forty degrees celsius in moscow where the average temperature for this time of the year is usually twenty three degrees celsius 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 a really big ones and the worst of them are peat far as 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 once 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 this for at least another four to five days while more than one hundred sixty thousand people are now going out of their way to put out those fires and we heard that the emergency ministry says that now foreign fighters 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 like. i 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 fires in. populated areas at least some good news there. just reporting. about. the military taking hundreds of lives.

the brief but destructive wall in the caucuses in august of two thousand and eight led to reach roaring over the region's map it began with georgia shutting its that breakaway region of south ossetia 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 based on. growth in five days georgian troops had been pushed out several countries have since recognized south in session independence putting russia. did not pick up a cup of the events two years ago says that life in the republic is gradually returning to normal. the reconstruction of infrastructure 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 they're 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 the city and capital reconstruction works are still underway there are 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 hundreds more 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 officer of the group because georgia consul gus gas supplies to sell for said here so life here is getting back to normal however the wounds to the world will be steals and aids has left are still sore and here's this report by my colleague night i.z.'s of a who is based here in this he involved. it's been a restless nights for dr gorg has been conducting a complicated operation well patients continue to flow into the hospital room are

very good one motion forward for this new clinic in the center of the south a city in the capital was the only medical facility here two years ago and it looked very different than. your distil doesn't like to come down here into the cellar where he spent several sleepless nights and clifford rating on those injured during the georgian aggression in the tissues to show us how to hold on to the. good with this bit this was our operating room it smelled awfully of ammonia 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 another two hundred operations here as well as other minor procedures. a little three wins in here and came out there. you know it was one of these patients during the bombardment he had in the cellar of his home on hearing the morning

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 wall. but 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 you remember seeing the many injured here every one of the most lying on the bare wet ground of make she tore spittle were 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 greatest moment that everybody was preparing to die. because 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 methods of attacks of them seated on his music but his work and that. we do that from what used to be gotten out of the how does is not to do a staring at does not in this only to succumb to what follows an honorable to go figure three days r.c. from the moment as officers. meanwhile here in the involved preparations are underway as several events will be taking place here to commemorate the two years that have passed since the george s. aggression. and artie's

a renegotiate go in the georgian capital tbilisi says there's been a growing criticism of the decision to attack south ossetia. you have to remember that the georgian people have 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 of two thousand and eight so the last thing that is on georgian people's minds is yet another bloody conflict and they feel that president circus really has allowed that conflict to happen in fact he was the perpetrator of the bad of the battles that ensued to two years ago a lot of politicians a lot of opposition politicians in the country also say that president bush 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 i kin to the ones i just expressed are being felt not

just in georgia by but also by georgians over or over the world as a matter of fact the president of the international union of georgians has issued an apology to the south since in people just recently he apologized for the actions of the georgian president but of course as in any conflict and 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 and 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 wrote in georgia. when the war ends someone's 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 ran away from war they cannot find solace in peace that. our 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 a city or some were forced to flee two years ago during the south a city or 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 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 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 belief. blog 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. i'm not going to go anywhere even if they first civil 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 and 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. you know i lost my house i lost my homeland i lost everything and now i am being kicked out of here being made to refuse you for the 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. a lot of people see that as an indication of the georgian president relation to wards the war that took place here as they go is the fact that he's not even in the country for the two is here anniversary of his attending the inauguration of the colombian president and is not in tbilisi or anywhere in georgia today nor will he be there tomorrow.

well after ninety three years the russian militia could soon be called police in a bid to reflect the professionalism of the force draft law as part of reforms to the country's law enforcers have been dogged by accusations of corruption a special website has been created so the plans can be discussed further by the public check aggrieved looks at what else is in store for russia's crops. they say don't judge a book by its cover but russian president dmitri medvedev has given great importance to a 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 nine hundred seventeen and instead go back to the pre-revolutionary name police be sure somebody on ever since the

bolshevik revolution our law enforcers have been known as the militia this emphasize their popular or proletarian nature i mean they were volunteers in uniform but today we need professionals are honest and well coordinated people who are good at their job this is why i think it's time we gave our law enforcers back their original name in started calling them the police 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 likely to 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 to design in production of new ideas for a million workers repainting of hundreds of police cars and other vehicles design of new forms stamps and seals and so on in total 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 a 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 but there are other examples and the shadow of endemic corruption and bribery still hangs over russia's laura forces people are scared to turn to malaysia 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 a true unprofessionalism we need to root out ineffectiveness so the reforms are all are over due and just this week those reforms were intensified with the pows or to have all offices face reexamination before being able to return to the force lists

