one hundred fifteen thousand baseball field or one hundred fifteen thousand international rugby field it's a huge amount 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 creature and which was affected by the charred noble catastrophe and the concern here is that if the fires head south that the force there will will bird and that the contaminated soil will find its way the particles in the community so will find itself in the air and 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 buddha 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 down here you can see the have a small that has made its way to the capital and that'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 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 she was. reporting roof from the more school region will be. getting back on track now was the blanket of fog wrapped around the comfortable but it's finally started lifting it cools. off the planes of the be done to refine notions of the country's biggest. almost have 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 wien times thickness of small so we cannot say for sure so far whether it's all with the flight delays on knowledge friday has probably been one of the days for most of ice how we have been able to speak to some witnesses to at the airport business into 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 place that was 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 scary and as the eastern and southern parts hold the most coverage and have been not used to fact by the wild places say the station is their war state and they at base absolute place in the day the station has started to worsen all other cities sad ports were forced to specious fashion regime 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 most could have been directed to the russian citizens not that bad now as. the airports are now getting back to normal and therefore she says wow. very soon all the passengers of all the delayed flights will be able to depart to their destinations. of course for a roof notion of those don't yet have poured a little. japan is 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 the first time ever washington has sent an official to the annual ceremony but as r.t. shaun thomas reports now ground zero still holds more than just memories of a 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 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 ki-moon who is the secretary general of the u.n. the first time secretary general has participated in this ceremony as well he spoke about nuclear nonproliferation and said as long as that nuclear weapons exist we are under the threat of global terror he also pointed to the united states and russia as major powers moving forward with the new start treaty as a good example of a step towards nuclear nonproliferation which is his ultimate goal something he has

said he is making a priority for the united nations also in attendance 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 overturned then we heard a blast the students inside were all hit with glass fragments it was. the black queen started to turn away blouses black with spots and even though here in pieces were. green the bomb sent a mushroom cloud into the atmosphere creating its own weather system pouring down the radio. active search filled the brain on to the survivors some people who were unaware of the dangers even welcomed it as.

i had never seen before i remembered. 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 the black rain association are gathering to make their voices heard. our members consider to. suffer from. the government. this building was destroyed in the initial blast and miraculously this wall was left standing it has been 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. three years ago we found nine thousand houses with mud under the floorboards 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 teams are reassessing the size of the radioactive cloud. identified their original area calculated the mushroom cloud at eight kilometers but by finding that . the pilot photos were taken we can get a better idea of the real height which ended up being. more than twice. that we had thought traditionally 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 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. the russian president has unveiled the latest stage of his top to bottom overhaul of the country's police force a meeting with security officials to me to medvedev surprised everyone by proposing to drop the name sure. ever since the bullshit revolution or long tortures have been known as the militias this emphasize their popular or

proletarian nature i mean they were volunteers in uniform because we need professionals honest and will coordinated people who are good at their job this is why i think it's time we gave our law enforcers back their original name in started calling them the police. but it was asked top officials and lawmakers to consider his offer of the 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 the militia have recently come under fire after several high profile cases of murder and corruption by high ranking offices. the editor in chief of the server magazine victor linnik believes that russia's ministry of internal affairs which manages the unfortunate is certainly in need of reform. i think the. mini's. they said they should leave the obviously to yes to shift an image of public

perception rather of the up today's militia the image that has been very tarnished that's been very compromised in the public eye the ministry has been so compromised people are scared to turn to malaysia people are scared to to get into contact with the man in uniform in the street so yes we need throughout her option that's what should be behind this whole reform when he truly unprofessionalism what he to root out in effect in this so the reforms are all are long overdue but whether the effort will be worth the. the idea remains to be seen. said her chief the soul of my guessing victim linnik speaking to us there are more days news bonus of communal ski's been officially sworn in as poland's new president comes just four months south of the tragic death of the late meat in the kitchen school along with a delegation of polish officials in

