raging animal lovers and the police hot on the tail of the parasailing dog. you're watching our team are broadcasting live from moscow five in the morning here it's good to have you with us the unprecedented heat wave hitting russia continues to rage on with july already the hottest month on record while emergency teams deal with the rising cases of heat stroke forecasters say the hot weather is set to stay . the sound 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 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 anytime soon. various 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 here but not everyone's feeling the heat rushes subjoined an ice cream pretty soon and making a fortune barbers in the country having a busy time to the everything haricot is a hits this summer one line shops like this one selling air conditioners and fans have a waiting list that run into. my being a container with. mobile conditioner 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 its owner few theories that that fact with his goat all year round. the poor dog is suffering so much it always comes to sit in my lap said ice hoping i can somehow ease the heat all i can do is pull cold water on it if not only cheers 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 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 but they're not artsy moscow. the high temperatures have meteorologists warning of possible here against on tuesday the capital was hit by one with powerful winds of rooting trees and to rush will rain flooding the streets all in all the damage cost the city of a million dollars and forecasters are warning there may be more here a case 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 our teen 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 percent or 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 but offer to along i hope so what's your opinion a log on to our tea dot com and cast your vote. they exit international court of justice ruled that this week that cost of those 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 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 the session in february two thousand and eight it's territorial integrity and this pledge to step up its diplomatic efforts

to stop more countries from recognizing kossovo journalist and historian a voice of mileage 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 manchukuo or vishy 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 a crime is not a state in any way shape or form just because the us state department says it is

a doesn't mean it is. the hague's opinion on calls of a spark reaction from two other states seeking world wide recognition. and south a settler say the court's decision confirms the double standards of western countries over their right to independence of gaza as prime minister sergei shamba says the two of publics have more of a right to their own sovereignty then kossovo. know it will work but there's very little 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 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. here with our team and plenty more still ahead keep off the gas find out

why hundreds of protesters have been bad for all of this square. at least five suspected militants have been killed and four wounded after a u.s. drone attack in northwest west pakistan this follows saturday's attack on a militant compound in the same area that killed sixteen now despite concerns the on mad aircraft are causing more and more civilian casualties the u.s. military plans to increase their production to target the taliban. the car out of the blue i have two words for you predator drones. you will never see it coming a drone is 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 and things do go wrong. he's

going to pen an 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 organizations which are. like ok you know the taleban and you go after persians you say day we suspect we say they are terrorists but who has proven that the person you're actually targeting are 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 the coals 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 and when they cause to structure they don't feel it here in washington d.c. something like the eye a drone operator wake up in the morning family goodbye come to the office and shoot the target thousands of miles away from here and go back home no risk with the weather especially the whole operation reminds the media ok the question many ask is if it is so easy and convenient for them now it's time we move forward in the future if war is cheap why not use that bit more especially against the smaller

countries and organizations to show. he would try to sit around with a table with to talk it over simon vets him and has produced a research report on dru's 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 wars 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 fueling rather than quelling insurgency gonna shake n r t washington d.c. an antiwar piece set up in front of london's westminster parliament has been removed by dozens of police officers protesters claim their democratic freedoms and right to free speech are being violated the very things the government said it

wanted to defend 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. more primarily i would like to see the aggressive foreign policy this government has been pursuing over the book for such a long time going back for many governments. to see and. sobering stories. 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 him he will prescribe it out here he ran a web shop about the laws of war which covers all wars and it showed me how illegal wars are within the law and expose to me how. awful 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 free 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 that to

me is a total contradiction it's anti-democratic but as democracy village is replaced by one. the hoff me to metal fences the demonstrators are adamant it's no barriers to getting hurt every time citizens of the country start the. authorized parameters approaches and they take radical 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 and desire to see a better world but now calm is restored to parliament square and the protesters dispersed but they're determined people and vow to gather again elsewhere it took sixteen bailey some four hours to clear out the ten thousand people and erect this 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 not see. you're watching our news review of the weekend coming up shortly came to death before you allegedly suffered so much corporal punishment at school that he took his own life . police in a 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 artie's later as is of our reports from the republic of. it's been reported that the militants leader the who was behind the storming of this hydro plant in the north caucasus on wednesday morning a group of up to five gunmen forced their way into the. power plant killing two police officers at the entrance members of the shuras gang who 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. security has been tightened at all the energy facilities across russia. this is a sporadic event this is a case of criminal activity play to negligence law enforcement bodies and companies should do everything in their power to avert any repetition of events like this in the future and if this does happen again none of the law enforcement. company executives will remain in the job we've seen nothing similar to this before so we must draw the most serious conclusions from all the coverage you know about less violence than all the nearby north caucasus republic such as. last mall the ten attacks on law enforcement officials in cup 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. the international aids conference held in vienna this week has raised heated debate on treatment for hiv 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 calls zero new infections zero deaths zero discrimination. france has made her. way there

