with jude law already the hottest month on record one emergency teams deal with rising cases of heat stroke forecasters say the hot weather is set to stay marty's italian overcover reports now on the impact of the heat. the sun may get its head on in central russia but it can't 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 slammed 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 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 online shops like this one selling air conditioners and fans have a waiting list that run into all this might be in a container with. mobile conditioners sold out within three weeks just as they had 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 no mounds of money can buy a global fresh air emergency centers are receiving thousands of calls from people suffering from heat stroke and sundering. 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. socrates a look at the poor dog is suffering so much it always comes to sit in my lap said eyes 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 which have been burning for weeks and you know the temperatures are going to be up every day it's very tough for our staff 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 omelet. heartbeat. or we're always interested in your opinions on the stories we're covering going to

r.t. dot com and have your say well today we're asking how you keep cool in scorching temperatures just over half of it is fifty percent appear to be walking around just their underwear twenty eight percent less provocative perfect it on the air conditioner while fourteen percent are stocking up on our schemes and the rest can just stick their heads in the fridge for too long i hope what's your opinion cast your heat wave dot com you know our top stories next. despite the threats of a nuclear response from north korea a joint navy drill between the u.s. and south korea is underway off the region's peninsula the exercise involving about eight thousand troops will last until wednesday tensions have been running high after an international commission blamed the north for the sinking of a south korean ship back in march long and denies any involvement although the u.s. says it doesn't want to invade twenty eight thousand american troops are based in

south korea and fifty thousand more in japan they need petroff lecture on korean studies at sydney university believes washington's actions are provoking pyongyang north korea never threatens first north korea with a small distance you'd for impoverished struggling pariah state so believable for north korea simply reacts or sometimes reacts to the threats which comes from outside if united states decides to go ahead and execute an invasion or regime change and i would be surprised if you're at some stage decided to use the nuclear capability nuclear deterrence against whatever in the me is closest to solve grizz going to be the first victim of a. war another standoff with a nuclear pretext is that of israel and iran coming up later this hour in our interview veteran a british journalist alan hart explains why iran would never strike first. let's

just supposing iran had one to three dozen nuclear bombs do you think he brown would be stupid enough to launch a first nuclear strike on israel of course he wouldn't because the whole of iran would be devastated the real reason why israel is playing up the iranian threat is to deflect political and other attention away from what it is doing in the occupied territories but the only real problem prison is if iran did possess nuclear weapons it would greatly limit israel's ability to go on imposing its will on the entire region. ten years ago so a major turning point for the international space station russian life support systems were installed which meant a crew members could spend more time in orbit back in the sea changing experiments

which could be carried out. toss reports. in circles the globe about three hundred fifty kilometers from the earth's surface it is the largest construction in space it is a marvel of modern engineering which is approaching a crucial milestone moment cosmic responsibly i assess is a major contemporary space project it has a huge mass of around three hundred eighty tons it involves a big number of program participants including the united states canada european countries belonging to the european space agency and japan and the station is being used as a big scientific laboratory for. though it is a prime example of international cooperation now the roots of the station stem from the apollo soyuz program thirty five years ago when two rival space programs of the u.s. and soviet union integrated technology for the first time twenty years later russia and the u.s. expanded on that shared experience with the goal of creating

a permanent space presence it's womanish that we've done a lot with in the mir shuttle program which was the ancestor of the international space station we work hard to provide similar news operation of both the mir orbital station and preparation for the. i remember those years the most interesting period of strenuous work which finally did to this great result during the link up there were no hiccups and everything went smoothly. this is the mark up of the capsule which is where astronauts and cosmonauts come to train at star city who are traveling to the international space station and it is in here that you get a sense of the significance of this capsule in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight the zarya and the unity capsules worldwatch but it wasn't until ten years ago when the capsule was attached that the space station became livable nor what she. might say was a validation of sorts for the rest of the station if the module had failed then

other systems work would be pointless since the module consisted largely of life support systems the module made it possible for their crew to stay in both the station it would be impossible to build the station at the pace it was constructed that without the special part of the infrastructure was now in place it was up to the station's first crew to get everything in motion your would be two weeks were critical since a lot of the systems were being activated for the first time some russian system segments were merged with us systems those machines had never seen each other in earth and that was the first time they would work together bonce ability was huge and that was why their career had been composed of experienced cosmonauts with him . ten years on the i.s.o.'s is approaching the record for a structure being continuously inhabited in space in honor currently held by russia's mir project and while it was originally only supposed to be in service until two thousand and fifteen it looks like a bright future for the international space station which i think

a part of i'm carlos but in order for you says members decided to prolong the station's use until twenty twenty and possibly even longer if the technical state of the station is good and it's time for for the company ensuring a continued international presence in space for many more years to come john thomas r.t. moscow coming up shortly a controversial option for mothers who abandon their babies. this is a baby box if a mother wanted to meet her child all she'd have to do would be to pull on the handle i would put the child inside. this project aims to save infants lives some say it's encouraging women to give up their children. russia's patriarca has called for unity in ukraine and offered special prayers for the country to overcome its political and social rifts have the russian orthodox church isn't here on the last stop of his ukraine trip and 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. 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. has been to the city. as well as to the crimea where he met. and presented him with the highest award of the russian orthodox church now it's the second visit to ukraine since he became the head of the russian orthodox church but last year. many protests and lots of controversy ukrainian

