world news and much more twenty four hours a day this is r.t. our top story now the number of people infected with hiv in the worst affected countries has plummeted according to a new united nations report several african states are now showing more positive statistics an ongoing battle against a deadly virus meanwhile in a bid to improve ways of fighting the disease health care officials government representatives and scientists from around the globe are gathering in vienna ortiz surface following the conference. in just a few days' time the eighteenth international aids conference will begin and head in vienna bringing together around twenty five thousand policymakers scientists community workers activists and people living with hiv to discuss the latest developments in the stills but right now there's a t day conference going on looking also tentative definitions and treatments of

hate hiv and aids when the aids epidemic first hit the headlines in the one nine hundred eighty s. it caused widespread panic for the singer he was one of the first diagnosed it was a terrifying experience the same experience turned sixty. the trust for information was just. very. chatroom. so richard reeves. was to your. question first. degree murder since the discovery of aids three decades ago it's estimated a twenty five million people have died from the disease with eva sixty million people infected in that time according to the united nations u.s. scientists identified hiv as a cause and developed a successful test to detect its presence but this has itself been

a subject to scientific disagreement some believe there are different causes of aids not just hiv and cast doubt on the standard aids test which is based on the taking the presence of the hiv virus was you might think there are only a small number of scientists who doubt the hatred of the aids is there a there at the conference is a list of around two thousand five hundred names all the scientists who challenge the classic definition some t. have different views as to treatment arthur and his dog t.'s alternative therapies to conventional aids fighting drugs so strong is his belief. these are the treatment methods that he's written of the twenty three years positive based on his experiences. somber deserve an explanation for certain. reforms or could live for certain troops certain to want to transfer from transfer dissenting from the conventional view that hiv causes aids so they can face even

hostility from the scientific peer is not agreeing with the mainstream hiv theory of aids has even been compared to holocaust denial and called a crime against humanity the expression aids denial is really nothing about polygamy or. completely probably make nobody denies that there exists an acquired immune deficiency syndrome but. a science that is alive has to have the permission to question a certain model of thinking. theory of thinking you know you don't bring in here a dying patient so that we have to act immediately and give him something we're discussing here we're scientists and medical doctors why should we not be able to discuss i'm very astonished at their reaction is sometimes so aggressive so that the official aids two thousand and ten conference will be one of the most widely watched aids events in the world some of the topics the likely to be discussed will

be access to treatment as well as new technologies and hate hiv and injection druggies now organizers have titled the conference right here right now which they say emphasizes the central importance of protecting and promoting human rights as a prerequisite to successful response to the problem. that was our correspondent sara firth reporting from vienna there. an investigation into silence a plane crash that killed the polish president most of the country's political elite has revealed new evidence that the pilots were on the pressure to land despite the protests apparent transparency conspiracy theories on testing the improved relationship between moscow and details in just a few minutes. illegal immigration remains a hot topic of debate throughout the western world while moons are on the move seeking a better life in countries that don't necessarily want them in the european union

alone belgium of the austria voted in nationalist parties meanwhile the only reason border control agency frontex has been slammed for excessive force in tact when those seeking to cross borders illegally the u.s. state of arizona has been criticized for a door where people can be stopped and searched and moved back by several other states supporters say they're just protecting jobs critics call it racial profiling one superscripts as illegal immigrants have no place in america. under the hot southern california. immigrant workers are picking the food to consume but millions of americans and people around the world. it's a bank breaking job not everyone is fit to do most of these workers arrived in the united states illegally from as far as central america and many are oblivious to

the political firestorm around them no one stopping here for leave and leave any time i mean this is about lawful citizens versus illegal invaders if you want to build a fifty foot fence i'm in favor of the fifty five eleven million illegal immigrants in the united states. those could be american jobs those could be tax paying jobs but some industries especially california agriculture businesses don't want to working for them. which translates into workers needed a spanish language sign definitely aimed towards immigrant workers a form based workforce that's making sure that. make it to your table there's no need for interviews or long application undocumented immigrants simply show up at a field and they're hired many people including former president george w. bush i mean immigrant workers do the jobs americans to do at a farm in oxnard a city just north of los angeles. the average american could step in their shoes

