one pm in moscow you're with r.t.l. marina joshie welcome now this week russian security services said they broke up a terrorist cell in a southern republican dug a stand it's believed that six women arrested in a police raid were trained to tap public places across russia two man were also detained one of whom was linked to the deadly moscow metro blast in march. so young but deemed. one of the alleged terrorists in the russian republic of the gets them 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. 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. help i'm fifteen years old and you go guns in the house i even help

them to rob 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 discreet rapes them deprive them of a better future in a muslim society of the caucuses there psychologically shattered and are left with no other choice but to become. 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 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. believes it has more than enough evidence to make its case castrate us are about our team boss. and just a few days later or three as the 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 dahl kumar the arrest took place after the french police have been tipped off by the russian security services those suspect reportedly have firearms explosives and map of moscow with mars locations of possible targets as one of the

most wanted russia's north caucasus militant leaders and is thought to be connected with al qaida mark claimed responsibility for organizing the moscow metro blasts in 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. u.s. authorities was sad an iranian scientist allegedly abducted by american agents was a spy who supplied them with information hama miry was borking as a nuclear researcher at one of tehran's universities claims to have been captured while 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 in a plane strongly denied by washington but with contradictory accounts of what really happened dance around a little bit wary of remain a mystery. the looming question in this case how did the iranian scientists sure

amiri 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 or 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 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 that we're 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. that is why would they could swap me for three american stories we're going to take in that they were on iraq's border to not be they said that this was a common process between countries intelligence agencies but 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 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 south r.t. . now more stories from r t coming your way of a sour the indian government apologizes for secretly dumping toxic waste from the delhi bomb all ghastly while activists demand the u.s. from playing four of the disaster brought to justice. also art on trial to moscow curators have been found guilty of inciting religious hatred over herschel exhibition and criticism of the florida 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 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 months who are very much you see because of the on president of drought the crops are not delayed 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. it's. this region is going to have trouble sustaining its own farmers are looking for ways to procure rougher trying other regions such as what daimler and districts as again there's the matter of financial losses without financial support farmers will have a very tough times this year this field of summer wheat 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

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 no it's drawing the wells and many of the villages that run dry forcing those who live here to make long tracks 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. no food for people means even less food for animals causing farmers to take drastic measures just to make ends meet. monsieur to move her blood we are already thinking about reducing our cattle stock we are selling this story individuals which we are also thinking about sending under-performing cows those who used less than five to ten liters of milk

to the slaughterhouse look 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. meanwhile the heat wave in moscow continues to smash records and why does the hottest july week for. seventeen years on saturday the mercury hit thirty five degrees centigrade that's ninety five degrees fahrenheit and the sizzling temperatures are forecast to soar even further 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. thousands of experts scientists and politicians from around the globe have gathered in vienna to discuss aids prevention but as our t. sara firth reports the convention has also attracted skeptics who oppose mainstream belief surrounding the deadly virus. this day of the aids two thousand and ten

conference in vienna. 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 to the demand twenty five thousand people will be attending this is a conference meeting policy made his first scientists to work with people living with hiv and aids or to discuss the latest developments in this field now so really a 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 i v and it's so now most of the people that are attending this conference delegates and scientists have said that they will name parts even interact in a conversation with the separate great they've completely ignored it saying that this is not something that they're willing to discuss now be focusing very much on

the topics of that they'll be discussing 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 the universal access to hate hiv prevention and it's the countries have fallen pretty far short of those 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 for this conference is hiv the valence and injecting drug eases the 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 this discussed throughout the week before today the

a.p. . talks are going to be starting at seven o b introductory talks bring me the latest from them as they have been. our correspondent sara for thier now to discuss the alternative hiv aids conference i'm now joined from vienna by joan shannon founder of the immunity resource to the shed and thank you very much for being here with us on the program on r t finer stand correctly your foundation disputes to establish mainstream scientific understanding of. aids why is that and what prompted you to set this foundation up right well for twenty four years now we have been challenging this hypothesis that hiv causes aids with leading scientists around the world and i am a television producer an independent producer and i made eleven documentaries on the subject that were transmitted around the world but it didn't shift opinion and what is happening this week in vienna is extremely important because the conference

here that we had for two days before the big world aids conference has shed light on all the major issues that challenge hiv as the cause of aids and aids as a sexually transmitted disease. well john the question that i wanted to ask you is that if you're rejecting conventional methods of treatment which you say are still strong what sort of alternative forms does your foundation have an offer. welcome vention treatment has actually caused the death of a whole generation of young gay men in america when they were on the high doses of aids their t. that is well documented not one single young man all women and there were a few women who took the high doses of aids that he has survived many many others have survived who haven't taken the antiviral and many have survived who have taken antivirals at times to damp down what essentially is an immune suppression for

many many different reasons so it's extremely important to be challenging this hypothesis which of course is tied up with hundreds and billions of thousands of dollars of international money which have led to absolutely no result well jonah do we have reasons to believe that alternative methods are more effective than the current mainstream ones. look aids as it's called has remained restricted to the high risk groups it hasn't spread as a heterosexual spread disease at all it hasn't behaved like an infectious disease so what we have to do is actually change our lifestyle and that you could say that's all turning to look after your health not indulge in huge high risk activity which is happening now people are looking after themselves more who are in the very fast track life with multiple sexual partners and multiple sexually transmitted

