the u.s. market again you don't have to be an economic genius to figure out that they would go with the u.s. market. mid-day from moscow the un's top official on torture in this sanjay has been subjected to inhumane and degrading treatment over the past few years it has taken a toll on the whistleblowers mental health. we really should lose all those oh the culture of person that has been exposed. to this lunchtime calls for donald trump between page fires of more democrats as the president himself manages to rally support of the back of the very same issue to. a leaked british army document that people who describe themselves as patrick. extremists they found the truth is i'm suspicious that. you know what why would i

be suspicious i think it's a great story. i don't agree with that at all i don't quite understand why the. patriots want to. and the us rebranded shale gas as a freedom project to try and sway reluctant european countries that it's better than russia. and they're good afternoon live from our men h.q. here in moscow is kevin 0 in this and allied to the company you're in for our latest world news roundup today starting with this the un's top official on torture says that julian assange has been subjected to inhumane and degrading treatment both during the years he spent in the door an embassy in london and now in belmarsh prison where he is still in the hospital wing in fact. julissa. consequence is clearly she will not be able to access

a little medical care for several years the much more seriously is how he has been mentally and emotionally affected by the extremely hostile and increasingly arbitrary environment she has the explosion for several. years she really shows all the symptoms that are typical for a person that has been exposed. to an organs are co-sponsored cross systems they done hey there what else did the un expert have to say on a scientist treatment and one of those claims based on indy. but as we heard there kevin miller is a former human rights lawyer former red cross official based in geneva he visited belmarsh prison for several hours where a song is of course currently in custody for breaching u.k. bail he's been sentenced to about 50 weeks he spent around 4 hours there out

talking to him i'm assessing his mental and physical health alongside medical experts now he submitted a report to the u.k. government alongside letters as well to the u.s. and swedish authorities stating as we heard there that a song is physical health maybe not ideal but it's his psychological health his anxiety that is the real concern here the u.n. official described what he's been through is a concerted deliberate and sustained use very strong words of condemnation there and he's criticized the way the u.k. government has handled the whole case from his a time in the embassy to his arrest and onward so recommending that he's not extradited to the united states ways of course facing charges he stated that last year the last year of a song is a time in the ecuadorian embassy was especially difficult. this is what the officials shared with us just in the last day. of last year in the ecuadorian

embassy it was extremely taxing makeup on his communications internet telephone calls and visits and they were spying on him they treated him in in what in my opinion is an extremely sadistic manner and all of that weighs on somebody is held naturally. as we heard there strong words of condemnation regarding the way a song has been treated by dorian government officials now of course his health has taken a turn for the worse since his arrest since he was dragged out of the embassy his hearing his extradition hearing to the u.s. has been postponed as a result of this deterioration indeed the swedish authorities there have refused to postpone a hearing based on his poor health that is something else that has come in for criticism from the official now just look up few weeks ago when he was dragged out of the embassy in cops he did look of course tattered but his condition did appear

to be ok he held up his face protesting calling on the u.k. to resist etc since he was remanded in custody in belmarsh he's been transferred to the prisons medical wing because of the officials concerns for his physical and mental health he spent just a few weeks there but it does seem it has taken a great toll on his well being. what it was but political prisoner war. years age but what we do in these cases you can with a doctor if he's like a son should have a cold which is designed to examine potential victims of treatment and to these standards and use the evidence was bullied or. join in the sunshine and be exposed to central is forms of cruel inhuman and degrading. malicious usually can only be described. what. shocked me but this particular case is

that a single individual has been selected and see all the all democratic states persecuted systematically as a manner to the point of breaking. 3 more u.s. democratic hopefuls to join the chorus of those calling for president trump same page month after the retiring special counsel robert muller said he could not exonerate trump of a drop of obstruction of justice claims but next as our senior correspondent greg as they have explained in page one is necessarily a recipe for democratic success. every so often america goes crazy for impeachment it's like the flu someone gets it and before you know it everyone sneezing or well and peaching they hoped and prayed mueller would get rid of the president but that isn't how the law works he couldn't do it the

opinion says that the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system. to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing it's up to congress representatives and senators to start impeachment proceedings in the media to rile up the mob q democratic presidential candidates tripping over one another to milk this impeachment frenzy for all its worth when we talk about a process of impeachment it is about the checks and balances prepare for impeachment that's what i've told my colleagues i believe that expungement proceedings will strengthen congress's hand in getting the information and the responses that they need to come to a conclusion about ultimate impeachment we took an oath to protect the car and serve the constitution of the united states of america and the way we do that is we

