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the coast. to meet the locals who depend on the region's. live from our studios here in central moscow twenty four hours a day. the first nuclear power plant in the middle east has been switched on. a bush the russian built. under the strict control of the atomic watch told them that international concerns over. the long awaited. more than thirty years in the making with a price tag of over two billion dollars by all accounts the nuclear power plant is an expensive undertaking and the one for which iran has spared no expense the

chaparral have always been more than just an education or ready to sell it for all it's a symbol of the country's social progress and prove what's good for in times of iraq critics the embodiment of the pharmacare public's an ideological backwardness and a vivid example of that until things which are in a diplomatic bargaining chip for years the station has finally come closer to fulfilling its practical purpose but the first batch of nuclear fuel just loaded into the reactor the station is expected to start producing electricity by the end of this year but iran's top nuclear officials says it's already selling for celebration we are grateful to the people for russia to the government of pressure to our great friends in russia were. instrumental in making the us witnessing today. had not been the assistance of the russians certainly would

not have been witnessing such a great deal with temperatures well over forty degrees centigrade the plant is a vivid example of why iran needs to produce more even with air conditioning running at full tilt the heat is still too much to bear for years russia's top nuclear officials are gay kerry has been working up a sweat to defend moscow's cooperation with iran. it's a unique venture because it's very difficult to build new equipment to get into the equipment that was there from the start of the bush plan is an international project ten countries supply the equipments of european countries as well as asia pacific countries while some countries remain concerned about iran's use of russian nuclear fuel people of pushchair also have reasons to be fearful valeri in their lima. have been working in the station for three years leave the sas initially she was apprehensive about bringing their children to iran for medical reasons but

knows she and her husband have other concerns over here no one thought i would use so reports online calling israel is planning to bomb it's scary but when they do local training here there is shooting in airplanes are flying you never know if it's true or not maybe they're preparing for something for many here is a real threat to bomb the station painful memories of the 1980's when saddam hussein's old tillery berridge the c.-t. causing substantial damage to the station itself yet iranian officials are confident history will repeat itself. we are not too soon because we know this is against international rules attempting to mean you use english and these are on the board to serve these. off the media. it's a psychological war we do not take it serious although we are aware we are vigilant but this does not mean what they are saying it's

a serious russia's role in supplying fuel and technology to iran may and settle some but it could also prevent further confrontation between the two neighbors adding yet another dimension to phrase enrichment for peaceful purposes. r t will share iran and ford is already a professor in political communication at the university of tehran says the opening of bushehr is an achievement for countries around the world taking a stand against the dominance of the us. we have a number of countries united states where example that have a political problem that iran's government and they use the nuclear issue as an excuse to pressure iran internationally it has nothing to do with nuclear weapons just because you runs advances may not be broken by a number of countries doesn't mean that the international community would have a problem but that a lot of people all around the world are celebrating this. along with the iranians

because this is not going to have meant just for iran it's a shipment for countries that the stand up to international western pressures and can achieve what they need to achieve if they have patience. well still ahead for you this hour here in r.t. we look at why alleged russian arms dealer victor which is wanted so badly by the united states plus. close up team takes to the high sea well now on it for our journey bible one island that's a sensible journey the summer months on this island were visited. by more people will want to meet. explore the lives and want people to share their culture. that's the. first one of the suspected organizers of the moscow metro bombings in which forty people died has been killed in a shootout with russian security forces four other alleged militants were also shot dead during the special operation in russia's southern republic of dagestan thomas

reports now from one of the metro stations hit by a deadly blast in march. the fishes are telling us that the mouth how we got bob is has been killed in an operation in the southern republic of dagestan along with four others now this is important because he has been wanted on the federal and international most wanted list for more than two hears he's also thought to have ties to marry i'm sure of about who is one of the two suicide bombers blew themselves up on march twenty ninth at the would be anchor station choose that would be on station and then another suspected bomber blew themselves up here at the particle to a metro station now in this operation we're told that firefighters had a building surrounded there was a fire inside that building they realized that this was about off and they were shot and killed were also told that no policemen were shot and killed or there were no civilian casualties in this operation as well let me give you a little bit of background on the moscow metro bombings of up is thought to be one

