three am in the russian capital i'm at treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on our t.v. the world's biggest media outlets including the guardian the new york times the law and to have published the first of a new batch of secret documents obtained by wiki leaks this latest data contains messages from u.s. diplomats across the world including revelations that the u.n. leadership was to be monitored by the u.s. and that arab states were calling for an air strike on iran for the first time the information has been given to a russian publication artie's catarina has more on the leaks. it may be very cold here in moscow but it's certainly very hot in the world wide web with many of the world's leading newspapers publishing thousands of secret documents leaked to them by wiki leaks the world's largest whistleblower containing messages secret messages thousands of them sent from u.s. embassies to the u.s. state department from around the world over a number of years those documents have raised already

a number of questions many experts are of course already saying that the main focus of this latest leak by wiki leaks is not exactly what the messages themselves say but what these messages say about the u.s. state department and the condition of u.s. diplomacy many experts already doubting the opinion that this means that the united states state department is in a very troublesome position with not only security problems evidently as a leak of nearly two hundred fifty thousand documents has been has become possible but also because many will fear corresponding with u.s. embassies around the world or u.s. diplomats around the world for the fear of their conversations their information being published on internet resources around the world it's a product of the information age but it compromises the billet of countries to conduct international relations without some secrecy will be impossible to conduct

negotiations we know exactly how these and foreign ministries the correct and process information how the readers process these events sometimes the negative things to be out about leaders so everybody's doing it it's important to say that i'm not sure how much new things are going to be revealed by the documents we know pretty much more of what the united states thinks about leaders in the ability vents and cross the seas. there is the thing would be simply to see in print or on documents the reason for this for this for the fact that wiki leaks sent a number of these documents to a russian publication our weekly magazine called russian reporter here in russia is that many of the e-mails and documents the letters that we could leaks have leaked to the press do concern specifically russian matters relations between russia and

the united states and all things russian specifically of course one of the main focal points of the documents that russian reporter has in his possession is those concerning the georgian a second war in august of two thousand and eight the international position the official position was of course that russia was the aggressor with not everybody accepting georgia's self-proclaimed innocence in the matter but as the documents that a russian reporter has published on their website show that the us ambassador in georgia was not actually agreeing to this matter and has in fact sent various e-mails and letters to the u.s. state department in washington saying that georgian troops are arming and moving toward south a set of days before any of the fires that were actually heard or any exchange of fire was actually noticed is the one before the military action began

all of the documents do concerned the relations between russia and the insights between before the so-called reset in ties most of them concerned relations with between moscow and washington when the previous administration was in place the george bush administration and relations between russia and the united states went dark obama has been in power how do we think in the different idea to put in town down how they believe the power rolls are spread out all those documents have been delivered to a russian publication russian reporter and have been published on their website. and spent thirty two hours in the u.s. jail after filming a peaceful protest near the so-called school of the assassins in the state of georgia reporter kalen ford said she and her caromed were handcuffed and put in a cell with criminals and despite condemnation from human rights watchdog the o. s. c. e. the case went ignored by us media. it started off as a peaceful rally outside a us training camp full 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 are to correspondent kayleen forte and our two cameramen john conway both there on assignment covering the protests that brought together thousands of people. yes i 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 tell me 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 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 and 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 well i guess so much for covering stories ignored 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 damned 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 gun is shaken r.t. washington d.c. . stay with us here on r t lots more headed your way as russia pledges for more

help for nato pain to afghanistan many experts doubt that the war there can be won at all costs. you know she believed in understand we're going to use the heat see other. nuclear power would be good. 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 voted in a proposal to expel foreigners convicted of serious crimes from the country and nationwide battle was initiated by the same right wing party behind last year's vote to ban the building of a new minarets ad in a country famous for its democracy the proposals have been criticized as an attack on immigrants or his tests are silly as more from zurich 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 the slow. change of mentality but the swiss authorities know what the population once and they will become stricter towards criminals it doesn't have anything to do with nationalism if you say hundreds of thousands comes and a few hundred can come because they are criminals that doesn't have anything to do with nationalism. 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 swiss 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. have the.

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 a 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. india or. is. a better one so i don't make a difference between someone. 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 criminals to be kicked out of the country. artie's tests are silly reporting from the zurich twenty suspected terrorist 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 attacks in belgium the group is also thought to be raising cash for terrorism in russia's of all of the north caucasus others were detained in connection with a separate probe targeting an extremist group recruiting jihadi fighters for a rock and again a stand british security analyst peter power says that once it's clear that russia and the west are fighting a common enemy the potential for cooperation is vast. let's not fool ourselves that somehow great 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 kabul now operating in yemen but we're now seeing this creeping

out under this broad term of al qaida 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 the risk of terrorists you could be you get killed by the ira in terrorist. you're just as dead as we are now seeing something which i've never seen before i'm president of corp. commentary from security analyst peter powers three russian president dmitry medvedev has urged the country's political system to get shaken up in his latest video blog he says there are signs of the country's stability is threatening to stagnate. yes. if the opposition has no chance a tool of winning a fair fight it degrades and becomes marginal if the ruling party never loses a single election it is just coasting ultimately it 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 i maintain six the time of any democracy is to improve the quality of pompey of representation make sure that the political majority is not just static that it does not become the majority consisting of activists and dummies but dr of political science and united russia party member dmitri python of says the opposition should draw a conclusion from the messages well i think he was trying to say that actually had the potus should develop bad and with relates to united russia and opposition parties and united russia they have already started a lot of the innovations such as primaries such as the development of the interparty discussion the size of the dissipation in open public debates and so on and so forth i think the same should be done by. opponents as well and that will be

