r.t. live from moscow i'm alice habits international activists lashing out at world leaders fall failing in their promises to do more to treat people with h.i.v. the criticism comes during the aids conference which is underway in vienna calling for an end to treatment discrimination is there for us. 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 for the head hiv and 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 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 so it's really focusing on this on an individual level and actually be organized. 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 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 perhaps challenging the official definitions page of us 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 discussed. a bit of a conflict there between the mainstream view on the way to approach the situation and the alternative. 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 . 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. 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 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 drug use for the treatment. 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 a zen that is well documented so it extruding really 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 those who are well over 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 fallible arguments it is very 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 the best arguments organizers of the eighteenth international aids conference being held this week in vienna see it's a gathering of individuals committed to ending what they've classified as a pandemic for alexei he'd rather not get his hopes up all he wants are the facts. i don't expect to see any breakthrough in this conference i just hope that it will be made clear as to where we are regarding the vaccine because we needed it yesterday. r.t. moscow i. want to talk more about the if you we're now joined live from vienna by gregory adams from oxfam america miss out of many thanks for joining us now world

leaders are being criticized than they out this for failing to provide enough money but millions of dollars are being spent on treatment programs so where do you see the problem. well the scale of the crisis obviously dwarfs the money that has already been spent and there is a need for more resources but part of the problem is that too often we've taken an approach that focuses just going treatment without investing in the health systems you actually need to deliver treatment donor countries are not going to be able solve the hiv crisis on their own what we need to be doing is working with poor countries who are not able right now to address their own challenges to be able to build the infrastructure they need to fight hiv and aids head on while talking about the infrastructure of some of those more deprived areas the number of people getting treatment has risen sharply over the policy a house especially in africa which is the focus really for

a child the programs but how well policed would you say all the day nations to ensure that medication gets to the people who really need it that. part of the question is who is actually going to do this policing and when there is a focus on donors being the authority that countries are accountable to you sometimes weaken the accountability that they have to their own citizens the ideal is that every government needs to be accountable to its own citizens and every citizen within this country has a right to demand health care from their government and from their society it's less a question of how countries decide to tackle their health care challenges it's about are we providing or are we supporting the effort of citizens to hold their governments accountable to make sure that those governments are responding to the crisis in a responsible way so. just to coal is she's also a playing up in this worldwide academic but let's talk about the treatment i know

you said that it's all enough just to focus on but is channeling funds in your opinion for retroviral treatment the only effective way to combat aids all should some broader measures also be taken. yes it is it is an effective way but it is not the only effective way and it cannot exist in a vacuum if you have an entire strategy that is based on donor supported delivery of pharmaceuticals without building the health systems the doctors the nurses the system that actually supports health in the country you're not setting yourself up to get ahead of the crisis you know one of the presentations we heard earlier discussed the hope of hiv vaccine coming in the near future have we really invested what we need to invest in the infrastructure to be able to deliver that vaccine effectively when it arrives on the scene it's

obviously all our hope that we will have a breakthrough but we need to lay the groundwork and have the infrastructure capable of deploying that breakthrough effectively otherwise we're going to find ourselves in the same trap where we're chasing hiv aids problem with a resources in a strategy that is incapable of actually getting ahead of the crisis very very discussions coming out of the aids conference underway in vienna gregory adams of america many thanks and speaking to us from vienna. now corporal punishment in schools may seem like an allergy date disciplining tool but in india it's still widely used in that's despite being bound for decades and as karen said reports the eck lames that teaches that being violent to children all 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 law 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 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 thing. i don't think is young men 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 suicide 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 goal largely unrecorded ten year old mounties often beaten when he doesn't complete his all merch on time. teacher and tries to teach us but when we don't learn cheats 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 really doesn't solve any. 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. in early firms in india but

habits die hard many teachers and even some parents still believe in the need for discipline. but believe me like 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 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 do your kids there will be a monster. called his frustration. and you will not be able to save your child. it's not open to discussion nobody has that they could but your charity nobody your god give them. to love not for some go to beat them up one father's crusade for justice is the spotlight on the corporal punishment which is illegal but still call money 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 are to do that on the way soon america's pilot for the planes are under fire. for the us is military deadly roebourne when the machines announce goal peace

scientists seriously worry and find out why in a few minutes. the first us soviet era calls minerals an american astronauts to fly on a joint international space mission are celebrating the flights of thirty fifth anniversary the soyuz apollo project a new era of cooperation between the superpower rivals homelessness up 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 slate and tom stafford and then also vance brand from united states and then in the united states.

