issues such as drug trafficking proving. standards of living here in afghanistan as well as the state regulations and human rights issues close is being 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 we're committed to supporting you in efforts on stabilizing afghanistan we'll continue to allow transit of international cargo and personnel to afghanistan through our territory so we're working on additional measures to keep afghan forces together with our partners we're also helping restore the afghan economy this year russia wrote off the remainder of ghana stands didn't it hundred ninety one million u.s. dollars we will continue to provide humanitarian assistance 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 in 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. nato troops start leaving the country out of one hundred thousand people that die because of drugs coming from again to stand and he will more than a third of them dies in russia and together with the e.u. russia consumes about fifty percent of 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. our correspondent reporting from the afghan capital kabul for their political ax for fromm of the russian academy of sciences in our health law believes the biggest

mistake in afghanistan was that the u.s. applied a military solution to a non military problem. americans have failed in nation building in afghanistan and they are the major problem you know and general mcchrystal has now gone and the new commander of american troops and international troops in afghanistan they try to apply neutral solutions yes because they're military men but you know you can apply the solution only two minutes a problem the problem in afghanistan the problem of pakistan are not military and those are social economic and political problems smallest of all corruption drug abuse and actually the basic problem the field nation building but they see the basic problem of those countries and of course we can make no plans for to interfere to. support the asper from the russian academy of sciences in there. and i were activist michael prysner says washington's desperately negotiated 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 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 lessly 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 the sword and 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 trying everything they can to 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. and have work to michael prysner there and still i have for you here in our t.v. she may be no spring taken by a lot of stamina. to lead a georgia woman who claims to be one hundred thirty years old find out who she is and what's stopping her from claiming the title of the oldest living person on earth later in the program. 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 a greek who challenging many of the fundamental assumptions that a lot of us told about hatred b. 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 strategies that we heard yesterday from bill gates and bill clinton they were addressing hiv and aids organizations i'm really asking them to ensure that they were providing value for money and fish and 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 that december two thousand and ten deadline promising universal access to haiti hiv prevention treatment and most countries have fallen pretty far short of

those targets a pope 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 pendant on a price tag now another of the areas is being discussed here at the conference is to be with treatments we seeing some new guidelines on early delivery of treatment that's been slightly controversial is going to be debated later on today but as we 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 success in a global level a bit on an individual level to say we can hear now from my colleague again to japan he met some people living with hiv a charming carton says he tried the saved her life not something you hear very often my life before the. story i. 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 for. 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 carry to this view hiv is just another they told us we know hundreds of them her festered used 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 opinions on aids being a sexually transmitted disease are also far from the mainstream view it's not a contest at all 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 words they don't count that's how efficient it is to say is hopeless is 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 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 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's 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 the 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 of people with lung cancer from the happens but think with their fall so

tough luck don't get into how did you get sick 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 gannett shaken r t washington d.c. president obama is urging the u.s. senate to pass an extension of benefits for unemployed americans he's criticize republicans for attempting to block the bill and deny help to millions 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. and the proposed bill expands the deadline for filing for unemployment benefits to the end of the vampyr the move will cost thirty three billion dollars in additional deficit spending republicans are concerned about the expanse and say an extension of benefits should be offset by spending cuts but some

american see the dispute as a political battle for power 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 are people 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 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 area 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

. blogger and filmmaker danish actor they are from new york 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 fit at the last week may have triggered other leaks however authorities say they may be natural and unrelated to the well b.p. hoped the device and stem the flow of oil for the first time since the rig explosion 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 and almost twenty five thousand people have been killed in drug related violence in the past four years. syria has banned university students and teachers in the country from wearing the full islamic veil education ministry says the decision aims to protect syria's

secular identity the ban does not affect the head scarf which is more common in the region syria is the latest nation to weigh down in the face covering veil falling similar moves in france and belgium. nearly one hundred fifty people now but it killed in china as the most severe floods years hit the country dozens are feared missing and 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 maggie lake's of china's longest river the swollen and officials have warned that water elavil zur dangerously high and still rising. georgian woman has set out to be the world record for being the oldest living person on earth claiming to have just and her the tender age of one hundred thirty teaser shows no signs of slowing down. to stop 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 week but i don't want to stay in bed all the time i wrote a lot i worked on my garden plot and it did 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

work never had a very. isn't 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 for the documents or maybe it's the combination of all three that keeps people like and going strong for years relatives say and descent 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 the condition

