i report accuses over fifty countries of assisting the u.s. in secretly detaining interrogating. terror suspects abroad. iran's president is on the story visit to cairo with western friendly egypt looking ready to open a new phase of relations with tehran. and one of the german chancellor's a main election opponent says she's too hard on one of europe's most financially countries. find out why greece key states in the general election. it's a good to have you with us here today rory sushi live in moscow with your world. as

many as fifty four countries took part in the cia's secret detention and prisoner rendition program the claim was made in a report from a new york based and which claims foreign governments aided the u.s. in making sure that interrogations were out of the reach of the law. as the investigation. this is a very comprehensive report prepared by the open society foundations not only do they detail torture techniques that were used at cia secret prisons overseas to so-called black sites but also give a list of countries that one way or another participated in cia secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations including by hosting cia prisons on their territories detaining interrogating torturing going to be using it in vigils assisting in a tour in the capture and transport of detainees and so on so the list includes countries like afghanistan else trail denmark djibouti huge of georgia turkey syria

the united arab emirates the united kingdom's yemen italy and even iran and just in case you're wondering what iran is doing on the list here's what the report says a yemeni national who same solemn mohammad on the fed he was captured by iranian authorities in tehran sometime after nine eleven two thousand and one and once was handed over to afghan authorities as part of a prisoner exchange and was held in cia detention in afghanistan so a list of fifty four countries there while president bush acknowledged that the cia had secretly detained about one hundred prisoners and this report alleges there were more the u.s. government has only identified sixteen quote unquote high value detainees italy is the only country where a court has criminally has convicted officials for their involvement in extraordinary rendition operations ten of these the only country to issue an apology to and to agree to an extraordinary rendition victims more here are our who was rendered to and tortured in syria and only three countries in addition to

canada and sweden australia and the united kingdom have issued compensation to extraordinary rendition victims this report is ripe with human rights abuses and it's clear that high ranking bush administration officials bear responsibility for authorizing human rights violations and yet no one was prosecuted because the u.s. government has classified everything related to its torture practices any accusation would be dismissed on state secrets grounds. so plenty of countries implications in allegedly assisting america in the kidnapping and torture of terror suspects former private investigator douglas valentine believes america is a compass league saturating the threat of terrorism in order to impose military power world wide war on terror itself is is an overstatement vast overstatement of the dangers that exist in the it's been proven to afghanistan that we simply created more enemies in iraq we've created more enemies the war on

terror is a war and war killing torturing detaining people is not a way to bring over its resolve problems the way to resolve problems is through people trying to understand each other through reach accommodations to do things there will magically the situation that exists right now is that the united states knows the military overhand that it's not willing to give that up but having built three up for him to kind of force its will all round the world and the war on terror is simply a simple pretext for doing what it illustrates is that the government has since nine eleven more capable propagandizing the american people by exaggerating the threats that exist in order to perpetuate which probably is a state of emergency that really doesn't exist in which the government's able to portray the united states the greatest military power that ever existed on the

planet earth and some of the person that's being bullied. the truth is exactly the opposite. this is artsy of the visit of the iranian leader to egypt the first in more than three decades is seen as a sign the two middle east heavyweights are moving closer a president to ask madonna judge who's under pressure from western states for his nation's nuclear program and now attending a muslim summit to discuss security issues with egypt's mohamed morsi are the two nations severed relations after iran's islamic revolution of nine hundred seventy nine and they further deteriorate after egypt's peace treaty with israel a more seasoned u.s. backed rise to power out of egypt's uprising though is seen as a major hurdle to better ties with tehran was strongly opposed to the current revolt in syria some analysts believe keeping the door open to the islamic republic shows cairo is pursuing a more independent foreign policy the world seems to be to such so early a journalist neil clark spoke to my colleague bill dodd and said that iran needs

all the friends it can get. around strong ally in the arab world has now been serious serious been a bright little ally of iran all these years the reason why the pro israel lobby why the americans why the saudis etc so keen to talk a sad now there's no such moment the syrian government is about what we're it for going around would be even more isolated than it is today and the area in a very dangerous position so that's what makes sense for iran to be trying to build bridges with cairo are there financial motives behind this meeting where we've got to believe the economy isn't bearing in mind the situation there in iran with all those sanctions appearing to have a quite an impact on the iranian economy do you do they both need each other i think they do believe that and i think the point of view i think as we see hearty people are going to rest in egypt but people are very unhappy with how things are going to get seen carrying on the move are actually people are on iran in one way that she can say to these people look i'm not just a us puppet i'm going to be different here so i think of his point and he could get