very important because as we all know the quality of decision is taken by the authorities depends on the quality of criticism they get so they need to have very good feedback and both united russia and up in the projects we should provide this kind of feedback in order for system to be sustainable. commentary from the republic out of the united russia party still ahead this hour from basin of life to a hot bed of death. metal monsters like this here abandoned waiting for the sea water to return to the deserts of catholics down with international rehabilitation after and thinking of back in the arrowfield proves it may once again return time when the friends join me in. what used to be one of the world's largest landlocked water. but first you 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 about fifty thousand people marched in the streets of dublin on saturday protesting the 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 for banks elsewhere in the euro zone there is fears portugal and spain may be next in line for a bailout journeymen german economist marcus tells r t that europe's biggest economies won't be able to pay the debts of others. the german taxpayer who is no longer willing to lease is very very becoming very reluctant to bail out countries like greece we have the example of very bad governments and we are no longer willing as an either to bail out island to fuel the nailing the banking sector i think this is a general incentive this umbrella which the. heads of government have created in

under the menace of the president of the european central bank this umbrella 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 of themselves as quickly as possible this is an inflation of claims to be bailout which will ruin of the eurozone sooner or later and germany is economically not able to. such a bailout neither the german taxpayer has a word to say at all that is no longer of willing to do saying something like that 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 was much more reliable than the dollar despite current difficulties in the region putin also said he no longer sees any

obstacles to russia as a session to the world trade organization russia and germany agreed to clear the path to increase business links and develop science and technology together in a meeting with german businessman the russian pm managed to lighten the serious mood over energy supplies. she says. the german community doesn't like nuclear power and i do want to make any comments. believe don't understand what you're going to use for heating he do when he doesn't develop your nuclear power what are you going to use it would. but i suppose if he'd have to get them to. this week russia also decided to give more help to nato struggling campaign in afghanistan 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 that will allow nato to reduce its reliance

on a volatile pakistan for transport sergey lavrov also pledged russia will continue to provide the tools to battle drug flow from afghanistan last month russia and the us destroyed of ton of heroin and a combined anti drug operation in the country despite successes like that some experts believe the nato nato has yet to learn that this war and what. 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. 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 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 learned yet so i don't

believe that a military solution could in other words the shipment of arms could pacify afghanistan. will be discussing the u.s. africa with afghanistan's foreign minister that interview coming your way next hour here on r.t. . would have to be sure that this creative tension that would be shoe of fifty needs the shoe of civilian casualties addition to the shoe of the night the beats in the house mood in mood afghan forces would be charged off to come but listen this would be discussing the problems. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe in turkey and the firefighters of two hours to put out a blaze that engulfed one of europe's busiest train stations the country's central rail terminal and is stand both caught fire on early sunday officials say the fire started on a roof during repair work it's not known yet whether anyone has been killed or injured in the blaze. in brazil hundreds of police and soldiers claim victory

after invading a drug gang stronghold in one of rio's most dangerous slums the head of police says they encountered less resistance than expected from the heavily armed gang members the fighting is left thirty five dead because hundreds to flee or barricade themselves indoors brazil's trying to bring the rampant crime under control before it hosts the twenty four thousand football world cup and the olympics two years later. a house on the shore is a dream for a some but for those who live in the coast of the arrow see it's a nightmare once the world's fourth largest lake it's been nearly drained by soviet irrigation projects but people who live here believe that one day the sea will return and there are signs that their wish may yet come true. 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 raw skinned 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. when i came in it was he was close to the city my husband and i had bites and we would swim to the islands for picnics on the weekend we swam and lay in the sun place of the sea started moving away the watches became shallow and then just joined up my children so it only 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 camels now people here call it errol coom or errol doesn't

it was. more the soviet planned economy is largely to blame for the dying of the r.e.c. all decisions were 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 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 have split in two in two thousand and five experts harnessed what little water still flowed into the lesser erroll sea 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 had become the great hope of the future. we had over two hundred people here from russia kazakhstan and his back is stand the work is very hard and many of us lived here on site for two or three years but now we're

happy to say the time has come to pack up the structure is working perfectly. 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 does our back into a seascape dotting it would be. the hope is that as the project progresses the dams will be built even higher keeping more water is extending the boundaries and the boundaries of the lesser air all sea back to the city of. new it's. when the sea left us my husband did not want to leave this place east to say our children would grow to see with zero nine even before he died he believed that this. now as the excess water flows through this looses it disappears out into the newly and greater peril see no grand scheme for saving that this not for the one million people living in kazakstan poorest region measurable improvement will only

come when these shores once again fill with. lindsay france r.t. kazakstan. remember if you've got an opinion on any of the stories we have covered click over to r.t. dot com and have your say we'd love to hear your comments here's a quick taste of what's on the right now the presence of an armored tank on the streets a lot of loss talk in russia's far east had some thinking world war three may have started turns out it was just the vehicles all are going shopping. at home alone how to make the internet a safer place for your children find out this and all the stories of recovery all lie at archie dot com. we're back with headlines after a short break stay with us here on r.t. .

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