central asia giant is once a thriving base no question. they are all see is now disasters are turning to dust and disease after decades of mismanagement. or you're watching r t broadcasting live from moscow welcome to the program and news crew has been taken into custody in the u.s. state of georgia while filming an annual rally near a military base thousands joined the unauthorized demonstration calling for the closure of fort benning which is nicknamed the school of assassins where our team is going to church and has been following developments. our crew is still in jail in columbus georgia we have no idea when they're going to be released our to correspondent kayleen ford and cameraman john conway were arrested while covering

a massive rally outside fort benning which hosts a training center for latin american military officers and policemen thousands of people gathered at the gates of that institution in the state of georgia with demands to shut it down among its graduates are many of latin america's most notorious torturers mass murderers and dictators some call for banning america's terrorist training camp those by all standards nonviolent demonstrations happen every year activists say usually few people get arrested by police but this time they say it was different so many more got arrested we talked to caylee in our correspondent earlier during the brief phone call she made from jail she said she had seen indiscriminate arrests of dozens of activists she herself and her camera man were seized as they were trying to capture on camera what was going on as they were doing their job she was furious over there she she was saying they stayed away from the gates of the facility as they were asked to no harm to anybody but never the last both she and her cameramen got taken away i'm sorry and let.

me take you and your mind. kayleen and john were charged with taking part in an unlawful assembly and refusal to obey to a police officer activist of this rally say this year's demonstration was was different because because the authorities by all these indiscriminate arrest tried to send a message as they see it to prevent them from speaking out on what's behind the training that thousands of latin american military officers receive in the united states and again i want to mention the rally has brought together thousands of people protesting that is human rights activists victims of torture at one of the arrested was a ninety year old priest there has been a grow. public outrage with what's going on at ford and his training camp a latin american military and law enforcement officers they've trained around sixty

thousand of them many of whom have returned to their countries and became very dangerous they committed all kinds of human rights abuses for example the nine hundred ninety three the united nations truth commission on el salvador named the army officers who had committed the worst atrocities of the civil war there are two thirds of them have been it had been trained at the school of the americas in chile the schools graduates rainbow. secret police and his and some of his main prisons there which are often referred to as concentration camps generals who led the bloody military coup in honduras in two thousand and nine were trained at the school of the americas which is now called the western hemisphere institute for security cooperation while the name has changed the practices obviously have. have not caylee now reporter was covering all this and the rally outside fort benning where the training center is located is not the first time in our correspondent put it in an unpleasant situation in the u.s.

for doing their job i remember in september one of our correspondents who was covering the u.n. general assembly marine of pork ny a verbal e was verbally abused and harassed by you or police officer if you was prevented from broadcasting and denied the use of her phone i remember what was later told she had done nothing wrong. on the way in a few minutes the world's most widespread bird of prey which face is being wiped out in russia but one on a crusade saved from flying into oblivion find out how he's doing it also. the aero sea has become a wasteland of sand. and pollution i'm lindsey france to join me in kazakstan to investigate how this transformation has affected the people here and how it's put it down on the environment. people in the serbia are getting less enthusiastic about their country joining the european union

a new gallup poll highlights concern over signing up to an alliance that's having trouble keeping itself together sarah furthur explains it's the basics that people are worried about with prices in the shops already suffering from practices. it's government's i a family on the west in just a few days' time so have you will be presented with a questionnaire by the e.u. commission and what's seen as an important step in sebi is to join the e.u. for us citizens as was the case for the rest of the continent being part of the e.u. is the certainty for peace and stability a normal life better way from the prairie the political rhetoric and the media amongst the public in serbia is the us the different in fact a recent monitoring report found that more than half the respondents now view. negatively. listen to the politicians focused on joining the. e.u. gives them a sims and it seems that our government is being dictated to by the e.u.

