hundred fires and so far one hundred fifteen thousand actors have been burned but to give you an idea exactly how big that is we're talking about lining up one hundred fifty thousand baseball fields or one hundred fifteen thousand international rugby field. and seven regions has been declared a national disaster area 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 the ministry has its eye on the region which was affected by the charred noble catastrophe and the concern here is that if as the fires head south that the force there will will burn and that the the contaminated soil will find its way the particles from the contaminated soil will find itself in the air in the wind will carry it along going to ask my camera man to follow me as i show you just look what's happened now 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 boot a bicycle that's it if you take a look over behind us look at what has happened here it's absolutely awful nothing is standing it's it's practically a wasteland out here you can see the have a small that has made its way to the capital and this 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 fact meteorologists are predicting that we're going to see temperatures hit thirty eight degrees celsius not fun and and we're not and there is no rain in the forecast so firefighters have an extreme battle ahead of them. hard to stay safe havens reporting there from the moscow region airports in the capital are getting back on track as the blanket of fog that's been wrapped around the capital has finally started lifting because hours of delays for passengers after planes had to be diverted reef and ocean is at the country's biggest airport dome

a debt of and joins us now so maria are the problems over is everything back to normal no. money so we are now hearing that almost the airport's a currency operating according to the shadow but we cannot say for sure whether the problem is over now because it's changing all the time and their activity depends completely on changing weather conditions and changing wein times thickness of small so we cannot say for sure so far whether it's all with the flight delays or knowledge for more than two weeks already the smoke. terrible forest and p. book far as my colleague states of is has just been talking about has been covering the russian capital but it's never a factor at the work of the city's apples until today friday has probably been one of this is the course days for most provides in the morning most has been once again on golf with a fixed veil of smoke so that the visibility has fallen to a dangerous level we have been able to speak to some witnesses to at the airport

listen listen to what they have to say about that. when we came in the morning we can see anything because of the smoke we could only see the planes that we've right next to the terminal now we can see more. the most complicated situation is adamant about airports it's in the south of most chaos and as the eastern and southern parts hold to most coverage and have been many stuff back to bite the wild blazes say the station is they war stain they face at port in the morning the visibility there has been down to three hundred metres which is three times less than normal level and. instead all the flights have been delayed there and several planes have been unable to land enough that they've been redirected to cities all the airports but late in the day the station now has started to worse than all other cities have ports and shipments when the mothers of all the three

cities had were forced to switch is passion we seemed in that situation. this is when the decision on whether to land on north is taken by commanders on that flight and since then all the flies to mosco have been directed to all the russian cities to st petersburg in overtime to other cities and that's how the city's abdul's have been operating for several hours on friday night some career what are you hearing about what's being done to help those affected passengers well those of forty flies have been delayed so far we can understand the dozen so maybe even hundreds of passengers who are now gathering at the city's airport and to station is rather difficult there as well because it's so stuffy and smoky even inside the airport and people are getting nervous but we're hearing that they've been provided with free water and food and we have been able to speak some people there and they

say that it's not that bad now as. the airports are now getting back to normal and their store she says well. that very soon all the passengers of all the delayed flights will be able to depart to their destinations and use some right now live from moscow still no doubt of the airport area for national. depends mourning the victims of the american atomic bomb that was dropped on hiroshima sixty five years ago around one hundred forty thousand people were killed by the blast and subsequent fallout for the first time ever washington sent an official to the annual ceremony but as our tucson thomas reports ground zero still holds more than just memories of that fateful day. but here she mouthpiece memorial ceremony was a significant and important event with thousands in attendance including foreign and international dignitaries from japan 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 the now took on the 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 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 a new start treaty as a good example of a step towards nuclear nonproliferation which is his all time a 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. there was a big flash heaven and earth overturned then we heard a blast the students inside were all hit with glass fragments it was chaos. the black queen started to pull and turned away blouses black with spots and even though here in pieces were. the bomb sent a mushroom cloud into the atmosphere creating its own weather system pouring down the radio. active soot filled the rain onto the survivors some people who are unaware of the dangers even welcomed it as. a station i had never seen 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 our members are not consider to. more than eighty percent suffer from. the government to recognize. this building was destroyed in the initial blast and miraculously this wall was left standing it is 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 was dropped that 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 the 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. commission that identified the original area calculated the mushroom cloud at eight kilometers but by finding. the pilot and photos were taken we can get a better idea of the real height which ended up being sixteen hours 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 dr you from the here seem a peace institute says japan still awaiting an apology for what he calls a crime against humanity. 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 u.s. government it still hasn't. any apologies to two survivors from in

