saturday night here in moscow you're watching r t thanks for choosing this for your news this hour it's kevin owen here 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 a 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 when they're angry no one's listening apparently artie's sarah firth's been following the story. eighteenth international aids conference will begin head in vienna bringing together around twenty five thousand policy makers scientists community workers activists and people living with hiv to discuss the latest developments in the stills but right now there's a today 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 diagnosed it was

a terrifying experience for information was just records. chatroom. so featuring the first cardinals to. be. considered princeton. 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 the subject to scientific disagreement some believe there are different causes of aids not just hiv and cost out in the standard aids test which is based on detecting the presence of the hiv virus was you might think there are only a small number of scientists who doubt the hate hiv aids there way here at the

conference is a list of around two thousand five hundred names all the scientists challenge the classic definition some t. have different visas to treatment author and his doctor tentative therapies to conventional aids fighting drugs so strong is his belief in these other treatment methods that he's written of the twenty three years positive based on his experiences. songbird deserve an explanation for. the work through for cliff with. troops. that want to transfer from so far this dissenting from the conventional view that hiv causes a say they can face and hostility from the scientific pit is not occurring with the mainstream hate hiv theory of aids has even been compared to holocaust denial include a crime against humanity a science that is a life has to have the permission to question

a certain model of thinking serious thinking no you don't bring in here a dying patient so that we have to act immediately and give him something we are discussing here we are 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 every day some of the topics the likely to be discussed will be access to treatment as well as need technologies and hate hiv and injection drug now organizers have titled the conference right right now which they say emphasizes the central importance of protecting and promoting human rights as a prerequisite to successful response to the problem. so for course for those for the christian free although he's a doctor of medicine who indeed challenges the mainstream ideas on a child he says his views are different because he's not driven by the interests of

pharmaceutical companies. 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 would you disagreeing with u.n. aid you disagreeing with the world health organization both 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 can and obviously they are driven by interests and we saw that just last year with this massive x. in asia 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 if they believe they put themselves at risk on all what you saying is what you say almost criminal in some ways well i'm sorry to contradict you i am not believing i am going back to the facts and the facts tell the people who test positive for various reasons even the producer of the tests are not aware of a standard to verify presence or absence of hiv antibodies in human blood and quote that's what you find in the product information even people who test positive not necessarily come down with aids even after twenty or twenty five years reading the facts and i'm acting according to facts but independent no more pharmaceutical interests and that's what i think what all doctors should do regardless of the majority or not. this is are to you from moscow europe remains of the

tight grip of a heat wave indeed here in moscow the temperatures already broken several records this summer on saturday some parts of the camp sizzling at thirty eight degrees celsius results these tests are killer reports for many most vides the burning sun is just another reason. i think he was in the. right. around. me. were. i. was. was was.

was. was was was was was was reported one of the front line there were another son of a heat wave on the way in the program a look at how european firefighters are relying on russian helicopters to battle some of blazes right now. sitting in the opposite direction and. makes the most evil human being and more. so now we know we find out more about that a bit later more news a tough immigration law in arizona is being criticized across the u.s. for allowing racial profiling the law that set to come into force later this month allows the police to stop and search people who are just suspected of being illegal immigrants critics say will lead to the targeting of ethnic groups supporters

though claim the law will protect jobs but linda in california found if the illegals are gone will be no one to replace the. california. immigrant workers are picking the consumer but millions of americans and people around the world. it's a bank breaking job not everyone is fit to do most of these make it workers arrived in the united states illegally from a far and central america and many are oblivious to the political firestorm centered around them no one is stopping here from lavan you're going to leave any time i mean a lot this is about lawful citizens versus a legal invaders if you want to build a fifty foot fence i'm in favor of the fifty foot fence there's a living 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 americans working for them. which translates into

workers needed a spanish language sign definitely aimed towards immigrant workers a foreign based workforce that's making sure that. make it to your table there's no need for interviews or long applications 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 used to do at a farm in oxnard a city just north of los angeles neighbors. the average american could step in their shoes 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 he'll get it all came into this country illegally through the southern california desert he makes a dollar ninety for every box of strawberries he feels and now in an effort to

employ americans and obviously to prove a point the united farm workers union is embodying 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. 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 at least eleven dollars and up 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. vantage conservative radio host tony katz is among the growing number of supporters for an immigration crackdown he thinks

a 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 there are for to take immigrant jobs in los angeles. r.t. . for john ramana is also a conservative and reverend graham is a human rights activist a cross swords on this very same issue in our washington studio discussing if the new strict immigration law is justified. 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 now the issue that you need to understand is that there's always been this country because of the capitalist system of 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 we gave away jobs we gave away jobs right there on the mexican border when we passed nafta and we passed caf to 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 existed in the united states it's the illegals themselves who cause trouble as well as the businesses i mean business is not innocent here business is as cost and the american taxpayer billions of dollars through skirting labor laws locally say reverend reverend how do you respond and i'll get i want on a car again just a 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 the accent or a better but it's

