A very warm welcome to your watching R T International with me and our top story this hour a senior u. N. Official is accusing the United States of torturing whistleblower Chelsea Manning with her continued incarceration a letter from the world body special rapporteur on torture to the u. S. Government from last november has now only just come to light. The practice of coercive depreciation of liberty for civil contempt involves the intentional infliction of progressively severe mental and emotional suffering for the purposes of coercion and intimidation at the order of judicial authorities such deprivation of liberty does not constitute a circumscribed sanction for a specific offense but an open ended progressively severe measure of coercion for filling all the constitutive elements of torture or other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment Chelsea Manning was a u. S. Military Intelligence Analyst but was arrested in 2010 fully can classified information to wiki leaks she
The 1,000 share mark for the first time. Sterling finding support as politicians with teresa may pledging more armed police on the wake of the attacks they corbin calls for her resignation over the Previous Police cuts. Good morning, everyone. Most of you have already been out this morning. The fste 100 off by a quarter of 1 . Falling back from recent record highs. It was closed for a long holiday. It is down by 0. 4 and were seeing similar declines as well. We have a couple of big stock stories moving us lower today. Burbury down. They talk about a lack of top line visibility but ill also talk about the sectors here and health area is underperforming. The worst performing sector this morning, 0. 9 and heres why. Shares in the swiss pharmaceutical trading sharply lower following an 8 fall in the u. S. Listing overnight. This after the disappointing outcome of a major drug trial. Data showed used in combination with its original medicine offered only very modest benefits for patience an
Against humanity. Is thought that the nurse who has ebola in spain may have touched her face with a contaminated glove. And eyes in the sky as the moon turns red. The u. S. Lead International Coalition has been mounting its most sustained air campaign against the Islamic State in iraq and levant near kobani on the turkey syrian border. Isil remains definant and has just changed its tactics and positions. So they moved their attacks from the southwest, launching a new offensive from the east of kobani, on wednesday carrying out a suicide tack by a truck bomb in the Industrial Zone against a militia target. Protesters in turkey are blaming the turkish government for not helping inside kobani. They want more weapons allowed across the border. Lets talk to Bernard Smith who is close to k kobani. Give us your best estimate of the position right now, and give us an idea of how we really find out what is going on, when we cant go in ourselves. Well, first of all, we find out what is going on
Minister except political responsibility for this weeks devastating wildfires a bitter debate is raging over who was to blame for the tragedy. Im sorry kelly welcome to the Program People across the world are watching the longest Lunar Eclipse of this century were getting in some live visuals actually now would like to bring them up for you theyre coming in from south africa you just saw them a short while ago and and what youre seeing here is the moon slowly fall into the earths shadow as it aligns itself with our planet and the sun at its peak we are expecting the moon to turn and are in nj hugh also known as a blood moon and people across europe asia australia and south america theyre going to be able to watch all parts of this phenomenon and will however not be visible from north america. And from where im this we can cross now to science journalist Daniel Fisher from the boca planetarium in western germany welcome so much to you daniel and you know this is really something that ev
A bitter debate is raging over who was to blame for the tragedy. And. Im sara kelley welcome to the Program People across the world have been watching the longest a Lunar Eclipse of this century the moon turns this orange color a short while back this was at the point that the moon fell in the earths shadow after it aligned itself with our planet and the sun this is what is popularly known as the blood moon people across europe asia australia and south america have been able to watch all or parts of this phenomenon which is about to end in just a few minutes. And for more at lets get more now from astronomer he is joining us from stood apart this evening so tell us why the red orange color for the moon can you explain to our viewers how that happens. Good evening when no moon eclipse takes place the earth is exactly between the sun and the moon so you would think that the moon should be in the shadow of the earth but the earth has an atmosphere and the atmosphere of the earth throw som