the flying donkey forced to parasail a seaside p.r. stunt unger's under his worldwide we report on the police hunt for the owner. you're watching weekly news review on carried on. the unprecedented russian heat wave rages on this july already the hottest month on record three hundred people across the country have drowned this week alone are most believed to be trying to cool off from the overwhelming conditions and while emergency teams deal with the rising cases of heat stroke forecasters say the hot weather is set to stay. has more on the impact of the heat. the sun may get its head on in central russia but it can be wearing much else because it's absolutely baking with

a nuclear hitting record highs in the school and office just goes east all around the city of ten million looks like a huge beach fountains have turned to bathtubs with people taking every opportunity to plunge into something cooler than the ceiling area around but it's probably safer alternative to a we were swimming with a green statistics of three hundred drownings this week alone and it doesn't look like russians who haven't read from this furnace anytime soon. this is a serious abnormality the russian weather service has never measured such temperatures in moscow in july according to our calculations it hasn't even reached its peak yet but not everyone's feeling the heat rushes solved drink an ice cream pretty soon and making a fortune by was in the country having a busy time to the everything haricot is a hit this summer one line shops like this one selling air conditioners and fans have a waiting list that one into. my being a container with. mobile conditioner sold out within three weeks just as the heat

set in many moscow based companies fail to perceive this heat and they didn't want to fill their warehouses because of the crisis last summer we had rains this year no one was ready for the heat in a situation where norm out of money can buy you a global fresh air emergency centers are receiving thousands of calls from people suffering from heat stroke and sunburn. people with lung diseases will find it hard of course it'd be better to take them somewhere where there's no smoke another option would be to buy them respect to treatment they sell them in pharmacies it's far from a dog's life or a furry friends either this canine takes several showers a day to keep cool its owner few theories that that effect with his goat all year round. that is a look at the poor dog is suffering so much it always comes to sit on my lap said ice hoping i can somehow ease the hit all i can do is pull cold water on it if

mother nature is not making people suffer enough she's quite prepared to fru few under fire literally with a tinder dry conditions leading to forest fires some of which have been burning for weeks. the temperatures are going to be up every day it's very tough for us recently i heard a story about someone frying eggs on the pavement. now that sounds like a challenge when life gives you lemons make lemonade well in this case muscovites have been given one big oven and i say make omelets. we're always interested in your opinions on the stories we're covering and you can have your say on our website at r.t. dot com of course the russian heat wave story is no exception so they were asking how you keep cool in scorching temperatures so far the majority of voters forty nine percent fee to be walking around in just their underwear twenty nine percent or less provocative they prefer to turn on the air conditioning of course they've got one while fifteen percent stuck up on ice cubes and the minority of us claim to

stick their heads in the fridge for too long i hope well what's your opinion we're going to r.t. dot com and cast your vote. the hague's international court of justice ruled this week the cost of this declaration of independence was legal it's not a binding decision but that's not stopping some countries from raising their voices the u.s. and many european countries praised the move moscow says it won't affect its stance and still dialogue between consequent grade argues the court only focused on the declaration and said nothing about the legality of course of an independent state so be it claims that this assertion in seven thousand eight while a to its territorial integrity and its place to step up its diplomatic efforts to stop countries recognizing kosovo journalist and historian the bush says the court's decision is unjust i quite honestly didn't expect the world court to take

such a directly pro-american position to be perfectly honest what course i'm always much independent does manchukuo vichy france was in world war two it's a puppet state it suffers from endemic corruption abuses of power in its government structure can be best described as organized crime is not a state in any way shape or form just because the us state department says it is a doesn't mean it is. on the hague's opinion on the cost of a spark reaction from two other states seeking recognition a presenter and south are set to say the court's decision confirms the double standards of western countries over their right. has a prime minister. says the two republics have more of a right to their own sovereignty. but the president confirms a people's right to determine their own identity but at the same time giving their arguments more weight on the other hand it's all politicized and we can't be sure

