now i am in the russian capital you're watching r.t.m. marina joshua welcome to the program now this week russian security services said they broke up a terrorist cell in a southern republic of dagestan it is believed that six women arrested in a police raid were trained to tap public places across the country to man were also detained one of whom was linked to the deadly moscow metro blast in march. so young but deemed old enough one of the alleged terrorist teams 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. us 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 a 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 raped them deprive them of a better future in the muslim society of the caucasus there psychologically shattered in our lives 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 sit off explosions in the metro the two blasts within twenty minutes of each other to police 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 were once two closer to finding not only the executers but the mastermind behind the entire operation all the people detained in the russian republic of the sun continue to maintain their innocence but the terrorist committee believes it has more than enough evidence to make its case catherine is our of our team last hour 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 was by infamous militant leader doc omar the arrest took place after the french police have been tipped off by the russian security services those suspects reportedly have firearms explosives and a map of moscow with mark locations of possible targets marcia's one of the most

one of russia's north caucasus militant leaders that is thought to be connected with al qaida marfa claimed responsibility for organizing the moscow man from west to march is also blamed for many other attacks across the country in june the u.s. also put him on a wanted list of international terrorist. sauza and experts scientists and politicians from around the globe have gathered in vienna to discuss aids prevention but as r.t. sarah firth reports the convention is also attracted skeptics who oppose mainstream beliefs surrounding the deadly virus. this the opening 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. on twenty five thousand people will be attending this is a conference meeting policymakers activists scientists community workers and 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 hiv and aids itself now most of the people that are attending this conference of delegates and scientists have said that they will name parts even interact in a conversation with this separate 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 that they'll be discussing this week some of these main topics are going to be a prevention of hiv that's been a big issue and we know that in two thousand and five they set a december two thousand and ten deadline the universal access to hate hiv prevention and it's the countries have fallen pretty far short of those targets

will 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 for this conference is hiv valence and injecting drug users 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 prevailing hiv in injecting drug users as it will be another topic that is discussed throughout the week before today the a.p. . to going to be starting at seven o b introductory talks brainy the latest from them as they happen. and a bit later in the program the resident asks if the people of running new york's financial district can ever change their ways. do you think that one street bankers to 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 in going to the personalities. are on trial to moscow curators have been found guilty of inciting religious hatred over a controversial exhibition and criticism of the verdict is a violation of freedom of expression. now a severe drought has forced a state of emergency in central russia dry spell is turning normally fertile farmland into desert the republic of 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 on president of drought the crops are not laid 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. this region is going to have trouble sustaining itself farmers are looking for ways to procure rougher trying other regions such as districts again there's the matter of financial losses without financial support farmers will have a very tough times this year this field of summer we should be about chest high on me and 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 of doing a new 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 signs of the potato we have nothing. no food for people means even less food for animals causing farmers to take drastic measures just to make ends meet. mr to move her 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 of those are you less than five to ten liters of milk to the slaughterhouse but 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. sean thomas r t. meanwhile heat wave in moscow continues to smash records and

water is the hottest july week for seventy years and saturday's america really hit thirty five degrees centigrade that's ninety five degrees fahrenheit and the sizzling temperatures are forecast to soar even further two hundred rounds have been reported across the country as many rushed to cool down in the sweltering heat and firefighters have been busy battling almost a thousand wildfires across the country. now the u.s. banking system is about to go through its biggest overhaul in over seventy years the dodd frank bill is designed to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis and would limit risky trading activities limiting bank profits but it isn't popular on wall street with wealthy donors beginning to direct more campaign contributions to the republican party president finds out if people in new york think bankers can't be reformed.

