reporter fifty four countries helping america's rendition program which included detention without charge. of a prominent opposition figure. on the ruling party. one of the. main political rivals. greece. the iranian president. continues his historic visit to egypt iran hopes to get some backing from the western leaning country on

a range of regional and security issues. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at. fifty four countries help the washington. sometimes even torture a terrorist suspects in secret cia prisons that's according to a top american ngo which has released the most detailed account yet of the notorious rendition program on the. 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. taining interrogating torturing going to be using it to be jewels assisting in a tour in the capture and transport of detainees and so on so the list includes countries like afghanistan all straight denmark djibouti egypt georgia turkey syria the united arab emirates the united kingdom 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 hussein 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 a days the only country to issue an apology to talk to an extraordinary rendition victim more here are our who was rendered to and tortured in syria and only three countries in addition to canada and it is 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 and the u.s. journalist and historian douglas valentine he says that washington's on terror measures are overzealously taking advantage of public through is stoking them even further. the war on terror itself is is an overstatement vast

overstatement of the dangers it existed 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 break. its resolve proff of the way to resolve problems is through people trying to understand each other through reach accommodations to do things difficult magically. this 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 upper hand a kind of force it's will all round the world and the war on terror is simply a simple pretext for doing what it illustrates this is 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 been bully. the truth is exactly the opposite. this is arts he and a prominent leader of the tunis see an opposition has been shot outside his house the country's president has cut short a visit to france to for the killing thousand people have gathered outside the interior ministry protesting of what they're calling a political assassination let's get details on this now from our karma the professor of international relations or bill cohen university in turkey thanks for coming on so quickly here on r.t. the killing just a few days after the victim accuse the ruling party of hiring mercenaries to carry out attacks against him his brother says he was assassinated what's your take on it what is really being assassinated and certainly the tension between the opposition

and the ruling party and has been growing or elections in a few months time in the two years since the revolution the economy and unity is in the news don i was there in january and in addition to the tourist business has been dramatically cut hotels empty until you have factories that used to supply components to european companies shot unemployment is rising the government's response has been so will collapse because you never really terribly attractive. for people to unemployment on the rise as you're saying when you were there recently you could feel some sort of political tension or certainly a shift among among the public as well but from what i understand there was supposed to be a cabinet reshuffle ing on the way though it's already been stalled twice how do you see it you're playing out germany you think the islamists can still hold on to power will you see their problem is that with the election first elections after the revolution will hold only got forty two percent of the vote now the biggest sin well they're not an absolute majority and they're in

a sense under pressure of trying to build coalitions but also trying to keep on board the people make up the islamic movement because there are some who are more radical liberals there's a lot of tension over the role mr the spiritual leader and the of his family his son in law who's the foreign minister was recently exposed to so who might you know in the church who told. who was and who is white and the members of the family or the spiritual leader of this islamic movement have prominent positions of power is one of the things that makes even people who supported the general tendency say are we seeing a revolution to get rid of it now the family only to replace it with a new route well that's exactly it you talk about a restructuring some like consider a reshuffling of the same front or in the same house so let's discuss the issue of possibly losing power here we're now getting reports from from tunisia from the interior ministry there that the minister saying is that the headquarters of the islamists and not a party in several cities have all been tossed it might mean the picture some that

there was a massively growing resentment towards the islamist held government there is it possible that we could see some sort of second uprising in the place that many consider to be the one place that kicked off the arab spring uprisings you know tunis it had been presented as the nearest into a success story it hadn't been too much violence but unfortunately as i say these disappointments with the failure to make life better life has got worse and the sense that there is a true that takes many people into an issue away from who wanted it striking one of the places will be in violence in the far western as in the old europe has often been presented as news when i missed it quarters but it seems from reports that. have attacked new not a party so there may be resentment against what has been the biggest single party but not an overall majority and i think the general feeling is that its level of supporters slipped since those election until the big tension about the coming elections and whether we'll get to those elections without a real political crisis on the streets and perhaps changing there where you talk

about bouts of violence happening in tunisia near the border with algeria certainly we know there's a small amount of french boots on the ground in algeria protecting mines there also as we know there are in mali as well libya in the past couple of years a seat a massive upheaval as well talk to us about the broader prospect here the regional implications does it seem that it's that it's hotting up in that region. well i think the overall yes of the great problem has been that the collapse of the dark regime in libya unleashed a lot of chaos a collapse about how his regime in tunisia many controls radical islamists who have been going continue to fight in syria but there are some who are now come back as you say in neighboring algeria down into the sahara we have this threat of violence and one problem. is that it doesn't have many natural resources so that it's rather neglected by the west as nobody has any great interest in trying to prop it up and so receives for its economy is now in a nosedive and it's surrounded by recently tense errors to the east and south and

it's getting no real help from the north this is as you were trying to position the tunisians are more calm than a professor of international relations of bilk and university joining us live here on r.t. thank you for coming on thank you. it's predicted the outcome of this year's general election in germany could be majorly swayed by the candidates differing approaches towards the greek economic crisis angola merkel's main challenger the country's former finance minister says she's been simply too harsh on athens artie's control of a far the story. 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. to 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 saying i'm going to challenge angela merkel on her own turf and put forward my own theory about how to deal with

greece angela merkel will be in france to meet with francois hollande and they'll be taking in the france germany game what we will be seeing is those two talking about what they're going to do going into a meeting on thursday where the you'll be looking at where 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. warland against the chief cheerleader of a sturdy i'm glad merkel has been some friction in the past he says all of the major issues that they have all 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 or to still to come in just a couple of minutes here on our lack of medical care a public inquiry gulf britain's health care system in a massive negligence and abuse scandal if we get the details along with the accounts of the witnesses shortly. fancy a drink on our long flight we investigate a series of drunken brawls on planes that have forced russian lawmakers to debate banning booze on board that is just ahead.

