eleven am in moscow you're watching r t i'm reading joshua into the program and this week russian security services said they broke up a terrorist cell in the southern republican dug a 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 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 you go against the house i even help 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 going to. terrorists disgrace these women raped them deprived them of a better future in the muslim society of the caucasus their psychologically shattered and our lives would nor their 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 with these latest arrests officials say they are one step closer to finding not only the executers but the mastermind behind the entire operation people to stop the kenya to maintain their innocence to terrorists. believes it has more than enough evidence to make its case castrated are artsy fartsy. and just a few days later three ethnic chechens were arrested in france and charged with having links to a terror network moscow says they belong to the group led by infamous militant leader. 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 does home our office one of the most wanted of russia's north caucasus militant leaders and is thought to be connected with al qaida omar who claimed responsibility for organizing the moscow metro blast in march is also blamed for many other attacks across the country in june the us also put him on a one of the list of international terrorists. thousands of experts scientists and politicians from around the globe have gathered in vienna to discuss hiv aids prevention but as r.t. sarah firth reports the convention has also attracted skeptics who oppose mainstream beliefs surrounding the deadly virus. this is the a 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 policymakers activists scientists community workers 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 five 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 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 the 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 for 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 technology and another main issue head of this conference is hiv valence and injecting drug eases the organizers of the conference and 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 is discussed throughout the week before today the a.p. . again to be starting at seven though the introductory talks wouldn't bring me the latest from them as they have to. argue sarah for say are now doubts over the conventional treatment of h. of aids or driving people to challenge established ideas about the disease that's according to dr christian theology who questions the motives of some pharmaceutical

companies. i'm going back to the facts and the facts tell the people who test positive for various reasons even the producer of the terrorists are not aware of a standard to verify presence or absence of hiv antibodies 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 vials 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 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 very fibers that aids treatment today is just less toxic than in the early ninety's 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 were stories from r.t. coming your way this hour the indian government apologizes for secretly dumping toxic waste from the deadly gas leak while activists demand the u.s. firm blamed for the disaster to be brought to justice. also shared space r.t. looks back at how the relations between you ceasar in the us weren't after their first ever link up in orbit. and u.s.

authorities have sat an iranian scientists allegedly abducted by american agents was a spy who supplied them with information shahram amiri who was working as a nuclear research or at a lot of tehran's universities claims to have been captured while on a pilgrimage to saudi arabia over a year ago and on his return to iran on thursday he was given a hero's welcome and was mad by his family to iran believes that a merry was adopted a claim strongly denied by washington but with contradictory accounts of what really happened with the van surrounding the story remains a mystery. 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 miri himself but his answers completely contradict one another in this video a man who says he's sure rama miry 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 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 that we're 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. but i

was told that if i would confess they could swap me for three american spies who had been detained at the iran iraq border they said that this was a common process between countries intelligence agencies and that i wouldn't have any problems. 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 the 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 through 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 example r t. now is exactly ninety two years since the boss of x. executed the last russians are nicholas the second and his family the dancer and

three centuries of rule by dynasty in the next hour r.t. talks to story and helen rappaport has written a book about their final days. some people think they were just lined up in a row bang bang bang no doubt it was not like that it was a dreadful ill conceived ill executed murder you can't say it was an execution it was brutal because you know your oscar didn't plan it he didn't check out whether they were these guys were good shots they didn't check the guns they had a mixture of some efficient guns browning's and colts and also old army issue nightgowns 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 she filed they all want to take pol pot shot at the cellar of course so they can say well i shot nicholas. and the demise of the imperial family has left a deep mark in russian history but it's not the only mystery of the country's volatile past in fifteen minutes time r.t. investigates one of the most intriguing mists of the so-called golden train. the train carries away the russian empires gold reserve. to save it from the soviet. five hundred tons of gold. dozens of. six hundred fifty million. group. that is still awaiting the arrival of

a. century long way. mystery of. how 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 in nineteen eighty-four gas leaked from a pesticide factory in bhopal chemical disaster that killed thousands of people and the fallout is still being felt as current seeing reports. b.b. john lives opposite the old union carbide plant granddaughter no mozzie like many other children in the neighborhood who 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

but she isn't getting better. american based company dark chemicals that now owns union carbide refuses to clean up the factory premises but downs 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 founded three kilometers downstream and we checked the groundwater we found it in now clearly this is unacceptable and there is no way that dow chemicals to date 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 water now anderson to justice them spy indian governments to extradite him from the u.s.