a plane crash well today should have signified a new beginning and it's been marred by protests our correspondent 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 the final stage of the ceremony in the world where all the attributes of the presidential power are being handed over to bring 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

nearby 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 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 here in warsaw my first question to you obviously we've been hearing a lot of things about the changes in the foreign. 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 to russia . in poland how did one another than common overseas 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 one tragedy reached out to russia and tried to improve relations there so over a week we can say that. platform with common excuse president will continue in the same the same direction of improving cooperation between the new two nations right thank you so much this was going to surprise 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. reporting to us from warsaw all right well we brought you a story a little earlier on it is the sixty fifth anniversary since america dropped the

atom bomb on hiroshima that verse really is today let's talk more about that in the studio in washington we've got retired u.s. general. robert gard thanks for being with us mr god is appreciated this year washington sent an official to the ceremony for the first time ever do you think the u.s. will ever publicly apologize for those terrible events back in one hundred forty five. i don't think under the circumstances the policy is appropriate on the other hand i think it is important to show solidarity with japan and to recognize the huge destructive power of nuclear weapons in the hope that we all can work together to prevent them from being used again. will we'll talk about present day in just a moment i just want to continue looking at the past for a second if i may how much do you think that attack back then was motivated by the genuine desire to end the war or to avenge pearl harbor was that an element. of.

no i think the entire motivation at that time was to end the war as rapidly as possible and to prevent the necessity of an invasion of japan which would have cost us hundreds of thousands of casualties what was their absolute conviction all run by everybody involved that it was the best way for would study group just the later the united states to teach it bombing survey said the nagasaki bombs did not defeat japan that was their findings how did those findings go down at the time so soon after these the rif events. well i must say i was unaware of that and i don't know how they drew that conclusion because it was evident that after the first bomb was dropped on hiroshima the japanese war cabinet voted to continue the war the second bomb was dropped they were still immobile but

the emperor uncharacteristically and against tradition personally intervened and stop the war so i don't think there's much question that what the emperor saw caused him to realize that he didn't want that kind of devastation in this country to continue looking at the passage of history since nine hundred forty five only have a been two atomic bombs used in aggression both of them american it is that is the fact that no more have been used done to us moral responsibility or was it more down to fear because other nations that their own a bones well i think it may well be a combination of both certainly exploding a nuclear device in one of our cities in the united states and now by terrorists or by accident would be absolutely devastating it would change everything

here in this country and we are working very hard in my organization on a non-government organization along with this new administration to do everything we can to reduce the likelihood of the use of nuclear weapons again let's round off this interview with a look to the future if we can so that the countries of the world's two largest nuclear arsenals russia and us have been cutting them down for the last two decades now and very far from the high levels of the cold war as we know but how much further do you think they will go on crucially i guess how active do you think other countries are going to be in bringing in the same process. well i'm very encouraged by the fact that we have a new start treaty that we negotiated with the russians i think it's absolutely incumbent upon both of our countries since we have some ninety five percent of the world's nuclear weapons to do what we can systematically and with mutual confidence

to reduce the numbers i don't think we can expect other countries to divest themselves of their weapons when they have only a few hundred when we still have thousands so hopefully as the president here is said there will be follow on negotiations after we ratify the new start treaty with russia to reduce further and to actually reduce the number of warheads in our arsenal because the new start treaty doesn't actually reduce a single warhead it simply reduces the number that are deployed ok well thank you for being on the program your views and comments most welcome when our team and i retired u.s. general robert god told us there from washington. ring up to date on some world news in brief the pentagon has demanded that wiki leaks remove secret documents on

