suffer boaster and most of them are just trapped in this very suffocating game farm and moscow hasn't seen anything like this before doctors say that being exposed to this area being outdoors for three hours equals to smoking two packs of cigarettes and when you imagine children actually smoking those packs of cigarettes it is getting quite scary while no doubt russia is now suffering from its worst heatwave on record it has sparked a forest fires in western and. central regions in the country the fires have killed at least fifty people in the past week and the temperatures. soared as high as thirty eight to forty degrees celsius in moscow where the average summer temperature was usually. somewhere about twenty three degrees celsius. indeed a lot of people are experiencing breathing difficulties. what. are there any signs

of the situation could be changing for the better perhaps. mergence in ministries spotted a small decline in new fires breaking out but there are still around eighty big fires burning in the contrary there are hundreds of fires eighty really major ones the worst of them are fires and there are around forty of them still burning in the moscow region and pete far is a very hard to extinguish you can imagine moscow is surrounded by people bogs quagmires when they last they dry out they become perfect the burning material and what happens is the fire goes deep underground and once you put it out don't want to air it pops up somewhere else and it is really hard to handle it until temperatures drop and tail until this peat gets damp again but even the most optimistic weather forecasts are saying that they can. richards are going to remain

this high for another four days more than one hundred sixty thousand people are now going out of their way to put those fires in washer rush is also getting a helping hand from some seven countries some of the countries sending their people like bulgaria others equipment planes and helicopters like italy ukraine russia very much needs this helping had because the territory is huge and the fires are raging anyway officials are saying that there is no danger of fires in populated areas at least ok well going to thanks for bringing us the subject got a chance reporting from the moscow region there. and two years ago a brief but destructive war in the caucasus led to redrawing of the region's map it began with georgia's shelling its them a breakaway region of south the city of destroying part of the capital russia sending troops to protect people in the republic including the man iraq passport

holders some of whom were forced to hide in basements and bombed out buildings in five days georgian troops have been pushed out and russia recognize salvos city and independence are caught up with some of the victims and those who work to help them . it's been a restless nights for dr doherty has been conducting a complicated operation well the patients continue to flow into the hospital room are very good 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. you and you still doesn't like to come down here into the cellar where he spent several sleepless nights. during the georgian aggression. to show us where food into the. river this was our operating room it smelled awful leave 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. in a suitable equipment water or food. doctors still had to go down for nearly two hundred operations here as well as are the minor procedures. a little three wins in here and came out there and you thought it was one of these patients during the bombardment he hit in the cellar or his home on hearing the bombing outside he fled in fear that he did there it 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 it hurts it a lot of squarely blames the georgian president for what happened to him and the war. but i never want to see him i don't even want to hear his name he's a murderer innocent people were killed children the elderly and women could ever

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. lying on the bare wet ground on 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 raiders 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 a bullet. she may have been unaware of russian peacekeepers athletes protects i don't see take on these missiles 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 him in the cellar only to succumb to their sponsors in a rowboat to go figure if they they are seen from the city. and artie's or in english go in the georgian capital tbilisi this as there's been growing criticism of the decision to attack silva said. 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 steps as in and first the cause ian war about less than twenty years ago and there were there also was a civil war hero around the same time so forced 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 here on behalf of more than two hundred thousand georgians worldwide apologizes before the south the city people ask 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 this 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 involve their home they were forced to flee from their homes but unfortunately even though they are in their homeland they cannot say that they feel at home here . when the war ends some wounds heal faster than others these people were forced to flee their homes leaving everything behind to escape the shelling and explosions in their land of towns and villages but though they ran away from war now they cannot find solace and peace not. 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 any of it done oh the move george and for all cars in south the city and some were forced to flee two years ago doing this out the city of war others have been here in tbilisi since the early one nine hundred ninety s. which the first violence erupt between georgia and its then breakaway regions for two years there are a few g.'s 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 and it's sad or we could live in family or we can do that in the ark but they don't want to use them that they think refugees must not live and billy said this. 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 so they're moving i'm not going to go anywhere even if they forcibly if 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. look into the future of these people not just the present and 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 older i lost my house i lost my family i lost everything and now i'm being kicked out of here to refute you for a second time i'm not concerned just about myself i'm speaking for everyone who leaves 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 all 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 secretary. everything goes to reporting there from the georgian capital tbilisi. now so we can hear in our team the land grab taking place under the waters of the arctic party takes you to one of the coldest places on earth and reveals why the world's energy powerhouses wanted so badly. and after ninety three here is the russian militia could soon be given the title of police

again and a bid to reflect the professionalism of the force it's part of a force of the country's law enforcers have been dogged by accusations of corruption and jacob graves the looks of what else is in store for russian 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 nine hundred seventeen and instead go back to the previous british rename police. ever since the bolshevik revolution our law enforcers have been known as the militias that emphasize their popular or proletarian nature i mean they were volunteers in uniform are ordinary but today we need professionals who can is 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 name and i started calling them with open arms. 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 as a cost. i can see tens even hundreds of different expenses all the design in the custom tailoring of new uniforms for a million workers design and production of new i.d.'s three 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 rubles from the country's budget. this rebranding effort is only the latest in a long line of reform measures these have been prompted by widely publicized instance of police abusing their power the account of district chief dennis yes to cause shooting spree in a moscow supermarket that left two dead was one of the most notorious 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 saw the reforms are all are long overdue and just this week those are folks who are intensified with opposable to have offices face reexamination before being able to return to the force this and further plans have been given to january two thousand and twelve to be implemented but few like it stand out as much the renaming of the militia some may interpret this move cynically as a quick fix measure to woo over the public but this latest pozo is backed up by more concrete measures it seems to be a desire to push through these reforms regardless of economic and political costs

