live from moscow with the top stories of the weekend the latest developments this is r.t. and r.t. crews spent thirty two hours and u.s. jail after filming a peaceful protest near the so-called school of assassins in the state of georgia reported killing 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 peaceful rally outside a us training council 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 of that right. now i'm a member of the present 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 like you may think 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 a nonsense 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 copy i have 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 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 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

a 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. . 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 islamised network planning to commit a texan belgium group is also thought to be raising money for terrorism in russia's volatile north caucasus region others were detained in connection with a separate probe targeting an extremist group recruiting jihadi fighters for iraq and afghanistan british security analyst peter powers says once it's clear that russia and the west are fighting a common enemy the potential for corporation 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 of a franchise yes the 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 terrorist. you're just as dead we're now seeing something which i've never seen before i'm president of corporation. security analyst peter. here with r.t. we're coming to you live from the russian capital still to come on the program as russia has more help from nato. many experts.

say yes'. energy efficiency advice coming from a business visit to germany with details of that story coming up a little later. the people of switzerland approved a proposed law to expel foreign criminals from the country the nationwide ban that was initiated by a right wing policy measures had raised questions over whether this was 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 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 nationals. not 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. have the courage. 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'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 we make a difference between a drug dealer who was from russia from india or he is a drug dealer a drug dealer a better one so i don't make a difference between someone who is wrong so again the decision has been made by the swiss people they have voted yes in favor of that law making it mandatory for foreign criminals to be kicked out of the country that was reporting from zurich.

the world's biggest media outlets including the guardian the new york times 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 all these countries are of a has the details. we know that there are hundreds of thousands of documents that have been leaked to major news outlets around the world by the world's largest whistleblower website wiki leaks this time they include a number of cables and dispatches set for the us embassies around the world that to washington d.c. already experts analysts diplomats security officials everybody and anybody basically who has read anything concerning this matter on the guardian new york times and all those websites are now discussing the matter of what it could mean and that we are discussing interesting enough not the very. thing newly published leaks documents published by the keys thank you but they're discussing what this

that this latest obligation these many was this was was taken was that such a number of documents could be obtained and the leaks to the internet was all it was below accorded some it is already a great signifier that the u.s. state department and u.s. diplomacy as suffering a very difficult time and its security measures definitely are not what it needs that they need to be and will be 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 than 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 was this is that

the lesions between countries between china was me as much as the united states but those revolutions was interesting was that all of the revelations. how so many experts already say that it does say a lot about u.s. foreign policy but it's really the 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 hostile 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 country's 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 policy and better governments science can sometimes lead to an unintended outcome now the world is of course a yearly awaiting more publications because these four published by the leading newspapers are only the beginning of porting to leaking leaks of the hundreds of thousands of documents that lie to the public in installation but what many are already considering is not what is happening in those documents but the consequences of this latest leak doesn't mean that unless. something does it mean that people will now be less willing to cooperate with the u.s. embassies around the globe with u.s. diplomats who said it no sympathy here that their conversation the information that

they could be delivering could be compromised and placed on a newspaper web site the very next day so this is a very trying time for u.s. diplomats in place as they depart. he's already attempting to minimize damage to do some sort of 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 you already officials and diplomats around the world and that it is inacceptable to be leaking of such a sensitive but of course the most important question one that many will be focusing on in the coming days is what the consequences of this latest leak to u.s. diplomacy work. well if you've got in the stories head over to. have your say.

children. russian president dmitri medvedev has urged the country's political system to be shaken up in his latest video he said they're all signs that the country's stability is threatening to stagnate. well. if the opposition has no chance at all of winning a fair fight it degrades and becomes marginal in that if the ruling party never loses a single election 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 by what our main tossups 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. and dr a political science and united russia party member. says the opposition should draw a conclusion from the message as well. i think he was trying to say. the. dissipation.

