are we trying to extinguish them in total during a 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 there probably were just purged down the. currently living 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 artie's more youthful notion i went 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 massive forest fires have already burned about thousands of hectares of land in berkshire with the wind speed of twenty metres per second it's moving through fourth as you can see behind me it's approaching now leaving behind

a trail of devastation. this used to be a small picturesque really 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 to dismiss for a frightening display of mother nature's fool force to change it for river. twelve perished in the inferno 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. and most people in the village managed to flee and it was one of

those that escaped at a later she's bag hoping to find something tagged 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 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 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 tape here will not be alone. 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 the new home they 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 this unstoppable and merciless force who try to rebuild their lives and consign these ghost village to the past all here would rather forget. raef notion r t mostly region. and while russia is breaking in the heat central europe is swimming in floods heavy rains have caused rivers to burst their banks and left at least ten people dead in the last few days the flooding that struck an area near the borders of poland germany and the czech republic hail storms strong winds and torrential rains have destroyed bridges damaged buildings and ruined crops thousands have had to be evacuated from the worst affected areas helicopters are plucking people to safety from the roofs of their homes state of emergency has been declared in a number of cities meteorologists warn the rains will continue all sunday.

well south of here 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 two thousand and eight r.t. correspondent natalia novikov was following the commemorations in the south of thirteen capital. several sorry monies have been help their publics president who are quite delayed grief stole the places that have become symbols that were pulled was two thousand and eight here and he involved one of those places was a local school number six nearby which a lot of people have been killed and it has become while it has become one of the places where reefs are laid annually in a small village a few thought would have outside of thousand vaal and museum called museums over burned souls was opened it basically looks like dozens of burned down cars put in a circle with the monuments in between them many families have died in those cars

trying to escape south asia as the war broke out and they were simply burned down by georgian tanks first racoon began last night at eleven thirty five pm that's moment here in south the city here is remembered vividly as two years exactly from now i'm sorry two years ago exactly at that time georgia began its assault in south a set into opens fire many people are wearing black in south the city it's a day as well as some believe it's buildings that are covered with black fabric a very sad day here indeed but let's not forget that in just about two weeks time people here will be celebrating the second anniversary over the nation of independence of the republic and that will take place on the twenty sixth of overseas while the reconstruction is in full swing here many of the infrastructure objects have been restored several more schools and kidan gardens will be finished by this september. also many people have received new homes that they can now live

in of course it's still a long expensive and difficult process so some are still waiting for new homes local university still hasn't been restored but i was here last year as well as two years ago and i can tell you what i see with my own eyes is definite progress small airport is being built outside of the capital to involve so life here is slowly getting back to normal and as my cold night eyes he's a reason based here reports it's not zero. conception is taking place not only in the republic but also in the relations between the south the city and enjoy living here. yeah she is a georgian who lives in south acedia she was born here in didn't leave his home even during the war he has a small farm and keeps a reasonably sized garden needs but what you know this family will swallow's is his favorite pastime and he says. he is it safe for you and ethnic georgian to live here in south

a city where especially after two years ago georgia atop this republic you are going to have it is safe here and no one is bothering us the city and were saying don't worry don't go away stay even during the war no one came and told us to leave . the overwhelming majority of the population in this a city in the village we yashin these are georgians most of pharmacy or small scale trade has 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. here is your boss border thank you. the roads are bad in this place toward 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 great people like us we have nothing to petition is the people in power the government. my mother too a weird one we need peace first of all we need to all of us friends just like both of us sitting here there must not be any confrontation between georgia sheet and the pros you are all brothers and sisters here. to please a status and refuses to recognize the sovereignty of its former territory but these two old friends george an authority and a seat 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 dmitry 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 at the time under threat and if those decisions weren't made the situation would have been totally different. more currently on a visit to our cars here president medvedev said he was glad to see a 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 up garcia which was stopped after georgia's war with the republic in the early one nine hundred ninety s. . 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 their leaders seem bent on talking about it given any opportunity georgia or is currently spending thirty times more on its military budget than on economic development. you know president mikheil

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 force is his country's enemy number one moscow 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 metre 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 unwashed 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 expected this campaign will be watched against so maybe circuitry to start some kind of new p.c. dance a new war we use the breakaway regions just in order to survive to keep his power because you know water six course always agreements war you know he into every seat in a 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 initial drop the future of the real democratic change in the country would mean see you all try military expenses and putting the money into positively education civil society development and democracy building militarization comes at a price just over four. that 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 of recently approved fifteen million dollar loan from the world bank some fear this money will go towards health ins 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 normally. tax your health and education you redirected to military expenditure and that's what is called the fungibility of of money. and it's a very well understood because i'm. 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 really is more concerned with dealing with a perceived military threat and hyping up the danger he was courting. georgia. we are coming to you live from the russian capital this is coming up a bit later in the program superstar runs for president in haiti. knows these people these families there these days being poor he lived he had to drink out the. usa he knows what the people want. to be a politician go wide clear he's ok guy parties resident pop stars should tune into politics. also spelling out the problems find out why access to education in

india is holding back the country's economic potential. 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 rather hiroshima held its biggest memorial yet remembering the victims of the tragedy for the first time washington sent of representatives to this year's service it was also a first for u.n. secretary general ban ki moon but a spy this international attention still a group of victims in japan that are only now getting help recognition. here 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. that there was a big heaven and earth overturned heard a blast. started to turn away. and even there here in pieces. 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 of the black rain association are gathering to make their voices heard. our members are not consider to. more than eighty percent of us suffer from serious or education related illnesses and cancer

