position in the long discussions with the head of 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 after a few hours and all the crowds were dispersed 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

market vehicles we can only assume these are police vehicles so far the authorities the official 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 were 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 and 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 they do seem now confident that. everything has been returned back to

normal and there will be no more violence here. today's unrest is the latest in a series of violent incidents that have shaken the country since an uprising toppled president but earlier this year he was forced to flee in april when protests in the north of the country soon spread to the capital and turned bloody short for an interim government is or should be the power to restore order but the relative calm was then broken in june when the interethnic violence erupted in the south of the country even hundreds dead and injured volatile situation the country's watched closely from the old because kurdistan supposed to hold military bases to use transit center mass which helps operations in afghanistan and also a russian embracing come. political analyst steve from chuck says the situation in koga stan has much broader into nothing international significance there is growing instability in the north of afghanistan and this is just a few hundred kilometers away from the start. of your stop so if going to this town

becomes a non-controlled territory where there is no real authority and where there is the force sounds like. a calamity this then of those who on the fresh enough interest on they think well we have another place to go and then it will have wider international consequences and developments of iran pleasant developments. thoughts of political analyst events of friendship talk to us at r.t. and coming up some call it the new beirut but just how much is jordan become transformed by western culture what we try to find out of a bit later this hour. the number of wildfires raging here in russia continues to rise with hundreds of thousands of firefighters tailing the brakes across the country the death toll has now risen to fifty the situation is likely to remain tends to for several weeks before the scorching temperatures are forecast of 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 recognize that what 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 engulfed and i was a similar story there's rubble strewn everywhere and there's also the surrounding houses were completely burnt down as well the force around this area of all were just being complete destroyed by these wildfires and that's left firefighters with a serious problem there's still smoldering ground beneath them and that set of all to reigniting into a full scale fire you sort of see behind me this smoke billowing from this smoldering ground that actually just turned 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 so over a 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's in the process but they still have these impacts and it's just been announced that fifty people have now died from these wildfires it's bringing the total up from forty eight there has been thousands of people displaced here and there really has been a lot of the nation course and my colleague maria phenomena she went to see one village it's really been left in the show since these fires. rushes in flames. the hottest summer on record has also become one of them is destructive messy forest fires have already burned about thousands of factories of land. use more than forty in the world and he's thousands homeless with

a wind speed of twenty meters per second it's moving through the boxes you can see behind me the road 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 and paradise to the three hundred people that lived there with a kindergarten. and a community hole it will never be the same again to dismiss for a frightening display of mother nature's fool force to change it forever 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 early and it was one of those that escaped a day later she's bag hoping to find something tagged but it's all in vain sure of flames were spreading up high even about that tall tower and the black smoke filled all the space below i felt really scared when i saw red fire glow and black smoke you know i've seen houses and vans burning but here the entire village burned down completely this was really horrifying the dormitory of a local college has become a new home for dozens of homeless its staff in smoking 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 take here will not be long or

that this is we've already got about seven thousand dollars in compensation each pensioners and jobless a bit more but what we are 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 houses are rebuilt the victims of this unstoppable and merciless force who try to rebuild their lives and consign these ghost village to the past all here would rather forget. the mosque or region. well whole story of those dreadful far as of the last couple of weeks on our websites online twenty four hours a day for if you're not near your t.v. want to keep up to date with the latest for the stories online but more lighthearted. and legenda give pocket pop is in the capital ready to take a bite as he takes the stage to prove you still got it after almost fifty years performing. we find out of a new partnership between the cia and google to track web browsing behavior is

making some people feel uneasy or normal rather check it out see dot com tonight. this is r.t. from moscow a group of former intelligence and military officials are demanding immediate action from barack obama to prevent a war in the middle east they claim israel is counting on washington to offer in conditional 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 islamic state of the group which includes former cia agents say a war in iran will ignite a regional conflict which could lead to the united nation of israel to repeatedly refused to promote it relations with the visit maintains the jewish state has no right to exist michel chossudovsky from the canadian center for research and

globalization spoke to us he thinks that israel won't strike until washington tells it to him. saying your theories of more are 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 on iran without the green light for the united states we have to understand that this is not strictly an israeli military project the united states since the mid ninety's indicated iran as a possible target that the war plans which had been ongoing since two thousand and four have been a joint program with us they throw in israel so that in fact these war plans are already ongoing 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 iran has ten percent of the global oil and gas was five times those of the united states that it has tremendous well ultimately war in that region is the battle for oil and natural gas the threat of war is real. the implications of reaching. all were launched. within the next few months the whole region will play or are probably eastern mediterranean right through to the chinese border. michel chossudovsky from the canadian center for research on globalization speaking to us there mordecai k. dar is an israeli scholar who has twenty five years experience of serving in israeli military intelligence he spoke to us too he says israel believes a regime change in iran is needed but that can be achieved without a mass uprising or an invasion from our system and it is they will never attack

