people chose the home of venus the gateway to the grand imperial truly the taj was still close coromandel you can a with a child close legislature cydonia to go and. read this and the colonel was her child as a treat. for you kay was happy to hand over the terror suspects from iraq to the us with little regard so what would be waiting for them in a secret prison system according to the classified documents and fighting the first financial life of the e.u. office the pressure on greece to tighten his post strings ahead of the next. as they are together in brussels for further talks on the greek bailout so many people on the street believe the euro cannot be resurrected. the former prime minister over ukraine goes on trial for abuse of power alleged to have cost the country millions of dollars. around fifteen hundred supporters of units of essential

gathered in front of the courts building to protest what they describe as a particle theory join us for the latest details from the kremlin capital kiev. worldwide news live from moscow this is artsy reception and welcome to the program . well a secret agreement between the u.k. and u.s. on the treatment of prisoners captured in iraq has been released it's following pressure by british m.p.'s the memorandum exposes london fail to attract these enemies handed over to washington neglecting to protect them from possible torture twenty eight year old pakistani units is one of the victims of this deal he was seized by british soldiers in iraq in two thousand and four as a suspected insurgent and secretly sent to a u.s. detention camp in afghanistan

a process dubbed extraordinary rendition the man's lawyers are calling on the u.k. to help free him as britain was good at telling one thirty cory cried out from the reprieve charity he was fighting for right now tyler's release told r.t. that britain's friendship with america blinds it to the truth. there are hundreds of prisoners about it but what makes you notice special is that eunice was actually picked up by the united kingdom in iraq in february two thousand and four the u.k. handed him to the united states in march and april there were discussions between the u.s. and the u.k. because the u.s. wanted descendants of the u.k. didn't object despite the fact that at this time even though. it's broke making it absolutely clear to anyone who had any doubt what was happening to prisoners in u.s. detention the u.k. says that it learned quote unquote in june of that year june two thousand and four that my client had been sent to bob graham and although there was an m.o. you kind of deal between the u.s. and the u.k. that permits the u.k.

to get him out of custody and never bothered to do so so we've had to sue them in the united kingdom courts in hades corpus to tell them you have to get this prisoner back you never should have been sent out of iraq he was rendered on lawfully in violation of the geneva conventions and you have a responsibility to him he's your prisoner when we first started to go see you prisoners there shortly after the supreme court allowed prisoners to go when we had heard all kinds of stories of people being roughed up and abused 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 one time to go forever so that's the real. if they go through at this point uncertain future no prospect of leaving i think is one of the saddest parts of the whole war on terror story the way various european nations for the kind of witting or unwitting handmaidens of u.s. torture practices we know about cia secret prisons and poland romania lithuania the u.k.

is us 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. well but britain is not the only state that's been supporting the us to carry out its illegal treatment of prisoners back in two thousand and one e.t.u. leaders gave america the green light to go ahead with its vision of battling terror and since then hundreds of gone through torture without trial and i think that kind of bush lies the story. as was a restraint 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 sure is legal interrogators from the land of the free are free to cool school simulated drowning and replay instrumentality impairment of bodily function organ failure and even death i was one of those who survived those kind of

closure on myself. because i want what. i was forced to agree. member of. and i was. the us refused to even reveal they were holding current as these models these loyal to find her son it took several years and there was no chance to get in contact with mr aquinas it's really a shame for the net it states what happened and plot concerned the national war and it's simply impossible in the twenty first century. or put someone in the extra. room. 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 our people think will be an effective in the classified memo gonzales did warn us gods it was legally safer to perform torture on foreign soil ministers in the european union were glad to oblige the e.u. agreed to help arrest and transport people to countries where they could be tortured in a meeting here at nato headquarters in two thousand and one detainees may or may not have been guilty since they never received a real trial we just can't know for sure. barack obama was elected on the promise to shorts guantanamo but he's even appealed u.s. court rulings which give detainees some royds two years on the prison still open for business but all washington street guilty of. crimes against humanity sociopathic street slows your plea for participating and

supporting exactly executives from bush down no fear going abroad of foreigners food lawsuits over torture when the world looms will to america's doing said bush's advisor we would all be ashamed don't you bushell r.t. braman. that russian president is delivering on his promise to centralize power in the country giving the regions a greater say in politics dmitri medvedev wants to appoint the current governor petersburg as the new head of the upper house of the russian parliament and he's been out of an hour joins us live for more details on this let's cross over to him now. and peter hi hi what exactly does this mean for russia. well really this is the upper house of russia's government going through a major base of housekeeping before they take this. some agree on july fifteenth now the current speaker of the federation council said give me all of his decided he's going to step down now that's amongst pressure from representatives in the

federation council from the regions around russia wanting power not to speak based . on. a more representative. governance from the regions now he stepped down and president made getting himself his box they swung to see people from all over russia of course the biggest country in the world they want to see people in power not just from the capital they want to see people in power from all across the country now the person. to take over this role is valentino for the past eight years she's been the governor of st petersburg she's the name that's apparently washed with those people who want to see no it's going to somebody go to the compromise that's going to be done she'll take over and if she decides to take the job essentially what she's being told by president yet it is if you want to take over as the leader of the upper house of the russian

