studio is. now. all over the world will gather. to discuss. what. about it. created twenty years ago to deal with emergency situations worldwide the new body approved its efficiency very quickly one of it's. so difficult to get his book of records since then has been improving its reputation. working in different locations it has accumulated unique know how that it's now ready to share. says the

forum. is also a great opportunity to gain valuable experience from their colleagues. thank you for. the first time that russia is hosting an international forum. representing. the gathering is taking place in moscow. regarded as a sign of international recognition of russia's achievements in firefighting. convening in moscow for the first time and the fact that it's being held in moscow is certainly sort of a recognition of russia over the past twenty years during which natural disasters jointly with the international community so. yes of course and we hope. third forum will follow while they be held in moscow to know these are

international gatherings or rescuers and firefighters it's like international youth last words which are used to have in the past would be meeting every year which is the way not necessarily maybe every year or every two years but it will be held regularly so there's going to be regular exercises will be held at the emergency ministry training grounds in leggins crew on the sidelines of the forum to demonstrate our skills and abilities what russian technologies are you going to demonstrate and how exactly are you going to surprise your foreign colleagues first to all will demonstrate high emergency two colleges which we use when it's necessary to rescue people in extinguish fires this is russian aviation complexes are robarts and one clear who participated in relief operations. so it's everything that can save human lives and this we were not there. but the mission was it necessary to demonstrate these technologies to foreign colleagues is it that

they don't have similar technologies to beat or do you just want to show them that russia also has advanced. no certainly not very well what kind of technologies and equipment our colleagues abroad have on the one hand this demonstration is a chance to share experience and on the other hand this is a possibility for us to advance our innovations on the world market and we've learned from our own experience that this is necessary for rescue operations but. tell me mr grossman when you talk about innovation do you mean some specific piece of equipment such as a vehicle a saw or radar or is it a technology an organizational aspects. of these or that you can always use because a good song in itself will be just an ordinary tool without a person cooperate so that's why we're going to focus on technology we're not going to just demonstrate. a helicopter as such will demonstrated in combination with an

eel someone his six year craft should give her and they create the global radius technology near craft air lift a helicopter to any part of the world where the helicopter will then carry out risky reconnaissance or other operations but this is our technology. as far as i know the russian emergencies ministry is a member of the international civil defense organization it's an advisory body but i've talked to your colleagues including the minister many times security there's an opinion that a supra national emergency situations reaction center a kind of international emergencies minister should be set up are you going to discuss this question at a moscow forum. do you think this idea will be implemented in the near future or not. well naturally the forum is ready to hold afridi scutcheon on any subject the most emergency manager source of universal

concern which you so hard to make all world safe for he turns off catastrophes in natural calamities that are striking now some of our international partners have even refused to attend a forum they say that about two million people in india are being stranded in the flood stricken areas of the world this is what worries us. but practically interest will certainly provoke a discussion of ha we should unite our efforts or to fill in the they came in sphere is where the work of rescuers and firefighters has been insufficient if you need to get united this is what the forum is going to discuss what do you mean by uniting efforts that is it new choices can switch over it existed the moment or is it the creation of a supra national body like the world government a center that's going to monitor the global situation. with the you know we are totally devoid of such birth credit conditions because there is the united nations . the european union in europe korea the shanghai cooperation organization for

example that there are plenty of such platforms which cover the entire world but we are talking about him i told him details that make a rescue operation more energetic and effective and help avoid intermissions in our rescue work this is what we have learned from our prop tickle experience if you are finding a fire you cannot make it a fifteen minute commercial break this work should never interrupt the sooner it starts the better with you people is exactly the same we all know the parameters of saving people after earthquakes there is a chance to find survivors only in the first two hours after an earthquake and after that the only thing rescuers can do is to clear away the rubble that is why we are not going to discuss this issues in bureaucratic terms who will think of how to complete international mechanisms with a more efficient actions to college well more persistent information sharing which

may result in some large scale managerial solutions in again i would not use the word global name maybe or regional for example if the usual you just said that you are avoid the very crowded conditions but for professional and vicious the russian emergencies ministry has plenty and i know that your colleagues are proud of being merely the best service in the world but still is there anything which the russian ministry of emergency situations can still learn from foreign colleagues use previously of course the results can you tell us about it in more detail. well first of all we have a program for preparing our central. rescue team which will take a special pride in it to undergo an international test we want this team to be all recognised is the most efficient unit as. heavy rescue teams it should be out

