agreed how would international journalists. every green little to tilt the. media outlets across the world start publishing a new batch of secret documents obtained by the internet whistleblower wiki leaks. a look back at the week's top stories the detention of an r t crew in the us covering a peaceful demonstration raises questions about freedom of speech in mainstream media coverage. switzerland backs a proposal to deport foreigners found guilty of committing serious crimes critics claim the move is an attack on immigrants. and russia's democracy shouldn't stagnate the russian president calling on the opposition and his video blog to act so that those in power stay away get the real.

five am in moscow trouser bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r.t.e. the world's biggest media outlets including the guardian the new york times and lamond have published the first of a new batch of secret documents obtained by wiki leaks this latest data contains messages from u.s. diplomats around the world including revelations that the u.n. leadership was 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 shouting 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 bill of the of countries to

conduct international relations without some secrecy will be impossible to conduct negotiations we know exactly how these and foreign ministries correct and process information how the leaders process these in events how 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 a 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 a 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 day before any. 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 beach 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 when barack obama has been in power have significantly changed but still it does allow a search inside of the previous u.s. administration at least and to how it sees russia how it sees russia's disposition of power what it thinks of the debate that immediate 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. now to a story from our weekly round up in our t.v. crew 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 says she and her camera man were handcuffed and put in the same cell with criminals despite condemnation from human rights watchdog the o. a c. the case was ignored by 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 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. the only 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 to 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 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 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 damp 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. . stay with us here on our teams still to come in the program as well as more help from nato campaign that began a stand many experts doubt the war can be one of the all. the heat see them do. with the. energy efficiency advice coming from vladimir putin during a business trip to germany stay with us for the details. but first the people of switzerland have voted on a proposal to expel foreigners convicted of serious crimes from the country the nationwide ballot was initiated by the same right wing party behind last year's

vote to ban the building of a new minarets and in a country famous for its democracy the proposals have been criticized as an attack on immigrants or two stars are syria has more from sir 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 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 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. there is no place for them in switzerland at least idea now there have 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 drug dealer who was from judio from russia from india or he's a swiss is a drug dealer a drug dealer a better woman so i don't make a difference between someone who is doing something 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 artie's tessera so we are reporting from zurich 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 attacks in belgium the 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 power says that once it's clear that

russia and the west are fighting a common enemy it's 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 of a franchise yes there's a strong power base in the foothills between afghanistan and pakistan and it's clearly as a strong kabul now operating in yemen but we're now seeing this creeping out under this broad term of al-qaeda yes 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 killed by the ira or chechen terrorists all al qaida you're just as dead we are now seeing something which i've never seen before i'm president of cooperation commentary from security analyst peter power russian president dmitri medvedev has urged the country's political system to be shaken up and his latest video blog

entry he says there are signs of 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 so 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 task of any democracy is to improve the quality of popular representation make sure that the political majority is not just static o'brien but that it does not become the majority consisting of axes and dummies but tartar of political science and united russia party member dmitri parker says the opposition should draw a conclusion from the messages well. i think he was trying to say is that actually the plot this should do with relates both to united russia and to

opposition parties in the united russia that have already started a lot of the innovations such as primaries such is the development of this into a discussion of the dissipation the open public debates and so on and so forth i think this should be done by. people and it's as well and that will be very important because as the old rule that your decision is taken by the authority it depends on the quality of the greek this is they get it so they need to have very good feedback and both united russia and of the city bodies should provide this kind of feedback in the system to be sustainable commentary from dmitri pollack on a member of the united russia party still ahead this hour from basin of life to desert wasteland. the aerial sea has become a wasteland of sand. and pollution i'm lindsey france join me in kazakstan to

investigate how this transformation has affected the people here and how to put it down on the environment. but first it's the latest show of dissent in a crisis hit eurozone country tens of thousands took to the streets of dublin to protest ireland's harsh austerity measures workers have been calling for the cuts to be directed at the rich and banks instead of ordinary people earlier ireland confirmed it's negotiating with the e.u. and the i.m.f. for a one hundred twenty billion dollar loan to save its crippled economy elsewhere in the euro zone there are fears portugal and spain may be next in line for a bailout british conservative m.p. douglas called as well tells r t that the eurozone is like sharing your bank account with your neighbors some of them would happily spend everything. you cannot have a coleman fit currency and a common set of interest rates and a common monetary policy across just. economies and if you try and do that you're putting political delusion ahead of economic reality and millions of europeans are

paying the price we thought what we had was a currency union. and we thought it would be to our economic advantage on the contrary it turns out that that currency union in the coming months of policy has actually damaged economies who don't get the interest rate in the monetary policy they need us it creates a debt union which in effect means that the twenty seven member states have a common bank account and i 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 e.u. is a possibility according to russian prime minister vladimir putin and german chancellor angela merkel 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's accession to the world trade organization russia and germany

