police after those discussions failed the crowd started advancing on the barricade of riot police riot police formed basically a live barricade across the road would not let them through at which point the crowd started pushing calling for everybody to gather together some stones started flying towards riot police at which point they opened fire into the air their war force shooting blanks into the air but it still made to reflect amount of noise there were also shooting sound grenades they used tear gas to disperse the crowds the crowd started running with the riot police some members of the army and police force chasing them down the road and they basically pushed them back for around two kilometers detaining some people on the way some of the opposition members and actually hid in a bus that was parked on the side of the road police forces actually tried to pry open the doors and get everybody out who was hiding within the bus they managed to almost get inside the bus when their superiors told them to carry on to carry

pushing them and the majority of the crowd back there were some armored vehicles were also engaged in this action and basically after all the people got pushed back for around two kilometers the special police the riot forces started pulling back towards the checkpoint where another crowd tried to force its way through from the other side of the checkpoint from the bishkek side they were also met with the same resistance tear gas sound grenades stones and warning shots fired into the air after a few hours basically all the crowds were dispersed and we were there just a few minutes ago seeing what was going on the road has already been opened the roadblocks have been lifted we saw some people being detained in a somewhat unorthodox fashion they were being handcuffed and put into trunks of on marked vehicles we can only assume these are police vehicles but of course there were no signal on them they were just being. into the trunks or handcuffed to the

inside of the car and driven off we don't know where we don't know why but we presume that those are the people that the police believe to be responsible behind the violence that took place here earlier but with relatively calm where you are what can you tell us about what's happening now and do you think of parties have now fully regained control of the situation. right now and you say everything is very quiet both here in bishkek and at the checkpoint where the violence actually took place so far the authorities there fishel authorities the ministry of internal affairs is saying that all of the issues that the opposition did have with the government have been resolved apparently some later negotiations took place that satisfied both sides and there will be no more violence or any rallies taking place either here in the capital or anywhere outside of the opposition however is staying quiet for the moment they're not exactly publicizing their intentions or plans or in fact commenting on whether there have

been any negotiations between them with them and the government so we are still waiting to hear on what they are planning to do but as for the moment it does seem that call has been restored in the korea's capital of course the authorities were very much prepared for the violence that took place earlier and this was evident by everything from the time that they gathered at various points throughout the city and on the checkpoints outside the city just to the fact that whilst they were waiting for anything to if anything should start members of the troops that were there were being delivered food and water so they were clearly prepared for this day and they do seem now confident that everything has been returned back to normal and there will be no more violence here all through today's on routes is of course just the way this in a series of violent incidents since an uprising toppled president by kenya.

indeed you are very right and you say in april a president but he is government was basically. for ousted by the people of kurdistan there were violent protests that took place for days with massive bloodshed in the city with hundreds of people injured some killed and basically the city in complete chaos for days until call was restored and an interim government was formed but that did not end the bloodshed or the violence as just a few months later in june more clashes broke out in the kurdish cities of all. where ethnic minorities the country's population and the current is the nature of caracas population clashed those clashes left hundreds of people homeless dozens more injured some fatally wounded those under arrest went on for days as well with all entries into the city's ocean jalalabad blocked which left fire and emergency

services almost impossible for them to get into those cities and help the people and help restore the calm which is why so many people actually lost their homes and this today's events of course are just another turn in those violent developments here in kurdistan but compared to what this country has seen in the last few months today's events have been very quiet and of course they were over very quickly everybody here hoping that this will be the end there will be no more violence there will be no more bloodshed this country as the people say has seen enough we'll have to wait and see for now have three more of daughter of a keeping track of the situation in care of violence thanks. well political analyst iran suffer untuk says the situation has much broader international significance. there is growing instability in the north of afghanistan and this is just

a few hundred kilometers away from the stall folderol going to stop so it's going to just becomes a non-controlled territory where there is no real authority and where there is the rule of force sounds like the region and the calander leaders then of those who are on the fresh enough greatest on they think well we have another place to go or and then it will have wider international consequences and developments of iran plays on developments will continue to monitor this developing situation in character stem throughout the day here at r t bringing you the very latest from the scene stay with us for that the number of wildfires raging in russia continues to rise with hundreds of thousands of firefighters timing the flames across the country the death toll has now risen to fifty the situation is likely to remain tense for several weeks before the scorching temperatures are forecast to cool as

