really big one we really significant ones and the worst of them are peak 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 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 russia 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 water is going to check on reporting from the moscow region so if a search is remembering the victims of the two thousand and eight war with georgia hundreds were killed when tbilisi had turned to the breakaway republic with artillery and tanks two years ago. sent forces to protect the people of the republic many of whom are russian citizens after five days of bloody battles the children troops were pushed back to the border several countries have since recognized independence in south ossetia russia being the first moscow has also been helping rebuild the republic but georgia maintains the country is still part of its territory but is in the asserting

capital city. a lot of buildings have been reconstructed of course there's 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 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 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 in this winter people here had central heating something they were deprived of office or they grew up because georgia consul just gas supplies to sell for said 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 c involve preparations are underway as several events

will be taking place here to commemorate the two years that have passed since the georgia's aggression. it's been a restless nights for the uk to gorky has been conducting a complicated operation well patients continue to flow into the hospital for a very good move from this new clinic in the sent to 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 rating on the injured during the georgian aggression. to show. so the one to the. girl was that this was our operating room it smelled awful of ammonium 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 or water or food. doctors still had to go down for nearly two hundred operations here as well as other minor procedures. a wind 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 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 war may 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 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 some more tanny is lee and here was a t.v. set broadcasting only georgian t.v. the ongoing bombardment and lack of factual information on that added to their despair hope was almost lost many were crying jordi says this was the raiders moment that everybody was preparing to die on them at one point it felt like nobody was coming to help us everything seemed in vain so much work for nothing. he may have been unaware of russian peacekeepers efforts to protect saddam city girl is misplaced but his work and that of course i thinks we do that often wasteful to be gotten out of the house as it is not to do with staring at. only to succumb to what follows an honorable to go figure r.c. in france your manners of the city. some say there's no victory in war and that

seems to be true for the people who are caught up in the conflict on both sides thousands were forced to abandon their homes seeking refuge and safety across the border but as our tears are going to report some georgians have found know either. the georgian people have already been through several wars they have been through civil war and the president's as this war is 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 get another bloody conflict and they feel that president saakashvili has allowed that conflict to happen in fact he was the perpetrator of the bout of the battles that ensued to his ears ago a lot of politicians a lot of opposition politicians in the country also say the president's office 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 or over the world as a matter of fact the president of the international union of georgians has issued an apology to the south this is in people just recently he apologized for the actions of the georgian president 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 it 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. that. 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 from of the 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 saw the first violence erupt between georgia and its then breakaway regions for two years there a 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 it's 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 and bill is saying. 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 all the talks about moving she seems on the verge of hysterics. 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 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. yet but you know i lost my house i lost my homeland i lost everything and now i'm been kicked out of here been made to refuse you for the second time i'm not concerned just with myself 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 adam olds who are being herded from place to place without any hope of ever finding any where they can call home it is a ghost tbilisi georgia. russia's

militia could soon go back to its historic name of police as it was known before the bolshevik revolution back in one thousand nine hundred seventeen the idea was part of major reforms of the force which is being dogged by accusations of corruption and inefficiency jacob greaves takes a deeper look now at the oval. they say don't judge a book by its cover but russian president dmitri medvedev has given great importance to the name and its 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 the man 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 to day we need professionals 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 and 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 not it's 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

crazy nature but there are other examples and the shadow of endemic corruption and bribery still hangs over russia's lora 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 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 offices face reexamination before being able to return to the force this and further plans have been given till 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 their country's police force. r.t. . was the head in the program for you things are getting heated in the freezing arctic rich in natural gas the reason i mean crossing the attractive is more countries stake out their territorial claims. that story still to come but first russia's foreign ministry is accusing the us a failing to comply with key arms control a non proliferation requirements according to the new report published on the ministries website washington's last over fell's and 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 deal other allegations include experimentation chemical and biological materials banned by the

un and claims washington actually been selling weapons to iran so far there's been no official reaction from the u.s. but it's going to bring a cause and says the report of the missing nuclear material is of huge concern. alarming for act because it could be disseminated it could be a resold it could come into the hands of terrorists and all the bad guys while other countries of the are not vigilant in terms of these matters but the sign time of the united states are turning a blind eye to their all new c experiments with this kind of thing so that's why the russian side has made accusations should have happened a long time ago i have but nevertheless we see that there is no breakthrough well ations where. and there was political analysts.