even for a day. to hire a. white person to. have a can here working here in the field said he'll get it all came into this country illegally through the southern california desert he makes a dollar ninety for every box of strawberry fields. in an effort to employ americans and obviously to prove a point the united farm workers union is embodying american citizens to take the. of these farm workers wouldn't be surprised if after a day or two they find themselves appreciating those who are taking the jobs we stop by the unemployment office to find out if people who are out of work would be willing to take the job of an immigrant farm worker if a farmer came up to. do you want to job here as a farmer. and now. we give them do that do gardening in my own house if

i had a job that got me out there got me some exercise but no heavy lifting was at least eleven dollars an hour i would take it but i doubt that it's usually a lot of heavy lifting it doesn't pay too much there farmers and they're willing to pay slave labor of course they have an advantage conservative radio host tony katz is among the growing number of supporters immigration crackdown he thinks the threat to the u.s. isn't just financial it over this is about people who may be coming with diseases we've already eradicated bring them back into the united states america has paid a significant price because of illegal immigration eric spence is the founder of we support arizona dot com he thinks americans will take the job of farm worker because an american will do what it takes to feed their family according to the united farm workers so far only three people have taken up their offer to take immigrant jobs in los angeles. r.t. . conservative writer john ramana says illegal immigrants courts trouble and cost

american taxpayers billions of dollars every year. corporations and the individual folks that are breaking our laws say you know to the reverend i want to say there are plenty of people who have been killed by illegal immigrants in the country in there are thousands of people have had their social security number stolen it's the illegals themselves who cause trouble as well as the businesses i mean business is not innocent here businesses as cost the american taxpayer billions of dollars through skirting labor laws it's the word illegal it doesn't count if you're breaking the law you know there is such a thing as illegal immigration the left is doing everything they can to change the fight from illegal immigrant to immigrant this isn't about racial profiling we can't have this discussion and then mix it with every other discussion and problem in the united states we're talking about illegal immigrant workers taking jobs. more than three months after the plane crash that killed poland's president and many of the country's elite some politicians in warsaw have been questioning the

investigation into the tragedy among the conspiracy theories is the idea that moscow has been hiding important evidence it comes as a political party headed by the twin brother of the deadly questioned the country's interior minister in parliament government officials said that pollution at a gate is cannot reveal details of a confidential probe into the findings are completed meanwhile polish media suggests there's a new audio evidence that the plane's pilots were on the pressure from those on board to land parties. wants on how these rumors are testing nations between moscow and seoul. the sounds of this crash were heard around the world when the plane carrying polish president lech kaczynski came down and smolensk region killing on board russian poland united in mourning moscow showed it was willing to go out of their way to make sure investigation went openly and swiftly

but some took the tragedy a lot more personally than others the progress of the investigation is to say the least minimal it is stalled polish investigators have received important documents was happen for mushy it this situation causes suspicion however specialists in flight safety see no flaw with the conduct of the investigation it didn't have to cut any corners because really the causes for this accident were very straightforward by which i mean that it's the kind of accident which has happened many many times in the history of aviation it is the most common type of fatal accident in aviation history i think possibly. some polish people would have said look accident investigations take two years how are they so sure that they have got the answer. a matter of months those who worked with russian investigation teams

say laying the blame on them is not fair there was in essence a joint investigation under way which i think was very wise sides so i know that there has been an ongoing series of conversations and efforts because we do need to understand what happened to that replay so where does the doubt in the transparency of the investigation and the causes of the crash come from some believe politics could be at play there. are fond of believing that it was russian factor and that the second measure. much of a factor is that there is a strong media coverage on this issue and that there is. political infighting between parties using this expression as it often goes it was a tragedy that broke the ice between two people which instant death brought moscow in warsaw closer than they've been in decades and now that relationship will have

