diversified documents reveal the u.k. was happy to hand over terrorist suspects from iraq to the us with little regard to what will be waiting for them in a secret prison. morning of the year of the fate of a common currency is in a serious down as europe agrees another bailout to that lead in greece but urges the country to get behind some savage spending cuts. and the former prime minister of ukraine goes on trial for abuse of power that selection of cost countries a country of millions of dollars. around fifteen hundred supporters of units of assange go gathered in front of the court building to protest what they describe as

a farcical hearing join us for the latest details from the ukrainian capital kiev. and all prices have stabilized option dropping almost five percent on thursday more in business in about twenty minutes. a very warm welcome to you this is our live from moscow the u.k. you failed to track the detainees handed over to the u.s. neglecting to protect them from possible torture in america's secret prisons it's been revealed after an agreement between the two states on the treatment of terror suspects captured in iraq was the classified twenty eight year old pakistani units rahmatullah 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 as extraordinary rendition the man's lawyers are calling on the u.k. to help free him as britain was the painting of north korea cried out from the reprieve charity he's fighting for his release told r.t. that britain's friendship with america blinds it to the truth. there are hundreds of prisoners but what makes you 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 to send them to the u.k. didn't object despite the fact that at this time even the grade broke out 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 and the you kind

of deal between the u.s. and the u.k. that permits the u.k. to get him out of custody they never bothered to do so so we've had to sue them in the united kingdom courts in haiti as corpus to tell them you have to get this prisoner 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 in 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 gone on about forever so that's the real me that they go through at this point uncertain future no prospect of leave 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 witting or unwitting handmaidens of us torture practices we know about cia secret prisons

in 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. 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 in america the green light to go ahead with its vision of battling sarah and since then hundreds have gone through torture without trial daniel schorr has their story. as was a resisted on the streets and sent to guantanamo for torture of the five years america released him without charge to this day the us 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 but i was one of those who applied survived. on myself. because i was not sorry. i was forced to agree. and i was. the us refused to even reveal who will hold income earners his mother owns this lawyer to find her son and it took several years there was no chance to get in quantico with mr corn as it's really a shame for the united states what happened. is what concerned the national law and it's simply impossible in the twenty first century to put some. extra. room. and 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 billet the 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 caught know for sure. obama was elected on the promise to short term memory but he's even appealed us cool rulings which give detainee's some royds two years on the prison still open for business. although it is washington strange guilty of. crimes against humanity sociopaths in this

region it's always a good tool for participating and support exactly executives from bush down and their fear going abroad of the foreigners food lawsuits over torture when the world is what america's doing said bush is advisor we will all be ashamed and you will shortie braman i still to come here in the program on r.t. a poisoned generation thousands of families in india demanding compensation from the government for spraying a controversial pesticide that's believed to be causing widespread deformities in children. the euro is dead and buried quite literally according to skeptics who have held a mock funeral for the ailing single currency in brussels they argue that attempts to bail out greece are too little too late and athens economic failure will leave the eurozone dream. e.u. members are currently pressing for greek authorities to tighten its purse strings once again if it is to receive yet more bailout money to float the government will

vote on a proposed twenty eight billion euro budget cut over the next five years next we have approved another twelve billion euros and rescue money more teams are going to join those mourning the euro's economic woes in brussels. this is a funeral procession in the center of brussels where the european leaders are meeting to discuss the future of the greek debt and of the eurozone itself they believe the euro can be salvaged but most people including euro skeptics believe that it is impossible and there will be no resurrection of the euro well to me and i think a lot of people it's beginning to collapse around the really seeing bailouts billions of pounds of taxpayers' money especially from the germans putting a lot of this bill and i think the public about enough of it and i think if the leaders of the european union have presented greece with giacomini and conditions in order for the country to receive the remainder of its bailout unfortunately for