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 a finished grad school and i just don't think that's going to change they think if we put a little bit more regulation here in wall street the facts could help the world globally not 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 it will always 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 be how would we be able to tell unless they put it forward 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 walking around to suit against the administration saying it's the worst thing ever is going to send america to third world country and people who are for the president 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 look of control and additional control but. you know for the end of the day

it's a regulated to have morals. a lot of business will go just they'll just find a way around. whether or not you think the dodd frank bill will actually accomplish anything the bottom line is we have to try something otherwise we're just destined to make a mistake with this dire consequence. and more stories from our tea coming your way this how we're the indian government apologizes for secretly dumping toxic waste from the deadly bhopal gas leak while activists demand the u.s. from blame for the disaster to be brought to justice. also what's on the menu after eating up the first german and russian years for a burger. u.s. authorities have said an iranian scientist allegedly abducted by american agents

was a spy who supplied them with information. he was working as a nuclear research or i want to iran's universities claims to have been captured while on a pilgrimage to saudi arabia over a year ago on his return to iran on thursday he was given a hero's welcome and was met by his family to iran believes that amir he was abducted claim strongly denied by washington but it was contradictory accounts of what really happened and surrounding the story remain a mystery. the looming question in this case how did the iranian scientists or 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 on the u.s. state department seems to agree with that statement he is here of his own volition that 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 iraq 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 of other than knowledge that he has 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 here of chaos in a case of a 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. now former cia analyst ray mcgovern says washington probably want to marry to confirm its claims that tehran has nuclear weapons ambitions. it seems to me that what the united states thought they needed here was someone from boston simply inside iran to talk talk about how for advance iran is on their nuclear weapons development program which the real

intelligence agencies seized and maybe they persuaded him that that would be a good thing to do and maybe he changed his mind when he thought about you know what will happen to his friends with iran so it was just kind of you know the. spring or shocks we blew that one and some other black market into a whole string of marks on the professionalism of the intelligence services and this week there have been many twists in the russia u.s. spy saga that has rocked the two countries and made headlines around the world after a deal was struck to swap ten agents in the u.s. for four people convicted of espionage in russia another person working for moscow has been deported by washington aleksei caret make off a twenty three year old microsoft employee was linked to the spy case but he pleaded guilty to violating immigration laws also this week the glamorous russian agent chapman was stripped of her british citizenship meanwhile igor sutyagin

a scientist who was part of a spy swap deal has been given a u.k. residency and harvard university revoked a degree the award it andriy of who went by the name of dollars has failed. and the indian government has admitted it was wrong to secretly dump toxic waste to deal with the world's worst industrial catastrophe over twenty five years ago and nine hundred eighty four gas leaks from a pesticides factory in bhopal in a chemical disaster that killed thousands of people and the fallout is still being felt as current seeing reports. b.b. jon lives opposite the old union carbide plant granddaughter mozzie like many other children in the neighborhood was born with birth defects she may look four years old but she's actually seven you'd be a diety if. she was born this way she can talk and walk properly and she's seven years old we've tried to treat her and have taken her to all the hospitals we can

achieve isn't getting better. american based company dark a macos that now owns union carbide refuses to clean up the factory premises but tons of toxic waste are still slowly contaminating the city's soil and water a study last year found the poison has seeped into nearby homes we found very very high levels of toxins we found high levels of mercury we found high levels of pesticides which the company had manufactured nine still in the sludge more we foundered three kilometers downstream and we checked the groundwater we found it in now clearly this is unacceptable and there is no way that dow chemical strawberry can argue that it is not responsible for this the indian government has agreed to pay more compensation to victims of the gas tragedy but the protests show no sign of letting up activists want the government to bring former union carbide boss what an anderson justice attempts by indian governments to extradite him from the us

have so far failed run b.r.d. job is ninety years old like many of the half a million people affected by the gas leak she suffers from cancer and finds it difficult to breathe she wants to see anderson brought to justice. and that no one listens to saturday in. this government is incompetent we demand that those responsible approach justice and we receive adequate compensation. indians have reacted with few. barack obama's tough stance against b.p. they accuse the u.s. of hypocrisy saying that we do as is from slate be polluting it's environment but ignores mistakes by its companies abroad if this is not double standards what are double standards there in your own country in your own backyard who want to hold a corporation responsible for the accident and for the environmental damages you