can impeachment proceedings now strangely enough the more senior slightly wiser politicians aren't quite as nuts about bringing down the king over that probably love to but for now they seem content to merely dig deeper you don't bring an indictment where you don't put in page unless you have all the facts the strongest possible case. robert miller's assessment also makes clear that congress has a right we believe an obligation to continue our constitutionally mandated oversight without interference or stonewalling and follow the facts wherever they may lead odd our top democrats a happy to merely continue their investigations their voters and colleagues want to impeachment now but this is politics it's a hell of a lot dirtier and more cynical than most people would believe and the smarter folk they know they're being played. hard to believe

what does trump gain from impeachment and again think about it 1st according to latest polls most americans are overwhelmingly against impeaching trump 2nd the chances of trump being successfully removed from office are slim to none closer to none really sure democrats control the house of representatives but republicans run the senate they'll hardly vote against their own and 3rd the last time the president was impeached bill clinton his approval rating soared in the aftermath by 10 percent no less you see now why trump himself is slightly provoking his opponents and as he talking about impeachment they accused the impeach word impeached you can't impeach somebody that's doing a great job impeaching take it

a preacher for any reason let's impeach him because the country is so successful we will update but i say how do you teach somebody the story great job do you impeach somebody because he created the greatest economic success in the history of our country right and wrong move things in politics approval and votes of what counts and this is why top democratic presidential candidates concent to shut out. about impeachment democrats voters 70 percent of them want impeachment the candidates want their votes the democrat leaders want to win the presidential election they know that if they rush an impeachment and fail it will hurt them like hell trump he's playing the victim he wants to see his opponents fail and barris but as interesting as all of this is remind me what exactly these that they're going to impeach him for. cvo some political commentator steve malzberg told us that the

democratic leadership understands that it won't be able to get trump impeached. nancy pelosi knows that it's politically unpopular and she would be the 1st to go it sure in the senate he knows that even if the house peaches donald trump then it goes to the senate and they have to convict him and they need 2 thirds of the senate to convict him and schumer knows that's never going to happen it didn't happen with bill clinton now when they impeached bill clinton he won reelection so nancy pelosi is been around long enough to understand that the public doesn't really care about this and they're fed up with this whole russia nonsense and so they know that even if they have pictures of the house it's going to fail in the senate and donald trump i believe really wants to be impeached he's kind of egging them on you know hey do it if you what it's a horrible word it's

a terrible thing but he's kind of prompting them to i dare you to do it because i think and i think nancy pelosi knows it will help trump. next pantra tism is a sign of extremism according to the british army a leaked document which dates back to 2017 as exposed to guide used by senior officers to indicate the signs of extreme an intolerant behavior in the ranks according to the document officers should look for those who describe multicultural towns as lost and personally with old colleagues in closed social media platforms the leaflet further also calls to watch a soldier's who make generalizations about muslims and jews whether the controversial point which refers to pantry hits raise the most questions in british media because people in london whether they found that particular recommendation offensive or not. suspicious and.

why would it sound suspicious it shouldn't do but maybe it does maybe they think you are not sure soros is you know what why would that be suspicious i think it's a great story. now i don't i don't agree with that it all so i don't quite understand why they would do that patriots not a bad thing it's it's an old fashioned term that doesn't make you a bad person does it no not change it's a good thing it's good to be proud of depends be cheated on how do you define it as a lover for a country no absolutely not patriotism is a good thing you know if you look at a lot of strong countries around the world you know the leading countries patriots it's wrong isn't it because then you're. because star person could be a normal person that you could be putting on the person into something based not. for their part the army says that the leaflet does not suggest that all troops are

extremists the defense ministry further said it was drawn up following the arrest of 4 soldiers who were accused of alignment with an extreme group. no less they say something completely different picture this is the middle of a night in kazakstan and suddenly someone is trying to break down your hotel door on exactly the setting room for a restful night sleep but that was exactly parent leave the bizarre situation former british m.p. an r. t. hose george galloway for themself in with it gets more bizarre an egg cia director who recently tried to barge his way into that hotel room during a conference in centrally ages the map. of the most part plex saying disturbing and frightening things are to happen to me in my life and those a lot happened to me in my life it's every hotel guests nightmare as someone trying to force their way into the busy busy room in the middle of the night my wife leapt out of bed 1st and began throwing furniture towards the door the individual kept

