during the last conference on afghanistan which took 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 were discussed and it looks like russia is increasing its involvement in have helping the country in all those fears russia here is represented 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 keep afghan forces together with our partners we're also helping restore the afghan economy disappear 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 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 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 once the two 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 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. also willing to cooperate with the

partners from the west in order to tackle this problem. there's hell enough because the reporting from the afghan capital well one afghan member of parliament told me that the first thing the west needs to scale back on is the help it's given to heroin production i think it's true that afghanistan produces a lot of opium but when you talk about the heroin that 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 by 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 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. well if he's the next us in politics police coalition forces made a mistake in afghanistan applying a military solution to a known problem. americans have failed in nation building in afghanistan and the major problem you know general mcchrystal who is now. the new commander of american troops and international troops in afghanistan try to apply neutral solutions yes

because the nutriment but you know you can apply the solution for problem the problem of get us down 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 let's see the basic problem of those countries and of course we can make no plans for twenty for. afghanistan expert. on the way shortly the secrets of a very very long life this georgian woman she and thirty years old still enjoyed life so rounded by had great great grandchildren ten data. the un's a warning that if the world's richest countries cause their spending on aids research the recent progress in fighting the disease we put in serious jeopardy

well it says sounding the alarm of the international aids conference in vienna where activists are demanding universal treatment and we'll be talking to our correspondent who's in austria for us a little later in the program. now president obama is urging the u.s. senate to extend welfare benefits for unemployed americans and it's proving to be an opportunity to weigh into republicans for denying vital help for millions 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. at the moment jump list americans get six months of benefits but the new bill would extend that to nine. billion dollars

republicans there were keeping their eye on the country's bad debts and say any wealthy extension should be paid for spending cuts elsewhere but some commentators say it's that bottle of political stubbornness 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 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 identify 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. but the reality is that

the money is going into real cheery and counter-intelligence kinds of programming that generates jobs for some people but leaves most people out of work political blogger and filmmaker danny schechter there from new york well let's cross canal to vienna and the u.n. is warning that if the world's richest countries caught their spending on aids research the recent progress in fighting the disease would be put in serious jeopardy and is sounding the alarm now that internationally hiv aids conference taking place in vienna where activists are demanding universal treatment and as promised is there for all to see farrow what's been the focus of discussions there today. where the main topic at the conference today has been on this new treatment gel for women designed to help in the fight to prevent. the. biggest she had this prevention treatment and there's been

a lot of research against that over the last few years to really develop these prevention methods so the conference that they hold they present the findings on this oversee to rounds of applause and everyone's been talking about that's a very positive thing to come out of this conference today we also had to talk about the basing the phrase in crohn's earlier treatments a starting treatment for hate. earlier now that's being quite heavily debated not everyone does agree on that again that's been another. it's a day now we've seen a lot of these issues come up in a lot of debates and lots and lots of good intentions but is the money that because we've also heard a lot of course over the last couple of days about the funding it's monday of course bill clinton and bill gates they just they hate. zation and also to make sure they are providing value for money and we're delivering their services especially in tough economic times protests and speakers who really reason to be

angered by that and what they see as a crossing back in funding and commitment that this thing's a really critical time and that needs to be there so loaded to facing this thing going on within the conference itself or there's a growing chorus and there are people who believe that you know the research is being considered. absolutely yes before the official conference started we were forcing from the unofficial conference which was a group who held alternative is questioning some of the fundamental assumptions of what we all think about the and aids and they were questioning also the traditional treatment methods they had their unofficial talks they used were met with widespread criticism skepticism here is the mainstream conference now it's got to be said that these are new arguments since the aids and to the public forum and people were aware of it since the one nine hundred eighty s. there has been opposition to these mainstream we can hear now from people just

because one of the people for this attorney to be. we ordered to pick up this morning from somebody who has to have. souls and sexual contact with somebody who is positive not counting negative thoughts they don't come stethoscope efficient it is this is hopeless it's biologically hopeless. is just another total. hundreds of them. so as i said they were not taken for take seriously by the mainstream science but a lot of the people that we spoke to when even really willing to enter into a debate about that saying that they're really very focused on their mission here this week and that. this idea of universal access making sure that happens. with

these funding question marks remaining lots of good intentions people are really going to be looking now to see whether any of this translate into concrete actions once the conference is ok sarah many thanks for. reporting from vienna for us. long tunes that christie's auction house is insisting the painting is sold to a russian billionaire is all fun to it's being reported he sued by business then. claims beyond work keyboard is a fake pixel berg allegedly splashed down nearly three million dollars when this painting caught his eye in two thousand and five it's called supposedly by the rational. but all of the experts in russia have taken a closer look and then now convinced it's been forged is now said to want his cash back plus damages or christie's took another look at the painting and say it is genuine but want more research to be done. our stories are

also updated twenty four hours a day at dot com let's look through what else is online at the moment for you were there the indian teaches you are hitting children for not doing their homework corporal punishment illegal parents want action after a tormented people committed suicide. on the russian organizers of a promotional stunt could spend two years in jail if convicted of animal cruelty to making a terrifying don't keep fly find out more. british 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 all company b.p. successfully lobbied the u.k. government for the release of the libyan lockerbie bomber to secure an energy deal almost one hundred ninety americans were killed in the tragedy over twenty years

