the. keys mindful. of your. call. britain reveals they've failed to protect its of these any use from possible abuse under the u.s. rendition program as american officials are sued for ruling torture is ok in secrecy. ukraine's act is in court over charges of abuse of power allegedly losing her country hundreds of millions of dollars in the energy. around fifteen hundred supporters of gathered in front of the court building to protest what they describe as a parsifal hearing join us for the latest details from the korean capital kiev. and the outcry from the families in india who accuse the government of allowing the use

of a controversial pesticide which they say is killing their children. also on business . to dropping almost five percent the previous session why is this happening how is this affecting the russian market join me in twenty minutes for more on this. a very warm welcome to you this is our live from moscow 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 and london washington or bush all but one victim who spent years in america's most notorious i was his person. 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 doing george bush's law alberto gonzales for ruling torture 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. one of those who survived was kind of torture. myself. because i want science. i was a. member of. the us refused to even reveal they were holding current as his mother owns this lawyer to find her son and it took several years there was no chance to get in contact. it's

a shame for the united states what happened in. port concerning that national war and it's simply impossible in that twenty first century. to put someone in the next. room. you have. pushed 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 that think will be an effective and it will be classified memo gonzales did warn us gods it was legally safer to perform torture on foreign soil lister's in the european union we're glad to oblige the e.u. agreed to help arrest and transport people to countries where they could be tortured in a meeting here at nato headquarters in two thousand and one detainees may or may not have been guilty since they never received

a real trial we just can't know for sure. barrack obama was elected on the promise to short term memory but he's even appealed u.s. court rulings which give detainees some royds two years on prison still open for business what is the washington street guilty of criminal. crimes against humanity sociopathic ministration and so is your plea for participating and supporting exactly executives from bush down no fear going abroad after foreigners fuld lawsuits over torture when the world loses what america's doing said bush's advisor we will all be ashamed the new bush shorty braman. we spoke to korea quite often the charity reprieve which fights prisoners human rights she visited detainees at guantanamo bay and says there's no end in sight for

those being help 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 talk about forever so that's the real get me 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 of us torture practices we know about cia secret prisons in poland or maybe a little way in 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. you would see now ukraine's former prime minister yulia tymoshenko is in court to face charges for abuse of power she's accused of losing ukraine hundreds of millions of dollars in a gas deal with russia to use an axe you can use outside the court in kenya for.

the atmosphere inside the courtroom and around the court building is absolutely elektra find around fifteen hundred supporters of unity which i question can see here gathered in central kiev to protest what they describe as a farcical hearing of the farcical case against their leader i guess you don't see much angle now the i really give you credit politics herself started this trial with a little bit of controversy she refused to stand up when the judge entered the room and then she said that this judge was completely unqualified call the case and that it needed to be dismissed clearly the tension is rising as this case and has its final stage you to assemble has been summoned to the prosecutor's office for months now for questioning now this case is being taken to the courtroom and we will be hearing some developments in the next several weeks or so the crane's former prime minister yulia timoshenko is being charged with many different financial crimes

including the amateur i'm professional as described by the prosecution gas deal with russia in two thousand and nine the prosecution claims that due to those deals ukraine lost more than four hundred million u.s. dollars and this is clearly the main charge against the country's former prime minister it is something of a full from grace for the woman who was once one of the most powerful and prominent politicians in the world several magazines describe huge machine quest has one of the most important female politicians on the planet now she she could become a convict and if convicted she could face up to ten years in prison even if this is that this would be suspended for her then still she would be unable to run for president for the next presidential election in twenty fifteen this according to its motion called makes this case political and she describes it as the one being orchestrated personally by president because he got a call that it is not the first time that you look to

