for bowling for moscow this is r t just after midnight here now my name is kevin now in our top story on our team news crews been freed on bail after spending around thirty two hours in the u.s. 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 the arrest this is that footage of exactly what happened. you know. i wasn't doing anything. i moved i moved i'm a member of the brother as republican i'm a member of the president sorry ok i'm sorry but i'm thinking i'm sorry. my memory and. i'm sorry i'm a member of the plant i i was tired i would have to move i moved over here and now they're arresting me and i don't understand why out it's really tight it's really

really tight. right now. i'm sorry if. they come back take the. take i was apparently told our correspondent also didn't see it because john conway there also forced to pay a fine after they were accused of taking part in the rally place is still considering another charge against them for allegedly failing to buy officers instructions despite the crew claiming they followed the order. to big released one of the scribe police as brutal. but i was there with my camera man covering the school of the americas watch rally and 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 bay 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 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 are 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 hundred 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 this attempt to control what kind of information is being getting is getting out but i've never seen that in the united states 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 americas where they're training soldiers and police to do these kind of actions against populations of latin america and much of the same repression was seen on the streets of the united states the case isn't 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 sentence us 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. carolyn foresees correspond of the brilliance of first hand account of what she went through and the rest will for the past twenty years activity at the military account of the questions be the subject of harsh public scrutiny and she's going to come pick up that side of the story for you tonight there has been a growing public outrage 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 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 it had been trained at the school of the americas in chile the schools graduates rain both of course the printer checks 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 practice is 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 washington bureau but you're going to be interested to know in about an hour's time tonight we'll be featuring that very story in a special edition of the great show for

a story plenty of views about what went on with people over. you're watching r.t. from moscow that stricken island will receive a massive bailout of up to one hundred million dollars rather from the european union an international monetary fund the coalition government in dublin tonight collapsed only starting on to finalize a budget and lifeline deals with the e.u. and i.m.f. before a general election it is the euro zone's second emergency rescue package now following greece but sambo one of the adam smith institute in london says it is the beginning of the end of the single currency policy 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 lives 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 italian banks by italian bond holders so if it really goes france economy will collapse the entire eurozone will collapse if one of these larger mediterranean countries goes and i think that really what island 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 ireland 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 what we need to do is to help our lives out of the euro zone help to restart their own currency which can float so that they can devalue that

and be competitive on the world markets and that will get our lin moving again and it will be good for the british taxpayer because britain will says will prosper when all of prosperous as well so what's to from british conservative m.p. douglas carr's well he told me that the eurozone is like sharing a bank account with your neighbors some of them without really spend everything in it. you cannot have a common fear currency and a common set of interest rates and a common monetary policy across disparate economies and if you try and do that you're putting political delusion ahead of economic reality and millions of europeans are paying the price we thought what we had was a currency union. and we thought it would be to our economic advantage on the contrary it turns out that that currency union in the common mantra policy has actually damaged economies who don't get the interest rate in the monetary policy they need worse it creates a debt union which in effect means that the twenty seven member states have

a common bank account and ours will probably happen if you shared your bank account with your twenty seven neighboring houses in the street where you live you would probably find that one or two members spent more than they should that's exactly what's happened in the euro it's not sustainable. that was a british concern of douglas cause will speak to me and still to come here on r t tonight. you will see has become a wasteland of sand. and pollution and lindsay france joined me in kazakstan to investigate how this transformation has affected the people here and how it went down the environment perhaps. 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 a new proposal offered by president medvedev the two sides would cover separate sectors of the territory so i think an identified diplomatic source the influential koma sun newspaper in moscow reports that put simply russia would be responsible

for handling rogue missiles from the east 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 believe me very of strategy would help to dispel russia's concerns over european systems threatening its national security alexander nikitin from the moscow state university of foreign relations told us the west needs russia to feel truly safe. that action in which missiles start them from the territory of certain state is common to only by a certain quantity or set allies below given eyes a united states or to our show or to some european powers. larch or air space to be warned in advance about the potential strike from this point of your for example are impatient i was in your system against potential strikes from iran or north korea would require. much more informational to be