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. took a form which is. document which is pretty old. passport this issue of his or her charity just creating the seventeen their own. which i was born we need teen age hope that. everything. would documents in order to establish the fact that this person is the oldest person in the world but with people work or not empty second team used 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. now dramatic footage of a day ring robbery in sweden has been released on the internet the burglary took place last year when masked gunmen used a helicopter to stay

a war than five million. alors it landed on the glass roof of a stockholm cast depo and smashed their way as using a mechanical saw and explosives a suspicious bag place to the police held port prevented officers from using their helicopters chase getting ten people have been charged the trial is due to start next month most of the money stolen has not yet been found. well don't forget to log on to our website dot com where there are always more stories for you but here are some that might catch your. drift into action russian ecologists battle the save the forest which speaks fails to make way for a new moscow to seem bit as bird motorway. in moscow has high hopes for hosting a grand prix in two thousand and twelve after a major past one show on the capital's streets this weekends drew thousands of spectators. defying donkey that could land it parasailing company in hot water

after its stand in southern russia is investigating for animal cruelty. and it's time now for a business of day two of the thousands and they ask to go away. it's twenty one minutes past the hour here in the russian capital you're watching business on r.t.e. the farnborough international airshow has opened in the south of england it's one of the premier events for the industry with companies coming from all around the wall 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 a brings technology to russia's biggest aviation industry play as a representative on broad not just aeroflot on sukhoi superjet but also titanium make of the s.m.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 for machines to an indian company a new direction was a commercial market for us it's a perk that the new market would kill for several commercial operators but that's not a big want to for such big confusion going on it would develop. so we are putting additional forces on 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 is boeing. basically is 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 line 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 brand new plane. explained russia's involvement. in the last few years we have signed a lot of contracts 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 is common bad definitely no airlines you know way more interest for more than you 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 host the evidence of it taking off your and that business r.t. on brah. it's time now to check out the equity markets european shares are inching higher this hour rebounding from monday's losses and tracking gains in the states overnight and that's despite disappointing results from goldman sachs and i.b.m.

that reported after wall street's closing bell on monday. the boston markets are moving gently ahead in our new trading in moscow the r.t.s. dissolve around a half a percent the my six is gaining just a notch oil majors such as loop oil and wrong staffs are among the leaders after a small jump and voices. russia's biggest gold producer pulis plans to pay a dividend of eight house roubles per share for the first half of the year that's an equivalent of about twenty seven cents per share the figure is slightly lower than expected and it's about half of what the company paid last year if the board of directors recommendation is approved the company will spend a little more than fifty million dollars on dividend payments. russia's top mobile operator m.t.s. and a full retail euro set signed a deal that will revive their cooperation in certain russian regions their

relationship soured after a rival the bull call bought the euro setting two years ago both companies under up taking each other to court presidents on the mall is says he's pleased the companies have agreed to start working together again but his trust it's only in some remote regions of the country for the time being. russia's gross domestic product rose four point two percent in the first half of this year as the country emerged from the worst downturn in a decade the growth was underpinned by a strong rebounded industrial production that was more than ten percent higher than the same period last year bush also benefited from rising commodity prices it's still the bad lot of countries economy. while you're up to date on all the latest business i'll be here with an update on. about fifteen minutes salty about.

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about you watching are you coming to us from moscow a look at the top stories a couple conference kicks off in afghanistan with international political heavyweights striving for a stronger country and more power to local security forces russia is committed to support u.n. efforts to stabilize the country and provide humanitarian assistance. funding

the battle against aids rights activists call for more money to curb the disease but scientists are divided on prevention or treatment this comes as delegates meet adds an international aids conference in vienna aimed at providing universal care for patients. and protecting the poor president obama urges the senate to approve an extension on unemployment benefits cusick republicans of favoring the rich and refusing to help the bill would help millions struggling to survive after the financial crisis but will cost the government billions of dollars. while it's all for me right now my colleague alex hayward will have more on those stories in thirty minutes time and right now though we bring you a special report on some of the sleek marine life of russia seas and aquariums. dolphins in the arctic wills are the undisputed stars of russia's aquariums.