parker we are trying to extinguish them in total during the whole time that these fires have been raging over 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 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 wrought rushes in flames. the hottest summer on record has also become one of them is destructive massive forest fires have burned about thousands of hectares of land. speed twenty metres per second it's moving through foxes you can see behind me it's approaching leaving behind a trail of devastation. this used to be

a small picturesque village naslund in beautiful pine forest some one hundred fifty kilometers south of the russian capital more scope and paradise to the three hundred people that lived there with a kindergarten. and a community hole it will never be the same again. to dismiss for a frightening display of mother nature's fool force to change it for rever. 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. most people in the village managed to flee elaina was one of

those that escaped and 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 feel 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 smoky 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 or that these as 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. 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 consigned to the past all here would rather forget. the more secure region. while russia is baking in the heat central europe is swimming in floods heavy rains of cause rivers to burst their banks and left at least fourteen people dead and several others missing in the last few days the flooding struck an area near the borders of poland germany and the czech republic hail strong strong winds and torrential rain it's destroyed bridges damaged buildings and ruined crops thousands of had to be evacuated from the worst affected areas helicopters are plucking people to safety from the roofs of their homes a state of emergency has been declared in a number of cities. 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 other verse three on both sides of the conflict. several sorry monies have been help their publics president who are quite delayed grief stole the places that have become symbols that were polled his two thousand and eight here and seen vall one of those places was a local school number six nearby which a lot of people have been killed and it has become involved has become one of the places where reefs are laid annually in a small village a few thought would have outside of involved and museum called museum 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 scape south asia as the war broke out and they were simply burned down by the georgian tanks first racoon began last night at eleven thirty five pm that's moment here in south the city it 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 of the commission of independence of the republic and 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 uncared and kidan 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 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 only construction is taking place not only in the republic but also in the relations between south a city and enjoy living here. yes she is a georgian who lives in south acedia he 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 what you know this family or swallows is his favorite pastime he says. is it safe for you and ethnic georgian to live here in south a city especially after two years ago georgia atop this republic you are going to have it is safe here no one is bothering us the 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 a city in a village where yasha lease a georgians a 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 from movement of the locals who live in this segment to ga 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 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 really people like us we have nothing to petition is the people in power the government.

we need peace first of all we need two of us friends just like both of us sitting here there must be a new confrontation between georgia. brothers and sisters here. to police to start with fuses to recognize this over into its formative a tree but these two old friends georgian and to see. the time has come to restore relations between georgia and south as to separate independent countries. from south. 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. . and so i tell you the attitude is changing if two years ago people did feel that there was a right on president to question his behalf to start a confrontation with the city 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 on the streets today in order to protest the decision that was made two years ago by president bush really to attack the city there is also 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 they did not specify what sort of sanctions but they did say that it is time that the international community has let it known that 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 comical call by the leader of the conservative party had to say on the matter as well within that it was a big very big. results

. results. so. 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 georgia 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 but really has actually made a speech just at the end of last week at the ministry of defense meeting saying that very thought saying 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 ossetia well following the conflict in south ossetia russia decided to recognize the independence of the republic and another georgian breakaway region. on a visit to the. present dimitri medvedev has spoken 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 people was at the time under threat and if those decisions weren't made the situation would have been totally different. present event have also 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 travel to a cause which was stopped after georgia's war with the republic in the early one nine hundred ninety s. coming from the russian capital twenty four hours a day good to have you with us still to come in the next few minutes the food for thought farmers in hungary say that being starved of business by e.u.

policies and are treated more like a colony than a part. of the sixty five years since two japanese cities. became the only places on earth where atomic bombs were deliberately used against civilians more than two hundred thousand people died in the blasts all 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 was also a first for u.n. secretary general ban ki moon despite this international tension there's still a group of victims in japan that are 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 black brain. that there was a big heaven and earth overturned then we heard

a blast. and the black rain started to turn away blouses black with spots and 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 government signal. 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 typical. more than eighty percent of us suffer from serious or education 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 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 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 of the mud radioactive evidence of radioactivity from black rain can go a long way towards getting help for the victims also using new technology teams are reassessing the size of the radioactive cloud. commission that identified the original area calculated the mushroom cloud at eight kilometers but by finding. the pilot photos were taken we can get a better idea of the real height which ended up being sixteen hours 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. in 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 for is to reject poles says hiroshima may have been the physical target but the message it 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 target sort of 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 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 had an enemy japan so you bomb the 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. a group of former intelligence and military officials from the u.s.

