could do at least something in terms to help coping with the pollution and with the environment the weather forecasts don't really hold for much much hope they do say that it may get a little bit easier in the next few days we do even when even get some rain and a cooling in temperatures and a change of wind but they do see that the smaller is very likely to come back by the hands of the week nearly the whole of russia central and western florida is. on fire now and over one hundred fifty thousand people including firefighters volunteers and even the army are battling these fires but we've heard back to despite the efforts of. those the small is still moving and arriving to new and new cities just for example seen petersburg is now also affected by the smog and just a couple of days ago it was thought to be a good place to for a refuge from the city this small and russia's president dmitry medvedev has been

monitoring the situation for a few weeks now personally and he says that they are trying to get the situation on to get under their control but despite the government's efforts weather is still very unpredictable which is still to come through in general we've got the situation with the flash in the country under control but the weather is of normal we can forecast wind directions how the fires might spread so it certainly too soon to relax the fires and the small are definitely a big problem for all of the people living in the affected areas especially the elderly and specially those with hard and long problems so it's one of the other devastating course of this whole disaster in this whole emergency is that several thousand people have lost their property peaceably just in a couple of seconds their homes were burned to the ground by the fires and artie's catching us are want to see for yourself. what did was stationed these flyers could

bring where one at one of a so-called country of villages just outside moscow where people have their summer homes it evidently used to be a really nice area there was a forest and people had their homes looking out into that forest used to be obviously quite a nice place to be right now it looks like an inferno there is no more forest is just charred land and felled trees and here this is actually this used to be someone's home what's left of it is pretty on recognizable because it's been charred to a cinder this is somebody's back this is probably where the bathroom used to be all of this house and as you can see most of it is just charred remains and from where the firefighters were fighting the blaze and so everything is just strewn around this is part of a car there is a completely burned out car in the garage this is obviously a part of it we don't quite know how it got there and why just a little bit over there with probably the bedroom because we can see the charred

remains of the bed lying down there and this was evidently the kitchen there's the remains of us and some other kitchen paraphernalia like kitchen utensils and various other things so this was somebody whose home people live there people accumulated their possessions and they lost all of it in a matter of hours one of the local residents here didn't want to go on camera but he showed us mobile phone footage of when the fire started and it was literally just a wall of fire as tall as the trees it was terrifying and they said that it all happened in almost a matter of seconds there was almost literally nothing people could do the fire spread from the trees to the houses burning them down in seconds people losing everything that they've been accumulating for their entire lives now they don't know what to do how to start over again and this of course is just one of the villages in russia where such a thing such a terrible thing has happened all of. the country where the fires are ravaging

central russia for over a month thousands of people have been left homeless over five hundred injured and over fifty people have already lost their lives because of this terrible fire ravaging central russia. well russia's deadly wildfires the smoke filled cities and poor harvest being seen by some environmentalists as signs of man made climate change but spoke to piers corbyn of the weather action foundation who says the heat wave is down to climate cycles. climate has always been china but it has nothing to do with man and we predicted that there would be extreme heat in east europe and russia this summer and it's caused by a circulation pattern c o two does not cause circulation patterns what causes those is a combination of solar activity and the state of the phases of the moon helping i mean excuse me just a minute you say this isn't caused by man how come the reporting this heat wave is recognize the worst in

a thousand years of recorded history in russia and. has got something to do with this has really not nothing to do with only the only connection is man is here at the same time as the sun and the moon are doing things you see a very similar situation happened about one hundred thirty two years ago where there was the side. of magnetic state there was. and there was so floods in pakistan. and in the previous few years there was also floods in the summers also hundred thirty two years ago so these things are. pretty in there and nothing to do with mankind those who say that are just trying to make money i would but are we not raising this are we not going to see this again next year the year on i mean it's only quite recently that a lot of very interesting question these things do come in bursts and we're working on that very question those forecasts we did say there would be a series of what summers in england for example which we've had now will be