and 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 griefs r.t. moscow. and our web site r t dot com has a lot more stories for you and here's a taste of what's streaming there right now. two brits find themselves shipped off to greece as controversial e.u. extradition laws mean they put away trial for over a year with no evidence to prove their fields. and the scorching brains in unlikely visitor to the waters of the moscow river tiny jellyfish the size of small coins baffled boat owners or had to r.t. dot com. and also take a look at some other news from around the world in the 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 and more rain is expected in the worst hit areas rescuers are still trying to reach millions of people left without food or drinking water. heavy rains have also struck in poland and many 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 in southern kashmir rainfall and landslides have killed at least one hundred thirty people rescue teams trying to save people trapped in the rubble and dozens others are still missing across china across parts of china the worst flooding in more than a decade destroyed houses and left millions of fans by months lloyds and. efforts continue to rescue at least thirty four workers trapped after a mine collapse in chile there's been no contact yet and 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 time government controls. now 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 gas reserves are thought to lie in the air the north pole and climate change are melting ice are likely to tamp nations closest to the region to start drilling our 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 will determine its prosperity in the coming decades more than the third of the world's undiscovered yeah and a tenth of its oil reserves estimated to be in the region. where is expensive right now but for countries like the u.s.

it is 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 the. link to the country itself and this is what these expeditions trying to do we are hoping to prove our economic 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 final in the us. despite tens of millions spent by the move to make this so the

center has been for the sick. for example doesn't have the skills doesn't have the ships to extract oil in the arctic it's been on this time in football but industries predict that new technologies and equipment resistant click stream whether an isolation or nearly here. i expect the active exploitation of the arctic to begin within ten years but a word of warning it's not just about profit but the risks as well and if you see the recent oil disaster in the gulf of mexico you can predict. the scale of disasters that can happen in the final arctic climates discussion of environmental risks may delay shore drilling in the arctic but that's unlikely to prevent it and one thing is clear a region that has so far existed would have major human involvement is the third biggest and most rapid period of change in millions of years. and in about ten minutes time martin has continued his travels around the golden

ring cities that circle the russian capital but first weekend business news plus charlotte. hello welcome to the business program on our take 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 shortages and fair prices don't start to rise or great export be temporarily stopped pool reports. between august fifteenth to the end of december russia is imposing a temporary ban on grain exports prime minister putin says the measures are necessary to help russian farmers and prevent food costs from rising the prospect of shortages on the international community 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 that some experts have

had contracts with. contract price than the current prices of the mystical on the world markets so this exports and forced natural condition. not to sell grains to their clients and oppositely domestic practically the same price like markets and risk could affect their financial position russia is the world's third largest exporter wheat but the severe weather has wiped more than twenty percent of the crop the green you need is now predicting a yield of under seventy million tonnes what the mystic consumption amounts to more than seventy five million and it's believed 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. and. with respect to. the authorities are going to try and keep prices low with one of his reaching across the country in the capital under a thick blanket of choking smoke is the impression void spread disaster undoubtedly there's been a terrible human cost paid with lloyds and who but once the smoke clears and let's say russia's economy would have been barely seen. business. let's have a look at the markets now in line with global trends the russian markets finished the week in the red that's is the all declined a disappointing jobs report from the u.s. state concern that economic growth referring russia's biggest lender was among the main losers on friday flipping to. looking back at the trading week and initial

rallying crude prices above eighty two dollars a barrel helped the russian markets but a positive sentiment wasn't to last the markets. finalize their growth i. saw him on the positive for the from us europe we have what we had while. of the market was flat on mix of the from china and us during the week for russian market is on the air so naturally when they will get through eighty. dollars per barrel it was an extremely positive this was seen as though there are other for the performance as for that matter of the price the group of the in for. south africa and russia share a number of economics the majority of 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 to countries have plenty of potential to develop trade and learn from each other. the

areas of minerals technologies of various sorts of capacities that russia has russian companies russian institutions. minerals beneficiation areas particularly to any man 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. real possibilities to push it further forward. i think that from our side. we 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 centers of economic power of growth.

developed western world still very much in the throes of the recession. 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 i'm sure up they are you can always find more stories on our website.

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so much brighter. from still fresh in the. start on t.v. . hello welcome back if you just joined us you're watching r.t. coming to life from moscow and these are the top stories moscow is seeing no respite from the say 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. it's been two years since georgian forces launched a devastating attack against a sweeping the city which led to the map of the caucasus being retried in five days russian troops pushed the georgians out and russia recognized the city in independence. and the russian president calls for the revolutionary title militia to be replaced by police to reflect the professional status of officers and a part of reforms to the country's law enforcers in the future be accused of corruption. now let's discover a small russian town where peter graves dream of a major fleet first saw the wild day martin andrus takes you to the town of paris.

if it's pretty on the. streets you want this is the place to come in fact you'll be spoiled for choice there are many here in paris like this one here which is now a museum the form of good it's good moral strength builds in the fourteenth century so welcome to the next old england destination but i can surely told a key in the nine hundred fifty two five years off to be found in the sky and sailed out how someone can touch is this the perfect piece of life in a small town based on what me you know a slum of with its beautiful size is a perfect location to come not only for tourists a little so for all just like us who came from moscow to practice our skills and have a chance to capture these amazing landscapes and all conjecture on canvas like a cheap.