outrage of animal lovers and the police caught on the tail of the parasailing dog. you're watching are broadcasting live from moscow two in the morning here good to have you with us now the unprecedented heat wave hitting russia continues to rage wrong with already the hottest month on record while emergency teams deal with rising cases of heat stroke forecasters say the hot weather is set to stick. the sun may get its head on in central russia but it can be wearing much else because it's absolutely baking with a 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 the 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 salvaging 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 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 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 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 bet that it's fact with his goat all year round. the poor dog is suffering so much it always comes to sit in my lap. hoping i can somehow. do is pull cold water on it if mother nature is not meeting people suffer enough she's quite prepared to proof you 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 story 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. are. the high temperatures have meteorologists warning of possible here again on tuesday the capitol was hit by one with powerful winds of these anti-rational rain flooding the streets all and all the damage cost the city a million dollars and forecasters are warning there may be more here again is on the way and we're always interested in your opinions on the stories we're covering and you can have your say on our website that's r t v dot com the russian heat wave story is no exception as today we're asking how you keep cool in scorching temperatures so far the majority of voters fifty two percent of you appears to be

walking around in just your underwear twenty eight percent are less provocative they prefer to turn on the air conditioner if they've got one of course while fourteen percent stock up on ice cubes and a minority of viewers claim to stick their heads in the fridge though not for too long i hope so what's your opinion log on to r.t. dot com and cast your vote. behaves international court of justice ruled this week that casa vose declaration of independence was legal it's not a binding decision but that's not stopping some countries from raising their voices the u.s. and many european countries praised the move but moscow says it won't affect its stance and still wants dialogue between its serbia and kosovo belgrade argues the court only focused on the declaration and said nothing about the legality of kossovo as an independent state serbia claims that this is session in february two thousand and eight they did its territorial integrity and has pledged to step up

its diplomatic efforts to stop more countries from recognizing kossovo journalist and historian abortion a mileage says the court's decision is unjust. 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 are directly pro-american position to be perfectly honest course i'm always a much independent does month to quarter vichy france was in world war two it's a public stage and it suffers from endemic corruption abuses of power is its government structure can be best described as a 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. the higgs opinion on kossovo

sparked reaction from two other states seeking world wide recognition of qazi and south setia say the court's decision confirms the double standards of western countries over their right to independence as prime minister sergei shamba says the two republics have more of a. right to their own sovereignty then cos of all. the president confirms of 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 costs about 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. and we've got plenty more stories for you still ahead including rape by

deception lies and deception as israeli court rules that a jewish woman was raped by her boyfriend. at least five suspected militants have been killed and four wounded after a u.s. drone attack in northwest pakistan this follow saturday's attack on a militant compound in the same area that killed sixteen and despite concerns the unmanned aircraft are causing more and more civilian casualties and u.s. military plans to increase their production to target the taliban. the comma out of the blue i have two words for you predator drones. you will never see it coming a drone least ten times cheaper than a fighter jet it requires no pilot so there are no troop deaths to explain it's the perfect weapon for covered cia operations in countries like pakistan and afghanistan if things go wrong you can deny it all the way and things do go wrong

studies by independent international experts suggest that for every militant killed as many as fifteen civilians also die there's no way of getting exact numbers the cia keeps its drones program under wraps but the united nations and other international organizations question the legality of the extensive use of the weapon it becomes different when you come to a sort of undeclared war with organisations which. like i delegate colleague bob and you go off to push and you say they we suspect we say they are terrorists but who has proven that the person you're actually targeting the to terrorists. they're not they're not in uniform but humanitarian concerns seem to be doing little to dampen surging international demand for drones also known as unmanned aerial vehicles or u.a.e. vs the military appetite is such that the market is expected to grow to

a staggering fifty five billion dollars in ten years from now with the advances in technology they depersonalize warfare and so therefore you have people war willing to use them and you have people that don't understand the consequences because the people who are flying the drolls are not on the battlefield they're not in the plane they're thousands of miles away. where they cause to structured they don't feel it here in washington d.c. suburb but the drone operator wakes up in the morning the family guy comes to the office and shoots at target thousands of miles away from here and go back home no risk or the word specialist say the whole operation reminds the media ok the question many ask is if it is so easy and convenient with our m.p. we can move forward in the future if war is cheap why not use that bit more special

against the smaller countries and organizations touch it on a case you would try to sit around with a cable which would pull it over simon vets him and has produced a research report on drones with the european parliament among his concerns are the consequences of terrorists getting hold of such weapons a scenario sunlight likened to real life but deadly robot morris demonstrators outside cia headquarters at the start of the year protested against indiscriminate killings by unmanned weaponry they say that rather than winning wars drones merely make more enemies by killing mostly innocent people rather than quelling insurgency gonna shake out. r t washington d.c. . and still to come here on r t married to a birder we speak to the wife of an ultranationalist gang member who was found guilty following a market bombing that took fourteen lives and also. i think it's

a good idea to build a mosque there to show the eightieth floor to. work for the. boy because. artie's very own new york resident asks if ground zero is an appropriate place for a mosque. now when israeli courts convicted an arab man of rape by deception after he lied to an israeli woman he slept with about being jewish well some say it's a 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 schools 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 we from my experience we can see that the chances for a healthy relationship between is really jewish woman and an arab man very very low it's because of the great differences between these two cultures showed up at 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 defer i think

if the women want to do it it's toward law they're not different it's arabic or more of a because something like this usually do is a 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 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 gangsters which are against. jewish men. who can go out to a bar. and force them to break.

