we're bringing you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news on our teeth the u.s. stripped of its pristine aaa credit rating for the first time triggering peers of another global financial downturn as investors ready for monday asian markets have already opened and immediately gone this negative territory. in the eurozone debt was provoked a turbulent week with european central bankers now agreeing to buy italian and spanish bonds to stop the rot brussels is concerned it will ease economy fails it would be too big to rescue and could drag the whole currency down with the.

demonstrations in israel as a quarter of a million protesters demand the government drive down the cost of living. prime minister netanyahu set up a team to look at reducing taxes but the opposition says he's trying to end the protests not deal with the issues. and. finally we're in the republic of south side here marking three years since the conflict with georgia devastated the region but brought about a recognition morial services are being held in the capital city for the victims of the conflict. coming up our report on how the republican has risen from conflict to it and its journey to becoming once again a holiday destination stay with us. ancient greeks and romans built the towns here they live so it by side with local tribes moving two thousand five hundred years ago.

and the app has principality established in the eighth century and later became known as the op has condemned. the modern day republican but because it covers an area of about nine thousand square kilometers a cause is south is situated on the eastern coast of the black sea. the great to coax is mountain range towers in their publics nul. it is a land where some tropics the lakes adjoining j.c.s. . come on let's go locals remember all too well the tragic events in up causes more than history. eighteen years have passed since then you've crossed but i can talk about it

without my lips trembling and from heart i can talk about that. because it is returning to normal and again becoming a tourist for the black sea region and. if travelling by sea and old lighthouse points the way to cause is capital so whom . they keep and finds it difficult to open the massive tools it is at least one hundred fifty years old. he then climbs the ladder leading to the lamp.

for the crown yes three this is part of a long stairwell made in the nineteenth century a further after it was built together with his lighthouse in eight hundred sixty one feet. it's beautiful i see where they don't make anything like it nowadays really deal with. the lighthouse is one hundred feet high it's a powerful large can be seen thirty kilometers away. this is who lighthouse has french origin as the russian empires navy placed an order for its construction with a company that was at the same time drawing up a blueprint for the eiffel tower. at that time there was an oil lamp here. at the bill if they were to me it was quite an advanced lighting fixture by the standards of the day. but compared to modern one thousand

watt lamps it was three or four times a week or if the slave didn't get it if you were. with a permitting turkey's black sea coast can be seen on the horizon the lamp has gone out only twice in the history of the lighthouse turkish troops to get away as one of the spoils of war occupying a closet in eighteen seventy seven it was put out for the second time after the abkhazian georgian war in the early nineties nineties. the old the broke out in them cars here in one thousand nine hundred two lasted for two years and cause of the status of an autonomous region at the time and supreme invoked his constitutional right to self-determination of the lads georgian troops

ended up under the pretext of protecting a railway they were driven out in the course of severe fighting. some thoughts about because you were liberated in one thousand nine hundred three the georgian troops retained the upper could dorrigo of what a policy is to teach it regions. following george's attack on south and such here in two thousand and eight the abkhaz military carried out a special operation in the could dorie region with the russian support georgian forces would driven out of the republics entire territory russia and several other countries have since recognized a cause is independence. the turbulence could dorie river pieces the entire length of the goal which this place was part of the silk road now is the way leading straight to abkhazians capital so

whom from the greater caucuses mountain range. the road to the gorge down below there is a chasm with a mountain stream carrying its clear waters. whenever the rocks step aside the i can see rooftops in the valleys this is the abkhazian region of spain as you know many local people left their homes during the conflict with georgia and now they are coming back. the good dorie gorge was a favorite tourist attraction before the war but it's seen few travelers in the past two decades. now visitors can once again admire the picturesque landscape mountain lakes waterfalls and the unique flora.

tourists who used to come to. when it was still a study group public ellen travelers review of. the new every mountain path that anybody. tourists come in now because this is the peaceful place again. the books would forest is one of the most revered places an all around cause as well as in the dory gorge. the stream running through the marriage which creates a special microclimate. the grooves of most covered trees look like they've been sprinkled with emeralds.

