byers 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 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 raging. parties going to reporting from the moscow region. so officers remembering the victims of the two thousand and eight war with georgia hundreds were killed in tbilisi attorney the breakaway republic with artillery and tanks two years ago. moscow 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 and self-assertive russia being the first most has also been helping rebuild the public but georgia maintains a country is still part of its territory to own an overcomer is in the capital. 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. 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 something they were deprived of office or the brewery because georgia consul gus gas supplies to sell for said 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 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 dr doherty has been conducting a complicated operation well the patients continue to flow into the hospital for a very good. for this new clinic in the sent to all the south of capital was the only medical facility here two years ago and it looked very different than. your do still doesn't like to come down here into the cellar where he spent several sleepless nights grating on the injured during the georgian aggression in the wrist . it was sort of foreign to them. this was our operating room it smelled awful of ammonia because of the sewers the nurses had to leave the room every now and then to be sick we were performing surgery under these pipes. the equipment water or food. doctors still had to go down for nearly two hundred operations here as well as our the mine of procedures. a little bit wind 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 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. but 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 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 t.v. set broadcasting only georgian t.v. the ongoing bombardment and lack of factual information only added to their discourse was almost lost many were crying during he says this was the rains the moment 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 protects of them see to go his music but his work and that of course i think we do that often waits until we go at the alter of the house as it is not to do the staring at. only to succumb to the explodes in a robe to be replayed as you so r.c. from the momos 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 there's always an initial reports 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 run 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 and south the city or some were forced to flee two years ago during the south the city a war others have been here in tbilisi since the early one nine hundred ninety s. which though 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 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 taken to look into the future of these people not just the presence of the roof of their eggs 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 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 but you know your but you know i lost my house i lost my home i lost everything and now i am been kicked out of here been made a refugee for the second time here 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 have

been heard from place to place without any hope of ever finding any where they can call hole. it even goes quality tbilisi georgia. this is what you live from moscow russia's militia could soon go back to its historic name of police as it was known before the bolshevik revolution and nine hundred seventeen the idea is part of major reforms of the force which has been dogged by accusations of corruption in the fish and see jacob graves now 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 laura forces he's proposed to do away the

title militia is still by the bolsheviks in nine hundred seventeen and instead go back to the pre-revolutionary name police he sure so email ever since the bolshevik revolution our law enforcers have been known as the militia this emphasize their particularly or proletarian nature i mean they were volunteers in uniform but today 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. 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 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 a card check with the man in uniform in the street so yes we need to root out corruption. that's what should be behind this whole reform when they turn on professionalism we need to root out ineffectiveness so all the reforms are all over

due 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 proposal 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 jake aggrieved party moscow. was going to have a program this 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. russia's foreign ministry is accusing the us of failing to

comply with key almost control the non proliferation requirements according to the new report published on the ministries website washington's lost 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 is allegedly kept in service several missile silos it was supposed to scrap one of the deal and 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 u.s. but as you can on this let me caution says the report of the missing nuclear material is a huge concern. extremely alarming for act because it could be disseminated it could. be a result it could come 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 is a thing but nevertheless we see that there is no breakthrough well ations where go in in go. and that was political analyst vladimir causing a red alert has been declared in pakistan as floodwaters sweep from the north of the country into the sun and that's about you ations of villages on the banks of rising rivers have begun officials say fourteen million people have been affected by the worst monsoon rains and decades the sixteen hundred rescuers are still trying to reach densely populated regions left without food or drinking water level courses predict more heavy rains. 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 police said the group had been robbed before being short one by one the taliban said it was behind the attack targeting christian missionaries who is accused of spying for the americans. in a world update the two explosions have rocked the southern iraqi city of bones rick killing at least fourteen the last came within minutes of each other at a market and injured dozens are conflicting reports over what caused the explosions and some police officers say a roadside bomb in a car packed with explosives however the city's chief of police insists a faulty power generator is to blame. the online whistleblower wiki leaks says it will continue to publish secret documents to expose governments around the world it comes after washington to monitor the site cancels plans to release classified military papers saying it puts lives at risk the site posted tens of thousands of private files on the afghan war on its website we can maintain such disclosures are

no threat to security. a joint kind of the u.s. 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 potence three countries and said to be preparing to claim the massive one and gas reserves in the region it's believed that the arctic cold some of the world's largest untapped and if. they did it would still believes the u.s. and canada are working hard to catch up with the current leader of the race russia . canada and 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 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 what 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. well that was the arctic research speaking to r.t. from edmonton in canada we just remind you for more stories features and blogs you can always log on to our web site that's a dollar dot com online all the time for business politics or entertainment or just a click away here's a taste of what you find there right now on r.t. dot com open fall one of the world's most successful deejays hits the moscow club scene and chapters about future plans to take on working with the dollar.

