temperature is twenty three degrees there are still around eighty big fires burning in the country there are hundreds of them but a really big one but really really significant ones and the worst of them are peat fires there are forty of them still burning and most in the moscow region they're very hard to extinguish and once it's when the fire goes deep on the ground and when you put out put it out in one area it pops up somewhere else and it's really hard to handle until temperatures really drop and the peak gets a little bit damp while but even the most optimistic weather forecasts are now saying that temperatures will remain this high for yet another four days at least what more than one hundred sixty thousand people are now going out of their way to put out those fires across and watch the emergency ministry also said that now firefighters are working twenty four seven to do that also where she is getting a helping hand from abroad some countries are sending in people others like

bulgaria others are sending in equipment planes and helicopters like italy did like ukraine did. this help because the territory is huge and the fires are raging. and reporting from moscow region. is remembering the victims of the two thousand and eight war with georgia hundreds were killed when the breakaway republic with artillery two years ago. moscow's send forces to protect the people of the republic many of whom are russian citizens after five days of love you got those the georgian troops were pushed back to the border several countries have since recognized the independence of south

ossetia brush of being the first austrian who's also been helping rebuild the republic but georgia maintains the country is still part of its territory italian of course is in the capital skin vaal for us. a lot of buildings have been reconstructed of course there's still those buildings with the bullet holes in their wounds there are still buildings that are being reconstructed and you can see builders everywhere through this city there are still people who waiting to have return to their homes and their 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 now 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 heating something they were deprived of office or the group because georgia council just gas supplies to south of says here so life here is

getting back to normal however the wounds that the world will be steals and aids has left are still sore meanwhile here in sea involve preparations are under way as several events will be taking place here to commemorate the two years that have passed since the georges aggression. it's been a restless nights for dr dorothy has been conducting a complicated operation well patients continue to flow into the hospital for a very good move 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 at least there are different than. you or he still doesn't like to come down here into the cellar where he spent several sleepless nights a confederate in on days injured during the georgian aggression in the wrist to show us who were holding onto the. ground this was our operating room it smelled awful even more 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. and doctors still had to go down for nearly two hundred operations here as well as our the mine the procedure is. a little three wins in here and came out there. you know it was one of the stations during the bombardment he had in the cellar of his home on hearing the bombing outside he fled in fear that he did there it 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 but when 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 will make 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. he was unconscious when he arrived in hospital but he remembers seeing the many injured here on the mesa lying on the bare wet ground on makeshift hospital. this 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 was almost lost many were crying during the says this was the greatest moment that everybody was preparing to die at one point it felt like nobody was coming to help us everything seemed to be in vain so much work for nothing. she may have been unaware of russian peacekeepers protectors of them siegel is misplaced but she split and that was obviously we did this from waste and the good out of the

hundreds if not they were staring at dozens in the cellar only to succumb to their standards noble to figure thank you so arsene from simone no self-assertive must leave. it is nearly ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital you are with r.t. thank you for joining us today now a joint u.s. a canadian expedition is set to kick off to map the arctic ocean bed by russian exploration ship is already on its way to the polar waters the three nations are gathering evidence in a bid to claim the immense energy resources of the region the arctic is believed to hold much of the world's untapped oil and gas reserves and we can all discuss the future of the region with ed wood loser good to see you sir you are

a canadian researcher you're joining us live from edmonton canada so the arctic region is getting more and more international attention these days it's increasingly becoming a bone of contention tell us more about this potential energy race. well the arctic ice is melting all the oil and gas and resources that lie be neat that that ice is now more accessible than it has been before it's easier to ship out and there's a tremendous amount of amount there really it is a race to find those resources and to map out the area and claim them the u.s. and canada launching a joint expedition to map the seabed in the arctic does this mean they're acting together here but upon a ship with no disagreements well canada in the united states do have a disagreement over one area of the beaufort sea which contains a lot of oil and gas but they set those differences apart because i think they

