roach of animal lovers and the police are on the tail of the passing dog. here watching our team broadcasting live from moscow six in 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 emergency teams deal with the rising cases of heat stroke forecasters say the hot weather is set to stay . the sound they've got its hand on in central russia but it can be wearing much else because it's absolutely baking with 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 any time soon. the partner 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 some drink and ice cream producers and making a fortune barbers in the country are having a busy time to the everything haricot is a hit this summer when wine shops like this one selling air conditioners and fans have a waiting list that run into english by being a concern i would hope and then requiring a 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 fuel their warehouses because of the crisis last summer we had rains this year no one was ready for the heat. in a situation where no mounds 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 be better to take them somewhere where there's no smoke another option would be to buy them respect they sell them in pharmacies it's far from a dog's life for three friends either this canine takes several shows a d. to keep cool its own or if you do you feel that it's stuck with its coat all year round. there's a look at the poor dog is suffering so much it 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 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 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 muscovites have been given one big of an and i say make omelets but then i got heartbeat. the high temperatures have meteorologists warning of possible here against on tuesday the capitol was hit by one with powerful winds uprooting trees and tarantula 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 on the way we're always interested in your opinions on the stories we're covering and you can have your say on our web site that's r t dot com the russian heat wave story is no exception as today we're asking you how you keep cool in scorching temperatures so far the majority of voters fifty two. scent 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 of stock up on ice cubes and a minority of viewers claim to stick their heads in the fridge an offer too long i hope so what's your opinion a log on to r.t. dot com and cast your vote. the hague's international court of justice ruled this week that cost of us 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 the session in february two thousand and eight by later its territorial integrity and has pledged to step up

its diplomatic efforts to stop more countries from recognizing kossovo journalist and historian the bush of knowledge says the course of this issue 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 of always as much independent does manchukuo or vichy france was in world war two it's a puppet state and it suffers from endemic corruption abuses of power in its government structure can be best described as a organized crime it 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 kossovo spar reaction from two other states seeking world wide recognition and south a setia say the course of the session confirms the double standards of western countries over their right to independence of qazi as prime minister sergei shamba says the two republics have more of a right to their own sovereignty than costs of. the worth of work but there's very little 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 cost of a 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 quote from mel an arab an astounding guilty of rape by deception for not disclosing his religious beliefs. at least five suspect. 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 now 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 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 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 organizations which are like ok you know the taliban and you go off the persians you say hey we suspect we say they are terrorists who have proven that the person you're actually targeting 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 drones are not on the battlefield they're not in the plane they're thousands of miles away. and 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 guy comes to the office and shoots at targets thousands of miles away from here and going back home no risk whatsoever specialists say the whole operation reminds the media ok the question many ask is if it is so easy and convenient with our m.p.'s we move in the future if war was cheap why not use the bit for trash against the smaller countries

and organizations to show it on a case you would try to sit around with a cable or to talk it over simon vets' him and has produced a research report on druce 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 ganesh she can r t washington d.c. . and still to come here on r t a married to a murderer we speak to the wife of an old friend nationalist 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 the mosque back to why i showed the eightieth floor to you. because a. lot of our team is very well new york resident asks if ground zero is an appropriate place for a mosque. now an israeli court has 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 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 the local jewish girls the municipality has created a twenty four hour hotline where parents and friends can phone to rat on jewish

girls breaking this to boot a specially trained team of counselors and psychologists is on standby to rescue them at least from war. it's important to save our 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 these really jewish woman and an arab man very very low it's because of the great differences between these two cultures share about thirty 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 been convicted of rape by deception and same tools to eighteen months in prison 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 dark lord

a lot different it's our belief or more of a because something like this usually do is girls don't know where their guys. unless it's a choice you know. there should be choice in leverage is bad in prison is too much of this is the way that this is going to make these ruining our present arrives 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 jewish. and hunting jews. those who can go out to a bar. or anywhere with another guy threaten them and force them to break their

relations with guys in the two years rami who are here and kelly been touched her 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 a zero inch and making that choice right now israeli parliamentarians are considering a law that would require prospective 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. jeff. have you 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 the state in the our apartment 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 a moscow court has delayed its verdict on thirteen people accused of murder and a race hate crimes four of the defendants will have to undergo psychiatric tests

before the final decision is made the groups accused of ethically 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 bad for its extremist activities with dozens of people killed in the race hate crimes in russia each year artie's stacey bevan's looks at what drives attackers to commit ethnic violence you 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 books a love for home went and i would nation love good people families where people don't just date and then break up but rather they get married in church they don't

practice abortions don't support interesting marriages. who are ethnically mixed communities and what are your thoughts about me i'm not russian i'm african american i'm here are you upset that your government gave me a bill what are your thoughts on that of the must be as well be doing i believe everyone should live in their own homeland where they belong. and with this believe and inspired by racists blocking her husband. and two fellow students. market in two thousand and six they target it because of the number of traders the companies . asia and china a blast killed fourteen attacks against looking 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 websites. activists call the situation out of control when a local nonprofit crime watchdog group acknowledges it is slowly getting better

like 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 stacey didn't 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 setter 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 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. 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 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.

the international aids conference held in vienna this week has raised heated debate on treatment for the end 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 bus 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 to zero new infections sciri deaths and zero discrimination what forensics mean i've heard all. day without

outside that voice. but not everyone felt they got the chance to speak. now opinions at a separate conference heard a few days before the official event was a group raising questions some of which challenge the fundamental assumptions many people hold about hiv and aids cherry stake the 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 aids is a myth aids obviously is not a myth that's 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 it 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 all. so we pay out more drugs will then we have ever had before to treat a trophy at least once or more per year something they're more tolerable and they're very effective the cash opinions has led to harsh recriminations on both sides if there is a pace 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 theory of thinking you know you don't bring in here a dying patient so that we have to act immediately and give him something we are

discussing here we're scientists and medical doctors why should we not be able to discuss i'm very astonished at the reaction is sometimes so aggressive. despite the debate it seems the one area based sides do agree on is the importance of human rights and interests in 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 or right that whichever side he fall on is still to damaged many south. vienna. now was it a bird 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 know to see that maybe even to the fact that between never the donkey.

and you probably never would if it wasn't for a seaside p.r. stunt. sitting on the beach ice or a parachute go on 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 and a russian black sea resort but its effect quickly rippled out across the world levy many worried about the donkey's feet this animal was suffering was captured on videos and photographs and the way it spread through the media is really amazing and i think what the public has done is created a demand you know for animals to be treated better and for people to pay attention after attracting such an audience the donkey's owner decided he tries handed a different sport running taking the evidence the animal itself with and with ortiz also question the water sports 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 timothy cross soup archie. and a couple of minutes we'll be talking about the ongoing gaza aid assured it's here on our team this monday morning the twenty sixth of july.

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here watching our team live from moscow and hear the latest news of the week's top stories sky high temperatures break a new records in russia and the claim lives at least three hundred drowned this week trying to cool off. the international court of justice rules cos of those 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. vienna's international.