symptom of the summer's record breaking heat wave. pursuing its own agenda we q leaks is accused of trying to divert attention from a sex scandal involving its founder by publishing its latest revelations. was we tracked down youngsters going off the rails in pursuit of adrenaline as the dangerous hobby of train surfing sweets want to shop. it's five pm in moscow and this is r t coming to you live with me a nice and now way first stop a tropical virus that's rapidly spreading in the south of russia has already claimed six lives while millions could be at risk of infection nearly two hundred people have so far caught the west nile virus which is carried by mosquitoes are.

reports from the volgograd region which has been the worst affected by the virus. a steady stream of patients has been arriving at this hospital near volgograd or with the same diagnosis where fever more than one hundred are seriously ill and five the real number of those affected might be several times higher a lot of people are being treated at home without knowing what's wrong with them and don't ask for help until it is too late and had we known that high fever was a symptom of the virus and gone straight to the hospital things might have turned out differently and my mother could have survived because she was a very strong person west nile fever affects different people different ways so those who are young might pass without symptoms others might suffer a mild form of flu or something like that but for those most seriously affected but those who are vulnerable all the people can be critical it starts off with headaches vomiting diarrhea and then progresses to damage the central nervous system eventually leading to death i was allowed to see some of the patients myself

many are still too ill to speak others can but are still suffering the severe aftereffects of what they have been through many don't remember how they fell ill they don't even remember where they live or how old they are they're simply full of terror that their mental faculties will never recover from this ordeal west nile fever is as exotic as it sounds it's much more typical for countries around the mediterranean it was never discovered until eleven years ago then just as the summer it was a period of particularly hot weather here doctors are issuing warnings to everybody to keep their clothes with long sleeves to spray themselves mosquitoes spray and so on but they're saying that people are refusing to follow these instructions of the day the threat quite seriously enough but they're saying that the threat will remain until october when the weather is expected to become cooler. well experts say the record breaking temperatures that gripped russia this summer have triggered the spike in the disease. but you never do last about something current outbreak of

the virus as a result of the record heat wave our country has just experienced the abnormally high temperatures made the quantity of insects rise abruptly and the west nile virus is only passed to people by mosquitoes which get it from birds domestic animals and horses the first symptoms are a headache for the high temperature in fever but ninety percent of those infected experience almost no symptoms in fifty percent of cases the disease leaves two million giantess. here with our live from moscow still to come in the program. from spy suspect to celebrity and the chapman capitalize on her newfound fame with a photo shoot. and love knows no boundaries young people in india are trying to break the tradition of caste marriages. wiki leaks is back in the headlines after publishing a classified cia report but with the document failing to live up to with hype and

with the site's founder currently under investigation over sex abuse claims and what accusations the online whistleblower is pursuing a secret agenda or has the details. there's been much less of a media florrie surrounding this than there was the beginning of the month when the afghan war diaries were released and i think there are people who reasons for that one because. it was seventy five thousand separate documents that came from inside the u.s. military and such a huge volume of information always creates an impression whereas to compare it with this this is just three pages although having said that it is a secret document from inside the cia. that came exclusively from the u.s. military. the other thing is the afghan war concrete evidence each of these documents was called the evidence of events to take the deaths of civilians casualties and to report those casualties whereas this is an internal cia

document describes a hypothetical situation which looks at what would happen if the international community received the u.s. as an export of terrorism it's written by departments in the cia called the red cell which is specifically charged with coming up with hypothetical scenarios and looking at what might happen so obviously the impact on how we believe the world is much less than the impacts of the afghan war this report takes a couple of examples of u.s. citizens taking terror a broad talks about young muslim americans who travel from north to pakistan allegedly were hoping to join the pakistani taliban while they were that case that you may remember from november two thousand and eight when a man called david headley who was a pakistani american. and he took part in this valence leading up to the mumbai bombings which killed more than one hundred sixty people there we do have to ask

ourselves why has this report being released now particularly as it's so short and describes this hypothetical situation. has been in sweden and last weekend it became clear. that seems to be just women have come forward one of the was accusing him of rape and the other was accusing him of molestation and rape charges being dropped but we think that if we just lost a piece of will want to question. about the molestation charge which is unless. it's been suggested that this is a smear campaign following the afghan war diaries the noise of these two swedish women say that's nonsense as do the teams we just within themselves but we do have to ask ourselves whether this report is being released now in order to deflect attention. well investigative journalist wayne madsen believes the truth about the cia's activities has led to much i think one thing this shows is that the cia and the government in general is

