with me here national holiday thanks for joining us experts and scientists from around the world amazing and get to this weekend to debate ways of fighting and preventing aids which kills over two million people a year there's a humorous debate within the medical community with some dissenting doctors questioning the mainstream view that the h.i.v. virus is the only cause of the disease. reports from here in the eighteenth international aids conference will begin hit in vienna bringing together around twenty five thousand policymakers scientists community workers activists and people living with hiv to discuss the latest developments in the spills but right now there's a two day conference going on looking also targeted 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 the singer he was one of the first diagnosed it was a terrifying experience for information it was just because.

you. should try. so. hard to. conceive first. cigar 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 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 on 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 a very 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 author and his dr will turn it to therapy to conventional aids fighting drugs so strong is his belief in these other treatment methods that he's written the twenty three years positive based on his experiences . trying somber deserve an explanation for strengths and work through friends or can live for. troops. still want to transfer from so far dissenting from the conventional view that hiv causes a say they can face a thousand hostility from the scientific peer is not agreeing with the mainstream hiv theory of aids has even been compared to holocaust denial and called a crime against humanity a science that is a life has to have the permission to question a certain model of thinking serious thinking you know you don't bring in here

a dying patient so that we have to act immediately and 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 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 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 colleague kevin now and spoke to christian fiala 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 is 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 maybe 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 the facts 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 or not. i hate wave in moscow smash their record with a heart attack. feeling temperatures. so cost to so if in fact that moment has all saturday hits such a five degrees centigrade that's ninety five degrees fahrenheit in the warmest week

in seventy years and there's been tragedy however as some have sought to cool down in this faltering hate with two hundred drownings reported across russia the record temperatures are expected to last for at least another week and will spread but have already disrupted power supplies and hold a pulse of the metro firefighters have been busy talking almost a thousand wildfires across the country surprisingly a few however than a year ago and it's been good news for some but one russian region has introduced a siesta while siberia is cold a spot they hope you heard or school which shivered in minus fifty degrees added isha is almost over eighty five degrees with nothing in the left will not suffice and to play but is also he's tests else is cold for something else for the weather is what he's got from this. was such a lying around such was being cut

cut cut cut cut out the cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut was. cut was shut. your mouth. was. hunted wild muscovites for only going fountains and the boiling hate european firefighters are battling the fire some of blazes elation the program with see the help they get from specialist russian helicopters. still sitting today they just move in the opposite direction and take

a break it makes the mission more stable period and more. tough new immigration bill was due to become a reality within a fortnight in arizona are facing a lately go challenge from the american government the department of justice has filed a lawsuit to stop the act from coming into force on july the twenty ninth while five other states similar laws however the measures would allow police to stop and question people they reasonably suspect of being illegal immigrants critics say or mean targeting of ethnic minorities but supporters believe american jobs must be protected from. reports from california. southern california these 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 far as central america and many are oblivious to the political

firestorm centered around that you know what's happened here for 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 some in favor of the fifty but still 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 form 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 have to do at a farm in oxnard

a city just north of los angeles neighbors aren't convince the average american could step in their shoes not even for a day is to hire a. white person is too far. 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 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 saw 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. here as a 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 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 threat to the u.s. isn't just financial 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 for only three people have taken up there are for to take in the green jobs in los angeles. r t. you can join the

debate on our. call where our skin whether you believe immigrants are unfairly taking jobs from americans or not and here's some of your thoughts so both sides there's nothing wrong with people going to the u.s. to work i'd like to see people who want to get rid of immigrants trying to do what they. have to do. all immigration to be as a country should protect its heritage by not allowing foreigners to settle bleeding heart. one ready to work all day long for only a few dollars employers should have to improve conditions and raise pay and kindly leave holes in the ground brave because they want to look for a better life and she thinks we should support them so to add your voice to foreign pages. now it's exactly

ninety two years since the bolsheviks executed the last russians are nicholas the second and his family later in the program we'll talk to historian helen rappaport who's written a book about their last days after extensive new rosette. some 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 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 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 star of course so they could say well i shot nicholas. and now it's time for other stories making headlines right now around the world he said on its ruptured well in the gulf of mexico appears to be holding tight stemming a disastrous deep sea oil leak for the first time since april oil has gotten to the sea after an explosion in which eleven died at a b.p. operate rigs three months ago pressure tests have been successful so far but engineers are still checking for further leaks america's westover 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 buses. the vehicles were traveling to the city. with

a security force escort one gunman opened fire by people are reported to have been killed on the spot and it's believed the reza died in hospital that time was in the area where they have been intense military operations by pakistani forces against islamic insurgents. tons of thousands of people have turned out for the funerals of twenty seven people killed by a twin bomb blast at a share mosque and it won't this sunni rebel group of dollars said that time was in revenge for the execution of its leader abdul malik rigging june iran has accused the u.s. and britain of supporting the rebel group but president barack obama condemned the bombing. was detained in february after a plane he was flying on from dubai to kurdistan was intercepted by the iranian air force. and 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 in the meantime for a further easing of israel's three year old look aid to improve the lives of

ordinary gazans israel recently relaxed its blockade to allow in more consumer goods needed construction materials are still behind ashton also talks between israeli and palestinian leaders her. much of europe is sweltering in a record breaking heat wave wilting crops and causing severe forest fire as greek emergency services are battling several dangerous blazes the first began to a large forest fires have raged near the capital athens fund. forcing some people to flee their homes and he's riffing notional reports of russian helicopters are among the most effective weapons and called letting someone fired. just show every year hundreds of thousands of hectares of spanish forest disappear the reason falling or. the combination of the hot dry climate and human negligence often creates an unstoppable force resulted in a national catastrophe. but now we may have medics 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 there for five fighting. you know for the fighting is very very important market and. it's the start of the fight we have this particular fire fighting helicopter the russian k. thirty two is capable of carrying up to five tons of water a day 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 and it. still seems seem to be just moving up the directions and tail rotor makes the mission more stable period 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 queue she always feels safe when i come of the no now but it's made in russia but it works perfect here in london it's easier to control easier 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 k. thought cities always the last helicopter to leave a missionary or ten russian k. thought cities are already a feature in the skies over spain to me due to join the ranks of the country's army and as the spanish sam-i intensifies their presence could be of critical importance . alekhine to severe pain. exactly ninety two years and sunday's as the bolsheviks executed the last russians are an equal of the

second and his family the deaths and of the three centuries of all by the roman of dynasty in a moment our exclusive interview with historian helen rappaport who's also written the book the last days of their own one of. in the world. 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 classroom 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 i'm honest lives in your pattern but why did you choose that period well when i looked at the stories of. the end of the dynasty i suddenly realised that although we knew the broad span of nicholas's reign and the overall story no one had looked at any great detail in those final few days particularly new courtroom berg 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 fell 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 it catch and vogue had a large fact. tree and industrial population a very heavily politicized workers who are 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 newspaper several tonight 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 and also the girls in many ways were very immature for their age very on worldly they've lived such a cuckoo life that the alexander palace in outside some petersburg and so it's made it more about yakov 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 well he was an absolutely ruthless cope blooded pragmatic dedicated bolshevik he was also a local checker manner chica was the precursor of what became the the k.g.b. . 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 room 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 len 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 wanted to. 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 the family is often attributed to a sort of maverick branch of the katherine 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 merger 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

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 spheres a lot of who was learning his right hand man said lothair had worked as opposed to tape 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 bobos face when they knew that the game was up and the city was going to fall to go and kill more telegraph report thanks very much i think you. tories which are made to police children.

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