countries r.t. investigates the dark underworld of a popular ukrainian holiday resort. plus health care by water boat clinics can mean the difference between life and death for people in remote indian villages. it's now two pm in the russian capital you are with welcome to the program while russia's unprecedented heat wave rages on with another record breaking temperatures in the moscow on friday almost three hundred people have drowned in the country this week alone most of them just trying to cool off from the overwhelming humidity russia is also suffering its worst drought in years let's get more on the impact of the heat from marty's tom barton who is now live for us here in moscow so tom we've heard about people drowning as they try to cool themselves off and what some are

calling this insufferable he tell me more though how is the heat wave taking its toll on people and the environment. well there already are moscow's gorky park one of the parks in the center of the city people are enjoying the heat but that is a rare exception the overall situation is getting more and more serious the heat itself is truly record breaking this year this month alone in july four records have been sent on four days it's been the hottest ever recorded on that day and today is the fourth of those days the effects of that heat as you said some people drowning trying to cool off also twenty three russian regions have to cleared a state of emergency because the drought is so bad water is so scarce farmers are literally watching their wheat crops die in the fields the wheat grain falling out onto the floor making it on the harvestable there's also been a terrible problems with fire. twenty thousand fires have been recorded this season

of the fire risk season and they was those have burned four hundred thousand hectares of forest floors are so dry that slightest sets of huge fire one hundred seventy of those fires are still burning now and in the suburbs of moscow people can smell the smoke from fires raging in the moscow region so the situation is. as long as this heat continues the problems will continue as well. many people here in the russian capital have saying this kind of heat hasn't been felt in decades tell me what kind of advice are people being given to deal with this level of intensity. but doctors are giving general advice to people don't go out today they say in the in the midday and the hours in the mid twelve taught for drink plenty of water try and try to stay out of the sun not to not to hydrate yourself too much there are many ways people are trying to cope with the heat and

to escape it and my colleague peter all of prepared a report on that subject. when temperatures soar everyone has to find their own way to keep cool in the sweltering city summer two brothers in moscow have come up with a plan to beat the heat as well as make a bit of cash on the side a majority in boris rent out their apartment in the summer months and set up camp on a small island in the state one kilometer outside of the city center a camp here in one nine hundred sixty s. when i was in my second year at school we came here in a car and we saw the place was vacant we bought a boat right away and brought it here to paradise there's good fishing under you it might seem like a strange choice but it's all perfectly legal anyone can pitch their tent and start their own camp as long as they have based certain rules and use it our chief concern is to avoid harming nature these people are clean and tidy and don't harm nature but if other people come pitch a tent and start throwing rubbish around they'll have to face punishment. as far as

ways to beat the heat goes on a tele and boris have certainly adopted a fairly novel approach but the spike robinson crusoe esque existence they still can't live without some of the creature comforts they go hand in hand with city living next door to use when we have to t.v. sets two radios and a notebook but no internet and my house is in moscow a six minute ride from here the retired pair have just about all they could need on their thirty meter wide island getaway and if there's anything they want it's only a short trip to the nearest shop and to take in the boat right to the shore of course heading for some alfresco sleep isn't a new thing for muscovites in the past before the invention of air conditioning many people would sleep in the courtyards of apartment buildings to try and get some respite from the times oppressive heat not many would be willing to go to the same length as boston on the tolly but with temperatures still around the thirty's more people would be looking for ways to stay cool this summer peter all of the artsy. international court of justice has ruled that

a unilateral declaration of independence from serbia was legal belgrade says it rejects the non-binding decision so your claim of a session in february of two thousand and eight violated his territorial integrity the un's highest court in the hague said there is no article which prevents declarations of sovereignty but both great argues the court only focused on the declaration and said nothing about the legality of course of our independent state however the us many e.u. countries have praised the ruling meanwhile in moscow says the decision sets a dangerous precedent and still wants bilateral talks between serbia and kosovo to resolve their differences and journalist and historian of knowledge says the court's decision is unjust. it's pretty much a death sentence for international law this is a textbook case of a clear violation of both the un. lucian twelve forty four and all the accepted

