to end the practices they are imposing a set of standards on our intelligence communities in terms of interrogating prisoners that our people think will be ineffective in a de 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 called know for sure. barack obama was elected on the promise to short term but he's even appealed u.s. court rulings which give detainees some royds two years on the prison still open for business. all washington street guilty of. crimes against humanity sociopath ministration slows your plea for participating and

support these that executives from bush down no fear going abroad of the foreigners food lawsuits over torture when the world america's doing said bush's advisor we will all be ashamed the new bush shorty braman the outgoing commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan general david petraeus 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 for a master of pullout from afghanistan by the generals ascend to his new role behind the wheel of global covert operations raises doubts that he can be impartial are descaling ford has more. and 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 i'm asked quite often as are

all of us what do you think should happen in afghanistan and my first response is well whatever general petraeus says that's the direction in which we ought to go that's the kind of respect i have for you general david petraeus. to train as 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 it's called the green zone hero these are your senior officers who never actually saw any action who have never themselves been under direct fire 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 betray us will fit in at the cia their evaluation of iraq their evaluation of afghanistan have been generally diametrically opposed to what betray us has said his characterization of conditions on the ground in that country bears no resemblance to what people in the central intelligence agency or 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 betrayers will be in charge of assessing his own success in iraq and afghanistan and ford r.t. washington d.c. . as

a general slide over to the cia the nature of war seems to be shifting with him the u.s. president says the troop pullout of from afghanistan was possible because the taliban's momentum has waned 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 that the department of defense and the white house are probably mischaracterizing how this is successful if you will 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 to simply characterize them as the bad guys as all the same guy was one of the biggest mistakes that the united states ever met i think you are going to see more instability when i talk to people in other parts of the country they look at president karzai as a crook they see him as somebody who is doing nothing but protecting himself and

his own democracy is not there but you know what at the same time anybody who thinks that 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 you with democracy and you put it in equals and 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 that you're watching live from moscow still had for you in the program of world beating technique to cure heart disease find out how drugs cardiologist are treating irregular heartbeats using electric shocks. also the hot ashes that broadly years of two southern nations to the world's coldest continent on the details in just a few moments here in our team. it's cheap effective and highly toxic and a cell phone is a pesticide banned in most countries but still widely embraced by farmers in india

however its use carries grave consequences with a 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 you may find some of the images and prey shooters 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 head and she's not the only one suffering like this the doctor said that we 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 carola 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 disturbingly late my daughter was alterations own in the eighth month of pregnancy until recently india was the only country in the world which allowed the youth of endosulfan the agricultural ministries that there with them clean no other cheap alternative to the powerful pesticide but after mounting pressure at home and abroad the supreme court voted on an eight week ban of the past the third which is thought to expire in mid july while studies show that endosulfan causes severe developmental and reproductive problems in both humans and animals proponents of the past aside say their rivals are the ones pushing this ban. the only. goes.

but 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 the poor people are counted as low caste and nobody cares whether we are 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 there was disturbing we have to tolerate it. there's little point waiting for government 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. let's check out other the national news we have for you today the u.s.

secretary of state of war and then ask elation risk after reports that syrian forces raided a village near the turkish border hillary clinton said it could deep in the conflict 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 over ten thousand have sheltered in camps and almost fifteen hundred have been killed since a crackdown on anti-government protesters started in march. has pledged to help greece with its woes over a looming bankruptcy and debt the country could gain vile bailout funds once parliament passes freshest already measures next week if we're going to prove a further twenty billion euros in budget cuts over five years if these are passed we get another twelve billion euros cash a start of a current bailout package from eurozone countries and the i.m.f. . to future earthquakes have hit in the pacific ocean near alaska's aleutian

islands and there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries at tsunami 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 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 took to the streets. well it's the latest medical breakthrough using electric shocks to cure abnormal heartbeats moscow center for cardio diseases took just forty minutes to carry out the life changing procedure doctors hope that you know will soon be implemented all over the world alice hibbert watched the

surgery take place. play nearing the work being carried out so bad could have a sense because of the vascular surgery minimally invasive hybrid surgeries being carried out to correct a halt or return it will irregular heartbeats and what's new is that this surgery falls into two minutes stages prior to those of the patient don't read the piece of the nice piece of mounting a system which is literally a belt placed around the patient with some two hundred forty electrodes attached to it which allow us to see to look at the heart in for three d. or to really pinpoint the exact location all of the regular hop exhibit by the time the patient comes to surgery and i'm to go to the operation that we just witnessed the cage should all of the hall be nodes on the time spent in place would be far less than the aforesaid minutes and it's hoped that the accuracy and success of the

operation would be fall high and it's also true that the recovery period will quiet is full on this surgical approach 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 could be pretty breakouts a new goes for covered or abrasion two or three or four times and then the results become better but the same time the damage of a chair becoming bigger and bigger so we would be fired surgery at this place would be species and made it very short safe from bleeding in saved from

a blog and the reason why surgeons are trying so hard to develop this new technology. is the cause to risk me is all increasingly being recognized as a big problem or so unique he would across the world they can cause a decline in both the length and quality of one's life a poem in the work you did it seems strokes. the way for you to live strokes. success formal patients else russia will be able to make you solve this nuisance mapping system. which takes the list and proved to be full more. i was reporting there while if you missed any of our on air stories just go to r.t. dot com and they're all online plus there's always more news and video wind up just for you there here's a taste for. a dutch court clearest far right politician geert wilders of take

charges against muslims saying his comments were with then the scope of acceptable public debate. president medvedev launches are a new documentary channel as a new vision of russia gets around the clock global and you can see the new edition of arts and family at r t v dot com.