on the international list of top priority teams. we are learning from other teams of such status and i believe our team will pass this test with owners casual . all right what about the vice versa process does the russian emergency ministry teach professionalism for the countries that can use them in your sleep of course it does and they know there are a well what they can learn from us. and they dress us persistently asking us to kesha there are people and so we do. for instance so we have classes for a vietnamese rescue or skin against you also we train rescuers you know higher and secondary educational institutions and in different centers for firefighters or rescuers and so on which of if we teach her colleagues you know other countries as

well for instance we are opening intense classes in serbia for all balkan states with whom i can mention a driving school in rwanda and even though it was in the heart of africa on september the first there was a long line of young men who wanted to lay down their guns and learn to do it peaceful job over askers. training is a mutual sometimes we'll learn and take tests and sometimes we teach others more take firefighters for instance which is most far fighters sold the see another nearby countries such as the boldak states in eastern europe had to learn far fighting tactics in the soviet union and today they were saying that they'll step to really work with the. foreign colleagues receive any practical training and the emergency ministry teams in russia. can one just come home and

find a good music fireman extinguishing a fire at that place for the pleasure. well first of all it's not that scary i have to say companies that are saying that i know it isn't but people may get surprised. and secondly we learn and take born in exercises together moreover we participate together in search and rescue in fire extinguishing in humanitarian operations and we're always happy to meet our graduates there as we know there are partners. who send our workers to learn from their us or our chinese colleagues. and we certainly turn it over to our country's main if. we are mostly interested in the experience of the g eight countries also we like original classes for instance seem to poor and has a good training base who are her colleagues from asian states who get together to learn we don't just learn their standards we also learn working in particular

conditions which our colleagues demonstrate to us the greater good of course. says he but i think a director of the international department at the russian ministry spotlight will be back shortly after a break so welcome to this interview in less than a minute if they were. nineteen thirty england and france tried to reason with hitler germany demands of the land and gets its way they all thought they had created a safety net for themselves nineteen thirty nine the whole of europe isn't gulf war efforts to establish

a system of collective security nine hundred thirty eight failed and it's still on the agenda. the lesson was to be learned from the munich agreement. that's.

welcome back to spotlight i am now going over and just in the mind of the my guest in the studio today is he would direct to all the international department had the russian emergencies ministry. he said that some states wouldn't be able to participate in this forum in moscow due to emergencies in their countries. you mentioned india. what other countries are having emergencies no i mean it was at the party. back he stammered china were expecting rescuers form china but today said they were having a rough time with the landslides but they will send some representatives anyway to go he also some african states didn't send their workers even with that didn't they have some terrible floods in europe how did they cope cope with them all right for instance to friday we signed a corporation agreement with croatia of course we invited them to the forum so we

left croatia on friday and the next day your huge flood began and is a group was filled with water because it was there for a colleague says thank you but we cannot come now. is the russian emergency ministry working in any other countries at the moment and it certainly is can you tell us where those in china india and pakistan know nocturnally we are participating in the three largest humanitarian operations presently as for pakistan we have already sent emergency help there now we are beginning the deployment all for the second stage of the operation but of those who will continue sending chance some medicines and other supplies and we'll do it in cooperation with our. professional partner with the international civil defense organization that's your mantra but also we participated in new york call to help we support

the world health organization and the united nations office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs these are our partners oversee the entire international response framework. and the third stage of the operation starts today in serbia our mind clearers we have just finished working with our rescue workers are ready to respond we have current projects for supplying food for instance we're being sending flour and other supplies into armenia as well as to g q stan and afghanistan. as the director of the international department can you give us the number of countries that the emergency ministry has helped over the past year. if not the fifteen countries did i mean in two thousand and nine or in two thousand and ten i mean in

two thousand and ten. you held fifteen countries already yes we have and we are marking our twentieth anniversary now well let's take a look at the history of the russian and the ministry in a report by spotlights to me that. fifty thousand lives will last in armenia in the speech talk earthquake more than twenty years ago. it was destroyed the rescue operation was chaotic so that officials when trading for disaster on the scale lesson was learned the decision was made to create a special rescue workers now which is considered to be one of the best in europe if there's an emergency situation in any part of the world max perutz for assistance. christmas two thousand and four tsunami is he eleven countries getting more than two hundred twenty five thousand people a russian rescue helicopter helped search for survivors and planes brought more

