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and online you're watching r.t.m. carried. an r t news crew has been freed on bail after spending around thirty two hours in a u.s. jail they were taken into custody in the state of georgia while filming an annual rally their ability base nicknamed the school of assassins the correspondent caning forward and cameramen john conway were forced to pay a fine after they were accused of taking part in their own norful rally the r.t.e. news team described the actions of the police as brutal officers handcuff the journalists at the scene seize the person belongings and lock them up alongside criminals in the same cells police are still considering another charge against them for allegedly failing to have been officers instructions he's been a chicken is following developments. our crew has finally been released from jail in columbus georgia are to correspondent killing forty and cameramen jon conway had
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been earlier arrested while covering a massive rally outside fort benning which hosts a training center for the american military officers and policeman 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.
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me take it in your mind. you. kayleen and john were charged with taking part in an unlawful 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 al. with what's going on at fort benning and is training camp for latin american military and law enforcement officers they've trained around sixty
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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 they are two thirds of them have been did they had been trained at the school of the americas in chile the schools graduates read both a ghost of a 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 to correspond and put it in an unpleasant situation in the
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u.s. for doing their job i remember in september one of our correspondents who was covering the u.n. general assembly. verbal e was verbally abused and harassed by your police officers she was prevented from broadcasting and denied the use of her phone i remember what was later told she had done nothing wrong. arties going to chicken and then they're keeping us updated on the fate of an ati news crew who've now been released by police in the united states. and on the way in a few minutes the world's most widespread bird of prey which faces being wiped out in russia. is looking to save these functions from prying into oblivion. and is doing it also. the aerial sea has become a wasteland of sand solve and pollution i'm lindsay france to join me in kazakstan to investigate how this transformation has affected the people here and how it put it down on the environment. the russian newspaper has published
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new details of the joint nato russian missile defense shield discussed at the sidelines of the alliance summit in lisbon under a new proposal offered by president of the two sides would cover sectors of territory which may overlap and extend the state borders which side will be responsible for handling rogue missiles flying into the areas of control experts say this plan with allow both sides to remain secure and independent in terms of their until missile systems it's also the you've met the head of strategy would help to just spell russia's concerns of the new systems threatening its national security. 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 trouble keeping itself together a sort of further explain as it's the basics that people are worried about with prices in the shops already rising due to eve practices. it's government's i
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a family on the west in just a few days time serve you will be presented with a questionnaire by the e.u. commission and what's seen as an important step in serbia's bid to join the e.u. a 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 vastly different in fact a recent monitoring report found that more than half the respondents now view. negatively. listen to the politicians and so focused on joining the e.u. the e.u. gives. and it seems that our government is being dictated to and controlled by the e.u. . imposed crisis here at many e.u. countries and they're facing their own big struggles and there are some important questions being posed just how will it. help serbia is economy how will the
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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. planning to 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 being the last decade. for 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 mouse trap the government even sold some businesses to partners in the european
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union work. industry monopolies have crippled many businesses such as a small dairy farm in belgrade from coutts to cart milk production serbia is now no longer profitable and it fill the situation changes consumers are going to be getting a drop of the real thing. the price is sad were ridiculous and sue farmers simply refuse to accept i don't know it's hard to find fresh milk in the shops and we're having to sell our coast for me. we're told that the milk monopoly is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to business corruption as with rich businessmen profiting from a government not strong enough or unwilling to oppose 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 land linked to the sale of belgrade ports money that should have belonged to the taxpayer of course there are certain issues that you need to deal
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with in the close future and the corruption. a whole bureaucracy that is still existing here it is a. soil for for phenomena like corruption people here no longer feel like the membership will be the answer to the country's problems and probably eve rhetoric holds nice way when continuing economic instability is affecting the lies the population surf the belgrade. on the prospects of serbia joining the e.u. in light of the country's economic and political issues was up for discussion as r.t. so he should not sit down with serbian president boris tadic you can watch the full interview next hour but here's a preview. konami cries this. unemployment and that kind of problems on the talk of this is a totally true without a strong economy with
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a real development you cannot defend your state in 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 still 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 billions but also a whole region in terms of progress and development only true dialogue we can achieve some solution that can be acceptable for the number great. once the world's fourth largest naik central asia is i'll see 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 in his means he
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france reports the seas demise also poses a serious threat to people's health. the air all see 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 had 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 town fields planted to make the soviet union completely self-sufficient in cotton consumed the rivers feeding into the air or sea decade by decade it nearly disappeared now what was once
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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 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 grand carton scheme the erroll 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 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
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a silent killer used in. the grinders heavily polluted as well 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 intestinal 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 taint of water. is just the fresh water project saul's many issues when possible they lead tap water problems to the villages and to distant villages they grade 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
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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 in extra for living near bucca nor with the rockets are launched and the aerial see we have serious problems with the draft young people come in unfit for service. 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 the dust bowl back into a thriving basin lindsey france r.t. kazakstan. well that's have a look now at some other news from around the world all twenty nine people trapped
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in a flooded coal mine in southwest china having pulled to safety the men were 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 were killed in coal mine accidents in two thousand and eleven this instant follows the death of thirty seven chinese miners in a gasp loss last month. moscow bound boeing seven hundred seven carrying more than two hundred people has made an emergency landing in new york after one of its engines failed delta airlines jet reported engine problems soon after takeoff the pilots dump fuel before returning safely to j.f.k. airport passengers were then put them to flight to other large delta jets also suffered engine shutdowns at the weekend they too landed without incident. the united states special representative to north korea has met south korea's nuclear and boy to discuss the latest on the torment program stephen tripping to
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the stops in seoul tokyo invasion and comes out of showed and you venue in which passivity to a visiting american the to make expert is report claims north korea is generating no great deal for new reactor. the peregrine falcon is the world's most prevalent bird of prey but in russia it's a risk with many 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 welty went to see just how history. or. this is how you reach teacher young critters 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
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used to them and it became interesting. mohammed shimmery is a surgeon by profession and moved to north a city or 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 reassigned to north a city and it took mohammed over a decade to get the falcon britain project on track britain peregrine's in captivity has proved to be difficult for one she peregrine had no chicks for eight years no matter what meal fell can 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.
