tv [untitled] August 9, 2011 5:30am-6:00am EDT
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welcome back again here's a recap of the main stories we're covering today on r.t.e. britain is on a full scale alert and scenes of violence and destruction flare beyond london after three days of clashes between rioters and police the prime minister has cut short his holiday to hold emergency government talks on how to deal with the mayhem. european stock markets are diving after wall street hits a low not seen since two thousand and eight as product investors abound in global
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stocks deepening the euro crisis is fueling antagonism towards the single currency . america's latest economic slump columns despite a public message of defiance from president obama but as the u.s. credit downgrade triggers a freefall on global markets india claims its economy could actually benefit from the situation. coming your way next we'll look at what's the suttons had to overcome to get back on track after georgian troops began to shelling their capital in august two thousand and eight stay with us for that. 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 draco's of b.f.
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goes for a job every morning. that most of the sun my homeland my beauty and your streams gardens and your land. have always made us so happy. from the hill top he can fit the south the centurion capitalist involved in the palm of his hand moments like this filling with inspiration face next work. the republic of south a city a lawyers in the caucasus in borders russia to the north than georgia to the south west and east. mountains cover nine hundred cent of south edges territory which is more than a thousand meters above sea level. involved is its capital the trans caucasian highway which connects russia to georgia and armenia runs through the city.
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after his morning run artist andre returns to his studio and he's 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. we're willing to give the moments where it's only me directed my work especially during the war because obviously i was preoccupied with other things my life finally has also changed for the vilest i thought it was never going to end. an easy relations between georgia and a sense here started in the late one nine hundred eighty s. they became under of aged after georgia withdrew from the u.s.s.r. the deputies of the south especially in holland passed a resolution on states over and in september nine hundred ninety eight which
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georgia refused to recognize since then georgia has been seeking unification with south the settee or. on the ninth or from august the seventh to almost the eighth two thousand and eight georgian troops began shelling skin bar 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 leyla today over and her young daughters spent five days in this basement together with another five hundred people. the residents of skin involved 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
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a bad memory that is in fact we all love this basement because it helps us to stay long enough. to conduct 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. jordan greatest concern was the georgian soldiers would shoot her first because of the fact that she was living in a sense here 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 like me providing a blow with the georgians they will stay on the streets you know they were shooting from their submachine guns they thought there was an abandoned house here in the street they were sure there was no one there because there were incidents and they threw grenades into the basement hoping. that with good i will never forget the
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noise the whole time. and it got closer and then we heard an explosion really it never crossed our minds that it was from a missile launcher girl. took a pencil and a single sheet of paper with her into the basement down there she drew sketches of everything around her. matches measuring the cleaning there in black central mission and a whole new storage out life such as. it was done. really shone in from that place so we also let some candles. on the is attending a master class in drawing at an art school in say involve self assessment painted tama lens coverage of his well known here has invited you condor and other talented
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youngsters to attend the master class today he's showing the children his own banking it's filled with bullet damage from august two thousand and eight. reducing square during the georgian invasion shells enshrouded all destroyed many times and for leaving me with it in euros bill it's got the in the blues tortured those are all brilliant works were ruined stores and look for witnesses save the day ends with submachine guns and just riddled with mean things with bullet holes. but today the artist wants his pupils to choose the peaceful same for their drawings.
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that the. good girl you will that's a great idea will fill the picture with birds of dull desert a rainbow is lots of a bright colors. the silver i don't see one through remember bad things after the war. some of the tools i hope that everything. it will be grapes and colorful. bright new brooms now drawn houses and post walls involved. they have replaced the old ones that were damaged during the fall or multi-cell to be replanted almost every building carries a trace of the conflict. the
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parliament building downtown was almost completely destroyed. three years 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 dollars nothing is left except for a concrete. the ogun was one of a kind of gun it was burned to cinders. severin your rules of the field. 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 god live it lives in
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a new house in the village of can get fifteen kilometers from skin valve. i know house used to stand at this place it was completely destroyed here in the was the only some timber is good she vomits hit the house and tore it apart the fistula. alina took shelter with her family in a trailer fifteen years. well lived in this wagon for two years before they built this house forest so that's where we live now. here we do all the household chores. a year ago pollini moved into a new two story house then it's a 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 where police
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this is a table from the u.s. embassy in colombo to talk about here an apparent june seventh incident of extrajudicial executions the military reported to the press that on that they killed nine guerrillas and found that the best edition by instructs you including you know and their kokoda very strongly suggest however that the nine were executed by the army and then dressed in military fatigues. folks. explain how you know this kind of phenomenon where bodies are dressed up as guerrillas and presented as killed in action i mean this and just the idea that you need to produce bodies actually encourage paramilitary collaboration is the cia document central intelligence agency they knew about these activities they knew they were happening to me about links to paramilitary groups
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and yet. usaid continued to flow. for many years people into involved with more concerned with survival at a time. they faced a blockade and shelling with peace returned scientists also came back to the city they hope to make lots of discoveries in this land historians call the capital of south a car a device for archaeologists. but the. authority in 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 scythians the place was in fact the end fortress.
