leaders failing in their promises to do more to treat people with a child the criticism comes during the aids conference which is underway in vienna calling for an end to treatment discrimination is there for. but you see already the funding's been a big topic of the last couple of days and the certainly 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 and 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 really big issue here is this access universal access to hate hiv prevention treatment now we've heard today a former u.s. president bill clinton speaking and he's called to the hague has been a slogan i say shit to really ensure that there is sufficient in the delivery of

the 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 what 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 so it's really focusing on this on an individual level and actually organizes the studds 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 definition state of it 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 the. 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 represents an individual that is living with hiv and it's their reality so universal access still very much in everyone's minds that. we can hear now from my colleague. he went to meet someone he's living with hiv and. 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 refuse treatment and i have to fight against doubt 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 a virus and rest 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. a.z.t. a type of antiretroviral drugs used for the. 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 that teen 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. the 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 very feibel arguments it is verifiable

that there is no epidemic and it is very fiber 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 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 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. well corporal punishment in schools may seem like an out of date disappearing tool but it india is still widely used despite being banned for a decade and of charan singh reports claims that teachers are being violent towards

children right. 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 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 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 the order descended on him at the same time the thing. i don't think is young man could have that much animosity. mission from his friends the school's principal

has admitted killing rules but says this was not responsible for his. case to 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 mounties often beaten when he doesn't complete his homework on time. 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 we address two issues. putting the blame on the child or hitting the child with a stick clearly doesn't solve any of those 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 would feel very very vulnerable supreme court judgment in two thousand. in early films in india habits die hard many teachers and even some parents still believe in the need for discipline. but believe me if your 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 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 log in st there's no debate if you let people hear your kids there will be a monster who called his frustration. and you will not be able to save your child. it's not a good discussion nobody has the. nobody you god give them. to love not for some go to beat them up one for justice is the spotlight on the corporal punishment which is a very good still call morning in good schools one wonders how many more children will have to suffer before more humane methods of disciplining them are inforced got and seeing. on the way see america's appointed for you planes

all under fire. sales of booming for the u.s. military's deadly robot war machines and that's got peace side to this seriously worried find out why in a few minutes. the first soviet era called north american astronauts to fly on a joint international space mission are celebrating the flight's thirty fifth anniversary the soyuz apollo project malt anywhere of cooperation between the superpower rivals sean thomas who's out the mosque a space museum explains. the two countries were fiercely battling each other for control over space and this was the mission that ended that conflict and started a cooperated 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 the two teams the team of three with dick slayton tom stafford and then also vance brand from united states and then in the united states soften leonov 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 specifically one of the things that they did was they actually used at 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 went on their ways but again very important in symbolism between the two countries and starting

a new era of relations well incredibly significant from a country relations standpoint how it's been 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 and 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. a russian billionaire is suing christie's auction house for. a fake. take to fix paid ninety three million. in dollars this paper with bells and and five it's called odalisque and was thought to be by russian artist but is there an easy on your screens now but it is there the several russian art experts have concluded a forgery now wants his money back as well as damages from christie's on the

grounds of misrepresentation and negligence and the senior editor of the moscow news website says this could seriously affect christie's credibility we should all . christie said they would carry out an internal investigation but this hasn't generated any results or at least not results which of. over the weekend he's launched this legal credulity to force them to get them into a courtroom and thrash it out so far all they've said is that this is a must the taking very seriously and they will investigate it accordingly clearly it won't help if they are found to sell the thing 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 from painting. 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. or cells of

drones are taking off in a big way internationally raising fears that will lead to increased their peace activists that claim the relatively cheap and easy access to the weapons could also potentially harm innocent civilians are these danny did you can mix into the growing trend in the us and its consequences. the comment out of the blue i have two words for you predator drones. you will never see it coming a drone least 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 open 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 i delegate colleague bob and you go off to push and you say day we suspect we say they are terrorists but who has proof that the person you're actually targeting the 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 they're thousands of miles away. when they caused the structure they don't feel it here in washington d.c. suburb but the are a drone operator wake up in the morning family goodbye come to the office and shoot at target thousands of miles away from here and go back home no risk or forward especially say the whole operation reminds the media ok the question many ask is if it is so easy and convenient world that our m.p.'s always move in the future if war is cheap why not use that before especially against a smaller countries and organizations stretch it out of it would try to sit around with a table which would pull it over simon vets' him and 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 she can. r t washington d.c. . hispanic groups in the u.s. are calling for reform of the country's immigration system and an end to unjust policies as human rights activist jorge ramos tells. 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 fortunately 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 response from crime to unemployment and it's simply not for. the full interview with a whole. just over an hour's time for a method now a grammy award winning russian pianist and conductor is apparent in court in thailand on sex child charges if found guilty he. could spend up to twenty years in jail well earlier this month the thai police detained the musician for allegedly raping a fourteen year old boy which he denies was then freed on bail to continue a world tour although demonstrably

