trees are closely monitoring the situation in the bronx region the territory which is contaminated from going to. farms and their radionuclides can be released into the year or. more could become contaminated emergency ministry has dispatched more fire crews to combat fires that threaten the briana region there were two fires that are put that were put out in the matter of about two hours so the ministry is keeping a close eye on the situation it's a very serious situation no matter what if you're in the line of fire or if you are just on the outside now in the moscow region which is one in which it's been a natural disaster and then this small village i'm going to have my of my caravan andre follow me if i just take a look at the damage here homes here along the way nothing is recognizable you could see a boot. a bicycle but you can't really see anything else and if you take a look to out here you can see the amount of houses and just the serious damage

that these fires have had on the moscow region and you can see the smog in the air which is also a major concern because of the the air pollution quality and it's so bad the doctors are suggesting that people where mask but overall i mean it's a pretty critical condition it's been deadly for fifty people who have been found so far or killed in these fires and also it's been very critical for the thousands of people who have been left without homes and now they're wondering how do they go about picking up their lives and starting over it's a very humbling experience for people who have essentially lost some of their independence and now they're relying on neighbors and friends on charity organizations to fill in the gap and to give you an idea of just how big of a space we're talking about throughout the russia one hundred fifteen thousand have had very good. makers have just been burned so we're talking about what hacked or

just for some people to give you a better idea is the size of a baseball field or of the size of an international rugby pitch so firefighters have a lot on their plate as the weather is still a major concern there still drought there's no rain predicted into the forecast and the high temperatures are expected continue to at least mid august. say stevens reporting from the mosque a region that mean well this is his self is on the up blanket dense small visibility is down to just a few meetings here and it's disrupting some flights. hiroshima is a mall came the sixty fifth out of the us three of the wilds fust atomic bomb attack more than one hundred forty thousand people died in the form radiation poisoning of the us dropped the bomb in the final days of the second world war. is that her.

but here she mouthpiece memorial ceremony was a significant and important event with thousands in attendance including foreign and international dignitaries from japan now the ceremony started just before eight o'clock there was a presentation of the register of the names of the people who passed away when the bomb exploded but there were also speeches from dignitaries including and now to who is the prime minister of japan john roos was in attendance the first time that an official representative of the united states was in attendance at the ceremony which has been going on since the year after the actual bomb exploded all except for one year in one nine hundred fifty when the occupation army just band of the ceremony also very important is a bunky moon who is the secretary general of the un the first time secretary general has participated in this ceremony as well he spoke about nuclear nonproliferation and said as long as that nuclear weapons exist we are under the threat of global terror he also pointed to the united states and russia as major

powers moving forward with the new start treaty as a good example of a step towards nuclear nonproliferation which is his all from a goal something he has said he is making a priority for the united nations also in attendance were many survivors who felt the direct impact of the bomb itself and others who were indirectly affected we had the opportunity to speak to some of those directly affected. this is their story. at eight fifteen in the morning on august sixth one thousand nine hundred forty five the united states destroyed the city of hiroshima instantly with an atomic bomb while not directly hit the people living in the surrounding area faced another danger black rain. there was a big heaven and earth turned. the students inside. it was chaos. started to turn away. even though here in pieces. the bomb sent

a mushroom cloud into the atmosphere creating its own weather system pouring down a radioactive soot filled the rain onto the survivors some people who were unaware of the dangers even welcomed it. just. before i remember it was. the u.s. and japanese governments acknowledged black rain as a health risk and set up an official area where they believe the phenomenon had occurred but people living around here ashima say the designated section was far too small and that the government didn't do enough to protect the entire population that suffered now groups of survivors like of the black rain association are gathering to make their voices heard you are members. to government. this building was destroyed in the initial blast and miraculously

this wall was left standing it has been the left here as a memorial to that tragic event and to like this building the victims in the media path of the radiation wave are easier to identify than those in the surrounding areas in an ironic twist it is another set of buildings built shortly after the bomb was dropped that is given scientists the information they need to help black rain survivors. three years ago we found. one thousand houses with mud under the floorboards because of when the houses were built we know when that mud was exposed and when we took samples of the mud was still radioactive evidence of radioactivity from black rain can go a long way towards getting help for the victims also using new technology teams are reassessing the size of the radioactive cloud. commission that identified the original area calculated the mushroom cloud at eight kilometers but by finding the point of the pilot and where photos were taken we can get a better idea of the real height which ended up being sixteen kilometers more than

twice that we had thought traditionally armed with new information in the city of hiroshima has commissioned a new study with the idea of increasing the official area for a bomb and black rain victims. our biggest goal is to extend the black rainy area and continue to care for the health and support the survivors even now sixty five years on from the event the tragedy continues in hiroshima alone it is estimated that three hundred fifty thousand people were exposed to the bombing nearly one hundred fifty thousand died today the city that was once destroyed is a thriving epicenter for culture and peace those who live here fight to rid the world of nuclear weapons through their experience stories and memory sean thomas r.t. hiroshima japan. well let's get more now on the story from the steve levy chairman of the peace culture foundation and he moved to the city from the u.s.