government. the end of the day here we're talking about more regional representation what else is the treatment here they're proposing to make political life in the country more liberal. but it's been quite a busy day for the president he's not just proposed valentino much d.m.k. is the. new speaker of the upper house of government he's also put in place a draft law that would say well presumably would make it easier for state duma deputies but people from across the regions to take up a seat just behind me right there in the state duma that currently you need seven percent of the folks in election two to get a seat in the state duma now what made you put in place what he's put forward is that that would be five percent of the vote hoping that that would mean more regional parties would be able to take pause on the main stage in russian politics now the person is actually going to look at food. it or not he said well five percent is the be the first step really if this doesn't prove to be low enough to provide us with a separate truly representative government then you will always see three percent

now and so as you say present a bit of looking to get more people from the regions in russia into the main seats in power just behind me right now in the stadium and i think that all of them live in central moscow comes. the former prime minister of ukraine has gone on trial for abusing power during her time in office in two thousand and nine yulia timoshenko secured a gas deal with russia which is claimed to have robbed the ukrainian economy of millions of dollars she's dismissed the case as fabricated but faces up to ten years in jail if convicted that actually got to us he is in here for us. the atmosphere inside the courtroom and around the court building is absolutely electrifying around fifteen hundred supporters of unity much as you can see here gathered in central kiev to protest what they describe as a farcical hearing of the farcical case against their leader against religious i call now the i really give you credit politics her self started this child 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 for the case and that it needed to be dismissed clearly the tension is rising as this case and as its final stage you have to assemble has been summoned to the prosecutor's office for months now for questioning now this case is being saving 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 emirates you are unprofessional has described by the prosecution gas deal with russia in two thousand and nine because if you should claims that you took 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 months one of the most powerful and

prominent politicians in the world several magazines describe you to present glass as 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 sentence would be suspended for her then still she would be unable to run for president for the next presidential election in twenty fifty this according to thomas and co makes this case political and she describes it as the one being orchestrated personally by the president the pentagon approach it is not the first time that's going to resound go is is on the trial in two thousand and one she was . charged with smuggling russian gas into ukraine clearly of the supporters looting the central high rate of the siege the port building until the year any news coming from inside and will clearly see more public and rescue 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. well he's a lawyer to see reporting right now millions of extra oil barrels will be released from the international energy agency's our strategic reserves to offset the loss of production from war torn libya the announcement stabilize all prices after a drop on thursday let's cross now live to our business desk for more details on this and i speak to you so what's caused the drop in oil prices in the first place . absolutely right well price have been particularly volatile during the. recent years and recently they have been particularly volatile today well it's quite touch dropping almost five percent and this comes after a short move by the international energy agency to open its emergency reserves the international energy agency said the move was intended to actually help ease a real shortish not the prices but the problem is it comes only weeks after opec failed to create an increase in oil production to help ease the rising oil prices well today prices have stabilized

a bit global well shares have managed to recover after they were hemas by a steep drop in that world price we'll have more in business about ten minutes are you looking court about thanks very much. but the e.u. has pledged to help greece with its debt worries and looming bankruptcy at a summit in brussels the country could gain vital bailout funds if its parliament passes fresh austerity measures next week because the government's proposed a further twenty eight billion euro budget over five years if approved it will mean i think gets its hands on another twelve billion euros in cash as part of the current rescue package but some experts say it's too little too late both the euro and the e.u. are now doomed their ridiculous girl has the latest from brussels. this is a funerary procession in this century brussels where these you were killed leaders are meeting to discuss the future after greek debts and under the results although they believe that you are trying to sound like most people who were skeptics believe that it is impossible and there will be no resurrection all for the you are

all to me and i think all people of this begin to collapse around the bit of the internet outs of billions of dollars of taxpayers' money especially from the germans putting all this bill and i think the political you know that and i hope you know that the leaders of health and european union have presented greece with the county and conditions in order for the country to look to seriously believe the leader of its bailout unfortunately for greece they will have to take extreme assyrian measures which are incredibly unpopular in the country and that presents a major challenge for the greek government lied immediately after it has just been shuffled the leaders are unanimously wrong again. they be wrong about breaching the very strong never going to bust my balls and students if they were wrong to buy a rubber boats time they're wrong wrong but are out seconds on the great bulk of the country into the big steps this package and this time next year i'll be talking

to you i'm up against a lot so while the european leaders are extremely excited about the fact that the future of the euro could still be resurrected most of the people in europe do not believe so and unfortunately for the repeal leaders becoming europeans believe that the end of the euro is near. what is really good reporting right now let's get to some international news for you in brief this hour new antigovernment protests have been held in several cities in syria security forces have reportedly opened fire on a crowd just south of damascus clashes close to the border have fought for more than fifteen hundred refugees to flee to turkey u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton called on an end to the publication of a three month crackdown against those opposing political president bashar al assad has reportedly left more than a you know they might need her. to morrow. what would we get a series of nearly simultaneous blasts rocked two cities in miramar injuring

