york city right now you're watching us around the world tonight this is the news channel with me kevin owen first the u.s. military is desperately trying to close in on the source behind the biggest leak in its history she was admitted it will take weeks to assess the damage to u.s. led operations in afghanistan after the revelations including the alleged killer.

more of those stories in fifteen minutes with me kevin owen and also online of course dot com right now the latest in the world of sport. and some russian interests in tonight's european football fixtures yes yes kevin's in some petersburg occurring in action in romania as they target a place in the champions league that score plus the rest of the games coming up man . hello and welcome to the sports news live from r.t. in moscow and here are the headlines. european dream zealots are up against remaining inside a rare but one foot in the champions league. while walk of fame russians stanislav generally are not strolls to glory on the opening day of the european four six championships. and qualify to the games london marks two years to go before the start of the twenty twelve summer olympics. and we start with athletics where russia took the first gold medal at the european championships a stanislav year old young of won the men's twenty kilometer walk in barcelona he came home in one hour twenty minutes and ten seconds that was twenty eight seconds ahead of italian alex schweitzer while

thanks for choosing us tonight it's kevin owen with the top stories and first more than two million people a year die from aids that's why this weekend experts and scientists from around the world are meeting to try to find a way to save more people mainly through prevention but there's also a group calling into question the accepted wisdom of where this deadly disease actually comes from and they're angry no one's listening. for a pause. eighteenth international aids conference will begin hay in vienna bringing together around twenty five thousand policymakers scientists community work is activists and people living with hiv to discuss the latest developments in the spills but right now there's a t day conference going on looking at a ton of definitions and treatments of hiv and aids when the aids epidemic first hit the headlines in the one nine hundred eighty s. it caused widespread panic for a singer he was one of the first diagnoses when you it was a terrifying experience the same experience turned sixty. the trust for information was just because. your. chatroom. so rich or even the f

ten pm you're in moscow you're watching r t welcome if you just joined us it's kevin owen with the top stories for you this hour and first struggling homeowners traveled for miles in cuba for twenty four hours to get free advice being offered by a mortgage advocacy group in washington d.c. they say the government's aid program has failed them despite talk of an end to the financial crisis more than three hundred thousand homes are represented every month in the united states. these are the faces behind the crisis we're waiting and hoping and praying to but we can decide to get help everybody really help you know to help and that's what we're looking for help the desperate voices of those who have reached the end of the line or am i too am what time nine thirty nine thirty last night when did you sleep here near gondola mccrone naomi lawrence took several buses from florida eighteen hours then arrived at the washington d.c. convention center thursday morning waiting thirty hours to get in oh you've been our boy it's tat and we don't have no place to go and bathroom. but they waited anyw

eight pm here in moscow you're watching are to war welcome if you just joined this is kevin owen here this hour with the top stories and first french police have charged three ethnic chechens with conspiring with terrorists russia's says they belong to the group led by infamous militant leader dr model of who is responsible for a number of terrorist attacks including the attacks on the moscow metro in march this year our european correspondent laura it has the details. there were four people who were originally arrested one of them has been set free with no charges so we're left with three men who are charged by the french police of conspiring with terrorists now front says that they are connected to various on names terror groups russian maintains that the link is in fact with joe cool moderate who claimed responsibility for the mosque bombings in march of course two bombs were set off in a peak traveling time in rush hour killing more than forty people he claimed responsibility for there are some talk of him having links with al qaida as well during. the flats where these three men

and my colleague kevin owen spoke to christiane fiala a medical doctor who disagrees that there's a global aids epidemic. there is no epidemic in europe there is no epidemic in the united states and in africa aids is mainly renaming poverty related diseases and as a clinician i find it just not helpful and what it all comes down to ask you so you are you disagreeing with the u.n. aid you disagreeing with the world health organization both a very respectable organizations that do have the finger on the polls that say no it is an epidemic. what respectable they are about obviously they are and obviously they are driven by interests and we saw that just last year with this mass vaccination for flu and now in reach respect it is it's become obvious that they were driven by pharmaceutical interests and the same i'm afraid to say is true for hiv it's a huge movement mainly driven by pharmaceutical interests your really basically saying people if they do hiv in shouldn't worry maybe should we go for a test or they believe they put themselves at risk on all what you saying is what you say almost c

analyst bradley manning has been named as a possible source of the information earlier my colleague kevin owen spoke to our correspondents on both sides of the atlantic laura amity in london and in washington. well this certainly is some suggestion that this is nothing new we knew this before we knew that there was corruption running right through the war in afghanistan and we knew that this was going on but suddenly to see black and white particularly represented by as you say more than ninety thousand documents is something quite extraordinary what happened was that julian assange the founder of wiki leaks released this information ahead of time to three nice papers one here in london the guardian one in germany and also to the new york times they then looked at that information and assessed what they wanted to write about and whether the information was genuine and he then held a media conference. and talked about it and one of the things that he said was he was pressed by journalists on war crimes whether he thought there was evidence of war crimes hair and eventually he said that he felt

well in about half an hour's time kevin owen will be here but for the meantime let's go to a lively debate show cross talk and today host pete lavelle and his guests discuss whether pakistan is becoming a failed state and if it could be the target of the next american led invasion in that region.

