good afternoon to you alice if you're watching and if you you know why i'm wearing my masters take a look behind me and if you're in the moscow region you can taste it it is awful it's just hard to breathe it's uncomfortable to be so i'm wearing my mask and medical crews are in suggesting that more people do it no matter what your age is no matter what your health. to to stick are because it's just hard to be out here in the air is what the myth of the health ministry. this is what's going on so there is a concern because the fires are heading south and they are the region in the south called which was affected by the chair noble catastrophe and the story there is contaminated and the worry is that the fire reached the forest there and burned up the contaminated soil and went to pick it up and put it in the air here's more from the minister. to

be monitoring the situation on the. farms there. has become contaminated. and so they're closely watching the situation to make sure that everything is ok they've sent out more fire crews to the region and they put out two fires within two hours so it's a big deal in there watching out to make sure that none of that contamination gets in the air alice. telling them to look at the rest of the country how is the situation in the elsewhere at the moment. well for fifty people the situation has proved deadly and for thousands more it's critical as they're left without a place to live and they're trying to figure out how to pick up their lives and they've lost a lot of their own independence as everything they own has been beyond recognition

and we're in one area where this is the true story i mean moscow region is one of seven that's been cleared a national disaster area and you can see why look at these these homes here completely destroyed you cannot identify what was anything except for a child's boot here and on a bicycle in the back of his house and if you go well further you can just see how damaged this region has been it's unbelievable you nobody was injured and nobody died here but it's a serious situation of people trying to pick up their lives and they like i said they've lost a sense of independence and so they're relying on families friends the state and charity organizations in order to get their lives back together and then when we talk about the air again it's. it's awful you can't see very much in front of you you don't want to breathe it you can't read it it's too painful it's stinging my eyes right now it's a horrible thing and right now the smog is affecting air travel inbound flights are

being diverted out by you have been delayed so it's a major deal going on right here in central russia and we don't really know when things are going to get better because of the weather the weather is have helped start the fires and they've helped to stoke the fires and so as long as we had drought conditions high temperatures and no rain in the forecast firefighters have a big road ahead of them. it's not a happy program for people not only here in moscow but across the whole country. many thanks for that and i was on the defense reporting from the region for us. away from. the sixty fifth anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb more than one hundred forty thousand people died in the blast or from radiation poisoning after the u.s. dropped the bomb in the final days of the second world war also the shuttle thomas

and her. here's peace 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 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 disbanded the ceremony also very important is that ban ki moon who is the secretary general of the u.n. 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 ultimate goal something he has said he is making a priority for the united nations also in attendance for many survivors some 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 indirectly 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. that there was a big heaven and earth return to blast the students inside were pregnant. the blank screen started to turn away. and even there here in.

the bomb sent a mushroom cloud. into the atmosphere creating its own weather system down a radioactive suit filled the rain onto the survivors some people who were unaware of the dangers even welcomed it. remembered. 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 she must 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 the black rain association are gathering to make their voices heard. are members consider to. suffer from. the government.

building was destroyed in the initial blast and miraculously this wall was left standing it has been left here as a memorial to that tragic event and the 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. with. because when the houses. when we took samples. 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. identified their original area calculated mushroom cloud at eight kilometers but by finding. the pilot. taken. the real height. which ended up being sixteen

hours more than twice that we had traditionally to be 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. told that to kind of. us to apologize.

well this year that the first time that the ripper sent out of the united states. to japan participated in the ceremony so people appreciated that but the. the the u.s. government. you know any apologies to to survive goes on in a bombing of the large number of civilians is clearly against international law against humanity so participating in the ceremony it's a step towards the. recognition of the crimes that the us government committed so i hope someday us soon i hope the u.s. government. policies to. check out our website for all of the stories that we're covering on air of course

and a whole lot more here's just some of what you'll find out the moment for you muslims you see in the middle east is turning its face to the west is the younger generation that will watch it hope the american restaurant that english to jay. and to measure the record breaking heat moscow is building on a hundred and six immediately before its skyscraper behind get set of believe it so for more do you had to also you don't call. ponens new leader is being sworn in as a ground ceremony in warsaw but honestly elected of the of the former president and all the senior officials were killed in a plane crash and russia this past april. joins me live now from the polish capital and actually the people of poland have been waiting for this ceremony for months now cicada tell us what's going on there at the moment. well right now as the