what you do rather impose crisis here are many e.u. countries and they're facing their own big struggles and there are some important questions being posed just how will the next session help economy how will the multicultural institutions built after a decade of war be sustained at a time when leading european politicians ahead saying that multiculturalism is dead and when unemployment in serbia is so high the promises of a better future translate into actual benefits passed. during. many drops bring down. any changes the government has also come under heavy criticism from opposition parties for the ill militant selling a state assets in the privatization been in the last decade. ten years the

serbian government has been striving towards the e.u. with promises of a better future free cheese is only ever on offer in a mousetrap the government even so. some businesses partners in the european union oil. industry monopolies have crippled many businesses such as this small dairy farm in belgrade from coutts to cart milk production and serbia is now no longer profitable and it's all the situation changes consumers are going to be getting a drop of the real thing another family price is sad were ridiculous and sue farmers simply refused to accept it you know it's hard to find fresh milk in the shops and we're having to sell our coast the meat. we're told at the milk monopoly is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to business corruption is with rich businessmen profiting from the government not strong enough or unwilling to pay for private interests investigation documents showing to r.t.

reveal the state loss of around twenty million year is from the alleged and devaluing of the link to the seller great pool its money that should have belonged to the taxpayer of course there are certain issues that need to deal in the clause future and the corruption. a whole bureaucracy that is still existing here it is. soiled for phenomena like corruption people here no longer feel like the membership will be the answer to the country's problems and prairie eve rhetoric holds nice way with continuing economic instability is affecting the population sarah. belgrade. well an interview with. serbian president boris tadic says that despite economic problems kosovo remains one of the top issues for the serbian people but later this hour he tells us that in order to move forward balkan nations

need to overcome their differences. economic crises. unemployment and the kind of problems on the top of our agenda and this is a totally true without a strong economy and a real development you cannot defend your state to the national interest but people are not thinking that costs always are not the problem anymore we have a confrontation between serbs and albanians not between should be and cause so because we don't trickle in a score so in the pan this we have a confrontation between serbs and albanians for almost. fifty years and on the end of the day we have to solve that kind of conflict. blocking not only serbs sort of single being is but also a whole region in terms of progress and development only true dialogue we can achieve some sort of a show that can be acceptable for a great. now once the world's fourth

largest lake essential asia's aral sea is now famous for other reasons with ninety percent of its water lost through soviet union irrigation projects it's now little more than an environmental catastrophe and is ati's in sea france reports the seas demise also pays is a serious threat to people's health. erroll sea is a shadow of its former self those in the kazak city are rask once had the sea at their doorstep but are now confronted by the haunting sight of abandoned ships the water is twenty kilometers away and from the dried up remains sickness comes one local woman who chose not to be named remembers when friends and family started to fall ill. here new diseases a match that we have never seen in high numbers especially related to breathe in my husband's good chronic bronchitis that's how i live you can see salt in the air but

you feel it on the skin and you can feel it on the tongue. fields planted to make the soviet union completely self-sufficient in cotton consumes the rivers feeding into the air all sea decade by decade it nearly disappeared now what was once the world's fourth largest landlocked body of water is reduced to a pit of sand salt and pollution. the salt clings to them moist seabed like here at the harbor in iraq as soon as it's dry enough even the slightest wind carries it into the town and across the country into the lungs of men women and children who don't even know they're bringing it before the ground cotton scheme the aerial see was one of the most picturesque places in central asia as it disappeared along with the soviet union the task of regeneration fell to the

heads of newly independent central asian states in the early one nine hundred ninety s. it was then that people learned the extent of the seas to mines that until that point was known only to those close to the cultivation projects pesticides used to yield cotton leached into the rivers making the water a silent killer. the growing trees heavily polluted as well and in essence we're living in a disaster area in the past our infectious disease ward had one hundred fifty to one hundred sixty patients especially children wouldn't a strain of diseases per year it's about five per year it was the exact same with viral hepatitis this is all frank's to clean water. three years ago a group called the international fund for saving the aerial sea stepped in to protect the people from the tainted water. the fresh water project sells many issues when possible they lead tap water pipes to the villages and to distant

villages they create local water pipe systems but the pesticides aren't just in the fresh water they're blowing across the dusty seabed as well. in addition multi-drug resistant tuberculosis is on the rise exacerbated by this toxic combination special rehabilitation wards are reserved in area hospitals so. our government pays fifty percent of what it calls ecological extras to our salaries. they throw an extra for living near with the rockets launched in the aral sea we have serious problems with the draft young people come in. small dams now trapped what little water flows into the upper air all see irrigating the desert little by little but walking through this place that's been given a new lease on life one can see the legacy of mismanagement it begs the question

