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 have 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 church noble catastrophe and the concern here is that if at the fires head south that the force there will will bird and that 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 and i'll show you just what 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 boot a bicycle and 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 and 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 we're not and there is no rain in the forecast so firefighters have an extreme battle ahead of them are two states reporting from one of the most affected areas in the moscow region the airports in the capital are getting back on track as the blanket of fog that's been wrapped around the capital has finally started listing of course hours of delays for passengers after planes have to be diverted raising oceanus of the country's biggest airport. that posts occur in the 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 change in ween times thickness of small so we cannot say for sure so far whether it's all with the flight delays oh no it's friday has probably been one of this is the days for most of ice which have been able to speak to some witnesses to at the airport business and to what they have to say about that. when we came in the morning we can see anything because of the smog we could only see the planes that we've right next to the terminal now we can see more of the most complicated situation he's adamant about airports it's in the south of most chaos and as the eastern and southern parts hold the most coverage and have been measures to fact by the wild places say the station is their war stain they face ad late in the day the station has started to worsen father's city sad were forced to speak his passion we seem in that situation. this is when the decision on whether to

land on north. is taken by commanders on that flight and since stand all the flies to most could have been directed to all the russian citizens not that bad now as. the airports are now getting back to normal and their store she says well ahead open by very soon all the passengers of all the delayed flights will be able to depart to their destinations artie's maria financial reporting there from moscow still no deaths or. and to pan's mourning the victims of the american atomic bomb that was dropped on hiroshima sixty five years ago when one hundred forty thousand people were killed by the blast and subsequent fallout for the first time ever washington sense enough to salt in the annual ceremony but as our son thomas reports ground zero still holds more than just memories that thanks. to hear shima

piece 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 bond 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 alterman 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 hit with a list. that there was a big heaven and earth turned. the students inside were all hit with glass fragments. 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 suit filled the rain onto the survivors some people who were unaware

of the dangers even welcomed it as. i had never seen before i remember it was such a pleasure to play with. the u.s. and japanese governments acknowledged black rain as a health risk and set up an official area where they believe the phenomenon had occurred but people living around here ashima say the designated section was far too small and that the government didn't do enough to protect the entire population that suffered now groups of survivors like the black rain association are gathering to make their voices heard. our members are not concerns or to. suffer from. cancer we just want to 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 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. two or three years ago we found one thousand houses with. because when the houses were built we know when the mud was exposed and 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. assessing the size of the radioactive cloud. or the commission that identified the original area calculated the mushroom cloud at eight kilometers but by finding the old 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 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 hiroshima japan. well we can discuss the lessons of the here or see my bombing with peter crouch u.s. nuclear and missile proliferation research analysis with joins us now live from washington now in the sixty five years following the u.s. nuclear bombing of japan no country in the world has used atomic weapons do you

think they will ever be used again. well i would probably i would certainly hope that that wouldn't be the case i think that one of the things that the hiroshima bomb had shown the world was exactly what kind of disastrous effects these weapons can have this was something that humanity hadn't previously before seen and it showed that this was a new danger that had been a lead unleashed upon the world and i think that at this point sixty five years later most people can agree that the risk of a country actually using a nuclear weapon has diminished quite considerably particularly since the end of the cold war and the primary concern now is that a terrorist group or some rogue actor might use a nuclear weapon which is which makes securing material and things like that so much more important this year of course i do u.s. delegation took part in commemorations in hiroshima for the first time ever can we expect an apology from the u.s. and do you think that japan is waiting for that well it seems that the participants

on all sides have decided that it's more important to look forward than to look back and to see and do consider an apology were anything like that i think the the emphasis now is on how to move forward on the international agenda certainly the agenda of the united states and as well as japan to try and rid the world of nuclear weapons and what steps have to be taken to wards that goal well countries with the world's two largest nuclear arsenals russia and the us of course have been calming them down for the last two decades and are now very far from high levels of the cold war how much further do you think they'll go and how active do you think other countries will be in that process. well both presidents medvedev and obama have decided that they both they want to set their countries on a path to zero. now there is a long way for both the united states and russia to go to get to that point and it