a bombing of the large number of civilians is of course to me it was clearly against international law a crime against humanity participating in the ceremony it's a step towards the official record a record mission of the crimes that the the us government committed so i hope someday soon the u.s. government. official apologies to. those. well bronislaw komorowski has been officially sworn in as poland's new president comes just four months after the tragic death of the late leader lech kaczynski along with a delegation of polish officials in a plane crash and while today should have signified a new beginning it has been marred by protests our correspondent alexei yourself he explains. it's a big day for poland now that he has been sworn in as the country's new president you know gratian was quite long and begin began in the morning here in. where he

took an oath to become the country's new leader then the whole ceremony moved on to one of the central cathedrals in warsaw where a mass was held to mark this fact that he is now the country's new president and then as we speak now the final stage of the ceremony in the world palace is being held where all the attributes of the presidential power are being handed over to bernie's of coming off ski then it is expected that the new president of poland will move on to his residence the presidential palace in central warsaw but it is a question whether he will actually be able to get inside this building as the street around the presidential palace is filled with protesters people who are protesting against the removal of a wooden cross which was put there to commemorate those who died in the tragedy near by the russian city of smolensk like to remind you of us that in april most of the country's political elite as well as the country's president died in a tragic plane crash in western russia now the promises that this would be removed and placed in one of the central cathedrals in central warsaw and be replaced with

a monument but these people are standing there and trying to protect this cross from removal and these people are supporters of the late brother the late president lech kaczynski and his twin brother yugoslav but obviously coming back to the inauguration ceremony itself and the fact that he has become the new president and what would it mean for foreign relations of poland we're joined by gareth price from the war so business journal many thanks for joining us this hour here in warsaw my first question to you obviously we've been hearing a lot of things about the changes in the foreign vets with in office what would this mean for russia for relations between poland and moscow ok well you have to compare this period that's coming up to. the president and the. another cold relationship russia and poland had one another then. come out and said that he will try to improve corporation between the two nations you have to remember that. from

the same parties don't alter the prime minister from the civic up from party who has before this one tragedy reached out to russia and try to improve relations so over a week we can say that. president will continue in the same the same direction of improving cooperation between the new two nations right thank you so much this was go with bruce from warsaw business journal joining us here live in warsaw we're watching what's happening with you know gratian and we'll bring you all the latest details from the polish capital. alexy yourselves reporting there from warsaw so look at some other stories making headlines around the world this hour the pentagon has demanded that wiki leaks remove secret documents on the afghan war from its website tens of thousands of files with information on civilian deaths and other sensitive issues appeared on the site last month when officials say the disclosure could put u.s. troops in afghanistan at risk pentagon has also asked me on my whistleblower not to

release other documents it holds. and rampant flooding is making its way across southern asia in pakistan the worst monsoon rains for eighty years have claimed more than sixteen hundred lives and now threatened the densely populated south. india with flash floods killing over one hundred in southern kashmir intense rescue efforts are trying to free people stuck in many parts of china have also been battling the worst flooding in a decade infrastructure destroyed and millions affected by deadly landslides. the former head of nelson mandela children's fund says he did receive uncut diamonds from the british supermodel naomi campbell jeremy radcliffe issued the statement following her testimony at the war crimes trial of former liberian president charles taylor in the hague it's alleged she received the gems from taylor in one thousand nine hundred seven which could link him to illegal blood diamonds campbell told the court she was given quote dirty looking stones which she

later hand it to charity radcliffe says since given them to the police. then hip hop star has formerly entered the president election in haiti former food you star who was born on the island has previously been its roving ambassador he's also been actively involved in reconstruction efforts since the earthquake that devastated the caribbean nation earlier this year the star has huge support at home where the population is going to twenty one elections are set for november. and russia's law enforcers could be about to get their historic name back currently known as the sars russia they were called police now president medvedev has suggested that they return to the old name the term was adopted after the revolution of one nine hundred seventy eight it was supposed to reflect the popular nature of law enforcement and officers close ties to the people the president made his suggestion at a meeting with top security officials where law enforcement reform was being discussed

the militants have come under fire recently after several high profile cases of murder and corruption by high ranking officers. there with artsy live from moscow we are of course online twenty four hours a day at r.t. dot com we have plenty more for you to discover here's a selection of what's on line right now the record breaking gadget to measure record temperature moscow installs of thermometer over one hundred meters tall which claims to be the biggest in the world. the russians can still. one more after mcdonald's and burger king the world's third largest to chain wendy's is about to open a restaurant in moscow and st petersburg. where as in the moscow river might start coming across tiny jellyfish as the heat wave tormenting russia brings out new surprises.