don't really have the icebreaker power to do the job that is necessary in the short period of time that is necessary so essentially they've set aside their differences and they're saying ok let's get on with it because of the russians are very far ahead of the game the norwegians of already done their work and denmark has done a very good job as well so they're just joining forces and working on traditional alliances to get this job done and certainly do seem to be a lot of players getting involved whether in partnership sole on their own on their own on their reasoning here believe that there could be a solution over how the arctic region is divided that would perhaps satisfy all of the stakeholders and who should work out such a solution do you think. i think that you know the potential right now is for a solution to be to come in in the near future it all depends really on on how the jurisdiction that oversees this decides where the boundaries are now if the

boundary lines come across an area that's very rich in oil and gas then the countries that are involved don't necessarily have to accept the the recommendations and that's where it could get very tricky because. there's a lot of money to be found here the future economies of you know five nations depend on what the boundaries look like in the future and if those boundaries tend to cross those lines where there's a lot of oil and gas it's not going to be easy and i think that we could see a long protracted battle going on in the future let's talk about of moscow's position hand how likely is it you think that russia will succeed in claiming significant parts of the arctic well i think you know russia's got a strong claim. we haven't really seen it unfold and i don't know that we're going to see very much information in the near future

a lot of this is very sensitive information proprietary information but there's no question russia has done a very good job in recent years they're way ahead of the game i think they've gone . been doing work ahead of canada the united states canada the united states are now catching up so i think you know russia is is going to be a winner to some extent how big a winner is really the question that's been left unanswered now this prospect of industrial development of the arctic how bad can it hit the region's fragile nature and wildlife let's talk about the environmental impacts. well you saw what would help have happened in the gulf of mexico you know where they didn't drill a relief well and we had a blowout you know that really is threatening birds and wildlife in that area and you know that's relatively easy to contain if you're looking at a blowout in the arctic and that happens under the ice or at

a time of year where you've got lots of moving ice and there's no way you're going to be able to cap that you'll have to wait a very very long time before you get that under control and by that point the ice will carry it into very sensitive waters perhaps into david st david's three baffin bay or into russian waters it could be in a environmental mental disaster like we've never ever seen before all right edward true to canadian arctic research and live from edmonton thanks. lauren forces could soon get their historical name back currently known as the militia in czarist russia they were called police and the idea is part of major reforms of the force which has been dogged by accusations of corruption and inefficiency jacob greaves 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

a name in his bid to reform the country's lower forces he's proposed to do away the title militia is still by the bolsheviks in ninety seven team and instead go back to the pre-revolutionary name police he sure. ever since the bulls have a crew of olution or 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 honest and we'll coordinated people who are good at their job this is why i think it's time we gave our little enforcers back their original name in started calling them the police. it's 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 to design and the custom tailoring of new uniforms for million workers design and production of new ideas for million workers repainting of hundreds of police cars and other vehicles

designed 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 gritty 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 in a 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 a true professionalism we need to root out and effectiveness so the reforms are all

over due and just this week those reforms were intensified with the pows or to have all officers 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 likely to stand out as much of the renaming of the militia some play into over this move cynically as a quick fix measure to woo over the public but this latest pozo is backed up by more concrete measures seems to be a desire to push through these reforms regardless of economic and political costs one thing's for sure. come two thousand and twelve russians want to see more than just a name change the country's police force greece party moscow. russia as a foreign ministry is accusing the u.s. of failing to comply with key arms control and nonproliferation requirements according to a new report published on the ministry's website washington's last over

a thousand nuclear materials on its own soil it's also being accused of ignoring some points of the old strategic arms reduction treaty with moscow which expired last december the us has allegedly kept in service several missile silos it was supposed to scrap under the deer of other allegations include experimentation with chemical and biological materials banned by the un and claims washington's actually been selling weapons to iran so far there's been no official reaction from the united states. or at well political analyst of lot of miracles and now joins me to talk further about this is good to see you sir thank you much so what can you tell us about the timing of these reports and allegations saying now when the new start treaty is awaiting refutation why now. the beginning when the republican party of the united states of america. decided to.

