this is r t coming to life from moscow i'm marina joshing welcome to the program now this week russian security services said they broke up a terrorist cell in a southern republican doug stone it is believed that six women arrested in a police raid were trained to attack public places across russia two man were also detained one of whom is linked to the deadly moscow metro blast in march. so young but deemed. one of the alleged terrorists the russian republic of biggest gun is just fifteen years old that according to officials did not stop her from taking part in planning terrorist attacks she and the other women were allegedly trained by their husbands but my late husband left the guns hand 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. help i'm fifteen years old and you go guns in the house i even help them around 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 disgraces women raped them deprive them of a better future in the muslim society of the caucuses there psychologically shattered and are left with no other choice. one of the men detained in the same raid is accused of something even more tangible than planning future attacks brain 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 there these latest arrests officials say they are one step closer to finding not only the executers but the mastermind behind the entire operation to. continue. to terrorists. police it has more than enough evidence to make its case desperate as are our team boss. 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 maher the arrest took place after the french police had been tipped off by the russian security services those suspects reportedly had firearms explosives and a map of moscow with mark locations of possible targets. of is one of the most

wanted of russia's north caucasus militant leaders at a spot to be connected with a march who claimed responsibility for organizing the moscow metro blast a 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 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 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 the twenty five thousand people will be attending this is a conference meeting policy made his this scientists who 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 call friends we've seen a so much more of the great 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 a child the. now most of the people that are attending this conference and scientists have said they will name parts even interact in a conversation with the 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 of that they'll be discussing this week some of these main topics again be 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 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 man issue head of this conference is hiv valence and injecting drugs eases the organizers of the conference and said that it 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 surveillance in injecting drug users as it'll be another topic was discussed throughout the week before today the a.p. . talks to going to be starting at seven o b introductory talks old brainy the latest from them as they have to. surf earth reporting there and a bit later in the program here in r t the resident asks if the people running new york's financial district 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 an ingrained into their personalities . and file to moscow curators have been found guilty of and siding religious hatred over a controversial exhibition and that criticism the verdict is a violation of freedom of expression. u.s. authorities have said and iranian scientists allegedly abducted by american agents was a spy who supplied them with information from a mayor he was working as a nuclear researcher i want to ron'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 mad by his family to iran believes that amir he was abducted a claim strongly denied by washington but with contradictory accounts of what really happened to them surrounding the story remain 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

sure amiri himself but is answers completely contradict one another in this video a man who says he's around them near each other because 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 own volition and he has chosen to to return. 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 embassy the 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. by the us we demand that he would they could swap me for three american spies who had been detained at the iran iraq border and that 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. 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 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. . former cia analyst ray mcgovern says washington probably wanted to confirm its claims that iran 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 far advance iran is on their nuclear weapons development program which the real intelligence agencies say ceased 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. plane was shock's we blew that one and some other black market into a whole string of black 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 and the other person working for moscow has been deported by washington caret make up a twenty three year old microsoft employee was linked to the spy case but he pleaded guilty to violating the gratian laws also this week the glamorous russian agent and chapman was stripped of her british citizenship meanwhile igor sutyagin a scientist who was part of a spy swap deal has been given u.k. residency and harvard university revoked a degree the award of who went by the name of dol taste felt. still to come on the program here in r.t. scarred for life victims of the dow chemical weapon agent orange are calling in washington to admit the toxic legacy of the vietnam war. now the trigger for the arms race which was pulled by the americans sixty five years ago our team looks

back at the history of nuclear bomb development on both sides of the atlantic. a severe drought us forces state of emergency in central russia the unusually dry spell is turning normally fertile farmland into a desert the republic of 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 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 and some 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 what jim 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 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 the neighboring nearby you look no no no water it's drawing 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 most of the moves are blood urine 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. sean thomas marty. 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 the 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 layer generations. i was born without it 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 sprayed through the jungles of south vietnam is still penetrating the d.n.a. of those being born today that may name marion said the victim into still. are suffering from illness a sense of 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 will stand 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 the justice to 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. government but it could ease the pain the u.s. has been ignoring since a dumped a month sent to manufactured agent orange in these jungles. washington d.c. . now while war victims are calling for justice and compensation in the u.s. some soldiers who fought in the war are haunted by their time on the battlefield veterans from different american wars explain why a part time reservist could never become full time heroes are to special report looks at the stark reality of soldiers a lot this next hour here in our team. did i kill innocent see it or was it a call this of course and that's never a say. i'm

