the meeting our correspondents our first joins us from the austrian capital where it's all very well is it having a scientific meeting of minds such as this because everything actually expected to come out of it. well that's what everyone's here for to come up with a plan moving forward to actually see some results now we've seen already that funding's been a big topic a for the last couple of days and the says to being concerned some countries such as the u.s. is seen as perhaps we can ng their commitment to funding and now we've heard arguments such as hiv aids is they get funded these are being called false arguments is that there's really much much more that needs to be done there's still many people not receiving people here is taking a life saving treatment and this is another really big issue here is this access universal access to hate hiv prevention treatment now we've heard today of former u.s. president bill clinton speaking and he's called for the hiv aids organizations to

really ensure that their efficient in the delivery of their services rather than complaining and perhaps about the fact that there's not enough funding to ensure that money's not being wasted anywhere especially in light of the economic situation that many of the speakers having very powerful in the message and that's that everyone has a right to this treatment and health care shouldn't be an option at this dependent on a price tag and certainly that's what forms the basis of this conference this week is this issue of human rights that's focused on the human side of this and the the people involved who actually suffer from a child who how are they caught up are involved in all this. what we see in a couple of the protests that have happened here as the conference has been ongoing as he said the theme of this conference is right here right now so it's really focusing on this on an individual level and actually the organizers the surge the prerequisite of human rights that funds. mental human rights issues are address is

going to be the basis of what actually forms a successful response overall to the problem of hiv and aids so you see a lot of people are trying to get their voices heard and talking about the reality of living with the condition and what still needs to be done and of course in the days prior to the official conference we heard from the other side which is a great book for has challenging the official definition states and also the standard treatments the standard drugs treatments those according to question those saying that there are alternatives out there the people who have tried these alternative methods and that's maybe something that should be discussed that we've seen a bit of a conflict between the mainstream view on the way to approach the situation and the alternative great chief had their own opinion on that too i'm just going to give you some figures now that are come out of this conference is still we've had thirty three point four million people living with aids those two point seven million new infections every year two million deaths

a year and ten million people that are still waiting to receive treatment so if we started this this idea of human rights on the side of the statistics actually what we've been told is it every single one of these statistics every fact that we hear over the coming week these all represent an individual that is living with hiv and it's their reality so this issue of universal access still very much on everyone's minds everyone's head to deliver and we can hear now from my colleague first us he went to meet someone he's living with hiv. is hiv positive he's 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 h.i.v. in the world we're going to. have to leave with hiv and that involves a lot of difficult things not just physical but also a social and psychological sometimes some refused treatment. and i have to fight

against that while alexey 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 a virus and respite doesn't seem to be anywhere inside just yet. the main issue 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 an early they suppress the virus preventing it from spreading the person doesn't get aids 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 drugs used 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 calling it a pandemic but there are those who stand against this belief and are challenging the very fact we've come to accept as truth there is a well of a majority believe you should just follow i'm sorry to say science is not a majority vote science is a free competition of the best arguments and verifiable arguments it is very fact that there is no epidemic and it is very fiber of that today is just less talked.

then in the early ninety's and i would call for an open. test the best argument 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 peace conference i just hope that it will be made clear as to where we are to regarding the vaccine because we needed it yesterday. r.t. moscow you know with the way. find out why the use of drone military keeps coming under fire in a few minutes. to india now where outraged parents are

pressuring lawmakers to criminalize corporal punishment as news stories of abuse come to light despite being illegal physical penalties are still widely used by teachers in the country parents saying how. this is one of india's worst kept secrets the prevalence of corporal punishment in schools but the recent suicide of a thirteen year old rival has brought the practice out into the open a student at the prestigious law mart near four boys school in kolkata hanged himself at home earlier this year after being gained at school after spending months just in 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 lynne i think he was so long as he was giving them 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 day i don't thing. i don't think is young man could have

that much animosity. elimination from his friends the school's principal has admitted killing ranjeet but says this was not responsible for his will say 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. that the teacher tries to teach us but when we don't 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 two issues putting the blame on the child or hitting the child with

