instant. britain's shocking role 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 of the new chief spy will object or will you assess the progress of american conflict. and outcry from families in india who accuse the government of allowing the use of the controversial pastor cyberspace ace killing their children . also oil prices are slightly coming back after dropping four point five percent the previous session find out of the implications for russia's markets in that

twenty minutes time on business so. now i am in moscow you're watching r.t.r. marina josh 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 london archies daniel bushell met one victim spent years in america's most notorious overseas prison. as was arrested on the streets and sent to guantanamo for torture after five years america released him without charge to this day the u.s. has given no explanation or said story could george bush's lawyer alberto gonzalez

for ruling torture is legal interrogators from the learned of the free are free to calls quote simulated drowning. instrumentality impairment of bodily function organ failure and even this i was one of those who survived those kind of purchase . they used electroshocks because i will not sign papers. i was forced to agree. and i was not the us refused to even reveal we were holding his mother also these loyal to find her son it took several years there was no chance to get in contact with mr corner it's really a shame for the net in spades what happened. is. concerned national law and it's simply impossible and the twenty first century sure put someone in the extra. room. saying

you have to push for moves to end the practices they are imposing a set of standards on 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 detainee may or may not have been guilty since they never received a real trial we just can't know for sure. but bormann was elected on the promise to show its kwento tomorrow but he's even appealed u.s. court rulings which give detainees some royds two years home prison still open for

business. washington street guilty of. crimes against humanity so is the obama administration and so is europe. for participating exactly executives from bush down no fear going abroad after foreigners fold lawsuits over torture when the world learns what america's doing said bush's advisor we will all be ashamed the new bushel r.t. braman. going to matter of u.s. forces i'm gonna send gen david petraeus 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 master pullout from of get a stamp of the general's acts and through his new sound rather than his new role behind the wheel of global covert operations raz as raises doubts that he can be impartial artist kalen ford has more. than 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 m a s quite often as are all of us what do you think should happen in afghanistan and first response to whatever general petraeus says that's a direction in which we are best here for you general david petraeus. to transpose on capitol hill to be confirmed as the next director of the central intelligence agency and 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 tolerating 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 it's called the green zone hero. these are your senior officers who never actually saw any action who had never themselves been under direct czar and have never pulled the trigger and killed anyone in combat although president obama called him a quote lifelong consumer of intelligence others are skeptical that the trailers will fit in at the cia their evaluation of iraq their evaluation of afghanistan had been generally diametrically opposed to what the troops had shared his characterization of conditions on the ground in that country bears no resemblance to what people in the central intelligence agency do say general petraeus spent thirty seven years in uniform i will hang it out to leave the cia as a civilian senate republican leaders praise president obama's decision for quote choosing competence in continuity at that same continuity means betrayers will be

in charge of assessing his own success in iraq and afghanistan in ford r.t. washington d.c. as a general slides over to the cia the nature of war seems to be shifting with him the u.s. president says the poor out of troops from afghanistan was possible because the taliban's momentum has been turned and that's despite calls from top military brass for a more gradual drawdown a former cia officer jack rice says washington's confused its enemies in 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 is separating 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 you look at cars i president karzai is a crook they see him as somebody who's doing nothing but protecting himself and his own democracy is the fear of it you know what at the same time anybody who thinks that the us are the only europeans can roll into a country and simply say we have decided we're going to we're going to do with democracy you will be an equal 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 yeah well so i have for you in the program a world beating technique to cure heart disease find out how russian party artists are treating irregular heartbeats in the last forty minutes using electric shocks. also hot issues that drive leaders of to southern nations to the world's coldest continent all the details in just a few minutes here in our team. it's cheap effective and highly toxic and

herself and is a pesticide banned in most countries but still widely embraced by farmers in india however its use carries grave consequences for the whole generation of children suffering devastating health problems and while the government claims there is no affordable alternative to the teleco ordinary families are paying the price and find some of the images in preschoolers report disturbing. 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 pad and she's not the only one suffering like this the doctors who have to put it to you are going to your 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 for some parents that prospect is too much choosing abortion sometimes just stopping legal aid my daughter was alterations on in the eighth months of her pregnancy until recently india with the only country in the world which allowed the youth of endosulfan the agricultural ministry said there with employing no other cheap alternative to the powerful pacified but after mounting pressure at home and abroad the supreme court voted on an eight week ban of the passage that which is that to expire in mid july while studies show that endosulfan causes severe developmental in reproductive problems in both humans and animals proponents of the custer side say their rivals are the ones pushing this ban. only new because.

