of course 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 no prospect of release and congress is going on saying we need to have gone 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 witting or unwitting handmaidens of us torture practices we know about cia secret prisons in poland romania lithuania 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 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 gave america the green light to go ahead with its vision of battling terrorists and since then hundreds have gone through torture without trial he's done a bushel has the story. 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 or 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 instrumentality impairment of bodily function organ failure and even death. on myself. because i want.

the us refused to even reveal they were holding his mother his lawyer to find her son it took several years there was no chance to get in contact with mr corners it's really a shame for the united states what happened. is what concerned national law and it's simply impossible in the twenty first century to put someone in extra. room. saying you have no right bush 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. since they never received a real trial we just called know for sure. barack obama was elected on the promise to show. but he's even appealed us cool rulings which give detainees some royds two years old the prison still open for business law all is the washing ministration guilty of criminal. crimes against humanity so is the obama administration and so is your plea for participating and supporting these actions executive through bush down no fear going abroad of the foreigners food lawsuits

over. when the world lose what america's doing said bush is advisor we will all be ashamed the new bush braman. still to come here in the program on r.t. a poisoned generation thousand 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 in tatters e.u. members are currently pressing the greek authorities to tighten its purse strings once again if it is to receive yet more bailout money to keep afloat the government will vote on a proposed twenty eight billion euro budget cut over the next five years next we

have to approve it will mean another twelve billion euros in rescue money meantime artie's are really going to go join those mourning the euros 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. 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've had enough of it if the leaders of the european union have presented greece with draconian 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 unpopular 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 unanimously 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 to bail out first time they're wrong drawn by the route the second time and if the greek parliament on tuesday accept this package then this time next year i'll be talking to you i will 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 most of the people in europe denard believe so and unfortunately for the european leaders the common europeans believe that the end of the euro is near. their reporting 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 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. he reports from. the atmosphere inside the courtroom and around the court building is absolutely elektra finding around fifteen hundred supporters of you too much i can see here gathered in central kiev to protest what they describe as a farcical hearing as a farcical case against their leader against you too much angle 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 the tension is rising as this case and as its final stage due to assemble has been summoned to the prosecutor's office for months now for questioning now this case has been taking to the courtroom and that we will be hearing some developments in the next several weeks or so the cranes former prime minister yulia timoshenko is being charged with many different financial

crimes including the am which you are unprofessional as described by the prosecution gas deals 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 described. 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 sent 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 tomasz and co makes this case political and she describes it as the one being orchestrated personally by president viktor you have

a quote which it is not the first time that you're getting a shadow is is on the trial in two thousand and one she. charged with smuggling the russian gas into ukraine clearly a lot of the supporters of your tymoshenko are ready to besiege the court building until they hear pain use coming from inside and will clearly be seeing more public under arrest due to 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. the reporting right now the russian president is delivering on his promise to decentralize power in the country giving the region's a greater say in politics dmitri medvedev wants to appoint the current governor of some petersburg as the new head of the upper house of the russian parliament he's peter all of us has details on this. valentino. guaranteed to be the next speaker of the federation council the upper house of russian parliament but these members of the federation council from the regions were saying this that the

federation council becoming slightly to moscow centric and they wanted to see more representation from across russia this is something that the president said yes i agree with and he's backed into a tier governor of st petersburg sixty two year old volunteer. 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 set for a little bit of a shake up the president put forward a draft law that would mean that the current percentage of the vote what you need to take a seat in the duma is seven percent he wants to see that lowered to five percent meaning there's more parties in the regions that can get 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 to living

further than not he said if five percent 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. all of our right now to our attention to libya where libyan rebels in both benghazi and government control tripoli claim to be in secret talks preparing for the full of could confuse regime 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 un mandate of protecting civilians and not attacking qaddafi's forces. i think the gadhafi

regime does look extremely 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've 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 is regime

in 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 of the ceasefire. order sixteen minutes past the hour here in moscow let's get to some other international news for you this hour at least ten people are being 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 crackdown against those opposing the regime of president bashar al assad has reportedly left more than a thousand people dead. a series of nearly similar tenuous blasts have rocked two cities in me and more injuring several people the first device went off in the country's administrative capital of naypyitaw it's near an area housing most of its hotels soon afterwards a car laden with explosives detonated near mandalay the main market is not yet clear who is behind the attacks but bombings have become increasingly frequent in

me and maher where pro-democracy activists and ethnic groups are at odds with the military backed regime. a former rwandan minister has been sentenced to life for genocide and crimes against humanity pauline it nearer my hooker the country's former minister for families and women's affairs and her son and ex militia leader were both found guilty of ordering and assisting massacres some eight hundred thousand people were killed during thirty nine hundred ninety four slaughter most of them ethnic sees never master who is the first woman to be convicted by the un backed tribunal. well coming up here on r.t. other 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 for locals living nearby it's come at a shoot 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 indian authorities claim there's no cheap alternative on the market excuse me we want you may find some of the images in previous reader's 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 without the doctors who have to put it into our 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'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 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 they're with employing 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 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 you.

