said that even in your close circles there were differences over whether to recognize a pardon south of setia there's a question both in russia and georgia since the end of the war russia has given forty billion rubles in aid to applies in south. this is a huge amount of money that could have been used for russia's internally what does russia need this for. well we have a lot of programs to help you support other countries that have cars here in south a set to right now maybe closer to russia or in diplomatic terms they are entirely dependent on those they are close to us and the russian citizens living there now if we're providing aid to foreign citizens in foreign states then of course we're going to provide nearby independent aerators with a large share of russian citizens this is normally used to how god knows who you know. times in the studio. having said that does russia international tribunal should be founded out of events of august two thousand and eight but. i look at it as a let us forget about saakashvili for a moment if it's an international tribunal initiated by one else several

hilltop you can fit the south the sente and capital of involved in the palm of his hand moments like this fill him with inspiration phase next work. the republic of south a setia law 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 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 art was the last thing on his mind you know we don't have moments where it's totally neglected my work is wesley during the war because obviously i was preoccupied with other things my life follies also changed with the vilest i thought it was never going to end the chief . 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

three years ago georgia launched an attack on the people of the small republic of south of setia the five day war in which georgia tried to reclaim its old territories claimed hundreds of innocent lives. in the south said the capital city still struggling to come to terms with the losses. attacks suddenly around midnight and the first tribes have been hand of the russian pairs keeping base and now what you can see behind me what's left of the base there were around two hundred fifty soldiers and they forced. the russian troops to iraq russia sent in troops to protect the republic citizens many of which were russian passport holders and we also were hiding in basements and blown out to buildings overhand twenty three soldiers were killed and many injured and sound we managed to talk to they told us that they want to keep this building untouched and of the memory of what happened han meanwhile the morial service began last night or will be held throughout the day these ceremonies started at eleven thirty five pm that's exactly the time when george opened fire over the century hundreds o

to a manager of a team pia is travelling to the west of south to setia he's been invited by village residents who want to participate in ecological tourism. when visitors arrive those dresses of one of the homes for past special ties in south asensio no male can go without them. as it is you could argue sure in addition it was a certain prize that competitors are the meat and cabbage. easy norsemen their field of the cheese and greens say you know more than my senate run is with cabbage but i like that she's a mom to those are no good. for a set eons pi's 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. for. its. cover. oh. let's put them in. our young lady new job by putting a pint. while the women make pies the homeowner meets the guests. i go to bed with haven't seen you for quite a while. come on in oh oh brings. in the heart of the collies quickly turn brown then they take them out and butter them. well i need to talk to you. i mean come in. how are you doing

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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. 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 as if the end fortress. 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 south to santiago. some of the family that did not have a watchtower was not considered to be a family in the seventeenth to 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 cons

on the eve of the third anniversary of the war in south of setia president medvedev spoke with r.t. as well as at home osby and georgian t.v. channel p i kate an interview he talks of some insight into the tough decisions he had to make in august two thousand and eight and the consequences of the war interview coming up next. mr president thank you very much for agreeing to answer our questions then let us go back to the events of two thousand and eight back then you met with the georgian president mikheil saakashvili your meeting took place in st petersburg and there was an impression at that point both in tbilisi and in moscow that we had arrived at some sort of an accord and the dispute would not be allowed to pull over into an armed conflict and i reiterate that this feeling was present both in moscow and into the sea could you tell us that he managed to agree on anything with the georgian president back then. you know catherine i had the same impression at the time but i can still recall meeting president saakashvili for the first time it was in some petersburg we met in the con

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the village of a goat 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 involve a dead village. the village was in the occupation zone for nice needs you know two thousand and eight three. has always been a necessity in enclaves surrounded on all saw inspired georgian villages. with georgian government police and special forces here. people living longer lived there. for. nowadays and now to be love can have a family business he and his son keep bees. for gathering honey. is the young beads of a cake he sells here and then. the rest of the bees do better they collect the honey. 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. they feed the chickens and help their father in the household. the logistical denia diet has come to the so-called natural reserve known as the largest reserve in the south caucasus the park's flora includes peach older and oak trees as well as v

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 tr

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 setian parliament passed a resolution on state sovereignty in september nine hundred ninety which georgia refused to recognize since then georgia has been seeking unification with the south 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 south ossetia as an independent state. in august two thousand and eight today and her 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. now it seems to me that outside on the street the whole thing is going to start anew of course it's bad memory but in fact. because it helped us to stay in. the condo 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 laue

the village of my 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. always being a necessity an enclave was surrounded on all saw inspired georgian villages of. the georgian government police and special forces here. people living in a home village. 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. living in the country in a village is no easy life. they feed the chickens and help their father around the house. so logistically denia biafra has come to the song her natural reserve known as the largest reserve in the south caucasus the park's flora includes beech. trees as well as various species of conifer the reserve southern front here borders on an artificial lake. recently a reserve attendant came acr

