being concerned that some countries such as the u.s. is seen as perhaps weakening their commitment to funding and now we've heard arguments such as hiv aids is they funded these are being called false arguments is said that there's really much much more that needs to be done there's still many people not receiving people here is taking a life saving treatments and this is another really big issue here is this access universal access to hate hiv prevention treatment now we've heard today a former u.s. president bill clinton speaking and we've called for the head to be in a slogan i say should to really ensure that the fish and 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 have said 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 overrules 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 do it fisher conference we heard from the other side which is a great book perhaps challenging the official definition states of d.n.a. 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 so we've seen a bit of a conflict between the mainstream views on the way to approach the situation. and

the alternative. opinion on that every fact that we hear over the coming week all represent an individual that is living with hiv and it's a 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. 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 and refused treatment and i have to fight against that while alexis and others like him continue to fight their battles all the 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 in

sight 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 four 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. this point there is no drug that could destroy the virus completely for one of those clinically approved drugs. or a.z.t. a type of antiretroviral drug used for the treatment of hiv and aids joan shandon of 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 there is a well of a majority believe you should just follow i'm sorry to say science is not the majority about science it's a free competition of the best arguments and verifiable arguments it is very fibro 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 say it's

a gathering of individuals committed to ending what they've classified as a pandemic for alexei he'd rather not get his hopes up all he wants are the facts. i don't expect to see any breakthrough in 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 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 that just last year there is a professor from japan professor yamamoto published a paper published in the prestigious journal of medical they're all a-g. they will straighten their hiv infection can be eradicated the south toward the deal is there and this has been published by stimulating the immune system so this means eradication of each of infection or of science of h.l.v.

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 a turn out to be cures that have already been published there and we are just confirming with our data those results. now. 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 despite being banned for a decade and as karen singh 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 grungy rival has

brought the practice out into the open a student at the prestigious the motley awful boys' school in kolkata who run deep 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 while and i think he was so long as he was getting an individual. back to being if i may use the word he was able to take it but when they all descended on him at the same time that day i don't think. i don't think his young mind could handle that much animosity. and humiliation and elimination from his friends the school's principal has admitted killing raji but says this was not responsible for this was 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 good largely unrecorded ten year old mounties often beaten when he doesn't complete his homework on time. now to the teacher and tries to teach us that when we jump to learn she chats and sometimes live an hour later. 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 on this we address those issues putting the blame on the child or hitting the child with a stick really doesn't solve any of this one either the child would become too used to this kind of a punishment and the effect would go off or else the child who's very sensitive and anxious by predisposition. i would feel very very vulnerable a supreme court judgment in two thousand corporal punishment in early films in india but not habits die hard many dangers and even some parents still believe in

the need for discipline to keep my family money back if your child doesn't do his homework even after reminding him repeatedly and 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 a rough fifty children in the 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 an inverted commas control the class or discipline us but discipline is a two way process so not only do you train the teachers you've also got to make the students understand that there is

a code of conduct but for one loving father there can be no arguments about corporal punishment there's a law against it there's no debate if you let people hear your kids there will be a monster who will take out his frustrations on your child and you will not be able to save your child it's not open to discussion nobody has the right but your cherry nobody you god gave them to us to love not for some guy 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 indian schools one wonders how many more children will have to suffer before more humane methods of disciplining them are enforced gotten thing r.t. nearly. well coming up an r.t. looking back at the beginning of a new space eat pork. in thirty five years since the historical apollo so his mission here in outer space coming up on our team will show you how they're celebrating that event here on the ground. first

a russian billionaire is suing christie's auction house in london after it allegedly sold him a fake work of art viktor 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. but since then several russian antics parents have concluded that it is a forgery pixel but now wants his money back as well as damages from christie's on the grounds of misrepresentation and i didn't and reports he's a senior editor of the moscow news website says this could seriously affect christie's credibility with russian. 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 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 scandals in the art world over the past several hundred years almost as long as people in 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 grammy award winning russian pianist and conductor is appeared in a tie called tone child sex charges if found guilty mikhail pletnev could spend up to twenty years in jail earlier this month thai police detained musician for allegedly raping a fourteen year old boy which he denies but never was been freed on bail to continue a world tour although he must appear at court hearings every twelve days. claims his arrest was triggered by the detention of a time musician he knows who is suspected of involvement in a child prostitution ring. well now to some other international news

this hour more than sixty people have been killed and over a hundred injured as a passenger train hit a stationary one in eastern india the course of the crash is not yet clear but poor maintenance has been blamed for the rise in train collisions in the country it's the second major roadway incident in west bengal this year in mainly hundred fifty died when a passenger train derailed and was hit by a freight train maoist rebels denied claims things have a time to trap. us officials or learn be peed 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 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. now to afghanistan where the country preparing to whose leaders from around the world for tuesday's major conference on the country's future are expected to discuss the war as well as

reconstruction and development the government is looking to show its will on the way to running its own affairs 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 band. a government of stormed a birthday party in northern mexico killing seventeen people and injuring over a dozen others witnesses say the attackers arrived in several cars and started shooting randomly without saying a word more than two hundred bullet casings have been found at the scene police are linking the massacre to the country's running drugs war which has killed more than 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 a celebrating the flight's thirty fifth anniversary the soyuz 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 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 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 in 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 events thirty five years ago but never just that it would. develop been through a large cooperation like we're. back. where we're thinking about the things we do is to make the mission the success so it's a great pleasure to read your and we appreciate the honor of the 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 of which 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 actually it was on the seventeenth of july 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. in outer space. thomas reporting there well wally early stages of the space race saw russian dogs being sent into what was the notion of something and don't key into flight was never considered that was until this weekend when. the police investigation desired

