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this is on see it to trickle the headlines home patiala. mahmoud ahmadinejad slams nature's intervention in libya it's a bloody bonsa can fail to bring solutions i hate insists upon the bed asleep to develop nuclear weapons or she speaks exclusively to the rain oppressed and. tens of thousands of israelis out on the streets to demand social justice and low prices but some in television say the demonstrations address only a small cost of the government's policy is. very reserve insider trading
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and accounting error was two trillion dollars believe this time didn't cause the rating agency facing eventual washington inquiry even as world markets leadership following the president to do us debt downgrade. us headline right now a special report from the republic of south ossetia so recovering from georgian forces. itself 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. that most of the sun in
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my homelands might be easy thank you streams gardens and your lands. have always made us so happy. from the hilltop you can fit the south ascension capital of involved in the palm of his hand moments like this filling with inspiration for his next work. the republic of south the city 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 a city has territory which is more than a thousand meters above sea level. involved is its capital the trans coke asian highway which connects russia to georgia and amina runs through the city.
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after his morning run artist andre returns days studio it is crowned 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 go there moments where i thoroughly neglected my work especially during the war because obviously i was preoccupied with other things my life valley's also changed the field of star thought it was never going to end the cheerful. uneasy relations between georgia and the seti has started in the late one nine hundred eighty s. they became anger of a did after georgia withdrew from the u.s.s.r. the deputies of the south especially in holland passed a resolution on state sovereignty in september nine hundred ninety which georgia refused to recognize since then georgia has been seeking unification with south
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ossetia. 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-assertive it as an independent state. in august two thousand and eight leyla today of her and her young daughters spent five days in this placement 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 high dose of course it's bad memory but in fact we all love this basin and
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because it helps us to stay alive that. you conder 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. is georgian greatest concern was that 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 when you brought. the georgians they will stay on 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 that but there were incidents when they threw grenades into the basement of the world that i will never forget
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the 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 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. roger measuring the gloomy day there in black central initially children they always tore it out life subtly. sure it was done. only shown in from our place so we also let some candles. conda is attending a master class in drawing at an art school in san vall south a says he and painted tom a lens coverage of his well known here has invited your condo and other talented youngsters
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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. to groove in square during the georgian invasion shells in shrapnel destroyed many times on the levy would hit him it was billy's got the. water goes over all brilliant works for rules for them over the four witnesses every day and with submachine guns and just riddled the brains with bullet holes. all today the artist wants his pupils to choose the peaceful same for their drawings. the good girl you all are that's
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a great idea to fill the picture with birds incapable of dull desire to reign verbal abuse lots of bright colors. most of them i don't see one through remember bad things after the war. some hope jules and i hope that everything. it will be great. i'm colorful. bright new rooms now a dorm houses in post walls involved. they have a place still homes that were damaged during the battle but a role just still to be repackaged almost every building carries a trace of the conflict.
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the parliament building downtown was almost completely destroyed. three years is the middle close of the building the second floor of the as they used to be an old and hole here. it was very badly damaged during the military hostilities and in two thousand eight. hundred dollars nothing is left except for a concrete. over an was one of a kind of gun it was burned to cinders. severing of rules of the through. many skin valves residents who were left homeless in two thousand and eight have already moved into new apartments but this neighborhood was constructed by moscow builders. the family of god live lives in a new house in the village of can get fifteen kilometers from skin.
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i know house used to stand at this place it was completely destroyed here in the was the only some timber i left did she vomits hit a house and tore it apart the fistula. elena took shelter with her family in a trailer for two years. well lived in this wagon for two years before they built this house forrest says that's where we live now. here we do our household chores. a year ago alina moved into a new two story house again this is 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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you. for many years people in this involved were more concerned with survival at a time when they faced a blockade and showing with peace returned scientists also came back to the city they hope to make lots of discoveries in this ancient land historians call the capital of south ossetia a paradise for archaeologists. from the fishes himself with authority and king gave us down its urban status seventeen hundred years ago that was in the year two hundred sixty five of the if the new that's what we listen to say there are very many underground passages beneath the sound of this they were used by syfy and the place was in fact a city and fortress with good to the level of. the tops of old fortresses and watch towers rise from behind the mountains in every direction
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from the skin by. 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. some of the family that did 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 warsaw and vendettas. this watchtower is located not far from the town of. it was built in a gorge near by they extracted the stones the construction from the local mountains the builders processed the rocks laid them and used egg white as mortar. towers were built and square and pyramids like she. with the board every floor had
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eight arrows slits of the two for each wall to provide a better view this way they could shoot more precisely. through this tower halliday's five floors but it was. just as well as historians take an interest in the walls of the ancient towers and monasteries. lemmie ago by earth is a contributor to south seti is read book of rare and endangered animals and will soon be published here on the rocks lizards can respond had they creep out of the cracks to warm up in the sun. of the word not very many people 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
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drop because it was part of the lizards can bite through my skin and your. blood studies the regions from. the buzzard hovering over the river as a predatory bird normally it feeds on go pheasant mice but now it has a different vision mind. when obviously it's a claim freshwater crab but there aren't many of them out here in few know that we have them well female crabs 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 predators and people some. of us breed them at home aquariums. believes crime should definitely be entered into the bad book.