of the masterminds in the organizers of the moscow metro bombings on march twenty ninth happened during rush hour on the breadline on the t.v. on and part of three metro station right here killing forty people and injuring more than one hundred people so this has been someone that authorities have been trying to get to for some time and at this point time that they say they have successfully killed. ali as well as four others in his operation. and also in russia's northern caucuses one policeman was killed and four wounded during a special operation in the chechen republic security officials say police call of the militants in a house in the capital grozny following a gunfight the suspect escaped the building then detonated an explosive device bring himself up in the process. moscow says it will continue efforts to bring russian business and victim back he's accused of being an illegal trader and on friday a thai court ruled he'd be extradited to the us

a decision condemned by russian political aloa tycoon to do should be dejected washington's extradition bid for the final decision to hand over power still to be made by the time i got says it will check the latest decision he was arrested in the bank two years ago and kept in custody ever since the u.s. accuses boot of terrorism and conspiracy to supply arms to colombian rebels charges he denies it is going to china this is going to close but it has a lot of information about shady u.s. dealings and that is why he's regarded as such a threat. victor who is a walking intelligence treasure trove has a phenomenal phenomenal photographic memory and there are several results why u.s. intelligence community or so keen on getting him to the united states first they try to recruit him they say i made several approaches to recruit him refuse him all of the logistics of legal and illegal arms supplies all around the world he knows

a lot of cia front companies that are involved in smuggling and providing the cover up for both smuggling in drug trafficking in afghanistan and in latin america and he knows about all this financial schemes yesterday mexican president openly accuse the united states first for promoting drugs culture and in promoting the violence in let in africa and latin america really american society soon with to a very vicious industry which is what the american women's industry is it is clear to me that they would create a conflict in a poor country in africa just to say well we'll see we've you're making money in this situation who is going through for the business. if you connect the dots it boils down to abuse united states exports instability and to expand instability and to keep it running you have to smuggle weapons and

because too much how do you knighted states smuggles weapons that's why they run a character assassination campaign against him because he's more dangerous than we kill weeks for the us smuggling role in weapons in not only in africa and latin america but all over the world. well now to some other world news in brief for you in our world update prosecutors in sweden have dropped rape charges against the founder of the wiki leaks website julian assange but he could yet face charges of molestation of the website says the allegations were without basis in that they had previously been warned to expect dirty tricks sandwiches in sweden last week where he announced the whistleblower so much as to publish a final batch of secret documents on the war in afghanistan. australia is heading for a hung parliament in the tundras general election in the country for more than forty years the seventy five percent of votes counted for the ruling labor party nor the opposition coalition appear likely to get enough votes to win right now mr due to

get out says days before results is known but still hopes to form the next government the opposition leader tony abbott said it's clear the ruling party has lost both its majority and it's. a rare world war two dive bomber has seen the light of day after spending sixty five years at the bottom of a californian reservoir to anglers spot of the outline of the curtis helldiver on the so no fish find the plane crashed in one hundred forty five but both the partners on the gun a bailed out and swam to shore has now been taken to the national naval aviation museum for restoration and display. nine hundred fifty animal rights activists of protest against bullfighting in the spanish city of bilbo something they could demonstrate as laid down to form the shape of a born outside the guggenheim museum. someone smeared in red paint to represent the bull's blood in july catalonia burned bullfighting leading many activists to believe a nationwide ban is possible. the york city's

iconic yellow taxis are on the road to extinction with the economic recession pushing forward to introduce new fuel efficient cars the production of these sedan style vehicle will soon be stopped but as lauren lyster has been finding out many on the streets of the big apple feel they're losing the jewel in the city's crown. in a city that never sleeps the flow of taxis never stops for very long. the line for cabs is tough taking the pounding in the city twenty two hours twenty four hours a day but for cabbies it's even tougher. so if you don't hustle for cash during peak hours. and for drivers like this one time banker. life on main street means working even harder and faster as a cabbie these days because of the recession. and pounding the pavement in

