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 the fire is headed south that the force there will will bird and that the contaminated soil will find its way the particles from the find itself in the air in the wind will carry it along then asked my camera man to follow me and i'll 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 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 on here and you can see the have a small boat 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 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. reporting there for a regional airports across the capital of regular service out of the heaviest small city today the poor conditions of the passengers was visibility for the dozens of flights grounded well more than forty planes had to be going through to bring regions too close to sort of a small. group for at least three days. it's been a day of remembrance in japan for the victims of the deadliest bomb blast in human history the american atomic weapon dropped on hiroshima sixty five years ago the lives of one hundred forty thousand people now for the first time ever washington

sent an official to the annual ceremony in the city but as i see sean thomas reports ground zero still isn't free from the fallout. but here shima peace 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 ban ki moon who is the secretary general of the u.n. the first time secretary general has participated in this ceremony as well he spoke about nuclear nonproliferation and said as long as that nuclear weapons exist we

are under the threat of global terror he also pointed to the united states and russia as major powers moving forward with the new start treaty as a good example of a step towards nuclear nonproliferation which is 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 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 blank range. there was a big heaven and earth turned. the students inside. started to turn away. and even though here in.

the bomb sent a mushroom cloud into the atmosphere creating its own weather system point down a radioactive suit filled the rain onto the survivors some people who were unaware of the dangers even welcomed it as a. station 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 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. cancer we just want to government to recognize.

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 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 the pooling of the pilot and where photos were taken we can get

a better idea of the real height which ended up being sixteen two on the 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 i spoke to historian john paul's he told me that he believes that by bombing hiroshima the u.s. was trying to intimidate the u.s.s.r.

. the reason for bombing hiroshima was that it had not the city had not been previously bomb that was a virgin targets of the speak so to drop one bomb to obliterate an entire city would one bought one bomb which showed the power of this new weapon where the united states hacked and that was the whole idea to impress moscow with the new weapon that the united states had and wanted to moscow to know they had and want to moscow to know how powerful that weapon was but how could you get that across unless should demonstrate it so demonstrating it would have to bomb a city well you couldn't bomb a russian city because you were now of russia you had to bomb an enemy city and you still have an enemy japan so you're going to a japanese city now dropping that bomb on tokyo would have that made sense because tokyo was already destroyed in advance so the bomb had been dropped on tokyo nobody would have noticed much difference but hiroshima was there intact the day before

and was story obliterated the day after by one bomb that certainly brought the message home that was a story an author talked with jack powers but earlier on tonight. 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 meet to prevent i'm surprised everyone by proposing to drop the name he sure so. ever since the bullshit revolution along courses have been known as the militias this emphasize their popular or proletarian nature i mean they were volunteers in uniform. 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 name and started calling them to the police. move it exhaust top officials and lawmakers to consider is off the force is currently undergoing deep reforms with a new law to regulate the body in the making the president earlier proposed cutting

the number of offices by around a quarter keeping only the most qualified commissioner of come under fire recently after several high profile cases of murder and corruption by high ranking officers . thoughts from the editor in chief of a magazine victim lineker earlier on he believes that russian police need to be reform so that people can regain trust in the country's law enforcement i think the . binny's. based initiative is obviously to yes to shift an image of public perception rather of the up to days of 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 on the street so yes we need to root out corruption that's what should be behind this whole reform when he truly

unprofessionalism what he to root out ineffectiveness so the reforms are all are long overdue but whether the effort will be worth the the. the idea remains to be seen. as big to the niggas from chief of staff of magazine. it's been officially sworn in as poland's new president comes just four months after the tragic death of the late leader along with a delegation of polish officials in a plane crash well today should have signified a new beginning and it was marred by protests hundreds of people gathered outside the presidential palace to boycott the moving of a memorial a wooden cross was erected in honor of the late leader along with everyone else killed in the crash demonstrators riposte to have been transferred from state to church grounds for the new president claims the symbol should not remain in front of the government building. gives us a round up of the inauguration from seoul. 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 to begin again in the morning here in the polish parliament 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 mass was how to mark this fact that he is now the country's new president and then the final stage of the ceremony in the world powers was held where all the attributes of the presidential power were being handed over to bernie's of coming off what would it mean for foreign relations of poland we're joined by gareth brice from the warsaw 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 you 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 when he was president and the rather

cold relationship that russia and poland had with 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 he is from the same party as donald tusk the prime minister from the city cut from party who has before this one tragedy reached out to russia and tried to improve relations. so over a week we can say that. our form of comedy excuse present will continue in this same the same direction of improving cooperation between the new two nations well recently we've heard lots of accusations coming from warsaw concerning the investigation of the smell and tragedy saying that some people in warsaw believe that russia is holding back facts and trying to stall the investigation do you think this investigation is still somewhat still in the warming the relations between the two countries are the point here is that the investigations can drag on for too long a period and if if there's no final conclusion they can't get over this and

continue what prime minister had begun when he and putin met at caton for the cats a memorial and this investigation somehow needs to be wrapped up. right now there is are some conspiracy theories but the main the general polish population. isn't accusing russia it doesn't feel that russia has done anything wrong here but the longer it drags on the more room is there are then the more this groundswell of popular dissent against russia's investigation will build and could indeed have a damaging effect on russian relations right now. there's enough time we just need a conclusion right thank you so much this was a guy with a price 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. correspond with their legs scheme of warsaw so world use in brief now tonight the pentagon has demanded that wiki leaks remove secret documents about the afghan war from its website tens of thousands of league files about 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 says who asked you don't mind whistleblower not to release other documents it holds. rampant flooding is making its way across southern asia and in pakistan the worst monsoon rains for eighty years of play more than sixteen hundred lives and threaten the densely populated south meantime rains also hitting india with flash flooding killing over one hundred in southern kashmir and intense rescue efforts are underway to try to free people stuck in the debris also problems in china china battling with the worst flooding in a decade as well with infrastructure destroyed their little aeons affected by deadly landslides. a train has derailed near the italian city of naples killing one passenger leaving dozens injured witnesses say the four carriage express on route from the popular tourist destination sorrento was traveling too fast when it hit when the minister of transport told inquiry into the cause of the accident. five