jacob greaves reports. now i am in moscow region a village in moscow region and i'm actually standing by an example yes another example of just the devastation and destruction that's been brought upon local communities here we have. if you can recognize it was a garridge and inside is a car that's being burnt out now is the farmer so as far as that residence he didn't have time to move the car out there was literally just in gold and now it's a similar story there's rubble strewn everywhere and there's also the surrounding houses were completely burnt down as well this is the former family bathroom now all the stones there are the tiles from the rooftops the forests around this area have all wish to be in complete destroyed by these wildfires and that's left firefighters with a serious problem there's still smoldering ground beneath them and that's such a bill to reigniting into a full scale fire you sort of see behind me this the smoke billowing from this smoldering around the actually just back into flames now this isn't just

a problem facing moscow region it's one that's gripping the whole of russia as well yesterday there were over five hundred such fires across russia that rose overnight to over eight hundred but firefighters have been doing their best to tackle the brace and bought it down by about two hundred fifty flame distinguished about two hundred fifty five in the process but they still have an impact and it's just been out that's fifty people have now died from these wildfires it's bringing the total up from forty eight and my colleague maria phenomena she went to see one village it's really being left in the show since these fires. rushes in flames. the hottest summer on record has also become one of them is destructive messing forest fires have already burned about thousands of days of land. more than forty in the thousands with the wind speed twenty meters per second.

you can see behind me from leaving behind a trail of devastation. this used to be a small picturesque village naslund in beautiful pine forest some one hundred fifty kilometers south of the russian capital more scope of paradise to the three hundred people that lived there with a kindergarten a church and a community whole it will never be the same again it to dismiss for a frightening display of mother nature's fool force to change it for river twelve perished in the inferno sun in her refined circumstances panic has been sprayed in among people as fast as the flames have been gulf in their homes five people an old couple and mother and a son and another woman decided to hide in a basement their place of refuge became their tomb temperatures inside became too hot to survive. most people in the village managed to flee elaine it was one of

those that escaped and a later she's bag hoping to find something in tact but it's all in vain sure flames was riding up high even the mother told tower and the smoke filled all the space below i felt really scared when i saw the red and black smoke which you know i've seen houses and vans burning here the entire village burned down completely this was really horrifying and yet the dormitory of a local college has become a new home for dozens of homeless its staff in smoky its corridors in rooms but it's the only shelter they have now. we want to say thanks for all this care they feed us here very well they talk to us and we have a corner to sleep. but they hope this tape here will not be alone or that this is we've already got about seven thousand dollars in compensation each

pensioners and jobless a bit more but what we're really especially waiting for that the new home they've promised it for every family within the next three months and we're ready to wait. when the house is a rebuilt the victims of this unstoppable and merciless force who try to rebuild their lives and consign these ghosts really to the past all here would rather forget reflection our t. mosque or region. the capital maybe scorchingly hot but out west this morning muscovites woke up to a clear sky the smoke from wildfires which have hung heavy in moscow has finally been blown away by winds stacey bevan's brings us up to date. what a difference twenty four hours make clear skies in russia's capital now you have a clear picture of the coming behind the polar opposite situation that we had yesterday what you would have seen from this vantage point is a wall of white just take small in fact it was difficult to see even fifty meters

in front of you it really was like living in a snow globe but just because the the facts of the fires aren't as strong today it doesn't mean that the side effects aren't i mean you people still are experiencing nazia runny eyes and all around discomfort if you're out in this for too long because the air pollution is so high six times what is deemed as normal you feel like you've snorted or you're garbled on gravel it's a really uncomfortable feeling and muscovites are a little bit impatient a little frustrated because the heat has been going on for so long you couple that with the unbearable smog and the how difficult it makes it to breathe and people just wanted to end now so you have the weather that stoking and has started these fires and we don't know when the end is going to come because the drought is still here there's no rain in the forecast there's more projections for high temperatures

