the tale of the power series. you're watching our live from moscow for the morning here it's good to have you with us now the unprecedented heat wave hitting russia continues to rage on with july already the hottest month on record while the emergency teams in deal with the rising cases of heat stroke forecasters say the hot weather is set to stay. the sand may get its head on in central russia but it can't be wearing much else because it's absolutely baking with a nokia hitting record highs in the skew 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 yet 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 online shops like this one selling air conditioners and fans have a waiting list that one into. my being a can swing a. mobile conditioner sold out within three weeks just as they had 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 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 friend either this canine takes several showers a day to keep cool its own or if you do you feel for his 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. do is pull cold water on it you would not only choose not making people suffer enough she's quite prepared to proof you under fire literally with a tinder dry conditions leading to food fires some of which have been burning for weeks. the temperatures are going to be up every day it's very tough. 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. the high temperatures have a meteorologist warning of possible if you're a king on tuesday the capital was here five one with powerful winds uprooting trees and torrential rain flooding the streets all in all the damage cost the city a million dollars and forecasters are warning there may be more euro kane's on the way. 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 dot com and 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 percent are less provocative they prefer to turn that's when he eight percent 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 the log on to our tea dot com and cast your vote . the hague's international court of justice ruled this week that cost of those declaration of independence was legal it's not a binding decision but that's not stopping some for countries from raising their voices the u.s. said many european countries appraise 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 course of zero as an independent state surgically this is session in february two thousand and eight by looted its territorial integrity and us pledge to step up its

diplomatic efforts stop more countries from recognizing kossovo journalist and historian a bush of knowledge says the court's decision is unjust 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 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 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 hague's opinion on kossovo sparked reaction from two other states seeking world wide recognition abkhazia and south setia say the court's decision confirms the double standards of western countries over their right to independence of cars as prime minister sergei shamba says the publics have more of a right to their own sovereignty that kossovo. the president confirms the 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 kosovo 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. we've got plenty more stories for you still ahead including

a question of faith and our man is found guilty of rape by deception for not disclosing his religious beliefs. 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 the u.s. military plans to increase their production to target the taliban. the economy out of the blue i have two words for you predator drugs. you'll 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 ways 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 open is ations 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 i'm like ok i know that ali baba and you go off the persians you say hey we suspect we say they are terrorists who have proven that the first direction targeting terrorists. they're not there 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 drones 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. suburbs. cia drone operator wakes up in the morning the family goodbye comes to the office and shoot at targets thousands of miles away from here and go back home no risk or forward pressure let's say the whole operation reminds the media ok the question many ask is if it is so easy and convenient to look at our m.p. we move forward in the future if war was cheap why not use that before trash

against the smaller countries and organizations to shoot it out of case you would try to shoot iraq with a cable with to talk 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 are feeling rather than quelling insurgency vanish again r. t. washington d.c. and still to come here on our team mosques in manhattan. i think it's a good idea to build a mosque there and why i showed the eightieth floor to turkey yeah. why because

a. lot of parties a very own new york resident asks if ground zero is an appropriate place for malls . and israeli courts convicted an arab man raped 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 boot a specially trained team of counselors and psychologists is on standby to rescue

them at least for more. it's important to save our traditions culture history and identity because without this are we through my experience we can see that the chances for a healthy relationship between his really jewish woman and an arab man very very low 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 to his 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 story blog a lot different it's our belief or more or 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 it to is bad in prison is too much of 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. the relations between jewish. hunting jewish. and force them to break. in the two years rami who are here and keep in touch i 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 be quiet 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. here r.t. jeffy. now ever wondered what's the difference between a judaism and zionism we asked british journalist an expert on the palestinian israeli conflict alan hart the full interview is coming up in about fifteen minutes but here is his answer. simply stated judaism is the religion of

jews not the jews because by no means all jews are religious and like christianity and like islam it has as its core a set of moral values and ethical principles zionism. is the nationalism of some juice it's a sectarian colonial enterprise which created a state in the arab part of that for some jews by terrorism and ethnic cleansing and in doing so it made a complete mockery of the moral values and ethical principles of judaism. now 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 artie's very own big apple resident gauge the mood on the streets.

