thanks. a lot this is our tape you're watching our news review of the week with me kevin owen and first russia has been hit by an unprecedented heat wave of this well it's already the hottest on record ever but as well as the pleasures of swimming and sunbathing the heat sprawl whether it fires smoke and health risks are things nataly navajoa has more from the capital of temperature records. the sound they got to stand 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 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 grim statistics of three hundred drownings this week alone and it doesn't look like russians who haven't read from this furnace any time soon or a quarter the this is a serious abnormality the russian weather service has never measured such temperatures in moscow enjoy wine according to our calculations it hasn't even reached its peak but not everyone's feeling the heat rushes some drink in ice cream pretty soon and making food which in barbers in the country having a busy time to see the everything over very quick is a hit this summer online shops like this one selling air conditioners and fans have waiting lists that run into english going to continue to work at all scope and then requiring a mobile conditioner sold out within three weeks just as the 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 normally out of money can buy a global fresh air emergency centers are east. getting thousands of calls from

people suffering from heat stroke and sound and. 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 riskier treatment they sell them in pharmacies it's far from a dog's life for three friends either this canine takes several show is a deed to keep cool its own or if you do you feel that it's stuck with it goes all year round. there's a look at the poor dog is suffering so much it's always comes to sit on my lap said ice hoping i can somehow ease the hit all i can do is pull cold water on it if modernly 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 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 muscovite have been given one big of an and i say make omelets at their mark on our feet. l.h. is the only natural challenge moscow's dealing with the moment either on choose day or capital was hit by a freak hurricane with powerful winds that uprooted trees and to wrenshaw rain flooding the streets as you can see the oil the damage cost the city of a million dollars and be trolling just a warning that maybe. the way to. the top stories in the week an antiwar peace camp set up in front of london's westminster parliament's been removed by dozens of police officers protesters say their democratic freedoms and right to free speech of 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. primarily i would like to see the aggressive foreign policy its government has been pursuing for such a long time going back for many years and i would like to see. states . 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 that i'm here mostly because i met. about the rules of war which covers. me. 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 earshot 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 citizens of a country step outside the. authorized parameters of protest and they take radical nonviolent action. in this power she. puts people in all positions of society that you can achieve just about anything you want all you need is a bit of courage. to see a better world for now calm is restored to parliament square and the protesters dispersed but that determined people and vowed to gather again elsewhere a check sixty bêlit some four hours to clear out the tents and the people and erect steps beds and along with the process this 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. still to

come in the program getting to the heart of the hate we speak to the wife of an older nationalist gang member who was found guilty of following a market bombing took fourteen months that's ahead they say and. i think it's a good idea to build a mosque down you know like i say i would put these deals for the drug war punishable by life bigger say going to pull. out seems very old new york resident are since ground zero is an appropriate place for a mosque. and israeli courts 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 drusilla's 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 schools breaking news to boot a specially trained team of counselors and psychologists is on standby to rescue them publish more. it's important to save traditions culture history and identity because without this who are we from my experience we can see that the chances for a healthy relationship between really jews woman in america 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 sentenced to eighteen months and present the

judge said he had an obligation to protect the public concept the state of criminals who could know it innocent victims but reactions to the verdict differ i think if the women want to do it story blog a lot different it's arabic or more of a because something like this usually do is girls don't know where they're 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 conflict is ruining our present a life that we cannot have relationships that we cannot be just human being arabs make up a fifth 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 gangs which are against. the relations between george. bush men

and. even those who can go out. anywhere with. threatened and force them to break their relations with in the two years rami who are here and katie 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 when my family found out they were very adamant about cutting me off on every level. for acting as a traitor to everybody and for being in israel and she 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. r.t.

. 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 vicinity and not generators artie's neither is a very poor choice of the republican couple of the noble county. it's been reported that the militants leaders are 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. power plant killing two police officers at the entrance members of the gang were reportedly identified by employees of the station as the attackers although there's been no official confirmation of 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 is a sporadic event this is a case of criminal activity and blatant negligence law enforcement companies should do everything in their power to 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 cupboards you know about less violence than all the nearby north caucasus republic such as. lost mall the ten attacks on law enforcement officials. 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. in

just a few moments indiscriminate aerial killers sales maybe booming for u.s. drones but activists. machines and. create more problems in the. new ways of tackling. international aids conference and some. pharmaceutical. marketing that. first of moscow courts delayed its verdict on certain people accused of murder and race hate crimes for the defendants will have to undergo a psychiatric test before the final decisions by the groups accused of ice mcclave motivated killings and terror plots if found guilty members could face life in jail investigators claim the gang was part of an old tradition in this movement banned for of six trimmest activities in dozens of people killed in one city called here in washington each year to stacy givens looks at what drives attackers to commit ethnic violence and i find some the images in the report the story of. 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 a love for one home went and i would nation love. your 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. 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 they belong. armed with this believe and inspired by racist blocking her husband correlate into fellow students. the 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 kosky market they are deadly the deeds of angry mob family outnumber victims all recorded by rates. and in place to end nationalist websites. activists call the situation out of control when a local nonprofit crime watchdog group acknowledges it is slowly getting back to life you know i need to start it seizing the most odious groups that had been involved in systematic violence in 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 had 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 who feel self-reliance is better and police protection

