but you know i'm from the russian capital within twenty four hours a day it's the weekly here in r.t. and the headlines from the past week cracks appearing between politicians and police ruts in the u.k. were handled by minister david cameron turns to u.s. experience for help while fed up local communities turned vigilantes. u.s. regulators declare war on the ratings agencies all to america's long treasured the dead school gets that you're sending the world markets into a chaotic tumble. three years old south is set to remember the victims of

a short but bloody conflict when george of the launched an offensive to reclaim its old territories hundreds died in the suing five day war in the republic is still trying to recover. but be back with more news stories more developments in less than half an hour from now but more now on how the republic of south ossetia is still recovering from a brutal attack georgian forces in special report that is next on the team. self assess the allies in the heart of the caucasus the tween 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 homelands might be easy for your streams gardens on your land. have always

made us so having. 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 a setia lloyd's in the caucasus and borders russia to the north and georgia to the south west and east. mountains cover ninety percent of south are said his territory which is more than a thousand meters above sea level. involved is its capital the transco cajun highway which connects russia to 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. we're willing to give the man moments where i thoroughly neglected my work when especially during the war because obviously i was preoccupied with other things my life valley's also changed the vilest i thought it was never going to end which is what. uneasy relations between georgia and assess here started in the late one nine hundred eighty s. they became hunger of ated after georgia withdrew from the u.s.s.r. the deputies of the south especially in parliament passed a resolution on state sovereignty in september one thousand nine hundred ninety which going to refuse to recognize since then georgia has been seeking unification with the south or setia. on the ninth or from august

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 recognize the set you 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 involved 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 high dose of course if that memory is in fact his face and because it helps us to stay aligned over. you 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. in jordan her 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. 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 there but there were incidents when they threw grenades into the basement but. i will never forget the noise the whole time. got closer and then we heard an explosion really

it never crossed our minds that it was from a missile launcher a girl. took a pencil and a single sheet of paper with her into the basement down there she drew sketches of everything around her. actually measuring the cleaning there in black central initially children they only store it out like such only can't. show it was done. allegedly shown in from that place so we'll select some candles. condor is attending a master class in drawing at an art school in san vall the says young painter tamela scuffle above 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

painting it's filled with bullet damage from august two thousand and eight. to groove in square during the georgian invasion shells and shrapnel destroyed many frames around a levy of what it in your was really starting a bluish water goes over a brilliant works for rules for the love of our love for witness a seven day ends with submachine guns and just riddled with green things with bullet holes. all today the artist wants his pupils to choose the peaceful same for their drawings. that. the good girl you are that's a great idea where fill the picture with birds dull desert

a rainbow is lots of the bright colors. the sizzle i do it's one through remember bad things after the war. some hope jules and i hope that everything. it will be a great i'm colorful. bright new rooms in our doom houses in post walls involved. they have replaced the old ones that were damaged during the ball or mole just still to be repackaged almost every building carries a trace of the conflict. the parliament building downtown was almost completely destroyed.

it is the middle of most of the building the second floor as well oregon 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 caulk at. the organ was one of the kinds of argon has been to send. several variables of the through. many skin residents who were left homeless in two thousand and eight have already moved into new apartments this neighborhood was constructed by moscow builders. of the family of. lives in a new house in the village of can be at fifteen kilometers from skin valves.

i know house used to stand at this place for it was completely destroyed during the was only some timber is good seebohm hit the house and tore it apart the fist. took shelter with a family in a trailer for two years. well lived in this wagon for two years before you built this house forrest says that's where we live now. here we do our house chores. a year ago moved into a new two story house again it's hard for me to imagine for where we would have lived if they hadn't built a new house for us. there is no peace in the village of to be where police lives once upon a time she wouldn't even let her daughter play in the cold. a little while

