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with no deal. or no breaks. on the world anti-doping agency is holding a meeting in azerbaijan where it will give an update on his decision to reinstate its russian. with your top stories for the welcome to the program here on r.t. international. newly declassified documents reveal that the cia experimented with a so-called truth serum as part of a program called project medication that involved drugging prisoners who had not succumb to a quote enhanced interrogation techniques. project medication was have previously undisclosed element of this program in which in addition to the physical and psychological torture that. several doctors decided to try to figure out. what if

they could also find some kind of truth serum that they would use against people's will to inject them with and make them talk the american civil liberties union fort in court for two years to obtain the documents which constitute a history of the cia's extraordinary rendition detention program a corresponding that investigates. it wasn't an isolated case or to an accident or oversight was government sanctioned systematic ordered there were manuals instructions on how to inflict pain that's not a secret in the immediate aftermath of nine eleven we tortured some folks see torture isn't only frowned upon because it's evil vile it's also ineffective problem number one imagine the cia's surprise when those people that they were putting through hell resisted grew used to it enhanced interrogation

techniques were begun within six hours these progress from attention flaps and walling to confinement in both large about five hours and small about one hour book says and friendly to the waterboard amazingly resistant to waterboard what happened was that the victims and this is problem number two adapted to suffering cia's own words the prisoners began to see certain torture procedures as escape a break from other harsher measures what a conundrum here having slapped beaten confined and water boarded these people they were getting results so they opted for something new something like a truth serum problem was once problem number three seriously illegal there were at least two legal obstacles approved mission because medical experimentation on prisoners and a ban on interrogation or use of mind altering drugs the question became moot since

the legal department did not want to raise another issue with the department of justice problem number four revulsion cia tortures according to the torturers themselves the doctors others who were present were horrendous to watch the whole. spirit's responsible medical officer did was visually and psychologically very uncomfortable for all those witnessing it the problem was so widespread and so serious that employees had to be counseled and then checked to make sure they were still all right in the head after everything they had seen and done and they began only hiring people who had a stomach for torture let me be clear on what the cia doctors role was here when the cia torturers were torturing a prisoner for example by bach by waterboarding him say doctors would medically resuscitate the prisoner when he would become unconscious from too much torture

what they did was allow the cia to continue torturing people over and over problem number five a lot of problems here journalists activists and juice they kept prime kept sniffing around digging up details and publicizing ever they over the government the cia they resisted see for example how the document that revealed all of these looked initially when released under the freedom of information act in two thousand and sixteen or a lot of information in it it's almost like two fingers to the press sometimes these court battles took years but they got it out eventually. ancient history you might say we knew most of this plus it happened in the early

two thousand lessons have been learned and this torture will never happen again. you think they said what do you think about waterboarding i said i like it a lot don't think it's tough enough. with you have to keep in mind that we're talking about a forty four country wide torture program. so it's a very rich complex torture machine that was put in place with obviously many hundreds of people complicit and did in the torture that happen so this is a high level of top levels of the. last we also military people involved in creating the healthy and it seems to me a shift in that maybe people a cia and the in the federal government in the security organs the people that are involved in this kind of thing it is very possible that they believe this is

a way to to to achieve their goals and then and bypass the label of torture the concept of torture is to treat human beings as if they are less than less than human less than animal lesson plan that they are they are not even living creatures that they are. cogs in a wheel experiment in medically with these people it is the equivalent of torture it isn't just is dehumanizing. the u.k. prime minister is under fire over her latest of bricks at remarks the media slamming to reason may for creating a divided government and a fractured country as officers suggested britain could leave the e.u. with a no deal breaks it will not leave. were not accepted the choice before us is clear this deal all leave with no deal only or no bricks it will. on wednesday theresa may manage to secure the backing of a cabinet for

a draft of divorce deal after more than five hours of talks but she'll now have to face another hurdle in her bid to see bret's it through getting a plan adopted by parliament where on wednesday she was grilled from both sides of the house. from what we know the government's deal it's a failure in its own until now when we're making progress in close to a daily is complaining about does the prime minister's still intend to put a false choice to parliament between her a botched jail or no jail and the labor party have only one intention that is to frustrate correct and that's right. you are not delivering the break see people voted for and today you will lose the support of many conservative m.p. . millions of voters across the country the prime minister who has been reduced to playing political games rather than playing in the prime minister honestly believes

