of all of us thanks for joining it's x. those 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 a year and there's a furious debate within the medical community with some dissenting doctors questioning the mainstream view that the hiv virus is the only cause of the disease first reports now 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 this fails 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 diagnoses when it was a terrifying experience for information it was just records.

should go. through. each or river road to. 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 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 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 hate hiv aids there are a pair the conference is a list of around two thousand five hundred names all the scientists who challenge

the classic definition some t. have different visas to treatment author and his doctor he's alternative 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. somberly deserve an explanation for certain market reforms or could live for. troops serving not want to transfer from so far this dissenting from the conventional view that hiv causes aids say they can face even hostility from the scientific theory 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 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 are 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 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 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. turned to my colleague kevin now and spoke to christiane 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 you an age you disagree 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 it's true for hiv it's a huge movement mainly driven by pharmaceutical interests you're 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 i'm reading the facts and i am 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. to hate wear a mask or smash their record or the hottest day ever in the city with the sizzling temperatures. so coastal so even further the moment is on saturday hate seventy five degrees centigrade that's ninety five degrees fahrenheit if that was the week

in seventeen years and there's been tragedy however some have sought to cool down in the sweltering heat with two hundred drownings reported across russia the record temperatures are expected to last quarter least another week in most spots but already disrupted her supplies and coated parts of the metro firefighters have been busy blocking almost a thousand while far as across the country surprisingly few however than a year ago it's been good news for some one russian region has introduced a sea of star while siberia is cold at sport there hyannis which shivered in minus fifty degrees and it is here is almost over eighty five degrees warmer basking in a little plus if i centigrade as i'll choose to sell similar for the sun will screw the weather in the feast performance. but how much was such just lying around to see that this was going to be the. other such work.

how do you know. the two. people are. cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut. cut it was. such was such was there. was. and while most provides for making phone tying in front is rather in the boiling hate european firefighters are battling the fire some of blazes and later in the program we see the help they get from specialist russian have. still seem to say it is moving in the opposite directions and taylor makes the

machine most capable of hearing. tough new immigration law is due to become a reality within a fortnight in arizona facing a late legal challenge from the american government their department of justice has filed a lawsuit to stop the act from coming into force on july the twenty nine while five other states plus similar. measures would allow police to stop and question people who they reasonably suspect of being in the go anywhere critics say it will leave targeting of ethnic minorities but supporters believe american. morning reports from california. southern california these immigrant workers are picking the consumer that 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 far as an america and many are oblivious to the political firestorm centered around that you know what's happened here from the river 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 five 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. 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 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 strawberries he feels and now in an effort to employ 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 a farmer came

a. job as a farmer. 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. conservative radio host tony katz is among the growing number of supporters to crack down he thinks that the u.s. isn't just fine this is about people who may be coming with diseases we've already eradicated bring them back into the united states america has a significant progress because of illegal immigration their expense is the founder of we support arizona dot com he thinks americans will take the jobs of foreign workers because an american will do what it takes to feed their family according to the united farm workers so for only three people have taken up there are for to

take in the green jobs in los angeles. and you too can also join the debate on our forum at ask dot com they're asking whether you believe immigrants are taking jobs from americans or not and here is to think. there's nothing wrong with the growing to the u.s. to work i'd like to see people who want to get rid of immigrants try to do what they say that immigrants have today she says kind of most calls for all immigration to be violent history as a country should protect its heritage by not allowing for us to settle but taurus 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 pundit says thousands have lost their jobs and homes during the recession so work should not be given to those who don't pay taxes 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 son it was the second and his family and later in the program we talked to historian 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 you're dead 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 your oscar didn't fly and 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 order came to fire they all want to take pot pot shot at the czar of course so they could say well i shot nicholas. and that's now have a look at some other news stories making headlines around the world big piece are big on its ruptured well and the gulf of mexico appears to be holding tight stunning a disastrous deep sea oil leak for the first time since april oil has crashed into the sea after an explosion in which eleven died at a b.p. or rated rig three months ago pressure tests have been successful so far but engineers are still checking for further leaks america's worst ever environmental disaster has seen all washed 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 and