popularity at home by taking a more conciliatory line toward iraq and to be ready for it if you course. i mean the pro israel lobby has been very successful in getting the u.s. and other countries to pass tougher and tougher sanctions on iran he really can use a really bad state so iran needs all the friends it can get there's no reason for iran to be isolated there's no proof it's developing nuclear weapons it's got a peaceful nuclear energy program which which is no evidence to the contrary so therefore it's it's wrong but it should be totally isolated one of the centerpieces of german political rivalry ahead of this year's federal election is groups the former finance minister who's challenging angela merkel in her bid for a third term are things at the end of the day she's been a bit too harsh on athens parties for her all of a following the divisions now in the early stages of the campaigns. the main contender to angola merkel in this year's general election the social democrat

party's peacetime brooke has said this his vision for how to deal with the greek problem is to give greece a little bit more time and for everybody else around the world to be essentially willing to spend a little bit more money now that includes germany of course this goes up against what has been angola merkel's message all the way which is that it's all by austerity and by a sturdy alone and cutting that deficit. that greece can get itself financially back on its feet now what is interesting is that in the german elections we're seeing the key battleground becoming greece. now one of the reasons that we've seen the s.t.p. . jump on this is because essentially they smell blood he said himself after the most recent local elections which took place last month that's change was possible this year and in order and one of the reasons he can say that is his party is absolutely killing angle merkel's coalition when it comes to domestic issues if you

speak to the german people one thing they will all tell you the vast majority will tell you is that they do support angola merkel's view when it comes to dealing with the euro crisis what we're now seeing is peacetime brooke saying i'm going to challenge angela merkel on her own turf and put forward my own theory about how to deal with greece merkel in france to meet with francois hollande and they'll be taking in the france germany game we will be seeing is those two talking about what they're going to do going into that meeting on thursday where the you'll be looking with all of the senior partners in europe will be looking to try and decide the european budget for twenty fourteen to twenty twenty now this has been a huge stumbling block for european leaders in the past year we heard from france warland speaking on tuesday who said that he was ready to try and come to some kind of compromise in the social. francois hollande against the chief cheerleader of a sturdy anglo merkel there has been some friction in the past he says all of the

major issues that they have are behind them and that they're ready to work together so i expect what we will see is that some kind of solution being put forward by these two how to steer europe towards a definite budget for twenty fourteen to twenty twenty and everybody meet later on today. this is. no retreat for the syrian war but just placed by the conflict to stay in the country take shelter and. evil that sandra described. in the most probable said. she was.

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to understand it and then. welcome to the big picture. thanks for joining us here on our. show at the u.k.'s national health service has been shaken by a public inquiry into what seen as the worst health care scandal in decades and investigation into the deaths of patients at a staff and hospital alleges that stuff were fatally negligent the managers turned a blind eye to faults because they were focused on cutting costs. but the stories of people who ended up losing their loved ones. my wife stuff that hospital

in september of two thousand and eight is just a disaster is just totally ok. when you walk through the door of the world you smell it people showed you new program no staff available to find and. those who was left and ridge. on the floor we've been there since breakfast on. the. line in a row for you see. medication wasn't given to. the death of john's wife is just one of the many horror stories term from the now notorious stuff that hospital relatives say it was a lack of compassion on behalf of the staff that stripped many sick people of that dignity so much evil that sandy would describe the modesty. song. in the most horrible circumstances. no human being

should have to go through what she went through julie baby's mother died at stafford in what she calls appalling circumstances but when she blew the whistle on the hospital's practice says she was faced with a cover up all the evidence was there that the hospital mid staffs was failing and yet the that was never shared with the public and i believe the same as you know the hospital's it so much that a string of senior officials failed to take seriously data which showed the hospital significantly higher than average death rates relatives of over a thousand people never got to see them discharged from the hospital patients died needlessly off the suffering a catalogue of neglect left in their own excrement dehydrated and without painkillers it's the biggest scandal to hit the national health service in recent years but with budgets being slashed and red tape preoccupying hospital manages. since health secretary is warning that there are little bits of stuff that dotted