over classifying a lot of its documents there's really no way that this document should be secret because it's a bunch of talking points that could have easily come from any washington d.c. think tank if we were going to see something really earthshaking leaked from the cia how about some something that has to do with the cia involvement with what's known as state sponsored terrorism for example the united states during the vietnam war targeted people in vietnam for assassination it was operation phoenix and we also had the shock and all in iraq where civilians were indiscriminately killed we've seen the same thing in afghanistan and where do we see these revelations and there's nothing here that should. anyone in the cia and i think this really is just another case where wiki leaks selected this document looking for a big publicity run but i don't think they have this got the same reaction they

have received in the past. despite barack obama's promise to close the guantanamo bay prison at the beginning of the year nearly two hundred detainees remain as new claims of torture mistreatment and interrogation techniques are to take a look inside the prison in a special report coming your way later today. disarming saddam hussein. asked majority of iraqi citizens. this event brings further assurance that the torture chambers and the secret police are gone for ever. played is again over embassy in kabul. generous to watch occupied afghanistan. now occupy sales at guantanamo bay. believe.

it is appropriate to the. accordance is which is the case with the to be the. face slap stomach slap if you can. so that it shocks them especially for you to sleep but you don't actually breaking into homes could deter a geisha techniques that we. all approve but the senior leadership of our government. we have nothing to. do we believe the transfer. the russian president's ordered an inquiry into the investigation of the death of a high profile wire while in custody last year thirty seven year old sergei magnitsky died in jail in the autumn while awaiting trial for tax crimes his supporters blame prison officials who they claim to not have the medical attention he needed when he fell ill the international lawyers association last month pleaded with dmitri medvedev to punish those responsible. now as trains rush so does the

adrenaline for a growing number of youngsters in russia taking part in the highly dangerous activity of train surfing or riding on the outside of carriages parties take up graves meets the young people who are willing to risk their lives. some would find these acts stupid even crazy but for those who take part of what's become internationally known as train surfing it's about the adrenaline rush the great involves riding on top or at the side of fast moving trains clinging on with their hands or the aid of a belt the danger involved this is for many a major attraction but authorities are worried that those taking part are fully aware of the risks running along these cables above me of three thousand volts of electricity if you touch one you most likely be killed and that's just one of the dangers riders also risks feeling from the train and being crushed but that hasn't

deterred these guys they took up the hobby at an early age gave them an unbridled escape from reality. but we mostly just ride the trains are not pulling any crazy stunts and this is just a hobby of the guitar adrenaline up. and as if that wasn't daring enough maybe even taking to riding the metro just to get their daily kicks to these young men is also become a form of expression and they don't see why this extreme sport is being seen differently to other why the practice pastimes of the people skydive or climb mountains when we ride trains on the outside mean certainly there's a risk but we plan all our steps or if we know trains very well where different things you can hold on to are we have certain safety guidelines. they and other adrenaline junkies like them have set up a list of these to avoid injury and even the likes of andrei made the activity has

had tragic consequences for some but but. i have not seen any tragic accidents in our group things like that do happen just recently a teenage boy tried to climb into the driver's car from the roof and fell down he got severely injured. regardless of the dangers this crater swept across moscow with the web swirling with uploaded videos meaning people like andre is likely to keep turning to tricks for the next regardless of the price they pay jake agrees. that's coming up to thirteen minutes past the hour just to remind you we've got many more stories on our website r t v dot com if you turn various guides fashion columns and even space blogs let's take a look at what's online for you right now russ and figure skating prince again you may be out of the sochi olympics although he's continuing training find out what he was punished for. and the first russian u two concert has won moscow

with tens of thousands of fans and bottling to the legendary irish bat and all the pictures are our team. not content with provoking an international incident between russia and the u.s. fan for tao anna chapman is back in the news now the face of the recent spy scandal is being sued by a glossy magazine apparently she broke a contract by posting pictures of a recent photo shoot on her facebook page was find out all the details martina tom barton who now joins us live hi there tom now it seems she cannot stay out of the one why can we go as far to say she is loving that. i think you could actually i think you could only so she. said she is the big. it's really off this