a series of these very hot hot summers in russia we don't know we have to work on that but i assure you it's nothing to do with carbon dioxide and if you stop stop driving around moscow it won't affect next one jot. here with me tonight from the russian capital still ahead for you this atomic legacy. this is the hyper center of the bomb which means sixty five years ago it exploded five hundred meters above this exact spot and the people who suffered that horrific event well their stories are truly amazing but what they didn't know back then just as disturbing is the long term effects of that radiation. attempts to break down the cost system in india are being resisted by many well discrimination is illegal changing an ingrained mindset is more difficult than simply changing the law school his experience is a struggle as karen saying now reports. it's

a problem that's been simmering but now suddenly davey sees it's fast reaching boiling point she's a newly appointed cook in this primary school and john import here to prepare the government funded midday meal but despite sony's best intentions some of the students turn their noses up at many creations because she's a ballot or untouchable in traditional hindu society on the upper caste books. community means. some upper class children don't want to trued me by me their parents consider the food polluted by my time what can i do i'm here to make lunch in the school and treat the children here just like my own kids one hundred twenty million children across india receive a midday meal every working day in the largest school lunch program in the world but when the education ministry decided to send the it cooks to get it schools

where the majority of pupils are upper caste hindus many found too hard to swallow . the media a meal can entice poor parents to send their children to school the kids look forward to it but there are some parents who don't want their children to eat food made by low caste people and have removed their children from here and also threaten us as well. meet the same family a member of the upper caste raj board community they refused to allow their ten year old son but none and to continue studying in a school which they felt didn't respect their customs and pulled him out immediately. we are after caste we believe strongly in the caste system we cannot eat food made touched by somebody from a lower caste that's why we moved our child from this government school and paid him into part one activist said this kind of reaction demonstrates the difficulty in eradicating the caste system discrimination on the basis. of caste is illegal in

india but the practice is still entrenched in rural areas where the kind of work you do who you can eat with is largely divided along lines. and we know caste people are treated like at the upper castes or just about they tell us stay on one side was the tensile see that anything to humiliate us they want to surround mainland and never rise up. the government says legal action will be taken against villagers who are poor cooks in schools the earlier this is done the better after all this attempt to get children of all castes to eat together irrespective of who's made the food is a small but important step in the country's journey to bridge social divisions god and seeing r.t. . the russian built bush power plant in iran is almost ready to go live officials have announced it will receive its first shipment of nuclear material within weeks

despite supporting u.s. led sanctions against iran last month is fulfilling its obligations regarding the building of the facility which will give iranians access to peaceful nuclear power but some countries fear tehran may use buy products from the plant to make atomic weapons and react and they're running speculation the u.s. or israel may not want a military strike against the islamic nation before any nuclear material is delivered last week iranian armed forces were called to the plant to evaluate the security of the airspace around. the japanese city of legacy he has been commemorating the victims of the atomic bomb dropped by the u.s. sixty five years ago it was the second nuclear attack against civilians just three days after the first target was. as a result of the bombings more than two hundred thousand people either died in the blasts or due to radiation poisoning representatives from more than thirty

countries gathered with suppliers to highlight their message to the world that humans and nuclear arsenals cannot co-exist sean thomas was at the ceremony. the city of nagasaki is smaller than the city of hiroshima and so the ceremony was smaller and much more intimate as it well but no less important that the time of the bombing about two hundred seventy thousand people lived here in the city seventy thousand of those people died at the moment of the bombing but to give you a little bit of history he wasn't officially the primary target in fact. the city of kokura japan was supposed to be the target but one scout realized that there were clouds covering the city they couldn't see the target they moved onto nagasaki which was home of a munitions plant at the time there were clouds over nagasaki as well about eleven all while if there was a break in the clouds they were given the go ahead to drop the bomb. and at that time eleven o two the bomb exploded in japan that that moment was marked here today with the

air raid sirens and bells and a moment of reflection and inward prayer as people stood for a minute in silence and then followed by a declaration of peace one of the main messages that people wanted to get out here today was their hopes but nagasaki is the last city that will ever have to endure a nuclear attack we also heard from the prime minister of japan as well as the governor of the nagasaki prefecture as well as survivors of the atomic bomb explosion in nagasaki at the time we had the opportunity to speak to two of the survivors this is their story. sixty five years ago. he was enjoying a simple morning bicycle ride when in a tragic instant his life was changed forever. i was thrown to the ground and i didn't eat piecing sound i thought i had been killed but i encouraged myself not to die that it was important to go on living. that first noticed his bicycle had been twisted and bent out of shape but as he started to move he began