a court hearings every twelve days the pianist claims his arrest was triggered by the tension of a time musician he knows who suspected of involvement in the child prostitution ring. now to small but international news at this hour and more than sixty people have been killed in a bar hundred injured as a passenger train hit a stationary one in eastern india the cause of the crash is not yet clear poor maintenance is the blame for the rise in train collisions in the country it's the second major railway incident in the west bank this. here in maine nearly one hundred fifty died when a passenger train derailed and was hit by a freight train was rebels deny claims they sabotage the trial. b.p. says all will which is the word to be seeping from the ocean floor in the gulf of mexico may not be related to its blown out well now it's called the biggest spill in u.s. history american officials are allowing the company to continue with its tests on

the capped well for another twenty four hours earlier he was asked is that mr plan to reopen the well because of the possibility of a leak nearby and no pressure readings well b.p. hopes to keep the cap in place isn't the first time the flow of been standing three months. gunman have stormed a birthday party in northern mexico killing seventeen people and injuring over a dozen others witnesses say the attackers arrived in several cars and started shooting randomly without saying a word more than two hundred bullet casings have been found out the scene police are linking the massacre of the country's long running drugs war which is kills more than twenty six thousand people over the last four years. that is the way the news this hour here on r.t. don't go away there we go to the latest business diesel the way now it down you know it is either dissolved in the hands of the farmers a warning that this summer heat wave we're going through it could make food more

expensive. it's in the panic button off the record high temperatures across the country the details in our program but first this hour the government is heading for a potential showdown with a key industrial sector in the russian economy it wants to raise taxes to resource extractors including oil metals companies but energy and mourning firms especially . the resisting the proposal our correspondent in a culture of reports from the gas giants headquarters in moscow. the state aim is to raise enough capital to plot the big this thing budget deficit and the target is the mineral resources sector which is the most established in the russia's economy while the biggest. tax regime is the russia's finance minister alex they couldn't that russia needs to raise its mineral extraction tax by the wrong time to fifteen percent but he also willing to keep some tax breaks for the industry when it comes to oil and gas companies but he doesn't seem to be ready for any compromise and the

russians just joined just this decision may cost the wrong twelve billion dollars and maybe that's why the gas company imposes a new thing other than a minimum guest extraction tax it urges this capital expenditure is huge and it needs all the cash it may get well according to several analysts we spoke to gazprom scares the cabinet by saying it may run into gas shortages if its capital expenditure cuts well the state much of a chanst they have to do something with the existing budget deficit and according to chris we will see the states it is most likely to push its proposed tax plan without any objections we believe that the finance ministry if you will prevail they will try and increase the tax take from extra industries in general and look to give some tax breaks into industries new industries that the government wants to grow such as technology 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 well this dispute has the potential to deepen and it's most likely he's going to be the subject of a new tuns debate at the governmental meeting later on july thirtieth. in trade energy stocks are rising as the process. like gold holds near seventy six dollars a barrel hungary's that is topping economic headlines prompting investors to look for safe bets like precious metals but usually home but russia is resisting the pressure so 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 tests of european banks would be a factor. and european shares are edging up as they move into the second half of the day that's despite the downgrade of oil and sovereign bond ratings by moody's

on monday b.p.'s shedding value on concerns the cap on the leaking oil well in the gulf of mexico is not as effective as first told. gary a rush of science detail preliminary agreement on the south stream gas pipeline 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 the feasibility of the project it would provide the details for a legally binding contract from the developing south stream as an alternative route for russian gas to europe its main partners in the project are italian energy giant any and france's e.d.f. and the related news now stands president nursultan nazarbayev has accused the e.u. of not taking any steps towards realizing the nuclear project seen as a competitor to south stream the energy rich central asian state is also keen on securing its gas supplies to europe and additional routes russia's hottest summer

for a century could have far reaching economic consequences russia's grain union says the poor harvest due to the drought could push up inflation by as much as two percent many of the country may overshoot its target of seven percent due to the extreme weather russia has already lost one fifth of its grain crops with nineteen farming regions announcing a state of emergency which prices have risen by almost twenty five percent in the last two weeks for the both of russia's grain union says the price hikes are being driven more by fear than fundamentals. that it all depends on psychological factors at the moment there are no fundamental reasons for the green price to rise we have enough reserves and our balance is ok but he is committed to be up to twelve billion dollars of assets as early as this month most would come from the sale in alaska and to help offset the cost of the gulf oil spill the british john has been in talks with the patchi corporation a u.s. oil and gas exploration company since the end of june believe that

a deal could be arranged before b.p. post half yearly earnings on july twenty seventh. that's the latest the last stories on our website altie dot com slash business and join us in fifty minutes time for more.

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