to live on the brink say getting treatment can be a battle in itself tests are cilia reports. alexi bullock is hiv positive is just one of about a million people infected with the virus in russia alone a country the u.n. says with one of the fastest growing rates of hiv in the world and i have to live with hiv and that involves a lot of difficult things not just physical but also social and psychological sometimes and refused treatment and i have to fight against that while alexy and others like him continue to fight their battles all they're really looking for is a cure it's already been a long way for those with the virus and respite doesn't seem to be anywhere inside just yet. the main issue at this point we don't even know which part of the virus causes immune deficiency that's why research is argue about the type of vaccine needed scientists and doctors have been trying to find

a remedy since hiv was identified in the early one nine hundred eighty s. but they've only managed to come up with preventive treatments and medication that slows down the degenerative process of the virus. there are more than twenty five types of drugs with clinical proof that they are effective if a person takes and thirdly they suppress the virus preventing it from spreading the person doesn't. matter at this point there is no drug that could destroy the virus completely. one of those clinically approved drugs is. a.z.t. a type of antiretroviral drug use for the treatment of hiv and aids joan shandon of immunity resource foundation is strongly against such treatment conventional treatment has actually caused the death of a whole generation of young gay men in america when they were on the high doses of aids that that is well documented so it's extremely important to be challenging this hypothesis there are almost thirty two million people in the world with hiv or

aids and more than one million deaths this year alone international organizations call or. we get a pandemic but there are those who stand against this belief and are challenging the very fact we've come to accept as truth they say well but the majority believes those you should just follow i'm sorry to say science is not the majority vote science is a free competition of the best arguments and verifiable arguments it is very fibro that there is no epidemic and it is very fiber of that aids treatment today is just less toxic than in the early nineties and i would call for an open. to test the best arguments organizers of the eighteenth international aids conference being held this week in vienna see it's a gathering of individuals committed to ending what they've classified as a pandemic for alexei he'd rather not get his hopes up all he wants are the facts. i don't expect to see any breakthrough at this conference i just hope that it will

be made clear as to where we are to regarding the vaccine because we needed it yesterday desiree celia r.t. moscow and more leaders aren't doing enough to ensure hiv positive people get the treatment they desperately need that's the message from julio monton aaron the president of the international aid society he was speaking at the ongoing aids conference in vienna which is calling for an answer treatment discrimination so our first is there for us. the really cool aids all the tests accurate and all of the aids treatment but these are just some of the extremely controversial questions that it being asked by challenging the mainstream hiv and aids at the aids twenty ten conference second day here in vienna and nobody could give me the paper where. it is isolated in the way scientists. are asking for it since the seventy years since the seventy's the other thing is

that there doesn't exist any paper. shows if a chevy is existing how it is doing and the special situation use there is a fully different thing in the western countries so according to western countries and the so-called development cost in countries in africa. south america and so on so it doesn't fit in a normal virus. because viruses only can make a very few things over the twenty five thousand people attending the official conference these have been met with skepticism and criticism and as we've seen in the culture dick. has never been. well that's simply not true. it's been more using d.n.a. cloning technologies it's been sequenced literally thousands of times from

different individuals infected with the virus. simply isn't true so it's never been a sort of certainly. normal virus causes of you know deficiency it's also not true we know very well how each of you works. yesterday was very much based on the conference which is right now so we had them. underlining the importance of success response to hiv will be resting on a successful response on an individual level so we had lots about the need to address and marginalization stigmatize ation especially among high risk groups and the russian particulate was mentioned here served through valence of hiv and injecting drug users and the needs of the greater resources to be put in things such as needle exchange programs so the debate will remain ongoing for this week and it's not a need to date since aids came to the public attention in the one nine hundred

eighty s. there were people who openly oppose the mainstream visas we can see that continues but for the people that are attending this official conference at the main focus really is what they're saying are these life saving treatments and making sure these reach the biggest number possible in the funding is that from the governments of the different countries to provide this universal access to the hague hiv prevention treatment that sara furthur reporting from vienna three watching r.t. live from moscow on the way. find out why the use of drones spy the u.s. military peeps coming under fire dancing in a few minutes here in our to. the story of a teenager who committed suicide after being caned at school is pushing india to criminalize corporal punishment physical penalties are still widely used by