that if we went to the hague we would get a similar ruling we probably wouldn't in spite of the fact that we have more historical legal and moral grounds to demand independence than cost of a double standards do exist it's not a secret to anyone in any case people who object to our independence will now find it difficult to openly claim that we don't have the right to determine our own standing in the moscow court has delayed its verdict on a group accused of murder and they are not seen race hate crimes until psychiatric testing carried out on four of the accused thirteen men are standing trial suspected of dozens of ethical motivated killings and terror plots and convicted could face life in jail with dozens of people killed as a result of race hate crimes in washington each year the issue of national balance is now critical. difference has more or. less self professed and deeply religious woman is full of hate hate for those who are different hate for

immigrants she accuses of occupying disrespecting and contaminating her nation russians she insists are fighting a race war motivated by love. love for our homeland and our nation love for our good people families where people don't just date and then break up but rather they get married in church they don't practice abortions they don't support interestingly marriages. or ethnically mixed communities and what do you. it's about me i'm not russian i'm african american i'm here are you upset that your government gave me a visa what are your thoughts on that the must be overdoing it i believe everyone should live in their own homeland where they belong. armed with this belief and inspired by racist blocking her husband. and two fellow students. market in two thousand and six they targeted because of the number of traders that come from central asia and china a blast killed fourteen attacks against looking people are often brutal and in

cases like yours market they are deadly the deeds of angry mobs outnumber victims all recorded by racist and then posted on nationalist websites. activists call the situation out of control when a local nonprofit crime watchdog group acknowledges it is slowly getting better let you know what needs to started seizing the most odious groups that had been involved in systematic violence and terrorism during the last two years the largest formations in moscow were dispelled and the key activists and murderers detained. she says one thousand people have been killed due to hate crimes in two thousand and ten that's down from fifty for the same time period last year but that map does little to satisfy magnons who feel suffer alliance is better than police protection is supposed. crowds of people take care of their own safety.

comes into action after a crime is committed. to ask for veronica her husband is serving a life sentence for actions neither of them regrets and for a cause they both support. r.t. . coming up soon while the perfect covert weapon could be backfiring we're looking for extensive use of drone attacks by the us military could also be fueling the insurgency. why britain's. heavy handed to a nonviolent protest camp on its front wall that's here on r.t.c. . as the international aids conference in vienna unfolded there was heated debate over the role of large pharmaceutical companies on the stablished forms of treatment for h.r.t. and aids a small minority of skeptics challenging conventional thinking on the aids debate gathered ahead of the event but they believe their views are being ignored i don't

want to scientific community on t.v. sarah ferguson. writes right now a human rights based approach to hiv prevention and treatment and a coup to the world to continue its fight in the bus against. the teeth thousand and ten conference in vienna unveiled cutting edge new treatments and to speak is from frontline workers to x. world leaders joining forces with full cools physio new infections siri diets zero discrimination. forensics mean i've heard of both legs of the day without knowing why i did that voice. but not everyone felt they got the chance to speak. their opinions at a separate conference heard a few days before the official event was a group raising questions some of which challenge the fundamental assumptions many people hold about hiv and aids carry stake hiv positive was amongst after

eleven years an eighty to the drug combination therapy she stopped taking the medication after coming across some of the alternative view is it's not that hiv slash aids is a myth aids obviously is not a myth that's a acronym for immune suppression or people become immune suppressed all over the world every day for all types of different reasons lots of things cause lower immunity and illness. whether h.i.v. has been proven to be a viable infectious virus that sexually transmitted i think is really the bigger question for me this use of polar opposites to some of the calls at the official conference earlier treatment a prevention we also have more drugs will then we have ever had before to treat a trophy at least once or more per year something they're more tolerable and they're very effective the cash opinions has led to harsh recriminations on both sides with those a pace to classical explanations labeling the conference an aids marketing fair and

the description of an aids pandemic a p.r. success whilst in turn not agreeing with the mainstream hiv theory of aids has been compared to holocaust denial and called a crime against humanity a science that is alive has to have the permission to question a certain model of thinking serious thinking no you don't bring in here a dying patient so that we have to act immediately and give him something we are discussing here we're scientists and medical doctors why should we not be able to discuss i'm very astonished at the reaction is. despite the debate it seems the one area bay sides do agree on is the importance of human rights and interests. the right to freedom of speech. the right to choose what to believe and ultimately the right to have treatment provided to you if that's what

you feel could save you learned a right there which of the psyche food is still to donate many. investigators say poor security at a power plant in russia south made it vulnerable to attack gunman stormed the hydro electric station cutting about car on wednesday leaving two gods dead and destroying two generators it's been reported that the militant. sure was behind the storming of the north caucasus power plant the gang detonated four bombs to more than ten kilos of t.n.t. this summer has seen a number of attacks including a car a ten assault someone with officers do very dimitri from the center of political studies explains that the situation is actually improving. that taking any opportunity to interest of their activities there.