that she commands the will of the people while she putts how bright sit in jail to the people either through a general election or a link that a new referendum the prime minister's offer good choice between the worst of all worlds and a catastrophic series of consequences the collective decision of cap and it was that the government should agree the draft withdrawal agreement and the outline initial declaration these decisions were not taken lightly but i believe it is a decision that is firmly in the national interest to resume a spend several hours meeting with her cabinet in order to thrash out an agreement a collective agreement about this draft brags that text and it would appear that she had mixed results because reports coming out state that a number of her cabinet colleagues including sajid javid led some. liam fox and estimate vijay express their opposition to the draft text on

a number of them including estimates vary in particular very vociferous in it and mcveigh was sets of calls for all the members of the cabinet to be able to vote on that position so that it became official who took what position on this draft text but that idea put forward was struck down on the report saying that the mood within that meeting was worse than the one that followed the checkers plan and we know of course from that meeting that to david davis and boris johnson both stood down as ministers in the wake of that also the d u p on who to resign may's government relies so heavily for support they've also said that if this still has the potential to see the new united kingdom break up with and they too will have to withdraw that support however perhaps more positively for the prime minister she received a positive welcome to this draft text from you know drugs kind of the prime minister

and also michel barnier the chief negotiator who said that he considered this to be significant decisive progress now that the prime minister needs to drum up support and to get rid of any attempts. to try to perhaps hand in letters of no confidence in her if she is going to get the support to get this deal through parliament historian alan scott believes that amid all the breaks in negotiations to resume a has failed to secure any real concessions from the e.u. that is a view also shared by journalist john gold. says could see did everything she said she would fight for we've ended up despite her redlines we've ended up probably in the single more in the customs union she's given a separate state is ignored while interest betrayed the scottish fishermen as far as i can see it's almost incredible it is even more incredible of politics

so i expect there may still be resignations i hope for the honor of the conservative party there are. and i hope that the g. the d p and everyone else beaters this poll with seventeen point four million people the majority voted to get out and we should have been out ages ago it's taken two years of this nonsense this is what people to a lot of people vote a second referendum look we had a people's vote and the people spoke the politicians should just go on with it and make clearly haven't because let's face it treason may is a reminder to her cool but why give a vote to people if you think going to ignore it and i believe jury survey is definitely now be traders sheesh you mediate this great nation in the way that she's giving to the easy you do mount. the death toll in california's wildfires has risen to fifty six with the inferno still ravaging that u.s.

state some one hundred thirty people are still missing and over nine thousand structures have been totally destroyed the response of some celebrities who are among those who have lost their homes are certainly angered some locals.

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the headlines around the world anti doping agency is holding a meeting in the capital of azerbaijan where it will give an update on the reinstatement of its russian. sports correspondent reports from book. could be easily described as a very turbulent time for the world anti-doping agency it meets to discuss a plethora of different issues but the most important one is the september's decision to reinstate the russian anti-doping agency as part of the world anti-doping family back then it was clearly explained that the reinstatement was not unconditional there was still one of criteria to be met which is providing access to your in samples and. and we are definitely expecting to hear updates on that during the day. but what i've already made it clear that if this criteria is not met then the case of the reinstatement of the will be handed over back to the compliance review committee again we'll be hearing updates on that but all this follows a major rift within the organization just several weeks ago the u.s.

anti-doping agency and a number of other national anti-doping agencies including u.k. and australia held a private summit in washington d.c. in america in the white house in fact invited top athletes who even shed tears for the future of clean sport and there were very clear hints made at that summit that unless water manages to reform itself the annual contributions to the budget from the u.s. and u.k. which amounts to about three million dollars off thirty four could be pulled if water doesn't take unnecessary steps while his leadership along with the i.o.c. are increasingly isolated with athletes and public opinion they need to wake up and smell the coffee step down from their ivory tower because athletes are demanding change and change is coming but the president of the world anti-doping agency sorry greedy was having none of that one government voted against the recommendation one . and one of. the people we hear from most

often pretty shit language is group not of government. of national and. again the bone of contention here has been the decision to reinstate very vocal criticism coming from a number of athletes and also the vice president of the world anti-doping agency who was one of the vocal critics one of the two persons in fact a vote against the reinstatement back in september we also expected to hear from her in the course of the day but if you ask the president of the world anti-doping agencies are a greedy he still believes that this decision was well justified the recommendation . the use of the words from diminished to sport and their subordinated entities was deficient to shut just for the fresh condition i'm not sure what we did for the other reasons that i have given you which is the huge