the city of new york is considering a proposal for the construction of an islamic center and mosque at ground zero do you think this is an appropriate site for a mosque this week let's talk about that i think it's a good idea to build a mosque there to buy the idea sort of. well for the actual why why because a. lot of why there's a big problem when people equate islam with nine eleven when after the oklahoma city bombing happened we don't equate you know christianity with that i think it's over the qur'an teaches peace and nonviolence. if the mosque up holds the traditions of the qur'an i don't have any problem with it i have a problem with anybody blowing up buildings i'm all for it so why do you think some people get so emotional and say it's the wrong thing to do because i think this is

frustrated with their ignorance so they need somebody to blame something to blame so. that's like one way to go about it people who are afraid of the unknown they don't understand. that maybe building a mosque would help people understand 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 i believe it's been supported by some rabbis actually i think is all politics and i think they use in the media to make it an excuse to do what they want to do for the best interests of the politicians though it doesn't matter all of the emotions that they're pulling out of people it's all about politics whether or not you support a mosque being built where the twin towers once stood let's just hope that everyone remembers it was cultural intolerance that caused ground zero in the first place.

russia's patriarch has 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 church is in kiev on the last stop of his ukrainian trip artie's alexy other ships he is in the capital for us. head of the russian orthodox church has arrived in ukraine's capital kiev for a three day visit which will culminate his weeklong tour across ukraine he's already managed to meet with several officials from ukraine. and we understand that in the next couple of days he's got a busy agenda with consecrating several temples and churches across as well as 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. to deal 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. since he became the head of the russian orthodox church but last year. many protests and lots of controversy ukrainian nationalists believe that his visit here is a threat to the autonomy of ukraine's church and i'd like to remind 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 deal is here but they have to be here to seize control over the orthodox church in ukraine something which of course the head of the russian orthodox church has been refuting so far we've seen no rallies of ukrainian nationalists but. the organization of ukrainian nationalists a big rally to be held choose day in downtown kiev to protest against.

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 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 first 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 cools physio new infections zero deaths zero discrimination what forensics may never have heard of on. a with a roadside and that voice a sad sad but not everyone felt they got the chance to speak. in their pinions 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 carry stake hiv positive was amongst after eleven years an 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 aids is a myth aids obviously is not a myth that's a an 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 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

beatrice the chemistry answer more potent there's something they're more tolerable and they're very effective the cash opinions has led to harsh recriminations on both sides with those a pace to classical explanations labeling the conference an. it's marketing firm 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 scientists and medical doctors why should we not be able to discuss i'm very astonished the 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 or right there which. is still to damaged fancy many serafin. 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 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 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 i thought it was handled really well by our presidents and kind of very quickly in the movie

usually when you see 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 premier across the wrong side of the cinema despite the temperatures hitting record highs as we were reporting a little earlier. now was it a bird or was it a plane well in fact it was a donkey and images of the terrified beast dangling from 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. to see that 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. sitting on the beach or parachute go i couldn't quite figure it out myself for legs now of my own ice

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 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 to the evidence the animal itself within the thirties 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 that's for the donkey you'll no doubt be relieved just to have his hooves firmly back on the sand timofey cross to archie. and in a couple of minutes we'll be talking about the ongoing gaza aid issue it's here on r t this early monday morning the twenty sixth of july.

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four thirty in the morning here in moscow and here are the latest news on the week's top stories from our team sky high temperatures break a new records in russia and it claimed lives at least three hundred drowned this week trying to cool off. the international court of justice rules call suppose a 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 raises fears of possible revenge attacks on the american mainland. v.m.s. international aids conference.