live from moscow with the top stories of the we can the latest developments this is r.t. good to have you with us. an ati crew spent thirty two hours in a u.s. jail after filming a peaceful protest near the so called school of assassins in the state of georgia reporter carolyn 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 u.s. media. it started off as a peaceful rally outside a u.s. training camp for latin american military and police officers what followed this nonviolent protest caught everyone by surprise dozens were arrested police targeted journalists along with the activists i'm a member. i'm a member of the price i'm sorry ok i'm sorry among those arrested were r t correspondent kayleen forte and r.t. cameramen john conway both there on assignment covering the protests that brought

together thousands of people. here the main thing i asked the officer to please remove the handcuffs these plastic handcuffs and at least put 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 wrist for our worst killing 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 student tommy were mira's who was there as an activist tells a similar story i kept asking them what did i do telling my rise tell me why i'm getting a wrist i kept asking them and i never got an answer and every year thousands of people gather at the gates of the training camp dubbed the school of assassins calling for its closure officially there to train latin american military and police it's called many of latin america's most notorious torturers mass murderers

and dictators despite 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 don't 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 many at the rally that their rights of freedom of speech and assembly were trampled upon. it's not a story that's caught the eye of the us media we can see the newspapers of this country editorialized in favor of free speech and first amendment give stirring in passion and 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 well i guess so much

for covering stories in the war and by the us 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 of the things 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 permit 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 u.s. to respond even the organization for security and cooperation in europe sent a letter to secretary of state hillary clinton calling the journalist arrests

disturbing. while it is clear that police play crucial role in maintaining or do during public demonstrations the indiscriminate through media and 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 remained surprisingly tight lipped about its own kind of shaken r.t. washington d.c. . here with r.t. we're coming to live from the russian capital still to come on the program this hour as russia plays more healthfully its campaign in afghanistan many experts doubt that the war there can be one of the. glittering understand you're going to use for heating you do need gas develop your nuclear power the good. energy efficiency advice coming from vladimir putin during a business visit to germany stay with us for the details. twenty six suspected

terrorists with alleged links to al qaeda were arrested in europe this week eleven of them are suspected of being part of a chechen islamist network planning to commit attacks in belgium group is also thought 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 recruiting jihadi fighters from iraq and afghanistan british security analyst peter power says once it's lost clear that russia and the west are fighting a common enemy the potential for cooperation is vast let's not fool ourselves that al qaida is somehow great regiments of uniformed soldiers marching over the horizon it is in fact much more a franchise yes there's a strong power base in the foothills between afghanistan and pakistan and it'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 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 could be if you killed by the ira or chechen terrorists. you're just as dead we're now seeing something which i've never seen before i'm president of corporation. security analyst peter power their russian president dmitry medvedev has urged the country's political system to be 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 if the ruling party never loses a single election it is just coasting ultimately to degrades just like any living organism which remains static for these reasons it's become necessary to raise the degree of political competition but our main task the task of any democracy is to

improve the quality of popular representation make sure that the political majority is not just static or rather that it does not become the majority consisting of actors and dummies but dr of political science and united russia party member says the opposition should draw a conclusion from the messages while. i think. dissipation . this is

a. very good feedback. to provide this kind of feedback in order. to be sustainable it was to me the united russia. was an opinion on any of all stories you can always head straight to a website.

the people have approved the proposed law to expel foreign criminals from the country and it was initiated by a right wing policy the measures had raised questions over whether the swiss are discriminating against immigrants. 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 law. change of mentality. 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 of columns and a few hundred because they are criminals that doesn't have anything to do with