nationalists believe that his visit here is a threat to the autonomy of ukraine 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. he is here. to seize control over the orthodox church in ukraine something which of course the head of the russian orthodox church has been refuting organizations run by ukrainian nationalists have been planning protests in the capital so far we've seen no rallies. here we know that. a rival to one of the central cathedrals in kiev they plan to protest which was banned by the authorities but. the organization of ukrainian nationalists is planning a big rally to be held choose day in downtown to protest against. the biggest question is whether these protests will be out. in july last year one was here for

the first time managed to gather several thousand people and were indeed large scale in all cities. especially in the west of ukraine where nationalist movement is the strongest in all of the country. but the stories we're covering always available on our website that's dot com they also find expert opinions blogs and news like this one. right. joins us now to buy a range of skills and wheels. and the flying don't keep. seaside p.r. stunt in southern russia on this one right.

as the former commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan and general mcchrystal begins his retirement debate over the decision to sack him continues some say it's the u.s. special envoy to afghanistan and pakistan richard holbrooke who should have got the push in his latest video blog. shares his views on the issue. last weekend general mcchrystal had a fire farewell party at he's at his mansion at fort mcnair in washington d.c. to commemorate he's honorable discharge from the active duty in the us armed forces and the most striking feature of that and his command in afghanistan was the quiet house decision makers has completely lost a unique opportunity i believe that given the choice the us military intelligence and especially law enforcement community would prefer for general mcchrystal to

keep his command and instead to see the u.s. special envoy to afghanistan and pakistan richard holbrooke to be fired from his current position which is an officially called drug lords special representative to the united states it was really remarkable that the only top civil servant of god that positive coverage in the rolling stone article by the general mcchrystal to my america was richard holbrooke boss u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton but richard holbrooke go the most negative and the poisonous coverage there was a reason why he was called it wounded animal by the mcchrystal team america my guess is that the main reasons for such a negative comment was mostly multi of eighty's by richard holbrooke micromanaging and double crossing the general mcchrystal efforts i believe it was one of the main

impediment for the general mcchrystal to give the job done during his mission impossible efforts as a u.s. commander in afghanistan. now the white house has fresh controversy concerning the afghan conflict to do with one of the biggest leak see us military history has revealed the cover up of hundreds of afghan civilian deaths as well as nato fears that pakistan and iran are fueling the insurgency the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks hundred over one thousand times if i documents to british and american newspapers briefed to come from an american army i missed the white house says the pentagon files and field reports were no surprise but to threaten national security . the german chancellor has demanded an investigation into the deadly stampede that love parade dance music festival in germany one of the merkel said

she was shocked and the don't want to celebrate love and peace to end in such tragedy nineteen were killed and three hundred forty two injured as vast numbers of particles packed into a tunnel which was the only entrance and exit to the festival. a leading member of a mexico's drug gang has been arrested by the country's federal police was a senior figure in the gang the linea connected to recent killings and the car bombing in the border city of. car bomb killed three people injured. coming up in the next edition of crosstalk people of l. and his guests discuss whether the war on terror could the two u.s. invasion of pakistan. the u.s. needs to look at this very carefully before it goes down this very dangerous spot of trying to save yourselves by provoking some kind of a military conflict with pakistan actually most of the american soldiers i know who do recognize the appalling dangers of

a direct attack on pakistan i think there are two circumstances in which this would happen the first was if they really aren't actionable intelligence concerning bin laden and zawahiri then i feel they would launch a. great to get them the second is if of course there's a serious terrorist attack on the united states. and. if you think. now it's hard to imagine what goes through the mind of a mother who feels she has to abandon her baby in eastern europe one solution is a secure container for wanting infants to be left anonymously to doctors to then find marty's reports from prague where the baby box is dividing medics and child care experts. all around the czech republic at first

sight just nondescript metal doors on the sides of hospitals and government buildings but they've already helped to save dozens of lives this is a baby box every mother wanted to leave her child all should have to do would be to pull on the handle and put the child inside now it wasn't just the metal container an infant would be able to survive here for several hours but usually their rescued would end several minutes by those on the other side the first one was placed in this private hospital it's still the most popular with nearly fifteen children left in five years. maybe books as soon as the babies placed inside the door locks on the outside and in the army settles i remember running to the box for the first time to see the baby inside and showing it to the doctor to be examined by special i think it is an amazing invention. the baby box inventor is not a doctor but

a writer and horse breeder but his idea was not immediately well received with protests from some clergyman and even doctors now a cloud i though the baby box is high tech with three hundred twenty eight parts special places to leave unwanted children existed even in ancient times. but the government was wary of the baby blogs and didn't provide funding as if i was encouraging people to get rid of their children are now the perception has changed or not but it is life and christina have dated for two years and run a hostel in prague although they can have children of their own don't also like to adopt a baby box child. come from a big family i have four brothers and three forty cousins. nephews new think so i like children they do not know where or when but sure enough it is a matter of time before someone that want the child will become a welcome addition to their family. r.t.

