without. political rivals.

this is. across the country to protest. the public. leading opposition figure. holding the responsible international relations professor says the government will be hard pressed to survive. tension between the opposition and the ruling party and has been growing for elections in a few months time in the two years since the revolution the economy in unity has

taken a nosedive i was a january and in addition to the tourist business has been dramatically cut hotels empty until you have factories used to supply components to european companies shot unemployment is rising to this it had been presented as the nearest thing to a success story there had been too much violence thought unfortunately as i say these deep despair disappointments with the failure to make life better life is called worse and the sense that there is a check tree that takes many people turn into a way for them to tension about the coming elections and whether we will get to those elections without a real political crisis on the streets and perhaps change around one problem the poor in this year 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 it's regimes all the column is now in a nosedive and it's surrounded by recently tense areas to the east and south and it's getting no real help from the north this is very tragic position which in as

humans are now let's get the latest from. the journalist who is joining us on the phone from. moscow i do hope you can hear me let's talk about this a prominent leader of the tunisian opposition that apparently has been assassinated what more can you tell us about the killing. good. morning sir tunisia position pretty titian should people have been shocked that the outside his home. in a suburb quite suburb of tunisia. should be but i think general secretary over that look i think such a faulty and he's also one of the. popular from the coalition. for october. he's known as a prominent opponent of the launch. and then.

he's a situation percent. and it just. sort of jump in we've been hearing reports of over a thousand or more people protesting in the streets showing that little of discontent and frustration you're in the area can you tell us what have you seen yes i mean. today what we can talk about and like any widespread anger at present a ling in tunisia tunisians are shocked and they consider this as a criminal act this is the first time this kind of fantasy nation happened just in egypt so people you know they protested you know they are in the streets they have most of them they are in people keeping you in front of the ministry of interior and you know i can. see a shame. many of the offices.

where i talked so. prevailing. we're also hearing we're getting reports now the police the foreign tear gas to disperse protesters also hearing that several headquarters of the ruling element is the most policy around the country actually of not being set on fire did you see a tipping point here because ultimately tunisia is credited by many as being the opening the starting beginning points of what was the hour of spring in the scales tipped once again. yes yes i think you know i mean as i told you i mean everywhere i mean the anger is prevailing and people are very very very angry and sad. about the few does but. there is no we didn't don't know you know but you know people just. don't think of their protesting st. john as the huda as i could do the joining us live here on are too many thanks for writing on the program so quickly. fifty four countries held washington

detained transfer and sometimes even tortured terrorist suspects in secret cia prisons and that's according to a top american and which was released the most detailed account yet of the notorious rendition program details now artie's guy nature can. 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 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 danmark you go to huge of 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 tenet is the only country to issue an apology to twig to an extraordinary rendition victim ma 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. i'm not even gonna try to can that it is predicted the outcome of this year's general election in germany could be a major league could be majorly swayed that is by the candidates offering different approaches certainly towards that of the greek economic crisis and the merkel's main challenger the country's former finance minister says she's been just a bit too tough on athens. 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. that jersey 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 angle a 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 a 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 leader 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 when everybody meets later on today. ok couple of minutes here on the program. shortly. perhaps.

live from moscow this is artsy with me rory sue shy of the u.k.'s national health care system has been flooded with a wave of public anger this after a recent scandal exposed negligence and the abuse of patients at a major hospital and the findings of a specially commissioned investigation which details these issues of the hundreds of people dying in appalling conditions will be laid before parliament as of his political report's claims of the ruthless mistreatment of those in need or increase the mean being heard. all across the country. my wife started hospital in september two thousand and eight just a disaster is a total chaos when you walk through the doors of the world if you smell it.

cry and you know start from very little to find a nurse who was left and reach. on the floor been there since breakfast time. she'd be. blind erode for you see. medication wasn't given to the death of john's wife is just one of the many horror stories term marriage from the now notorious stafford 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 people not existing. songs. 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 stuff. failing and the that was never shared with the public and i believe the same is in order hospitals it's emerged 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 after suffering a catalogue of neglect left in their own excrement dehydrated and without painkillers it's the biggest scandal to have hit the national health service in recent years but with budgets being slashed and red tape preoccupying hospital manages a person'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 is soul destroying. that's a bit of stuff that every ride i go to makes a 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 fold 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 and needlessly lost polly boyko r

