regions south of moscow they're taken in petersburg you know garage or cars on in the south also these two airports have also had to delay for twenty flights of people on those flights they've been grounded as the small just really has come in and has blanketed the capital have blanketed. moscow actually and the doctors are taking people to take telling people take heed no matter how healthy they are saying to stay indoors and if you have to any reason they're urging you to wear a mask like this because it's awful outside and it hurts to breathe this stuff and then once you do taste it for hours after you've gone inside your home so state and if you have to and we're also getting reports that in certain areas throughout. the central russia that the air quality is twenty times poorer than usual so this is a very situation this is all going down as firefighters continue to battle blazes

throughout the country six hundred fires and so far one hundred fifteen thousand have been burned to give you an idea exactly how big that is we're talking about lining up one hundred fifteen thousand baseball fields or one hundred fifteen thousand international rugby field it's a huge amount and seven regions has been declared a disaster and national disaster area and i've been. to russia where. where some of that has died down and we're in a smaller community and i'm going to ask my camera man to follow me as i show you just look what's happened this is part of a smaller village that has just been destroyed look at the homes here nothing is recognizable you can see like maybe a child's bicycle and if you take a look over behind us look at what has happened here it's absolutely nothing is standing it's it's practically a wasteland out here and you can see the have a small gun. has made its way to the capital it's just one example of how when you

get forces together it's hard to battle and you have this excessive heat which they're expecting to continue to rise is that as a matter of predicting that we're going to see temperatures thirty eight degrees celsius. and we're not and there is no rain in the forecast so firefighters have an extreme battle ahead of them and. that's right now as those hundreds of fires continue to rage of course a lot of attention is being paid to the region which was contaminated by turn noble radiation what's the worry there. well the focus of the emergency ministry aside from all of these fires and trying to protect people who you know. people are have lost their homes thousands of people are homeless and are trying to figure out what they're going to do with emergency ministry is also worried about their air we're not just talking about the pollution and the smog that we see now but we're also talking about radioactive particles that could find its way into the

air now they have to the ministry has its. region which was. which was affected by the church. and the concern here is that if the fire has that the force there will will bird and that the the contaminated soil will find its way the particles in the. air in the wind will carry it along so that's the major concern for the ministry here is for the minister from earlier today. situation on the. farms there. released. more. now the ministry continues to keep an eye on the region as a matter of fact

a multiple crews out to try to protect their region from fire and so far they've played out fired a few hours time so it's a serious situation all the way around throughout central russia. all right scary stuff for an hour to you stacy bevins reporting from one of the worst affected areas in the moscow region. hiroshima's is marking the sixty fifth anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack more than one hundred forty thousand people died in the blast or from radiation poisoning after the u.s. dropped a bomb in the final days of the second world war thomas. but here she 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 obama 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 banded the ceremony also very important is a bunky 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 own from 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 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 flash heaven and earth turned. the students inside were all hit with glass fragments it was. started to turn away. even though here in. the bomb sent a mushroom cloud into the atmosphere creating its own weather system pouring down a radioactive soot filled rain onto the survivors some people who were unaware of the dangers even welcomed it. just. before i remember it was such a pleasure to play. 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 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. are members. suffer from. the government. building was destroyed in the initial blast and miraculously this wall was left standing it is been to the left here as a memorial to that tragic event and the like this building 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. has dropped it has given scientists the information they need to help black rain survivors. two or 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 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 in. the commission that identified the original area calculated the mushroom cloud at eight kilometers but by finding pundits 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 remarry 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. here with our sea of live from moscow do check out our website for the stories we're covering on air and a lot more here are some of what you'll find right now on dot com a muslim city in the heart of the middle east is turning its face to the west as the younger generation there feels quite at home among american restaurants and english d.j.'s. to measure the record breaking heat moscow is building a hundred six meter thermometer it's skyscraper high could set a record of its own for more head to our team. no problems

