thousand firefighters and volunteers are currently trying to extinguish them in total during the whole time that these fires have been raging or 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 urged to be. currently live in temporary shelters and. 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 youthful notion i want to see the full scale of the devastation that these fires have wrought. rushes in flames. the hottest summer on record has also become one of the most destructive with wind speeds twenty meters per second it's moving you can see behind me it's approaching leaving behind a trail of devastation. this used to be

a small picturesque village naslund beautiful pine forest some one hundred fifty kilometers south of the russian capital of paradise to the three hundred people who had lived there with a kindergarten at church and a community hall it will never be the same again it to dismiss for a frightening display of mother nature's food force to change it for rever. twelve perished in through new sun in her refined circumstances panic has been sprayed in on people as fast as the flames have been engulfed in their homes five people an old couple and modern the son and another woman decided to hide in a basement at 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. day later she's bag hoping to find something in tact but

it's all in vain or players who are really high even above that how are your black smoke filled all the stories below i feel really say or do when i saw the real glow of the fire and the black small you know i've seen houses and gardens were reading but here the entire village burned down completely this was really a horrifying. the dormitory of a local college has become a new home for dozens of homeless its staff in smoky corridors in rooms but it's the only shelter they have now. we 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 jobless a big moment but that's what we're really especially waiting for the new home

they've promised it to every family within the next three months and we're ready to wait. when the houses are rebuilt the victims of this unstoppable and merciless force who try to rebuild their lives and consign these ghosts religion to the past all here would rather forget riff notion r t mosca region. and south a city is remembering the victims of the two thousand and eight war with georgia hundreds were killed in the fighting which followed releases a tad on the breakaway republic with artillery and tanks two years ago r.t. is correspondence a radio show in georgia and that are going south the city are following the story. well the 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 of thousands of people

have gathered for their lasted until six o'clock in the morning they stayed here for hours holding candles and remembering the victims. other projects president addressed his people trying to reassure them and give them some hope that there 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 open to remember all the victims a lot of people wearing black. it's a very sad atmosphere here indeed but not to forget in just about two weeks time here people will be slightly more optimistic as they will be celebrating 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 and 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 really has acted to say that we believe you rationally and responsible two years ago some of the members of the opposition in georgia when you. should be imposed on the georgian president. they do not specify what sort of thanks they do say that the international community must show their disapproval of the president's actions with a. big big. confrontation . the results are and we see this resolved through. the cells to.

be integrated in the. so for. we think. the biggest mistake for. a president or that continues to capitalize on that in the aftermath of the two thousand and eight war with that is according to a lot of politicians and political analysts here and probably most glaring sign of that would be a recent statement that he has made during a speech at the ministry of defense he has called for total militarization of georgia saying that every every citizen of the country should be prepared for an imminent strike from the enemy more details on what exactly the presence of us really wants to do with the military and how that will affect relations between georgia russia and other countries more on that in my report now. you know

president mikhail saakashvili is up in arms over his country's defense capabilities . each village should be able to defend itself there should be small train units in each village and each settlement which have a certain number of arms so that everyone can defend their own land. ever since the two thousand they were in the south the city of the georgian president appears to hold the least the force is his country's enemy number one still plans to talk to georgia the claims and this calls for full scale military. if the enemy forces decide to advance from the ethnically cleansed territories beaches. every square metre of georgian land should run beneath them that's the task the president's rhetoric has got many concerned not only in south the city and the other former georgia republic of a cause but even in georgia itself human rights activist who turned on the wash really sees it as another attempt by the georgian president to hold on to his

authority which has been severely shaken following the conflict of two thousand and eight expensive this campaign will be watched against so maybe to start some kind of new essential new war these the breakaway regions just in order to survive to keep his power because you know what is excuse always agreements war you know he can do everything and i think since the main reason militarization comes at a price just over four hundred million dollars is being spent on defense this year and while the georgian government continues to claim the need to pull the country out of the economic recession just twelve million dollars is being spent on economic development many analysts claim georgia may need survives on loans from the list such as of recently approved fifteen million dollar loan from the world bank something this money will go towards helping to billy secret p.r. for another war what happens when the world bank adds to those to those revenues

the money is rearranged that allows you. to do to redirect which was normally. tax your health and education you redirected military expenditure and then you use the well back monday to find an education that is the way it works with his country deeply in debt and the people hoping for stability in their lifetime the georgian president has to task on his hands but it seems for now really is what concerned with dealing with a perceived military threat and hyping up the danger in goes courtin tbilisi georgia and coming up later today our special report looks at the role of the media has georgia. so uncomfortable for me afford. us. how