recognized by russia and a number of other states following in georgia's military aggression on the south of setia another caucasus republic and next r.t. talks to one of the presidential candidates prime minister said again about the challenges his country faces. we are in the republic of a pause here where preparations are under way for the august presidential election . is the country's prime minister and also one of the candidates and he's here with us today the upcoming election is the second presidential election after. recognition what does it say about a pause as a more than independent state. we have been an independent state for a longer time than we've been recognized so this is in fact already our fourth election democracy is working its way into our society and so each time elections get more democratic the public gets involved more actively and so we expect this time it will be a democratic process how many international observers will be there at the elections will have a number of international observers no doubt we had quite a lot of them during the previous election and they came

and it's three years since georgia launched an attack on the people of the small the public of south of setia we spoke to those who bear the scars of the five day conflict which claimed hundreds of innocent lives more next on what south of said he has had to overcome to get their country back on track after the war in our special report.

one the territory and ignore the other it would have been the same as saying we were attacked south of setia we recognized a power attack of cars here and we would recognize them as well which they would get it but what's more that south a settler was weakest link it's more sparsely populated and perhaps less stable it should let us test our strength there and then if it works we will try to restore constitutional order in our cars here they feel well it didn't work and that was their fatal mistake. with their little i will ask you a simple question or are you proud of what you did in two thousand and eight i received do you suffer because of it what are you now know that three years have passed how would you describe your emotions. like that or profess to know if i will try to answer this i don't know if i can do it like a child would but i will try i suffer to this day because of what happened then i am convinced however that the decision to retaliate and the recognition of the breakaway republics and subjects to international law would point decisions to make i believe my actions will con

cause years independence from georgia the primary reason for that was the georgia had attacked south of setia that another tiny caucasus republic in august of two thousand and eight and it came on the back of that and fears that there may also be violence here and that ended a long struggle for independence for the abkhazian people which started after the breakup of the soviet union all that conflict though left of cars is infrastructure very damaged and very weak and its main industries are going to need a lot of building up and i think that's what the really going to want from the next president. obvious reporting right now emergency crews have so far failed to find the wreckage of the unmanned russian spacecraft that crashed on wednesday experts say parts of the progress vessel may have burned up in the atmosphere while falling down the spaceship was carrying supplies to the international space station when it malfunctioned shortly after launch it crashed in the southern siberia triggering fears it's toxic fuel could be dangerous for locals and of course the environment so far there are no

independence of this tiny caucasian republic the primary reason for that was the georgia had attacked south of setia that another tiny caucasus republic in august of two thousand and eight and it came on the back of that and fears that there may also be violence here today didn't have cars but georgian forces were pushed out of cars yet that came at the end though of a very long independent struggle and a very bloody one for our cars here starting at the break of the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred one and who mention the games that recognition from russia three years ago today however all that fighting and all that violence has left causes infrastructure and economy very weak despite five hundred million dollars of russian aid in the last three years its primary sectors of tourism is usually a very popular soviet tourist resort on the black sea coast and of fruit exports is very famous for its fruit here they're both very weak and they've been very damaged by all of this all of this dislocation and both of those sectors will need to be built up by the future president so that this country

of the caucasus forever the five day war unleashed by georgia against its former republic of south of setia left the region devastated blocking any chance of reconciliation in the forseeable future that is within a question of a reports now from the remembrance ceremony for the victims of the conflict in the south a city in the capital. here in the central square of the capital city the morial services are under way this so many started as a loved one thirty pm that exactly the train when george opened fire over the says he throwing people out of their bad local so we talked to say that we never expected such a sudden attack and why not it's very difficult to answer this question because in any case who are always present poses suffering and pain. to become justified by any words the reasoning can bring back the lives of the innocent people and i think we should realize that such mistakes should not be repeated and we should put maximum effort to avoid the suffering of children human life is very precious o'conner for being responsible when it comes to it we come kill people over territory.

and it's three years since georgia launched an attack on the people of the small republic of south of setia speaks of those who bear the scars of the five day conflict which claimed hundreds of innocent lives. next as cross talk with peter got so. and you can. follow unwelcome across computable about the obama doctrine is there such a thing over the past few months we've seen the u.s. waffle as change rages across the arab middle east and some western backed dictators remain firmly in power well the same time forced regime change is happening in libya all when is this a new doctrine or just muddling through. can still. discuss whether there's an obama doctrine i'm joined by phyllis bennis in washington she is project director at the institute for policy studies in paris we have on this album artie he's a libyan political analyst and another member of our cross talk team yelena hunger all right phyllis i'd like to go to you first you know we're both americans and we're used to having presidents having doctrines when it comes to foreign policy and we had harry truman he had a universal policy