new york city's sea of yellow there is one car that is keeping this cabbie and many others afloat on the car. it has kept them running for a while now. since ninety six ninety for practical reasons it runs and runs and runs but too much of the world this car is more than just a dependable cab this is a. symbol or not it will be scrapped altogether run into the bone yard of cabs two thousand and eleven is the last model year that the fords going to make it. actually make the crown victoria at all bill ford tough hasn't proven tough enough for these economic times sluggish sales in a push towards fuel efficiency in new york means they'll be out of production in the last of them will be off duty for good in

a few years. come twenty five classic new york taxi cab will officially be a thing of the past history will be filled with more cabs that look like this this one's a hybrid. and may get better gas mileage and cabbies money but it's not. exactly that iconic new york taxi ride times. people to a few of those take this one but if you ask anyone in the big apple things in new york move real bad things change that change however isn't always for the better. why would anybody want to. enter that cab woven into this city's asphalt fabric that's what you need you don't need a car that's. three kids to practice and built into the livelihoods of cabbies.

they're forcing us to buy that car who are struggling. will new york be losing more. than this american steel from the streets this looks like the new york is not going to be a problem the long run i don't know you know maybe for the i love new york people they can have a minute commercials i think for me it. but his yellow cabs start to look the same from manhattan to russia to egypt does new york it's a little piece of it so yes. yes. it's going to be. either it's on its lore and list or it's the end of an era you know r.t. own this is called new york. well you can find more in the store and anything else we're covering at our website com here's what else is online feel right now russia has to prove it's the legal owner of the descendants of the country's founding.

suing the state to get the property. built and. also find out why some german and american tourists on a russian cruise ship refused to leave the boat for it collided with a cargo ship details for you. when our chance discover parts of russia cut off from the traditional tourist trail teams on hand to take you to diverse and undiscovered areas of the country without leaving you know seat. well this week we've been in the coastal region of northwest russia for generations

the local people's livelihood and heritage has been intertwined with the white sea communities of sailors fishermen. from the natural resources of the state. the way of life this is timeless as the sea itself. they were one of the first conquerors of the northern waters. fisherman with. not so many fresh it's off season now feel good soundman is a northern fish and comes to a rebus for spawning shipbuilders sea captains the norse have a bond with the sea unbroken for centuries. my grandfather used to build one. votes he was one of the best ship builders out there everyone in my family is connected to the sea they were the sailors captains. bourque of is a native of politically got island one that he calls the homeland of captains so we

travelled to particular a four hour boat journey to an island only accessible during the summer months today it's inhabited by about four hundred to morse descendants of the very first settlers here we discovered that the so-called traditional more way of life is certainly not just something out of a history book. constructed wooden boats using old techniques a lot of novel there is a car bus a coastal kind of boat it's very stable on the scene it rises and falls smoothly with the waves. making their own fish nets braving the ropes used for making those fish nets or catching their own fish but i've been fishing for a long time now this year i caught a big fish this big and living in guinea can you come houses the houses in this village are very well preserved dating back a few hundred years now this house in particular is three hundred years old and the

unique feature of these old houses is this fireplace here they cook and they bake but it also has another use on top of it is a bed which they use during winter so they can have a warm bed during the harsh conditions. for the adapting to whatever mother nature throws at them has become second nature this bridge for example is down every winter and rebuilt every spring. yet this was is also what has kept their cultural life throughout the century yeah. stickley sharing a heritage they're proud to call their own. favorite singing my life my mother still sings we collect old reel tales and songs and revive them is just belongs to my grandmother when i put on this dress i feel very good and have this desire to sing old songs a desire she hopes to pass along to her young grandson tess or celia artie region.