twenty minutes past the hour lomas farley joins us with the business update and got news about this abnormal weather and how it's affecting the economy oh yes well of course the grain exports is having a great impact on the country's coach i say this severe weather won't have a long roasting effect this is of course all top story this hour is the hottest draw a sun in recorded history wildfires are raging across the country and the capsule has a blanket of thick choking small giving the impression of widespread disaster there's been a terrible human cost because of the abnormal weather with lives and homes lost and it's also created severe problems for the nation's farmers with more than twenty percent of the wheat harvest why don't promise to pollution impose a grain exports to ensure there wouldn't be a shortage and the food prices won't start to rise although the situation is grim

the underlying health of the russian economy is not being damaged all correspondent medina explains. moscow east coverage with how the smoke and it really looks like the end of the world behind my back is the white house but it is completely out of sight now but once the fine is out and the smoke has lifted the russia will still be intact and that's according to you just love the savoy chief economist from bank who says that the damage to russia's economy should be insignificant you might see you say with regard to industrial production pick ups. growth performance in the summer period but after that i think things will stabilize we have heard already about. pauses and the operation of some of the plants including on the auto sector because of high temperatures may be compensated by. still significant. household consumption

apart from terrible human costs locally there will be an economic impact the decision to ban grain ag sprayed will be felt by some russian agricultural businesses and those according to do need to recall from the institute of agricultural market studies. of course this will 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 for the time being the situation here in the downtown of moscow is still green but from an economic point of view everything looks worse than it really is. now speaking

to r.t. business russia's largest insurance company rules gold strike says it has more than enough funds to cover the cost of any damage from the wildfires. but if we figure out eight hundred buildings insured by a company of being hit by the wildfires this amounts to about two hundred million. if we pay out around a billion rubles that's the sum of two hundred million even if it doubles because the finds it difficult to fight is insignificant compared to reserves and payments we make through the year. tom check out the markets and disappointing us jobs data has sent stocks dollar tumbling and they've mounting fears of a slowdown in economic growth the dow jones is down zero point three percent european shares are trading in their range on the news in frankfurt the dax is sliding into the red bank of scotland is up on the footsie though after reporting a pretax profit of more than one billion pounds for the first half of the year. and here in russia as much as same picture the benchmark my sex always one percent of

the red. nickel are leading the declines almost two percent. now in other news russia's trade surplus grew eighty percent year on year in the first half of two thousand and ten to ninety four billion dollars both the volume and price of exporting goods rose during the period of fuel and other energy products being by far the dominant sector russia's main trading partners outside of the former soviet states were china germany and the netherlands. russia's international reserves have grown by five billion dollars in one week that's a bigger increase thems experience throughout the whole of june the central bank says the reserves are now around four hundred seventy billion dollars. say growth has accelerated over the last two months because of the rise of both the year and the pound against the dollar russia face a sharp decline in its reserves that weekend of two thousand and eight when they were used to support the ruble rate as the global recession took hold. and i shall

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korea. back. it's six thirty pm in moscow these are today's top stories the number of dead in russia's heat wave wises to fifty two firefighters stepped up to battle as

wildfires in most areas contaminated after the two noble time stiffing moscow has been engulfed in a cloud of smog making it almost impossible to see or believe some flights have been disrupted. calls for a nuclear free world as it marks sixty five years since the atomic bomb which destroyed the city more than one hundred forty thousand people died in the blast and from radiation poisoning after the u.s. dropped the bomb. and as the new polish president promised models to be is sworn in the late leader lech kaczynski comes back into the picture hundreds of people gathered in front of the presidential palace to protest against the moving of a memorial cross built in his honor. up next martin andrews continues his tour of the ancient cities that encircle most gal in the golden ring.

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