is demanding immediate action from barack obama to prevent a war in the middle east they claim israel's 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 a war in iran would ignite a regional conflict which could lead to the anon ation of israel on its repeatedly refused diplomatic relations with tel aviv as it maintains that the jewish state has no right to exist but it's been nice to be shelling police and he's really actually would have to be given the green light from washington just saying if there is a lot of very. serious. people 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 that the war plans which have been ongoing since two thousand and four have been a joint program with us they throw in israel so that in fact these war plans are 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 so to speak iran has ten percent of the global oil and gas was five times those of the united states that 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 a whole region with flare up from the eastern mediterranean right through to the chinese border. what's in a name well russia's militia could soon be finding out prism inventive wants them renamed as the police the title of force held before the bolshevik revolution almost one hundred years ago the move which includes a number of other measures will be up for public discussion including on the internet last december the president ordered sweeping reforms of the force was included cutting the number of officers by around a quarter of people only the most qualified the militia has come under immense pressure recently after several high profile cases of murder and corruption by high ranking officers. estonia's held a military exercise commemorating nazi collaborators annual international war game called the earn a raid on is a reconnaissance group that worked behind red army lines during world war two well russia says the exercise glorifies the stones corporation with it was regime. claims it's just

a sporting event mr new comes in for frequent criticism for honoring nazi sympathizers in the form of british m.e.p. for believes the drill may be a signal of nazi support on a political level what concerns me about this it appears how some support from if you want the officials within a stone in 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 there actually basing it around a nazi collaborating organization. from the second world war out of sort 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 you support for this kind of event. time now for some other stories making headlines across the world at

this stage of the day twelve people have been killed in a spate of attacks targeting police across afghanistan and head out near the iranian border a regional police chief and three bodyguards down in a suicide bomber struck their vehicle in a car packed with explosives another local commander was shot dead along with six others when government stalled his home in the north and produce problems and in kandahar an officer died when the minibus he was traveling in struck a roadside bomb. at least two hundred twenty seven people have been killed in landslides triggered by heavy rain in western china two thousand missing after floodwaters tore through the gallant su province toppling buildings and overturning of cars exhaust is the latest to affect the country this summer which has seen the worst seasonal flooding in a decade. fifty three people have been killed by two landslides in pakistan heavy monsoon rains have worsened the flood crisis which is the worst the country seen in eighty years or the nurses being issued in the south of the country is rescue and food aid efforts are being hampered by the bank with the deluge which started two

weeks ago has claimed the lives of at least fifteen hundred people official say thirteen million been affected in total. the region for thailand's of hungary have long made it an enviable source for food production the fall as they say that since joining the european union in two thousand and four they've been losing money auntie's and actually been hearing about their plight. this is one of the biggest bird farms and hungary more than ten thousand geese and ducks bring quite a profit for its owner liver goose down and duck eggs are in high demand 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 want to claim an environment allows that that's why did the world produce a collage me in eric's less than a decade ago how gary and ducks were sold to every way 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 because it's been very hard for him to sell it when 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 by are in favor of the market return now that you're 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 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 the 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 extended alexy russia ski r.t. reporting from hungary. well enough few minutes from now here in r.t. will be bring you a special report on the lead to vote rigging that helped george bush take the u.s. president's seat in two thousand and four stay with us for that special report

coming the way some. developer bush. the bush. always adds by one vote for kerry. so the people that are going to be validating this machine can stand there all day

long and vote for somebody and it will be right every time but the guy can walk up here and if he hits the right button. he can flip the boat that. the british. market. global economy.

with. in the russian capital this week's top stories now. spreading across russia. and. remember the hundreds killed in the war with george. washington. brings you up to date for the moment the news continues in less than half an hour from now here on r t one next murder spies in voting lies is the story of

a man who was commissioned to create vote rigging software that many believe helped george w. bush win the election in two thousand and four a special report next on r.t. . mr curtis if you would come forward. i would ask the court reporter to swear the witness. mr curtis would you please state your full name for the record i name is clinton eugene curtis and what is your profession i'm a computer programmer mr curtis are there programs that can be used to secretly fix elections yes how do you know that the be the case because in october of two thousand i wrote a prototype for president congressman tom feeney at the company i work for you know veto florida that did just that it would really going to watch and it would flip the vote fifty one forty ninth's whoever you wanted to go to and whichever ray she

wanted to went to ever you wanted to win. on november second two thousand and four george bush was more popular even middle of an unpopular war i was watching the exit polls and looked very clear that john kerry was going to wind. up going for duty. was. and then all of a sudden the numbers that were coming in did not match up with what was coming in from the exit polls and it didn't make any sense it just didn't make any sense late in the evening six states that exit polls showed were going to carry suddenly veered off to bush heigho and became the tipping point of the entire national election one guy who was reporting on the ground in ohio from day one.