amount of. determining what was a totally dysfunctional and cheating. in twenty fourteen into a pretty risky agent and deficient. in chino sure that combination of the two i think justified what was done so as you can see there are a lot of questions remaining and this are still flying high within the world anti-doping agency's situation and we are certain expecting some answers to come by the end of this conference today and we'll keep you updated of course. after the hotly contested midterm elections in the united states amid allegations of fraud the state of florida is holding a recount for the senate and governor. republicans their lead over their democrat rivals with the results of both roses falling within the margin of triggering a recount of reports. the twenty eight thousand midterm elections took place on november sixth it's ancient history the country has moved on well not in florida

florida now where i'm president and recounts are underway the recounting is under way recount in broward county to how is it possible is this political conspiracy in election recount crisis lorida is known as a swing state in u.s. presidential elections obama and trump both won florida as a key victory on their road to the white house and you can forget back in two thousand when the recounts in florida kept americans biting their nails for months the margin of victory for george w. bush was only five hundred thirty seven votes george walker bush has won florida's twenty five a mark for all votes. this should put him over the top recount controversy back then and recount controversy today the woman who's in charge of tallying votes in one particular county brenda snipes was caught destroying ballots too soon during the twenty sixteen reelection bid by democratic rep debbie

wasserman schultz now debbie wasserman schultz's name is synonymous with corrupt in her party practices from back when she was d.n.c. chief and favored hillary clinton over burning. republicans are quick to remember that scandal now even if former florida governor jeb bush who appointed brenda snipes wants her out there is no question the broward county supervisor of elections brenda snipes failed to comply with florida law multiple counts supervisors snipes should be removed from her office following the recounts however jeb bush is reputation isn't exactly clean either many of the cues to him of delivering florida for his brother back in two thousand by purging the voter rolls thank you very much. and god bless america so no matter who ends up winning the midterm elections in florida or the two thousand and twenty

presidential vote one thing is pretty clear florida may have a very good reputation for weather but it's not so hot when it comes to counting votes kaleb moppet artsy new york early on monday claimed that the election results should be called in favor of the republican candidates rick scott and wrong to scientists claiming that an honest vote count is no longer possible. so they were hoping to swap the boot of odds of powers for the streets of shanghai a passengers on a flight to china got a bit more than they bargained for when they boarded that plane.

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lancaster we're seeking to explain why the greatest unable to zoster in british history has been barely remembered i'm hoping to make a contribution to the tourists that imbalance of history alex told the story of the lancaster from sun as erin brittany where the great ship was lost on june seventeenth one nine hundred forty. captain shoppin commander flown past received an order from them. it told them to load as many men as possible to fight the guard to the limits laid down by modern time law. by fear quote after the more than six thousand people exhausted seoul just confused refugees more highlighted on to the ship more than three times as established capacity limit at that point captain sharp made a fateful decision to stay at anchor and not to make a dash for poor he was understandably frightened of a destroyer escort his ship would be easy prey to your books in the english channel . and this week's show we feature the quest for

a member under the voices of the survivors and the relatives of those who perish seek to explain why so many have battled against officialdom to have the sacrifice of their loved ones probably recognized by history alex takes up our story i decided to kill homan out spirits in crucial land. and never to believe as each month passes that a few of the like cast your survivors a life to give witness to what actually happened on that fateful day of june the seventeenth one thousand for even since we started filming we have lost ninety seven year old reds brought in a stalwart of one cast of commemorations over the years and therefore today i'm privileged to be here not switch to a. if you're like cast your survivor royal engineer or miss beasley one hundred one years young and you go to scotland town. in france and i'm sure not after me but la cameras now current. alabama

about like if they want. to solicit less and less take you back to when you were on borderline cast the bombs went down the funnel the ship was packed to the gunnels with tindall well the ole soldiers so well the civilians refugees other people then nearly all. soldiers and nurses and army term for an. average home repay poland and i. some of my children with them but i think the key thing to survival was was it just your lot was a huge fight you were a strong swimmer was to your advantage of course but it was yeah but some people stay some people would jump because they didn't know what to do on the ship sank and are so i'll assure was about tomorrow why shower

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