as well as fighting corruption and the drug trade well it does not look like the taliban is in any position to negotiate the united states right now because the taliban is winning the war very clearly what this can be seen as is a move of desperation on behalf of the united states to hillary clinton is going as a representative saying that you know this goal in afghanistan the reason that we're told we must fight and die and we'll see in afghanistan is to drive the taliban from any inch of political power because of that was to happen that another terrorist attack would be a lot from afghanistan on the united states that's the reason that we're giving but i don't while want to hand what we're being told we must fight and die and leslie to make sure the taliban have no political power we're seeing our representatives telling the taliban that they would like to put them on the payroll offer them seats in the government if they just promise to allow the u.s. to carry out whatever business and military interest it has in that country what we do know is that the united states is losing this war and the united states will not withdraw in defeat from this war and what we can expect to see is united states

doing everything it can to not leave that country with the perception that they've been defeated and try everything they can to bomb and murder that country into submission so we can expect to see another year is more u.s. casualties more afghan casualties and while the leaders in washington and the generals in the pentagon still finding justification to continue to fight there was anti-war activists michael prisoner there now afghan war veteran j. dilla berta says there is no hope for a peaceful afghanistan until nato breaks bread with the taliban. i think it's all crazy talk i don't think anybody needs to believe any of these guys the hillary clinton obama cars if anybody because nobody has any clue how we're going to bring peace there or stability this whole thing if we don't negotiate with the taliban unless the taliban peace negotiations are brought to the forefront of this whole discussion it's all mindless chatter it's it's nonsense it's like facebook blogging on steroids it's crazy to art and nobody should listen to it as far as i can see

you know i hate to criticize the u.s. congress so much and so avidly but i think many of them outside of a few are really crazy for having any sort of idea about staying in afghanistan longer is it because a good thing or can help stabilize about the only way to bring peace and stability is to allow local people to solve local problems through local solutions and it doesn't include foreign of forces being the source of that peacemaking has to be done by the afghan parliament it has to be done by pakistan and we need civilians to do it not military force opinion from afghan war veteran jay gilberto they are and you're watching live from moscow still have for you this hour she has made it to the riot old age of one hundred in staring shows no signs of slowing down. what made the georgian challenger who could be the world's oldest woman find out her secrets later in the program. now the united nations says plans

by the world's wealthiest nations to cut spending on aids could jeopardize recent progress in fighting the disease the warning came at an international aids conference which is underway in vienna as activists are demanding treatment for all r.t. sarah ferguson is in the austrian capital for us. it's the third day of the aids two thousand and ten conference here in vienna and already we've seen some controversy in the days leading up to the official conference we heard from agreed to a challenging many of the fundamental assumptions that a lot of us told about hatred b. and aids and about the forms of treatment know their views were met by many of the mainstream scientists with widespread criticism that has been a lot of debating here at the official conference itself to do with funding and treatment strategy that we heard yesterday from bill gates and bill clinton they were addressing an aids organizations i'm really asking them to ensure that they were providing value for money and efficient delivery of services in tough economic

times now there's been some protests going through the conference about this apparent scaling back the people saying that governments aren't holding good on their promises i remember in two thousand and five the u.n. said the december two thousand and ten deadline promising universal access to hate hiv prevention treatments and most countries have fallen pretty far short of those targets from a lot of speakers head saying that this really needs to be pushed forward funding still needs to be there and health care in any country should absolutely not be an option that comes to pendent on a price now another of the areas it's been discussed here at the conference is to be with treatments he seems new guidelines on earlier delivery of treatments that's been slightly controversial is going to be debated later on today because he said the underlying basis of this conference is this focus on the human rights issue and the fact that this is not a need it's been success in

a global level but on an individual level to we can hear now from my colleague against japan they met some people living with hiv a charming carton says the tribe he saved her life is not something you hear very often my life before the. story. i have to go for days weeks weeks and weeks to go are you know does not even take a bath is just get high get high get high get high was smoke crack smoke. drink drink in this go to that passed out seven years ago when h.i.v. diagnosis prompted her to change your lifestyle and i've been clean thank you. it has been restarted the ball of my new life now she takes a cocktail of three chivied fighting drugs every day and says it's like fighting any other disease but the international community thinks differently aids which the united nations says has killed twenty five million people is classed as