. reporting from central moscow well for our top stories features and blogs just log on to our website dot com online for you twenty four hours a day you know some of what you'll find there right now rock legend in the papa's in the russian capital ready to entertain muscovite he takes to the stage to prove he's still got it for almost fifty years for me. to find out how a new partnership between the cia and google to track a web browsing behavior is making some one see. a group of former intelligence and military officials is demanding immediate action from barack obama to prevent

a war in the middle east they claim israel is counting on washington to offer unconditional support for an attack on iran as early as this month it comes just days after u.s. top brass refused to rule out a strike on the mixed tape group went to include former cia agent says on more in iran like night a retired conflict with time to lead the and nightly israel terror on has repeatedly refused diplomatic relations with talent and as it maintains the jewish state has no right and that's next well michel chossudovsky from the canadian center for research on globalization thanks israel won't strike until washington has it too. so your series of. very. serious. people of course this should be taken very seriously it is technically from a military standpoint impossible for israel to actually launch a war only rolla with the green light for the united states we have to understand

that this this is not strictly an israeli military project the united states since the mid ninety's indicated a rug as a possible target of the war plans which have been ongoing since two thousand and four have been a joint program with us they total and israel so that in fact these war plans already own going it may be convenient for washington to let israel unleash the attack and in fact dick cheney back in back in two thousand and four intimated that israel might do the work for us so to speak there ron it is ten percent of the global oil and gas was five times those of the united states it's it has tremendous well ultimately war in that region is the battle for oil and there. yes the threat of war is real the implications of reaching. that all were

launched. within the next few months the whole region with player up from the eastern mediterranean right through to the chinese border. there from michael just engulfs king from the canadian center for research on globalism said well mordechai kadar israeli scholar who has twenty five years experience of serving in israeli military intelligence told r.t. israel believes a resume change in iran is needed but that country or to it without a revolution or an invasion. from assessment there is a will never attack iran by itself first of all it's very far away from us and we have to leave fuel the planes air above very hostile states like saudi obviously jordan which we don't have elations with so it's very very complicated to do it secondly the israeli air force is rather small in comparison to the weeds of iran and the number of targets which we should we should do a deal with in iran but the goalie is unclear because if we deal with it let's say

the nuclear facilities only they don't use can be done within a year or two years so there's no significance to such an air raid if we take let's say personalities or in the gym scene bans again think they can be very easily replaced the something which should be done in iran is in a gene change but this says you can either from below from the from the people in the street or by invasion to iran like what happened in iraq and afghanistan these things isn't it cannot do by eight cents more to crack a guard there from the israeli tank tank bag and to dot center for strategic studies. british supermodel naomi campbell has given testimony at the trial of former liberian president charles taylor in the hague she is alleged to have received diamonds from taylor after a dinner hosted by nelson mandela in one nine hundred ninety seven campbell

admitted to receiving what she described as a few dirty looking stones and she later gave to charity tellers accused of selling diamonds to finance a civil war in sierra leone she denies the charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity just. supporters of a new constitution for kenya are celebrating after the no campaign conceded defeat preliminary results show almost seventy percent voted in favor of laws limiting the president's powers the constitution also includes emotionally charged changes to abortion rules lamplight and muslim family courts the voting is said to have passed false peacefully it's a stark contrast to the two thousand and seven presidential election which exploded into violence and left more than a thousand dead. curity forces have fired on protesters after renewed restaurant to an indian administered kashmir officials say at least four people have been killed it comes after weeks of demonstrations in the region against

indian rule around the clock curfew has been in place for the past six days almost fifty people have died over the course of the protests. found a california federal court has overturned the state's decision to ban same sex marriage the judge said the two year ban violated equal protections rights under the u.s. constitution the ruling is a victory to gay rights activists but supporters of the band say they'll appeal and the case the expected to reach the supreme court decision has wide implications for nearly forty states with similar bans making it more difficult to defend the law of course. reminder now of our breaking news story this hour violence has been reignited in care to stand after police used live rounds and. gas to break up antigovernment protests the clashes took place just a few miles from the capital bishkek the demonstrators were heading to join an anti-government rally in the city officials say they've arrested opposition leaders

who staged the protests and demonstrations been dispersed says unrest is the latest in the series of incidents that have shaken the country since the uprising toppled president by kiev earlier this year hundreds were killed in interethnic violence in june of course bring you up to date on the latest from kyrgyzstan and. now a little later we'll talk to the head of the russian federal drug control service about the ongoing battle to stem the flow of narcotics from afghanistan that's coming up in about ten minutes but first started joins us more from the world of business and some good news this hour i understand we're hearing foreign investment is on the up and i that's wrong as according to the country's federal antitrust service well than a billion dollars worth of direct investment is on its way to russia from abroad find out the details later in the program but russia is imposing a temporary ban on grain exports prime minister putin says the measures a necessary to help form was in the country and prevent the cost of food rising. on the one.

