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 not 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. merges in israel so sad 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. reporting from the moscow region. so

is remembering the victims of the two thousand and eight war with georgia hundreds were killed when tbilisi attacked the breakaway republic with artillery and tanks two years ago. moscow side of course is to protect the people who are public many of whom are russian citizens after five days of bloody battles with georgian troops were pushed back to the border several countries have since recognized south aside his independence russia being the first. thousands gathered in the center of this involves remember the victims councils will it to mark the tragic events of the past parties don't tell you no because it is in the session coupled with more. literal 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 others buildings with the bullet holes in their wounds there are still buildings that are being reconstructed you can see builders everywhere through this as we move through this life point here in central square of thirteen ball itself the city and 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 means more investment to be reconstructed this winter however the gas pipeline from bush has finally been built in this winter people here had central seeking some teaching something they were deprived of officer the group because georgia consul gus gas supplies to south the city of so life here is getting back to normal however the wounds to the world will be astute thousand and

eight has left are still sore and here's this report by my colleague knight i.z.'s of a who's based here in c 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 lunch and cover for this new clinic in the center of the south a city in the capital was the only medical facility here two years ago and it leaked there are different than. your do still doesn't like to come down here into the cellar where he spent several sleepless nights and to federating on those injured during the georgian aggression in the tissues to show us where the food is going to. go with this probably this was our operating room who thought smelled awfully of omonia 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 through 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. little three wins in here and came out there. you thought it was one of these patients during the bombardment he she had in the cellar of his home and 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 the problem 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. version heard 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 he arrived in hospital but you remember seeing the many injuries

he had been under the most lying on the bare wet ground makes you toss spittle were the situation here worse and with every passing minute the doctors were treating up to four hundred of the wounded some alternatively 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 your he says this was the greatest moment that everybody was preparing to die. because of this one point it felt like nobody was coming to help us at all but everything seemed in vain so much work was done for nothing a bullet it will cost over he may have been unaware of russian peacekeepers efforts to protect us of them suitable is misplaced but his work and that of his i think we differ from ways to go at it out of the hundreds if not there was staring at death in the cellar only to succumb to what follows in a noble to go figure three days are seen from the mom knows of the city. some say

there is no victor in war and that seems to be true for the people who are caught up in the sides of the conflict on both sides thousands were forced to abandon their homes seeking refuge and safety across the border but as our teaser in english go reports some georgians followed 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 and south a city or some were forced to flee two years ago during the south a city

a war others have been here in tbilisi since the early one nine hundred ninety s. which the first while and between georgia and its then breakaway regions for two years there are a 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. so 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. if you take and look into the future of these people not just the presence of the roof over their heads but there are more things that they need and we think there is more that we georgian authorities could and should be doing to help them actually to 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 how much 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 is a ghost quality tbilisi georgia. turning other news we're covering here on our t.v. russia's but we could soon go back to its historic name of police as it was no before the bolshevik revolution of one thousand nine hundred seventeen the idea as part of major reforms of the forts which have been dogged by accusing of corruption and inefficiency or he's jacob graves 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 but 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 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 ride out there. that's what should

be behind this whole reform when the truth on professionalism would be to root out ineffectiveness so the reforms are all the are long overdue and just this week those reforms were 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 over this move cynically has a quick fix measure over the public but this latest pozo is backed up by more cold creek measures it seems to be a desire to push through these are forms regardless of economic and political costs one thing says sure come two thousand and twelve russians will want to see more than just a name change the country's police force. and still ahead on our t.v. things are getting heated in the frozen arctic rich in oil and natural gas the

region is becoming increasingly attractive as more countries stake their territorial claims. first the russia's foreign ministry is accusing the u.s. a failing to comply with key arms control and nonproliferation requirements according to a new report published on the ministries website washington has lost more than one 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 that was supposed to scrap under the deal other obligations include experimented with chemical and biological material banned by the un and claims that washington may have been selling weapons to iran so far there's been no official reaction from the u.s. political analyst blood in your clothes and says the report of missing nuclear materials is a huge concern. extremely alarming fact because who. could

be disseminated it could be a resold it cool calm into the hands of terrorists and all the. while all the contours of the vigilant in terms of these matters but the time of 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 he should have happened a long time ago. but nevertheless we see the there is no breakthrough well ations. commentary from political analysts of light amir cozen turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe alerts 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 less dead rescuers are still trying to reach densely populated regions left without food or drinking water forecasters predict more heavy rains to come. to explosions have shaken the southern iraqi city of basra killing at least twenty the twin blasts came within minutes of each other at a market and injuring dozens there are conflicting reports over what caused the explosions some police officers say it was a roadside bomb in a car packed with explosives but the city's police chief insists a faulty power generator was to blame. colombia's new president has been inaugurated a huge ceremony in the capital bogota juan manuel santos pledged up hold the constitution and continue the fight against leftist guerrillas he takes office in the midst of a diplomatic crisis with venezuela that broke off ties under his president predecessor. santos also took part in a symbolic ceremony with south american indian leaders before being sworn in.

cuba's former president fidel castro has made a speech and his first made his first speech to parliament since he retired due to ill health four years ago in his address he talked about what he said was the almost inevitable threat of nuclear war castro who is the secretary of the cuban communist party returned to the public eye over the last month you recently allege the u.s. was planning to attack iran and north korea. a joint kind of a u.s. expedition is heading to the north pole its mission is to map the ocean bed of the arctic a similar russian ship with a similar mission is on its way to polar waters the three countries are said to be preparing to claim the massive oil and gas reserves in the region it's believed the arctic holds 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 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 left unanswered. commentary from edwards researcher speak with r.t.

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of the conflict and told us how he sees the country's current situation. mr president your interview with the reasons for george's aggression against. 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 were trying to restart the negotiation process a couple 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 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 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 a settler left the republic four hours before the aggression began and at the time the three party international peacekeepers mission was located here under the deck of these agreement that included representatives of russia georgia and south ascetic 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 georgia practically all nato member states had to dissipate it 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 bravery and persistence of the defenders of south to 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 area see the observers who left south or said here before the attack are responsible for it. see a as an international organization have 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 so yeah that is it possible that south of setia will become part of russia sometime in the future. tense which will come. you know with account taken of what the situation was before when referendums were held in south setia naturally people were striving for it 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 said he and 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 so if 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 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 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. 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 a city by nick regular in venezuela shows that the world has become multi century.

every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. knowledge and update on our keep. five thirty am here in the russian capital thanks for being with us here on our t.v. easier headlines moscow is covered in smoke with hundreds of wildfires still wreaking havoc across the country emergency services are stepping up their efforts to work around the clock people in the capital are struggling to breathe in wearing masks to protect themselves from toxic smog. mixed emotions in the south of the republic marks two years since the georgian assault as the country rebuilds and moves on some people are still scarred by the memories of war the

battle lasted five days and left hundreds of casualties it ended after russia's intervention force georgian troops back at the border. and. hello police president medvedev proposes a name change for russia's law enforcement as part of a major overhaul aimed it rooting out corruption he wants the reforms reflect a new era of professionalism and honesty. in march of this year georgian state media aired a story appearing to show fresh hostilities between russia and georgia the program caused panic across georgia and outrage in russia find out who and what was behind the broadcast coming up next here on r t. 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 thanks good here all right 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. 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 most georgians took it at face.