iran's boosh air power plant is fueled up with the help of russian engineers it's said to be fully operational within a month and will be run under the strict supervision of the un watchdog. russian security forces kill a top militant believed to have been behind the suicide bomb attacks on the moscow metro in march. new york saying farewell to the iconic cabs that have graced its streets for decades the competition is now underway in the big apple to find a more fuel efficient successor. close-up team travels

to one of russia's northern outposts the coast of the white c. to meet locals who depend on the region's not for resources for their livelihood. six am in moscow i match reza thanks for being with us here on r t our top story the first nuclear power plant in the middle east has been switched on in iran the southern city of blue share the russian built reactor is now operating under the strict control of the un atomic watchdog and made international concerns over to iran's nuclear ambitions archies oksana boyko was at the long awaited opening. more than thirty years in the making with a price tag of over two billion dollars by all accounts the bush era nuclear power plant is an expensive undertaking and one for which iran has spared no expense the

chaplet have always been more than just that energy generating facility for iran it's a symbol of the country's social progress and prove that it's more in touch but for a lot of critics the embodiment of the pharmacare public's ideological backwardness and a vivid example of the building which are 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 time for celebration we are grateful to the people from russia to the government of pressure to our great friends in russia that 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 thing with temperatures well over forty degrees centigrade the plant is

a vivid example of why iran needs to produce more with tricity even with air conditioning running at full tilt the heat is still too much to bear for years russia's top nuclear fishel sergei kerry younker has been working up a sweat to defend moscow's cooperation with the rand it when you go it's a unique venture because it's very difficult to build new equipment into the equipment that was there from the start the bushehr power plants is an international project over ten countries supplied the equipment 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. i have been working in the station for three years believe the sas initially she was a pretty hands of about bringing their children to iran for medical reasons but knows she and her husband have other concerns with your no and we just saw reports

online quinn israel is planning to bomb it's scary when they do local training here there is shooting and airplanes are flying you never know if it's real or not maybe they're preparing for something to many here is a real threat to bomb the station evolved 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 want to repeat itself we want to see because we know this is against international. attention to need new installations and these are on the. off the media. it's psychological. we do not take it seriously although we are in there 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 sadly made marandi a professor of politics at tehran university says the opening of the blue share plan signifies the decline of the west power in the middle east. i think it's very significant in the sense that it shows that american power an american head germany has its limits and that the united states which is on the decline in the region will have to accept iran's sovereignty in the future while the americans and the western media and the europeans have constantly claimed that iran is a threat to israel iran has never made any military threat to any country or even the israeli regime whereas the americans and the israelis have constantly threatened iran with attacks with bombardment with murder destruction and death and

then the un security council have not protested at all and this is a major point that shows the hypocrisy of the western media the american media and the european media when it comes to iran. still ahead here on our t.v. we look at why alleged russian arms dealer of buddhism was so badly by the u.s. last artie's close up team takes to the high seas. now on a four hour journey by boat. that's not excessive the summer months are designed when we're visiting a village accommodated by more people more meeting those developers and the exploring the lives of their traditions their last. first though one of the suspected organizers of the moscow metro bombings that killed forty people has themselves been killed in a shootout with russian security forces four other alleged militants were also shot dead during a special operation in russia's southern republic of dagestan r t shon thomas

reports from one of the metro stations hit by the deadly blast in march. officials are telling us that the mouth of how we put up all these has been killed in an operation in the southern republic of that this time along with four others now this is important because he is wanted on the federal and international most wanted list for more than two years and he's also thought to have ties to sharif about one of the two suicide bombers blew themselves up on march twenty ninth that that would be on the station shoes that would be on station and then another suspected bomber blew themselves up here at the three metro station now in this operation we're told at that firefighters had a building surrounded there was a fire inside that building they realized that this was about. 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 about both is thought to be one of the masterminds in the organizers of the most dramatic bombings on march twenty ninth happened during rush hour on the breadline on the media and the car the three metro station right here killing forty people and injuring more than one hundred people so this is been someone that authorities had been trying to get to for some time and at this point time that they say they've successfully killed the mother model ali build up off as well as for others in his operation also in russia's northern caucasus one policeman was killed four wounded during a special operation in the chechen republic security officials say police cornered a militant now house in the capital grozny after a gunfight the suspect escaped the building and then detonated an explosive device and blowing himself up in the process. the thai government says it will make the final decision on whether to extradite alleged russian arms trader victor boot is comes after a bangkok court ruled that he was to be sent to the u.s.

