i 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 not saying that temperatures will remain this high for yet another four days at least one 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 rush 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 waging. is going to check on reporting from the most region so if a search is remembering the victims of the two thousand and eight will with georgia hundreds were killed when tbilisi had turned breakaway republic with artillery and tanks two years ago. mosco sent forces to protect the people of the republic many of whom are russian citizens after five days of bloody battles the georgian troops were pushed back to the border several countries have since recognized independence in south ossetia russia being the first moscow's also been helping rebuild the republic but georgia maintains the country is still part of its territory the telling over cuba is in the asserting capital involved. 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. people who waiting to return 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 some think they were deprived of office or the group because georgia council gust 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 under way 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. for this new clinic in the sent to all the south of the 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 and his rating on the injured during the georgian aggression in the tissues to show us where food is on tonight. this was our operating room it smelled awful even money and 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. to the equipment water or food. and doctors still had to come down for nearly two hundred operations here as well as are the minor procedures. it wins in here and came out there. you thought 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'd get there it's 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. but i never want to see him i don't even want to hear 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 virtually unconscious when he arrived in hospital but he remembers seeing the many injured here on the most lying on the bare wet ground on makeshift hospital the situation

here worsened with every passing minute the doctors were treating up to four hundred of the wounded some alternatively and here was a team broadcasting only georgian t.v. the ongoing bombardment and lack of factual information only added to their disport hope was almost lost many were crying during the says this was the greatest moment that everybody was preparing to die with them at one point it felt like nobody was coming to help us everything seemed in vain so much work for nothing. i think he may have been unaware of russian peacekeepers efforts to protect sometimes you got his music but his work and that was our legs when we did that are from what is known to be good out of the hundreds if not it was staring at the cellar only to succumb to the explodes in a robe to be replayed as you so are seen from the mall knows of the city. some say there's no victor in war and that seems to be true for the people who were caught up in the conflict on both sides thousands were forced to abandon their homes

seeking refuge in safety across the border but as parties are going to report some georgians have found neither. 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 ran away from war now they cannot find solace in peace. 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 from a cause here 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 and believe it all goes 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 yeah. 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. take a 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 don't know but you know i lost my house i lost my home and 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 subclass citizens by their own government they say they feel like alamos have been herded from place to place without any hope of ever finding any where they can call home. it is a ghost quality tbilisi georgia. russia's militia could soon go back to its historic name of police as it was known before the bolshevik revolution in one nine hundred seventeen the idea is part of major reforms of the force which has been dogged by accusations of corruption and inefficiency jacob greaves takes. the. 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 law enforcers 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 he sure so email 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 artist 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 beliefs that is being seen as an attempt to rid the force of its image as a hotbed of corruption and bad practice but it's one that's not it's come at a cost. i can see tens even hundreds of different expenses 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

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 a card check with a man in uniform in the street so yes we need to write out her. option that's what should be behind this whole reform when he threw it out for unprofessionalism one day to root out ineffectiveness so the reforms are on the are long overdue and just

this week those are folks who are intensified would have to have all 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 proposal is backed up by more concrete measures seems to be a desire to push through these reforms regardless of economic and political costs i want things are sure come two thousand and twelve russians want to see more than just a name change the country's police force greaves see moscow. welcome to live from the russian capital still ahead in the program this hour things are getting heated in the freezing arctic. rich in natural gas the region is becoming increasingly attractive as more countries stake out their territorial claims.