norms of international law i honestly was expecting a more nuanced decision along the lines of it was illegal but it doesn't matter i quite honestly didn't expect the world court to take such a directly pro-american position to be perfectly honest kosovo is a much independent does manchukuo vichy france was in world war two it's a puppet state it suffers from and democrat abuses of power is its government structure can be best described as a organized crime it is not a state in any way shape or form just because the u.s. state department says it is a doesn't mean it is a case of course it was just a naked land grab and if it's allowed to stand in serbia itself may actually soon fall apart disappear serbia as a country cannot afford to simply let this slide for the past twenty years there have been wars and conflicts in the balkans stemming from the collapse of yugoslavia and each time there was any sort of dispute the serbs turned out to be

on the losing end and the principles that the so-called international community adopted along the way varied according to the needs of the moment there's no principle here really that can consistently apply over the past twenty years except the serbs always lose and that's clearly not a principle you can build a policy on foreign affairs that it's a soviet state television boy on the board of coach says the next step is for belgrade to bring the court's verdict up at the un general assembly. it will be the decision of the general assembly that will change more things than this ruling which isn't unimportant but it says less than we thought it would cost of. deciding about their own lives and it is their free will i'm not the spokes person of the government government but what i've heard from from our government seems to me as if serbia does not want to rule over. and decide their lives

all he wants a minimum of sovereignty over that area three recognize the sovereignty does not imply serbian right to actually run the daily lives of course of all binion's and serbia head in the past several different proposals on how to resolve this all of which were very quickly rejected by the big powers except for four for russia and china and there wasn't much room for for serbia to cooperate there and you go see. it is nearly ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital you are with r t now a court hearing has taken place in the u.s. state of arizona over the new immigration law that set to come into force there next week the u.s. government is trying to block the bill saying it would lead to racial profiling no ruling has been made so far the new measures would allow the police to stop anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant human rights activist reverend

a great. radio host attorney katz clashed on the issue in artie's washington d.c. studio. every conversation about the law not being humane is a red herring it should not be discussed it's an embarrassment as b ten seventy is federal law and all the state of arizona is doing is making sure that that federal law is enforced and the answer to start with is to seal the border to quite literally build the fence fifty feet high if need be and the full length of the border from san diego through texas to those of us from the civil rights community we see a whole lot of racial issues that are really come to play in terms of the arizona law that this law is basically going to allow for racial profiling and therefore discriminatory it is true you don't live on the same hours of driving i you don't live on a slide you do not live on the same china track that i live on maybe you live in a privileged situation but the reality is that my god you hate it simply. because

they're in the wrong neighborhood people are stopped all the time because they look at different way the rotty way in terms of the eyes of law enforcement is that reasonable cause to stop somebody i mean that unfortunately is such a situation for racial profiling and when we look at someplace like does not arizona has created a law that is basically screwed discriminatory in its nature and happens i didn't create a law and making a two tier citizenship system mr cafferty jump in here absolutely not first of all let's be clear reverend they are not citizens they are legal invaders they do not have like an apology of an absence of united states because they look a certain way they may be citizens but they look a certain way that's the nature of racial profiling the reality is the law is racist the law sets up a dynamic to attack a certain segment of the population and to attack them with absolutely not. well the main stories we're covering are always available on our website that is dot com let's have

a quick look now what's waiting for you right now twitter revolution how the scorching heat in russia made the word. big hit on the internet. and why the celebrity octopus poll may move to russia as a local bookmaker pay good money for his talent. well with people heading to the beaches for some summer fun the seedier side of one black sea resort in ukraine is now being exposed odessa has become a thriving hub for the sex slave industry now as a strategic port had slowcoach and makes it a hotspot for human trafficking between the region and other countries artie's alexy reports. it is fun in the sun in the ukraine in port city offer

desa hundreds of thousands come here during the high to receive. but for this woman from central africa it became a living nightmare with her identity concealed she told us how she was turned into a sex life. i met a man who told me he'd marry me and take care of me he brought me here then he locked me in a hotel room the men came every day and raped me sometimes there were three of them one later the man said he'd sell me to turkey but i managed to find help. she managed to escape from the man who had been slaves now she lives in the dust under the protection program but many young girls here are not as lucky every day ships bring thousands of tourists in and out of a death but for many of this harbor becomes a point of no return as many sex slaves are being shipped from here to other

