most of them are just trapped in this suffocating environment moscow hasn't seen anything like this before doctors say in this pitiful information is really struggling spending three hours outdoors is equal to smoking two packs of cigarettes and when you imagine children smoking all those packs of cigarettes that scares the hell out of you russia is really suffering through its worst heat wave on record and the heed has sparked a forest and peat fires in central and western regions of the country the fires have killed at least fifty people in the past week and temperatures for weeks have soared as high as thirty eight forty degrees celsius when the average temperature someone temperature in moscow for example is twenty three degrees celsius so you can imagine how unexpected this weather condition is for russia the emergency ministry has spotted just a very small decline in new fires breaking out but that's not much good news really because there are still around eighty big fires burning across the country eighty

big ones i mean there are hundreds of them but eighty major the worst of them are at peak fires there around forty of them burning most in the moscow region and the fires are very hard to extinguish imagine moscow is surrounded by bogs and by. and once they dry out they become perfect burning material land what happens is the fire goes deep underground and once you put it out on one area it pops up somewhere else and it's really hard to handle until temperatures drop and the peat gets damn again but even the most optimistic forecasts are saying that temperatures are going to remain as high for and now there are four days or sorrow all more than one hundred sixty thousand people all course russia are going out of their way to put out those fires officials are saying there is no danger of fire in

populated areas at least it's going to hurt fourteen for us from a mosque in a region. and two years ago a brief but destructive war in the caucasus led to a redrawing of the region's map and began with georgia shelling its them breakaway region of south of setia destroying parts of the capital and russia send in troops to protect people in the republican quoting emanuel had asked for holder of soft home were forced to hide in basements and bombed out buildings and five days georgian troops have been pushed out and russia recognize salpa said he an independent r.t. as nato sees are caught up with some of the victims and those who work to help them . it's been a restless nights for the uk to gorky has been conducting a complicated operation while the patients continue to flow into the hospital for a very good move. for this new clinic in the center of the south of capital was the

only medical facility here two years ago and at least there are different than. the still doesn't like to come down here into the cellar where he spent several sleepless nights of rating on the injured during the georgian aggression in the wrist to show us who were going to. go with this problem this was our operating room it smelled awfully of omonia because of the sewers the nurses had to leave the room every now and then to be sick we were performing surgery under these pipes through the suitable equipment water or food. and doctors still had to conduct another two hundred operations here as well as all the mine the procedure is. a little chilly winds in here and came out there. you thought it was one of these patients during the bombardment he had in the cellar of his home on hearing the bombing outside he fled in fear that he did there it's under rubble as he did he

was struck by a metal splinter from an exploded shell. my arm hasn't been functioning properly for two years and i can't sleep on my right side as he puts it a lot of squarely blames the georgian president for what happened to him and the war. through i never want to see him i don't even want to see his name he's a murderer innocent people were killed children the elderly and women who never want to talk to him after what he's done. she was virtually unconscious when he arrived in hospital but she remembers seeing the many of the most lying on the wet ground of make she tore spittle the situation here worse and with every passing minute the doctors were treating up to four hundred of the wounded some more can easily and here was a t.v. set broadcasting only georgian t.v. the ongoing bombardment and lack of factual information only added to their despair

hope was almost lost many were crying jordi says this was the rapist moment that everybody was preparing to die. because of this at one point it felt like nobody was coming to help us at all everything seemed in danger so much work was done for nothing the bullet is over he may have been unaware of russian peacekeepers efforts to protect them seated on his musical but his work and that because of the things we do that often go with him out of the house as it is not they were staring at. only to succumb to their sponsors noble to go figure if they are seen from the city . well let's now talk to our to who is in the georgian capital tbilisi for for us so irina in georgia have mixed feelings over the decision to attack south of syria has the mood in the country changed in the past two years at all. well marina if anything the antiwar sentiments have grown stronger here

because of course georgians have been not just for this war that took place two years ago but they also have been through the first associates outs and first that were about less than twenty years ago and there were there also was a civil war here around the same time so course the common people in georgia they're very much against any sort of violence taking place on this small piece of land and it's not just georgians within georgia who feel that what president successfully has done two years ago is completely and totally wrong the international union of georgians the president of the union of georgians has issued an apology to the south the city and people saying that here on behalf of more than two hundred thousand georgians worldwide apologizes before the south the city people asks them for forgiveness and hopes nothing like this will ever happen again between the two peoples and he's also said that it's regrettable that two people have to suffer because of decisions made by one irresponsible person also within

