britain it reveals failed to protect its detainees from possible abuse under the u.s. rendition program as american officials are sued for ruling that torture is ok in secret prisons. ukraine's ex goes on trial over charges of abuse of power allegedly losing her country hundreds of millions of dollars in energy deals . and the outcry from families in india who accuse the government of allowing the use of a controversial pesticide which they say is killing their children. here

with r.t. live from moscow i'm sure welcome to the program well 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 washington by london he's done a bushel but one victim who spent years on america's most notorious overseas person . and more and couldn't 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 gonzalez for ruling tool sure is legal interrogators from the land of the free are free to cause quote simulated drowning and rape boy instrumentality

impairment of bodily function organ failure and even death i was one of those who survived. myself. because i was. i was a. member of. and i was. the us refused to even reveal we were holding current as his mother owns this 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. is. concerned national law and it's simply impossible in the twenty first century to put someone in x. for. whom. saying you have no right

moves to end the practices they are imposing a set of standards on our intelligence communities in terms of interrogating prisoners that people think would be ineffective in a de classified memo gonzales did warn us gods it was legally safer to perform torture on foreign soil and 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. obama was elected on the promise to show . but he's even appealed u.s. court rulings which give detainee some royds two years on. what all is the washington street guilty of. crimes against humanity so

is the. this regime and so is your plea for participating and support exactly executives from bush down and they'll figure your brood of the foreigners fold lawsuits over torture when the world lose what america's doing said bush's advisor we will all be ashamed don't you bushell r.t. braman. well earlier we spoke to cory crowder from the reprieve charity which fights for human rights to prisoners she's a visit detainee's a white house and says there's no end in sight for those incarcerated there. at this moment the clients i go and see there are going on ten years in detention they've lost almost a decade of their lives and there's no prospect of a trial and no prospect of release and congress is going on saying we need to have gone saddam out forever so that's the real agony that they go through at this point uncertain future no prospect of leaving i think it's one of the saddest parts of

the whole war on terror story the way various european nations for the kind of waiting around waiting handmaidens us torture practices we know about cia secret prisons in poland romania lithuania the u.k. is the u.s. its closest ally let's be clear and we saw time and again in the war on terror the u.k. getting just a little bit too close to the illegality of george bush and his cronies. and that was from reprieve is a charity that fights for human rights of prisoners just giving her take on what's happening at u.s. detention camps. well ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko is in court to face charges for abuse of power she's accused of losing ukraine hundreds of millions of dollars in gas to go with russia so let's you know just use outside the court in kiev for. well the atmosphere in the side the courtroom and around the court building in central kiev is absolutely electrifying fifteen hundred supporters of unix machine will gather here since early morning to protest

what they describe as a farcical trial and the i related ukraine told the students think of the former prime minister herself already started some controversy in this trial now when the judge and they're doing the room the courtroom she refused to stand up and then said that this trial this judge must be dismissed because she believes the judge has a very low qualification to handle this very important case now the case is clearly the biggest one in ukraine along with that case of the country's former interior minister udall tempo is being televised live by the local t.v. stations and clearly this is causing a lot of control we see here with the former prime minister herself saying that she must not be prosecuted and believes this this case is completely political and is being orchestrated by president bush well this time we understand that huge machine what he's being charged with many different things with many different financial

crimes but the most important one as we understand according to the prosecution is that she is charged with striking unlawful gas deals with russia in two thousand and nine the prosecution says that those unlawful contracts of ukraine lost more than four hundred million u.s. dollars there are also several charges too little shango be cuttin the unlawful usage of ambulance cars and money and corruption and all different charges like that it clearly is not the first time that something like this happens with the little machine go back in two thousand and nine she was already charged with smuggling russian gas into ukraine she was put in prison back then and that caused a huge public and cry in the society here in ukraine so. in some way experienced person. in the trials and we are waiting to see what the reaction is for the controversial controversial reactions we'll see from the former prime minister. here when you are with r.t.

and still ahead for you in the program from top brass to top spy the u.s. army general petraeus is set to become the next cia chief but opponents question if the outgoing commander in afghanistan is fit for the job. and the hot issues that brought leaders of word to southern nations to the world of coldest continent all the details in just a few minutes right here on artsy. now it's cheap effective and highly toxic endosulfan 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 chemical ordinary families are paying the price you may find some of the images in previous reader's report distressing. this girl's body is the size of a baby but in reality she's five years old in her short life. has endured an

operation to reduce the size of her abnormally large head and she's not the only one suffering like this no doubt the doctors who have to get it through to her child's head 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 be for some parents that prospect is too much choosing abortion sometimes disturbingly late my daughter was alterations on in the eighth month of the pregnancy until recently india with the only country in the world which allowed

the youth of endosulfan the agricultural ministries that they're with employing no other cheap alternative to the powerful past that but after mounting pressure at home and abroad as the pre-court voted on an eight week ban of the path is that which is that to expire in mid july while studies show the endosulfan causes severe developmental and reproductive problems in both humans and animals proponents of the pasta site say their rivals are the ones pushing this ban. to say it is only you because you would lose. 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. counted as low cast and nobody cares whether we're dead or alive and

