into trouble. that attracts the outrage of animal lovers and the police on the tail of the parasailing donkey. live from moscow with the top stories of today and this week you're with. well russia is a baking in an unprecedented heat wave with this month already the hottest on record ever but as well as the pleasures of swimming and sunbathing the heat has brought with it smoke and health risks. and the recovery has more from the capital of temperature records. 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 in law 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 subjoined an ice cream pretty soon and making a fortune barbers 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 he'd said 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 sun burn 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 respect to treatment ask they sell them in pharmacies it's far from a dog's life for thirty friends either this canine takes several showers a day to keep cool it's owner few theories bet that it's fact with his goat all year round. here's a look at the poor dog is suffering so much it always comes to see. in my lap said ice hoping i can somehow ease the hit all i can do is pull cold water on it if not only cheers not making people suffer enough she's quite prepared to fru few under fire literally with

a tinder dry conditions leading to forest fires which have been burning for weeks. 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 omelets at their mark about art. while the heat isn't the only natural challenge moscow is dealing with at the moment on tuesday the capital was hit by a freak hurricane with powerful winds up rooting trees and torrential rain flooding the streets all and all the damage cost the city of million dollars meteorologists are warning there may be more hurricane on the way. while an antiwar peace camp set up in front of london's westminster parliament has been removed by dozens of police officers protesters say their democratic freedoms and

right to free speech are being violated the very things the government said it wanted to protect when they 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 insist 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 its government has been pursuing over the book for such a long time going back through many governments and i would look to see. sobering studies. 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 i knew mostly because i met some of the press coverage out here who ran a website about the rules of war which covers all rules 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're conditioned former m.p. and london merril candidates 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 that to me is a total contradiction it's anti democratic but as democracy village is replaced by one. the half meter metal fence says the demonstrators are adamant it's no barriers to getting hurt every time so this is of a country step outside the. authorized parameters approaches and they take rather cool nonviolent action you have a tremendous power she affects people in all positions of society and you can achieve just about anything you want or you need a bit of courage. to see a better world so now calm is restored to parliament square and the protesters dispersed but they're determined people and vow to gather again elsewhere it takes the bait some four hours to clear out the tent and the people and it works this bad

and along with the protesters when the right to free speech according to some they say the government sending a message to democracy keep off the grass you know and it's not see. it is nearly ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital we're running down the top stories of today and over the past week and still to come in the program getting to the heart of the hate speak to the wife of an ultra nationalist gang member who was found guilty following up market bombing that took fourteen lives. also the un's highest court says cause of a ration of independence is legal but several countries claim the ruling as a political display of double standards. and is really cool 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 it's a thinly veiled excuse for racism. this jewish jerusalem 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 bu a specially trained team of counselors and psychologists is on standby to rescue them as we should 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 the really jewish woman and an arab man very very low it's because of the great differences between these two cultures showed 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 and present 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 toward law they're not different it's our belief or moral because something negative is 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 it to is bad in prison is too much and this is the way that this is going to pick these 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 the yard 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. which are against. jewish men. hunting jewish. guys threatened force them to break. in the two years run me where here and kiddie been touched or 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 it and making that choice right now israeli parliamentarians are considering

a law it will require perspective israeli citizens to kid 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. r.t. . on wednesday a gunman stormed power plant in southern russia leaving two guards dead and destroying a pair of generators investigators say poor security at the facility made it vulnerable to attack. reports from the republican party no ball-carrier. it's been reported that the militants are the who was behind the storming of this hydro plant in the north caucasus on wednesday morning a group of up to five gunmen forced their way into the. power plant killing two police officers at the entrance members of the sure gang were reportedly identified by employees of this station as the attackers although there's been no official

confirmation so far the gang detonated four bombs equivalent to ten kilos of t.n.t. the explosions didn't damage the planned day and didn't affect the electricity supply of the region security has been tightened at all the energy facilities across russia. this isn't a sporadic event this is a case of criminal activity play to 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 so we've seen nothing similar to this before so we must draw the most serious conclusions from all the kabaddi about less violence than all the nearby north caucuses for a public such as. last mall there were ten attacks on law enforcement officials in ca but if you know in 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 attacks. now there's a reporting right that well the international aids conference held in vienna this week has raised heated debate on treatment for hiv and aids and the role of large pharmaceutical companies as well skeptics challenging conventional thinking on aids gov ahead of the event to make their views which they claim were 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 aids the two thousand and ten conference in vienna unveils cutting edge new treatments and so speakers from frontline workers to x. world leaders joining forces with bold cools to zero new infections sciri deaths

and zero discrimination the current says they never heard of on 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 stake hiv positive was amongst after eleven years and eighty two 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 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 it has been proven to be