the country itself an opposition party the labor the labor party have called for sanctions to be put in place by the international community on president saakashvili they did not specify what kind of sanctions but they too have said that this is absolutely and totally unacceptable that an entire nation should suffer because of its leaders actions so people here in georgia are hoping that nothing of this sort will ever happen again like the war that took place in two thousand and eight because it wasn't just south the city and who have suffered in fact tens of thousands of georgian school lived in south the city and how cold the area around to fall their home they were forced to flee from their homes and were forced to come to georgia but unfortunately even though they are in their homeland they cannot say that they feel at home here let's have a look at this report. when the war and some. of the others these people were forced to flee. their homes leaving everything behind to escape

the shelling and explosions in their native towns and villages but though they ran away from war now they cannot find solace in peace. then president's head is in the clouds he has no idea how refugees live we're supposed to get new homes by twenty eleven but then just promises we don't believe anything will be done oh the majority for all cars in south the city some were forced to flee two years ago during the south the city of war others have been here in tbilisi since the early one nine hundred ninety s. which saw the first violence erupt between georgia and its then breakaway regions for two years there a few jews have lived in a dilapidated building which used to house government offices several months ago they were told they would have to move out if they have many buildings in the receiver and its suburbs where we could live and from where we could get to the ark but they don't want to use them they think refugees must not live in beliefs and

old is a forty four year old sales assistant she survives on a salary of ninety dollars a month her son has cerebral palsy and gets financial aid of some fifty dollars a month when olga talks about moving she seems on the verge of hysterics but yeah. i'm not going to go anywhere even if they first simply evict me i'm not going anywhere i'm going to go on a hunger strike if that's what it takes i'm not going anywhere certainly not to the regions. a recent report by amnesty international says six percent of the current total population in georgia are displaced that's some two hundred forty thousand people and though some have already been moved into new housing the organization says the government is still not doing enough to help further measures need to be taken to look into the future of these people not just the presence of the roof over their heads but there are more things that they need and we think there is

more that we georgian authorities could and should be doing to help them actually to to fully integrate and have a future wherever that might be it seems for now though the refugees feel no hope of their needs being met but you know go here but you know i lost my house i lost my home i lost everything and now i am being kicked out of here to refute you for a second time i'm not concerned just with myself i'm speaking for everyone who lives here. no running water no heating no basic comforts whatsoever there are a few g.'s here already used to living in these conditions what they cannot get used to is being treated as a sub class citizens by their own government they say they feel like animals who are being herded from place to place without any hope of ever finding any where they can call home. basically the underlying message that we got from those refugees is that the president had started the war cares nothing for the people who

have actually suffered and an illustration of that could be the fact that president saakashvili is not even in the country today nor will he be here tomorrow he's attending the inauguration of the colombian president so i guess a lot of people take that as a sign of just how important the effects of the war actually were for president circus really marina all right thanks for bringing us the latest from the region everything bush to reporting from tbilisi for us there. and still come here in our team have a land grab taking place. under the waters of the arctic or takes you to one of the coldest places on earth and why the world energy powerhouses wanted it so badly. before that though after ninety three years the russian militia could soon be given the title of police again at a bid to reflect the professionalism of the force that's part of reforms to the country's law enforcers who have been dogged by accusations of corruption jake

agree is the looks of what else is in store for russia's cops. they say don't judge a book by its cover but russian president dmitri medvedev has given great importance to name this bid to reform the country's lower forces he's proposed to do away the title militia is still by the bolsheviks in ninety seventeen and instead go back to the previous name police he sure. ever since the bolshevik revolution our law enforcers have been known as the militias this emphasize their popular or proletarian nature i mean there were volunteers in uniform not ordinary but today we need professionals who could be honest and well coordinated people were good at their job this is why i think it's time we gave our law enforcers back their original me and i'm going to calling them out of this. is being seen as an attempt to rid the force of its image as a hotbed of corruption and bad practice but it's one that's not it's come at a cost. i can see tens even hundreds of different expenses the design

in the custom tailoring of new uniforms for a million workers design and production of new ideas for a million workers with repainting of hundreds of police cars and other vehicles design stamps and seals and. that would amount to spending millions even billions of ruble from the country's budget. this rebranding effort is only the latest in a long line of reform measures these have been prompted by a widely publicized instance of police abusing the power the accounts of district chief dennis yes to coast shooting spree in a moscow supermarket that left two dead was one of the most a tourist owing to its crazy nature and there are other examples in the shadow of endemic corruption and bribery still hangs over russia's lower forces people are scared to turn a malaysian people are scared to get into contact with man in uniform in the street

