this is r t very good morning from moscow it's just after one am here now one name is kevin and our top story in our team news crews been freed on bail after spending around thirty two hours in the u.s. jail they were taken in 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 rest this is that footage of exactly what happened. you know. i wasn't doing anything and. i moved i moved i'm a member of the brother as a republican i'm a member of the price i'm sorry ok i'm sorry i'm i'm i'm sorry. i'm a member i'm. right 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. you take the back take that. role but scrolling for their own correspondent and also coming when joan caldwell you come see of course they're also forced to pay a fine after they were accused of taking part in the rally places still are considering another charge against them for allegedly failing to obey offices instructions despite the crew claiming they followed everywhere. went on to describe out through a release of the police's brutal when. 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 day 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 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 in honduras i've been a journalist in many other countries and you see. 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 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 protections 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 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 and 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. food for thought he's correspondent bringing us the first time the cone of what during an arrest will fill the post twenty years activity of the military code to be in question's been a subject of harsh public scrutiny and he's going to go about story 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

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 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 in about twenty minutes time we're free to move the story to a special edition of show cross talk with people. we were thinking county jail and we asked on the boss what are we being charged with and one of the sheriff said

don't worry no charge the ride is free we're taken to the county jail and we ended up spending thirty two hours there there was one woman and my cell block he had been going to court and sentenced to six months in prison but because of prison overcrowding she was in jail waiting to go to prison he had spent four months waiting but that was four months weren't going to count towards her sentence in prison so she was languishing you know there in the jail waiting to go to prison and we met many. course just over twenty minutes from now. that stricken island all receive a massive bailout of up to one hundred billion dollars from the european union and the international monetary fund the coalition government in dublin is tonight

collapsed only staying on to finalize a budget and lifeline deals with the e.u. and i.m.f. before january election it is the euro zone second emergency rescue package following greece but some boman of the adam smith institute in london told this is the beginning of the end for 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 the barrier island 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 charlie and 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 eurozone 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 that what we need to do is to help arledge out of the euro zone help the restart their own currency which can float 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 without a prosperous as well. story to british conservative m.p. douglas cause well he told me the eurozone is like sharing a bank it can't be good neighbors some of them would happily 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 column c. 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. british conservative m.p. douglas carswell still ahead on the program tonight an r.t. . carol c. has become a wasteland of sand. and pollution and winds in france join me in kazakstan to investigate how this transformation has affected the people here and how it put it down on the environment perhaps. a 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 territory so i think in an identified diplomatic source the influential newspaper in moscow reports that put simply russia will be responsible for handling rogue missiles from the east and nato will cover russia from the west and experts say this plan to allow both sides to remain secure and independent in terms of their own to masel systems it's also believe medvedev strategy would help to dispel russia's concerns over european systems threatening its national security expert coming from alexander nikitin he's from the moscow state university of foreign relations he says the west needs russia to feel true. that action in which missiles start up from the territory of certain state is common to only by a certain quantity or assert the lies below given eyes the united states or to

russia or to some european powers. larch or airspace to be awarded in advance about super pencil strike from this point of your 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 as a media informational capability for located european powers from this point of your russia you need. to establish the system scale and. already afford negotiations for that. keep abreast of the lowering story on our home page r.t. dot com and also on you tube page as well now talking of what's on mine from us tonight we details of an extreme delivery platform south pole scientists with a russian cargo plane during parachuting mission to give fuel equipment the antarctic fuel swashbuckling stop an adventure to mike tito called. the other

extreme is the airline for this kind of trusty old tram new designs it seems that the track suit will be good by the model which heralded be elected here did you think transfer all the same. article comes the place. that funnel you to champion to. the. next for marty 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 where started receiving fifty years ago bringing with it a drastic change to the local climate and killing most marine life but one of the greatest threats of the rapidly disappearing waters is still posed to people that

live there and their health linsey from picks up the story. the erroll sea is a shadow of its former self those in the kazak city are rask once had the sea at their doorstep but are now confronted by the haunting sight of abandoned ships the water is twenty kilometers away and from the dried up remains sickness comes one local woman who chose not to be named remembers when friends and family started to fall ill. here new diseases a match that we have never seen in high numbers especially related to breathe in my husband's good chronic bronchitis that's how i live you can see salt in the air but you feel it on the skin and you can feel it on the tongue fields planted to make the soviet union completely self-sufficient in cotton 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 the moist seabed like here at the harbor in iraq as soon as it's dry enough even the slightest wind carries it into the town and across the country into the lungs of men women and children who don't even know they're bringing it before the ground cotton scheme the errol 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 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 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 interesting diseases per year it's about five per year it was the exact same with viral hepatitis this is all frank's to clean water. three years ago a group called the international fund for saving the arrow 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 create local water pipe systems but the pesticides aren't just in the fresh water they're blowing across the dusty seabed as well. in addition multi-drug resistant tuberculosis is on the rise exacerbated by this toxic