sorry for the skull still with me i think of it every day. i still have the flashbacks trouble to memories. so much so that a long time i'm just here trying to tell. i was assure you. i was ashamed that i had been wounded i was ashamed that i hadn't been a hero why i got my way. in the mine. where i went to vietnam because of forward to. now believe what i was going on once or i think. that i was a good soldier. but you know most soldier on the other side and i think i'm just not good. you are with our team now to moscow our 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 but the people who were offended that the investigation proved 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 prefers 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 and despite rush'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 where the us state is a secular one an exhibit of art works 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. . and the us banking system is about to go through its biggest overhaul in over seventy years. 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 our resident finds out of people in new york thing bankers can be reformed. twenty three hundred pages 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 in 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 now everything goes through new york and so forth so i know 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 and 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's 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. well i think there were probably yeah there was a lack of control and they for some additional control but it's still a you know free market at the end of the day so if they if they regulated to have it ok somewhere else. yeah a lot of business will just they'll just find a way around london. 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 a mistake with this dire consequence. now the start of the atomic age sixty five years ago the u.s. has won the race to produce a nuclear weapon america spanned the modern day equivalent of about twenty billion dollars on the project in a bid to beat off its soviet rivals who are also close to creating a bomb artist and his boss explores the remaining relics of the soviet union's porche for nuclear supremacy. it was the culmination of the manhattan project the first american nuclear explosive device nicknamed the gadget went off in new mexico just weeks before devastating the japanese city of hiroshima many including the godfather of the atomic bomb j. robert oppenheimer were terrified by the power of the deadly mushroom cloud people

. who cried. people were silent the echo of that blast carried far beyond the atlantic and the soviet union experiments with nuclear energy were on the way too but just like the us and this research institute on the black sea coast the main rules were played by jurymen scientists. this used to be a top secret nuclear facility but aside from these lines the entrance was guarded by soviet soldiers the lab will see it in deep inside a posse a subtropical paradise three hundred germans top nuclear physicists their assistants family members and even personal chefs were brought to this clue's compound and up caused by the order of joseph stalin in one nine hundred forty five the nazis were famous for their highly developed nuclear research programs so after world war two german physics and chemistry professors at almost no other option but

to work for either moscow or washington if fierce competition between the u.s.s.r. in america to get hold of nuclear weapons was on and even though the us were the first to successfully carry out a nuclear test their rivals caught up pretty quickly share security of the bullets and the germans here thoroughly analyzed the us media reports about the blast even from there they were able to say what had to be done next but. oleksandr chunk of is a veteran of the sukhumi research institute he says many people here remember the time the germans successfully accomplished their mission and were let go by the soviet authorities in the nine hundred fifty s. he's showing us the four thousand book library with rare physics digests and german the office where head professor used to work and the equipment had left for russian scientists. this machine is called the spectral brush it's

a high definition device a very precise one even when the germans left our scientists used to get great results with this equipment. but the rest of the building where german physicists used to work on the soviet a bomb is totally deserved it all winds are disconnected and now days people rarely visit these dark hole ways sixty years after the beginning of the nuclear era this place hidden among the bamboo trees still holds many secrets and the story of german scientists behind the soviet union's very own project manhattan is just one of them. r t a. and i'll be back where the headlines and more in just a few moments don't go away. blind

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a role in the radio. welcome back you're with our team here is a look at the stories that shape the week international threat members of two terrorist cells have been arrested on suspicion of planning attacks on russian cities. roots 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 of the international aids conference which starts today. kidnap confusion the us media claims that in the rainy and scientists of sas he was abducted by american secret services while spying for washington. drying up record high temperatures in.