the village of as sits near the fairy tale scenery. each morning about the sheds go about their household chores. they have cows and many goats. every day husband and wife battalion make some loony a traditional abkhazian cheese the secret to this produce is in the fermentation. take the cheese making begins with different mens in process. they will use the x. tracks from the stomach of a car. this is how we do it. the foot quickly brings the curd in the vats to the right temperature once it's thoroughly needed and cheese can be served today local people like about the ships and again plan for the future vitali is going to set up

a tourist camp in the courtyard of his house he will treat the guests to homemade cheese and take them on the guided tours. rolls cheese is a form of income for us it's like our national currency. people always need to eat and cheese is always in demand here so it up with the schools i. there is a three hour drive from the farm to some people in the house capital so the city has taken on a different look in the past several years ruined homes and hotels have been restored. the waterfront has been saving transformed it's a traditional rallying point for tourists and locals alike and it has a norm history. a child of his displeasure the lead merchant ships came here from

greece and other places as yet but there is evidence suggesting there was a market place here in the first century b.c. and he just gets another chance from nearly the entire black sea coast brought their group here. just a stand up a kin often visit succumbs main pier. the paintings are inspired by the city and the sea sits upon. what is this sea is league in now in the middle part of this land. we don't come here just to have a good time and leave where we got the city and this land as part of all sounds. one of the standards paintings commemorates have friends who fought in the war but

never returned. her father is still missing but the stand hopes is a lie. because he is a college minister. teaches that succumbs state university. today he tells his students that a cause can boast vast reserves of pure water due to its glaze he has been driven as. if we conserve water in the upper reaches of our rivers the republic will have the most valuable resource for many years to come all of mankind needs this resource nowadays the value of a liter of ecologically clean water exceeds the cost of a later of oil revenue. only strains the feeling is a cool conclusion lawing that stands in the downtown area it is more than three

hundred years old in the early nineteenth century a botanical garden was laid out around it it is one of the most beautiful areas in the city. this is one of the oldest atomico gardens in the world which it currently features over five thousand plants from every continent. this place is a veritable treasure trove of plants exotic flora such as the japanese banana clones of adapted to conditions in abkhazia these plants were brought to the black sea coast at the beginning of the last century scientists were surprised to see them bearing fruit gokey to palms and all of trees only so to be found in the botanical garden but most of all the botanists pride themselves on the sago palm.

him here in the garden you can find plants which are one hundred to one hundred twenty years old they are thought to be some of the oldest on earth the history goes back to the coal age that is to say they're related to the tree fern. today the park is still being restored to its former glory and soon it will once again open for the public to enjoy. russia would be so much brighter if you knew more about someone from first impressions. whose phones totty dot

com. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on our t.v. . if. you gave it. to. a. good movie our phone ministry is situational neglect seacoast twenty kilometers from sioux whom it was founded eight hundred seventy five by monks who had arrived in their

cars here from greece soon after that the closest i came a leading religious sense out in the caucasus the ministry's stanzel an elevation of surviving defensive fortifications of the and a copy a fortress around a nearby hill and a copy of is the name of the capital of the ancient abkhaz kingdom just before wars broke out here at various times georgians generally these romans turks and persians invaded this place but the mountains protected the local people we associate ourselves with the mountain was rather than with people related to the sea or were . the end of the pier fulcher stands on a mountain top of the mountain speedy ologists have discovered a vast kavanaugh it attracts numerous tourists a tour of the cave begins with the tourists boarding an electric train locals jokingly refer to it as the abkhaz metro i there is some room that let's get in.

the know the african cave is one of the world's largest its volume is about one million cubic metres tourists get to experience or inspiring do you feel this on the ground kingdom or gods lead them through several grocers and many who enter this cave have another motive other than just a tour of this mysterious world people suffering from asthma or allergies come here to breathe in the medicinal effects of it's humid as every do you doubt an allergy guest here i'm going to take you on a fascination tour on the underground chambers open all the off on cape cod fish. tourists form a line as they go from one holes when another to the sound of trickling streams

small bridges and larry passages run along stuff like tights and static modes crafted by nature. water dripping from above is taken cincher is to form these intricate limestone columns. that mind your feet please it's slippery here. in the largest hole of the levee and phone there is enough space for three football pitches. but one of the most spectacular sights is a wall to fall on the calcite rock. its large drops dripped down from a height of two meters but never reach the caves ultimate.

