go anywhere the leader of the opposition 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 the amount of noise they 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 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 at and they do. seen now confident that everything has been returned back

to normal and there will be no more violence here. parties katrina czar over reporting kurdistan's president meantime roza otunbayeva has spoken to germany she says that the situation is now under control. this was an attempt to destabilize the situation in the country and to bring in then to peace in the capital bishkek protesters wanted to take over power by force so we had no choice but to take action and their security forces took the necessary measures he's in special equipment right now the situation is under government and police control and there is no danger to the public safety. today's unrest is the latest in a series of violent incidents of shake of the country since an uprising toppled president bush 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 shortly after the interim government was ushered into power to restore order however the relative calm stone broke in june when interethnic violence erupted in the south of the

country leaving hundreds dead in a volatile situation in the country's watched closely from the borders of the stands home followed military bases the u.s. transit center and minus which helps operations in afghanistan but also a russian air base income. political analyst even cell phone shock says the situation in kurdistan is much broader international significance. there is growing instability in the north of afghanistan and this is just a few hundred kilometers away from the start of congress thought so if going to this town becomes a non-controlled territory where there is no real authority and where there is the rule of four stands the region and the plan leaders then those who are under pressure enough in the astronomy think well we have another place to go and then it will have wider international consequences and developments of iran

plays on developments. so that sort of political honesty from chalk talk and. coming up some call it the new beirut but just how much has jordan become transformed by western culture well we try to find it a little bit later this hour. as wildfires rage to grow across russia the death toll from weeks of blazes has risen now to fifty hundreds of thousands of firefighters are working to tame the flames still weather forecasters say the schools in temperatures will continue until the end of the month jacob reeves is at the scene of devastation in the moscow region. diam 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 fire move 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 have always been complete destroyed by these wildfires and that's left with a serious problem there's still smoldering ground beneath them and that's settable to reignite 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 a brace and bought it down by about two hundred fifty flame distinguished about two hundred fifty five's in the process but it's still having an impact and it's just been out that fifty people have now died from these wildfires that's bringing

a total up from forty eight and there has been thousands of people displaced here and there really has been a lot of the nation corps 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 mess in forest fires have already burned about thousands of half days of land. huge more than forty in the morning he's thousands homeless with the wind speed of twenty meters per second it's moving on to as you can see behind me it's approaching now leaving behind a trail of devastation. this used to be a small picturesque village naslund 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 at church 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 some in hurry find circumstances panic has been sprayed in among people as fast as the flames have been in 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 at a later she's bag hoping to find something tagged but it's all in vain. sure the 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 it staff in smokiness 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. well. we've already got about seven thousand dollars in compensation each pensioner's the jobless a bit more but what we're really especially waiting for that's a new home they've promised it to 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 ghost village to the past all here would rather

forget reef notion r t more screeching. whole story of these dreadful fires chronicled are on our website or pictures from the last couple of weeks and all story as well because that website up twenty four hours a day for you r t v dot com a lot of other stories there as well as ever tonight rock legend iggy pop is in the russian capital still going and ready to entertain muscovites as he takes to the stage to prove he still got what it takes after almost fifty years performing well in. find out when you partnership between the cia and google to track web browsing behavior is making some people feel uneasy what backstory there you can find it tonight at r.t. dot com. fifty. five.

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 unconditional support for an attack on iran as early as this month maybe 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 and this warning comes just days after u.s. top brass refused to rule out a strike on his manic state to rant repeatedly refused to promoting a nation who tell of evas it maintains the jewish state has no right to exist michel chossudovsky is from the canadian center for research on globalization he spoke to us earlier on he thinks israel won't strike until washington tells it to. send your stories of very. serious. people of course this message 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 from 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 has indicated rather as a possible target that the war plans which have 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 wealth and ultimately war in that region is the battle for oil and natural gas the threat of.

but war is real the implications are far reaching if all were launched. within the next few months the whole region will play or are probably eastern mediterranean right through to the chinese border michael jace adults get there from the canadian center for research on globalization also thoughts too for mordecai is ready scholar who's got twenty five years experience of serving in israeli military intelligence he told r.t. that israel believes a regime change in iran is needed but that it can't be achieved without a mass uprising or an invasion for my assessment 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 arabi iraq jordan which we don't have illusions 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 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. symbols again think they can be very easily replaced the third thing which should be done in iran is 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 cent. to damien's societies become divided only countries increasing westernize ation while some are happy to be burgers and read european style magazines others are reluctant to change their traditional values tonight artie's policy takes a look at the ongoing cultural revolution there. 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 saying that unlike rural areas a lot of our readers. they have a modern way of thinking that modern the dead a different way of thinking a lot of them have studied abroad this list abroad they work abroad and they take these little. mind sets with them and they come back here and they apply to the way of life and money 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 are 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 radio 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 the 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 or is typical of the new generation that finds it easy to move between cultures she's lived in jordan lebanon and chaldea arabia and speaks fluent english and arabic she grew up in american culture and says she choose western music in movies of a traditional arabic ones any day

