now for decades the world's greatest scientific minds have been fighting a war with a deadly disease but there's still no cure inside caused by the hiv virus aids has already claimed the lives of millions but some who are forced 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. i have to live with hiv and that involves a lot of difficult things not just physical but also social and psychological sometimes i 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 them thoroughly 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 dying or 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 are called. 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 say 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 in this conference i just hope that it will be made clear as to where we are to go to the vaccine because we needed it yesterday tests are syria r t moscow the g eight leaders have been slammed for not providing enough help to hiv positive people who yell mountain air the president of the international aid society claimed when it comes to global health the purse is always empty he made the statement of the ongoing aids conference in vienna which is calling for an a and to treatment discriminations there first is there for us. the really cool aid all the tests accurate and all the aides say 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 and its 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's and 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 to 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. or south america and so on so it doesn't fit in the norm of virus disease because viruses. can make very few things over the twenty five thousand people attending the official conference these have been met with extreme. and criticism and as we've seen in the contradict it has never been. well that's simply not true.

it's been molecular weeklong d.n.a. cloning technologies it's been sequenced literally thousands of times from different individuals infected with the virus. simply isn't true it's never been isolated certainly. nor knows the virus causes of you know the first is also not true we know very well how each of you works the. talks that we saw 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 russia in particular was mentioned. valence of take in injecting drug users and

the need for 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 iss 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 from the governments of the different countries to provide this universal access to the hague hiv prevention treatment sarah first reporting there from now on the way here in our to . find out why the use of drones by the u.s. military keeps coming out of fire that's in just a few minutes. before the hour we go to indiana we're outraged parents are pushing

lawmakers to criminalize corporal punishment as news stories of abuse come to why despite being illegal physical penalties are still widely used by teachers in the country currency 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 rival has brought the practice out into the open a student at the prestigious martin here for boys school in kolkata who 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 while and i think he was so long as he was giving them individual. but if i may use the word he was able to take it but when they all descended on him with the same. thing. i don't think his young mind could have

that much animosity. elimination from his friends the school's principal has admitted killing rwanda but says this was not responsible for his. case has set off a public outcry largely because it occurred in one of india's most elite schools but most cases of corporal punishment take place in government run schools and go largely unrecorded ten year old monte is often beaten when he doesn't complete his homework on time. not a teacher tries to teach us but when we dumb 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 we addressed those issues putting the blame on

the child or hitting the child with a stick clearly doesn't solve any of this one either the child would become too used to this kind of punishment and the effect would go off or else the child who's very sensitive and anxious by previous position would feel very very vulnerable a supreme court judgment in two thousand. in order let's films in india but the habits die hard many teachers and even some parents still believe in the need for discipline. i believe movie making if your child doesn't do his homework even after reminding him repeatedly then we have to discipline them we don't want to hit 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 all of fifty children in the class teachers often resort to beating them to control the large numbers you hear words like 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 an 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 it be your kids there will be a monster who will take out his first mission on your own and you will not be able to save your child it's not open to discussion nobody has the. nobody you got to give them. to love not for some guy to beat them up one father's crusade for justice is bringing a spotlight on corporal punishment which is illegal but still common in indian

schools one wonders how many more children will have to suffer before more humane methods of disciplining them are enforced gotten thing r.t. . and sales of drones are taking off in a big way at a nationally raising fears that will lead to increased warfare peace activists claim the relatively cheap and easy access to the weapons can also potentially harm innocent civilians or he's going to chicago looks at the growing unmanned tranda the us and its consequences. they come out of the blue i have two words for you predator drugs. you 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 place 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 organizations which. like al qaida alitalia 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 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 play they're thousands of miles away and when they cause to structured they don't feel it here in washington d.c. stop burning but cia drone operator wakes up in the morning your family goodbye comes to the office and shoots a target thousands of miles away from here and going back home and no risk look forward to specialists say the whole operation reminds of b.t.o. getting the question many ask if it is so easy and convenient world of ours empty the way to move more into the future if war is cheap why not use the bit more pressure against the smaller countries and organizations such not a case you would try to sit around with

