cross russia seventeen regions have been affected seven of them including moscow region have announced a state of emergency and according to the lead us official figures there are currently over five hundred and fifty raging fires and several thousand firefighters and volunteers are currently trying to extinguish them in total during the whole course during the whole time that these fires have been raging over fifty people have now been killed and around five hundred people have been injured in the fires and several thousand people have been deprived of their homes basically their property were just burnt down and now the weather forecast to be off a little further since it's expected that this heat is going to continue. these weather conditions are hard on everyone and some people are particularly worse off especially thousands of those who watched their homes burned to the ground so tell us a bit more about them and how are they being supported. over two thousand people

lost their homes of course they are probably in the most difficult position now would be. currently live in temporary shelters temporary shelters and the authorities have to give them full compensation for their property and also to give each affected family a new home into the nearest future and artie's more youth an ocean i went to see the full scale of the devastation that these fires have brought. rushes in flames. the hottest summer on record has also become one of the maze destructive speed twenty metres per second it's moving off as you can see behind me from leaving behind a trail of devastation. this used to be a small picturesque village naslund in beautiful pine forest some one hundred fifty kilometers south of the russian capital more scope of paradise to the three hundred

people that lived there with a kindergarten a church and a community whole it will never be the same again. to dismiss for a frightening display of mother nature's fool force to change it for rever. twelve perished in the in the sun in her refined circumstances panic has been sprayed in among people as fast as the flames have been in gulf in their homes five people an old couple and mother and a son and another woman decided to hide in a basement their place of refuge became their tomb temperatures inside became too hot to survive. most people in the village managed to flee elaine it was one of those that escaped and later she's back hoping to find something tacked but it's all in vain all those layers to a really high even above that tower and your black smoke filled all the slaves

below i feel really scared when i saw the real good of the fire and the black smoke you know i've seen the houses are goren's with reading but here it will be higher village burned down completely this was hardly a horrifying. the dormitory of a local college has become a new home for dozens of homeless its staff in smoky kodos in rooms but it's the only shelter they have now. who won't see things for all this care they feed us here very well they talk to us and we have a corner to sleep. but they hope this tape here will not be alone. that this is you know already got about seven thousand dollars in compensation each of them jobless a big moment that's what we're really especially waiting for the new home they promised it to every family within the next three months and we're ready to wait. when the house is

a rebuilt the victims of this unstoppable and merciless force who try to rebuild their lives and consign these goes through which to the past all here would rather forget raef notion r t the region. itself a city is remembering the victims of the two thousand and eight war with georgia hundreds were killed in the fighting which followed releases attack on the breakaway republic with artillery and tanks two years ago artist correspond as a radio show in georgia and will go insolvent many are following the story. well new moral ceremonies have started late night last night here at exactly eleven. thirty five minutes so the first ceremony started because exactly at that time two years ago georgia opened fire in southeast asia so everyone here vividly remembers that day and that's our here on central square involves thousands of people have gathered for their record that lasted till six o'clock in the morning they stayed here for hours holding candles and remembering the victims and other projects

president addressed his people trying to reassure them and give them some hope that their if the situation will never be repeated it's simply similar ceremonies are held throughout the republic another big one is held in the villages that suffered the most from georgian aggression that was nearly completely destroyed there today a museum of thirty souls is opened to remember all the victims a lot of people are wearing black in south the city it's a very sad atmosphere indeed but not to forget that in just about two weeks time here people will be slightly more optimistic as they will decelerating the independence of their republic that is on the twenty sixth of august now they would like to cross to reno who's in georgia tell us about what's happening in georgia how are people reacting to what's happening in one of the think about what happened two years ago there is not much going on in terms of can remember commemoration of course but a lot of people do consider this to be a very tragic day george and citizens essentially are being bombarded by almost

never ending messages that russia is the aggressor and russia will strike again soon and of course those messages are most of the time coming from president saakashvili or somebody else at the top of the georgian government at the same time georgians hope that nothing of this sort will ever happen again they do believe the president because really has acted to save the only two state police rationally and responsible two years ago some of the members of the opposition in georgia believe . it should be imposed on the georgian president. they do not specify what sort of thanks they do face but the international community must show their disapproval of the president's actions with. big. results are we seeing these out through.

