well he made the statement at the ongoing aids conference in vienna which is calling for an end to treatment discrimination sarah firth is there for us. but you see already the funding's been a big topic of the last couple of days and this thirty being concerned that some countries such as the us is seen as perhaps we can in 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 treatments and this is another very big issue here is this access universal access to his hiv prevention treatment and now we've heard today a former u.s. president bill clinton speaking and he's called for the hiv and aids organizations to really ensure that there is sufficient 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 specially in light of the economic situation that many of the speakers have been very powerful in the message and that's that everyone has a right to this treatment and health care shouldn't be an option 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 is really focusing on this on an individual level and actually the organizers have said that the prerequisite of human rights that fundamental human rights issues are addressed is going to be the basis of what actually forms a successful response overrule 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 perhaps challenging the official definitions page of venus and also the standard treatments the standard drugs treatments those are called into

question though saying that there are alternatives out there the people who have tried these alternative methods and that's maybe something that should be. so we've seen a bit of a conflict between the mainstream view on the way to approach the situation and the alternative. in opinion on that every fact that we hear over the coming week this all represent an individual that is living with hiv and it's their reality so universal access still very much on everyone's minds that's what everyone's deliver and we can hear now from my colleague. he went to meet someone he's living with hiv and. alexi bullock 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 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 i refuse 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 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 drugs. for the treatment of hiv and aids joan shandon of the 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 and 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 facts 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 it's a free competition of the best arguments and verifiable arguments it is verifiable that there is no epidemic and it is very far of that today is just less toxic than

in the early ninety's 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 of the moment. 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 regarding the vaccine because we needed it yesterday. r.t. moscow. you know with the aussie on the way. why the use of drones by the us military keeps coming on the fire box in a few minutes. to india now where wages parents are pushing

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 counseling. this is one of india's worst kept secrets the prevalence of corporal punishment in schools but the recent suicide of thirteen year old dr laura 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 limiting he was so long as he was giving them individual. battling 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 think. i don't think his young mind could handle that much animosity. illumination from his friends the school's principal has admitted killing ranjeet but says this was not responsible for his. case to 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 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 previous visits. i would feel very very vulnerable a supreme court judgment in two thousand prohibited polish went in or lots firms in india but it would have its die hard many teachers and even some parents still believe in the need for discipline. but believe me 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 all of 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 an 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 log in st there's no debate if you let people hear your kids there will be a monster who will take out his frustration 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 the 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 got and seeing. on the cold war superpowers might have had disagreements on the ground in space we'll bring you more on their first ever joint venture in just a few minutes time. sales of drones are taking off in a big way internationally raising fears that would lead to increased warfare peace activists claim the relatively cheap and easy access to the weapons could also potentially harm innocent civilians. can mix into the growing on man trend in the u.s. 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 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 with a colleague bob and you go off to push and you say day we suspect we say they are terrorists who have 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 groans 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 structured they don't feel it here in washington d.c. suburb but the on a drone operator wakes up in the morning the family goodbye comes to the office and shoots a target thousands of miles away from here and go back home no risk or pull whatever

specialist say the whole operation reminds the media ok the question many ask is if it is so easy and convenient we'll get our m.p. away to 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 the cable were to get 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 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 gonna shake out. r t washington d.c.

. soviet era called the north american astronauts who flew the fuss international space mission authentic race in the flight. three the thirty's upon a mission with the first. between the u.s. and the union a new era of cooperation. thomas reports on the historic mission well that wasn't what they were hearing the car in all of the moon landings was there but does it rank in terms of the space exploration. well it certainly does alice and mainly as a symbol that ended the space race between the soviet union and the united states up until that point the two or since the launch of sputnik rather the two countries were fiercely battling each other for control over space and this was the mission that ended that conflict and started a cooperate of an era in space in fact the two space agencies had to build a special module that would connect these two craft one designed by the united

states the apollo module and the soyuz module together so that they could actually dock in space and it would be two teams the team of three with deeks lady tom stafford and then also vance brand from united states and then in the united states cuba softly and off from the u.s.s.r. they all work together for six months and then they went in space on july seventeenth they docked and spent forty four hours together conducting experiments eating together and doing things together is specifically one of the things that they did was they actually use that the apollo module from the united states and maneuvered it in front of the sun so that the u.s.s.r. could take pictures of the sun for scientific research so really working together and starting a brand new era in space exploration and it was thirty five years ago today that those two ships left each other then the soyuz model spent an extra five days in space the apollo module spent another nine days in space and they were. on the ways

but again very important in symbolism between the two countries and starting a new era of relations which will take us back in time now if you would just how significant was this event would you say five years ago and how is it being. today . well incredibly significant from a country relations standpoint how it's being marked today is the prime minister vladimir putin has actually met with the surviving members of both of the teams the cosmonauts and the astronauts and the astronauts are actually coming here to the cosmonaut memorial museum where they will be celebrated they will have a chance to reminisce shake hands once again and be together and kind of relive that historic moment for people and of course a little celebration afterwards as well and what impact did it in terms of collaboration. well thirty five years ago it was the first time these two countries work together in space they would work together again until the shuttle mir program when the actual u.s. space shuttle docked with the mir space station which was the beginning they called