significantly in the recent years so now is much better from economic and social point of view people have more hopes and optimism for the future and therefore the positions of their weiland the radical islamists here significantly degrading says usually try to get the soldier they say first republic you know this is all there takes all the jihad these you know so they always try to at the strongholds like for instance this was a central asia but they were taking his biggest on which was one of the strongest states therefore saying ok in this strong state then we'll be able to win their weak states as well. try to refute this so they have taken the. stand. one of the strongest. from the center of political studies there. the site of america's worst terrorism could become an

islamic center and later we asked people in the city where was the fundamentalists killed thousands in one day what they make of the idea. so why do you think i get so emotional and say the wrong thing to do because i think this is. one way to go about it. afghanistan wants to take full control of its future by two thousand and fourteen president karzai is deadline came on tuesday as more than sixty nations and organizations gathered in the capital kabul for the country's biggest international event in decades however britain and pakistan have already said that some

international forces may remain on that day to train afghan police meeting also focused on reconstructing and developing the war torn country as well as fighting corruption. russia's foreign minister. will continue to help. we're committed to supporting you in efforts on stabilizing afghanistan we will continue to allow transit of international cargo and personnel to get through our territory we're working on additional measures to keep afghan forces together with our partners we're also helping restore the afghan economy this year russia rolled off the remainder of ghana stands hundred ninety one million dollars we will continue to provide. minutes hearing assistance. and u.s. drone attack killed at least sixteen suspected militants in northwest pakistan on saturday officials say approximately five hundred sols were fired at an insurgent compound near the border with afghanistan creased use of drones by u.s.

forces in the region is also there to surge in civilian deaths sparking international outrage ortiz can report. the economy out of the blue i have two words for you predator drugs i you'll never see it coming a drone is ten times cheaper than a fighter jet it requires no pilot so there are no troop deaths to explain is the perfect weapon for covered cia operations in countries like pakistan and afghanistan if things go wrong you can deny it all and things do go wrong studies by independent international experts suggest that for every militant killed as many as fifteen civilians also die there's no way of getting exact numbers the cia keeps its drones program under wraps but the united nations and other international organizations question the legality of the extensive use of the weapon when you come to sort of an undeclared war with organizations like al qaida or the taliban

and you go after persons who say day we suspect we say they are terrorists who have proven that the person you're actually targeting terrorists but humanitarian concerns seem to be doing little to dampen surging international demand for groans also known as unmanned aerial vehicles or u.a.e. vs the military appetite is such that the market is expected to grow to a staggering fifty five billion dollars in ten years from now with the advances in technology they depersonalize warfare and so therefore you have people war willing to do. well you have people that don't understand the consequences because the people who are flying drones are not on the battlefield they're not in the plane here in washington d.c. suburbs but ya a drone operator wakes up in the morning the family guy comes to be on base and

shoots at target thousands of miles away from here and go back home no risk or the workers actually say the whole operation reminds the media ok the question many ask is if it is so easy and convenient world that our m.p. we move into. war was cheap why not use the bit more pressure against the smaller countries and organizations stretch it out of it would try to sit around with the cable which and talk it over demonstrators outside cia headquarters at the start of the year protested against indiscriminate killings by unmanned weaponry they say that rather than winning wars drones merely make more enemies by killing mostly innocent people are fueling rather than quelling insurgency ganesh she can r t washington d.c. . the u.k. government has attracted criticism off the police forcibly removed the peace camp from outside the british parliament in london on tuesday protesters who had

gathered to call for an end to the war in afghanistan say the government has violated their right to free speech or any reports. democracy but only on our terms that seems to be the message coming from the powers that be in the u.k. capital as a peace camp is finally removed from the government's doorstep as dozens of bailiffs and police sweeps to clear out the campaign as london's mayor said the demonstrators were making a mess and stopping the public from enjoying parliament square but the protesters insisted their crucial message is being muted primarily i would like to see the corrosive foreign policy this government has been pursuing over the book for such a long time going back through many governments and to see. version of sobering stories. for a new reason they've been resident in this focal spot in westminster since just

