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 it 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

marked vehicles we can only assume these are police vehicles 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 later negotiations took place that satisfied both sides and that there were there will be no more violence this was an attempt to destabilize the situation in the country and to bring in then to peace in the capital protesters wanted to take over power by force so we have 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 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. for the moment it does

seem that out call has been restored and the courageous 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. thursdays on arrest is the latest violence that is iraq the country since or of all topple the ex president barchi have earlier this year he was forced to flee in april when protests in the north of the country so soon spread to the capital and turned bloody shortly after an interim government was are shit into power to restore order but the relative calm was soon broken in june when interethnic violence erupted in the country's south leaving hundreds of dead and injured the volatile situation of the country's watched closely from abroad as kyrgyzstan's home to foreign military bases the u.s. transit center in manassas that helps operations in afghanistan and a russian air base in. and while foreign countries have so far a fraying from intervening in kyrgyzstan political analyst yvonne suffer and choke

warns instability there could turn the country into a safe haven for extremists there is growing instability in the north. and this is just a few hundred kilometers it way from this. so it's going to just becomes a non-controlled the territory where there is no real authority and where there was the rule of force. and the police and leaders then those. on the press she's not been there and they think well we have another place to go and then you will have the wide international consequences and developments of iran plans and developments. swathes of central russia are still in flames in wild brush and forest fires in a record heat wave with no end in sight at least fifty have died and thousands left homeless with more at risk as firefighters battle hundreds of new fires that are

turning whole villages into ghost towns or he's jacob riis reports from the scene of one of the fires. diam in moscow region a village a mosque a 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 it's fast it's very since he didn't have time to move the car out there was literally just to go 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 set of all 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 the brace and bought it down by about two hundred fifty flame distinguished about two hundred fifty dollars in the process but it's still having an impact and it's just been announced that fifty people have now died from these wildfires this bring the total up some forty eight and 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 the names to strike two massive forest fires have already burned about thousands of factories of land invasion huge more than forty in the world and he's thousands homeless with the wind speed of

twenty meters per second it's moving through boston 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 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 sun in her refined 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 believe 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 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 a 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 smoky meets 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.

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 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 or here would rather forget. t. most to reach. home a whole story of these dreadful fires over the past couple of weeks is chronicled on our website r.t. dot com including this one grain strain read prices jump as russia bans of grain exports in response to the severe effects of the drought and crops destroyed in the fires and other stories. we find out how a new partnership between the cia and google attract web browsing behavior is making some feel uneasy. plus rock legend iggy pop is in the russian

capital and ready to entertain muscovites as he takes the stage to prove he's still got it after almost fifty years of performances. five british citizens have been extradited to greece to face trial accused of stabbing and beating a man while on holiday in crete the european arrest warrant issued against them allows suspects to be extradited but critics say it can mean the transfer of suspects with minimal evidence the men are now accusing their government of ignoring them as artie's laura emmett has been finding out. last taste of freedom before these two young men are extradited to a foreign country accused of instigating a drunken brawl in

a popular holiday resort in crete which left a man in a coma george hollands and ben herdman must go to greece following a european arrest warrant the warrant operates europe wide and doesn't require the extraditing country to present any evidence of people having been involved in a crime. having to go. it wouldn't take. long for the person to. look at the evidence look at everything. if the statements can involve. and report back to the greeks from where it used to shore for. the evidence in the case and then decide there and then whether there is sufficient evidence to say people to these foreign countries i was in prison at the incident and oldest wish. yet they still said to me out nine nomination under the european arrest warrant once an

extradition requests been received if the forms correctly failed there's very little individual countries can do to prevent an extradition taking place well i don't actually have to produce any evidence this is the fundamental floor of the european arrest warrant is all i have to do is fill in a place that type of this is name address won't be a faint sees where it's supposed to the kurds and by see details like that but the examining court the british court in this case has no power whatsoever to examine the problem of five she evidence and decide whether there is a proper case to answer a tearful goodbye. and ben and george to join three friends accused of the same crime no one knows when they'll come back these young men have now handed themselves in police. just today and they'll be transported from head to crate where they're likely to be reminded in custody for up to eighteen months awaiting trial as they head into an uncertain

