change that's not what it used to be. it's a tough reality. it was. the week's top stories from the british prime minister battled to save her breaks it plans and her own government off the cabinet resignations and calls for a second referendum. the last game piece to consider the national interest and give it back to the withdrawal agreement represents a huge and damaging the deal that is already dead in the water. in the declassified documents reveal that the cia experimented with a so-called truth serum on prisoners who had resisted other interrogation techniques also ahead.

israeli warplanes caused devastation in gaza in response to hundreds of rockets being fired from the place. this is the weekend here in r.t. international with me in a day or two to this our roundup of the top stories from the last seven days in the latest up to date news welcome to the program. it was a tough week for british prime minister as she fought to weather a brags that storm marked by comet resignations and calls for a vote of no confidence trisomy and e.u. to force plan on wednesday with a stark ultimatum. the choice before us is clear this deal all leave with no deal all the all no bricks it at all and then hours of revealing her draft deal

with the two cabinet two members quit including the braggs it secretary and that was just the start in total seven members of teresa mayes government resigned chelsea had to face a three hour morning buy and peace. does the prime minister's still intend to vote a false choice to parliament between her botched jail or no jail and the labor party have only one intention that is to frustrate the trade if. you are not delivering the break suit people voted for and today you will lose the support of many conservative. voters across the country we can choose to leave with no deal we can risk no breaks it all or we can choose. i. or we can choose to unite

and support the best deal that can be negotiated this deal prime minister comes before us today trying to sell us a deal that is already dead in the water the reason why the people of this country are so fed up he's because they've been made so many promises none of which have been delivered on because they cohen's be delivered to them yes difficult and sometimes uncomfortable decisions have had to be made i understand fully that the rison 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 it's been a series of cabinet resignations government minister resignations parliamentary private secretary resignations even the vice chairman of the conservative party itself has resigned saw it's very hard to see how someone who is dug

in behind a great deal which seems to be almost friendless this is a failure is an orphan and success has a thousand parents world this deal look very much like an orphan to me today she's come up with this withdrawal agreement and nobody wants it doesn't satisfy the remain as you don't want to leave anyway and it doesn't satisfy the leavers because under it we don't really leave so no one's going to be 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. and his online series in case you missed it takes on alternative.

westminster. there was something quite. liberating because i have. chaos in westminster as the cradle of britain's parliament tree democracy trying to get to grips with something to do with greg say. now this time the thing to do with race is it is very serious and we know this because important ministers to do with great sit down which they should all be including someone in charge of gregg's it was actually a display of confidence in himself. that it. wasn't you. know anyone leaving maybe sleep with

me sleeping. the music used to dream up her and say. look you've got a. life that nobody will be a backstop is. basically good group of children who are going to give in the e.u. are backstop. believe that. she should go home over seven eight eight seven. there are five hundred pages of something to do with bags that were written for elected representatives are all hearing over inside this graphic masterpiece. political group isn't it strange. to get. these guys. have a portending to know all about it into. they're talking about what's happening

in that we're now watching it it's fair to say that right now everyone's talking about it without having read it a little bit like the bible. or impedes. c.u.z. once the banks start the ball i'm not sure it's all right. mike stone. scuse me. what is it. you think it is my job to ask the questions. and just in case you're still wondering what the backstop is is to prevent a hard border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland and you can read more about that on r.t. dot com. newly declassified documents have revealed a cia program to develop a so-called truth serum is involved drugging prisoners who are able to withstand other 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 right past has more on this cia interrogation program and how it evolved. it wasn't an isolated case or to an accident or oversight was government sanctioned systematic or that they 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 wool into confinement in both large about five hours and small about one our book says and finally to the waterboard a.z. seems 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 mission against 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 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 what do you think about waterboarding is that i like it a lot don't think of stuff for you know. the leaders of the u.s. and france had a high profile falling out on tuesday donald trump turned on emanuel my conover's calls for a europe wide army. but it was germany and world was one and two how did that work out for france. they were starting to learn german paris before the u.s. came along pay for nato or not. thanks makes it very hard for the us to send its wines into france and charges big tariffs not fact must change the