to launch a donkey be tried with quite a difference. stunned beachgoers watched as the animal tended to parasail was sent airborne over the sea for half an hour this is reported here in the terrified donkey brain before eventually mended in the water the animal survived the ordeal which police say appeared to be a stunt to promote parasailing officers say that while people were upset by the creatures to stress that not to be not it. i'm a cruelty charges could follow which could bring the organizers back down to earth with a two year jail sentence. when they say pigs might fly but don't use this is all to a computer lawyer from the russian capital twenty four hours a day now with a tough new immigration law is being adopted in the u.s. the country's latino population is calling for reforms and spoke to journalist and human rights activist. who insists immigrants can benefit america that's coming up

in a moment on r.t. stay with us. it is a controversial issue and an emotional one what to do about the immigration system in the united states all sides of this debate and there are many sides agree on one thing the system is broken but how to fix it and one to fix it has become the

subject of a great debate i'm joined now by jorge ramos mr ramos who. been the face of univision for twenty years serving as their anchor for their nightly news broadcasts has also authored some books including this one a country for all an immigrant manifesto mr ramos i want to thank you so much for joining me today you and countless others came out to rally support for and vote for now president obama he promised. several times that he would make sure the comprehensive immigration reform would pass within the first year of his presidency and it hasn't it's been more than a year but you can see that president obama has gotten a lot of other things done but he also promised why is it that so many hispanics are so angry that this was not the first thing that the president got too many latinos voted for president barack obama because he promised immigration reform nobody forced president barack obama so you're nothing but he did he promise that

during his first year in office he was going to have an immigration bill that he could strongly support and it's been a few months and we have seen absolutely nothing and we need action he put up stop deportations for students to put a stop deportation cellphone in the parlance of us students of. bipartisan summit at the white house he could have even presented. proposal if you saw an immigration bill in john mccain during the during the campaign he also promised me that he was going to support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and that he even he described undocumented immigrants as god's children so what's going on right now when when john mccain when he's fighting a very tough primary are they not god's children anymore i mean why you think he's supporting immigration reform right now so we have the blame is being shared by both republicans and democrats well since we're talking about the state of arizona let's talk about s.b. seven ten seventy this is a bill back in april that was signed by arizona governor jan brewer and it gives authorities not only the credence or the ability to but requires them to detain

anyone that they suspect of being. here here illegally but there are several people who support this bill and many would argue americans the many americans would many would even say the majority of americans support this bill they want to see more bills like this around the rest of the country what do you have to say to those americans the realities that immigrants pay taxes they create jobs and they don't take jobs away from americans they are simply taking the goals that americans don't want to do i haven't seen millions of americans going to girl farm fields in california texas and florida picking up tomatoes or ruffles so engrossed create jobs they bring crime down the department of justice just recently for a missing piece stating that crime has been going down in the last decade despite the fact that the immigrant population has doubled so violent crimes have been going down thirty five percent robberies twenty five percent. so there's a lot of misinformation but if we realize that it's a great business to have immigrants in this country hopefully people just my church

change their minds but they're almost one of your main arguments in your book is that immigrants are needed because there's going to be such a large population of people that are retiring these are the baby boomers and that immigrants will be needed when there's a labor shortage you say this in your book but the term labor shortage is very hard to swallow for most americans right now many of whom are out of work it just doesn't seem feasible that there's going to be a labor shortage anytime soon it's very simple if you bring them out of the shadows they'll be able to pay more taxes they'll be more productive they'll create new businesses and they'll be able to employ more people so again there's a lot of misinformation on the contributions of immigrants to this country and unfortunately when there's an economic crisis like the one we're facing right now immigrants are being blamed for for everything that's wrong with the sponsor from crime to unemployment and it's simply not for but if you take the civil rights movement there was martin luther king jr when you take the labor movement farm workers there was

a cesar chavez there is not one leader in this movement and how do you mobilize and how do you get something to happen change to happen if there's not one person for people to rally behind what's so interesting is that we don't need one cesar chavez we need a fall from césar chávez. and it is true 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 world is persecuting and discriminating against eleven million people i just came back from south africa and he was amazing to see how in sixteen years they progress so much in getting rid of fighting discrimination it's fantastic what they're doing in south africa but when i come back to america and realize that you know the sauna and they're going to wait it's really shocking. i don't i'm not saying that people are the majority of people in our so i don't want to create an up with

a system but what i'm seeing in arizona right now in many other parts of the country you shamefully close to two. terrible days you are an emmy award winning journalist that includes twenty years as an anchor for you know vision you have interviewed people from fidel castro to bill clinton to current president barack obama i'm curious how you reconcile the fact that you are a journalist and yet you are so outspoken about one of the greatest issues about our time it's a great question an interesting one when i'm doing my newscast every night when i'm doing my political show with sunday mornings i am not supposed to i have never given my opinion i mean they didn't hire me to give my opinion on the other hand i mean i am an immigrant i am an immigrant with the privilege of being on the air all the time i am an immigrant with a voice in. in some time so i do feel the need to speak for those who don't have a voice for those who are invisible in this country jorge ramos journalist and

author thank you so much for speaking with us thank you i. sailors call it the canary due to its high pitched. this may sound this highly competitive. want to trying to say. can be decoded something which. areas which are made to police children. and their health. illnesses. worsen them.

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a disease called for universal access to treatment. the widespread use of punishment in schools as. a young boy suicide. penalties against teachers who use brutal methods of discipline. is thirty five. even though it was in space. between the two rival countries. with. dolphins an uptick white whales are on the undisputed stalls of russia's aquariums you can find out more about both in the wild and among people in all special report next.