and several thousand firefighters and volunteers are we 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 forms basically their problem or just purge the. currently of living in temporary shelters and the off towards a valve to give them full compensation for their property and also to give each affected family a new home in the nearest future and artie's more youthful notion 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 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 and paradise to the three hundred people had lived 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 through some hurry find 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 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 galina was one of those that escaped and

a later she's bag hoping to find something tagged but it's all in vain. the flames were really high even above that small tower and the black smoke filled all the space below i thought 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 its 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. 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 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 ghost village to the past all here would rather forget reef notion r t most courage in. the south of thirty year is in mourning as it remembers the victims of the war with georgia two years ago hundreds were killed when tbilisi attacked its breakaway republic in august of two thousand and eight r.t. correspondent ali or not because following the commemorations in the south a certain capital. 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 on 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 publics 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 helped throughout the republic another big one is held in the village of he dug out of that suffered the most from georgian aggression that was nearly completely destroyed there today a museum for thirty souls is opened to remember who 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 be celebrating the independence of their republic that is on the twenty six of oldest restoration is in full swing a lot of the infrastructure has been restored that was completely destroyed during george's aggression for a lot of people in new homes have been built. construction works can be seen

anywhere everywhere throughout every public so life here is slowly getting back to normal and as my colleague might as ease of our reports every construction is not only taking place in the republic but also in the relations between georgians and south the satans living here. yes she's a georgian who lives in south the sea she was born here and didn't leave his home even during the war. he has a small farm and keeps a reasonably sized garden needs but watching this family or swallows is his favorite pastime he says. he is it safe for you and ethnic georgian to live here in south a city especially after two years ago george atop this republic you are going to have it is safe here no one is bothering us satans were saying don't worry don't go away stay even during the war no one came and told us a leave the overwhelming majority of the population in this city and village we

yashin lease a georgians a pharmacy a small scale traitorous some regularly travel to georgia as that's where they nearest hospital is 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 franks yeah. here is your passport thank you the roads are bad in this post war public and it can take several hours to reach the capital so many go to georgia to shop. there are no problems between the old group people like us who have nothing to petition is the people in power the government. memo there are two a weird rule we need peace first of all we need to have as friends just like both

of us sitting here there must not be any confrontation between georgia is here to enterprise your brothers and sisters here. to police a status and refuses to recognize the sovereignty of 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 city is to separate independent countries nato is about r.t. from south the city. following the conflict in south of russia decided to recognize the independence of the republic and another georgian breakaway region abkhazia president dmitri medvedev spoke about the reasons behind the move. 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 of the time under threat and if those decisions weren't made the situation would have been totally different. currently on

a visit to our garcia president medvedev said he was glad to see life changing for the better in the region and promised that russia would continue to help with reconstruction the next step is likely to be the resumption of direct air travel to abkhazia which was stopped after georgia's war with the republic in the early one nine hundred ninety s. . while many georgians say that their government's actions back in two thousand and eight were a big mistake but instead of moving away from war the leaders seem bent on talking about it given any opportunity georgia is currently spending thirty times more on its military budget than on economic development. it you know president mikheil saakashvili is up in arms over his country's defense capabilities well lots of us marshals that 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 a city the georgian president appears to hold the belief that russia is his country's enemy number one most school still plans to attack 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 me kinds territories each and 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 and the norse 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 new p.c. dance a new war reduce the breakaway regions just in order to survive to keep his power

because you know water six schools always agreements war you know. into every single you know six it's a main reason writer and political activist. believes nationwide militarization is certainly not georgia's top priority and could have disastrous effects we think that he needs to drop the connection of the real democratic change in the country there we see you know trying military expenses and putting the money into positively education civil society development and democracy building 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. fifty million dollar loan from the world bank

some fear this money will go towards helping billy c. prepare for another war what happens when the world bank adds to that to those to those revenues the money is rearranged that allows you to spend two to redirect money which was no belly. tax joe health and education redirected to military expenditure and that's what is called the fungibility of of money. and it's a very well understood back of us and. i suspect that this world bank fifty million dollars loan to georgia will be redirected. towards military expenditure 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 more concerned with dealing with

a perceived military threat and hyping up the danger he was courting tbilisi georgia. next hour looks at the role of the media in georgia on the 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. story. charge of media fiction and reality on our t.v. . it is sixty five years since two japanese cities hiroshima and nagasaki became the only places on earth where atomic bombs were used. more than two hundred thousand people died either in the blasts or due to radiation poisoning after the u.s. launched its nuclear attack on friday held its biggest memorial yet remembering the

victims of the tragedy for the first time a washington center representative to this year's service it was also a first for u.n. secretary general ban ki moon but it's find this international attention still the group of victims in japan that are only now getting help recognition. 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 rain. there was a big clash heaven and earth overturned then we heard a blast. creen started to turn 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 of 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 alike of the black rain association are gathering to make their voices heard. are members consider to survive more than eighty percent of us suffer from serious or related illnesses and cancer we just want to government to recognize that. this building was destroyed in the initial blast and miraculously this wall was left standing it is been the left here as a memorial to that tragic event and. 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 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 bunted school and all the pilots 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 r.t. hiroshima japan historian powell's. physical target but the messages sent was aimed squarely at the u.s.s.r. in the arms race. 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 with the united states hat and that was the whole idea to impress moscow with the new weapon that the united states had and wanted to moscow to know who they had 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 russia you had a bomb in any city and you still have an enemy japan so you bomb there is a japanese city now dropping that bomb on tokyo would have made sense because tokyo was already destroyed in advance so if 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. i'm coming up a little bit later in the program here on our superstar. runs for president in haiti. he knows these people. he had to drink out the. he knows what the people want.