a shadow is that he is on the trial in two thousand and one should. charged with smuggling the russian gas into the brain clearly i love the supporters of you too much so go are rated to beseech the court building until the hear of any news coming from inside and will clearly be seeing more probably underestimated this case in the next several weeks or maybe even months but we'll be following all the details and bringing you the latest details as soon as we get it. it was just the right there are still ahead for you in the program hearing from top brass to top spy u.s. army general petraeus is set to become the next cia chief opponents question if you are going commander in afghanistan is for the job. and the me hot issues that are brought the leaders of two southern nations to the world's coldest continent all those details in just a few minutes right here and. 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 with a whole generation of children suffering devastating health problems and what the government claims there's no affordable alternative to the chemical ordinary families are paying a price you may find at some of the images in previous report distressing. this girl's body is the size of a baby but in reality she's five years old in her short life syria has endured an operation to reduce the size of her abnormally large head and she's not the only one suffering like this the doctors who have to put it through into our child's hand otherwise there would be complications. and serious mother thinks she knows what's caused it here in the cashew plantations in india southern state of carolina the government sprayed a highly controversial pesticide endosulfan on the crops during the ninety's that

the people here say is causing a generation of deformed children victims groups believe there are around nine thousand children like syria with swollen heads and developing at only half the rate they should for some parents that prospect is too much choosing abortion sometimes disturbingly late 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 ministries that there with them clean 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 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 cost to side say their rivals are the ones pushing this ban these. use it is only you who goes. to.

egypt. 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. and it is low cast 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. rather think 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 priya sridhar r t carola india. they are going it commander of u.s.

forces in afghanistan general david petraeus is set to become the new chief of the cia the u.s. looks to be moving away from his heavy approach to war as washington stands firm on a mass troop pullout from iraq on a star on the general's ascent to his new role behind the wheel of global covert operations dollars that he can be impartial. for has more. he's been called a 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 mayor's quite often those are all of those what do you think should happen in a. first response to whatever general petraeus is that direction in which we all go there's a camera here for you general david petraeus. who trains 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 the trainers

will fit in at the cia their evaluation of iraq's their evaluation of afghanistan being 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 who say general petraeus spent thirty seven years in uniform but will hang it up to leave the cia as a civilian senate republican leaders praised president obama's decision for quote choosing competence and continuity but that same continuity means betrayers will be in charge of assessing his own success in iraq and afghanistan in ford artsy washington d.c. . now as the general slides over to the cia the nature of war seems to be shifting with him the u.s. president says the troop pullout from afghanistan was possible because the taliban's momentum has waned despite calls from top military brass for a more gradual drawdown if cia officer jack rice says washington's confused its

enemies and the country. i think the department of defense and the white house are probably mischaracterizing how this is successful if you will one of the problems is that somehow in the u.s. is broken the taliban or is separating the taliban from al-qaeda and the fact is is that the taliban and al credit 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 do you look at president karzai as a crook do you see him as somebody who's going to be nothing but protecting himself and his own democracy is not here but you know what at the same time anybody who thinks the u.s. or the europeans can roll into a country and simply say we have decided we're going to we're going to do with democracy and you put it in. 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

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it's so good to have you company today this is our to you live from moscow now let's check out some other international news for you this hour the e.u. has pledged to help greece with its woes 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 five years apart then greece could get another twelve billion euro in cash as part of the current rescue

package from eurozone countries and i. think rwanda minister has been sentenced to life in prison for genocide pauline and yet i'm out so 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 tootsies 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 of risk after reports that syrian forces raided a village near the turkish border hillary clinton said it could deepen the conflict and worsen the plight of refugees troops using slide 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 at this point almost fifteen hundred have been

killed since a crackdown on anti-government protests. started in march. well she has obstinate and unpredictable make sure you're ready for that if you ever go to antarctica she shows no favor to anyone i see an inhospitable than treats all visitors equally from the tourists to top officials sean thomas witnessed the world's call this continent playing host not to 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 follow of greece it is a very important visit but it is also important for our peoples as we hear the gateway to the rest of antarctica and for chile it is very important to support the antarctic treaty. and thank you for our.

