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 pizza 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 while 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. going to turn reporting from moscow region. so officers remembering the victims of the two thousand and eight war with georgia hundreds were killed when the breakaway republic with artillery and tanks to use a good. moscow sent forces to protect the people of the republic many of whom are russian citizens of the five days of bloody battles the georgian troops were pushed back to the border several countries have since recognize independence of south central russia being the first also have been helping rebuild the republic of georgia maintains the country is still part of its territory the turning over cuba 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 there's two 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 and this winter people here had central heating something they were deprived of office or the group because georgia consul bus gas supplies to sell for says here so life here is getting back to normal however the wounds that the world and aids has left are still sore meanwhile here in sea involved preparations are underway 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 the uk to gorky 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 sent to all the south of the capital was the only medical facility here two years ago and it leaked there are different and. you still doesn't like to come down here into the cellar where he spent several sleepless nights and to separate on the injured during the georgian aggression. christian. show us where the hood is on to. this was our operating room it smelled awful of ammonia because of the sewers but nurses had to leave the room every now and then to be sick we were performing surgery under these pipes. of the equipment water or food. and doctors still had to go down for nearly two hundred operations here as well as our the mine the procedures. it winds in here and came out there. you know what 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. 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 that you were 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 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 discourse hope was almost lost many were crying during he says this was the rains nominate that everybody was preparing to die 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 and efforts to protect some of them see to go his mistress but his work and that because i think we do this far from waste all the good out of the hospitals you could not do a staring at. only to succumb to the explodes in the rubble 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 are caught up in the conflict on both

sides thousands were forced to abandon their homes seeking refuge in safety across the border but as all too easily in english 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 they cannot find solace in peace. 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 though the first violence erupted between georgia and its then breakaway regions for two years there are few g.'s have lived in

a dilapidated building which used to house government offices several months ago they were told they would have to move out if. they have many buildings in and its suburbs where we could live and from where we could get to work but they don't want to use them they think refugees must not live 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 olga 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. 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 you know oh yeah but you know what i lost my house i lost my homeland i lost everything and now i'm been kicked out of here been man 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 alamos for

being herded from place to place without any hope of ever finding anywhere they can call home it is a ghost quality tbilisi georgia. this is our life here in moscow russia's militia could soon go back to its historic name a police as it was known before the bolshevik revolution in one nine hundred seventeen as part of major reforms of the force which has been dogged by accusations of corruption and inefficiency jacob greaves takes a deeper look at the overall. 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 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 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 to design and the custom tailoring of new uniforms four million workers design and production of new ideas four 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 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 a malaysian people are scared to get a card check with a man in uniform in the street so yes we need to right out here. option that's what should be behind this whole reform when he truly unprofessionalism what he to root out ineffectiveness so the reforms are all wrong overdue and just this week those

reforms were 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 pozo is backed up by more concrete measures 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. still ahead in the program things are getting heated in the freezing arctic rich in natural regions creasing the trying to get more countries stake out their territorial claims. and first russia's foreign ministries accusing the u.s.

a failing to comply with key arms control and nonproliferation requirements according to the new report published on the ministries website washington's last over a thousand you can materials on its own soil it's also being accused of ignoring some points of the strategic arms reduction treaty with moscow which expired last december the us is an edge of the captain service several missile silos it was supposed to scrap under the deal other allegations include experimentation with chemical and biological materials burnt by the un and claims washington's actually been selling weapons to iran so far has been no official reaction from the u.s. but it's one of those but it may cause and says the report of the missing you could material is of huge concern. extremely alarming for act because it could be disseminated it could be a resold it could. into the hands of terrorists and all the bad guys so while labeling other countries the they are not vigilant in terms of these matters but at

the same time the united states are turning a blind eye to the allness experiments with this kind of thing so that's why the russian side has made accusations it should have happened a long time ago i think but nevertheless we see that there is no breakthrough well ations where go in go. and that was political analyst vladimir cause in a red alert has been declared in pakistan as floodwaters sweep from the middle of the country into the cell for 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 rescuers are still trying to reach densely populated regions left without food or drinking water for councils predict more heavy rains. and suspected militant attack in northeast afghanistan has killed ten people as they were returning to kabul six americans a german of the 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 who'd accused of spying for the americans. two explosions have rocked the southern iraqi city of killing at least fourteen between glass came within minutes of each other the market and injured dozens are conflicting reports over what caused the explosions some police officers say a roadside bomb in a car packed with explosives however the city's chief of police insist a faulty power generator is to blame. also now while the. whistleblower wiki leaks says it will continue to publish secret documents to expose governments around the world it comes off to washington demanded the site council's plans to release classified military papers saying it puts lives at risk want 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. a joint canada us expedition is

getting ready to set sail later on saturday and 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 potable water as the three countries are said to be preparing to claim the massive morning gas reserves in the region it's believed that the baltic holds some of the world's largest tapped and its reserves canadian and what strategic these the u.s. and canada are working home 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 been left unanswered. and that was edward strategic the arctic research speaking to r.t. from edmonton in canada where just for more stories features and blogs you can always log on to our website that's at our com business politics or entertainment it's all just a click away for you and here's a taste of what you can find online right now at the moment paul oakenfold is one of the world's most successful deejays it's the moscow club scene and chats to two r.t. about future plans and his take on working with. and also cigarette packs in russia are getting a make over but not everyone's happy about it you get all the details on the heated

debate between tobacco companies and anti smoking activists online dot com. to bring you up to date for the moment i'll be back in about eight minutes with a look at our main news stories again but just ahead now on the second anniversary of the war in south ossetia spoke exclusively to the country's president. shared his experience of the conflict and told us how he sees things now.