iran by itself first of all it's very far away from us and we have to leave fuel the planes above very hostile states like saudi obviously iraq jordan which we don't of relations with so it's very very complicated to do it secondly the israeli air force is rather small in comparison to the width of iran and the number of targets which we should we should they deal with in iran but the goal 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. symbols again think they can be very easily replaced the third thing which should be done in iran is the genie 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 cannot do by eight cents

today in societies become divided on the country's increasing westernisation while some are happy to be burgers and read european style magazines others are reluctant to change their traditional values party's policy take a look at the ongoing cultural revolution that. a men's magazine that shows off female flourish and leaves little to the imagination a cover like this would not raise eyebrows in europe but in the middle east in a country like jordan where ninety five percent of the population is muslim it can go on sale only in the capital city editor cyrus side says her aim is to shock and that she does by filling in a gap in the market touching on issues that are pretty much to blue in the arab world like talking about relationships and sex they're not flying that in like rural areas a lot of our readers. they have a modern way of thinking well and so modern the dead a different way of thinking

a lot of them have studied abroad is a list abroad they work abroad and they take these little mind sets with them and they come back here and they applied to the way of life a man is one of the most westernized cities in the middle east and is often called the new beirut among the ever increasing number of skyscrapers american well known brands and chains so it comes as no surprise that more and more youngsters are choosing a british accent to tune into each day their only seven votes even if it will. also . martin be one of the top three english major stations in the country and in the seven years he's worked in the region he's seen english radio's almost three fold it's about wanting to consume and it's about westerners and i mean if you look at a fast food restaurant for example you know you've got restaurants on your doorstep . pizza restaurants and people people want now it's a once in a row and essentially when somebody when there's

a demand you give it. sorry could do is typical of the new generation that finds it easy to move between cultures she's lived in jordan lebanon and saudi arabia and speaks fluent english and arabic she grew up in american culture and says she choose to music in movies of a traditional arabic ones any day a lot of us have come from like culturally diverse societies like either your mom or dad by before and you know this is a new trend in jordan it's far more accepting the fact that you know you're not limited to marrying an arab very jordanian and we all the like a lot of us go study abroad and abroad to get so many different cultures and so many different people but surely it's a shock feel some of the influence also comes from the government she's the first to admit that the fashion that glosses the pages of her magazines no one would ever wear on the streets it's almost like there's a contradiction in society you have that sect of society that is holding on to

traditional values and traditional ideas and then you have that typically the more modern part of the city that is kind of going to develop in western eyes and honestly i would say it's probably a lot of influence from the government again a lot of support in the us and it's an influence that's hard to miss especially when it's backed up by western advertising and money i mean these drove that on the streets i would be easiest spoke at a mixture of arabic and english for teenagers it's a way to impress the opposite sex and it is true that speaking english will probably get to a better job after all the king's mother is english policy arty among. so world news in brief today british supermodel naomi campbell's giving testimony at the trial of the former liberian president charles taylor in the hague she's alleged to have received diamonds from taylor for a dinner hosted by nelson mandela in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven campbell admitted to receiving what she described as

a few dirty looking stones which she later gave to charity tailors accused of selling diamonds to finance a civil war you see here leone he denies the charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity because supporters of a new constitution for kenya is 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 land rights and muslim family courts voting said to a pastoral peacefully a stark contrast that though to the two thousand and seven presidential election which exploded into violence in a more than a thousand that. south korea is firing artillery and a military drill near the spot where one of its warships sank five months ago the exercise is the largest souls' conducted since the incident the naval drill is seen as a military provocation by the north so claims its neighbor for the sinking of the warship pyongyang denies any involvement. afghan officials say

a nato air strikes left at least twelve civilians dead in the country's province witnesses say those killed were on the way to the funeral of a flood victim when they were bombed by nato planes afghan president hamid karzai has launched an inquiry into the incident the deaths come a day after the us commander general petraeus urged troops to avoid civilian casualties. later tonight i'll tease to a guy james brown heads to southeast rusher in our quest to discover the world's biggest country this time he's off on one of these off to one of siberia's oldest cities but with a modern perspective a real passion for art. just