greece they will have to take extreme measures which are incredibly popular in the country and that presents a major challenge for the greek government right immediately after it has just been for shuffled the leaders are you know mostly wrong again. maybe i'm wrong about greece from the very start she should never have been allowed to join the euro in the first place she wasn't suited to it they were wrong the first time they're wrong drawn by the second time and if the greek parliament on tuesday accepts this package then this time next year i'll be talking to you i'll be a third bailout so while the european leaders are extremely excited about the fact that the future of the euro could still be resurrected and most of the people in europe do not believe so and unfortunately for the european leaders the common europeans believe that the end of the euro is near. right. now 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 just claimed to have robbed the ukrainian economy of millions of dollars she dismissed the case as fabricated but faces up to ten years in jail if convicted but it's alexia share ski reports from kiev. the atmosphere inside the courtroom and around the court building is absolutely electrifying around fifteen hundred supporters of you to much i could as you can see here gathered in central kiev to protest what they described as a farcical hearing at the farcical case against their leader against students emotional now the i really give you credit politics herself 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 at the tension is rising as this case and does its final stage you touch and go has been summoned to the prosecutor's office for months now for questioning now this case has been taking 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 habits you are unprofessional has 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 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 it it's a shame glass 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 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 because you got a quote which it is not the first time that's going to a shadow is based on the trial in two thousand and one she. was charged with smuggling the russian gas into ukraine clearly and the supporters of you too much time go are raided to besieged the court building until they hear any news coming from inside and will clearly be seen more public under arrest you do 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. and artie's alexian shift the reporting right now the russian president is delivering on his promise to decentralize power in the country giving the region so a greater say in politics let me try to get our wants to appoint the current governor of some petersburg as the new head of the upper house of the russian parliament he's pretty relevant has details on this. valentino. guaranteed

to be the next speaker of the federation council the upper house of russian parliament these members of the federation council from the regions are saying this the federation council becomes slightly to moscow centric and they want to see more representation from across russia this is something that the president said yes i agree with these but much younger the age here governor of st petersburg sixty two year old valentino. well she's essentially said to her if you want the job it's there and take it so it looks more than likely that she will be established as the the new speaker of the house but the state duma just behind me the lower house of russian government also said for a little bit of a shake up the president put forward a draft law that would mean that it's the current percentage of the vote what you need to take a seat in the duma is seven percent he wants to see that to five percent meaning there's more parties in the regions that can get a a

a share of the main power base here in moscow not just the major political parties making the whole system far more representative of russia as a whole and as they said less moscow centric no it doesn't actually go look at further than that he said it's quite the same proves to be too little. of a decrease in the amount of the vote you need an election he's willing to lower it to three percent now this would make make sure that a lot of the more marginal parties as they are at the moment would be able to to sit in on a decision making that goes on of making laws and governing here in the russian federation. right that now to our attention to libya where libyan rebels in both main garcia and government control tripoli claim to be in secret talks and caring for the fall of these regimes the opposition is uniting efforts to set a date for an uprising in the capital and what they're calling the last step towards winning the revolution british m.p. barry gardner told us here at r.t. that the rebels would not have got that so far if nato had stuck to its u.n.

mandate of protecting civilians are not attacking kidnappings forces. i think the good that the regime does look streamlet shaky and much of it because of the pounding that it's received of course from british and french and american support but my worry is in the u.k. that we've seen that this so far has cost us a quarter of a million pounds we seen the heads of the military in the u.k. saying that they believe that the length of time it's taking in libya is seriously weakening the capacity of british forces around the world i do not believe that we should be effectively acting as the air arm for the rebel forces in libya the role that was set out by the united nations resolution one nine hundred seventy three was very clear it was that there should be a an effort to induce

a cease fire in libya and to enforce that cease fire now it seems that we've been very keen to try and and stop the armaments that are coming from gadhafi as regime and the government but we have been much less prepared to do that when the armaments and the and the fire has been coming from the rebels that's not an even handed in force and of a cease fire. sixteen minutes past the hour here in moscow let's get to some other international news for you this hour at least ten people have been killed in syria as anti-government protests were once again held in several cities security forces opened fire and used tear gas on a crowd in the syrian capital a three month the crackdown against those opposing the regime of president bashar al assad has reportedly left more than a thousand people dead. a series of nearly simultaneous blasts have rocked two cities in miramar injuring several people the first device went off in the country's administrative capital of naypyitaw are it's near an area housing most of

its hotels soon afterwards a car laden with explosives detonated near mandalay main market it's not yet clear who is behind the attacks but bombings have become increasingly frequent in myanmar where pro-democracy activists and ethnic groups are odds with the military backed regime. a former rwandan minister has been sentenced to life for genocide and crimes against humanity pauline near moscow who cover the country's former minister for families and women's affairs and her son an ex militia leader but both are found guilty of ordering and assisting massacres something eight hundred thousand people were killed during for nine hundred ninety four slaughter most of them ethnic tutsis little master who is the first woman to be convicted by the u.n. back tribunal. well coming up here on r.t. her pair of presidents meet in no man's land find out what brought not one but two heads of state to the south pole at the same time. now it

