and that is really shocking and that's why we're wearing this. to be. at the moment really it is suffocating you literally feel that it makes you feel a bit nauseous well no doubt russia is now suffering from the worst heat wave. across the central and western regions of the country the fires have killed at least fifty people in the past week the temperatures for weeks as high as thirty to forty degrees celsius in moscow average temperature for this time of the twenty three degrees celsius arena. these fires have been saying for weeks now so what's in store for us in the near future. emergency ministry has been reporting a small decline in new fires breaking out but there are still around eighty fires

big fires burning across the contrary you know there are hundreds of them but really big ones and the worst of them are peat fires there are around forty of them burning at the moment most of them in the moscow region they're very hard to extinguish you can imagine what the fire goes deep on the ground and once you put it out in one area it pops up somewhere else and is really hard to handle until temperatures drop and the dam again but even the most optimistic weather forecasts are now say that the temperatures are going to remain for at least another four to five days while more than one hundred sixty thousand people. are going to work twenty four seven. getting a helping hand from abroad some country countries are sending in their people others are like like bulgaria and others are sending in equipment planes and helicopters fly. italy ukraine did while russia very much needs this helping hand

because the territory is huge and the fires are raging well anyway officials are saying there is no danger of fire in. populated areas at least some good news there all right indeed guy now thanks very much indeed for bringing us the latest there from the moscow region. two years ago a brief but destructive war in the caucasus led to a redrawing of the region's map and it began it was georgia shelling it's the breakaway region of south the city of destroying part of the capital russia sent in troops to protect people in the republican holding any russian passport holders and some have more force to hide in basements and bombed out buildings five days georgian troops have been pushed out and several countries have since recognized

south city depends including russia are covered events two years ago says life in the republic is gradually returning to normal. little construction of infrastructure and is in full swing and i can say that i do see progress a lot of buildings have been reconstructed of course there are still those buildings with bullet 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 team ball itself it's a capital reconstruction works are still underway there still people who waiting to have returned to their homes and the local government promises them that their houses will be rebuilt over the next year but most of the work has already been done a lot of schools are not functioning again and hospitals local university however still lies in ruins your investments to be reconstructed this winter however the

gas pipeline from russia has finally been built in this winter people here had central seeking some teaching something they were deprived of officer group because georgia consul gus gas supplies to sell for said here so life here is getting back to normal however the wounds that the world will be cells and aids has left are still sore and here's this report by my colleague knight i.z.'s of a who's based here in c involved. it's been a restless nights for doc to gorky has been conducting a complicated operation well the patients continue to flow into the hospital room are very good run out of the for this new clinic in the center of the south a city and capital was the only medical facility here two years ago and it looked very different than. your do still doesn't like to come down here into the cellar where they spent several sleepless nights cliff and grating on those injured during the georgian aggression ministries to show us how the food into the. girl was

probably this was our operating room 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 and water. doctors still had to go down for nearly two hundred operations here as well as are the minor procedures there's a little three wins in here and came out there when 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 sleep on my right side as it hurts it a lot of squarely blames the georgian president for what happened to him and the warm milk in 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 she arrived in hospital but she remembers seeing the many of the most lying on the bare 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 team broadcasting only georgian t.v. the ongoing bombardment and local factual information only added to their despair who 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 vain so much work was done for nothing. she may have been unaware of russian peacekeepers efforts to protect some

city girl is misplaced work and that because of the things we do that often we still go at the alter of the house as it is not to do with staring at you only to succumb to the most news in the rubble to prove your claims are seen from the moment of the city. meanwhile here in preparations are underway as several events will be taking place here to commemorate the two years that have passed since georgia's aggression. and i was a time our reporting there from to involve an arch either in english showing the georgian capital tbilisi says there's been growing criticism of the decision to attack south of syria. you have to remember that the georgian people how already been through several wars they have been through civil war and the. wars and 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 all rolled 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 but of course as in any conflict 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 though they ran away from war that they cannot find solace and peace nash please don't 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 this south 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 its suburbs where we could live and from where we could get to work but they don't want to use them they think refugees must not live in billy's sea org 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 would move which 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. looking to 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 fully integrate and have a future wherever that might be it seems for no though the refugees feel no hope of their needs being met but you know you are 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 america to refute you for so can time you i'm not concerned just with myself if you think 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. 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 even in the country for that series year anniversary of his attending that is the result of the colombian president and is not in tbilisi or anywhere in georgia today nor will he be there tomorrow. you're watching r t and after ninety three years the russian militia could soon be called police in a bid to reflect the professionalism of the force the draft law is part of reforms

