testers who demanded their requests be heard and met basically they were calling the wire the interim president of kurdistan to hear their demands to hear their complaints and take them into account basically after those negotiations didn't seem to 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 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 there were four shooting blanks into the air but it still made to riff that 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 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 some 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 had no choice but to take action and their security forces took them the syrian measures he's in special equipment right. no

the situation is under government and police control and there is no danger to 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 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 courageous capital of course the authorities were very much prepared for the violence that took place earlier and and they do seem now confident that everything has been returned back to normal and there will be no more violence here thursdays on the rest is the latest violence which has iraq the country since or a bold topple the ex-president back earlier this year he was forced to flee in april one protests in the north of the country soon spread to the capital and turned bloody shortly after an interim government was ushered into power to restore order but the relative calm was soon broken in june when interethnic violence

erupted in the south of the country leaving hundreds of dead and injured the volatile situation in the country's water mostly from abroad as kyrgyzstan's home before a military bases u.s. transit center in the nost which helps operations that identified and the russian air base in. and while foreign countries have so far refrain from intervening in kyrgyzstan political analyst even suffer and show warns that 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 away from this. so it's going to just becomes a non controlled territory where there is no real authority and where there was the rules for. the region and planned leaders then those put. the pressure has not been there and they think well we have another place to

go and then you will have the wider international consequences and developments be around pleasant developments this was of central russia are still in flames and while brushing forest fires in a record heat wave with no apparent end in sight at least fifty people have died thousands left homeless with more at risk as firefighters battle hundreds of new fires that are turning the whole villages into a ghost towns jacob grieves reports from the scene of one of the places. 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 it's fast that the 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 firefighters 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 five's 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 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 the name is destructive mess in forest fires have already burned about thousands of hectares of land. here with more than forty in the morning he's thousands homeless with the wind speed of twenty meters per second it's moving through boston you can see behind me it's approaching now 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 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 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 clean 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 if lames was spreading up 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 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 take here will not be long. well. we've already got about seven thousand dollars in compensation each pension isn't jumpiness a bit mome 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 most of these fools who try to rebuild their lives and consigned to the past all here would rather forget. the most to reach and the whole story of these dreadful fires over the last couple

of weeks is chronicled in our website r t dot com including graeme strange world read crisis russia bans of grain exports in response to the severe effects of the drought and crops destroyed in these fires and other stories on our website. by that how a new partnership between the cia and google to track web browsing behavior is making some feel i mean. in a rock legend eat pop as in the russian capital ready to entertain muscovites as he takes to the stage to prove he's still got it out for almost fifty years or for. japan is remembering a hundred forty thousand people who died after the first ever use of an atomic bomb

dropped by the u.s. on the city of hiroshima august one thousand nine hundred five at the end of world war two. three it's the first time representatives from america. france have attended a memorial for the attack a total of seventy five countries were present speculation is intensifying that president barack obama will visit the site which will be the first ever by a sitting american leader u.s. disarmament activist david krieger from the nuclear age peace foundation says hiroshima signal the start of a race. yet in the i would actually say use a very large tragedy. a very large number of people to guide one weapon at some point. personal tragedy on the people it sure oh sure i'm not a sock i'm not the traction current that is. open. carry

and that we. cannot trace this call to a lot of your chance to develop nuclear weapons. aren't to waste resources on nuclear weapons over the past six. weeks. to track. the future of human life at risk but it risks. development civilization. and the possibility of on a side or the gap of all. it's been an ongoing tragedy that's a good theory. that was disarmament activist david curricular there and for more on the hiroshima story stay tuned for our interview with theodore van kirk the last surviving member of the plane crew that dropped the bomb. 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 could mean the transfer of suspects with minimal evidence the men are now accused to accusing their government of ignoring them as artie's war emmet reports. a 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 collins and ben herdman must go to greece for the european arrest warrants 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 it wouldn't take long for the person to. look over this look at the