the state department to produce a report which appears on the very long me compliance of the russian for the ration with a number of forms control treaties that sort of it period. for general public on twenty eighth of july. so the next the the russian foreign ministry just refuted this still a geisha and said that everything was baseless all the. time but having said. in the russian foreign service decided to. counter to counter offer something in the form of a report which appeared today and the time e. it's very simple because it's a very serious people we have to worry for every figure the name of the news asian . persons mentioned there i mean violations of the so it definitely took

some time for the russian side to prepare such a high caliber report or it's a fine if i may jump in here just briefly there are poor claims that the u.s. has been selling weapons to countries that it blacklisted for example syria and iran could there be any explanations on any ground any basis for this. double standard policy for example they are urging russia not. three hundred missiles and time missile system to iran but at the same time the certainly the same kind of system to other countries petro missiles. not prohibited by the way by the international law but at the same time the are selling manpads portable. aircraft missiles called stinger to a number of countries fifteen and seventeen that's very bad. it's a violation of especially regime prohibiting selling such things to all the

countries all over the world so if i may if i may jump into the report there are also claims here in this report that american companies have lost nuclear materials some report suggesting some one and a half thousand of radioactive elements have been lost over a few years some even stolen how worrying is that through movie alarming frakt because it could be disseminated it could be a resold it could come into the hands of terrorists and all the. bad guys so. just low. other countries the are not. vigilant in terms of these matters but at the same time the united states are turning blue and are blind to their all new sea experiments with this kind of thing so that's why the russian side has led has made accusations before eight international

regimes conventions and treaties and one bilateral. form or start one treaty show radio webster but nevertheless the thing is very serious. happened. should have happened a long time ago or. so we have been waiting. for but nevertheless we see that there is no breakthrough well ations where. it's right now i mean certainly the reports coming out one report from washington one from moscow this potential game of tit for tat bit of mudslinging going on here we'll have to see how it plays out vladimir cause and political analyst always a pleasure thank you very much thank you and. well time now for the business update with charlotte. hello welcome to the business program here on r.t.

their worst drought in recorded history has created severe problems are russia's 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 grain exports 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 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 that some 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 price like markets and risk could affect their financial position russia is the world's largest exporter of wheat but the severe weather has wiped out more than twenty percent of the crop the green unit is now predicting a yield of under seventy million tonnes domestic consumption amounts to more than seventy five million 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 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.

is reaching across the country in the capital under a blanket of choking smaug 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 their week in the red that's is the all declined a disappointing jobs report from the u.s. concern the economic growth for serving russia's biggest lender was among the main losers on friday slipping 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 us do europe we have had file.

of the market was flat on weeks of the from china and us during the week the hope of russian market or longer so naturally well. through eighty. dollars per barrel it was all extremely positive this was seen as though there are 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 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. areas of minerals technologies of various sorts of capacity is that russia has russian companies or russian institutions. 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. divestment relations with the bric countries russia is lower down than the others are. real possibilities to push further forward. i think from our. we or recognizing that there are huge changes taking place in the world economy the new poles of economic power the new forces of dynamism and located outside of the traditional centers of economic growth. developed western world still very much in the throes of the recession and relations with quite difficult because of those problems so we're looking to develop stronger relations with with a brick countries it's

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explosives are used class to aid the earth in the. earth the remains are. lethal on our team. cool. it is six thirty pm on saturday here in moscow do with auti headlines now suffocating small eight hundred wildfires plague parts of russia emergency crews. working around the clock to extinguish the flames muscovites struggling to breathe and wearing face masks to protect themselves from the toxic smoke. on the road to recovery. rebuilding their lives two years after georgia's assault which left

hundreds of casualties and reduce the republic's capital to ruins a five day battle ended after russia's intervention forced georgian troops to the border. and what's in a name president medvedev calls for major reforms for the country's law enforcement proposing changes from top of screening to a different title he wants militias to be replaced by police responded better to reflect a new era of professionalism and honesty. well up next martin managers continues his tour of the ancient cities that surround moscow join him right now here on r.t. .

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 just one here which is now a museum the film a good scheme or a straight build in the fourteenth century so welcome to the next old england destination by plane surely tall good looking enough and fifty to five years off to be found in the sky and see how someone can touch is this the perfect taste of life in a small town based on what it's new to islam of with its beautiful size is a perfect location to come not only for tourists little so for all just like us who came from moscow to practice i will skills and have a chance to capture these amazing landscapes and all conjecture on canvas who like to cheer on won't which. town is located one hundred forty kilometers to the northeast of moscow.