a stay clearly doesn't solve any press 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 visits. would feel very very vulnerable a supreme court judgment in two thousand prohibited punishment in early firms in india but the habits die hard many teachers and even some parents still believe in the need for discipline. but believe me like if a 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 a rough fifty children in their class teachers often resort to beating them to control their 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 in inverted commas control the class or discipline 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 do 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 bringing the spotlight on to 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 got and seeing are to. the cold war superpowers are might have had disagreements on the ground but it's a different case we bring you more on the first ever joint venture just a few minutes time. so drones are taking off in a big way internationally raising fears that would lead to increased warfare or peace activists claim the relatively cheap in the z. access to the weapons could also potentially harm innocent civilians. as you can next to the growing army man trend in the u.s. and its consequences. the comma 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 can he say sions 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. like ok you know the taliban and you go off the persians you say hey we suspect we say they are terrorists who have proven that the first direction 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 plane they're thousands of miles away and when they cause to structure they don't feel it here in washington d.c. suburb. the i draw an operator wake up in the morning the family goodbye comes to the office and through the target thousands of miles away from here i'm going back home no risk or co-worker's specialist say the whole operation reminds the media

the question many ask is if it is so easy and convenient world of our m.p.'s we move more in the future or worse cheap why not use the before trash against the smaller countries and organizations to show it all the cash it would try to sit around with the cable with and talk it over simon vet saman has produced the 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 moore's 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 again r. t. washington d.c. . also video calls mills an american astronauts who flew the first international

space mission to celebrating the flight of. three the soyuz apollo mission with the first joint space center between the u.s. on the soviet union a moment a new era of cooperation across almost tell us where pools on the historic mission . thirty five years ago today. and the two cosmonauts a book board their soyuz station undock from the apollo command module that had tom stafford deeks leighton and brandon vance those three astronauts were on board the apollo capsule and they said goodbye to each other ending six months of practice six months of training together it was indeed a milestone in fact when they actually got together it was at 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 had to build a special collar docking 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 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. now russian billionaire is taking a legal line against christie's auction house after allegedly sold

a forged work of art exhibits and were painting believed to be by the russian artist but is good for two point six million dollars back in two thousand and five he's now demanding a refund i'm joined by our senior editor of news website for his it takes on this extraordinary story really what. are these accusations being based on why is it to me this is affecting well when he brought his painting back to russia in two thousand and six it was looked over by a leading russian gallery doesn't name which gallery this is concluded that it was belonging to the brush of an unknown artist and it represents a deliberate reproduction of one of custodians favorite things this isn't quite as unusual as it sounds there are many reproductions of custodians works. by the treaty called gallery but they are usually labelled as reproductions or copies of rather than a work like

a studio and how is christie's responded to the legal proceedings well it started out in two thousand and six when. went back for what you might call a polite words. christie said they would carry out an internal investigation so far this hasn't generated any results or at least not results which of satisfied. over the weekend he's launched this legal writs presumably to force their hands to get them into a courtroom and thrash it out so we've not had any clarification from the part of christie's to say whether this is a reproduction as opposed to an original so far all they've said is that this is a matter that taken very seriously and they will investigate it accordingly but it seems this is been said quite a few times and is there a danger that this case could damage christie's worldwide reputation as as a leading specialist in russian all odds well clearly it won't help if they are found to have to think on the other hand. there have been a number of scandals in the art world over the past several hundred years almost as

long as people have been painting and. christie's and so these are both come through price fixing scandals in the past so it won't put them out of business but obviously it will have a knock on effect on how credible they are particular in this market particularly in this market. tell us more about the man behind this story fix the victim well he's best known for his business interests he's a major shareholder and think of b.p. but he's also a longstanding enthusiast for russian arts he's spent a lot of time purchasing russian art which is going abroad and trying to bring it back home he has the world's largest private collection of publisher eggs which he exhibited in moscow in two thousand and seven and he also footed the bill to return the donal of ministry bells which were harvard university in the states i think they came out to moscow about two years ago. so he's a lot of his art dealings for the good of russia do you think i'm sure he will tell

