that p.r. stunt that attracts the outrage of animal lovers and the police hot on the tail of the parasailing dog. with top stories of today and this week you're with r.t. a very warm welcome to. well russia is baking in an unprecedented heat wave this month already the hottest on record ever but as well as the pleasures of swimming and sunbathing the heat has brought with it peat fires smoke and health risks. has more from the capital of hit records. the sound they got its head on in central russia but it can be wearing much else because it's absolutely baking with nuclear hitting record highs and lows 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 it but not everyone's feeling the heat rushes subject in ice cream pretty soon and making a fortune but i was in the country having a busy time to see the everything over harry kite is a hit this summer one line shops like this one selling air conditioners and fans have waiting lists that run into english by being a container 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 feel there were. because of the crisis last summer we had rains this year no one

was ready for the heat in a situation where norm ounce 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 for furry friends either this canine takes several shows a day to keep cool its own or if you do you feel as though he's bet that it's fact with his goat all year round. there's 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 you know if modern the 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. 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 of an and i say make omelets. that might be moscow. we don't recommend you cooking your eggs in the street you might make an extraordinary mess and it was all for now the heat isn't the only natural challenge that moscow's dealing with at the moment on tuesday in the capital was hit by a freak hurricane with powerful winds are trees will rain flooding the streets all in all the damage cost the city of a million dollars and meteorologists are warning maybe more hurricanes on the way. or you are with god and much more is coming your way in the clued in this. great

city of sevastopol is decked out in the colors of the russian navy with thousands gathering by waterfront for a spectacular display all the details coming out. also indiscriminate aerial killers sales may be booming with u.s. drones but activists are worried claiming the unmanned machines of war will create more problems than they solve. while an antiwar peace camp set up in front of london's westminster parliament has been removed by dozens of police officers protesters saying that their democratic freedoms on a right to free speech are being violated the very things the government said it wanted to protect when it went to war in iraq and afghanistan. 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 i would like to see the body go. on primarily i would like to see the aggressive foreign policy this government has been pursuing over the book for such a long till going back through many governments and to see. so bringing stays. for any 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 it also became a magnet for all sorts of people including anna a teacher who gave up her job and her apartment to join the demonstration but 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 evil 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. and london mayoral candidates lembit opaque believes that while parliament sitting people should be allowed to make their protest heard within earshot 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 anti-democratic but as democracy village is replaced by . one and a half metre metal fences the demonstrators adamant it's no barriers to getting hurt every time so this is of a country that saw the. parameters approaches and the

radical nonviolent action. in this power. affects people in all positions. you can achieve just about anything you want or you need a bit of courage. to see it but it won't for now calm is restored to parliament square and the protesters dispersed but that determined people and vowed to gather again elsewhere it took the baby some four hours to clear out the tent on the people and erect this and along with the protest is when the right to free speech according to some they say the government sending a message to democracy keep off the grass your enemies out see that. on wednesday a gunman stormed hydroelectric power plant in southern russia leaving two guards dead and destroying two generators investigators say poor security at the facility made it vulnerable to attack. by reports from the republic of korea.

it's been reported that the militants leader of the sure who was behind the storming of this hydro plant in the north caucasus on wednesday morning a group of opp to five gunmen forced their way into the box power plant killing two police officers at the entrance members of the sures gang were reportedly identified by employees of the station as the attackers although there's been no official confirmation so far began detonated four bombs equivalent to ten kilos of t.n.t. the explosions didn't damage the planned day and didn't affect be electricity supply of the region security has been tightened at all the. facilities across russia. this isn't a sporadic event this is a case of criminal activity and blatant negligence law enforcement bodies and companies should do everything in their power to avert any repetition of events

like this in the future and if this does happen again none of the law enforcement or company executives will remain in the job since we've seen nothing similar to this before so we must draw the most serious conclusions from all the coverage you have all caught it says less violence than all the nearby north caucasus republic such as chechnya dagestan and last mile there were ten attacks on more in force and officials in ca but if you know elaine the north caucasus region is seen as one of the most volatile places not only in russia but in the world so authorities across the region are on permanent standby to prevent further attacks. it is ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital you are with r.t. and still to come in the program getting to the heart of the hate you speak to the wife of an ultra nationalist gang member found guilty following a market bombing that took fourteen lives all of the details in just