nationalism. 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 swiss locals and non-locals earlier we spoke with a member of the s.v.p. and here is what he had to say on the initiative people. have the criminal. now there 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's 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. so i don't make a difference between someone being wrong now fearing 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 are 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. it was all teased reporting from zurich. he finance ministers in the irish government have reached a deal on an eighty five billion euro rescue package for ireland 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 fifty thousand people marched through dublin on saturday protesting against partial sturdy measures being introduced to cut the country's huge budget deficit demonstrators say or do working people have taken a hit for the rich and the banks elsewhere in the eurozone there are fears portugal and spain may be next in line for a bailout german economist marcus kerber told r.t. that europe's biggest economies won't be able to pay the debts of others. the german taxpayer is no longer willing at least is very very becoming very reluctant to bail out countries like greece where the example of very bad governments and we are no longer willing is neither to bail out ireland to fuel the ailing banking sector i think this is a general incentive this umbrella which the. heads of government have created in

may 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. currency union between russia and the european union is a possibility the russian prime minister vladimir putin and german chancellor angela merkel have admitted the statement was made during putin's visit to germany on friday and 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 the park to increase business loans and to develop science and technology together and in a meeting with german businessmen the russian pm managed to lighten the serious mood over energy supplies. so the german community doesn't like nuclear power i don't want to make any comments. don't understand what you're going to use for heating you don't want gas you don't develop your nuclear power what are you going to use words like that a lot of it have to get out from siberia two. of the police. this week russia decided to give more help to nato struggling campaign in afghanistan it agreed to allow the alliance to transport armored vehicles through its territory transit deal was confirmed by russia's foreign minister during talks

with his afghan counterpart in moscow and allow nato to reduce its reliance on volatile pakistan. also pledge russia will continue to provide the tools to battle drug flow from afghanistan last month russia and the us destroyed one ton of heroin and 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 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. and we'll be discussing the american effort with afghanistan's foreign minister the interviews coming your way in the next hour here on r.t. . to three issues that has created tension and it will be issue of detainees the issue of civilian casualties division the issue of the nitrates in the house moving more afghan forces will be in charge of the combat less than this would be this kind of problems. the world's biggest media outlets including the guardian the new york times and the moaned have published the first of a new batch of secret documents obtained by wiki leaks this time the data contains messages of u.s. diplomats across the world. desire of joins me now live for the latest on these leaks now catherine what is known so far about the information revealed by this web

site wiki leaks. you know that. doc didn't make major news outlets around the world by the world's largest whistleblower web site wiki leaks this time a number of people in this country for the most embassies around the world back to washington d.c. already it was diplomats security officials everybody and anybody basically who has read any concerning this matter guardian new york times tables websites are now discussing the matter what it could mean i mean that we are discussing interesting enough to not be very much the newly published leaks documents published i. think that this may even be thinking about maybe it was my mistake because i really

think. that number of documents could be obtained. and. was the world. but exam is already a great signifier the u.s. state department and u.s. diplomacy as suffering a very difficult time and security measures definitely i'm not what they need and what they used to be so this is a signifier of some very tough times for u.s. diplomacy and this is perhaps even a much more crucial part of this latest leaks made by wiki leaks then even the messages themselves because so far what has been published by the guardian by the mom by the new york times the information isn't exactly groundbreaking there are some intriguing communications concerning various world leaders this is that the relations between countries between china me and the russian united states but

those revelations i think as interesting as all of the revelations and sounds of many experts already say that it does say a lot about u.s. foreign policy at the moment. let's believe that could be a vast release of huge number of documents but those documents are only one part of what is a vast government machine and so the opinions of let's say an ambassador in one station in one consulates will be taken with intelligence sources plus the relationships between political leaders so taken out of context these documents might give a misleading picture if we just take one documents and say it says this rude thing about this at this leader and their reliability that doesn't necessarily mean it's that countries policy it means that's what insights in this globalized world with communications twenty four hours a day having a presence of of different countries officials in other countries is supposed to improve relations not undermine them and i think if people are now less willing to

be candid and less willing to speculate a little bit it might lead to worse policies so just putting out information is public domain doesn't always lead to better polish. see impressive governments songs can sometimes lead to an unintended outcome. now the world is of course the early awaiting more publications because these four published by the world's leading newspapers are only the beginning of boarding two week elite of the hundreds of thousands of documents about to walk to the public in installation but what many are already considering is not what is coming in those documents but the consequences of this latest leak doesn't mean that us was suffering does it mean that people will now be less willing to cooperate with u.s. embassies around the globe with u.s. diplomats posted in those embassy here that their conversations the information that they could be delivering could be compromised and published on

