before doctors say in this bit of information is really spending. packs of cigarettes and when you imagine children smoking all those packs of cigarettes that scares the hell out of you is really suffering through its worst. on record and the heed has sparked forest fires in central and western regions of the country the fires have killed at least fifty people in the past week temperatures soared as high as thirty eight forty degrees celsius when the average temperature summer 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 just a very small decline. but there are still around eighty big fires burning there hundreds of.

fires and there are around forty of them still burning. fires are very hard to extinguish you can imagine moscow is surrounded by dogs. they dry out become perfect burning material and what happens is the fire goes deep underground and once you put it out. somewhere else and it is really hard to handle until temperatures drop until the. again. the temperatures 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 those fires. getting a helping hand from some seven countries some of the countries their. area others equipment planes and helicopters like italy. 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 of least that was zero correspondent. to me earlier and bring us the latest on the situation from the moscow region there now after ninety three years the russian militia could soon be given the title of police again in 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 jacob greaves looks at what else is a 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 the name in his bid to reform the country's laura forces he's proposed to do away the title militia is still by the bolsheviks in one nine hundred seventeen and instead go back to the pre-revolutionary name police he sure

so email ever since the bolshevik revolution our law enforcers have been known as the militias this emphasize their popular or proletarian nature i mean they were volunteers in uniform are ordinary but today we need professionals who could 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 started calling them out of billions. 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 the design and production of new ideas for a million workers repainting of hundreds of police cars and other vehicles design every new form of stamps and seals and so i was in total that would amount to spending millions even billions of rubles of from the country's budget to go. 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 their power the account of district chief dennis yes two coasts shooting spree in a moscow supermarket that left two dead was one of the most a tourist owing to its crazy nature but 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 men 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 all are long overdue and just this week those reforms were intensified with a total 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 are lucky to stand out as much as the remaining of the militia some may interpret this move cynically as a quick fix measure over the public but this latest pozo is backed up by more concrete measures there 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 moscow. and two years ago a brief but destructive war in the caucasus led to a redrawing of the region's map it began with georgia shelling its them breakaway regions of south syria destroying part of the capital russia sent in troops to protect people in the republic including many russian 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 silva said in japan and i'm now

joined by our correspondents. who is in the georgian capital tbilisi and tell you know who is in the capital self is here to involve hello to both of you will first talk to and tell you well as we know we were you were covering the events in south the city two years ago and you are there now so how has life changed there a sense of it all. for a little construction of infrastructure it is in full swing and i can say that progress a lot of building to be constructed of course there's still those buildings with though who had holes in their wounds there are still buildings that are being reconstructed and you can see builders everywhere through this city as we move through this life point here in central square of thirteen vaults of the city and capital reconstruction works are still underway there still people who waiting to have return to their homes and their local government promises them that their

houses will be rebuilt. the next year but most of the work has already been done a lot of schools are now functioning again and hospitals local university however still lies in ruins means more investment to be reconstructed this winter however the gas pipeline from russia has finally been built and this winter people here had central seeking something heating something they were deprived of after the group because georgia consul gust gas supplies to sell for said here so life here is getting back to normal and people are saying that they also want to mention that a railroad job was supposed to be built from not the city itself a city but of course it's very expensive because the region is surrounded by mountains so those plans have been postponed but a small airport is being built just outside the south of capital t.-mo people here are saying that they're not afraid over another aggression from georgia they're quite optimistic about the future however the wounds that the world will be astute

thousand and eight has left are still sore. that. it's been a restless nights for dr dorothy has been conducting a complicated operation well the patients continue to flow into the hospital room are very good of lumberton who are for this new clinic in the center all the south capital was the only medical facility here two years ago and it looked very different than. what you would you still doesn't like to come down here into the cellar where he spent several sleepless nights of his rating on the injured during the georgian aggression in the tissues to show us we're going to go with this probably this was our operating rooms so 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. the doctors still had to conduct two hundred operations here as well as all the

mine the procedure is there is a little tiny winch in here and came out there. you thought it was one of these patients who during the bombardment he hid in the cellar of his home on hearing the morning outside he fled in fear that he'd be buried 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 the problem 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. losing her through i never want to see him i don't even want to 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 on make she told spittle the situation here worsened with every passing minute the doctors were treating up to four hundred of the wounded and all 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 racist 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 abilities. she may have been unaware of russian peacekeepers efforts to protect sometimes you 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 what follows is a noble to go figure if they are seen from the seat.

