and the smell of peat bogs burning is being felt in some outlying areas of the capital far far too as attacking the blazes which are being caused by the severe drought auntie's in the titan overcover reports not 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 swimming with a grim statistics of three hundred drownings this week alone and it doesn't look like russians will have a break 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 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 over haricot is a hit the summer one line shops like this one selling air conditioners and fans have a waiting list that run into english by being a container with. mobile conditioners sold out within three weeks just as the heat set in many moscow based companies fail to perceive this heat and they didn't want to fill their warehouses because of the crisis last summer we had rains this year no one was ready for the heat in a situation where 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'd be better to take them somewhere where there's no smoke another option would be to buy them respect to treatment ask they sell them in pharmacies it's far from a dog's life or a furry friends either this canine takes several showers

a day to keep cool it's owner few theories that that effect with his goat all year round. starbuck it is 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 for a few under fire literally with a tinder dry conditions leading to forest fires some of which have been burning for weeks and you know the temperatures are going to be up every day it's very tough for us stuff 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 and i say make omelet. at a market. that we're always interested in your views on the stories we're covering log on to our team dot com to have your say today of course we're asking how you

keep cool in scorching temperatures just over half of voters fifty one percent in fact are going to be walking around in just their underwear twenty nine percent or less provocative referring to turn on the air conditioner while thirteen percent are stocking up on the necessary ice cubes and the rest came to stick their heads in the fridge to lower your opinion trust your into a vote at all to me dot com you know top stories section. this spite of 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 where tensions have been running high after an international commission blamed the north for the sinking of a south korean ship back in march. denies any involvement america currently has twenty eight thousand troops based in south korea and fifty thousand more in japan

and then they'd patrol on korean studies at sydney university believes that interactions are provoking pyongyang. north korea never threatens first north korea the small distant you for impoverished struggling pariah state so believe that north korea simply reacts for some time over reacts to the threats which comes from outside if united states decides to go execute an invasion or regime change or i would be surprised. at some stage decided to use nuclear capability nuclear deterrence against whatever enemy is closest to solve grue is going to be the first victim of the. another standoff for the nuclear pretext is that between israel and iran in about twenty minutes veteran british journalist i don't hot explains why tyrone would never strike first. just supposing that iran had one two three dozen nuclear bombs do you think he broke would be stupid

enough to launch a first nuclear strike on israel of course he would because the whole of the run 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 you ron did possess nuclear weapons it would greatly limit israel's ability to go on imposing its will on the entire region. and they say they have killed two militants allegedly involved in last week's attack on hydra power station in russia's republic of comedy about kyra auntie's north caucasus correspondent has the details but if you're not going to europe and the russians are you know about you know about the guardian had been identified as

are from google and you know they were placed on the police wanted only for number of priority in cleveland park on the back on high grip on. the world on their you know it come on in and they learn to lead by one of them a little in the region a bit of food although this information has not been confirmed by police reportedly learned. the machine gun one piece go grenade and all the nations police say they were killed but it was that they were. the from a plant in the russian republic about you know about what back on july fifth. the group on quantified government force their way through the. gate there they allegedly fired off the top and written their look not find find what it can cope with you bro. there is. a criminal.

group going to generate at the. equivalent of. managed here one vote for the right. coming up shortly a controversial option for mothers who abandon their babies. this as a baby box ever mother wanted to meet her child all she'd have to do would be to pull on the handle and put the child inside it's a project that aims to save infants lives but some say it's encouraging women to give up their children. ten years ago so a major turning point for the international space station russian life support systems were installed which meant crew members could spend more time in orbit marking a sea change in experiments which could be carried out sean thomas reports. it 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 the i.s.a.'s 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. 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 simple to use operation of both the 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 ensure 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 there's very the capsule was attached that the space station became livable. no what she. did say was a foundation 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 the 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 you know with being a deal if those 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 there's sponsibility was huge and that was why there pretty had been composed of experienced cosmonauts with ten years on the i r s s is approaching the record for a structure being continuously inhabited in space and on a 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 us but in another fry assessment has decided to prolong the station's use until twenty twenty and possibly even longer if the technical state of the station is good for you know ensuring a continued international presence in space for many more years to come john thomas