joint canada us expedition is getting ready to set sail later on saturday its mission is to map the ocean bed of the arctic a russian ship with a similar mission is already on its way to the point of water it's three countries are said to be preparing to claim the massive oil and gas reserves in the region it's believed that the take hold some of the world's largest untapped energy reserves canadian arctic research edward strategic believes the u.s. and canada and working hard to catch up with the current leader of the race russia 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 there's no question russia has done a very good job in the recent years and they're way ahead of the game i think they've gone. been doing work ahead of can of the united states canada the united states are now catching up so i think you know russia is going to be a winner to some extent how big a winner is really the question that's left unanswered. that was a can't take research is speaking to r t from edmonton canada. a red alert has been declared in pakistan as floodwaters sweep from the north of the country into the south the mass evacuations of villages on the banks of rising rivers have begun officials say fourteen million people have been affected by the worst monsoon rains in decades with sixteen hundred dead rescuers are still trying to reach densely populated regions left without food or drinking water forecasters predict more heavy rains. in afghanistan ten people have been killed by militants in an ambush

in the north eastern region. six americans a german and a british woman are among the dead the group was working for an international charity providing medical help police claimed it may have been a robbery however the taliban said it was behind the attack targeting christian missionaries which is accused of spying for the america. online whistleblower wiki leaks says it will continue to publish secret documents to expose governments around the world it comes after washington demanded the site cancels plans to release classified military papers saying it puts lives at risk last month the site posted tens of thousands of private files on the afghan war on its website wiki leaks maintains such disclosures are no threat to security. the leader of the cuban revolution fidel castro is making his first speech to parliament since he retired due to ill health four years ago in his address the former president talked about the almost inevitable threat of a nuclear war castro who secretary of a communist party has returned to the public eye over the last month he recently in

which the u.s. was planning to attack iran and north korea. to bring you up to date for a moment here in a latino person a little later martin andrews will be taking us on a tour around the russia's golden ring cities but that's coming up in about ten minutes from now in the meantime before that we have the business update with charlotte stay with us for that. hello welcome to the business program here on our take their 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 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 experts have had contracts with. contract price than the current prices of the mystical markets so. exports. condition. not to sell to their clients opposite. practically the same price it's like markets and. 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. believe this will inevitably push up the price of food and

therefore inflation there is an understanding that there will be some. 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 government. with respect to. the authorities are going to try and keep prices low with one of its reaching across the country in the capital under a thick blanket of choking smaug is the impression boyd spirit does. actually 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 just. 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.

state concern the economic growth slowing 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 meant wasn't the last. the markets. fund was the girl for. whom it's saw him on the positive for the from us do europe we have what we had while leap around them of the market was fertile mix of the from china and us during the week the heart of russian market is on the us or made surely when the oil through eighty. dollars per barrel it was the extreme of the positive this was one of them says though there are other for the sure performance for a bull in the true the whole 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. that russia has russian companies russian institutions. minerals beneficiation areas particularly 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 city deserve economic power of growth. developed western world still very much in the throes of the recession and our trading relations with quite difficult because of those problems so we're looking to develop stronger relations with with a brick countries a strategic imperative for us that's why we're undertaking the status of kosovo. unless you're up there for this hour you can always find more stories on our website auto slash business.

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if it's pretty on the. streets you want this is the place to come in fact you'll be spoiled for choice there are many here in paris like this one here which is now a museum the film a good scheme all straight builds in the fourteenth century so welcome to the next old england destination established by plane surely told the nine hundred fifty two the five years after the founding and sailed how some of them touches it's the perfect piece of life in a small town based on its me and do a slum 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 like a lot of. time is located one hundred forty kilometers to the north east of moscow on the main. road.