diseases and then if you look after yourself enough you will get better and that is my experience and i've been watching young people who tested positive many years ago in fact we did a test ourselves we tested thirty five blood samples through. of the university of sorry we put thirty five samples through three different test kits and two of the test kits showed reasonably similar results the third test kit showed nineteen people who were in the sort of no man's land area right so there were nineteen anomalies there and one of the young people tested negative twice when we took him to two london teaching hospitals but he had tested positive three times on our blinded trial so the h.i.v. test is an absolute crime people really i mean when you think the d.h. hiv test you can test positive for hiv if you have sixty seven conditions in

an orthodox medicine they accept that there are sixty seven conditions that make you test positive for hiv or can tb syphilis malaria invasive my coat's it's ok the question i want to ask you know armor for it i have to interrupt you why is it that your theory didn't catch on. well it has caught on if you think rethinking aids in america has a thousand members we have a nobel laureate who supports us we have a least five hundred leading molecular scientists around the world who support the alternative view and challenge the infectious hypothesis potus is basically it's very difficult to challenge a major orthodoxy these days because the media is so powerful the drug industry is more powerful than government so what you have is a situation where we're david and goliath but we're going to get there in the end because by press of varying the truth will come up ok john chandan thanks very much

indeed for sharing your views with us there was founder of the immunity resource foundation talking to us from vienna where the each of the aids conference starts today. well watching our team 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 now. 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 . also shared space argue looks back at how the relations between uses are in the us warm after the first several link up in orbit. around 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 one hundred eighty four gas leak from a pesticides factory in bhopal and a chemical disaster that killed thousands of people and the fallout is still being

felt as current singer reports. the union carbide blog granddaughter like many other children in the neighborhood was born with birth defects she may look four years old but she's actually seven u.p.a. that she is doing she was born this way now she can do it and she's seven here and we've tried to treat turner and have taken her to all the hospitals we can name and she isn't getting better at being an american based company that no one's union carbide refuses to clean up the factory premises but. 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 most cutey we found high levels of pesticides which the company had manufactured lying still in the sludge more we

foundered three can only does downstream and we checked the groundwater we found now clearly this is unacceptable and. it is no way that dow chemical stradella can argue that it is not responsible for this the government has agreed to compensation to victims of the bull by the gas tragedy but the protests show no sign of letting up activists want the government to bring former union carbide boss water notice and justice attempts by indian governments to extradite him from the us have so far failed to run p.r. the job of 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 bring she wants to see anderson brought to justice if i get my new leases today she said to him. this government is incompetent we demand that those responsible of course justice and we receive adequate compensation i mean.

indians have reacted with president barack obama's tough stance against b.p. they accuse the u.s. of hypocrisy in saying that the u.s. is firms like be polluting its environment but ignores mistakes by its companies abroad if this is not double stack that's what our double standards there in your own country in your backyard you want to hold a corporation responsible for the accident and for the environmental damage just above the law to demand the price that needs to be paid you could hold the company liable but the media where millions 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 market is now over the after effects of the world's worst industrial disaster are still taking their tool box 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 bot. and to moscow art curators have been found guilty of inciting religious hatred after an exhibition which prosecutors said insulted human dignity the show called for a big nard included an explosive mix of works some of which were banned from previous public displays. 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 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 to

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 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 freedom will be replaced by a church imposed danders so stephen's r.t. . now the u.s. banking system is about to go through its biggest overhaul and over seventy years the dot fraying bill is designed to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis and would limit risky trading activities limiting bank profits but it is unpopular a wall street with healthy donors beginning to direct more campaign contributions to the republican party president finds out of people in new york saying bankers can 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 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 working on can 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 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 tell i think there were probably yeah there was a lack of control and they see some additional control but it still is you know the end of the day if the if they regulated to have a little more else. yeah a lot of business will just they'll just find a way around. whether or not you think the dad frank bell 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 dire consequence. this

week marks thirty five years since a race between us of a teen and the u.s. turned into a joint effort in space exploration it was a giant leap for mankind with the launch of the year first feared space mission apollo so use to rockets blasted off half a world away from each other before docking for the first time in a war but the event marked are 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 the u.s. commanders remember the historic space link up as a most emotional moment of their lives. the launch was during the height of the cold war so this project wasn't just technical and scientific unfortunate but it was also a great step towards cooperation between the u.s.s.r. and the u.s. it wants peace they want 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 brother if you can confirm it it was a space race but. we had the russians and the soviets for be had always you know done showing 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 we had. two different languages two different units of measure. two different. completely different political system it was a very meaningful symbol to the people of the world when we open the hatch in a lecture and i show you. now that brings us up to date here in r.t. and i'll be back with a recap of our main news stories in just a moment. much

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. they're watching r t live from moscow and here is a look at the latest headlines on the week's top stories 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 over sixty million infections wants to talk about at the international aids conference which starts today. kidnap confusion the u.s. media claims that in their rainy and scientists to assess he was abducted by american secret services was spying for washington. drying up record high temperatures in russia causing widespread crop.