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 there probably were just courage to be. 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 mess in forest fires have already burned about thousands of hectares of land with the wind speed of twenty meters per second it's moving through both as you can see behind me the frozen out leaving behind at trade 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 over. twelve perished in the inferno sun 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 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 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's been smokin its 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 take here will not be alone 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 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. raef notion r t. while russia's baking 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 floodings struck an area near the borders of poland and germany and the czech republic storm strong winds and torrential rains have destroyed bridges damaged buildings and ruined crops thousands of had to be evacuated from the worst affected areas helicopters of plucking people to safety from the roofs of their homes a state of emergency has been declared in a number of cities meteorologist warned the rains will continue all summer.

so the set 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 correspondents following the anniversary on both sides of the conflict. several sorry monies have been held their publics president who are quite delayed grief stole the places that have become symbols that were pulled was two thousand and eight here in spain vall 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 of he thought i would have outside of involved and easy i'm called museum over burned souls was opened and basically looks like dozens of burned down cars put in a circle with a monument in between them many families have died in those cars trying to escape south say to as the war broke out and they were simply burned down by the georgian tanks first backroom 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 city and opens fire many people are wearing black in south the city it's a day as well as some believe it is buildings that are covered with black fabric 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 to the nation of independence of the republican that will take place on the twenty sixth of opus will the reconstruction is in full swing here many of infrastructure objects have been restored several more schools in care than kid and gardens will be finished by the 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 tin fall 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. conception is taking place not only in the republic but also in the relations between south and george and living here. yes she is a georgian who lives in south the sea here he 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 was swallow's is his favorite pasta and he says. is it safe for you an ethnic georgian to live here in south a sit in especially after two years ago georgia atop this republic you are going to have written it is safe here no one is bothering us citizens 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 seat 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. this is a checkpoint controlled by russian border guards they hear not only to secure the republic but also to guarantee from movement of the locals who live in this segment to georgia and back this is essential as many of them have relatives on both sides of the front. thank you. the roads are bad and displaced war public and it can take several hours to reach the capital so many go to georgia to shop. there are no problems between the old re people like us we have nothing to petition it's the people in power the government.

we need peace first of all we need to all of us friends would just like both of us sitting here there must be a new confrontation between georgia. brothers and sisters here. to police a status and refuses to recognize this over until it's forward to a tree 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 it is just separate independent countries. from self-esteem and it does look like on the other side of the georgian south of the border the attitude towards the war its causes and consequences is also changing as my colleague. from b.b.c. . that's what i tell you the attitude is changing if two years ago people did feel that there was a right time president because for his behalf to start a confrontation with south a sense here two years later that attitude has changed dramatically

a lot of people do not believe that conflict of any sort is the way to go in fact many of them most of the people who live in georgia have already been through several bloody conflict so a lot of people are feeling very strong antiwar sentiment in fact. quite a few people came out in the streets today in order to protest the decision that was made two years ago by president bush willing to attack a south the said there is also a very strong on to war sentiment amongst the representatives of the opposition forces in the country labor party has actually called for sanctions to be imposed on the georgian president knew they did not specify what sort of sanctions but they did say that it is time that the international community has let it known. actions like the ones that were taken by the georgian president in the summer of two thousand eight hundred no circumstances be repeated ever again and about let's have a listen to what the leader of the conservative party had to say on the matter is well within that it was

a big very big. confrontation. to. be integrated. so after two years. it was the biggest mistake for sure but you also have to remember that at this point president president really is not stepping off the war path in fact georgian citizens are being bombarded by messages that russia was the main aggressor in two thousand and eight and russia is getting ready to strike again really has actually made a speech just at the end of last week at the ministry of defense meeting saying that very thought to say that the country should be prepared for an attack at every single moment that every village every resident of every town should be prepared to take up arms and go defend their country. from the georgian capital

tbilisi. from south. well following the conflict in south ossetia russia decided to recognize the independence of the republic and another georgian breakaway region of present dimitri 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 a president very 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 the area which was stopped after georgia's war with the republic in the early one nine hundred ninety s. . welcome to the russian capital twenty four hours

a day still to come for you this hour food for thought farmers in hungary say that business policies treated more like a colony in the. first sixty five years since two japanese cities hiroshima and nagasaki became the only places on earth where atomic bombs would deliberately used against civilians more than two hundred thousand people died. 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 washington sent a representative it was also a first for u.n. secretary general ban ki moon but despite this international attention there's still a group of victims in japan only now getting help and 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 like brain. that there was a big national heaven and earth overturned. and the black rain started to turn away. even though here in pieces of. rain the bomb sent a mushroom cloud into the atmosphere creating its own weather system pouring down a radioactive suit filled the rain onto the survivors the u.s. and japanese governments acknowledged black rain as a health risk and set up an official area where they believed the phenomenon had occurred but people living around here ashima say the designated section was far too small and that the government didn't do enough to protect the entire population that suffered now groups of survivors like the black rain association are gathering to make their voices heard. our members are not consider to survive more than eighty percent of us suffer from severe. related illnesses and cancer we just want

to governments to recognize that. 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 has given scientists the information they need to help black rain survivors. two or three years ago we found nineteen 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. the commission that identified the original area calculated the mushroom cloud as eight kilometers but by finding the

