is there for us. already the funding spin a big topic a for the last couple of days and the certainly being concerned that some countries such as the u.s. is seen as perhaps weakening their commitment to fund i know we've heard arguments such as hiv and aids funding 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 people here is taking a life saving treatment so it's really focusing on this on an individual level so you see a lot of people 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 conference we heard from the other side which is if we were perhaps challenging the official definition page of d.n.a. and also the standard treatment standard drugs treatments those who couldn't question they were saying that there are alternatives out there the people we've

tried this and turned it to 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 alternatives we have opinion on not to 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 this issue of universal access still very much on everyone's minds everyone hatefully to live we can hear now from my colleague. he went to meet someone he's living with 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 a child in the world. i have to leave with that involves a lot of difficult things not just physical but also social and psychological sometimes some refuse treatment and i have to fight against doubt while alexy and

others. i can continue to fight their battles all their loot looking for is a cure it's already been a long wait for those with a 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 researches 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 to support their more than twenty five types of drugs with clinical proof that they are effective if a person takes in daily 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 for one of those clinically approved drugs is finally dying or a.z.t.

a type of antiretroviral drug use 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 that 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 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 of that aids treatment today is just less toxic than in the early ninety's and i would call for

a. 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 at this conference i just hope that it will be make clear as to where we are to regarding the vaccine because we needed it yesterday tests are cilia r.t. moscow. well some scientists believe there could soon be a breakthrough in treating h.i.v.'s recent suggests 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 the paper published in the prestigious journal of medical vire all a-g. there was treating there ha be infection can be eradicated the deaths of years are

toward their views and this has been published by stimulating the immune system so these means erode the creation of a chevy fraction of science of h.l.v. infection and so if these will be confirmed there on larger clinical scale clinical trials because that was just as i'm on 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 of cures that have already been published there and we are just confirming with our data those results. well that was marco or did you know from florence university in italy talking to a little earlier in r.t. corporal punishment in schools may seem like an out of date disciplining tool but in india it's still widely used that's despite being banned for a decade and as current 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 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 g. hanged himself at home earlier this year after being gained at school after spending months jason the scornful 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 giving them individual. battering 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 giving run g. 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 unreported ten year old mounties often beaten when he doesn't complete his homework on time. now the teacher at tryst teacher's twenty dumb to learn she chats and sometimes cry when i get hit in the child with a stick really doesn't solve any of this one either the child would become too used to this kind for punishment and the effect would go off or else the child who's very sensitive and anxious by predisposition would feel very very vulnerable a supreme court judgment in two thousand prohibited corporal punishment in earl its forms in india but would have it die hard many teachers and even some parents still

believe in the need for this. we don't want to hit them but we get angry sometimes because we're taking so much effort to teach them sometimes we're forced to hit them little 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 in inverted commas control the class or discipline 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 hit your kids there will be a monster who will take out his first mission on your child and you will not be able to save your child it's not open to discussion nobody has the right budgetary

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 a spotlight on corporal punishment which is illegal but still call morning in good schools one wonders how many more children will have to suffer before more humane methods of disciplining them are inforced got a thing you know. we come from the russian capital coming up in just a few minutes here on r t. the u.s. military is planning to triple its complement of drone aircraft within ten years but this international concern over the high number of civilians killed indiscriminately by the unmanned. spent thirty five years since the historical apollo so his mission in outer space coming up on r.t. will show you how they are celebrating that event here on the ground. and 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 is called the leask and was thought to be by the russian artist. since then several russian arctics but it's have concluded that it's a forgery pixel bug now one sees money back as well as damages from christie's on the grounds of misrepresentation and negligence and reports he's a senior editor of the moscow news website says this could seriously affect christie's credibility with russian numbers. christie said they would cast an internal investigation this hasn't generated any results or at least not results which have satisfied. the weekend he's lost this legal presumably to force their hands to get 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're helping 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 that we suppose come through price fixing scandals in the past so it won't put them out of business but obviously it will have a knock on effect on how credible they are particular in this market. a grammy award winning russian pianist and doctor has appeared in the tide court on child sex charges if found guilty could spend up to twenty years in jail earlier this month ty police detained the musician for allegedly raping a fourteen year old boy which he denies but it was then freed on bail to continue to look at that he must appear in court here once every twelve minutes claims his arrest was triggered by the detention of a time musician he knows who is suspected of involvement in a child prostitution ring. the u.s. military is planning to triple its complement of unmanned drone aircraft within ten

u.s. sales of drones are rising as off is that more use of the weapons will mean higher civilian casualties what is going to teach cohen reports now on the consequences of today's real life robot wars. the economy out of the blue two words for you predator drones. you'll never see it coming a drone least ten times cheaper than a fighter jet it requires no pilot so there are no troop deaths to explain it's 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 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

