record breaking heat wave. pursuing its own agenda week you weeks is accused of trying to divert attention from a sex scandal involving its founder by publishing its latest revelations. plus we tracked down the youngsters going off the rails in pursuit of adrenaline the dangerous hobby of train serving sweets russia. live from our headquarters in central moscow this is our team with me nice to now way it's six pm here in the russian capital and first this hour 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. no one is safe just one ordinary mosquito is enough to put the life in danger hundreds involved region of being hospitalized with the worst. initial symptoms include high temperature headaches. followed by seizures unconsciousness and. the situation is grave and has been an unusually quiet summer which allows mosquitoes to build up a high level of the virus there is nothing we can do to totally why a small distance action. has survived infection but his central nervous system has been damaged he has problems remembering his age and address. period when i felt myself slipping away i don't remember how the ambulance brought me here. but at least he's alive. several have died already if only we had realized what the seem

to work and that we needed to get her to hospital she might have said my mother was a strong and healthy one of. the worst virus is transmitted by mosquitoes in fact both birds and humans although traditionally a mediterranean disease has been aggressively spreading through europe and america the first break in volgograd was recorded only eleven years ago this year has already seen the highest number of cases. i've just heard about it on the news i'm terrified. i don't know anybody who has died from i reckon i'm not in danger authorities are warning people against complacency and avoid to use mosquito repellent and cover as much exposed skin as possible to avoid bites doctors say the worst people to see them. and of all claim many more victims before leveling off in october. fly from moscow and you're with are still

to come in the program. from spy suspect a celebrity and the chapman capitalize on her newfound fame with a photo shoot. this hour of love knows no boundaries young people in india are trying to break the tradition of caste marriages. where you least is back in the headlines after publishing a classified cia report but with the document failing to live up to its hype with the site's founder currently under investigation over sex abuse claims it's what accusations the online whistleblowers pursuing a secret agenda has the details. there's been much less of a media florrie surrounding this than there was at the beginning of the month when the afghan war diaries were released and i think there are people still reasons for that one because when the afghan war diaries were released it was seventy five thousand separate documents that came from inside the. 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 us military. the other thing is the afghan war concrete evidence each of these documents was called the evidence of events to take place the civilian casualties. whereas this is an internal cia document describes a hypothetical situation. what would happen if the international community perceived 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 diaries this report takes

a couple of examples of us citizens taking terror. talks about young muslim americans who travel from pakistan allegedly were hoping to join the pakistani taliban while they were 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 meeting up to the mumbai bombings which killed more than one hundred sixty people that 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 we can't it became clear that swedish women had come forward one of the accusing him of rape and the other was accusing him of molestation. charges being dropped but we recently got the sweetest prosecution will want to question. about the molestation charge which . it's unless. it's been suggested that this is

a snake campaign following the afghan war diaries the know is that these swedish women say that's absolute nonsense as do the two swedish within themselves but we do have to ask ourselves whether this report is being released now in old it's deflect attention from. its. investigative journalist wayne madsen believes the truth about the cia's activities has yet to emerge. 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 those documents 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 there's nothing here that should. anyone in the cia and i think this really is just another case where wiki leaks select that 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. well despite barack obama's promise to close the guantanamo bay prison at the beginning of the year nearly two hundred detainees remain as the claims of torture mistreatment and interrogation techniques are to you takes a look inside the prison in a special report coming your way later today. disarming saddam hussein.

yes majority of iraqi citizens. disappeared brings further assurance that the torture chambers and the secret police are gone forever. is again over embassy in kabul. generous to watch occupied afghanistan. now occupy sales at guantanamo bay they. believe. it is appropriate to that according to this book just read with the to be a bit. of a slap stomach slap if you can. so that it shocks them especially if you get to sleep but you don't actually break it you. could carry geisha techniques that we. are approved by the senior leadership of our governor. you see.

