weakening 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 the still many people not receiving what people here is 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 the hater been a slogan i say she has 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 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 to say 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 definition fater vienna's 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 of had their own opinion or not to every fact that we. 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 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 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 a 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 cause is 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 death of a whole generation of young. a man in america when they were on the high doses of

aids then 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 they say well but the majority believes those you should just follow i'm sorry to say science is not the majority vote science is a free competition of the best arguments and very fallible arguments it is verifiable that there is no epidemic and it is very fiber 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 argument 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 some scientists question the effectiveness of current h.i.v. treatments and say the virus can be suppressed by other means. i can tell you that just last year this professor from japan professor ian mamata published a paper published in the prestigious journal of medical viola g. demonstrating that hiv infection can be eradicated the toward the deal was done and this has been published by stimulating the immune system so this means you're right the creation of a chevy infection or of science of h i mean fraction and so if these will be confirmed on a 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 out there not even cures that have already been published and we are just confirming with our data those results. with marco from florence university in italy. 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 as karen singh 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 driver 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 one thing. i don't think is young men 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 are often beaten when he doesn't complete

his homework on time. teacher and tries to teach us when we don't learn she says 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 we. in and on this we addressed those issues putting the blame on the child or having the child with the state 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 to believe

maybe 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 the 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 hear your kids there will be

a monster who will take out his frustrations on your own and you will not be able to save your child. it's not open to discussion nobody has that. nobody you god give them. to love not for some go to beat them up. one father's crusade for justice is bringing a spotlight on corporal punishment which is illegal 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 unseeing r.d. new delhi. well coming up on r t this hour looking back at the beginning of a new space. for thirty five years the historical apollo mission in outer space coming up on our team will show you how they're celebrating that event here on the ground. but first a russian billionaire is suing christie's auction house elf to allegedly sold him a fake work of art. paid nearly three billion dollars for this painting in two

thousand and five it's called order leask and was thought to be by the russian artist. but since then several russian experts have concluded that it's a forgery because berg now wanted money back as well as damages from christie's on the grounds of misrepresentation and negligence and imports is a senior editor of the moscow news website says this could seriously affect christie's credibility with russian and other. 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 lost this legal credulity 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 they help in a number of scandals in the art world over the past several hundred years almost as

long as people have been painting and. christie's and so these are both come through price fixing scandals in the past so it won't put them out of business but obviously it will have a knock on effect on how credible they are particular in this market. the first soviet era cosmonauts an american astronauts to fly on a joint international space mission and celebrating the flights thirty fifth anniversary the soyuz apollo project marked a new era of cooperation between the superpower rivals until thomas has been following the celebrations at moscow's space museum. it is been a day of ceremony and celebration and old friends getting together and reminiscing about their time that they shared in space thirty five years ago in fact today earlier glad to be a putin actually met with them out at the energy a 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 and 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 a 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 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 with 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 in 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 knew 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 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 defy. 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 dog 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 atmosphere of jovial ness in outer space. sean thomas reporting there and well now a quick update on other world news at this stage of the day more than six hundred people have been killed and over one hundred injured as a passenger train hit a stationary one in eastern india because of the crash is not yet clear but poor maintenance is being blamed for the rise in train collisions in the country it's the second major roadway incident in west this year mainly hundred fifty died when a passenger train derailed and was hit by a freight train maoist rebels denied claims they sabotaged the track. u.s. officials are allowing b.p. to keep the cap on its ruptured oil well in the gulf of mexico for another day it's

on condition that the company continues to monitor the ocean floor for what engineers fear may be a new leak seepage was found in the well which could mean problems with the cap that was put it last week b.p. was only aust to 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 explosions at the rink in. afghanistan is preparing to host leaders from around the world for tuesday's major conference on the country's future expected to discuss the war as well as reconstruction and development because of this is because to show its well well of the way to running it's a look first u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton will head the u.s. delegation thousands of soldiers and police are patrolling kabul to secure the capital for the one day event. so as of drones are taking off in a big way internationally raising fears it will lead to increased warfare peace activists claim the relatively cheap and easy access to the weapons could also potentially harm innocent civilians well it is going to be

a growing unmanned trend in the u.s. and its consequences. the economy out of the blue two words for you predator drone i you'll never see it coming a drone least ten times cheaper than a fighter jet it requires no pilot so there. no troop deaths to explain is the perfect weapon for covered cia operations in countries like pakistan and afghanistan if things go wrong you can deny it all and things do go wrong studies by independent international experts suggest that for every militant killed as many as fifteen civilians also die there's no way of getting exact numbers the cia keeps its drones program under wraps but the united nations and other international police agency question the legality of the extensive use of the weapon it becomes different when you come to a sort of undeclared war with organizations which are. like ok you know that cali

