britain's shocking row in the u.s. rendition program is revealed as american officials face lawsuits from foreign detainees who claim they were tortured in overseas prisons. the top u.s. commander in afghanistan is set to become the next cia director but opponents question if the new chief spy will objective we assess the progress of american conflict. and al cry from families in india who accuse the government of allowing the use of a controversial pesticide which they say is killing very children.

any on moscow you are watching our team. the u.k. failed to track detainees handed over to the u.s. neglecting to protect them from possible abuse the shocking revelations forced through by british m.p.'s expose a secret agreement over the treatment of prisoners passed over to washington by a long did daniel bushell met one victim and spent years at america's most notorious overseas prison. as was arrested on the streets and sent to guantanamo for torture and after five years america released him without charge to this day the u.s. has given no explanation all said story couldn't as his doing george bush's lawyer alberto gonzalez for ruling torture is legal interrogators from the land of the free are free to cause quote simulated drowning rape point instrumentality

impairment of bodily function organ failure and even death. one of those who survived those kind of torture. myself. because i was. member of. the us refused to even reveal they were holding his mother his lawyer to find her son it took several years there was no chance to get in quantico corners it's a shame for the united states what happened in. this plot concerned national law and it's simply impossible and that twenty first century. put someone in extra. room. and saying

you have. pushed for moves to end the practices they are imposing a set of standards are our intelligence communities in terms of interrogating prisoners there are people we think will be ineffective in the classified memo gonzales did warn us gods it was legally safer to perform torture on foreign soil ministers in the european union were glad to oblige the e.u. agreed to help arrest and transport people to countries where they could be tortured in a meeting here at nato headquarters in two thousand and one detainees may or may not have been guilty since they never received a real trial we just can't know for sure. barrack obama was elected on the promise to shot. but he's even appealed u.s. court rulings which give detainees some royds two years on prison still open for business what is the washington street guilty of. crimes against

humanity sociopath ministration and so's your people for participating and supporting exactly executives from bush down no fear going abroad after foreigners filed lawsuits over torture when the world learns what america's doing said bush's advisor we will all be ashamed and you will shortie braman. general david petraeus now going to matter of u.s. forces in afghanistan is set to become the new cia chief the u.s. looks to be moving away from his heavy approach to war as washington stands firm on a mass troop pullout from of devastation but as a general a seance to a new role behind the wheel of global covert operations some boys doubts that patrols can be impartial are in scale and ford has more. that he's been called the rock star four star he is without question one of the finest officers and military minds of his generation the architect of modern counterinsurgency

a mess quite often those are all over. what do you think should happen in afghanistan and my first response is well whatever general petraeus says that's the reaction of which we are to go to this account to respect. general david petraeus. betrays was on capitol hill to be confirmed as the next director of the central intelligence agency in truth my goal in uniform has always been to convey the most forthright and accurate picture possible i have to be sure offered more positive assessments than the intelligence community did but although he's been lauded as the man responsible for america's strategy in iraq former c.n.n. pentagon correspondent jamie mcintyre says he has his detractors a lot of people see him as very ambitious very calculating playing the system telling the american people what they want to hear. and a lot of people also some critics also think that the success that the u.s. is touting in iraq is vastly overstated and despite his star power some in the

military say petraeus is better at navigating the media and washington than a battlefield called the green zone hero. these are your senior officers who never actually saw any action who have never themselves been under direct sar and have never called the trigger and killed anyone in combat although president obama called him a quote lifelong consumer of intelligence others are skeptical that the trainers will fit in at the cia their evaluation of the regular evaluation of afghanistan being generally diametrically opposed to what petraeus has said his characterization of conditions on the ground in that country bears no resemblance to what people in the central intelligence agency and say general petraeus spent thirty seven years in uniform but will hang it up to leave the cia as a civilian senate republican leaders praise president obama's decision for quote choosing competence in continuity but that same continuity means petraeus will be in charge of assessing his own success in iraq and afghanistan he leaned forward