we believe transferred. the russian president's order an inquiry into the investigation of the death of a high profile lawyer 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 why in prison officials who they claim denied him the medical attention he needed when he fell ill the international lawyers association last month pleaded with the meter maids raise if to punish those responsible. now as trains ross so does the adrenaline for a growing number of youngsters in russia they're taking part in the highly dangerous activity of train surfing or riding on the outside of carriages artie's jacob graves meets the young people who are willing to risk their lives. some. even crazy but for those who take part of what's become known as tres. surfing is

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 off 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. to get in you and me we mostly just ride the trains not pulling any crazy stunts this is just a hobby 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 is st 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 certainly there's a risk but we plan all our steps 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 mit the activity has had tragic consequences for some additional. have not been any tragic accidents in our group but 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 but. regardless of the dangers this crater swept across moscow with the web swirling with uploaded videos meaning people like andrea sergei likely to keep turning to the tracks for the next buzz regardless of the ultimate price

they might pay jake agrees. but just to remind you we've got much more on our website r t v dot com we feature various guides fashion columns and even space blogs let's take a look now at what's on line for you today russia's figure skating prince eugen you pollution car maybe out of the sochi olympics although he's continuing training find out what you with punished for. and the first russian u two concert has rocked moscow with tens of thousands of fans bopping to the legendary irish bear and all the pictures are dot com. not content with provoking an international incident between russia and the u.s. found face how and of chapman is back in the news now the face of the recent spy

scandal is being sued by a glossy magazine it claims she broke a contract by posting pictures of a recent photo shoot on her facebook page martinez tom barton has the details. the name on a chart that sticks out more than any other she seems as synonymous with this big spy scandal and one of the reasons unavoidably everyone knows it's her looks and she has realized this she came back to russia greeted as a hero after the exchange of spies in vienna back in july she has capitalized on almost celebrity status since it's in the hotel behind me the hotel that she recently conducted a photo shoot she seems to be enjoying it very much in videos posted on the internet using her glamour this was for the russian edition of heat magazine but she since got into a bit of trouble it seems putting photos up on her facebook page of the photo shoot

before he did wanting to take her to court. the whole spy scandal and this whole thing has also opened up a wider really fascination with spy stories in britain america's a story that one of the screenwriters on a on a james bond script was investigated for many years where my five for possible links to the old cold war k.g.b. 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 the election eventual of none other than winston churchill so huge ramifications really and it seems that with many spy stories the details of his fantastical is only fiction you could make up. the details of this story are not quite the swashbuckling car chases that we've seen in

some of the james bond movies the public have found it all very amusing really in general i think that what the person who isn't joining at the most though is missing the chapman herself she's found her firm fertile status is bringing her a lot of attention she seems to be enjoying our very much let's take a look now at some other stories from around the world 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 assistance. in 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 whole this drill to get the men out anxious fam. the members have set up a makeshift camp at the site the miners have been stuck in the san jose copper and gold mine following a cave in at the start of the month. and in the southern philippines gunmen dressed as police have killed four people want to boss they flagged down two of the dead were police marshals the bus was traveling through a city where muslim rebels operate when it was stopped after opening fire the attackers set the vehicle on fire and fled the violence comes just days after an x. policeman in manila took a coach load of hong kong taurus hostage killing eight. this might 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 cast can find themselves rejected by both their community and family but as our current thing reports more and more young people are trying to break

with tradition. have upset their families well into different costs they were expected to marry one of their own but they have broken what is considered. an intercom 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 who have enlisted the help of outsiders the ngo the unite humanity movement often deals with marriages there have been more than one thousand two hundred such unions in the last decade in the be hard state. we want to discuss but it's a story. based discrimination. so it's you can only be brought to vote by intercourse marriages and religious marriage just the book and.