ago relations between london and washington are also under strain because of b.p.'s oil spill in the gulf of mexico. and staying with the slick u.s. officials say the amount of oil seeping from the blown out b.p. operated well is insignificant they also believe see page discovered near the well of the weekend could be a natural occurrence as a result b.p. has 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 is fitted last week because of concerns over the leaks the plug to stem the flow of oil for the first time in three months than it's now being allowed to remain in place. this area government is bound 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 ban doesn't cover the hejab or headscarf which a growing number of women there are wearing similar laws are pending in france and

belgium and there are calls in other european countries for the public wearing a full veil to be made illegal. the most severe flooding to have hit china in years has now claimed some one hundred fifty lives dozens of people are still missing roads and rail lines of launched 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 river the gang sea have reached dangerous highways and is still rising. well they say that age only matters if you're a fine wine but not for one georgia woman who claims to be the world's oldest person alive and this is a of it says she is now one hundred thirty and shows no signs of slowing down it in a house the story. as you get older birthdays tend to get less exciting but not frances or who each other is 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 wrote 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 she never had a very controversial. 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 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 a drink every now and then and 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 auntie says last birth certificate but several other documents and testimonies from her neighbors say i'm definitely over

a century old. which is. which is pretty. sure it is a future it was created very recently to marry. a piece of which always before we. were documents in order to establish the fair that this person is the oldest of. what with people 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. georgia. a home in the crimea is about to get even hotter this is. gearing up for its annual international falling show featuring the kremlin crim of the world. in the long journey team

ukraine for the event which kicks off on friday thousands are expected to attend the three day metal and leather extravaganza organizers have gone all out to buy something with a mix by composition and a whole array of stunts and special effects. coming away with done away. welcome to business the former international air show has opened with a flurry of orders the two biggest manufacturers boeing and airbus have taken the law and share but there's also been plenty of business for russian companies our correspondent reports. airplanes of all shapes and sizes are taking to the skies over the south of england this week as farm bray international ash brings technology to life russia's biggest aviation industry players are represented at farnborough not just aeroflot and sukhoi superjet but

also titanium make. 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 four machines to an indian company a new direction this was a commercial market for us it's a perk that the new market with care of several commercial critical. but it's not a big quantity for such big confusion canonically developed ontario's india so we are putting additional forces on this market among the russian related deal scientists so far aeroflot placed an order for eleven airbus planes for around a billion dollars and who 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. based these

are undoubtedly the start of this year's show the boeing seventy seven dreamliner on british soil for the first time hailed as the first eva new generation of air line is its just c. an't wings are made of russian titanium of the seven eight sevens made of composite material and capable of traveling huge distances with this model still equipped for test flights boeing's comfy. and it could make the first deliveries by the end of the year following a tour of the brand new plane. itself explained russia's involvement. in the last few years we have signed a lot of contracts most of which were for titanium production in 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 during 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 definitely no airlines you know way more interest for more than your airplanes you know definitely finance certainly 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 hope for evidence of it taking off your and that business r.t. on. time to look at the stock markets now wall street has opened lower as expected of the health care join johnson and johnson cut its profit forecast for the year earlier today the company shares already down more than two percent along with other drugs. and in europe shares are slipping further into the red following u.s.

futures so we will street opening of walking the trend for a second day as metals prices rise for the rio tinto are up two percent on the footsie. moscow is also edging low of a strong start in the morning major who called is the only blue chip indices of the price of light sweet goes above seventy six dollars a barrel. russia's largest gold producer policy plans to pay a dividend of eight point five roubles per share for the first half of the year that's around twenty seven u.s. cents the figure slightly lower than expected is 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 dollars making its cause in russia today with the c. four hatchback model in autumn the french will to recall begin manufacture of the c. cross ruda at the kluger plant south of moscow in fact through make one hundred twenty five thousand cars a year. several of gazprom is 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's plans a fifteen percent increase in g.t. could cause gazprom 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 a sewage has started raising a seven hundred million dollar loan according to bankers close to the deal the mining joint expected to follow up with an initial public offering in london almost go next year the all pure was set for two thousand and nine but. postpone the deal claiming market trends. and this russia is looking to boost a share of its energy production from renewable sources germany's biggest engineering firm siemens has to tremendous growth in sales of wind turbines russia

has practically no wind power at the moment siemens have agreed to form a partnership with russian hydro power utility hydro and state holding firm russian technologies during german chancellor angela merkel's visit in russia with richard did it last week siemens knowings to sell fifty megawatts of wind capacity a year. that's the latest weather headlines are next but that's.

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activist of universal treatment an international conference and yet while the u.n. warned spending cuts could undermine recent progress some scientists will say museum the austrian capital a challenging conventional the mccool's is on the disease as well as the link between a sitting. president obama has called on the senate to extend welfare benefits for the unemployed which will cost the government four billion dollars he's also not republicans to say far obstructing the bill accusing them of did no link to america's poorest going to school. talks to israeli member of parliament don't say you know wolf to discuss israel's position. on a for to may prospects for the middle east. what i have talked enough wealth a member of.