r.t. washington d.c. as a journalist lines over to the cia the nature of war seems to be shifting with him the u.s. president says a pullout of troops from afghanistan was possible because the taliban's momentum has been turned that's despite calls from talk military brass for a more gradual drawdown a former cia officer jack rice says washington's confused its enemies and the country. i think the department of defense and the white house are probably mischaracterizing how this is successful if you will and one of the problems is that somehow the u.s. has broken the taliban or separated the taliban from al qaeda well the fact is is that the taliban and al qaeda were separate organizations from the beginning and you simply characterize them as the bad guys as all the same guy was one of the biggest mistakes that the united states ever met and i think you are going to see more instability i mean when i talk to people who look at cars our president karzai is a crook they see him as somebody who's been nothing but protecting himself and his

own democracy is not there to you know what at the same time anybody who faced with the u.s. or the or the europeans can roll into a country and simply say we have decided we're going to we're going to do with democracy and you put it in people's hands i can't imagine any country in the world where a foreign army would walk in and say we're going to give you something who is going to accept you. will still have free in a program a world beating technique to cure heart disease find out how russian cardiologists are treating irregular heartbeats in the last importing minutes using electric shots. also the hot issues and probably leaders of to southern nations to the world's coldest continent. and it's cheap effective and highly toxic and a solvent as a pesticide banned and most countries but still widely embraced in india however

its use carries grave consequences with whole generation of children suffering devastating health problems and while the government claims there is no affordable alternative to the chemical ordinary families are paying the price and i find some of the images and various readers reports distressing. this girl's body is the size of a baby but in reality she's five years old in her short life syria has endured an operation to reduce the size of her abnormally large head and she's not the only one suffering like this the doctors who have to put a tube into our child's hand otherwise there would be complications. and serious mother thinks she knows what's caused it here in the cashew plantations in india southern state of carolina the government sprayed a highly controversial pesticide endosulfan on the crops during the ninety's that the people here say is causing a generation of deformed children victims groups believe there are around nine

thousand children like syria with swollen heads and developing at only half the rate they should first some parents that prospect is too much choosing abortion sometimes disturbingly late my daughter was operators' on in the eight months of her pregnancy until recently india was the only country in the world which allowed the youth of ngo thought that the agricultural ministries that there with them clean no other cheap alternative to the powerful path but after mounting pressure at home and abroad the supreme court voted on an eight week ban of the past the third which is that to expire in may july while studies show the endosulfan causes severe developmental and reproductive problems in both humans and animals proponents of the cause decided say their rivals are the ones pushing this ban. only. because. when you.

put the families of the sick feel that they've been forgotten for long enough. there is no value for human life it's all about the money people don't care about each other these days people who have money are categorized as high caste and poor people are counted as low class and nobody cares whether we're dead or alive the families are drained emotionally and financially their life savings wiped out to care for their severely disabled children they know that they're going to feel very sad when i see my child like this though it's disturbing we have to tolerate it. there's little point waiting for governor. relief repeated requests fall on deaf ears in the capital all these families can do is make the most of the short lives their disfigured children will have most will die before their twentieth birthday preassure either r t carola india a let's check out other international news we have for you today the u.s. secretary general has warned of escalation risk after reports that syrian forces

raided a village near the turkish border hillary clinton said it could deepen the conflict and worsen the plight of refugees troops using snipers and tanks were seen on the syrian side of the border on thursday forcing more people to flee to turkey or ten thousand sheltered in camps and almost fifteen hundred have been killed since the crackdown on anti-government protesters started in march. the e.u. has pledged to help greece with its rows over a looming bankruptcy and the country could gain via bailout funds once parliament passes freshest area measures next week the greek government has to approve a further twenty billion euros and budget cuts over five years these are passed greece get another twelve billion euro cash as part of the current bailout package from eurozone countries and the i.m.f. . thousands of students clashed with police in the chilean capital santiago riders threw stones at security forces tried to disperse the crowds with water cannon over