. setting sewer tomsk in just over an hour's time we're on our tape for that though we explore the identity of the european union and how it's changed over the past few years and ten minutes time after the thursday night business next from charlotte. hello welcome to the business program hey on our russia is imposing a temporary ban on crane exports primus appears in says the measure is a necessary to help farmers in the country and prevent the cost of food rising.

due to the abnormally high temperatures and the courage drought i think we should impose a temporary ban on the export of green and its derivatives from russia we do have enough reserves point five million tons we need to guard against domestic prescribers is. the prime minister goes on to say that grain from state reserves so we distributed to the regions to help 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 aid the rest is subsidized by. the ban on grain exports may cause russia to lose market share as a global wheat exporter according to a real call from the institute for agricultural market studies there are actions could hit both russian companies as well as foreign imports. of course this will put a negative impact this ban will be

a very painful measure for both domestic producers and for exporters but when one has to choose between the domestic consumption market and the needs of other countries it's obvious what decision should be taken but there are quite a lot of grain storage is in the us as well as in the european union so the obligations that the russian companies have made will go on to other countries where prices in the international quantum markets have race to new highs russia is the world's third largest exporter of wheat but the severe weather has wiped more than twenty percent of the crop with every hot dry day that passes expectations the harvests have become more gloomy they were a new unit is now predicting a wheat field of seventy million tonnes or less that compares with nearly one hundred million tonnes last year the country's domestic consumption to seventy five million tonnes. let's have a look at the markets now here in russia both reporters finished thursday's session in the red raising previous games that's after a report showed u.s.

jobless claims increased unexpectedly this don't concern the global recovery is faltering because among the main losers killing more than one point five percent on the r.t.s. . thursday was right stay in europe both the european central bank and the bank of england followed market expectations and kept their policies the same the e.c.b. as president. said the eurozone economy was recovering faster than expected this provided a further lift of the single currency against the dollar a move his p.c. bank in london sees a sustainable. we believe that some of the panic that was within the eurozone was a bit overdone that we do have structural challenges in the u.s. as well the twin deficits are still there and also you know that there is this discussion between the european governments and the u.s. when actually should you start to rein into your deficit and it's very clear that

europe is a bit more on the side that you have to do it rather earlier than later with a few we had a crisis whereas the u.s. is much more reluctant so we think given that you have more austerity stands you have less willingness to provide a lot of liquidity in the european market this just helps the currency and we believe that your dollar will trade around one thirty five by the end of this year . now fund to finance russian infrastructure projects has been drafted by the country's finance ministry it will initially be worth around six hundred seventy million dollars that investment should double in three years that almost in newspaper says capital may become the key investor and the main aim is buying shares an energy transport need to a few companies russia has fallen in competitiveness according to global rankings and is now the lowest among the bric countries with declining infrastructure being one of the key factors. in the separate news concerning d.t.b. the government is aiming to sell a ten percent stake in the country's second largest bank by the end of the year the

share estimated two point seven billion dollars has been offered to kuwaiti investment fund but no agreement has yet we reached the state currently eighty five point five percent of each group plans to decrease its stake to twenty four point five percent. russia's energy giant wrist hydro plans to change the security systems at all it's assumed in the next month the company is launching a new program to monitor sixty power stations projects under construction following last month's events at the hydro power station in july. six people attached the station killing two security guards and detonating a bomb in the turbine work to rebuild the expected to take two years and cost the company at least fifteen million dollars. much update for this hour but you can always buy more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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the. top stories for marty tonight coaches authorities arrest opposition members of violence returns to the streets of the capital bishkek are under thousand gathered in front of parliament demanding the government steps in raising fears of a new arrest police used force to break up protests reporting a violent overthrow. grueling rescue efforts are underway in russia as wildfires spread across the country during the biggest heat wave on record leaving at least fifty people dead here in moscow the toxic small cleared where the colleges say the air pollution remains high forecasters predicted could be weeks before the temperatures still cooling. and for it or against former cia officials say president obama could prevent a war in the middle east they say israel is planning an attack on iran but will only go through with a campaign if it has full military support of the united states. in the last decades twelve countries mostly former members of the eastern bloc have joined the

european union that is more nations are becoming members of the club the e.u. is identity is changing political science professor. from the university of toronto gave r.t. some insights on the process and the challenges it brings. professor while diverse thank you very much for being with us today thank you so in your own words how would you define these european identity the emerging you and identity will have probably the same nature as our canadian identity here in canada canadian identity means the charter of rights and the policy of multiculturalism. european identity is. a legal construct that is.