in total during a 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 then took several thousand people have been deprived of their forms basically their property was just burned down to be. currently living in temporary shelters and the off duty 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 steel off the devastation that these fires have brought 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 with wind speeds twenty meters per second it's moving through fox as you can see behind me from leaving behind a trail of devastation. this used to be

a small picturesque naslund 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 church and a community whole 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 clean 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 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's been smoky and 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 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 that than. they 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 most of these fools who try to be. consigned to the past will he would rather forget. t. most to reach. well while russia big sin the heat central europe swims in the floods heavy rains have caused the rivers to burst their banks leaving 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 plucking people to safety from the roofs of their homes states of emergency have been declared in several cities. so the set is in mourning as are members of 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 are following the anniversary on both sides of the conflict. several sorry monies have been help their publics president who are cup quite delayed grief stole the places that have become symbols that were polled as 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 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 soldiers 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 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 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 in care than kitten 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. conception 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 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 for his own needs but watching this family all swallow's is his favorite pastime and 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 said 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 we yashin these are georgians most of pharmacy or small skilled trades as some regularly travel to georgia as that's where they nearest hospital is this is a checkpoint controlled by russian border guards they hear not only to secure the republic but also to guarantee free movement of the locals who live in this segment to georgia and back this is essential as many of them have relatives on both sides of the franks yeah. here's your boss border 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 elderly 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 have as friends just like both of us sitting here there must be a new confrontation between georgia and the prize your brothers and sisters here. to police a status and refuses to recognize this over into its former territory but these two old friends georgian authority and decision sergei say the time has come to restore relations between georgia and south as just separate independent countries. from south. and it does look like on the other side of the georgian south of border the attitude towards the war its causes and consequences is also changing as my colleague boards from b.b.c. . and so i can 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 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 on the streets today in order to protest the decision that was made two years ago by president because for me to attack south the said 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. 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 now being that it was. good to be.

to see confrontation with the results and we see this results in georgia to. be integrated being that you are. so out there two years. so it was one of the biggest states 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 the country should be prepared for and 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 r.t.

correspondents arena reporting from georgia. from south as well following the conflict in the south russia decided to recognize the independence of the republic and another georgian breakaway region. on a visit to the capital president dmitry medvedev talked 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 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. better i've 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 resuming direct air travel to abkhazia which was stopped after georgia's war with the republic in the early one nine hundred ninety s. . coming up a little later here on r t pop superstar why john runs for president of haiti.

knows these people. these days be employed. to drink out the pond you know so he knows what the people want. the case. ok celebrity to be a politician. he's ok. he's a resident asks people in the streets of new york if pop car pop stars should tune into politics. and a happy end furry or a parasailing donkey is still leading the high life but thankfully these days he's got all hoofs firmly on the ground as she checks into a luxurious kremlin writings. 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 one in two hundred thousand people died either in the blast or due to radiation poisoning after the u.s. launched its nuclear attack during world war two. on friday hiroshima held at the

biggest memorial yet remembering the victims of the tragedy for the first time washington center representative was also a fourth 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 recognition. at eight fifteen in the morning on august sixth one thousand nine hundred forty five the united states destroyed the city of hiroshima instantly with an atomic bomb while not directly hit the people living in the surrounding area faced another danger black rain. that there was a big heaven and earth turned. green started to turn away spots and even though here in pieces were. the bomb sent a mushroom cloud into the atmosphere creating its own weather system pouring down a radioactive soot filled the rain onto the survivors 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. or members are not considered to survive more than eighty percent of us suffer from serious or related illnesses 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 to the left here as a memorial to that tragic event and the like this building the 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 hundred. as with under the

floorboards because when the house is built we know when the mud was exposed and when we took samples of the mud 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. commission that identified the original area calculated the mushroom cloud at eight kilometers but by finding the pool in 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 historian jacques powell says her have been the physical target but the message of sad was amos squarely at the u.s.s.r. during the time of the arms race. the reason for bombing hiroshima was that it had not to city had not been previously bomb that was a virgin target sort of speak so as to drop one bomb to obliterate an entire city with 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 that the united states had and wanted to moscow to know who they had and want to moscow