r.t. moscow. 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 unwanted infants to be left anonymously for doctors to then find. ports from prague where the baby boxes dividing medics and child care experts. there are all around the czech republic at first sight they're 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 ever mother wanted to leave her child all she'd have to do would be to pull on this handle and put the child inside now it doesn't just the metal container an infant would be able to survive for several hours but usually they're rescued within 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 knocks on the outside and in the army settles i remember running to the books for the first time to see the baby inside and showing it to the doctor to be examined like that special i think it is an amazing invention. the baby books and learned 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. though the baby box is high tech with three hundred twenty parts stores special places to leave unwanted children exist even in ancient times. but the government was wary of the baby books and didn't provide funding is if i was encouraging people to get rid of their children now the perception has changed. but it is love 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. i come from a family of four brothers and thirty forty present. nephews who would be so 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. prog. the stories we're covering are always available on our website r.t. dot com they can also find expert payne's blogs and videos like this one easy rider russia's prime minister joins by office skills on wheels in crimea. and the flying don't force to personnel seaside nonstop and something russia angers unknown lovers worldwide.

as the former commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan 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 but in his latest video blog artie's military analyst again who shall share his views on the issue. last week in general mcchrystal had to fire a 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 ever and he's commander in afghanistan was the quiet house decision makers has completely lost a unique opportunity i believe that given the choices the u.s.

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 only a top civil servant got a positive coverage in the rolling stone article by general mcchrystal to my america was richard holbrooke boss u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton about richard holbrooke who of the most negative and poisonous coverage there was the reason why he was called it wounded animal fun by the mcchrystal team america my guess is that the main reasons for such a negative comment was it was mostly motivated by richard holbrooke's the

micromanaging and double crossing i'm sorry the general mcchrystal efforts i believe it was one of the main impediment for the general mcchrystal to get the job done during his mission impossible efforts as a u.s. commander in afghanistan. well now the white house's fresh controversy concerning the afghan conflict to do with one of the biggest weeks in u.s. military history has revealed the cover up of hundreds of afghan civilian deaths as well as nato fears that the start of the runoff fueling the insurgency we are going web site wiki leaks how did the ninety thousand classified documents to british and american newspapers are now believed to come from an american me on this the white house says the leaked pentagon falzon beautiful swimming surprise do threaten national security. a former commander prison chief has been found guilty of crimes against humanity incumbent get the verdict was reached by a u.n.

backed war crimes tribunal the defendants but in their news coverage don't think he was sentenced to thirty five years in prison with a court date to use that to nineteen years taking into account time he already spent in detention he admitted to overseeing the deaths of up to fifteen thousand prisoners as many as two million people died on the brutal regime of the communist party which ruled in the seventy's. the german chancellor has demanded an investigation into the deadly stampede at the love parade darts music this time in germany nineteen were killed and three hundred forty two injured has vast numbers of part of that was packed into a tunnel which was the only way in or out of the festival when i saw the parade already announced that the event. were coming up in the next mission of crosstalk and hours time people of l. and these guests discuss whether the war on terror could lead to u.s.