stations questioned the legality of the extensive use of the weapon it becomes different when you come to a sort of undeclared war with organizations which. like that and you go off to persons you say hey we suspect we say they are terrorists but who has proof that the person you're actually targeting are terrorists. they're not they're not in uniform but humanitarian concerns seem to be doing little to dampen surging international demand for grownups also known as unmanned aerial the colts 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 and when they cause to structured they don't feel it here in washington d.c. suburb of cia drone operator don't wake up in the morning you know family goodbye come to the office and shoot at target thousands of miles away from here and go back home and no risk will fill where especially say the whole operation reminds of b.t.o. day the question many ask is if it is so easy and convenient world of ours to empty the way to move more in the future if war is cheap why not use the people specially against the smaller countries and organizations touch. it will try to sit around with a table with an open over simon vet saman 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. 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 ganesh again. now to other international news this hour here in r.t. more than sixty people have been 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 has been blamed for the rise in train collisions in the country it's the second major roadway incident in west bengal this year and made any hundred fifty died when a passenger train derailed and was hit by a freight train maoist rebels denied claims they sabotage the training. u.s. officials are allowing b.p. to keep the cap on its ruptured oil well in the gulf of mexico for. its own

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 the peak was only also to submit a plan for removing the cap which is believed to stem the flow of oil for the first time in the three months since the explosion at the three. now where the country's preparing to host 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 it's well on the way to running its an offense you know secretary of state hillary clinton had the u.s. thousands of soldiers and police are patrolling kabul to secure the capital for the one day event. the birthday party in northern mexico killing seventeen people and injuring. witnesses say the attackers arrived in several cars and started shooting randomly. two hundred put it casings have been found at the

scene. of the country's. twenty six thousand people over the last four years. well the first soviet era cosmonauts and american astronauts to fly on a joint international space mission celebrating the thirty fifth anniversary so he's apollo project a new era of cooperation between the superpower rivals thomas has been following the celebrations at moscow's space museum. it is been a day of ceremony and celebration in old friends getting together and reminiscing about their time that they shared in space thirty five years ago the four remaining survivors of the actual event itself the apollo 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 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 but never just that it would. develop into a large corporation like we're. back. where we're thinking about the things that 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 story on 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 is the first time these two superpowers works together in fact they actually

had to engineer specific devices so these two spacecraft could fit together they were designed separately not to work together so that was one feat of engineering that had to be accomplished but also it was the first time that these two cold war rivals had to train together and work together for more than six months so that they could accomplish their missions in space when the two crafts actually dock it was on the seventeenth of july they there was a three hour period. 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 from moscow this is all to come from the russian capital now with tough new immigration laws due to come into force in arizona amol

planned elsewhere in the u.s. the latin american population in the country is calling for reforms when altie spoke to journalist and human rights activists. immigrants benefit american that's coming up your way in just a few minutes here on quality. 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 has 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 that 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 press or barack obama say anything but he did he promise that during q four three in office he was going to have an immigration bill that he could strongly support and it's been eighteen months and we have seen absolutely nothing and we need action he put up. students who could have stopped the petition the cell phone the parents of us students this could have called for a bipartisan summit of the white house he could have even presented. proposal if you saw an immigration bill and 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 many times 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 think jobs away from americans they are simply taking the deals that americans don't want to do i haven't seen millions of americans going to your farm fields in california texas or florida picking up tomatoes or ruffles so engrossed create jobs . they bring crime down the justice. stating that crime has been going down in the last decade despite the fact that the immigrant population has doubled so

violent crime stopping 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 as 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 since the search obvious. 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 exactly the opposite way it's really shocking i don't i'm not saying that people that the my jury of people in arizona want to create an upper thigh system but what i'm seeing in arizona right now in many other parts of the country you shamefully close to. those terrible days you are 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 mean growing with a voice in. in sometimes 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. if you knew about someone from phones to impressions. these phones totty dot com. cultures that so much of i was about to fit in those i think i'm going to give it really an incredible history in the making of our

western ideas comics trade even democracy in the balance and what model. theory is which are made to police children. health. ministers. should illness is given a lot more similar. to secure itself against. a country not from the russian capital twenty four hours a day top stories now. as the world's richest nations plan to cut spending in the battle against aids due to the financial crisis demonstrated is

a major international conference on the disease in vienna and universal access to treatment united nations says funding cuts could threaten recent progress made against the disease which has killed around twenty five million people. corporal punishment in indian schools comes under scrutiny after the suicide. of a thirteen year old boy reveals that the cane still rules some classrooms despite the practice being banned in the country parents are now calling for criminal penalties for teachers teaching pupils. it's thirty five years since the cold war superpowers came together more as the space docking of the soviets so use an american spacecraft began a more co-operative the road between the two rival countries well the news continues in less than half an hour from now on out in the meantime peter lavelle and his guests discuss which model of governance is the most effective to lead the world out of recession crosstalk in a moment.