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 one more than one hundred sixty thousand people are now going out of their way to put out those fires across and watch the merchants in industry also said that now firefighters are working twenty four seven to do that also where she's getting a helping hand from abroad some countries are sending in people like bill gary 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 are. reporting from the moscow region.

so she is remembering the victims of the two thousand and eight war with georgia hundreds were killed when tbilisi attacked their breakaway republic with artillery and tanks two years ago. moscow sent forces to protect the people of the republic many of whom were russian citizens after five days of bloody battles the georgian troops were pushed back to the border several countries have since recognized the independence of south ossetia russia being the first on site and i thousands gathered in the center of this involved remember the victims candles were lit to mark the tragic events of the past artie's matal you know because it is in the capital. letter construction of infrastructure it is in full swing and i can say that i do see progress

a lot of buildings have been reconstructed of course there's still those buildings with the bullet holes in their wounds there are still buildings that are being reconstructed you can see builders everywhere through this city as we move through this life point here in central square all fifteen vaults out the state capital reconstruction works are still underway there are still 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 hundreds more investments to be reconstructed this winter however the gas pipeline from russia has finally been built in this winter people here had central seating some teaching some think they were deprived of officer the group because georgia consul gus gas supplies to south the city of seoul life here is getting back to normal however the wounds that the world will be steals and aids

has left are still sore and here's this report by my colleague night i.z.'s of a who's based here in sea involved. it's been a restless nights for dr dorothy has been conducting a complicated. operation well patients continue to flow into the hospital room are very good run motion for the for this new clinic in the center of the south a city and capital was the only medical facility here two years ago and at least there are different than. you and you still doesn't like to come down here into the cellar where he spent several sleepless nights a few federating on days injured during the georgian aggression in the tissues to show us where food and to. go with this probably this was our operating rooms that smelled awfully 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. in a suitable equipment water or food. doctors still had to go down for another two

hundred operations here as well as other minor procedures there's a little three wins in here and came out there and 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't sleep on my right side as it hurts it a lot of squarely blames the georgian president for what happened to him and the war. through 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. she was

unconscious when she arrived in hospital but you remember seeing the many women in the most lying on the bare wet ground of make she tore spittle were the situation here worse and 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. broadcasting only georgian t.v. the ongoing bombardment and lack of factual information only added to their despair who was almost lost many were crying jordi says this was the rain is not meant that everybody was prepared to die. because of this at one point it felt like nobody was coming to help us at all everything seemed in vain so much work was done for nothing. she may have been unaware of russian peacekeepers efforts to protect this of them seated on his music but his work and that. we do that are from what used to be good out of the hundreds if not they were staring at you only to succumb to what

follows a noble to go bigger thing they are seen from the moment of the city. some say there is no victor in war and that seems true for the people who are caught up in both sides of the conflict thousands were forced to abandon their homes seeking refuge in safety across the border as artie's arena delusional 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 from 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 erupt between georgia and its then breakaway regions for two years the refugees 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 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 but you know i don't know but you know i lost my house i lost my homeland i lost everything and now i'm being kicked out of here being mean to refuse you for the second time i'm not concerned just with myself i'm speaking for everyone who leaves 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 animals who are being herded from place to place without any hope of ever finding any where they can call home. it even goes quality tbilisi georgia. russia's most could soon go back to its historic name of police as it was known before the bolshevik revolution in one thousand and seventeen the idea as part of major reforms of the force which has been dogged by accusations of inefficiency and corruption r.t.g. could be 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 laura forces he's proposed to do away the title militia is still by the bolsheviks in ninety 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 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 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 four 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 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 the. and that's what

should be behind this whole reform when the truth on professionalism we need to root out ineffectiveness so the reforms are all are long overdue and just this week those are fools who are intensified would have to have 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 are lucky to stand out as much as the renaming of the militia some may into over this move cynically as a quick fix measure so over the public but this latest proposal is backed up by more cold creek measures it seems to be a desire to push through these are full regardless of economic and political costs one thinks is sure come two thousand and twelve russians will want to see more than just a name change the country's police force greece see. still ahead here in the program things are getting heated in the freezing arctic rich in oil and natural gas the region is becoming increasingly attractive as more countries

