the u.s. is seen as perhaps we can ng 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 what people here are saying a life saving treatment 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 the hater of d.n.a. so when i say she has to really ensure that there efficient in the delivery of their services rather than complaining 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 to say that the prerequisite of human rights that fundamental human rights issues are addressed is going to be the basis of we're actually forms a successful response overall to the problem of hate 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 it and also the standard treatments the standard drugs treatments those who couldn't question those saying that there are alternatives out there the people who have tried these alternative methods nots 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 great chief had their own 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 minds that's ever. deliver and 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 and 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 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 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 facts we've come to accept as truth they say well but 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 verifiable 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 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. some scientists believe there could soon be a breakthrough in treating a child of years recent suggests that stimulating the immune system can get rid of the virus. i can tell you that just last year the professor from japan professor yamamoto published a paper published in the prestigious journal of medical viro all a-g. demonstrating that hiv infection can be eradicated toward abused and this has been published by stimulating the immune system so this means that you are the creation of a trivial fraction of science of h.l.v. infection and so if these will be confirmed on the larger

a 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 restimulating by properly stimulating the immune system is not so easy but yes we can say that there could be a turn out of cures that have already been published there and we are just confirming with our data those results. 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 currency reports claims that teachers are being violent towards children a 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 mark near four 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 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 address two issues putting the blame on the child or hitting the child with the state clearly doesn't solve any press 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 predisposition. i would feel very very vulnerable a supreme court judgment in two thousand prohibited polish went in earl it firms in india but the habits die hard many teachers and even some parents still believe in

the need for discipline. but believe me if a 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 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 log in st there's no debate if you let people do your kids there will be a monster who will take out his frustration 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 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 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 and seeing r.d. new delhi while still to come here in r.t. this is looking back at the beginning of a new space. thirty five years since the historical apollo so his mission here in outer space coming up on our tour will show you how they're celebrating that event here on the ground. but first russian billionaire is suing christie's auction house

in london after allegedly sold him a fake work of art. paid nearly three million dollars for this painting in two thousand and five it's called the lease and was thought to be by the russian artist who study of it since then several russian art explosive concluded that it is a forgery now what is money back as well as damages from christie's on the grounds of misrepresentation and negligence and at the ports is a senior editor of the moscow news website says this could seriously affect christie's credibility with russian art and others. 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 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 there

have been 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. police in southern russia are investigating a leisure firm which forced a donkey to parasail over the sea when this is report here in a terrified animal braying as it flew over the sea for half an hour before landing in the water and being dragged for several metres luckily the donkey survived the ordeal and police say it was being used to promote parasailing adding that no one reported it happening even though beachgoers were distressed by seeing the donkeys suffering officials are now looking at bringing animal cruelty charges which could land the organizers with a two year jail sentence. might fly but not donkeys a grammy award winning russian pianist and conductor is appearing in court in

thailand on child sex charges if found guilty because could spend up to twenty years in jail earlier this month thai police to turn the musician for allegedly raping a fourteen year old boy which he denies it and it was then freed on bail to continue a little too although he must appear in court hearings every twelve days to be as claimed his arrest was triggered by the detention of a time musician he knows who is suspected of involvement in child prostitution ring . hispanic groups in the us are calling for reform of the country's immigration system and unjust policies as human rights activists here again tells r.t. later immigrants don't have enough representation. latinos are on the represented politically we are fifteen percent of the population and we only have one senator that has to change this is it is incredible that the most powerful country in the wall is persecuting and discriminating against eleven million people so again

there's a lot of misinformation on the contributions of immigrants to this country and fortunately when there is an economic crisis like the one we're facing right now immigrants are being blamed for for everything that's wrong with the squandering from crime to unemployment simply not for. the full interview with jorge ramos is on about fifteen minutes from now what time does the other international news this. killed and over one hundred injured as a passenger train hit a stationary one in eastern india the cause 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 bengal this year maybe one hundred fifty died when a passenger train derailed and was hit by a freight train most rebels denied claims they separate traffic. 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 near the well which could mean the problems with the cap that was fitted last week b.p. was earlier asked to submit a plan for removing the cap which was believed to stem the flow of oil for the first time in the three months since the explosion at the rig. in afghanistan is preparing to host leaders from around the world for choose days major conference on the country's future expected to discuss the war as well as reconstruction and development the government has a different show it's well on the way to running its own affairs you are sick of your 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. the first soviet era cosmonauts and american astronauts to fly on a joint international space mission celebrating the flight's thirty fifth anniversary the soyuz apollo project a new era of cooperation between the superpower rivals and sean thomas has been

following the celebrations at moscow's space museum. it is a 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 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 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 that 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 go to 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 device. 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 vodka 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. tom was reporting that one in ten minutes from now how immigrants from latin america can help the united states even though they face strict controls but first

let's check out the latest business news with. for the feel we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. 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 residual six truck there's including oil gas companies but energy in

morning firms especially those from a fiercely resisting the proposal a correspondent with the culture of a report from the gas giants headquarters. this 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 you touch regime is the russia's finance minister the next day couldn't urchins that russia needs to raise its mineral extraction tax but the wrong time to fifty percent but he also willing to keep some tax breaks in the street when it comes to what the gas companies said he doesn't seem to be ready to compromise and tell her russia does just this decision may cost around twelve billion dollars and maybe that's why the gas company opposes anything other than a minimum of 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 sure. if its capital expenditure cuts well the state much of. 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. 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 going to be the subject of a new tuns debate at the governmental meeting later on july the. the former

international 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 of course it 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 exhibit says showing for the first time they are egypt's taiwan ok there's also a huge amount of noise that's by suggesting business care is career three disco it's about time share russia's biggest players in the aviation industry representatives herr von braun airfield terror of kools as these two point with that stupid jet but also titanium a coke vs and here i based my. gave the russian defense. 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 head of boeing said it captured ok here's 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 gotten bad definitely no adeline's. way more interest for the new airplanes you know definitely finance and they is no problem like a teen mom said 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 paul did recovery is real and it's a long job. growth stock markets recovered. in the plug 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 hungry it's hoping it can make headlines to investors to look at the sleep a bit like gold that usually puts

a pussy's 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. 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 ten percent higher than the same period last year the tools that benefited from rising commodity prices the backbone of the country's economy. record heat wave is having a serious effect on the economy the green union says the poor harvest juta the drought could push up inflation by as much as two percent of 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. that. it all depends on psychological factors at the moment there are no fundamental reasons for the grain price 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 dot com slash business.

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done to fight the disease one activists called for universal access to treatment. the widespread use of banned punishment in indian schools is brought out of the shadows young boys suicide parents are demanding harsher penalties against teachers use brutal methods of discipline. is thirty five years since the two cold war superpowers came together even though it was in space the docking of the american apollo spacecraft. between the two rival countries. but for the moment i'll be back with more news for another update in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime a tough new immigration law is being adopted in the u.s. the country's latino population is calling for reforms and journalist and human rights activists. insists immigrants can benefit america.