agreed to clear the path to increase business links and develop science and technology together at a meeting with german businessmen the russian pm managed to lighten the serious mood over energy supplies. so the german community does in the nuclear power i do want to make any comments. don't understand what you're going to use for heating. he don't develop new nuclear power what are you going to use good. enough to get them to. think this week russia decided to give more help to nato struggling campaign in afghanistan and agreed to allow the alliance to move armored vehicles through its territory but transit deal was confirmed by russia's foreign minister during talks with his afghan counterpart in moscow nato to reduce its reliance on volatile pakistan sorry lavrov also pledged russia will continue providing the tools to

battle drug flow from afghanistan last month russia and the us destroyed a ton of heroin in a combined anti-drug operation despite successes like that many experts still believe that nato has yet to learn 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 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 learned yet so i don't believe that a military solution could in other words the shipment of arms could pacify

afghanistan. we'll be discussing the nato effort with afghanistan's foreign minister that interview coming your way in the next hour here on r.t. . you'd have to shoot that this creative tension and it would be shoe of fifty needs the shoe of civilian casualties addition to the night raids in the house mood in most afghan forces who would be in charge off to come but listen this would be discussing the problems. turning out as some other stories making headlines across the globe in turkey and the firefighters 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 istanbul caught fire early sunday officials say the fire started on the roof during repair work it's not yet known whether anyone has been killed or injured. in brazil hundreds of police and soldiers have claimed victory after invading a drug gang stronghold in one of rio de janeiro's most dangerous slums the head of

police says they encountered less resistance than expected from the heavily armed gang members the fighting has left thirty five dead and caused hundreds to flee or barricade themselves indoors brazil is trying to bring the rampant crime under control before it hosts hosts the twenty four thousand football world cup in two thousand and sixteen olympics. to central asia now home of the arrow see it was once the world's fourth largest lake but now only parched ground is left due to ambitious soviet era irrigation projects the sea water is steadily receded and that caused a drastic change to the local climate and destroyed the majority of marine life and water uncovers something dangerous to people's health as artie's lindsey france reports the aerial sea is a shadow of its former self. those in the kazak city are rask once had the sea at their doorstep but are now confronted by the haunting sight of abandoned ships the water is twenty kilometers away and from the dried up remains sickness comes

one local woman who chose not to be named remembers when friends and family started to fall ill but you see here new diseases a match that we had never seen in high numbers especially related to breathe in my husband's good chronic bronchitis that's how i live you can see salt in the air but you feel it on the skin and you can feel it on the tongue fields planted to make the soviet union completely self-sufficient in cotton consumed the rivers feeding into the air will see decade by decade it nearly disappeared now what was once the world's fourth largest landlocked body of water is reduced to a pit of sand salt and pollution. the salt clings to the moist seabed like here at the harbor in are all tsk as soon as it's dry enough even the slightest wind carries it into the town and across the country into the lungs of

men women and children who don't even know they're bringing before the ground cotton scheme the errol see was one of the most picturesque places in central asia as it disappeared along with the soviet union the task of regeneration fell to the heads of newly independent central asian states in the early one nine hundred ninety s. it was then that people learned the extent of the seas to mines that until that point was known only to those close to the cultivation projects pesticides used to yield cotton leached into the rivers making the water a silent killer. the growing trees heavily polluted as well and in essence we're living in a disaster area in the past our infectious disease ward had one hundred fifty to one hundred sixty patients especially children with a strain of diseases per year it's about five per year it was the exact same with

viral hepatitis this is all funks to clean water. three years ago a group called the international fund for saving the arrow c. stepped in to protect the people from the taint of water. is just a fresh water project souls many shias when possible they lead tap water pipes to the villages and to distant villages they create local water pipe systems but the pesticides aren't just in the fresh water they're blowing across the dusty seabed as well. in addition multi-drug resistant tuberculosis is on the rise exacerbated by this toxic combination special rehabilitation wards are reserved in area hospitals so. our government pays fifty percent of what it calls ecological extras to our salaries. they throw in extra for a living new book nor with the rockets launched and the aerial see we have serious problems with the draft young people come in unfit to serve. small dams

now trapped what little water flows into the upper air all see irrigating the desert little by little but walking through this place that's been given a new lease on life one can see the legacy of mismanagement it begs the question is bringing the water back enough to overcome the years of neglect or is the pollution too great to turn the dust bowl back into a thriving basin lindsey france r t kazakstan. there esmé news i'll be back with the headlines after a short break stay with us here on r.t. .

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a beach front battlefields several kilometers long. and now there is only one person who cares. to see we are surrounded by garbage everywhere but also there are . on this beach which of course is very most appropriate signification a symbol of everything that's wrong with our goddamn government allowing not only garbage but to a chair way 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. . leak lucifer team has been to the tone screen where rich academic life gives birth to innovative ideas. now r g goes to the area which together with

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