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 burnt up the contaminated soil when it could pick it up and put it in the air here's more from the minister. monitoring the situation on the. farms there. 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 for fifty people the situation has proved deadly and for thousands of more it's critical as they're left with a place to live and they're trying to figure out how they pick up their lives and

they've lost a lot of their own independence everything that 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 the 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 know nobody was injured and nobody died here but it's a serious situation of people trying to pick up their lives and like i said they've lost the sense of independence and so they're relying on family 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 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 flights are being diverted 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. from the most. in the sixty fifth anniversary of the walls of atomic bomb. one hundred thousand people died in the last radiation poisoning at the u.s. to drop the bomb in the final days of the second world war also. in her. the 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 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 also a goal something he has said he is making a priority for the united nations also in attendance where 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 turned to blast the students inside glass fragments. the blank screen 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 suit filled with the survivors some people who are unaware of the

dangers even welcomed it. remember. the u.s. and japanese governments acknowledged black rain as a health risk and set up an official area where they believed the phenomenon had occurred but people living around here she must say the designated section was far too small 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. suffer from. this building was destroyed in the initial blast and miraculously this wall was left standing. here as

a memorial to that tragic event and the like this building the victims in the media of the radiation wave are easier to identify than those in the surrounding area 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 of. radioactive evidence of radioactivity from black. way towards getting help for the victims also using new technology reassessing the size of the radioactive cloud. identified their original area. as eight kilometers but by finding. the pilot. taken. ended up being. more than twice that we had thought traditionally to be armed with new information

that 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 hills and support the survivors even now sixty five years on from the events more 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 hiroshima japan let's get more now on the story from kate hudson who's head of the campaign for nuclear disarmament hope and many thanks for joining us well it is the first time that the u.s. and other nuclear powers like france and britain have attended the ceremony in how

significant do you think that this is. i think it's very significant indeed to see their ambassador john bruce there today as you say this is the first time that the americans have actually participated in this ceremony and it's widely see now as an indication of the very serious intent of president obama last year he spoke krog of achieving a nuclear weapons free world this i believe is another step on that long road to new creative solve and well do you think the next logical step is that the u.s. should actually apologize for the atomic bombing. absolutely i think an apology is long overdue it's sixty five years now since the united states dropped samik weapons on a country which didn't have the ability to retaliate in kind it's now known for research in the archives that the japanese government was attempting to surrender at that time and had been for some for some months so the myth which has been

peddled for the last sixty five years that it had to be done to end the war just wasn't true then and it's not true now and i think that the americans have to really face up to what they've done that was a war crime and an apology is absolutely necessary thinking in the wider context of all this this anniversary comes at a time when fear is around the world about nuclear weapons are still quite high hence. references to the importance of nonproliferation out the commemoration ceremony do you think the world learned its lesson from this disaster. i think it's beginning to i think just over the past few years we've seen a very significant change in attitudes across society and all levels of society so just in the last two or three years we've heard from people like henry kissinger for example who traditionally have been cold warriors great nuclear hawks and so on

they are now saying it's too dangerous for the world to continue to have nuclear weapons and states like the united states have to take initiatives towards disarmament and increasingly there is a recognition from nuclear states that there is a relationship between their continuation to have nuclear weapons and the desire of other countries to get them so there's a recognition that disarmament has to go hand in hand with nonproliferation and it's not just enough to say we'll keep ours you can't have any yourselves so i think there is real progress and a new understanding of the necessity for disarmament and i believe that there is a real swing in the mood not only in terms of public opinion but at governmental level as well and i believe we may see further steps moving beyond the new start treaty which is a very positive initiative between russia and the united states we may now see further steps in the direction of disarmament and of course a group spent decades fighting for the abolition of nuclear weapons that in reality

is you can't turn the clock back in the technology does exist how possible do you really think that this is. well very possible i know people do say well they can't be uninvented but terrible technology has been invented in the past the extermination camps for example during the second world war but we don't have to continue to have those camps those things have to be banned have to be eliminated and put beyond all possible further use and the same thing applies to nuclear weapons chemical and biological weapons have been banned so too can nuclear weapons that is increasing desired. state level from the overwhelming majority of states for the beginning of negotiations towards a nuclear weapons convention which would ban and eliminate all nuclear weapons so there are practical steps that can be taken nuclear disarmament is not a utopian fantasy it is a realizable goal for our human race to kate hudson and clear and antiwar

campaigner speaking to us from london many thanks for those thoughts thank you very much well to check our website of course for more in the of the stories that we're covering today and of course there's lots more online for you right now at all to dot com we've got a story about muslims to seal the heart of the middle east that's turning its face to the west as the younger generation that feels home among american english t.j. it's. time to measure the record breaking heat moscow is building on a hundred and six meter tool for the moment it's sky could set a record all of it say no more do you had to r.t. dot com. poland's new leader has been sworn in that many at the parliament building in warsaw but only slough going off ski was elected in june

after the former president and other senior officials were killed in a plane crash in russia. reports protesters may attempt to stop the new president from we change the presidential palace. but the whole ceremony will move onto 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 solo in grand ceremony inside the royal castle that's where all the action buttes of the presidential power will be handed over to the news of the world steve then we expect the country's new president to move on to his new residence inside the presidential palace in central war so the question is whether going to come out of steel would be able to get inside this presidential palace because now this whole area around the presidential palace essentially warsaw is filled with protesters we saw several dozen people gathered there and front of the presidential palace near that wooden cross which was mounted there off 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 but 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 over the tragedy in nearby the russian city of smolensk these people have been protesting all throughout this week and at some time they even plashed 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 finally british men are being forced to stand showing greece because of a european arrest rule that the u.k. is powerless to stop playing there's any weak evidence linking then to the