looked. at them not because father filed a case of kidney. against her husband and still refuses to talk to the couple. 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 police and young couples in love a kidnapping case has been filed against twenty two year old. formatting a new comedy. we are seeing many cases such as these with both the boy and girl wanting to get married if the girl is above eighteen years of age the law recognizes her decision to marry the person of her choice but if she is younger than eighteen then she has to behave according to her parents' wishes like. a divide is growing between urban and rural india in the cities gas divisions are now

less important rule in many refused to let go of their traditions going to anybody marrying outside is cast as boycotted by us no one in the village gives the couple any water or food or even tax that if we find a marriage really offensive then we kick them out of the village. caste is just a creation of one's mindset there is no real hierarchy between people and situation the ration who considers caste and even if we do the next generation will definitely not even think of it discrimination on the basis of cost is illegal in india but in large parts of the country to 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 well that's where the news looks this hour at our tea time now from the latest business news joins us hi there stephanie now the international motor cell is taking place in moscow at the moment what's the outlook like for russian carmakers question well in fact russia's

biggest comic out of luck. looking at a much brighter future at the moment the company is now back in the black i'll have lots more on that just a bit later but first profits russia's x. five rito group plummeted eighty one percent year on year in the second quarter to twenty five million dollars worse than analysts forecasts the country's biggest grocer by sales took a seventy two a million dollar hit on foreign exchange do to significant ruble depreciation but the headline figure only tells part of the story x five was one of the first retailers to cut prices during the downturn to win a budget conscious customers it says it's now reaping some of the benefits of the recovery and margins are improving. well actually the situation is pretty good because if you look at that figure and this is the figure that you should be focusing on than even actually grew year in year by thirteen percent and this is an outstanding performance for a company that is operating in

a very challenging environment and if you look at the like for like sales dynamics like for like sales grew by five percent but what's even more important is that if you look at the gross margin evolution gross margin actually improved quarter on quarter but even these this points this means that almost the worse behind them. and in other corporate news russia's largest mobile operator has reported a thirty nine percent decline in net 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 demand and russia's seventh largest coal producer co's boss has announced a ninety eight percent in net 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 group fifty percent in the second half because bass became

a listed company in may. and now let's have a quick look at the stock markets european shares are high on positive corporate news commodity linked stocks are boosting the foot that follows sharp fools in the previous session but a late rally overnight on wall street has picked the index back up from wednesday's seven week closing below. the street stocks have also opened such a high on thursday that as investors welcomed the first positive economic data in recent days showing jobless claims to have fallen in the last week. and here in moscow the r.t.s. m i six again in the trade is relatively quiet as investors enjoyed the last week of the summer holiday gazprom is up one and a quarter percent banks have battled back from the previous sessions lows fabric is gaining more than two and a half percent on the my sick. russia's biggest comic after vos is back in the black the company's profit of less than a million dollars for the first seven months its move box it shares a considerable turnaround for a company to require

a federal bailout in just twelve months ago the improvement has been widely attributed to the government's cash for clunkers program which is helping lift so far around fifty percent. and speaking at the moscow international major issue after vice president dick to come out off said the company is aiming to stay profitable for the rest of the year his ambitions could be helped by a broader rebound in the russian call market which is being targeted by manufacturers from all over the world new bushell visit to the machine to find out . for me is here at the most going to national mode to show this pushing a new competitor to the globally dominant g.p.s. system is blown has been in development in russia for decades and. will now put it in his calls from next year but the key focus is luxury mosco ready has more luxury cars than anywhere else and. the new almost. fun thing i remember two years ago the

head of b.m.w. here showing me a brand new bullet proof beam this follows in that tradition those are world like the new. the most powerful ever porsche nine one one. the show was canceled last year as the mom but i says 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 july two thousand and nine the company with one of the most ambitious strategies these guys is trying to revive its. range russia's number two called make up says the sales on the rise between zero and the end of the year told to go sales sales would be around seventy five dollars i think we can finish roughly twenty five percent higher on. was year versus last year and if that keeps the more important thing for all us production we're going to be up fifty percent european called john posers 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 as such i'm on the phone there just one guy and then we start to speak with a chair and then we will go to. the pool. seven and then we have other ideas considering the market and we believe that the market is going to change because for the next the next step and i told you about text we believe that up you know after volume it's a target that we should be reaching before two thousand and fifteen. of the first day of twelve to an end here at the most going to national mode to show the world's call joints really hoping this show will relaunch the fortunes of the car industry which of course have been down in the doldrums for the last two years and so the business is for now but i'll be back with more fuel in about an hour's time and you can always find most choice on a website that's called flash. wealthy

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