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they say it 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 mohammed dreams about getting a green light on his falcon risk. is the people who should get to like the burgess bree you really love nature and the other forest ambulance so maybe with all felt in school we can somehow help the environment if the youth understands the environment in the right way he will live well with
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a pair of 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. down that it r.t. from north. it's great stuff or you can find more coverage and analysis of war stories article called here just a couple of the thing as well don't. tell the stream delivery drop off a sample scientists with a russian cargo planes harshing to a mission to get fuel and equipment downtown take. it also on the website it's the end of the line for the trusty old tramp the new designs trucks going. by the model which heralded the trip.
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coming up next it's the business update with current. my. welcome to our business program this hour thanks for joining me because x. town is planning to double oil production by twenty twenty and is eyeing up new export markets but at the same time the country also wants to diversify its economy and is looking to foreign investors the country's prime minister spoke exclusively to business r.t. about the plans. because i stand if no on the wall because we have a huge reserves of the natural resources before but over the minerals and etc but to be all the support of resources to the war is not. now distillation is to be to have a competitor for free market economy to have
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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 within 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 put a new sort of was four hundred seventy million population this is
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a good one teach for us the new 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 all receive only seven percent what is your appear is this workable it's not only workable it's already working they already feel the one digits of that i think that gives the possibility to set up a new enterprise system the territory of all of custom union including kazakhstan and the order they feel of more. 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 is planning to double the export possibilities by twenty
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twenty and distin ation for export of war 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 be. to china i think we will explore of much as possible even though all 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. debt stricken island has gone from 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
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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 because huge budget deficit some even officials fear the republic's financial problems might spread to other eurozone countries with large budget deficits. no markets in asia close mixed nicky the average rose almost one percent it's hard to close it's june twenty first receiving worries about the yen strength encouraged foreign investors to ship docks . sanctus trading a quarter of a percent lower. european chazz on the euro rises markets welcomed the financial rescue package for the irish republic because could see its up point three percent or so while germany's dax out of. bags or that mining stocks are making up the bulk of gangs misleading game news with a two percent rise has a blow back of scotland's white house. and russian markets waiting in the black on
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monday on the back of high oil prices and news of the i.m.f. aid package to either kansas trading eight percent high on the markets is up over the south bank of the main leader all the boehner bill proposes one stone. this made by ten percent of russian car producer asked of us from current chair holders technology and the investment from troika dialog the deals worth an estimated two hundred two hundred ninety million dollars as expected to be reached next spring the takes place there we know and his son alliance is set and after the us will reach thirty five percent even though that will give it significant power in the boardroom the company's planning to secure a controlling stake of their future apart from that after last planned second republic offering of a chad worth six hundred dollars. that's all the update for this hour i'll be back with more at twenty past the hour meanwhile can always find most always on our website dot com.
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seventy six hours of intense fighting. six thousand dead. battlefields several kilometers long. and now there is only one person who cares. if we are surrounded by garbage everywhere but also there are. on this beach which
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of course it is very most appropriate signification is a symbol of everything that's wrong with our goddamn government allowing not only garbage but to a cheery way where so many guys died. a new battle is going on. will the history be protected. story on our team. british style. markets i now. find out what's really happening to the global economy for no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two kinds of reports.
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you're watching r t the main stories we're covering today freedom of the press in our team news crew has been released by police in america they were arrested while filming an annual protest outside the so-called student a some since in the state of georgia also forced to pay a fine. the cost of the union are serbia's leaders lined up to try and join the new shortages in the shops which are being blamed on member states on the eve of the public less convinced about signing up. and that central asia is dying and what was once a thriving place in the fish and plant life there all see is.

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