before may's general election mainly calling for an end to the war in afghanistan but adopting other peace causes along the way i'm here mostly because i met some of the press coverage out here who ran a website about the rules of war which covers all wars and it showed me how a legal rules are within the law and expose to me how unlawful the government is and and then that trickles into almost every other aspect of life and into how we educate our children how much we are conditioned former m.p. lembit opaque believes that while parliament sitting people should be allowed to make their protest heard within a short of their m.p.'s cricketers all about free speech over time we fight wars over free speech and then we start a battle in parliament square against people who are expressing free speech but to me is a total contradiction it's anti-democratic but now calm is restored to parliament square and the protesters dispersed but they're determined people and vowed to gather again elsewhere it took sixteen bailey some four hours to clear out the tent

and the people and erect this and along with the process does when the right to free speech. they say the government sending a message to democracy keep off the grass your advocates see. coming up later this hour just all racism opinions of israel palestinian conflict by deception having sex with women the law pertaining to the jewish. ready to set sail russian. navy day. and my significant celebrations in neighboring ukraine. you might have thought that suggesting a mosque be built at ground zero in new york would have swelled muslim sentiments much as online talk show host larry hoffman has discovered there's plenty of tolerance in the city where america's worst terror.

the city of new york is considering a proposal for the construction of an islamic center and mosque at ground zero do you think this is an appropriate site for a mosque this week let's talk about that i think it's a good idea to build a mosque there why. why why. why there's a big problem when people equate islam with nine eleven going after the oklahoma city bombing happened we don't equate you know christianity with. the qur'an teaches peace and nonviolence. if the mosque holds the traditions of the qur'an i don't have any problem with it i have a problem with anybody blowing up buildings. so why do you think some people get so

emotional and say it's the wrong thing to do because i think this is frustrated with their ignorance you need somebody to blame or something to blame so. one way to go about it people are afraid of the oh no they don't understand. that maybe building a mosque would help people understand the idea. that it's actually not just a mosque it's a center for interactivity it's a center for people. i believe it's being supported by some rabbis actually i think it's all politics and i think they use in the media to make it an excuse to do what it wants to do for the best interests of the politicians it doesn't matter all of the emotions that they're pulling out of people it's all about politics but they're not you support a mosque being built where the twin towers once stood let's just hope that everyone remembers it was cultural intolerance that caused ground zero in the first place.

i don't trip a nerve in southern russia whose publicist a stunt sparked anger from the no rights activists could escape punishment police say the man who strapped his donkey to a parachute into the sky has caused no partly harm to the i know he's to fake recent reports you may see that maybe even a super fly but because we never see thank you. and you probably never would if it wasn't for a seaside p.r. stunt. sitting on the beach or parachute go i couldn't quite figure it out myself or legs. a donkey it was intended to attract only local customers to watersports firm and a russian black sea resort but its effect quickly ripple down across the world leaving many worried about the donkey's feet this animal was suffering was captured

on videos and photographs and the way it spread through the media is really amazing and i think what the public has done is create a demand you know for animals to be treated better and for people to. pay attention after attracting such an audience the donkey's owner decided he tries hand at a different sport running taking the evidence the animal itself with and with ortiz also questioned the water sports company involved the police then concentrated all their effort on finding the owner and his donkey like this one there in moscow as you can see is a pretty big fella and difficult to hide. in his haste to leave the donkeys owner abandoned other animals a camel and a horse rumor has it they too may have been skyward bound if it wasn't for their sheer size several days later he turned himself in along with a vet report confirming the donkey's good health police down the owner will now even be fined as for the donkey you'll no doubt be relieved just to have his hooves

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acknowledging update on our jeep. you know it's. in the russian capital a recap now of this week's top stories russians are sweltering under record breaking temperatures people's health and the environment or increasing risk three hundred have died in the past week meteorologists say there is no end in sight to the scorching heat wave. the un's top court has ruled the cost of this declaration of independence from serbia in two thousand and eight was legal belgrade says it will never recognize the breakaway states pledging to step up diplomatic efforts. terrorists. in the russian north caucuses this week two guards were.