have so far failed. 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. no one listens to saturday in. this government is incompetent we demand that those responsible have brought to justice and we receive adequate compensation. indians have reacted with fuel. president barack obama's staff stance against b.p. they accuse the u.s. of hypocrisy saying it with us is firms like be polluting its 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 do you want to hold a corporation responsible for the accident and for the environmental damages you

were above the law to demand the price that needs to be paid you could hold the company liable but the media where we 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 parts 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 our t. bot. now severe drought has forced a state of emergency in central russia the end usually dry spell is turning normally fertile farmland into desert the republican is just one of many areas which are suffering as our 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. you see because of the unprecedented drought the crops are not laden 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 to vosh 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 and some of. this region is going to have trouble sustaining itself farmers are looking for ways to procure rougher trying other regions such as not dimmer and district again there's the matter of financial losses without financial support farmers will have a very tough time 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 ground 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. no no no water it's dry 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 and. no food for people means even less food for. animals causing farmers to take drastic measures just to make ends meet. we are already thinking about reducing our cattle stock we are selling this year's calves to individuals we are also thinking about sending. those who yield less than five to ten liters of milk to the slaughterhouse 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. meanwhile he of wave in moscow continues to smash records in waters the hottest july week for seventy years on saturday the mercury hit thirty five degrees centigrade that's ninety five degrees fahrenheit the sizzling temperatures are forecast to soar even for there the number of drownings across russia has increased as many rushed to cool down in the sweltering heat and firefighters have been busy battling almost a thousand wildfires across the country. added 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 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 ingrained into their personalities. also what's on the menu after eating an octopus german and russian leaders felt up for a burger. 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 was a giant leap for mankind with the launch of the your 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 not only the beginning of an era of space cooperation between the two countries but also warming cold war really the u.s.s.r. and the u.s. commanders remember the historic space leg up as the most emotional moment of their lifes. the launch was during the height of the cold war so this project wasn't just technical and scientific comportment but it was also

a great step towards cooperation between the u.s.s.r. and the u.s. towards progress 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 one world it was the first time the soviet people and americans looked at each other is the quills it was a beautiful project and my friend and brother can confirm it it was a space race. the russians or the soviets for be had always you know shown some great feats in space and my dear friend my brother alexey was the first whatever to walk in space but it was so interesting. here where you had. two different languages two different your submersion with. two different. different political systems it was a very meaningful symbol to the people of the world when we open the hatch in

a lecture and i showed you how the u.s. banking system is about to go through its biggest overhaul in over seventy years the dot frank bill is designed to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis and would limit risky trading activities limiting bank profits but it is unpopular on wall street with wealthy donors beginning to direct more campaign contributions to the republican party artie's resident finds out of people in new york saying bankers can bury 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

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 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 people unfortunately and today everything is partisanship and saw everything is about the next election and so people looking on 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 thing i don't

know time will tell i think there were probably yeah there was a lot of control and they were some additional control but it's still a you know the end of the day. if they regulated to have a little more else. yeah a lot of business will just they'll just find a way around london. 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 death to. to make a mistake with this diagram. and cooperation between moscow and berlin has received a boost following chancellor angela merkel's talks with president medvedev in russia both leaders took the opportunity to reiterate the unique relationship shared between their two countries. 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's 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 it's a 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 made a video 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 through this go and eat some how megas we draw the treat our friend barack obama to some kind of european cuisine. i think the burger will taste best for me. with a smile so the some of the two leaders yacht some serious business done as

a number of business deals have been signed between the countries and germany has agreed to provide russia of different types of technology including trains and wind turbine turbines during a meeting the leaders discussed a whole range of issues including civil rights iran and european security he also enjoyed a meal with which included octopus system it was not the famous during world cup paul. you're watching r.t. coming to life from moscow time. now take a look at some other stories from around the world and 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 it's half was in an area where there have been intensive military operations by pakistani forces against islamic insurgents. at least thirty six people have died in two coal mine accidents in china electrical fault sparked the fire which killed twenty eight in the northern

city of hunch on authorities have ordered inspections at the other coal mines in the region to avoid further accidents and a separate incident eight people were killed in a blaze at a mine in the neighboring hainan province. brings us up to date here in r.t.l. the back of the headlines and more in just a few moments. welcome

back here with r t and hear the stories that shape the week international threat members of two terrorist cells have been arrested on suspicion of planning attacks in russian cities both groups are believed to have links with global terrorism. startling statistics three decades twenty five million deaths and over sixteen million infections much to talk about at the international aids conference which starts today. kidnap confusion the u.s. media claims that an iranian scientist as soon as he was abducted by american secret services was spying for washington. drawing our record high temperatures in russia.