she has an obstinate and unpredictable nature be ready for that if you ever go to and talk to him she knows no favor to anyone the icy and hospitable way and treats all visitors equally from tourists to top officials are to sean thomas has witnessed the world's coldest continent playing host to 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 where we are for our base it is a very important visit but it is also important for our people as we hear now the

gateway to the rest of antarctica and for chile it is very important to support the antarctic treaty. and think it's with the. important thing. 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 that has been and should always be a continent of peace of friendship and it has to be very friendly with nature and the environment is very much committed with that 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 continent of the future of peace and also science and technology. and while ecuador holds no boundary claim on the continent. visit does hold some national

significance of this is a very impressive place you know he's the first time that. he's here in antarctica so very very exciting he'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 pres. it's been tried a visit but could not land because the weather shifted and it was too dangerous. to organizing a presidential what this is 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 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 that. union power money. can work together so in order to. improve. and as their presidential flight leaves the continent after a successful visit those who stay behind to continue their research to ensure that idea of unity is realized in antarctica sean thomas. well you always get extra videos and to read more about sean's adventures in all corners of the world on his blog. dot com. 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. has discovered

what makes antarctica so special and attractive for many the wildlife in antarctica . and the sun's. expedition to the bottom of the earth. well you know obviously you can hate him but he can deny lenin's unique row in russian history a little later we explore the life of the man known as the father of the revolution . need to change the course of history and starting off the red square next to the magnificent moscow kremlin. routes as we take a look at his epic journey and visit various landmarks associated with his life.

almost yog with martin anders is coming your way shortly before that we'll take a look at what's happening in the world of business was the traces stay with us for that. the universe and welcome to business our team oil 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 be coming from the united states with other major economies providing the rest over a period it's only the first time in history the i.a.e.a.

has sanctioned the release of reserves moves intended to offset the loss of production from libya currently engulfed in civil war meanwhile some opec members wonderful possible countermeasures to prop up the oil price nick parsons head of research at the national australia bank explains why he thinks i was taking this unusual step. buying these 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 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 a bike 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 the balance of power across the world doesn't lie entirely with opec and i think the opec decision but it 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. second look at the current oil prices they're now and they're edging bad cards after plunging on the international energy agency's release of reserves although the pace of this recovery is not as high as it was even an hour ago light sweet is up less than a dollar now brant is up just over one barrel. and asian shares are trading higher this is on renewed confidence over health to greece and japan exporters are among the main advances with toyota and toshiba in the lead however the oil sector firms are weaker with impacts down around the percent and hong kong's hang seng is up almost two percent china is in. a rush or the markets will mostly

start trading in five minutes before the myself the r.t.s. is already showing it's up zero point seven per cent on thursday the r.t.s. my six all pretty hefty losses obviously was down two point six percent my six almost two percent this was on the back of lower oil prices. now looking ahead into the trading session from the t.v. capital says russian markets are likely to consolidate our current levels the most rational. 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 where more likely to see consolidation on current levels and obviously no risk taking is going to be on until the greek austerity measure vote takes place i think of the best bet is blue chip stocks the ones there are liquid because obviously we've seen a complete drain over the queen south the second tier space so it's the oil and gas

is probably the best bet in russia right now. the warning lights on europe's debt crisis are flashing red and that's the verdict of a president and european central banks are closed to 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 editor of the gathering storm describes the possible consequences of europe does integration there is 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 male timidly be regarded as being safer here vns for investors and to that end the russian government is going to have obviously a considerable struggle to manage to keep the economy going but hopefully they'll be able to pull through however the excising the headlines with marina these things for.

today children play war in the old case me. but in june one hundred forty one these walls were the first barrier from another troops on their way to moscow. the funders of breast milk were dying one by one under sea systems command from one. in the last shelter an unnamed soldier left a few simple words farewell motherland i'm dying but i'm not surrendering.

you're watching r t live from moscow a reminder of the top stories britain has revealed it neglected to protect prisoners from abuse as part of its role in the u.s. rendition program this comes as american officials face lawsuits from foreign detainees who claim they were tortured in overseas prison. the top u.s. commander in afghanistan general petraeus is set to become the next cia director but opponents question if the new chief spy will object that we assess the progress of american conflicts. and families in india accuse the government of allowing the use of a controversial pesticide which they say is killing their children victims groups

claim applying the chemicals is causing a generation of deformed children who don't live to see their twenty's. so we had lines well next week's poorer divisive figure of the father of the russian revolution. hello and welcome to the show in this week's program i'll be exploring that in slice. the ball straight lead to change the course of the straits of starting off the red square next to the magnificent moscow kremlin. as we take a look at his epic journey and visit various landmarks associated with his life and . names associated with.

the eight hundred seventy s. . it shows his pseudo name living in ninety nine as one of the leading political figures and revolution we think is of the twentieth century he changed the world. bolshevik takeover of power in russia in nine hundred seventeen the communist party manage an unwanted class free economy life and adapted for marxism but what is the soviet leaders like you see today. for the developments in syria who. might say. those guys were really able to take a philosophy and turn it in turn it into something the whole society could use and think it was well intentioned to be doing. this man was to release time and he's still idealist now i think is completely over the top to keep.