world leaders for 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 that funding spin a big topic of the last couple of days and this thirty being concerned that some countries such as the u.s. 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 really big issue here is this access universal access to hate hiv prevention treatments 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 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 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 do it official conference we heard from the other side which is a great book perhaps challenging the official definitions page of it and also the

standard treatments the standard drugs treatments those are called into 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. 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 these all represent an individual that is living with hiv and it's their reality so universal access still very much in everyone's mind. that 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 refuse treatment and i have to fight against that while alexei 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 used 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 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 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 it's a free competition of the best arguments and verifiable 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. 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 gregory adams of america without an eva who would have health care systems money from donors who did little to help with a. too often we've taken that approach the focus is just going treatment

without investing in the health systems you actually need to deliver treatment 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 back seen 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. corporal punishment in schools may seem like an update disciplining tool but in india it's so widely used despite being bound for a decade in this town in singapore with claims that teaches that being violent towards children are rife. 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 mark me of four 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 think. i don't think his young mind could have that much animosity. illumination 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 go largely unrecorded ten year old mounties often beaten when he doesn't complete his all merch 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 addressed those issues putting the blame on the child or hitting the child with the state clearly doesn't solve any of this 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 visit. i would feel very very vulnerable a supreme court judgment in two thousand prohibited polish went in oil it firms in india but would have it die hard many teachers and even some parents still believe in the need for discipline. but only 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 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 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 law against it there's no debate if you let people hear your kids there will be a monster who will take orders first. 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 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 in forced shot and seeing. on the way america's pilot free planes are under fire. being for the u.s. military's deadly robot war machines and that's called peace time service seriously why find out why in a few minutes. but first soviet era calls for the american astronauts to fly out of joint international space mission a celebration the flight's thirty fifth anniversary the series apollo project smart a new era of cooperation between the superpower rivals. 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 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 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 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. billionaire is suing christie's auction house. a fake. they paid ninety three million.

daughters this painting in two thousand and five it's called old elise was thought to be by the rationalizes but as. they can see it on your screens now but this is then several russian art experts have concluded that it's a forgery now wants his money back as well as damages from christie's on the grounds of misrepresentation and negligence and the pots use a senior editor of the moscow news website says this could seriously affect christie's credibility with russian art lovers. christie said there was an internal investigation but this hasn't generated any results or at least not results which of satisfied folks. 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 about the taking very seriously and they will investigate it accordingly clearly it won't help if they are found to think 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 cover a knock on effect on how credible they are particular in this market. 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 of the weapons could also potentially harm innocent civilians. can mix into the growing unmanned trend in the us and its consequences. the comma out of the blue i have two words for you predator drones 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 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 organizations 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 the taliban and you go after persians you say hey we suspect we say they are terrorists but who has proven that the person you're actually targeting terrorists. that they're not they're not being 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 guy comes to the office and shoot at targets thousands of miles away from here and go back home no risk or the word specialist say the whole operation reminds the media ok the question many ask is if it is so easy and convenient world of our m.p.'s way to

move north in the future or worse cheap why not use a bit more pressure against the smaller countries and organizations to shut it off because she would try to shoot 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 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 rather than quelling insurgency gonna shake an r. t. washington d.c. . ten out to some of the international news at this hour more than sixty people were killed in the one hundred injured as the passenger train hit

a stationary one in east india the cause of the crash is not yet clear but pool maintenance has been blamed for the bombings and trade relations in the country it's the second major railway incident in west bengal based near in may nearly one hundred fifty died when a passenger train derailed it was hit by a freight train maoist rebels denied claims they stop its homes the truck. u.s. officials are allowing be paid to keep the camp one is ruptured oil well in the gulf of mexico for another day it's all condition that the company continues to monitor the ocean floor for what engineers fear may be a new leak see page was a foul. near the well which could mean that the cap that was fitted last week was 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. afghanistan is preparing to host leaders from around the well for tuesday's major conference on