dependent. media. on the t.v. story. hiroshima's marking the sixty fifth anniversary of the day i was devastated by the launch nuclear attack more than one hundred forty thousand people died either in the blast or radiation poisoning after the u.s. dropped the bomb in the final days of the second world war there was a surprise in this year's ceremony as the u.s. sent a representative for the first time a tever happened while the u.s. envoys attendance was used as a step in the right direction in japan also want an official apology especially as there are victims who are still suffering the consequences even now. thomas is a hero 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. that there was a big heaven and earth overturned then we heard. the black korean started to fall and turned away. and even though here in. the bomb sent a mushroom cloud into the atmosphere creating its own weather system pouring down a radioactive soot filled 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 black rain association are gathering to make their voices heard you are members or not consider to be. more than eighty percent of us suffer from serious radiation related illnesses and cancer we just

want to governments to recognize. this building was destroyed in the initial blast and miraculously this wall was left standing it has been left here as a memorial to that tragic event and to 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 has given scientists the information they need to help black rain survivors. two or three years ago we found nineteen houses with boards because when the houses were built we know when the mud was a little bit when we took samples of the mud 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. commission that identified the original area of the mushroom cloud as eight kilometers but by finding the bun to

school in old the pilot and where photos were taken we can get a better idea of the real height which ended up being. more than twice that we had thought traditionally to be 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 are. our 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 alone 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 hiroshima japan and a story. of the bombing of hiroshima may actually have been

a message to the. the reason for bombing hiroshima was that it had not decided had not been previously bomb that was a virgin targets of the speak so to drop one bomb to obliterate an entire city would one bought one bomb which showed the power of this new weapon the united states hacked and that was the whole idea to impress moscow with the new weapon that the united states hat and a want to moscow to know that they have it and want to moscow to know how powerful that weapon was but how could you get that across and should demonstrate it so demonstrating it would have to bomb a city well you couldn't bomb a russian city because you were now of russian you had a bomb in any city and you still had an enemy japan so you buy a japanese city dropping that bomb on tokyo would have not made sense because tokyo was already destroyed in advance of the bomb had been dropped on tokyo nobody would have noticed much difference but hiroshima was there intact the day before and was

story obliterated the day after by one bomb that sort of brought the message home. you're watching our chance to look on the program food for thought. less than a decade ago hundred garrion drugs were sold to everywhere across western europe and the c.i.s. but now the owner of the stock farm the other markets including japan and china that have been very hard for him to sell it was on call to. find out why farmers the hungary once a european bread basket say they're being starved of business joined the e.u. four years ago. and a group of former intelligence and military officials is demanding immediate action from iraq obama to prevent a war in the middle east they claim israel is counting on washington to offer unconditional support for an attack on iran as early as this month it comes just days after u.s. top brass refused to rule out

a strike on the islamic state the group which includes former cia agents as a war in iran will ignite a regional conflict which could lead to rationing of israel so ron has repeatedly refused diplomatic relations with tel aviv as it maintains the jewish state has no right to exist political analyst michel chossudovsky believes any israeli action would have to be given a green light from washington. saying it series of more very. serious. people of course this should be taken very seriously it is take from a military standpoint it is possible for israel to actually launch a war only roll up with though the green light for the united states we have to understand this this is not strictly an israeli military project the united states since the knowing to use the rug as a possible target the war plans which have been ongoing since two thousand and four

have been joint's program us and israel so that these war zones. already ongoing it may be convenient for washington to let israel unleash the attack and dick cheney back in back in two thousand and four intimated that israel might do the work for us so to speak the iran has ten percent of the global oil and gas was five times those of the united states that it has tremendous well ultimately war in that region is the battle for oil and natural gas the threat of war is real implications of far reaching if all were launched. within the next few months the whole region flare up from the eastern mediterranean right through to the chinese border and this week a new round of violent clashes erupted near the carious capital riot police used

tear gas and sound grenades to disperse and government protesters who were demanding at opposition leader of the main prime minister up to thirty people were detained calling demand for the protesters one put into power or might. is already one of four trying to stage a coup five years ago when the now ousted combat became if it wasn't power the country suffered months of deadly political and ethnic on rests and sparking if was overthrown in april i just spoke to the country's interior minister about the roots of violence and the prospects for social economic stabilization he didn't catch the full interview next hour but here's a taster. there are several large groups one of them includes the overthrown president to visit media family m to supporters who used to be in the country's government will be the second political group is those who are waiting for the fighting saves to get exhausted to suddenly appear in the political scene

but there are three key groups fighting for power in the country all these events are governed by their aspirations you moved me before. after ninety three years the russian the lisha 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 dmitri 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 or along of course years of the known as the militias emphasize their popular or proletarian nature i mean they were volunteers and you know who told me but today we need professionals honest and well coordinated people were good at their job this is why i think it's time we gave our law enforcers back their original you know started calling them to the police. and the proposed law which includes a number of other measures will be up for public discussion the forces currently

