conference will also focus on reconstructing and developing the war torn country as well as fighting corruption and the drug trade anti-war activists michael prize there says washington is desperate to negotiate with the taliban but it may be too late. 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 the united states to hillary clinton is going as that 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 lost from afghanistan on the united states that's the reason that we're giving but i don't 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 their anti-war activists michael prysner their war veteran jake deliberateness has there is no hope for a peaceful afghanistan until nato breaks spread the taliban. i think it's all crazy talk i don't think anybody needs to believe any of these guys if it were a clinton obama karzai 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 us do are really crazy for having any sort of idea that staying in afghanistan longer is a good to good thing or to 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 you know include foreign of forces being the source of depth 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 to pay in there from afghan war veteran j. dilla birdo a little later in the program we'll get a live update on the international conference in afghanistan from our correspondent tell you know who is in kabul for us i still have for you this hour she's made to

the ripe old age of one hundred thirty and shows no signs of slowing down on the eve of georgia's challenger have her be the world's oldest woman find out her secrets later in the program. running out of nations has 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 i see sarah ferguson the austrian capital for us. it's the third day of the aids two thousand and ten conference in vienna and already we've seen some controversy in the days leading up to the official conference we heard from a greek who challenging many of the fundamental assumptions that a lot of us told about hiv and aids and about the forms of treatment no though 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 of delivery of services in tough economic times now there's been some protests going through the conference about this apparent scaling back people saying the government's on holding kids on their promises i remember in two thousand and five the u.n. said that december two thousand and ten deadline promising universal access to haiti hiv prevention treatment and most countries have fallen pretty far short of a target safe from a lot of speakers 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 pendant on a price tag now another of the areas is being discussed here at the conference is to be with treatments he seems new guidelines on early delivery of treatment that's

been slightly controversial is going to be debated later on today but as he said the underlying basis of this conference is this focus on the human rights issue and the fact that this is not only needed to visit success in a global level a bit on an individual level to we can hear now from my colleague against japan he 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 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 it's classed as a global epidemic there are however some scientists in the minority who counter this view hiv is just another the toolbars 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 it's yes' 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 subpoenas on aids being a sexually transmitted disease are also far from the mainstream view it's not up to

tell us 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 come stats hope 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 the question a major aids foundation is asking well obama's new strategy is mostly focused on the domestic side with a child 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 child the 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 we think that people with long care for him to have this 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 going to check on our t. washington d.c. . now the u.s. senate is 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. now the proposed bill it stands the deadline for filing for unemployment benefits to the end of november the move will cost thirty three billion dollars in additional deficit spending republicans are concerned about be expansive and say an extension of benefits should be offset by spending cuts blogger danny schechter says the debate is actually archaeological battle. 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 ego 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 of people they in pain and in poverty there 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 the 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 danish after they are from new york 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 would stand the flow of oil for the first time since a rig three months ago. a drug gang as 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 they had occasion ministry says the decision aims to protect syria's secular danity the ban does not affect the headscarf which is more common in the region syria is the latest nation to weigh down of the face covering veil following similar moves in france and belgium. have a rain continues to devastate temple china with the death toll rising to thirty

four dozens are feared missing as the worst hit areas remain under 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. how they say age is nothing but a number but what if that number is one hundred thirty seems to be the case for georgian woman who claims to be the oldest living person on earth. by to wish her a happy birthday. as you get older birthdays tend to get less exciting but not for each other this georgian 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 worked a lot i worked on my garden plot i needed to raise my children after my husband died 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. mother worked all her life even during the war never had a very. me how 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 and mixed 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 decent used 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 documentation 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. document which is pretty old. passport this issue of his or her charity discreetly very conservative there.

which i know is poor we need to hope that. everything. would 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 let's go back now to our top story the international conference taking place in the afghan capital kabul the events expected to produce an agreement for foreign force. is to hand power back to afghans as security in the region remains fragile now we can talk live show correspondent who's following developments for us there at the conference hello tina tell you so tell us a bit more about this event what is so special about a why is it such a big deal. well marina like you just said this conference is basically all

about making sure the power is being shifted over to the afghan forces the plan that will set for that during the last conference on afghanistan which took place in london earlier this year is now being implemented and today here representatives from over seventy countries are making sure that everything is going. by the plan of course other issues such as drug trafficking proving. standards of living here in afghanistan as well as state regulations and human rights issues also should be discussed and it looks like russia is increasing its involvement in have helping the country in all those years russia here is represented by the country's foreign minister sergei lavrov and the head of this trip the ministry has said the ministry spokesman rather has said that's. confirmed russia's willingness to jointly with the western partners. realize restoration projects here in afghanistan the