to know how powerful that weapon was but how could you get that across and should demonstrate it so demonstrating it would have to bomb a city well you couldn't bomb a russian city because you were now of russia you had to bomb an enemy city and you still had an enemy japan so you bomb them as a japanese city 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. bronislaw komorowski was officially sworn in as poland's new president on friday this comes four months after the previous leader like kaczynski died in a plane crash in russia you know gratian wasn't altogether smooth as one of the new presidents first initiated sparked protests in warsaw hundreds gathered outside a presidential palace to boycotted the decision to move a memorial to the crash victims the wooden cross was

a wreck in the central square shortly after the accident in which more than ninety died the new president wanted to move the memorial to the rounds of the church but after the protests of 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 according to a russian newspaper the report claims a local farmer tricked the son into buying a not a similar looking at a mole for an inflated price whereas the donkey that actually took to the skies is called and is still owned by the organizer of a parasailing stunt who says he has no intention of selling her to anyone while these allegations are still to be proven the only hard fact in this story is that one lucky donkey has well and truly landed on her feet or more accurately hooves at the kremlin stables artie's tom barton paid her a 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 dome chiranjeevi off the days in the root of the notion that because she's not complaining she's very sweet wine and everyone fell in love with her and we don't want to give no one out of the not two streams journey started with the now infamous flight of the beach the power of boot a publicity trick by the little speech company police found don't run away and did not cook was only found late. sitting on the beach was your parachute go one you couldn't quite figure it out it's also felix. a donkey. the animals' distressed brain also brought simply from around the world celebrities and animal rights activists were hot to trot with their opinions this animal was suffering was captured on videos and photographs and the way it spread through the media is really amazing and i think what the public has done is 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 the prestigious kremlin writing school drinking filtered water eating a special diet prepared by a nutritionist and being messengers with medical appointments and i get a little bit if they meet it's one of the we have well equipped stables good forger 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 not all through way you might expect the manager of england's top them hotspur football club harry redknapp has said he would happily put in that corrupt 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 be 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

john this weekend for the running for haiti's president the x. fuji's band member was born on the caribbean island where he's been involved in rebuilding efforts after the devastating earthquake there earlier this year are his resident laurie harvest asked folks in times square in the big apple of 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 met this week let's talk about that to look around here you go. you go it's a few celebrities around here and if one of them was. still fall in pick around a bit probably take more and more attention as opposed to somebody who's pop's other guy running the treasury or something else you know just bending years 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 think it

should stay where he should is that mainstream challenge entertainment otherwise just start low not at present anyway exactly somebody like by clip 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 if you just perform do what they've got to do and that's it we come to watch them before we don't need their opinion i don't like it i mean if you have a lot of money and you have nothing else to aspire to but maybe higher office than when i use your money for there may whitman of california 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 his family's there on tuesday he's been poor he lived in a hut he had to drink out the pond to some you know so he knows what the people want. in the case of my class he's the ok celebrity to be a politician. he's ok guy but they're naive think people from a different profession. backgrounds should never get involved in politics the bottom line is you can make your peace when you vote. and this week another bout of violent clashes erupted near the capital of kyrgyzstan anti-government protesters were demanding that 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 protesters wanted power he's already used to trying to stage a coup in the country five years ago kurdistan suffered months of deadly political

and ethnic on the rest since president kurmanbek bakiyev was overthrown in april political analyst analyst even saffron choke says instability could turn into could turn the country into a safe haven for extremists from neighboring nations. 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. when there was no real authority and where there was the rule of . law. and. then of those who. may think well we have another place to go and then why the international consequences and developments be around developments. also spoke with the kyrgyz as interior minister about the roots of the violence and the prospects for a social and economic stability in the country you can catch that interview in just

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i'm here in the russian capital you're watching our team's week in review these are our headlines fire close as a raging delays are spreading across russia killing dozens operating fauzi. i believe in people and cities struggling to breathe the toxic smoke. so. back at the hundreds killed in war with georgia two years after tbilisi shells the republican ticket stopped at all but raised to the ground. in japan is marking sixty five years since that atomic bomb was dropped on the city of hiroshima for the first time since the deadly about washington sends it on boy to the memorial service but still offers no well. as this week saw another round of violence in kyrgyzstan r.t. spoke with the country's interior minister about what may be behind the unrest his

answers coming up next. 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 of the survival thank you so much for devoting some of your time to us still live 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 sued is the 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 be. there are several large groups one of them includes the overthrown president of his immediate family i'm to supporters who used to be in the country's government and 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 aspirations as. well so the opposition is evidently.