and for twenty five years ago a good to speak team the city was very closely with those affected by the host of the disaster now more than six decades on health strongly does today's generation of japanese feel about what happened all these years ago. that people who are actually exposed and their family members are mostly still very intensely working to eliminate nuclear weapons the next generation the let's say the twenty year olds or thirty year olds those people are divided there is a group a strong group that is working very hard to. make hiroshima's peace culture a kind of international culture to promote peace culture but there are also a lot who are just tired of the whole thing they've been folding paper cranes since they were in first grade and so there is a dichotomy there. clearly very dense the spread of nuclear weapons yet we

currently live in a world where we fear that more countries could be getting hold of them so how do you think her also his legacy could help consign the helman of the to history. well people around the world think they know what a nuclear weapon is. even people who know even people who have studied come to hiroshima and are surprised i think it's important to get all of the leaders of the countries to come here and take a look at the museum and talk to the survivors and find out what they are really talking about when they talk about deterrence or using a nuclear weapon and if we can just get this information if we can get the survivor stories out to every corner of the world we will find out i think people were good . quickly find out that this is something we have to prevent now much is being made to the fact that this is the last time the us a well the representative of the us attended the memorial ceremony say how is that delegation being received across the

country. well there are delighted who are here and here are people are delighted we are really believe that this is the sign that the consciousness about nuclear weapons the attitudes toward nuclear weapons is changing and changing in the right direction so people are welcoming him as a friend there this city is into reconciliation not into holding a grudge now of course you move to harassment from the united states where they are twenty five years case and i say what's your personal assessment of how america has dealt with japan and its people in the years since that bombing some sixty five years ago. well in general america's dealing with japan was better than expected which is one reason why the japanese and americans have become such close friends the occupation was much more civilized than was expected and

the americans really did reach out and help a lot of people especially here in hiroshima they kept them from starving to death so there is a very close relationship between japan and the united states however when it comes to the bomb i think the there has been a strong effort to make to promote the myth that this bomb actually ended the war early and saved a million lives this is not something we believe around here and also i think that the survivors themselves have not had proper care if either from their own government or especially from the united states government the united states government did a really cruel and horror. thing by dropping the atomic bomb here and they have never done anything to make up for that so but as i see here in europe people are not angry about that people are just trying to keep it from happening again

recently and many thanks for those thoughts steve lieber chairman of the peace culture foundation speaking to us do you check out our website for that and all the stories that we're covering today and of course there's a whole lot more here's just some of what you'll find right now with. miss lucy in the middle east is turning its face to the west as a younger generation that feels wiser than one american restaurants. and to measure the record breaking heat moscow is building a hundred and six like the moment. god is great behind could set a record all of it say for more do you had to. poland has prepared a lavish ceremony to swear in its new president but on this stuff. but the events are being overshadowed by a protesting for the removal of

a wooden cross iraq had in the memory of potence former president. reports for. now the former speaker of polish parliament bernice the committal ski is due to be inaugurated as poland's new president after gaining a victory with a narrow margin on july the fourth in the second round of the polish presidential election over the brother of the twin brother of the late polish president lech kaczynski it was love now we understand the ceremony will kick off at ten o'clock local time in the polish parliament where the new proposed president will will take an oath becoming the country's new leader and then the ceremony will move on to one of the central cathedrals in warsaw where mass will be held to mark the fact that but he said he has become the country's new president and then the whole soul in ceremony will move on to the royal fossil where the final stage where the

all the regular easily tributes of the presidential power will be handed over to the coming of steve then he will move on to his new residence the presidential palace here in warsaw but the fact is the question is whether i need to come out of it will be able to make it inside the presidential palace here as protesters are gathering here the fact is that the wooden cross there in the background the one which was put here when poland lost its president lech kaczynski and most of the country's political elite is due to be removed by the new president and supporters of the late lech kaczynski of the late preselections can his brother you also kaczynski have gathered here to protest and to defend this cross from removal several days ago these protests were even more large scale several hundred men gathered here in front of the presidential palace in warsaw and even clashed with the police very support of he wants to move this cross to one of the cathedrals in central warsaw and replace it with ammonium and commemorating the death of most of

the country's political elite and the president but the people who are gathered here in masses say that they do not want this process to be. reporting from warsaw. now kira is all for you say the situation is under control in the central asian country after violent clashes erupted near the capital on thursday riot beasties tear gas and stun grenades to discuss taunting the government protesters demanding position to be made prime minister interim president also opened by ever accuse the demonstrators of trying to seize power police and rounded up to twenty seven the people they say organized west including the man in the. us all for what he's already wanted for trying to stage a coup five years ago the country suffered from months of dead the political and ethnic rest of this is president back here was overthrown in april because down