the biggest mistakes. let's go back to. our people two years on try to please their lives together tells me more about the restoration going on in the republic. of restoration is in full swing a lot of the infrastructure has been restored that was completely destroyed during george's aggression a lot of people. for a lot of people new homes have been built. construction works can be seen anywhere everywhere throughout. life here is slowly getting back to normal and as my colleague. reports every construction is not only taking place in the public but also in the relations between georgians and south the city is leading here. police in south the city he was born here and didn't leave his home in jordan to

cool his small farm and keep still reasonably sized garden. but what you can disseminate is his favorite pasta says. he is it safe for you an ethnic georgian to live here in south a city especially after two years ago georgia atop this republic you are. safe here no one is bothering us. we're saying don't worry don't go. staying even during the war no one came until the sleeve of. the overwhelming majority of the population in this city religion. but georgians most of pharmacy or small scale traitors some regularly travel to georgia as that's where the nearest hospital east this is a checkpoint controlled by russian border guards they hear not only to secure the republic but also to guarantee free movement of the locals who live in this segment

to georgia and back this is essential as many of them have relatives on both sides of the front. thank you. the roads are bad and displaced war public and it can take several hours to reach the capital so many go to georgia to shop. now there are no problems between the orderly people like us we have nothing to petition it's the people in our government. we need to use first of all we need to would just like both of us sitting here milled in the most mud being a confrontation with george's shady enterprise you will grow brothers and sisters here. to police the status of the fuses to organize dissolve into its former territory but these two old friends georgian authority and a city in sergei say the time has come to restore relations between georgia and

south sit here is to separate independent countries nato says about r.t. from solve the situation. and south ossetia wants to reconcile with the georgian people but not with those who have blood on their hands that's according to the republic's president eduard kokoity his interviews coming up in about fifteen minutes time here in r.t. . so the stream we're not going to talk to the criminal regime or president saakashvili international criminals it's the judges of the hague who should actually talk to them as with the georgian people we should try to establish relations with them and with the leadership which they but only not with us know that what you. and hiroshima is marking the sixty fifth anniversary of the day it was devastated by u.s. launched nuclear attack more than one hundred forty thousand people died either in the blast or of radiation poisoning after the u.s.

dropped the bomb in the final days of the second world war there was a surprise at this year's ceremony as the u.s. sent a representative for the first time that's ever happened while the u.s. amber waves of tennis was viewed as a step in the right direction some in japan also want to official apology especially as there are victims who are still suffering the consequences even now thomas is a hero shot and sent us this report. at eight fifteen in the morning on august sixth one thousand nine hundred forty five the united states destroyed the city of hiroshima instantly with an atomic bomb while not directly hit the people living in the surrounding area faced another danger black brain it was that there was a big flash heaven and earth overturned then we heard a blast. the black korean started to turn away. and even though here in faeces were. green the bomb sent a mushroom cloud into the atmosphere creating its own weather system pouring down a radioactive suit filled the rain onto the survivors the u.s.

and japanese governments acknowledged black rain as a health risk and set up an official area where they believed the phenomenon had occurred but people living around here ashima say the designated section was far too small and that the government didn't do enough to protect the entire population that suffered now groups of survivors like the blue. association are gathering to make their voices heard. and. the government. building was destroyed in the initial blast and miraculously this wall was left standing it is the left here as a memorial to that tragic event and the like this building victims in the media path of the radiation wave are easier to identify than those in the surrounding areas in an ironic twist it is another set of buildings built shortly after the bomb was dropped that is given scientists the information they need to help black

rain survivors. three years ago. with. because when the houses. when we took some. radioactive evidence of radioactivity from black rain can go a long way towards getting help for the victims also using new technology teams are reassessing the size of the radioactive cloud. that identified their original area calculated mushroom cloud at eight kilometers but by finding. the pilot. taken. the real height which ended up being. more than twice that we had traditionally armed with new information in the city of hiroshima has commissioned a new study with the idea of increasing the official area for a bomb and black rain victims. biggest goal is to extend the black rainy area and