it's a. little more but the families of the sick feel that they've been forgotten for long enough. oh my 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 the poor people i counted as low cost 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. i feel very sad when i see my child like this it's disturbing we have to tolerate it. there's little point waiting for government relief repeated requests fall on deaf ears in the capital are 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 priya

sridhar artsy carola india. all shook out other international news we have for you today the secretary general warrant of an escalation risk after reports that syrian forces raided a village near the turkish border hillary clinton sat in the conflict and worse in the quiet 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 over ten thousand have shelter in the camps and almost fifteen hundred have been killed since a crackdown on anti-government protesters started in march. the e.u. has pledged to help greece with its woes over a looming bankruptcy and the country could gain vile bailout funds once parliament passes fresh staring measures next week the greek government has to approve a further twenty billion euros in budget cuts over five years if these are passed and greece could get another twelve billion euro in cash as part of the current

bailout package from euro zone countries and the i.m.f. . to huge earthquakes have hit in the pacific ocean near alaska's aleutian islands and there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries that's an army warning issued for coastal areas off the american state was later cancelled the quake struck one thousand miles west of the major alaskan city of anchorage. thousands of students clashed with police in the chilean capital santiago rioters threw stones as 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 moscow's center for carting exist to just forty minutes to carry out a life changing procedure doctors hope the innovation will soon be implemented all

over the world as have heard watched the surgery take place. only nearing the work being carried out so back to the fence because of the vascular surgery minimally invasive all hybrid surgeries being carried out to correct a hole it's a risk for me it will be a regular heart in and what's new is that this surgery falls into sumit stages prior to the rest of the patients i want to read things of the nice mounting system which is literally a belt placed around the page since i was some two hundred forty electrodes attached to it which allows the surgeons to look at the heart in free d. are two really important exact location off a regular hop exhibit by the time the patient comes to surgery about to go to the operation that we just witnessed the cage should all of the hall be known and the time spent in the case would be far less than the aforesaid minutes and it's hoped

that the adult curacy and successful operation wouldn't fall higher it's also thought that the recovery period will quiet its fall on this surgical approach here's the results close to one hundred percent success. interation will patrol which gives you samadhi approximately sixty percent we know that for the patient is difficult to go for the open heart surgery we nears the possibility could be pretty breakouts and it goes for at the door abrasion good three or four times and then the results become better bugaboo same time the damage of a chair becoming bigger and bigger so we modify surgeries and displays could be used patients and made it very a shot in safe from bleeding in saved from

a blow and the reason why surgeons are trying so confident that this new technology . it is because who wants to risk me is all increasingly being recognized as a big problem or saying he would across the world they can cause a decline in both the length and quality of one's life the poem the work you did it seems straight it's the. way for you it's a life of strokes. this is a success for more patients false russia will be able to make you solve this nuisance mapping system. the following old century which takes the lest. he proved to be full more. well if you missed any of our on air stories just go for it you know they are all mine plus there's always more news and video lined up just for you there here's a taste of. a dutch court clears far right politician of your will as of hey charges against muslim saying his comments were within the scope of acceptable

public debate. and the president would get if launches were a new documentary chalo as a new vision of russia gets around the clock global reach in see the new addition to the r.t. family at r t v dot hartstein dot com. she

