back he 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 the prisoners there shortly after the supreme court allowed prisoners to go and we had heard all kinds of stories of people being roughed up and it was at this moment the clients i go in 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 no prospect of release and congress is going on saying we need to have gone talk about 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 and poland remain a little way in the u.k. is the 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

person is not the only study that's been supporting the us to carry out its illegal treatment of prisoners back in two thousand and one the e.u. leaders gave america a green light to go ahead with its vision of battling terra since hundreds of going through torture without trial. bush watched the story. moron 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 rape boy instrumentality impairment of bodily function organ failure and even death i was one of those who survived those kind of closure on myself electroshocks because i will not sign papers.

i was forced to agree that i am the number of. the us refused to even reveal they were holding current as his mother owns this lawyer to find her son it took several years and there was no chance to get in contact mr corners it's really a shame on the net it states what happened. concerning that national law and it's simply impossible and twenty first century to 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 ineffective in a de classified memo gonzales did warn us gods it was legally safer to perform

torture on foreign soil ministers in the european union were glad to oblige the e.u. agreed to help arrest and transport people to countries where they could be tortured in a meeting here at nato headquarters in two thousand and one detainees may or may not have been guilty since they never received a real trial we just can't know for sure. barack obama was elected on the promise to show. but he's even the pew do is create rulings which give detainees some royds two years the prison still open for business locked all washington street guilty of. crimes against humanity so is the. street still is your plea for participating and supporting these actions executives from bush down no fear going abroad to foreigners food lawsuits over. when the world looms will to

america's doing said bush's advisor we will 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 and petersburg as the new head of the upper house of the russian parliament. 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 house of russia's government going through quite a major base of housekeeping before they take this. now the current speaker of the federation council so to get made although it has decided he's going to step down now that's amongst. representatives in the federation council from the regions around russia wanting power not to just be based. on. a more

representative. governance from the region he stepped down and president made getting himself his back this wanting 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 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. probably the compromise that's going to be done she'll take over if she decides to take the job essential what she's been told by president made yet it is the job that if you want to take over as the leader of the upper house of the russian government. at the end of the day here we're talking about more regional representation but what else is 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 to. be the new speaker of the 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 for people from across the region to take up a seat just behind me right in the state duma currently you need seven percent of the votes in an election to to get a seat in the state duma know 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 policies would be able to take paul the main stage in russian politics now the person's actually going to look at food. well five percent is the. really if this doesn't prove to be low enough to provide us with a truly representative government. to three percent now and so i would say present a bit of looking to get more people from the regions in russia into the main seats

and just behind me right now in the state to. live in central moscow thanks. to all 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. ukrainian economy of millions of dollars she's dismissed the case as fabricated but faces up to ten years in jail if convicted. 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 as a farcical case against their leader against religious angle now the arab league of ukrainian politics for 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 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 and 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 fall from grace for the woman who was once one of the most powerful and prominent politicians in the world several magazines describe beauty machine 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 fifteen this according to thomas and co makes this case political and she describes it as the one being orchestrated personally by president victor got a call which it is not the first time that you'll have to go is. the trial in two thousand and one she was. charged with smuggling the russian gas into the brain clearly of the supporters to the central i really do see the ford building and still be here and you know it's coming from inside and will clearly be more probably underestimated this case in the next several weeks or maybe even months but we'll be following all the details of bringing you the latest details as soon as we get it. going to just be reporting right now millions of extra oil barrels will be released from the international energy agency strategic reserves to offset

the loss of production from war torn libya the announcement stabilized all prices after a drop on thursday let's cross now live to our business desk for more details on this and speak to you know what's caused the drop in oil prices in the first place well absolutely right well prices been particularly volatile during the. recent years and recently they have been particularly volatile today 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 price is the problem is it comes only weeks after opec failed to recreate an increase in oil production to help ease the rising oil prices well today prices have stabilized the global oil shares have managed to recover after they were hemet by a steep drop in that world price we'll have more in business about ten minutes are you looking for to that thanks very much. for 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 the greek government's proposed a twenty eight billion euro budget cut over five years if approved it will mean athens 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. and i'll do. all teams are going to school has the latest from brussels. this is a funeral procession in the center of brussels where the european leaders are meeting to discuss the future of off the greek debt and of the euro zone itself they believe the euro can be salvaged but most people including the risk upticks believe that it is impossible and there will be no resurrection off the euro well to me i think a lot of people it's beginning to collapse around the red sea and bailouts billions of pounds of taxpayers' money especially from the germans it's an obvious bill and

