larcher mosco with the top stories of the week the latest developments this is auntie. and altie cruz spent thirty two i was in the u.s. jail after filming a peaceful protest near the so-called school of assassins in the state of georgia reporter caitlin ford says she and her cameraman were handcuffed and put in the same cell with criminals and despite condemnation from human rights watchdog the o.s.c. the case was ignored by the us media it started off as a speed rally outside a us training camp a latin american military and police officers followed this nonviolent protest caught everyone by surprise dozens were arrested police targeted journalists along with the activists i'm a member of the brotherhood and i'm a member of the press i'm sorry ok i'm sorry among those arrested were r t

correspondent killed them an hour to cameramen john conway there on assignment covering the protests that brought together thousands of people thank you thank you i asked officer to please remove the handcuffs these plastic handcuffs and at least one on that was a little bit looser he took out a hunting knife to remove my handcuffs and that's actually part of the reason i have the cuts on my read for now we're still in had no clue what the charges against her were we asked on the bus 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 students tommy were mirrors she was there as an activist tells a similar story i kept asking them what did i do telling my fries tell me what i'm getting at wrist i kept asking them and i never got an answer and every year thousands of people gather at the gates of a training camp dubbed the school of assassins calling for its closure. officially

there to train mcnamara little train yes it's called many of latin america's most notorious torturers mass now their dictator this anger at the establishment violence has never been part of the protests so why the mass arrests now we feel like the message was look you know we really want you to be there we're going to make it dangerous you know to make you think twice to even show up despite the outcry from the media at the rally that their rights of freedom of speech and assembly were trampled upon is not a story that caught the eye of the u.s. media and we can see the newspapers of this country editorialized in favor of free speech and first amendment and give stirring in passionate defenses of these core american values but when another journalist from another media outlet is arrested without charge without provocation and put onto a paddy wagon those media outlets are largely silent and i think it's because they

feel like these are stories that aren't supposed to be covered at all i guess so much for covering stories in the war and by the u.s. mainstream media the incident at fort benning left some guessing what would have been the extent of the media coverage in the west had a member of the foreign press been treated in a similar way in some other country say russia the remarkable thing about a good thing you know in moscow here a b.b.c. correspondent or a c.n.n. correspondent had gone to a demonstration where there was a legal permanent and was roughed up by the police in the case of our correspondent she was almost sexually assaulted those are her words that would made headlines all around the world it would have been a diplomatic row between countries but no in the case of the united states the international community is can damage what's happened and called on the us to respond even the organization for security and cooperation in europe sent

a letter to secretary of state hillary clinton calling the journalist the rest disturbing. while it is clear that police play crucial role in maintaining order during public demonstrations the indiscriminate media in bringing charges against them goes well beyond what's necessary to keep the peace but the u.s. state department which is usually quick to condemn freedom of speech violations in other countries has we made surprisingly tight lipped about its own kind of shaken r.t. washington d.c. . so how much freedom should journalists have while covering events like protests bodies or healthiness stores and then as the resident took to the streets of the big apple to find out what people in new york think about that and it comes your way in the next hour naughty but here's a quick preview for you. we need to be more thoughtful about how we allow the press to capture what's happening so we can get a legitimate true view without encouraging people to do to things that they

wouldn't otherwise but the fact is if you're going to go someplace to protest to get that really hard story you've got to be prepared for the fact that life is going to sometimes intercede and about. but if they intercede if the people are being a really oh hell yeah what about if the press are being unruly the press is being on really same things apply you break the rules that's what happens if you're not willing to accept the consequences for your actions don't take the actions of. twenty six suspects terrorists with alleged links to al qaeda were arrested in europe this week eleven of the most suspected of being part of a church an islamist network planning to commit attacks in belgium it is also full to be raising money for terrorism in russia's volatile north caucasus region those were detained in connection with a separate probe targeting an extremist group putting jihadi fighters for iraq and afghanistan british security analysts predict says once it's clear that russia and

the west a fighting a common enemy the potential for cooperation is vast. let's not fool ourselves somehow greater regiments of uniformed soldiers marching over the horizon it is in fact much more of a franchise yes there's a strong power base in the foothills between afghanistan and pakistan and there's clearly. a strong cobol now operating in yemen but we're now seeing this creeping out under this broad term of al-qaeda but it doesn't necessarily mean it's got the official stamp on it but we are now seeing of a commonality that we haven't seen before whether it vindicates totally all that russia has been saying for many years that terrorists are terrorists you can be if you're killed by the ira or chechen terrorists. you're just as dead as we are now seeing something which i've never seen before i'm president of cooperation security analyst peter power there the russian president dmitry medvedev has urged the country's political system pretty shaken up in his latest video blog he said there