to realize the severity of his own condition. in my left arm and shoulder all my skin was dripping off and i had severe burns on my buddy. eleven year old yoshi kawi was at home with his twin brother just two kilometers from the blast center on that fateful morning. at eleven o two i saw the force of flights and drove to the floor to cover my hand eyes and ears there was a wave in our entire house crashed over us. go and his brothers crawled from the rubble and went into the city to look for their father who worked at the mitsubishi munitions plant close to the heart of the explosion on their way they found countless charred bodies and a terrifying scene you had. while crossing the river we were drawn to a woman who was walking with what looked like a wide belt or cloth trailing behind her but when we took a closer look it was her intestines coming out of her stomach there was nothing we could do. this is the hyper center of the bomb which means sixty five years ago it

exploded five hundred meters above this exact spot and the people who suffered that horrific event well their stories are truly amazing but what they didn't know back then and just as disturbing is the long term effects of that radiation the effect is continuing. cutting her life that means sixty five years. so that it true that. radiation is affecting human bodies for sixty five years. has had continuous surgeries throughout his life to remove tumors on his back caused by the radiation now he declares that the war did not end in one thousand nine hundred five but rather the effects continue to this day and even though. he wasn't as severely injured initially as an adult he has endured liver disease and two types of cancer attributed to the bomb as well as the psychological damage of

the event. the atomic bomb was extremely cruel america should never have dropped the bombs and human beings the tests in new mexico should have be. the end of nuclear weapons once the power of these weapons was known but having experienced the wrath of the world's most devastating weapon these two survivors have one shared message. people use the word deterrent but i do not believe that human beings can co-exist with nuclear arsenals a reason why the a bombs survivors of hiroshima and nagasaki are pushing for peace and complete global nuclear disarmament sean thomas r t nagasaki japan and tony lloyd a british labor m.p. and chair of the all party group on global security and nonproliferation says the world's nuclear powers should follow the example of moscow and washington and negotiate disarmament. britain in recent years has got rid of more weapon system

use than i think any year and the nuclear nation but the reality i think is this is that in the world as of now the serious talks of got a place between moscow and washington that's got to be the starting point because although there are many of the nuclear states now are not just china britain france but also india pakistan israel and all of those may be in the development process nevertheless the the the the levels of nuclear weaponry in russia and in the united states so much dominate the nuclear equation that it's really getting those washington moscow talks going with a very firm base is in everybody's interests and but it's why i do take heart by the steps recent i know there's been a little hiccup in recent days but the general trend between present there for and president obama has been significant and real but we've got to capitalize on the

mend and make sure that countries like my own are so and yes we want to come to the disarmament able we do to the united states we do to make sure there is a table for us to all sit down at. the two nuclear strikes on japan of the only examples of atomic weapons being used to attack an expert on south asian affairs has been says the only possible use of such arms today is self-defense in interview with r.t. is the tell enough to explain why he believes the north korean threat is blown out of proportion well that's come your way in just a few moments. yes .

said i got a big rise in north korea you said it was prepared to give a military response over the south korean and u.s. naval exercises in the yellow sea why do you think the reaction was so aggressive. this falls into the line of behavior that is generally described as aggressive a general aggressive stance north korea has been threatening to spill seas of blood destroying imperius and their marionettes for several decades i wouldn't overestimate the actual threat if we look at it from a historical perspective it has become a subject for jokes remember the late fifty's joke about the one thousand two hundred fifteen serious chinese warning so they've issued warnings but nothing followed i think they could not have kept silent in their current position and they couldn't have approved of the maneuvers they had to say something now what did they say they threaten but nothing specific happened so would the us impose new