pool in the pilot and where photos were taken we can get a better idea of the real height which ended up being sixteen kilometers 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. 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 historian jacques pole says he may have been the physical

target but the message it sent was aimed squarely at the u.s. a saw 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 by 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 the united states hat and a want to moscow to know 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 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. this week another bout of violent clashes erupted near the capital of anti-government protest as would an opposition leader be made prime minister police used tear gas and live rounds into the disperse the crowd to thirty people tend to be a much better guitar possible from the protest as one to whom the protesters want in power he's already used to stage a coup in the country five years ago if you stand suffered months of deadly political as the congress since president come about but he was overthrown april the political analyst 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 the. biggest stop so if going to this town

becomes a non-controlled territory where there is no real authority and where there is a force sound. and planted leaders then of those who are on the fresh enough in this tommy think well we have another place to go and then you will have the wider international consequences and developments of iran plans on developments. was officially sworn in the new president on friday it comes four months after the previous leader lech kaczynski died in a plane crash in russia you know gratian wasn't altogether smooth as one of the new president's personal should have sparked protests and more saw hundreds gathered outside the presidential palace to boycott his decision to move a memorial to the crash victims of last resort to central square shortly after the accident in which more than one thousand died the new president wanted to move the memorial to church grounds and all the protests the transfer has been postponed.

hip hop star. this week entered the running for haiti's president the next member was born on the caribbean island where he's been involved in rebuilding efforts following the devastating earthquake earlier this year when ati's resident laurie hoffman it's also people in the big apple if pop stars and politics should mix. why cliff john an american music celebrity is running for president of haiti do you think pop culture and politics should ever met this week let's talk about that you look around here you go. you go it's a few celebrities around here and if one of them was suddenly. stopped for in a provider but probably take more and more attention to them as opposed to somebody who's pops up and i run in the treasury of something else you know i'm just bending years in them entertainment but how would that prepare anyone for politics actually

i don't think it does and that was my whole point i don't think it should stay where he should is that mainstream town entertainment otherwise just start low not a president say 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 awareness makes him an interesting figure in the possibility that haiti which needs desperately to get a huge amount of worldwide support to rebuild he actually could help make that happen as you just perform to what they got to do and that's what 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 that may whitman of california as an example you know she spends gobs of money and so does carly fiorina and what qualifications do they have to go for the top office right away senator and governor so there's ego involved

you think well that's what i said vanity you know say he lived in he knows these people's families they're on tuesday he's been poor he lived in a hut he had to drink out to ponder some you know so he knows what the people want if in the case of my class he's the ok celebrity to be a politician. he's ok but they're not even think people from different profession. backgrounds should ever get involved in politics the bottom line is you can make your opinion count but you vote. the rich and fertile lands of hungry have long made it an enviable source for food production that follows their say that since joining the european union in two thousand and four they've been losing money. he's been hearing about their plight this is one of the biggest bird farms in hungary more than ten thousand guineas and ducks bring quite

a profit for its owner liver and duck eggs are in high demand she sas his land is perfect for this kind of business countries in western europe in the us we in hungary keeper birds in open spaces they claim an environment allows that that's why did the world a world produce a collage you can keep your meat in erik's less than a decade ago helicarrier 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 because on the 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 but it turned out that europe apart from france wasn't interested in our products this seriously in 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 greener pastures which 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'm glad 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 shops 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 have ski r.t. reporting from hungary. well that brings up to date for the moment still coming up for this hour an interview with the president. he shares his memories of aggression against his country and i'll be back with the headlines in just a few moments stay with us here on all. of.

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hundred forty five dot com. good to have you with us this is coming from the russian capital this week's top stories now closes in raging blazes a spreading across russia killing dozens up routine felsenstein leaving people in cities struggling to breathe toxic smoke. sixty five years since an atomic bomb was dropped on hiroshima in the first time since that deadly event washington seven envoy to the memorial service but still no apology. to remember the hundreds killed in the war with georgia to tbilisi shelled the republic leaving its capital all but razed to the ground. while on the second anniversary all the war in south ossetia exclusively to the country's president it

what he said is experience of the conflict and told us how he sees things that's next on r.t. . the not that would have been the other thought mr president let's start our interview with the reasons for george's aggression against which happened in spite of negotiation as between a conflict of parties willing russia's support for all these negotiations were approaching a successful result but they didn't start those events from happening what can the hospital. like to thank your colleagues from r.t. and other russian channels there 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 we're trying to restart the negotiation process ask the couple to a special ambassador a year republic of it was here then but with his help we reach an agreement with

the georgian side to restart negotiations on the it's new to go so we started receiving visitors to discussing the agenda and so on on the same night we heard the georgian president's speech on his unilateral decision to withdraw all georgian armed forces from the conflict zone he called us his brothers and admitted his responsibility for the a setian population that cetera at the same time we watched armed forces and equipment moving towards the city after it was in school we didn't see changes in their actions or intentions so we expressed our worries we were also concerned that the o.s.c. members who were staying in south to set left the republic for hours before the aggression began 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 yeah so georgian peacekeepers left their locations and moved to their units.