a newspaper website the very next day so this is a very trying time for u.s. diplomats of course u.s. state department is already attempting to minimize damage to do some sort of a damage control we already know that a state department has at the state department has issued a statement to wiki leaks saying that it has once again endangered the lives of innocent people as well as to your already officials and diplomats around the world and that it is an acceptable to be leaking documents of such a sensitive nature but of course the most important question the one that many will be focusing on in the coming days is what the consequences of this latest leak to u.s. diplomacy will be and turns out of a thanks very much indeed for that live update there in central moscow. 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 high level envoy was sent to

seoul to speak with the south korean president but the self has said he was not interested in formally resuming talks on nuclear disarmament tension remains high in the peninsula with the u.s. and south korea having begun a four day. joint military exercise. reportedly deployed surface to surface missiles in response just hang. on and long to the south can inform the past about a brazil based correspondent for asia times says that the only way to resolve the conflict between the koreas is to proceed with the talks you can accuse the north korean regime of anything but they are rational actors they are not crazy they're not foolish they have a kind of bunker mentality when they feel they're under siege state can react in sometimes some predictable ways but usually very aggressively like if you corner a cat's even the cat will go at you even if europe huge lion so the only possible solution which the north koreans themselves are always saying

look we need to sit down and talk and the chinese they don't want to rock the boat they don't want to unified korea they want to stop this cold they will up north korea as a kind of i would say get. back to read but more or less their alley you know a very very sensitive border don't want all these unified korea with american bases in the what is today north korea which is very chinese the chinese way of dealing with others and so we always go back to the same point. in. this new installment of the endless cold war. to its own benefit then usually of course the western corporate media wins this battle for the chinese and for the north koreans just looks like an attacking exercise specially because the george u.s.s. george washington which is basically a floating war machine with six thousand soldiers and fighter jets. you name it

they could destroy the whole country if they want to know how it's going to the yellow sea as well this is a use the struggle creation. back to our top story now the arrest of an arty film crew in the u.s. as phil concerns about the way police in some countries treat journalists covering demonstrations or the resident hafen is to ask new yorkers if they think the freedom of the press should be limited. how much freedom should the press have should they be treated differently than people on the street when covering events like protests this week let's talk about that well i think the press is how we are informed so personally i like it when i see members of the press that get in can get more information than what i as a regular citizen can get because i would look up to you for my information on many occasions believing that they should be allowed to get more access absolutely i think the public is wary of the media but at the same time i think they're doing

a lot of freedom because with cell phone cameras and all kinds of video went around that the authorities are much more careful than they were in my age when they push people around a lot more so i think that today the press does have that access but i think it's very important that the press continues to have that access but the fact is if you're going to go someplace to protest to get that really hot story you've got to be prepared for the fact that life is going to sometimes intercede and about why enforcement but if it should they intercede if the people are being unruly oh hell yeah what about if the press are being unruly the pressures 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 that gives people a stage or a platform that they wouldn't have if the camera wasn't there so i think that's why 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 whether or not you believe the press should be treated

differently during a protest the bottom line is that without them the protestors voices would go largely unheard. well that brings you up to date for the moment here. with a look at the headlines a very shortly stay with us for that live here.

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good to have you with us with the latest news and a roundup of the week's top stories this is. the arrest of an all news crew covering a peaceful protest in the u.s. is criticized by organizations that crackdown the media freedom ignored by the mainstream american outlets. approved in a referendum a proposal for foreigners charged with serious crimes so much of the discussion over whether nationalistic. russia's democracy should not stagnate the russian president's calling on the opposition in his video to act so that those in power stay away. and media outlets across the world start publishing a new batch of secret documents obtained by the internet whistleblower wiki leaks was all for.