a convoy of passenger bus buses the vehicles are traveling into the city of the shiloh with a security force escort one gunman opened fire five people are reported to have been killed on the spot and it's believed the rest died in hospital at that time because an area like i've been. turns neutral peroration is by pakistani forces against islamic insurgents. in terms of the people that turned for the funerals of twenty seven people killed by a twin bomb blast at a share mosque in iran this sunni rebel group johnny dollar said that time in the event where the execution of its leader of dalek rigging during iran has accused the u.s. and britain of supporting the rebel group but president barack obama condemns the bombing and don't like rigging it was attained in february after a plane he was flying on from dubai to kurdistan was intercepted by the iranian air force. the european union's foreign policy chief says the gaza blockade must end to let the region's economy prosper catherine ashton also called in the

meantime for the present easing of israel's three year old blockade to improve the lives of order regarding israel recently relaxed its blockade water law even more closely with badly needed construction material that's still behind ashton also direct talks between israeli and palestinian villages. much of europe is sweltering in a record breaking heat wave wilting corpse and causing severe forest fire as greek emergency services are battling several dangerous blazes the thrust of the yet to large forest fires have raged near the capital athens founded by strong winds forcing some people to flee their homes as all too easily a few national reports russian helicopters are among the most effective weapons in combat in the summer five. year hundreds of thousands of hectares of spanish forest disappear the reason. the combination of the hot dry climate and human negligence often creates an unstoppable force resolve to national

catastrophe. but now it may have met its match serene on the front line for many years before i found you helicopters are among the best and spain has welcomed. their arrival we know that this is the best for five and. you're going to spain for the fighting is very very important market and the come of it it's the start of the five inches that we have this particular fire fighting helicopter the russian cave thirty two is capable of carrying up to five tons of water it takes just ten seconds for the crew to feel it's 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 seem to be just not enough as it directions and the tail rotor makes the mission more stable

here 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 q 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 pilot say the case just a tease always the last helicopter to leave a missionary or 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 star mine testifies their presence could be of critical importance. alekhine to severe pain. on

sunday it will be exactly ninety two years so the bolsheviks executed the last russians on account of the second and his family their deaths and three centuries of rule by they remain of dynasty so as they chant fire exclusive interview with historian helen rappaport has written a book about the imperial family its final day. 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 a pattern both during the bolshevik revolution helen rappaport thanks very much for talking to r.t. now you focus on the last thirteen days of that are moneths lives in your catron 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 new courtroom bird and the main reason for that was because until the collapse of communism there was no access to some of the important eyewitness testimonies by the guards and your crew for your oscar 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 some precious minerals and.

they wanted to get that all out before the city found 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 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 once the family arrived in a pattern back 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 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 immature for their age very on worldly they had lived such a cuckoo life that the alexander palace in outside some petersburg and so it's made it more about yeah of little ski he is often portrayed sort of maniac all merger up but in fact you sort of bring. out of

a slightly more complex side to his personality well he was an absolutely ruthless koepp blooded pragmatic dedicated bolshevik he was also a local checker man 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 nice ation to really make the route 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 anything 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 account 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 raw. going 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 star 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 a family is often attributed to a sort of maverick branch of the caster and 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 again you know gain gain power so the

decision was made in moscow during meetings with dollars 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 of who was learning his right hand man said lawford had worked as a bolshevik educator a new culture 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 and kill more telegraph or thanks very much i thank you. nineteen ninety eight the train carries away the russian empire gold reserve.

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. lens. it's five says in the morning in the russian console this is on see the headlines. scientists convening and get that question the conventional medical view that a new car is triggers i.e. the head of a major international conference to take place in the state the united nations says the disease was killed about twenty five million people since it was discovered we didn't pay to. see. it as europe's losses in a heatwave moscow has heard it all has daily basis says five degrees centigrade or ninety five hundred hives the russian state and the dealer has introduced a siesta tell our risk from the scorching sun with temperatures will cost to get even more set in the weekend.