hello this is r t it's ten pm monday night here in moscow my name is kevin owen and our top story r.t.e. news crew has been freed on bail after spending around thirty two hours in a us jail they were taken into custody in the state of georgia while filming an annual rally near a military base nicknamed the school of assassins our camera was rolling throughout that arrest this is the footage and exactly what happened. i wasn't doing anything. i moved i know. i'm a member but i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm thinking i'm sorry. i'm sorry i'm a member of the but i i was i would i moved over here and now they're arresting me

and i don't understand why. it's really played it really really. well if. i'm sorry if i. take the bank i. think. thank god i'm ok well that was correspondent carolyn for there and also our cameraman john coleman you didn't see of course they're also forced to pay a fine after they were accused of taking part in the unlawful rally now police are still considering tonight another charge against them for allegedly failing to a bay officers instructions despite the crew claiming they followed every order kelly described handling by police as brutal. i was there with my cameramen covering the school of the americas watch rally in vigil at fort benning this vigil has been going on for many many years and the police when we interviewed them before the all these events transpired they talked about how peaceful this event usually is how they never have problems with the protesters and then while we were

filming we were asked to step aside we were asked to step onto the sidewalk which we did this is documented in the footage that we shot we turned our backs and all of a sudden we were being arrested we were not told what we were being charged with we were taken to the county jail it took about four hours for us to be told what we were being charged with and we were processed through the system and we actually spent thirty two hours in the county jail there in georgia so we've just been released earlier this morning you know i've been a journalist and your as i've been a journalist in many other countries and you see the sort of oppression of journalists this kind of violence against against the media this attempts to control what kind of information is being getting is getting out but i've never seen that in the united states and the united states is my country and i believe very strongly in the first amendment and i always really believe that it did protect us as media workers as press workers even though we were clearly credentialed press were accredited with the united states congress we presented our

press credentials and they still arrested as we were charged just as all the either activists were all of us were found guilty of every single charge brought against us there was no distinction made between the press and between the you know the activists that were there and the bystanders the innocent bystanders so really we we we felt as journalists that we didn't have protection of freedom of the press we didn't have first amendment rights and it's interesting that this happened outside of the school of the america where they're training soldiers and police to do these kind of actions against the populations of latin america and much of the same repression was seen on the streets of the united states the cases and over again we did appear before a judge. in many ways it was the most undemocratic i would say process as you know sort of miscarriage of justice i mean a lot of us weren't even permitted to speak we weren't even permitted to hear what the police officers were saying against as or permitted to respond it was sort of the judge chose to not only you know press charges against us and decide even

though it was an arraignment but also sentences and we're also facing state charges for unlawful assembly which as journalists we you know obviously are not part of an unlawful assembly where they're covering it under our first amendment rights so that's the next case that's going to be taken up with the state of georgia and we're very hopeful that our lawyers who have been very supportive in this process and all the people who have been in solidarity with us will continue to support us in this process and see what we can do about these charges as well. for those whose correspondent bring. all of what. we're supposed to of the user activity military has been the subject of harsh public scrutiny is going to come out of the story. there has been a growing public outrage with what's going on at fort benning and any straining cam 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 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 good it had been trained at the school of the americas in chile the schools graduates rain both of course the pinochet's 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 but the practices obviously have. have not caylee now reporter was covering all this in the rally outside fort benning where the training center is located going to come to my beauty interested to know we're featuring this story in

a special edition of our debate show crosstalk today. from peter it's coming up throughout the day. the big news story for us debt stricken will receive a massive bailout of over one hundred billion dollars from the european union the international monetary fund it is the second emergency rescue package organized by the eurozone after similar measures were taken for greece some boman head of research the other smith institute in london says that what we're seeing is the beginning of the end of the single currency. honestly i think the euro zone's days are numbered i can't see the euro survive in this decade certainly not the next ten years probably not the next one or two years in fact bailing out ireland will kick the can down the road maybe our it will bring down the euro but probably portugal

spain or even if it really will the exposure of for example the french economy to charlie and banks is absolutely massive twenty percent of the entire french economy is. to france by charlie and banks by italian bond holders so if it really goes france economy will collapse the entire your of them will collapse if one of these larger mediterranean countries goes and i think that really what ireland and what the u.k. needs to realize is that it's not a matter of bailing out the euro because that's what this bailout is aiming to do the bailout is trying to sustain the euro currency but that actually won't work really the question is do we do it now in an orderly way to wind down the euro and help aren't out of the euro zone or do we try and wait for one of the massive european economies like spain or italy to collapse and they will really be in trouble because there's no way we can afford to bear that out and we really really it will be a difficult situation and what we need to do is to help arledge out of the euro zone help the restart their own currency which can flow to so that they can devalue that and be competitive on the world markets and that will get moving again and it