a table with and talk it over simon vets him and 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 wars demonstrators outside cia headquarters at the start of the year po tested 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 i can. r t washington d.c. . and savita era cosmonauts and american astronauts who flew the first international space mission are celebrating the flight's thirty fifth anniversary so it is a polar mission was the first joint space venture between the u.s. and the soviet union a mark and new era of cooperation well to talk more about the stork mission we're

now joined by correspondent sean thomas hello to you sean so this was quiet miles back down to man's exploration of space tell us more about it. well certainly thirty five years ago today. and the two cosmonauts a book board their soyuz station undock from the apollo station or the apollo command module that had tom stafford deeks leighton and vance fan of brands harvey brand vance it's just the name but those three astronauts were on board the apollo capsule and they said goodbye to each other and doing a six months of practice six months of training together it was indeed a milestone in fact when they actually got together it was the seventeenth of july they spent forty four hours in space they shook hands and space and it was a symbolic end to the space race that started when russia launched what make the first satellite into space and started the two countries in

a tense race as to who was going to conquer the domain of space this was a symbolic end but more than that it was also a chance for them to do scientific experiments together eat together in space as well as do some experiments on how these two units would dock in fact i had to build a special collar docky unit because the two crash were built by different countries they were meant to work together they had to build special equipment to make that happen and it all took place thirty five years ago from this moment in time and it is believed to be the first time that that started good positive relations between the two countries well it all sounds incredibly fascinating while you were telling us how it all happened there back than thirty five years ago but tell us how this event to celebrate it today. well today actually the surviving members of the apollo soyuz test project are going to be here at the museum the space museum in moscow they will be celebrated and there will be a party and people come to be able to ask them questions and they will have some

time to reminisce with the public and with each other about that historic event that really did ease the tensions between these two countries and that's all going to be taking place people are going to start arriving here the cosmonauts and astronauts are expected to arrive around four thirty this afternoon will shine can you say that what happened thirty five years ago approved to be sort of the catalyst to further collaboration between the two countries. well certainly in fact some people say it was the beginning of even the international space station but just more than just easing the relations they were to work together and space the two countries until twenty years later with the shuttle mir program where they did dock the space shuttle docked with the mir space station which was an officially announce as phase one phase two was the merging of the american space station program the freedom which they were going to be trying to build and the the new the mir two project they combine those two to start the beginning of the international

space station and it is believed that the practice of the technology and being able to work together in space thirty five years ago was the predecessor to the international space station which is it still in use today right sean thomas thanks very much indeed for bringing us the latest on the so use a poem mission which was the first space venture between the u.s. and the soviet union. and watching r.t. live from moscow now a grammy award winning russian pianist and conductor is appearing in court in thailand over child sex charges if found guilty may help lift me off could spend up to twenty years in jail earlier this month thai police detained the musician for allegedly raping a fourteen year old boy which he denies now falls and freedom bail to continue a world tour old oh he must appear at court hearings every twelve days the pianist claims his arrest was triggered by the detention of a time uses he knows who is suspected of involvement in a prostitution ring. now railway officials say fifty six people have died after

a moving train rammed into a stationary one in the eastern india dozens have been taken to hospital rescue workers are tempting to free those trapped in the wreckage for maintenance has been blamed for the rise in train collisions in the country. and seventeen people have been shot dead in timor one that this gunman opened fire at a party in northern mexico with the say the attackers arrived in several cars and started to shoot without a word many of the victims were young people and the region has recently seen a rise in drug related violence thought to be linked to competition between cartels . us a theory of state hillary clinton has unveiled aid projects for pakistan worth seven and a half billion dollars the package which focuses on water and an aid were announced at the start of diplomatic talks in the capital islamabad the five year deal was agreed by congress last year hope the project will help drum up support for the

u.s. fight against militants in the country. heavy rain and flooding have left twenty three dad and dozens missing in central china the worst hit areas remain under sea of water with dance reaching up to ten metres 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 and left forty missing. ok to bring us up to date here in our tea time now for the latest business we're in a time and we're hearing the state may soon raise taxes for the oil and gas sector and other extraction industries but the main opponent of the proposals russia's gal's probably the details in just a minute first our top story bulgaria and russia have signed a detailed preliminary agreement on the south stream gas pipeline after discussions concluded in varna the deal is a technical group map of how the two countries will move to the next step and it

