antigovernment fury. after the assassination of a prominent opposition figure. the ruling party. and unprecedented report accuses fifty four countries of helping america's rendition program which included detention without charge and the torture of terrorist suspects. one of the german chancellor's main political rivals policies. find out why greece. starters orders. what's become the most expensive.

in history we were poor. worldwide news live from moscow this is with me welcome to the program. police have clashed with protesters and fired tear gas after angry mobs attacked the offices of the ruling islamist party thousands of taking to the streets across the country to protest against the government and the public followed the assassination of the leading opposition figure. holding the power elite responsible the opposition is called for a general strike and is suspending its membership in the country's lawmaking body.

journalist who. brought us the latest. reaction from the crowd. shocked and consider this as a criminal act this is the first time this kind of fancy nation happened to tunisia so people you know they protested you know they are in the streets they have most of them they are. in front of the ministry of interior and you know i get a good feeling of the shame. many of the offices of the ruling party everywhere i mean anger is prevailing and people are very very very angry and sad. about the. victims until now you know. people just seventeen and they just they are protesting in the street. international relations professor and he says the government will be hard

pressed to survive until the upcoming elections to take place. tension between the opposition and the ruling party and harder has been growing the elections in a few months time in the two years since the revolution the economy and when it is taking a nosedive i was a general in addition to tourist businesses being dramatically cut hotels and tents and you have factories supplied components to appear in companies shot unemployment is rising to this it has been presented as the nearest into a success story there had been too much violence thought unfortunately as i say these distant disappointments with the failure to make life better life has got worse and the sense that there is a trick true that takes many people ingenuity away from 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 for the poor an issue is that it doesn't have many natural resources so that its role that neglected by the west is nobody has any great interest in trying to prop it up and so it's regimes fall to politics now in a nosedive and it's surrounded by recently tense hours to the east and south and it's getting no real help from the mall this is as you were trying to position the conditions. this is r.t. now fifty four countries helped washington detained transfer and even sometimes tortured terrorist suspects in secret cia prisons according to a top american n.-g. o. which has released the most detailed account yet of the notorious rendition program details on this dualities guy any tricks you can. this is a very comprehensive report to have prepared by the open society foundations not

only did they detail torture techniques that were used at cia's secret prisons overseas the 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 and australia 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 almost thirty 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 the to an extraordinary rendition victim 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. this is artsy it was

predictably outcome of this year's general election in germany could be majorly swayed by the candidates differing approaches towards the greek economic crisis and let merkel's main challenger the country's former finance minister says she's been simply too harsh on athens investigating the story peter on. 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 not 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. and 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 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. 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. date. after years of preparations sleepless nights and hard work russia now has something to celebrate tomorrow the official countdown to the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics begins at the games already broken the record books are

becoming the most expensive ever to be staged farm reports on the changing face of the host city such. a piece by piece sort she's a limb picture is coming together work continues around the clock but with a year to go things are shaping up fast in the company in charge of construction has a simple message despite building the everything from scratch russia will be ready and. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training facilities are ready practically all of them of host a test competitions all hotels in the olympic villages or in the final phase of construction being referred unfurnished the show jewels to open in the autumn we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year so personal can train and managers can gain experience in providing a good service but achieving this goal has come at a staggering price heist in these games is costing around fifty billion dollars

making them the most expensive in the in pick history they cost ten times more than the last winter games in vancouver and ten billion dollars more than the beijing summer games however the results can already be seen and they are impressive if you do take a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the olympic park which is six venues all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey and this is the jewel in the crown the bolshoi i stay inside this vast hockey arena is pristine and ready for use it will stage the under eighteen world championships in april one of two dozen international events that will test all in the venue. before the games begin the slogan for thought she twenty fourteen is hot cool your top because the limbic park is them by their backs in case their i'm cold because all the alpine events or take place just forty kilometers away. it is