will be good for the british taxpayer because britain will prosper when all of prosperous as well. thoughts there of sam bowman head of research at the adam smith institute talking to us from london a bit earlier and while the e.u. may be busy fighting to save the irish economy of still faces the added problem of other potential members knocking on its door. now that serbia is getting ready for membership talks we got more to lose the e.u. . themselves that's coming up a bit later this hour bus. the air all sea has become a wasteland of sand salt and pollution and lindsay france joined me in kazakstan to investigate how this transformation has affected the people here and how it put it down on the environment forever. the russian newspapers published new details of the joint nato russian missile defense shield discussed on the sidelines of last weekend's alliance summit in lisbon under new proposal offered by president

would vote if the two sides would cover separate sectors of the territory citing an unidentified diplomatic source the paper says that simply speaking russia will be responsible for handling rogue missiles from the east and nato would cover russia from the west experts say this plan would allow both sides to remain secure and independent in terms of their anti missile systems it's also believed that preventive strategy would help to dispel russia's concerns over european systems threatening its national security alexander kittens from the moscow state university of foreign relations he told us that the west needs russia to feel truly safe. direction in which missiles start them from the territory of certain state is common to only by a certain quantity or for a satellite is a bit longer than i as a tour united states or to russia or to some european powers and you really need. large area or airspace to be awarded to in advance about the potential strike from this point of your example are impatient i was in your system against potential

strikes from iran or north korea would require a. much more informational to be built this all for us should be involved and maybe a formation or capability for located european powers from this point of your russia you need that to the west to establish the system in so full scale and russia is already afford negotiations for that. alexander nikitin over the moscow state university of international relations own r.t. . once the world's fourth largest lake the are all sea in central asia is now known for one of the worst ecological disasters on the planet because of soviet era irrigation projects the waters there started receding fifty years ago bringing with it a drastic change to the local climate and killing most marine life to boot but one of the greatest threats is the danger that is posing now to people's health as those waters disappear lindsay france has got the story 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 and 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 consumed the rivers feeding into the air will see 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 are all tsk as soon as it's dry enough even the slightest when 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 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. 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 with interesting diseases per year it's about five per year it was the exact same with viral hepatitis this is all funks 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 shooters 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 nati 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 buchan or with the rockets are launched and the aral sea 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 was the first in a series of special reports we've got lined up for you from the site of one of the world's worst environmental disasters we got more to come in from the animal sea

region throughout the week here on this channel and the stories also on our home page r.t. dot com as well as a lot more as well of course as ever if you've not checked it out so far why not let me tell you about what's there tonight we have details of an extreme livery off a south pole scientists with a russian cargo planes unique parachuting mission real high adventure this one to get fuel and equipment to the antarctic pictures a great story for not tricks that are already on our site artsy dot com. that is the end of the line for this kind of trusty old tram to recognize that sort of track traveling your tally your tram birth want to find out more new or designs it seems will hit the truck soon meaning it will be good value to this particular model model which heralded the electric era find out about those dot com as well.

we're talking about online stuff people across russia have been flocking to newly opened interactive reception rooms this morning to talk to president medvedev online the nationwide frenzy caused long lines and even some traffic problems too this is the first ever online video conference on such a young president to scale here in russia. as people from all eighty three regions of the chance to quiz the country's leader about any issue during the session the president ever created the use of government at the local level to invite him as well known for his love of modern technology of course he regularly updates his video blog and is an avid tweeter on many occasions the president's reaction to certain events was communicated to the public through his twitter page rather than official state channels. twenty two seventeen moscow time some top international news and brief you now the u.s. special envoy to north korea has called recent revelations about the country's nuclear program provocative but not a crisis steve bosworth who's visiting south korea was responding to

a report by an american scientist that the north has a new rail even richmond plant with more than a thousand centrifuges there are also claims of an experimental light water reactor big developed there but none of those revelations have been confirmed keeping an eye on that story for you. more of our rob rescue is at a mine in new zealand are preparing now to use a specialized army robot to reach twenty nine miners still trapped since that explosion three days ago rescue efforts have been severely hampered by dangerous toxic gases they're preventing anyone from entering the mine the drilling of a ventilation shaft down to where the miners are believed to be more than a kilometer underground is expected to be completed soon but officials acknowledge that the miners may not have survived the initial explosion. serbia is said to face key questions from the e.u. commission over its readiness to join the union but with the bloc currently struggling to keep its weakest states afloat there is skepticism in the alliance about accepting of

a new member and as artists are first reports next even in serbia many don't membership will bring any great benefits to their troubled country. 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 serbia's bid 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 a certainty for peace and stability a normal life better way from the prairie the political rhetoric and the media monks the public in serbia is thus the different in fact a recent monitoring report found that more than half the respondents now view. negatively on whether you listen to the politicians focused on joining the. e.u. gives made sims and it seems the government is being dictated to by the e.u.