are signs that the country's stability is threatening to stagnate. if the opposition has no chance at all of winning a fair fight it degrades and becomes marginal you know if the ruling party never loses a single election it is just coasting ultimately to degree just like any living organism which remains static for these reasons it's become necessary to raise the degree of a political decision by the main tossups the task of any democracy is to improve the quality of parts of representation make sure that the political maturity is not just static or broad but that it does not become the majority consisting of actors dummies but dr of political science and united russia party member the me says the opposition should draw a conclusion from the message as well. i think he was trying to say that actually

had their part this should develop with relates to united russia and the opposition parties in the united russia have already started a lot of innovations such as primaries. the development of the interparty discussions i said to sufficiently open public debates and so on and so forth i think the same should be done by. paul and says well and that will be very important because as we all know this one issue of decision is taken by the authorities depends on the quality of criticism they get so they need to have very good feedback. both united russia and up with some projects that should provide this kind of feedback in order for systems to be sustainable. and that was to be part of the united russia party you're with from the russian capital still to come on the program this. russia pledges more help for pain in afghanistan many experts

. can be one of. the. energy efficiency advice coming from vladimir putin during a business visit to germany stay with us for the details. but first the people of switzerland have approved a proposed law to expel foreign criminals from the country the nationwide ban that was initiated by a right wing party the measures that raise questions over whether the swiss are discriminating against immigrants. for us so today in a referendum the swiss people have decided in favor of a new law making it mandatory for foreign criminals convicted of serious crimes such as murder and rape to be kicked out of the country now this has been a very controversial issue since the proposal was initially passed and today the decision has been made the swiss are in favor of this slow. change of mentality

at the swiss authorities know what the population wants and they will become stricter towards criminals it doesn't have anything to do with nationalism if you say hundreds of thousands can come and the few hundred because they are criminals that doesn't have anything to do with nationalism. but just to give you a bit of a background this was first passed by the right wing swiss peoples party or s.v.p. and they say that the aim of this initiative is to make criminality among foreigners lower and also to ensure security of both locals and non-locals earlier we spoke with a member of the s.p.p. and here is what he had to say on the initiative people with. heavy criminal. there is no place for them. now there's been a lot of stories of foreigners murdering or raping locals and this has given the s.p.p. a lot of traction in putting forward this a proposal and bringing it to a referendum stage in the first place and let's not forget switzerland has one of

the highest rates per capita of immigration and there are twenty percent of foreigners living in switzerland so this is a very sensitive topic here especially since it comes just a year after the swiss people voted in favor of a law banning the building of new minarets on mosques so there are criticism to this law critics are saying that this is just a ploy to divert attention from the real problems of criminality in switzerland and with regard to immigration this is again just a way of diverting attention from the problem of integration of all foreigners into the society can you make a difference between a drug dealer who. is a drug dealer drug dealer a better woman so i don't make a difference between someone who is doing something wrong now feeling a backlash from the international community the swiss government has put forward a counterproposal to the version now in this version they say that those who qualify for expulsion would have to be foreign criminals convicted of at least one

year in prison so it has a limit to that also they're saying that deportations must fall within international law and they also put apart their stressing the importance of integration in order to avoid criminality among foreigners into a society that was. reporting from zurich. finance ministers in the irish government have reached a deal on an eighty five billion euro rescue deal for ireland but details are yet to be announced the country's economy went into meltdown this week under the weight of its banking debt and there's been public outrage at the government's handling of the crisis about fifty thousand people marched through dublin on saturday protesting against harsh austerity measures being introduced to cut the country's huge budget deficit demonstrators say ordinary working people are taking the hit for the rich and the banks elsewhere in the euro zone there are fears portugal and spain may be next in line for a band columnist marcus kerber told r.t. that europe's biggest economies will not be able to pay the debts of others for

ever. the german taxpayer is no longer willing to lease is very very becoming very reluctant to bail out countries like greece. example of very bad governments and we are no longer willing as neither to bail out ireland to fuel an ailing banking sector i think this is a genuine center of this on which the. heads of government have created in under the menace of the president of the european central bank this is so large that everybody wants to be protected and the more it's raining cats and dogs the more they want to be protected and the portuguese. prime minister and the finance minister pushed island to put themselves under the umbrella to be under the umbrella themselves as quickly as possible this is an inflation of claims to be bailout which will ruin the eurozone sooner or later and germany is economically not able to. bailout. the german taxpayer who has