than one hundred fifty tons of humanitarian aid to the devastated region a year when new orleans was heated by hurricane katrina was there to help in the off to moscow one of the west natural disasters in america's history risk has delivered more than sixty tons of humanitarian aid to the hurricane victims. the russian rescue team also took pride in needle creations in myanmar two years ago when the country was heat by tropical cyclon which killed at least seventy eight thousand people and left thousands more homeless this year the russian and hospital was sent to haiti to help victims of the earthquake and doctors there performed around fifty operations psychologists also help survivors cope with the shock the work of the russian rescue organizations humanitarian missions virtually covers the world each year and more than one hundred thousand people that's the equivalent of

hershey teams saving twelve people an hour. looking back over the history of the emergency ministry was there a particular rescue operation in which are people still remembered as the most difficult and legendary something or do you consider every new operation that's ahead of you to be the hardest one. of course every emergency situation is unique in its own way and the same applies to you operations. during the past twenty years were there for more than three hundred twenty operations in other countries which included humanitarian operations it's called search and rescue operations medical health and evacuation and fire extinguishing fluid with that of course we specially remember our first operations in the early one nine hundred ninety s. immediately after our agency was established we became involved in the

international response system. and actually we surprised everyone when we beat many european countries showed up in syria in response to the u.n. call for help it is the well ahead of many other countries that were involved in the operation. the story in one thousand nine hundred. three we signed an agreement with the office self the united nations high commissioner for refugees. we learned from experience self swedish and german crews we need and we saw that things were going bad in yugoslavia where they had the war but had the battle in vocal war cheese and of course russia couldn't stay away from it but i wouldn't just send supplies here we said we would have to fully participate in the humanitarian operation. and we made our decision in december the government approved it in

january and in early february or in the crew when we departed from the ganske and. of course we selected professionals who knew how to drive in the mountains they arrived in belgrade loaded their trucks immediately into the two days later they were unloading them in syria of a book aided city that really needed humanitarian aid food in the made a sense to literally save people from perishing you know our current drove through the mountains in the cold of winter and along the way they helped this swedish team and their vehicles that were stuck because we had come us six by six trucks with the great drivers so on the one hand this is how you establish close ties with colleagues from other countries and on the other hand the un declared immediately that they couldn't do without the russian crew any more but and indeed for the next

to five to seventy years we were doing un tasks all the time that we were delivering aid to the most difficult areas of a closed and claws were battles were raging across the front lines and so on representing the us and such was our first experience that began in one thousand nine hundred three. this is. the russian emergency ministry rescues twelve people an hour that makes for one person every five minutes or over three hundred people a day that's true and i believe it is does that mean russia is such an unsafe country. all countries are according to the international statistics our country doesn't stand out in comparison. for example has twenty million people in the flood risk zone that's a big number. of fires were the main threat last summer for the

forest fires the bog fires there was the smog this proved that prevention is probably more crucial than rescue. the emergency ministry is an extremely efficient structure. why won't it take the job of preventing such catastrophes or is it whether to do so. but if we are ready to do so prevention is one of our key tasks actually along with eliminating the consequences of disasters much there are other sectors in american is news that should be functioning along with the prevention system of the russian emergency ministry indeed in those four years demonstrated the need for it to come prehensile approach both at the national and international levels. but we did receive significant assistance from other countries during this period with naturally more entitle to speak about

international aspects and studios were helped by those advanced technologies that you mentioned to you know we gratefully received assistance from the air forces of many other countries and we look at them russia's launch territory and requires more bile equipment in the aircraft that can be here today and somewhere else tomorrow and would be helping to stop fires as they approach c.d.'s and other important infrastructure objects. so the international community in our case saw that it is very efficient to invite a specific aide put it because you know it will take to nami for instance what they were asking for any kind of help from anyone as they objectively needed it there but here in the european part of russia we were grateful for advanced technologies

and indeed they sent us a very experienced crews that were just side by side with our foreign men but if they sent aircraft and helicopters that were working in food coronation with already or forces thank you thank you very much for being with us and just to remind that my guest in this to take was that actually come directly on the end of that. department of the russian and the agency's ministry and that's it for the hour from all of us here if you want to have your soon spotlight quiet someone morning to you think i should do next time just drop me a line and i'll be no ads on t.v. darts are you and let's keep spotlight interactive movie back with more first time comments on the what's going on in and outside russia until then stay in on its feet and take care of as you.

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