is bringing the water back enough to overcome the years of neglect or is the pollution too great to turn to dust bowl back into a thriving basin lindsay france r t kazakstan. from a salty dust to a sparkling snow we have more the natural world for you at auntie dot com we have details of extreme degree drop off for south pole scientists at the russian cargo planes unique parachuting mission to get fuel and equipment to the antarctic. also on our website it's the end of the line for a trusty old traveler new designs will hit the track soon meaning goodbye to the model which heralded the electric era.

a russian newspaper has published new details of the joint nato russian missile defense shield discussed at the sidelines of the alliance summit in there's been under a new proposal offered by president the two sides would cover sectors of territory which may overlap and extend over state borders each side will be responsible for handling rogue missiles flying into the areas of control experts say this plan would allow both sides to remain secure and independent in terms of their missile systems and sources. with the you've made again of strategy would help to dispel the russia's concerns over european systems threatening its national security however artie's military contributor can leave any who shelf thinks nato needs the cooperation to survive on its failed campaign in afghanistan. what is the hidden agenda of the latest nato in lisbon from the russian perspective the most important thing is to make sure they nato real not splinter russia from

its allies at c s t o it's already plain and palpably obvious that the nato i said mission in afghanistan has failed it's obvious both the united states and russia the most important missing thing is pakistani involvement one way or another in the afghan conflict in fact nato is nothing more than a political and military talking club which from the legal perspective is just a european version of the status of forces agreement for the united states bases in western and eastern year but russia can offer the life support for the new role of nato as an equal partner for c s t o where russia is just one of its equal members that is the only chance for the atlantic alliance to get

a new lease of life after its miserable day back in afghanistan. well that's how that now at some other news we're around the world this hour all twenty nine people trapped in a coal mine in southwest china to safety and then trapped underground for more than thirty hours before the successful rescue china's mines are considered the deadliest in the world more than two thousand people killed in to mine accidents in two thousand and nine this instant follows the death of thirty seven chinese mine is in a gasp lost last month. a moscow bound seven six seven more than two hundred people has made an emergency landing in new york after one of its and. engine failed the delta airlines jet purported engine soon after takeoff the pilots dumped fuel before returning safely to j.f.k. airport to other dallas delta passengers jets also suffered shutdowns they

too landed without incident. united states special representative to north korea has met south korea's nuclear envoy to discuss the latest on the program to try and stops in seoul tokyo and beijing and comes out of pyongyang showed you're a veteran facility so this is an american atomic expert this report. generates. well the peregrine falcon is the world's most prevalent bird of prey but in russia it's at risk benny a few thousand left in the wild but now a former surgeon is on a one man crusade to get the falcon off the country's endangered list party went to see how history. here we go or. we're back there richard this is how we teach our young folk singers to work

with the birds around a yard has been turned into a classroom and the birds of prey have a magnetic attraction. that it was scary the first time then we slowly get used to them and it became interesting. mohammed shimmery is a surgeon by profession and moved to new of the city to install view times now he's embarked on a tough mission to restore the peregrine and seek a falcon population of the region for four of seven years we didn't have the permission to release the birds the ones that will be in the center stage here for more than a century peregrine's have been or reassigned to north to see if it did no harm and over a decade to get the falcon bridge in project on track. brydon peregrine's in captivity has proved to be difficult for anyone she peregrine had no chicks for eight years no matter what male felt bring she didn't want to mate. mohamed has

a story to tell about each of his one hundred fifty birds every day the result long to do list and just three people so they're all kept very busy. they say takes a lot to train a fella going for hunting but in the wild birds have a completely different existence the falcons born in captivity are trained to hunt and live in the wild every year a few are released one even made its way as far as morocco only go in to prove the success of the operation. if they continue releasing at least twenty five thirty five birds annually there is a chance that the species will stay here is not hunted down nowadays though there are rare cases i think one day we will see peregrine's not passing by is now the build a nest here meanwhile mohammed dreams about getting a green light on his felton risk. is the people who should get to like the birds of

