and the flying donkey forced to parasail a seaside p.r. stunt on and off as world wide report on the police hunt for vienna. oh you're watching our weekly news review here on r.t. welcome to the program the unprecedented russian heatwave rages on this july already the hottest month on record three hundred people have drowned across the country this week alone most believed to be trying to cool off from the overwhelming conditions and while emergency teams deal with rising cases of heat stroke forecasters say the hot weather is set to stay. in the telly not because of a more 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 the mercury

hitting record highs and lows in office just goes easy 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 grim statistics of three hundred drownings this week alone and it doesn't look like russians will have a break 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 here but not everyone's feeling the heat rushes subjoined an ice cream but easters and making a fortune barbers in the country are having a busy time to the everything over haircut is a hit the summer one line shops like this one selling air conditioners and fans have a waiting list that run into english by going to continue with. mobile conditioners

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 no mounds of money can buy a global fresh air emergency centers are receiving thousands of calls from people suffering from heat stroke and sunburn or you 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 the respect to treatment as 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 bet that it's stuck with his goat all year round. there's a look at emotions the poor dog is suffering so much it always comes to sit in my lap said ice hoping i can somehow ease the heat all it can do is pull cold water on

it if not only cheers not making people suffer enough she's quite prepared to fru few on the fire literally with a tinder dry conditions leading to forest fires some of which have been burning for weeks and the temperatures are going to be up every day it's very tough for a start 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 of an and i say make omelet at their market. we're always interested in your opinions on the stories we're covering you can have your say on our website that's at r.t. dot com of course the russian heatwave story is no exception as today where asking how you keep cool in scorching temperatures so far the majority of voters forty nine percent appear to be walking around in just that underwear twenty nine percent on this provocative they prefer to turn on the air conditioner if they've got one

of course fifteen percent stock up on ice cubes and the minority of us going to stick their heads in the fridge for too long i have. your opinion but want to r.t. dot com and cast your heat wave that. the hague's international court of justice ruled this week the cause of his 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 new moscow says it won't affect its stance and who wants dialogue between serbia and kosovo belgrade argues the court only focused on the declaration said nothing about the gallatin because of the pending state. claims that peace assessment program two thousand and eight by late it's prudent to disperse to step up its diplomatic efforts to stop countries recognize of course of a journalist and historian. 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 always a much independent does manchukuo or vichy france was in world war two it's a puppet state it suffers from endemic corruption abuses of power in government structure can be best described as a organized crime is not a state in any way shape or form just because the us state department says it is it doesn't mean it is. on the hague's opinion on the cost of a spot reaction from two other states seeking recognition of president and south asserter say the court's decision confirms the double standards of western countries over their right to its presence and minister. says the two republics have more rights to their own sovereignty. but the president confirms a people's right to determine their own identity at the same time giving their

arguments more weight on the other hand it's all politicized and we can 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. court has delayed its verdict on a group of kings of. nazi race hate crimes and psychiatric tests are being carried out on for the accused thirteen men are standing trial suspected of dozens of ethical motivated killings. and if convicted could face life in jail with dozens of people killed as a result of race hate crimes in russia thinking here the issue nationalist violence is not critical stacy givens has more. or less self professed a 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 and. 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 interesting marriages. or ethnically mixed communities and. are your thoughts 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. 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 target it 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 cost to market their deadly deeds of angry mob family outnumber victims all recorded by racist and then posted on nationalist websites. activists call the situation out of control and 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 maggots who kill suffer lions is better and police protection is supposed to believe. they work in crowds of people take care of their own safety.

comes into action after a crime is committed and. asked 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 it was a perfect covert weapon could backfire and we looked into the extensive use of military. how they could hear an insurgency. also. why britain's parliament heavy and long bomb a protest camp on its front room that's here on r.t.c. . as the international aids conference in vienna unfolded there was heated debate over the role of knowledge pharmaceutical companies and stop just forms of treatment for hiv and aids a small minority of skeptics challenging conventional thinking on the aids debate gathered ahead of the event they believe that if views are being ignored by the

wider scientific community roxy's surface has more. right 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 aids the two thousand and ten conference in vienna unveils cutting edge new treatments and so speakers from frontline workers to axe world leaders joining forces with both cools the zero new infections zero deaths and zero discrimination but far francis may never have heard of the day with a roadside did that voice. but not everyone felt they got the chance to speak. now 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 cherry stay clear he's

a hiv positive was amongst them after eleven years and 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 mess that's a an 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 lowered 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 cause of the official conference earlier treatment a prevention we also have more drugs in the well then we have ever had before to treat a trophy and these drugs are more potent they're something they're more tolerable and they're very effective the cash opinions has led to harsh recriminations on

both sides with those the pace to classical explanations labeling the conference an . marketing fair and the description of an eight ten demick the p.r. six that was lost 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. theory of 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 discount very astonished their reaction is sometimes so aggressive. despite the days it seems to want to those sides do agree on is the importance of human rights in addressing the issue 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 your life or write that which of the psyche is still too damaged fasi many. c.n.n. . investigators say poor security at a power plant in russia south made it vulnerable to attack a gunman stormed the hydroelectric station. wednesday leaving two gods dead and destroying two generators it's being reported that the militant leader. was behind the storming of the north caucasus power plant the gang detonated four bombs quint ten kilos of t.n.t. for the summer has seen a number of attacks in cavity of a car with tennis souls on board for services juvenile and put the retreat from the center for political studies explains that the situation there is actually improving. they're taking any opportunity to interest of their activities

