forest fires in general not just in russia but internationally and here in russia as well these fires rage every year and according to russian law actually russian authorities can ignore blazes that are too far away and so-called control zones which are uninhabited they aren't obliged to put those out and also if the cost of fighting the fires actually exceeds the damage that they could do russian authorities are also not obliged by law to put those fires out release is describing these fires as a climate catastrophe can give us an idea of the scale of the environmental damage that's being caused by these days is well i just described to you the scale of the actual fires you have to imagine that they're also emitting a huge amount of c o 2 which is obviously a very bad for the climate plus there is the problem of black carbon which is being released and can settle in the arctic and that actually accelerates the melting of