a global epidemic there are however some scientists in the minority who counter this view hiv is just another they told us we know hundreds of them professor duesberg from the university of california berkeley says the world has been brainwashed into thinking aids is an infectious disease most scientists don't share his views aids she says comes along but is and they wanted to make it an infectious disease but it's a lifestyle he sees over twenty million americans that's almost ten percent take illicitly creational talks every day professor duesberg is opinions on aids being a sexually transmitted disease are also far from the mainstream view it's not about that in order to pick up this virus from somebody who has to have. cells and sexual contacts with somebody who is positive not counting dates with

negative thoughts they don't count as that's how efficient it is this is hopeless is biologically hopeless no one argues that h.i.v. and aids is a problem it is the causes and effects of the immunity fish and sea diseases which are the focus of debate and disagreement in washington d.c. you come across these ads everywhere who's better on a bush or obama and that's a question a major aids foundation is asking well obama's new strategy is mostly focused on the domestic five h.i.b. and a and for the first time the u.s. national aids plan specifically targets gay and bisexual men and. ron simmons who is black gay and h.i.v. positive says targeting reese groups is actually a good thing and more efficient he has a support group for gay charity positive black man i was on the cusp of the wave of the sexual revolution so i had done all that stuff you know

with a lot of i thought of knew that. so when i found out i was positive i wasn't surprised by while acknowledging lifestyle has a great deal to do with hiv diagnosis ron says people should avoid social stigma the thing that people with long from the hapless book think with their fall so tough luck don't get into how do you think that's not important how you guys think the fact is that you are but some scientists say that dealing with how it's contracted remains the key to its prevention to check on our t. washington d.c. . and the u.s. senate to set to vote on an extension of unemployment benefits democrats and republicans are deeply divided on the issue which has provoked fierce debate president obama has slammed his opponents for attempting to deny help to millions of americans after years of championing policies that turned a record surplus into a massive deficit the same people who didn't have any problems spending hundreds of

billions of dollars on tax breaks for the wealthiest americans are now saying we shouldn't offer relief to middle class americans like jim or leslie or denise who really need help. the proposed male expands the deadline for a filing for unemployment benefits to the end of the van burren the move will cost thirty three billion dollars in additional deficit spending republicans are concerned about the expense and say any extension of benefits should be offset by spending cuts blog very dennis hastert says the debate is actually a political balance. this is a situation where the government has to be proactive to try to stimulate the economy and to try to generate jobs and they haven't been doing a very great job of it so you can say well they shouldn't do anything but i don't see how that's going to lead to a recovery of our economy and neither do most economists around the world the problem is that there's an easy a logical group among the republicans and some

other economists who feel that you know obama cannot have any victories he cannot be able to claim that he did anything positive so they are just the party of no they will vote against everything he proposes because he's proposing it and this is the problem that the democrats are facing it's masked as an economic debate but it really is and it's a political difference at its core the same republicans who are moaning about the deficit and the dead are also favoring tax cuts for the richest americans so they don't have to pay any taxes at all and the government can't generate any income their real philosophy is quote starve the beast try to make it impossible for government to function and serve the public and they're not very interested in lower income americans the people they in pain and in poverty they're very they had dinner fly with the richest americans and that's why this is become a class battle not just a political battle if you want to cut the budget you want to really deal with the

deficit you have to cut military spending and that's something that republicans for the most part are not interested in doing with the exception perhaps of ron paul so everybody is making selective arguments to build their ideological case but the reality is that the money is going into military and counter intelligence kinds of programming that generates jobs for some people but leaves most people out of work . blogger and filmmaker danny schechter they are from new york you're watching our if you live from moscow us now take a look at some other stories from around the world and the u.s. government is allowing b.p. to keep a cap on its ruptured oil well in the gulf of mexico but will continue to monitor the situation officials were worried the plug fitted last week may have triggered other leaks however authorities say they may be natural and unrelated to the well b.p. hoped the device had stem the flow of oil for the first time since a really exploded three months ago. a drug gang has killed a man during