also means that other nuclear powers will have to be brought in and there are a series of steps that. both countries and the international community has outlined to try and and reach that ultimate goal a lot of progress has been made in these since the ninety's and the united states and russia are now considering a treaty to set new limits to major parts of their arsenals so there is a lot of progress that is that is currently ongoing but a lot more still to be done that since world war two there hasn't been a major war of course between the world's largest powers could it be that the presence of nuclear weapons in the world has actually made it a safer place. well i wouldn't necessarily attribute the absence of a major power conflict solely due to nuclear weapons i think that it certainly had it's certainly a consideration it certainly has had an impact and has caused

a new caution to getting into a similar conflict as we had seen in the first half of the twentieth century but there are a lot of other changes on the international scene as well the creation of the united nations as well as in europe which was a focal point for the two world wars we've seen a political union emerge since that time and on top of that i think we also have to consider the fact that even though the during the cold war there wasn't a major power conflict between the two adversaries are also several close calls regarding the two nuclear weapons arsenals which would have resulted in a even more serious disaster than the two world wars that we've previously seen so in some sense we were we managed to avoid a major power conflict but major power conflict that could have erupted and we luckily avoided would have been far worse that we had seen before because of the presence of nuclear weapons peter crouch nuclear and missile proliferation alice

from the arms control association thank you very much for your analysis. now bronislaw komorowski has been officially sworn in as poland's new president it comes as four months after the tragic death of the late leader lech kaczynski along with a delegation of polish officials in a plane crash now today sort of signified a new beginning it has been marked by protest our correspondent alexei or seven 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 again 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 is being held where all the attributes of the presidential power are being handed over to

bernie's of coming of 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 of 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 i'd 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 but obviously coming back to the integration 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 brice from the war so business journal many thanks for joining us this hour or so my first question to you obviously we've been hearing a lot of things about the changes in the with now 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. rather cold relationship that russia and poland had with one another then he's come out and said that he will try to improve cooperation between the two nations you have to remember that. from the same party as donald tusk the prime minister from the civic up from party who has before this was a tragedy reached out to russia to try to improve relations there so over a week we can say that. form with the president will continue in the same the same direction of improving cooperation between the new two nations right thank you so

much this was gareth brice from warsaw business journal joining us here live in warsaw watching what's happening with integration and we'll bring you all the latest details from the polish capital. yourselves could there warsaw now the russian president unveil the latest stage of his top to bottom overhaul of the country's police force and this time it's one of the most basic things at a meeting with top security officials to meet them instead of proposed and the moment he's sure. over since the bulls have a group aleutian or a long coursers of the known as the militias emphasize their popular or proletarian nature i mean they were volunteers in uniform today we need professionals honest and we'll coordinated people who are good at their job this is why i think it's time we gave our law enforcers back their original started calling them to the police. well medvedev asked top officials and lawmakers to consider his offer forces currently undergoing deep reforms with

a new law to regulate the body in the making the president earlier proposed cutting the number of officers by around a quarter keeping the most qualified they have come under fire recently after several high profile cases of murder and corruption by high ranking officers but the look at some other world news this hour in brief for you the pentagon has demanded that we keep the leaks remove secret documents on the afghan war from its web site tens of thousands of leaked files with information on civilian deaths and other sensitive issues appeared on the site last month officials say the disclosure could put u.s. troops in afghanistan at risk the pentagon has also asked the online whistleblower not to release other documents it holds. rampant flooding is making its way across southern asia in pakistan the worst month soon rains for eighty years have claimed more than sixteen hundred lives and now threaten the densely populated south raging rains have also hit india with flash floods killing over one hundred in southern

casimir intense rescue efforts are trying to free people stuck in debris many parts of china have also been battling the worst flooding in decades with infrastructure and destroyed and millions affected by deadly landslides. the former head of nelson mandela children's fund said 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 ninety seven which could link him to illegal blood diamonds campbell told the court she was given quote dirty looking stones which she later handed to charity radcliffe says he's since given them to police. now we're online twenty four hours a day at our t. dot com where you can find plenty more of the stories we're covering here's a selection of what's online right now a record breaking dancer to measure record temperatures moscow installs