well the top brings up today for the moment i'll be back with a recap of all main stories in about ten minutes from now in the meantime twenty ten has seen more than its fair share of extreme weather and natural disasters all over the world and in our interview now we speak to piers coleman he says it's called nothing to do with global warming it's just the weather cycle repeating itself that special interview coming our way just. i'm in london today talking to piers corbin who is

a long range weather forecasts and where nouns climate change skeptics are going to be talking about the recent devastating hot weather that's taking place in russia and also about climate change in general thanks very much for talking to us now we've seen the devastating heat which has caused widespread wildfires in rust save the summit this yeah did you see that coming yes a long road for calls for europe western part of russia predicted a heat wave in most of europe especially east europe and west russia and we also predicted when it was going to end and ended when we said what's in your opinion of course that it was caused by. dramatic changes in solar activity. which caused it to happen and we also predicted very specifically when it would end q two we said would be extra special solar activity on the sun. around fourteen four so. that would lead to changes in the jet stream which would get rid of the

heat wave in western russia and also the parties probably for the pakistan floods have also ended when we said and how scientifically of these two events related they're related through the jet stream which is the poff of low pressure is around the world would have a sphere if you like pattern shifts and sometimes it sort of gets stuck in a stationary position which it was which is what was hot in russia and one of the super floods in pakistan on the side and on. pivoting on the. part of the moon caused it to switch to something else which it's there now what we have is a tremendous amount of activity on the song that affects the rush of particles from the sun to the earth not changes they are on a sphere also then changes the patterns of the boys no knives that you. string

that caused the shifting of the weather patterns so that. if wind in western russia terminated and instead we got north westerly flow of massive thunderstorms and cooling of the same toward pakistan floods also indeed substantially some people say that this extreme heat wave that we're seeing and rust and also in other parts of europe coupled with the pakistani floods are evidence of global warming what do you say well there were wouldn't you say it's just look at the facts it was actually been very cold in the southern and sphere or northern russia as being cold and these things have happened before in particular the pakistan floods and the west russian heat wave happened one hundred and thirty two years ago all there about which is the situation in the earth magnetic lunar soil cool. so it's not surprising it happened and it

more it indeed happened next year we've got to go to work on that the people who watched climates global warming or are ignorant who wish to mislead the public for political and for not true and what significance does this one hundredth as it's you here span have well it's thick storms twenty two which is the magnetic sort of the sun and also seven times known tina nineteen years is is the lunar eclipse or call which means the moon and the sun in the earth who are going to be in about the same place are multiples of nineteen years so you're saying they're going to hundred thirty two s. yes this could happen again in doing it but. in england we have a series of three very works almost all of which corresponded to three very works on this one hundred thirty two years previously so it could. we were going to have

a series of these things in russia and pakistan one of the main effects of this that we've seen in russia is that wildfires that break now it's all over the place including under the ground in peat bogs what's the effect on the environment or something like that well. the first thing to understand about it is it makes the air war so all these people are saying while this is a whole you actually have to take off the effect of the four if you stand near a four it's warm those ash particles in the air were created at four thousand degrees centigrade the heaters going out of them into the air so there's that extra heat so to describe it is hot instead or something is it is just nonsense i mean you have to look back what are the hundred thirty two years ago of was there a simon amount of tinned crops and so on which could burn easily there and. of course because of boredom forming probably more vulnerable to for more on not sure but the mine environmental effect is just people getting you fruit through it

through smoke and the range of comments will be to what does this very hot summer mean that we're now going to have a very cold winter. to come in pairs lot is true in the last winter was it was cold in much of europe and. in russia we are working on the question because the obviously repairs of hot summer cold winters don't carry on like that forever and they disappear often they come in through use but we need to work on let's talk in general about your long range forecasting explain to me in layman's terms how you do that well what we saw what happens on the song. dictates the circulation patterns of the globe to lot of magnetic connections part it was coming from the sun and the moon modulating they the impact of those particles so what we say really is well similar situation

of the sun earth magnetic lunar total site in the past bouquet of similar weather patterns then as to sometime in the future when the patterns repeat there is not clockwork so we have to do a lot of small things to understand but that doesn't i belong to predict whether toit's and indeed to draw a lot of detail many months ahead on them for example we caught the correct tolling of the breakdown of the european world for example it was a little bit tough and a bit earlier than the we described correctly the deluge users happened in england over the last three so three summers to this one zero seven zero eight zero nine zero s. coping thank you very much thank you.

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