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 the state regulations and human rights issues are also to be discussed and it looks like russia is increasing its involvement in had helping the country in all those fears 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 he 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 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 mountains 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 once the two troops start leaving the country out of one hundred thousand people that die because of drugs coming from again is down annually and more than a third of them dies in russia and together with the the e.u. russia consumes about fifty percent of the drugs coming from afghanistan so for russia of course it is a big issue during this conference and. of course russia is also willing to cooperate with the partners from the west in order to tackle this problem politically political games around this huge problem in an acceptable way we cannot comment on two drugs coalition afghanistan. today is the world's main drug supply

but the problem is spread over regional borders that's why i know how to prevent globalization of the criminal world. so all the participants all 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 and in order to reduce the country's economy black sector are reporting from the afghan capital kabul there anti-war activists michael prysner says washington's 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 with 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 a representative saying that you know this goal in afghanistan the reason that we're told we must fight and die and will 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 the united states doing everything it can to not leave that country with the perception that they've been defeated and trying 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 fighting justification to continue to fight their anti-war activists michael prysner there. 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 or hillary 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 television 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 target and nobody should listen to it as far as i'm concerned there i hate to criticize the us congress so much and so avidly but i think many of them outside the us do are really crazy for having any sort of idea that staying in afghanistan longer is a good as a good thing or can help stabilize it actually 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 the 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 there from afghan war veteran j. dilla bertil also have three here in our team she's made it to the ripe old age of one hundred thirty and shows no signs of slowing down. would be the georgian challenger a could be the world's oldest woman find out her secrets later in the program. and 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 the sarah ferguson the austrian capital for us. it was 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 though they 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 the people saying the government's on holding kids on their promises i remember in two thousand and five the u.n. said it december two thousand and ten deadline promising universal access to hate hiv prevention treatments 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 pendent on a price tag now another of the areas is being discussed here the conference is to deal with treatments he seems new guidelines on early delivery of treatments that's been slightly controversial his base 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 saved her life 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 and then 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 you hiv is just another the total 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 beaches 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 clocks every day professor duesberg 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 model from somebody who has you have. cells and sexual contacts with somebody who is positive not counting dates with negative thoughts they don't call us that's hope efficient it is this is hopeless it's biologically hopeless no one argues that h.i.v. and aids is a problem it is the cause is in the facts of the immunity fish and the diseases which are the focus of debate and disagreement in washington d.c. you come across these and everywhere who's better on a bush or obama and that's the question of major aids foundation is asking well obama's new strategy is mostly focused on the domestic side 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 risk groups is actually a good thing and more efficient he has a support group for gay child the positive black man. or. because. i had done all this stuff you know what. i thought of. when i found out. while acknowledging lifestyle has a great deal to do with hiv diagnosis ron says people should avoid social stigma we think the people from the. fall. don't get. sick that's not important how you guys think the fact is that 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. . well we're now returning to afghanistan and the international conference taking place in kabul and as a container screen russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has addressed no it's less now is it and that was in a communique of the forum which today the documents that has been prepared by the government of afghanistan. provides the necessary tools for it there is a lot of. interest to suppress the terrorists and to form the. worst is in afghanistan to maintain security. and drug trafficking and ensure state reconciliation and. stated mr. potential. international presence in afghanistan is to

help tackle these tasks first solar providing security and also want to know what the conditions of completing this mission of these forces is fulfillment of the mandate of the security council is some pertinent to the situation not only in afghanistan but also in if innocent of pakistan and. establish closer corporation in struggling. terrorists shred of this so on and in general to normalize relations between these two neighboring countries and the cute task is to . control the drive drug trafficking which has come out of the region and is threatening invention national security is supporting to tackle this evil journo entire chain. starting from distribution of drugs and planting drugs and catching drug distributors to maintain security we expect the

afghanistan government to take international efforts decisively fighting against drug industry and the communique which we accept today supports that on our part russia and its national park and as a part of the. great shanghai are going to zation. confirms its decision to act civil is supported control and to drive for gains and work and we support national reconciliation and reintegration of the afghan society . and the part of the criminal organizations. should fulfill their obligations to stop their arms to fighting and to admit the constitution and to stop contacts with and other terrorist organizations and clearly the form of terrorists would be excluded from the lists of un only individually and in such a sense we are willing to cooperate in

a city will someone to call brain the central role of the year and instead of realizing the situation again and stand in to provide a change of transits or action of generation for cargoes and forces were also developing with our partners. the for their measures of providing for afghan yes. and police an army and trained staff for afghanistan's forces and to assist to restore the country's economy and to recover his finances this year ever as written off their remaining debt eight hundred ninety one million dollars the entire debt is twelve billion dollars which for. this year providing humanitarian aid to the country. as a part of their very goal or. help the end we have a supply of flour to make bread for five million dollars.

