two place in london earlier this year is now being implemented and today here representatives from over at seventy countries are making sure that everything is going. by the plan of course other issues such as drug trafficking and 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 fears for years were presented by the country's foreign minister sergei lavrov we're committed to supporting you in efforts on stabilizing afghanistan we will continue to allow transit of international cargo and personnel to afghanistan through our territory we're working on additional measures to equip 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 dollars we will continue to provide humanitarian assistance but 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 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 once troops start leaving the country 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 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. rates

with. partners from the west three to tackle this problem. of a report from the afghan capital that well one afghan member of parliament told me that the first thing the west needs to scale back on is the help it's giving to heroin production i think it's true that afghanistan produces a lot of opium but when you talk about the heroin the international community for gets the fact that the you know to turn opium to heroin you require chemical precursors that come from huge pharmaceutical companies from europe and far east in other countries so never talk about that bad there's a enough money made in bringing precursors to this country to turn our poppies into heroin and if you don't attack that angle of this problem just producing opium for a farmer who wants to buy a plastic pair of shoes for his son once a year is not going to solve the problem in this country for example one thousand

tons of opium last year in afghanistan required thirteen thousand pounds of chemical tons of chemical precursors that came from a major force of pharmaceutical producers in the world afghans are producing it to survive and i'm not condoning it we should stop producing it but also the consumption should stop and also. the import of precursors should also be stemmed in my opinion money laundering and banks and all those issues should be dealt with seriously. but eager to solve these next policy explains coalition forces made a mistake in afghanistan applying the military's to action to a no military problem. americans have failed in nation building in afghanistan and i see the major problem you know general mcchrystal who is now. the new commander all for american troops and international troops in afghanistan. solutions yes because the nutriment but you know you can apply solution

a problem the problem in afghanistan the problem of the pakistan military those are social economic and political problems small struggle corruption drug abuse and actually the basic problem the field nation building let's see the basic problem of those countries and of course we can make no plans for to interfere in afghanistan . on the way shortly here on our t.v. think with a very very. gentle woman she is one hundred thirty years old but says she still enjoys life surrounded by have great great grandchildren we tell. the un's a warning that if while the richest countries can't they're spending on aids research the recent progress in fighting the disease will be put in serious jeopardy it sounding the alarm at the international aids conference in ghana where

activists demanding universal treatment sarah ferguson in austria for. it's the third day of the aids two thousand and ten conference in vienna and already we've seen the controversy to do with funding and treatments fastings that we heard yesterday from bill gates and bill clinton they were addressing hiv and aids organizations and really asking them to ensure that they were providing the 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 people saying that governments aren't holding kids on their promises november 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 sure those targets save her 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 that's been discussed here at the conference is to be with treatments he seems to meet guidelines on 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 a need it's been a 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 aids charlene cartin says he tried the save her life not something you hear very often my life before. this story i had to go for days weeks go argh you know does not even take this. was smoke crack smoke. drink drink in the past seven years ago when

a child the diagnosis prompted her to change your lifestyle you know i've been clean. 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 the toba 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 infectious a seat 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 far 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 this that's hope efficient is just as hopeless is biologically hopeless no one argues that h.i.v. and aids is a problem it is the cause is in the fact 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 of major aids foundation is asking well obama's new strategy is mostly focused on the domestic h.i.b. and a and for the first time the u.s.

national aids plan specifically targets gay and bisexual men and africa. american 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 the stuff you know with a lot of i sort of knew that. so when i found out i was positive i wasn't surprised but while acknowledging lifestyle has a great deal to do with hiv diagnosis ron says people should avoid social stigma we think that people with lung cancer should not have this book 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 sick but some scientists say that dealing with how it's contract it remains the key to its prevention than

a check on r t washington d.c. . president obama's urging the u.s. senators to extend welfare benefits for unemployed americans and it's prevent you know what she needs you to weigh in two republicans for denying vital how the means of people 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. not the moment jobless americans get six months of benefits then the bill would extend that to nine constantine's has a thirty four billion dollars republicans they were keeping their eye on the country's debt and say any welfare extension should be paid for by spending cuts elsewhere but sunless clinton say it's a battle of political stuff and this is economic stimulation. 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 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 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 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's 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 both leaves most people out of work . political blogger and filmmaker danny from new york london's

a christie's auction house is insisting the painting is sold to a russian billionaire is authentic it's being reportedly sued by businessmen. who claims the artwork he bought is a fake. allegedly splashdown nearly three million dollars when this painting caught his eye in two thousand and five it's called over these supposedly by the russian art is that bodies. but all of the experts in russia are taking a closer vogue and they're now convinced it's been forged little bug is now said to want his cash back plus damages christie's took another look at the painting and say it is genuine but want more research to be. the last stories of course was updated twenty four hours a day at r.t. dot com three what else is online now the indian team. hitting children not doing their corporal punishment illegal their parents want to

