news for russia and around the world this is all see was me us of our thanks for joining us and are seeing nice 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 and then you'll rally near a military base nicknamed the school assassins our camera was rolling through stand this is that footage of exactly what happened. you know problem here. remember i wasn't doing anything. i moved i moved i'm a member of the brothers who are coming to me i'm a member of the problem 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. they come back take the back take. the president carter. so of course home in sudan come on john cole why we're also forced to pay a fine after they were accused of taking part in the unlawful randy but he says so considering another charge against him for allegedly failing to abate offices instructions the spine of the crew claiming before. him and described her humbling by police as brutal. and i was there with my camera man 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 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 i'm sure as i've been a journalist in many other countries and you see sort of a. question 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 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 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. also a correspondent for will bring us with us her account on her arrest. from the international action center says there's been increased police violence against press in the u.s. recently and my colleague in washington studio spoke with about the detention of the journalist and cameraman. there has been by us government directed

pressure on the media to not cover to silence this protest which has gone on courageously year after year thousands and thousands of young people coming again and again risking arrest and engaged in a symbolic action against what is really still called the school of the assassins it's a school to train counter insurgency forces throughout latin america in organizing coups and in torture in the arrest and killing of trade unionists and journalists throughout latin america and this is really us tactics that are increasingly used against journalists around the world you know one of our colleagues was actually add at the hearing and he basically said that the jibes told those who were arrested you know we appreciate you guys coming out but i have to protect my sheriff's is that something that's commonplace is pressing the legal

system none of those sheriffs were in any way at risk whatsoever this was a nonviolent. demonstration by those who very deeply believe in pacifism and no one was at risk really what is being protected is the reputation of the u.s. government in this school which they refused to close down and which even in us in the united nations documents has been. focused on their role in in atrocities that have taken place in el salvador in chill a in argentina in honduras in in countries across latin america this judge was not protecting anyone except the school itself and the purposes the criminal purposes for which it was created. that stricken on the end will receive a massive bailout of up to one hundred billion euros from the european union and

the international monetary fund the second imagist to rescue in the eurozone up to greece the bailout is largely to stall the collapse of irish binds with huge debts which could trigger disaster in week a year economies such as portugal and spain with the country in a state of intense political crisis the coalition government in dublin is breaking up and has called a new election has been delayed only to enable us to approve a budget and lifeline deals with the. scale of on this massive foreign debt around ten times the size of its economy kelson dublin threatens the single currency itself so some balance all the other smith institute in london believes we're seeing the beginning of the end of the euro. 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 we 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 there will really be in trouble because there's no way we can afford to bear that out and we really really will be a difficult situation and what we need to do is to help our land out of the euro zone help them restart their own currency which can float so that they can devalue and be competitive on the world markets moving again and it would be good for the british taxpayer because britain will prosper without a prosperous as well and british conservative m.p.

douglas wells says the eurozone is like sharing your bank account with your neighbor is some of them would 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. while the e.u. may be busy fighting to save the irish economy that is the challenge too of other potential members knocking on the door to join so. get ready for talks wheels more to lose the themselves that's coming up later this summer a lot of. the air and sea has become a wasteland of sand salt and pollution i'm linda brown to join me in kazakstan to investigate how this transformation has affected the people here and how would put it down on the environment for. a russian newspaper has published new details of the joint major russian missile defense system to go stated on the sidelines of last weekend's summit in lisbon but his size would be responsible for separate sections of territory under the proposal offered by russian president dmitry medvedev so citing an anonymous diplomatic source they call may have some newspaper in moscow reports that russia would be responsible for handling rogue

missiles from the east and nato will cover the west experts say this plan will allow both sides to remain secure and to maintain their own independence and to missile systems and it's also believed that the diverted strategy would put an end to russia's concerns that nato systems threats in its national security and that xander nikita's from the most mistake universe to foreign relations says the west needs russia to feel true to say. direction in which missiles started from the third of certain states discovered the only by a certain quantity of assert the lies below and given isaac your united states or for our shelter or some european powers added you really need. a lot of area or for airspace to be awarded in advance about zip about actual 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 that they built this all for us should be involved he

said maybe a formation of zero four located that european powers from this point of your russia knew that it was a west of the system so full scale and there she is already a fourth negotiations force that. was the world's fourth largest freshwater lake they are all sea in central asia is now known for the one for one of the worst ecological disasters on the planet the lake has been steadily shrinking so the six days as a result of massive soviet era irrigation projects so most of the body of the water has gone along with its marine life but the place also has become a health and human tragedy they see from this now reports the air all see is a shadow of its former self those in the kazak city are asked once had to see 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 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 and cotton consumed 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 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 the extent of the seas to 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 a strain of diseases per year it's about five per year and 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 sells 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 wards are reserved in area hospitals so. our government pays fifty percent of what it calls ecological extras to our salaries. this road extra for living new book with the rockets launched and the sea we have serious problems with the draft young people come in.