fair enough that would have been the other thought mr president let's start our interview with the reasons for georgia's aggression against south of setia which happened in spite of negotiations between the conflicting parties would russia support these negotiations were approaching a successful result but they didn't stop those events from happening what can. i do like to thank your colleagues from r.t. and other russian channels that were bravely operating here during that time they witnessed inhumanity and aggression demonstrated by the georgian side systems prior to that both russia and south assess where we're trying to restart the negotiation process took a special ambassador a year a pop off was here then with his help we reach an agreement with the georgian side

to restart negotiations on the eighth at noon so we started receiving visitors discussing the gender and so on on the same night we heard the georgian president's speech on his unilateral decision to withdraw all georgian armed forces from the conflict zone he called us his brothers and admitted his responsibility for the a setian population that cetera at the same time we watched armed forces and equipment moving towards south to say we didn't see changes in their actions or intentions so we expressed our worries we were also concerned that the members who were staying in south to seti are left the. four hours before the aggression began and at that time the three party international peacekeepers mission was located here under the deck agreement that included representatives of russia georgia and south a set yeah so georgian peacekeepers left their location and moved to their units which were preparing for military action by doing so they breached the

international agreement and the issue of the international investigation on this crime has to be raised today to its nonsense peacekeepers to cross over and stand side by side with an aggressor especially when the georgian top brass spoke on television and declared war on the south to settle. on the other hand they stayed behind the scenes for the international community the e.u. and the us were interested in this in particular therefore today they are ignoring it and south the city or russia really attacked the consequences would have been different today we do realize a tiny place like south a setia with its seventy thousand people could not attacked a well armed georgia practically all nato member states had participated in providing arms and preparing the georgian military including ukraine and israel ukrainian arms were modernised by israeli experts georgia was planning a sneaky attack on south the city at the time of the beginning of the olympics

which was another breach of international law however they fail to consider the bravery and persistence that the defenders of south to setia their first two attacks. as the supreme commander in chief for forty minutes i wasn't giving the order to counter fire even though we knew the attack was being prepared we didn't even announce mobilization so that the international community would not blame south ossetia for provoking and aggravating the situation we only calls to arms on the eighth we were doing everything possible to avoid that scenario however the georgian side had been preparing for this attack with the help of the nato experts at the moment of the attack there were one hundred seven u.s. military advisers who hadn't left georgia as they weren't prepared for such consequences later they had a problem trying to leave georgia. i believe the country that had organized such actions had to be judged for them alongside with georgia the u.s. the e.u.

and the r.c.a. the observers who left south or said here before the attack are responsible for it . ca as an international organization have the opportunity to influence georgia but unfortunately they didn't use it for some reason and just help the are you worried that a new war would start here as the ones there are revenge seeking and provocative moves in georgia since sackets really is criminal regime no more has the support of its own people and most importantly the support of the usa anyway the usa has its geopolitical interests in the caucasus so it's going to follow its own course there could this is what worries us somewhat although i think that the recent warming in relations and the current reset policy pursued by president obama should remove that tension them in seattle is it possible that south of setia will become part of russia sometime in a future. tense which will come. you know with

a count taken of what the situation was before when referendums were held in south or said naturally people were striving for in we are a small and divided nation most of which lives in russia little but given the fact the south has said his independence has been recognized and that it is now building international relations with russia has once again shown to the world community that it doesn't need foreign territories i can argue south a city is not an alien territory for russia but we need a united a set it was a united a setia that voluntarily joined the russian empire but today the situation is different and russia is demonstrating to the whole world that it's not going to an extent the body's territory and that its operation to force georgia to peace was not same did occupying georgian territory russia is building equal into states. relations with us russia has chosen this way of communication with south of seti and of cause here and we're going to build these relations yes we can create

a kind of union with russia that can be various forms of unification but today we're fighting for independence for member states of the un have recognized us and the world community has started perceiving us as an independent state even though there are countries that haven't recognized us as such or during our visit to nicaragua and venezuela we were received as the presidents of independent sovereign states therefore we should proceed from the present day realities well it's up to us to determine the forms of our communication with russia and to decide whether it's going to be a union or anything else but don't let those who are too much concerned with this matter to leave this to us we will make our own choice i would like to say that august the twenty sixth is not just a day when russia recognise south of santiago it may go down in history as a date when the world stopped being. the pressures recognition is a vitally important to us and we are infinitely grateful to russia for it this was

a great and courageous international move were simply saved our people the recognition of the republic of south a city of beinecke regular in venezuela shows that the world has become multi centric.

from fines to. stunts on t.v. . stories now this is covered in smoke with hundreds of wildfires still wreaking havoc across russia the emergency services step up their efforts working. people in the capital struggling to breathe in the wearing face masks to protect themselves from the toxic small. mixed emotions in the republic two years since the georgian assault as a country rebuilds and moves on some people are still members of the war about the

last five days and the hundreds of casualties that ended after russia's intervention force children troops to the border. police president proposes a name change from russia's new law enforcement as part of a major overhaul aimed at eliminating corruption once the reforms to reflect a new era of professionalism. love it back. about fifteen minutes from. his tour of the ancient cities that. and you can join him right now on.

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