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state regulations and human rights issues were 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 we're committed to supporting you in efforts on stabilizing afghanistan we will continue to allow transit of international cargo and personnel to again it's down 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 this year russia wrote off the remainder of ghana stance that eight 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 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
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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 cooperate with the partners from the west in order to tackle this problem. of the reporting from the afghan capital and one afghan member of parliament told r.t. that the first thing the west needs to scale back on is the hope it's given to heroin production. i think it's true that afghanistan produces
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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 big that 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 the 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
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stemmed in my opinion money laundering and banks and all those issues should be dealt with seriously. the un's warning that if the world's richest countries cut their spending on aids research the recent progress in fighting the disease will be put in serious jeopardy it's sounding the alarm at the international aids conference in vienna where activists are demanding universal treatment is in austria for all. the main topic of the conference today has been on this new treatment gel for women designed to help in the fight to prevent hiv a. bigger she had this prevention as treatment and there's been a lot of research going into that over the last three years to really develop these prevention methods to the conference that they held his day to present the findings on the speech i was seated he runs the flows and everyone's been talking about that's a very positive thing to come out of this conference and it's day we all say how to
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talk about basing the phrasing cons of earlier treatments a starting treatment for haiti earlier now that's being quite heavily debated not everyone does agree on that but again that's been another fake this conversation it's a day now we've seen a lot of these issues come up in a lot of the debates and not a lot of good intentions but is the money that because we've also heard a lot of cool save the last couple of days about the funding issue and now monday of course bill clinton chancel case they just takes a d.n.a. is organized a sions and also to make sure they're providing the money and we're delivering the services especially in tough economic times the protests and speakers who really receive the angered by that and what they see as a crossing bag in funding and commitment the things that really critical time before the official conference started we were posting from the unofficial conference which was a hell's alternative is questioning some of the fundamental assumptions of what we
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all think about hate safety and aids and they were questioning all said that this new treatment methods they have their own official 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 eighty's and to the public forum and people were aware of it since the one nine hundred eighty s. there have been opposition to these. mainstream we can hear now. is one of the people he has for this attorney to be. in order to pick up this far from somebody who has you have. souls and sexual contact with somebody who's possibly not counting dates with negative thoughts they don't come stats hope efficient it is this is hopeless it's biologically hopeless. is just another total. hump that sort of them as i said they were not taken to take
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a leaf seriously by the mainstream science to say but a lot of the people that we speak to when even really willing to enter into a debate about that they're saying that they're really very focused on that mission here this week and that search pushing forward this idea of universal access making sure that happens that as we say with this funding question marks remaining lots and 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 saved because we just heard there from sarah five the new gel which is to help prevent women from contracting h.i.v. is being widely publicized at the conference but dr christian fiona told me earlier that he thinks the data obtained during the test is unreliable. if you look over the last twenty years we have seen a number of hot air studies and this is just another one and i bet that you within one year no one will talk anymore about this study and if you look at the basis of
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the study it is focusing on african sexuality now this has been a white man's preoccupation since centuries and i ask myself as a as a doctor why are we not as my tree or compiled with clean drinking water sufficient food and clean housing of african people as much as we are preoccupied with sexuality of african people and just to give you one small detail about one hundred almost one hundred participants of this new study they had been enrolled in another study with another jail and they had to lie they had deliberately lie it to the organizers of the study and it was discovered and then they were excluded from that study but to tell you that about one third of the part of these participants deliberately lie eight. doggedness of the study just to give you an image how reliable the stater are. this is from the russian capital twenty four
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hours a day on the way shortly for the secrets of a very very long life this georgian woman claims she's one hundred thirty years old but says she still enjoys life surrounded by great great grandchildren we need to meet. police in southern russia looking for employees of religious which forced a donkey to parasail over the sea officials are now looking to bring animal cruelty charges footage showing the terrified animal being launched into the sky spread around the world after the first broadcast yesterday when i joined problem can be the world's from the group it's an international ikhwan will for charity thanks very much indeed for joining us it certainly is a shocking video has caused quite an impact around the world tell us how widespread is this sort of cruelty. i mean i'm very happy you sort of describe the video as being shocking because that is definitely the feeling that came across the brook today by our staff members when we were exposed to you know what this animal is experienced in terms of how widespread this kind of act is i mean to be honest it
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was a very unusual act for us to come across the brook has recently been working on a responsible tourism campaign to help to help as a call to sort of help people reduce animal suffering and when we were creating kind of the codes to help people make good decisions we never kind of came across an animal being involved in the tourism industry in this way think about this of course as it has been caught on camera so pictorial evidence are you hopeful of a conviction do you think that somebody should be jailed over this. i mean it's pretty remarkable i mean like you said you highlighted very much you know the international and public outcry and that this animal was suffering was captured on videos and photographs and the way it spread through the media is really amazing and i think what the public has done is create a demand. for animals to be treated better and for people to pay attention when we think you know at the break we do believe. the russian authorities are in the best place to be dealing with this matter are you encouraged by the way the russian