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. that was the fastness he was a special reports from the side of one of the world's most shocking environmental disasters and the we're bringing you more from there are all sea region throughout the week so stay tuned. and some of today's other top stories in brief now over three hundred people have been killed and this time during a war in the capital of colombo here the panic started on an island where also it was being held but spread as the crowd tried to flee over

a bridge with many falling off become buried in prime ministers that it's not have clear what triggered the tragedy they also want the death toll is likely to rise as local hospitals become overwhelmed. the rescue of twenty nine miners trapped for nearly five days in a mine in new zealand is on hold after a robot sends to reach them broke down it was damaged by water on its way into the mine and can no longer be used rescue efforts have already been severely hampered by the high level of explosive gas in the mine and the attempt to drive a ventilation shaft and that would be a trio of normally hardrock officials have acknowledged the miners may not have survived the initial explosion that trapped them. so a bit is said to face questioning from the commission regarding its readiness to join the block but as the union struggles to keep us economically weak and members states afloat there's skepticism about accepting a twenty eighth country and there's also

a five reports even some said those dowdy you membership will bring any great benefits to their country. it's government's i a family on the west just a few days' time savvy 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 the certainty for peace and stability a normal life better away from the prairie political rhetoric and the media monks the public in serbia is firstly different in fact a recent monitoring the port found that more than half the respondents now of the e.u. accession negatively. focused on joining the. e.u. gives. and it seems that is being dictated to by the e.u. what eudora impose crisis here at many e.u.

countries and they're facing the big struggles and there are some important questions being posed just how will the next session help economy and when unemployment in serbia is so high that 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 feel like the membership will be the answer to the country's problems and prairie eventuate holds nice way of continuing economic instability is affecting the lives of the population serf. belgrade. he's selfish have announced his fixed of a seven present very become trees so many parts of the european union that's coming

up in just a few moments don't go. think . think. what is that the church is 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 domino effect is still existing as a threat for everybody not only in the region of southeast europe but those so everywhere and from that reason her real concerns both to the king for the consideration of probably the reality of 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 or for all countries at the member states of united nations that means we are against partition of the countries that the existing in the region in that respect. we are fully supporting for example and integrity integrity of other countries. and in

that respect to be a contributing to the stability even though we are very much affected because if you look through the caribbean of independence just like us or as prime minister suggested starting relations from scratch with spock wait is that 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 preclude a 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 a show that can be acceptable for great so the pretty sure foreign minister with him hake sat that serbia is actually putting in 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 member so i'm not making that kind of differences been. participating on elections the last time and the first time when i was elected for president of serbia having in the mind to mean so digital goods to become embassy to future to defend to talking to you considering to my country i'm going to continue my efforts in that direction while in two thousand and eight in every single one of your interviews you said that seventy percent of your people off 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 that. mentioning. corso is a main problem of the country different opinion polls in boss fewer 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 the 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 denies the legitimacy of cost of this independence and this is a first president now in relations to that what do you think are the consequences for some other european countries in decision of international court of justice has

been legitimizing you know that through the correction often depend not independence of course. kevin in the mind that group of the people did to declare they 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 that is very controversial decision but we are not going to interfere in decision sophie international court of justice we accept that and we are going to continue all efforts in a direction to defend territorial integrity and sovereignty or serbia but that cannot be really achieved. without a dialogue between serbs and albanians. between prishtina both great and we have to have some kind of compromise on the end of the day solution is not one sided to me

is course well being is getting everything and the other servia and sort of syrian people are losing everything i'm totally sure that we have to have a some compromise is their big government that it's at the most 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 lieschen we are spending on those otherwise we will be in a very difficult situation and second in terms of frequency mediation area one who is accused has to be and he should be no no. i'm not so talking about serbs croats abortionist so binion's 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 they see my rights watch this is a human rights organization that 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 hatred you know that is a very strict and not changeable. mr president thank you right thank you very much thanks a lot. seventy six hours of intense fighting. six thousand dancers. from fields several kilometers long. and now there is only one person who cares. you see we are surrounded by grammars everywhere but also there are. on the. speech which of course is very most appropriate signification a symbol of everything that's wrong with our goddamn government. to

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can i get this is from the russian capital the headline. freedom of speech of the censorship and all secrets from the criminal been released on bail after a day in the company u.s. jail arrested while covering a protest against the controversial combat training school and also forced to pay a fine after being accused of taking part in the under oath. honestly i think the euro zone's days are numbered i can't see videos survive in this decade as the prove the math and they allowed on and we all spoke of the future holds for the union with members under single currency and i don't agree. that the russian newspaper has published details of the thirteen months in the felde the fact that them after post about russian president dmitri make better he started to is filled with possibility even between nato and russia. as they threats of currency was frightened the.