a winding road of relic plants looks between the rocks of the recent national park the park is under the special protection of a cause it covers a total of forty thousand take tez many of the plants are unique in that they can only be found in this region. by. h. patch of land and. is unique because it is inhabited by rare plants and animals. the road goes uphill only way to the much celebrated pride of the republic lake wreaths it was forms of the nile chewed of nine hundred fifty meters above sea level following a rock slide reads that is described as a remarkable natural creation and the most attractive site on the black sea shore of the caucasus. always a. lake or it was born as a result of an ancient earthquake. and that's how it was filmed. in steps is

about one hundred thirteen meters but it's not enough yet for the lake has been joule the entire caucasus as well as at highs here just look up close ups it will cover them. up cuz he has nature reserves are constantly expanding and another national park is being laid out in the dory gorge it will be adjacent to the reefs and park a relic of plants nature reserves will gradually cover almost one third of the republic's territory. stallion's country house still stands on one of the scenic banks of lake rates soviet leaders reform the vacationing here they often invited leaders of foreign communist parties to visit them to form a state country house stands tool age old trees today it is a church site. a trip fall

is found tucked away in the foothills of a mountain in a cause here it is situated on the banks of the main chiefs the river which boasts clean water and a strong current in the old days monks fishtail they lived in a monastery high in the mountains hidden away from will be a fed as legend has it that in the nine hundred thirty s. then soviet leader joseph stalin went fishing in the river. to catch was so bountiful that he ordered the trout farm to be built here. today there are some three hundred thousand rainbow trout and the farms palmas. all . all of cork want to catch. so much of this game at least five years alt. if the mob is the spawn in school the frain will try out we

get baby trout from them the trout farm is situated on the banks of a unique river. it is food water gushing from a giant subterranean spring and it is thought to be europe's largest spring of discouragement. the village of drips stretches across the foothills several kilometers from the black sea shore it's called the heart because. the backyard of nearly every house here has a distinctly up as a look a backyard it is one of the keys symbols of the traditional way of life you know cause yet each backyard is supposed to have a cabin made of rhododendron it is in fact

a kitchen where all family members gather over meals. her idea. of. the fireplace is in the center of the cabin far as kindle on the clay floor with a cauldron that hangs over it on a chain this is filled with memel ego the name given in some black sea countries to corn flour porridge that was known i think i might as well put a lead on it for a while but that's not really necessary. here people leave long lives because the oh eat natural food coops all by fire. i know that's moldavian snake mama they got to eat out hustling which normally be called ugly stuff. i also know that italians call it polish and that. this is on the mug. because i

always try to make sure the fire in their cabins is constantly lit it is both a symbol of affection in the home and the place where food is cooked the. front of your clothes you look down the low hollow i love great to see here. the the guests are always welcome in our cars homes at any time of the day the. earth the gentleman let us celebrate with us may god give us health pace understanding how pianist love and joy to all our nations to all of the president's. a standard became the abkhaz oldest is going to pains a new picture she poses

a building that was shelled during the war members of parliament used to meet in session here whenever asked on the record as the georgian conflict she's always reminded of her father. she went away during the night and never came back. and there were also people i treasure and remember eighteen years have passed. and i don't know how much time will pass before i can talk about it without my lips trembling and if rogan hearts. i still conned bring myself to do it. assuming lighthouse has witnessed many events during its long history.

it still serves as a beacon for the growing number of foreign ships arriving at a policy as main hall but. they captains know full well that it is been sending signals over the abkhaz waters of the black sea for more than a century each. dish that would wish to turkish merchant ships were quick to turn up here. no doubt they had information telling them about the location of the lighthouse on the harbor here it is during storms to light horse always filled its vital role with great precision. the lighthouse keeper has yet to repair the pockmarks in the tower left by bullets from the abkhaz georgian conflict.

for the same token abkhazia will take some time to rid itself of all traces of war . meanwhile life in the republic is clearly returning to normal. mission free. education free zones for charges free to make amends free. free stews free. zones free blank template video for your media projects and c.e.o. john karr teach dot com.

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