undergoing deep reforms earlier proposal suggested cutting the number of pop service by around a quarter keeping only the most qualified militia has come under fire recently after several high profile cases of murder and corruption by high ranking officers . estonia has commemorated nazi supporters with a military exercise an international drill called the earn a raid on ars a reconnaissance group that worked with the german military intelligence in world war two the exercise was founded shortly after the fall of the soviet union some twenty years ago and russia says it's an attempt to glorify stoney's collaboration with hitler's germany claims it's mainly a sporting event and a story has been widely criticized for honoring nazi supporters for a british european parliament member of going forward believes the drill is offensive. what concerns me about this it appears have some support from if you only officials within the a stunning government and that's what's much more

concerning because that indicates if you want to a political collaboration with the people who are organizing this event it's clearly both offensive a bizarre that while there is a new enthusiasm for extreme sports you basically get around a nazi collaborating organize a shit. for all of the second world war the generally across the european union the vast majority of people will be horrified about what's going on there always are a small minority of people who actually sympathize with the nazis but they are extremely small these days i can't imagine that anywhere would be support for this kind of event. you're watching we've got much more on our website r.t. dot com including top videos blogs foremost and galleries and here is a look at one main stream right now going down in three d. german graffiti teams bring here wave of moscow back into the ice age. and

find some expert analysis on the search giant google decision to join forces with the cia to trap web browsing behavior that's in the column section top stories. the rich and fertile lands of hungary have long made and been able source for food production to farmers there say that since joining the european union in two thousand and four they've been losing business. has been to examine their plight. this is one of the biggest but farms in hungary more than ten thousand guineas and ducks bring quite a profit for its owner liver goose and duck eggs are in high demand sas his land is perfect for this kind of business countries in western europe and the u.s. hungry keeper birds and open want to climb in and iran allows that that's why did

the. producer. less than a decade ago hundred garion ducks were sold to everywhere across western europe and the c.i.s. but now the owner of the farm as the other markets including japan and china it has been very hard for him to sell it. and he says that ever since his country became a member of the european union he had to reduce his stalk almost two fold. the russian market i mean buyer in favor of the market but it turned out that your apart from france wasn't interested in our products this is seriously a fact that the demand and farm owners have to secure their stock because according to new regulations keeping it was too costly in two thousand and four the country was accepted into the european union but instead of greener pastures which even membership promised from gary in farming suffered a serious blow. brussels have

a special program to develop regional agriculture and which promise bigger income for farmers but it has brought little results local producers have been losing more than a third of their revenue every year since two thousand and four compared to the nine hundred ninety s. and now even their own market is practically close to that. foreign supermarkets flooded the hungarian market with cheap goods which are being far better from the domestic products and according to e.u. regulations we cannot these supermarkets to sell our products the only thing we have managed to do to avoid a complete destruction of the local market is to push through legislation which obliges these. shops that have at least thirty percent of domestic production on their shelves hungary has a moratorium on purchases of farmland by foreign farmers say this is the only thing which keeps their agricultural sector from being completely overrun the ban expires in april next year and it's unclear whether the euro commission. extended.

reports from hungary. and france have to date here on our team or in a recap of the week's top stories coming your way shortly. for bush. always by one vote for kerry.

so the people that are going to be validating this machine can stand there all day long and vote for somebody and it will be right every time but the guy can walk up here and if he hits the right button. they can flip the vote. for the. we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. wealthy british soil. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy

with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines two kinds of reports. hello welcome back to join us for watching our team and today we'll look at the week's top stories fire closes in a raging voices continue to spread across russia killing dozens uprooting thousands and leaving moscow wide struggling to breathe and toxic smom. self the city remembers the hundreds killed in the military conflict with georgia two years after tbilisi shelled the sleeping republican leaving its capital in ruins. plus for the first time in the sixty five years since an atomic bomb devastated hiroshima america sends an envoy to the memorial service but

offers japan no apology. next here in our murderous spies and voting life is a story of a man who was commissioned to create vote rigging software the man i believe helped george w. bush when the election two thousand and four. mr curtis if you would come forward. and ask the court reporter to swear the witness. mr curtis would you please state your full name for the record i name is clinton eugene curtis and what is your profession i'm a computer programmer mr curtis are there programs that can be used to secretly fix elections yes how do you know that the be the case because in october of two thousand i wrote a prototype for president congressman tom feeney at the company i work for an o.b.

to florida that did just that it would rig an election it would flip the vote fifty one forty nine the whoever you wanted to go to and whichever race she wanted to went to ever you wanted to win. on november second two thousand for george bush was more popular even middle of an unpopular war i was watching the exit polls and looked very clear that john kerry was going to wind. up going for duty. was. and then all of a sudden the numbers that were coming in did not match up with what was coming in from the exit polls and it didn't make any sense it just didn't make any sense late in the evening six states that exit polls showed were going to carry suddenly veered off to bush. and became the tipping point.