to withstand conspiracy theories to your college bar to moscow. the start treaty between washington and moscow faces a tough road to get through the u.s. congress with senior republican party figures opposing ratification but josh rogin a writer for the magazine foreign policy believes opponents with a political agenda will not succeed in blocking the treaty's approval. there is broad bipartisan consensus that reducing nuclear weapons is a good thing it reduces the risk of nuclear weapons getting into the hands of terrorists and reduces the chances of an accidental launch it proves the relationship and communication between the us and russia which has to be a good thing my take is that the treaty really doesn't impact missile defense at all what we're seeing here is that this is the first arms control debate that the senate has had in ten years so the senators want to get maximum concessions so they're bargaining for those concessions those concessions include missile defense it's more of what can we can get before we sign on that's separate from mitt romney and sarah palin and

a couple of senators who are just against the whole idea of arms control in their mind russia is evil needs to be combated and arms control in its entire frame has to be rejected there are a minority in the end the treaty will probably get passed with the support of conservative senators who have some concerns but want to get something for their vote and then you will still have going into twenty while going to the presidential election leading candidates like mitt romney and sarah palin who don't make really analytical arguments they just bash on rush and they bash on the tree because they think that buys them political points. now for some more top stories from around the world to sell the peace those sides of the kids or it's ruptured oil well in the gulf of mexico after they're just attempt to cap it three valves have been shot to stopping the flow for the first time since april and he is still searching for other possible leaks america's worst environmental disaster seen around seven hundred million dollars of oil spilled into the ocean in. the first woman elected

as the bishop has resigned in germany jepson was on the phone for that having knowledge of sexual abuse cases of failing to take action both protestant under roman catholic churches in germany are battling dozens of education's of sexual abuse by clergy. nineteen fifties. at least two people have been killed by typhoon concentra swept across southern china authorities have evacuated around forty thousand people head of the storm which has already killed dozens in the philippines this month heavy flooding caused by terentia already much . less. but as china suffers from storms and flooding europe is getting prepared for another has it while the current heatwave may be good for holiday makers who can also spot the outbreak of devastating fires the most effective tools used for extinguishing those summer blazes are russian helicopters and the global demand for these

choppers is growing rapidly as artie's reflection reports. it's every year hundreds of thousands of have terry's of spanish flies disappear the reason fire and. the combination of the hot dry climate and human negligence often creates an unstoppable force resulting in a national catastrophe. but now we may have man it's match. serving on the front line for many years russian firefighting helicopters are among the best and spain has welcomed their arrival. we chose the thirty two because we know it for a long time ago and we know that this is the best for you copter four five fighting . for the fighting is very very important market. it's the start of the fighting system that we have this particular fire fighting helicopter the russian k thirty two is capable of carrying up to five tons of water

it takes just ten seconds for the crew to feel its huge container haiti's and just fifteen seconds to drop it onto a fire so it's rather quick which is extremely important but this isn't the only feature that makes this russian models turned out. to seem to be just moving loves it directions and tailgate it makes the mission more stable secure in a more accurate. they stability and accuracy also guarantee safety for firemen both on the ground and in the air. elise's has that even at the if you sent over fire with flames reaching the helicopters to kill she always feels safe. you know now that it's made in russia but it works perfect here in and it's easy to control easy to maneuver it's not afraid of strong winds when others can't even takeoff it continues to work it's an ideal helicopter to work in emergency situations as they say it's gone through fire and vice versa i didn't like it but now it's my favorite

. pilots say that kay thought city's always the last helicopter to leave a missionary or. historically the a thirty two has been made on the basis of kerry twenty seven multi-purpose boat helicopter designed to work in hard meterological conditions and aggressive climates that's why it's on rivaled in this field for this particular mission. ten russian kafeel cities are already a feature in the skies over spain which to me join the ranks of the country's army and as the spanish star mine testifies their presence could be of critical importance. knotty alekhine to severe pain. the pot stirrer conference is known in history as the moment when a new map of europe was drawn three weeks after the young conditional surrender of nazi germany the years from a three hour ride nations sat down together an attempt to establish a post-war order as