all across the u.k.'s health system the results of the public inquiry into the hospital's failings are expected to issue a damning verdict on the way the whole of the n.h.s. functions is soul destroying and that's a bit of stuff that everybody that we've got to make say you know it's got to be made safe tomorrow because people can't continue to suffer but even with the glare of a public inquiry and the media spotlight hasn't stopped last month it emerged that a former unfold baby being treated for breathing problems was found with a dummy taped to his mouth to keep him quiet the nurse being investigated for the incident is the third member of staff at star to be disciplined in the last six months the hospital's chief executive has said we're sorry that despite the progress that has been made there are still some instances of care which fall below that which we want to provide sorry might be too late but the tide of public anger

swelling campaigners say it's time for westminster to overhaul persons beleaguered health service before any more lives and needlessly lost polly boyko r t staff it. we've also lined up some of the best stories from around the world on our website at this time david cameron says he's made a breakthrough in strengthening the nation and this after the british parliament approved subfield that will allow same sex couples to marry and over half the members of the ruling conservative party voted against it over it all to dot com you can find out what caused the split. in the ice cold challenge an expedition of russian geographers make of the first record breaking dive into a frozen siberian like this where the temperatures are minus fifty degrees celsius or talk about breathtaking footage it's all waiting for you at all to talk .

kuwait has been praised for its pioneering role in democracy ranking among gulf states for freedom of the press but reality can certainly be different to preform opposition m.p.'s sutton's to prison terms for criticizing the ruling and meres policies to activists are also sentenced to ten five years for writing and see regime messages on twitter. says q e two a lot of react to pressure that comes from washington to wade is a client state of the united states it is part of the us imperial system along with saudi arabia and qatar and bahrain and a number of other countries so for that obvious reason because they they can't really step out of line from what the line is from washington from london and from elsewhere so if you were to have destabilization in kuwait and you were to have the western community the international community as it's called committing condemned

the ruling family you will have an overthrow of that regime you will have a destabilization of the region which benefits democratic forces but which is very much detrimental to the united states in their agenda for the region the monarchies are looking around and they're seeing a democratization a wave of democratic upsurge in the region and they know that their regimes will not withstand it unless they're able to crack down on these forces and to maintain their strategic position within the imperial system so on the one hand they crack down on the opposition on the other hand they maintain very positive business relations with washington with london with paris and so forth. want to turn our attention now to jordan which is struggling with massive influx of syrian refugees saying the number could now exceed seven hundred thousand this year though the jordanian government says it will not be able to accept that many more certainly if indeed president assad does fall over some syrians are deciding to take their chance against bullets and airstrikes at home rather than suffer the squalor of the

camps at this report to r.t.c. catherine. they come here to escape the hell of war as many as fifty thousand in the last month alone get all too often in jordan psaltery camp hope gives way to despair no i don't have nothing with my little home why is this happening why isn't anyone here to help us too many people and not enough help the sprawling tent city is the largest camp for syrians fleeing their war ravaged nation but it's ballooned well beyond capacity there are shortages of food blankets medical supplies just about everything. there are so many of us how can they provide for everyone clear cold there's no tricity i have two children and there are no diapers for them i'm forced to back from my friends and family. most refugees complain about the quality of water toilets and the harsh desert

winter they describe the frustration of spending hours and queues only to find out supplies have run out the dismal conditions have sparked a series of riots in recent months turning refugees against aide workers and one another at the don't know one is helping each other if you want to get bread you need a knife by your side to fight for it it's chaos chaos that's simply too much for some seventy year old automat also obvious says that he would have preferred the death in syria to life in the camps. if i stayed in syria it would have been better for me it would have killed me yes but it's better than coming here and being humiliated like this i'm a sick old man why he has to go through this. despite its shortcomings the camp still offers refuge from the gunfire and airstrikes ravaging syria and more help could be on the way at a recent conference in kuwait the un got more than one point five billion dollars worth of pledges to aid the conflict stricken syrians but there are concerns it may

