the police report on the tail of the parasailing donkey. this is r t you're watching our news review of the week with me kevin o. in welcome russia has been hit by an unprecedented heat wave with this month already the hottest on record ever but as well as pleasures of swimming and sunbathing the heat has brought with it fires smoke and health risks artie's nataly novikov has more from the capital of temperature records. that it's had on in central russia but it can be wearing much else because it's absolutely baking with a nuclear 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 it but not everyone's feeling the heat rushes soft drink and ice cream pretty soon and making a fortune but i was in the country having a busy time to the everything haricot is a hits this 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 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 ask 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 it's owner q do you feel for his that that fact with his goat all year round. the poor dog is suffering so much it always comes to sit on my lap said ice help. concern how is the hit all it can do is pull cold water on it if not only cheers not meeting 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

a star 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 market at r.t. moscow. clever if you can do it well the heat isn't the only natural challenge moscow's dealing with the word on choose day the capital was hit by a freak her out him with powerful winds up rooting trees into renshaw rain flooding the streets all in all the damage costs the city of million dollars and retail just a warning there may be more hurricanes on the way to. an antiwar peace camp set up in front of london's westminster parliament has been removed by dozens of police officers protesters say the democratic freedoms and rights 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 insist their crucial message is being muted i would like to see a better government. more 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 disease and. so bringing states. 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 people press coverage out here who ran a website about the rules of war which covers all wars and it showed me how evil wars 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 a short of their m.p.'s cricketers all about sri speech all the 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 as democracy village is replaced by

one. the half metre metal fences the demonstrators are adamant it's no barriers to getting hurt every time citizens of a country step outside the. authorized parameters approaches and they take rather cool nonviolent action. in this power she affects people in all positions of society and that you can achieve just about anything you want or you need a bit of courage. to see a better world for 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 ten thousand the people and erect states bed and along with the process does when the right to free speech according to some they say the government's sending

a message to democracy keep off the grass your enemies out see london. and coming up in the program getting into the heart of the hate speak to the wife of an alter nationalist gang member who is found guilty following a market bombing that took fourteen lives to come this hour plus. the cost of a can of worms is reopened as the u.s. highest court says the region's declaration of independence was legal we get more perspective on that too in just a few minutes. another story from the week an israeli courts convicted an arab man of great 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 the 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 boo 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 really jewish woman and an arab man very very low it's 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 of president 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 story blog a lot different it's our belief or more or 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 a choice but 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 beings arabs make up a foot of israel's population but relationships between arabs and jews are rare former palestinian minister ziad abu is a 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. the relations between jewish.

hunting jewish. threatened and forced them to break. in the two years rami who are 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 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. here r.t. jaffa. police in southern russia claim they've killed two militants suspected of attacking a hydroelectric plant on wednesday two security guards were killed when gunmen stormed the facility and knocked out two generators ati's neither is of a report from the public of cover of the noble caria. it's been reported that the militants lawyers are the sure 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 rock sound power plant killing two police officers at the entrance members of the surest 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 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 of the ballcarrier says less violence than all the nearby north caucasus republic such as. last mall there were ten attacks on law enforcement officials in ca but if you are 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 our correspondent. you were to your

news review of the week to sunday and still to come. entire city of sevastopol is done up in white and blue because the city and the country celebrates navy day find out the details in just a few minutes. this week the hague's international court of dress. this ruled that kosovo's declaration of independence was legal while the court's decisions non-binding it has sparked international controversy the u.s. and many european countries praised the move but moscow was set a dangerous president stillborns dialogue between serbia and kosovo belgrade argues the court only focused on the declaration and said nothing about the legality of kosovo independence day serbia claims kosovo succession in february two thousand and seven violated its territorial integrity and its pledge to step up its diplomatic efforts to stop more countries recognizing it journalist and historian

of mileage spoke to a c says there are several reasons why the consul not be called an independent state. it's pretty much a death sentence for international law this is a textbook case of a 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 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 is its government structure can be best described as organized crime 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. moscow courts delayed its

verdict on thirty nine people accused of murder and race hate crimes for the defendants will have to undergo psychiatric tests before a final decision is made the ropes accused of ethnically motivated killings in terms of plots if guilty members could face life in jail investigators claim the gang was part of an ultra nationalist movement banned for his extremist activities with dozens of people killed in race hate crimes here in russia each year r.t. stacy looks of what drives attackers to commit ethnic violence you may find some of the images in her report disturbing. list 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 loan book frozen a love for one home went 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 the don't support interest make marriages is up or who are 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 bill is what are your thoughts on that of the must be a slur for the doing and i believe everyone should leave in their own homeland where they belong. armed with this believe and inspired by racists blocking her husband nikolai correlate into 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 nonstandard looking people are often brutal and in cases like yours asking market they are deadly they deeded angry mob family outnumber victims all recorded by racist and then placed in nationalist websites. activists call the city. out of control when