a viable infectious virus sexually transmitted i think is really the bigger question for me these use of polar opposites to some of the calls at the official conference earlier treatment to a pretty. we also pay out more drugs now then we have ever had before to treat a trophy and these drugs are more prone to something they're more tolerable and they're very effective the clash opinions has led to harsh recriminations on both sides if there is a pace to classical explanations labeling the conference an aids marketing fair and the description of an aids pandemic appear. 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 at their reaction is sometimes so aggressive. despite the debate it seems the one area both 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 right there which. is still to donate to many. the end of. life from the russian capital this is our more news is coming your way this hour selfless for our service in ukraine led by the patriarch of moscow and all russia is on our second visit to the country as the head of the russian orthodox church. but i want to go 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 to. made the groups of curious dog ethnically motivated killings on terror plots if found guilty face life in jail investigators claim part of an ultra nationalist movement for its extremist activities with dozens of people killed in hate crimes in russia. so what drives attackers to commit this ethnic violence. this 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 books love for our homeland 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 interesting 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. 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 the market they are deadly deeds of angry mobs pummeling outnumbered victims are recorded by racist and then posted on nationalist websites. activists call the

situation out of control but a local nonprofit crime watchdog group acknowledges it is slowly getting better but you know what leads to certain 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 than police protection is supposed. to learn their work in crowds of people take care of their own safety. comes into action after a crime is committed not before. as for veronica her husband is serving a life sentence for actions neither of them regrets and for a cause they both support. r.t.

. this week the higgs international court of justice ruled the cause of us declaration of independence was legal while the court's decision is non-binding it sparked international controversy the u.s. and many european countries praised the move but moscow warned it set a dangerous precedent and still wants dialogue between serbia and kosovo belgrade argues the court only focused on the declaration and said nothing about the legality of course of us as an independent state so your claims because of our success in february two thousand and eight violated its territorial integrity and its pledge to step up its diplomatic efforts to stop more countries recognizing a journalist and historian and the bush of knowledge says there are several reasons why because of our cannot be called an independent state. it's pretty much a death sentence for international law this is a textbook case of. clear violation of both the un resolution twelve forty four and all the accepted norms of international law. 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 as 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 its government structure can be best described as organized crime it is not a state in any way shape or form just because the u.s. state department says it is it doesn't mean it is. well the higgs ruling on cause of also sparked reaction from two other states seeking recognition i can see here say the move confirms that their right to independence they hope the decision will push other countries to follow the example of russia and several other states which recognize them after the georgian war of two thousand and eight years prime minister sort of. feels these republics have more of

a right to independence than. fact 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. russia's patriarch has called for unity in ukraine and offered special prayers for the country overcome its political and social rifts the head of the russian orthodox church is in kiev on the last stop of his ukrainian trip artie's alexi is in the capital for us. but the arche real of the russian orthodox church is on a weeklong visit to ukraine he's already been to the cities of just. and also to

the crimea and now this week long visit is culminated here in kiev and we understand that he is here to consecrate several churches monasteries and temples as well as taking part in a large council of the russian orthodox church now before all during the week but they have to deal has been to all over ukraine consecrating churches and temples there as well as meeting with the president. in the crimea where they are real presented to victory on the court which with the highest award of the russian orthodox church now it's the second visit. since he became the head of the russian orthodox church to ukraine but last year his visit sparked lots of controversy here in this post soviet country now everywhere he went a year ago in june two thousand and nine he was met with protest organized by ukrainian nationalists who believed that his visit was purely political and had

nothing to do with religion itself now this time around his visit so far has been calling and see no major protest rallies but we understand that the ukrainian nationalists that organizations run by ukrainian nationalists are planning to hold protests in the ukrainian capital throughout all three days that deal will be here until wednesday when understand that the protest actions will kick off today the question is whether the protest actions will be as large scale as last time was last time they managed to gather several thousand people every time arrived in ukrainian cities especially in the west of ukraine where the nationalist movement is the strongest of all country i'd like to remind you of us that a certain skill is in orthodoxy in russia and ukraine exists because russian orthodox church does not control the orthodox church in ukraine it's a separate church and this has been causing lots of control over. lots of rifts between the two countries in the last several years or so and that's why ukrainian

nationalists believe that. visit to this country is threatening the autonomy of their own church. a right that well was it a bird or a plane no it was a donkey and images of the terrified beast dying going from a parachute drew the wrath of animal rights activists all over the world to move fake reports despite accusations of cruelty the man responsible looks likely to escape any punishment you may see that maybe even a simple fact that because we never see thank you. and you probably never would if it wasn't for a seaside p.r. stunt that's. sitting on the beach boys your parachute go i couldn't quite figure it out myself four 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 levy 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 a tragedy such an audience the donkey's owner decided he tries handed a different sport running taking the evidence the animal itself within the thirty's 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 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 the vets report

confirming the donkey's good hill police dog owner will now even be fined that's for the donkey kill no del be relieved just to have his hooves firmly back on the sand timothy cross him. at a recap of our top stories in just a few moments stay with us.

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