frog. if a man wants the basin scenes we shall stay with us. i'm great for the. we've got to. get voice ceased to face with the news makers. they're welcome to the business program here on our t.v. with me charlayne is folly b.p.'s chief executive tony hayward is due to step down

later on monday he is likely to be replaced by robert dudley he's the company's man in charge of tackling the gulf of mexico oil disaster b.p.'s board is scheduled to meet on monday ahead of announcing its second quarter results among other things as respected to discuss the timing of hayward exit be in battle chief executives been widely criticized over the gulf of mexico spill which has lost the company forty percent of its market capitalization as the man tipped to take over robert dudley has more than thirty years experience in the oil industry including five years as c.e.o. of b.p.'s russian joint venture t.n. k p p he left in two thousand and eight after a shareholders conflict and the much anticipated result of the european bank stress tests are out seven of europe's ninety one largest banks failed the exam which is intended to reveal which institutions would not be able to survive a sustained economic downturn or sovereign debt default the banks which were found

wanting included germany's hyper real estate which is now government own following a bailout eighty eight bank of greece and four. regional spanish lenders a number of other banks only just passed the tests a little likely to face market pressure to increase their capitalization the governments in countries with suspect institution say they're ready to help them raise more money european markets have not yet had the opportunity to cast their verdict as results came out after the close of session now if your bank sector struggles were markets open on monday this is likely to feed through into russia but according to peter weston chief strategist at eight old it may represent a buying opportunity for investors. the exposure of the russian drugs to the source or to appear in countries across our land is two point seven billion dollars a thousand times almost less than what the exposure is for european banks they will be punished the russian bank itself will be punished but it probably will be

punished and justifiably so do if you do see that negative reaction in the financials and you do see russian banks fall in with them in factories and other buying opportunity of russian financials. time know have a look at the markets and asian stocks the slightly higher on monday lifted by wall street's gains on relief over the european bank stress test stocks are rising and optimism for domestic while exporters upholstered by the weekend canon is up two point two percent and honda rose one point four percent hong kong's result stocks are also pacing it. so clear in moscow had a mixed day on friday financials were cowed by those stress results of european banks and spared more than one but it was a big day for mine is the real fitted up one point three percent on the porch the government may take a stake michael gained one point eight one from six percent after forty two profits jumped two hundred twenty percent year on year compared. looking at announcing an

i.p.o. honest business a lower import tariffs for steel products higher taxes for fairest metal producers and their more transparent pricing policy russia's big steel consumers want the government to take action against the way the steel industry does business and is a grand gathering of producers and consumers and this is the weekend it seems prime minister putin was happy to oblige. reports. let me put in regrets that his comments about metals pricing policy two years ago led to twenty percent drop in its share price but he clearly wasn't sorry about any other thank you may have had this time prime minister held up mitchell as an example for others to follow he said the company treats russian consumers well and was not under suspicion to price fixing the same could not be said about six other metals competitors. investigation for selling their product at

a higher price to russian consumers than for export its alleged irregularities in transfer pricing where the producers sell product to a friendly offshore company at a much reduced tariff to avoid tax in the ocean a company that sells the steel to foreign consumers normal world market rates. most of the call and metal producers present here by selling their product to russian customers fifteen to twenty percent higher than world prices we're talking about export price we see the evidence of companies using transfer pricing export contracts are two to three times lower than the world's price for the offshore companies it's discriminatory pricing towards russian customers. the meeting went put two and a half hours and was broadcast in full life one russian t.v. still producers as well as there and consumers in the old two in oil and gas industries all explained their views on the stumbling points in the chain from call to still sheet closing the meeting said the government would take strong measures

if the companies continue to misbehave. the government wants to provide support to the sector but if we see that the measures formulated in the north are not enough to ensure the sector acts within the law then we will have to tighten those measures and why why i should say that we will do it if we do not see the right feedback and feed big there was in july been sick before the meeting the demand put in media tour of the cd and noted that with all the modern use ation of the numerous plants in the city little attention was speed to the people even the local beach lacked basic facilities next morning some be theirs were pleased to find changing rooms toilets and sun loungers it's clear that putin expect a similar prompt response from this to producers in any bit of a business r.t. . much update with a foul but you can always find more stories on our website r.t. dot com flashback us.

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this is r t the headlines for you down there is no end in sight for russia's exceptional heatwave which is seen the hottest month on record the screeching heat continues to claim lives an increasingly threatened country's farming industry. the international space station marks ten years since it first became habitable commandant the structure of the space became possible after russian module launch support systems don't with the will to. the concept of baby books is gaining popularity in eastern europe mothers who want to in the ministry give up their newborn children can do so in secure containers in storms on the sides of hospitals and government buildings.