RT News - August 09 2021 (17:00 MSK)

A priest is killed in France with the suspected perpetrator a migrant accused of burning down Nantes Cathedral last year. Questions are being asked as to why he hadn't been deported. The terror playing out behind bars: RT investigates how convicts identifying as transgender, allegedly work the system to get placed in women's jails where they go on to carry out sex attacks on female inmates. The relentless march of wildfires flames wreak more destruction in Eastern Russia, and cloak cities in dense smoke. Our correspondent is in the disaster zone with a fire-fighting unit, and brings us a first-hand account of the devastation.