first russia's foreign ministry is accusing the u.s. of failing to comply with key arms control and nonproliferation requirements according to the new report published on the ministries website washington's last over one thousand new commit to realize on its own soil it's also being accused of ignoring some points of the old strategic arms reduction treaty or start as it's known which expired last december the us is allegedly kept in service several missiles silos it was supposed to scrap part of the deal with iran to go sions include experimentation with chemical 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 u.s. has put the ratification of the new start on ice recently after a spring congress vote on the deal until september. a red alert has been declared in pakistan as floodwaters sweep from the north of the country into the south 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. remains. a suspected militant attack in northeast afghanistan has killed ten people as they were returning to kabul six americans a german and a british woman are among the dead the team was working for an international charity providing medical help and police said the group of being robbed before being shot one by one the taliban said it was behind the attack targeting christian missionaries get accused of spying for the americans. whistleblower wiki leaks says it will continue to publish secret documents to expose governments around the world it comes after washington demanded the site council's plans to release classified military papers saying it puts money is at risk last month the site posted tens of thousands of private followers on the afghan war on its website you can explain such disclosures are no threat to security. a joint u.s.

canadian expedition is set to kick off to map the arctic ocean bed of 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 and. there has more. 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 ability for country to stick it to place here will determine its prosperity in the coming decades more than a third of the world's undiscovered gas and the tenth of its 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 the pie will be divided between the five nations closest to the north pole the easiest way

to gain economic rights the significant portions of the arctic is by proving their link to the country itself by land and this is what these expeditions up 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 united nations to be firing on this. despite tens of millions spent by the neighbors so far not a cent has been sick just nobody more russia for example doesn't have the skills doesn't have the ships to extract oil in the arctic it spends less on this don football. but industries predict that new technologies and equipment resistant to

extreme weather and isolation on nearly hit. 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 and if you see the recent oil disaster in the gulf of mexico you can predict the scale of disasters that can happen in the front psylocke to clute discussion of environmental risks made the late drilling in the baltic 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 yet as you go to. see. can i do not to research and would strike the needs russia could be the leader of the race for the region but the us and canada all working haunt to catch up 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 canada 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 been left unanswered. it was a research as speaking to r.t. from edmonton in canada where by the way for more stories features and blogs you can always log on to our website it's our business politics or entertainment or

just a click away for you now here's a taste of what you can find online right now. paul oakenfold one of the world's most successful d.j. . and chats to us about future plans and working with. also online cigarette packs in russia getting a make over but not everyone's happy about it you can get all the details on the heated debate between tobacco companies and. dot com online all the time. well later in the examines the chances of russia's version of silicon valley joining the world's best in technological innovation but first let's check out the business news with charlotte.

hello welcome to the business program on r.t. the 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 poor pause. 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 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 of wheat to their clients and oppositely domestic practically the same price like markets and risk doesn't affect their financial position russia is the world's third largest exporter 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 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. the. with respect to. the authorities are going to try and keep prices

low. is 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 lives 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 for sowing 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.

saw him on the positive from us to europe we have had a file. of the market was flat on was either from china and u.s. during that week the hof russian market is on the air so naturally well. through eighty. dollars per barrel it was the extremely positive of what this was seen as though there are other for the show performance. and naturally the price the greater than for we go to. south africa and 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. that russia has russian

companies russian institutions. minerals beneficiation areas particularly to any man or products into higher value added products these are areas where i think we have an interest in deepening the cooperation on all of the statistics. divestment relations with the bric countries russia is lower down than the others are. real possibilities to push it further forward. i think that from our side. we recognize in 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 citizen economic growth. developed western world still very much in the throes of the recession and outrage 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 kosovo. and i show up there for this hour you can always find more stories on our website auto home flash business.

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as part of a major overhaul aimed at eliminating corruption he wants the reforms to reflect a new era of professionalism and honesty. i'll be back in less than half an hour with more news for naught in the meantime russia's answer to the silicon valley will get the best tax break spot well let be enough to allow all the skulk of a project to become a world leader in technological innovation well going to puts a nobel prize winner and co-chair of these site tech board of the project under the spotlight next on r.t. .

polo again you're welcome to spotlight the interview show on r.t. i'll bring all of and today my guest in the studio is. russia is building its version of the silicon valley in the village of moscow the would be silicon valley will get special tax rates and other incentives but will this project make or russia the country of world class innovative products nobel prize winner and co-chair of the skull provoke science city project. is here to armed services.