on air and online this is r.t. 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 sharing more positive statistics in the ongoing battle against the deadly virus meanwhile in a bid to improve ways of fighting the disease health care officials and government representatives and scientists from around the globe are gathering in vienna. for this following the story. in just a few days' time the eighteenth international aids conference will begin head 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 stills but right now there's a t.j. conference going on looking also tentative 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 diagnosed it was a terrifying experience for some stupid intrinsics to. trust for information was just. so richard reeves. was to. princeton a. cigar 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 the cause and developed a successful test to detect its presence but this has itself been a subject to scientific disagreements 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 hate i.v. aids is there a hair 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. right somber deserve an explanation for free market reform for clifford. troops. still want to transfer from so far this dissenting from the conventional view that hiv causes aids so they can face a fine hostility from the scientific pay 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 serious thinking you know they 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 they not be able to discuss i'm very astonished 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 every day 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. correspondent sarah for reporting from vienna. now illegal immigration remains a hot topic of debate throughout the western world are on the move seeking a better life in countries that don't necessarily welcome them in the european union. connected to immigration national parties. want to control the text. for excessive force and tackling seeking to cross borders illegally us state of arizona has been criticised for norway people can be stopped and searched and moved by several other states supporters claim they're just protecting jobs critics call it racial profiling one says illegal immigrants have

no place in america. but millions of americans and people around the world. it's a bank. everyone is free to do most of the. united states illegally. and many are oblivious to the political firestorm. you know what happened here for labor here believe any time i mean this is about lawful citizens versus illegal invaders if you want to build some in favor of the fifty. million illegal immigrants in the united states. those could be american jobs those could be tax paying jobs but some industries especially agriculture businesses don't want americans working for them. which translates into workers needed spanish language

sign definitely aimed towards immigrant workers foreign based work force that's making sure that. make it to your table there's no need for. undocumented immigrants simply show up at a field and they're hired many people. in george w. bush i mean immigrant workers do the jobs americans used to do at a farm in oxnard city just north of los angeles neighbors aren't convinced the average american could step in their shoes not even for a day. to hire a. white person is too hard. i haven't seen any american here working here in the fields said you'll get it all came into this country illegally through the southern california desert he makes a dollar ninety for every box of strawberries she fills in now in an effort to employ out of work americans and obviously to prove

a point the united farm workers union is embodied in american citizens to take the jobs 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 as a farm worker. and now. that. 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 this is about people who may be coming with diseases we've

already eradicated bringing 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 in the green jobs in los angeles. r.t. . well with more on that story conservative author john ramana and human rights activist referent graydon discussed the rise of negative attitudes to illegal immigrants and new strict immigration laws in some parts of the u.s. . the problem is that illegal immigrant workers have taken jobs over the years i mean the problem isn't so much of the farm industries as it's in construction bricklaying in the trades where we're seeing wage depression on

a grand scale the issue is what we've got to really understand is that the whole argument is around the issue of scarcity when you got all of these folks on employed all of a sudden you've got to look for a scapegoat for the reason why folks are employed but that's not the reason why folks ought employ the reason folks on employed is because of the way the economic system was structured wasn't regulated fell apart falls and fell apart and us falling apart in europe it's the same kind of scenario now the issue that you need to understand and. should understand is that there's always been this country because of the capitalist system or a race to try to produce more or less that has always been the case so what happens is that you ended up basically outsourcing it's not that folks took jobs in fact we gave away jobs we gave away jobs to do to right there on the mexican border when we passed nafta and we passed all the free trade agreements it was so that people of corporations based in the united states could escape all the kinds of regulations

and all the kinds of labor laws that exist within the united states so yeah i'm open to finding a solution but i can't have this one sided approach that is all business or all illegals i will you know i'll come in the middle with the reverend but it's the illegals themselves who cause trouble as well as the businesses i mean business is not innocent here business is as cost the american taxpayer billions of dollars through skirting labor laws locally said reverend robert how do you respond and i'll get i want on a car again just to semantically question one is i don't call anyone a legal because there is no human being that is illegal they may be undocumented get a clattering but it's a theological point of view you don't understand theological points of views and i guess that's because i don't have a reverend if you haven't already what you're talking about in terms of the draft. immigrant for there's a new worker racism and what you're really talking about are keeping people in the shadows so that people can continue to be manipulated by corporate entities and you never look at the kinds of international policies but the united states has created

another place that creates a force immigration to the united states in the first place and the reverend say that all he wants but the it's the word illegal it does 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 the law that has been have been passed in the soon to be implemented in arizona really opens the door to racial profiling because if you believe on my side of the tracks one of the things you know everybody always say well the police can stop anybody without a reasonable cause well there's always reasonable cause when it comes to people of color to get stop you drive into shining a car that's reasonable cause you look like you're in the wrong neighborhood that's reasonable that's always an issue this is just the new new new form of racism i just want to ask the reverend question should there be any border law at all should anyone be allowed to come here at any time for any reason and stay as long as they want the united states i just cannot get some clarity on that from you know sir well the issue is of me yes of course you want to have some regulation to the

