fourteen square meter room and is reportedly allowed to wear his own cloth saying his sad to have his own t.v. and attract mel where he jocks for miles daily still it's a long shot even fellow lap convicted felons are banned from running for office and electro court is expected to declare him in alledge of zero in coming weeks lou is not going to be able to run what he's trying to do is to increase as much as possible support for the workers' party and then so he wants to keep that alive his candidacy is alive for as long as possible and then at the last minute when he's no longer possible transfer all of that support that he is building up currently to his vice presidential running mate running mate which is his favored candidate to replace him if he can't run and again that fernando who was a the mayor of san pablo and is not popular at all while things look unpredictable now one thing is certain election season and brazil has

a senate sliced twist just yet and in a question. they ex-president lawyer told us lula da silva is it going to get properly back on the campaign trail it is hard of course he's in prison. during the weekends for instance he's in isolation because there's no contact even with with any of his lawyers is not a large had contact with his family there he's only allowed. visitations for a week. friends it is hard but he's writing a lot he's sending directions in writing of course it is hard because he's not he's doesn't have access to interviews he's not able to answer any of the exemptions that other candidates may make against him is not able to defend himself to tour the country which is what he really desires to be with the people and to explain his age and he's you know new ideas of for the future of the country.

where defense ministry has warned that terrorists in syria are preparing to fade a chemical attack in a bid to provoke a western intervention according to information confirmed by several independent sources terrorist group to here. is preparing another provocation and that implicating the syrian government in the use of chemical weapons against the civilian population it looked province the provocation which is being organized with the active help of british intelligence services is intended to serve as yet another pretext for a missile strike by the u.s. the u.k. and france against state and industry facilities in syria. her right to read the terrorist organization just mentioned as one of syria's most powerful islamist factions has a quick look at the group. and

just a few days ago the u.s. national security advisor john bolton said america would bring its might to bear should a chemical attack happen in syria. we now see plans for the syrian regime to resume offensive military activities and it would. we are obviously concerned. about the possibility that it may use chemical weapons again we had hoped that our strikes had created structures of deterrence to convince the assad regime not to do that we hope that's right but just so there's no confusion here if the syrian regime uses chemical weapons we will respond very strongly i think washington is preparing for a strike in the region and the wrong reasons you know i think you got to look at

the bigger picture of what's happening in syria america is looking increasingly in significant i mean to use the term illusions is almost an understatement they don't really seem to have any real impact on the ground anymore with the biggest ally in the whole region the codes in the last few days looking more and more like is it going to strike a deal with the assad regime so you've got a certain amount of embarrassment on trump's side you know people in america not just media but all sorts of people are asking well what is america actually doing there on the ground syria is really a province where the russian military say is the provocation is being planned is the country's biggest rebel. stronghold the province is dominated by islamist groups including a higher right to rear. with government forces recapturing ever more territory rebels have fled to lips sometimes as part of a negotiated retreat it is now the last significant rebel held area in syria martin

j. again thinks the province is of paramount importance to all parties of the conflict both regional and global and now we have left now as it lip which is a concentration of extremist fighters something like. cells of fighters over half of which are hated yes and also turkish backed so-called rebels if you like in that province you've got something like about three million people half of which are refugees and it's looking like it won't be quite as simple as an amiable agreement between both sides not only on the ground but also the superpowers so we're looking at something of i would say quite a scrap i mean the next few days or few weeks. the former first minister of scotland alex summoned is taking the country's government to court he claims its inquiry into his alleged sexual misconduct is illegal the case revolves around allegations of sexual harassment made by two staff but as the incumbent first

minister nicolas sturgeon who is a close ally of simon says she wants to see the investigation progress even though it could have undesirable ramifications for her party for my party this will be extremely upsetting to members of the s.n.p. up and down the country it's a difficult situation but what is important is that completes our treaty seriously regardless of who the person complained about is i can confirm that the scottish government receives two complaints in january in relation to an exam and mrs hammond was notified of the complaints in march and phoned to mr simons and the people involved. on wednesday august twenty second of my conclusions and that i was considering the public interest in making the fact of the complaints and investigation publicly known i know that the film affairs minister has indicated his intention to challenge the action taken by the scottish government this cottage

government will defend its position vigorously. the allegations against sam and concern of banks that allegedly occurred back in twenty thirty the former first minister has flatly denied the claims calling the government's complaints process unfair and unjust we spoke to him about the case. i fitted the complaints that were made against me and i have sued deny any semblance of criminality saw when you have such things you need a process which is both confidential and fear and most reasonable people will understand and what i'm not frightened of going to the highest court in the land to establish that it seems the scottish government looks a bit shaky in their position or anything like this depends on having a fair show having a feel opportunity and overfed the scottish government process doesn't do that he don't get to see the evidence you don't get to present your own case was done and