teachers in the country despite it being illegal harnessing has more. this is one of india's worst kept secrets the prevalence of corporal punishment in schools but the recent suicide of thirteen year old who runs a rival has brought the practice out into the open a student at the prestigious the marquis of old boys' school in kolkata hanged himself at home earlier this year after being gained at school after spending months juicing the school for answers his father has filed a police complaint against the three teachers he says were involved i think that they were after him for a long way limiting he was so long as he was giving an individual. battering if i may use the word he was able to take it but when they all descended on him at the same time that i don't thing. i don't think his young mind could handle that much animosity. elimination from his friends the school's principal

has admitted killing ranjeet but says this was not responsible for this was the case has set off a public outcry largely because it occurred in one of india's and most elite schools but most cases of corporal punishment take place in government run schools and go largely unrecorded ten year old mounties often beaten when he doesn't complete his homework on time. and not the teacher and tries to teach us that when we don't to learn she hates us and sometimes cry when i get it it's very important to have that sensitivity to understand as to what is going in the child's mind or what is happening for which the child has not completed his do work in time and then we address those issues putting the blame on the child or hitting the child with the state clearly doesn't solve any purpose one either the child would become too used to this kind of a punishment and the effect would go off or else the child who's very sensitive and

anxious by predisposition. i would feel very very vulnerable a supreme court judgment in two thousand. in early films in india but habits die hard many dangers and even some parents still believe in the need for discipline to keep bible i believe money back if a child doesn't do his homework even after reminding him repeatedly then we have to discipline them we don't want to hear them but we get angry sometimes because we're taking so much effort to teach them so sometimes we are forced to hit them with or fifty children in a class teachers often resort to beating them to control their large numbers you hear words like or phrases like it's a theatre of war out there teachers are sometimes frightened to go into class because there is such a lack of respect and. it's very hard to with in inverted

commas control the class or discipline us but discipline is a two way process so not only do you train the teachers you've also got to make the students understand that there is a code of conduct but for one loving father there can be no arguments about corporal punishment there's a law against it there's no debate if you let people hear your kids there will be a monster who will take out his frustrations on your child and you will not be able to save your child it's not open to discussion nobody has the budgetary nobody you god gave them to us to love not for some go to beat them up. one father's crusade for justice is a new sport played on corporal punishment which is illegal but still call money in indian schools one wonders how many more children will have to suffer before more humane methods of disciplining them auden forced out and seeing you know that.

hispanic and latino groups in the u.s. are calling for reform of the country's immigration system an advantage on just policies are to sit down with journalist and human rights activist jorge ramos who claims immigrants don't have enough representation latinos are on the represented politically we are fifteen percent of the population and we only have one senator that has to change this is it is incredible that the most powerful country in the world is persecuting and discriminating against eleven million people so again there's a lot of misinformation on the contributions of immigrants to this country and unfortunately when there is an economic crisis like the one we're facing right now immigrants are being blamed for for everything that's wrong with the sponsor from crime to unemployment and it's simply not for. now was the full interview with jorge ramos in just twenty minutes here on our. sales of drones are taking off in

a big way internationally raising fears that will lead to increased warfare a peace activists claim the relatively cheap and easy access to the weapons could also potentially harm innocent civilians artie's got an edge to count looks into the growing on man trend in the u.s. and its consequences. the come out of the blue i have two words for you predator drones i will never see it coming a drone is ten times cheaper than a fighter jet it requires no pilot so there are no troop deaths to explain it's the perfect weapon for covered cia operations in countries like pakistan and afghanistan if things go wrong you can deny it all and things do go wrong studies by independent international experts suggest that for every militant killed as many as fifteen civilians also die there's no way of getting exact numbers the cia keeps

its drones program under wraps but the united nations and other international police agency question the legality of the extensive use of the weapon it becomes different when you come to a sort of undeclared war with organisations which i'm like ok i delegate ali bob and you go off to push and you say day we suspect we say they are terrorists but who has proven that the person you're actually targeting to terrorists. they're not they're not in uniform but humanitarian concerns seem to be doing little to dampen surging international demand for drones also known as unmanned aerial vehicles or u.a.e. vs the military appetite is such that the market is expected to grow to a staggering fifty five billion dollars in ten years from now with the advances in technology they depersonalize warfare and so therefore you have people war willing to use them and you have people that don't understand the consequences because the