a local nonprofit crime watchdog group acknowledges it is slowly getting light you know what needs to start and seizing the most odious groups that had been involved in systematic violence and terrorism during the last two years and not just 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 magritte to kill stuff from lines is better than police protection is supposed. to learn their work in crowds on which the people take care of their own safety commission or foresman comes into action after a crime is committed. them when it is a law 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. . the international aids conference held in vienna this week has raised heated

debate about treatment for h.i.v. and aid and the role of large pharmaceutical companies skeptics challenging conventional thinking on aids over the head of the event to make heard their views which they claim of being ignored by the scientific community. right here right now a human rights based approach to h.l.v. prevention treatments and a coup to the world to continue its fight in the bus again states the tea thousand and ten conference in vienna unveils cutting edge new treatments and so speakers from frontline workers to x. world leaders joining forces with both cause zero new infections siri deaths and zero discrimination was says they never heard it was clear that they were there outside their 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 clique raising questions some of which challenge the fundamental assumptions many people hold about hiv and aids cherry stake hiv positive was amongst the australian live in 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 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 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 that the official conference earlier treatment a prevention we also hear more drugs and you know then we have ever had before to

treat they tried the chemistry answer more power or something more or more tolerable and the very fact that the cash opinions has led to harsh recriminations on both sides with there is a place 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 cooled a crime against humanity a science that is alive has to have the permission to question a certain model of thinking serious thinking you know 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 sometimes so aggressive. this. to date it seems the one area those states 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 whichever psyche for long is still to donate far too many. r.c. c.n.n. . ports across russia are honoring the country's navy in a major annual celebration held on the last sunday in july a display of nautical clouts also underway in ukraine as well though of russia's black sea fleet the thousands gathering to watch the spectacle r.t. catarina zara was there. this is the ukrainian city of sevastopol and of course it's the russian navy but this has been its home for as long as the black sea fleet has existed on the locals here everybody here in the crimea viz that black sea fleet as part of its history as integrity to them as anything else concerning their city still thousands of people turn out to watch the navy day parade each year it's

a spectacular event this year of course was the first year a first time in for over five years that the ukrainian and the russian navy actually participated in preparing the parade and actually taking part in the parade together so a doubly significant event of course thousands of turning up to watch the display and there was quite a things to see military ships gliding by different artillery displays different displays of tactics and techniques that the navy can actually do such as locating underground underwater mines helping those who have been stranded at sea various rescue operations various. military combat techniques were also on display for the crowds they were a great crowd pleaser everybody here screaming and cheering when those combat techniques were on display so a lot of things going on of course concluding everything with the ship that is

actually a fire fest so. that this is sort of like the firefighter vessel which for this parade specifically becomes a floating fountain and the people loved it everybody here it was very a press crowd cheering everybody very happy of course it's not just the black sea fleet it's all of russia's navy that is celebrating today all of the fleets across the country are celebrating taking part in parades with people watching them and of course it's not just the parade that's part of the festivities tonight later on there will be magnificent fireworks displays all across the country and here inside us the bill as well today is ninety. years exactly since that day that most of the russian white guard and the so-called russian into the russian army and aristocrats were forced out of the crimea and were forced to run in order to save their lives they were being forced out by the red army and they basically had a chance to stay and possibly lose their lives or just leave their motherland and

search for home search for a home and other countries and that is exactly what they did they left the port and headed for turkey by many different countries and today this because it's the ninetieth anniversary of the series significant event in russian history a ship with all of the relatives of all of those people who left the crimea actually made the same journey but backward starting from turkey and actually heading back towards it docked here today it's very significant event a somewhat somber day but of course a hugely significant day for the city here. and russia's per truckers called for unity in ukraine and offered special prayers for the country to overcome its political and social rifts the head of the russian orthodox churches in kiev on the last stop of his weeklong trip to ukraine. already visited the city.

he concentrated on consecrated several churches and. he also met ukrainian president viktor covert action presented him with the highest order of the russian orthodox church. story in the week was it a was of the play one of five it was me that it was a donkey and it got you very irate as well images of the terrified bees dying from a parachute through the wrath of animal rights activists the world over but. despite accusations of cruelty seems like the man responsible most likely to escape punishment. you may feel maybe even to the fact that 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 boys or 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 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 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 in along with its report confirming the donkeys 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 him archie. still ahead here on our tail we follow two very different stories in the race to conquer space starts to come about with headlines very shortly as well to this sunday evening the twenty fifth of july.

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that night now this sunday review of the week with the latest news on the week's top stories and in our headlines of normally high temperatures breaking the records in russia but the intense heat claiming lives as well as an least three hundred trying to cool off this week. people for us apiece. the war protesters is forcibly removed from westminster. sitting target poor security is blame for an attack on a hydro power plant in southern russia which leaves two dead. but deception an israeli court convicts a muslim for sleeping with a woman while pretending to be jewish.