self a settee allies in the heart of the caucasus between europe and asia. every day the sun rises over high mountains and cities built many centuries ago still retain their unique history. and a stone drake also b.f. goes for a job every morning. most of the sun in my homeland might be easy thing in your streams gardens on your land. have always made us so happy. from the hilltop you can fit the south the sente and capital of involved in the palm of his hand moments like this fill him with inspiration phase next work. the republic of south the settee alone is in the caucasus in borders russia to the

north and georgia to the south west and east. mountains cover ninety percent of south the seti is territory which is more than a thousand meters above sea level. skin vald is its capital the transco cation highway which connects russia to georgia and armenia 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 armed conflict back then was the last thing on his mind. you know what you don't have moments where i totally neglected my work during the war because obviously i was preoccupied with other things my life also changed with

the vilest i thought it was never going to end. an easy relations between georgia and a setia started in the late one nine hundred eighty s. they became aggravated after georgia withdrew from the u.s.s.r. the deputies of the south a setian parliament passed a resolution on state sovereignty in september one thousand nine hundred ninety which georgia refused to recognize since then georgia has been seeking unification with the self the 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 south ossetia as an independent state.

in august two thousand and eight today of under 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 now it seems to me that outside on the street the whole thing is going to start a new of course it's bad memory but in fact it is facing 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 side. georgian 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 and in constant fear for their lives. down the street you know they were shooting from this machine. they thought there was an abandoned house here they were sure there was no one there but there were incidents when they threw grenades into the basement. and i will never forget the noise the whole time. and it got closer and then we heard an explosion it never crossed our minds that it was from a missile launcher. took a pencil and a single sheet of paper into the basement down there she drew sketches of everything around. we're actually measuring the gloomy there in black pencil initially as children they only store adult life such as.

sure it was done. only shown in from that place so we also let some candles. conda is attending a master class in drawing at an art school and see involve the setian painted tama lens cover above who's well known here has invited you conned and other talented youngsters to attend the master class today he's showing the children his own painting it's filled with bullet damage from august two thousand and eight. during the georgian invasion shells and shrouded in old destroyed many paintings believe you me what that image was billy's got the moon a bluish tortured those are all brilliant works for ruining the explosion of our four witnesses every day and with submachine guns and just riddled the paintings with bullet holes.

but today the artist wants his pupils to choose the peaceful same for their drawings. the third girl you will that's a great idea. to fill the picture with birds of dulness at a rainbow is lots of a bright colors. i don't want to remember bad things after the war. some of the tools i hope that. thing will be bright and colorful.

bright new rooms now dorm houses in post-war involved. they have replaced the old homes the damage during the fall but a little to still to be repat 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. they used to be an organ hole here. it was very badly damaged during the military hostilities and two thousand eight. hundred nothing is left except for a concrete. was one of

a kind of gun it was burned to send is. so rare in your will that the old feel. many residents who were left homeless in two thousand and eight have already moved into new apartments this neighborhood was constructed by moscow billed as. the family of. lives in a new house in the village of to be yet fifteen kilometers from skin. i no house used to stand at this place for me it was completely destroyed during the war only some timber is. bombs hit the house and tore it hard to fix. family in a trailer for two years. lived in this wagon for two new years before they built this house horace says that's

where we live now. here with. a year ago moved into a new two story house. and it's hard for me to imagine how to live if they hadn't built a new house. there is no peace in the village of. lives once upon a time she wouldn't even let her daughter play in the. little favorite place things. the child will forget.

this is a cable from the u.s. embassy in colombo but up to talk about here an apparent june seventh incident of extrajudicial executions the military according to the press that on that day that killed nine guerrillas and come back to the suggestion by instruct cion couldn't you know and their strongly suggest however that the nine were executed by the army and then dressed in military fatigues.

it's easy. to explain how you know this kind of phenomenon where bodies are dressed up as guerrillas and presented as killed in action and this and this idea that you need to produce bodies actually encouraged paramilitary collaboration this is a cia document central intelligence agency they knew about these activities they knew they were happening they knew about links to paramilitary groups and yet. usaid continued to flow. for many years people in skinfold with more concerned with survival at a time. they faced a blockade and shelling. returned scientists also came back to the city. to make lots of discoveries in this land is. a paradise for.

the. king gave us down its urban status seventeen hundred years ago that was in the year two hundred sixty five. needless to say there are very many underground passages beneath this town. this. place was in fact. 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 watchtower. consider to be a family in the seventeenth to eighteenth century believe that such

a family would vanish sooner or later as a result of internal and external factors such as. this watchtower is located not far from the town. it was built by. the stones the construction from the local mountains. the rocks. and mortar. towers were built in square. eight. to provide a better view this way they could shoot. out at least five floors. just as well as historians take an interest in the walls of the ancient towers and

monasteries. is a contributor to south the seti is red book of rare and endangered animals it will soon be published err on the rocks lizards can be spotted they creep out of the cracks to warm up in the sun. yes there were not very many people who are so scared of lizards that they panic when they see one popular belief is that lizards will bite you ok watch my finger there is no blood on it not even one drop it was one of the lizards can bite through my skin. studies the regions for. the buzz and hovering over the river is a predator. normally it feeds on. but now it has a different vision mind. it's