continue to care for the health and support the survivors even now sixty five years on from the event the tragedy continues in hiroshima it is estimated that three hundred fifty thousand people were exposed to the bombing nearly one hundred fifty thousand died today the city that was once destroyed is a thriving epicenter for culture and peace those who live. here fight to rid the world of nuclear weapons through their experience stories and memory sean thomas r t hiroshima japan and author robert jacobs from the hiroshima pieces to two believes the u.s. attendance at the university and the anniversary ceremony marks a turning point in the country's attitude. i think that there's still a lot of contention in america over how that how those actions were viewed how the bombings of hiroshima nagasaki were viewed it was only in one thousand nine hundred five at an exhibition commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the bombing at the smithsonian institution in the united states that there was controversy over

including photographs of him shot along with the display of the enola gay but i think that the attendance of the ambassador today is a testimony to president obama's desire to effect healing and to find finally get over the division that's happened over through this bombing and i believe that this is laying the groundwork for obama himself to attend the ceremony sometime in the future or to visit hiroshima sometime during his presidency and still to come in the program a good life awaits. and not continue no house to feet planted on the ground so wherever she ends up to this moment the moment she can just. find out how russian parasailing donkey treatment provoked global outrage from animal lovers is getting a make over at the kremlin riding school more details of her celebrity life later in the program. before the hour though this week

a new round of violent clashes erupted near the carriages capital riot police used tear gas and sound grenades to disperse and the government protesters who were demanding an opposition leader of the main prime minister up to thirty people were detained putting me out the protesters want put into power. is already one of four trying to stage a coup five years ago when the now ousted king of wasn't power the country suffered months of deadly political and ethnic unrest since became was overthrown in april political analyst says instability in the country to turn into a safe haven for experiment. yes. there is growing instability in the north. this is just a few hundred kilometers away from the. top so it's going to becomes a non-controlled territory where there is no real authority and where there is

a. calamity those then are those who. may think well we have another place to go or and then you will have wider international consequences and developments on developments and don't forget adds that we've got much more on our website r.t. dot com including top videos blogs forums and galleries by here's a look at what may interest you right now cooling down in three d. german graffiti teams bring the wave hit moscow back into the ice age. and find some expert analysis on the search giant google decision to join forces with the cia to trash web browsing behavior and that's in the column section of top stories.

after ninety three years the russian militia could soon be given the title of police again in a bid to reflect the professionalism of the force at a meeting with security officials dmitry medvedev proposed it as a part of his top to bottom overhaul of the country's law enforcers. he sure. ever since the bolshevik revolution are long tortures of the known as the militias this emphasize their popular or proletarian nature i mean they were volunteers and you know who told me that today we need. honest and well coordinated people good at their job this is why you think it's time we gave our law enforcers back their original started calling them out of. a proposed law which includes a number of other measures will be up for public discussion the force is currently undergoing ready performs earlier proposal suggested cutting the number of officers by around a quarter keeping only the most qualified the militia has come under fire recently

after several high profile cases of murder and corruption by high ranking officers . and komorowski was officially sworn in as poland's new president of friday and comes just four months after the previous leader like a chance die in a plane crash in russia and while the new president's first initiatives has sparked protest of yourself hundreds gathered outside the presidential palace to boycott a decision to move a memorial to the crash victims the wooden cross was erected in the central square shortly after the accident which more than nine thousand die and the president wanted to move the memorial to church ground but after the protest the transfer has been postponed. u.s. hip hop star while of john has formally entered the presidential race in haiti born on the island he's been actively involved in reconstruction efforts after a deadly earthquake devastated the caribbean nation earlier this year when journalist laura harvest asked people in the big apple what they think of

celebrities switching from entertainment to politics. why cliff john an american music celebrity is running for president of the haiti do you think pop culture and politics should ever max this week let's talk about that if you look around here you go. you go into facilities around here and if one of them was. still fall in pick him out a bit probably take more and more attention as opposed to somebody who's pops up and i run in the treasury of something else you know i've just been in years in them entertainment business how would that preparing me one for politics like i don't think that that was my whole point i don't think it should stay where he should is that mainstream chalo entertainment otherwise just start low not a president. somebody like michael of john has a possibility of being able to raise huge amounts of money for haiti i mean his