evidence look at everything. look at the statements confirm evolves. 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 on a mission under the european arrest warrant once an extradition requests been received if the fullness correctly failed there's very little individual countries could do to prevent an extradition taking place but 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 piece of type of that says name address won't be a feigned 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 tries to answer a tearful goodbye. to sue. and ben and george to join three friends accused of the same crime no one knows whether they'll come back these young men have now handed themselves in. custody and they'll be transported from head to prate 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 their own citizens the young man's parents see them as victims of a u.k. government which has repeatedly failed to stand up to an effort more legislative e.u. the fact is the u.k. should be here. before extradite me. that's why they don't change the

european arrest warrant innocent people will carry on being extradited as a member of the european parliament civil liberties justice and human affairs 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 happened there is european countries like greece remind you both here they will be able to require the british police to actually investigate cases for them they can snoop on you they can buy your telephone they can take you to you know your fingerprint evidence 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 for inhumane treatment of detainees something the u.k. course refused to take into account nor and it. turned out of some other

news making headlines across the globe a school girl in a bus driver have died and up to fifty have been injured in a pile up in the u.s. state of missouri the accident happened when a school bus ran into a truck with a second school bus behind plowing into the first the students were on their way to when. despite the massive impact most of those who are not thought to be seriously injured. more than twenty civilians have been killed in two separate nato attacks in eastern afghanistan and 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 come a day after the us commander general petraeus urged troops to avoid civilian casualties. british supermodel naomi campbell's given testimony at the trial of

former liberian president charles taylor at the hague she's alleged to have gotten diamonds from taylor after a dinner hosted by nelson mandela in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven campbell admitted receiving what she described as a few quote dirty looking stones which she claims she later gave to charity tailors accused of selling diamonds to finance the civil war in sierra leone. the. south korean forces have been involved in exercises near the spot where one of their warships sank five months ago or games are the south's longest ever anti-submarine drill with around forty five hundred personnel taking part over five days and rumors are being seen as a military provocation by the north denies the sinking of the warship in which forty six south korean sailors died. as we've reported here on r t friday marks sixty five years since the first use of an automata weapon in history the hiroshima bombing around one hundred forty thousand people died from the explosion or subsequent radiation weapon was dropped by a b.

twenty nine super fortress bomber called the enola gay with twelve crew members aboard just ahead r.t. speaks to the last surviving crewman who tells us that if there was a need for a similar mission again he'd be the first to volunteer. you are.

today only one of twelve crew members of the you know how the story i'm joined by that man today faded our van kirk so he could not take us through the steps at that well that day wasn't the important day because that may be because. the drop by nine fifteen an eight fifteen in the morning time nine fifteen twenty and time eight fifteen hiroshima time so it was all over by then but the day before as you important day because. you have to go back and realize what happened during this period the bomb was developed 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 bombs so this effort had been going on a long time ever since the beginning of the war and 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 on july sixteenth of one thousand nine hundred forty five and to 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 at 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 to 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 in a sort of business i call the final breakfast so they call it the mission breakfast and then over to define a briefing where they gave you the latest medal bed better old data told you where all the air sea rescue ships were and everything of that type any final things that they needed to know so then we finally finished all that we get on the airplane it took off very simple he went when he got up on the plane what was the last how are

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 they've been a hundred miles or you can see the city of here is famous 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 set there and waited for the drop and when the drop came the plane surged because you had 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 you know 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 they are playing to 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 this time we got putting distance between us and. kept that up after a little true 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 seems like a hell of a jolt so when we turned around after you were true we were going to my shock waves

we turned around the look what had 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 what they had resolved in a less casually overall than with the invasion of japan would have done and.

if you ask any g.i. they want 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 would could go i know it's not possible to really duplicate things at 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 it i would volunteer ford about some by the fact i don't want to go to war.

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one of the key elements of democracy which is so uncomfortable for me authorities. who pays for the news. how dependent is this independent media. and who is behind the t.v. story. chargin media fiction and reality. t.v. . the kind of. story. hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle in one thousand nine hundred six the late samuel huntington suggested that post cold war conflicts would occur because of cultural rather than ideological different.