volunteers are carol 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 their problem or just urge to be . currently 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 useful nor should i want 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 factories of land with 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 of devastation. this used to be

a small picturesque village naslund beautiful pine forest some one hundred fifty kilometers south of the russian capital more scope and paradise to the three hundred people that live there with a kindergarten. and a community hall it will never be the same again it to dismiss for a frightening display of mother nature's food force to change it for river. twelve perished in the in through 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 the basement at their place of refuge became their tomb temperatures inside became too hot to survive. most people in the village managed to flee elaine it was one of those that escaped at

a later she's bag hoping to find south it intact 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 felt really scared when i saw the red glow of the fire and the black smoke you know i've seen houses and barns burning but here the entire village burned down completely this was really horrifying. the dormitory of a local college has become a new home for dozens of homeless it staff in smokiness corridors in rooms but it's the only shelter they have now. we won't see things from this care they feed us here very well they talk to us and we have a corner to sleep. but they hope this tape here will not be long or that they said 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 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 ghosts village to the past all here would rather forget. tea. while russia bakes in the heat central europe is swimming in floods heavy rains have caused rivers to burst their banks and left at least fourteen dead and several others missing over the last few days the flooding struck an area near the borders of poland germany and the czech republic hailstorm 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 are picking people to safety from the roofs of their homes a state of emergency has been declared in a number of cities. so if a set 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 artie's correspondents are following the anniversary 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 pulled was two thousand and eight here and seen evolve 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 of he thought i 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 a monument 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 building that a 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 republic and that will take place on the twenty sixth of opus will the reconstruction is in full swing here many of the infrastructure objects have been restored several more schools and cared 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 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. construction is taking place not only in the republic but also in the relations between the south the city and enjoy living here . yes she is a georgian who lives in south ossetia 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 watching this family was swallow's is his favorite past time he says. he is it safe for you an 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 city and 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 the village we yashin these are georgians most are farmers or small skilled trades as 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 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 front. here is your boss border brink 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 older people like us we have nothing to petition it's 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 confrontation between georgia and the prize your brothers and sisters here. to police to start with fuses to recognize this over until it's almost to a tree but these two old friends george an authority and a city and so. the time has come to restore relations between georgia and south it's just separate independent countries. from south. and it does look like on the other side of the georgian south of states in 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 presence across from his behalf to start a confrontation with the sense here two years later that i did see it 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 a very strong anti-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 and eight should under 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 the.

to see confrontation. results and we see this results in georgia to. be integrated dean. so after two years. it was one of the biggest mistakes 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 but 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 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. reporting there from artie's or in

english go in the georgian capital tbilisi and tell you nobody in south said here. following the conflict in south decided to recognize the independence of the republic and other georgian breakaway region. i'm visiting the president dmitry medvedev has spoken about the reasons behind the move. the decision russia me after the military conflict wasn't an easy one but time is shown it was the right move for the existence of the uprising and not the city people was at the time under threat that if those decisions were made the situation would have been totally different. president medvedev 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 efforts the next step is likely to be the resumption of direct air travel to abkhazia which was stopped after the georgia's war with the republic in your early one nine hundred ninety s. . coming up a little later here on our superstar why john runs for president of haiti.

knows these people. want to be employed. to drink out the pond you know so he knows what the people want. the case. ok celebrity to be a politician. parties a resident asif popstars should tune into politics. and happy and for parasailing donkey is still leading the high life but thankfully these days with all hooves firmly on the ground as she checks into a luxurious kremlin riding school. first though it's been sixty five years since two japanese cities hiroshima and nagasaki became the only places on earth where atomic bombs were deliberately used against civilians more than two hundred thousand people either died or died either due to the blast or to radiation poisoning after the u.s.

launched its nuclear attack during world war two on friday hiroshima 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 are still a group of victims in japan that are only now getting help and and recognition. 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 turned. started to turn away with spots 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 has been the left here as a memorial to that tragic event and the like this building of 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 but is given scientists the information they need to help black rain survivors. three years ago we found nine thousand houses with mud under the

floorboards because of when the houses were 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 bundles poor and old the pilot and where photos were taken we can get a better idea of the real height which ended up being sixteen 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 r.t. hiroshima japan. dr you're going to dakar from the hiroshima peace institute thinks it's outrageous that the u.s. still hasn't apologized for what he calls our crime against humanity well this year that the first time that the ripper sent out of the united states. to japan participated in the ceremony so people appreciated that but the. the u.s. government to still have some you know the offer any apologies to to survive those i mean the bombing of the large number of civilians is of course clearly was