on pushing and then flooding his shoulder against the door it was a full blown attempt forced entry and after some minutes the security did arrive and arrested the interloper as soon as the security did that i opened the door seeking some kind of explanation to recognize very well the figure and to hear him say over and over again. james woolsey you may recall the names james woolsey was the head of the cia back in the 1990 s. he's famous for advocating interventions of the middle eastern countries and claimed that iraq was involved in the 911 terror attacks in the u.s. in fact he wanted an invasion of the country over it mr will see is set to appreciate its reply to our requests for comment about the hotel incident but he's not so reticent when it comes to talking about other controversial issues like

decency. bullis inter ron and bashir assad in syria if they are wringing their hands worried about demonstrations i think we should be pleased about snowden i would give him the death sentence and i would prefer to seem hanged by the neck until instead rather than merely electrocuted when i just don't mess around other people. only for the very good to see that i went to his session to hear him speak he showed no signs of a hangover no signs of illness of any kind i'm not fully expected them to come and give me an explanation and apology but neither was forthcoming nor even a dr no and so i'm asking the cia know what this was all about was this attempt to harm me and if so why and what are they going to do about it or is this man not safe to be let out alone beginning the title all of us on boston dog and

former head of the cia well still if you get not they don't know it well of course the next day it's not exactly 17 minutes past midnight a moscow time among stories ahead the u.s. threatens the e.u. with sanctions of a plans to trade with iran we'll bring you more on that when we come back. with this manufacture consent to the public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the fine merry go round be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick.

this in petersburg international economic forum is a unique event in today's business world. over the last 21 years the forum has become a leading global platform for discussing they keep economic issues facing russia emerging markets and the world thousands of business community members attend a forum to address today's and vital issues. watch a special forum coverage on r.t. . get the nod to say says found a new way to market it shale gas to reluctant european customers they've label it a gas of freedom now. picks up on the story.

can you smell this scent of freedom where you can well check your pipes seriously you might have a gas leak and the intoxicating fumes could be all the more deadly for they come from the wrong place too with the u.s. in another year of record setting natural gas production and pleased that the department of energy is doing what it can to promote an efficient regulatory system that allows for molecules of u.s. freedom to be exported to the world yep kids the next time i geography teacher asks you what's buried in that texan shale you can proudly old freedom and all mel gibson from braveheart on them and don't even think of wasting your money on the dirty desperate gas coming from the wrong places seriously for some exporting those freedom allah kills from the us to europe is a heroic milestone akin to defeating nazis. 75 years up to liberate in europe from

nazi germany occupation the united states is again deliver a form of freedom to the european continent and this genius freedom marketing is only the latest fad in america's push to monopolize the european gas supply chain ever since donald trump got into office his administration has been pushing the wall becoming increasingly aggressive with time we are committed to securing your access to alternate sources of energy so poland and edged neighbors are never again held hostage to a single supplier of energy. so when germany makes a mess of oil and gas deal with russia. you're supposed to be going against russia germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to russia. we have not deployed the full sort of tools that

could significantly undermine if not outright stop the project. we emphasize that companies involved in russian energy exports are taking part is something that could prompt a significant risk of sanctions if you come up with the same actions of the current 3 or german banks or the german chemical industry and so on and so on and so on and then you tell them they have to keep their freedom. on the same person their quantum in our hands sorry this can't be honest ironically enough it seems that energy aside trump and co have done everything every possible thing to alienate europe from threats of a trade war to straight up trying to dictate policies to countries like germany so not only is it cheaper for the e.u. to get its gas from russia it naturally doesn't want to keep all of its eggs in one

basket. germany is entitled to secure its energy requirements in various ways one of these places russian natural gas i have a big problem with a 3rd country interfering in r. and a did policy german industry needs more room to to enhance and that just supplies safety. saying morley kills of freedom instead of natural gas is like calling or oil a liquid bomb magnet except the latter is actually rooted in reality now but well in the age of i phones and all our marketing they had to try. to get more expensive. rush of the market price for gas and they have to tell us in because the us made this agreement with her to explore natural gas to europe and he agreed and he said ok we. serve nomar and the whole

