subscribed to roughly. for just twelve euros fifty per month. which promised the trees my battles to get m.p.'s the back. of her cabinet including the man who helped negotiate the deal. and peace to consider the national interest and give it back the withdrawal agreements represents a huge and damaging failure. that is already dead in the water. you need to classify documents reveal the cia sought to experiment with the so-called truth serum on prisoners did resisted other interrogation techniques.

the world anti-doping agency prepares to inspect the moscow laboratories russia tries to rebuild that shattered sporting reputation. and the case of a russian man who cuts off his wife's hands with an axe in a premeditated page the same sentenced to fourteen years in a high security jail. good evening and welcome this is anti international. and the last british prime minister treason may have said she believes with every fiber of body that her draft brags that deal is the right course for the united kingdom she again urged members of parliament to unite and get behind it. yes difficult and sometimes uncomfortable decisions have had to be made i understand fully that there is some who are unhappy with those compromises but this deal delivers what people voted for and it is in

the national interest and we can only secure it if we unite behind the agreement reached in cabinet yesterday and words come after a bruising day of cabinet resignations talk of a no confidence vote and a three hour morning in parliament by m.p.'s. we could choose to leave with no deal we could risk no breaks it is all we can to wait. for or we can choose to unite and support the best deal that can be negotiated this deal the withdrawal agreements and the political corruption represents a huge and damaging failure as a psychologist it's clear to me to see that the prime minister is in denial the prime minister comes before us today trying to sell us the deal that is already dead in the water i'm almost tempted to ask if the honorable members opposite will

put their hands up if they actually do support the prime minister and the senate proposal and. my road order food fruit so good we would leave the customs union. the next two says of a walk to my right over the fruit so that she would move the interpreter of the united kingdom the whole protocol so as all the was my right all who froze so that we would be armed to the jurisdiction of the european court of justice oscar one hundred seventy four says another was quite chaotic times in the u.k. at the moment as theresa may not only tries to push through and save her brags a deal but also essentially says 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's we certainly know that this is an extremely nerve wracking time not just for her but for the rest of the country that i was 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. well 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 a 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 and be approved in parliament and that is where it gets tricky horse over the last several weeks there has been speculation has been right 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. but. let's bring in dr mark garnett from lancaster university kind of join me on the line this in great to have you on mark trees i'm a what a day it's been thirty standing firm not everybody thought that would be the case at this time of day no call for a look at the confidence that she holds by challenging her leadership she seems determined to fight on are you surprised that she's still there. i think that people who watch mrs may's career over the last well almost two decades now prominence in british politics they would be terribly surprise i think in fact if they're surprised at all they'll be surprised that somehow she's again shown that

she's got the most amazing resilience some will call it stubbornness and her press conference she actually seemed to be rather enjoying herself she clearly does think that she's right against all the odds and she is still going to be a tough fighter in this battle in the ensuing days and weeks she's got to convince enough and peace to support her plan is it likely. well what achieve now is she's looked at the arithmetic and it looks like there is no chance that this particular plan is going to go through the house of commons however what she's doing is saying to the british public over the heads of m.p.'s and ministers who are on the verge of resigning or already resigned she's saying that the only deal that represents a compromise is the one the time trying to bring back eventually from the summit meeting later this month if you want one extreme which is no deal then you don't

want me because i'm going to stick to the compromise if you want the other alternative which is no bricks at all that again you'll have to find a new prime minister but so long as people think a compromise is the only way forward she's now trying to i think mobilize the public behind her and in many ways i would say that the certainly the city is doing her job for her because they've been hectoring her and she stood up to them and the british public was very strange eccentric body i've got a feeling that quite a few people who were beginning to lose patience with mrs may but didn't really have any strong belief in either leave or remain those are people i think are going to rally behind her. is there not blood in the water right now of the sharks not circling even members of her own party thinking now is my time to strike.