action after a tormented pupil suicides. on the russian all demises of a promotional stunt could spend series in jail to the animal cruelty all to making it terrifying don't. find out. purses prime minister david cameron says afghanistan will be the main topic of discussion when he meets president obama on tuesday during his first official visit to the white house cameron would also have to answer claims that the british based company successfully lobbied the u.k. government for the release of the libyan lockerbie bomber to secure an energy deal schools of americans were killed in the tragedy over twenty years ago relations between london and washington are also on the strain because of b.p.'s oil spill in the gulf of mexico. and staying with this u.s. officials they. the amount of oil seeping from the blow now b.p. operated well is insignificant they also believe see page discovered near the well

at the weekend could be a natural occurrence as a result b.p.'s been told to carry on with its plan to seal the hole in the ocean floor for good the firm feared it would have to remove the cap which was fitted last week because of concerns over the leaks the plug has the flow of all for the first time in three months and it's now being allowed to remain in place. the syrian government does ban women from wearing face covering islamic veils in the country's universities the education ministry says the decision aims to protect the nation's secular identity the ballot doesn't cover the head jabal head scarf which a growing number of women they're all wearing similar laws are pending in france and belgium and other european countries for the public wearing a full veils to be made illegal. the most severe flooding to have hit the china in years claims of one hundred fifty lives dozens of people are still missing rows of

royal lines of blanched due to landslides triggered by the downpours nearly six million people have had to flee their homes officials say water levels of china's longest over the galaxy have reached dangerous high in a still rising. well they say age only matters if you're a fine wine but not for one daughter and woman who claims to be the world's oldest person alive and this it says she's at now one hundred thirty and shows no signs of slowing down. the story. as you get older birthdays tend to get less exciting because. there's georgia woman says she's turning hundred and thirty years old it's a clue backed up by her passport which she appears to have all glued to her birth certificate which would help prove she's the world's oldest living person. 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. oh sure is very. weak but i don't want to stay in bed all the time i worked a lot i worked on my garden plot and i 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 war. is empty 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 is 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 of what the documents or maybe is the combination of all three that keeps people like and going strong for years relatives a city and to say used to smoke cigarettes doesn't eat meat but doesn't joy having a drink 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 a.d. but independently that the communication cannot be verified without auntie says last birth certificate but several other documents and testimonies from her neighbors say i'm definitely over a century old. which is pretty. sure. which is creating very discouraging their own digital shows which are always

poor we need. documents in order to establish the fact that this person is the oldest person in the world but with people who work or not and to succumb to 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 ghost car to georgia. a home in the crimea is the battle to get even hotter the city of the duncan is gearing up for it and will international buying safe return the crime to the credit of the t. will world bank is the saddle on the long journey to crane the event which kicks off a five day thousands are expected to attend the three day metal and leather extravaganza organizers have gone all out to spice up the show with a misspelling competition and a whole array of stunts and special at that. time now to check all the latest

business with. a fight between gazprom and the government seizing up an absolutely several ministers who are also gazprom board members have stripped the meeting over a controversial tax increase the details in our program but first this hour the four british national air show has opened with a flurry of orders the two biggest manufacturers boeing and airbus have taken the lion's share but there's also be plenty of business for russian companies our correspondent laura emmett's reports. airplanes of all shapes and sizes are taking to the skies over the south of england this week as farm bray international brings technology to russia's biggest aviation industry play as a representative not just aeroflot and sukhoi superjet but also titanium maker vs m.p. . the russian defense super corp defense important export company 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 new market with care of several commercial. but that'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 placed an order for eleven planes for around a billion dollars and he 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 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 new generation of airline is its just c. an't wings are made of russian titanium the seven eight 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 to russia's involvement. in the last few years we have signed a lot of contract most of which were for targeting in production and newly built titanium 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 during 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 government badly

definitely no airlines. way more interest for more than your airplanes you know definitely financially is no 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 hate the evidence of it taking off your and that business r.t. . now let's have a look at the stock markets european shares are slipping further into the red in early afternoon trade there follow u.s. futures traded lower hinting at wall street opening in a few minutes time but miners are bucking the trend for a second day as metals prices rise and rio tinto or two percent on for. most go is also edging low off to a strong start in the morning. is the only blue chip gain on both indices at the price of light sweet goes above seventy six dollars of our. crosses largest gold

producer policy plans to pay a dividend of eight point five roubles for the first half of the year that's around twenty seven u.s. cents the figure is slightly lower than expected it's about half of what the company paid last year if the board of directors recommendation is approved the company will spend just over fifty million dollars on dividends this year. and citron starts making its calls in russia today with the c. four hundred back model in autumn the french quarter make will begin. manufacturer of the sea cross off road at the kaluga plant south of moscow the factual make one hundred twenty five thousand calls a year. several of most important officials failed to attend a board meeting on tuesday to discuss the company's response to a new resource extraction tax on monday reported that the gas giant was firmly opposed to the government plans a fifteen percent increase in g.t. could cost us from as much as twelve billion dollars a year money which would be lost to its investment program the absentees from

tuesday's board meeting included chief executive alexei miller as well as economy minister. and energy minister. russia's largest coal mine has started raising a seven hundred million dollar loan according to bankers close to the deal the mining joins expected to follow it with an initial public offering in london almost next year will set for two thousand and nine pursue it chief to postpone the deal claiming market trends. that's the latest join us in fifteen minutes to see how the new york stock market's up.

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