from speaking to any current civil servant many of whom incidentally have texted me today saying why didn't you come to us to support your position well the reason is i was banned for doing that by miss leslie evans the family sent to the scottish government i wasn't allowed to contact them directly so if you can't present your own case you've got an unjust process. these investigations dependent could very could a that confidentiality if you don't have that then how and there are people good have the confidence to complete in future because not just the person complained of oh it's the confidentiality of the complainants and the scottish government would break you lack of then jollity so we told them to not make that statement because we were taking the action in the court session but it's an extraordinary situation when the scottish government starts to break its order confidentiality after the shooting everybody connected with this that that was going to be absolutely protected for the process. well let's understand.

unique about the scottish government process of talking about events of many years ago when i'm not a serving scottish government minister not you the name peer they may speak at the present moment and therefore it's really important if you try and introduce such a reckless friend to procedure you make sure that the passion who is being complained of it has the opportunity to properly present the case the scottish government's been making the position look the should apply to everybody including former first ministers i absolutely agree and everybody including former first ministers everybody in the land is intitled to a fear of process and the chance to state their case fairly what could be wrong with that but no you know we're a say the only good i can see coming out of this is we're on our way to the court of session that's a real court of real judgment with fear process is the only the decision and then we'll all have to baber. recent tweet suggests that donald trump is eager to

engage in fresh trade talks with china it appears beijing gives a little more hesitant with talks that chant impeachment growing ever louder reports say the chinese might wait until after the us midterms to see how things pan out for the american president kellett morgan explained. trade talks between the usa and china have failed again now trump would like to push all the blame on to beijing however the situation deal mess to clean might have more to do with it chinese state media is openly arguing the trump is using the trade wars and tariffs as a gimmick in order to win political support trump likely to feel it's a cool headed midterm elections the meet term elections are one of the key reasons the u.s. has maintained a tough stance towards china needless to say china is not eager to play into trump's hand officials there and reportedly said that they are suspending the talks until after the midterm vote it makes pretty good sense for china to cancel the

talks until after november why because if the midterm vote doesn't go in terms favor it could be more than congress that's up for change i don't know how you can impeach somebody who's done a great job if i ever got a ph i think the market would pressure i think everybody would be very poor might think trumps playing with fire by saying i'm doing a good job don't impeach me especially when it's pretty clear that the i word is on everyone's mind you could say it's the talk of the town in washington d.c. could he be impeached with this impeach trump the idea of impeachment time for impeachment you could have even been preachment is probably likely but there is i think a lot for the president to fear of compared to the previous administration top seems to have done almost a one eighty when it comes to dealing with the people's republic of china we welcome. the peaceful rise of china consistent with international norms that's good for everybody we are being taken advantage of and i don't like it so you have to

ask the question are those who talk about impeaching donald trump really doing american business as a favor after all the idea that donald trump might be packing his bags after november doesn't really put him in a strong spot when it comes to practicing his art of the deal montra the chinese have a. doctored if fairly strong if not hard line position for the time being the chinese feel that they have been betrayed and mr trump has not followed through on his word they heard a joint statement and a consensus that north tariffs were going to be issued the china agreement are collapsed within a week and of this point of time there's just no trumpet in or trust in his board they do not see. serious decisions and serious all plans coming from these discussions over the next couple of months china is holding on to beyond the mid-term elections and i think it's

a very good strategy. barcelona's little messy reality of thirty year remorse and other club captain than spain's top football league are poised to go on strike now far to the league's officials that signed a deal with an american company to play regular games on u.s. soil spanish fans aren't thrilled either at the prospect of having to fork out and fly out as artie's alexy are said ski explains. shocker in spanish football real madrid and f.c. barcelona are not loved as much anymore by their home fans the opening games for the giants saw the lowest stadium attendance for both in a decade with ryall you can try to attribute this to a certain number seven leaving the club for italy but leo messi is men are not used to seeing dwindling support at camp no or maybe fans voted with their feet because both games kicked off very late quarter past ten pm on a sunday night madrid's german superstar twenty cross could not hide his feelings

on twitter to boot the timetable of the game so late ten or even later worked. and thus too late for the children league bosses have now gone even further signing an agreement with american company relevant sports to have at least one game between spanish superclubs played on the u.s. soil yes you heard it right spanish domestic league played in the united states in miami to be precise and i was there last year at a sold out friendly version of al classical reale vs bossa where tickets to what essentially was an exhibition game started at a whopping three hundred dollars that would get you a season ticket for all home games at most spanish clubs but charlie still eternal owner of relevant sports told me that was not enough as someone turned to me when i was three to two and they were still going back and forth and up and down he said maybe you should charge more for this. while the company claims the move would

