tv [untitled] November 22, 2010 3:00am-3:30am EST
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there's once a thriving basin the fish plant not the real sea is now a disaster zone turned to dust and disease decades of mismanagement. you're watching are to us from moscow well twat top story now a news crew has been taken into custody in the u.s. state of georgia while filming in their military base thousands joined on the authorized demonstration calling for the closure of fort benning which is nicknamed the school of assassins he's got a church account has been following developments. our crew is still in jail in columbus georgia we have no idea when they're going to be released are 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
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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 torture its 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 killing 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 the no harm to anybody but never the last both she and her camera man got taken away. my. ear. you mean. you.
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kayleen and john were charged with taking part in an all lawful assembly and refusal to abate 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 try 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 one of the arrested was a ninety year old priest there has been a growing public outrage with what's going on at fort benning and he's training camp for 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
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in one thousand nine hundred three the united nations truth commission on el salvador named the army officers who had committed the worst atrocities of the civil war they are two thirds of them have been good it had been trained at the school of the americas in chile the schools graduates read both a ghost up in a chest 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 you 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 t. 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
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e was verbally abused and harassed by you or police officers he was prevented from broadcasting and denied the use of her phone i remember what was later told she had done nothing wrong. artie's going to keeping us updated on the fate of an r t news crew being arrested in the united states. on the way in a few minutes the world's most widespread bird of prey which face is being wiped out to new york but one man is on a crusade to save these falcons from flying into oblivion and how he's doing it also. the air all sea has become a wasteland of sand. and pollution and when the france joined me and kazakstan to investigate how this transformation has affected the people here and how it but it's down on the environment. people in 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
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trouble keeping itself together etc firth explains it's the basics that people are worried about with prices in the shops already suffering from e.u. 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 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. negatively. listen to the politicians are so focused on joining the. e.u. gives. and it seems the government is being dictated to by the e.u.
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what you do not 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 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 past. many drops bring down. any changes the government has also come under heavy criticism from opposition parties for the ill monitored selling a state assets in the privatization of the last decade. ten years the
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serbian government has been striving towards the e.u. with promises of a better future free cheese is only ever on offer in a mouse trap 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 cow to cart milk production in third gear is now no longer profitable and it still 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 the meat. we're told that the milk monopoly is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to business corruption is with rich businessmen profiting from a government not strong enough or unwilling to oppose private interests
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investigation documents shame to r.t. reveal the state loss of around twenty million year is from the alleged and devaluing of the link to the sale of the great pools money that should have belonged to the taxpayer of course there are certain issues that you need to deal with close future and. corruption. a whole bureaucracy that is still existing here it is. soil for phenomena like corruption people here no longer feel like the membership will be the answer to the country's problems and prairie e rhetoric holds nice way when continuing economic instability is affecting the lies the population surf. belgrade well in an interview with r.t. sophie shevardnadze serbian president boris tadic says that despite economic problems remains one of the top issues for the serbian people that's next hour here in
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notting. economic crises. unemployment and the kind of problems on the talk 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 trick when i score so in the pen this we have a confrontation between service and obedience for almost. fifty years and in the end of the day we have to solve that kind of conflict. blocking not only serbs serbs and albanians but also whole region in terms of progress and development only true dialogue we can achieve some sort of you sure that can be acceptable for priests in a great. once the
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world's fourth largest lake central asia as i'll see his now famous for other reasons with ninety percent of its water lost through seventeen irrigation projects it's now little more than an environmental catastrophe and there's been see france reports the seas demise also poses a serious threat to people's health. erroll sea is a shadow of its former self but 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
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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 consumed 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 the moist seabed like here at the harbor in are all tsk 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 errol 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
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ninety s. it was then that people learned of the extent of the seized the 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 used in. the growing days 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 with interesting diseases per year it's about five per year it was the exact same with viral hepatitis this is all things to clean water. three years ago a group called the international fund for saving the errol c. stepped in to protect the people from the tainted water. the fresh water project souls many shias when possible they lead tap water pipes to the villages and to distant villages they grade local water pipe systems but the pesticides aren't just
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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 nearby with the rockets are launched and the aral sea we have serious problems with the draft young people come in unfit to service. small dams now trapped what little water flows into the upper air or sea 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
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pollution too great to turn the dust bowl back into a thriving basin lindsay france r t kazakstan. and from salty dust to sparkling snow we have more the natural world feeling. that we've details of it's created in the every drop off a south pole scientists with a russian cargo planes unique parachuting mission to get fuel and the quick went to the top. also on our website it's the end of the trusty old tram new designs will hit the track soon meaning it will be goodbye to the model which heralded the electric.