same to foreign military bases the u.s. transit center and announced it helped operations in afghanistan and the russian airbase encamped. just take a look through some of today's all the world news pakistan the floods have now claimed at least sixteen hundred lives in more the un has described as a major catastrophe raging waters have already deluged the northwest and threatening more densely populated south one serious concerns that the major food producing region of punjab lies in the floods paul intends rescue efforts also trying to reach millions of people left without food or drinking water. washington has released an annual report on the wall taro which says although attacks of fall into a five year low all qaeda is still a resilient and adaptable threat it also calls al qaeda the main threats because

don's national security in the report washington singles out around as the most active state sponsor of terrorism also mentioned in the document of the efforts of individual countries to find terrorism across the globe. to naysay thrive gallus down of killed at least twenty five civilians in one incident and helicopter a fire on a vehicle that was carrying a family and the body of a fall victim in a separate attack first. afghan forces raided a compound it comes a day off the u.s. commander general petraeus choose to avoid civilian casualties. hundreds of workers have staged a protest against a government minister interim lanka that happened after death to the biggest and. tied up public official to a tree for failing to attend a protest as one syllable to apologize for the demanding an investigation that it was strongly criticized by labor unions and opposition politicians. next week

although it is business deals with cutting edge and go away. and i welcome to business i'm going america i'm good to have you with us russia is imposing a ban on grain express because of the trout and wildfires prime minister vladimir putin says the measures are taken to help russian farmers and to prevent rising food costs at home. on them while i was working with you 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 prescribers is. the premier also said grain held in state reserves will be distributed across the regions to help alleviate any shortages and there's further aid to farmers the government is promising one point two billion dollars in

assistance roughly a third of the money will be direct aid while the rest will go to subsidize loans. the ban on grain exports may cause russia to lose market share as a global wheat exporter which we will call from the institute for agricultural market studies says the restrictions could hit both russian companies and foreign imports. of course this would 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 is 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 obligations that the russian companies have made will go on to other countries where there are still concerns of the drug may affect russia's gross domestic product however u.s. love this of all it from bank says the impact will not be significant. apart from

the inflationary factor of course the other question is what is the impact on output g.d.p. growth and here i think the effect is going to be pretty insignificant we might see you say with regard to industrial production hick ups and growth performance in the summer period but after that i think things will stabilize we have heard already about. pauses in the operation of some of the plants including in the auto sector because of high temperatures that will have an effect but probably not significant and to some degree it may be compensated by still significant household consumption which is actually partly exacerbated by the effects of these high temperatures as there is greater demand for conditioners for bridges. and tunnels and markets now asian stock markets are mixed this hour investors are cautious

afternoon employment benefit claims in the u. west rose to their highest level in four months nikkei is trading what negative supported by solid earnings from companies like toyota. is up over half a percent a sour here in russia the markets are trading higher in morning in the morning all the blue chips are gaining on the r.t.s. with gazprom. point seven and over one percent respectively. and spirit banks spent more than a billion rubles in the first half of the year on advertising more than any other bank in russia he came in second spending more than seven hundred million rubles if you get twenty four which is the bank's retail branch spent almost three hundred million rubles. that the number of credit cards issues by sixty five cents in the first seven months of the year as of august first for bank credit cards and exceeded five point six million. thursday was interest rates day in europe the

european central bank the bank of england for market expectations and kept their policies the same e.c.b. president john paul tree shays said the eurozone economy was recovering faster than expected that further left to the single currency against the dollar a move h.s.b.c. bank in london sees sustainable. believe that some of the panic that was within the eurozone 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 they actually should you start to rein in two huge deficit and it's very clear that europe is a big moment that you have to do it rather earlier than later and if we had a crisis where is 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 . russia international reserves have grown by five billion dollars in one week that small of a growth experience throughout the whole of june and central bank says the reserves of varying currencies are now around four hundred seventy billion dollars now analysts say growth exhilarated over the last two months due to the rise of the euro and the pound to the dollar russia faced a sharp decline in its reserves at the end of two thousand and eight and they were used to support the ruble rate as the global recession took hold and international reserves include foreign currencies gold and other assets. a 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 but that investment should double in three years according to. i bet in the same newspaper

capital may become the king investor the main aim is buying shares in energy transport and utility companies russia's fall and competitiveness according to the global rankings and it's now lowest among the point countries but declining infrastructure being one of the key factors. its. that's all the update when i know what you can always find most always on our website r.t. dot com blasts.

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the. morning of radiation risks. spread to the region contaminated by chernobyl. could release radioactive particles into the air. showing this a sign of dying down. but i. warn in this post that the ceremony could be overshadowed by cools to keep a memorial dedicated to the late president who was killed in a plane crash in april. and sixty five years on the option i was remembering over a hundred unforeseen thousand victims of the worlds of atomic bomb the tide over seventy nations joined the saw them side of the way including the first attendance by the usa which brought the nuclear weapons on japan. up next peter viles crosstalk a desperate appalled some of the week's biggest. one

of the key elements of democracy. which is so uncomfortable for me a foreigner. who pays for the news. how dependent does this independent media. and who is behind the t.v. story. charge and media fiction and reality. and. if you want to. follow in welcome to cross talk on peter live out in one thousand nine hundred sixty later samuel huntington suggested that post cold war conflicts would.