a lot of us have come from like culturally diverse society is like either your mom or dad by before and you know this is a new trend enjoying it's foreigner accepting the fact that you know you're not limited to marrying an arab very jordanian and we although 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 plus is 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 sector 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 to get 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 stroke 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 a better job after all the king's mother is english policy arty among. we bring up zones of world news in brief now today british supermodel naomi campbell's giving testimony at the trial of former liberian president charles taylor and they she's alleged to have received diamonds from taylor after a dinner hosted by nelson mandela in one thousand nine hundred seven campbell admitted to receiving what she described as a few dirty looking stones which she claims she later gave to charity tellers accused of selling diamonds to finance the civil war in sierra leone he denies the charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. in supporters of a new constitution for kenya are celebrating tonight out of the no campaign

conceded defeat of most votes counted seventy percent are in favor of laws limiting the president's powers the constitution also includes emotionally charged changes to abortion rules land rights and muslim family court the voting is said to a possible peacefully it's a stark contrast both of the two thousand and seven presidential election which exploded into violence and left more than one thousand people a day. in south korea is firing artillery and military drill in sport where one of its wall ship sank five months ago the exercise is the largest souls conducted since the incident and the naval drills seen as a military provocation by the north seoul blames its neighbor for the sinking of the warship but something pyongyang denies. more than twenty civilians have been killed in a separate in two separate nato attacks in afghanistan's province and nato has acknowledged that civilians died during the fighting with the taliban in the region and want to tag witnesses say those killed were on the way to a funeral when they were bombed by nato planes the deaths come a day after u.s.

commander general petraeus urged troops to avoid civilian casualties. which of the russians ses to explore one of the oldest cities in siberia find out what tom scott has to offer in about ten minutes time here on r.t. some of the business though that's just ahead. hungry for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news make us. want to be so much brighter. moon and sun from finest impressions.

he stands on t.v. dot com. hello welcome to the business program hey i know it's a rush is imposing a temporary ban on grain exports promise a purchase says the measures are necessary to help farmers in the country provide the cost of food rising it is on the mind was if you make it due to the abnormally high temperatures and the courage drought i think we should impose a temporary ban on the export of grain and its derivatives from russia we do have enough reserves one point five million tons we need to guard against domestic price rises. the prime minister goes on to say that grain from state reserves will be distributed to the regions to help alleviate any shortages and those 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 loans the ban on grain exports may cause russia to lose market share as a global wheat exporter according to dimitri rocor from in situ for agricultural market studies there strictures could hit both russian companies as well as foreign importers. of course this would put a negative impact this ban will be very painful measures 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 there quite a lot of grain storage is in the us as well as in the european union so the obligation the russian companies have made will go on to other countries and we prices on the international community markets have race to new highs russia is the world's third 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 the

harvests have become more gloomy the grain union is now predicting a wheat field of seventy million tonnes or less that compares with nearly one hundred million tonnes ast year the country's domestic we consumption is seventy five million tonnes. let's have a look at the markets now and here in russia both of forces finished the day session in the red raising previous games because after a report showed us jobless claims increased unexpectedly this concern the global recovery is faltering of among the lame losers shedding more than one point five percent on the r.t.s. . those day 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 c.b.s. president is on. they said the eurozone economy was recovering faster than expected this provided a further lift to the single currency against the dollar and the ages b.c. bank in london sees a sustainable we believe that some of the panic that was within the euro zone was

a bit overdone that we do have structural challenges in the us 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 in do you deficit and it's very clear that europe is the side that you have to do it rather earlier than later and it made it we had a crisis worse 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 funds of 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 but almost a newspaper says the t.v. capital may become the key investor and the main aim is buying shares an energy

transport need to have two companies russia has pull in competitiveness according to global rankings and is now at 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 set 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 q eighty investment fund there's no agreement as yet we've 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. to change the security systems at all it's this is in the next month the company is launching a new program to monitor sixty power stations on projects under construction following last month's events at the facts the hydro power station in july six people attacked 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. for this hour but you can always buy more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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is artsy for moscow these are top stories tonight here's authorities arrest opposition members as violence returns to the streets of the capital bishkek around a thousand gathered in front of the parliament demanding the government steps raising fears of a new dawn rest police used force to break up protesters are said to be plotting 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 in moscow the toxic small has cleared now but ecologist say the air pollution remains high forecasters predict it could be weeks before the temperatures start 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 let me go through the campaign if it's got the full military support of the united states . warnings from us twenty four seven at r.t.

dot com now it's time to explore a new corner of russia and this time our very own to a guy james brown takes us three thousand five hundred kilometers away from moscow to one of siberia's oldest cities so it's thirty minute tour around tomsk is about . in southeastern russia around three thousand kilometers from moscow. it's a city with destroying student and academic population and it's got a reputation for giving visitors a friendly welcome. i was ready to experience it for myself. and your hotel has a message for you to make yourself at home but there are literally dozens of little monuments like this.