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with a wave of. patients hospital. reports of the treatment of those in need or increasingly across the country. my wife stuff that hospital in september of two thousand and eight to disaster is a total chaos when you walk through the doors of the world if you smell a. crime no staff available to find and. there was left and a 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 to match 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 their dignity so much evil that so many would describe people not just too. long. in the most horrible circumstances. to. be she'd 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 in all the hospitals it's so much that a string of senior officials failed to take seriously data which showed the hospital's significantly higher than average death rates relatives of over

a thousand people never got to see them discharged from the hospital patients died needlessly after 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. britain's 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 they sold the story. as a bit of stuff that everybody 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 it 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 britain's beleaguered health service before any more lives needlessly lost polly boyko r t stafford you can always or stay up to speed with all the news from around the world just by logging on to our website r t dot com let's check out some of the stories available for you right now just a click away for example of the of what's for social network a new application being developed for facebook which will enable it to basically truck your location even when your mobile device or computer are switched off. and

to go boldly and certainly to go boldly somewhere these russians right here these russian geographers that went to take the plunge diving into a frozen siberian lake ultimately escaping from the current outside temperatures in the region of minus fifty degrees celsius interesting courageous or crazy those details that r.t. dot com. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here. for the world talks to v.o.i.p. interviews interesting story for you. arabic for and visit arabic t.v. . are becoming to live from moscow as iran is trying to rebuild ties with cairo after more than three decades of no diplomatic relations president

mahmoud ahmadinejad who is on the western pressure over his nation's nuclear program is attending a muslim summit to discuss security issues with the egyptian leader mohamed morsy and the two nations ties after iran's islamic revolution of nine hundred seventy nine relations worse and further following egypt's peace treaty with israel but more so using u.s. aid did rise to power after the uprising is seen as a major hurdle to better links with tehran which is strongly opposed to the courage of old in syria over some analysts think keeping the door open to the islamic republic shows cairo is now pursuing a more independent foreign policy than its alstad leader hosni mubarak earlier journalist neil clark spoke to my colleague bill dog it's holding but iran needs all the friends that can get. around the strongest ally in the arab world has now been serious serious been a brutal ally of iran in the region why pro israel lobby why the americans while

the saudis are sector are so keen to talk about now there's no such moment the syrian government is about where it's going around would be even more isolated than east today and even a very dangerous position so that's what makes sense for iran to be trying to use. all of their financial motives behind this meeting where we've got to believe the economies are bearing in mind the situation there in iran with all those sanctions appearing to have a quite an impact on the iranian economy do do you. they both need each other i think they do bill and i think probably more his point of view i think as we see hearty all the rest in egypt but people are very happy with how things are going legacy and carry on the violence it and shipped it on iraq will be one way that she can say to his people look i'm not just a us puppet i am going to be different here so i think from his point of him he could get popularity at home by taking a more conciliatory line towards iran and from the iranian point of view course they've been putting the dollhouse i mean the pro israel lobby has been very successful in passing it getting the u.s. and other countries to pass tougher and tougher sanctions on iran the real economy

is 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 there's no evidence to the contrary so therefore it's it's wrong but it should be totally isolated. the last militant believed to be behind the deadly attacks on the moscow metro has been killed he was trying down by special forces in pakistan in southern russia and the thirty six year old began shooting when there was an attempt to detain him he was killed when officers returned fire officials said the man had accompanied one of the two suicide bombers on to moscow's metro in march twenty ten a twin blasts hit a crowded central stations during the morning rush hour thirty nine year old roughly ninety injured. the writer starting with molly let's get into it now the sea world update for you on the french military assisted by local militias has now taken control over the last major city in mali to be held by islamist militants.

several hundred rebels have been killed since the offensive began in the country last month while the advance has been swift some reports suggest the french led liberation campaign was also of course mounting civilian casualties the french foreign minister has hinted the operation could be over by march. a severe magnitude eight earthquake has struck near the solomon islands one and a half meter tsunami waves were triggered by the quake at least five people have reportedly been killed in several villages destroyed but tsunami warnings issued elsewhere in the south pacific now being canceled or governments had all the people to flee to higher ground as a precaution. russia is considering a new law that could ban people from buying duty free drink or consuming any alcohol at all on board planes it's after a series of recent complaints from russian airlines about unruly passengers. who

went to investigate the grounds for possible prohibition. please make sure 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 air was that 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 accountable one pretty much he was demanding

something crazy he was forcing himself into a cockpit everyone was trying to hold him back and he was yelling let me and forcing his way into the pilot's seat. 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 an airplane and that doesn't fly over well with the country's main airline that used up much of commuting with your partner wants our crews on board to be able to restrain such passengers 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 this yama in the leg honeymooners who forced a plane heading for thailand to land in his back a stand 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 stated two reasons for drinking fear following 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 it in party are coming up after a very short break here and. swinging her trust a sledgehammer has broken the set just a moment. you really yes you are one hundred percent sure. sure ok was this man snowboard off the it was basically moscow. i r t v dot com don't miss it.

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