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 renaming of the militia some may interpret this may 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 jake aggrieved party moscow. you are with r.t. live from the russian capital and our website has a lot more stories for you here's a taste of what's triggering life for you right now at r.t. dot com and the two brits find themselves shipped off to greece controversial e.u. extradition laws mean that they could await trial for over a year with no evidence to prove their guilt. and scorching heat brings an

unlikely visitor to the waters of the moscow. tiny jellyfish the size of small coins but. for more tourists head on to r.t. dot com. the arctic is becoming an international bone of contention as russia the u.s. and canada search for evidence to support their territorial can claims because a fourth of the world's oil and gas reserves are thought to lie near the north pole and a climate change on melting ice is likely to tempt nations closest to the region to start drilling. for points. the race is on the u.s. together with canada and russia have launched 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 more than a third of the world's undiscovered yeah and it's all reserves are 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 conflict anywhere in the world but it's not yet clear how that point will be divided between the five nations closest to the north pole easiest way to gain economic rights the significant portion of the arctic is proving their 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 a hint of the political grandstanding to follow. yeah i myself do not believe it will come to a conflict or any conflict i would expect the word of the united nations to be firing on this. despite tens of milly. and spent by the neighbors so far not

a cent has been sick. for example doesn't have the skills doesn't have the ships to extract oil in the arctic it spends less on this storm on football but industries predict that new technologies and equipment resistant to extreme weather and isolation are nearly here. but i expect the active exploitation of the arctic to begin within ten years but award of warning it's not just about profit but the risks as well ie if you see the recent all disaster in the gulf of mexico you can predict the scale of disasters that can happen in the fragile arctic. discussion of environmental risk made the late offshore 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 it's the third biggest and most rapid period of change in millions of years.

it's about twenty one minutes past the hour here in the russian capital you with r.t. thank you for joining us today let's look at some other news now from around the world and red alert has been declared in pakistan after floodwaters that swept through the northwest of the country are now threatening the south about fourteen million people are thought to have been affected by the worst ever flooding in the region the u.n. says at least sixteen hundred how are confirmed to have died more rain is expected in the worst hit areas rescuers are still trying to reach millions of people without food or drinking water. in afghanistan ten people have been killed by militants in an ambush in the northeastern region of. six american and two afghan medical workers are among the dead one british and one german man were also killed they were working for a charity providing i care and medical help and may have been victims of robbery. well in about ten minutes time martin andrews continues his travels around the

ancient golden ring cities that encircled the russian capital but first it's the weekend edition of business with charlotte. hello welcome to the business program here on r.t. the worst drought in recorded history has created severe problems are russia's farmers but 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 aspi temporarily stopped and the 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 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 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 and practically the same prices like my kids and my risk could affect their financial position russia is the world's third largest exporter of wheat but the severe weather has wiped 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 and it's believed this will inevitably push up the price of food and therefore inflation but 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

enter a verbal interventions from. the. with respect to. the authorities are going to try and keep prices low. is reaching across the country in the capital under a blanket of choking smoke is the impression void spread disease. and deadly there's been a terrible human cost lives 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. concern the economic growth referring russia's biggest lender was among the main losers on friday slipping to you. 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. fund was their growth. so. positive from us down do europe we have had a file. of the market was flat or mixes a bit from china and us during the week the hof russian market was. really well. through eighty. dollars per barrel it was the extremely positive so this was one of their other for the performance of. the nature of the price the group of the in for. south africa russia share a number of economics the minorities 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. areas of minerals technologies of various sorts. russia has russian companies russian institutions. beneficiation areas particularly to any 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 so they all real possibilities to push 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. in relations with quite difficult because of those problems so we're looking to develop stronger relations with countries it's a strategic imperative for us that's why we're undertaking the status of course of the. and that show up there for this hour you can always find more stories on our web site.

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