stake their territorial claims. for the first russia's foreign ministry is accusing the u.s. a failing to comply with key arms control and nonproliferation requirements according to their report published on the ministry's website washington's last more than 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 that expired last december the us has allegedly kept in service several missile silos it was supposed to scrap under the deal other obligations include experimentation with chemical and biological weapons banned by the un and claims that washington may have been selling weapons to iran so far there's no been been no official reaction from the u.s. political analyst bottom your cause and says the report of missing nuclear material is a huge concern. extremely 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 so while leveling 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 all new sea 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 say a thing but nevertheless we see that there is no breakthrough well ations where you can't go in in go. commentary from political analysts of lot in your cause it turns out of some other stories making headlines across the globe the red alerts been declared in pakistan is floodwaters sweep from the north of the country to the south nice 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 to come. in two explosions have rocked the southern iraqi city of basra killing at least twenty two twin blasts came within minutes of each other at a market and injured dozens there are conflicting reports some over what caused the explosion some police officers say it was a roadside bomb in a car packed with explosives however the city's chief of police insists a faulty power generator is to blame. colombia's new president has been inaugurated at a huge ceremony in the capital bogota juan manuel santos pledged to uphold the constitution and to continue the fight against leftist guerrillas he takes office in the midst of a diplomatic crisis with venezuela which broke off ties under his predecessor alviro rebate santos also took part in a symbolic ceremony with south american indian leaders beings before being sworn in

. in. cuba as former president fidel castro has made his first speech to parliament since he retired due to ill health four years ago in his address he talked about the almost inevitable threat of nuclear war castro who is the secretary of cuba's communist party has returned to the public eye over the last month he recently alleged the u.s. was plotting to attack iran and north korea. a russian finalist has died at the world sauna championships in championships in finland vladimir lot as died in the hospital after spending six minutes in one hundred ten degree celsius heat a finnish finalist was also taken to the hospital according to competition organizers all participants had to undergo medical tests before the competition. a joint town in the us expedition is heading to the north pole its mission is to map the ocean bed of the arctic a russian ship with

a similar mission is already on its way to polar waters three countries are said to be preparing to claim the massive oil and gas reserves in the region it's believed the arctic cold some of the world's largest untapped energy reserves canadian arctic researcher edwards believes the u.s. and canada are working hard to catch up with russia who is the current leader of the race 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 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 that 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 no 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. commentary from edwards. speaking with r.t. from edmonton canada brings you up to date for the moment here on r t i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in about ten minutes just ahead on the second anniversary of the war in south. of the country's president at work shared his experience of the conflict and told us how he sees the current situation.

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. i'd like to thank your colleagues for marsian of the russian channels who were bravely operating here during that time they witnessed inhumanity and aggression

demonstrated by the georgian side prior to that both russia and south a sense in which trying to restart the negotiation process of the special ambassador was here then with his help we reach an agreement with the georgian side to restart negotiations on the eighth. so we started receiving visitors discussing need genda and so warm 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 cetera at the same time we watched armed forces and equipment moving towards some of the city 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 for 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 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 city with its seventy thousand people could not attacked 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 ossetia at the time of the beginning of the olympics which was another breach of international law however they failed to consider the brain. free and persistent that the defenders of south are setia their first two attacks of war the gulf. 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 called 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 they are a c 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 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 ossetia 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 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 a settee and calls 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 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 and 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 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 it down in history as a date when the world stopped being unique. 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 all people in the recognition of the republic of south of setia by nick regular in venezuela shows that the world has become multi centric. wealthy british style. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the globe. economy

mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. thanks for staying with us here on our team four thirty am in the russian capital easier headlines moscow was covered with smoke hundreds of wildfires still wreaking havoc across russia the emergency services step up efforts working round the clock people in the capital are struggling to breathe and wearing masks to protect themselves from toxic. mixed emotions in the south as the republic marks two years since the georgian assault as the country rebuilds and moves on some people are started by memories of the war the battle lasted five days

and hundreds of casualties it ended after russian intervention force georgian troops backed the border. and goodbye hello police president medvedev proposes a name change for russia's law enforcement as part of a major overhaul rooting out corruption he wants the reforms to reflect a new era of professionalism and honesty up next martin enders continues his tour of the ancient cities and circling moscow that's just ahead tonight here on r.t. . if it's pretty on the. streets you want this is the place to come in fact you'll be

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