in the two years rummy where here the end 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 an inch and making that choice right now israeli parliamentarians are considering a law that will require perspective israeli citizens to declare 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 are t. jeffy. 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 group is accused of ethnically motivated killings and taylor applauds if found guilty members could face life in jail investigators claim the gang was part of an ultra nationalist movement back for its extremist activities with dozens of people killed in a race hate why said russia is here parties stacey business looks at what drives attackers took a bit ethnic violence he may find some of the images in her report disturbing. 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. love for 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 don't support interesting marriages 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 what are your thoughts on that. over dinner 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 people are often brutal and in cases like yours market they are deadly the deeds of angry mobs pummeling outnumber victims all recorded by racist and then posted on nationalist. sites. activists carve a situation out of control when

a local nonprofit crime watchdog group acknowledges it is slowly getting better life you know what needs to started seizing the most odious groups that had been involved in systematic violence and terrorism during the last two years the largest formations in moscow were dispelled and the key activists and murderers detained. she says one thousand people have been killed due to hate crimes in two thousand and ten that's down from fifty for the same time period last year but that map does little to satisfy magazines who feel suffer alliance 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. 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. . new york is 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 art his 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 over the qur'an teaches peace and nonviolence if the mosque of 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. just like one way to go about it people who are afraid of the unknown they don't understand. so maybe building a mosque would help people understand the idea 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 but they're 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. the international aids conference held in vienna this week has raised a heated debate on treatment for hiv and aids and the role of large pharmaceutical companies skeptics challenging conventional thinking on aids gathered ahead of the event to make their views heard 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 us against. 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 cool's physio new infections siri does zero discrimination while the current says they never heard of on the day we

verified that void. but not everyone felt they got the chance to speak for their 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 terry 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. it's not that hiv slash hanes 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 these use of polar opposites to some of the calls at the official conference for earlier treatment a prevention we also have more drugs in well then we have ever had before to treat a trophy in these drugs are more prone to something 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. it's marketing fair and the description of an aids pandemic a p.r. six 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 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 real scientists and medical doctors why should we not be able to discuss i'm very astonished 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 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 right there which. is still to damaged far too many serafin. vienna. now was it a bird or was it a plane well in fact it was a donkey and images of the terrified going for a parachute drew the wrath of animal rights activists the world over but despite accusations of cruelty the man responsible looks likely to escape punishment. you know to see that maybe even to the fact that between never be thank you.

and you probably never would if it wasn't for a seaside p.r. stunt. sitting on the beach or parachute go up you couldn't quite figure it out myself or legs nor of my own ice a donkey 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 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 attraction is such an audience the donkey's owner decided he tries handed a different sport running taking the evidence the animal itself with him 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 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 hooves firmly back on the sand timothy cross party. with the russian american spy story just reaching its conclusion it's a timely moment for a big screen version hollywood star angelina jolie is in a moscow for the premiere of her latest movie salt. i think the film the film is very very different i suppose in some way but it's 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 things so so i didn't focus too much on the scandal except that i thought it was handled really well by our presidents and kind of very quickly i mean yes in the movies really plays a cia agent who is accused of working with russian secret services the actress has been to moscow before but this is the first time her children are here with her ahead of the premiere of crowds a long dull side of the cinema despite the temperatures hitting record highs as we were reporting a little earlier. and in a couple of minutes we're talking about the ongoing a gaza aid issue it's here on our team this early monday morning the twenty sixth of july.

question is that so much of an oldish musician apparently a democracy does pakistan face the prospect of becoming a failed state the us claims it is an indispensable power and its so-called war on . they faced it this is not a provocation but a warning that. they forced it and we should use every word you showed us a pretty trace pieces they have no idea about the hardships to face. they wanted to says it all of them too nice to. bring any army to life level using them is the most precious thing in the world. is of self-sacrifice and heroism with those who understand it fully but you have to live a. real life stories from world war two. victory nineteen forty five got on t. dot com.

broadcasting live from moscow you're watching our t.v. latest news at the week's top stories scarred temperatures a break in new records in russia and claimed lives at least three hundred drowned this week of trying to cool off. the international court of justice rules call suppose unilateral declaration of independence from serbia is legal but several countries claim the decision is a political display of double standards. airstrike the extensive civilian casualties caused by the use of unmanned drones by the u.s. military resists fears of possible revenge attacks on the american mainland. vienna's international aids conference.