and around five hundred people have been injured in the fires and several thousand people have been deprived of their forms basically their problem or just heard of the. currently aware of in temporary shelters and the off gaudy savored to give them full compensation for their property and also to give each affected family a new home in the nearest future and or to use more youth and or show 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 most destructive with the wind speed of twenty meters per second it's moving through fourth as you can see behind me it's approaching now leaving behind at trade devastation. this used to be a small picturesque village naslund beautiful pine forest some one hundred fifty kilometers south of the russian capital more scope and paradise to the three

hundred people that live there with a kindergarten. 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 over. twelve perished in the in through some in her refined circumstances panic has been sprayed in among people as fast as the flames have been engulfed in their homes five people an old couple and mother and a son and another woman decided to hide in the basement of their place of refuge became their tomb temperatures inside became too hot to survive. most people in the village managed to flee alina was one of those that escaped at a later she's bag hoping to find something tanked but it's all in vain all the flames were really high even above that small tower and the black smoke filled all

the space below i felt really scared when i saw the red glow of the fire and the black smoke you know i've seen houses and barns burning but here the entire village burned down completely this was really horrifying. the dormitory of a local college has become a new home for dozens of homeless it staff in smokiness corridors in rooms but it's the only shelter they have now. we won't see things from this care they feed us here very well they talk to us and we have a corner to sleep. but they hope this take here will not be long or that this is we've already got about seven thousand dollars in compensation each pensioners and jobless a bit more but what we're really especially waiting for that the new home they've promised it for every family within the next three months and we're ready to wait. when the house is

a rebuilt the victims of these unstoppable and merciless force who try to rebuild their lives and consign these ghost village to past all here would rather forget reef notion r t most courage in. south ossetia is remembering the victims of the two thousand and eight war with georgia hundreds were killed in the fighting which followed tbilisi's a surprise military attack on the breakaway republic two years ago my colleague spoke to our correspondents in georgia and italian mark over in south ossetia who are both following the story. well the moral ceremonies have started late night last night here at exactly eleven pm 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 in central square involved thousands of people have gathered for their requiem that lasted until six o'clock in the morning they stayed here for hours holding candles and

remembering the victims of the aggression other topics president addressed his people trying to reassure them and give them some hope that their if the situation will never be repeated it's simple similar ceremonies are helped throughout the republic another big one is held in the village of that suffered the most from georgian aggression that was nearly completely destroyed there today a museum for thirty souls is opened to remember all the victims a lot of people 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 be celebrating the independence of their republic that is on the twenty six of oldest now they would like to cross to you know who's in georgia going to tell us about what's happening in georgia how are people reacting to what's happening and what are they 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 georgian 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 residents across really or somebody else at the top of the georgian government at the same time georgians hope that nothing of the sort will ever happen again we do believe the president because we have acted to save you if you think believe rationally and we wanted we two years ago some of the members of the opposition in georgia ability of sanctions should be imposed on the georgian president. they do not specify what sort of thing but they do say that the international community must show their disapproval of the president's actions within that it was a big very big. confrontation with russia the results are and we see this is outside of georgia to territories up here in georgia . to be integrated. into structures like the nato

so out there two years. later we think. it was one of the biggest mistakes for pray that cyprus are all presidents like us for that continues to capitalize on that in the aftermath of the two thousand and eight war with south a city 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 beverage every citizen of the country should be prepared for an imminent strike from the enemy more details on what exactly president saakashvili 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 tore himself the city the georgian president appears to hold the belief that is his country's enemy number one moscow still plans to take georgia mikheil saakashvili claims and this calls for full scale military zation to what you know that if the enemy forces decide to advance from the ethnic we cleanse territories. every square meter of georgian land should burn 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 used against so maybe secretary to start some kind of. easy dance a new war we use the breakaway regions just in order to survive to keep his power because you know what is excuse always agreements more the more 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 mainly survives on loans from the west such as the recently approved fifteen million dollar loan from the world bank some fear this money will go towards helping to billy c. prepare for another war what happens when the world bank adds to that to those to those revenues the body is rearranged that allows you. to redirect