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for many years people into involved were 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 anxious land historians call the capital itself a century or a paradise for archaeologists. but the move the. guardian 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 civilians the place was in fact as the enforcer of the year two thirds of. 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 with them don't 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 more soon vendettas. this watchtower is located not far from the town of course 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 mostly. towers were built and square of the hermit like she. with the board every floor had to eight hour all slits of the two for each wall to provide

a better view this way they could shoot all precisely. through this tower hallett least five floors. just as well as historians take an interest in the walls of the ancient towers in the ministries. leadin me a good diet is a contributor to self the seti is read book of rare and endangered animals and it will soon be published air on the rocks lizards can be spotted they creep out of the cracks to warm up in the sun. yes sure if you must there were not very many people were so scared of lizards that they panic when they see one way up the u.s. popular belief is that the lizards will bite you on ok watch my fingers over there but there is no blood on it not even one drop of course it was one of the losers can't bite through my skin it's in your. blood amos studies the regions phone

up the buzzard hovering over the river is a predatory bird normally it feeds on gophers and mice but now it has a different vision mind. going to be free and so plain freshwater crab but there aren't many of them out here or in few know that we have them adult female crabs sometimes have caviar here but these are young ones they most certainly don't have any know. setian freshwater crabs are on the furch of extinction because of both predators and people some eat them mate others breed them at home in aquariums denia by of the leaves crabs 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 to set his capital school paeans population has drastically dropped in recent years because of the mass capture of the terreri arms. them in the fall i found a pregnant female. belly is you're all the rage as you would 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 thinking for themselves. during the spring mating period the skull pins poison is especially dangerous mostly pets fall victim to their stings but sometimes even people are attacked. me ago by a 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 people at the same time in if you do they lived alongside done this or as many years ago most of most species from that era have some version of scorpions have survived to this day

as you were. to a manager of a team pia is travelling to the west of self the set here is being invited by village residents who want to participate in ecological tourism. when this is arrived post s. is of one of the homes for past special pies in south a sense here no mail can go without them. as it is you could argue sure dealing with transition it was a certain prize from party goes towards me and cabbage was not easy normally their field of the cheese and greens see it more as my senate business can make letter like that she's a mom to those i know. for a setian surprise i'm old and just food it is

a special dish for celebrations they make a countless number for funerals only to today the hostesses their path three with cheese potatoes and greens. for. its. cover. let's put them in. the 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 oh i want to know. in the heart of the pies quickly turn brown then they take them out and butter them. on the newsgroup i need to talk to you. i mean come in.

how are you doing to some is almost here it's getting warmer will be making hay soon the family's getting ready to make a. bring someone would. have. dined and freshly baked pies a pair of the table. never turn of my over when you college or the news and you don't turn it around either. otherwise they say grace will turn away from you at the. legal thirty kilometers north of. 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. other well known

plonks like time oregon a. ladies man told me will say it's an even bilberries. berries and leaves we have a big selection of. great great grandfather used to live here family legend has it that he too was a place he collected plants treated people with infusions and reportedly lived to be one hundred forty years old has never been any war in the gorge where people collect. the village of my goof on the contrary is right on the border between georgia and south that here. in the past it used to take a local residents an entire day to cover the fifteen kilometers between involved and the village. of. the village was in the occupation

zone from nice in eighty ninth two thousand and three with the new it has always been a necessity in enclaves surrounded on all saw inspired georgian villages. from the georgian government police and special forces here. people living here only lived there. for. nowadays and now to be love can have a family business he and his son nikki haley's. to mil's hussain for gathering honey. is the young vacation he sells here 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. now they feed the chickens and help their father in the household. the logistical denia diet has come to the song called natural reserve known as the largest reserve in the south caucasus the park's flora includes beech boulder and oak 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.

into the cow foam and successfully nursed it back to health. where fit in a. kind of milk is it it's natural melanoma it must think you're its mama and i see it as look in your fingers oh yes she has really gotten used to me let me make a pie it says the cough will probably have to stay with humans now we're 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 carnivals. if it's someone you know there is a road near it was smallest species of deer that live in a republic of course they were going to we also have the caspian red area but 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. who hope that that will go well wrist

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 girls accommodated a jewish community center it was very beautiful. but if the streets of to involve archaeologist some discomfort numerous tolls which sprawl the length of the city or whether it's underground passages lead 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 their house but these underground passageways probably stretched as far as a edge of the city and then have them wavin across the river and all 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 height of the georgian a sentenced tomorrow only in the past three years have they finally begun living in peace. to. join features a party with children hanging out and quite. come to sun this chinese. city and i came to village just proves with its cheerful. so 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 the thing i wanted help right economists get because i do. i want to see sinbad picking fast. food so i've done a five painting as you like to be like cactus. chicana

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