will be to set up a joint company to study the visibility of the project it would provide the details for a legally binding contract gazprom is developing south stream to provide an alternative route for russian gas to europe its main partners in the project are in italian energy giant any and france's e.d.f. and in related news kazakhstan's president nursultan nazarbayev has accused the e.u. of not taking any steps toward realising the in the bluecoat project viewed as a competitor to sell stream the energy rich central asian country is also keen on securing his gas supplies to europe and assign additional routes. the government is heading for a potential showdown with the most important industrial sector of the russian economy it wants to raise taxes for a resource extractors including oil and metals the proposals being fiercely resisted by the energy of morning companies including gal's problem for more

details of joint alive by a response to the courts in the reporting from gal's farms have orders in moscow my idea so these plans have the industry up in arms what's the government actually proposing. well the government propose a new tax a tax treat him but this new tax regime is most likely to hit only only new filters and the biggest advocates of the new tax regime is of russia's finance minister aleksey quitting he argues that russia needs to raise its mineral extraction tax collecting as much as six billion dollars annually to plug the existing budget deficit well whatever he is ready to give some tax breaks to new resources to new industries and. those are in the mineral.

resources sector and when it comes to oil and gas companies he doesn't seem willing to budge. but russia's gal's prom is really fighting this proposal tooth and nail why does it think the changes will be so harmful to its business. well that's correct for gazprom opposes anything other but a minimum gas extraction tax it all gives that is capital extension program is huge and it needs all the cash it may get according to several experts we spoke to gasp rome scariest of the cabin by saying it may run into gas shortages if its capital extension program is cuts but if the states motivation sems clear it has to deal with the existing budget deficit and of the three khans for some sixty percent of us that the state budgets revenue well obviously things you touch him in russia is

going to be the biggest issue off through summer and we may see some intensive to bait on this very issue at the governmental meeting on june the thirtieth. thanks for the update artie's correspondent idea of course of reporting strong dollars problems have quarters in moscow. and let's now see how the equity markets are performing european shares a quiet i'll be there in our early trade and that's despite a downgrade of ireland's sovereign bond rating by moody's on monday british petroleum a shouting about two and a half percent of the concerns that the cow on the leaking oil well in the gulf of mexico is not as effective asked first talked. over to asia now and hong kong the hang seng closed down more than three quarters of a percent however and around one week a low this came after u.s. companies including bank of america and citigroup reported lower revenues and u.s.

consumer confidence dropped in japan the nikkei was closed due to a public holiday. and to the russian markets turned positive last hour the r.t.s. is now pretty much flops you positive while the my six is up more than a quarter percent and most of the blue chips are gaining on the r.t.s. . hungry as deaths is also topping it can all make headlines prompting investors to look for safer bets like gold to emmaus hurting european equities as some of them at least brush is managing to resist the pressure at least so far the earning season which is in full swing in the united states will continue to dominate times a month over the coming days but the results of the stress test of european banks will also be one of the major factors. b.b. could sell up to twelve billion dollars of assets by as soon as the end of july most assets from the sale would come from alaska and would help offset the cost of

the ongoing goals oil spill the british oil giant has been in talks with the pasha corp the us oil and gas extraction company since the end of june analysts believe the deal could be hashed out before be the post its half yearly earnings are due to be out on july the twenty seventh. and that's all the latest from the business team i'll do that for the update on about fifty minutes drive it out.

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welcome back to join us you're watching actually live from moscow and these are the headlines and during the death cycle human rights activists demand universal treatment for h.i.v. and aids sufferers that's the focus of an international aids conference in vienna where scientists are debating ways to eliminate treatment discrimination but patients say they should focus on finding it's more instead. all tablets die hard parents in india demand harsher penalties against each other in force and corporal punishment after a teenage will commit suicide following a beating though the government album logs that's in two thousand some insist it is the only way students learn. remote control war fear as a drone industry looms these campaigners near a surge in casualties and terrorism the claim they're relatively cheap and easy access to the weapons makes them more likely to end up in the wrong hands. well those are the headlines here.