a street shooting in mexico a day after escalating violence in the country eighteen people were shot dead at a party on monday as gunmen stormed the celebrations the region has recently seen a rise in deaths linked to competition between cartels over fifteen thousand people have been killed in drug related violence in the past three years. syria has banned university students and teachers in the country from wearing the full islamic veil the education ministry says the decision aims to protect syria's secular advantage the band is not in fact the head scarf which is more common in the region syria is the latest nation to weigh down on the face covering veil following similar moves in france and belgium. heavy rain continues to devastate central china with the death toll rising to thirty four dozens are feared missing as the worst hit areas remain under a sea of water nearly six million people across the country have been evacuated from their homes as a result of the floods last week rain storms in the south killed nearly one hundred

fifty people leaving at least forty missing. israel received international condemnation for its attack on a gaza bound aid flotilla in may nine people were killed when commandos stormed a humanitarian ship coming out r.t. talks to israeli member of parliament dr wealth she argues military action should have been avoided because the conflict in the middle east is an ideological one. the whole thinking should have been different the whole thinking should have been that this is not a new arena where the military gets sacked because the military doesn't know how to deal with images with ideas. so in that respect it's not helpful to the kind of shift that i think israel should make in order to truly win in this war of ideas my argument was that when we are engaged in a campaign for images the last thing we need to do is give the other side because they're acting what they want which is an image of conflict with israeli soldiers

we're fighting them a war of ideas. and i watched that interview and fall in just over ten minutes time here on our t.v. . they say age is nothing but a number but what if that number is one hundred thirty that seems to be the case for a georgian woman who claims to be the oldest living person on earth or does or in english go stop by to wish her a happy birthday. as you get older birthdays tend to get less exciting but both of those georgia woman says she's turning hundred and thirty years old it's a claim backed up by her passport but she appears to have outlived her birth certificate which would help prove she's the world's oldest living person by sixteen years she spends most of her time in bed but her ten grandchildren eleven great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren keep her entertained year

round. now i feel weak but i don't want to stay in bed all the time i wrecked a loss i worked on my garden plot and i did to raise my children after my husband died and they say despite her age she still has a sound mind and a sharp eye and enjoys a game of backgammon every now and then says the. mother worked all her life even during the war she never had a very comfortable life. mihai you isn't he says a third and last living son she claims she gave birth to him when she was sixty her two older children died in the one nine hundred forty s. it seems there's something in the air in the mountains of georgia living to over ninety is nothing out of the ordinary here but making it to hundred thirty is still something pretty special the secret could be in the simple rural life or the d.n.a. of the local population or as some have suggested

a mix up with the documents or maybe it's the combination of all three that keeps people like and going strong for years relatives say and disabused to smoke cigarettes doesn't eat meat but doesn't joy having entering every now and then to suspend all of her life in the village she was born in she didn't have much of an official education and doesn't know how to read or write her passport says she was born in one thousand nine hundred eighty but independently that the communication cannot be verified without antti says last birth certificate but several other documents and testimonies from her neighbors say i'm definitely over a century old. form which is. correct which is pretty. fast but this issue of his or her child is creating the seventeen there. which our school we. worked every day. with

documents in order to establish the fact that this person is the oldest person in the world what with people work or not until news to lead by example proving that age is a case of mind over matter as long as you know how to make the most of every single moment of life. georgia. and then forget to log on to our website our teacher conference any of the stories that we cover every year there are always more stuff for you and alice is on blogs but he. there are some that mad about i catch your eye. driven into action russian ecologists battle to save the forests which is being felled to make way for a new bosco to sink that is bird motorway. and moscow has high hopes for hosting a grand prix in two thousand and twelve after a major as one show on the capital streets this weekend drew thousands of spectators. and the flying donkey that could land at parasailing company

responsible in hot water after its stand in southern russia is investigated for animal cruelty. brings out today and business is on its way to you with shortly. here every month we give you the future we'll do you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world to join us. on our.

