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of the talk on south the said here we talk to those who bear the scars of the public about how they're rebuilding their lives. more than what some of the settings had to overcome to get their country back on track after the war in our special report that's on the air. self a settee allies in the heart of the caucasus between europe and asia. every day the sun rises over the high mountains and cities built many centuries ago still retain their unique history. and a stone draco's of b.f. goes for a job every morning. most of the sun my homelands my p.c. and your streams gardens and your lands. have always made us so happy. from the hilltop you can fit the south the centurion capital of involved in the

palm of his hand moments like this philip with inspiration for his next work. the republic of south ascent he alone is in the caucasus the borders of russia to the north and georgia to the south west and east. mountains cover ninety percent of south the settlers territory which is more than a thousand meters above sea level involved is its capital the transco cation highway which connects russia to georgia and armenia and runs through the city. after his morning run artist andre returns to his studio it is crammed with his works he's never been short of creative ideas except for the time his native land became the scene of an homage conflict back then was the last thing on his mind.

no way that you don't have moments where i thoroughly neglected my work especially during the war because obviously i was preoccupied with other things my life i lead is also changed to delist i thought it was never going to end the chief. uneasy relations between georgia and a setia started in the late one nine hundred eighty s. they became anger of a did of the georgian withdrew from the u.s.s.r. the deputies of the south especially in holland passed a resolution on state sovereignty in september one thousand nine hundred ninety eight which georgia refused to recognize since then georgia has been seeking unification with silva setia. on the ninth or from august the seventh to almost the eighth two thousand and eight georgian troops began shelling involved the military units were forced to leave the country as

a result of the russian peacekeeping operation afterwards russia recognized self-assertive as an independent state. in august two thousand and eight leyla today over and her young daughters spent five days in this basement together with another five hundred people. the residents of skin and underground when the town came under attack just discussed as the comes now it seems to me that outside on the street the whole thing is going to start a new models of course it's bad memory and that in fact his basement because it helped us to stay alive. to condor was only nine when the war broke out she was frightened but didn't show her fear in order to not upset her mother the

neighbor lauer was constantly by the family's side. is georgian her greatest concern was the georgian soldiers would shoot her first because of the fact that she was living in a setting where there was no food or water in the basement the underground inhabitants spent several days totally unaware of what was happening above ground i think constant fear for their lives when you provide the georgians they will it's down the street you know they were shooting from their submachine guns they thought there was an abandoned house here that they were sure there was no one there but there were incidents when they threw grenades into the basin an open bottle. i will never forget the noise the whole time. and it got closer and then we heard an explosion really it never crossed our minds but it was from a missile launcher girl who. took a pencil and

a single sheet of paper with her into the basement down there she drew sketches of everything around her. measuring the gloomy day there in black pencil initially children need only storage out life such as. sure it was done. many shown in from that place so we also let some kind of. condor is attending a master class in drawing at an art school in san vall self-possession painted tom a lens coverage of his well known here has invited you condor and other talented youngsters to attend the master class today he's showing the children his own banking is filled with bullet damage from august two thousand and eight. degrees in square during the georgian invasion shells enshroud an old destroyed

many times he wants for levy will get in euros be discarded in the blue several brilliant works or ruined stores and other golf or witnesses every day and would submachine guns and just riddled the paintings with bullet holes. but today the artist wants his pupils to choose the peaceful scene for their drawings. to have. the full girl your message grazer just where fill the picture with birds you can get hold of dullness of the rainbow is lots of bright colors.

most of all i don't want to remember bad things after the war. somehow tools i hope that everything. it will be great. and colorful. wall. drug new rooms now dream house is in post-war also involved. they have replaced the old ones that were damaged during the battle for malta still to be repaired and almost every building carries a trace of the conflict. the parliament building downtown was almost completely destroyed.