a plain freshwater crab but there aren't many of them out here in few know that we have them. crabs sometimes have caviar here but these are young ones they most certainly don't have. the settee and freshwater crabs are on the verge of extinction because of both predators and people some eat them meat others breed them at home in aquariums. believes crabs should definitely be entered into the red book. this is the asian scorpion which is also facing extinction it inhabits a small area near south santee his capital. population has drastically dropped in recent years because of the mass cap jaffa terrariums. found a pregnant female. well pins are live bearers when

she gives birth to her young ones they climb on her back to feed there for a while and then they start fending for themselves. during the spring mating period the scorpions poison is especially dangerous mostly pets fall victim to their stings but sometimes even people are attacked. by a suggest establishing a small nature reserve in the school p.m.'s habitat it will help protect involves residence and help secure the future of an entire species of rest. of the sodium in a given they lived alongside done a source many years ago most species from that era have since perished in the scorpions have survived to this day as you were. to a manager of a team p.f. is traveling to the west of south to set here he's been invited by village

residents who want to participate in ecological tourism. when visitors arrive host s. is of one of the homes per past. in south of santiago no male can go without them. as it is you could argue sure delivered in additionally or a certain pies not from potatoes or the meat and cabbage was. their field of the cheese and greens see it more than my senate grant goes with cabbage but i like that she's a mom to them for their no good. for a settee and surprise a mole than just food it is a special dish for celebrations they make a countless number for funerals only to today the host as is prepare free with cheese potatoes and greens. its. cover. oh.

let's put them in. the young lady. while the women make pies the homeowner meets the guests. i haven't seen you for quite a while. i want to know. in the heart of the pollies quickly turn brown then they take them out and butter them. well i need to talk to you. i mean come in. how are you doing to summer's almost here it's getting warmer we'll be making hay soon the family is getting ready to make her. bring some one would. have had a line and freshly baked pies

a pair at the table. you never turn up high over when you cut it. and you don't turn it around either. otherwise they say grace will turn away from you at the. thirty kilometers north of. is one of the most beautiful places in the area that i have never been 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. and when you have a well known plonks like time or gone a. lady's man told me. sage and even bilberries. berries and leaves we have a big selection of levels. great

great grandfather used to live here family legend has it that he too was a list he collected plants treated people with infusions and reportedly lived to be one hundred forty years old there has never been any war in the gorge where people collect. the village of my goot 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 their village. the village was in the occupation zone from. two thousand and eight three. always being in a city an enclave surrounded on all saw inspired georgian villages of. the georgian government police and special forces here. people living in.

nowadays and now to be love can have a family business he and his son keep bees. hussain for gathering honey. is the young vacation he sells here then. the rest of the bees do they collect the honey. that's right. the lady of the house looks after chickens. living in the country in a village is no easy life. they

feed the chickens and help their father around the house. so the logistical denia by f. is come to the song called a natural reserve known as the largest reserve in the south caucasus the park's flora includes beech. trees as well as various species of kona for the reserve southern front here borders on an artificial lake. recently a reserve attendant came across an abandoned row cough that was starving to death. the cow foam and successfully nursed it back to health. where fit in a. kind of milk is it its natural thing. i see it is looking your fingers oh yes she has really gotten used to me. says the cough will

probably have to stay with humans now reared in a pan next to the house it has already become domesticated if it were returned to the wild it might easily fall prey to count of holes. but if there is a row deer in the smallest species of deer that live in a republic of course. we also have the caspian ready for one of the larger species of the deer family. skin volved. the downtown area is commonly referred to as the jewish quarter and still features some houses the date back several centuries. old at that would go well list house here is from the nineteenth century it was built by jewish merchant in soviet times this was a shop and just before the war this house accommodated a jewish community center though it was very beautiful. but the

streets of the involved just said discovered numerous times switch sprawl the length of the city where those 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 the maze underground passageways probably stretched as far as a edge of the city and then had a valid why even across the river on this one here we haven't fully on earth yet have dug almost ten meters deep and there's still no end in sight who would need to . cut the skin vaults the children are painting these young artists who are born during the height of the georgian a certain time or only in the past three years have they finally begun giving in

pace. just. destroying features a park with children hanging out implying. the sun is shining. and i've painted fairly it's just it's cheerful. so nobody is troubled there. everything is bright and colorful. i'm drawing my brother and myself we're all out in our courtyard and skill involved playing together but i wanted to help write a callus that because i do. to c.c. invalid you can fast to the moon so i don a by painting as you like to be like paris. you come the spend days i didn't basements during the two thousand and eight attack i'm scared bob now she paints him city which she would like to see as the most beautiful and peaceful place in the world.

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a third night as riot police trying to control what the government calls a way bullshit criminality the rest is also reported to have spread to britain's second largest city battling and also reaches a peaceful protest against the deadly feature think of a twenty nine year old man was hijacked by a troublemaker. that is thinking of feeding us stocks deep sharply in the first trading session all to merge his credit rating downgrade they says here is a debt continues to wreak havoc the best is fearing italy and spain could be the next economies to fail this despite president obama and the european central bank trying to reassure the market. on three days after the children are tonto south to set a remembrance ceremony held with the victims of the conflict and we're told that people still buried these cars and all that and. some the kind of the report amid the debt ceiling downgrades and stock markets for wings.