mine. would be soon which would brighten if you knew me back from the place to. be on top teeth don't come. it's twenty one minutes past eight am in the russian capital you're watching business on our cheap russia's hottest summer for century could have far reaching economic consequences for the grain union says the poor harvests due to the drought

could push up inflation by as much as two percent meaning the country may overshoot its target of seven percent due to the extreme weather russia has already lost one fifth of the grain crops with nineteen farming regions announcing a state of emergency we prices have risen almost twenty five percent the last two weeks but they had of russia's grain union says the price hikes of being driven more by fear than fundamentals should raise that it all depends on psychological factors at the moment there are no fundamental reasons for the green troy's to rise we have enough reserves and our balance is ok but the eskimos do need to push those gross domestic product rose by four point two percent in the first half of the year as the country emerged from the worst downturn in a decade. the growth was underpinned by a strong rebound in industrial production it was more than ten percent higher than the same period last year russia also benefited from rising commodity prices the

value of the country's economy. was now see how the equity markets are performing this tuesday first to asia in japan profit takers some of that a key dow mainly on a stronger d'anna turn against orders to little sony and jeeves who are among them some disappointing corporate results from the united states also adding to the pessimism meanwhile in hong kong the hang seng is gaining value in the news about china's its recent divest sumption it mainly benefits the banking sector and the automakers. the russian markets are closed this hour you're seeing the figures from monday one both the r.t.s. and the my six ended the day in the walk and into stocks rose as the price of oil have around seventy six dollars a barrel it's very very close the top blue chip gainer of one of the house for some time after saying last week the growth of bad loans has stabilized. russia's biggest gold producer paul use me pay

a dividend of eight house per share for the first half that's twenty seven u.s. cents a figure slightly lower than expected and is about house of what the company paid last year if the board of directors recommendation is approved it will lead to a total outlay of the company for the company of little more than fifty million dollars. russia's top mobile operator am ts and the retailer euro seven signed a deal that will revive their cooperation in certain russian regions the relationship soured after m.t.s. arrival simple call bought the euro set change about two years ago with both sides suing each other presidents autumn wallace says he's pleased the companies that agreed to start working together again but he stressed it's only in some remote regions of the country. thanks for the time being. this far broader international air show has opened in the south of england that's one of the premier events for

the industry with companies coming from all around the world as our correspondent laura schwartz. airplanes of all shapes and sizes are taking to the skies over the south of england this week as formed by international ash brings technology to russia's biggest aviation industry play as a representative not just arafat and sukhoi superjet but also titanium make. the russian defense super corp defense important export company export and russian helicopters it was a successful beginning to the show for russian helicopters which sold four machines to an indian company a new direction was a commercial market for us it's a new market with care of several commercial. but that's not a big want to be confusion going on that we developed. so we are putting additional

forces on this market. among the russian related deals signed his so far and placed in order for eleven ad planes for around a billion dollars and will supply thirty of it super jets to an indonesian airline in a deal worth just under a billion dollars but the name on everyone's lips this year is boeing. undoubtedly the star of this year's show the boeing seven a seven dreamliner on british soil for the first time hailed as the first in a new generation of airline is it's just c. an't wait it's all made of russian titanium the seventy seven's made of composition material and capable of traveling huge distances with this model still equipped to test flights boeing's confident it can make the first deliveries by the end of the year following a tour of the. new plane. explained russia's involvement. in

the last few years we have signed a lot of contract most of which were for titanium production and newly built titanium alloy the plane that you and i just saw consists of about twenty tons worth of titanium product all of which were made in russia boeing claims planes for the next eighty years will be modeled on the dreamliner and they're hoping to drum up new custom for the plane cheering the course of this week last year's paris was disastrous in terms of orders as the aerospace industry took a beating in the financial crisis this year could be different according to boeing i think there is some signs you know that the market just gone bad definitely no adeline's you know way more interest. for the new airplanes you know definitely finance and there is no soul big problem like eighteen months ago bumper is traditionally a litmus test for the state of the global aviation industry and the world's biggest defense and aircraft manufacturers will show evidence of it taking off your and

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the event which will bring together over seventy nations. calls mount for bigger funding in the battle against aids but while scientists remain split over how to deal with the so-called epidemic others claim it's nothing more than a lifestyle disease this comes as delegates meet an international aids conference in vienna aimed at providing universal care for patients. and ending wealth discrimination president obama is determined to extend unemployment benefits slamming the republicans for courting the rich with tax cuts as a seven prepares to vote the bill would help millions struggling to survive absent a financial crisis but will cost the government billions of dollars. that start he talks to israeli member of parliament dr a now wells to discuss israel's position after its attack on an aid flotilla in may and prospects for the middle east.