a similar story that not much was here before but there are also couture resorts has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of alpine skiing biathlon and cross-country courses have also been created along with the bobsled track and then there's something you can't fail to meet but if you make your way down the mountain will eventually come to hey one of the most dramatic sights at any winter olympics the ski jumping the larger ramp on the left hand side is for the men on the smaller one on the right is for the women he will be competing for the very first time in this event at an olympics next year. linking these so-called mountain and coastal clusters has not been easy over five hundred kilometers of road am rail lines have been laid and they have transformed sorties infrastructure but the city may believing the region will reap the benefits for years to come. our residents are aware of the conditions they have to face during changes especially on this scale

we certainly have many inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi without renovation going on the roads are regularly dug up which causes traffic jams all the time however the residents are aware that it's necessary for their future a brilliant future. so she has undergone huge change in just six years but the transformation is almost complete and the black sea resort believes it can and will deliver a gangster remember this time next year. so. it's good to have you with us here in oz here today just

a couple of minutes will be coming with a lack of medical care all about a public inquiry that is on the gulf britain's health care system and a massive negligence and a huge scandal all the details along with i would have the counts coming your way very soon. speak your language. what programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about six of the ip interviews intriguing stories for you. in trying.

to find out more visit our big teeth dog called. just now it's running seven fifteen pm here in the russian capital this is our at the u.k.'s national health care system has been flooded with a wave of public anger this after a recent scandal exposed negligence on the abuse of patients at a major hospital and the findings of a specially commission investigation which details hundreds of people dying in

appalling conditions and will be laid before parliament. as the story. that stuff at hospital in september of two thousand and eight to disaster is to a total chaos when you walk through the door of the world if you smell a. crime no staff available for. those who is left and rich. or in two months new shoes on the floor we've been there since breakfast on. line a row for you see. maybe carry. 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 their dignity so much evil that sandy 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 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. 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. there'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 it 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. we can always or stay up to date with more news from around the world just by looking into our website or our c dot com a scene right there let's check out just some of the stories standing by for you right now for example of the ever watchful social network and you application being developed for facebook which basically is able to track a user's location even when your unit is switched off and also to boldly go is a courage or is it crazy these are russians are used to taking the plunge diving into a frozen siberian lake they were scraping the outside temperatures in the region of minus fifty degrees celsius footage and more certainly breathtaking to say the

least at r.t. dot com. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks of the yard p. interviews for intriguing stories for you to. try. to find out more visit arabic t.v. . it's good to have you with us here in our to you today the iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad says tehran can offer cash strapped egypt a loan to help boost its economy it's also called for the formation of a strategic alliance with cairo saying that outside forces are preventing the two nations from reaching understanding his comments came during an historic visit to the country with shame to rekindle relations after more than three decades of

diplomatic silence of the two nations sever ties after iran's islamic revolution back in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine relations worsened further following egypt's peace treaty with israel but more of suzy usa did rise to power after the uprising was seen as a major hurdle to better links with tehran which is strongly opposed to the current revolt in syria journalist neil clark believes keeping the door open to iran shows caro is pursuing a more independent foreign policy than his alstad leader hosni mubarak. iran's strongest ally in the arab world has now been serious serious been a very loyal ally of iran all these years the reason why pro israel lobby why the americans why the saudis etc so keen to talk sad now there's no such moment the syrian government is about where it already around would be even more isolated than east today and the area is very dangerous so that's what makes sense for iran to be trying to build bridges. and there's no way that the americans are going to look.

with anything other than horror and the idea that. egypt could replace syria as a loyal friend of iran is a long way to the future now so i think iran's got to be very careful doesn't want to it's a loser for syria and should be to carry on supporting syria but that doesn't mean of course that it can't try to build. mosques point of view i think as we see in r.t. all the rest in egypt but people are very unhappy with how things are going legacy and carry on a look at it and ship 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 from his point and he could get popularity at home by taking a more conciliatory line towards iran it could be rallying point if you course they've been pretty good on house i mean the pro israel lobby has been very successful in passing it giving the u.s. and other countries to pass tougher and tougher sanctions on iran he really commie is a really bad state so iran needs all the friends it can get. the u.k.