there. has improved significantly in the recent years so this 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 militants and the radical islamists here significantly degrading says usually try to get to closer to the most safe first republican now this is all thanks to all the jihad these you know so they always try to at their strongholds like for instance it was in central asia when they were taking his biggest on which was one of the strongest states therefore saying ok for we in this strong state then will be able to win in their weak state as well they try to refute this situation so they're taking the say fierce then the strongest one of the strongest republics which lay actually lies in the heart of the north caucasus. report he called off from the center of political studies there. on the site of america's worst terrorism could become an

islamic center next hour we also heard people in the city where it was the fundamentalists kill thousands in one day would they make of the idea. i think the idea of the mask there. the idea of florida. why because. i'm all for it so why do you think some people get so emotional and say it's the wrong thing to do because i think that is frustrated with their ignorance you need somebody to blame or something to blame so that's 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 beyond that date to train afghan police the meeting also focused on constructing and developing the war torn country as well as fighting corruption in the drugs trade russia's foreign minister pledge that moscow 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 afghanistan 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 eight hundred ninety one million dollars we will continue to provide humanitarian assistance. a u.s. drone attack has reportedly killed five suspected militants in northwest pakistan intelligence officials say another four people have been injured this follows

saturday's strike in the area which sixteen people died u.s. forces use unmanned planes extensively to target taliban fighters in pakistan but many believe it's many civilians who die. the come out of the blue i have two words for you predator drones i will never see it coming a drone least ten times cheaper than a fighter jet it requires no pilot so there are no troop deaths to explain it's 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 undeclared war with organizations like al qaida with a colleague bob and you go off to push and you say hey we suspect. we say they are terrorists but who has proved that the person you're actually targeting are 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 use them and you have people that don't understand the consequences because the people who are flying the drones are not on the battlefield they're not in the play here in washington d.c. suburbs but the i draw an operator wake up in the morning in the family goodbye

come to the office and shoot at targets thousands of miles away from here and go back home no risk whatsoever specialists say the whole operation reminds the media ok the question many ask is if it is so easy and convenient will the always empty to wait more and more in the future if war is cheap why not use the bit more pressure against the smaller countries and organizations touch in other cases it would try to sit around the table with you or get 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 again r t washington d.c. . the british government has been accused of violating freedom of speech after the

police removed a peace cam from outside the parliament building in london protesters had been living in tents at the site for over two months running against what they call the u.k.'s aggressive foreign policy. 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 insist their crucial message is being muted primarily i would like to see the aggressive foreign policy its government has been pursuing for such a long till going back through many go. to see and. sobering stories. 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 something. about the rules of war which covers all wars and it showed me how easy 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. 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 sri 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 that to me is a total contradiction it's antidemocratic so 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 balej some four hours to clear out the tents and the people and erect this fence and along with the protesters when the right to free speech. they say the government sending a message to democracy keep off the grass it's. just all racism opinions are divided in israel and us do you understand the rape by deception for having sex with a woman won't pretending to be jewish. and ready to set sail russian maybe date. from one of the most significant celebrations in neighboring ukraine. those around the world were stunned this week by footage of a power don't key in southern russia known shipper nurse drops the animal to

a parachute and boost it into the sky as a publicity stunt but the spite of animal cruelty the nine looks likely to skate punishment. investigates. to see how maybe even a simple fact that bitch may never see thank you. and you probably never would if it wasn't for a seaside p.r. stunt but. sitting on the beach boys your parachute go i couldn't quite figure it out myself or legs nor of my own eyes a donkey it was intended to attract only local customers to watersports firm and a russian black sea resort but its effect quickly rippled out across the world levy many worried about the donkeys 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 created a demand you know for animals to be treated better and for people to pay attention

after a tragedy such an audience the donkey's owner decided he tries handed a different sport running taking the evidence the animal itself wouldn't authorities also question the watersports 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 abandon other animals the camel and the 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 along with its report confirming the donkey's good will for a police dog owner will now even be fined for the donkey you'll no doubt be relieved just to have his hoofs firmly on the sand timothy krause archie. well now a look at some other stories making headlines around the world today. a stampede

music festival in northern germany has now claimed at least nineteen lives more than three hundred forty others were injured as crowds tried to pack into the already crowded entrance tunnel to love parade in the city of times before the events continued has police organizers feared a second wave of panic if the festival was abruptly stopped the love parade event tracks music fans from one of the world throwing a crowd of more innocent. cuban state television has released footage of the form of liberty del castro visiting a town outside the capital of ana i think three year old caspar was attending a ceremony to commemorate those who were killed in a failed revolution attempt fifty seven years ago this is the latest in a series of recent public appearances and his first confirmed outside of anna castro fell ill in two thousand and six and disappeared from public view of

a pallet in his younger brother. and police have discovered fifty one bodies in a field in northern mexico for two days of digging the graves are believed to be connected to drug gang violence best gaiters are struggling to identify the victims of the numerous tattoos found on the remains could give an indication officials believe some of the bodies had been dumped last graves. the past two weeks. have a recap of the headlines for you in a few minutes stay with us. i

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out there the top stories this week cromartie russians are sweltering on the record breaking july temperatures but people's health and environment are increasingly at risk three hundred have died in the past week and through all of this saying there is. and inside the school to replace. the un's top court has ruled that possibles declaration of independence from serbia in two thousand and eight was equal to belgrade says it will never recognize the breakaway state action to step up and that's again it's. terrorists struck a. blow from the caucuses this week two guards were killed as recent government sets off work.