three years ago russia recognize the independence of abkhazia after a war away to the east in south of setia and fears that the georgia may attack abkhazia as well that was just the end of a long struggle for independence which started after the collapse of the soviet union and left a lot of the young republics infrastructure in ruins primarily the famous ones famous soviet holiday resorts along the coast here that will need to be built up and also the agriculture and food growing industries also very famous here but now very weak and if mr and can build up both of those things he'll help this young republic to stand on its own two feet again. well the fallout from the mass riots across england has pushed prison populations there to a record high even so they've still found space to jail or world war two veteran incarcerated simply for recording a court hearing. reports there could be other motives behind his imprisonment. british prisons are full to bursting the courts are working overtime sending young people to jail for their role in the recent riots in england and if they're sent to leav

this is clear if you want information about the traffic of goods including transit through and south of setia we will provide it via a modern electronic database i've agreed to the suggestions made by the swiss president regarding this and i recently discussed it with president obama we're ready to implement the model but switzerland has proposed to us however if they try to change current. the tickle reality serving is a prerequisite for russia. we won't fall for that. is not too high a price to pay thank you very much mr president. please. the british. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy. headlines tune in to watch. the week's top stories on our team the u.s. stripped of its prized aaa credit rating for the first time triggering fears of another. crisis as investors ready for a black monday the downgrade comes despite the white house making a last minute deal with the republicans to raise the country's debt ceiling. in the eurozone debt was provoked a turbulent week with european central bankers now agreeing to buy italian and spanish bonds to stop the rot brusse

from moscow three years ago georgia launched an attack on the people of the small republic of south of setia the five day war in which georgia trying to reclaim its old territories claimed hundreds of innocent lives that is within a cochon over is in the south a setian capital a city still struggling to come to terms with the losses. i come here almost every day i sit and talk to my son to a new i will my next to my dear boy. for the last three years stacy has come to this cemetery where her son is burritt five days unorganised two thousand and eight split her life into a before and after. when her son daughter a medical college graduate heard the republic's capital teen vall was under attack from georgia he rushed home to help the injured he died in her arms as they lay trapped for days on to the rubble of their apartment block that was in the georgian alterian firing line. the only thing that makes her life worth living now is her twenty year old daughter they now live together in a newly built house to rounded by families with similar tragic stories. in the toilets across the street lives

position on this is clear if you want information about the traffic of goods including transit and south of setia we will provide it via a modern electronic database i've agreed to the suggestion is made by the swiss president of guarding this and i recently discussed it with president obama we're ready to implement the model that switzerland has proposed to us however if they try to change current. the tickle reality serving as a prerequisite for russia a session we won't fall for that. especially is not too high a price to pay thank you very much mr president. hamid karzai. limits. to. smother. in the top stories in the wake from us the u.s. credit rating has been downgraded for the first time. that's despite the last minute deal that averted default. comes on top of wall street's worst performance in over two years and european debt troubles two suggesting the share a rollercoaster ride like you continue on monday. egypt's former president on trial for mass killing and corruption but a wary public says the revolution is not over yet as the replacement you face. just across the border the. peop

medvedev recognized the independence of abkhazia after a war both here and a lot of fighting in south of setia to the east against georgia. also today the reason for this election being held now is the death of the former president's surrogate back on may the twenty ninth his sudden death left a vacuum and there are now three candidates trying to build but host the first is alexander he is the vice president and he said that he's grateful for russia's recognition of cars is independence and that that should that recognition should not come in vain that the country should be built up after that recognition the second is the prime minister also says that that recognition is very important for the protection of ford's means that you can now get on with building up its economy for the third is role. he's a former vice president and he's tried in these elections before he's the most critical of what he calls over dependence on russia for cars used to plan the road cars years development a lot of international observers have turned up today from the region from the yuan from further abroad and they'

clear if you want information about the traffic of goods including transit through abkhazia and south of setia we will provided by our modern electronic database i have agreed to the suggestions made by the swiss president of guarding this and i recently discussed it with president obama what we're ready to implement the model that switzerland has proposed to us all about the weather if they try to change current. mystical reality yes that would serving as a prerequisite for russia germany to have a session we went forth about domenici i was special which is not too high a price to pay thank you very much mr president. are lucky. the urge. to. say. mum. it's six. six . the week's top stories from our hearts to you the aaa that is now america's accounting exile ubi its credit problem is taking down a wrong and ratings as an faster shutter over how the debt ceiling raised was handled. it rounded off a rocky week on global markets with wall street's worst week in over two years worse soon by europe's data and fears of a second possible american recession. and as egypt's former president goes on t

recognized independence from georgia the primary reason for that was the georgia had attacked south of setia that another tiny caucasus republic in august of two thousand and eight and it. on the back of that some fears that there may also be violence here that comes at the end of a very long and a very bloody struggle for independence for a cause you're really starting after the collapse of the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred war two this area was a battlefield for a long time and the result of all that fighting is the immense damage to the infrastructure of the small republic because we need the new president whoever he may be to try and bolster that and make sure this country doesn't just rely on the fact that it's. a struggle for independence. and reporting there are you watching i think coming to life from moscow we're here for you twenty four hours a day and remember can watch the news you want when you want it on our website that's r.t. dot com here's a quick look at what we've got for you there right now to your police and the cia are slammed for racial profiling and discri