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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 claimed that the fires have been reduced by a quarter but the aerial force protection service admits that its given up on $2400000.00 hectares of forest only monitoring the fires in those areas from space . greenpeace meanwhile has sounded the alarm over the environmental impact of the wildfires. it's a pleasure to ship of. this represents a climate catastrophe for so well at the fires or releasing as much c o 2 into the atmosphere as 36000000 cars...

A question. this represents a climate catastrophe. so if the fires are releasing as much c o 2 into the atmosphere as $36000000.00 cars a year the likely cause of the fires is dry lightning strikes but it could also be discarded cigarettes or neglect on the part of the timber industry. let's get the very latest on this now from our moscow correspondent emily showing today here why are firefighters having such a hard time getting these blazes under control. well 1st of all brian that's because the area that's burning is just so huge as we just heard and as you've said as well the area of denmar...

Actually been leaving 2000000 hectares they've given up on them simply because they're too hard to reach and that's a huge territory as well according to russian law this is actually policy there are so-called control zones that authorities have simply declared too hard to reach in case of a fire where authorities by law aren't obliged to put them out and there is actually a law from 2015 as well that states that if the cost of fighting fires exceeds the potential damages then also already is do not have to put them out so this is kind of a policy here in russia you know greenpeace is calling ...

Describing these fires as a climate catastrophe going to 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 huge amount of c o 2 which is obviously 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 ice caps in in the arctic so it's understandable that green that greenpeace is sounding the alarm and many shillman in moscow thank you ve...