boost popularity of the game across the pond many believe it will only line corporate pockets at the expense of ordinary fans. that's not the issue but you. know you've got some things that you know used to. yes but the boxer. but the maltese are suffering more than that they only think about money and imagine if that game thousands of kilometers away is decisive for winning the league or surviving in it and the spanish fans are not exactly the richest in the world that's why not only them but players themselves have been outraged the spanish footballers association lumb bastard this deal in a statement and to add even more fuel to the fire the captains of all twenty league clubs you name is lee sad they could go on strike i don't just actually know we

will go to the end we unanimously against it and when we complain it's because we believe that our rights have been violated. that's enough so we'll go until the end of the deal found shock waves across the old world with many in england fearing that the f.a. could follow in law leaders footsteps it didn't help that silly town openly stated that he wanted to bring english football across the atlantic too and with the twenty twenty six world cup heading to north america you have to wonder what else is planned to raise the beautiful games popularity in the land of soccer. ski r.t. . on here at r.t. we love to hear your thoughts on all of our stories so to get in touch by following us on social media we'll be back at the top of the hour with all the latest headlines we'll see you then.

they gave us national camera. roughly once that showed some of the for them. to. own cool videos and sell them with the roughly string after. playing down more on string i don't roughly don't t.v. when a loved one is murdered it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murderer i would prefer and it mean when the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying the is just no way to parent and that we were even many victims' families want the death penalty to be abolished the respect they get pelley hears

because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in saying. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way. i'm after times and you're watching going underground while we're away where screening some of your favorite episodes of this season coming up on this show the cia sanctioned torture in major nations former cia man ray mcgovern who served under seven american presidents tells us about american black sites in europe and warns us about the new boss of lonely britain they have to understand three hundred thirty million gods to get a postscript citrate deal with the world's largest democracy we talked to india's

former foreign minister the ex of the secretary general. the united nations judges the rule that's all coming up in today's going underground but first the british house of commons witnesses defense questions today and what are you gay defense department is here is its boss declaring some kind of war with russia. should go away should show took but there is a major government doesn't just want russia to go away re placing a disgrace deportations gandel home secretary is this man who wants private corporations to help defend earth from russia we will also increase our cooperation with the private sector as someone with a private sector background myself i understand that government cannot deal with these kinds of challenges alone because anyone who banks that have bailed a bank or who has taken a privatized train in britain knows how efficient the private sector is and remember these for profit corporations are not necessarily targeting isis terror

they'll also be targeting russian terror north course or we have mutated tax by hostile states the attempted murders in sol's reward outrageous attack on our soil using military grade nerve agent that in itself was a brazen message from the russian state. we also know that the way that terrorists attacks on their planned and conducted has changed. people are increasingly being radicalized why their computers and smart phones yes terror from those radicalized by computers and smartphones a military grade nerve agent that doesn't kill a russian terror plot that has no conclusive evidence whatever is he going to do community policing to gather intelligence or a centralized police state there is approximately at the moment some three thousand subjects of interest to be a security services a city looking each day and there's also

a further twenty thousand of what they refer to as of the close objects of interest previously investigated not any more of the twenty thousand i think there will be let's say a few hundred that although there are close subjects at a local level these agencies might be able to sort of help with that and maybe come with an intervention program of some sort yes there are twenty thousand innocent until proven guilty people who have done nothing wrong that can be pinned on them they're going to somehow be intervened on even though they can't be arrested information against them will be shared around people on the list won't even know they're on or list and will have no ability to counter miss identification or false information with russia being lumped in this will stop people like this cripples being poisoned thankfully the usa arguably remembers german coffee and those russia could detonate the entire u.k. at a moment's notice with or without terms i could do such

a job ads secretly shared lists in fact the us system of checks and balances from congressional appointment hearings for the cia's new boss gina her support to the senate torture report lifted the veil a month speakable crimes joining me now is a cia veteran ray mcgovern ray thanks for coming back on there whether you have that much faith in the u.s. system but what did you make of the european court of human rights finding with you when you're in romania for hosting cia black sites i thought it was sick. good of course came late we knew that the lithuanians in the polls and the rumanians and many other countries including thailand. had cooperated in the kidnapping torture and so forth. of these cia sites but it was good to get it on the record and people should take notice oddly it also indicates that jena high school will probably not be able to land in places like berlin or paris without some