several people the first device went off in the country's administered to the capital tar and euro zone housing in most of its hotels soon afterwards a car laden with explosives detonated near mandalay is main market it's not yet clear who was behind the attacks bombings have become increasingly frequent in me and pro-democracy activists and ethnic groups are at odds with the military backed regime. for more rwandan minister has been sentenced to life for genocide rape and the crimes against humanity pauline at miramar so who the country's former minister for families and women's affairs and her son militia leader were both found guilty of ordering and assisting massacres some eight hundred thousand people were killed during the one nine hundred ninety four slaughter most of them ethnic so it sees their muscle who go is the first woman to be convicted by the un backed tribe you know. well coming up here nazi pair of presidents meet in no man's land find out what not one but two heads of

state to the south pole at the same time. but it was meant to ensure a healthy crop as cheaply as possible but for locals living nearby it's kind of a huge cost a generation of malformed children has emerged in the south of india after a controversial pesticide was used on the local farms into north or he's claimed there are no cheaper alternatives on the market he warned you may find some of the images in this report disturbing. this girl's body is the size of a baby but in reality she's five years old in her short life who made the ria 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's 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 stirring waylaid my daughter was alterations own 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 they're with the people you know other cheap alternative to the powerful past this guy but after mounting pressure at home and abroad the supreme court voted on an eight week ban on the path of god which is that to expire in may july while studies show the endosulfan causes severe developmental in reproductive problems in both humans and

animals proponents of the past aside say their rivals are the ones pushing this ban these nooses only. goes good. 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 poor people i can. it is 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 you know it's disturbing that we have to china right so. 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. that's now it's forty one minutes past the hour here in moscow and of course on more stories for you online just go to our website ati thought com well here are some of the items we have working for you today russian soldiers you hope to thousands of patients around the world suffering from an irregular heartbeat by successfully carrying out a breakthrough surgery. and also online of president medvedev has launched our brand new twenty four seven a documentary channel learn more about all its he thought parts he thought.

well the cold and hostile antarctic isn't exactly teeming with visitors conditionally it's been the land of researches and great explorers willing to challenge this remote part of the earth so when not one but two presidents drop by it ruffles a few feathers on penguins backs sean thomas reports. as

a military c one thirty approaches a gravelly or strip the people on prepare for celebration an official ceremony. the presidents of both chile and ecuador are making an official visit to their respective research stations in antarctica when we offer our lease 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 you see in thinking. 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 a friendship and has to be very friendly with nature on the ground and very much

committed and i'm sure that the russian people share these feelings so together we have will say that because because it can't know what the future of peace and also science and technology. and while ecuador holds no boundary claim on a continent. visit does hold some national significance of this is a very impressive place you know he's there first time. he's here in antarctica so it's 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 if we we have a saying about antarctica not only she knows who can and cannot visit her in fact last year both reza. it's been a year and corelli try to visit but could not land because the weather shifted and

it was too dangerous to keep going as a presidential visit a delegation of this size is quite difficult logistically they were able to fit in a little bit of russian culture with a visit to the trinity church. traveling with the presidents a delegation of both chile and ecuador's top military brass as well as chile's minister of energy. and while there were photo opportunities and press conferences and again the main message from these heads of state was one of international cooperation. and thirty case an example of union are money that 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 to ensure that idea of unity is realized in antartica sean thomas martini all right

at the moment so you get with the business news just like us. hello and a very welcome time for your business update well prices are flat after dropping almost five percent on thursday after the international energy agency made a surprise announcement that sixty million barrels of oil would be released from strategic reserves it's only the third time in history the oii anyhow sanction the release of reserves the move is intended to offset the loss of production from libya currently engulfed in civil meanwhile some opec members of possible countermeasures to prop up world price christensen's khurana from started pools

explains why she thinks the i.a.e.a. has taken believe the action. i think it's three things it is trying to ensure that when the northern hemisphere is going to the driving season they will be enough supply now a lot of the opec member countries have said their recent floods and that is correct but what you need is to make sure that prices don't spiral are the second is the ensure that there is a soft landing for the economy what they are trying to ensure is that the world economy there's not going to a double dip 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 he has a saying is listen guys we are going to dump oil in the market so don't try to get prices up because you're going to lose money so this should put a barrier to oil prices a cap which should hopefully ensure that the world continues to sell land and

recover from the recession. and that's how look at those card prices light switches trade. not draw ninety two dollars per barrel while branches at over one hundred and six dollars per barrel european markets are rallying this friday after her family does occur to launch a fresh a bailout package for cash strapped greece in the lead to xstrata adams and augusta more than three percent this hour and here in russia the markets are evolving after thursday's shot losses both e r g s m i six up around one point three percent and one point six percent respectively that's not how to look at some of the individual share moves on the my six and as you may just saw him on the main gave us with gas from. about one point six percent metal miner m.k. is also gaining and the company closer to enough profit to one hundred thirty four million dollars and thoughts toward all the good beating previous expectations

banks also out but there again you're biased down slightly after the b.r.g. said it's considering buying into the bank. oh bring you more news in about one else time stay with us.