we just want to government to recognize. this 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. two or three years ago we found nine thousand houses with mud under the floorboards because when the house is built we know when the mud was exposed and when we took samples 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. the commission that identified the original area calculated the mushroom cloud at eight kilometers but by finding. the

pilot. we can get a better idea of the real height which ended up being sixteen 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. 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 thomas hiroshima japan. this week another bout of violent clashes erupted near the capital

of kyrgyzstan and government protesters were demanding an opposition leader be made prime minister riot police used tear gas and fired live rounds into the air to disperse the crowd up to thirty people were detained including to be. protesters want in power he's already accused of trying to stage a coup in the country five years ago stands have suffered months of deadly political and ethnic unrest since president kurmanbek bakiyev was overthrown in a home political analyst even says instability could turn 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. stuff so if going to this town becomes a non-controlled territory where there is no real authority and where there is the rule of force. and. then.

on the fresh enough in this town and they think well we have another place to go and then you will have a wider international consequences and developments of iran plans on developments. r.t. also spoke to the interior minister about the roots of the violence and the prospects for social and economic stabilization and you can catch the interview in about fifteen minutes time right here on r.t. . was officially sworn in as poland's new president on friday it comes four months after their previous leader lech kaczynski died in a plane crash in russia but inauguration 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 more to the crash victims

the wooden cross was erected in the central square shortly after the accident in which ninety people dying the new president wanted to move the memorial to church grounds but after the protests the transfer has been postponed. well hip hop star why closure on this weekend to the running to become haiti's next president and the next 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 artie's resident laurie half an ist asked people in the big apple if pop stars and politics should mix. john and 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 look around here you got. a few celebrities around here and if one of them was suddenly. stopped for in probably take more attention as opposed to somebody who's

. running the treasury or something else you know just. in the entertainment business how would that prepare anyone. i don't think it does. i think you should stay where he is that mainstream town entertainment either way it's just start loading. not at present anyway exactly somebody like michael of john 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 come to watch a little 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 they're made 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 vanity you know saying he lived a he knows these people these families they're. being poor he lived in a he had to drink out the pond you know so he knows what the people want. in the case of why class he's the ok celebrity to be a politician. he's ok 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. millions of children across india being forced to give up their education and living with widespread poverty in many families can't afford to send their kids to school and instead rely on their daily wage to put food on the table but as altie

as karen saying reports it threatens to harm one of the world's fastest growing economies. and when he does not go to school his parents simply cannot afford to send him he is one of eight million children in the india facing the same predicament even though the government has made education free. compulsory for children under fourteen the family cannot lose the income he makes as a rag picker. we have no money to teach our children the government doesn't give us a livelihood so the children have to help our family support itself we spend a day trying to get food to eat how can we educate our children. even if money got access to education this is what might well greet him not a classroom in sight in moodily india government schools often exist only on paper they may be registered but there may be no buildings or teachers. who have no books

here the children have no books to write on there are no pencil serai you can see the state of the board its third difficulty in this way. this means many who are in school barely able to read and write for instance i ask it to all the recite the alphabet. after. being. asked. and and. we. have. seven out of ten children in delhi drop out by the time they turn fourteen when many schools. too i mean specially municipal schools think they are right the answer is on the board for their whatever anybody feeling it doesn't matter if you understand all the understand so the tell us to read classics and talk me on able to cope to counter this has started

a group to provide educational support in underprivileged areas project y. helps seven hundred students from their lease slums who are looking to supplement their government provided education thirteen year old girl who likes mathematics and wants to be a banker when she grows up activities. look as an example i learn more here than in my school faster than the kids make a lot of noise so you conti anything and also the school teacher doesn't explain things here i can ask my tutor many things but in school before the teacher can explain the class is over and the teacher vanishes mad and india is one of the youngest countries in the world with the overhaul for its population under twenty five while this may provide a workforce with an edge over countries with aging populations access to education will be needed for all the new engine room for the country to continue its economic growth story got unseeing already knew that he. and i'll be back with the headlines

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a report on. it is six thirty pm now here in the russian capital you. we're winding down the week's top stories and fire closes in raging blazes are spreading across russia killing dozens rooting finals and leaving people in cities struggling to breathe in toxic smoke. south ossetia 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. also japan sixty five years since an atomic bomb was dropped on hiroshima for the first time since that deadly event washington sent an envoy to the memorial service but still offers no apology.

this week saw another round of violence including a stunning we spoke to the country's interior minister on what's behind the unrest stay with us. the central asian state of kurdistan has recently seen a lot of violence and unrest the temporary interim government is trying to do all it can to restore stability to the country once again to talk a little bit more about how that is going to happen r t is talking to the minister of internal affairs mr bible of the survival thank you so much for devoting some of your time to us still. the most recent events in kurdistan the recent opposition rally that was dispersed by riot police. is there any chance of that happening again in the near future do you think. firstly i'd

like to clarify what really happened it wasn't a rally but rather an armed attempt to seize power this was an obvious fact proved by numerous witnesses never dence therefore we simply didn't let the crowd into the when they started storming and beating up police officers one of whom was seriously injured and taken away their service weapons we had to use force within legal limits such things are likely to happen again this political struggle is happening against the backdrop of an unstable situation so they'll probably be tempted to try to seize power in this way that are perfectly behind these forces to do you know who those powers might need to. there are several large groups one of them includes overthrown president of his immediate family and his supporters who used to be in the country's government will be the second political group is those who are waiting for the fighting sides to get exhausted to suddenly appear in the political scene that are three key groups fighting for.