how to sell this so then this was a try to make. better people that it is more expensive. me time while trying to convince your to buy a scarce washington hasn't taken its eye off the balls for as a rand goes it's again warm the e.u. about the launch of a new trade mechanism with to run saying it's going to lead to sanctions or the us laid out the consequences in a letter obtained by bloomberg. engage in the fall of u.s. sanctions can result in severe consequences including a loss of access to the u.s. financial system it's called in stakes and its main purpose is to get around previous u.s. sanctions on trading with iran it was established by france germany and the u.k. for dollar transactions for the rand it enables countries to trade outside the u.s. dominated global financial system but it seems there is still doubt surrounding the arrangement. yes there is american pressure it's strong very strong and very

direct on the subject iran is constantly threatening to break the agreement and there doesn't facilitate the possibility of treat and terrans out in fields of fire to saying it's not going to wait forever for the system to kick in. we believe that the europeans must make long time efforts to fulfill their commitments to your liking behind and they should not imagine that these dummy republics will continue to wait for them i'm wondering how much time do europeans need to set up a preliminary mechanism when the background here last year the us pulled out of the hard won a round you clean deal that was struck back in 2015 washington then imposed sanctions on reigning oil saying that any company doing business with iran will also be sanctioned political commentator thinks that the european move now shows that countries want to reduce american dominance. if you look at the charges of the united states against you hand is incredibly ridiculous for one thing these days of

nuclear weapons for once these live events and they are building a nuclear weapons. in the world building nuclear weapons what would they be good for the u.s. things they can hunt the world and you know the europeans out the weak link of the healing international community which is everything else angeline aged kids and aging more and more carelessly special use the chain you hand in other counties and trying to get out of the u.s. the me nation the hope ians girls really do that they should be there to hold their lies they just kept the stories were following for you today this friday if you want to see so much more from us check out our site r.t. dot com i'm kevin owen from the rest the team have a great friday. this

footage is unique because the zoe tribal lands are normally off limits to the public eric's allowed in because he's lived so is personal don't. people here know him simply as dr eric he's rich famous some always on the move saving yachts and flying aircraft that the scots. know. he's considered one of the best neurosurgeons in brazil. that's happening amazon. allergies so says going. to busy doing nothing is going to do the population much good most is going to people on the zone .

seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out just to become educated and engage them in equal trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. the european governments especially the germans and the french and the britons. are really the one to help iran economically they have no control over their private sector and their private sectors. they have to choose and market. us market again you don't have to be an economic genius to figure out that they would go with the u.s. market.

happening around the globe covering the world of business finance and impact. and i'm daniel brill in washington where is what's on deck for the show today while the trade war is shaking in many sectors vital areas like food are not exempt from the damage kaufman has on hand today to discuss how the tensions have tainted the nation's food supply then we hop across to the market aspects of breakdown how the trade how trade has been shaking markets not just here in the united states but around the world so have our financial ones as a hand to sort through the stock suffering and later than john king is standing trial in oklahoma over the major epidemic. of america's lawyer joins us to break

down all the latest moves in the landmark law. and more straight ahead. a step toward recession for south america's largest economy leads our global report today as brazil's g.d.p. falls in the 1st quarter of 2019 the latest figures from the brazilian institute of geography in statistics show a point 2 percent economic contraction in q one fueling fears that brazil may stumble into a. assertion the poor figures and rising fears come despite some superficial successes for president both sonora when the brazilian stock market and embrace of mr bolton are from the country's business class mr bows and arrows push for cuts to pensions a major priority for the business class is on track but delayed while we cannot make indicators continue to accrue most notably brazil's central bank has downgraded its growth forecast for this year predicting brazilian growth just 1.2 percent for this year down from the previous forecast of 2.6 percent. and from

south america to the ever present concerns over the ongoing trade tussle between the world's largest economies many crop prices in the us are on an upswing despite the trade war including corn futures are up more than 14 percent in may the gains are mostly due to the concerns over the size and quality of this year's harvest soybeans are still reeling due to the trade fight between washington and beijing and the swine fever epidemic that is affecting china's pig herd which has in turn reduce demand globally for animal feed joining us now to discuss all things arab culture and food is fred kaufman author of the farm welcome back fred so 1st of all let's get your take on corn corn futures are up 14 percent for the month of may hitting a 3 year high mid week the wall street journal today cites figures from the agriculture department showing significant delays in corn planting while extreme weather related to climate.