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
simmer under the canopy. helicopters also ferry and reinforcements to combat the smoldering fire on the ground. the difficult thing with these fires is that they cover huge areas and the hard to reach the most effective method is a comprehensive one. planes pull water from above while firefighters on the ground extinguish all the small small drink points. dropped into the wild the firefighters move through the haze in search of flames fed by the foliage. smoldering planes are continuing to appear we re also using machines to dig them up we re doing our best to extinguish the fires and see what. the russian government has climbed up the fires have been reduced by a quarter but the aerial force protection service admits that its given up on 2400000 hecht is the forest are you monitoring the fires in those areas from space greenpeace meanwhile has sounded the alarm over the environmental impact of the
that the areas are so hard to reach many of them are uninhabited many of them are very remote and firefighters say they just are too hard to reach to be able to put out the fire if you also hear in this piece that in some areas another 2 and a half years with the government and the regional authorities handling of the situation what are they saying. that s right well last week hundreds of cities across the region were choked by smoke and people were sharing images on social media of kind of smoke and smog and how they couldn t see of their problems breathing there s also a petition circulating online which has garnered over a 1000000 signatures right now which is calling for a state of emergency to be called across the entire region where the fires are raging and not just across a few regions which is currently the case now there is some debate about wildfires
dispatched to siberia but with fires still raging in vast tracts of land villages like this will not have a clear view of the sun for some time yet. joining me now is emily shipman from our moscow bureau and what is the latest situation why are firefighters having such a hard time getting these this is under control. well there are reports today amrita that actually the fire in the cross and our region has increased by 30000 hectares overnight meanwhile there are other reports from the air quotes reason region from the ministry of defense which was sent to put out fires there from the air last week and they said that they ve put out 30 kind of fire hot spots the problem with these fires that rita is that they are just so huge by some estimates this fire is burning on an area of the size of belgium and the other problem is
of smoke and smog and how they couldn t see of their problems breathing there s also a petition circulating online which has garnered over a 1000000 signatures right now which is calling for a state of emergency to be called across the entire region where the fires are raging and not just across a few regions which is currently the case now there is some debate about wildfires 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