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authorities have reacted so far to this incident. i'm sorry could you think you made a reference to the russian authorities there are you encouraged by the way the russian authorities have reacted so far to this incident. i'm actually not familiar at the moment with how far they have have stress they have stressed that they will be pursuing charges so that. it definitely does i mean the more we get the word out about the needs and feelings of these animals and what's natural i mean when we look at the footage of this video the animal went through quite a horrific event i mean donkeys are meant to be staying on land and what we did see was an animal parasailing into the sky landing on water and being taken to land which is the animal through a great deal of fear distress and potentially pain. you are. talking to there in london britain is known as a nation of animal lovers being an international charity do you have any clout
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whatsoever any influence over cases like this. you know i definitely think we do i mean we are highlighted before a leading equine welfare charity and animal welfare is the center of the work that we do and we're currently working in asia and africa to help animals in similar situations and part of our responsible tourism is basically targeting the hundreds and thousands of animals being used. to support the livelihoods of people and as you said you know we are a nation of of animal lovers but not every nation is those that have animals as pets and things like that where we've grown to love animals in that way but other people do rely on them for a livelihood but do you think that something like this where it's now being posted around the world that people who may have intentions of doing this sort of thing again might think differently now they realise that such a negative impact could do their business a lot of damage and indeed. there are reputational damage of course so are you encouraged by this sort of thing reaching such an international reaction. and yeah
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absolutely i mean definitely seeing the international reaction it's very encouraging i mean when people learn the right and wrong ways to do things people will people's actions will change and i think you know it's about making informed decisions you know seeking out the equine charities who have knowledge on the use of animals in a variety of situations who can offer guidance should people want to involve animals in certain ways and tourism very interesting very well thanks very much want to know thanks very much kimberly wells for joining us there live now in london from the brook thank you. well this is from the russian capital twenty four hours a day we've got our web site for you dot com let's have a quick look and see what else is online there right now at the moment along with plenty of other features a couple stories for you the indian teachers who are hitting children for not doing their homework corporal punishment illegal but parents want action after a tormented pupil commits suicide. temperatures are sending people
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flocking to the city beaches to cool down for more and her muscovites trying to head for. the 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 cameraman 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 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 up b.p. operated well is insignificant they also believe seepage 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
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floor for good the it would have to remove the cap which was fitted last week because of concerns over the leaks the plug in to stem the flow of oil for the first time in three months and it's now being allowed to remain in place. the syrian government has banned women from wearing face covering islamic veils in the country's universities education ministry says the decision aims to protect the nation's secular identity the ban doesn't cover the headscarf which a growing number of women 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 into of china in years has now claimed some one hundred fifty lives dozens of people are still missing roads and rail lines are blocked due to landslides triggered by the downpours at least six million people have had to flee their homes officials say water levels of china's longest river have reached dangerous toys are still rising . well they say that a journey matters if you're a fine wine but not for one georgian woman who claims to be the world's oldest
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person alive and to keep her job insists she's now one hundred thirty shows no signs of slowing down has the story. as you get older birthdays tend to get less exciting but not for each other there's 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 is 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 and her team year round. now i feel weak but i don't want to stay in bed all the time i worked a lot i worked on my garden plot and i did to raise my children after my husband died. they say despite her age she still has a sound mind and
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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 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 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 to say used to smoke cigarettes doesn't eat meat but doesn't joy having entering every now and then to
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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 auntie says definitely over a century old. form. which is pretty. sure it is a preacher it is creating a very conservative. official which oh it's. documents in order to establish the fact that this person is the oldest. but with people work or not 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
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moment of life in a ghost georgia. summer in the crimea is about to get even hotter the city of sevastopol is gearing up for its annual international show featuring the crim the like of the two wheeled world. mosco bike is of saddle from the long journey to ukraine for the event which kicks off on friday thousands are expected to attend the three day metal and leather extravaganza and organizers have gone all out to spice up the show with a miss by competition and another eight stop. electing arnold t. the financial guru max cards it will be giving his take on the current state of affairs in the us economy if you had a real currency based buy something real like gold then you'd have a democracy you'd have egalitarianism you'd have a republic you'd have freedom but unfortunately you have none of those things because you have this trashy piece of paper no good nick idiotic peeper paper nonsense that people believe is worth something when in fact it is not exactly well that's what jim graham is saying it's figure out fake currency anyway so people are
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it's i believe this republican versus a democrat oh deficits matter don't matter where the deficits didn't matter under dick cheney when it was for a war it's class war there's no economy other than class war and out america. and you can watch the kinds report in just over an hour from now here on t. twenty one minutes past the hour in the russian capital i'll be back with an update of all main stories about nine minutes from now in the meantime all the business news with that. welcome to business several of us from the most important officials missed a board meeting on tuesday over a controversial new resource extraction tax on monday we reported at the gas giant was firmly opposed to the government's plans a fifteen percent increase in duty could cost gazprom as much as twelve billion
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dollars a year money which would be lost to its investment program absentees from tuesday's meeting included chief executive alexei miller as well as economy minister. and energy minister sergei schmitz co. president which made bed if is in finland for a two day visit to discuss trade another mutual interest our correspondent going off is in the finnish city of turkey for business r.t. . russia is among finland so reading trade partners the trade turnover between the two nations has already reached five billion u.s. dollars in the first quarter of this year alone which is quite an impressive figure compared to last year when the economic crisis was in full swing and the total a trade turnover between russia and finland was around thirteen billion dollars for the whole year and a lot of other issues are also going to be discussed like the possible cancellation of visas between russia and the e.u. in the future of innovation and modernization as part of the russian e.u.