will be very important because. this decision is taken by the authority it depends on the quality of create this is so they need to have very good feedback. to provide this kind of feedback in order. to be sustainable it was. the united. show of dissent in the crisis hit eurozone country tens of thousands of taking to the streets of dublin to protest against austerity measures workers have been calling for the const to be directed at the rich. people. and the international monetary fund for a one hundred twenty billion dollars to save its crippled economy.

bank account some of them would happily spend everything in it. you cannot have a common 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. policy has actually damaged economies the interest rate. 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 as 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. 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 the path to increase business 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 it would. look that it was of enough to get that through to. 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 the transit deal was confirmed by russia's foreign minister during talks with his afghan counterpart in moscow to allow nato to reduce its reliance on volatile pakistan so get involved 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 but they. meant well i don't. 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 but he's been watching troops in iraq gearing up for their move to afghanistan to boost american led forces there but many worry that more troops means more violence. i will try but just my movement is coming to an end he's part of the american first place who stayed behind to train assist and equip iraqi security forces definitely sure there was a 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 are in rap. mine resistant vehicles our humvees are those types of equipment a lot of our rolling vehicles rolling stock of course 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 say you know this 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 their 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 he'll be going from iraq back to afghanistan it'll be his second time there and he's not looking forward to it i would definitely say that afghanistan is a lot more difficult when it's over 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 won't help troops meet mixtures deadline to pull out or make it more difficult it's still unclear the guys didn't just come back from the patrol everything went to the next one point of. baghdad. i will be discussing the american effort with afghanistan's foreign minister interviews coming your way in the next hour here on r.t. . to the issues that has created tension because be sure of detainees the issue

of civilian casualties a division do issue of the night raids in the house more and more afghan forces will be charge after combat less than this would be discussing the problems. 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. was sent to seoul to speak with the south korean president but the south said it was not interested in for many resuming talks. tension remains high on the peninsula with the u.s. and south korea having begun a four day joint military exercise in the nic reportedly deployed surface to surface missiles in response. to the south can inform. brazil based correspondent for asia times says 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 dres and they're not foolish they have a kind of bunker mentality when they feel they're under siege state can react sometimes some predictable ways but usually very aggressively like if you corner a cat 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 start to scold the will of north korea as a kind of i would say surrogate. factoring but moral as alley you know very very sensitive border they don't want always a unified korea with american bases in what is today north korea which is very

chinese the chinese way of dealing with 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 is but so are the chinese in florida nor school. just looks like an attacking exercise specially because the joint u.s.s. george washington which is basically a floating war machine with six thousand soldiers and fighter jets it's a nuclear powered 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 well more international stories in brief for you now this hour in turkey it took firefighters more than two hours to put on a place that engulfed one of europe's busiest train stations the country's central rail terminal in istanbul court far only on sunday officials say the fast out on a roof during repair work is not yet known whether anyone has been injured or

killed. to brazil hundreds of police and soldiers a claim victory after invading a drug gang stronghold in one of the most dangerous slums head of police says they encountered less resistance than expected from the heavily armed gang members fighting with the thirty five dead and caused hundreds to flee or barricade themselves indoors as it was trying to bring rampant crime under control before the twenty fourteen football world cup and twenty sixteen and. well that's up to date how about with more after a short break stay with us live here in the. seventy

six hours of intense fighting. six thousand days. of beach front battlefields several kilometers long. and now there is only one person who cares. you see we are surrounded by garbage everywhere but also there are. on this beach which of course is the very most appropriate city signification a symbol of everything that's wrong with our goddamn government allowing not only garbage but to accumulate where so many guys died. a new battle is going on. will the history be protected. return to terra what julian cooper story on our t.v.

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for the latest news in a roundup of the week's top stories this is. the arrest of a crew covering a peaceful protest in the u.s. is criticized by organizations as a crackdown. ignored by the mainstream american outlets. switzerland has approved. a proposal to expose serious crimes. documents of. wiki leaks. the website. and russia's democracy should. position his video.