t stafford. iranian president. the new job has called for the formation of a strategic alliance with egypt saying that outside forces are preventing the two nations from reaching understanding his comments came during an historic visit to cairo which aims to rekindle relations after more than three decades of diplomatic silence the two nations severed ties after iran's islamic revolution of nine hundred seventy nine relations worsened further following egypt's peace treaty with israel but more sees the us a did it rise to power after the uprising is seen as a major hurdle to better links with tehran which is strongly opposed to the current revolt in syria or some analysts think that keeping the door open to the islamic republic shows cairo is now pursuing a more independent state of foreign policy rather than as ousted leader hosni mubarak earlier journalist neil clark told my colleague old dog that iran needs all

the friends it can get. around the strongest ally in the arab world has now been serious serious been a very little ally of iran this is the reason why the pro israel lobby why the americans while the saudis etc so keen to talk sad now there's no such moment the syrian government is about what we're all going around would be even more isolated than it is today and even in 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 you do they both need each other i think they do and i think more the point of view i think as we see people at the wall going to rest in egypt but people are very happy with how things are going to get seen carrying on the look are actually people are on iraq will be one way in which you can say to these people look i'm not just a us puppet i'm going to be different here so i think from his point he could get

popularity at home by taking a more conciliatory line toward iraq and to be ready for it if you course they've been pretty good i mean the pro israel lobby has been very success. in the u.s. and other countries to ask tougher and tougher sanctions on iran we really commie 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 about it when you create weapons it's got a peaceful nuclear energy program which is no evidence contrary so therefore it's wrong but it should be totally isolated. we are skirting conflict in syria is forcing an increasing number of civilians to flee abroad the un estimates that more than seven hundred fifty thousand syrians have already become refugees with the figure expected to keep rising dramatically every day droves are fleeing across the border into jordan but some are not going back to the war zone as artie's lucy careful of now reports. they come here to escape

the hell of war as many as fifty thousand in the last month alone yet all too often in jordan zaatari camp hope gives way to despair we have nothing relived our home why is this happening why isn't anyone here to help us too many people and not enough help the sprawling ten 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 we are called there is no a true city i have two children and there are no diapers for them i'm forced to back from my friends and family. 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 no one is helping each other if you want to get bread you need a knife by your side to fight for it it's gas chaos that's simply too much for some seventy year old ahmed also obvious says that he would have preferred death in syria to life in the camps. if i stayed in syria it would have been better for me they 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 wants 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 at 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 will cross tonight we have no idea how many more there

will be by the end of the week here in jordan or in the long or in turkey 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 but 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 these families are waiting to get on buses that will take them back well i've been here for three days but after all i've seen in this campaign plane my right to go back to syria it's killing but here we live worse than animals kind of existence. hundreds of thousands of syrians came to jordan seeking

a better life but here at the top story 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. we can always i stay up to date with the latest news from around the world just by looking into a website. called let's have a look at some of the stories waiting for you there right now but i should offer you a warning here the ever watchful social network a new application being developed for facebook which is able to track a user's location even when it's switched off. and out to boldly go crazy or courageous you be the judge a group of russian scientists take the plunge diving into a frozen siberian lake but managing to escape with the outside temperature of minus fifty degrees celsius about footage on much more waiting for you on our website odyssey dawn. speak your language.

programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here. from the world of the interviews intriguing story. intro arabic. visit. turbulence exploding engines a lack of few of them a threat to a smooth flight and increasingly it seems though that drunken. be added to that list in the last few days alone a spate of planes have been forced to make emergency landings because of boozed up travelers putting people's lives at risk now this possible or could be a potential prohibition in the skies. went to discover. please make

sure your seat belts are fast and the tray table is securely stowed and the passenger next to you is not intoxicated out of his mind passport ticket and alcohol of course there is a lot of there was a prohibited wrinkle 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 they will learn 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 reason or more 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 fly over well with the country's main airline that used to your partner want our crews on board to be able to restrain such passengers we need a law for that and we also an amendment 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 land 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 flying and celebrating their marriage this type of emotional travel drinking has gotten russian lawmakers thinking very seriously so we're not too distant future it seems passengers will be able to keep their emotions bottled up in moscow if you've got r t. r just a couple of minutes here on our team a very new a special report on how video games can affect the mind this is arts a life from moscow. thank. you.