which was no belly. time your health and education you redirected military expenditure and then you use the well back money to find it you cation 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 a hefty task on his hands but it seems for now michelle circus really is what concerned with dealing with a perceived military threat and hyping up the danger he even goes. georgia. russia's decision to recognize the independence of south ossetia and abkhazia have prevented it more bloodshed that's according to russia's president to me tryna get there who is visiting up garcia another of georgia's former breakaway republics. the decision russia made after the military conflict wasn't an easy one but time is shown it was the right move for the existence of the uprising in south the city and

people was at the time under threat and if those decisions weren't made the situation would have been totally different. and coming up in about two hours time our special report looks at the role of the media in georgia under president saakashvili. one of the key elements of democracy which is so uncomfortable for me i thought. who pays for the news. how dependent does this independent media. and who is behind the t.v. store. charge of media fiction and reality. hiroshima is marking sixty five years since it was devastated by a u.s. launched nuclear attack it was in the final days of the second world war the u.s. dropped the bomb more than one hundred forty thousand people died either in the blast or due to radiation poisoning that was

a surprise at this year's ceremony as the u.s. representative the first time that's ever happened while the u.s. envoys attendance was viewed as a step in the right direction some in japan also want an official apology especially as there are some victims who are still suffering the consequences even now. thomas says in. 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 clash heaven and earth overturned then we heard a blast. started to fall and turned away blouses black with spots and even though here in pieces. the bomb sent a mushroom cloud into the atmosphere creating its own weather system pouring down a radioactive soot 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 black rain association are gathering to make their voices heard. our members are not consider to. look more than eighty percent of us suffer from. cancer we just want to government to recognize. this building was destroyed in the initial blast and miraculously this wall was left standing it has been 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. two or three years ago we found one thousand houses with mud under

the floorboards because when the houses were built we know when the mud was exposed and when we took samples of the mud was still 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 in. the commission that identified the original area calculated the mushroom cloud at eight kilometers but by finding the bunn to poor and old the pilot and where photos were taken we can get a better idea of the real height which ended up being sixteen two on the doors more than twice that we had thought 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. 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. dr robert jacobs from the hiroshima peace instead who believes u.s. attendance at 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 people shot along with the display of the enola gay but i

think that the attendance of the ambassador today is 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 for you ahead here on r.t. some food for thought. 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 stock farm has to seek other markets including japan and china it has been very hard for him to sell it in his own continent find out why bombers in hungary once a year peon breadbox say they're being starved out of business since joining the e.u. four years ago. a group of former intelligence and military

officials is demanding immediate action from barack 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 says that a war in iran will ignite a regional conflict which could lead to the annihilation of israel iran has repeatedly refused diplomatic relations with as it maintains the jewish state has no right to exist. political analyst i'm a shell of a means that any israeli action would have to be given the green light from washington d.c. . so your stories of this are very. serious. people and of course this message should be taken very seriously it is technically from a military standpoint impossible for israel to actually launch

a war on iran without the green light from the united states we have to understand that this this is not strictly an israeli military project the united states since the mid ninety's has indicated rather as a possible target and that the war plans which have been ongoing since two thousand and four have been a joint program of the u.s. they tow and israel so that in fact these war plans already ongoing it may be convenient for washington to let israel unleash the attack and in fact dick cheney back in back in two thousand and four intimated that israel might do the work for us though to speak iran has ten percent of the global oil and gas was five times those of the united states it's a it has tremendous wealth and ultimately war in that region is the battle for oil and natural gas the threat of war is real the implications are far reaching

if that war were launched. within the next few months the whole region with player up from the eastern mediterranean right through to the chinese border. this week new round of violent clashes erupted near killed his capital right police used tear gas and sound grenades to disperse antigovernment protesters who were demanding that an opposition leader be made prime minister up to thirty people were to tank including the man the protesters want to put into power. he's already wanted for trying to stage a coup five years ago when the now ousted quarterback back here was in power the country's suffered months of deadly political and ethnic and rest since back here was overthrown in april r.t. spoke to the country's interior minister about the roots of the violence and the prospects for social and economic stabilization you can watch the full interview later in the program but here is

a pretty. good bunch. there are several large groups one of them includes overthrown president his immediate family and his supporters who used to be in the country's government 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. stonier has commemorated nazi supporters with a military exercise and international drill called the raid on has a recurrence group that worked with german military intelligence in world war two the exercise was founded shortly after the fall of the soviet union some twenty years ago russia says it's an attempt to glorify a stone is collaboration with hitler's germany poland claims it's mainly a sporting event