future in a foreign land some question and e.u. whites' diktats which strips individual countries of the right to protect citizens the young men's parents see them as victims of a u.k. government which has repeatedly failed to stand up to an ethical legislative e.u. the fact is the u.k. should have to pay for extradite me. that's why they don't change the year ban arrest innocent people will carry on being extradited as a member of the european parliament civil liberties justice and third committee gerald batten says the european arrest warrant is just the tip of the iceberg the next thing that's coming along is something called the european investigation order and what will happen there is the european countries like greece rumania both areas they will be able to require the british police to actually investigate cases for them they can snoop on you they can bug your telephone they can take you to you

know your fingerprints they didn't say what's wrong about all this is entirely one sided collecting the evidence for the prosecution as they've done in this case where they've interviewed witnesses but not for the defense critics say the arrest warrant and investigation order rests on the assumption that standards of the same across the board inside the e.u. but the prison where ben and george are likely to be held has come under fire from amnesty international inhumane treatment of detainees something the u.k. courts refuse to take into account nor and that r.t. . turning now to some other news making headlines across the globe a schoolgirl at a bus driver have died and up to fifty people have been injured in a pile up in the u.s. state of missouri the accident happened when a school bus read into a truck with a second school bus behind plowing into the first the students were on their way to an amusement park. despite the massive impact most of those hurt are not thought to be seriously injured. more than twenty civilians have been killed in two separate

nato attacks in eastern afghanistan in one of the incidents eight died when a nato helicopter opened fire on a vehicle carrying the family and the body of a flood victim to their home village nato has acknowledged that civilians have been killed in missions targeting taliban militants the deaths came a day after u.s. commander general petraeus urged troops to avoid civilian casualties. british supermodel naomi campbell was given testimony at the trial of former liberian president charles taylor at the hague he's alleged to have gotten diamonds from taylor after a dinner hosted by nelson mandela in one thousand nine hundred seventy campbell admitted that admitted receiving what she described as a few dirty looking stones which she claims she later gave to charity taylor's accused of selling diamonds to finance a civil war in sierra leone. in south korean forces have been involved in exercises near the spot where one of their warships sank five months ago the war games are the south's largest ever anti-submarine drill with around forty five

hundred personnel to take part over five days movers are being seen as a military provocation by the north pyongyang denies the sinking of a warship in which forty six south korean sailors died. jordanian society has become divided on the country's increasing westernisation while some are happy to eat hamburgers or new european style magazines others are reluctant to change their traditional ways or he's paulus leader takes a look at the country's ongoing cultural revolution. 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 find it in like rural

areas a lot of. they have a modern way of thinking well it's a 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 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 oh it's a once in 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 might be foreign 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 or a jordanian and we also like a lot of us go study abroad and abroad you 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 sect of society that is holding on to traditional values and traditional ideas and then you have that side typically the more modern part of the city that is kind of going to develop in western honestly i would say it's probably a lot of influence from the government level you get a lot of support you need 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 increase 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. teacher among. friday marks sixty five years since the first use of an atomic weapon in history

the hiroshima bombing about one hundred fifty thousand people died from the explosion or subsequent radiation the weapon was dropped by a b. twenty nine super fortress bomber you know with twelve crew members just ahead r.t. speaks to the last surviving crewman who tells us that if there was a. and for a similar mission again he'd be the first of all and. you are. today only one of twelve crew members of the knowledge

a live it's how the story i'm joined by that man today theodore van kirk so if you could now take us through the steps of that fateful day well that day was indeed important because i mean because the bomb was dropped by nine fifteen and eight fifteen in the morning twenty nine fifteen twenty and time eight fifteen hiroshima time so it was all over by that but the day before was the important day because. you have to go back and realize what happened during this period the bomb was the vala by the manhattan project there were hundreds of thousands of people working on the manhattan project they built three cities. tennessee. new mexico and hanford was. produced to research

how to make the bombs and make the materials and from which to make the bomb. so this effort had been going on a long time ever since the beginning of the war and i signed wrote a letter to franklin roosevelt saying that it might be possible to make an atomic weapon so all this had been going on and we had started preparing to drop the atom bomb in the fall of one nine hundred forty four before we even had a bomb we were we were if you were a poker player you'd say you're betting on the calm so that's what happened and then they had a test of the one of the first atomic bombs in. alamogordo new mexico you know on july sixteenth of one thousand nine hundred forty five after that everything started getting hotter and everything of that type and we knew we were going to have a weapon the drop so then we had to prepare a we had already been preparing to drop it so if we don't know how to drive and by

