am in moscow you're watching r t this sunday morning on marina joshie thanks for being with us now this week russian security services said they broke up a terrorist cell in the southern republican douglas stone it is believed that six women arrested in a police raid were trained to attack public places across russia two men were also detained one of whom is linked to the deadly moscow metro blast in march. so young but deemed old enough one of the alleged terrorist change in the russian republic of the gastone is just fifteen years old that according to officials did not stop her from taking part in planning terrorist attacks she and the other woman were allegedly trained by their husbands. my late husband left the guns here i've held a gun i know how to fire one but i've never done it i know how to use

a grenade to. it's hello i'm fifteen years old and knew there were guns in the house i even helped them played around with them and then put them back they all say their handling of the weapons was just curiosity but the wills suicide belts and elements of disguise found in their homes seem to tell but different story the childish handwriting and hearts make it hard to believe these women were capable of the deadly deeds they are accused of many psychologists worldwide however believe it is easier to set women on such a destructive course because they are more vulnerable. to terrorists disgrace these women are raped them or deprive them of a better future in the muslim society of the caucasus their psychologically shattered and are left with no other choice but to become cannon fodder. one of the men detained in the same raid is accused of something even more tangible than planning future attacks bring to moscow the two female suicide bombers who in march

two thousand and ten set off explosions in the metro the two blasts within twenty minutes of each other took place during morning rush hour forty people died and nearly two hundred more were injured russia's anti-terrorist committee is still searching for others involved in the deadly attacks but these latest arrests officials say they are one step closer to finding not only the executers but the mastermind behind the entire operation to take the bus stop the taking you to maintain their innocence to terrorists. lisa has more than enough evidence to make its case castrated are of a heart hospital. and just a few days later three ethnic chechens were arrested in france and charged with having links to terror network moscow says they belong to the group led by infamous militant leader dahl kumar of the arrests took place after the french police have been tipped off by the russian security services and those suspects reportedly have firearms explosives and

a map of moscow with large locations of possible targets doku umarov as one of the most wanted russia's north caucasus militant leaders and is thought to be connected will qaida amar of who claimed responsibility for organizing the moscow metro blast in march is also blamed for many other attacks across russia in june the us also put him on a one to a list of international terrorists. thousands of experts scientist and politicians from around the globe have gathered in vienna to discuss hiv aids prevention but as r.t. sarah firth reports the convention is also attracted skeptics who oppose mainstream believes surrounding the deadly virus. this day of the aids two thousand and ten conference in vienna people have been arriving all morning to register and to the global village which is going to be the center of much of the discussion over the coming week now as though that around twenty five thousand people will be attending this is a conference meeting policy making is this scientist community work with people

living with hiv and aids or to discuss the latest developments in this field now separately over the last couple of days and ahead of the main conference we've seen a separate much smaller group gathering to discuss alternative views that challenge the mainstream i did about hiv and aids in fact challenging the traditional methods of treatment and the definition of page of the and it's so now most of the people that are attending this conference of delegates and scientists has said that they will name parts even interact in a conversation with this separate great they've completely ignored it saying that this is not something that they're willing to discuss and they'll be focusing very much on the topics of that they'll be discussing here this week some of these main topics again to be a prevention of hiv that's been a big issue and we know that in two thousand and five they set the december two thousand and ten deadline the universal access to hate hiv prevention and it's the

countries have fallen pretty far short of targets we'll certainly be discussing ways to progress that moving forward and among other topics of discussion a likely to be cost saving technologies as was new technologies and another main issue here this conference is hiv valence and injecting drugs now organizers of the conference have said that vienna was chosen as the host in part due to its proximity to eastern european countries including russia and ukraine which have been identified as hotspots for prevail and hiv in injecting drug users as it will be another topic is discussed throughout the week before today the a.p. . again the starting at seven zero the introductory told me the latest from then as they have their. doubts over the conventional treatment of hiv aids are driving people to challenge established ideas about the disease according to dr christian fiala who questions the motives of some pharmaceutical companies i am going back to

the facts and the facts tell the people who test positive for various reasons even the producer of the tests are not aware of a standard to verify presence or absence of bodice in human blood and quote that's what you find in the product information even people who test positive not necessarily come down with aids even after twenty or twenty five years however those people who have been treated with reviles in the early ninety's they have been killed by their treatment which was a city one point five gram per day which is even acknowledged by doctors now that it is lisa lisa so i am not believing i'm reading the facts and i am acting according to facts but independent no more pharmaceutical interests and that's what i think what all doctors should do regardless of the majority or not it is

