just the us is seen as perhaps we can in their commitment to funding and now we've heard arguments such as hiv and aids is they get funded these are being called false arguments is that there's really much much more that needs to be done there 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 treatment now we've heard today a former u.s. president bill clinton speaking and he's called the hater v.n.a. so can i say she has 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 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 have said that the prerequisite of team rights that fundamental human rights issues are address is going to be the basis of what 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 the perhaps challenging the official definition state of venus and also the standard treatments the standard drugs treatments those are called into question though saying that there are alternatives out there the people who have tried these alternative methods and that's maybe something that should be discussed 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. on that every fact that we hear over the

coming week this all represents 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 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 finally 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 a zen 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 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 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 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 in the vaccine because we needed it yesterday. r.t. moscow. some scientists believe there could soon be a breakthrough in treating h.i.v.'s recent suggest that stimulating the immune system can get rid of the virus. i can tell you there just last year there is a professor from japan professor yamamoto published a paper published in the prestigious journal of medical viola gee there was trading there hiv infection can be eradicated the south toward the view was there and this has been published by stimulating the immune system so this means even the creation of a chevy fraction of science of h i mean faction and so if these will be confirmed on

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 restimulating by properly stimulating the immune system is not so easy but yes we can say that there could be a tentative cures that have already been published there and we are just confirming with our data those results and that was a marker 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 and despite being banned for a decade and its currency reports claims that teachers are being violent towards children are right. this is one of india's worst kept secrets the prevalence of their group punishment in schools but the recent suicide of a thirteen year old. 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 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 get bored with the order descended on him at the same. the thing. i don't think is young women could have that much animosity. emission from his friends the school's principal has admitted killing rule 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 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 those issues putting the blame on the child or hitting the child with a stick clearly doesn't solve any purpose one 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 would feel very very vulnerable supreme court judgement in two thousand prohibited polish went in or let's films in india but habits die hard many teachers and even some parents still believe in the need for discipline.

but i believe 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 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 or there's no debate if you let people hear your kids there will be a monster who will take out his frustration on your child and you will not be able to save your child it's not open to discussion nobody has. 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 a spotlight on corporal punishment which isn't leaving but still go mourning 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.t. new delhi will still to come this hour in r.t. looking back at the beginning of a new space epoch. in thirty five years the historical apollo so his mission in outer space coming up on r.t. will show you how they're celebrating that event here on the ground. but first a russian billionaire is suing christie's auction house in london after it

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 leask and was thought to be by the russian artist police. but since then several russian not explosive concluded that it's a forgery or berg now wants his money back as well as damages from christie's on the grounds of misrepresentation and negligence deportees a senior editor of the moscow news website says this could seriously affect christie's credibility with russian lovers. christie said they were chaos an internal investigation this hasn't generated any results or at least not results which of satisfied. over the weekend he's lost this legal brit 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 witnesses report hearing the 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 beach goers were distressed by seeing the donkey suffering officials are now looking at bringing animal cruelty charges which could land the organizers of the two year jail sentence. a grammy award winning russian pianist and conductor is appearing in court in thailand on child sex charges if found guilty he could spend up to twenty years in jail earlier this month thai police

detained a musician for allegedly raping a fourteen year old boy which he denies that now has been freed on bail to continue a world tour and though he must appear at court hearings every twelve days the pinnace claims his arrest was triggered by the detention of a time musician he knows who suspected who is suspected of involvement in the child prostitution ring. security is being stepped up in kabul the head of choose days international conference on the future of afghanistan more than forty foreign ministers are expected to discuss handing more power to the afghan government as well as the role of nato forces in the country want to use it military analysts you're going to crucial says the meeting should focus more on tackling afghanistan's drugs trade. for the upcoming conference and. is going to be a day or for reckoning for the united states. the issue very grave and very simple at the same time at stake is the u.s. credibility and integrity regarding the unofficial undeclared war on drugs to get

three of these notorious have been scorch help him poppy and can it be feels now if the united states representatives and especially richard holbrooke the u.s. special rep to afghanistan and pakistan start delivering their regular job regarding the millions of raisins why the drug lords and their opium mules immune from any prosecution and they are untouchable the world community will get it and next. prove that the u.s. stance on the war of drugs in not is not only double standard but it's totally hypocritical and whatever they say and whatever the u.s. wraps have set or we'll say the bottom line is very simple talk is cheap the only way for the united states to restore its credibility in afghanistan