well they are but these sharks have an appetite for each other's blood and again really ever since the vote the vote which was so unexpected britain wasn't preparing the government wasn't preparing for withdrawal but in a way i think the brits to tears weren't either and ever since then you've just seen divisions amongst their own ranks and it's been pretty clear in recent months that there has been enough support for a move to get rid of mrs may but they haven't been able to alight on a suitable successor any successor who becomes prominent immediately gets seems to be targeted and discredited and at the moment there's any number of people who look as if they're trying to become mrs mason but non of them command support and this again i think adds fuel to mrs may's basic argument which is that she is indispensable and the former senior conservative minister kenneth clarke kind of put his finger on it today he said she's doomed to stay in office because there is

no viable alternative and this is the moment for the city is in particular they have the numbers in the house of commons but the trouble is that this isn't a coherent body of people this is people with all kinds of reasons for not liking mrs may's deal and while they're bickering amongst themselves then it's quite possible that this stubborn prime minister is going to attract more and more support from her impossible position as it stands tonight marc good speech appreciate you coming on r t dr mark garnett from lancaster university my guest. and to other news now newly declassified documents reveal the cia sought to experiment with a so-called truth serum as part of a program called project medication and this involves drugging prisoners he hadn't previously succumbed to other enhanced interrogation techniques. project medication was a 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 the american civil liberties union fought in court for two years to obtain those documents they gave the lowdown on the cia's extraordinary rendition program with details. 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 and this is 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 doctor its role was here when the cia tortures were torturing a prisoner for example by bought 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 every day 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 not 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 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 levels of the you. must be also military people involved in creating the velvia and implementing seems to me a shift in that maybe people have 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. well done to doping at sea water is sort of his they portray in moscow like to this month's part of russia's efforts to rebuild its reputation in the wake of the doping scandal that rocked will sport want to make the announcement to the meeting in azerbaijan that he's alexey sent us this report from the capital back. i know from the meeting that i wonder delegation would visit russia to meet rich years. to visit on the twenty. people.

we will complete dish work well before the date of thirty first december twenty eighth which usually. privy to meeting and ship them the water foundation board met in baku a genuine firestorm among its ranks with this flying high from the other side of the atlantic the u.s. side accusing the water of you know 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 but if you do you read samples which was the biggest and the most important criteria of assad has not conditional unconditional reinstatement in september now we know that there was a delegation will travel to moscow on november twenty eighth so i asked the president of water so craig really aware that he felt this was the end of the saga

does this new developments with. the water people going to moscow on the army twenty eighth means that all the concerns regarding this cooperation between the russian authorities and water can be put to rest will resolve the situation with the russian of those douche. and duping asian she is compliant subject to the condition of the little ones like conditions which beautified then we carry on as normal i also managed to later catch up with the secretary general of the organization mr levy niggly he said pretty much the same confidence as the president while i have no reason not to share his confidence i mean the russian authorities told us that they would do it back in september so we. i trust that they will keep their promises before the thirty first of december but i'd like to remind that this happens among the 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 us contributes every year to water's annual budget and i also asked the president of whether he felt there was any kind of confrontation with their u.s. colleagues is there a conflict of any kind with the u.s. anti-doping agency and u.k. and i don't mean agency following the summit at the white house a few weeks ago i think it would be easier to she. indicated it was pretty easily. it was limited to people that particular. decision she shows now we also have a confirmation from the russian ministry official from the minister himself that russia indeed granted the access to moscow aboard stories and obviously we'll be

following that process on the damage twenty eight every step of the way make sure you tune in to r.t. to get the details on that day what happens in moscow. a man who could have his wife's hands in a premeditated attack and then gloated about has been sentenced to fourteen years in a high security jail in russia or to a correspondent in a coach has a story. from this picture you'd think margaret and maitreya lived in blissful happiness they've been together for five years and even had two young sons but behind the smiles slate another story some of their friends say that they were in fact colostrum divorce margarita often complained that her husband had episodes of uncontrolled roy. he was enraged that i was getting my nails done he'd think i was cheating on him if my bra in my pants matched he emptied out all my shampoos and creams and left empty choose in their place he was angry that i was doing well at

work apparently he even kept her whole phone messages i woke her up during the night and asked who it was she said to drive in from work but i didn't believe her i was on edge his suspicions fueled his anger so he forced her into the car drove her out into a forest threatened her and demanded she had me to cheating on him that time he let her go she fled to the police but was told that there were not enough grounds to open a case against him her pleas for help fell on deaf ears and and with her husband's final brutal attack in december last year. fallen to or to help i wanted to put my bag in the book he said there was no space