the country's future they're expected to discuss the war as well as reconstruction and development the government is looking to show it's well on the way to running its own affairs u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton will head the u.s. delegation that thousands of soldiers and police are patrolling to secure the capital for the. ten minutes from now looks at how the global financial crisis might be possible historic shift. the basis. for the we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. every month we give you the future we do understand how we'll get there and. the

best in science and technology from across russia and around the world to join us. on our jeep. welcome to business the top story this hour the russian government is heading for a potential showdown with a key industrial sector in the economy it wants to raise taxes for results that strike this including oil companies but energy and mourning firms especially or fiercely resisting the proposal. in a culture of reporting that gets john headquarters in moscow. the state aim is to raise enough capital to plot the big budget deficit and the target is the mineral resources sector which is the most established in the russia's economy well the biggest. tax regime is the russia's finance minister alex they couldn't 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 but i'm still willing to give up companies that he doesn't seem to be ready any compromise and the russians just just this decision may cost them around twelve billion dollars that's why the gas company opposes anything other than a minimum guest extraction tax it purchased this capital expenditure is huge and 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. the have to do something with the existing budget deficit and according to chris we will see the states is most likely to push its proposed tax plan we believe that the finance ministry. prevail they will try and increase the tax take from extractive industries in general to give

some tax breaks into industries new industries that the government wants to grow such as technology pharmaceuticals and 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. at the governmental meeting later on july the thirtieth. no airflow to. a three thirty planes at the national reaffirming its commitment to western playmakers that's disport prime minister. putin putting pressure on the flag carrier to buy russian made planes like the super super jets that deliveries are expected to start already next year with a total deal worth around one billion dollars. and the contract to supply thirty superjet passenger planes to indonesia's call to airlines deal is estimated at one hundred fifty million dollars. from signed a contract to sell full come of k.

thirty two helicopters to india's victory group for nearly forty million dollars it will be the first of indian purchase of camel choppers and the russian aircraft corporation standard agree with very pleasing to supply fifteen short twenty one passenger planes. so i'm for a look at the stock markets new york has kicked off on a high with the dow and the nasdaq are up halliburton has added to the generally strong u.s. reporting season one else thing an eighty three percent rise in second quarter profits. well she recovered from a bad start twenty a day in the black energy stocks rose as the price of oil hold near seventy six dollars a barrel was the top blue chip gainer up one of the half percent of the saying last week growth has stabilized hungary's debt is topping economic headlines prompting investors to look for safer bets like gold that usually hurts equities 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 european shares have slipped into the red in the last hour after a downgrade of oil and sovereign bonds rating moody's on monday p.p.s. top loser in london its shares are down almost five percent today on concerns the cap on the leaking oil well in the gulf of mexico is not as effective as first thought. russia's hottest summer for a century could have far reaching economic consequences russia's green union says the poor harvest due to the drought. could push up inflation by as much as two percent meaning 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 with prices have risen almost twenty five percent in the last two weeks however the boss of russia's grain you knew says the price hikes are

driven more by fear than fundamentals. surely that it all depends on psychological factors at the moment there are no fundamental reasons to pull the green price to rise we have enough reserves and our balance is ok but it is chemicals to leave and b.p. could sell up to twelve billion dollars of assets as early as this month most would come from the sale in alaska and help offset the cost of the gulf oil spill the british soldier has been in talks with apache corp a u.s. oil and gas exploration company since the end of june analysts believe that the deal could be arranged before b.p. posed this whole fuel yearnings on july twenty seventh as the latest weather and headlines are next with alice.

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think international aids conference in be yet up to failing to keep their promises to point b. and c. this claim there's a funding shortage of more should be done to ensure universal treatment for those with the disease. the widespread use of banned all punishment in indian schools in small towns the shadows following a young boy stay with side parents are demanding harsher penalties against teachers who use brutal methods of discipline. sales of u.s. drones are taking off along with fears they'll lead to more warfare the on land aircraft are used by the cia it's all getting terrorists in pakistan and afghanistan but critics say it's at the cost of the. thirty five years since the two cold war superpowers came together even though it was really based talking of.