due to the abnormally high temperatures and the courage drought i think we should improve the terms of the export of dream and its derivatives should we do have a. point four million we need to guard against domestic prescribers is. the prime minister goes on to say that growing from state redistributed to the regions to help the alleviate any shortages and this further aid for farmers the government will provide a total of one point two billion dollars in assistance roughly a third of that will be direct a rest subsidized. prices on the international community markets are racing to new highs following the decision in moscow russia is the world's largest exporter of wheat but the severe weather has wiped out more than twenty percent of the crop with every hot dry day that passes expectations for the harvests have become more gloomy the grain union is now predicting a week of seventy million tonnes

a less that compares with nearly one hundred million tonnes last year the country's domestic consumption is seventy five million tonnes. thomas see how the markets are performing and european shares are mixes investors way up the decision is probably european central bank and the bank of england to keep interest rates unchanged barclays is down two percent after placing pretax profits of three point nine five billion pounds the first from ten forty four percent on the same period last year investors remain down as their allies in the investment banking operation by progress of flows continues to call something of a shadow over. here in russia the markets of pulling in trade with both the fourth was down zero point three percent. the main losers were the states shedding more than one percent on the r.t.s. . russia's energy giant rose high jerry plans to change the security

systems at least as soon as he's in the next moment the company is going to mean a new program to monitor a sixty pound stations and projects under construction following last month's events of a box on hydro power station in july six people atop the station killing two security guards and decimating a bomb in the turbine. building projects that take two years and cost the company at least fifty million dollars. b.p.'s new chief executive robert dudley has been in moscow for talks with deputy prime minister igor suchan topping the agenda was the possible sales of assets to cover the cost of b.p.'s gulf of mexico oil spill but b.p. is saying its interest in russia are not on the table instead the assets may be in south america all started dudley is joined by tony hayward the outgoing chief of b.p. who will take up a non-executive role on the board of russian joint venture. the annual rate of

inflation in russia fell to its lowest level in july at five point five percent month on month consumer prices rose no point four percent the same pace as in june but figures were in line with analysts for calls and it was buckwheat chicken and orange prices which rose the most in the cost of rice an illness and coverage went down. a billion dollars worth of direct foreign investment is on its way to russia according to the country's federal antitrust service head of the agency eagle r.c.m. yet outlined a raft of new deals which have been approved by the government these include things such as transport infrastructure food and mining in particular the canadian company kinross gold will gain control over two strategic gold and silver scales in the north of russia in a deal worth more than three hundred million dollars. of funds to finance russian infrastructure projects has been drafted by the country's economy ministry is initially be worth around six hundred seventy million dollars but that investment

should double in three years that almost a newspaper says the capital may become the key infested with buying shares of energy transport need to have two companies russia lost twelve points in the global economy competitiveness rankings in the past year is now the lowest place among the bric countries supplying the infrastructure being warm the key fact is. that's your update for this hour but you can always far more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash.

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spotlight is coming up but first a look again at our breaking news story stone throwing and tear gas and turned us down as thousands of opposition supporters gather in front of parliament they demand the government steps down raising fears of renewed on the rest the interior minister says the protesters are plotting a violent overthrow. in other news this hour firefighters are on high alert across russia as the country battles the biggest heat wave on record sparking hundreds of wildfires killing at least sixty in moscow the toxic smog has cleared but apologists say the air pollution remains high forecasters predict it could be weeks before the temperature and start of cooling. and taken by surprise former cia officials warned of a planned israel and led attack on the brawn and demands of president obama publicly denounced the move for use force to join in they claim tell of the will

not go through with the campaign unless it has full military support from the united states. i'll be back with more details at the top of the hour time now for al gore not to turn the spotlight on russia's battle against the afghan drug problem and what effect it's having on the country that's next here in. for the full stop we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. i'm alway off and my guest today is. evolved since two thousand and one afghanistan has been steadily increasing its drug production the.