who would have thought that it was taken by an x. and bandages he played his part like a real actor silently he closed the door and drove off not to work but to the forest. as we drove to the hospital he shouted what an adrenaline rush worst of all i was still conscious apparently my body gives this signal to keep holding on microsurgery lost it for nearly nine hours the doctors managed to sew back one hand but the other was so badly damaged in the brutal attack during which margarito remained conscious that it was impossible to save this case sent shock waves across

the country and attracted so much needed attention to the problem of domestic violence mitri was sentenced to fourteen years in prison while the officer who refused to open a case against him when margarita first went to the police is under investigation for dereliction of duty. the split between ukrainian and russian orthodox churches is reaching a boiling point as representatives arrive in kiev to decide whether to make the divorce notice autocephaly official. breakdown this story across from the dining hall constituents down probably the first time most people have heard of or certainly what is it and why is this significant for kiev in particular when i think so many people the religious scandals in keir for going to look like some sort of religious debate something quite abstract the roots of theology or history but actually to many it's a bit more than that let's just break down the basics here the eastern orthodox church is made up of fifteen different churches and autocephaly effectively means

these churches have their own independence self governance and jurisdiction they're independent from any sort of head patriarch now the russian orthodox church has for centuries had all thirty over the key of church they've presided over one united church called the ukrainian orthodox church moscow patriarchate that's the way it's been since the seventeenth century this was the only officially recognized congregation in the country there are those political or religious factions who've been pushing for quite a long time for ukraine to get its own independent ukrainian orthodox church and indeed president poroshenko leader of ukraine has expressed support for this idea saying this is as important as the ukraine joining e.u. and even nato. autocephaly is the most important event from the same serious as our aspiration to join the u.n. nato the association agreement a visa free regime with the e.u. withdrawal from the c.i.s. rejection of the deceptive treaty and friendship with russia etc all this is the

basis of our all my way of development development of ukraine. as i understand the situation inside ukraine not that simple let's write there's also two other different churches in ukraine these are the key of patriarchate and the ukrainian autocephalous orthodox church these are two branches which broke away in the ninety's when ukraine got its independence now they're not officially recognized or rather haven't been until now until very recently the patriarch of course of the constantinople who is considered the most important patriarch of all orthodox leaders has decided to take steps to recognize those independent churches once they unite thus granting them autocephaly and their own jurisdiction that's a decision is very much angered the moscow patriarchate say the least the process of granting autocephaly is artificial imposed from outside does not reflect internal ecclesiastical necessity will not bring real church unity will deepen division and intensify conflicts among the people of ukraine under these conditions

the participation of the escapade clergy and laity of the you see in these process is is considered impossible how's the russian orthodox church react to look it's triggered a total breakdown in relations i mean the moscow patriarch has rejected it and they've said they've presided over key of the church since the seventeenth century it's even triggered a schism that means the churches have stopped their corporation and moscow has effectively told their followers not to participate in any weddings communions funerals with those other churches they are now effectively split the russian orthodox church does not accept these decisions and will not follow them schism is schism and its leaders are the leaders of the schism and the church that accepted the schism excluded from the canonical field of vision has been made to grow up to full communion with the constantinople patriarchate we cannot be in communication with this church which is in schism. ultimately is this going to have

any effect on ordinary church goes well in the wider context this is seen as part of that conflict between russia and ukraine east and west historical cultural roots independence etc i mean tensions are running high since twenty fourteen when there have been dozens of attacks recorded by ukrainian nationalists on moscow aligned orthodox churches in ukraine who are seen as kremlin stooges or any news of ukraine conflict also possible over property the moscow backed churches own about twelve thousand parishes in the country the ukrainian church is only about half that number so with ownership of churches revenue streams and followers millions of followers involved is certainly going to have an impact on those many orthodox followers throughout eastern europe ok many thanks for bringing us that today and with this story don't hold kids. thanks you guys thing that is that homework will join me in just over half an hour's time up about with the latest news headlines and updates on our top stories.

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