as. much as kevin i mean this is our team from moscow let me take you through our top stories thousands of police move on to the streets of london to prevent new violence old looting after three days of disorder over five hundred people have been arrested after the riots. u.s. stocks fall but the losses following the biggest slump in years the plunge was caused by fears the downgrade of america's credit rating could worsen the slowdown the world's biggest economy. and europe's top bankers has the confidence going through the worst financial crisis since world war two european markets uncertain

day despite the central bank's move dr bones from the region's crippled economy. coming away next we look at what such a sexy insider were overcome to get back on track after georgian troops began shelling the capital in august two thousand and eight. self a settee allies in the heart of the caucasus between europe and asia. every day the sun rises over high in mountains and cities built many centuries ago still retain their unique history. and disown drake also b.f. goes for a job every morning. most of the sun my homelands my museum and you streams gardens on your land. are always

made us so happy. from the hilltop he can fit the self the setting in capitalist involved in the palm of his hand moments like this filling with inspiration face next work. the republic of south the city alone is in the caucasus in poland as russia is of the north and georgia to the south west and east. mountains cover ninety percent of south the city has territory which is more than a thousand meters above sea level. involved as its capital and transco cation highway which connects russia into georgia and armenia runs through the city. 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. well there will 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 values also changed the realest i thought it was never going to end the chief was. uneasy 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 the city and parliament passed a resolution on state sovereignty in september nine hundred ninety eight which georgia refused to recognize since then georgia has been seeking unification with self a set. on the ninth or from august the seventh to almost the eighth two thousand and eight georgian troops began shelling skin involved the

military units were forced to leave the country as a result of the russian peacekeeping operation afterwards russia recognized self-possession here as an independent state. in august two thousand and eight the day of her and her young daughters spent five days in this basement together with another five hundred people. the residents of scandal and underground when the town came under attack just as fast as the guns that's 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 of that but in fact we all love this place and because it helped us to stay longer than these. two condor was only nine when the war broke out she was frightened and didn't show her fear in order to not upset

her mother the neighbor lauer was constantly by the family's side. is jordan. greatest concern was the georgian soldiers would shoot her first because of the fact that she was living in a set 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. the georgians they will stay on the street you know they were shooting from this machine guns they thought there was an abandoned house here that they were sure there was no one day but there were incidents when they threw grenades into the basement of the world and 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

a 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. gradually join thickly me there in black pencil initially good they only store adult life actually. show it was done. really shown in from that place so we'll see that some kind of. condor is attending a master class in drawing of an art school in c. involve the settee and painted tamela discoverable is well known here has invited you conder and other talented 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. to groove in square during the georgian invasion all shells and

shrouded in old destroyed many paintings for levy what if he knew it was billy's courting the blues tortured those old brilliant works for rooms for them over the four witnesses every day and with submachine guns and just riddled the paintings with bullet holes in. the artist wants his pupils to choose the peaceful same for their drawings. perhaps the. best for your girl your that's a great idea to fill the picture with birds of dull desert a rain verbal abuse lots of bright colors.

most of all i don't see one through remember bad things after the war. somehow tools i hope that everything. well the brakes and colorful. bright new rooms now a dream house is in post-war also involved. they have replaced the old ones that were damaged during the battle for lol to still to be repackaged almost every building carries a trace of the conflict. the parliament building downtown was almost completely destroyed.

three years is the middle of most of the building the second floor visible are gone there used to be an old and hole here. it was very badly damaged during the military hostilities two thousand names and go to work is the corner gone was nothing is left except for a concrete cost at. the ogun was one of the kinds of gun has been to send his soldiers for sure when you've got a server in your world that would 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 elena go live and lives in a new house in the village of to be yet fifteen kilometers from is involved. on a similar note house used to stand at the supply side for most of it was completely destroyed during the war was the only some timber is

a lot of good to your bones hit the house and tore it apart the fifth. alina took shelter with the family in a trailer for two years. well lived in this wagon for two years before the built his house forests that's where we live now. here we do all the household chores. a year ago 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 us. there is no peace in the village of could be it lena lives once upon a time she wouldn't even let her daughter play in the courtyard. a little while those favorite placings. hopes the before long

a child will forget all about. i . this is a cable from the u.s. embassy in colombo goes up to talk about here it apparent june seventh incident of

extrajudicial executions the military reported to the press that on that day that killed nine guerrillas in combat it desiccation by instruction on couldn't you know and they're strongly suggest however that the nine were executed by the army and then dressed in military fatigues. displayed how you know this kind of phenomenon where bodies are dressed up as guerrillas and presenting as killed in action ominous and just the idea that you need to produce bodies actually encouraged paramilitary collaboration this is a cia document social intelligence agency they knew about these activities they knew they were happening they knew about links to paramilitary groups and yet it's u.s. aid continued to flow. for

many years people in skinfold will more concerned with survival as a time. when 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 setia a paradise for archaeologists. 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 are very many underground passages beneath the sound. as if they were used by civilians the place was in fact a city and fortress with. the tops of old fortresses and watch towers rise from behind the mountains in every direction from. the ancestors of modern the city 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 have a watchtower was not considered to be a family in the seventeen to eighteen century believe that such a family would vanish sooner or later as a result of internal and external factors such as war strewn 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 it as mortar. towers were built and square and pyramids like shapes with every floor had to eight hours slits for each wall to provide