prey you really love nature and the other forest ambulance so maybe with all fell can screw we can somehow help the environment if the youth understands the environment in the right way we will live well with the paragon population now on the rise he wants to turn his attention to the falconry school teaching the locals how to look after the birds of prey and allow them to sue over their satan mountain save to hunt rather than be hunted. r.t. from north s. it. could work next is the businesses where korea. however welcome to our business problem good to have you with us this hour kazakhstan is planning to double oil production by two thousand and twenty and is eyeing up new export markets but at the same time the country also wants to diversify its economy and is looking for foreign investors the country's prime

minister spoke exclusively to business r.t. about the plans. because i stand even though on the wall because we have the huge reserves of the natural resources before the bridge over the minerals and etc but to be only supplier of resources to the war is not so now distillation is to be to have a competitive free market economy to have for a competitive. population with a higher standard of education mr prime minister it's been almost a year since the creation of the customs union of russia kazakstan and valorous how would you assess its work what problems have been revealed during this year and where has it been most successful of course we did have some difficulties the past may be will be some difficulties in the future but at the same time we do hear for very achievable results and i think the results that were quantum is

enterprises within the custom union became more competitive. enterprises even custom union have more competitive advantages because the market is much bigger than it used to be before especially for because of stand they have won the sixteen million population now we can produce or was four hundred seventy million population this is a good one teach for us the near tariff policy in the customs union it will be based on current tariffs existing in the russian federation it will get ninety percent of all the duties while kazakhstan will receive only seven percent what is your peer is this workable it's not only workable it's already working in the order to feel the one teachers of that i think gives the possibility to set up a new enterprise system the territory of all the benefits of custom union including

kazakhstan and the order they feel. or interest from foreign companies to invest in kazakhstan because now they're looking for a much bigger market not only sixty million population and they already feel that interest from the. investors kazakstan plans to double oil extraction by twenty twenty what will be the priority in the country's energy policy and what export markets work has a start target kazakhstan explaining to double the export possibilities by twenty twenty and distin ation for export of oil in the digital sources with the additional countries thought russian pipeline system to europe through c.p.c. . consortium projects through russian territory but would boost jihan. to china i think we will explored as much as possible even though the existing

capacity is not enough and we are discussing with all the members of all the neighboring countries the possibility for a future expert but the first choice is russia. and to all the stories that stricken island has confirmed that it will receive a massive bailout from the european union following a week of speculations it's a second emergency rescue package organized by the eurozone this year that was government is negotiating with the e.u. and the international monetary fund for loans worth just under one hundred billion euros that's around one hundred thirty billion dollars as part of the deal the government will outline its spending plan for the next four years it wants to restructure the country's banking industry and bring down the huge budget deficit. let's look at the markets in asia markets gain on optimism that an agreement to rescue islands banks will prevent teaching across europe koku stocks are up under one percent hitting a five month high of one point on monday in chinese banks games up to china would

have a fifty basis point increase in reserve ratios for banks hang saying is musing over a quarter of a percent. yes opens in the black on monday it's now trading under percent higher on friday brokers sixteen hundred point benchmark finishing just a tenth of a percent of my six hundred up and down session at the just a little higher. the global financial markets have been trapped between encouraging economic data from the u.s. and worries about inflation in china stephen says the trend is likely to continue in the coming week. we probably will see more of the same. inflation risk out of china and out of other parts of the world is very serious i think people are still concerned what the implications of quantitative easing in the united states will be. sold that there is still

a lot of concerns that are weighing on investors' minds on the other hand you know we are approaching december the last month of the year despite the fears and a lot of problems with european euro zone that china the year seems to be ending on a positive note so maybe you know people will try to see kind of a positive ending to two thousand and ten so i think we'll probably see more of the same. people being concerned selling their shares and taking some profits close to the end of the year and people who are more optimistic loading up on chairs say but i think we'll probably see markets a little changed there are no major announcements also it's going to be a short the short week in the u.s. because of the things giving holiday. and that's our business update for this hour but you can always find most stores on our website that's r t dot com slash prisons .

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