verifiable that there is no epidemic it is verifiable that all the predictions from the last ten to twenty years have been totally wrong it is verifiable that aids treatment killed huge number of aids patients in the early nineties and it is verifiable that aids treatment today is just less toxic than in the early nineties and i would call for an open deep aid to test the best arguments and not for a majority vote in science which is totally dangerous and will lead us in the wrong direction to the damage of our patients. and a bit later in the program the resident asks if the people running new york's financial district can ever change their ways. do you think that while street bankers can be reformed you know. because it's just the mentality that you need to have to work on wall street it's like it's almost ingrained into their personalities. also hard in trial to moscow careers have been found guilty of and

siding religious hatred over a controversial exhibition and the criticism of the verdict is a violation of freedom of expression. a severe drought has forced a state of emergency in central russia the unusually dry spell is turning normally fertile farmland into desert the republican is just one of many areas which are suffering as a correspondent sean thomas reports. a natural disaster is taking place in central russia painstakingly slow in the making but impossible to stop unseasonably high temperatures and extended periods without rain are leaving farmers without the possibility of a harvest moon. you see because of the unprecedented drought the crops are not late and they are empty the plants are underdeveloped they are good neither for grain nor for livestock feed we have harvested almost everything by now and it only covers about half of what we need. is one of sixteen regions along the volga and

urals that have declared a state of emergency an area more than twice the size of switzerland which faces losing a billion dollars this year so most. of this region is going to have trouble sustaining itself farmers are looking for ways to procure rougher trying out of the region such as the demon and district again there's the matter of financial losses without financial support farmers will have a very tough time for this year this field of summer we should be about chest high on me in a rich lush green color but in fact right now it's dead withered and yellow and the growth itself is dusty. and pretty much worthless at this point now it's true that the drought has affected crops but it's also affecting the people who live here negatively. we have a problem no water yes a problem dripping at the base during a premier value of no no no water no extra the wells and many of the villages have run dry forcing those who live here to make long treks to

a nearly dry river bed for water such conditions have locals concerned about their survival this is the size of the potato we have nothing else. no food for people means even less food for animals causing farmers to take drastic measures just to make ends meet most of the movies are blood we are already thinking about reducing our cattle stock we are selling this year's calves to individuals which we are also thinking about sending under-performing cows those are you less than five to ten liters of milk to the slaughterhouse at the situation however is further complicated by the fact that meat prices have dropped already leaving many to hope for government intervention and financial support so they can get by. john thomas marty. now the u.s. banking system is about to go through its biggest overhaul in over seventy years the dot friend bill is designed to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis and would limit risky trading activities limiting

bank profits but it is it is unpopular a wall street with wealthy donors beginning to direct more campaign contributions to the republican party president finds out of people in new york thank bankers can barely formed. the twenty three hundred page died frank bell is being regarded as the most significant financial legislation in almost a century do you think wall street bankers can actually be reformed this week let's talk about that do you think that wall street bankers can be reformed no. because it's just the mentality that you need to have to work on wall street it's like it's almost an ingrained into their personalities as they finish grad school and i just don't think that's going to change they think if we put a little bit more regulation here on wall street the facts could help the world globally a little a lot. because like you said this is the world's financial structure right here

right there think goes to new york and so forth that's. a little regulation can only do get a lot of regulation you know if you're going to lower his be about the money no matter what any bills that no matter what any bill says so should the government get involved doesn't matter the government and the corporations and the banks are all one. but they're all just talking to themselves well basically it's all a smokescreen i think it's one brotherhood talking to another if you as a citizen here you don't know what it's about how could we know. how would we how would we be able to tell unless they put it forth to the people we all understood what it's all about how could we say i would say something that they have. as on their agenda is for their interest they will pass it because it's in their best interest to do so people are unfortunately in today everything is partisanship and saw everything is about the next election and so people looking on to see

administration saying it's the worst thing ever is going to send america to third world country and people who are for the president are say this is the best thing since sliced bread it's partisanship something needs to be done is this the thing i don't know time will. i think there were probably yeah there was a lot of control in the additional control but it's still a you know free market at the end of the day so it's that if they regulated to have it go somewhere else. yeah a lot of business will go just they'll just find a way around opiates or look into. whether or not you think the dad frank bill will actually accomplish anything the bottom line is we have to try something otherwise we're just destined to make this a mistake with this dire consequence. now questions continue to be raised over iranian scientists allegedly abducted by american agents and taken to the u.s.