countries. turkey italy united arab emirates these are some of the most popular destinations for the sex slave trade and it does so with its strategic port serves as the marketplace police talk of fifty cases solved over the last two years but in reality the number of victims from all across the c.i.s. which are being brought here could be a thousand times higher and fighting organized sex trade gangs is very difficult because it's thought some are highly connected with the authorities or forensics trade workers use local men to find girls from. private regions who are struggling to make a living so they're easy prey for these men offer them a new life they promised them jobs abroad in hotels and restaurants but eventually they end up as sex slaves and are stripped of their passports but. this organization called faith hope love helps sex trade victims to rehabilitate from their terrifying past in five years they have offered assistance to more than

a thousand women it's still pretty had says it is impossible to keep track of how many sex slaves are out there as most of them are simply afraid to call for help both social workers and authorities admit in the last several years a desa sex trade has slightly diminished but they say while ukraine's economy is in tatters the sex industry will remain as one of the most burning problems for this resort city regardless of the season alexi rush of ski r.t. reporting from adesa ukraine. well women's rights are also under the spotlight elsewhere some countries are looking to ban the full face covering islamic veil in the latest edition of cross talk people about discuss whether the burka issue simply highlights intolerance that's coming up in about an hour's time here on r.t. and here's a small taste. we need to give them a lesson and be an example of what tolerance really means it means sticking to our

principles even if it means accepting something that we ourselves find strange go down and listen to the women i've heard women explain why they were in the car they were in the car because they are taught by an ideology that tells them that they are a precious stone a diamond a piece of candy that must be hidden to prove their worth i'm not going to stand up to an ideology that compares me to a piece of candy they also taught that they will burn in hell fire forever if any part of their body is shown where is the empowerment in this then the carbon the utterly degrading and dehumanizing we have to get off our intellectual discussion and get down on the ground and see what is happening to these women. in remote areas of india health care can be hard to come by thanks to the country's rivers medical hope kind of arrive by boat that's providing our lifeline for locals that are to use counselling as. well come to waterworld this is the mighty

brahmaputra river originating in debit dangers in india and flows on into bangladesh it's the peak of the rainy season here in the state of the north east india. by boat for those living in remote villages it can take three or four days to reach some of the islands. there are many villages we can go on leave in the rainy season it's more difficult to get to them during the dry season we have to be at five to seven kilometers this could take two hours we can carry medical equipment social and just. one hundred thousand people live in the district of nobody but there is only one functioning medical center no wonder then that the arrival of the boat clinic is a big event here the entire village turns out to meet the staff sixteen year old is pregnant and feels this free check up is a far better option than travelling to the nearest town the book clinic is run by

an ngo the center for northeast studies and is funded by the indian government and unicef its main focus is the immunization of children why locals were initially hesitant to get their babies vaccinated mothers know actively supported but there are limits to what the doctors can do dr hark examines who has been complaining of a pain in his abdomen to diagnose the cause doctor needs an x. ray but for that to have to go to the city. the doc says it all have to show this to the medical center in. how do i do that the poor man and i can't afford the money it costs to go that i'm looking at but we can deliver babies and do blood tests but we don't have an x.-ray machine so for that the patient has to go to the medical center in the city if there's an emergency we have a stun bible that we can use to transport the patients. getting access to health care is never easy and more so during the monsoon when the river promise covers

much of the land by delivering health care to the doorstep of villagers the book could well mean the difference between life and death god and seeing r t on that of obama. it is now or nearly twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow let's check out some other stories from around the world at this hour that venezuela has broken diplomatic relations with colombia after. chavez of leftist guerrillas the venezuelan president has given colombian ambassadors three days to leave the country he's ordered the military to be on high alert and says the neighboring leader could provoke war between the two nations colombia's dossier and lodging proof old fart rebels presented to the organization of american states and washington to spot furious reaction to shoppers says the evidence is. working to repair the leaking oil well in the gulf of mexico has been stopped for up to two weeks now due to a storm threat officials ordered the ships to leave the area because of

a tropical storm but of tropical storm bonnie is moving towards the site of the so they could reach it by saturday they say is a temporary cap on the well looks safe enough to leave unmonitored but the evacuation could be a major setback in efforts to plug the well for good. or at all the latest business news it with stephanie is coming up in just a moment. hello and welcome to the business bulletin russia's i and still produces have come in for fierce criticism from the government for their pricing policies consumers such as com makers have been struggling to establish long term contracts with surprise at what they consider to be acceptable rates prime minister vladimir putin is in the city of. to help mediate the dispute to open a brand new pipeline production facility our correspondent dina reports. the