government is said to be considering the use of special black boxes to record people's internet activities though all the name of national security the plans of radical privacy advocates up in arms to discuss a further we're now joined live by emma carr the definite director of a big brother watch a pleasure to see you today thanks for coming out i think can you just explain it to me here how exactly is it supposed to work in practice are we talking literally every e-mail and skype call being recorded. yeah that's exactly what we're talking about the u.k. government seems to think that it's necessary to monitor the communications of every person in great britain well other than actually looking for the people who are actually committing crimes they're going to drive those people further and further underground of the internet and they're only going to capture the the innocent and the incompetent as far as i'm concerned so you're in london at the moment i mean any reaction from the british public or to this news so far is it just a bit too soon. well this is being in the media and on the table with the government

since last april and it's been receiving quite a lot of media attention as you can imagine the people in great person don't like the thought of the government collecting all of their communications in this way from their point of view it goes against the very basis of the democrat democratic institution that is our parliament and this wasn't sort of. you can you talk about violations of constitution is i mean is there going to be some of that will argue that in the interests of national security to prevent attacks like the seven seven bombings when perhaps it's not such a bad thing if all these issues are being recorded off the internet. oh absolutely and i'm not by any means saying that communications data isn't important but when you have the director general of m i five talking about the evidence that was used to make this spill and calling it pretty heroic assumptions that we've been made

that the m i five obviously going to. need this information and will. react to this information if they're saying that this bill isn't based on fact it's based on fun see full. imitations of facts and this is why we need to go and have a very hard look at this bill get more evidence have a a much further in-depth consultation to actually get the facts about what is needed and how it can be done but if indeed it is true that the government would create black boxes to record emails and skype conversations and so on and so forth perhaps those an argument to say that the only people who fear this perhaps are those who have something to hide. well what we've seen that with you mention the seven seven bombings is that actually the police already had two thousand people under investigation and their communications stay so was being got a's and that just for those two thousand people they couldn't handle the amount of data that was being hit so to do that for the entire population of great britain isn't going to

actually capture anyone as far as where the evidence would also suggest that what they need to do is they need to have an investigative lead. investigations into who is actually committing crimes and then look at the data and be using the one point eight million pounds that billion pounds so that has been earmarked for this project to make better better tools that can be used to look at this data and actually larger manpower berners hogan how he was in charge of the met police themselves and said what we have at the moment is more green screen than i pads so to bring in new laws to replace the laws that we already have when those ones don't work at the moment i think is a few steps too far as far as i can see it's a good you think there's anything that any of us could do if indeed it comes to the fact that our e-mails are going to be kept in a black box or are skype calls are going to be recorded is there any can we delete or e-mails can we get some sort of different channel to have the squad conversations how can we protect our own privacy in the face of the government.

well this is very much and we and we shouldn't be in a situation where people feel like they have to hide things from the government when they're just going about their daily business and not committing crimes but one of the things that came out of this and the evidence was being gathered for the spill is that encryption is a very widely used tool by people who communicate via the internet and actually that's going to make the kind of inspection of the communications that we have very very difficult for the government and the internet service providers who are going to be asked to gather all of this information or at ever call the deputy director of the big brother watching live from london thank you for joining us here on our today. well i don't but how often i was telling my colleague bill daughters here but before bill that's going to be his guests are doing what's next after israel's apparent bombing of syria crosstalk just a second. well

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market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to the report. following a welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle syria a country going from bad to worse with israel's air strike against syria and more expected it would appear there are forces in the region and in washington but now see military intervention as a means to end syria's civil war given past military interventions in the region is there any reason to believe that this time it will be any different.