bomb and you go off to push and you say day we suspect we say they are terrorists but who has proved that the person you're actually targeting are terrorists. that 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. suburb but the i.a.e.a. drone operator wakes up in the morning the family line comes into the office and shoots a target thousands of miles away from here and goes back home no risk whatsoever specialists say the whole operation reminds the media ok the question many ask is if it is so easy and. being near the world now is tempting to wait in the future if war is cheap why not use the bit more pressure against the smaller countries and organizations to catch it ok she will try to sit around the table with to talk it over simon vets him and has produced a research report on drones with the european parliament among his concerns are the consequences of terrorists getting hold of such weapons a scenario sunlight likened to real life but deadly robot morris demonstrators outside cia headquarters at the start of the year protested against indiscriminate

killings by unmanned weaponry they say that rather than winning wars drones merely make more enemies by killing mostly innocent people are fueling rather than quelling insurgency. r t washington d.c. . well coming up after a short break it's the business news with daniel stay with us for that. hungry for the food 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 hope you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join us for technology update on our g.

p. welcome to the business program the russian government is heading for a potential showdown with the key industrial sector in the economy it wants raise taxes for six truck there's including oil. companies but energy and money firms especially from a fiercely resisting the proposal are correspondent with the mccutcheon of a report from the gas giants headquarters. 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 well the biggest advocate for the new tax regime is the russia's finance minister alex they couldn't urges that russia needs to raise its mineral extraction tax but the wrong time to fifteen percent but he also willing to keep some tax breaks industry when it comes to oil and gas companies that he doesn't seem to be ready to compromise and the

russia does just this decision may cost around twelve billion dollars 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 casket make gets well according to several analysts we spoke to gas pumps scares the cabinet by saying it may run into gas short. just if it's 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 view will prevail or worse they will try and increase the tax take from extractive industries in general and look to give some tax breaks into industries new industries that the government wants to grow such as technology and pharmaceuticals i'm sort of the food and i. ultimately

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 deepen this most like these are going to be the subject tons debate at the governmental meeting later on july this is. the former international air show has opened in the south of england it's one of the premier events for the industry with companies coming from all around the world our correspondent is there to tell us what's happening. there are a huge number of exhibitors here this year more than a thousand troops thirty eight different countries with even some new exit bases showing for the first time they are egypt taiwan and the ok there's also a huge amount of noise that's by suggesting business carrier is korea three disco is about. russia's biggest players in the aviation industry representatives here at farnborough air a phil taylor of course as is too poor with this stupid jet but also titanium a coke vs and here i've based my. gave the russian defense

a proposed ration defense and export company ross about on exports and russian helicopters among many other deals have already been signed by the russians and there's some pay that this is falling from might signal a recovery in the aerospace industry which has taken a beating in the economic crisis i spoke to the heads of boeing said to get captured his what he had to say about bob's. we definitely hope so i think there was some signs you know that the mob had just gone bad definitely no adeline's you know way more interest. then you airplanes you know definitely finance and he is no problem like eighteen months ago but you know i think it will show you know what will really happen you know with. the market but we in the industry. you know that recovery is real and it's a long. process of stock markets recovered from when the day in the black energy

stocks rose as the price of oil holds near seventy six dollars a barrel. to think of the things we could prove through bad loans to stabilize hungary's that is topping it cannot make headlines to mean business to look to sleep a bit like gold that usually hosts take pussy's but russia is resisting the pressure building 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 by. a russian gross domestic product grows by four point two percent in the first half of the year as the country moves. in a decade ago it was on the pinball a strong rebound in industrial production will the ten percent higher than the same period last year the tools that benefited from rising commodity prices the backbone of the country's economy. foremost record heat wave is having a serious effect on the economy the 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 one fifth of the grain crops has already been lost due to the extreme weather with nineteen farming regions announcing a state of emergency which prices have risen by twenty five percent in the last two weeks ahead of the union says the price hikes are being driven more by fear than fundamentals. sure that it all depends on psychological factors at the moment there are no fundamental reasons for the grain prices to rise we have enough reserves and our balance is ok but. if that's the latest you can always buy more stories on our website that's the dot com slash business. the.

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international aids conference in vienna for softening the line on tackling h.-i the un warned the funding can threaten the work that's been done to fight the disease what activists called for universal access to treatment. the widespread use of banned corporal punishment an indian schools was brought out of the shadows following a young boy suicide parents are demanding harsher penalties against teachers use brutal methods of discipline. it's thirty five years since the two cold war superpowers came together even though it was in space the docking of the soviet so using american apollo spacecraft began a more cooperative era between the two rival countries. with more news more developments for us and half an hour from now in the meantime discover more about dolphins and whales in the wild but also those in russia's aquariums are special report next. dolphins in the arctic white whales are the undisputed stars.