this time we never would the day before we had a briefing in the morning and then they told you to go back and get some sleep because you want to take off at two forty five am everything started two forty five and so then you would back and. to get some sleep and i would nobody slap how they expected so you're going out drop the first atomic bomb and then go get some sleep eight o'clock at night they came and got us finally and then took us over and gave us the final breakfast and the sort of business i call the final breakfast they call it the mission breakfast and then over to define a briefing where they gave you the latest medal bed metro data told you where all the air sea rescue ships were and everything of that type any final things that they needed and so then we finally finished all that would get on the airplane it took off very simple he went once he got on the plane what was the last how you feeling it was easy because everything went exactly according to plan

there wasn't a surprise in a whole bunch and with what we had prepared for and had been expecting and everything of that type all this time you could see the city of you can see the coast of japan from a good two hundred miles away i mean maybe hundred miles or you could see the city of here sima from fifty miles away so you just went in and turned on the bomber on now but this time was in the ball but there is sand and you said turned and waited for the drop on the drop came the plane surged because you suddenly lost ninety four hundred pounds and tipper's took over manual control again and made the turn to get away from the bomb the biggest thing that we were concerned about was is this bomb going to work because this was a ball that had never been tested this was here a uranium two thirty five bomb that had never been tested the one they tested was approved tony a bomb. so it wasn't going to work or it wasn't going to work and it took forty

five seconds from the time the bomb left the airplane until they exploded everybody was sitting there time again some way shape or form i had a watch so i knew what the time was the other people were counting one thousand and one one thousand and two and so forth and suddenly the bomb went off and you saw a bright flash of light and the airplane is like you knew the thing at work and the only question then was why was i going to do it in the airplane so we were going away from it at this time we got putting distance between us and. kept that up after a little short for a very short time we got the first shock wave which was measured about three and a half g.'s you know up there in washington you know all these military people you know what a three g. is and everything of that type so it does seem like much to a fighter pilot but if you want to be twenty nine at thirty thousand feet seemed like a hell of a job so when we turned around after you were going to my shock waves we turned

around the look what happened and the shock wave of the city of hiroshima was completely covered with smoke and dust and you could not you knew a tremendous amount of damage had been done underneath that cloud there and everything but you could not see what it was and hindsight do you think that there was any way to avoid it using the atomic weapon any other options that would have achieved the same call three main options one was to put a blockade around japan and start of the people to death how do you a star of people of death that are already living on one thousand calories you can't do it a sec that then you other two options were dropped the atomic weapons or put a full scale invasion into japan the atomic weapons would have crees all the less casually overall than if the invasion of japan would have done and.

if you ask any g.i. that what there's going to be body but it was in a service over and over the pacific and you have their little of the atomic bomb my last question for you if world war three broke out today god for bad and you were given the same order if you were they said go drop an atomic bomb on whatever city would you do it again if everything was exactly the same as you had was there that's the point where you'd have guy i know it's not possible to really duplicate things that precisely but if the same situation existed again exactly as there as it had back in one thousand nine hundred five yes i would go on . i would volunteer ford about i don't want to go war.

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for being with us here on r t two thirty am in moscow these are your headlines police in the carriages capital bishkek clashed with anti-government demonstrators accused by the country's interim leader of trying to organize a coup live ammunition been fired while protest leaders have been arrested. wildfires continue raging across central russia during the biggest heat wave on record leaving at least fifty people dead in mach's out in moscow toxic smog has shown signs of clearing but ecologists say the air pollution the mains. five brits extradited to greece to face trial over the stabbing of a man in crete accuse their government of turning its back on them critics say the european arrest war. system under which they have been transferred allows them to be sent for trial abroad with minimal evidence. up next to explore russia with us here at r t your very own guy james brown is in the siberian city of tomsk where as

well as uncovering the sites he gets to know local musicians and artists stay with us. in southeastern russia around three thousand kilometers from. it's a city with destroying students an academic population and it's got a reputation for giving visitors a friendly local. i'm sure for our flights i was ready to experience it for myself . when you arrive in a new city and your hotel has a message for you to make yourself at home but there are literally dozens of little monuments like this dotted all around. and appropriately enough. i'm going to go for a walk with the office.