has an obstinate and unpredictable nature be ready for that if you ever go to antarctica she shows no favorites to anyone i see an inhospitable ray and treats all visitors equally from tourist to top officials i do santarus as witness the world's coldest continent playing house two not one but two 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 when we don't know for our beings it is a very important visit but it is also important for our people as we hear the gateway to the recent article and for chile it is very important to support the antarctic treaty you see and thank you. importantly. for

president sebastian pinera his visit has the potential to be a political hot point as chile holds a territorial claim over 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 a part in it of meat. a friendship and it has to be very friendly with nature and. 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 of the future of peace and also science and technology. and while ecuador holds 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. he's here in antarctica

so very very exciting it's 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 if we have a saying about antarctica not only she knows who can and cannot visit her in fact last year both presidents be near and korea to try to visit but could not land because the weather shifted and it was too dangerous. going to using a presidential visit a delegation 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 chile's 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 thirty case an example of union power money we can work together so in order to. to proof. and as their presidential flight leaves the continent after a successful visit those who stay behind continue their research sure that idea of unity is realized in antartica sean thomas martini. but remember you can always get extra years and to read more about shards of banter is in all corners of the world on his blog visit our website arts. more than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctica and people have to be aware that they're far away from civilization sean combs discovers floods make sense arctic is so special and attractive for many wildlife

in antarctica is the closer you live and the sun's an. expedition to the bottom of your party. while you can a lot of family can hate him but he can deny lennon's unique role and russian history a little later in the program we explore the wife of the man known as the father of the revolution. ball state need to change the course of the straits of starting off here on red square next to the magnificence moscow kremlin surely motha down roots as we take a look at his i think journey and visit various landmarks associated with his life plans.

osgod is here in about an hour of by before that i will take a look what's happening and business what dmitri. well in a warm welcome to business outside the oil prices dropped almost five percent on thursday after the international energy agency made a surprise announcement sixty million barrels of oil will be released from city to reserves half of this will come from the united states with other major economies providing the rest of a thirty day period it's only the first time in history that the sanction the release of the medicines entered so offset the loss of production from libya which is currently involved in civil war you while some opec members want of possible

countermeasures to prop up your price make passons head of research at national australia bank explains why he thinks the u.i. is taking this unusual step. i think is two reasons the first of these relates to the global economy and bear in mind that central banks around the world central banks and governments alike fairly alarmed at the prospect of rising inflation and prices are a major contributor a factor here they certainly don't want to drive their economies back into recession as a byte 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. i think of the current world prices and they're edging back up after plunging on the international energy agency has willis' of reserves rights we deserve one dollar and a quarter one of them ninety two dollars worth. brant is one hundred days in the heart of the. regime's years of trading higher and renewed confidence over helped increase in japan exporters are among the main advances with zero zero point seven percent to three percent in the black however it will select the weaker with impacts down around two percent meanwhile hong kong's hang seng is up one and a half percent almost with china gaining more than five percent. here in russia one more hour to go before the opening of friday's session and first they search until both the all two years and my six nosedive two point six and two percent

respectively this was on the back of weaker crude prices. looking ahead to the trading session i look across from b.c.b. capital says russian markets are likely to and so they are currently. the most rational version of the course of events it's going to be. a little bit more of a risk aversion in europe in the u.s. with regards to russia i think where more likely to see consolidation on current levels and obviously no risk taking is going to be on until the greek history natural takes place i think the best bet is is bullshit starts the ones there are a liquid because obviously we've seen a complete drain out of the police out the second tier space so it's the oil and gas is probably the best bet in russia right now and warning lights on europe's debt crisis are flashing red that's the verdict of the president of the european central bank will cliche his analysis might be a little behind the curve according to a number of commentators i think it's only

a matter of time before the single currency collapses patrick young editor of the gathering storm this scribe's the possible consequences of your disintegration. there's an incredible 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 euro zone goes into a death 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 the other currencies such as even the ruble mail to be regarded as being safer here funds for investors and to that end the russian government is going to hope to see a considerable struggle to manage to keep the economy going but hopefully they'll be able to pull through. when tsotsi is back in fifteen minutes with an update

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