ceremony has kicked off here at the polish parliament it's where i'm standing right now when the stand that this is the first part of the ceremony where he will be sworn in as the country's new president then the whole ceremony will move on to one of the cathedrals one of the central cathedrals in warsaw where a mass will be held to mark the fact that this country has a new leader and then it will move on to a grand ceremony inside the royal castle that's where all the action buttes of the presidential power will be handed over to bring you some of come on then we expect the country's new president to move on to his new residence inside the presidential palace in central warsaw the question is whether he would be able to get inside this presidential palace because now this whole area around the presidential palace in central warsaw is filled with protesters let's talk about these protesters and legs say they're obviously for the removal of

a memorial to the late president kaczynski so who all these people protesting and why do they feel so strongly about keeping the memorial. well we saw several dozen people gathered there and front of the presidential palace near that wooden cross which was mounted there after the country lost its president and most of the country's political elite in april to commemorate the dead and these people are protesting and defending the cross from removal we know that he wants to remove this cross and put it into one of the central cathedrals in central warsaw and replace it with a monument to commemorate those who died in that awful tragedy in nearby the russian city of smolensk these people have been protesting all throughout this week and at some time they even clashed with the police there were several hundred protesters near the presidential palace and we saw them this morning they're still there they're determined to protect this cross and so far as we can see they've

been successful because the cross is still standing there so many dramatic pictures coming out of warsaw what do you think is the likelihood that this cross will be allowed to remain on the square alexei well it seems that all in all this cross will be removed at some point of time later on we understand that a certain compromise was found between the church the president and even the protesters who represent the late polish president lech kaczynski and his brother you'd also love that a certain memorial will be built instead of this cross so we understand that despite that this scandal is somewhat more of the inauguration ceremony of the new polish president it will be resolved sooner or later. porting for us from. finally the british men are being forced to stand trial in greece because of the european arrest rule that the u.k. is powerless to stop their lawyers claim there's only evidence linking then to be

seeing and stopping of a man who whilst they were on holiday in crete but doesn't know or any reports the law says they could be extradited without any proof. 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 holland's unbend 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 the links all having to go through to clear my name. just. know it wouldn't take. long for the person. look over this look at the evidence look at everything. look at the statements concerning more noninvolvement . and report back to the greeks from where the judicial for to look into the

evidence in the case and then decide their name whether there is any sufficient evidence to send people to these foreign countries i was in prison at the incident and oldest witness statements all the evidence says that. to me out of nine on the innocent under the european arrest warrant once an extradition requests been received if the forms correctly failed in there's very little individual countries can 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 paper that says name address what the offense sees where it's a post of occurred some basic details like that but the the examining court the british court in this case has no power whatsoever to examine the problem if i show evidence and decide whether there is a proper case to answer a tearful goodbye. and

ben and george go on 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 cars. 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 their own citizens the young men's parents see them as victims of a u.k. government which has repeatedly failed to stand up to an ever more legislative e.u. the fact is the u.k. should hear evidence before extradite me. that's why they don't change the year pin arrest for an innocent people will carry on been extradited as a member of the european parliament civil liberties justice and home 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 or a more happened there is european countries like greece remind me about the area 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 it's entirely one sided they're 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 rest on the assumption that standards are 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. courts refused to take into account nor am it r.t. london. time else he threw some of today's off the world news and the washington

has released an annual reform world tell us which those are the votes times how fall into a five year accolade it is still a resilient and adaptable friday afternoon it also calls an update of the main threat to pakistan. national security in the report washington singled out iran as the most active state sponsor of terrorism also mentioned in the document to the efforts of individual countries to fight terrorism across the globe. at least fifty nine bindel have been killed in floods that swept through parts of kashmir it happened when the saw overwhelmed by small mostly see in a region that normally gets very little rain the local to much of the town been badly damaged rescue operations continue with workers trying to reach those still trapped in the date. to nato strikes in eastern afghanistan have killed at least twenty five civilians in one incident a nato helicopter you can fire on

a vehicle that was carrying a family and the body of a fall victim in a separate time thirteen it died when u.s. and afghan forces raided a compound it comes a day to u.s. commander general petraeus judge treats to avoid civilian casualties. hundreds of workers have staged a protest against a government minister in sri lanka it happened after deputy minister silver tie a public official to a tree for failing to attend a b. c. protesters once over to apologize for the demolishing an investigation the incident was strongly criticized by maybe opposition politicians. up next we'll get a live existence with don't go away. hi welcome to business here in r.t. and we go straight to our top story russia's imposing a ban on grain exports up to drought and fires have devastated this year's harvest

