on this piece of the first earth most sure can pinsky switzer children close knit hold bill to let me know it's going to. iran's bush era power plant is fueled up with the help of russian engineers and said to be fully operational within a month it will be run out of 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 says 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. and artie's close travels

to one of russia's northern outposts on the coast of the white sea to meet the locals who depend on the region's natural resources for their lives and their livelihood. seven am in moscow. thanks for joining 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 new share the russian built reactor is now operating under the strict control of the u.n. atomic watchdog and that international concerns over to iran's nuclear ambitions artie's oksana boyko was out the long awaited opening. more than thirty years in the making with a price tag of over to billion dollars by all accounts the pushchair 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 an education are ready to sell it for money it's a symbol of the country's social progress and proof but it's more in touch by critics in bottom and top economic republics ideological backwardness and a vivid example of a building which a diplomatic bargaining chip for years the station has finally come closer to fulfilling its practical purpose but if 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 of russia to the government of pressure to our great friends in russia were. instrumental in making gus 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 which a city 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 iran 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 lead. i have been working at this station for three years believe the sas initially she was a pretty hands of a bar bringing their children to iran for medical reasons but knows she and her husband have other concerns because he would know 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 true 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 repeat itself and we want to use it because we know this is a gas intrusion. attempting to mean you establish. these are the these. are the. serious psychological. we do not take it seriously although we are and. we are vigilant but this does not mean what they are seeing it says suz russia's role in supplying fuel and

technology to iran may unsettle some but it could also prevent further confrontation between the two neighbors adding yet another dimension to phrase enrichment for peaceful purposes. r t bush era iran. professor in political communication at the university of tehran says the opening of the bush era plan is a milestone for countries that seek to counterbalance u.s. dominance. we have a number of countries united states where example that have a political problem that you and the government and they use the nuclear issue as an excuse to pressure iran internationally has nothing to do with nuclear weapons just because iran's 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 going to have meant just what iran it's an achievement for

countries that the stand up to international pressures and can achieve what they need to achieve if they have patience i think stay with us here on r t a lots more ahead for you including why we look at why an alleged russian arms dealer viktor buddhas wanted so badly by the u.s. plus artes close up teen takes to the high seems. now on a four hour journey by boat to one aisle and that's sensible in the summer months on this island were visiting a village by more people more meeting relatives explore the lives of the more people of their traditions their past. but first one of the suspected organizers of the moscow metro bombings in which forty people died has been killed in a show with russian security forces four other alleged militants were also shot

dead during a special operation in russia's southern republic of dagestan thomas reports from one of the metro stations hit by the deadly blast in march. officials are telling us that the matter how about bob. has been killed in an operation in the southern republic of the south this time 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 years he's also thought to have ties to sharif about who is one of the two suicide bombers blew themselves up on march twenty ninth at that would be on the station shoes that would be on station and then another suspected bomber blew themselves up here at the park the three 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 office 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 about both is thought to be one of the masterminds in the organizers of the moscow metro bombs on march twenty ninth happened during rush hour on the breadline on the cuff and arbitrary metro station right here killing forty people and injuring more than one hundred people so this is 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 the mother mother ali back up off as well as four others in his operation also on 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 in their house in the capital grozny after a gunfight the suspect escaped the building and then detonated an explosive device 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 this 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 decision was strongly condemned by russia as a political move moscow says it will make every effort to bring its citizen back home who was arrested in bangkok more than two years ago you've been kept in custody of a sense party's military analyst given increased job believes group has a lot of information about some suspicious u.s. dealings and that's why he was 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 that's why the 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 the 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 leaks 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 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 votes counted neither the ruling labor party nor the opposition coalition appears likely to get enough votes to win outright prime minister julia gald says it could be days before the result is known but she still hopes to form the next government opposition leader tony abbott said it's clear the ruling party had lost both its legitimacy and its majority. one woman has been killed in a gun battle between brazilian police and suspected drug traffickers in rio de janeiro shooting broke out when officers patrolling a shanty town came across armed men and tried to apprehend them around thirty people were taken hostage when a gunman took cover inside a luxury hotel nine people were wounded during the shoot out before all of the hostages were released unharmed. forest fires are raging in