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this is the asian scorpion which is also facing extinction it inhabits a small area near south africa's capital. population has drastically dropped in recent years because of them ascap catheter area oh. i found a pregnant female who. was going to be 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 of suggest establishing a small nature reserve in the school peons habitat it will help protect involves residents and help secure the future of an entire species of resco via the seven
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minute idiom they lived alongside dinosaurs many years ago as of most asians from that era have since perished in the scorpions have survived to visit a visit or. to a manager of a team player 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 host ss of one of the homes for past special pies in south asensio no male can go without them. as if you're stupid i guess you're dealing with traditionally or a certain prize a man from pretty girls or the meat and cabbage that's not easy rosen in their field of the cheese and greens see a more through my phone a drunk is with cabbage matter like a cheese onto their own toes are no good. for
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a set eons pies are more than just food it is a special dish to celebrations they make a countless number for funerals only to today the hostess has prepared three with cheese potatoes and greens. for. its. cover. oh. yes put them in. your young lady. while the women make pies the homeowner meets the guests. high go to the haven't seen you for quite a while. i want to know. in the burning hot of the pies quickly turn brown then they take them out and butter them. well
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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 her. bring some one would. have had a line and freshly baked pies a pair of the table. you never turned up high over when you colored. and you don't turn it around either. otherwise face a graceful turn away from you or. the clean gorge thirty kilometers north of him is one of the most beautiful places in the area that 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
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flowers to use in infusions. other well known plum it's like time oregon a rose breeze for ladies month old leaf. sage and even bilberries. berries 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 herbalist 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
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kilometers between skin involved and their village. the village was in the occupation zone from nice neat you know into two thousand and eight with the woods has always been a necessity an enclave surrounded on all saw in this point georgian villages. the georgian government police and special forces here. people live in your own village . nowadays n.l. to be love can have a family business he and his son keep the. 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.
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but in the lady of the house looks after chickens. they're. living in a country in a village is no easy life. they feed the chickens and help their father around the house. so the logistical genia buy a first come to the song of natural reserve known as the largest preserve in the south caucasus the park's flora includes beech older and oak trees as well as various species of kona for the reserve southern front here borders on an artificial lake. recently
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a reserve attendant came across an abandoned row cough of a starving to death. into the car foam and successfully nursed it back to health. where fit in a good kind of milk is it its natural melanoma it must think you're its mama and i see it is looking your fingers oh yes she has really gotten used to me today make a says the cough will probably have to stay with humans now we're in a pen next to the house as it's already become domesticated if it were returned to the wild it might easily fall prey to carnivores. reports there is a road near the smallest species of deer that live in a republic of course it will go toward millenium we also have the caspian red area there were one of the larger species of the deer family. skin volved. the downtown area is commonly referred to as the jewish culture and still features
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some houses that date back several centuries. you will think that would go both ways house hears from the nineteenth century it was built by jewish merchants 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 if the streets of to involve archaeologists have discovered numerous totals which scroll the length of the city where those underground passages leave is still a mystery. but it's still this is one of those tunnels which practically ran all over the city in olden days there used to be a tunnel beneath every house for three days underground passageways probably stretched as far as a 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 have dug almost ten meters deep and there's still no end in sight and we need to.
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but that's can bowl out screaming children a painting these young artists were born during the height of the georgian a certain turmoil only in the past three years have they finally begun living in peace. destroying features a park with children hanging out implying. on the sun is shining. and i've been to philly it's just to see the kids cheer for. snoopy is troubled there. everything is bright in color from. my joy my brother and myself we're all out in our courtyard and skill involved playing to give a book i wanted how bright economists get because they can. just c.c. involved in fast food so i've done
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a fucking thing. to be like caucus. chicana spend days hiding in the basements trying to sound from the late attack comes from bob now she paid such a city what she would like to see as the most beautiful and peaceful place in the world. wealthy british style. sometimes guys. markets finance scandal to find out what's really happening to the global economy
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