spy scandal that everyone knows the name and chapman now when you mention it back in the u.s. and since coming back to russia she's realized she something of a celebrity here when she was when she came back she sang some songs with putin along with the other nine russians brought back they were all being treated as heroes and since then she's been in the hotel bar chick behind me and she took her photo shoot there for the russian edition off heat magazine she's since been to a bit of trouble because she published photos from that photo shoot on her facebook page before heat magazine published them now wants to take her to cause but it shows really also apart from her celebrity status how easily people can get their teeth into a spy story and how easily the public's probably especially in britain and america can get back into the the old cliches and the old themselves fired up by these spy

stories from all the old cold war. media that's been surrounded them in the past so worse as we see just recently the furor of this being picked up by this not totally serious some spy stories that have also been dragged up with this just recently it's thought that one of the screenwriters in the first james bond film was monitored for many years by m i five us one this just recently come out another example is that it's been found that a russian spy was recruited by the nazis in world war two and then proceeded to go to norway and steal british plans for an invasion of norway hundred them to the nazis which the late unable them to defeat the british invasion which then led to the collapse of the british government and the election eventual of none of them been winston churchill so huge ramifications really and it seems that with many spy stories the details are as fantastical as any fiction you could make up it seems in

this case that perhaps the. diesels of this story are not quite the swashbuckling car chases that we've seen in some of the james bond movies these suspected spies lived in the suburbs of several u.s. cities they grew hydrangeas they held barbecues it's not totally thrilling stuff but it seems that many people want to get their teeth into these stories and i think the public have found it all very amusing really in general i think the the person who is enjoying it the most though is most on the chopping herself she's found her firm football status is bringing her a lot of attention and she seems to be enjoying that very much well you know what they say tom there is no such thing as bad publicity tom barton live from central moscow thanks for that. with take a look at some world news in brief for you this hour the u.n. is reviewing security policies for its aid workers in pakistan after threats from the taliban u.s. officials have warned that militants planned to attack foreigners helping provide

flood relief some aid agencies have hinted that downsizing relief operations might be necessary that could be a big blow to the seventeen million pakistanis affected by the flooding who are in need of great assistance. thirty three chilean miners trapped seven hundred meters underground have received oxygen food and water supplies along with messages from their loved ones officials say it could be christmas before a hole this drill to get the men out anxious family members have set up a makeshift camp site the miners have been stuck in the san jose copper and gold mine following a cave in at the start of the month. north korean leader kim jong il is reportedly in china and possibly accompanied by his son and potential successor however chinese and north korean officials are not confirming the trip the purpose of his visit is not known but it's speculated that bilateral trade kim myong john

rather ill succession. and north korea's nuclear program are the main issues to be just cost this comes as former u.s. president jimmy carter is in pyongyang trying to secure the release of a u.s. citizen currently in jail there. but despite cast discrimination being illegal in india many face harassment and hostility on a daily basis because of their social status those choosing to tie the knot with a member of a different caste can find themselves rejected by both their community and family but authorities current thing reports more and more young people are trying to break with tradition. prakash have upset their families born into different castes they were expected to marry one of their own but they have broken what is considered a taboo. american intercoms marriage is considered a sin here our society wants to continue its traditions that people have been following for centuries her family has

a much higher cost than mine this hurt their ego that the bridegroom is lower in status. the couple have enlisted the help of outsiders the ngo the unite humanity movement often deals with india cost marriages that have been more than one thousand two hundred such unions in the last decade in the behind state. we want to discussed but a society based mindset and caste based discrimination on a society can only be brought about by intercourse marriages and into religious marriage just the birth and she looked ten years ago to tie the knot chicas father filed a case of kidnapping against her husband and still refuses to talk to the couple i'm good with and my family allowed me to visit them only after seven years but not with my husband and even now if i do visit my father doesn't speak to me she is still angry with me. the police in bihar are increasingly dealing with aidid five

bullies and young couples in love a kidnapping case has been filed against twenty two year old. formatting teenager a new comedy pimp or some come on we are seeing many cases such as these with both a boy and girl wanting to get married if a girl is above eighteen years of age the law recognizes her decision to marry the person of her choice but if she's younger than eighteen then she has to behave according to her parents' wishes right yet the divide is growing between urban and rural india in the cities divisions are now less important while in rural india many. refused to let go of their traditions going to anybody marrying outside is cast as boycotted by no one in the village gives the couple any food or even if we find a marriage really offensive then we kick them out of the village. cost is just a creation of one's mindset there is no real hierarchy between people and situation