problem is that emanuel suffers from a very low approval rating it's twenty six percent and i'm a claimant right to the most ten percent that makes france great to get. any politician or political but we need to use whom it is independent of the world without depending only on the us in a way that exhibits greater sovereignty. and we all. lose if you look at. briefly. as i was told in the french president on twitter also threatened a wind of war he claimed america's winds are just as good as any bordeaux or burgundy although that left

a sour taste for many in france so we put the tipples to the test in paris. and compulsive think. the world still see. me out there all we have to do to reduce resident little state wherever it's go was a. build up of good news articles that were a little off of the whole think of it. what's going on i would say our pool room. would. certainly be celebrated to be most of it a little more where the new diseases don't look very much. and i think. that's

a little bit say the vault. in the wake of. the cyclone that. so the verdict is in one hundred is pushing clear parisians preferred the wine from the us all her well maybe for once the donald has been vindicated as the wind from his country seems to have trumped that from france so on this occasion from paris we admit defeat but nevertheless we will always weighs a gloss and say so and say show that you can ski r.t. paris. the russian cargo ship has successfully docked at the international space station after a two day flight is delivering two and a half tons of supplies for the crew including food and water the soyuz flight was the first since last month when a spacecraft failed to enter into it. operating.

in more of this week stories an exchange of fire between israel and militants in gaza hundreds of strikes from both sides and ukraine's far right parties some account my children are taught to kill or that after this break. successor's financial survival guide i don't buy any i because i'm a features. almost five. i solicit my ex from the future so crocker was kaiser. would hold his hands to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when one of the first entry. somehow wanted. to go right to be close the slightly before three in the morning can people. interested always in the

logs out. there should. fix or didn't talk then this is the phrase that has become a montra for many people but as more and more people get involved in visualizing the world around them always the story we tell ourselves about ourselves changes. like the weekend the fighter jets are continuing their bombing raids in response to cross border rocket fire this comes after a week of deadly hostilities in which at least seven palestinians and one israeli were killed.

i. last. thirty three. meanwhile israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu. he has announced he is taking up the defense portfolio as well it comes after his defense minister quit on wednesday in protest at the ceasefire in gaza which he described as a capitulation to terror the un security council held an emergency meeting on the conflict the day before which the israeli representative and palestinian observer were the head of security council must only condemn hamas we condemn in the strongest possible terms this aggression by israel there is no such a thing both sides. but attacks and fires the result of this blockade

which is immoral illegal and inhumane and we will continue to take any measure the measure necessary to protect our own people this round of violence was created as a result of a botched bizarrely military operation in the gaza strip it's very interesting for me to hear the israeli ambassador speak about the gaza collision all of the victims except one of this round of escalation where palestinian all of the victims were inside gaza and not outside of the gaza strip israel bombed a t.v. station it bombed residential buildings it leveled them to the ground those are acts that are acts of terror because they did terrorize two million palestinians the latest round of escalation started because of

a botched israeli undercover operation three kilometers deep inside gaza that's how the escalation started with the israeli forces killing seven palestinians. ukraine's far right freedom party has open eyes and children some occam poll though to some it might seem like more of a boot camp journalist from the associated press news agency says that the site has lived under strict rules and now and how to become part writing as a looper trying cover. now that's what i call a legit summer camp. in the early morning wakeup calls. oh yes right by off. chance that kids will remember for the rest of their lives. catching march.