a stone you know has been widely criticized for honoring not some supporters former british european parliament member glyn ford believes the drill is offensive. but what concerns me about this it appears how some support from if you only officials really astounding government and that's what's much more. concerning because that indicates if you want to a political collaboration with the people organizing this event it's clearly both offensive and bizarre that while there is a new enthusiasm for extreme sports or actually basing it around a nazi collaborating organization you know for a 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 there be doing charity support for this kind of event it's about twenty three minutes past the hour here in moscow you are with on t.v. we're running down the top stories of today it's week don't forget we've got much

more on our website r t v dot com there you'll find videos blogs forums and galleries and he's a look at what may interest you right now cooling down in three d. german graffiti to bring the heat wave hit must go back to the ice. and find some expert analysis on search giant google's decision to join forces with the cia to track the web browsing behavior that's in the column section of our top stories. the rich and fertile lands of hungary have long made it an enviable source so few production but farmers say that since joining the european union in two thousand and four they've been losing business alexi get a shift key has been to examine their plight. this is one of the biggest bird farms

in hungary more than ten thousand geese and ducks bring quite a profit for its owner liver goose and duck eggs are in high demand he says his land is perfect for this kind of business only countries in western europe in the us we in hungary keep or birds in open spaces they claim an environment allows that that's why did the world produce a collage pure meat and eggs less than a decade ago had gary and ducks were sold to everywhere across western europe and the c.i.s. but now the owner of this dock farm has to seek other markets including japan and china it has been very hard for him to sell it to his own continent he says that ever since his country became a member of the european union he had to reduce his stock almost two fold that out of the russian market i mean buyer in favor of the market return now that you're apart from france wasn't interested in our products this seriously fact that the

demand and farm owners had 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 green a place just e.u. membership promised and care in farming suffered a serious blow. brussels have a special program to develop regional agriculture and which promise bigger income for farmers but experts say it has brought little result 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 them i mean their foreign supermarkets flooded the hungarian market with cheap goods which are being far better promoted than domestic products and according to e.u. regulations we cannot these supermarkets to sell only 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 the shelves to have at least thirty percent of domestic production on their shelves hungary has a moratorium on purchases of farmland by foreign as farmers say this is the only thing which keeps their agricultural sector from being completely overrun the van expires in april next year and it's unclear whether the euro commission will allow budapest to extend it lets us ascii r.t. reporting from hungary. i'll be back with the headlines in just a couple of minutes stay with us.

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. feeds. sunday afternoon here in the russian capital you see this week's top stories. closes in raging blazes continue to spread across russia killing dozens. and leaving people in moscow struggling to breathe and toxic smoke. remembers the hundreds killed in the military conflict with georgia two years after its release seashell the sleeping republic leaving its capital in ruins. plus for the first time in the sixty five years since an atomic bomb never said to her russia america into the memorial service but.

next here on r.t. . voting lines is the story of a man who was commissioned to create the vote rigging software that many believe helped george w. bush to win the election in two thousand and four stay with us. in fact in the states that had electronic voting the numbers didn't match at all with the exit polling but in states where they had paper do you know exit polls and the final results were almost perfect i have no doubt john kerry won the election in ohio ok now john kerry won the election in ohio john kerry would be brother as the chair decided that those exit polls were so far off just didn't happen something else happened so the yang folks here any of the harassing maven are getting d.o.t. to harass me this plan is fired at ten in the morning i'm tired at like two two thirty that afternoon and said it is investigating this company instead of putting

a putting the brakes on what's going on they're actually writing letters of recommendation for that company backed yang correct and saying that you're removed correct tom finis fingerprints are all over this the yes literal fingerprints literal fingerprints i mean read the public record read the public record i don't want anyone to take my word for anything brad get the documents and read the record and when you read a memo from nelsonville secretary to him stating that mr feeney wants this letter signed today and this letter is a recommendation for yang enterprises and the following day after mr hill executes this letter of recommendation he is suddenly promoted to deputy cia for the state technology office nelson hill is promoted the day after he writes this letter the letter of a.