a thermometer over one hundred meters tall which claims to be the biggest in the world. also for russians who still want more after mcdonald's and burger king the world's third largest fast food chain wendy's is about to open restaurants in moscow and st petersburg. plus swimmers in the moscow river might start coming across tiny jellyfish as the heat wave tormenting russia brings out some new surprises. were to take a short break here on our team but business is up after a short break. hungry for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice to face with the news makers. every

month we give you the future we'll do you understand how we'll get there and what. the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join our technology update on our g. hello welcome to business program hey on is the hottest draw of recorded history wildfires are raging across the country in the capital as a blanket of thick choking small giving the impression of widespread disaster has been a terrible human cost because of the it will weather was alliance and homes lost so if they created severe problems for the nation's fallen was that more than twenty percent of the wheat harvest wiped out on thursday promised a period imposed

a ban on grain exports to ensure there wouldn't be a shortage and that food prices won't start to rise. well our correspondent in a question of a has been looking at the impact of the drought on co-productions she joins us now from outside the white house in central moscow where a meeting is going to taking place hello to you dana so walls come out of these discussions. a low charlottes indeed and nother nother discussion on another discussion about the latest consequences but their recent decision to ban grain asbestos grand export has just taking place in the white house and a source of the white house told us that no grain axe parade will be permitted in russia after the fifteenth of august grain acts were it will only be possible in the form of humanitarian aid and the through the first of october this year the trying year it for the fun will be discussed once again and now the time period is

between the fifteenth of august to thirty first of december but this time period will be discussed once again but only off through the state receives the first data of the above this year's harvest meanwhile the source of the government refused to mention exactly how many contracts of russian agricultural businesses will be frozen but he said that the terms of force must sure will be implemented on those contracts preventing russian companies from losing money however russian companies are also able it to import grain from neighboring kazakhstan and then sell it to its partners as well as you can see the latest decision to ban grain x. provokes a lot of times discussions and we're bringing you the latest from the white house. thank you minding our correspondent in a question of reporting from the white house there in central moscow. now speaking to business russia's largest insurance company rules call struck says it has more

than enough funds to cover the cost of any damage from. we figure 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. time now to check out the markets and disappointing us jobs data has sent stocks on the dollar tumbling mounting fears of a slowdown in economic growth u.s. economy shed another one hundred thirty one thousand jobs in july the second month in a row that jobs have been lost the dow jones is shedding one point four percent european shares are falling on the news of the dax down more than one percent or bank of scotland is up though after of course in a pretax profit of more than one billion pounds the first half of the year. and in

line with global trends the russian markets closed this week in the red the benchmark bisects was not. russia's biggest lender bank was among the main losers slipping to. 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 with fuel and other energy products being by far the dominant sector russia's main trading partners outside the former soviet states but china germany and the netherlands. russia's international reserves have grown by five billion dollars in one week that's a big increase than was experienced throughout the whole of june their central bank says the reserves are now around four hundred seventy billion dollars say growth is accelerated over the last two months because of the rise of both the euro and 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 ruble rate as the global recession took hold. and that's your update that they can always find more stories on our website. culture is that so much different and there's a huge music issue on. what is culturally powerful than ideology today with the

rise of emerging economies there's a reproach more clashes to. be a vote for bush. the bush always adds by one vote for kerry for kerry so the people that are going to be validating this machine can stand there all day long and vote for somebody and it will be right every time but the guy can walk up here and if he hits the right buttons he can flip the vote that he did.

crosstalk is coming up here on our team but first let's check in on friday's top stories the number of dead in russia's heat wave licensed to fifty two firefighters

step up to battle as wildfires approach areas contaminated after the train noble catastrophe has been engulfed in a cloud of smog making it very hard to breathe some flights have been disrupted. hiroshima 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 a bomb. and of the new president polish president bronislaw komorowski 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. and just ahead peter the bells cross talk gas pull apart some of the week's biggest issues that's coming up in just a moment. one

of the key elements of democracy which is so uncomfortable for me i thought. who pays for the news. how dependent does this independent media. and who is behind the t.v. start. charging media fiction and reality. t.v. . to take. hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle in one thousand nine hundred six the late samuel huntington suggested that post cold war conflicts would occur because of cultural rather than ideological differences is culture more powerful than ideology today.