through here this is the middle of the building the second floor visible are gone there used to be an organ hole here. it was very badly damaged during the military hostilities in two thousand eight. hundred dollars nothing is left he except for a concrete carcass. the organ was one of a kind of gun was burned to send his soldiers for sure. severing of will of the. many skinned residents who were left homeless in two thousand and eight have already moved into new apartments this neighborhood was constructed by moscow builders for. the family of. lives in a new house in the village of to get fifteen kilometers from involved. an old house used to stand at this place for it was completely destroyed during the war the only some timber is fifty bombs hit the house and tore it hard surface.

alina took shelter with the family and a trailer for two years. well lived in this wagon with two years before the built his cars forests that's where we're live now. here we do all the household chores. a year ago pollini moved into a new two story house then it's hard for me to imagine where we would have lived if they hadn't built a new house for her as. there is no peace in the village of to get their lives once upon a time she wouldn't even let her daughter play in the cool. a little al those favorite place things. hopes that before long a child will forget all about them will.

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. for many years people in the involved were more concerned with survival at a time when they faced the blockade and shelling with peace returned scientists also came back to the city they hope to make lots of discoveries in this anxious land historians call the capital of south ossetia a paradise for archaeologists. but a move to the she says of authority and king gave us down its urban status seventeen hundred years ago that was in the year two hundred sixty five. needless to say there aren't very many underground passages beneath this down. this they were used by syfy and the place was in fact a city and fortress two thirds of it in. the tops of

old fortresses and watch towers rise from behind the mountains in every direction from. the ancestors of modern necessity and settled in these parts in the eighteenth century. it was a must to build fortifications in every village there are about five hundred watchtowers in self a sense here. some of the family that i'm not have a watchtower was not considered to be a family in the seventeenth eighteenth century believe that such a family would vanish sooner or later as a result of internal and external factors such as wars and vendettas. this watchtower is located not far from the town or. it was built in the gorge near by they extract the stones for construction from the local mountains the builders processed the rocks laid them and used egg white as morta.

well most towers were built and square of her meds like shapes with a board every floor had a eight hour oscillates of the two for each wall to provide a better view this way they could shoot more precisely. through this tower had at least five floors of. the wall a just as well as historians take an interest in the walls of the ancient towers and on the street. let the mayor go by f. is a contributor to self the seti is read the book of rare and endangered animals and will soon be published here on the rocks lizards can be spotted they creep out of the cracks to warm up in the sun. yes sure if you love there were not very many people who are so scared of lizards that they panic when they see one way or the

other popular belief is that the lizards will bite you on ok watch my fingers all given there is no blood on it not even one drop of which it was one of the lizards can bite through my skin roots in yours. studies the regions from. the buzzard hovering over the river is a predatory bird normally it feeds on gophers and noise but now it has a different vision mind. it's a claim freshwater crab but there aren't many of them out here in few know that we have them. female crabs sometimes have caviar here but these are young ones they most certainly don't have any you know. the settee and freshwater crabs are on the verge of extinction because of predators and people some eat them meat others breed them at home in aquariums genia by the leaves crabs should definitely be entered

into the bread book. this is the last asian scorpion which is also facing extinction as inhabits a small area near south especially as cattle. population has drastically dropped in recent years because of their mass capture to rare iams. them in the fall i found a pregnant female who. was happy in their lives when she gives birth to her young ones to climb on her back to feed there for a while and then they start spending for themselves. during the spring mating period the scorpions poison is especially dangerous mostly pets fall victim to their stings and sometimes even people are attacked lydia mia goodbye a suggest establishing a small nature reserve in the school peons habitat it will help protect skin valves

residents and help secure the future of an entire species of resco piano at the same in if you do they lived alongside done this or as many years ago most of those species from that era had some of the perished in the scorpions have survived to the day with according. to a manager of a team pia is traveling to the west of south the set here he's been invited by village residents who want to participate in ecological tourism. when visitors arrive hostesses of one of the homes for past special pies in south asensio no meal can go without them. as it is you could argue sure dealing with traditionally was a certain prize a man from party or meat and cabbage that's not easy mostly in their field of the cheese and greens see it more as my senate run is with cabbage that i like that