to face charges of terrorism and conspiracy to supply weapons the decision was strongly condemned by russia as a political move moscow says a woman. every effort to bring its citizen home who was arrested in bangkok more than two years ago and kept in custody since are his military analysts to have any clues job believes brute has a lot of information that's especially as the u.s. dealings and that's why he's regarded as a threat by washington. victor boot is a walking intelligence treasure trove has it phenomenal phenomenal photographic memory and there are several reasons why u.s. intelligence community or so keen on getting him to the united states first they try to recruit him the cia made several approaches to recruit him refuse him all village sticks of legal and illegal arms supplies all around the world and because look now it's too much heat ease more dangerous than we kill except for the u s smuggling role not only in africa and latin american but all over the world.

turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe prosecutors in sweden have dropped rape charges against the founder of the wiki leaks website we honest songe but he could see yet face charges of molestation the website says the allegations are without you he says and they had previously been warned to expect dirty tricks assan was in sweden last week where he announced the whistleblower site will publish a final batch of secret documents on the war in afghanistan. australia is heading for a hung parliament in the tightest general election in the country for more than forty years with more than seventy five percent of the vote in neither of the ruling labor party nor the opposition coalition appears likely to get enough votes to win outright prime minister julia guillard says it could be days before the result is known but still hopes to form the next government opposition leader tony abbott says it's clear that the ruling party had lost both its majority and legitimacy. forest fires are raging in bolivia with strong winds and dry conditions

hampering fire fighting efforts claims of also affected airports delaying many flights and forcing several to close down trees president declared a state of emergency on friday and called for the help of neighboring brazil and argentina. where world war two dive bomber has seen the light of day after spending sixty five years at the bottom of a california reservoir to fisherman spotted the outline of the curtis helldiver on their sonar fishfinder the plane crashed in one thousand nine hundred five both the pilot and gunner bailed out and swam to shore the craft will now be taken to the national naval aviation museum for restoration and display. new york's iconic yellow taxis are on the road to extinction with the economic recession pushing forward to introduce new fuel efficient vehicles the production of the sedan style vehicle will soon be stopped but as artie's lauren lister's been finding out some 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. i would. make you money so if you don't hustle for cash during peak hours. and for drivers like this one time banker yeah you want to. deal with 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. with new york to. get on with. it has kept them running for

a while now. since ninety six ninety seven for practical reasons it runs and runs and runs but to much of the world this car is more than just a dependable cab this is. the. 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 that ford's going to make it across victoria taxicab actually make the crown victoria at all built ford tough hasn't proven tough enough for these economic times sluggish sales and a push towards fuel efficiency in new york means they'll be out of production and the last of them will be off duty for good and if you hear these. come twenty fifteen of 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 save cabbies money but it's not. exactly

that iconic new york taxi ride times where you place. the thing at the right here you get one suitcase and that's when i see a lot of people to a few of those cabs to take this one but if you ask anyone in the big apple things in new york move real then things change or that change however isn't always for the better. or would anybody want to sit. in for that cab moving into this city's asphalt fabric that's what you need you don't need a car that's built for a soccer mom to take her three kids to practice here and built into the livelihoods of cabbies are forced to buy those cause you know the brawl goes. these all these programs they're forcing us to buy that cause who are struggling this month ahead problem we'd like you know coming up with my rent will new york be losing more. than this american feel from the street this looks like the new york taxi cab is

that 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 in the yellow that is yellow cab start to look the same from manhattan to russia to egypt does new york it's a little piece of itself yes it does yes because of course it's going to be bad for new york. and it's on the senate floor and lyster it's the end of an era you know r t oh miss this new york. course if you're in new york and you really want to go go green you can always take public transportation and you can always find more on the stories we're covered on our website. here's what else is online right now russia has a month to prove it has the legal owner of the kremlin descendants of the country's founding dynasty their words are suing to get the state to give back their property that they say their forefathers built and with it. find out why some german and