a word to say in all that is no longer willing to do saying something like that. meanwhile currency union between russia and the european union is a possibility russian prime minister vladimir putin and german chancellor angela merkel have admitted the statement was made during putin's visit to germany on friday the russian premier said the euro is much more reliable than the dollar despite current difficulties in the region putin also said he no longer sees any obstacles to russia's accession to the world trade organization russia and germany agreed to clear a path to include business links and to develop science and technology together and in the meeting with german business when the russian pm managed to lighten the serious mood over energy supplies. the risk if you're serious you know that the german community doesn't like nuclear power i don't want to make any comments. to stern we're going to use the heating. he don't develop nuclear fuel do you go to

us. and that was enough to get it through the we have to. thank. we'll still have here on our team from basin of life to hot bed of death. metal like this facing bethel said here abandoned waiting for the sea water to return to the deserts of pakistan with international rehabilitation efforts taking a back to the arrow that may once again return i'm one of the friends and join me in central asia or what used to be one of the world's largest landlocked body of water. that story coming shortly for you but in the meantime this week russia decided to give more help to nato struggling campaign in afghanistan it agreed to allow the airlines to transport vehicles through its territory the transit deal was confirmed by russia's foreign minister during talks with his afghan counterpart here in moscow with nato to reduce its reliance on volatile pakistan so you have

also plans russia will continue to provide the tools to battle drug for. from afghanistan last one is russia and the us destroyed one ton of heroin in a combined anti drug operation in the country despite successes like that many experts still believe the americans are yet to learn that this war cannot be won. my basic view is that the war is completely unwinnable russia may be making friendly noises towards nato now because of that as we know there's a rapprochement between the alliance and russia but in my view it's basically formal in other words these are gestures but they're. meant well i don't think russia is playing a double game i'm not trying to say that i'm simply saying that the war cannot be won the soviet union learned that lesson in the one nine hundred eighty s. the british learnt it in the nineteenth century and the americans are in the process of learning it although it seems that they haven't learnt it yet so i don't

believe that a military solution could in other words the shipment of arms could pacify afghanistan no meanwhile the latest pentagon report shows that violence in afghanistan has increased in the insurgency is strong and expanding across the country u.s. military chiefs also admit progress is uneven with just modest gains against the taliban artie's paula slip has been watching troops in iraq and gearing up for their move to afghanistan to boost american led forces there but many worry that more troops means more violence. i will keep but just a minute is coming to an end he's part of the american forces who stayed behind to train assist and he quit the iraqi security forces sure they're almost back home that's for sure no one knows whether once they hear the genesis not just movement of troops and equipment since world war two the u.s. army is moving its supplies from iraq to afghanistan certain equipment such as r m wrapped. mine resistant vehicles our humvees are

those types of equipment a lot of our rolling vehicles rolling stock of vehicles and some generation that equipment yes will be dedicated towards the mission in afghanistan but critics warn that moving troops won't help much that. when i've gone people see us forces inside their country it brings in paganism and makes them turn to terrorism and al qaeda so as more american troops come here from iraq it will just make things worse i don't believe the americans will leave for another fifty years so that they have two of them main military bases here and then building the americans leaving iraq also sends the wrong message to insurgents the afghans seeing the americans withdrawing from iraq and they think themselves ok they're going to withdraw in a year or two we got

a hold on things we'll take control in a year or two it doesn't matter i will quote she's already been told to be going to be brought back to afghanistan it'll be his second time there and he's not like i would definitely say that afghanistan is a lot more difficult and so the terrain is a lot more heavier in the mountainous region so we have to do a lot more walking there and whether the beefed up presence in afghanistan will help troops meet mixtures did nothing to come out and make it more difficult is still on the guys and just come back some of the. everything went ok for the next one. hour to baghdad. and we'll be discussing the american effort in afghanistan with the country's foreign minister that interview is coming your way next hour on r.t. . well also in the news this week china is seeking to ease tensions on the korean peninsula by proposing an emergency meeting of the six nations involved in north korea

disarmament talks on a member who was sent to something to speak with the south korean president but the south said it was not interested in formally resuming talks on nuclear disarmament tension remains high on the peninsula with the u.s. and south korea having begun a four day joint but it takes the signs in the sea and is reported to the point surface to surface missiles in response just days after it fired on an island belonging to the south can inform the task of brazil based correspondent for the asia times says that the only way to resolve the conflict between the grid is to hold six nation talks. you can accuse the north korean regime of anything but they are rational actors they are not dres and they're not foolish that they have a kind of bunker mentality when they feel they're on their seats they can react sometimes some predictable ways but usually they can get very aggressively like if you corner a cat you know room the cat will pull at you even if europe lion so the