need to. 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. and 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 though 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 our t. carola india or no a twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital you are with of course

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the cold hostile antarctic isn't exactly teeming with visitors traditionally it's been the landover searchers and brave explorers willing to challenge this remote part of earth so when not one but two presidents drove by it ruffled a few feathers on penguins box sean 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 where we are for our base it is a very important visit but it is also important for our people as we here at the gateway to the rest of antarctica and for chile it is very important to support the antarctic treaty. and think the. important thing. 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 of friendship and it has to be very friendly with nature and the environment and it is very much committed with that and i'm sure that the russian people share these feelings so to get there we have to say that because because it's the continent 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 you know pays the first time that. he's here in antarctica so very very exciting he's very important 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 have a saying about antarctica not only she knows who can and cannot visit her in fact last year. presidents been and korea try to visit but could not land because the weather shifted and it was too dangerous. to organizing a presidential visit a 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 trinity church. traveling with the presidents a delegation of both chile and ecuador's top military brass as well as chile's minister of energy. and while there were photo opportunities and press conferences the main message from these heads of state was one of international cooperation. and. an example of union harmony that 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 to continue their research to ensure that idea of unity is realized in antarctica sean thomas. just a few moments are not yet with the latest business but. try 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 oil would be released from strategic reserves is only the third time in history the i.a.e.a. has signed off reserves the move is intended to offset the loss of production from levy are currently involved in civil meanwhile some opec members warn of possible countermeasures to prop up the oil 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 the driving season they will be enough supply now a lot of the opec member countries have said their recent of supply and that is correct but what you need is 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 a double 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 the 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 soft land and recover from the recession. let's have a check on those like gold prices. sleights we're just trading at just under ninety one dollars per barrel while granted it is at over one hundred six dollars two hundred stocks opened lower friday that's despite a slide upward revision not fast quarter g.d.p. figures on the corporate front micron technology reported disappointing results for its that group is saying chip sales will we. european markets a mixed the third c. has narratives that it gains as investors confidence in banks was shaken by this is trading in some learn doesn't usually under pressure from here as debt crisis the

dax is in the red point five percent. and here in russia the markets have rebounded after thursday's shop losses both the r.t.s. and the my six finished up one and a half and one point six percent respectively let's not have a cheap quick check on some of the individual moves on the my six energy majors were in one of the main game is with gazprom up one point seven percent. was slower dragged down by metal prices that's despite the company posted another one hundred thirty four million dollars in the fouts quarter over here beating previous forecasts banks were up but her senior bank finished lower that softer b b r d said it's considering buying into the bank. of the world's largest private equity firm blackstone group is coming to russia the company may 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

sector the risks associated with commodities are relatively high. that wraps up the business bought a new york to date now during the last in one last time for more.

it is now at seven thirty pm here in moscow you with on. top stories declassified documents reveal that the u.k. was happy to hand over terror suspects to the u.s. with little regard to what would be waiting for them in secret prisons. washington's that jurisdiction hundreds ended up being tortured and abused without a trial. mourning the fate of the common currency is in serious doubt as europe agrees on bail out the debt laden greece but i just the country to get behind some savage spending cuts however some experts too late as the euro already has both feet in the grave. plus the former prime minister over the ukraine and

goes on trial for abuse of power that's alleged to have cost the country millions of dollars yulia timoshenko faces up to ten years behind bars if convicted. by my colleague bill daughters here in half an hour's time but for now people of elena's cross debate why president obama's announcement to withdraw thirty three thousand u.s. troops from afghanistan was not welcomed by either activists or military officials that's next. you. welcome to cross talk on peter lavelle exit strategy obama's long awaited plan to start drawing down troops levels in afghanistan is in play but is it a real drawdown or just a reduction of the so-called surge of eighteen months ago did obama capitulate to public opinion over military needs and will american and nato troops ever

completely leave afghanistan to afghans. cross-talk u.s. afghan strategy i'm joined by gareth porter in washington he's an investigative historian and journalist also in washington we have sam side by he is senior director of iran programs at nonviolence international and in london we crossed the alexis crow she is a research fellow in the international security program at chapman house all right folks this is cross talk and that means cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want gareth i'd like to go to you first in washington details of obama's pullback from afghanistan are becoming more and more clear are you satisfied that it's legitimate to or is it just all about domestic politics the united states obama is trying to satisfy public opinion without alienating the military all that much because they still open.