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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-assembly or. the family of 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 warsaw and vendettas. this watchtower is located not far from the town. it was built in a gorge nearby they extracted the stones for construction from the local mountains the builders processed the rocks laid them and used egg white as mostly.
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towers were built and square of the hermit like shape with every floor had eight. to for each wall to provide a better view this way they could shoot precisely. at least five floors. the wall exists as well as historians take an interest in the walls of the ancient towers in the monasteries. the dimia biafra is a contributor to sell the seti has red book of rare and endangered animals and will soon be published err on the rocks lizards can be spotted they create out of the cracks to warm up in the sun. yes you know we're not very many people are so scared
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of lizards that they panic when they see one popular belief is that lizards will bite you know ok watch my fingers both give and there is no blood on it not even one drop of which it was part of the lizards can't bite through my skin and your. studies the regions for. the buzz and hovering over the river is a predator. normally it feeds on gophers and mice but now it has a different vision mind. going up with me it's a plane freshwater crab but there aren't many of them out here in few know that we have them but the crab sometimes have caviar here but these are young ones they most certainly don't have any you know. setian freshwater crabs are on the verge of extinction because of those predators and people some of them eat others breed them
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at home in aquariums. believes crabs should definitely be entered into the bad book . this is the last asian scorpion which is also facing extinction as inhabits a small area near south africa's capital the school population has drastically dropped in recent years because of that mass captures the terrariums. them in the fall i found a pregnant female who is it. was happy in their lives when she gives birth to her young ones they climb on her back to feed their for a while and then they start fending for themselves. and during the spring mating period the school peons poison is especially dangerous mostly pets fall victim to their stings but sometimes even people are attacked flemmi ago by a suggest establishing
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a small nature reserve in the school koreans habitat it will help protect involves residents and help secure the future of an entire species of resco piano at the same initiative they lived alongside denis or as many years ago most of those species from that era have some version of scorpions have survived to the day as you board. to a manager of a team pia is travelling to the west of south the set here has been invited by village residents who want to participate in ecological tourism. when visitors arrive hostesses of one of the homes prepares special pies in south asensio no meal can go without them. as it is you could argue sure in addition it was a suit and fries are not comforted those are the meat and cabbage that's not easy
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roselyn airfield the cheese and greens see it more as my senate run is with ketchup that i like that she's a mom to run clothes or know. 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 hostess is prepared three with cheese potatoes and greens. that's. yes put them in i'm a young lady and you're doing a good job. while the women make pies the homeowner meets the guests. high go to get there and seen you for quite a while. come on in zero zero brings. in the burning hot of the
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pies quickly turn brown then they take them out and butter them. well i need to talk to you. come in come in. how are you doing to some is almost here it's getting warmer we'll be making hay soon the family is getting ready to make after you. bring someone who wouldn't. have a line and freshly baked pies a pair of the table. would never turn a high over when you cut it. 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
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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. and without a well known plum it's like time for a gone out of the rose breeze lady's month old lisa will say jimmy even bilberries . varies and leaves we have a big selection of little. 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 that has never been any war in the gorge where people collect. the village of on the
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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 from nice you know two thousand and eight three. has always been a necessity in enclaves surrounded on all sides point georgian villages with the georgian government police and special forces here. people living only lives. on. nowadays and now to be love can have a family business he and his son keep bees. using for gathering honey. it is the young vacate the cells here
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and then. the rest of the bees do better they collect the honey they collect that's right. little. comes. off. and the lady of the house looks after chickens. living in the country in a village is no easy life. oh. they feed the chickens and help their father run the household. so logistically the negative i have has come to those on her natural reserve known as the largest reserve in the south caucasus the park's flora includes beach
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boulder and i'm curious 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. he took the calf home and successfully nursed it back to health. where fit in a good kind of milk is it it's natural melanoma it must think it's mom i see it is look in your fingers oh yes she's really gotten used to me lady made a pious says the cough will probably have to stay with humans now we are 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. but it's someone you know there is a road here and the smallest species of deer that live in a republic of course we're going to we also have the caspian red area but one of
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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 that date back several centuries. new hope that that would do well list house hears from the nineteenth century it was built by jewish merchant in soviet times this was a shock and just before the war this house accommodated a jewish community center it was very beautiful. but if the streets of the involved archaeologists discovered numerous tunnels which sprawl the legs of the city or whether it's underground passages lead is still a mystery. but it certainly still places one of those tunnels which practically run over the city in olden days there used to be a tunnel beneath there reales but these underground passageways probably stretched
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as far as the edge of the city and then had a sound way even across the river and this one here we haven't fully unearthed 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 the children are painting these young artists were born during the hearts of the georgian a century and more only in the past three years have they finally begun giving and peace. destroying features a park with children hanging out in plain. on the sun is shining. through and i've painted fairly it's just it's cheerful. no please trouble there. everything is bright and colorful. i'm drawing my brother
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and myself we're all out in our core georgian still role playing together but the thing i want is how bright economists get because i do. to c.c. invalid you can fast. so i've done upright painting if you like a city to be like paris. you come the spend days i didn't have basements germ of truth laminate attack on skin bob now she paid such a city which she would like to see as the most beautiful and peaceful place in the world. hungry for the full story we've got it firsthand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on our t.v.
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