only possible solution which the north koreans themselves are always saying well we need to sit down and talk and the chinese they don't want to rock the boat they want to stop to spoil they don't want to unified korea they want to stop the school they will come north korea as a kind of. oh i want to see sarah get. back to read but more or less their alley you know a very very sensitive border don't want always a unified korea with american bases in the what is today north korea so they want the status quo which is very chinese the chinese way of dealing with ever saying they don't want the system to be rock the they want stability they want stability for china instability in international relations so we always go back to the same point. did this new installment of endless cold war in the koreas to its own benefit then usually of course the

western corporate media when it's but. well so on the shore is a dream for some but for those who live on the coast of the aral sea it's a nightmare once the world's fourth largest lake has been nearly drained by soviet irrigation projects the people who live here believe that one day the sea will return and there are also that wish may come true but there are people living at this harbor who have never seen the water which once lapped at its walls the former port city of a raskin kazakstan was once a bustling hub of business and human activity but beginning in the one nine hundred sixty s. rivers feeding massive cotton fields for the soviet union diverted water away from the rivers that fed the erroll sea could be a pretty hot preamble a night game would see was close to the city my husband and i had it bites and we would swim to the islands for picnics on the weekend we swam and lay in the sun with place of the sea started moving away to watch as we can shallow and then just

joined up with my children slowing down in the pictures until the waters were so aggressively diverted the air all sea was the size of ireland. the disappearing sea took with it fishing jobs commerce and an entire way of life just a few decades ago where i'm standing now as far as the eye could see was bright blue water ships just like this bobbing up and down bringing in the day's catch now when you drive across the former seabed all you see is abandoned villages abandoned ships and camel now people here call it errol coom or errol desert it was a. planned economy is largely to blame for the dying of the aral sea all decisions are made in moscow which took no account of the ecological balance of that region the consequences of that could be felt as early as in the one nine hundred sixty s. the r.e.c. region the fines the terms of pre-crisis crisis and disaster. it was after the

collapse of the soviet union that people were faced with the seriousness of the disaster the sea had split in two in two thousand and five experts harnessed what little water still flowed into lesser erroll see from the river by building the cocoa. and eighty seven million dollar project funded in part by the world bank the smaller body of water and become the great hope of the future. we had over two hundred people here from russia stand in his back to stand the workers very hard in many of us live here on site for two or three years but now we're happy to say the time has come to the structure is working perfectly so there's your welcome to news after years of failed dam projects and wasted water in just a few short years these small downs have turned parts of the cows like desert back into a seascape dotting it with. the hope is that as the project progresses the dams will

be built even higher keeping more water in extending the boundaries and the boundaries of the lesser air all see that to the city m r l. well you see left my husband did not want to leave this place used to say our children would grow to see with our nice even before he died he believed that the sea would come back. now as the excess water flows through the sluices it disappears out into the nearly empty greater peril see no grand scheme for saving that. for the one million people living in cassocks stands poorest region measurable improvement will only come when the shores once again fill with bugs lindsey france r.t. kazakstan. more international stories in brief for you now this hour in turkey it took four fighters more than two hours to put out a blaze that engulfed one of europe's busiest train stations the country's central rail terminal in dust in istanbul caught fire on sunday officials say the fire

started on roof during repair what not yet know whether anyone has been injured. in brazil hundreds of police and soldiers a claim victory after invading a drug gang stronghold in one of rio de janeiro's most dangerous slums and it really really says they encountered less resistance than expected from the heavily armed gang members heavy fighting has left thirty five dead and calls hundreds to flee or barricade themselves indoors brazil is trying to bring rampant crime under control before hosting twenty fourteen football world cup and the twenty sixth and it's. got some news for you this hour with headlines in just a few moments so stay with us for.

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good to have you with us with the latest news in the run up for the week's top stories this is. the arrest and. protests in the u.s. has criticized. crackdown the media freedom ignored by the mainstream american outlets. in switzerland is approved in the referendum a proposal to expel foreigners serious crimes and discussion over whether it has nationalistic motives. and russia's democracy should not stagnate the russian president is calling on the opposition in the video to act so that those in power stay awake at the week. one of the world's largest lakes the aral sea in central asia is now a hazardous waste land of sand and salt future.