a lot this is our tape you're watching our news review of the week with me kevin owen and first russia has been hit by an unprecedented heat wave of this well it's already the hottest on record ever but as well as the pleasures of swimming and sunbathing the heat sprawl whether it fires smoke and health risks are things nataly navajoa has more from the capital of temperature records. the sound they got to stand on in central russia but it can be wearing much else because it's absolutely baking with the mercury hitting record highs and lows in office just goes east all around the city of ten million looks like a huge beach fountains have turned to bathtubs with people taking every opportunity to plunge into something cooler than the ceiling area around but it's probably safer alternative to a we were swimming with a grim statistics of three hundred drownings this week alone and it doesn't look like russians who haven't read from this furnace any time soon or a quarter the this is a serious abnormality the russian weather service has never measured such temperatures in moscow enjoy wine

in london for the morning in singapore right now of your joining us this hour this is r t it's kevin owen here with the top stories at a massive leak of more than ninety thousand secret u.s. military files as exposed.

saddam hussein's last government though the majority have not been identified and their my colleague kevin owen spoke to andrew gilligan a journalist from dailies telegraph who worked as a reporter in baghdad when the u.s. led invasion was launched in two thousand and three and he says the remaining prisoners are the laws of gaps in the u.s. occupation. they are the last remaining if you like american black hole of detainees we know roughly who's held at guantanamo bay we know who's in custody in afghanistan and we still don't know who these people are conditions in very many of these jails and not not very good conditions in american jails are actually better in some ways than in the iraqi germs. the iraqis have not been particularly successful custodians of their own prisons one that they have amnesty international has published many critical reports on them. and of course detainee abuse is widespread in iraqi prison so i can't imagine that these detainees will be any better off actually under iraqi custody than american. you know with the come on the program a blast from the paul. paul becam

news channel kevin owens got a top stories for you this hour and first russia's unprecedented heat wave rages on friday saying another record breaking temperature in moscow numbers no immediate end in sight to the high in mercury readings artie's tom barton explains the impact of the heat wave and how people are coping in russia's tropical weather. here it's the gorky park in the center of moscow people are enjoying the sun there strolling around the temperature here is still about thirty six degrees centigrade celsius so the temperature here is about the same as inside my body now it's about a quarter not totally comfortable the people here might be enjoying it but others not so much the temperatures have leaned it was released so far have been truly record breaking this is the fourth time in july that the temperature on bad day was the highest ever recorded it was up in four times now it's an absolutely monstrous heat wave and inside moscow some of the effects that's been happening the asphalt on the roads is melting and trucks having to go with water tanks on the back trying to stop

well those were the headlines kevin owens will be here in about half an hour's time up next though it's our debate show and the host people of l. is asking his guests whether plants in some western countries to ban muslim face veils is an issue of women's rights tolerance cross-talk is next right here on r.t. thank you for watching. if you can. follow me and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle to ban or not to ban discussion continues with a muslim woman should be barred from appearing in public with their faces veiled is this debate about religion or a test of tolerance. to. discuss the ban on islamic face covering garments i'm joined by mariam friends was soraya in london she's a franco british writer and oxford university islamic society media executive see him in paris and she's the president of the organization translated into english as neither a horse nor submissives and in new york we crossed the mona el to howie an award winning columnist and writer and another member of our cross talk team you know on the hunger all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump

from moscow kevin owens here this hour the top stories for you in damage control and a manhunt in washington after the league's us military reports of the afghan war reveal civilian deaths for american soldiers say the country should focus on examining its questionable warfare methods not to expose them some claimed to have received orders to kill everyone in sight if threat. was booming there going bust latvians living off charity slammed the government for doing nothing to help with country recover from the financial meltdown leaving many to fend for themselves that they used to be the fastest growing european economy but suffered more than other member states from the recession. and magical deception russian authorities give psychics a reading of their own going to crack down on swindlers preying on people's misfortunes trying to enforce a ban on ads from professional psychics measure they say will reduce combs and tax evasion. eight thirty one moscow time next artie's murder port speaks to a high profile jewish supporter of the palestinians to find out why.

nine pm friday night here in moscow this is our kevin owen with the top stories for you this hour and russia's unprecedented heat wave rages all with fridays seeing another record breaking temperature in moscow and forecasters say there's no immediate end in sight to the high in mercury reading to get more on the impact of the party's top bugs me braving it all day for us closer said tom it is nine pm now you're a moscow but it still feels personally like the middle of the afternoon is there any hope at all that it's going to cool down in the next few days despite what i just mentioned there what the forecast said. we're not sure there are many predictions about when this might turn nobody really knows how the moment as you said to be feeling the temperature outside is about the same as the temperature in science my own body and that can get a bit uncomfortable behind me park in the center of moscow people are enjoying the summer evening walking around in the park but they are probably in the minority overall in russia really in moscow the temperatures we're talking about and this hea

kevin in the 5th. 10-2 on the field before removed from the game. diagnosis bruised forearm. they lose to the red sox 6-3. rams said no to terrell owens.ave you seen his show? i got to say, he is -- both of them, they are pleasing on camera. i think may more worried about vh1. terrell owens and the cincinnati bangles are talking about a contract. mark said, can they play together, if they do, ratings go up. >> the reality shows. >> we will see. nothing signed yet. that is the only team left that might be extending an offer. >> all right. have a good night. those people are happy 'cause they're gonna have a good time, and they've got extra money in their pocket. those are happy passengers. how much does it cost for those snacks again? nothing. at southwest airlines, when we have a sale, it's a sale. [ male announcer ] southwest airlines has flights starting at $49 one-way. book now only at southwest.com. [ rand ] how can you not want to get on the plane? come on and get on the plane. we're saving you money. now that's a plane full of happy. [ employees ] grab your bag. it's on. [ ding ]