find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to me was a report on. britain's shocking role the new us rendition program is revealed as american officials face a lawsuit from foreign detainees who claim they were tortured 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 have jack to fully assess the progress of american conflict. and outcry from families in india who accuse the government of allowing the use of a controversial pesticide which they say is killing their children.

it's also in our business goes on after a sharp drop on thursday russia the markets begin friday's session one percent on the rise with energy stocks it will be on the in twenty minutes from. eleven am and the russian capital you're watching r.t.m. arena josh welcome to the program the u.k. failed to track detainees handed over to the us 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 daniel bushell met one victim who spent years 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 all said story couldn't as is suing george bush's lawyer alberto gonzales for ruling torture is legal interrogators from the land of the free are free to cause quote simulated drowning point instrumentality impairment of bodily function organ failure and even death. on myself. because i want science. so i was forced to agree. and i was. the us refused to even reveal they were holding his mother owns this lawyer to find her son and it took several years there was no chance to get in contact with us it's really a shame for the united states what happened. concerned

national law and it's possible that twenty first century. ex for. whom. you have no right bush feet moves to 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 and the european union would learn 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 caught know for sure. barack obama was elected on the promise

to show. that he's even appealed u.s. court rulings which give detainees some rights two years on the prison still open for business law all washing ministration guilty of. crimes against humanity socio ministration and so is your plan for participating and supporting exactly executives from bush down and they'll fear going abroad after foreigners food lawsuits over torture when the world loses what america's doing said bush's advisor we will all be ashamed don't you bush shorty braman. they are going to matter of u.s. forces in afghanistan general david petraeus is set to become the new cia chief us looks to be moving away from his heavy approach to war as washington stands firm on a master report from a van susteren what the generals sounds to his new role behind the wheel of global

covert operations raises doubts that he can be impartial i just tell him for it has more. it's true 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 an erection which we are going to that's the kind of respect for you general david petraeus. petraeus 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 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 have never actually saw any action who had never themselves been under direct or have never called a 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 have been generally diametrically opposed to what the true us has shifted his characterization of conditions on the ground in that country bears no resemblance to what people in the central intelligence agency and general petraeus spent thirty

seven years in uniform i will hang it up to lead 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 in ford r.t. washington d.c. . as a general flies over to the cia the nature of war seems to be shifting with him the u.s. president says the troop pullout from of the honesty of what's possible because the taliban's momentum has reigned that's despite calls from top military brass for a more gradual drawdown a former cia officer jack rice says washington's confused in a country. i think that 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 just 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 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's doing nothing but protecting himself and his own democracy is not here that 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 do with iraq we're seeing you put it in equals i can't imagine any country in the world where a foreign army could walk in and say we're going to give you something who is going to accept it and still have for you on the program of world beating technique to cure heart disease find out how russia cardiologists are treating irregular heartbeats using electric shocks and. also the hotties he is abroad leaders of to

this other nations to the world's coldest continent details in just a few minutes. it's cheap effective and highly toxic and ourselves and as a pesticide banned in most countries but still widely embraced by farmers in india however its use carries grave consequences what 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 and i find some of the images in prius raters report of the survey. 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 it through to her 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 first some parents that prospect is too much choosing abortion sometimes just starving late my daughter was operated on in the eight months of pregnancy until recently india with the only country in the world which allowed the youth of ngo self in the agricultural ministries that there was simply no other cheap alternative to the powerful past that but after mounting pressure at home and abroad the supreme court voted on an eight week ban of the path of god 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

pasta site say their rivals are the ones pushing this ban. the use it is only will need you because you will. need to. 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 the poor people. i counted as low cost 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 though 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

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 now let's check out other than national stories for us our the u.s. secretary of state has warned of an escalation of risk after reports that syrian forces raided a village near the turkish border hillary clinton said it could do 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 or turkey over ten thousand sheltered in 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 what was over a looming bankruptcy and debt the country could gain vile bailout funds once parliament passes fresh measures next week if the greek government is there

a further twenty billion euros of budget cuts over five years these are passed greece get another twelve billion euro in cash as part of the current rescue package for the euro zone countries and the i.m.f. . to huge earthquakes have hit in the pacific ocean near alaska's aleutian islands there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries and 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 runestone the security forces tried to disperse the crowds with water cannon over twenty people were detained according to local media demonstrations demanding and demanding an increase in public education funding started three weeks ago students teachers and school managers to the streets. it's the latest