a theological point of view to understand theological points of views and i guess that's why it's so hard because i don't have a reverend if you haven't already what you're talking about in terms of their anti immigrant for a is a new word for 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 that the united states has created another place that creates a false immigration to the united states in the first place and the reverend can say that all he wants but the 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 the law that has been passed that has been passed in the soon to be implemented in arizona really opens the door to racial profiling because if you believe almost. i would attract 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 a 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 here sir well the issue is i mean yes of course you want to have some regulation to the border but it needs to be home it needs to be just needs to really deal with where you're going as a country and also need to take into account the kind of policies that you have put in place and other countries that creates a forced economic immigration this is story you feel strongly about if so get involved in the debate itself and are for a whole day been asking whether you believe immigrants are taking american jobs if you feel strongly about it here are some thoughts simple say there's nothing wrong in people coming to the u.s. to work quote i'd like to see people who want to get rid of immigrants try to do what they do voice one side of the story that came out of the report i guess most

says for all immigration to be banned and he says the country should protect its heritage by not allowing foreigners to settle for totals online think you should be no borders anyway quote. to fly anywhere in the world why take things and weeks to get permission to travel there also wrote in saying thousands of lost their jobs and homes during the sessions of jobs should be given to those who would never pay taxes again that was the flip side of the argument came up in the report as well let us know what you think good form section of our home page dot com. so international news a brief to the b.p. story before you say the massive cap put on its ruptured well in the gulf of mexico appears to be holding the cap has stopped the flow of oil into the. see for the first time since the disaster was caused by an explosion of the rig in april pressure testing is now being carried out and engineers are checking to see if there are no further leakage is the oil spill has affected hundreds of miles of

coastline and seriously damaged the region's economy. at least sixteen people have been killed in northwest pakistan after militants ambushed a convoy of passenger buses the vehicles are traveling to the city of push with an escort from security forces with militants opened fire five are reported to have been killed on the spot it's believed the rest died in hospital. this is the heat across europe to really cause severe droughts and now the first summer fires to date in greece firefighters are trying to do with some serious blazes the latest pictures throughout the two large forest fires raging near the capital athens threatening the coastal resort of kilometers. from national reports russian helicopters are among the most effective means of dealing with fires like that. it's every year hundreds of thousands of hectares of spanish forests 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 know that this is the best thirty quarter for fight fight. fight fight in his very very important market and. it's the start of the fighting system that we have this particular fire fighting helicopter the russian cave 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 model stand out. to sit until it is moving up as it directions and tail rotor makes the mission more stable purine

and more accurate. they stability and accuracy also going to be 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 kill she always feels safe and. it's made in russia but it works perfect here in london 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 take a fast cities always the last helicopter to leave in mission area ten russian kafeel cities are already a feature in the skies over spain was to move to join the ranks of the country's army and as the spanish saw mine testifies their presence could be of critical importance ration ocean ati alekhine to severe pain. it's the we can

talk about our weekend arts' know the show of moscow out tonight hoping on the city's famous metro network with modern andrews taking some lessons in driving a train perish the thought. walk up to our platform now this is the best i've been the facts about the metro train for the last part of red square in the kremlin it's one of the main tourist attractions in the capital a must see for any visitor. so martin on the underground in about an hour's time before all that the latest financial news coming out with korea. my.

hello and welcome to business good to have you with us russia has passed a long awaited law on insider trading the new rules are intended to define illegal trading and what sort of punishment should be handed out to those who cross the line i do 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. in 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 plight i look you can believe the russian market regulator is currently too small to take on the tosk and the core system is too complicated but the chairman of and am sees a way out there's a. lot of buy because it's a serious political. special responsible for. issues like the stock market like some special. 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 will in hans's reputation as a place to do business just another sign off for all 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. makes the new business district dream since scrapes to school i just assume poor thing though for investors is the theory money is as safe as the next person's and for that they need to protection of the law why didn't bush know moscow better than expected financial results from american companies provided much of the driving force for the markets this week under diggins head of research of forbes club explains the impact they had all russian share prices. news determined to main trend of the wall markets and most of the week markets today we saw a sort of short correction and we hope that this positive trend to build be continued during the next three and the season of corporate finance results is

going to be hoped that the results of the second quarter of the american corporate sector 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 plumbing 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 the green shortage days 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 out of water poured

a piece of ice for the roasted whole 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 producer into an ugly culture that should rain bean and so on crops the to lose eastern of cultivated land for green which currently stands at fifty percent could drop down to twenty percent indeed this process is already happening in some regions. 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 when a few years time if some climate change scientists to are to be believed new weather conditions will in evitable force change in agriculture to some crops becoming non-viable in the previously fertile 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 does. zenaida medieval business r.t. and that's all we have for you in this edition of business r.t. but you can always find most tours and websites r.t. dot com slash fest.

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