russia around the world this is not see with me you lash apollo and thanks for joining it's experts and scientists from around the world are meeting in vienna this weekend to debate ways of fighting and preventing aids which kills over two million people yet there's of here is debate within the medical community with some dissenting doctors questioning the mainstream view that the hiv virus is the only cause of the disease sarah fatha reports from vienna. eighteenth international aids conference will begin and 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 today conference going on looking also a ton of 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 a singer he was one of the first diagnosed it was a terrifying experience for information was just records.

chatroom. so. we have one of the first cardinals to distribute. christian priest. cigars since the discovery of aids three decades ago it's estimated a twenty five million people have died from the disease they've a 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 disagreement some believe there are different causes of aids not just hiv and cause doubt in the standard aids test which is based on detecting the presence of the hiv virus whilst you might think there are only a small number of scientists who doubt the hatred of the aids their way here at the

conference is a list of around two thousand five hundred names all the scientists who challenge the classic definition some to have different views as 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. for. somebody deserve an explanation for certain market reforms or could live for print troops. still want to transfer from so far this dissenting from the conventional view that hiv causes a say they can face even hostility from the scientific peer is not occurring with the mainstream hiv theory of aids has even been compared to holocaust denial include a crime against humanity a science that there's a life 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 the reaction is sometimes so aggressive so 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 hiv an injection drug 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. and my colleagues have an hour and spoke to chris terrified 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 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 i 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'm not believing i'm 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 effect and 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 are not. a hate wave in moscow they record for the hottest day ever in the city with the sizzling temperature. for costa so even for

that same moment his own saturday hate set to five degrees centigrade that's ninety five degrees fahrenheit in the warmest week in seventy yet it's on that's been turned the how about as some have sought to cool down in this sweltering heat with two hundred drownings reported across russia the record temperatures are expected to last for at least another week in the space shuttle ready disrupted the supplies on the pulse of the metro firefighters have been busy buckling almost a thousand wildfires across the country surprisingly feel however that a year ago and it's been good news for some one russian region has introduced a siesta while siberia is cold a sport there for a young school which shifted in minus fifty degrees added this year is almost over eighty five degrees move a record lows said to call it sounded great but also his tests have all seen the records for selling the weather is an excuse for fun in the sun for he was. right there

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still see city today which is moving in the opposite directions and. makes the machine most stable here in. tough new immigration law is due to become a reality within a fortnight in arizona and all facing a late legal challenge from the american government the department of justice has filed a lawsuit to stop the out from coming into force on july the twenty ninth while five other states plan similar laws however the measures would allow police to stop and question people they reasonably suspect of being illegal immigrants and critics say it will mean targeting of ethnic minorities but supporters believe american jobs must be protected from. ramon reports from kind of. southern california. immigrant workers are picking the fee to consume but millions of americans and people around the world.

it's a backbreaking job not everyone is fit to do most of these workers right in the united states illegally so from as far as central america and many are oblivious to the political firestorm that no one spat in here from labor and you're going to 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 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 to merican is 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 these strawberries make it to your table there's no need for interviews or long application and. documented 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 have to do at a farm in oxnard a city just north of los angeles neighbors aren't convinced 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 field 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 strawberry fields and 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 here as a farm worker would you say 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 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 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. because an american

will do what it takes to feed their family according to the united farm workers so for three people have taken up there are very green jobs in los angeles. r t. and you too can also join the debate on our former home and we're asking whether you believe immigrants are unfairly taking drugs from america's or not and here are some of your thoughts. about south there's nothing wrong with people in the us to work i'd like to see people who want to get rid of immigrants try to do what they immigrants have to do she stands north calls for all immigration to be banned because as a country we should protect its heritage by not allowing foreigners to settle but on health torres things should be no borders at all now it takes just hours to fly anywhere in the world why should take days or weeks to get permission to travel and ponder's thousands have lost their jobs and homes during the recession so why should not be given to those who don't pay taxes and to add your voice visit the

forum page at r.t. dot com. it's exactly ninety two years since the bolsheviks executed the last russian tsar nicholas the second and his family a nation the program would talk to his tour and helen rappaport who's written a book about their last days after extensive new research. some people think they were just lined up in a row bang bang bang jared it was not like that it was a drug fall ill conceived ill executed murder you can't say it was an execution it was brutal because you know you're also didn't plan it he didn't check out whether they were these guys were good shots they didn't check the guns they had a mixture of some efficient guns browning's and colts and also old army issue not guns which probably didn't work they didn't count the fact they were killing eleven people in a small dark basement room which rapidly became full of acrid smoke noise panic

