british prime minister theresa may battles to bring m.p.'s around to her draft plan that is key members of her cabinet including the man who helped negotiate the deal quit the last game piece to consider the national interest and give it their backing i. should again steel would take us all back to square one also newly declassified documents reveal that the cia experimented with a so-called truth serum on prisoners who resisted other enhanced interrogation

techniques the world anti-doping agency for inspect the moscow russia price rebuild its shattered sporting reputation. oh there she is gone for here in moscow you're watching international the british prime minister trees amaze currently facing a grilling in parliament over her draft plan that's amid a slew of resignations from her cabinet over the deal among those who have quit are the bricks that secretary dominic rob and also the work and pensions secretary estimate for a heated debate still continues the house of commons over the course the country should take the withdrawal agreement and the political. represents a huge and damaging failure these five hundred eighty for. pages over

a testament to broken promises fail to go see asians and abject capitulation to the e.u. we've been going for about an hour now not a single old of all right all the member has supported the plans that the prime minister has set out and i'm almost tempted to ask if the honorable members opposite will put their hands up if they actually do support the prime minister on this sort of proposal and i want my road on a roof road so good we would leave the customs union. the next two says otherwise my right order for. the integrity of the united kingdom the whole procedure called so is otherwise my right on the frode so that we would be armed to the jurisdiction of the european court of justice article one hundred seventy four says otherwise i could today stand here and take the prime minister through the list of promises and

pledges that to me or to this choice about the future of northern ireland but i fear it would be wished of time since she clearly doesn't listen the prime minister comes before us today trying to sell us the deal that is already dead in the water the reason why the people of this country are so fed up is because they've been made so many promises none of which have been delivered upon because they calm be delivered to them quite chaotic times in the u.k. at the moment as theresa may not only tries to push through and save her brags the deal but also essentially save her post as prime minister of this country we're seeing right now a new set of resignations having taken place this morning with high profile cabinet ministers and junior ministers heading towards the door in defiance of may's approach towards bracks it we certainly know that this is an extremely nervous.

second time not just for her but for the rest of the country that is watching exactly where this brags that chaos is going to be leading i can show you some newspapers here that are not being forgiving towards to resubmit all this one is pretty self-explanatory as you can see there are others that are talking about eleven ministers rejected her proposals forty tory rebels are plotting to bring her down war cabinet and others are seeing me papers over the cracks and here we have another one that talks about a split cabinet a split party and a split nation and indeed all of this comes following theresa may yesterday holding an entire five hour session with her cabinet ministers trying to push through and convince them that her draft deal agreed with the e.u. is the best one and the only one possible indeed we saw a very tense and divided cabinet. members of which did not necessarily want to accept what she was offering the alternatives to her pushing them to agree with her

were resignation some of them we have seen today there's been quite a bit of talk of me potentially having to resign herself and today she has also been appearing in parliament where there is still of course quite a bit of indignation because what happens next is this draft deal now that it's been approved by cabinet ministers following quite a fight it is going to go to brussels where it will be signed off by e.u. member states but then it has to come back to westminster to be approved in parliament and that is where it gets tricky however to recently continues to insist that her option is the only way to move forward we could choose to leave with no deal we could risk. we could shoot were eighty. or more we can choose to. united support the best deal that could be because. this

deal of course over the last several weeks there has been speculation has been ripe that a possible vote of no confidence could take place with the letters floating in of tory m.p.'s demanding that theresa may step down there have been a renewed wave of these speculations going around today saying that this could happen as early as today this thursday because of this renewed dissatisfaction with the way to recently has been handling this so indeed a very very chaotic time as theresa may try is to do her best at this point to try to keep this ship afloat we asked the u.k. independence party leader gerald batten whether trees amaze government is now teetering on the brink. i certainly think her leadership is i wouldn't be surprised if she's not gone by next week as prime minister because it's difficult to see how she can survive this she's come up with this withdrawal agreement that nobody wants it doesn't satisfy the remain as who don't want to leave anyway and it doesn't

satisfy the levers because we don't really leave so no one's going to be a bit happy about this i don't believe she can get it through parliament and of course it also has to come through the european parliament ukip any piece will vote against it i think other groups will vote against it here so i'd be surprised if it actually got through this parliament either people are deserted the tory party i've seen on twitter people tearing up their cards and taking photographs so this deal doesn't actually satisfy anybody. now the newly declassified documents reveal newly declassified documents reveal the cia experimented with the so-called truth serum as part of a program called project medication this involved drugging prisoners he would not succumbed to other quote enhanced interrogation techniques project medication was previously undisclosed element of this program in which in addition to the physical and psychological torture that the cia was engaged in several doctors decided to try to figure out whether 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 to the american civil liberties union force in court for two years to attain these documents and they gave the lowdown on the cia's extraordinary rendition program with more details his gas the. it wasn't an isolated case or to an accident or oversight was government sanctioned systematic or that 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 progressed from attention flaps and

walling to confinement in both large about five hours and small about one hour book says and finally 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 ha 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 bush and his 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. experienced 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 everything 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 year is that they've 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 they 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. in the torture that happened so this is a high level of top level civilian. plus we also military people involved in creating the belt and implementing seems to me a shift in that maybe people a cia and the in the federal government 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 they they are. cogs in a wheel experiment in medically with these people it is the equivalent of torture it isn't just as dehumanizing. let's go to singapore on the ass and summit which does wrap up there on thursday the russian president briefed the media on the outcome of the gathering of countries from scythe east asia and also their partners you know he's done of reports in the event. so the russian president has officially wrapped up his program here in singapore and well it's been busy three days for him here far away from home and he's met all sorts of leaders from all over the world so at these final media conference i asked him whether or not he himself is