welcome to the temper of will summer camp in western ukraine it's pretty much a boot camp hidden in the forest the people who set it up are from the national socialist svoboda or freedom party so who can get enrolled officially it's for teens but a.p. journalists who went there say they saw children as young as eight here they're being taught how to kill. you just listed you know they can still. see them when you call then they're told to sit but it used to know what i was. supposed to call fun things and one of them and that's what this mostly. but not only do they get to learn how to take down those who adults are calling russian invaders the kids are also taught to stand up to what the instructors see as

degrading trends in the west so. it should make you. feel that what. first there was. what may seem as an ugly display of far right shod brain washing appears to get full support from the local administration well earlier this year key splash some of its budget on youth projects the goal is to prop up what they call a national patriotic education some of these projects are run by the stream far right. even the nato backed atlantic council think tank tried to raise international wariness with this article and indeed we didn't write that amnesty

international's pointing out the issues more than just critical ukraine is sinking into a kill sort of uncontrolled violence posed by radical groups and the total impunity principally no one in the country can feel safe under these conditions and if you're wondering if any of this could actually spill beyond ukraine well just lately and f.b.i. agents criminal complaint said ukrainian neo nazis were believed to have trained white supremacists in america just wait till some of these youngsters grow up. in january ukraine passed a law recognizing russia as an aggressive state lottery the vice prime minister said his country trying to build a strong democracy while a kid in the kremlin a supporting populist. journalist brian. crane conflict since it started

believes that we're at a turning point. i'm just shocked that it's finally been reported in the west i mean associated press have gone in there obviously a syndication agency so obviously that you know they're caught. we don't have to be reported in other mediums i'm pleasantly surprised you know outfits like the washington post notably have covered it although some of the usual suspects you know the guardian and out of sight out of ignored the story once again without some surprising but it's good that for the first time you know many readers and western countries are finally learning something about what's really going on in western ukraine particular with these nationalist groups the way things work in the west is that you need pressure groups think tanks to kind of get on these bandwagons and kind of you know almost force the agenda and what's very interesting is here we've got children you know schoolchildren minors being trained to hate being trained to kill being trained to fight and where is amnesty international where is human rights watch i mean they're not interested i mean where is the american embassy what it's supposed moral leadership you know lashing out against this where the british embassy. i mean much you know we can have an internationalist show and

thomas will take at the top of the but in the meantime check out our website that sautéed dot com next up it's a documentary called. after this break. i don't think the democrats are much mode in the negotiation with the republicans or

president so i think people are going to have to acknowledge that the united states over the next couple years is going to be consumed even more so by our internal our turtle bickering in affairs and. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that prevalent in this population of people look at birch. and any interrogation out there what you'll see is threat promise threat promise threat lie a lie a lie the process of interrogation is designed to put people in just that frame of mind make the most comfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said if i were. sat on the stage then i would

be home. by the next day there's a culture of all accountability of police officers no. misconduct that has nothing to do with. what i believe. we care the music with us. we are here we were dragged here. by you have got to get rid of those who are not go away who are not quiet. real the hard work we do is the truth.

the worst drug disaster in history would spread to more than forty six countries and produce up to twenty thousand badly deformed babies worldwide. but historians today single out one birth in one nine hundred sixty one that changed the course of history in hamburg germany linda shield hill and age twenty three gave birth to her first child her husband wasn't within the time and it was quite. and then i lay back and was relaxed and some i mean somebody whispered into my ear. all right and i was. white awake and i said.

what what's got what has happened to my baby is anything wrong here she said just. let's say. without any emotion oh yeah he's just got short arms and i like a child would have asked possibly i said and i'll take owing any more and this cough and grow this would be like it to snow. and then i felt like i was beaten to death. a doctor gave the first time mother some friendly advice just get another child. like forget about him you know. i'm a way to get out shortly afterwards linda's husband arrived and gave her some bad news he'd been keeping from her six weeks earlier his sister had given birth to a baby with similar deformities it looks alike like our child there must be

something that is the same all region the same difficulty the same problem in the background and we'll find it and real search and we won't stop until we've found. the epidemic of deformed babies began five and a half years earlier on christmas day nine hundred fifty six with the birth of the first victim. in a small town of germany a mother had taken a new drug called for little mite being developed by a local drug company can be grown into her husband like other grown in tallinn ploys had taken home a sample which he gave to his pregnant wife the baby would be the first of six father to my baby's possibly more born to grin and thousand workers in the years ahead.