invasion of pakistan. 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 you 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 think they would launch a rate to get them the second is if of course there's a serious terrorist attack on the united states. with one russian american spy story just reaching its conclusion it's

a tiny moment for a big screen version hollywood star and three that julie this is in moscow for the premiere of her latest movie salt and she's devoted to the film topical the edge. i think the film the film is very very different i suppose in some way 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 thing 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. when the journey plays a cia agent who just. says the service is just going to moscow. this is the first time this is children crowds of loyal fans gathered outside of the city to get a glimpse of the star the same. time now for the business news that the public waiting to see the reaction of the markets to those who are trying to separate the stress test results for european banks oh that's

right seven out of ninety one european banks failed their health checks designed to assess banks ability to survive future economic shocks while waiting for the markets verdict and analysts expect the effect also be felt here in russia we'll tell you why a bit later in the program but first this hour b.p. is chief executive tony hayward. it is due to step down later on monday he's likely to be replaced by robert dudley who is 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 is expected to discuss the timing of payroll exit in battle chief executives being widely criticized over the gulf of mexico spill which is lost the company forty percent of its market capitalization as the man tipped to take over overall but dudley has more than thirty years experience in the oil industry including five years as c.e.o. b.p.'s russian and joint venture to link a b.p.

he left in two thousand and eight after a shareholders conflict. now the much anticipated results of the european bank stress tests are out servant 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 but banks which were found want to include germany's hypo real estate which is now government owned following a bailout eighty eight bank of greeks and five regional spanish lenders a number of other banks only just passed the tests and are likely to face market pressure to increase their capitalization to governments and countries with suspect institutions so they're ready to help raise more money european markets have not yet had the opportunity to cause their verdict as a result came out after the close of session now if you're a bank sector struggles when markets open on monday this is likely to feed through

into russia but according to peter weston chief of strategy that art on it may represent a buying opportunity for investors. the exposure of the russian burns to the force 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 i think that creates another buying opportunity of russian financials. time to have a look at the numbers now in the r.t.s. stock index has opened here in moscow it's climbing the early trade up nearly one percent that follows a mixed end to last week financials were cowed by those stress results of european banks. still down more than one percent the miners were the biggest gainers near rails and ended up one point three percent on the puts reports the government may

take a stake and much will gain one point six percent off for a second quarter profit jumped two hundred twenty percent year on year. and asian stock markets were slightly higher on monday lifted by wall street gangs of relief over the european five stress tests in japan stocks are rising on optimism for domestic earnings exporters upholstered for the week at yad canon is up two point two percent and honda rose one point four percent resource sector stocks are also pacing the advance. g.m. after joint call manufacturing tell ya t is hiring people again and simone is growing up production is nearing pre-crisis levels russia's ministry of industry and trade expects the country's car market to grow by fifteen percent this year and apparently it's thanks the ongoing cash for clunkers program which is boosted sales of the cheapest cause rescuing to about. to the person who wants to buy simply is that car and extend the moves of this program then so be it don't forget

that we're still being qualified you know in the combination to the company of the bric countries as an emerging market which means that we're still far from the european level situation a technical level and from the standpoint. the result of this program is simply reflecting the overall. and the disposable income level of the russian population has enough been done for off the last to make it a viable company idol still needs a government support the after was business plan and a strategy is. prepared to leave at source and twenty there are three major periods they have to go through in the three milestones they have to pass. one of them is the structuring of the product portfolio and then. move towards the bed factoring in technologies and efficiency. they will be in a position to accomplish the first part. of this plan then we believe that they

will be on the track of the self-sufficiency do you expect after vos to post the profit this year where they really declare that for six months they really want billion plus so you think the results will be positive. well let's wait and see because there's a bigger going is a chanel which has you know a lot of from these three different starching efforts in the annual result they are to forecast but. you know operationally i think they're getting to towards the right direction is. much update for their savvy can always find more stories on our website ati dot com flash business.

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no this is r t the headlines for you now there's no end in sight for russia's exceptional heatwave which has seen the hottest month on record moscow is also suffering from small the smell of people spitting is being felt in some outlying areas of the capital. international space station marks ten is since it first became habitable work on a larger structure in space became possible off for russian military support systems don't reveal to. us the concept of baby boxes is going popularity in eastern europe and others who want to anonymously give up their newborn children can do so in sixteen containers installed on the sides of hospitals and government buildings. israel has yet to respond to an official request to cooperate with the un human rights council's investigation into the

deadly attack.