the afghan website tens of thousands of league files with information about civilian deaths and other sensitive issues appeared on the site last month officials say the disclosure could put u.s. troops in afghanistan risk the pentagon's also was the online whistleblower not to release other documents you know. rampant flooding is making its way across southern asia or in pakistan the worst one soon rains for eighteen years of claimed more than sixteen hundred lives a mount threat in the densely populated range of also hit india with flash floods killing over one hundred myself in kashmir and tellus rescue after trying to free people stuck in the debris there many parts of china have also been battling the worst flooding in a decade when infrastructure destroyed millions of fact and by deadly landslides. a former head of nelson mandela's children's fund says he did receive uncut diamonds from the british supermodel naomi campbell jeremy radcliffe issued the statement after 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 seventy which could link him to a legal blood diamonds campbell told the court she was given dirty looking stones which she later hundreds to charity radcliffe says that he's since given them to police. in ten minutes time we bring or interview with the last living member of the plane crew which dropped the nuclear bomb on hiroshima that's coming up shortly first the time the latest business night which. and i welcome to the business program. is the hottest draw a summer in recorded history wildfires are raging across the country in the capital has a blanket of thick choking smoke giving the impression of widespread disaster there's been a terrible human cost because of their normal weather with their lives and homes lost it's also created severe problems for the nation's farmers with more than twenty percent of the wheat harvest wiped out on thursday promise to impose

a ban on grain exports to ensure there wouldn't be a shortage and food prices won't start to rise although the situation is grim the underlying health of the russian economy is not being damaged our correspondent 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 done the smoke has lifted the russia will still be intact and does according to you just love the savoy chief economist bank who says that the damage to russia's economy should be insignificant. with regard to industrial production pick 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 terrible human costs locally there will be an economic impact the decision to ban grain x. rayed will be filled by some russian agricultural businesses and according to call from the institute of agricultural market studies. growing. 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 may well 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 if everything looks worse than it really is. speaking to r.t. business russia's largest insurance company. says it has more than enough funds to cover the cost of any damage from the wildfires. but if we think around eight hundred buildings insured by a company of being hit by the wildfires this amounts to about two hundred million rubles every week we pay out around a billion rubles that's a sum of two hundred million rubles even if it doubles because the phone is it difficult to fight is insignificant compared to our phones reserves and payments we make through the year. let's have a look at the markets now going along with global trends the russian market finished the week and they read that says that oil is a kind of a disappointing jobs report from the u.s. stoat concern the economic growth the flowing russia's biggest lead us there was among them mainly within two percent and looking back at the trading week an initial rally in crude prices above eighty two dollars a barrel helped the russian markets but

a positive sentiment wasn't the last. the markets. fund was there growth i. saw him on the positive for the from us do europe we have what we had for all. of them the market was flat or mix of the to from china and us during the week the hof russian market was on girls so naturally well. through eighty. dollars per barrel it was the extremely positive this was mandyam says though there are other for the show performance as for mid naturally the whole process the group of them for we go to. you know the news rushes trade surplus group 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 rushes main trading partners outside the former soviet states where china

germany and the netherlands russia's international reserves have grown by five billion dollars in one week that's a big increase thems experience throughout the whole of june the central bank says the reserves are now around four hundred seventy billion dollars analysts say growth has accelerated over the last two months because of the rise of both the year 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 a global recession took hold. up day for this you can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business. first

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approach areas contaminated the chernobyl catastrophe on suppose we go off in a cloud of small making it very hard to believe some flights are being disrupted to . russia or 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 radiation poisoning after the u.s. dropped the bomb. there's a new polish president vojislav come across new sworn in the late leaving lech kaczynski comes back into the picture hundreds of people gathered in front of the presidential palace to protest against the king of memorial cross built in his own . but one of those top stories today as the world marks the sixty fifth anniversary of the first ever use of a nuclear weapon r.t. speaks to the last living member of the plane crew the drop the bomb on hiroshima. today only one of these twelve crew members of the knowledge

a lived to tell the story i'm joined by that man today theodore van kirk so if you could now take us through the steps that well that day was an important because because the bomb was the drop by the hour and fifteen of the eight fifteen in the morning. nine fifteen twenty a time eight fifteen. so it was all over by the. but the day before is the important day because. we have to go back and not be realize what happened during this period the bomb was developed by the manhattan project there were hundreds of thousands of people working on the manhattan project they built three cities. tennessee. new mexico and hanford washington just produced to.