a result germany was divided into four zones and control forces the meeting also became lost on allies work together before the cold war and some experts believe the time of the potsdam conference decades of political conflicts could have been avoided. i think there was there was still a real chance at the time of plots to avoid the cold war i think what it required was and it would have been a leap of faith in the summer of nine hundred forty five but it required a real understanding of the scale of the suffering that the soviet union had in jude. a realisation that if we take the story about to nine hundred forty two when the soviet union had been invaded the german forces were stalling it wasn't just being invaded by germany but by a coalition of eastern european countries remain you know mr deep in the caucasus

gary and on this there were crazy troops fighting that stalin grow and the perception was of course this was how the germans through the un to that that it was a crusade a european precise age against bolshevism and if we bear that in mind i think we can understand the soviet point of view was that they want they want to do create a buffer and to stop the similar crusade happening in the future business news is next now with korea stay with us. hello and welcome to business good to have you with us russia has passed a long awaited law on insider trading and you rules are intended to define illegal trading and what sort of punishment should be handed out to also cost the line by going to question our ports. in the film wall street's by oliver stone gordon gekko makes billions by insider trading but the character that told the world greed is

good gets his comeuppance of the long arm of the whole finally gets his hands on the antihero and we presume strips him of his wealth and send him to prison here in russia the gordon gekko's of this world have much less to worry about until now after ten long years of talks it seems a low dedicated to stamping out insider trading is finally ready for presidential approval i leave you going former had of the russian market regulator says this tap is not only significant for the proper function of the stock market but also has implications for the whole economy is having a little though is not enough it also needs to be plight i look you can believes the russian market regulator is currently too small to take on the tosk and the core system is too complicated but the chairman of an d.m. sees a way out there's a. lot of bad because it's

a serious political test. special responsible for. issues connected to the stock market like some special court is much easier according to the latest research around fifty five percent of people involved in the securities market admitted to the selective disclosure of information lawyer. says the new law would bring the country a step closer to international norms and willing hans's reputation as a place to do business just another sign off the contrary. to be a little bit more civilized than previously the governments ambition to turn moscow into an international financial center has become something of a mantra much of the infrastructure is in play. the new business district since scrapes to school i just assume poor you know for investors is the theory money is

as safe as the next person's and for that they need to protection of the law i do question moscow better than expected financial results from american companies provided much of the driving force for the markets this week underage again the head of research of forbes club explains the impact they had all russian ship prices these news determine to main trends or the markets and most of the week markets today we saw a sort of short correction and we hope that these positive trend will be continuing during the next three and the season of corporate finance results is going to be that the results of the second quarter of the american corporate sector will be better than the same results of the second quarter last year russia is suffering from its worst drought in more than a decade in

a state of emergency has been declared in sixteen agricultural regions some climate scientists believe the heat wave may be just the beginning of many years of hot dry weather. reports this could lead to a radical change in russian farming practices. central russia here over seventy percent of the green harvest has been destroyed by the drought but because russia normally produces a surplus and weather conditions have been more normal in siberia the country would next period a green shortage these here however this might not always be the case if the summer heat waves become a more permanent fixture as some climatologists expect some use of water poured fifty stories for the roasted holes economists published a study suggesting that from the late seventy's to two thousand and eight in georgia cool period with plenty of rain now russia is entering a warm dry phase as the last two years prove and it will last until two thousand and twenty six two thousand and thirty the hottest year in

a cycle expected to come over the next five years this could be enough to change the face of russian agriculture as farmers are unable to survive on the poor yield from their land over a longer timescale a prolonged period of dry weather is likely to force farmers to change their crops turning russia from green produce or indian culture that should reign being in some crops the to lose eastern of cultivated land from green which currently stands at fifty percent could drop down to twenty percent indeed this process is already happening in some regions probably should go abroad also some of the last year's drought we gave up most of the dry land on the left banks of the river we continue to cultivate the right bank decreasing from one hundred twenty thousand to forty thousand hectares. today's blistering temperatures might become the norm we knew a few years time if some climate change scientists to are to be believed new weather conditions will in evitable force change in agriculture with some crops

becoming non-viable in the previously for areas with its vast plains the solace of the country may no longer be the breadbasket of russia instead it might become the heel of beans or even worse the does. zenaida medieval business. and that's all we have for you in this edition of business r.t. but you can always find most stories on our website r.t. dot com slash mr.

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