the families are drained emotionally and financially their life savings wiped out to care for their severely disabled children they've run to figure i feel very sad when i see my child like this i know 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 disfigure children will have most will die before their twentieth birthday preassure either r t carola india. the ongoing 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 firm on a mass troop pullout from afghanistan but the general's ascent to his new role behind the wheel of global covert operations where as adults that he can be impartial could afford has more. since 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 a. first response to whatever general petraeus direction which we are that's going to respect. 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 telling in iraq is vastly overstated and despite his star power some in the military say petraeus is better at navigating the media in washington than a battlefield is called the green zone hero these are your senior officers who never actually saw any actual who have never themselves been under direct sar and 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 petraeus will fit in at the cia their evaluation of iraq their evaluation of afghanistan have been generally diametrically opposed to what the troops 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 petraeus will be in charge of assessing his own success in iraq and afghanistan in ford r.t. washington d.c. . the general asides over the cia nature of war seems to be shifting with him u.s. president says the troop pullout from afghanistan was possible because the taliban's momentum has waned that's despite calls from the top military brass for a more gradual drawdown a former cia officer jack rice says that washington has 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 one of the problems is that somehow the u.s. has broken the taliban or separated the taliban from al qaeda but the fact is is that the taliban and al qaeda were separate organizations from the beginning and to simply characterize them as 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 and 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 the fear that you know what at the same time anybody who thinks that the us who are the europeans can roll into a country and simply say we have decided we're going to we're going to with democracy and you put it in equal spain 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. it's now a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital and with if you missed any of our stories just go over to r.t. dot com other all of mine plus there's always more news and video lined up in the print take that we can find right now a dutch court clears a far right politician to fill those charges against muslims saying that his comments were within the scope of acceptable public debate. and president medvedev

launches our new documentary channel as a new vision of russia again so round the clock reach you can see the new addition to the r.t. family at our t d daughter r t v dot com. i am using it to keep. him going.

all right now let's get to some other international news we have for you this hour the e.u. has pledged to help greece with its was over a looming bankruptcy and that the country could gain vital bailout funds once parliament passes a fresh austerity measures next week the greek government is to approve a further twenty eight billion euros in budget cuts over the next five years if these are passed then greece could get another twelve billion euro in cash it's part of the current rescue package from eurozone countries and. it from a rwandan minister has been sentenced to life in prison for genocide pauline in your master who was found guilty on seven charges including incitement to commit genocide and rape as a crime against humanity she was a minister for family and women's affairs in one nine hundred ninety four when eight hundred thousand people were killed most of them ethnic tutsis she was convicted along with her son and four other former officials after

a decade long trial. the u.s. secretary of state has warned of an escalation risk after reports that syrian forces are raided a village near the turkish border hillary clinton said it could deepen the conflict and worsen the plight of refugees troops using it cyprus 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 government crackdown on anti-government protesters started march. but she has not unpredictable nature be ready for that if you ever go to target her she shows no favorites anyone this icy and inhospitable land treats all visitors equally from tourists to top officials from thomas 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. we will be 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. but there are more important thing. 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 that they get has been as should always be it in a piece of friendship and has to be very friendly with nature and.

it 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 country for the future of peace and also of science and technology and while they could or hold no boundary claim on the continent rafael korea's visit does hold some national significance of this is a very impressive you know the first time there. is here in thirty or so is 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 we have a saying about antarctica not only she knows who can and cannot visit her in fact last year both. president's been year and korea trying to visit with could not land

because the weather shifted and it was too dangerous. to organize a presidential visit abilities of this size it's 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 third think 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 can sure that idea of unity is realized in antarctica sean thomas martini. well you can always get

extra videos and read more about sean's big adventures in all corners of the world of course on has a log that's on our website at www dot com. or than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is it and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization sean thomas discovers what makes antarctica so special and attractive for many the wildlife in antarctica is. the. expedition to the bottom of the earth artsy. what he does on the course of our theme park com well love him or hate him you can't deny that lennon's lennon had a unique role in russian history a little later we explore the life of the man known as the father of the revolution .

also we need to change the course of history and starting off here on red square next to the magnificent moscow kremlin. is as we take a look at his journey and visit various landmarks associated with his life and. arts are most crowded here in around five minutes because that will cross over to me tree in just a moment for the latest business. and

if you and welcome to business oil prices are flat after dropping almost five percent on thursday that was after the international energy agency made a surprise announcement sixty million barrels of oil would be released from strategic reserves something the third time in history the i has sanctioned the release of reserves the move is intended to offset the loss of production from libya currently in the gulf. opec members one of possible countermeasures to prop up the world price christine just going to and from standard and poor's explains why she thinks the i has taken the unusual action. i think it's three things it is trying to ensure that when the northern hemisphere is going to have the driving season there will be enough supply now a lot of the opec member countries have said their recent of the fly and that is correct but what you need is to make sure that prices they don't spiral are the second is to ensure that there is

a soft landing for the economy what they are trying to ensure is that the world economy does not go into what are the recession and thirdly there has been a lot of frustration from oil barrels that have been taking out of the market on speculation so what do you thing is listen guys we are going to jump in the market so don't try to get prices up because you're going to lose money so the chipboard to oil price is a cap which should hopefully ensure that it world continues to soft land and recover from the recession. look at the current world prices that we're having less night. in terms of light sweet crude and in terms of brant to thirty four forty five cents respectively there was a drop of four point six percent then remind you on first day of the international energy agency said it was releasing strategic reserves. to move to european markets they are rallying this friday after european leaders agreed to launch

a fresh bailout package for cash strapped greece miners in the lead extract and forgets to wrangle resources all leading the way up around three percent. in russia the markets are also positive after thursday's sharp losses both your ts and my stocks are up one point six percent. looking at individual share movers the energy majors are among the main gaiters gazprom up to half the sense banks are also feeling well she was a half percent for the burbank metals nine a m k is also gaining company both in the net profit of one hundred thirty four million dollars in the first quarter of the year eating previous six to. the warning lights on europe's debt crisis flashing red that's the verdict of the president of the european central bank john fletcher reshaped 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 describes the possible consequences of yours integration.

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 something 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 let me be regarded as being safer havens for investors and to the ten's the russian government is going to hopelessly a considerable struggle to manage to keep the economy going but hopefully they'll be able to pull through some of the headlines with rory stay with us for that.

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