pressing point that some experts have made with regards to the public perception of the war in libya it's off the headlines american use channels have been focused on congress one winter squash out for weeks now and there's fear that certain in narrow strip develops in a public perception with regards to the war in libya inertia which some say could be very dangerous the head of the center for constitutional rights michael ratner says president obama is staking his political career on the war in libya. the perspective i have and why didn't the president come to congress and the issue is obviously once a war starts you're in the middle of supporting nato when it's all operation it's much harder to cut off the funding but the president didn't go to congress he's constitutionally required to do what you didn't do which and it's really it's an outrageous constitutional violation so what we're seeing here is not just political posturing we're seeing deep resentments around us fighting so many wars at once i

think people are saying it's too much it's too expensive what are we just the war machine and i think you're seeing a really strong opposition building to the war what's interesting is that i think obama looks like a real fool would use it looks like he made a real mistake to not go to congress to get the authority to go into an illegal war that's contrary to the u.s. constitution and contrary to the war powers resolution which is a statute that was passed by congress a number of years ago is a ill or illegal acts and yes by letting the constitution isn't a teachable of sense if and when our congress ever got. the u.k. failed to try to detainees handed over to the us neglecting to protect them from possible torture in america's secret prisons that's been revealed after an agreement between the two states on the treatment of terror suspects captured in iraq was declassified twenty eight year old pakistani eunice 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 the britain was the detaining authority british labor party m.p. and peace campaigner jeremy says despite the close ties between the two countries the u.k. had no excuse for allowing prisoners to be sent to the us for torture. there is an extraordinarily close military security and foreign policy relationship between britain and the united states we have sharing of security information and so. i suspect it was quite willingly done by members of the security services in britain who see themselves as being very close to the united states my view is that every country should have its right to its own independent foreign policy and that means that if you believe your partner in

a foreign policy relationship is doing something wrong imprisoning people illegally torturing them taking them illegally to guantanamo bay as was done by the usa then you should say so and i think it's quite appalling waterboarding and torture completely illegal in britain and the completely legal within the terms of the united nations convention on torture they're not illegal within the u.s. jurisdiction in the same way george bush specifically authorized waterboarding in what they term as robust interrogation techniques my suspicion is that the british security services were happy to keep quiet about extraordinary rendition happy that these poor people should end up in u.s. jurisdiction where they were being tortured and so this is an issue that is going to come up again i'm sure in parliament next week it will be further inquiries into this because it's quite extraordinary that apparently there are people who allowed prisoners to be taken out of any jurisdiction that covered the convention on

torture to the u.s. where the waterboarding took place in studying with this story britain is not the only state that it's been supporting the u.s. to carry out its illegal treatment of prisoners back in two thousand and one leaders gave america the green light to go ahead with its vision of battling terror and since then hundreds have been tortured daniel bushell has one 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 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 rape instrumentality impairment of bodily function organ failure and even death i was one of those who survived those kind of torture. myself electroshocks because i was not science.

i was forced to agree. and i was. the us refused to even reveal they were holding current as his mother owns this 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. concerned that national law and it's simply impossible in the twenty first century to put someone in the next. 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. 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 appealed us cool rulings which give detainees some royds two years on the prison still open for business. all washington street guilty of criminal. crimes against humanity so is the obama administration and so is your plea for participating and support these that executives from bush down no fear going abroad to foreigners food lawsuits over torture when the world

america's doing said bush is advise and we will all be ashamed the new bush will r.t. braman. the euro is dead and buried quite literally according to skeptics who have held a mock funeral for the 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 members have agreed on the terms of a new bailout but are pressing the greek authorities to tighten their purse strings once again if the money is to be handed over the government will vote on a proposed twenty eight billion euro budget cut as of five years next week if up. twelve billion euros in rescue money i can. join morning. 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. 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 in 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 all 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. 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 european leaders the common europeans believe that the end of the euro is near. now let's take some time to look at some international news in brief for you. at least twenty people have been killed in syria after pro-government forces opened fire on demonstrators demanding president bashar al assad step down this comes as the e.u. introduced a fresh new actions on damascus and its regional ally iran for supporting the crackdown against protesters for syrian companies and seven new individuals were added to the black list topped by the president and his brother hare the commander of an elite army unit. five people have been killed and four others wounded in