a few minutes right here on r.t. also. i think it's going to be the last they're actually i would put the idea forward to put it. away because they've been told of a lot of artes very own new york resident asks if ground zero is an appropriate place for a mosque. now and is ready court has convicted an arab man of rape by deception after he lied to an israeli woman he slept with about being jewish but while some say it's justice critics argue or thinly veiled excuse for racism. this jewish drucilla my suburb is surrounded by arab neighborhoods and far from cultivating a culture of tolerance vigilante style jewish patrol groups calling themselves fire for judaism stand watch outside the local shopping mall their mission to prevent arab men mixing with local jewish girls the municipality has created a twenty four hour hotline where parents and friends can phone to rat on jewish

girls breaking this to boot a specially trained team of counselors and psychologists is on standby to rescue them as a leash more. it's important to save our traditions culture history and identity because without this who are we through my experience we can see that the chances for a healthy relationship between his really jewish woman and an arab man very very low is because of the great differences between these two cultures share up at any of the most recent case involves an arab man who posed as a jewish bachelor a jewish woman agreed to have sex with him but after she found out he was an arab and not a jew she filed a police complaint the courts took the case so seriously that he's now being convicted of rape by deception and same tools to eighteen months in prison the judge said he had an obligation to protect the public funds of the state of criminals who could no innocent victims but reactions to the verdict differ i think

if the women want to do it it's dark lord a lot different it's our belief or more of a because something negative usually do is girls don't know where their guys. unless it's a choice you know. there should be a choice you didn't leave or choice but in prison is too much and this is the way that this is going to pick this ruining our present arrives that we cannot have relationships that we cannot be just human being arabs make up a foot of israel's population but relationships between arabs and jews are rare former palestinian minister ziad abu ziad says fights break out almost weekly and night clubs and other puppy. places over the issue it's not religion he says it's racism there are jewish gangsters which are against. jewish men. hunting jewish.

guys threatened and forced them to break. in the two years ronnie white here and kitty been tata have been together they've never been physically threatened he's muslim she's jewish but they're not thinking about leaving israel because they say it's simply too difficult on other levels and when my family found out they were very adamant about cutting me off on every level. for acting as a traitor to everybody and being in israel and shit and making that choice right now israeli parliamentarians are considering a law that will require perspective israeli citizens to declared loyalty to israel as a jewish democratic state i would be israelis are furious most refuse to swear allegiance to a state they believe explicitly excludes and marginalizes them police here r.t. jeff. a moscow court has delayed its verdict on thirteen people accused of murder

and race hate crimes four of the defendants will have to undergo psychiatric tests before the final decision is made the groups accused of ethnically motivated killings and terrible if found guilty members could face life in jail investigators claim the gang was part of an ultra nationalist movement banned for its extremist activities but dozens of people killed in race hate crimes in russia each year. so what drives attackers to commit ethnic violence. this self professed 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 loan book for love for our home went and our nation of 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 the don't

support interest nic marriages. or ethnically mixed communities and what 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 the must be as. i believe everyone should live in their own homeland where they belong. armed with this believe 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 the blast killed fourteen attacks against looking people are often brutal and in cases like chairs the market they are deadly the deeds of angry mobs pummeling 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

like you know what aids research and 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 to russian movement believe. they're working crowds of people take care of their own safety or foresman comes into action after crime. this committee did not before. asked for veronica her husband is serving a life sentence for actions neither of them regret and they both support. r.t. . new york is considering plans to build a mosque at ground zero the site where the twin towers once stood but has left many asking if this is a fitting spot for

a muslim religious center artie's very own big apple resident gauge the mood on the streets. 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 go by the idea sort of. work for the actual why why because say. 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 that i don't think it's the qur'an teaches peace and nonviolence. if the mosque up holds the traditions of the qur'an i don't have any problem with it i have a problem with anybody blowing up buildings 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 this is frustrated with their ignorance so they need somebody to blame something to blame so. that's like one way to go about it people who are afraid of the unknown they don't understand. that maybe building a mosque would help people understand and the idea is that the way i understand it is actually not just a mosque it's a center for interactivity it's a center for people to meet i believe it's been supported by some rabbis actually i think is all politics and i think they use in the media to make it an excuse to do what they want to do for the best interests of the politicians though it doesn't matter all of the emotions that they're pulling out of people it's all about politics whether or 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.

