seeing 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 what people here are saying 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 hater of in a slogan ice agents to really ensure that they're 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 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 so it's really focusing on this on an individual level and actually be organized. that the prerequisite of team rights that fundamental human rights issues are addressed is going to be the basis of what actually forms a successful response overall to the problem of hiv and aids so you see a lot of people are trying to get their voices heard and talking about the reality of living with the condition and what still needs to be done and of course in the days prior to the official conference we heard from the other side which is a great book perhaps challenging the official definitions page of illness and also the standard treatments the standard drugs treatments those accordant 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 or we've seen a bit of a conflict between the mainstream views on the way to approach the situation and the alternative. in opinion on. 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 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 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. a.z.t. a type of antiretroviral drugs used 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. there were

a whole generation of young gay men in america when they were on the high doses of aids that that is well documented so it externally important to be challenging this hypothesis there are almost thirty two million people in the world with hiv 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 over the majority believes those 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 verifiable that aids treatment 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 peace conference i just hope that it will be made clear as to where we are to regarding the vaccine because we needed it yesterday. r.t. moscow. well now let's talk to dr moore code as you know he's from the university of florence in italy who supports the view that the public has been misinformed about h.i.v. thanks very much indeed for joining us now you are holding a separate aids conference there in vienna why what what are you trying to achieve . both conferences i've been of the conference organized by dr christian fellow on the sixteenth and seventeenth and i'm also attending the. international conference on aids that is going on in these days and i presented two different sets of data.

at the conference hosted by dr fiala presented some demographic data from my region tuscany in italy and put some questions so on the accepted dogma the hiv is the only cause for aids and the other conference should present data demonstrating that stimulation of the immune system can help getting rid of the virus which might be a revolution in therapy and the my confirm the words of professor martin year will say that if you have a good immune system you can get rid of the virus really within a few weeks actually the data being produced in collaboration with the american scientists japanese ancestry professor number to your mom or to who gave us a protein to stimulate the immune system and we are producing it we have produced some data and we shall present those data on thursday they must rating that actually power for stimulation of the mill system can really help to get treat of

the virus so i don't think the those two positions are so i. guess but let me just interrupt here it's getting quite complicated here but are you saying that the public has been misled in the way the public has been misled in the past over the likes of mad cow disease or perhaps a bird flu swine flu i know you're linking that situation with the aids epidemic. to some extent at least of the four course as being not only on hiv as the only cause of aids and the if these approved not to be the case at least in all cases then the been a music that has been misleading not only there. to find the cure could be very similar difficulty because if there are all the other causes then to focus on only a nature could be misleading in this case but in this respect hope you're going surely against the world health organization all those eminent doctors and

professors would be meeting in vienna you're a doctor yourself what sort of reaction you getting from the medical world with your view. well to say the truth here in italy we don't know any adverse reaction and as a matter of fact we can teach freely that there are at least turn to views on aids and we can teach these freely at the university and actually we have been sponsored by the public health system the of our region who gave us the possibility to attend the two conferences so we don't get any adverse reaction and as a matter of fact there our data seem to confirm the warts of press for a moment then yes i think that in what is a respected yeah it's a little bit something like over thirty million people infected by hiv aids are you saying to them actually they could have been treated in a different way and they wouldn't be suffering or possibly future looking very bleak and dying from this you think perhaps they've got it all wrong over the last year since the early eighty's well i can tell you that just last year these

a professor from japan professor ian mamata published a paper published in the prestigious journal of medical viro all a-g. demonstrating that hiv infection can be eradicated the south toward a deal was done and this has been published by stimulating the immune system so these means erode the creation of a fictional or of science of hiv infection and so if these will be confirmed on the larger clinical scale clinical trials because that was just as a model a scale a clinical trial then yes i can tell you that hiv infection can be eradicated by stimulating by properly stimulating the immune system is not so easy but yes we can say that there could be other turn to cures that have already been published there and we are just confirming with our data those results well very interesting to hear we have to say thanks very much indeed for joining us here in r.t. and sharing your views dr marc rich yellow from the university of florence in italy

