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 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 wash at the margins the ministry also said that now firefighters are working twenty four seven to do that also when 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. or he's got a reporting from the moscow region so he 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 sent forces to protect the people there are many of whom are russian citizens after five days of bloody battle as the georgian troops were pushed back to the border several countries have since recognized south the city is independence independence russia being the first saturday and i thousands gather in the center of the capital city vault to remember the victims candles were lit to mark the tragic events of the past but tell you nobody has more from the capital. later construction of infrastructure 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 bullet holes in their wombs they're still buildings that are being reconstructed and you can see builders everywhere through this city as we move through this life point here in central square of tin bowl 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 hundreds more investments had to be reconstructed this winter however the gas pipeline from russia has finally been built in this winter people here had central seeking something heating something they were deprived of after the rule because georgia consul just gas supplies to sell for said here so a life here is getting back to normal however the wounds that the world will be

stupid thousand and eight has left are still sore and here's this report by my colleague knight as he's a man who is based here in this he involved. it's been a restless nights for dr dorothy has been conducting a complicated operation well the patients continue to flow into the hospital room are very good of one which includes for this new clinic in the sent to all the south of capital was the only medical facility here two years ago and it leaked there are different than. yours you still doesn't like to come down here into the cellar where he spent several sleepless nights of his and rating on the injured during the georgian aggression in the tissues to show us where food is going to. go was this produce was our operating room to store it smelt 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. when a suitable equipment or water or food cure. doctors still had to come down here for

two hundred operations here as well as other minor procedures. a little chilly winds in here and came out there. you thought it was one of the stations during the bombardment he 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 when 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 virtually unconscious when he arrived in hospital but she remembers seeing the many injuries

he had been under the most lying on the bare wet ground of make she tore spittle the situation here worse and with every passing minute the doctors were treating up to four hundred of the wounded simultaneously and here was a t.v. set broadcasting only georgian t.v. the ongoing bombardment and lack of factual information only added to their disport hope was almost lost many were crying your guest says this was the greatest moment that everybody was preparing to die. because of that 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 book is all over he may have been unaware of russian peacekeepers methods protectors of them sitting on his musical but his work and that because i think we do that from way still to be gotten out of the how does he. no the staring at doesn't really sell only to succumb to the explosives in the room if you think you

saw our city from the momos of the city. some say there was no victory in war and that seems true for the people who are caught up in the conflict on both sides thousands were forced to abandon homes and seek refuge in safety across the border but as our teaser 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 ran away from war now they cannot find solace and 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 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 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 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 go here but you know i lost my house i lost my homeland i lost everything and now i'm been 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 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 herded from place to place without any hope of ever finding any where they can call home. it is a ghost quality tbilisi georgia. not other news we're covering here on our team russia's little could soon go back to its historic name of police as it was known before the bolshevik revolution in one nine hundred seventeen the ideas part of major reforms of the police force which have been dogged by accusations of corruption and inefficiency are here jacob green's 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 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 one nine hundred seventeen and instead go back to the pre-revolutionary name police he sure so remain on 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 artist and well coordinated people who are good at their job this is why i think it's time we gave our law enforcers back their original name and started calling them the beliefs that is being seen as an attempt to rid the force of its image as a hotbed of corruption and bad practice but it's one that's not it's come at a cost. i can see tens even hundreds of different expenses to design and the

custom tailoring of new uniforms for million workers design and production of new ideas for million workers repainting of hundreds of police cars and other vehicles design of new forms stamps and seals and so on in total that would amount to spending millions even billions of rubles from the country's budget this rebranding effort is only the latest in a long line of reform measures these have been prompted by a widely publicized instance of police abusing their power the account of district chief dennis yes to cause shooting spree in a moscow supermarket that left two dead was one of the most notorious owing to its crazy nature but there are other examples and the shadow of endemic corruption and bribery still hangs over russia's laura forces people are scared to turn 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 there. 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 the are long overdue and just this week those reforms were intensified with the close 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 interpret this move cynically as a quick fix measure to woo 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 reforms regardless of economic and political costs one thing says sure come two thousand and twelve russians want to see more than just a name change the country's police force. see moscow still ahead here on r t things get heated in the frozen arjay rich oil and natural gas the region is

becoming increasingly attractive as more countries stake their territorial claims. first russia's foreign ministry is accusing the u.s. a failing to comply with key arms control and nonproliferation requirements according to the new report that's published on the ministry of website washington last more than a thousand nuclear materials on its own soil it's also been 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 whether allegations including experimenting with chemical and biological materials banned by the u.n. and claims that washington may have been selling weapons to iran so far there's no official reaction from the u.s. political analysts about a mere cause and says the report of missing nuclear material is a big concern. extremely alarming for act because it could be disseminated it could be. a re so. called me into the hands of terrorists

