such as forcing immigrants to carry papers at all times were revoked just hours before they came into force but didn't stop protesters from venting their anger. she has more on this. a lot of protesters on the streets there were a lot of police what they were doing was practicing something called civil disobedience where they were basically getting arrested on purpose in order to get their message heard now what happened yesterday was the judge ruled that certain controversial provisions in ballot law would not be enacted today so it was just a small victory for the hispanic community but they said that they have a long fight ahead of them now critics of the law say that those provisions which basically say about police officers can stop anyone that they suspect is in this country illegall

that was michael grunwald senior correspondent at time magazine joining us from miami herald here. and still look on for you here the sour on our team at the right to kill artie delves into the revolution that ripped apart care to stand. it's provided citizens with. it's a. tough sell to. win the game. boy. right. out of the killing and. stay with us and watch that full report in twenty minutes time here on r.t.e. . arizona's governor is appealing in a federal ruling that curb the state's controversial new immigration law parts of the legislation such as forcing immigrants to carry papers at all times were revoked just hours before they came into force but that didn't stop protesters from venting their anger artie's during a soft reports. a lot of protesters on the streets there were a lot of police what they were doing was practicing something called civil disobedience where they were basically getting arrested on purpose in order to get their message heard now what happened yesterday was the judge ruled that certain controversial provisions in the outlaw would not be enacted toda