combination special rehabilitation warrants 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 brooklyn or with the rockets 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 all 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 pollution too great to turn the dust bowl back into a thriving basin lindsey france r t kazakstan. we're revealing series of reports we got lined up for you that was the first of

a series of special reports from the site of one of the world's worst environmental disaster and stay with us for more than from the out all sea region throughout the week here on this channel. people across russia have been flocking to newly opened interactive reception rooms this last morning to talk to president medvedev online the nationwide frenzy calls long lines and even some traffic problems too it's the first ever online video conference from such an unprecedented scale here in russia people from all eighty three regions had a chance to critique the country's leader on any issue during the session the president advocated the use of the government at local level to me to have it as well known for its love of modern technology regular updates is video blog and is now the 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. will be using brief bring up to date with more than three hundred people have been killed in the stampede during a water festival in the capital of cambodia the panic started on an island in a river where

a concert was being held to mark the end of the rainy season they come boldly in prime minister says it's not yet clear what triggered the tragedy your thirty's and the death toll is likely to rise. the u.s. special envoy to north korea's called recent revelations about the country's nuclear program quote provocative but not of crisis end quote stephen bosworth who's visiting south korea was responding to a report by an american scientist that the north has a new radio in richmond plant with more than a thousand centrifuges they've also been claims of an experimental light water reactor being developed none of the revelations so far and first. rescuers of the mine a new zealand are preparing to use a specialized army robot now to reach twenty nine miners trapped since an explosion three days ago rescue efforts have been severely hampered by dangerous toxic gas 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 have acknowledged the miners may not have survived the initial explosion. one twenty am

moscow time in ten minutes we think should the story on the arrest stove our r.t. crew in in america. show crosstalk before that there are two sophie shevardnadze speaks to the said being president. to the european union is just.

what is that the it's a serbian president thank you very much for being with us today that mr president it's been two years because of us independence was recognized and back then there was a lot of talk about the don't you 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 and i think still existing as a threat for everybody not only in the region of southeast europe but also everywhere and. her real concerns both to the king for the consideration of probably the. army unit about the original independence so i think that we are trying to prevent problems. i mean should be 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 to your fully supporting for example integrity integrity. your father countries. and in that respect we are contributing to the stability even though we are very much affected because if you look through the korean a for independence just recently kosovo as prime minister suggested starting relations from scratch ways great is that possible i mean what would it take for serbia to actually i think i lock 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 trick when i score so in the pan this we have a confrontation between serbs and albanians for almost. 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 true dialogue we can achieve some sort of you show that can be acceptable for agreed so the prettiest foreign minister with a mistake set that serbia is actually putting in 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 or the membership or i'm not making that kind of differencies being. participating on election so last time and the first time when i was elected for president of serbia in the mind to me and said did you produce to become a member state the future to defend that authority you considering to my country i'm going to continue my efforts in that direction well in two thousand and eight in every single one of your interviews you said 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 course it was a main problem of the contrie the different. opinion polls seem boss fury or you have to know that surveys are very much affected because of economic or crisis and in that respect the old serbian people and the citizen suffer thinking that economic crises. unemployment and that kind of problems to talk before are joined 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 having 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 in 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 decision of the international court of justice has been legitimizing you know through a declaration of independence not independence of course. being in the mind the group of the people that the declared unilaterally independence didn't have a right to do that they came to the consideration all the legal framework which was adopted on course so before and there is very controversial decision but we are not going to interfere in this issue and so for international court of justice we accept that and we are going to continue all efforts in the erection to defend territorial integrity and sovereignty or serbia but it cannot be really. the.

without dialogue between serbs and albanians between prishtina both agreed and we have to hear this. kind of compromise on the end of the day solution is not an one sided to me as kosovo albanians are getting everything and the other serbian sort of serbian people are losing everything i'm totally sure that we have to have a some compromise to serve a government that its utmost to hand that it's to the hague what's your assessment of this process we have to continue that process first of all this is all oh this is in accordance with ologists lation we are spending our own nose 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 abortion exelby any others but because of war and terrible consequences we are facing who are the only ways in terms of frequency lieschen the people that really

accuse because of participation in the war crimes during the night the ninety's has to be faced with justice in the hague tribunal and the human rights watch is a human rights organization that demanded that you put pressure on serbia to actually make the search for. alleged more effective what do you say to that but i am not changing my my and my approach on everyone who is a and they teach us to be in the hatred you know that is a very strict and not changeable. mr president thank you right thank you very much thanks a lot. we'll . bring you the latest in science and technology from around the world. we've got the future covered. download the official antti up location

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