medical breakthrough using electric shocks to cure of normal heartbeats moscow center for cardio diseases to just forty minutes to carry out the life changing procedure doctors hope the innovation will soon be implemented all over the world alice had watched the surgery take place. play nearing the work being carried out so that could have a sense of the comedy about skilless jury minimally invasive hybrid surgeries being carried out to correct the hotspur written it will be regular heart beats and what's new is that this surgery falls into two minutes stages prior to this is the patients i want to read things often use because of mounting a system which is literally a belt placed around the patient with some two hundred forty electrodes attached to it which allows this gins to look at the heart in fifty three d. or to really pinpoint exact location all of the regular hop exhibit by the time the

patient comes to surgery adopted. rachid that we just witnessed the cake shit and all the hall people will know and the time spent in case we do far less in the aforesaid minutes and it's a cookie accuracy in successful operation who can fall higher it's also true that the recovery period will quiet its fall on this patrol 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 is the possibility could be pretty great cancer or new goals for covered or abrasion good three or four times and then the results become better bugaboo same time could be a major atrium becoming bigger and bigger so we would be fired

surgery or displays would be just patients and made it very short safe from bleeding in saved from a book and the reason why does he try so hard to develop this new technology. it is because to risk me is all increasingly being recognized as a big problem or saying he will not ship it across the world they can cause a decline in both the length and quality of one's life a poem is still still working it seems strokes it's the new the palace and the way for you to have a stroke. to success so more patients plus russia will be able to make you sold this new surface mounted system. the following will surgery which takes the list and the p.c.

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she has an obstinate and predictable nature be ready for that if you ever go to antarctica she shows no favor to anyone the icy and inhospitable land treats all visitors equally from tourists to top officials are to sean thomas witnessed the world's coldest continent playing host to not won 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. we follow obese it is a very important visit but it is also important for our people as we hear now diggy tweet 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 or 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. has been i should always be a continent of peace a friendship and has to be very friendly with nature and the unbearable heat is very much committed with them and i'm sure that the russian people share these feelings so together we have to say that because because it is

a country for the future of peace and also science and technology. and while i could or holds no boundary claim on the continent. is it does hold some national significance of this is a very impressive place you know is the first time. he's here in antarctica so very very exciting he's very sort of there 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 to pending on the constantly changing and unpredictable weather we . 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 year and korea try to visit but could not land because the weather shifted and it was too dangerous. to organizing oppose nato this is a delegation of this size it's 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. and. an example of union 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 stay behind continue their research to ensure that idea of unity is realized in antartica sean thomas martini and he can always get extra videos and read more about sean's avengers and all corners of the world on his blog that's on our website our dot com.

more than a month. to one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is antarctica and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization sean thomas discovers what makes antarctica so special the destructive for many of the wildlife in antarctica is close if you live in the slums of. extradition to the bottom of the earth. well you can lock him or hate him or you can deny lennon's unique role and russian history a little later in the program we'll explore the life of the man known as the father of the rebel worth. ultimately to change the course of history starting off the red square next to the magnificent moscow coming to me most about greece as we take

a look at his epic journey and visit various landmarks associated with his life. and you watching our team moscow out of here and about a now we're before that we'll take a look at what's happening in the world of business was to me to stay with us. and i was watching business while 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 specific reserves now half of this will come from the united states with other major economies providing the best of thirty three. i mean the first time in history has sanctioned the release of reserves and that is intended to offset the loss of production from libya that's currently involved in civil war meanwhile some opec members warned of possible counter measures to prop up in the world price nick parsons head of research at national australia bank explains why he thinks the i.a.e.a. has taken this unusual step. buying these 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 oil prices are a major contributor a factor here they certainly don't want to drive their economies back into recession as

a bright overtightening 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 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 inflation. so good at the markets now while prices edged to back up after plunging on the international energy agency's release of crude reserves light sweet is trading at around ninety two dollars per barrel while brant is just under one hundred eight dollars per barrel. asian shares are trading higher on renewed confidence over help to greece and japan exports are among the main advances to yota and so sheba some of

the main page news this hour however oil sector firms of course weaker impacts is down around the perception hong kong's hang seng and of the session one point seven percent higher. than russia the session on friday started on a positive note with the r.t.s. point eight percent my six point nine percent almost now this is on the back of a rebound in crude prices we take a look at these stocks the gas prom is in the lead it's up one point seven percent banks are also stronger bank one point eight percent but we're seeing some of the retail stocks going down this hour. warning lights on europe's debt crisis are flashing red that's the verdict of the president of the european central bank which we shaped 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 patric young adults or of the

gathering storm describes the possible consequences of your doesn't aggression. 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 plummets 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 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 that other currencies such as even the ruble mail to mostly be regarded as being saved for havens for investors and survived and 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 i will be back with more stories and updates of the stock

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