is supposed. they're working on the snow 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. . new york's considering plans to build a mosque at ground zero the site where the twin towers once stood but it's left many asking if this is a fitting spot for a muslim religious center of his very own big apple resident gauge the mood on the streets of new york about that story. 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 by actually i would put the idea sort of. why why. why there's a big problem when people equate islam with nine eleven going after the oklahoma city bombing happened we don't equate you know christianity with that i think it's so in the qur'an teaches peace and nonviolence. if the mosque holds the traditions of the qur'an i don't have any problem with it i have a problem with anybody blowing up buildings 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 it's 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 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. more news from the week the international aids conference held in vienna raised heated debate about treatment for a child every day and the role of large pharmaceutical companies to skeptics challenging conventional thinking on aids gathered ahead of the event to make her their views which very 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 past against aids the t. thousand and ten conference in vienna unveils cutting edge new treatments and so speakers from front line workers to x. world leaders joining forces with full cool zero new infections siri dates and siri discrimination because friend says they never heard of on flickr and that they were there and why did that voice. out that not everyone felt they got the chance to speak. voicing their opinions at a separate conference held a few days before the official event was a group raising questions some of which challenge the fundamental assumptions many people hold about d.n.a. tests carry stake 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 acronym for immune suppression or people become immune suppressed all over the world every day for all types of different reasons lots of things cause lower immunity and illness. whether it be has been proven to be a viable infectious virus that sexually transmitted i think is really the bigger question for me this use of polar opposites to some of the calls at the official conference earlier treatment a prevention we also have more drugs now then we have ever had before to treat a trophy and these drugs are more potent they're something more they're more tolerable and they're very effective the cash opinions has led to harsh recriminations on both sides with those opposed to classical explanations labeling

the conference an aids marketing fair and the description of an aids pandemic the p.r. six that must in turn not agreeing with the mainstream hiv theory of aids has been compared to holocaust deniers and called a crime against humanity a science that is alive has to have the permission to question a certain model of thinking a certain 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 that the reaction is. so across. the face of the states it seems the one area those states do agree on is the importance of human rights and interests in 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 right that whichever psyche for long is still to donate fancy many of their fans r.c. the end. rushes petros called for unity in ukraine and offered special prayers for the country to overcome its political and social rifts that of the russian orthodox churches in kiev on the last stop of his ukrainian trip artie's an axiom shift skis in the capital for. head of the russian orthodox church has arrived in ukraine's capital kiev for a three day visit which will call his week long tour across ukraine he's already managed to meet with several officials from ukraine. we understand that in the next couple of days he's got busy agenda is concentrating several temples and churches across kiev as well as a holding large meeting a large council of the russian orthodox church in ukraine as well as holding a service dedicated to one thousand and twenty one years since russia adopted christianity now. has been to the cities. as well as to the crimea

where he met. and presented him with the highest award of the russian orthodox church now it's the second visit to ukraine since he became the head of the russian orthodox church but last year this visit sparked many protests and lots of controversy ukrainian nationalists believe that his visit here is a threat to the autonomy of ukraine i'd like to remind all of us that a certain schism in orthodoxy in russia and ukraine exists because the russian orthodox church does not control the church in ukraine ukraine has its own orthodox church and ukrainian nationalists believe that the deal is here. to seize control over the orthodox church in ukraine something which of course the head of the russian orthodox church has been refuting organizations run by ukrainian nationalists have been planning protests in the capital so far we've seen no

rallies. we know that. a rival to one of the central cathedrals and they plan to protest which was banned by the authorities but. the organization of ukrainian nationalists is planning a big rally to be held on tuesday in downtown kiev to protest against. the biggest question is whether these protests will be. as large scale as in july last year one but they have to know what's here for the first time that protests managed to gather several thousand people and were indeed large scale in old cities where to deal went to especially in the west of ukraine where nationalist movement is the strongest in all of the country. correspond ski next tonight a story of the god she rightly riled from the waco many of you anyway one of the bird was of the plane when in fact it was neither it was a donkey and images of the terrified beast dangling from a parachute drew the wrath of animal rights activists all over the world but

despite accusations of cruelty seems the man responsible looks likely to escape punishment you may receive maybe even a super fine but between never see thank you. and you probably never would if it wasn't for a seaside p.r. stunt. sitting on the beach was your parachute go i couldn't quite figure it out myself in lakes nor of my own i don't keep it was intended to attract only local customers to water sports for a russian black sea resort but it's 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 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 wouldn't but there is 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 donkey's 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 that report confirming the donkey's good hill police still even find this for the donkey you'll know don't be relieved just to have his troops firmly planted in the sand timothy cross who. seems now the russian american spy stories unfolding with this time it's on the big screen hollywood star and he's in moscow for the premiere of his movie called salt

i think the film the film is very very different i suppose in some way but but you know i'm very i'm very i'm somebody who's a little political so i love positive relationships between america and russia and all the good thing so so i didn't focus too much on the scandal except that it was handled really well by our presidents and kind of very quickly you saying all the right things i look at ahead tonight they're the undisputed stars of any aquarium lucky enough to have them they are smart they're cute incredibly friendly join us as we said south of the sea of occult in the north of russia to discover more about the elusive but do go away. well we would we've got a technical problem there that's beluga whale staring at me in the eye i can tell you that says that with us next hour here on r.t. and in a couple of minutes here on this channel as well the news continues with me kevin i know you're enjoying a program some night i'm here again after

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night here in moscow thanks for being with. review of the week today's top stories i'm a question from the week as well in the headlines of normally high temperatures break news. but the intense heat. these three hundred trying to cool off this week. keeping off the grass of peace. is forcibly removed from westminster. city hall security's claim for. southern russia. by deception and is ready called convicts a muslim sleeping with a.