clearly against international law a crime against humanity participating in the ceremony it's a step towards the official record a recognition of the crimes that the the us government committed so i hope someday soon the u.s. government. apologies to. those. brought us off camera obscura was officially sworn in as poland's new president on friday this comes four months after the previous leader lech kaczynski died in a plane crash in russia. and wasn't altogether smooth though was one of the new president's first initiated it sparked protests in warsaw hundreds gathered outside the presidential palace to boycott his decision to move a memorial to the crash victims the wooden cross was erected in the central square shortly after the accident in which more than ninety lost their lives the new president wanted to move the memorial to church grounds but after the protests the transfer has been postponed. the world famous flying beach donkey rescued by

a british tabloid and currently enjoying all the trappings of her newfound celebrity status could be an impostor that's according to a russian newspaper their report claims a local farmer tricked the son into buying a not similar looking animal for an over inflated price whereas the actual door for the donkey that actually took to the skies is called manya and is still owned by the organizer of a parasailing stunt who says he has no intention of giving her to anyone while these allegations are still to be proven the only hard fact in the story is that one lucky donkey has well and truly fall on its feet or more accurately who lives at the kremlin stables artie's tom barton went to visit. the donkey has learned it russia's new tour is full of good fly is finally able to breathe easy and not because the don't keep running off the days and the root of the notion not because she's not complaining she's very sweet wine and everyone fell in love with her and we don't want to give in on our not because streams journey started with the now

infamous flight of the beach the power of boot a publicity trick by the look you want to speak company police found don't run away and did not could be found. sitting on the beach was your parachute go one you couldn't quite figure it out it's also the leaks. don't keep the animals distressed brain also groups 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 create a demand you know for animals to be treated better the culprit presented of that 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 writing school drinking filtered water eating

a special diet prepared by a nutritionist and being messed with medical appointments and i get a little bit if they make it one of the 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 house and up to have flooded in from all over the world and all through where you might expect the manager of england's top them hotspur football club how redknapp has said he would happily put on that 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 come 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 hip hop star wife on this week entering the running for haiti's president the x. fairies member was born on the caribbean island where he's been involved in rebuilding efforts after the devastating earthquake there earlier this year our

team's resident laurie harford asked people on the streets of new york if pop power pop stars and politics should mix. why cliff john an american music celebrity is running for president of the haiti do you think pop culture and politics should ever max 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. still fall in to provide a bit of probably take more and more attention as opposed to somebody who's. running the treasury or something else you know just bending the ears in them entertainment but how would that prepare a new one for politics like i don't think that that was my whole point i don't think it should stay where he should is that mainstream challenge entertainment otherwise just start low not at 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 she just performed to what they got to do and that's what we come to watch 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 to use your money for there 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 there he knows these people whose families they're on tuesday he's been employed 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 like laugh he's the ok celebrity to be

a politician. he's ok but they're naive think people from a different profession. no backgrounds should ever get involved in politics the bottom line is you can make your peace but you. this week another bout of violent clashes erupted near the capital of kyrgyzstan anti-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 the very top boss of the protesters wanted to install in power he's already accused of trying to stage a coup in the country five years ago kyrgyzstan suffered months of deadly political and ethnic on unrest since the president kurmanbek bakiyev was overthrown in april political analyst even suffering cherrix as instability could turn it into a safe haven for extremists from neighboring countries. there is growing

instability in the north. and this is just a few hundred kilometers away from this. so it's going to just becomes a non-controlled territory where there is no real authority and where there was the rule for. political leaders then those. on the press she's not been there and they think well we have another place to go and then you will have wide international consequences and developments be around developments. r.t. also spoke with the care of his interior minister about the roots of the violence and the prospects for social and economic stability in the country you can catch that interview in just a couple of minutes after a short break and the headlines stay with us here on our.

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two thirty am here in the russian capital you're watching artie's week in review these are your headlines fire closing in a raging blaze is spreading across russia killing dozens of looting thousands of leaving people in cities are struggling to breathe in the midst of toxic smoke. so it is said to remember the hundreds killed in the war with georgia two years after tbilisi shelled to a public meeting its capital all but raised to the ground. and japan marks sixty five years since that atomic bomb was dropped on hiroshima for the first time since the deadly event washington sends an envoy to the memorial service but still offers no apologies. as this week saw another round of violence in kyrgyzstan we spoke to

the country's interior minister on what may be behind the unrest his answer is coming up here on our. 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 into 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. and 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. yes. 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 in to be scared of 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 there are perfectly behind these forces to do you know who those powers might be news can go bunch. there are several large groups one of them includes overthrown president of his immediate family i'm just 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 power in the country all these events are governed by their.