yemen's main port city of ogden after a car packed with explosives was detonated at an army post no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack that came hours after tens of thousands gathered in the yemeni capital calling for president ali abdullah saleh to step down one hundred sixty seven have been killed since the uprising started in february is currently recovering in saudi arabia from injuries sustained in an attack on his compound earlier this month. a series of nearly simultaneous blasts have rocked three cities in myanmar injuring several people the first device went off in the country's administrative a capital nay pyi taw all euro zone housing most of its hotels soon afterwards a car laden with explosives detonated near mandalay the main market the third blast has hit the city of pin. it's not yet clear who is 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. the former prime minister of ukraine has gone on trial for abusing power during her term 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 has dismissed the case as fabricated but faces up to ten years in jail if convicted. he has been following the events throughout the day in kiev for us brown fifteen hundred supporters of unity as you can see here gathered in central kiev to protest what they described as a farcical hearing as a farcical case against their leader against you did so much and call now the arab league of ukraine of 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 you have 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 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 you. 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. in the next presidential election in twenty fifteen this according to its machine called makes this case political and she describes it as the one being orchestrated personally by president victory on the court which it is not the first time that is. the trial in two thousand and one she was charged with smuggling the russian gas into ukraine clearly the supporters of you to assemble are ready to beseech the court building until the hear and use coming from inside and will clearly be seeing more public and rescue 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. shipped the reporting of there from kenya now i will be back with a recap of our top stories in less than fifteen minutes but first the must go out team explores the divisive figure of the father of the russian revolution.

hello and welcome to the show in this week's program i'll be exploring that in slice. the ball straight lead to change the course of the straight and starting off here on red square next to the magnificent moscow kremlin. as we take a look at his epic journey and visit various unlocks associated with his life and. is one of the main names associated with. the eight hundred seventy as. it shows his pseudo name in ninety nine 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 manage an unwanted class free economy life from an adapted form of marxism. what is the soviet leaders like to see today. for the developments in syria who. might say their mission those guys were really able to take

a philosophy. they turned it into something that society could use in think it was well intentioned to be doing. this man was to. time and he's still idealist now i think it's completely over the top to keep him in there and you know cherry in the ground and using. he turned everything upside down. there's nothing else to say. it was in london the father of the so you're. right. and they were friends yeah for the younger generations you could say that the image of the. into a retro. figure not helped by tacky souvenirs pop t. shirts and cheesy as it seems now. equally celebrated and mourned and the good and bad he did in his life acknowledged. the days of thousands

of people queuing up to see. it still the main association. with him. the real many other places. which was at the forefront of his life. most of the. lennon how to make it the administrative center of the country. because of german threats moved. as it was. become. his life become his final resting place. for public viewing. his body might move. even. political background. it is clear that lenin was an exceptional

human being even if you don't like the policies or ideology he stood for lenin moved into the most or kremlin in nine hundred eighteen legend has it that he took both his wife. and his. french born revolutionary innocent ottomans with him. i'm going to where we head towards the national front the last two decades of the access to many many locations previously closed or even unmoving in the us a soft museums houses hotels bunkers it seems the russian capital is now open to all well almost if you want an example of a consequence house in the last century this is perfect built in one thousand and three by the famed bush an architect from the advent of the national home town has been inspiring historic landmark for more than a century before the revolution the hotel hosted foreign diplomats. loyalty

business tycoons and indeed the famous after nine hundred seventy international has proclaimed the first house of the soviets and became a residence of the bullshit government accommodating top communist leaders our main point of interest is really one of seven the bright spot machines here since the location while antique furniture high ceilings and a sense of history is the one hundred and seventy here in my opinion only has one of the best years of the capital but it's also packed full of history accommodating the boss that party this with inside the hotel was famously home to lennon and his wife for two weeks and last night in a city in the hotel has been renovated since but still want. this grand twentieth century to it that's. huge you can gaze across the kremlin and much of this cause task. today this ring costs thousands of dollars

a night. i'm not quite sure would be too impressed with the. same rights for everyone. is still many and interested did not necessarily need to. you can apply for a special tour as the department of. k'nex. office encampment is now on historical exhibits in. which. it was open to the public in one hundred fifty five of the most visited in the country but as it was located in the kremlin the same building where the government of president. it was decided to move the cabinet to