is to unleash war on drugs and in that endeavor they can count one hundred percent on the regional stakeholders in afghanistan mostly china india russia iran and pakistan. now time for some other international news this hour more than sixty people are being 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 role incident in west bengal this year in the early one hundred fifty died when a passenger train was derailed and was hit by a freight train maoist rebels denied claims they sabotage the track. us officials allowed 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 problems with the cap that was fitted last week b.p. was early on 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 the rig. also on a world update the saudi government of storm the birthday party in northern mexico killing seventeen people and injuring over a dozen witnesses over a dozen others witnesses say the attackers arrived in several cars and started shooting randomly without saying a word or two hundred bullet casings have been found at the scene and police are linking the massacre to the country's long running drugs war which is cool with twenty six thousand people over the last four years. the first soviet era cosmonauts and american astronauts to fly on a joint international space mission celebrating the flight's thirty fifth anniversary the sorries apollo project marked a new era of cooperation between the superpower rivals and sean 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. actually met with them out of 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 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 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 never 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 the story of 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 divine. 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 atmosphere of jovial ness in outer space. reporting there from moscow will just tell you the ten minutes from now crosstalk will be looking how the global financial crisis might be part of an historic shift

. that's discussion program coming away very soon but first though let's check out the latest business news. welcome to the business program the russian government is heading for a potential showdown with a key industrial sector in the economy it wants raise taxes for. oil. companies but. especially from a fiercely resisting the proposal. reports from the gas giants headquarters. 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 while the biggest. tax regime is the russia's finance minister alex they couldn't that russia needs to raise its mineral extraction tax by the wrong time to fifty percent but he also willing to keep some. industry i'm still willing to give

up companies that he doesn't seem to be ready to compromise and russia does just this decision may cost the wrong twelve billion dollars maybe that's why the gas company imposes a new thing other than a minimum against extraction tax it purchased this capital expenditure is huge and all the cash gets well according to several analysts we spoke to gazprom scares to think 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. 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 food and i. believe that's what we're going to. it's just going to be a question of what the balance can extract of and she's going to be well this dispute has the potential to deepen this most likely he's going to be the subject company towns to be at the governmental meeting later on july the success. the former international issue 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 laura emmett is there to tell us what's happening. there a huge number of exhibits is here this to more than a thousand troops thirty eight different countries with even some new exit bases saying for the first time they are egypt's taiwan the ok there's also a huge amount of noise that's by suggesting business carrier is career three disco it's about time chef russia's biggest players in the aviation industry representatives herr von braun at

a film tariff cools as these two point with this stupid jet but also a titanium a coke vs and here i based my trust gave the russian defense a proposed ration defense and textbook 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 russia set to get captain his what he had to say about the ops we definitely hope so i think there is some signs you know that the market does come and definitely no airlines you know way more interest for more than you airplanes you know definitely finance and he is no so the problem like eighteen months ago but you know i think i will show you know what will really happen you know. with the market but we in the industry. you know hold that recovery is real and it's

a long term. process stock markets recover from stocks when the in the plug energy stocks rose as the pro. the boyle holds near seventy six dollars a barrel. to think of the saying last week good growth in bad loans has stabilized hungry it's hoping it can all make headlines to investors to look at the safe a bit like gold that usually hurt stay put 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. russian gross domestic product growth for four point two percent in the first half of the year as the country moved from the worst downturn in a decade ago it was on the pin by a strong rebound in industrial production ten percent higher than the same period last year but also benefited from rising commodity prices the backbone of the country's economy. farmers one 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. 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 the eskimos to me if that's the latest you can always find more stories on our website that's all t dot com slash business. culture

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war funding cuts threaten the work that's been done to fight the disease one activists called for universal access to treatment. the widespread use of banned corporal punishment in indian schools was brought out of the shadows following a young boy's suicide parents are demanding harsher penalties against teachers who use brutal methods of discipline. it's thirty five years since the cold war superpowers came together even though it was in space we're talking of the soviet so use an american apollo spacecraft began a more cooperative era between the two rival countries i'll be back with more news in less than half an hour from now and next guest discuss whether the current recession is causing a continental power shift that's in just a moment on r.t. . theories which are made to police children. and their health.