media outlets across the world start publishing a new batch of secret documents obtained by internet whistleblower we keep. the week's top stories at attention of an artsy crew in the us covering a peaceful demonstration raises questions about freedom of speech and mainstream media coverage. switzerland backs a proposal to deport born or is found guilty of committing serious crimes critics claim the move as an attack on immigrants. brushes democracy should not stagnate the russian president is calling on the opposition in his video blog to act so that those in power stay awake at the wheel.

six am in moscow i'm mad très are bringing you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on our team the world's biggest media outlets including the guardian the new york times and le monde 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 or he's catarina as are of a 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 we. compromises the belittling of countries to conduct international relations without some secrecy will be impossible to conduct negotiations we know exactly how these and foreign ministries of the correct and process information of the meters process these in events how sometimes the negative things should 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 the leaders in the ability vents and cross to seize it. there is the thing would be simply to see in print or if we should 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 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 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 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 position 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 assassins in the state of georgia reporter kalen ford said she and her cameramen were handcuffed and put in the same cell with criminals despite condemnation from human rights watchdog c.-e. the case was ignored by u.s. media. it started off as a peaceful rally outside a us 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 don't remember that right. i'm a member of the program sorry ok i'm sorry among those arrested were r t correspondent kayleen forte and our two cameramen john conway both there on assignment covering the protests that brought together thousands of people. 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 worse 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 you my rise tell me why i'm getting a wrist i kept asking them and i never got it 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 in passionate defenses of these core american values but when another journalist from another media outlet is arrested without charge without provocation and put onto a paddy wagon those media outlets are largely silent and i think it's because they feel like these are stories that aren't supposed to be covered 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 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 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 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 gun is shaken r.t. washington d.c. . stay with us here on our team still to come in the program as well as pledges more help for nato is campaign in afghanistan many experts doubt their work and the one at all plus. illegitimate is done to ease the heat see if you do get to get it you nuki agree with the. energy efficiency advice coming from vladimir putin during a business trip to germany stay with us for the details. but first people in switzerland have voted in 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 minarets and in a country famous for its democracy the proposals have been criticized as an attack on immigrants artie's test has 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 this. change of mentality. what the population wants and become stricter towards criminals it doesn't have anything to do with nationalism. hundreds of thousands comes a few hundred because they are criminals that doesn't have anything to do with me. 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. 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 is are twenty percent of foreigners living as 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 criticisms 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 that 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. in. always this was is a drug dealer a swiss drug drug dealer a better one 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 you're 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 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 the 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 with vindicates totally all that russia has been saying for many years that terrorists a terrorist you could be you killed by the ira or chechen terrorists. you're just as dead as we are now seeing something which i've never seen before i'm president of corporation. commentary there from a security analyst peter power russian president dmitry medvedev as urge the country's political system to get shaken up in his latest video blog entry 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 in that 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 our main task the tomsk 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 which doctor of political science and united russia party member dmitri says the opposition should draw a conclusion from the message as 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 dresser that have already started a lot of the innovations such as primaries such is the development of this interparty of discussion so as a dissipation the open public debates and so on and so forth i think the same should be done by. people in and says well and that will be very important because as we all know the solution of this is taken by the authorities depends on the quality of the group this is they get it so they need to have very good feedback and both united russia and of the parties they should provide this kind of feedback in order for systems to be sustainable response from dimitri paul a kind of with the united russia party still ahead this hour from basin of life to heartland to a hotbed of death. metal monsters like this fishing vessel said here abandoned waiting for the sea water to return to the deserts and paddocks down with

international rehabilitation at print taking a factory aerial feed proves it may once again return i'm when the friends join me for a chance to explore what used to be one of the world's largest landlocked body of water. but first you finance ministers and 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 have been public rage at the government's handling of the crisis about fifty thousand people marched to dublin on saturday protesting against harsh austerity measures being introduced to cut the country's huge budget deficit demonstrators say ordinary working people are taking the hit for the rich and for banks elsewhere in the eurozone there are fears portugal and spain may be next up for a bailout german economist marcus kerber tells r t that europe's biggest economies won't be able to pay the debts of the others. forever. the german taxpayer 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 an ailing the banking sector i think this is a general incentive this umbrella which the. heads of government have created in a under the menace of the president of the european central bank this is so raj that everybody wants to be protected and the more it's raining cats and dogs the more they want to be protected and the boss used the 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. and the german taxpayer 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 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 or session to the world trade organization russia and germany agreed to clear the path to increase business links and develop science and technology together and in a meeting with german businessmen the russian pm managed to lighten the serious mood over energy supply. so the german community doesn't really need. 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 new nuclear power what are you going to use diluted. and those of enough together. to. this week russia decided

to give more help to nato struggling afghanistan campaign and agree 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 volatile pakistan sergey lavrov also pledged russia will continue to provide 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 in the country but despite those successes many experts believe that nato has yet to learn that this war can't one. 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. effort with afghanistan with afghanistan's foreign minister rather in an interview that's coming your way in less than ten minutes here on r.t. . that is creative tension to be sure of detainees be sure of civilian casualties admission did issue of the night raids in the house mood in mode of afghan forces would be charged off to come but listen this would be discussing the problems. the reactor added a nuclear power plant in iran's bush era began operating on saturday after decades

of waiting the russian built facility is expected to start pumping electricity into iranian homes early next year the country's atomic energy agency says the reactor is fully loaded with fuel and there's just a few final tests to be done the construction of the plant began some forty years ago but was halted after the islamic revolution in one nine hundred seventy nine then russia took up the project and completed it iran is currently under u.n. sanctions over its nuclear program live near all from the center of policy studies says it's russia's role to ensure the plant runs safely. we why do well know all of that of that will be a russian engineer is present and it's the facility of that of the facility is quite well controlled by russia iran will get both electricity and experience from the safety and security viewpoints russia provides some may think there may be a proliferation consume the reason none of the opposite it opens

a new avenues for in gauging mental for ron in talks about peaceful uses of nuclear energy and iranian transparency on that house on the shore is a dream for some but for those who live on the coast of the arrow see it's a nightmare once the world's fourth largest fourth largest lake it's been nearly drained by soviet irrigation projects but the people who live here believe that one day the sea will return and there are signs that their wish may yet come true. but there are people living at this harbor who have never seen the water which once lapped at its walls the former port city of a raw skin 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 they have. when i came to see was close to the city my husband and i had bites and would swim to the islands for picnics on the

weekend we swam and lay in the sun nation 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 desert. whom or the soviet planned economy is largely to blame for the dying of the aral sea all decisions are made in moscow which took no account of the ecological balance of that region the consequences of that could be felt as early as in the

one nine hundred sixty s. the r.t.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 had split in two in two thousand and five experts harnessed what little water still flowed into the lesser erroll see from this year darya river by building the cocoa down an eighty seven million dollars 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 kazakstan and his back to stand the work was 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 . welcomed news after years of failed damn projects and wasted water in just a few short years these small downs have turned parts of the cows like desert back

into a seascape dotting it would be. the hope is that as the project progresses the downs will be built even higher keeping more water is extending the boundaries and the bounty is the answer errol back to the city. when the sea left us my husband did not want to leave this place he used to say children would grow to see with their own eyes even before he died he believed that the sea would come back. now as the excess water flows through the sluices it disappears out into the nearly empty greater peril see no grand scheme for saving that exists yet for the one million people living in kazakstan poorest region measurable improvement will only come when these shores once again fill with boats lindsey france archie kazakstan. that's there is news stay with us as we continue looking back on the we're going where they were here on our to be back with the headlines after

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