sanctions against north korea at the same time it seems that north korea was nearly ready to go back to the six party talks do you think the us is any fuel to the flames. i don't think the us is interested in any kind of intentional exacerbation of the situation and going into extremes taking into account the fact that they have problems in iraq as well as in afghanistan therefore starting up something new is unlikely at the same time it naturally has some concerns just like everyone else just like us china like japan like south korea everyone has concerns and does not want to pyongyang to get hold of nuclear weapons therefore all the countries who don't want this to happen are using their own methods russia and china are taking quite diplomatic action at a confidential level while south korea and japan and the united states traditionally resort to sanctions it's kid glove diplomacy yes what are the chances that north korea will go back to the six party talks now. well that's a good question. well i can all situations of this kind the chances are dependent

on the future course of events we have to take into account the incident with the sinking of the corvette if no specific attention is paid to that because i don't think there is any solid proof that north korea did in fact sink the ship then p r k will return to negotiations these talks are important for economies and you know other ways it's hard accusations are made over worldwide media channels then p.r. k. might pull out of talks but globally north korea is interested in taking part in these negotiations as they can help improve the overall situation and bring back the support of some nations for p.r. k. of course china is a north korea side the talks can help bring the situation at least partly to the level it was when south korea's late president was conducting soft diplomatic negotiations. you mentioned a south korean ship that was sunk and russia along with some other countries is not convinced by the results of the international commission investigation and blames north korea why is that. worth loving and for for her the

reason was as far as i know they found no parts are deborah of the torpedo which could definitely show that it had been made in north korea there was just one letter but that wasn't objective proof it's like in court and he doubts are interpreted in favor of the accused i personally do not understand why north korea should have sunk the ship for an example of terrorists including al qaeda we know that every terror act is usually announced worldwide but as we know there were no celebrations in north korea relating to the sinking of the south korean ship on the contrary they deny doing it then why should they have done this so they did not admit to doing this on the one hand and on the other it would not have helped to reduce the number of south korean fleet they have enough ships is there a threat of war i don't think so the ancient roman said think we'll gain from it i can't see how north korea could have gained from it. russia held its own investigation into the case is it going to change the situation somehow. in my opinion the results won't influence the situation much unfortunately or just objectively in the opinion of the us europe and japan both russia and china are

countries which are in a way protecting north korea from stricter sanctions so we can draw our conclusions from these results and in other countries they will take note of them but they won't play a big role but what can the results actually lead to even if the security council gathers again to discuss the issue they will once again accept a resolution that there is no direct and unquestionable evidence of that some will consider our opinion the majority of course won't. who could be interested in destabilizing the region. if we leave out the theory of nazi hiding in argentina the nobody i heard a version that the north korean government has the so-called dubs and hawks and the hawks feeling weakness of their position purposefully sank the ship without giving notice to kim jung il but that's nonsense. what are the so-called families millions of can chew there or hear. rumors say that every ruling family has hidden money millions or even billions but it's just words without any tangible proof even the

president of the philippines and the iranian shah they ruled for about seventeen to twenty seven years had gathered about one point five to two billion dollars for the entire period in their private accounts by the way that was legal money. is the but what are the chances of them rising in the country with a new year. a new leader may come only after the old one leaves and there were rumors that kim jung il was sick and that he missed parades and didn't appear often in public liberalisation may begin with a new leader but kim jung il isn't ignorant of these new tendencies in my opinion north korea don't make immediate reforms and privatization give full freedom to show pornography on t.v. etc i think they will introduce liberalization step by step simon what do you think north korea he's trying to achieve with this nuclear it's. about four years ago it was estimated that they had approximately three or four weapons as powerful as a hiroshima missile which is about twenty killer tons i'll be careful in my

estimations they may have two or three or four missiles they may be of twenty or even ten killer tons but actually missiles never help solve universal issues they're countries without nuclear arms and they are fine nuclear arms are scorpion stinger in my opinion it can only be used in the most critical situation when an enemy occupies your territory and is approaching the capital leaders will soon be killed and the country will be defeated in such a situation the country may resort to killing both the enemy and itself but it's useless as a usual arsenal for starting or leading a war with north korea may his soul simply with artillery but if they discharge a missile and several american soldiers in seoul die they'll soon be a strike back so if north korea really has nuclear arms they should save them for their last strike if north korea decides that imperialist their stooges and other enemies have attacked only then should it shoot back but they won't start a war with nuclear weapons. the.

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