not be enough we don't know how many more will be coming we have we don't know how many more we'll cross tonight we have no idea how many more there will be by the end of the week here in jordan or in the men on or into a can it's not a situation which is going to be over very soon and therefore yes it is a strain on the countries of course a strain that jordan may not be able to handle much longer. you know the syrian refugees arrived in jordan a country of limited resources at a time when is experiencing its greatest economic challenge ever nonetheless we gave them all we could if the number of refugees keeps growing will struggle to help them this is the reality. but many camp residents have grown weary of waiting for help unable to live in dignity in neighboring countries some syrians are returning home like these families are waiting to get on buses they were taken back well you know i've been here for three days but after all i've seen in this campaign plane right to go back to syria it's killing but here we leave worse than

animals kind of existence. hundreds of thousands of syrians him to jordan seeking a better life but here at the jury refugee camp lives are collapsing all over again they fled syria to escape a bloody war only to find themselves fighting a fresh battle just to survive. front of r t. refugee camp in jordan. he's come here live from moscow for the last militant believed to be behind the deadly attacks on the moscow metro has been killed it was traced to dr stone in southern russia by russian special forces officials say that he accompanied one of the two suicide bombers to the metro twin blasts that hit two over crowded central stations during rush hour in march two thousand and ten thirty nine that were killed almost ninety were injured. let's get to know the aussie wild update here's

some other global news in brief starting in tunisia over a thousand people are protesting outside the interior ministry after a secular opposition leader was shot dead outside his home. was found with two bullets in his neck after what his brother described as a political assassination and coming just a few days after the prominent opponent of the islamist government accused the ruling party of hiring mercenaries to carry out attacks against him and the current political situation there rather volatile this ahead of a long awaited cabinet reshuffling which should include a wider range of parties. the french military assisted by local militia has taken the last major city. to be held by islamist militants paras estimates that are several hundred rebels have been killed since the offensive in mali began last month but while the advance has been swift some reports suggest the french led liberation campaign has also caused plenty of civilian casualties and the french foreign minister has hinted the operation could be over by march. and

a severe eight magnitude earthquake that struck near the solomon islands resulted in about one and a half meter waves this of course following the quake near the islands at least five people have reportedly been killed and several villages destroyed but tsunami warnings issued elsewhere in the pacific have been cancelled governments had ordered people to flee to higher ground and you can follow the live updates on this developing story at our tees twitter feed. a leaked justice department memo suggests the u.s. government allows drone strikes on its citizens abroad reporter as washington target all al qaeda linked american suspects even if they are considered to be merely plotting against the u.s. an attack does not have to be considered imminent for a suspect to be targeted. now a series of drunken brawls on planes of set russian lawmakers thinking of banning

people from carrying duty free alcohol on board a russian airlines say they need legal rights to restrain unruly passengers and refuse services to those causing problems artie's a really good story. where your seat belts are fastened the tray table is securely stowed and the passenger next to you is not intoxicated out of his mind passport tickets and alcohol of course there is a lot of there wasn't prohibit drinking on board but that doesn't stop many passengers if there is a will there is always a way to sneak that bottle on the plane. recently cases of unruly drunks have been springing up one after another one man attacked a police officer in the v.i.p.'s zone in the moscow airport thinking he was still in another country a different man if the four year old businessman on his way to the egyptian resort of god that lit up a cigarette and literally hit back at a flight attendant who tried to stop him the confrontation spiraled into an all out

brawl on board should anybody have known table long pretty much it was demanding something crazy he was forcing himself into a cockpit everyone was trying to hold him back he was yelling let me out and forcing his way into the pilot's seat here yes here's the catch though the resume normal in russia that would allow airlines to restrain much less to punish unruly customers in fact flight attendants technically are not even allowed to physically subdue anyone having a fit of rage on their plane and that doesn't fight over well with the country's main airline was accused of motion could mean that your partner wants our crews on board to be able to restrain such brash injures we need a law for that and we also want to mince to the current air code which would allow not just their flag but all air carriers to be able to refuse service to bassan jurors who have created a problem on board passengers like to see on the end the leg honeymooners chris

forced a plane heading for thailand to land in his back a stag it was after their festive mood quickly soured and turned into a fight when a flight attendant told them to cut down on the liquor consumption they stay. did two reasons for drinking fear falling and celebrating their marriage this type of emotional travel drinking has gotten russian lawmakers thinking very seriously so not too distant future it seems passengers will be able to keep their emotions bottled up in moscow even ghost go partying. right out of back with more news about half an hour's time but up next the obsession which comes with advanced technology our special report a gaming for life just about.