hysteria people screaming and running around it was an absolute catastrophe because they then had to brutally finish them off the only one of them the family really who had a quick death was actually nicholas because the minute the the order came to fire they all want to take pot pot shot at the star of course so they could say well i shot nicolas. and now it's time for other stories making headlines right now around the world be peace as the ruptured well of the gulf of mexico appears to be holding tight standing a disastrous deep sea oil leak for the first time since april has gushed into the sea after an explosion and which eleven died as a b.p. operated brakes three months ago pressure tests have been successful so far but engineers are still checking for further leaks america's was deb environmental disaster has seen oil washed up on hundreds of miles of coastline also causing serious economic damage. at least sixteen people have been killed in northwest

pakistan after militants ambushed a convoy of passenger bus is it because we're traveling to the city of the shiela with a security force escort when a gunman opened fire five people are reported to have been killed on the spot and it's believed the rest died in hospital that tyke was. in the area where there have been intensive military operations by pakistani forces against islamic insurgents. tires of thousands of people have turned out for the funerals of twenty seven people killed by a tween bomb blast at a shia mosque in iran the sunni rebel group jen said that to her cause in revenge for the execution of its leader abdul malik rigging during iran has accused the u.s. and britain of supporting the rebel group but president barack obama condemns the. gay was detained in february after a plane he was flying on from dubai to kurdistan was intercepted by the rain in absolutes. the european union's foreign policy chief says gaza's blockade must

end to let the region's economy prosper catherine ashton also called in the meantime for further easing of a zero three year old blockade to improve the lives of ordinary gazans israel recently relaxed its blockade to allow in more consumer goods by branding needed construction materials are still behind ashton also urged direct talks between israeli and palestinian leaders. much of a year of sweltering in a record breaking heat wave crops and causing severe forest fires greek emergency services are battling several dangerous blazes the first of the yam to a large forest fires raged near the capital athens find by strong winds forcing some people to flee their homes as all teasingly have been notional reports russian helicopters are among the most effective weapons in combat eight someone dies. every year hundreds of thousands will have to reserve spanish floors disappear the

reason. the combination of the whole dry climate and human negligence often creates an unstoppable force resolve to national catastrophe. but now we may have mounted smack. searing on the front line for many years rich. firefighting helicopters are among the best and spain has welcomed their arrival we know that this is the best thirty quarter for five. you know in spain for the fighting is very very important market and. it's the start of the firefighting system that we have in this particular firefighting 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 here it is 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 students just not enough as it directions and no tail rotor makes the mission more stable here in. the stability and accuracy also guarantees 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 kill she always feels safe and. 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 pilot say the case cities are always the last helicopter to leave in the show narea ten russian kafeel cities are already a feature in the skies over spain which to me due to join the ranks of the

country's army and as the spanish star mine testifies their presence could be of critical importance. not to be severe. then right now we're taking you from the sky bog down to earth now and of facts on the ground this week's moscow out hops on to the city's famous metro network with host martin and even taking some lessons in driving a train. whatever that's your platform now this is the last i'll be in the fields about trade for a perfect. square in the kremlin it's one of the main tourist attractions in the capital a must see for any visitor. what you're up to date and dollar back with the headlines at half past the hour up next it's our exclusive interview about the last days of the last russian tsars family

and sunday marks exactly ninety two years as the bolsheviks executed the room. today i'm in oxford with helen rappaport she's an expert on the russian imperial family particularly the last days of that arm on us who were assassinated in the classroom during the bolshevik revolution helen rappaport thanks very much for talking to r.t. now you focus on the last thirteen days of that i'm honest lives in your classroom

but why did you choose that period well when i looked at the stories of. the end of the dentistry i suddenly realised that although we knew the broad span of nicholas's rain and the overall story no one had looked at any great detail in those final few days particularly a new culture in vogue and the main reason for the. it was because until the collapse of communism there was no access to some of the important eyewitness testimonies by the guards and your coffee or ski who was in charge of the parts of the city was in a terrible state of panic the bolsheviks were basically taking everything they could out of your culture and work that was worth anything because it was the center of the mining industry so it was gold semi precious minerals and they wanted to get that all out before the city foul so in terms of taking the imperial family there what do you think the saw for example must've felt when he

