and now up more on how the republic of south ossetia is still recovering from a brutal attack by georgian forces it's an hour special report coming your way right now here are not. self the 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 you see things in your streams gardens on your land. have always made us so happy. from the hilltop he can fit the south the sente and capital of involved in the palm of his hand moments like this fill him with inspiration for

his next work. the republic of south a 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 the city 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 when 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 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 century in 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 . the military units were forced to leave the country as

a result of the russian peacekeeping operation afterwards russia recognized as an independent state. in august two thousand and eight leyla today of a 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 this basement because it helped us to stay alive. 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. georgian

greatest concern was the georgian soldiers would shoot her first because of the fact that she was living in a setting. 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 down the street you know they were shooting from this stuff 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 of the. 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 that it was from a missile launcher we don't do it. took a pencil and

a single sheet of paper with him to the basement down there she drew sketches of everything around. where she joins a gloomy there in black pencil. almost or adult life such only. show it was done. only shown in from that place so we also let some candles. is attending a master class in drawing at an art school in. the settee and painted coverage of who's well known here has invited you and other talented youngsters to attend the master class today he's showing the children his own painting it's filled with damage from august two thousand and eight. during the georgian invasion shells and shrapnel destroyed many paintings.

several brilliant works were ruled. for 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. of. the girl you all that's a great idea where fill the picture with bird's dullness of a rainbow is lots of bright colors. will still vote i don't want to remember bad things soft of the war.

some of the tools i hope that everything will be bright and colorful. bright new rooms now a dorm houses in post wall street involved. they have a place the old ones that were damaged during the ball a little to still to be repaired almost every building carries a trace of the conflict. the parliament building downtown has almost completely destroyed. three here this is the middle close of the building the second floor it does the as

well are gone they used to be an organ hole here and. it was very badly damaged during the military hostilities and two thousand eight. hundred for a call. it was one of the. several. through. 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. lives in a new house in the village of to be yet fifteen kilometers from skin involved. because i'm going to see my note house used to stand at this place full of it was completely destroyed during the war the owners some timber is alive to your bones hit the house and tore its heart of this.

family in a trailer for two years. 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 moved into a new two story house then it's hard for me to imagine for one would have lived if they hadn't built a new house for us. there is no peace in the village of to be it lives once upon a time she wouldn't even let her daughter play in the. a little favorite place things. stood before a child will forget all about that. yes

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lists . you. for many years people in involved with more concerned with survival at 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 center a paradise for archaeologists. but the move to a guardian king gave us down its urban status seventeen hundred years ago that was in the year two hundred sixty five of the. needless to say there are very many underground passages beneath this down. this they were by syfy and the place was in fact the end fortress. the tops of old fortresses and watch towers rise from behind the mountains in every direction from skin. 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-assertive. some of the family that did not 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 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 mortar. towers were built and square and pyramids like she. every floor had eight arrow slits of the two for each wall to provide a better view this way they could shoot more precisely. this tower had 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 and will soon be published here on the rocks lizards can be spotted they creep out of the cracks to warm up in the some. 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's 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 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 mate 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. has drastically dropped in recent years because of them ascap jephthah terrariums. couple i found

a pregnant female. well i have been there live bearers when she gives birth to her young ones they climb on her back to feed there for awhile 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 skin vols residents and help secure the future of an entire species of red school. at the same indicative they lived alongside dinosaurs many years ago most species from that era have since perished in the scorpions have survived to this day as you were .

told 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 says 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 not easy in rosemary their field of the cheese and greens see it more than my senator brown is with cabbage but i like that she's a mom to them for they're no good. for a set ian's pies 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 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 go to see new for quite a while. i want to know. in the heart of the pollies quickly turn brown then they take them out and bow to them. i need to talk to you. come in come in. how are you doing to some is almost here it's getting warm will be making hay soon the family is getting ready to make her. bring us some one would. have had

a line and freshly baked pies a pair at the table. never turned a high over when you cut it. and you don't turn it around either. otherwise they say grace will turn away from you with 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 with 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 a 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 a village. the village was in the occupation zone from. two thousand and three. is always been a necessity an enclave surrounded on all saw inspired georgian villages of. the

georgian government police and special forces here. people living in it. nowadays and now to be love can have a family business he and his son keep bees. gathering honey. is the young vacation he sells here then. they collect the honey. that's right. the lady of the house looks after chickens.

country in a village life. oh. lord. they feed the chickens and help their father around the house. so logistical denia biafra succumb 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. and successfully nursed it back to health. where fit in a. kind of milk is it that's not true. but i see it is letting your fingers

oh yes she has really gotten used to me. says the cough will probably have to stay with humans now bred 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. if. there is a row deer in the smallest species of deer that live in oregon of course. we also have the caspian red 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 this 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 if the streets of the involved archaeologists have discovered numerous times switch sprawl the length 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 probably stretched as far as a edge of the city and then head of them and 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 and we need to. cut the skin vaults the children are painting these young artists were born during the height of the georgian ascent into more only in the past three years have they

finally begun living in peace. 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 are all out to mark or jordan still involved playing to give a gift i wanted to help write a callus because i do. to c.c. invalid you can fast food so i don a by painting i'd like to be like paris. to come the spent days hiding in the basements during the two thousand and eight attack on skim bob now she paints a city which she would like to see as the most beautiful and peaceful place in the

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in the headlines this week cracks appear between politicians and the police. prime minister david cameron and now turns to us for help while fed up local communities turn. three years on members of the victims of a short war the people trying to rebuild their republic. u.s. regulators declare war on the ratings agencies after america's long treasury debt school gets the. world markets into a chaotic tumble. with stories that made headlines this week you're watching the weekly with me. well this week opened up between police and top politicians in britain following several days of rioting.