thousand firefighters and volunteers are currently 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 homes basically their property were just purged down to be. currently living in temporary shelters and the off doherty savored to give them full compensation for their property and also to give each affected family a new home into 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 meters per second it's moving through fox as you can see behind me the frozen not

leaving behind a trail of devastation. this used to be a small picturesque 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 a 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 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 elaine it was one of

those that escaped and a day later she's bag hoping to find south it intact but it's all in vain all the flames were really high even above that small tower and look 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 were heading 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 its staff in smokey 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 the new. 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 its foods who try to be. consigned to the past who he would rather forget. t. most. while russia is baking in the heat central europe is drowning in the floods heavy rains have caused rivers to burst their banks and left at least fourteen 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 hailstorm strong winds and torrential rains have the story 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 the player in a number of cities. south 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 are following the anniversary on both sides of the conflict. several ceremonies have been held their publics president who are quite delayed grief stole the places that have become symbols that were pulled is 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 museums over burned soldiers was opened it basically looks like dozens of burned down cars put in a circle with a monument in that's when them many families have died in those cars trying to escape south states here 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 sit 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 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 open for structure objects have been restored several more schools and cared 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 there from a crocus 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. 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 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. 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 written it is safe here no one is bothering us the sit ins were saying don't

worry don't go away stay even during the war no one came and told us to leave. the overwhelming majority of the population in this a city in the village we yashin these are georgians most of pharmacy or small scale 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 trunks. 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 old really 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 would just like both of us sitting here being a confrontation between georgia. brothers and sisters here. to police a status and refuses to recognize this over until it's almost 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 as to 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 in the courts 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 i did today 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 conflicts 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 because for me to attack south the city there is also a very strong antiwar 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 every 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 the.

confrontation with russia the results are and we see the results of georgia to. be integrated dean. of nato so after two years or. so it was one of the biggest mistakes for sure but you also have to remember that at this point president president 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 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. correspondent reporting from the georgian capital tbilisi and italian overcoat in south speaking of south following the conflict there russia decided to recognize the independence of the republic and another georgian breakaway region. on the visit of. whom president dmitry medvedev talked 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 . 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 the next step is likely to be the resumption of 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 in a few minutes here on our spelling out the problems find out why a lot of access to education in india is holding back the country's economic potential. but first 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 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 its biggest memorial yet remembering victims of the tragedy for the first time washington sent a representative it was also the first visit for u.n. secretary general ban ki moon but despite the international attention there are still a group of victims in japan that only now are 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 and then we heard a blast. and the black queen started to turn away blouses black with spots and even though here in pieces were. green the bomb sent a mushroom cloud into the atmosphere creating its own weather system pouring down the 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 she must 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 consumer to survive more than eighty percent of us suffer from serious or related to illnesses and cancer which

is to. to government to recognize that. this building was destroyed in the initial blast and miraculously this wall was left standing it is been to 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 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 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. historian jack powell says her may have been

a physical target but the message it sent was aimed squarely at the u.s.s.r. during the time of 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 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 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 an ally 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. a group of former intelligence and military officials from the u.s. demands immediate action from president obama to prevent war in the middle east and they claim that israel is counting on washington to offer unconditional support for an attack on iran as early as this month this comes just days after u.s. top brass refused to rule out a strike on islamic state that includes former cia agent says a war with iran will ignite a regional conflict that could lead to the end i only of israel ron has repeatedly refused diplomatic relations with the jewish state as it remains that israel has no right to exist political analysts analyst michel chossudovsky believes that any israeli action would have to be given the green light from d.c. . signatories of a very. serious. people of course this but it's should be taken very

seriously it is technically from a military standpoint impossible for israel to actually launch the wall of iran with the green light for the united states to understand that this this is not strictly an israeli military project the united states since the mid ninety's indicated iran as a possible target and that the war plans which would be known going since two thousand and four have been a joint program of the us they total and israel so that in fact these war plans already been going it may be convenient for washington to let israel unleash the attack and in fact dick cheney back is back in two thousand and four intimated that israel might do the work for us though 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 of flow reaching if that were launched. within the next few months the whole region with the eastern mediterranean right through to the chinese border. what's in a name russia's million c. it could soon be finding out president medvedev wants them to be renamed as the police title that the force had held before the bolshevik revolution almost a century ago the move that includes a number of other measures will be up for public discussion including on the internet last december the president ordered sweeping reforms of course proposals included cutting the number of officers by around a quarter teachers only the most qualified the millions he has come under immense pressure recently after several high profile cases of murder and corruption by high ranking officers. a stone he has held