and all the. while all the countries of the north vigilant in terms of these matters but the time that the united states are turning a blind eye to the all new sea experiments with this kind of thing so that's why the russians saw it has made accusations should have happened a long time ago. but nevertheless we see the there is no breakthrough well ations. commentary there from political analysts a lot of your cozen turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe the red alerts been declared in pakistan is floodwaters sweep from the north of the country into the south mass evacuations of villages on the banks of rising rivers has begun officials say fourteen million people have been affected by the worst monsoon rains in decades and sixteen hundred are now dead rescuers are still

trying to reach densely populated regions that have been left without food or clean drinking water forecasters predict that there are more heavy rains to cause. to explosions have shaken the southern iraqi city of basra killing at least twenty eight the twin blasts came within minutes of each other at a market and injuring dozens there are conflicting reports over what caused the explosion some police officers say it was a roadside bomb and a car packed with explosives but the police chief insists the 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 continue the fight against leftist guerrillas he takes office in the midst of a diplomatic crisis with a crisis with venezuela that broke off ties under his 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 his speech to parliament since he retired due to ill health four years ago in this address he talked about the what he said was the almost inevitable threat of nuclear war castro who is cuba's communist the secretary of cuba's communist party has returned to public eye over the last month he recently alleged that the u.s. was planning to attack iran and north korea a joint kind of a u.s. expedition to the north pole its mission is to map the ocean bed of the arctic. a russian ship with similar mission is already on its way to the polar waters three countries are said to be preparing to claim a massive oil and gas reserves in the region it's believed that 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 the current leader writes. candid in the united states do have

a disagreement over one area of the beaufort sea which contains a lot of oil and gas but they set those differences apart because i think they don't really have the icebreaker power to do the job that is necessary in the short period of time that is necessary so essentially they've set aside their differences and they're saying ok let's get on with it because of the russians are very far ahead of the game the norwegians of already done their work and denmark has done a very good job as well so they're just joining forces and working on traditional alliances to get this job done there's no question russia has done a very good job in the recent years and they're way ahead of the game i think they've gone. been doing work ahead of canada the united states canada the united states are 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 there from edwards an arctic researcher based in edmonton canada you can always find more

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president eduard kokoity shared his experience of the conflict and told us how he sees his country's current situation. for the other three 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 wanted to thank your colleagues for marsian of the russian channels they were bravely operating here during that time they witnessed inhumanity and aggression demonstrated by the georgian side trying to that both russia and south the sense in which trying to restart the negotiation process took a special ambassador a year head then with his help we reach an agreement with the georgian side to restart negotiations on the eighth so we started receiving visitors discussing the agenda and so on on the same night we heard the georgian president 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 something. 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 and included representatives of russia georgia and south a setia 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 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 modernized 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 failed to consider the bravery and persistence of the defenders of south to setia their first two attacks 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 the observers who left south or said before the attack are responsible for it. see as an international organization had the opportunity to influence georgia but unfortunately they didn't use it for some reason it just helped 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 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 a set naturally people were striving for in we are a small and divided nation most of which lives in russia but given the fact the south has said his independence has been recognized and that it is now building international. 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 to setia 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 saying to occupying georgian territories 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 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 recognise south of santiago and 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 all people in the recognition of the republic of south a city of by nick regular in venezuela shows that the world has become multi centric.

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 join us for technology update on our g. six thirty am in moscow thanks for being with us here on our t.v.'s in your headlines the russian capital is covered in smoke with hundreds of wildfires still wreaking havoc across the country the emergency services are stepping up their efforts to work around the clock people in the capital are struggling to breathe and wearing masks to protect themselves from the toxic smog. mixed emotions in the south as the public parks 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 forced georgian troops back to the border. and so long believed hello police president medvedev proposing a name change for russia's law enforcement as part of a major overhaul ended a limited in corruption he wants the reforms to reflect a new era of professionalism and honesty. up next host martin enders continues his tour of the ancient cities and circling moscow that's just ahead here on r.t. .

if it's pretty on the. streets you want this is the place to come in fact you'll be spoiled for choice there are many here in paris like this one here which is now a museum the former go to skim all straight builds in the fourteenth century so welcome to all next old england destination by plane surely tall good looking enough and fifty to five years off to be found in the sky and see how some of them touches it's the perfect taste of life in a small town based on its me you know a slum of with its beautiful size is a perfect location to come not only for tourists a little so for all just like us we came from moscow to practice our skills and have a chance to capture these amazing landscapes and all conjecture on canvas like a lot of. time is located one hundred forty kilometers to the north east of moscow on the main. road and as with most of the smaller goldwing dissertations best visiting the.