well the international aids conference held in vienna this week has raised heated debate on treatment for hiv and aids the role in particular of large pharmaceutical companies skeptics challenging conventional thinking on the head of the event to make their views which they claim are being ignored by the scientific community. right here 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 two thousand and ten conference in vienna unveiled cutting edge new treatments and so speakers from frontline workers to x. world leaders joining forces with full cools physio new infections zero deaths and zero discrimination. forensics may never have heard of on the day with

a roadside 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 clique raising questions some of which challenge the fundamental assumptions many people hold about hiv and aids carry stake hiv positive was amongst the after living years and. the drug combination therapy she stopped taking the medication after coming across some of the alternative view. it's not that hiv slash aids is a myth aids obviously is not a myth that's an acronym for immune suppression where people become immune suppressed all over the world every day for all types of different reasons lots of things cause lowered immunity and the onus. 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 to a prevent. we also have more drug sales then we have ever had before to trade a trophy in the struggle for power there something more there are more tolerable and they're very effective the cash opinions has led to harsh recriminations on both sides with there's 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 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

discuss i'm very astonished that their reaction is sometimes so aggressive. despite the debate it seems the one area those sides do agree on is the importance of human rights and interests in the issue of 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 right that whichever side he fall on is still to donate many. c.n.n. . port sir cross russia are honoring the country's navy you know major and you also liberation held on the last sunday of july a display of nautical clout soar so underway in ukraine home of russia's black sea fleet with thousands gathering to watch the spectacle or to use catherine as our for is there for us. it was a breathtaking display here crowds cheering waving flags everybody very excited to

see all of the. specific actions and displays that were put on for the crowds and of course for the dignitaries that came to attend this navy day parade of course it was dedicated to the sixty fifth anniversary of russia's victory in the great patriotic war as you can see i'm wearing a striped shirt those are the colors of the russian navy and almost every second person here and ukrainian city of sevastopol is dressed the exact same way kids grown ups basically people of all ages are dressed to impress dressed in the colors of the navy of course it's a huge day for sea of us though because this is where the russian black sea fleet is stationed it's been stationed here since its very creation so for the locals it's as much a part of their history as anything else of course their annual presence at this parade and of course this isn't just all for show the russian black sea fleet is very actively participating in operations such as fighting off parrots off the

african coast pacifically somali impair pirates and those of the black sea fleet has actually participated in quite a lot of those operations where it has actually been successful this display isn't just all for show it's an actual display of their skills and their sports are very well received here in the ukrainian city of sanaa still but not only is it russian navy day with the parade going on but also it is the ninetieth anniversary of departure from the crimea from this very city save us the open all of a lot of the members of the russian white guard and the so-called russians into against the russian elite and aristocrats see they were forced to leave the crimea pushed out by the red army they were basically given no choice either to stay and perhaps lose their lives or to leave and this is where their ships set off set sail off for the coast of turkey and. day on the ninetieth anniversary of that event many commemorative actions are taking place throughout the city but of course one

of the biggest ones is a replica of that ship those ships exact route and that ship will leave. here today and replicate the exact route that those people took in nineteen twenty to commemorate all of those who were forced to leave. reporting images overturned power settling at the seaside drew i'm from animal rights activists across the world this week a russian entrepreneur who had struck the donkey to a power shooters a public that is stunned but despite a musician's of cruelty he looks likely to escape punishment. you know to see that maybe even a simple fact but between never see thank you. and you probably never would if it wasn't for a seaside p.r. stunt not to be. sitting on the beach or parachute go i couldn't quite figure it out myself or legs nor of my own eyes so i don't keep it was intended to attract

only local customers to watersports firm at a russian black sea resort but its effect quickly rippled out 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 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 with an authority is also questioned 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 abandoned 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 in along with vets report confirming the donkey's good health police dog owner will now even be fined for the donkey you'll no doubt be relieved just to have his hoofs firmly back on the sand timothy cross to archie. and in just a few moments more news to come right off of the headlines stay with us. every

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