international media awareness makes him an interesting figure in the possibility that haiti which needs desperately to get a huge amount of worldwide support to rebuild he actually could help make that happen as you just perform to what they've got until when that's it we come to watch a little we don't need their opinion i don't like it but i mean if you have a lot of money and you have nothing else to aspire to but maybe higher office than when to use your money for that may whitman of california as an example you know she spends gobs of money and so does carly fiorina and what qualifications do they have to go for the top office right away senator and governor so there's ego involved you think well that's what i said bennett you know say he lived a he knows these people his family's there on tuesday he's been poor he lived in a hut he had to drink out to ponder some you know so he knows what the people want . in the case of why class he's ok celebrity to be

a politician. he's ok guy but they're not even think people from different profession. backgrounds should ever get involved in politics the bottom line is you can make your opinion count when you vote. and watching our team the parasailing donkey that won sympathy around the world can look forward to a better wife has been rescued by a british tabloid the sun for an hour she's living a life of luxury with some high class rehab at the kremlin school of rioting near moscow as dumbarton reports. the donkey has learned it russia's notorious four legged fly is finally able to breathe easy not because the donkey arrived in moscow after days on the road from southern russia and i'm not complaining it's very sweet and everyone fell in love with her and we don't want to give you know and i'm not because strange journey started with her now infamous flight up above the beach

a power sail pulled by a boat a publicity triggered by a local water sports company but police found out the owner run away and not because it was only found later. sitting on the beach boys your parachute go i couldn't quite figure it out myself or legs nor of my own eyes i don't keep the animals distressed brain also brought simply from around the world celebrities and animal rights activists were hot to trot with their opinions this animal was suffering was captured on videos and photographs and the way it spread through the media is really amazing and i think what the public has done is create a demand you know for animals to be treated better represented a vet certificate showing the animal was not physically harmed so is unlikely to face prosecution nevertheless the outcry means anat cohen now spend a month the prestigious kremlin riding school drinking filtered water eating a special diet prepared by nutritionist and being messengers with medical

appointments and i'm going to go on as we have well equipped stables good for her and a team of professional experts who take care of the horses. and what after office to housing up to have flooded in from all over the world and all through way you might expect the manager of england's top them hotspur football club harry redknapp has said he would happily put enough up harry has an ambition to open his own animal sanctuary in the hunt sure area of england and he has perhaps could and i could join him sanctuary and not get here now has her feet planted firmly on the ground so wherever she ends up after this month for the moment she can just relax tom barton party. brings up the date here on r t and a recap of the week's top stories in just a few moments. the

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welcome back here with r t here is a look at the top stories of the week i'll fire closes in raging blazes continue to spread across russia killing dozens uprooting thousands and leaving moscow was struggling to bring even toxic smog. self the city remembers the hundreds killed in military conflict with george mitchell years after those who shelled the sleeping republic leaving its capital in ruins. last for the first time in sixty five years since an atomic bomb devastated hiroshima america sends an envoy to the memorial service but offers japan no apology. and on the

second anniversary of the war in south the city r.t. spoke exclusively to the country's president out of orange kuwaiti shared his experience of the conflict and told us how he sees things now. the not that would have you mr president let's start our interview with the reasons for george's aggression against which happened in spite of negotiations between the conflict and parties willing russia's support for all these negotiations were approaching a successful result but they didn't start those events from happening what can. i do like to thank your colleagues from r.t. and other russian channels they were bravely operating here during that time they witnessed inhumanity and aggression demonstrated by the georgian side and their systems prior to that both russia and south a sense here were trying to restart the negotiation process

a couple of special ambassador a year republic of it was here then but with his help we reach an agreement with the georgian side to restart negotiations on the it's new to go so we started receiving visitors to 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 some of the city afterwards and we didn't see changes in their actions or intentions so we expressed our worries we were also concerned that the members who were staying in south to set the left of the republic for hours before the aggression began to and at the time the three party international peacekeepers mission was located here under the dagger and these agreements included representatives of russia georgia and south a set yes.