so yes we need to root out corruption that's what should be behind this whole reform when he tried out for unprofessionalism we need to root out ineffectiveness so the reforms are awful are long overdue and just this week those are folks who are intensified with the pows or to have offices face reexamination before being able to return to the force. this the plans have been given to january two thousand and twelve to be implemented but few lucky to stand out as much of the remaining of the militia some may interpret this move cynically as a quick fix measure over the public but this latest pozo is butts up by measures seems to be a desire to push through these reforms regardless of economic and political costs one thing's for sure come two thousand and twelve russians want to see more than just a name change the country's police force. in

our website has a lot more stories for you and here's a taste of what streaming live for you right now at r.t. dot com no two brits find themselves shipped off to greece as controversial new extradition laws mean they could await trial for over a year with no evidence to prove their guilt. and the scorching heat wave brings an unlikely visitor to the waters of the moscow river tiny jellyfish the size of small coins baffle boat owners for more had to r.t. dot com. let's take a look at some other news from around the world and red alert has been declared in pakistan after floodwaters swept through the northwest of the country and are now threatening the south about fourteen million people are thought to be affected by the worst ever flooding in the region u.n. says at least sixteen hundred are confirmed to have died more rain is expected and the worst hit areas rescuers are still trying to reach millions of people left

without food or drinking water. carrier rains have also struck poland mammie homes and roads were flooded and several subway stations closed and warsaw poland is still recovering from massive flooding in spring which left more than twenty people dead. and in southern kashmir rainfall has killed more than a hundred rescue teams are trying to save people trapped under rubble dozens. birds are still missing. out across parts of china the worst flooding in more than a decade destroyed houses and left millions affected by months lights and downpours . efforts continue to rescue at least thirty four workers trapped after a mine collapse in chile there's been no contact as yet or relatives and rescuers hope the miners were able to take refuge in an underground shelter which contains oxygen and water mining accidents are rare in the country due to thai government

controls. the arctic is becoming an international bone of contention as russia the u.s. and canada search for evidence to support their territorial claims that's because a fourth of the world's oil and gas reserves are thought to lie near the north pole and climate change melting ice is likely to tamp nations closest to the region to start drilling. the reports. the race is on the u.s. together with canada and russia of launch competing expeditions to the bottom of the sea near the north pole. the country just take its place here well determine its prosperity in the coming decades. the third of the world's undiscovered yeah and the temple it's. estimated to be in the region. where is expensive right now but for countries like the u.s. it's a matter of energy security it will give americans uninterrupted energy supplies

regardless of any conflicts anywhere in the world but it's not yet clear how the pie will be divided between the five nations closest to the north pole the easiest way to gain economic rights the significant portions of it but proving the link to the country itself and this is what these expeditions trying to do to. make rights to the region before the united nations by twenty thirteen this involves showing the exact location and makeup of our continental shelf russia symbolically planted a flag at the north pole in two thousand and seven some have speculated this is the end of the political grandstanding followed. myself do not believe it will come to armed conflict or any conflict i would expect the word of the united nations to be firing on the us. despite tens of millions spent by the north and make this so that the center has been for the. for example doesn't have the skills it doesn't have

the ships to extract oil in the arctic it spends less on this time in football the more the industries predict that new technologies and equipment consistently experience weather and articulation on nearly here. but i expect the active exploitation of the arctic to begin within ten years will go toward of warnings and it's not just about profit with the risks as well only if you see the recent oil disaster in the gulf of mexico you can predict. disasters doesn't happen in the. discussion of environmental risks of shore drilling in the arctic but that's unlikely to prevent it and one thing is clear a region that existed would have major human involvement and so for its biggest and most rapid period of change in millions of years you go to see. brings us up to date here on our t.l.'s time now for the latest business news in just a few moments don't go away. for the full stop we've got.