border but it needs to be home to maine it needs to be jazz it needs to really deal with where you're going as a country and it also needs to take into account the kind of policies that you have put in place and other countries like creates a forced economic immigration. the current heat wave across europe may be good for one of the makers but it could also create a significant find as it among the most effective tools used for extinguishing some of these russian helicopters. and these choppers is growing rapidly. it's every year hundreds of thousands of hectares of spanish forest disappear the reason fire. the combination of the hot dry climate and human negligence often creates an unstoppable force resulting in a national catastrophe but now it may have met its 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 camel thirty two because we know it formally a long time ago and we know that this is the best thirty copter four five hoping. it will be going spain for the fighting is very very important market and the come up right now we can tell you that it's the start of the five thousand system that will have this particular firefighting helicopter the russian k thirty two is capable of carrying up to five tons of water 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 just move in the opposite directions and no tail rotor makes the mission more stable secure in. the stability and accuracy also going to

safety for firemen both on the ground and in the air. as that even at the if you sent over fire with flames reaching the helicopters queue she always feels safe i know some of the no doubt but it's us 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 take a thought cities always the last helicopter to leave in the area. there was historically the thirty two has been made on the basis of k. twenty seven multi-purpose boat helicopter designed to work in hard we try logical conditions and aggressive climates well 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 that presence could be of critical importance ration ocean r.t. alekhine to severe pain. the conference here is known in history as the moment when a new map of europe was drawn three weeks after the unconditional surrender of nazi germany it is from the three allied nations sat down together in an attempt to establish a post-war water as a result germany was divided into four zones and controlled by the armed forces but the meeting also became the last time the allies worked 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 jewett on a realisation that if we take the story back 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 remaining in on this treaty you can the caucasus from gary and on this there were croatian troops fighting but stalling drive on the perception was of course this was how the journey 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 wanted to create a buffer and to stop the similar crusade happening in the future. 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 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 questions the country's interior minister parliament government officials said that pollution best to get us a few details of a potential probe into the findings are completed meanwhile polish media suggest there's a new audio evidence that the plane's pilots were under pressure those on board today and parties are really going to. recent testing relations 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 cause 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 droney

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 underway which i think was very wise sides so i know that there have been an ongoing series of conversations and efforts because we do need to understand what happened to that reply 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 their feet. are fond of believing that it was russian factor and that the second major. major factor is that there is a strong media coverage on this issue and there is. political infighting between parties using this crash as it often goes it was a tragedy that broke the ice between two people there 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. now it's time for the business news with korea stay with us. hello and welcome to business good to have you with us russia has passed along the way to the law on insider trading and new rules are intended to define illegal trading and what sort of punishment should be handed out to those who cross the line by going to question reports. 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. and former head of the russian market regulator he says this step is not only significant for the proper function of the stock market but also has implications for the whole economy which is having a little though is not enough it also needs to be point. 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 legal system needs because it's a serious political test. special responsible for. issues connected to the stock market like some special court as much as according

to the latest research around fifty five percent of people involved in the securities market admitted to the selective disclosure of information lawyer over 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 of the contrary. to be a little more civilized than previously the government's ambition to turn moscow into an international financial center has become something of a mantra much of the infrastructure is in play. makes 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 that's the need to protection of the law i didn't question or moscow better than expected financial results from american companies provided much of the driving force for the markets this week average

again head of research of forks club explains the impact they had all russian share prices these news determined to remain trends or the wall markets and most of the week mark has to do with or sort of short correction and we hope that these positive trend will be continuing during the next three and the seasonal corporate finance result is going to be told to the results of the second quarter of the american corporate sector so we'll 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 and as they did 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 savior the country would an experience a green shortage these here however this might not always be the case if the summer heat waves become a more permanent fixture in some climatologists expect some user resource for the roasted holes we can't miss publish the study suggesting that from the least seven g.'s to two thousand eight. hundred warm and dry days as the last two years prove it will last until two thousand and twenty six two thousand and thirty. the hottest year in the 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 producer indian culture the green bean and so on crops the too lazy sion of cultivated land for green which currently stands at fifty percent drop down to twenty percent indeed disperses is already happening in some regions revolution after last year's drought we gave up most of the dry land when we 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 in a few years time if some climate change scientists to are to be believed when you weather conditions well in evitable force change in agriculture with some crops becoming non-viable in a previously for tell areas with its vast plains the south of the country may no longer be the breadbasket of russia instead it might become but he will be ins or even worse then does. this in a diminutive business r.t.

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