prime minister do a push and says the measures are intended to help russian farmers and prevent rising food costs at home. she. 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 green and its derivatives from russia we do have enough reserves point four million tons we need to go against domestic prescribers is. because they probably also said grain held in state reserves of be distributed across the regions to help alleviate any shortages and there's other aid for farmers the government is promising one point two billion dollars in assistance a roughly a third of the money will be direct aid while the west will go to subsidized loans but. well our correspondent to the question has been following the developments and the grain markets she joins me now from outside the white house in central moscow

hello to medina so are the conditions on the gray market as bad as the weather conditions here in moscow we're saying now. well as you can see a moscow is covered with have the smoke and buildings out barely seen hanging in the center of the city and of course of the main reason for such a collapse in a day to day life of moscow is of course the undergoing severe head and fires that i send all across the central russia and far is the surrounding moscow and sound where over there behind my back is the white house where prime minister vladimir putin signed a decree to bayne gran export from a period between the all good fifteenth and december thirty first well prime minister vladimir putin also said that the grain from the state intervention fund will be distributed without any options and the state is also sending some financial just too poor to those farmers who were hit hard by the ongoing drought in the country the state is sending one point two billion dollars meanwhile of the

wheat prices have kids at twenty three mt hawks and many experts say that of the recent ban will lead to further increase in prices around twenty twelve percent. why do you know what are the other side effects so about grain exports. well be a recent and how here current of course the wheat prices but also put in that victim impact at all and of the work of a russian are very cultural companies russia is the third l.r. it's just out grain exports out but of the recent cvo weather conditions that have a whipped out at least twenty percent of the hottest and me call from a cause says that the ban may influence russia's position on the global market as a wheat exporter. of course this would put a negative impact this ban will be a very painful measure for both domestic producers and for explosives but when one

has to choose between the domestic consumption and the needs of other countries. decision should be taken to green story just in the us as well as in the european union so the only gay should probably have to go to other countries words. meanwhile the grain you and is not up to mistake is predicting a yield of around a seventy million tons compared to one hundred million tons last year and it's below the countries with consumption of seventy five million tonnes. and that was our correspondent in the courtroom our reporting from the white house and sent from moscow thanks very much. now time to check out the markets asian stock markets are mixed this hour investors are cautious after a new unemployment benefit claims in the u.s. rose to their highest level in four months the nikkei is trading plot to negative supported by solid earnings from companies like toyota as you see is up over over

half a percent now shares and you have bounced back ahead of us nonfarm payrolls data london germany's dax a trading point seven percent higher on friday world bank of scotland over two percent of the put to you after reporting a pretax profit of one point fourteen billion pounds for the first half of the year . one point two percent this hour now let's see what's happening here in russia the markets are trading higher as new all blue chips are gaining on both of forces following positive trends on asian markets and the u. west bank seven and over one percent respectively. interest rates stay in europe both the european central bank and bank of england followed market expectations and kept the policies the same the e.c.b. as the president of. the eurozone economy was unexpected its value gave a lift to the single dollar a move h.s.b.c. bank in london sees

a sustainable. we believe that some of the panic that was within the euro zone was a bit over dharm that we do have. structural challenges in the u.s. as well the twin deficits are still there and also you know that there is this discussion between european governments and the us when actually should you start to rein into your deficit and it's very clear that europe is the side that you have to do it rather earlier than later and if we had a crisis 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 . russian international reserves have grown by five billion dollars in one week that's more than the growth experience throughout the whole of june the central bank says the reserves are now around four hundred seven seventeen billion dollars say growth accelerated over the last two months due to the rise of both for year

and the pound against the dollar russia faced a sharp decline is reserves at the end of two thousand and eight when they were used to support the ruble rate the global recession took hold. to that so we have data i have for you this hour but we'll bring you more next hour so join me then.

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and want to go for radiation risks as well five spread to the region contaminated by mentionable a little bunny between its radioactive schools and the air finds else wesh having little sign of dying down. but only slough komorowski. has been sworn in as president but the ceremony. my decision to remove the memorial dedicated to the former president who was killed in a plane crash in april. and sixty five. remembering over one hundred fourteen of the victims the well atomic bomb in the seventy nations joined the solemn ceremony the first attended by the usa which draw back and. staying with the commemorations. to the last remaining american crewman he took part in that infamous bombing stay with us.

today only one of these twelve crew members of the you know again lived to tell 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 wasn't the important because because the bomb was dropped by nine fifteen and eight fifteen in the morning time nine fifteen tinian time eight fifteen hiroshima so it was all over. but the day before 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.