a military exercise commemorating and nazi collaborators the annual international war game called the air in a raid honors reconnaissance group that were behind red army lines during world war two russia says the exercise glorifies the stoniest cooperation with hitler's regime while talon claims it's just a sporting event a stony a comes in for frequent criticism for honoring nazi sympathizers former british member of the european parliament glyn ford believes the drill may signal level of not of support for the nazis on a political level. but what concerns me about this it appears to have some support from if you only officials within the a stone in government and that's what's much more concerning because that indicates if you will into a political collaboration with the people or organizing this event it's clearly both offensive a bizarre the low there is a new enthusiasm for extreme sports around and a nazi collaborators who organize a shoot and. second world war 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 the denny where would you support for this kind of event. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe at least one hundred twenty seven people have died in landslides triggered by heavy rain in western china two thousand are missing after floodwaters tore through the gansu province toppling buildings and overturning pars the disasters the latest to affect the country this summer that has seen some of the worst seasonal flooding in a decade. twelve people have been killed in a spate of attacks targeting police across afghanistan in herat near the iranian border a regional police chief and three bodyguards died when a suicide bomber struck their vehicle in a car packed with explosives another local commander was shot dead along with six others when gunmen stormed his home in northern cwindows province in khandahar an

officer died when the minibus he was travelling in struck a roadside bomb. three people have been killed by two landslides in pakistan heavy monsoon rains have worsened the flood crisis which is the worst the country's seen in eighty years a red alerts been issued in the south of the country as rescue when food aid efforts have been hampered by bad weather the deluge which started two weeks ago is claimed the lives of at least fifteen hundred official say thirteen million have been affected and told. millions of children across india are forced to give up their education to earn a living with widespread poverty many families can't afford to send their kids to school and instead rely on their daily wage to put food on the table but as artie's charan singh reports that threatens to harm one of the world's fastest growing economies. when he does not go to school his parents simply cannot afford to send him he is one of eight million children in india facing the same predicament even

though the government has made education free and compulsory for children under fourteen the family cannot use the mix as a rag picker. we have no money to teach our children the government doesn't give us a livelihood so the children have to help our family support itself we spend the day trying to get food to eat how can we educate our children. even if money got access to education this is what might well greet him not a classroom in sight in rural india government schools often exist only on paper they may be registered but there may be no buildings or teachers. who have no books here the children have no books to write on there are no pencil. you can see the state of the board its third difficulty in this way. this means many who are dead in school. to read and write for instance i ask. recite the

alphabet. after. being. asked. and and and. seven out of ten children in the early drop out by the time they turn fourteen when many schools . especially municipal schools teachers write the answers on the board so there's no question of anybody feeling it doesn't matter if you understand all the understand so the tell used to read classics and we talk we are able to cope to go to this start the group to provide educational support in underprivileged areas project. i hope seven hundred students from denny's slums who are looking to supplement their government provided education to the likes mathematics and wants

to be a bank open she grows up activities and events and i learn more here than in my school faster than the kids make a lot of noise so you conti anything and also the school teacher doesn't explain things you can hear i can ask my tutor many things but in school before the teacher can explain the class is over and the teacher vanishes mad and india is one of the youngest countries in the world with the one nation under twenty five while this may provide a workforce with an edge over countries with aging populations access to education will be needed for all the indian children for the country to continue its economic growth story got unseeing already knew that and that brings you up today with a week stories here on our to be back with a recap of our headlines in just a moment stay ahead this hour stay with us this hour our teams debate show cross-talk coming your way.

wealthy british style it's time to. find. the. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy kinds of reports on our culture is that so much as i was about the feeling that i think if i'm not going to give it really be right with the big bang experiments conducted by the large hadron collider is seen by many as a scientific breakthrough others see it. seven

thirty am here in moscow thanks for being with us here on our team as we can review these are our headlines fire closes in raging blazes spreading across russia killing dozens are rooting for the leaving people in cities struggling to breathe in toxic smoke. here remembers hundreds killed in the war with georgia two years after the tbilisi shells were a public meeting its capital all but razed to the ground. and is marking sixty five years and senate tomic bottle was dropped on the city of hiroshima for the first time since the deadly event washington sends an envoy to the memorial service but still offers no apologies. now it's time for more hot

debate with peter lavelle and his guests cross talk coming your way next here on our. hungry for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on. every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world join us to take knowledge and update on our jeep. and you can. alone any welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle the great quest for what is

called the god particle the big bang experiments conducted by the enormously ambitious and expensive large hadron collider is seen by many is a scientific breakthrough others say differently the safety of humanity and the earth maybe its day. can. you discuss and explain the meaning of a l.h.d. i'm joined by neil on the swami in london he's the author of the edge of physics and a consultant for the new scientist also in london we have jordan nash he's the head of the high energy physics research group at imperial college and in stuttgart we cross the auto rustler he's a professor of theoretical biochemistry at the university of tuning in and another member of our crosstalk team yell on the hunger all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want first of all jordan i'd like to go to you i didn't do very well and high school.