a better view this way they could should flee. to tower had at least five floors. the wall adjusts as well as historians take an interest in the walls of the ancient towers and the monasteries. let the mayor go by f. as a contributor to south a set he has read a book of rare and endangered animals and wilson we published here 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 know ok watch my fingers over there but there is no blood on it not even one drop it was it was moved to the lizards can bite through my skin. studies the

regions from. the buzzard hovering over the river is a predatory but normally it feeds on go for some mice but now it has a different vision. it's a plain freshwater crab but there aren't many of them out here in few know that we have. female crabs sometimes have caviar here but these are young ones they most certainly don't have any you know. the city and freshwater crabs are on the verge of extinction because of predators and people some eat that meat others breed them at home in aquariums the genius of the leaves crab should definitely be entered into the red book. this is the last asian scorpion which is also facing extinction it inhabits

a small area near south santee has capital. population has drastically dropped in recent years because of that mass cap cafeteria area. couple i found a pregnant female who is it going to. sleep 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. during the spring mating period the scorpions poison is especially dangerous mostly pets fall victim to their stings but sometimes even people are attacked flemmi ago by ed suggest establishing a small nature reserve in the school paeans habitat it will help protect involves residents and help secure the future of an entire species of resco via the subliminal give they lived alongside dinosaurs many years ago most of most species

from that era have since perished in the scorpions have survived to visit they with you or. to a manager of a team pia is travelling to the west of south to set here he's been invited by village residents who want to participate in ecological tourism. when this is arrived those dresses of one of the homes for past special pies in south asensio no male can go without them. as if you're you could argue sure traditionally were a certain size a month from potatoes or the meat and cabbage was not easy work in their field or the cheese and greens see it more through my phone or drunk as with cabbage matter that she's a mom to weed out those are no good. for a set eons pies i'm old and 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. progress. oh. yes put them in. your young lady. while the women make pies the homeowner meets the guests. i go to games i don't see new for quite a while. i want to know oh brings. in the band heart of the parties quickly turn brown then they take them out a bunch of them. i need to talk to you. come

in come in. how are you doing summer's almost here it's getting warmer we'll be making hay soon the family is getting ready to make a. bring someone would. have had a line and freshly baked pies a pair of the table. you never turn apply 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 him 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. and with other

well known plummets like time or go on a. lady's month old. sage and even go bring its. berries i'm 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 a 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 skin vald and their village. the

village was in the occupation zone from nice an eighty ninth two thousand and eight . has always been a necessity in enclaves surrounded on all saw in spite georgian villages. with georgian government police and special forces here. people living longer lives. nowadays and now to be love can have a family business in his son keep these. two mills hussein for gathering honey. is the young vacation he sells here and then. the rest of the bees do they collect the honey they collect right. people. in the lady of

the house looks after chickens. they're. living in the country in affiliates is no easy life. oh. yeah. now they feed the chickens and help their father around the house. so the logistics of the nearby efforts come to those on cover natural reserve known as the largest reserve in the south caucasus the park's flora includes beach boulder and oak trees as well as various species of conifer the reserve southern front here borders on an artificial lake. recently a reserve attendant came across an abandoned row cough the starving to death. into

the cow foam and successfully nursed it back to health. where fit in and now i'm a local good kind of milk is it that's natural melanoma it must think you're its mama and i see it is looking your fingers oh yes she's really gotten used to me. says the cough will probably have to stay with humans now we're in a panel next to the house as has already become domesticated if it were returned to the wild it might easily fall prey to carnivores. from europe if there is a road near it was small a species of deer that live in a republic of course they were going to millenia we also have the caspian red area for one of the larger species of the deer family or. skin. the downtown area is commonly referred to as the jewish quarter and still features

some houses the date back several centuries. you will think that would go both ways house here is from the nineteenth century it was built by jewish merchants in soviet times this was a shock to who will go and just before the war this house accommodated a jewish community center though it was very beautiful. but if the streets of to involve archaeologists have discovered numerous totals which spoiled the legs of the city where those underground passages lead is still a mystery. but it's 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 only stretched as far as a edge of the city and then had a van why even across the river on this one here we haven't fully on earth yet we have dug almost ten metres deep and there's still no end in sight and we need to.

cut the skin vaults the children are painting these young tests were born during the height of the junction a certain time or only in the past three years have they finally begun living in peace. destroying features a part of children hanging out implying. something sun is shining. through and i've painted fairly it's just to clear the pits cheerful. says nobody is troubled there. everything is bright and colorful. i'm drawing my brother and myself we're all out in our core jordan still role playing together but that i want is help right economist because i can. just c.c. invalid thinking fast. and so i done a fucking thing. to be like paris. chicana

spontaneous hiding in a basement stripper to family and make attack i'm scared bob now ship answer to city which she would like to see as the most beautiful and peaceful place in the world. 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 the party.

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