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dialogue the two leaders are going to exchange the other countries' experiences in using innovative technologies in their economies the baltic sea is also going to be discussed definitely since this is where the north stream pipeline project is currently being conducted. shares in moscow ended the day on a down note of a strong start in the morning energy may just fall away after the price of crude went on the seventy six dollars a barrel rolls nifty and does probably have shared around one percent today. to get to trends to prevail in the markets and the results of the stress tests on european banks may add pressure on stocks. we expect that this friday. report on ninety six banks in the euro zone and things that number of elections to tuition will not pass trust us and. president.
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negative pressure on stock markets tomorrow wish forget about spain or finance and . deal with this friday and next friday and over all its thirty two billion euros. that spain just don't have and. spain will have to ask. european bailout was able to enter market with significant amount of money. in their t. shirts now russian book make a bet lee has signed a contract with the country's football premier league to start taking bets at stadium before a match the company will invest up to five million dollars in the project and expects the first return in three years but in a culture never has more. one two way driessen money while into sports event but tired of the track now you can risk your sure down at the football stanion as deeply resp repaired to kick off their one surefire win now will be the football
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association and its deal with the back league it will receive half of all the earnings to made by the bookmakers inside the stadium the money will be put towards the development of football in russia. fifty percent of what is made will be given to the russian football league and then we will decide whether to invest into football clubs or to children's football the amount of money wagered on sport last here in russia and mounted to just one point two billion dollars if a very meager sound for situ law each country with a long sporting tradition the recent ban on casinos has not helped the situation from the bookmakers point of view. there's been a three fold decline in the market in two thousand and nine the volume of the market was one point two billion dollars and this year i can say it's just around four hundred million dollars but i'm sure the market will grow and that's why we are ready to invest capital in new projects i lived up ski also has
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a cunning plan to boost the image of sports betting he has set his heart on winning the services of town tical fortune teller paul the octopus badly has offered to pay around one thousand euros for the psych exam philip that's who correctly predicted the outcome of games at the world cup or to appear to go we sent an offer i think we will find a compromise of this octopus to help make or office to predict the winners we are ready to provide everything he needs we just need him. paul has been getting many offers but if he does come to russia he will find everything and oracle octopus could need to show off his talents his sponsors could take him to the page on match day so he could pick the winner and encourage the spectators to places pentad as that might have a question of business are today. so for now you can always find more stories on our website as such but.
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sure to. sedona sweet. home. in the thirty's available in the island resort and spa. from the russian capital this is. the afghan president hamid karzai says he's determined his country will take responsibility for its own security twenty fourteen representatives from seventeen nations organizations have been meeting in kabul to discuss how to bring about stability and the transfer of. aids activists to universal treatment and more funding at an international conference in vienna warns cuts could on the recent progress in research also. challenging
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conventional views on the causes and effects of the disease. looking for workers who sent. over the sea. as a p.r. stunt facing animal cruelty charges and if convicted up to two. brings up to date for the moment here on. another update for you in less than fifteen minutes from now next we talk to an israeli member of parliament stopped to discuss israel's position after its attack on a prospects for the middle east. you know. with me i have talked enough wolf a member of the israeli parliament who sits on the foreign affairs and defense committees dr thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. a few weeks before the fitting that came you warned the israeli defense minister
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ehud barak.

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