there ration who considers caste and even if we do the next generation will definitely not even think of it discrimination on the basis of past is illegal in india but in large parts of the country it remains the overriding factor when choosing a life partner the sooner this changes the sooner will divisions over cost lose their relevance here got unseeing are to india. second the business desk stephanie now joins us hi there stephanie and you have lots of first half corporate results you know i certainly do and actually they're a bit of a mixed bag so far i have more details later on in the bulletin but first russia's biggest carmaker is back in the black the company's profit of less than a million dollars for the first seven months is smooth but it shows a considerable turnaround for a company that had the federal bailout just twelve months ago it has been widely attributed to the government's cash for clunkers program which has helped lift sales by around fifty percent. speaking at the moscow international met to show

after vice president victor kamber off said the company is aiming to stay profitable for the first for the rest of the year his ambitions could be helped by a broader rebound in the russian kamarck it which is being targeted by manufacturers from all over the world. as did the make sure to find. several of the most going to national motor show after this pushing a new competitor to the globally dominant g.p.s. . it's been in developments in russia for decades and. calls from next year. but the key focus is luxury mosco ready has more luxury cars than anywhere else and jaguar hopes the new almost jag will tickle vocals fine say i remember two years ago the head of b.m.w. here showing me my brand new bullet proof beam on and this follows in that tradition there's also world firsts like the new landrover and the most powerful

ever porsche nine one one. the show was counseled last year as the months long but i sense that i have the same balls but there was two years ago and i feel sales in russia call sales have jumped almost fifty percent last month on july two thousand and nine the company with one of the most ambitious strategies these guys is trying to revamp its entire range process number to call maker says the sales back on the rise between now and the end of here told to go sales sales would be around seventy five thousand think we can finish roughly twenty five percent higher in sales for this year versus last year and if that keeps for the more important thing for all us production we're going to be up fifty percent european call john poser citron has just started production in russia with the citron c four but the head of pars show told all to me that that's just the beginning but we don't test sites such as the monet just one guy and then we start to see eight and then we

will go to. the pool. seven and then we have other ideas on securing the market and we believe that the market is going to be called for the next step the next step and and i told you to put jackson we believe that up you know dr paul you it's a target that we should be reaching before two thousand and sixteen. that brings the first day of twelve to an end here at the most going to national mode to show on the world's call joints really hoping this show will relaunch the school tunes of the car industry. which of course have been down in the doldrums for the last two years. and now let's have a quick look at how the stock market is shaping up very last critical to us in the way sector gaining their trade is relatively quiet as investors enjoyed the last week of summer holiday that's what was up one point four percent is the price of light sweet had passed seventy three dollars a barrel box of pounds from the previous sessions low spent is gaining nearly three

percent of the bisect this hour. and european shares are high on positive corporate news commodity link stocks of boosting the footsie awful the shot falls in the previous session but a late rally overnight of wall street has picked the index back up from wednesday's except in week closing like. profits at russia's x. five retail group eighty one percent year on year in the second quarter to twenty five million dollars has worsened on this forecasts the country's biggest grocer by sales took a seventy two million dollar hit on foreign exchange due to significant google decrease tuition but the headline figure only tells part of the story ex-wife was one of the first retailers to cut prices during the downturn to win budget conscious customers it says it's now reaping some of the benefits of the recovery and margins are improving. and russia's largest mobile operator ente

s. has reported a thirty nine percent decline in that profit for the second quarter to three hundred fifty million dollars that was slightly better than full cost the company has improved its revenue growth forecast for this year to around ten percent as the economic recovery pushes up to ma and. russia seven largest coproducer because mars has announced a ninety eight percent full in that profit for the first half of the year the company blames a low demand for steam coal but it's positive about the future expecting production to grow fifty percent in the second half became a listed company in. russia's largest independent gas producer nova tech made by a twenty five percent stake in the yaml l n g project that's in addition to the fifty one percent stake it already owns according to the company's c.e.o. nova tech than wants to sell part of the consolidated stake to foreign partners these could include acts on my bill conoco phillips and francis took the project on

the yaml peninsula aims to exploit one of the largest gas fields in siberia but progress has been stalled as the government decides what incentives it's prepared to offer companies are working in the region. and that's all the business use for now but i'll be back with more for you in about an hour's time and you can always find those stories on our website that's dot com slash business.

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