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russian newspaper has published new details of the joint nato russian missile defense shield discussed at the sidelines of the alliance summit in this been under a new proposal offered by president medvedev the two sides would cover sectors of territory which may overlap and extend over state borders each side would be responsible for handling road missiles flying into their areas of control experts say this plan would allow both sides to remain secure and independent in terms of their anti missile systems so so believed would be a strategy would help to dispel russia's concerns of european systems threatening its national security work artie's richer contributor only of any who shot 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 have nato below explained
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to russia from its allies at c s t it's already plain and palpably obvious that the nato 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 state of forces agreement for the united states bases in western and eastern beer but russia can offer the life support for the new role nato as an equal partner full of c s t o where russia is just one of its equal members that is the only chance for the atlantic alliance to get
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a new leaves off life after its miserable day back in afghanistan. well let's have it now at some other news from around the world or twenty nine people trapped in a flooded coal mine in southwest china i can pull him to safety and then we're trapped underground for more than thirty hours before the successful rescue china's mines are considered the deadliest in the world two thousand people were killed in a coal mine accident in two thousand and nine and. this incident follows the death of thirty seven chinese miners in a gasp last. moscow bound boeing seven six seven carrying more than two hundred people has made an emergency landing in new york off to one of its engines failed. to airlines jet reported engine trouble soon after takeoff the pilots dumped fuel before returning safely to j.f.k. airport soldiers were then put on a later flight to other delta passenger jets also suffered engine shutdowns of the
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weekend to landed without. a. united states especially representative to north korea has met south korea's nuclear envoy discuss the latest on young's atomic program stephen bosworth strip includes stops in seoul tokyo and beijing and comes off the pro-gun show you very much which was the city to visiting american atomic expert his reports claimed north korea was generating a great deal meant for a new reactor. the peregrine falcon is the world's most prevalent bird of prey but in russia it's a risk with barely 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 but he went to see just how he's doing.
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this is how we teach our young folks to work with the birds. a yard has been turned into a classroom and the birds of prey have a magnetic attraction. 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 north the city where install via times now he's embarked on a tough mission to restore the peregrine and seek a falcon population of the region for five seven years we didn't have the permission to release the birds the ones that were born in the census stayed here for more than a century peregrine's have been a real site in north has it here it took mohammed over a decade to get the falcon bridge project on track britain peregrine's in captivity has proved to be difficult for one she peregrine had no chicks for eight years no
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matter what male felt bring she didn't want to mate. mohammed has a story to tell about each of his one hundred fifty brutes every day the result long to do list in just three people so they're all kept very busy. they say takes a lot to train a fellow going for hunting but in the wild birds have a completely different existence. the falcons born in captivity are trained to hunt and leave 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 it's not hunted down nowadays though there are rare cases i think one day we will see peregrine snow passing by is now a build a nest here meanwhile no harm in dreams about getting a green light on his falcon risk. is the people who should get to like the burgess
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bree you really love nature and the other forest ambulance so maybe we can screw we can somehow help the environment which if the youth understands the environment in the right way we will live well with a para growing 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. and that if your children are from north i sit here. great work there now a japanese car manufacturer in the sun may soon be buying ten percent of russian car producer after votes from current shareholders arena joins us now to tell us more about that what figures are we talking about here well kerry the deals worth around two hundred ninety million dollars as expected next spring i'll get to the to that in a moment but first to other stories. cotherstone is planning to double or production
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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 for investors the country's prime minister spoke exclusively to business about. because i stand we've known for the wall because we have a 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. how does to nation is to be to have a competitor for a free market economy to have a competitive for the. 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
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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 seeing the results that work on amiss and to process within the custom union became more competitive. prices given 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 order was four hundred seventy million population this is a good advantage for us the mere tariff policy in the customs union 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 opinion is this workable it's not only workable it's already working and they
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already feel the wonders of that i think that gives the possibility to set up a new enterprise system the territory of all the benefits of custom union including kazakhstan and they already feel. more 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 what has a star target kazakhstan explaining to double the export possibilities by twenty twenty and distillation for or export of or in the digital sources if the additional countries thought russian pipeline theist into europe through c.p.c.
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. consortium project through russian territory but could boost to do harm. 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. has confirmed that it will receive a massive bailout from the european union following a week of speculations it's the second emergency rescue package organized by the eurozone this year the irish 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 will have to restructure the country's banking industry and bring down the huge budget deficit. markets in asia mixes out the nicky's average rose almost one percent its highest
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closings june twenty first receiving worries about the yen strength encouraged foreign investors to shift back to japanese shares hang seng is trading a quarter of a percent lower here in russia markets open in the black on monday on the back of high oil prices i don't use that the i.m.f. aid and the news of the i.m.f. aid package to ireland as it's trading over a percent higher and i'm isaac's is up over a percent as well made meters apollo's calls burbank and north dakota. this and made by ten percent of russian car producers after bonds from current share holders technology and the investment firm dialogue the deal is worth an estimated two hundred nineteen million dollars and is expected to be reached next spring if it takes place there were no nissan aligned to share up to. thirty five percent even though that will give a significant power in the boardroom the company's planning to secure a controlling stake in the future. that's all the business update for now i'll be
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