new leader has been sworn in at a ceremony in warsaw but the events are being overshadowed by a protest over the removal of a memorial cross to former president lech kaczynski who died in a plane crash in russia in april. brings us up to date with the events in the polish capital. 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 grand ceremony inside the royal car so that's where all the action buttes of the presidential power will be handed over to granny's love come out of state 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 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 command. right those who died in that awful tragedy in nearby the russian city of smolensk these people have been protesting all throughout that 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 to so far as we can see they've been successful because the cross is still standing there. going to return to one of our top stories the sixty fifth anniversary of the bombing of hiroshima to get more on the incident and then commemorations we're joined now by professor robert

take up from the hiroshima peace institute thank you for joining us professor jacobs japan of course has held commemorations almost every year since the bombing how does the country support its survivors. the country supports its survivors in a number of different ways there's quite a lot of social services provided to the community the most important of these being free medical care and also a devotion to. furthering medical treatment for radiation illness and radiation related diseases however it's been a process of extending the circle of those who are cared for. the community has organized and has been effective in the long term at finding access to these services for example medical care but it's taken time to extend that to medical care for those who are exposed to radiation after they entered the city in order to

help those that were bombing people who didn't experience the bombing directly and there is still controversy over extending that medical care to forced laborers who are exposed to radiation such as korea and here bob show. has been much anticipation over the u.s. representative attending this year's memorial what does this tell us or you rather about how america now views its actions. i think that there's still a lot of contention in america over how that how those actions were viewed how the bombings of hiroshima nagasaki were viewed it was only in one thousand nine hundred five that at an exhibition commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the bombing at the smithsonian institution in the united states that there was controversy over including photographs of him shot along with the display of the you know again but i think that the attendance of the ambassador today is a testimony to president obama's desire to effect healing and to find

finally get over the division that's happened over through this bombing and i believe that this is laying the groundwork for obama himself to attend the ceremony sometime in the future or to visit hiroshima sometime during his presidency i want you to tell us about what i'll believe you have a lot of contention. all right what can you tell us about how the u.s. justified dropping a nuclear bomb on hiroshima to the public after time. at the time the u.s. made a very strong case essential on two lines of thought one was that a shock of a super weapon such as this was necessary in order to compel the imperial japanese government to surrender so the first argument made at the time was that this was what was necessary to bring the war to a swift conclusion and this idea then supported the larger primary argument that was made which was that the united states government asserted at the time that this

bombing saved lives both american lives and japanese lives by bringing the war to an end and avoiding the need for a military invasion of the japanese home islands which it was thought would have caused many more fatalities both among u.s. servicemen as well as among japanese soldiers and civilians so it was said at the time that it saved lives by bringing the war to a quick and what is the thing that decade after the tragedy at hiroshima. nagasaki that we still don't have a new crazy world and do you think that is in fact really possible. i do believe it's possible i do believe as a historian one thing i believe is that in the course of time all things pass so i do believe that there will be a nuclear free world whether it's within our lifetimes or within one hundred years is debatable. but i think one thing that's essential currently is not just to rely on the efforts of politicians to bring this about i think that the hip community

here in japan which has worked very hard to bring the message of the dangers of nuclear weapons and the horror of nuclear weapons to the world i think it's important that they have bank shot community here link up with other people other hip hop show communities people who are exposed to nuclear radiation in other countries for example from the nuclear testing programs of the united states the former soviet union great britain and france the community as a whole globally and internationally would have a much louder voice that could be much more compelling. present proper and shake ups from the hiroshima peace institute thank you very much for your time. let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world this friday british prime minister david cameron has met pakistan's president in the first high level meeting since last week's diplomatic squabble cameras attempting to calm the waters off the leaves are dari after claiming that pakistan is exporting terror mr zardari has promised to bring the comments while the premier cameron says he stands by his

remarks the two leaders were also discussed the international response to pakistan's devastating floods. now in southern kashmir at least eighty five people have been killed in flash floods it happened when a sudden downpour overwhelmed a small city in a region that normally gets very little rain the local airport and much of the town has been badly damaged rescue operations continue as workers try to reach those still trapped in the debris. and washington has released an annual report on world terror which says although attacks have fallen to a five year low al qaeda is still a resilient and adaptable threat it also calls out the main threat to pakistan's national security and the report washington names iran as the most active state sponsor of terrorism also mentioned in the document are the efforts of individual countries to fight terrorism across the globe. hundreds of workers have staged a protest against