i think the public got enough of it and i do know that the leaders of the european union have presented greece with the county and conditions in order for the country to put to to receive the relief that means of its bailout unfortunately for greece they will have to take extremists tearing measures which are incredibly unpopular in the country and that presents a major challenge for the greek government right immediately after it has just been pushed up all the leaders all unanimously wrong again. maybe wrong about greece from the very start never been allowed joining us by choice and so they were wrong to buy out those time they're wrong drawn by the route the second time that the great bulk of them don't choose to accept this package and this time next year i'll be talking to you. so while you are pm 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. 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 forced more than fifteen hundred refugees to flee to turkey u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton called all on an end to the publication of a three month crackdown against those opposing the regime of president bashar al assad has reportedly left more than a you know they want me to. morrow. when we get a series of nearly simultaneous blasts rocked two cities in manama injuring several people the first device went off in the country's administrative capital a tall narrow zone housing 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 myanmar where pro-democracy activists and ethnic groups are at odds with the military backed regime. before everyone minister has been sentenced to life for genocide and crimes against humanity pauline. 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 sees us who go is the first woman to be convicted by the un backed tribe you know. well coming up here a pair of presidents meet in no man's land. at the same time. well

it was meant to ensure a healthy crop as cheaply as possible but for locals living nearby huge cost a generation of children has emerged in the south of india after a controversial pesticide was used on local farms. on the market be warned you may find some of the images in 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 off syria has endured an operation to reduce the size of her abnormally large head and she's not the only one suffering like this you know the doctors who have to put it through to her child's hand otherwise there would be complications. and syria's 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 disturbingly late my daughter was alterations own in the eighth months of the pregnancy until recently india was the only country in the world which allowed the youth of endosulfan the agricultural ministries that there with them clean no other cheap alternative to the powerful past that died but after mounting pressure at home and abroad the supreme court voted on an eight week ban of the past the third which is thought to expire in mid july while studies show that endosulfan causes severe developmental in reproductive problems in both humans and animals proponents of the past aside say their rivals are the ones pushing this ban the.

use of only. goes. but the families of the sick feel that they've been forgotten for long enough. there was 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 ok. 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 it's disturbing that 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

india. that's now a twenty one minutes past the hour here in moscow and of course on more stories for you online just go to our website dot com here are some of the items we have working for you today russian soldiers give hope to thousands of patients around the world suffering from an irregular heartbeat by successfully carrying out a breakthrough surgery. and also online the president medvedev has launched a brand new twenty four seven a documentary channel learn more about all of the.

hostile antarctic isn't exactly teeming with visitors to nationally it's been the land of researches and a brave 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 restrict 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 when we. it is a very important visit but it is also important for our people as we hear they are the gateway to the rest of antarctica and for chile it is very important to support the antarctic treaty. sea in think it's too dark or important thing. for president sebastian pinera his visit has the potential to be a political hot point as chile holds a territorial claim 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. at the peak of friendship and has to be very friendly with nature and the environment. very much committed with and i'm sure that the russian people share these feelings so together we have to say that because because he is

a country of the future of peace and also science and technology. and while ecuador holds no boundary claim on the continent. visit does hold some national significance of this is a very impressive place you know the first time that. 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 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 presidents been here and try to visit but could not land because the weather shifted and it was too dangerous. going as opposed to what this is a delegation of this size is quite difficult logistically they were able to fit in

a little bit of russian culture with a visit to the trinity church. traveling with the presidents a delegation of both chile and ecuador's top military brass as well as minister of energy. and while there were photo opportunities and press conferences here the main message from these heads of state was one of international cooperation. and. an example of union our money we can work together. in order. to improve. 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 antarctica sean thomas martini. or even just a moment with the business news to stay with us. hello

and a very welcome time for your business update oil prices are flat after dropping almost five percent on thursday that was 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 i.a.e.a. has sanctioned the recent use of reserves the move is intended to offset the loss of production from libya currently engulfed in civil and while some opec members one of possible countermeasures to prop up the oil price christensen's khurana from started in pools explains why she thinks the i.a.e.a. has taken action. i think it's three things one 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 flood and that is correct but what you need to make sure that prices don't spiral up 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 that's not going to adopt the session and thirdly they have been a lot of frustration from oil barrels that have been taking out of the market on speculation so what they saying is listen we are going to dump oil in the market so don't try to get prices up because you can produce money so these should put a barrier to oil prices a cap which should hopefully ensure that the world continues to. land and recover from the recession. let's have a look at those current prices light switches trade. two dollars per barrel while

branches at over one hundred and six dollars per barrel european markets are rallying this friday off european leaders occurred to launch a fresh a bailout package for cash strapped greece minus in the lead to xstrata and on to forgot stop more than three percent. and here in russia the markets are bound doing off with the losses both e r g s m i six stop around one point three percent one point six percent respectively and let's not have a look at some of the individual share moves on the my six and as you may just saw among the main gave us with gas from. about one point six percent metal mine to m.k. is also gaining and the company closer to another profit a one hundred thirty four million dollars and thoughts towards all the good teaching previous expectations banks also output the surgeon in front of his downslide after the b r g said it's considering buying into the bank.

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of. the most. divisive figure. for the russian revolution. to stay with us. hello and welcome to the show on this week's program i'll be exploring that in slice. the ball straight lead to change the course of history and starting off red square next to the magnificent moscow kremlin. as we take a look at his epic journey and visit various landmarks associated with his life and . names associated with.

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