was meant to ensure a healthy crop as cheaply as possible but the locals living nearby it's come at a huge price a generation of malformed children has emerged in the south of india after a controversial pesticide was used on local farms despite the product being banned in other parts of the world into north or he's claiming there's no cheap alternative on the market excuse me we want you may find some of the images in the report disturbing. 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 a tube 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 were things going no other cheap alternative to the powerful past that but after mounting pressure at home and abroad the supreme court voted on an eight week ban of the path is that 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 past aside say their rivals are the ones pushing this ban these. two cities

only. goes. to. lead to a weeping. 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 ok. and it is low caste 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 who are you going to 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 preassure either r t india or no a twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital you are with the hot seat of course more stories for you online just go to our website r t v dot com and 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 heart beat by says that's really carrying out a breakthrough surgery. that most of the international film festival is out full throttle bringing cultures and languages together on the silver screen we're going to watch you dot com for the full read in its green carpet experience. was online artie's a brand new twenty four seventh's documentary channel has just received a top launching point learn more about the r t v dot dot com.

a cold hostile antarctica isn't exactly teeming with visitors conditionally it's been the land of researches and brave explorers willing to challenge this remote part of earth so when not one of the two presidents drove by it ruffled a few feathers on penguins backs on thomas explains. 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 forward the it is a very important visit but it is also important for our people as we hear the gate we could receive from tactical and for chile it is very important to support them

to keep treaty. but there are important. for president sebastian pinera his visit has the potential to be a political hot point as chile holds a territorial claim all the antarctic peninsula clear down to the south pole but on this particular trip controversies will put aside in favor of a more international message that we get has been and should always be. in the teeth of friendship and it has to be very friendly with nature and the environment 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 science and technology. and ecuador holds no boundary claim on the continent. is it does hold some national significance or this is a very impressive phase the first time. in

a piece here in antarctica so very very exciting it'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 korea try to visit with could not land because the weather shifted and it was too dangerous. to organize a presidential visit delegation of this size it's quite difficult logistically they were able to fit in a little bit of russian culture with a visit to 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. of the case an example of union harmony we can work together so 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 antarctica sean thomas r t. just a few moments. with the latest business.

that's right time to delve into the world of business a very warm welcome well prices have stabilized after a drop of almost five percent on thursday that was on the back of a surprise announcement by the international energy agency that sixty million barrels of world would be released from strategic reserves it's only the first time in history the i.a.e.a. has signed on for as you saw preserves the move is intended to offset the loss of production from libya currently engulfed in civil meanwhile some opec members warn of possible countermeasures to prop up the world price christine says corona from standard and poor's explains why she thinks the i.a.e.a. has taken the unusual action. i think it's three things one 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 reason of supply and that is correct but what you need is to make sure that prices 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 pulling forward out of 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 the saying is listen guys we are going to dump oil in the market so don't try to get prices are up because you're going to lose money so that should put a barrier to oil prices cap which should hopefully insure that world continues to soft land and recover from the recession. let's have a check on those like gold prices. flights we're just reading at just under ninety one dollars per barrel well granted it is over one hundred six dollars. under us stocks opened lower friday that's despite a slight upward revision of the first quarter g.d.p. figures and on the corporate front microchip in all of europe was a disappointing results for its that quarter same chip sales will we. be in markets

a mixed the food c. has narratives early gains as investors confidence in banks was shaken by this especially trading in some lenders of each really under pressure from here as debt crisis the tax is in the right point five percent. and here in russia the markets have rebounded after thursday's shop losses both the r.g.s. and the mice experienced up one and a half and one point six percent respectively let's not have a cheap check on some of the individual moves on the my six energy majors worry among the main gamers with gazprom one point seven percent that you mine was slowed right down by metal prices that's despite the company posted and that's profit one hundred thirty four million dollars in the first school of thought here beating previous forecasts banks who are. finished lower the softer b b r g said it's considering buying into the bank. the world's largest private equity firm blackstone group is coming to russia the company made co invest in

a new state backed investment fund set up by president that of the c.e.o. blackstone stephen schwarzman says a good local partner is essential in russian. main interest lies in the consumer such as the risks associated with come or just are relatively high. that's the business boston new york to date now join me last and one last time for more. you.