trepidation that should be arrested on the spot under the principle of universal jurisdiction i have to say though that they haven't been direct connections with the new boss of the cia to that but you think anyway the united states will be that worried that alone there arguable proxies of a one hundred twenty thousand dollar fine seem to be. critics well i have to mention that china has bill is directly responsible for what happened to the shiri one of the people who was also tortured in lithuania when she was there onsite as he was water boarded in thailand so the fact that she was able to dance away from that charge during the senate hearing was really unconscionable the judges according to some news that she oversaw malk executions and rectal feeding of of it all right. less sherry well you know it was really gruesome you mention the senate

investigation report four years in the making and released just before the current chair richard burr took the chair of the senate intelligence committee now the first thing he did was recall the copies of that senate for your report what does that tell you all right he was involved he was in the house and the senate intelligence committees when all this was going on there joe. and at the hip the overseers are not overseers they're over lookers and what they do is kind of take care of people like gina hasbro and instead of requiring her to answer the questions they let her go to executive session boss in fairness to gina many people in the mainstream newspapers of record whatever they say say there's a context of the nine eleven and surely you're not suggesting nuremberg rules should apply the f.t.

here the japanese own financial times said a hospital coworker said the torture was okayed by the white house the department of justice and the cia's had caught is not put. you can't ok torture ok. the us is signatory to the universal declaration on torture the un declaration which says no no circumstances civil war emergencies of any kind exempt a party from the prohibition on torture worse still torture doesn't work no matter what president from says you know i go i was an army officer an infantry intelligence officer i know the drill ok if that's the case why do you think the reason twenty sixteen pew survey said the u.s. public were kind of divided on this forty eight percent for torture forty eight percent forty nine percent maybe against torture well precisely for the reason that you it used a few minutes ago and that is you said in fairness to the jena house bill the media

is saying that such and such. please don't quote the major media in fairness to jena has both the major media is a tool of the deep state of our country and that the major media including new york times doesn't publish anything sensitive without checking first with the cia so you know why do americans believe that hollywood t.v. . they've been they've been brainwashed into thinking that torture works and the senate committee report that you mentioned four years in the making issued in december of two thousand and fourteen proves that all these techniques based on cia original documents doesn't work that nothing no actionable intelligence was acquired they could not have and was not acquired by other reasonable normal legal interrogation techniques and are now claims that you case is right now

a sharing intelligence obtained under torture of the british shadow foreign secretary and lethal embury writing to the british foreign secretary barnes johnson that this how dangerous would be the practice of sharing intelligence amongst nato nations of intelligence obtained under torture well with all due respect m i five m i six takes their cue from cia and the americans i mean what more do you need to use but ambassador craig murray in east on he's in receipt of interrogation reports we which he knows on the scene are gain from torture ok and he says to the foreign office you know this this really shouldn't be foreign offices are british citizens doing this and he says well if british this is our doing it sure could and followed it craig very quick to his great credit so you get

a kind of bureaucratic inertia here were the americans say it's ok if so facto it's ok well it's not ok you are at the cia how can you police and my five m i six the cia or f.b.i. to not use an intelligence file that may have emanated from one of the united states is black sites around the world let's say all that so you want to prove that al qaeda is hand in glove with saddam hussein to help justify a war against. saddam hussein well you know what you can get that from torture we had this prisoner he wouldn't admit that there were close ties between al qaeda and saddam hussein so we sent them to the egyptians a friendly service and guess what they got into it at mit in quotes that yes he sent all manner of operatives up to baghdad to be turned to be trained in explosives and and chemical weapons and guess what that was used by colin powell it

is speech before the u.n. on the fifth of february just six weeks before the war to justify what he just six weeks before the war to justify what he called the sinister nexus between al qaeda and saddam hussein made out of whole cloth whether colin powell was deceived as he claims he was or whether re he was smart enough to realize what was going on that's an open question but it was right from torture and it was the case with the torture works you get people to say what you want them to say that's the only time it works and it only works with inaccurate information. you were of course at the cia under many presidents i wondered what you thought or made of the fact that britain's new home secretary sajid javid says that secret lists of people from m i five should be circulated in civic society to intervene on people to combat everything from isis to russia what he would do you think of that idea of

secret lists secret lists you know what i remember of secret lists or one of the nazis came into the netherlands for example and each mayor had a secret list in those days it was on paid for ok the names of all the citizens including their religion ok now the mayor's with some conscience destroyed those lists before the nazis get a hold of them the ones that wanted accommodate. they said oh yeah well here they are the jewish people right here and those people are taken off immediately to auschwitz and other concentration camps if that's what you get from secret lists those who are bad enough on paper on computer they're really mischievous another proposal he has been reported here is the first time this would be able to be done at airports in britain and all ports people from the security services immigration office.