bolivia with strong winds and dry conditions hampering firefighting efforts flames have also affected airports delaying many flights and forcing several to close the country's president has declared a state of emergency on friday and called for the help of neighboring brazil and argentina. where world war check that one hundred fifty animal rights activists have launched an unusual protest against bullfighting in the spanish city of bilbao semi-naked demonstrators lay down in the form of the shape to form the shape of a bowl outside the guggenheim museum some more smeared in red paint to represent the bull's blood in july catalonia banned bullfighting leading many activists to believe a nationwide ban is possible. new york city's iconic yellow taxis are on the road to extinction with economic recession pushing forward to introduce new fuel efficient vehicles the production of the sedan style crown victoria 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 for cabbies it's even tougher. i would. make your money so if you don't hustle for cash during peak hours. and for drivers like this one time banker yeah i used. 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. new york taxi. get on

with. it is kept them running for a while now. since ninety six ninety one 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 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 it's. come twenty fifty deaf 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 time square place. here. i see a lot of people to a few of those who take this one but if you ask anyone in the big apple things in new york move real this things change or if that change however isn't always for the better. or would anybody want to sit. in for that cab woven 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 car you know the brought. these all these brokers they're forcing us to buy that car 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 steel from the street this looks like the new york taxi cab fares are 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 medic of ourselves i think for me at the yellow but 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 of course it's going to be bad for new york. but it's on that's it lauren lyster it's the end of an era you know our t. own this this new york. of course whenever i'm traveling the streets of manhattan i always prefer to take the subway where you can find more on the stories we're covering on our website r.t. dot com here's a little quick look at what else is online right now. russia has one month to prove that it's the legal owner of the kremlin descendants of the country's founding dynasty the rexx are suing the state to get back the property they say their forefathers built and lived in. and 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 all the details are to dot com. now a chance to discover parts of russia cut off or a cut off from the traditional tourist trail our close up team is on hand to take you on the diverse and undiscovered areas of the country without leaving your seat . as when we visited the coastal region of our skin northwest russia for generations the local people's livelihood and heritage has been intertwined with the white sea

communities of sailors fishermen and carpenters have derived from the natural resources of the landscape as our teams test our so you have found out the way of life there is a stylus to see itself. when. they were one of the first conquerors of the northern waters fisherman. not so many fish and so season now if you go to salmond in the northern fish it comes to reverse for spawning shipbuilders sea captains the boomers have a bond with the sea unbroken for centuries zeus my grandfather used to build one mast and two most 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 all captains. work of is a native of plenty of got island one that he calls the homeland of captains so we travel to bow to keep 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 put more way of life is certainly not just something out of a history book. constructing wooden boats using old techniques elegantly novel this is a call about supposed to kind of boat it's very stable on the sea it rises and falls smoothly with the waves. making their own fish nets. braiding the ropes used for making those fish nets or catching their own fish but i can feel. for a long time now this year i call to big fish these big and living in unique more 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. enthusiastically sharing a heritage they are proud to call their own. for even singing my who life my mother still sings we collect old returns and songs and revive them this dress belongs to my grandmother when it puts on this dress i feel very good and have this desire to sing old songs feel a desire she hopes to pass along to her young grandson. artie on hungus region.

today with his news blog here on r t i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in about ten minutes first though two thousand and ten has seen more than its fair share of extreme weather and natural disasters all over the world in our interview segment we speak with piers corbyn who says it has nothing to do with global warming and his opinion is just the weather cycle repeating itself judge for yourself or interview up next.

i'm in london today talking to piers corbin who is a long range weather forecasts and we're now and climate change skeptic 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 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 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 party's problems 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 severe if you like pattern shift 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. activity on the. part of the caused to switch to something else which it's. what we have is a tremendous amount of activity on the song that affects the rush of particles from the sun to the earth changes the on

a sphere that also then changes the patterns of the boys no knives the. 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 the cooling of the sun toward the pakistan floods also indeed substantially some people say that this extreme heat wave that we've seen and russia and also in other parts of europe coupled with the pakistani floods are evidence of global warming say well there. you see it's just look at the facts it was actually been very cold in the southern and severe 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 or there abouts 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 ends what significance does this one hundred thirty two here span have well if six storms twenty two which is the magnetic socket of the sun and also seven times known tina knowing ten years is is the lunar eclipse or call which means the moon and the sun the earth who are going to be in about the same place are multiples of nineteen years so you're saying that in a hundred thirty 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 nick. we were going to have a series of these things in russia and pakistan one of the main effects of this 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 said 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 heat already so to describe this is hottest over or something is it is just nonsense i mean you have to look back what are the hundred thirty years ago or more is there a simon mount of tinned crops and so on which could burn easily there and. of

course because of boredom forming probably more vulnerable to four hours or more on not sure but the mind 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. russia we are working on the question because the obviously the pairs of caught some are 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 explains 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 do

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 i belong to predict where the toys 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 television series happened in england over the last three so three summers up to this one zero seven zero eight zero nine zero s. coping thank you very much thank you.

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