people who are flying the drones are not on the battlefield they're not in the plane there are thousands of miles away and when they cause destruction they don't feel it here in washington d.c. suburb of cia drone operator wake up in the morning with your family goodbye come to the office and shoot at target thousands of miles away from here and go back home no risk look forward specialist save the whole operation remind the media ok the question many ask is if it is so easy and convenient we'll get our m.p. we can move more in the future if war is cheap why not use the bit more pressure against the smaller countries and organizations to each other it will try to sit around with table were to talk it over simon vet saman has produced a research report on drones with the european parliament among his concerns are the consequences of terrorists getting hold of such weapons

a scenario sunlight likened to real life but deadly robot morris demonstrators outside cia headquarters at the start of the year protested against indiscriminate killings by unmanned weaponry they say that rather than winning wars drones merely make more enemies by killing mostly innocent people are fueling rather than quelling insurgency ganesh she can. r t washington d.c. . at a grammy award winning russian pianist and conductor is to appear in court in thailand over child sex abuse charges earlier this month thai police cues we had played me off of raping a fourteen year old boy which he denies and he was detained and freedom bail to continue a world tour with his orchestra he must however return to thailand for court hearings every twelve days the pianist claims he's arrest was triggered by the detention of a time musician he knows who is suspected of involvement in a prostitution ring if found guilty could spend twenty years in jail.

railway officials say almost fifty people have died after a moving train rammed into a stationary one in eastern india dozens have been taken to hospital rescue workers are attempting to free those trapped in the wreckage poor maintenance has been blamed for the rise in train collisions in the country. seventeen people have been shot dead in eighteen more wounded as gunmen opened fire at a party in northern mexico witnesses say the attackers arrived in several cars and started to shoot without awards many of the victims were young people in the region has recently seen a rise in drug related violence thought to be linked to competition between cartels . the us government has ordered the oil company b.p. to submit a plan to reopen its capped well in the gulf of mexico the test cap that was installed earlier this week is feared to be leaking oil b.p. had expressed hope that the spill could be plugged for good while slick was

triggered by a drilling rig explosion in april. heavy rain and flooding have left twenty three dead and dozens missing in central china and worst hit areas remain under a sea of water with deaths reaching up to ten meters nearly six million people across the country have been evacuated from their homes as a result of the floods last week rain storms in the south killed nearly one hundred fifty people in the last forty minutes. now security is being stepped up and go ahead of tuesday's international conference on afghanistan more than forty foreign ministers are expected to attend the event in there to discuss handing more power to the afghan government as well as the nato forces role in the country artist military analyst again herself says the meeting should focus more on tackling afghanistan's drug trade the upcoming conference in kabul is going to be a day or for reckoning for the united states. the issue very grave and very

simple at the same time at stake is the u.s. credibility and integrity regarding the unofficial undeclared war on drugs to get rid of these notorious have been scored up in poppy and can it be feels now if the united states representatives and especially richard holbrooke the u.s. special rep to afghanistan and pakistan start delivering their regular job regarding the millions of raisins why drug lords and their own people mules immune from any prosecution and they are untouchable the world community will get it and next. prove that the us stance on the war of drugs in not is not only double standard but it's totally hypocritical and whatever they say

and whatever the us straps have set or we'll say the bottom line is very simple talk is cheap the only way for the united states to restore its credibility in afghanistan is to unleash war on drugs and in that endeavor they can count one hundred percent on their regional stakeholders in afghanistan mostly china india russia iran and pakistan. now soviet era cosmonauts and american astronauts who flew the first international space mission are celebrating the flight's thirty fifth anniversary and the saudis apollo mission was the first joint space venture between the u.s. and the soffit union and mark and new era of cooperation rockets from the two countries met and connected in orbit in nine hundred seventy five to mission commanders and exchange the first ever international handshake in space. all our

stories videos and blogs are online any time you want to hear some of what's on the site right now. germany's psychic octopus has been done by ukrainian animators a special world cup edition of the cartoon that correctly predicted the team's scoring even the red card. and lost visor continuing to swelter in the hottest july in the city in almost fifteen years the temperatures have been says look at a record beating was thirty five. and that brings up today for now business news is on the way and a short while. i'm grateful for the feel we've got.