to the countries of law enforcers who have been dogged by accusations of corruption and special website has been created so the plans can be discussed further by the public jacob graves looks at 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 lore 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 has so many male 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 get 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. it's been 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 never had formal stamps and seals and so i was in total that would amount to spending millions even billions of ruble 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 widely publicized instance of police abusing the power the account 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 grisly nature there are other examples in the shadow of endemic corruption and bribery still hangs over russia's lower forces people are

scared to turn to malaysia people are scared to get into contact with a 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 truth for unprofessionalism what he to root out ineffectiveness saw the reforms are all are long overdue and just this week those are folks who are intensified with a pose 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 as 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 moscow. our web site has a lot more stories for you and here's a taste of what streaming live for you right now actually dot com. two brits find themselves shipped off to greece has caught a version you asked for additional laws meaning put away trial for over a year with no evidence to prove their guilt. and the scorching heat brings and on a likely visitor to the waters of the moscow river tiny jellyfish the size of small coins baffle boat. there's more head to our 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 in melting ice are likely to tamp nations closest to the region to start drilling. in 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 more than a third of the world's undiscovered yeah and the temple it's all 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 it by 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 to follow. yeah i 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 but in the make this so the senate 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 this done on football the more the industries predict that new technologies and equipment resistant the extreme weather and isolation are 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 ie if you see the recent oil disaster in the gulf of mexico you can predict. disasters doesn't

happen in the arctic climates discussion of environmental risks 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 for its biggest and most rapid period of change in millions of years. brings us up to date here in our team and business news is next. 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 all great export aspi 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 in this area to help russian farmers 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 had contracts with. contract price than the current prices of the mystical on the world markets. exports and forced natural condition. not to sell grains to their clients 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 seventeen 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. and. with respect to. the authorities are going to try and keep prices low with one of those 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 analysts say russia's economy would have been barely seen just. 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. so. positive from u.s. europe we have had a file. of the market was flat on weeks later from china and us during the week the hof russian market is on the air so naturally well. through eighty. dollars per barrel it was the extreme of the positive this was seen as though there are other flattish performance for will naturally because all priced greater than

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 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 need 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. divestment relations with the bric countries russia is lower down than the others are. real possibilities to push 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 and our trade 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 state this is because of us here and i'm sure up there we can always find more stories on our website r.t. to flash business. one

of the key elements of democracy which is so uncomfortable for me afford. who pays for the news. how dependent does this independent media. and who is behind the t.v. story in a. charge of media fiction and reality. develop for bush for bush the but. always buy one.

so the people that are going to be validating this machine can stand there all day long and vote for somebody and it will be right every time but the guy can walk up here and if he hits the right button. he can. give you.

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police or flood 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 a sweeping south the city which led to the map of the caucasus being drawn out of five days russian troops push the georgians out and russian recognize south sydney and independence. also they have lines here on our team is continuous at the top of the hour in time bring you a special report one spring at georgia state t.v. channel cost patika country by reporting that russia had launched an invasion find out why the government's take all that's next on r.t. . the first homecoming he'd say always insisted on telling the truth and that's what he spent his life doing before he had to flee his home country in georgia on february tenth two

thousand and ten the independent journalist as swiss authorities to grant him political asylum his greatest worries are now for his family back home in georgia. a 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 oh that i was here lying on the ground and screaming please don't kill me please don't do georgian television channel you may be shocked the nation on march thirteenth two thousand and ten. journalists had put together a thirty minute story about what appeared to be fresh just delineates between russia and georgia they presented a hypothetical.