american tourists on a russian cruise ship refused to leave the boat after it collided with a cargo ship that all the details that are. now is your chance to discover parts of russia cut off from the traditional tourist trail our close up team is on ahead to take you to the diverse and undiscovered areas of the country from the comfort of your living rooms. this week when check out the coastal region of our skin northwest russia for generations the local people's livelihood and heritage has been ever twine with a white saint manatees or sailors fishermen carpenters all right from the natural

resources of the landscape as our taste tests are so you found out the way of life there is as timeless as the sea itself. they were one of the first conquerors of the northern waters fisherman with. not so many fish and so if season now feel good sound in the northern fish it comes to a rebus for spawning shipbuilders sea captains the norse have a bond with the sea unbroken for centuries zeus my grandfather used to build one last into last boats he was one of the best ship builders out there everyone in my family is connected to the sea they were the sail is a captain. work of is a native of but to keep got island one that he calls the homeland of captains so we travelled to put to a four hour boat journey to an island only accessible during the summer months today it's inhabited by about four hundred to morris descendants of the very first

settlers here we discovered that the so-called traditional two more way of life is certainly not just something out of a history book. constructed wooden boats using old techniques elegant solution of all this is a call about soko still kind of but it's very stable on the scene it rises and falls smoothly with the waves. making their own fish nets. raiding 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 these big and living in unique 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 poor more adapting to whatever mother nature throws at them has become second nature this bridge for example is down every winter and rebuilt every spring. is also what has kept their culture alive throughout the centuries. and susie asked a cliche airing a heritage they are proud to call their own. place as in singing my who life my mother still sings old retells and songs and revive them this dress belongs to my grandmother when i put on this dress i feel very good and have this desire to sing old songs feel the desire she hopes to pass along to her young grandson tesser celia r.t. on hungus region. brings you up to date i'll be back with a recap of our main stories in about ten minutes now two thousand and ten has seen

more than its fair share of extreme weather and natural disasters all over the world up next to our interview we speak with piers corbyn who says it has nothing to do with global warming and just a function of the weather cycle repeating itself and of yourself. you're. i'm in london today talking to piers corbyn who is a long range weather forecast and we're nouns climate change skeptic we're 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 devastating heat which has caused widespread wildfires of the summit 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 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 two to be extra special solar activity on the sun. around fourteen for so. that would lead to changes in the jet stream which would get rid of the heat wave in western russia and also the party's problem for the pakistan floods have also

ended when we said and how scientifically of these two events relates the related through the jet stream which is the pull off of low pressure is around the world hemisphere if you like pattern shifts and sometimes it sort of gets stuck in a stationary position which it was which is what was supporting washer and water the super floods in pakistan on the side and on. pivoting on the. caused to switch to something else which it's 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 that also the. patterns of the boys known as the. string that caused a shifting of the weather patterns. so if wind in western russia terminated

and instead we got north westerly flow of massive thunderstorms and cooling of the sun toward the pakistan floods or so indeed substantially some people say that this extreme heat wave that we've seen and rust and also in other parts of europe coupled with the pakistani floods are evidence of global warming what to say well there. you see it's just look at the facts it was actually been very cold in southern and severe or northern russia has been 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. 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 financial and what significance does this one hundredth as it's you here have well it's six storms twenty two which is the magnetic socket of the sun and also seven times nineteen annoying teen years is is the lunar eclipse or cold which means the moon and the sun the earth who are going to be in about the same place multiples of nineteen years so you're saying that in a hundred thirty s. yes this could happen again indeed but. in england we have a series of three very worked summaries 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 the heat 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 wallish 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 haters gone out of them into the air so there's that extra tidy so to describe it is hottest over or something is just nonsense i mean you have to look back what are the hundred thirty two years ago or more is 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 farmers or are not sure but the minute mental effect is just people getting you fruit through it through smoke and the range of comments we put away 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 that question because that obviously repairs of hot summer cold winters don't carry on like that forever and they disappear often they come in through these 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 you what happens on the song. dictates the circulation patterns of the globe to a lot of magnetic connections particles 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 will cave similar weather

patterns then as to sometime in the future when the patterns repeat is not clockwork so we have to do a lot of small things to understand but that doesn't eyeball us to predict weather toit's and indeed to draw a lot of detail many months ahead i mean for example we caught the correct tolling of the breakdown of the european 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 resort three summers to this one zero seven zero eight zero nine zero s. coping thank you very much thank you. plain

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