a government minister in sri lanka it happened after deputy minister mervyn silva tied a public official to a tree for failing to attend a meeting protesters want silva to apologize and are demanding an investigation the incident was strongly criticised by they were unions and opposition politicians. now are in andrews continues his summer tour around moscow's satellites it is known as the golden ring this time. to explain the shapes that define their distinctive skyline. if it's pretty onion domes and peaceful monasteries you want then this is the place to come in fact you'll be spoiled for choice there are many here in paris level like this one here which is now a museum the former good it's good ministry built in the fourteenth century.

you can join martin anders and just under ten minutes here in r.t. let's now get down to business first with kareena who's got details this hour on the latest from that world. it's twenty two past two pm here in moscow welcome to our business program and it's good to have you with us it's the hottest driest summer in record history the wildfires raging across the country of the capital blanketed by thick choking smoke gives the impression of widespread disaster there's been a terrible human cost to be abnormal weather with lives and homes lost it's also created real problems for the nation's farmers with more than twenty percent of the wheat harvest wiped out on thursday prime minister putin imposed a ban on grain exports to ensure there wouldn't be

a shortage and that food prices won't start to rise but as our correspondent in a question of i explained the situation is grim the underlying health of the russian economy is not being damaged. moscow is covered with the snow 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 point is and the smoke has left is russia will still be in town according to u.s. . economist from do it your bank. and the russian economy should be in significance we might see with regard to industrial production hook ups. and growth performance in the summer period 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 may be compensated by.

still significant. household consumption apart from turbo human caused locally there will be an economic impact the decision to ban grain oxford will be felt by some russian agricultural businesses according to do. from the institute of agricultural markets studies. of course this will put a negative impact this plan 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 it's obvious what decision 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 obligations 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 at worst than it really is. the world markets

are trading in narrow range of the head of the crucial u.s. jobs data that could determine whether the u.s. federal reserve announces for the stimulus measures to get the world's largest economy back on track in asia the nikkei is end of the trading session point twelve percent lower while hank sang is up over half a percent here in russia the markets are all just a notch most of the chips are in the black on vulcan forces following positive trends in asia and the u. west gas problem is up nearly a percent while north. banks are trading red. shares in europe are also trading steady with london's footsies over half a percent higher germany's dax up point three percent or actually half a percent scotland's is up over two percent world bank of scotland is up over two percent of the forty after reporting a pretax profit of one point fourteen billion pounds for the first half of the year and barclays is setting point two percent. there's a was interest rates stay in europe the european central bank and the bank of

england followed market expectations and kept their policies to say the e.c.b. as president john called. the eurozone economy was recovering faster than expected that it gave a further lift to the single currency against the dollar a move h.s.b.c. bank in a sustainable sustainable. we believe that some of the panic that was within the euro zone 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 to your deficit and it's very clear that europe is a bit more on the side that you have stood rather earlier than later and it made a few 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 . russia's international reserves have grown by five billion dollars and one week that's more than a growth experience throughout the whole of june the central bank says the reserves are now around four hundred seventeen billion dollars say growth accelerated over the last two months due to the rise of the your the pound against the dollar russia faced a sharp decline in its reserves at the end of two thousand and eight when they were used to support the wool rate the global recession took hold. and that update for now i will bring you all the latest business stories in our program stay with us.

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once again as it both across the capital from hundreds of surrounding wildfires which show no sign of letting up flights in moscow's main airports are being grounded and the smoke is seeping into buildings calls and breathing difficulties for people. sixty five years on hiroshima is remembering over one hundred forty thousand victims of the world's first atomic bomb attack over seventeen nations joined the solemn ceremony including the first attendance by the usa which dropped the nuclear weapons on japan. and. has been sworn in as poland's new leader but crowds in warsaw are protesting his decision to remove a memorial calls dedicated to the former president who was killed in a plane crash in april. next martin andrews continues his tour of the ancient cities that encircle moscow on russia's golden right.

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