twenty people were detained according to local media demonstrations demanding an increase in public education funding started three weeks ago students teachers and school managers stoop to the streets. it's the latest medical breakthrough using electric shocks to cure of normal heartbeats mosque a center for carty exist to just forty minutes to carry out the life changing procedure doctors hope the innovation will soon be implemented all over the world i was have watched the surgery take place. only nearing the work being carried out so bad could have a sense because of the basket a surgery minimally invasive hybrid surgeries being carried out to correct a heart or refresh it was a regular heart speeds and what's new is that this surgery fools institution that stage is probably to those of the patients on the web things of the nice piece of nothing in the system which is literally a belt placed around the patients with some two hundred forty electrodes attached

to it which allows the surgeons to look at the heart in for three d. or to really pinpoint the exact location off a regular hop exhibit by the time the patients comes to surgery and i'm to go to the operation that the just witnessed the location and all the hall people who know on the time spent in the case would be far less in the aforesaid minutes on its way to the accuracy and success of the operation who could fall higher it's also true that the recovery period will cause is full on this church goer troll here's the results close to one hundred percent success. interation no control which gives you samadhi approximately sixty percent we know that for the patient is difficult to go for the open heart surgery when years the possibility would be pretty great the new goes for a couple got

a gracious good three or four times and then the results become better this same time the damage of a cio becoming bigger and bigger so we've modified surgeries a disgrace would be species and made it very short safe from bleeding in saved from a book and the reason why such is the trying so hard to develop this new technology . is because who wants to risk me is all increasingly being recognized as a big problem or saying he would brush up with across the world they could cause a decline in both the length and quality of one's life the poem is still still working it didn't seem straight to the. needy pals and the way for you to hide a stroke. this is a success for more patients plus russia will be able to make you sold this nuisance

not insisted. the full original surgery which takes the less i think he proved to be full more words. if you missed any of our on air stories just go to r.t. dot com and they're all online plus there are always more news and videos lined up for you here states. at that score clears far right politician gary builders of a charges against muslims saying his comments were within the scope of acceptable public debate. and president medvedev launches our new documentary channel as a viewer vision of russia gets a global round the clock ring and see the new addition to the arts and family at r t v dot arts dot com.

now she has an obstinate and predictable nature be ready for that if you ever go to antarctica she shows no favor in this icy and inhospitable way and all visitors are equal to worst to top officials are to sean thomas as witness the world's coldest condom playing host to know why but to national presidents. as

a military c one thirty approaches a gravel airstrip the people on land prepare for celebration and official ceremony . the presidents of both chile and ecuador are making an official visit to their respective research stations in antarctica where we follow obese it is a very important visit but it is also important for our people as we here at the gateway to the rest of antarctica and for chile it is very important to support the antarctic treaty. or. not for president sebastian pinera his visit has the potential to be a political hot point as chile holds a territorial claim of the antarctic peninsula clear down to the south pole but on this particular trip controversies were put aside in favor of a more international message but has been and should always be. in a piece of friendship. and has to be very friendly with nature and

the environment is very much committed with and i'm sure that the russian people share these feelings so to get there we have to say. that because because it is a country for the future of peace and also of science and technology. and while i would or hold no boundary claim on the continent. because it does hold some national significance of this is a very impressive you know he's the first time that. he's here in thirty or so very very exciting is very important for us. hosting not one but two presidents is a tricky business especially in antarctica when much of the planning can be changed at a moment's notice depending on the constantly changing and unpredictable weather we . we have a saying about antarctica that only she knows who can and cannot visit her. in fact

last year both presidents been here and korea try to visit but could not land because the weather shifted and it was too dangerous. to look at isaiah posner to what this city bill gates of this size is quite difficult logistically they were able to fit in a little bit of russian culture with a visit to the trinity church. traveling with the presidents a delegation of both chile and ecuador's top military brass as well as minister of energy. and while there were photo opportunities and press conferences the main message from these heads of state was one of international cooperation. and. an example of you know our money we can work together so in order to get to proof. and as their presidential flight leaves the continent after a successful visit those who stayed behind to continue their research to ensure

that idea of unity is realized in antarctica sean thomas r t well you can always get more videos and read more about shah's adventures in all corners of the world on his blog and visit our website our team. within a mile of. one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is and charge it up and people have to be aware that they're far away from civilization but sean thomas discovers what makes antarctica so special and attractive for many wildlife in antarctica is if you live in the slums of. expeditions of the bottom of the earth artsy. love it or hate him you can't deny lands a unique role in russian history i little later we explore the life of the man the known as the father of the revolution.