the state. moved including clock but still shows the time when he left the room. represent the period for nine hundred eighteen thousand nine hundred twenty three but the personal belongings from the collection which we used by lenin in his everyday life but older than that some of them were used by several generations of the family and date back to eight hundred forty two. lookalikes. the second one hundred roubles around three dollars you can have a cheesy reminder time. specially popular among foreigners but i have to say they are more stingy when it comes to money but they understand it's just like

everything else in this world. monuments. symbols. says the twenty's. there are dozens of sculptures of the prostate leading to the city squares in front of mistreated buildings and you can still see many of them today. was once a stage speeches the metropole hotel built in the beginning of the twentieth century also became a base for the bolshevik government many leaders lived and worked in the metropol and it was often visited by many when he addressed his associates in the one hundred twenty s. it started functioning as a hotel again for decades it's really only available from russian and international celebrities politicians. anyone can stay at the historic hotel but remember.

the price. of. the hotel has been preserved in its original look this but all the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century here today is the same as it was a nine hundred eighteen when the bolshevik government had its meetings here but it's defeatist smoked a lot so when restoration work was carried out in the 1980's is it all to spawn doubt that the painted walls ten glossy small damaged which they had to clean to restore their would you know the decorations. his life works in theories are still studied by hundreds of institutions around the school with the ideology of communism. political influence and research look at the impact on the us. actually around the country for almost six here his his legacy is still. in all parts of russia. vital figure for the twentieth century. that's for sure.

moving ten kilometers south of moscow here we are our final location the estate. this vast green outdoor space belonged to various nobleman from the eighteenth century ending up in the possession of the. widow of the famous moscow industrialist and theatrical patron. of the serbian government moved. to exhort his property was nationalized and became. the winter garden here is breathtaking it's really something to be seen and on that note the answer running grounds are open to the public today but only for organized tours the house is filled with possessions here you can see everything from gifts given to man in his wheelchair various clothes and his four thousand book collection. in may nine hundred twenty three he followed medical advice and left the moscow kremlin. it was

here as a frown man only in his early fifty's vladimir image in the loft would spend his final years as intelligent eighteen a soviet leader. i mean chris. as his health deteriorated over the coming years finally living in retirement he died in this. on the twenty first of january ninety four. after lennon's death the complex was renamed linsky officially became a museum in one nine hundred thirty eight and was a place of pilgrimage citizens right up to the fall of the iron curtain from viewing his death mask here to visiting his red square we're talking about local historians tourists communists the epic achievements of lenin still have a cult following and all the places connected with his life and legacy are space

amazing as the journey that was. names like what a beautiful building well unfortunately that's what's home we have on this week's program i'll see you again at the same time next week so until then for me and the rest of the crew from london's spectacular capture by now. cool.

broadcasting from the heart of moscow. glad to have you with us it's a group to talk about. president obama fails to get authority from the house of representatives for further u.s. military involvement in libya despite the defeat lawmakers stopped short of choking off of funding for the operation. u.k. stands to defending over terrorist suspects to the u.s. with a little concern about conditions in america's secret prison system suspects based enhanced interrogation techniques including waterboarding and were held without trial in the cia's extraordinary rendition program. and in the ukrainian capital

kiev former prime minister. trial for abuse of power that resulted in the country losing millions of dollars in gas revenue she maintains her innocence claiming the case is politically motivated to discredit her. the long term mayor of chicago richard daley has turned a once declining city into an attractive place to live finds out if he has some advice for moscow spotlight coming up next. hello again and welcome to spotlight they enter the shell. alvin hall then today my guest is richard daley. the longest serving mayor of chicago has left office the twenty two years and the trip he managed to turn that declining the best

city into a distillation city pushed through immigration reform and masterfully dealt with racism issues winning support other black chicago these problems are characteristic for many big cities so what advice does the experience have for moscow my guest today is a veteran u.s. political war horse and the longest serving mayor of chicago richard daley. richard daley was the patriarch with a very influential political family often compared to the kennedys he was billed as the best mayor out of the cities are you asked for making chicago a business friendly city richard daley belongs to the democratic party he supported barack obama during the presidential campaign three years ago his younger brother william the current white house chief of staff. meet. close a daily and.