to help tackle the problems in afghanistan. and the shanghai organisation of corporation is also assisting. the context group and with the upcoming meeting of for instance of russian afghanistan and pakistan and to extend and started this year in helping and one of the factors of creating good neighborhood relationships after the international stabilization efforts here is called to restore it's a new trial audio is going to sign a trailer status of against and we hope this will be supported by the afghans. and the presidents of russia united states are willing to support it in their mutual statement taken in twentieth of june in washington and we believe that today's conference so will help maintain our efforts and support afghanistan to build

a prosperous and stable state thank you. listening to russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov addressing the international conference taking place in kabul at the moment on the issues that are taking center stage are security issues drug trafficking and other measures that. need to be taken to stabilize the conflict stricken country and we'll be bringing you more of this throughout the day so stay with us for that if we can. now let's return to other news stories that we're following for you here in r.t.e. 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. the proposed village stands the deadline for filing for unemployment benefits to the aunt of the family the move will cost is there any three billion dollars in additional deficit spending republicans are concerned about expands and say any extension of benefits should be offset by spending cuts longer danish actor sounds the debate is actually a political battle very obvious. this is a situation where the government has to be proactive to try to stimulate the economy and to try to generate jobs so they haven't been doing a very great job of it so you can just 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 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 are people in pain and in poverty. 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 a logical 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. and filmmaker danny schachter there from new york now they say age is nothing but a number but one of 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 our geezer in english has stopped by to wish her have a verse. as you get older birthdays the 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 walked along 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 she never had a very comfortable life. 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 to say used to smoke cigarettes doesn't eat meat but doesn't joy having a drink every now and then to spend 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 a.d. 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. which is pretty.

much pretty. fast but this issue of his or her charities creating a very conservative very. purpose of which i know it's for we need to. work every day. with documents in order to establish the fact that this person is the oldest person in the world but with people work or not and the 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 in a coast guard ga well that brings us up to date and time now for a business of date wasn't. hello welcome to the business program straight ahead top story the farmer international air show has opened in the south of england it's one of the premier events for the industry with companies coming from all around the world as our

correspondent laura reports. 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 today russia's biggest aviation industry players of representative foreign press not just era float and sukhoi superjet but also titanium maker vs m.p.o. . the russian defense super corp defense important export company but on export and russian helicopters it was a successful beginning to the show for russian helicopters which sold for 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 confucian canonically developed. so we are putting additional forces on this market. among the russian related deal signed his to

a far era floats 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 dowsett be 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 for test flights boeing's confident it could make the first deliveries by the end of the year following a tour of the brand new play. explained russia's involvement. in the last few years we have signed a lot of contract most of which were for titanium production

a 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 government bad and definitely no airlines you know way more interest for more than your airplanes you know definitely finance and he is not the sole 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 r.t. on brah. and at the air show state corp russian technology is assigned an agreement

with boeing to create future joint ventures for servicing boeing aircraft and for distributing it boeing previously had signed an agreement with russia's silicon valley's skolkovo to design new planes. and russia's gross domestic product rose by four point two percent in the first half of these year as the country emerged from the worst downturn in about a decade the growth was underpinned by a strong rebound in industrial production it was more than two percent higher than the same period last year benefited from wise in commodity prices the can to support it. and it's time now to see how the equity markets are performing this tuesday first to asia and japan profit takers and the nikkei down mainly on a stronger and it's hurting export has to sony and fiji through some disappointing for part results from the united states are also adding to the pessimism meanwhile

in hong kong the hang seng is gaining value in the news about china's increasing domestic consumption it mainly benefits the banking sector and the auto makers. and the russian markets started the day on a bullish notes the r.t.s. is putting on more than one percent in the first hour of trade burbank as the best blue chip performer so far and my sense is up around three quarters of percent. and that's what we have time for and this edition of business i'll be back in about fifteen minutes to me the.

story is richer made to believe children. are going to help. make. sure illness is the only person. to secure their souls against them. and if you join us you're watching r.t. coming to live from moscow these are the top stories shifting power a political happy weights 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 mounts for a 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 at international aids conference indiana aimed at providing universal care for patients. and andy wells discriminate. president obama's determined to stand unemployment benefits slamming republicans for courting the rich tax cuts as the senate prepares to vote the bill would help millions struggling to survive after the financial crisis but it will cost the government billions of dollars. but i'll be back at the top of the hour with more updates for you but up next artie's financial analyst max kaiser along with herbert give their unique take on deficit fraud financial reform and much more the kaiser report is next.