what you do around 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 serbia's economy and when unemployment in serbia is so high the promises of a better future translate into actual benefits. 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 union where. 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 lives of the population serf. belgrade. and all the meals about the prospects of serbia joining the even the obstacles it faces were up for discussion went out the sophie shevardnadze sat down

with the serbian president boris tadic you watch the full interview on this channel in about ten minutes time but he's very quick preview of what's coming up. take set that serbia is actually putting chances of joining the e.u. under threat by refusing to cooperate with kosovo and you're facing a really tough choice what's your priority kosovo or the membership i'm not making the differences when i was elected for president of serbia sharing in the mind to me and so did you call girls to become embassy to fewer people you know to befriend dettori integrity and so bring to my country i'm going to continue my efforts in that direction if you're talking about people the. mentioning of course always a main problem of the country different opinion polls in past few years you have to know that serbia is a very much affected because of economical crisis and in that respect all serbian people and the citizens are thinking that 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 the real development you cannot defend your state and the national interests. the big names that are the biggest stories here on our table business update coming up next this monday night we shot. for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.

which brighten if you move. from phones to. t.v. don't. hello welcome to the business program here on r.t. with me that i was folly because x. dollars falling to double oil production by twenty twenty it is all going up new export markets but at the same time the country also wants to diversify its economy is looking for foreign investors the country's prime minister spoke exclusively to business about the plans. because i stand if known for the wall because we have a huge reserves of the natural resources before but were minerals and etc but to be only support for resources to the war is not our goal i would just

a nation has to be to have a competitive free market a quantum to her for a competitive. population with a high 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 have very achievable results and i think the achievable 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 order was four hundred seventy million population this is a good one teach 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 european is this workable it's not only workable it's already working and 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 the benefits of custom union including kazakhstan and they already feel. or interest in foreign companies to invest in kazakhstan because now they're looking for a much bigger market not only sixty 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 calloused on target kazakhstan explain and to double the export possibilities by twenty twenty and distillation for export of oil in the digital sources if the additional countries thought russian pipeline tist into europe through c.p.c. . consortium projects through or through all russian territory but would boost to do harm. to china i think we will explore 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. made by a ten percent stake of russian car producer after hours from current shareholders roles technology and the investment firm troika dialog deals worth an estimated two

hundred ninety million dollars and is expected to be reached next spring if it takes place a share of rain in the sun after overarcing reach thirty five percent even though that will give it significant power in the boardroom the company is planning to secure a controlling stake in the near future apart from that after about a secondary public offering of its shares worth six hundred million dollars. debt stricken ireland is confirmed it will receive a massive bailout from the european union it's a second emergency rescue package organized by viewers though in this year the first given to greece the irish government is negotiating with the e.u. the international monetary fund for loans worth just under one hundred billion euro as part of the deal the government will outline a spending plan the next four years will have to restructure the country's banking industry and bring down the huge budget deficit the u.k. says it's also ready to help ireland with an eight billion euro loan say the case shows that post crisis development is still difficult even for developed countries

. most of the markets worldwide are concentrated on their knees because this is again another silence of weakness of developed conference unfortunately doesn't look like an economy car development is that you're boston over to see proof but private sector for economies reviving. sort of the markets to our russian stocks of clothes in the red on monday morning last week's winning streak to an end and you produces gas probably for them was enough declines but look all down almost one percent. and finally more than seventeen hundred thousand foreign employees will get permission to work in russia next year that's after the russian government approved a quota for non citizens looking for jobs in the country which is about two hundred thousand less than it was long. highly qualified employees will enjoy perks like easier terms for getting in these that the government is struggling to reduce the number of illegal foreign workers in the country indeed russia tracks second

highest amount of illegal workers all through the u.s. on a conservative estimate more than four million people are working in the country without permission or invitation. much update for this we can always buy more stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business. do you believe. the future. for the full story we've got. the biggest issues. with the newsmakers.

who are the world are watching us here in moscow tonight this is our top story. the school of the u.s. is released on bail. they were accused of taking part. new details of the russia nato. russian. respect the agreement reached last week. as it paves the way from precedent of cooperation between russia. and the e.u. approves a massive bailout. package worth over one hundred billion dollars is the second the eurozone. taken for greece.