restoration of social facilities facilities of industrial facilities over one hundred forty of them were built here by specialists in between the one nine hundred fifty s. in the one nine hundred ninety s. and back then they accounted for over fifty percent of the country's g.d.p. so right now russia is willing to help restore those facilities but of course it's who need some help some financial help for that as well. as the lady just. other countries are assisting the afghan people in obtaining much want to. restoring civil society and the economy and in these terms we will support the efforts of the u.s. soil. well also recently russia has said it's willing to sell over twenty am i seventeen helicopters to nature meant for the afghan army no those helicopters were designed especially to fly over the mountain so as the country's chief of staff has said himself they would be perfect for the

afghan army russia has also said that it's willing to give some of them for free in order to help the country and each of them costs from between thirteen and fifteen million u.s. dollars and that of course will also be very much needed here in afghanistan. troops start leaving the country but as you can see there are a lot of issues there on the plate for the well gets to talk about but on a touch of let's not talk about the drug problem there which is also causing a major headache for russia how's it going to be addressed how's it going to be tackled well of course for russia this is one of the main concerns journalists conference because the the shocking that out of. one hundred thousand people that die because of drugs coming from afghanistan annually and more than a third of them dies in russia and together with the e.u. russia consumes about fifty percent of drugs coming from of ghana stones so for

russia of course it is a big issue during this conference and. also willing to cooperate with. partners from the west in order to tackle this problem. politically political games around this huge problem and unacceptable we cannot comment on two drugs coalition in afghanistan today is the world's man. with the problem over regional borders botswana to prevent globalization of the criminal world. so all the participants the conference today will be making sure that the poppy fields are being destroyed in the country that of course drug dealers are being arrested and the financial flows are also controlled better in order to reduce the country's economies sector all right thanks very much indeed for bringing us this update from kabul where the international conference is taking place at the moment

. brings us up to date here on ars he will bring you the business news with a very shortly don't go away. hungry for the full story we've got it for us the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers . every month we give you the future we help 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 for technology update on our g. it's twenty three minutes past nine am in the russian calpol are you watching the business program on r t the far more 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 about reports. airplanes of all shapes and sizes are taking to the skies over the south of england this week as formed by international ash a brings technology today russia's biggest aviation industry play is a representative not just air a float and sukhoi superjet but also titanium make of the s.n.p. . the russian defense super corp defense important export company but on exports 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 particular new market with care of several commercial critical. but it's not a big want to be confusion canonically developed. so we are putting additional

songs this market. among the russian related deal signed his so far and our affiliates placed an order for eleven ad bus 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. basically is undoubtedly the star of this show the boeing seven a seven dreamliner on british soil for the first time hailed as the first in a new generation of line is it's just c. an't wing it's all made of russian titanium the seventy seven's made of composite material and capable of traveling huge distances with this model still equipped for test flights boeing's confident it can make the first. deliveries by the end of the year following a tour of the brand 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 jaring 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. way more interest for more than your airplanes you know definitely finance and he is no 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 that business plan. and add their shows state corporation russian technology is a signed agreement with boeing agreed to future joint ventures for servicing boeing aircraft and their distribution boring previously agreed with the russian silicon valley's skolkovo to design new planes. and let's now see how the equity markets are performing this tuesday first to asia and japan profit takers some of the nikkei down mainly on a strong again it's hard to export institute of sony and fujitsu among them some disappoint corporate results from the united states also adding to the pessimism meanwhile in hong kong the hang sang is dating value in the news about china's increasing divest the consumption of mainly benefits the banking sector and the auto makers. and of the russian markets are opening up at about an hour you're seeing the closing figures from monday when both the r.t.s.

and the my six hundred day in the black energy stocks rose as the price of oil hover around seventy six dollars a barrel is very bank of the top blue chip gainer up one and a half percent after saying last week of the growth of bad loans of speed wise. russia's biggest gold producer paul hughes plans to pay a dividend of eight house rubles per share for the first half of the year that's twenty seven cents a share the figure is slightly lower than expected and that's about half of what the company paid last year if the board of directors recommendations approved the company will spend a little more than fifty million dollars on dividend payments this year. while you are up to date on all the latest from the business team i'll be back in about fifteen minutes i'll see them.

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to. congress. which are made to believe. there is no. illness is. worse than. just your shoulder against. welcome back you're watching our tears a look at the top stories shifting power political happy ways from around the world gather in kabul to find ways of handing more control over to afghan forces to stabilize the conflict stricken country authorities have stepped up security for

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 wife style disease and 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 republicans for courting the rich with tax cuts as the senate prepares to vote the bill would help millions struggling to survive after the financial crisis but will cost the government billions of dollars. lost their lives here in the back of the top of the hour with more updates for you up next though so we interview show spotlight this time al gore the host talks to the russian ambassador to iran.