meanwhile here in vital preparations are underway at several events will be taking place here to commemorate the two years that have passed since george just a question. because our thanks very much for the somebody from south to say here let's now cross to georgia worry we are standing by and the reason georgians have mixed feelings. about the government's decision to attack you so tell us a bit more about your attitude whether it has changed at all in those two years. matter of fact their attitude has changed towards antiwar sentiments and they have been increasingly in that direction over the last two years you have to remember that the georgian people how already been through several wars they have been through civil war and the uprising and so this war is the beginning of the one nine hundred ninety s. and a lot of the people who live here still have fresh memories of that period and of course there is the war two thousand and eight so the last thing that is on

georgian people's minds is yet another bloody conflict and they feel the president really has allowed that conflict to happen in fact he was the perpetrator of the battle of the battles that ensued two years ago a lot of politicians a lot of opposition politicians in the country also say the president really is responsible in fact the labor party has just recently called for sanctions to be imposed on the georgian president does not specify what kind of sanctions but they do say that his actions should not be left unpunished by the international community and the sentiments akin to the ones i just expressed are being felt not just in georgia by but also by georgians over over the world as a matter of fact the president of the international union of georgians has issued an apology to the south this in people just recently he apologized for the actions of the georgian president and said it's very regrettable that the two people that are very closely connected are now being forced to look at each other as an

aggressor or as a victim because of the actions of just one man but of course as in any conflict at the end it's not the politicians that suffer it's the people tens of thousands of georgians used to live in south for decades and when the shelling in the bombing of south the city began they were forced to flee and they flee they fled to georgia but as they found out not all georgians are actually welcome in georgia. 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 native towns and villages but though they run away from war they cannot find solace in 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 they're just promises we don't believe anything will be done all of them are georgians for a cause 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 though the first violence erupted 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 its suburbs where we could live and where we could get to the ark they don't want to use them they think refugees must not live in beliefs and organize 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 all good talks about moving she seems on the verge of hysterics but yeah so they move which i'm not going to go anywhere even if they first. 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 present on the roof of their eggs 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. if you feel no hope of their needs being met but you know you but you don't want to i lost my house i lost my room i lost everything and now i'm 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

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 subclass 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. and a lot of people see that as an indication of the georgian president's relation to wards the war that took place two years ago is the fact that he's not in the country even in the country for the two his year anniversary he is attending the inauguration of the colombian president and is not in tbilisi or anywhere in georgia today nor will he be there tomorrow. ok that was the object from our correspondents are english going to really see an italian opera in that scene all thanks very much indeed for this. you're watching r.t.

live from moscow our web site has a lot more stories for you and here's what streaming there right now. two brits find themselves shipped off to greece as controversial e.u.'s traditional laws mean they could await trial but over a year with no evidence to prove their guilt. scorching heat rains and unlikely visitor to the waters of the moscow river thai jellyfish the size of small points baffled boat owners for more had to r.t. dot com. 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 and gas reserves. are thought to lie near the north pole and climate change and melting ice are likely to tamp nations closest to the region to start drilling. for ports. the race is on the us together with canada and russia competing expeditions to the bottom of the

sea near the north pole. of the country to take its place here will determine its prosperity in the coming decades. the third of the world's undiscovered yeah and it's. estimated to be in the region. where is expensive right now but for countries like the u.s. as 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 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 to follow. 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 the neighbors so the same has been for the. for example doesn't have the skills doesn't have the ships to extract oil in the arctic it spends less on the stone on football but industries predict that new technologies and equipment resists include streams weather and isolation on nearly here. but i expect to be active exploitation of the. to begin with. little word of warning it's not just about profit but the risk. if you see the recent all disaster in the gulf of mexico you can predict the scale of disasters that is happening to. this question of environmental risk made the lake

shore drilling in the arctic but that's unlikely to prevent it and one thing is clear a region that has so far existed without major human involvement is the third biggest and most rapid period of change in millions of years. and next we take a look at the business was shot down. 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 shortages and fair prices don't start to rise or great acts for 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 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 had contracts with. contract price than the current prices. on the world markets so this exports. experts not to sell to their clients. practically the same price like markets and risk could affect their financial position. russia is the world's food largest exporter of wheat but the severe weather has wiped more than twenty percent of the crops the green you need 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 are 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 void 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 cinched. 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 for serving 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 sense that wasn't so last. the markets are fine was their growth i mean it's a saw him on the positive from us down do you hope we have what we had a file. of the market was flat or mixes either from china and us during the week the hof russian market was on gas or majorly when the oil through eighty. dollars per barrel it was the extremely positive of what this was one of them says though there are other for the show performance and as for a bull in that surely the old price the group of the in for we go to south africa

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 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 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 are. 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 growth. developed western world still very much in the throes of the recession and our trading relations with the 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 for this hour you can always find more stories on our website flash business.

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a devastating attack against a sweeping south the city of which led to the map of the caucasus being redrawn in five days russian troops push the georgians out and russia recognize the city and independence. and the russian president calls for the revolutionary title militia to be replaced by police to reflect the professional status of officers as part of reforms to the country's law enforcers have been repeatedly accused of corruption. now russia's would be silicon valley will get the best tax breaks but will that be enough to allow the scald of a project to become a world leader in technological innovation algor knopf puts a nobel prize winner and co-chair of the site have board of the project under the spotlight. hungry for the food we've got it for. the biggest issues get

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