that phase one of the actual international space station which they called phase two which they combined the american idea for a new freedom space station with the mir to project and that was the very beginning of the international space station which is still in use today in fact the u.s.s.r. the united states being the two leading countries it was pushing that project forward so very important in terms of getting the countries together but also nowadays a lot of our work in space is done on the international space station in this mission thirty five years ago was what led the way to that happening maybe that was the last season. a russian billionaire is taking legal action against christie's auction house. picked out of a board a painting believed to be by the russian else's but as for two point six million

dollars five well he's now demanding a refund and senior editor website says the case could affect christie's credibility with russia. christie said they were chaos an internal investigation but this hasn't generated any results or at least not results which of satisfied. over the weekend he's launched this legal brit presumably to force their hands to get them into a courtroom and thrash it out so far all they've said is that this is a mass that taken very seriously and they will investigate it accordingly clearly it won't help if they are found to have to sell the painting on the other hand they're helping 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. about was

a senior editor of the mosque in news website and well way official say over sixty the whole. train rammed into a stationary one in eastern india more than one hundred people have been taken to hospital with injuries rescue workers are attempting to free those trapped in the wreckage poor maintenance has been blamed for the winds and training conditions in the country. seventeen people have been shot dead and wounded as a gunman opened fire at a policy in northern mexico where this is a say the attack is a real i did several calls and stones to shoot with the words many of the victims were young people the region has recently seen a rise in drug related violence thought to be linked to competition between calls house. and u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has also aid projects that seven billion dollars package which focuses on water energy and aids were announced at the summit of

diplomatic talks in the capital islamabad the five year deal was agreed by congress last year it's hoped the projects will help draw up support for the u.s. fight against militants in the country. heavy rain and flooding have left twenty three. missing in central china areas remain under a sea of debt. up to ten metres would be 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. later in the hour guess to take a look at how countries are dealing with the financial crisis and which model of governance is the most effective before that though as your belief is the update from daniel. well into business the top story this hour the government is heading for

a potential showdown with the most important industrial sector in the russian economy it wants to raise taxes for results to extract this including oil and metals companies but energy and money firms especially gazprom fiercely resisting the proposal for more details i'm joined by our correspondent in a coaching over from guess from quarters here in moscow. now with the aim of these kinds of good the industry apre norms what is the government actually proposing. well the new tax proposal is most likely to target new builds and one of the biggest now because of the new tax regime is so russia's finance minister alex equal didn't hear it just that russia needs to raise this minnow extraction tax collecting as much as six billion dollars annually to pull up at the existing budget deficit however he is ready to give some tax breaks to other industries like high tech for example and to some others outside of mineral resources but when it comes to oil and gas companies he doesn't assume willing to budge.

from his fortune the proposal tooth and nail why does it think the changes will be so hopeful to its business. well that's correct it's going to be a bit home because the state plans to raise the existing tax by around town to fifteen percent and for a company like me may cost around a loved one billion dollars you see a year and of course gas poses anything other than the minimum tax the minimum tax expansion the minimum gas extension tax excuse me eat argues. is going up that's. it argues that is the capital expenditure you say you need. and it needs all the cost it may get we spoke to several analysts and they all say that gas from scares the cabinet by saying that it may run into gas shortages if this capital expenditure is cut will it be calvinists not savation since clear it

has to do something with the existing capital with the existing budget deficit and . you know for sixty percent of the state budget revenue but we for for all we all see this is most likely to push through the proposed tax regime despite all the objectives. we believe that the finance ministry view will prevail as they will try and increase the tax take from extractive industries in general and look to give some tax breaks into industries new industries that the government wants to grow such as technology and pharmaceuticals i'm sort of the food and i. believe that's what we're going to see it's just going to be a question of what the balance in extractive industries is going to be. obviously the new tax regime in russia is going to be the biggest issue after the summer and we may see some in-town see if debate on this very issue at the governmental

meeting later on july thirtieth. our correspondent. reporting from goes from headquarters thank you very much for. stopping. edging further into the black in the afternoon energy stocks are rising as the price of the black gold holds near seventy six dollars a barrel hungary's debt is topping economic headlines prompting investors to look for safe bets like gold but usually her with ease but russia is resisting the pressure so far the earning season in full swing in the united states will continue to dominate sentiment over the coming days but the results of the stress test of european banks will also be a factor. and europe european shares a quite upbeat in early trade that this point a downgrade of ireland sovereign bond rating by moody's on monday b.p. is shedding value on concerns the cap on the leaking oil well in the gulf of mexico is not as effective a first thought. of signed a detailed preliminary agreement on the gas pipeline that there 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 the feasibility of the project paper provide the details for a legally binding contract from the developing gulf stream to void and the return to route the russian gas to europe its main partners in the project their italian energy giant any and france's e.d.f. and in related news kazakstan president nursultan nazarbayev has accused the e.u. of not taking any steps towards realizing the project he does a competitor to south stream the energy rich central asian countries also keen on securing its gas supplies to europe and the additional routes. and b.p. could sell up to twelve billion dollars of assets as early as this month's most us that's from the sale with come from alaska and help offset the cost of the own going gulf oil spill the brits has been in talks with apache corp a u.s. oil and gas exploration company since the end of june and this believe that the

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