the biggest issues get the invoice face to face with the news makers. it's almost twenty three minutes past eight am in the russian capital you're watching the business program on our t.v. all come bold carry on russia have signed a detailed agreement on the south seam gas pipeline after discussions concluded in varna the deal is a technical roadmap of how the two countries will move forward the next step will

be to set up a joint company to study these visibility of a project that would provide the details for a legally binding contract gazprom is developing south seemed to provide an alternative route for russian gas to europe its main partners in the project are an italian energy company any and sciences e.d.s. . and in related news kazakhstan's president tom mesereau by it has accused the eels not taking any step toward realizing the new google project viewed as a competitor to south stream the energy rich central asian country is also keen on securing its gas supplies to europe and is eyeing additional routes. and it's time now to check out the equity markets in hong kong the hang seng fell almost one percent of you getting reaching its the lowest in more than a week this comes after companies including bank of america and citigroup reported low revenues and u.s. consumer confidence dropped and japan the nikkei is closed due to

a national holiday. and the russian equity markets are closed this hour they finished last week in the red reversing their earlier dane's only in the trading session on friday both the r.t.s. i mean my sex closed down just on the one percent all the blue chips were in the bread would spare bank losing the most on board courses down about two percent. so corporate results in the united states last week were offset by poor economic data counts for the doubt over the strength of the recovery under the head of research at four of clubs believes the u.s. earnings season will continue to dominate sentiment over the coming days or though the results of the stress test of european banks will also be a shock to. breading a big deal to stipulate to the american financial results of american corporate sector but also we are waiting for the results of stress test of your

being banks which i due to be presented on twenty sort of july and this results. are stable euro zone ease the hope that second of all these years will be quite positive for investors and maybe we will see that next week readily we'll start on russian stocks because russian stoves and now are very undervalued comparing to other emerging markets if you see a russian r.t.s. so we could say that it's under better maybe like fifty percent comparing to other emerging market indices. and now we have an exclusive two business artsy industry giant siemens says it's going to help processor reach its ambitious energy goals that's after president mitch evans that have targeted forty percent cuts in energy use within a decade europe's top engine young group that it has declared war on coal blocks of the company three years ago siemens was convicted of paying bribes for contracts in

russia. we are living in like we say high risk country. several not only corruption several risks for business we started the russian corporate tax addition to. the malls and eighty companies signed in code of conduct to make clean business only in russia some german business leaders here yesterday said the crisis is over in their country what's their impression for russia the c.i.s. zero times between two saws and five and two thousand and eight differently over it we have been tremendous closer than in russia so really are returning to. normal times but hopefully next year you see overall investment in the industries and infrastructure of it come back to zero two thousand and eight level what energy

efficiency savings can russia make if it uses siemens technology we made actually is a study here and you could remember a good project when we analyzed all kinds of power generation power transmission distribution and consumption in transport or in private use and in the city itself and what we found if we apply. technologies siemens and other companies have we could reduce energy consumption by forty four percent and if we sink about new technology is about smart grid and things like that. until two thousand and twenty our expectation would be to reduce c and i g consumption by seventy nine percent. so trying to start assembling its cars in russia the french automaker plans to launch production of its popular c

four model on the twentieth of july at its car factory in called google in april citron on persia or mitsubishi open the six hundred million dollar factory which they are making their jewels three zero eight model. and that's all we have time for in the citizen of business i'll be back in about two minutes i'll see about.

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you're watching live from moscow here's a look at the top stories human rights activists blame treatment discrimination for a disabling afterwards to stam a child being aids that's a focus of an international aids conference. in vienna where scientists are debating ways to ensure universal treatment patients say they should focus on finding a cure instead. beating traditions in school discipline is under fire after a teenager suicide reveals corporal punishment is still popular among teachers though the government outlawed such methods two thousand summons is the only way students learn. and remote control warfare as a drone industry booms peace campaigners fear a surgeon casualties and terrorism claim the relatively cheap and easy access to weapons made them more likely to end up in the wrong hands. was tough immigration laws being adopted in america.