crisis has pulled the ground from under this field producer with most of the construction side throws in an oil and gas companies the spilling their new pipeline project their government has filled with bottle to the sector with metals prices growing demand consumer of metals among which carmakers up to us losses will weigh in with all but one which manufactures dream curious and thanks for the military as well as the companies watching the prices spike that they've seen this year give us currency faces criminal charges for price fixing it's a problem that's drilled attention at the highest level of government down to middle of the service that ducting a wide ranging investigation into the possibility that a number of major you have worked out a price setting deal but at this point out that the cost of steel in russia all those global trends are russia is an export of the contrary with respect to the supermarket you percent of the warnings that explored that are from the missing trans are hardly clearly going through the global trend seems to prices to look

institute rolling the country's third largest producer credit is will open and you large diameter pipe production line with a narrow capacity of six hundred thousand tons this summit is even introduce you to a white majority to signify its innovative approach in the sector that we should go on with the modernization over the next five years we expect in a very. have breakthrough in the pipe industry we are not only renovating the capacities but creating new ones from scratch but with our clients to work in tough conditions primarily in the oil and gas sectors the prime minister together with representatives of the sector will discuss the fuel price formula that is suitable for all and will allow long term contracts to be established it seems a political intervention is needed due to the fact that consumer uses are trying to read on the price for up a several month old radio and talking to them i know is there

a saying most of the producers are unlikely to agree to the long term contract the fact that this price is experiencing a serious volatility of the market right now. joining me now to discuss the problems in the metal sector is sparser cousin jennifer metals and mining analyst at wynn a science capital in a nutshell why can't still producers come to an agreement with their consumers first of all pricing mechanisms changed across the globe they became much more volatile now they don't have any more one year contracts for example prices settled on a monthly basis so everybody the company just their procurement method consumers and steel mills also try to avoid credibility that calls the correct information from the process but now some stupid users have been accused of charging too much and even of price fixing have you seen evidence of this in the way that the price is still in russia has has moved. through the difficult to say one who is company

is relevant to the might because the midst of steel prices anyway they're doing a degree with a friend so the imperative with international prices they're not fixing prices they're definitely trying to follow international trends however sometimes domestic prices for example a leading international price that's exactly what happened in april may and the result of the steep price hike because it was announced in the second quarter so then we start seeing this volatility in the in the price. prices became very volatile and that sort of first of all driven by a credibility that commodity prices are not just dropped thirty percent from april levels and now it went up and so all those fifteen percent but anywhere assuming that produces aren't colluding on price now why then can't they charge whatever they like for steel but why can't the market set the price. about the there is no

such a thing for example the fine or consumers they are all understanding or fair price and they may consider their own big box and the same pounds and same time still meal so they may use their own marks and for sort of. a levels that they consider fair at the moment of the market so that's exactly the reason why the government passed the steel mills and consumers to develop press force so so if you could explain more about what vladimir putin's role is in trying to resolve this. conflict would you have a head of the government prime minister differently and the government is first of all the primary task of the government is to secure our normal way of doing business in the real sector and definitely. they used to develop rise for a civilized price for was linked to international benchmarks and to void for a complaint more from steel mills on consumer side of the prison or even on mr wood

actually passed the guy. on to monopoly board to do that analyze they call that a change starting from upstream or downstream sectors and the exactly enables the rear to settle certain civil as a way of doing business just to void the hundreds of complaints to the federal and to monitor what's the thank you thanks very much that was a boras cousin john of metals and mining analyst renee something capital. look at how the equity markets are doing in european shares are mixed in a choppy trading session on friday on the footsie gains in miners are being counted up by weakness in banks after a decent performance in the previous session the banking sector is now retreating even though results from the european stress tests are not due until after close of play in london. and here in moscow the markets are higher this hour and what is also proving to be a chopping trading day so far banks continue to weigh in the my sex bad bank is the worst performing blue chip there shedding more than half

a percent rosner is forming up one point eight percent sound. and that's so from the business scene for now but of course you can always find most stories on our website about the flash that's.

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