mostly to change the course of history and starting off the red square next to the magnificent moscow probably kill me most of the roots as we take a look at his i think journey and visit various landmarks associated with his life hands. and i saw this here in just a few minutes before that though we'll take a look what's happening in the world of business with. thank you marina hello and welcome to business out the world prices dropped almost five percent on thursday after the international energy agency made a surprise announcement that sixty million barrels of oil will be released from strategic reserves half of this will come from the u.s. with other major economies providing the rest over thirteen day period it's only

the third time in history has sanctioned the release of the moves intended to offset the loss of production from libya currently engulfed in the civil war meanwhile some opec members warned of possible counter measures or proper fuel price nick parsons head of research at national australia bank explains why he thinks the guy has taken this unusual step. two reasons the first of these relates to the global economy and bear in mind the central banks around the world central banks and governments alike a fairly alarmed at the prospect of rising inflation and oil prices are a major contributor a factor here they certainly don't want to drive their economies back into recession as it bites over tightening interest rates in order to deal with inflation so working directly at the root cause of these price increases i think is

a very very shrewd move so the first reason is because they're concerned with inflation i think the second reason is also to show that the balance of power across the world doesn't lie entirely with opec and i think the opec decision fifteen days ago that was taken not to increase production i think did actually upset many people around the world so partly it's about power it's also about inflation. nick parsons sick of the markets now and world prices are edging back plunging on the international energy agency as well as of. light sweet is up around one. that leads sensationally precisely one dollar seventy eight cents brant is up one dollar nine cents more than one hundred eight dollars per barrel still far to go until they come back soon previous levels asian shares are also positive this after the drop in oil prices japan exporters are among the main advances with tubes up seven percent three percent like however will sector firms of course weaker

impacts down around the percent meanwhile on the same same is up more than one point three percent with china again around seven percent. there also the markets will start trading the final session of the week in around two hours time as we all see as an m i six or the half a plunge there on the first day losses were driven by we could create prices obviously looking ahead to the trading session of the luggage because of from b. to b. capital says russian markets are likely to consolidate their current levels the most rational version of the course of events is going to be. a little bit more of risk aversion in europe in the u.s. with regards to russia i think will we're more likely to see consolidation in current levels and obviously no risk taking is going to be on until the green story measurable takes place i think the best bet is is blue chip stocks the ones there are liquid because obviously we're seeing a complete drain out of the police out

a second here space so is the oil and gas is probably the best bet. in russia right now. the warning lights on europe's the crisis of flashing red that's the verdict of the president of the european central bank john coltrane's share his analysis might be a little behind the curve according to a number of commentators who think it's only a matter of time before the single currency collapses patrick young adults of the gathering storm describes the possible consequences of yours integration. there's a credible possibility i mean if the euro actually is going to collapse then there is a very very significant process because after all the euro is the second most important currency on the planet i mean roughly one third of all the world's reserves are in u.s. dollars something like twenty five percent are held in europe so if the eurozone goes into a debt spiral that causes a huge problem it causes a fundamental crisis of confidence in the money that people hold in their pockets

at the same time it quite possibly gives russia an incredible opportunity because in fact it may well be that other currencies such as even the ruble mail to mint may be regarded as being safer havens for investors and to that end the russian government is going to have all this gear considerable struggle to manage to keep the economy going but hopefully they'll be able to pull through. can i see the headlines we're going to another.

seventy six hours of intense fighting. six thousand janitors against front panel field several kilometers long. and now there is only one person who cares. you see we are surrounded by garbage everywhere but also there are. on this beach which of course is a very most appropriate city signification a symbol of everything that's wrong with our goddamn government allowing our oh my garbage which to accumulate where so many guys died. a new battle is going on. will the history be protected. return

to terra what julian cooper story on archie. more than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is and charge it up and people have to be aware. far away from civilization sean thomas discovers what makes antarctica so special and attractive for many. and for the. expedition to the bottom of the earth. wealthy british stock. market. find out what's really.