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 but the guy has been and should always be a continent of peace of friendship and 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 time. because it does hold some national significance well this is a very impressive place you know he's the first time. he's here in.

seoul is very very exciting it's very important for us. hosting not one but two presidents is a tricky business especially in antarctica where much of the planning can be changed at a moment's notice depending 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. it's been a year and korea try to visit but could not land because the weather shifted and it was too dangerous. to organize a presidential visit a delegation of this size it's quite difficult logistically they were able to put 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 and again the main message from these heads of state was one of international

cooperation. and. an example of union harmony we can work together so in order to. improve. and as their presidential flight leaves the continent after a successful visit those who stay behind continue their research to sure that idea of unity is realized in antarctica sean thomas our team. and you can always i get extra videos and read more about sean's big adventures in all corners of the world on his blog that's on our website 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 and sean thomas discovers what makes on tarted is so special and attractive for many of the

wildlife in antarctica. and the friends of. the. expedition to the bottom of the earth. well they love him or hate him you can't deny lennon's unique role in russian history but the later we explore the life of the man known as the father of the revolution. need to change the course of history of starting off here on red square next to the magnificent moscow coming to me most about here is as we take a look at his epic journey and visit various landmarks associated with his life.

must go out of here in just over an hour's time here on team seven stay with us for that but before that however to me trees here with the latest business news you'll be coming your way in just about. welcome your washing business art scene well prices are flat after dropping almost five percent on first though that was after the international energy agency made a surprise announcement that sixty million barrels of oil would be released from strategic reserves so only the third time in history the i.a.e.a. has sanctioned the release of reserves the move is intended to offset the loss of production from libya can't be engulfed in civil war meanwhile opec members one of

possible countermeasures to prop up the oil price christine discovery you know from state and pause explains why she thinks the i.a.e.a. has taken this our usual action. i think it's three things it is trying to ensure that when the northern hemisphere is going to the driving they will be enough supply now a lot of the opec member countries have said everything else that fly and that is correct but what you need is to make sure that prices don't birol are the second is to ensure that there is a soft landing for the economy they are trying to ensure the world economy does not go into what are the recession and thirdly they have been a lot of frustration from oil barrels that have been taking out of the market on speculation so what seeing is this we are going to dump the oil in the market so don't try to compare prices are because you're going to lose money so these should pour a barrier to oil prices

a cap which should hopefully ensure that it world continues to. land and recover from the recession. all right let's take a look at the current oil price. is and when it comes to light sweet crude it's up fifty three cents when it was a brand it's still down after a dramatic fall caused by the surprise announcement boeing international energy agency well light sweet is ninety one the heart goes with brant just below one hundred seven. european markets this friday after european leaders agreed to launch a fresh package for cash strapped greece miners are in the lead extras and under for gas above are up more than three percent here in russia the final day of the week trading week rather is positive r.t.s. up one point three percent my six one point seven percent on the back of a rebound in some of the world gazprom is up one point six percent energy majors

mainly actually up this hour metals my m.k. is also again the company posted a net profit of one hundred thirty million dollars in first which will be a beating the previous expectations banks are generally up but it was a dear bank is down slightly that's after the said it's considering buying into the banks and not much support from that. russia may sell five percent in those burbank the largest bank to chinese sovereign fund for about four billion dollars the chinese newspaper twenty first century business herald says china investment corporation has received a proposal from one of the banks organizing privatization the bank n.c.i.c. are already in talks on a potential deal a chinese company has over two hundred billion dollars in management. the warning lights on europe's debt crisis are flashing red and that's the verdict of the president of the european central bank john coltrane's share his analysis might be

a little behind the curve according to a number of commentators who think it's only a matter of time before the single currency collapses patrick young editor of the book the gathering storm describes the possible consequences of your 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 debt spiral that poses 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 may ultimately be regarded as being saved her havens for investors and to the tens the russian government is going to have obviously a considerable struggle to manage to keep the economy going so hopefully they'll be

able to pull through for us all from major and i called the country to hope she will be here in fifteen minutes time with an update roy is next with headlines a. lot of. the. issues that so much of it and there's a huge musician trying to if one takes it strategy bomb as long we plan to start drawing down troops levels in afghanistan is in play.