beginning and stopping on the mom while they were on holiday increase but is that laura and this report the north says they could be extradited without any proof. 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 the east 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 the links all having to go through to clear my name. just. know 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 confirming more known involvement. and report back to the greeks from where the judicial for to look into

the evidence in the case and then decide there and then whether to whether there is any sufficient evidence to send people to these foreign countries i was in prison at the incident and oldest witness statements are we have them yet they still send to me out nine on the innocent under the european arrest warrant once an extradition request being received if the forms correctly failed and 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 place of type of this is my name address won't be a feigned sees where it's supposed to the kurds and bicep details like that but they keep 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 aunt's a tearful goodbye. her lawyer. 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 to 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. white diktats which strips individual countries of the right to protect their own citizens the young man's parents see them as victims of the 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 european arrest warrant innocent people will carry on been extradited as a member of the european parliament civil liberties justice and home affairs committee gerard 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 that can bug your telephone they can take you to you know your fingerprints and 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 inhumane treatment of detainees something the u.k. course refused to take into account nor emmet r.t. . through some of today's other world news now under prime minister david cameron has led pakistani president asif ali zardari at his checkers residence cameron will

attempt to mend relations with ari after his claim last week the pakistan is exporting terror and also to. the international response to talk of songs devastating floods there's always the foreign needed to be received by cameron who took. three months ago. washington has released an annual report on world terror which says although its tax have full into a five year low all claimed it is still a resilient sounded out to both threats it also calls al-qaeda the main threat to pakistan's national security in the report washington names iran is the most active state sponsor of terrorism also mentioned in the document to the efforts of individual countries to fight terrorism across the globe now greeted states with you with all the latest business news to go away.

welcome to business here in r.t. and we go straight to our main story this hour russia's imposing a ban on grain exports out to dry out and buys have devastated this year's harvest prime minister vladimir putin says the measures are intended to help russian farmers and to prevent rising food costs at home. 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 one point four million tons we need to guard against domestic prescribers is. claiming also said grain held in state reserves will be distributed across the reduced to help to alleviate any shortages there's further fall was 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. now well our correspondent why do you know of course you have i have seen looking

at the impact of the drought all the gray market and the broader russian economy and she joins me now live from outside the white house in central moscow and i was here when do you know when we see a lot of smoke out there it looks like the a college but is a drought really hurting the economic life of russia. well you quite right moscow is coverage with the town smoke and it really looks like at the end of the world behind my back so we're over there is the white house but it is completely out of sight now but one of the following is this smoke has left is russia will still be intact according to you just love yourself or you keep economist from deutsche bank the damage on the russian economy should be in significance. we might see you say with regard to industrial production hook 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. will have in the back 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 this universe for coverage of. apart from turbo human caused locally there will be an economic impact the decision to ban grain oxford will be felt by is some russian i agree cultural businesses according to call from the institute of agricultural markets studies. of course this will put a negative impact this man will be a very painful measure for both domestic producers and for explosives but when one has to choose between the domestic consumption market and the needs of other

countries is obvious want to see should and should be taken but there are quite a lot of grain storage is in the us as well as in the european union so the only geishas that the russian companies have made will go on to other countries. for the time being the situation is still green hand in the downtown of moscow but from an economic point of view it looks worse than it really is. ok thanks medina that was our correspondent in a courtroom our reporting from the white house in central moscow. now time to check out the markets start with russia where the markets are trading higher in the afternoon most of the blue chips are in the black of both voices following positive trends in asia and the west cast from is up nearly a percent while the mostly go with hardware and software back trading in the red bull horses and in asia stuff markets will make stuff friday investors will cautious off to new unemployment benefits claims the west rose to their highest

level in four months to make it end of the trading session point twelve percent lower on hindsight is up over one hundred percent the sour. shares in europe pounds back ahead of us and off on payrolls date on london's footsie and germany's dax up trading over half a cent higher on friday well bank of scotland is up over two percent of the pulte after reporting a pretax profit of one point fourteen billion pounds for the company here barclays is sending one point two percent. international reserves have grown by five billion dollars and one week small the growth experienced throughout the whole of june the central bank says the reserves are now around four hundred seventy billion dollars analysts say growth rate over the last two months due to the rise of the euro and the pound against the dollar question faced a sharp decline in sri serves at the end of two thousand and eight and they were used to support the ruble rate the global recession took hold. that's all we have

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says warning of radiation risks of wildfires spread to the region contaminated by chernobyl it's still a budding could he needs radioactive particles into the ad. showing that it will find it dying down. sixty five years old on her remembering over one hundred unfortunate thousand victims of the world's first atomic bomb the time eva seventeen nations joined the solemn ceremony looting the first attended by the usa when strong the nuclear weapons on japan. but only a small tickle little scheme has been sworn in those clues new. crowds in warsaw were protesting his decision to remove a memorial cross dedicated to the former president who was killed in the plane crash in haiti. last spring a state controlled t.v. channel in georgia send the nation into panic our reporting fresh was brusha at the

government stays calm find out what happened that's next on. always insisted on telling the truth and that's what he spent his life doing before he had to flee his home country georgia on february tenth two thousand and ten the independent journalist asked swiss authorities to grant him political asylum his greatest worries are now for his family back home in georgia. good here all right are you ok any problems so. simply tries to help anyone who asks people often bring their problems to him as the editor of a regional georgia newspaper he looks into the cases identifies those guilty and sums up his findings in newspaper reports some of tried to intimidate him and he's been beaten up several times in two thousand and five he suffered a severe concussion i was here lying on the ground and screaming please.