also cigarette packs in russia are making all getting a make over i should say but not everyone is happy about it you get all the details of the heated debate between tobacco companies and the smoking activists of all t.v. dot com. and that brings up to date for the moment i'll be back with a recap of our main stories in about ten minutes from now here in r.t. just ahead for the second anniversary of the war in south of dallas he spoke exclusively to the country's president eduard kokoity and he shared his experience of the conflict and told us how he sees things now that's coming up shortly on alt .

fair enough that would have the editor 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 who 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

a sense here we're trying to restart the negotiation process because the 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 agenda 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 the setia 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 ascetic left. the republic four hours before the aggression began and at the time the three party international peacekeepers mission was located here under the agreement that included representatives of russia georgia

and south acetic 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 of russia really attacked the consequences would have been different today we do realize a tiny place like south of setia with its seventy thousand people could not attacked while on georgia practically all nato member states had it is a patriot and providing arms and preparing the georgian military including ukraine and israel ukrainian arms were modernised by israeli expos georgia was planning

a sneaky attack on south ossetia at the time of the beginning of the olympics which was another breach of international law however they failed to consider the bravery and persistence of the defenders of south the setia that 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 cold's to arms on the eighth we would 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 the observers who left south or said here before the attack are responsible for it the r.c.a. as an international organization had the opportunity to influence georgia but unfortunately they didn't use it for some reason. just ahead of 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 caucuses 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 with them. 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 setia naturally people were striving for it we are a small and divided nation most of which lives in russia but given the fact that south a city is 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 to go i can argue south a city is not an alien territory for russia but we need a united to set it was a united just setia that voluntarily joined the russian empire but today the situation is different and russia is demonstrating to the whole world that not it's . going to an extent the body's territory and that its operation to force georgia to peace was not saying to occupying georgian territory give me russia's building equal into state 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 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 the so that 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 recognized south of santiago and make go down in history as

a date when the world stopped being unique the pressures recognition is a vital important to us and we are infinitely grateful to russia for it this was a great and courageous international move were simply saved all people in the recognition of the republic of south the city of beinecke regular in venezuela shows that the world has become multi centric. one of the key elements of democracy. in so uncomfortable for me i thought. who pays for the new. how dependent. independent media. and who is behind the t.v. story. media. and reality.

every month we give you the future you understand. and want to bring the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. going from the russian couple to twenty four hours a day top stories now. covered in smoke with hundreds of wildfires still wreaking havoc across russia. stepped up their efforts working round the clock people in the capital struggling to breathe in the wearing face masks to protect themselves from the toxic small. mixed emotions in the republic months two years since the georgian assault as a country rebuilt some people are still scarred by members of the wall about the

loss of five days and left hundreds of casualties in the delta russia's intervention force georgian troops back to the border. but also reporting. president proposes a name change for russia's law enforcement as part of a major overhaul aimed at eliminating corruption he wants the reforms to reflect a new era of professionalism and honesty. while the. georgian state media ed a story appeared to show fresh hostilities between russia and georgia the program calls panic across georgia and outrage in russia we'll find out who and what was behind that brawl cost next here. always insisted on telling the truth and that's what he spent his life doing before he had to flee his home country georgia on february tenth two thousand and ten the independent journalist asked swiss authorities to grant him political asylum his

greatest worries are now for his family back home in georgia. hi good hero are you ok any problems so. simply tries to help anyone who asks people often bring their problems to him as the editor of a regional georgia newspaper he looks into the cases identifies those guilty and sums up his findings in newspaper reports some of tried to intimidate him and he's been beaten up several times in two thousand and five he suffered a severe concussion i was here lying on the girl and screaming please don't kill me please don't. the georgian television channel shocked the nation on march thirteenth two thousand and ten. journalists had put together a thirty minute story about what appeared to be fresh just between russia and georgia they presented a hypothetical scenario as if it was a real news event. took it at face value.