and humanitarian law reports suggest such prisons were in existence from two thousand and two basically not long after the events of nine eleven the u.s. government denied the existence of these presidents until two thousand and six now the only country in europe which has acknowledged the presence of a secret cia facility on its territory is lithuania and if you were to look at it you will you will see something almost a deliberate site except for the imposing fences surrounding it likewise a suspected secret prison poland is believed to be located here apparently in one of the most beautiful spots in the country according to various reports mostly from journalists or human rights organizations so-called high value detainees were flown in by the sea for interrogation at these polish facilities. i managed to get records from the airport in germany where it's clear that they have landed aircraft used by the cia very important evidence because until then everyone denied. and

reported different destinations of these flights to europe controlled however just like their american counterparts the authorities in warsaw have been extremely frugal with the details and investigation into the secret prisons has been dragging on for almost five years now but what earth during its course remains unknown therefore the extent of the investigations progress just like any information about the torture of prisoners regarding who what where when and how all of it remains a mystery and the investigation is rumored to conclude next month by the looks of it whatever its outcome it may also be a state secrets and swept under the carpet britain which once boasted some of the best legislation in the world to curb homelessness now has fifty thousand people sleeping rough with the government ushering in public sector spending cuts in the age of austerity the number of homeless people is only expected to rise pretty boy who went to meet some of those living on the streets. it's freezing cold

wet and hungry there's no way feed to go to trial and no money in your pockets this street is all you've got and there's no one that will help you welcome to birmingham the case capital homelessness. remember right. in there she said drop grandma don't have what we have right now i mean you shouldn't be home or there's a lot of people you called me a short time wanted me real rock car park where people sleep. all over the place this is why i got trash there yeah yeah i read you know. michael is by no means alone in fact the number of homeless people in britain has skyrocketed by twenty five percent since twenty ten reaching fifty thousand people in twenty twelve the biggest spike in the city of you don't think again people can

see you could be walking past you can be sleeping next to warsaw. and the coldness is stupid specially this time we have to go back for four days in the country it's twenty one year old much fled his family home where he came to blows with his stepfather he had to sleep rough before being granted emergency shelter in a bombing in hostile it's run by a charity that helps anyone down and out to find employment and get back on their feet or looking for work or on the don't know like job running from the moment trying to get it's time you'll second stay at the hostel in three years after growing up in the now to foster care he struggled to keep a roof over his head you going to do what every types to find some lights they found money. help and support it's a scary thing you know you still go face all over again there just isn't enough low

cost housing available and with unemployment rising hostels just like this one desperately need to expand the figures from the local authority of people presented as. having creased on average by about four hundred percent. for the growing homeless community squatting in one of the city's twelve thousand empty homes used to be an option anymore just before the winter set in westminster upgraded sporting from a civil matter to a criminal offense predictions that it would translate to more rough sleepers on the streets came true deprived areas and people that don't have working. with it being such a one time in industrialized center working class families but those jobs just don't exist anymore so i suppose that the poverty is just sort of breaking the poverty and the reason the reason big mix of paper in the population expanding

the housing stock and it reached the point where it's just spinning i can't cope anymore and with more government budget cuts kicking enough to rape many more persons are predicted to slip through the net as the housing crisis escalates. artsy birmingham. while reportedly being held hostage for eight months by russian mafia an irish real estate tycoon claims he was given a punishment he had never forget what was carved into the man's forehead on our website. also a lot of the moment the russian football premier league's door course and the use it scored with was said to be the most expensive transfer in the country's history discover who set to join several and friends at the club on r.t.e. dot com. but it will work as in bahrain so they're being targeted by the authorities for treating injured protesters doctors say the rich has been severe

one of government insists is now investigating allegations. looks at those at risk for trying to help. nada dhaif was among a group of doctors who were trying to help the injured during a protest in bahrain she claims that after violently crushing the dissent the earth or at least turned their attention to her and her colleagues who were providing first aid they deny. health care to the patients and protesters. the doctors did not obey the orders for such. decided to punish those doctors i was taken to a place for ten days that i didn't know where it was. all that time i was blindfolded and handcuffed i was in a solitary confinement for back to twenty one days. and they would just open the door of the cell and beat me up and. there was

a member of the royal family who directly was responsible of my fortune she she was beating me and she looked at me almost two dozen doctors were arrested back then this for the fuel the anger of the protesters and turned the hospital grounds into the scene of the rally the some money hospital is bahrain's leading medical institution and that's where most of the arrests have been made after those events it now looks like a full trust god heavily by the right police and not everybody can get a human rights activist say if you had suffered for speaking out against the regime and decided to come here for treatment you could make matters even worse for yourself anyone who was injured from the protests they cannot go to the hospital because they would be interested in getting beaten and taken to the jail last year many protester and in jail where torture insults and money we have a story and testimony of people and protester being tortured and the jail but in my

country protests there were tortured inside. britain not who was charged with treason and sentenced to fifteen years in prison before being acquitted because of what she believed to be international pressure on bahrain's government the fate of many other doctors remains unclear the person who allegedly tortured not and others princes. has been officially charged by police she denies all allegations against her meanwhile the guy. woman stands resumed but the action it took against the hospital was the right thing to do i went and these doctors managed to control the emergency unit and the first floor of the hospital and started to perform political acts when a hospital is turned into a base for political ethnic work and this is a real disaster we had an unbiased committee investigating the hospital eight condemned the acts of these doctors and the case against one of the members of the

world family may seem as an indication that bahrain's government has bowed to the negative global reaction with the doctor scandal being far from the only torture accusation c.c.t.v. cameras have been installed at all prisons in a move to become more transparent according to the authorities but with protests in the gulf states still continuing and accusations of human rights violations intensifying the opposition is still wondering what happens in the places where the cameras cannot see let's see reporting from the kingdom of bahrain. you've been watching the weekly off of the break he's going to check on talks to the former presidential foreign policy analyst in the ring and flynt leverett about america's approach to iran that's after this break.

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a way out of the current diplomatic crisis it's called why the united states must come to terms with the islamic republic of iran thank you very much for coming washington seems to be very happy with the sanctions there quickly the arena chrono me why should they change policies now why should they come to terms with iran sanctions are not going to work sanctions have not worked we've seen sanctions imposed on the islamic republic of iran for thirty two years we saw crippling sanctions in effect imposed on iran during their eight year war with iraq in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight we saw at that time half their g.d.p. was a racist half of it and still the islamic republic of iran did not surrender to hostile foreign powers the idea that now that sanctions are going to force the islamic republic of iran to surrender to what it sees as hostile foreign powers and their demands there is no place for that in the history of the history of the islamic republic of iran and frankly there is no basis for that anywhere the united states imposed crippling sanctions for example on saddam hussein's iraq for over

a decade killing over people half of them children and even then saddam hussein's government did not implode and it did not can seem to the demands of hostile foreign powers it took a massive us land invasion to do that the ability to stand in the other side's shoes to be show that you can do it is key to diplomacy i think you would agree with that but everything the u.s. has done so far showed you ran the opposite of that starting from the u.s. helping get rid of their democratically elected leader in the fifty's putting the shah in power much hated figure in iran what can the u.s. do to. now to show iran that they respect their national interests the first thing that has to happen is this basic acceptance except in some of these low mcgrew public as a legitimate and rational actor this is the model.