why did their voice. but not everyone felt they got the chance to speak. 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 cherry 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 is a myth aids obviously is not a myth that's a acronym for immune suppression more 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.b. 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 for earlier treatment a prevention we also pay out more drugs will then we have ever had before to treat they try to be in the structure more power or 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 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 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 here we're scientists and medical doctors why should we not be able to discuss i'm very astonished that their reaction is. i'm sorry quest and. 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 whichever side he fall on is still to damaged far too many surface r.t. piano. and coming up next hour for you here on r t married to a murderer we speak to the wife of ultra nationalist gang member who was found guilty following a market bombing that claimed fourteen lives and also. i think it's a good idea to put the mask back again but i shall put on this the idea of sort of

. with an actual black boy make a save. our teens very own new york resident asks if ground zero is an appropriate place for a mosque. in india now the recent suicide of a thirteen year old boy who said to have taken his life after being repeatedly caned at school has reopened the debate about corporal punishment although outlaw the practice is still widely used but the case has sparked anger from parents who are demanding criminal charges for teachers who beat their pupils. this is one of india's worst kept secrets the prevalence of corporal punishment in schools but the recent suicide of thirteen year old dr has brought the practice out into the open a student at the prestigious law mark meal for boys school in kolkata hanged himself a tour earlier this year after being gained at school after spending months juicing

the school for answers his father has filed a police complaint against the three teachers he says were in lived think that they were after him for a long way lynne i think he was so long as he was getting an individual. battling if i may use the word he was able to take it but when the order descended on him at the same time i don't think. i don't think his young mind could have that much animosity. emission from his friends the school's principal has admitted killing rule run gte but says this was not responsible for his suicide. the case has set off a public outcry largely because it occurred in one of india's and most elite schools but most cases of corporal punishment take place in government run schools and go largely unrecorded ten year old mounties often beaten when he doesn't complete his all merch on time. the teacher tries to teachers but when we don't

learn she hates us and sometimes cry when i get. in the child with a stick really doesn't solve any purpose one of the child would become too used to this kind of punishment and the effect would go off or else the child who's very sensitive and anxious by predisposition would feel very very vulnerable supreme court judgment in two thousand prohibited punishment in early firms in india but it would have its die hard many teachers and even some parents still believe in the need for discipline we don't want to hit them but we get angry sometimes because we're taking so much effort to teach them so sometimes we are forced to hit them with or fifty children in a class teachers often resort to beating them to control their large numbers you hear words like phrases like it's a theatre of war out there teachers are sometimes frightened to go into class

because there is such a lack of respect and. it's very hard to with in inverted commas control the class or discipline but for one loving father there can be no arguments about corporal punishment there's a log in st there's no debate if you let people hear your kids there will be a monster who will take out his first mission. and you will not be able to save your child. it's not open to discussion nobody has that. nobody you god gave them to us to love not for some go to beat them up. one father's crusade for justice is in the spotlight on corporal punishment which is illegal but still call money in indian schools one wonders how many more children will have to suffer before more humane methods of disciplining them are in forced out and seeing are to do that. 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. you may see or 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 i saw a parachute go up i 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 i don't rush in black sea resort but its effect quickly rippled out across the world leaving many worried about the donkey 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 hand that a different sport running taking the evidence the animal itself with and with ortiz 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 a camel and a horse rumor has it they too may have been skyward bound if it wasn't for their sheer size several days later he turned himself in along with vets report confirming the donkey's good health police down the 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 timothy krause who archie. and just ahead we meet the man at the

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five thirty in the morning here in moscow when these are the latest news and the week's top stories from our team sky high temperatures a break in the records in russia and cooling lives at least three hundred drowned this week why to cool off. the international court of justice rules call suppose a unilateral declaration of independence from serbia is legal but several countries claimed the decision is a political display of double standards. airstrike in the extensive civilian casualties caused by the use of drones by the u.s. military raises fears of possible revenge attacks on the american mainland. vienna's international aids kong for.