the biggest issues get a voice face to face with the news makers. every month we give you the future we help you understand how to get. the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join us technology update on our g. hello welcome to the business program on r.t. the worst drought in recorded history has created severe problems are russians farmers with more than twenty percent of their wheat harvest wiped out to ensure there are no use shortages and fair prices don't start to rise or great exports temporarily stopped pool reports. between august fifteenth to the end of december

russia is imposing a temporary green exports prime minister putin says the measures in this area to help russian farmers and prevent food costs from. the prospect of shortages on the international commodity markets has pushed the price of wheat to levels not seen for more than two years however the ban on russian exports may have a hidden bonus for domestic producers we have already heard experts have contracts with. price than the current prices. on the world markets. exports. experts not to sell to their clients. practically the same price it's like. a financial position russia is the worlds. good largest exporter of wheat but the severe weather has wiped out more than twenty percent of the crop the green unit is

now predicting a yield of under seventy million tonnes domestic consumption amounts to more than seventy five million analysts believe this will inevitably push up the price of food and therefore inflation there is an understanding that there will be some upward pressure with respect to prices in the second half of the year the question is how significant this will be and furthermore we're seeing stepped up statements and verbal interventions from. the government. with respect to. the fact that the authorities are going to try and keep prices low with is reaching across the country and the capital under a thick blanket of choking smoke is the impression boyd spread disaster undoubtedly there's been a terrible human cost paid with lloyds and homes but once the smoke clears analysts

say russia's economy would have been barely singed. business. let's have a look at the markets not in line with global trends the russian markets finished the week in their read that says that all declined a disappointing jobs report from the u.s. state concern that economic growth for serving russia's biggest lender was among the main losers on friday flipping. and looking back at the trading week and initial rallying crude prices above eighty two dollars a barrel helped the russian markets but a positive sense meant wasn't so lost. the markets are fine was their growth i mean it's a saw him on the positive for the from us down do you up we have what we had to file. them of the market was fertile mxit of from china and us during the week the hof russian market is on the us or made surely well they will get through eighty. dollars per barrel it was the extreme opposed to what this was one of them says

though there are other for the sure performance as for a bull in that surely the higher all price the group of the in for we go to south africa russia share a number of economics the malaria both export huge quantities of raw materials but struggle to produce finished goods during a visit to moscow the south african trade and industry minister told us the two countries have plenty of potential to develop trade and learn from each other. the areas of minerals technologies of various sorts of passages that russia has russian companies russian institutions. minerals beneficiation areas particularly to nieman or products into higher value added products these are areas where i think we have an interest in deepening the cooperation on all of the statistics. trade divestment relations with the bric countries russia

is lower down than the others are. real possibilities to push that further forward . i think that from our side. we are or recognizing that there are huge changes taking place in the world economy the new poles of economic power the new forces of dynamism unallocated outside of the traditional says of economic power of growth. developed western world still very much in the throes of the recession and our trade in relations with quite difficult because of those problems so we're looking to develop stronger relations with with a brick countries a strategic imperative for us that's why we're undertaking the status of kosovo. and that show up there you can always find more stories on our website flash.

one of the key elements of democracy which is so uncomfortable for me afford. who pays for the new jobs. how dependent does this independent media. and who is behind the t.v. story. georgia media fiction and reality.

wealthy british style it's time to practice money. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines in two cars a report on. a welcome back you're watching actually coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshing here is a look at the top stories we're seeing no respite from the fate blanket of acrid smog that's causing breathing difficulties. the wind continues to fan the smoke towards the capital hundreds of wildfires devastated areas of central russia.

the russian president calls for the revolutionary a tile militia to be replaced by police to reflect the professional status of officers that's part of reforms to the country's law enforcers have been repeatedly accused of corruption. and it's been two years since georgian forces launched a devastating attack against the sleeping south the city of which led to the map of the caucasus being drawn in five days russian troops pushed the georgians out and russia recognized setian independence. now in spring a georgian state t.v. channel caused panic in the country by reporting that russia had launched an invasion find out why the government stayed call that's now on r t. always insisted on telling the truth and that's what he spent his life doing before

he had to flee his home country georgia on february tenth two thousand and ten the independent journalist asked swiss authorities to grant him political asylum his greatest worries are now for his family back home in georgia. and good here all right are you ok any problems so. simply tries to help anyone who asks people often bring their problems to him as the editor of a regional georgia newspaper he looks into the cases identifies those guilty and sums up his findings in newspaper reports some of tried to intimidate him and he's been beaten up several times in two thousand and five he suffered a severe concussion i was here lying on the ground and screaming please don't kill me please don't. the georgian television channel shocked the nation on march thirteenth two thousand and ten. journalists had put together a thirty minute story about what appeared to be fresh between russia.