knew they were going to catch him but because your book had a large factory and industrial population a very heavily politicized workers who were very loyal bolsheviks and the sars heart sank when he was told that he was going to be taken there he said i would go anywhere but if you catch him but because the people there are so against me i want the family arrived in a pattern but they lived in increasingly horrible circumstances they were actually told the minute they arrived you are now entering a prison regime and there was a big difference between how things were in some polls square they had a rare relative degree of freedom to move about to go to church to go outside to see people in the outside world the awful thing that happened when they arrived at you catherine but they're immediately greeted by a place surrounded by an enormous stockade a wooden stockade was but built right around the house the windows were painted

white so the family once they're inside that house could not see the outside world they were denied newspapers they were denied letters and parcels no visitors so they were effectively cut off and what kind of family were they at that stage well they were incredibly close knit family very devoted to each other and i think the thing that. one of the fundamental things that held them so closely together was they had this very deep very profound orthodox faith also the girls in many ways were very in with sure for their age very on worldly they had lived such a cuckoo life that the alexander palace in outside some petersburg and taught me a bit more about your coffee little ski he is often portrayed sort of maniac all murderer but in fact you sort of bring out a slightly more complex side to his personality while he was an absolutely ruthless cope blooded pragmatic dedicated bolshevik he was also

a local checa chica was the precursor of what became the k.g.b. the the russian political secret service so he was there for a purpose he was sent in to enforce clamp down on the press and i say sion to really make the root regime there a very strict prison regime and effectively to prepare for what was now an increasing venture as he was that they might have to kill the family amongst the guards was there any feeling that they weren't going to go through with it yes absolutely just before they came to kill the family you're asking was issuing orders about who was supposed to kill whom they were all given an individual target and some of the guards immediately said we will not kill the girls and the number of killers in the end was reduced because of that and in fact the ultimate solution was putting all in a room and and killing them all together but that turned into

a bloodbath didn't it and you've spoken to a forensic expert tell me what you what his opinion of what happened was well what concerned me was the terrible inefficiency with which they murdered them i mean some some people think they were just lined up in a row bang bang bang you're dead it was not like that it was a dreadful ill conceived ill executed murder you can't say it was an execution it was brutal. because you know you're also didn't plan it he didn't check out whether they were these guys were good shots they didn't check the guns they had a mixture of some efficient guns browning's and colts and also old army issue not guns which probably didn't work they didn't count the fact they were killing eleven people in a small dark basement room which rapidly became full of acrid smoke noise panic hysteria people screaming and running around it was an absolute catastrophe because they then had to brutally finish them off the only one of them the family really who had a quick death was actually nicholas because the minute they the order came to fire

they all want to take pot pot shot at the cellar of course so they could say well i shot nicholas so he died immediately but the others suffered horribly particularly the children now the deep that the murder of them on a family is often attributed to a sort of maverick branch of the classroom bolsheviks but you believe that the order can be traced directly to lenin well lenin was very careful to always cover his tracks and he he never ever took responsibility for anything as controversial as the murder of the wrongness but he said categorically we must not have a living banner we must not have anyone surviving from the family around whom the counter-revolution could could gather and gain a you know gain gain power so the decision was made in moscow during meetings with dollar short in a man from the soviet who went back and forth quite a few times to moscow now got

a shock and was very good friends with the arc of spirit law who was lenin's right hand man said lawford worked as a bolshevik tate's for a new country but he knew the city he knew the bolsheviks there and i think fundamentally a tacit agreement was given by lenin that when the time came and the judgment of when that time came was left to the culture and bolsheviks when they knew that the game was up and the city was going to fall to go in and kill more telegraph report thanks very much thank you. the truman started off toward noon and lasted for almost a floozy is a jewel of two superpowers and two brains. flowed into two models. of the spins congress antti.

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hundred forty five don't auntie dot com. they will show us a great to have a bit of. something to do in beijing in vienna question the cold conventional medical treatment fires triggers a head of a major international conference to take place in the safety of the united nations says the season has killed around twenty five million. when since it was discovered in the city decades ago. the earth's world has in that heat wave also has altered stay on the right would be to five degrees centigrade or ninety five when height to the russians has the dealer has introduced a siesta a lot of us might come to school to start with temperatures for cost to get it would also in the end.