miri who was working as a nuclear research around one of tehran's universities claims to have been captured while on a pilgrimage to the holy muslim city of medina over a year ago videos of the scientists giving contradictory accounts of his situation appeared on the internet and one he claims he was abducted in another he says he was in the u.s. of his own free will i was returned last week to iran he was greeted by a hero's welcome however u.s. authorities now say he was a double agent who supplied them with information. the looming question in this case how did the iranian scientists sure rama miri get to the united states one person has already answered that question sure amiri himself but his answers completely contradict one another in this video a man who says he. says he's in tucson arizona and was kidnapped by agents from the cia and saudi arabian intelligence agency he claims he was tortured

a few hours later though this video is released a man who looks the same and also says he is sure amiri claims he is here to further his education the u.s. state department seems to agree with that statement. he is here of his own volition and he has chosen to return to iran of his own volition that is how we do things here in the united states we didn't we didn't seize him and bring him here they were not preventing him from returning to iran this building is the pakistani embassies office representing iranian interests since the old iranian embassy in washington sits empty because there's no longer a diplomatic relationship between the united states and iran according to reports coming out of iran for amiri arrived here monday night he told those inside he was quote brought here by his captors and demanded an immediate return to iran. as media outlets waited outside for

a glimpse of something those at the state department press briefing bickered about what this all means. other than knowledge that put videos up on the on you tube from time to time i actually have no knowledge about what he's been doing since he's been here in the states proof fear of chaos in a case of the man shrouded in mystery with potentially far reaching implications for relations between the united states and iran and an outcome that is still unknown in washington christine for south r t. as a look on the program here in r.t.c. scarred for life victims of a deadly chemical weapon agent orange or call your washington to admit the toxic legacy of yet now war. and double trouble pakistan bans a new bollywood comedy starring an osama bin laden lookalike. also shared space r.t. looks back at how the relations between u.s.s.r. and the u.s.

warmed after their first ever a link up an orbit. to moscow are curators have been found guilty of inciting religious hatred after an exhibition which prosecutor said insulted human dignity the show called for benard included an explosive mix of works some of which were banned from previous public displays. a gross a million or an artistic license when these images went on display in two thousand and seven they oust wage rush's religious community and they put the curator and the museum director and the middle of a nasty tug of war over freedom of expression and ultranationalist complaint and so began a fourteen month trial on charges of inciting religious hatred through controversial works of cricket it was not the church that initiated this prosecution order but to people who were offended that the investigation proved to that the yard at this

exhibit was offensive towards believers and insight into religious hatred throughout the trial artist rights activist journalist and opposition members fiercely fought to have the charges dropped warning that such attempts at censorship could lead to the return of soviet era constraints dictated by conservative and politically powerful church this preferred most likely is an attempt to apply censorship to art it's a field where things are allowed it doesn't home the public if anyone disagrees they're free not to watch despite russia's cultural minister insisting the artist did not cross the red line of law the judge disagreed finding the pair guilty and fining them around twelve thousand dollars to board we are today the court discovered a new type of ideological crime one that criticizes the church of the us state as a secular one an exhibit of art works where religious symbols are used in a non-religious context expressing other ideas has been the judge in the case

called the artwork a growth and of sense of humiliation to the viewer a sense of human dignity that she came short of handing down a prison sentence for the pair still they impose five have so wondering if artistic freedom will be replaced by a church imposed danders so stephen's r.t. . now the u.s. has released confidential documents on the vietnam war showing bitter divisions among white house officials at the time of the conflict it comes as hearings were held in the house of representatives on the impact of a deadly chemical agent orange while the effects are still being felt to this day washington insists there is no evidence linking the chemical to illnesses that continue to afflict later generations. i was born with our too late and missing a hand it is because of america's chemical war against her people in the jungles of vietnam that has left tran in these conditions she is

a victim of agent orange second generation tran is one of many her story represents millions living in the shadows of a lasting legacy. these kids will never live a normal life their deformities physical signs of human decay and although their parents were not even born until after the vietnam war eighteen million gallons of toxic herbicide spray through the jungles of south vietnam is still penetrating the d.n.a. of those being born today than man a million said to baked into still alive and are suffering. a cancerous the u.s. government has acknowledged agent orange is directly connected to the health ailments and defects that continue to plague the lives of vietnam war veterans for generations to come but the u.s. has worst used to make the same length for the millions of vietnamese war victims whose lives have been devastated as a result of agent orange they say that has nothing to do with agent orange i think