built this offer us should be involved in formation. for located the european powers from this point of your russia. or west to establish the system you. so for the scale. of the afore they go. next tonight once the world's fourth largest lake the are all sea in the center of age or is now known for one of the worst ecological disasters on the planet because of sovereignty a irrigation project the waters there started receiving fifty years ago bringing weather drastic change to the local climate and killing most marine life but one of the greatest threats the rapidly disappearing water still posed to this day is that to people's health legacy from supports the air all 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 but you see 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 we leave 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 erroll 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 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 before the grand cotton skinny erroll scene 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 cotton leached into the rivers making the water a silent killer. the growing 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 a strain of diseases per year it's about five per year and 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 arrow c. stepped in to protect the people from the tainted water. the fresh water project sells 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 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 summaries. they throw an extra for living near book nor with the rockets launched and the aerial see we have serious problems with the draft young people come in

unfit to service. small downs 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. kazakstan. but the first two in a series of special reports have lined up for you from the site of the world's worst environmental disaster more of it to come in for interested from the hour we'll see region throughout the week here on out the story on our website to dot com as well as these are getting plenty of hits tonight we've details for you online tonight. livery drop off for south pole scientists with

a russian cargo plane i was shooting. to get. about that would. also. talk about. this kind of crusty old. the say you know they go. to give a father more about that. people across russia have been flocking to newly opened interactive reception rooms this last morning to talk to president medvedev online the nationwide frenzy caused long lines and even some traffic problems too it is the first ever online video. conference on such an unprecedented scale here in russia people from all eighty

three regions had a chance to quiz the country's leader about any issues during the session the president advocated the use of a government at a local level dmitri medvedev is well known for his love of modern technology he regularly updates his video blog and as an avid tweeter on many occasions the president's reaction to certain events was communicated indeed to the public through his twitter page rather than official state channels midnight eighteen let me take you through some of the top stories in brief more than three hundred people have been stumping in a water festival in the capital of cambodia palak started on an island in a river where a concert was being held to mark the end of the rainy season the prime minister said it's not yet clear what triggered the tragedy the authorities have warned the death toll is likely to rise the u.s. special envoy to north korea has called recent revelations about the country's nuclear program provocative but not a crisis stephen boswell who's visiting south korea right now was responding to a report by an american scientist at the north as a richmond plant with more than

a thousand centrifuges that have also been claims of an experimental light water reactor developed none of the revelations and so far being confirmed. rescues are reminded of the now preparing to use a specialized army robot to reach twenty nine miners trapped since an explosion three days ago rescue efforts have been severely hampered by a dangerous toxic gas preventing anyone from entering the mine drilling the ventilation shaft down to where the miners are believed to be more than a kilometer underground is expected to be completed soon but officials have acknowledged that the miners may not have survived the initial explosion keeping an eye still. looking ahead to programs to come tonight in ten minutes time we followed world war two veteran to the site of one of the bloodiest or most brutal conflicts the battle of the pacific is coming up shortly before that though. speaks next to the said. president boris tadic about his country. to the european union.

think. that the it's a serbian president thank you very much for being with us today thanks

a lot to mr president it's been two years since kosovo's independence was recognized and back then there was a lot of talk about the don't know a fact about the threat of destabilisation in the region and that none of that happened why do you think was it right to make such a fuss in the first place in the beginning of the domain i think he's still existing as a threat for everybody not only in the region of southeast europe but also everywhere and from the three of them are real concerns both to thinking for the consideration of how we react to the army unit about the declaration of independence so i think that we are trying to prevent problems. i mean should be a has a consistent policy that means we are totally against partition of all countries of the member states of united nations. that means we are against partition of the countries that the existing in the region in that respect you're fully supporting for example in the integrity. dignity of other countries. and in that respect we

are contributing to disability even though we are very much affected because if you look through the caribbean a from the pens just like us it was prime minister suggested starting relations from scratch ways it is a possible i mean what would it take for serbia to actually i think dialogue i think the dialogue is a very important that ok can bring some solution i mean we have a confrontation between serbs and albanians not between should be and cause so because we don't score so in the pan this we have a confrontation between serbs and albanians for almost two hundred fifty years and then 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 trade dialogue we can achieve some sort of you show that can be acceptable for great so the pretty sure foreign minister with a mistake set that serbia is actually putting it chances of joining the e.u.