she's on to those are no good for a set ian's pies i'm old and just food it is a special dish the celebrations they make a countless number of funerals only two today the hostess is prepared three with cheese potatoes and greens. for. its. cover. yes put them in. your young lady and you're doing a good job. while the women make pies the homeowner meets the guests. i go to get there and seen you for quite a while. i want to know or brings. in the heart of the

pollies quickly turn brown then they take them out and butter them. well i need to talk to you. over come in come in. how are you doing to some is almost here it's getting warmer will be making hay soon the family is getting ready to make her. bring some one would. have. the line and freshly baked pies a pair of the table. you never turn a high over when you colored. and you don't turn it around either. otherwise they say grace will turn away from you. the clean gorge thirty kilometers north of. is one of the most beautiful places in the area that i have never seen any industrial facilities here there are no paved

roads. lists often come here to wander through the alpine tundra looking for rare flowers to use in infusions. of the well known clumps like time oregon or of the rose breeze ladies man pull. sage and even bilberries. berries and leaves we have a big selection of. great great grandfather used to live here family legend has it that he too was a herbalist he collected plants treated people with infusions and reportedly lived to be one hundred and forty years old has never been any war in the gorge where people collect. the village of my boot on the contrary is right on the border between georgia and south of setia in the

past it used to take the local residents an entire day to cover the fifteen kilometers between involved and their village. of. the village was in the occupation zone for nice and they do you know it's two thousand and eight three. is always been a necessity in enclaves surrounded on all saw in spite georgian villages. the georgian government police and special forces here arrest people living only lived there. for. now a days and now to be love can have a family business he and his son keep peace. mills usual hussein for for gathering honey. is the young vacation he sells here then. they collect the honey they collect

that's right. comes. off. and the lady of the house looks after chickens. living in the country in a village is no easy life. oh. neither have. they feed the chickens yet have their father around the house. the logistical the naked diet has come to the so-called natural reserve known as the largest reserve in the south caucasus the park's flora includes beech older and

chris as well as various species of kona for the reserve southern frontier borders on an artificial lake. recently a reserve attendant came across an abandoned row cough the starving to death. he took the car home and successfully nursed it back to health. where fit in a mellow moloko what kind of milk is it it's natural melanoma that must think you're his mama and i see it is licking your fingers oh yes she's really gotten used to me. by it says the cough will probably have to stay with humans now we're in a panel next to the house it has already become domesticated if it were returned to the wild it might easily fall prey to carnivores if. there is a road near the smallest species of deer that live in a republic of course we're going to merely we also have the caspian red area to one of the larger species of the deer family rolling. involved.

the downtown area is commonly referred to as the jewish quarter and still features some houses that date back several centuries. old at that would go well wrist house hears from the nineteenth century it was built by jewish merchants in soviet times this was a shock and just before the war this house accommodated a jewish community center though it was very beautiful. but the streets of the involved archaeologists have discovered numerous tunnels which sprawl the legs of the city or whether it's underground passages lead is still a mystery. but it still poses one of those tunnels which practically ran all over the city in olden days there used to be a tunnel beneath every house but these underground passageways probably stretched as far as the edge of the city and then head of them why even across the river in

this one here we haven't fully on earth yet we will have dug almost ten meters deep and there's still no end in sight and we need to. cut the skin vaults children a painting these young artists were born during the height of the georgian a city and. only in the past three years of they finally begun living in peace. destroying features a park with children hanging out and claim. country sons chinese. and i've painted village just to see its cheerful. snoopy's trouble there. everything is bright and colorful. i'm joy my brother and myself we're all out in our core jordan still involved playing together but the one

i want is how bright a callous yet because i do. just see see invalid you can fasten a little so i john up by painting it as like a city to be like cactus if. you can the scramjet idea based so much trouble to families attack on skin bob now she answered i'm city which she would like to see as the most beautiful and peaceful place in the world.

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