that the u.s. government has the reason to deny it. which is why delegations are here in washington following a report issued by lawmakers scientists and doctors calling on the u.s. government to own up to its agent orange legacy in vietnam today also people than me government records show nearly ninety five percent of all u.s. agent orange related aid is committed to efforts to contain and remove dioxin contamination we asked it just a storage on the victims those fighting for justice in the case of vietnamese agent orange victims want the physical and psychological damages to be acknowledged with . the dark legacy left behind by the u.s. in vietnam is one with millions of human face. their struggle three decades in the making will not end with money from the u.s. governments but it could ease the pain the u.s. has been ignoring scented dumb for months sent to manufactured agent orange in

these jungles to have half this washington d.c. . and this week marked thirty five years since a race between the soviet union and the u.s. turned into a joint effort in space exploration it was a giant leap for mankind with the launch of their first joint space mission apollo so use two rockets blasted off half a world away from each other before docking for the first time in orbit the event marked the only the beginning of an era of space cooperation between the two countries but also a warming in cold war relations the u.s.s.r. and u.s. commanders remember the historic space linkup asked the most emotional moment of their lives. the launch was during the height of the cold war so this project wasn't all just technical and scientific importance but it was also a great step towards cooperation between the u.s.s.r. and the us it works in space there were no losers the main thing was that we started to work on friendship ties between the two countries it was like search and

find ways to survive and live together in this world it was the first time the soviet people and americans looked at each other is the it was a beautiful project and my friend and brother if you can confirm it it was a space race. we had the russians the soviets for be had always you know. great feats in space and my dear friend my brother alexey was the first one ever to walk in space but it was so interesting. here we had. to defer to language use two different measures. two different. political system there was a very meaningful symbol to the people of the world when we open the hatch in a lecture and i show you. and this week and new bollywood comedy that features and

osama bin ladin look alike was banned in pakistan pakistani censors worried that depicting the world's most wanted man in a comic way could trigger terrorist attacks are just card saying when to ask those behind the comedy if the world is really ready for post nine eleven humor. this could well be the biggest scoop of my career interviewing the world's most wanted terrorist however this man does not have a twenty five million dollar reward on his head in fact he's not osama bin laden but an actor in a bollywood for their new bin ladin or without you lot in but just in case you think this is a movie glorifying a terrorist it is a general sort of. biography it's a film which is on the post nine eleven world of which bin laden happens to be a very very important character and this is a fair number of feet below them and that's how you're using it's not insensitive or offensive in any way and anybody from any part of the world is going to enjoy

this from i can get into that it's american comedy set in pakistan where the young journalist is fixated with going to america and he decided to stick it to get there is an interview with osama bin laden so he goes about creating a fake or. using the lookalike. they had to keep the twenty five year old actor under wraps to prevent stampede spoiled making the film. had gone to shopping mall in noida to promote this film and there was a commotion there a crowd of more than a hundred people gathered so will fall in this time pete i was scared can wait to take me but nothing like that happened they wanted to shake my hand and take my autograph so i signed with love someone. who plays the journalist is a pakistani singer and this is did you film how does it feel acting in an indian film set in pakistan and in pakistan bollywood films are greatly appreciated they

are seen. people enjoy them so i mean to see a pakistani. something very refreshing and new for them but pakistan's firm censors have banned the movie saying it mocks security agencies or some of bin laden. and screening it in public could trigger violence for films distributors and box stun golet a message of peace and not appealing the ban that's going to matter i thought it was a nice room a good idea there's a lot of good humor from the name it sounds like a serious film when actually it turns out quite different so it's full of great jokes i can do for me that be achieved we have a lot of different is quite a good film it will definitely like kids i mind my students to come and watch it and they will like it there's nothing here that will incite it with mine specifically but the selling point of this film is. but it's very tongue in cheek so i asked for the one to act the part in the movie and i challenge you america there will be retribution holding just an evil actions you have committed in the

countries like iraq and afghanistan for these you will have to pay a heavy price. when i first heard about this film i thought it was going to be a beautification updated us but actually it's quite irrelevant subtile in the way pakistanis and muslims are looked at with suspicion in the west today and how do we do have to be fooled into believing something that doesn't exist i think this film could do well in south asia but western audiences would probably need a good sense of humor to appreciate the message got and saying ah gee then it. had a recap of our headlines interview are coming your way after a short break. truman

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t.v. . welcome back you're watching r.t. coming to live from moscow and today we'll take a look at the stories that shaped the lived as well as the latest news stories now international that member is a true terrorist cells have been arrested on suspicion of planning attacks on russian cities both groups are believed to have links with global terrorism. startling statistics three decades twenty five million deaths and a worse sixty million infections much of talk about of the international aids conference which starts today. kidnap confusion the us media claims that the iranian scientists the sas he was abducted by american secret services was vying for washington.