from the u.s.s.r. they all work together for six months and then they went in space on july seventeenth and 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 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 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 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. sales of drones the taking off in a big way internationally raising fears that would lead to increased warfare that the relatively cheap and easy access to the weapons could also potentially home and instance the finian's. you can it's the growing on man trend in the u.s. and its consequences. the comma out of the blue i have two words for you predator dragons i will never see it coming a drone is ten times cheaper than a fighter jet it requires no pilot so there are no troop deaths to explain it's the

perfect weapon for covered cia operations in countries like pakistan and afghanistan if things go wrong you can deny it all ways 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 i'm like ok you know that ali baba and you go off the persians you say hey we suspect we say they are terrorists but who has proved 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 where they cause to structured they don't feel it here in washington d.c. suburbs. cia drone operator wakes up in the morning the family goodbye comes to the office and through the target thousands of miles away from here and go back home no risk or the workers police say the operation reminds the media ok the question many ask is if it is so easy and convenient we'll get our m.p.'s we move toward you

or worse cheap why not use the people trish against the smaller countries and organizations to shut it off because she would try to ship iraq with a cable with a corporate over simon vets him and has produced a research report on druce 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 protested against indiscriminate killings by unmanned weaponry they say that rather than winning wars drones merely make more enemies by killing mostly innocent people rather than quelling insurgency gonna shake on our t. washington d.c. . but our small the international news making headlines at this hour and more than sixty killed and over one hundred injured is the house to train hit

a stationary want moved in india because of the crash is not yet clear with poor maintenance husband playing for the wrong lanes of train collisions in the country it's the second major roadway incident in west bengal this year in maine nearly one hundred fifty died when a passenger train derailed and was hit by a freight train was rebels that denied claims they set up as holmes the truck. u.s. officials are allowing b.p. to keep the cap on its ruptured oil well in the gulf of mexico for the day it's only condition that the company continues to monitor the ocean floor with what engineers fear may be a new leak see. it was found near the well which could mean problems with the cap that was fitted last week he was earlier also submit a plan for removing the cap which was believed to have stem the flow of oil for the first time in the three months since the explosion on the rig. ten minutes from now however greg's reluctant america can help the united states even though they face

stricter controls but first let's check the nation's business news with. welcome to business the russian government is heading for a potential showdown with the key industrial sector in the national economy it wants to raise taxes for brazil six truck there's including oil and gas companies but. especially gazprom refused to resisting the proposal correspondent culture a report from the headquarters in moscow. the state aim is to raise enough capital to plot the big just being budget deficit and the target is the mineral resources sector which is the most established in the russia's economy well the biggest. new tax regime is the russia's finance minister alex they couldn't purchase that russia needs to raise its mineral extraction tax by the wrong time to fifty percent but he also willing to keep some tax breaks industries i'm still willing to give up

companies but it doesn't seem to be ready to compromise and russia does just this decision may cost around twelve billion dollars and maybe that's why the gas company imposes a new thing other than a minimum of gas extraction tax it purchased 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. chris we will see this state is most likely to push its proposed tax plan we believe that the finance ministry. will prevail in other words 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 pharmaceuticals i'm sort of the food and culture industries alternately we 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 deep and it's most likely it's going to be subject. bait at the governmental meeting later on july just. to check out the stock markets now wall street has got off to a positive start to the week. up halliburton has added to the generally strong u.s. reporting season eighty three percent rise in second quarter profit. russia remains higher and often in trade. fourteen hundred more where energy stocks are rising as the process of oil holds near seventy six dollars a barrel is topping economic headlines however prompting investors to look for safe bets like gold usually. has resisted the pressure so far the earning season in the

united states will continue to dominate sentiment over the coming days as well as the results of the stress tests of european banks. and european shares a holding in positive territory in the afternoon despite the. gratings moody's on monday p.p. is shedding value. on the leaking oil well in the gulf of mexico is not as effective as first thought. in our business or to exclusive industry siemens says it can help russia. goal of cutting energy use by fifty percent within a decade europe's top engineering group has declared war on corruption in the company three years ago siemens was convicted. of paying bribes contracts in russia . we are living in like greece a higher risk country. several not only corruption several risks in the four business we started the russian corporate tax addition to. the malls and eighty companies signed in code of conduct to make clean

business only in russia some german business leaders here yesterday said the crisis is over in their country what's their impression for russia the c.i.s. sometimes between two souls and five and two thousand and eight so differently over and we have been tremendous closer in russia. returning to. normal times but hopefully next year you see overall investment you need industries and infrastructure we come back to. two thousand and eight level of energy efficiency savings can russia make if it uses siemens technology we made actually is a study here and you can read in broken huge project where we analyzed all kinds of power generation power transmission distribution and consumption in transport or in private use and in the city itself and what we found if we apply.

technologies c bans and other companies have we could reduce energy consumption by forty four percent and if we sink about new technology is about smart grid and things like that. until two thousand and twenty our expectation would be to reduce c and i g consumption by seventy nine percent great report that finally this our air flow has sold eleven airbus a three thirty planes at the international air show reaffirming its commitment to western playmakers that's despite. prime minister vladimir putin putting pressure on the flight carrier to buy russian made planes like the super super jets the deliveries are expected to bolt already next year with a total deal worth around one billion dollars so why has the contract to supply thirty super to passenger planes to indonesian call to airlines the deals estimated at one hundred fifty million dollars. that's the latest the weather headlines are

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