joining us there in vienna thanks very much thank you thank you. other news now corporal punishment in schools may seem like an out of date disciplining tool but in india it's still widely used that's despite being banned for a decade and its currency reports claims that teachers are 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 a 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 i think that they were after him for a long way limiting he was so long as he was getting an individual. battering if i may use the word he was able to take it but when the 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. mission from his friends the school's principal has admitted killing rules but says this was not responsible for his. case has 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 that when we don't learn she hates us and sometimes cry when i guess. 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. one either the child would become too used to this kind of punishment and the effect would go off or else the child who's very sensitive and anxious by previous visits. i would feel very very vulnerable a supreme court judgment in two thousand prohibited polish went in or let's films in india habits die hard many dangers and even some parents still believe in the need for discipline. 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 their 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 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 morgenstern there's no debate if you let people hear your kids there will be a monster who will take out his first mission. and you will not be able to save your child. it's not open to discussion nobody has that. 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 corporal punishment which is

a levy but still common in good schools one wonders how many more children will have to suffer before more humane methods of disciplining them are enforced got and seeing r.d. new delhi. still to come here in r.t. this is the beginning of a new space. it's been thirty five years or since the historical apollo so his mission in outer space coming up on our t.v. will show you how they're celebrating that event here on the ground. or before we hear from sean thomas of the news now a russian billionaire is suing christie's auction house legibly sold him a fake work of art viktor paid nearly three million dollars for this painting in two thousand and five it's called order leask and was thought to be by the russian artist borlase custodian but since then several russian are expensive concluded that it's a forgery now wanted money back as well as damages from christie's on the grounds of misrepresentation and negligence that the ports is

a senior editor of the moscow news website says this could seriously affect christie's credibility with russian lovers. christie said they would carry out 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 master taking 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 there have been a number of fake scandals in the art world over the past several hundred years almost as long as people from painting and. christie's and so that we suppose 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. the first soviet era cosmonauts and american astronauts to fly. a joint international space mission celebrating the flight's thirty fifth anniversary the story's upon

a new era of cooperation between the superpower rivals thomas joins you now from the space museum sean how is the anniversary being celebrated today. it is been a day of ceremony and celebration in old friends getting together and reminiscing about their time that they shared in space thirty five years ago in fact today earlier. actually met with them. at the plant where he was also there to inspect some of the space technology that they have that's the company that builds the soyuz rocket he met with the astronauts of the cosmonauts at that point in time and then the four remaining survivors of the actual event itself the apollo soyuz mission came here to the space museum where they were greeted by a band they got a tour of the state of the art facility and then they also had the chance to answer questions and talk and reminisce in fact the american astronauts spoke in their best russian and were quite understandable and you could tell that these these

people had shared history and had shared this amazing event together and they are still good friends today as you watch them go through the museum and look at different artifacts some of them at their own artifacts in fact and then they were able to celebrate with a little bit of a meal afterwards which is what's going on right now so very important day celebrated at this moment time also a very important event we had the opportunity to speak to vance brand who was on that mission he's one of the american astronauts this is what he had to say about the event thirty five years ago. i never said that it would. develop into a large corporation like we have. we were thinking of other things just to make the mission a success so it's a great pleasure agree here and we appreciate the honor of the store and. and that was the feeling shared by many here just pictures of the actual crew back

then were handed out as a souvenir of the people here to celebrate in that event and you can tell just there's a. here about the events surrounding that day thirty five years ago sean can you put this in context for us where does this mission rank in achievements in space overall would you say. well certainly bill it is one of the big ones in fact you have these two superpowers racing each other the great space race and this mission was the symbolic end of the space race that started when russia launched sputnik in beer the first artificial satellite and then both countries were had tense relations to see who could conquer this new frontier and of course this was the first time these two superpowers worked together in fact they actually had to engineer specific devices so these two spacecraft could fit together they were designed separately not to work together so that was one feat of engineering that had to be accomplished but also it was the first time that these two cold war