you that's part of what he is doing. and it's a way of using some of his wealth to. to support the country and bring back some of what was lost particularly the immediate post here to be interesting to see how this story develops phenomenon de paul sr as of the mosque in his website many thoughts they thought thank you. now railway officials say over sixty people have died after a train ran dangerous stationary while in eastern india hundreds have been taken to hospital with injuries rescue workers are attempting to free those trapped in the wreckage this is being blamed for the rise in train collisions in the country. seventeen people have been shot dead and wounded as a gunman opened fire at a policy in northern mexico when this is say the attackers are wrong in several calls from the songs to shoot without a word many of the victims that were young people or the region has recently seen

a rise in drug related violence to be linked to competition between cartels. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton have on veiled aid projects. seven of the hall billion dollars package which focuses on water energy and aids were announced at the summit of didn't write it talks in the capital islamabad a five year deal was agreed by congress last year it's hoped the project will help draw up support for the u.s. fight against militants in the country. a sign of religious business news with a touch a day go away. it's twenty three minutes past two pm in the russian capital year with the business program on our team all year i am russia signed a detailed preliminary agreement on the south stream gas pipeline after discussions

concluded and varma the deal is a technical road map of how the two countries will move forward the next step 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 self dream to provide an alternative route for russian gals to europe its main partners in the project are an italian energy company eddy and france's india. the government is heading for a potential showdown with the most important industrial sector in the russian economy it wants to raise taxes for resource extractors including oil gas and metals companies but energy and mining firms especially gazprom a fiercely resisting the proposal for more detail i'm now joined by i first want to muddy the question of from gals problems have quarters here in moscow. ideas so

these plans have got the industry up in arms what is the government actually proposing. well the new tax proposal is most likely to tall gate the new fildes and one of the biggest and because of the new tax regime is a russian spy nanse minister aleksey couldn't he argues that russia needs to raise its a mineral extraction tax collecting as much as six billion dollars annually to plug the existing budget deficit however he isn't ready to give some tax breaks to new industries and those outside of mineral resources but when it comes to oil and gas he doesn't seem willing to budge. but russia's dallas brum is fighting the proposal to thumbnail why does it think these changes would be so harmful to its business. well that's correct russia's gas giant opposes anything other than a minimal gas extraction tax it argues that this capsule extension program is huge

and it needs only because it may get us according to several acts rates we spoke to gazprom scares the cabinet by saying it may run into gas shortages if its capital extension program is cuts beds of these states motivation since clear it has to do something with the existing budget deficit and the energy sector economy for some sixty percent of the state budgets revenue burden according to chris with a friend who will see the gas tax for it will be the hardest hit by the proposed tax. our sense is that the end of this process we will see almost no changes to the oil taxation regime. i wrote to the small increase to the gas extraction tax and probably more significant increases in the taxation of companies in the mining. fertiliser view of the extractive industries that we

believe with the end of this and if this process. obviously the new tax regime in by she's going to be the biggest story after summer and we may see some intensive debate on this very issue at the governmental meeting later own julie just thirty. thanks a lot for the updates on the courtroom of business our reporting from gals proms have orders. a lot so i'll check out the equity markets european shares a quite a bit in early trading despite a downgrade of ireland's sovereign bond rating by moody's on monday the footsie and the dax are gaining around each british petroleum a shedding value though one of the songs on the leaking oil well in the gulf of mexico is not as a practical sparks thought. and the rush of our kids are higher in afternoon trading the r.t.s. and the my sex are up more than forty percent and one hundred percent respectively most of the blue chips are gaining on the r.t.s.

except for draws nafta and banks preferred shares hungary's debt is topping incoming headlines prompting investors to look for safer bets like gold that usually hurts equities but russia is managing to resist the pressure so far the earning season is in full swing in the united states it will continue to dominate the sentiment over the coming days but the results of the stress test of european banks will also be a major factor. and that's all we have time for and the citizen of business my colleague daniel books so will bring you all the latest about this to talk about.

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