to be a politician. he. should tune into politics. to be happy now. he is still leading the high life but thankfully these days with the family on the ground checks into the luxury of scrambling. more this week another bout of violent clashes erupted near the capital of kyrgyzstan government protesters were demanding an opposition leader be made prime minister rudd police used tear gas and five live rounds into riyadh to disperse the crowd up to thirty people were detained including. the protesters want to get into power he's already accused of trying to stage a coup in the country five years ago could you stanza suffered months of deadly political and ethnic unrest since president kurmanbek bakiyev was overthrown in

april political analyst even the stuff says instability could turn it into a safe haven for extremists from the neighboring countries. there is growing instability in the north. and this is just a few hundred kilometers away from this. so if going to this town becomes a non-controlled territory where there is no. where there is a force. and. then those. on the pressure. they think well we have another place to go and then you have a wider international consequences and developments developments. it's about twenty two minutes past the hour now here in the russian capital you are with r.t. as we run down the week's top stories bronislaw komorowski was officially sworn in as poland's new president on friday it comes four months after the previous leader

lech kaczynski died in a plane crash in russia the integration wasn't altogether smooth as one of the new president's first initiatives sparked protests in warsaw hundreds gathered outside the presidential palace to boycott his decision to move a memorial to the crash crash victims the wooden cross was erected in the central square shortly after the accident in which more than one thousand people died and you president wanted to move the memorial to church grounds but after the protests the transfer has now been postponed. hip hop star white cliffs join this weekend to the running for haiti's president x. few g.'s member was born on the caribbean island where he's been involved in rebuilding efforts following the devastating earthquake earlier this year he's a resident laurie hof honest i asked people in the big apple if pop stars and politics should mix.

john an american music celebrity is running for president of the haiti do you think pop culture and politics should ever make this week let's talk about that you've got. a few celebrities around here and if one of them. stop for in probably take more attention as opposed to somebody who's. running the treasury or something else you know just bending in the entertainment business how would that prepare anyone for politics i don't think that that was my point i don't think it should stay where he should is that mainstream channel entertainment it's just start low not at present anyway. somebody has a possibility of being able to raise huge amounts of money for. haiti i mean his international media aware and this 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 if you just perform do what they've got to do and that's it we've come to watch them before we don't need their opinion i don't like it i mean if you have a lot of money and you have nothing else to aspire to but maybe higher office than when i use your money for there may whitman of california is 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 vanity you know say he lived a he knows these people his family's there aren't to be employed he lived in a he had to drink out the pond you know so he knows what the people want. in the case of like laugh he's the ok celebrity to be a politician. he's ok guy but they're naive to think people from different professional backgrounds should ever get involved in politics the bottom line is

you can make your opinion count when you vote. the terrified of beach donkey sense soaring into the skies in a p.r. stunt cannot look forward to a better life and not because forced flight called the attention of animal rights enthusiastic around the world while awaiting her new owner a british tabloid is going to be picking her up she's taking a rehabilitation course at the luxury criminon a riding school near moscow. the donkey has learned it russia's notorious four legged fly is finally able to breathe easy and not because the donkey arrived in moscow after days on the road from southern russia and i'm not complaining she's very sweet and everyone fell in love for her and we don't want to give no another a knock a strange journey started with her now infamous flight up above the beach on a power sail pulled by a boat a publicity trick by

a local water sports company when police found out the owner run away and an up was only found later. sitting on the beach boys or parachute go i couldn't quite figure it out myself or legs nor of my own eyes a donkey the animal's 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 created a demand you know for animals to be treated better the culprit presented 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 at the prestigious kremlin riding school drinking filtered water eating a special diet prepared by a nutritionist and being messengers with medical appointments and i get a little bit of the meat if 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 not all from way you might expect the manager of england's top man hotspur football club harry redknapp has said he would happily put an up go up harry has an ambition to open his own animal sanctuary in the hunt sure area of england and he has perhaps could and could join him at that animal sanctuary and not can 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. and i'll be back with the headlines in just a few moments.

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. it is hard for in the afternoon here in moscow you with aunts who were running down the week's top stories now and fire closes in raging blazes are spreading across russia killing dozens of rooting fountains and leaving people in cities struggling to breathe and toxic smoke. also japan's malky sixty five years since on a. bomb was dropped on hiroshima the first time since that deadly event washington sent an envoy to the memorial service but still offers no apology. so the search here remembers the hundreds killed in the war with georgia two years after tbilisi shelled the republic leaving its capital all but razed to the ground. while on the

second anniversary of the war in south ossetia r.t. spoke exclusively to the country's president edwarda took scuse me shared his experience of the conflict he told us how he sees things now. the not that would have been the other thing 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 i can tell i'm a hostile so. i 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 a policy was head then but with his help we reached an agreement with the georgian side to restart negotiations on the its new niggle 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 south the city yes that was in school we didn't see changes in their actions or intention so we expressed our worries we were also concerned that the members who were staying in south a set left the republic for hours before the aggression began to 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 yep so.