rivals had to train together and work together for more than six months so that they could accomplish their mission in space when the two crafts actually dock it was on the seventeenth of july they there was a three hour period where they waited to make sure everything was ok then they open the hatches and shook hands and then spent forty four hours together conducting experiments as well as eating together and even joking the russian cosmonauts wrote on the side of their food to trick the american astronauts into thinking it was a part of their everyday space rations of course it wasn't it was a joke but just an eye an atmosphere of jovial ness in outer space another thing that would happen which was very significant was the apollo craft was maneuvered so that there was a fake eclipse so that russian scientists could take pictures of the sun very important deal all of this basically allowed the international space station which is an operation today to exist but of course. i mean it was the start of more things to come wasn't it i mean that particular mission it certainly had an impact

on the collaboration in space between the u.s. and the u.s.s.r. to tell us briefly what impact that was. certainly the in fact it would work together for twenty years but the engineering that allowed them to work together allowed them to then move on to the shuttle mir to program and then from the shuttle mir to program a program which was on officially called phase one then launched phase two which was the international space station and people say that this was the beginning of the easing of tensions between the two countries which allowed for us to move forward to the diplomatic relations that we have today and even the space station that we have in operation right now sean thanks very much indeed thomas live in moscow thanks very much indeed for that. it's twenty two minutes past the hour here in russian capital about with a look at the headlines in about eight minutes from now in the meantime business he's next. welcome to business the government is heading for

a potential showdown with the king industrial sector in the russian economy it wants to raise taxes for six truck this including oil companies but energy and mourning for especially a fiercely resisting the proposal our correspondent in a culture of a report from headquarters in moscow. 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 in the russia's finance minister alex they couldn't just 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 for industry when it comes to gas companies he doesn't seem to be ready to compromise and russia does just this decision may cost around twelve billion dollars now maybe that's why the gas company imposes

a new thing other than a minimum 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 to chris we will see the states it is most likely to push its proposed tax plan we believe that the finance ministry if you will prevail 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 and sort of the food and i. ultimately would be. question what about an extra. well this dispute has the potential to deepen.

this subject. era float as old 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 jet that deliveries are expected to start already next year with a total deal worth around one billion dollars has signed a contract to supply thirty three project passenger planes to indonesia call to get a life today the deal is estimated at nine hundred fifty million dollars. from signed a contract to sell for come of course thirty two helicopters to india's victory group for nearly forty million dollars it will be the first ever indian purchase of camel choppers and the russian a cross corporation could stand in agreement with pleasing to supply fifteen short haul twenty one passenger planes. russia stock markets recovered from

a stop to end the day in the black energy stocks rose as the price of oil holds near seventy six dollars a barrel to gain one of the half percent of the saying last week the growth in bad loans has stabilized hungary's is talking economics headlines prompting investors to look for safer bets like gold that usually hosts a good tease 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 give factors. and russian gross domestic product growth for four point two percent in the first half of the year as the country emerged from the worst downturn in a decade because it was on the pin both in industrial production more than ten percent higher than the same period last year it also benefited from rising commodity prices the backbone of the country's economy. 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 be. the shooting targets 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 by almost twenty five percent in the last two weeks over the head of the green 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 called the green price to rise we have enough reserves and our balance is ok but the eskimos to multiclass the latest you can always find more stories on our website that's r.t. dot com slash business.

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funding comes from the work that's been done to fight the disease what activists call for universal access to treatment. the widespread use of corporal punishment in schools is brought out of the shadows young boys suicide to demolish harsher penalties against teachers who used brutal methods of discipline. thirty five years since the cold war superpowers came together even though it wasn't space the docking of the soviet soyuz an american apollo spacecraft began a more co-operative era between the two rival countries. in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime with tough new immigration laws being adopted in the u.s. the country's latino population is calling for reforms spoke with journalist and human rights activist. who insists immigrants can benefit america a special interview next.