british men of facing months locked up in a greek jail while they await trial over a stabbing in a creek in crete two years ago they've been extradited despite a lack of evidence under european arrest warrant and reports now it's led to claims that the british system is failing to protect its own citizens. a last taste of freedom before these two young men are extradited to a foreign country accused of instigating a drunken brawl in a popular holiday resort in crete which left a man in a coma george hollands and ben herdman must go to greece following a european arrest warrant the warrant operates europe wide and doesn't require the extraditing country to present any evidence of people having been involved in a crime the links all having to go through to clear. it wouldn't take. long for the person to. look over this look at the

evidence look at everything. look at the statements confirming more noninvolvement . and report back to the greeks from where the judicial. look into the evidence in the case and then decide there and then whether there is sufficient evidence to say people to these foreign countries i was in prison at the incident and oldest wish. to me out of nine nomination under the european arrest warrant once an extradition requests been received if the forms correctly failed in there's very little individual countries can do to prevent an extradition taking place but i don't actually have to produce any evidence this is the fundamental floor of the european arrest warrant is all i have to do is fill in a place of type of this is name address what the offense sees where suppose that occurred some basic details like that but the examining court the british court in this case has no power whatsoever to examine the problem if i show evidence and

decide whether there is a proper case to answer a tearful goodbye. and ben and george go on to join three friends accused of the same crime no one knows when they'll come back these young men have now handed themselves in. custody and they'll be transported from here to crete where they're likely to be reminded in custody for up to eighteen months awaiting trial as they head into an uncertain future in a foreign land some question and e.u. white diktats which strips individual countries of the right to protect their own citizens the young man's parents see them as victims of the u.k. government which has repeatedly failed to stand up to an ever more legislative e.u. the fact is the u.k. should have to pay for extradite me. that's why they don't change the year

pin arrest for an innocent people will carry on been extradited as a member of the european parliament civil liberties justice and home affairs committee gerald batten says the european arrest warrant is just the tip of the iceberg the next thing that's coming along is something called the european investigation order and what will happen there is european countries like greece rumania both areas they will be able to require the british police to actually investigate cases for them they can snoop on you they can bug your telephone they can take you to you know your fingerprints and evidence what's wrong about all this is entirely one sided collecting the evidence for the prosecution as they've done in this case where they've interviewed witnesses but not for the defense critics say the arrest warrant and investigating order rest on the assumption that standards are the same across the board inside the e.u. but the prison where ben and george are likely to be held has come under fire from amnesty international for inhumane treatment of detainees something the u.k. course refused to take into account nor and that r.t.

london. and thought some of story the e.u. warren system let us know in our two dogs twenty four hours a day that stories the discussion but thought also plenty of. online see what we have a record breaking gadgets to measure record breaking temperatures you're looking out there moscow it seems as. this thermometer over one hundred meters tall which claims to be the biggest in the world when you think about that snow also for russians who 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 peters. you into the river today what might be their swimmers in the moscow river might start coming across these little creatures tally jellyfish as the heat wave tormenting russians brings out some of the nasty surprises.

just ahead people of our losses guess whether the world's become increasingly prone to conflict with the rise of more emerging economies that's coming after the business tonight which charlotte. and i welcome to the business program here. is the hottest driest summer in recorded history wildfires are raging across the country and 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 week harvest wiped out on thursday promise to impose a ban on grain exports to ensure there wouldn't be

a shortage of food prices are going to start to rise where 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 that's according to you just love the savoy economist. who says that the damage to russia's economy should be insignificant. with regard to industrial production pick ups. 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 clearly there will be in economic impact the decision to ban grain x. where it will be filled by some russian agricultural businesses and according to. agricultural market studies. going. 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 to eat everything looks worse than it really is. speaking to our

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 finds 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 in line with global trends the russian markets finished the week and they read that says that oil declines in a disappointing jobs report from the u.s. state concern the economic growth the following russia's biggest lead us there was among them mainly slipping 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 to last. the markets are fine was their growth.

so. positive for the from us do you up we have what we had for all. of them the market was flat or mix of the tip from china and us during that week were hopeful for russian market is on google so naturally well. through eighteen dollars per barrel it was extremely positive so this was one of them says though there are other for the show performance as for a miniature of the whole process the group of them for we go to. you know the news rushes trade surplus group eighty percent year on year 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 the global recession took hold. up day for this you can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. this is the r.t. news channel from moscow these are all top stories the number of dead in the wildfires sweeping russia rises to fifty two firefighters step up about those flames approach areas contaminated after the chernobyl catastrophe has been

engulfed in a cloud of small making it very hard to breathe some flights have been disrupted today. 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 the u.s. dropped a bomb. under the new polish president promised of commodore skew sworn in the late lead in the kaczynski comes back into the picture hundreds of people gathered in front of the presidential palace to protest against the moving of memorial cross built in his honor. coming up people of all of these guests explore whether the world is heading into a clash of civilizations that's in our debate show cross-talk well after this short break. 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. . and. 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 with the rise of china the islamic world and emerging economies is the world prone to more clashes particularly with the west.