satisfied with the results of his trip because none of us today was you know him mr president you've come a long way to come here to singapore you have met as you say almost all the participants all kinds of countries with very different geopolitical interests how would you characterize the results of the work here first russia was here in two thousand and five as a guest and that time there was a certain order being formed in terms of relations between the countries and it has nothing to do with the process of globalization and nothing to do with military blocs as this forum we see the promotion of the idea of unity our relations here are based on a wide basis in each country chooses its own way of development this format is very beneficial to all of us globally as the russian president also had a brief chat with the american vice president mike pence and light of a putin stress that well every hostile jab like sanctions for example that washington aims at russia well it does impact these meetings and so the talk here

in singapore must have been no different so also vladimir putin talked to the japanese prime minister and the most heated topic between the countries right now is the issue of the coral islands in france japan still has not signed a peace treaty with moscow officially since world war two because tokyo does have a claim on these islands and apparently as a result of this conversation now this is much closer to being resolved and also vladimir putin talked about the situation in ukraine and he's once again reiterated that while the ukrainian president apparently is just not committed to the minsk process so right now peace doesn't seem any closer for ukraine so a lot of to discuss a lot of to take away and. a lot of to work on this journey back from singapore to watch. now the number of people killed in the wildfires currently raging in california has risen to fifty six some one hundred thirty others are still missing while more than one thousand buildings have been destroyed but the response of some

celebrities to the disaster has provoked the wrath of locals.

still to come this hour world anti doping chiefs prepare to inspect a moscow lab as russia looks to restore its sporting reputation we'll have the details plus other stories to tell you just after the break. hillary clinton is a war monger and the democrats are easily conned into spending trillions of dollars and the defense industry and why they control the house defense stocks went up the meat is there any clearer indication that the democrats are the party of war.

us the better for the tremendously economically because it wields the world but. if it were given the power to impose structure without countries that are. fundamentally doesn't understand. how these are these are useful tools of us imperialism in fact. it's not clear to me what is growth is i think it's true that these institutions are deeply unfair to the us they're on. to the majority world of the global south and that's really the reason these reforms.

welcome back now after the hotly contested midterm elections in the us i made allegations of fraud in the state of florida is holding a recount for the senate and governor races the republicans their lead over the democrat rivals but both results to fall within the margin of triggering a recount. expects the twenty eighteen mid-term elections took place on november sixth it's ancient history the country has moved on well not the florida florida now where i'm president it recounts are underway the recounting is under way recount in broward county how is it possible is this political conspiracy election recount crisis laura is known as a swing state in u.s. presidential a lot. actions 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 a recount 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 on multiple counts supervise the snipes should be removed from her office for 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 or it may have a very good reputation for weather but it's not so hot when it comes to counting votes kaleb muppet artsy new york meanwhile donald trump is already crying foul on twitter claiming that and only know. longer possible as large numbers of new ballots did show up active know where the president is demanding that the election results be called in favor of the republican candidates rick scott i'm wrong to santas. the world anti-doping agency is set to visit

a lab in moscow later this month as part of russia to rebuild its reputation in the wake of the scandal which rocked world sport maybe announcement at a meeting in the capital of i suppose your own from the meeting the wonder delegation vision russian. vision on the twenty. people. we will complete this work well before the date of thirty first december twenty eighth which was really. well also and became was a let's see. good afternoon alexey what else came out of that meeting. while the water foundation board met in baku genuine firestorm among its ranks with flying high from the other side of the atlantic the u.s.

accusing the water of. caving into the russians and criticizing the decision in september to reinstate. but this time the big news obviously obviously of the day is that moscow and the sports minister of russia allowed. the access to its laboratories in moscow particular you read samples which was the biggest and the most important criteria of the starter's not conditional unconditional reinstatement in september now we know that there was a delegation will travel to moscow on november twenty eighth and i. the end of this toxic saga here is what he had to say this will resolve the situation we have with the russian authorities. and to dropping the agency compliant subject to the condition of the longer one strike condition is beautified and we carry on normal which any other national and dropping agency.

we have around the world should be in my view the. siege around the world is a good system in russia. i also managed to later catch up with the secretary general of the organization is there live in italy he said pretty much the same confidence as the president but i'd like to remind that this happens among very strong confrontation between the u.s. anti-doping agency vocal critics of reinstatement they even had a private summit in washington d.c. two weeks ago where they even hinted at a possibility of pulling the budget that the u.s. contributes every year to what is annual budget and i also asked the president of whether he felt there was any kind of confrontation with their u.s. colleagues. i think it would be fair to see the view of the meeting that was.

indicated that it was pretty selective. it was limited to people who took a particular view of a discussion decision and she shows. that there were. in my view. inappropriate comments made by some individuals coming out which we don't wish. to london today she later. now we also have a confirmation from their russian ministry official from the minister himself that russia indeed granted the access. the way. to get the details. on a flight to china. ok

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a sneak preview they continue to have some pretty pronounced personal problems all that straight ahead but first we had some headlines let's do it. we start today's global report with british prime minister theresa may who moments ago announced her cabinet has backed a draft withdrawal plan for brecht's that ms mays said the alternatives to the draft were a no deal brecht's it or not leaving the european union at all as described the deal as the best that could be negotiated she also said that difficult days were ahead and that she believes with her head and her heart the deal is in the national interest the deal must now be approved by parliament we'll continue to get some details and bring you more the continuing clash between the italian government and the european commission over italy's two thousand and nineteen budget continues the tie and finance minister giovanni tria defied previous objections in a letter to the commission that notify them that mr tria.