believe was above the law to demand the price that needs to be paid you've been told the company liable but the media where you really are where thousands have died and have continued to suffer because of. the american government can be as callous as to say we are very happy with this decision and we are glad that the matter is now over the after effects of the world's worst industrial disaster are still taking their tool by its community have daily reminders of the tragedy that happened here twenty five years ago but with no one willing to take responsibility it's a fight for accountability and justice the survivors won't give up on god and seeing r.t. or bought now to moscow are curators have been found guilty of inciting religious hatred after an exhibition which prosecutor said insult of human dignity the show called forbidden art included an explosive mix of works some of which were banned from previous public displace. a gross humiliation 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 thousand complaint and so began a fourteen month trial on charges of inciting religious hatred through controversial works of course it was not the church that initiated this prosecution order but the people who are offended by 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 it 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 today the court discovered a new type of ideological crime one that criticizes the church while the us state is a secular one any exhibit of artworks where religious symbols are used in a non-religious context expressing other ideas is banned the judge in the case called the artwork a gross 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 freedoms will be replaced by a church imposed danders so stevens r.t. . our cooperation between moscow and berlin has received a boost following chancellor angela merkel's talks with president medvedev and

russia both leaders took the opportunity to reiterate the unique relationship shared between their two countries. sure you might let me draw your attention to the fact that germany is number one on the list of russia's partners we have long time relations which have not been spoiled even by difficult chapters in our history. when it comes to russia and germany has relations with other countries it's not like in school where you have just one friend we can have many friends germany and russia have their own issues they're completely different in nature to transatlantic problems it's useful for us to be able to discuss them together the room for dialogue doesn't exist to the same degree with president obama as a does between us but the u.s. relationship is still very important and i think president medvedev also would like to read to read that this conference is no way should signalize about relationship with president obama. well we have two options either the three of us go and he somehow megas we'd rather treat our friend barack obama to some kind of european

grizzly's. as i am as i think the burger will taste best for me. and along with the smiles of the some of the two leaders god some serious business done signing a number of deals germany has agreed to provide russia with different types of technology including trains and wind turbines during the meeting president medvedev said he hoped the modernization process would be quick and was counting on support from german partners the two leaders also enjoyed a meal which included octopus but insisted it was not the same as german world cup psychic paul. time now to look at some other stories from around the world at least sixteen people have been killed in northwest pakistan after militants ambushed a convoy of civilian vehicles they were traveling to the city of peshawar with a security force escort when gunmen opened fire the attack was in the area were there been intensive military operations by pakistani forces against islamic

insurgents. greek authorities are battling to control the first major wildfires of the summer raging near athens a convent and a children's camp had to be evacuated on saturday as high winds fanned flames in the capital suburbs there was damage to houses in the area but no casualties forest fires regularly break out in recent summer due to the hard drive weather and high winds. well it's exactly ninety two years since the executed the last russians are nicholas the second and his family the deaths and three centuries of rule by the remind of dynasty r.t. has talked to historian helen rappaport who's written a book about their last days. some people think they were just lined up in a row by men by no doubt it was not like it was a truthful ill conceived executed murder you can't say it was an execution it

was brutal because you know you would also he didn't he didn't check whether they were these guys who good shots they didn't check the guns they had a mixture of. some efficient guns browning's from coats and also old army issue not guns which probably didn't work they didn't count they were killing eleven people in a small dark basement room which rapidly became full of acrid smoke noise panic hysteria people screaming and running around it was an absolute catastrophe because they then had to brutally finish them off the only one of the family really who had a quick death was actually nicholas because the minute they the order came to fire they all want to take pot pot shots at the cellar of course so they could say well i saw nicolas. and watch the full interview with helen rappaport next hour here in our team as well as many other stories including the trigger for the arms race which was pulled

by the americans sixty five years ago our team looks back at history of nuclear bomb development on both sides of the atlantic. and double trouble pakistan bans a new bollywood comedy starring at osama bin ladin those like. can watch our report about americana war veterans but first it's a recap of our top stories of the week coming your way and just a few minutes. much

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welcome back you're watching our team live from moscow and here are some top stories of the week international threat members of two terror 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 only more sixteen million infections watch to talk about of the international aids conference which starts today. kidnap confusion us media points out in a rainy and scientist who says he was abducted by american secret services for spying for washington. drying out record high temperatures.