under threat by refusing to cooperate with kosovo you're facing a really tough choice what's your priority kosovo are the membership i'm not making that kind of difference she's been. participating on elections the last time and the first time when i was elected for president of serbia bringing the mind to me and so digital goods to become embassy to fewer people and to defend that authority and to get consideration to my country i'm going to continue my efforts in that they are rich well in two thousand and eight in every single one of your interviews you set that seventy priest per cent of your people serbs thought that kosovo was the main problem major problem in the country and like your later this number dropped to six percent why is that i mean if you're talking about people. mentioning of course it was a main problem of the country. different opinion polls imposture yours you have to

know that serbia is a very much affected because if economical crisis and in that respect the old serbian people and the citizens of thinking that economic crises. unemployment and that kind of problems to talk before and this is a totally true without strong economy and the real development you cannot defend your state and the national interests and that is why we are trying to solve the problems like all other countries all around the world but people are not thinking that the costs always are not the problem anymore costs always existing on the problem not only between serbs and albanians but those with regional policy globally thinking because of keeping in the mind the real possible press of the can create many many turmoil sold around the world you're absolutely right the international court of justice and the whole question of what is the legitimacy of cost of this independence and this is a first president now in relation to that what do you think are the consequences for some other european countries in this you know for international court of

justice has been legitimizing you know that through the courageous enough independence not independence of course. being in the mind the group of the people there to declare that you know not truly independence didn't have a right to do that they came to the consideration all legal framework which was adopted on course so before and there is very controversial decision but we are not going to interfere in decision so for the international court of justice we accept that and we are going to continue all efforts in a direction to defend territorial integrity and sovereignty over serbia but that cannot be really achieved. without a dialogue between serbs and albanians between prishtina both great and we have to . some kind of compromise on the end of the day solution is not

a one sided to me is close well being is getting everything and the other serbian sort of syrian people are losing everything i'm totally sure that we have to have a some compromise or big government that its utmost to hand that it's to the hague what's your assessment of this process we have to continue that the process first of all this is all oh this is in accordance with ologists lation we are spending all those otherwise we will be in a very difficult situation and secondly in terms of frequency area one who is accused has to be and he should be no no. i'm not so talking about serbs croats bush exelby any others but because of war and terrible consequences we are facing with the only ways in terms of frequency radiation that the people that really accuse because of participation in the war crimes during the night the night this has to be faced with the justice in the hague tribunal and the human rights watch says a human rights organization demanded that you put pressure on serbia to actually

make the search for. more effective what do you say to that but i am not changing my my my approach and everyone who is a in the eighty's has to be in the hague tribunal that is a very strict and not changeable. mr president thank you much ink you very much thanks a lot. seventy six hours of intense fighting. six thousand dead. from battlefields several kilometers long. and now there is only one person who

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close midnight thirty moscow tommy watching on t.v. kevin allen's got the headline update for you on our team news crew jailed while attempting to film an annual protest outside the military base nicknamed the school of assassins in the u.s. is released on bail control a spot on the middle for the full part of the people taking part in the on the oil for. the details of the russian nato missile defense still emerge with russian daily claiming moscow in the block will protect each other from rogue missiles and trigger a respected scholars group that reached at last weekend's nato summit in lisbon already been dubbed historic because it paves the way from president to cooperation between russia. and the e.u. approves a massive bailout for debt stricken island a package worth over one hundred billion dollars in the second by the euro zone a few of the simonson's were taken for greece. and next in our special report the incredible story of a.