every green little who tilled into. media outlets across the world start publishing a new batch of secret documents obtained by internet whistleblower wiki leaks. and the week's top stories that attention of a hearty crew in the us covering up peaceful demonstration raises questions about freedom of speech and mainstream media coverage. swiss voters back a proposal to deport foreigners found guilty of committing serious crimes critics claim the move is an attack on immigrants. to russia's democracy should not stagnate the russian president calling on the opposition in his video blog to act so that those in power stay awake at the week.

seven am in moscow bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's headlines here on r t the world's biggest media outlets including the guardian the new york times on the law and 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 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 false 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 in the opinion that this means that the united states 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 leaders process these events how sometimes the say negative things should be out about leaders so everybody's doing it it's important to say 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 bill of the events 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 the 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 all of these. do anything in the data from my data points in tandem 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

turning now to a story from our weekly round up in our teeth who spent thirty two hours and a us jail after filming a peaceful protest near the so-called school of assassins in the state of georgia reporter kalen ford says she and her camera man were handcuffed and put in a cell with criminals and despite the nation from human rights watchdog the o. a c e the case went ignored by the us 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 of that right. i'm a member of the present sorry ok i'm sorry among those arrested were are to correspondent kayleen fork and or to cameramen john conway both there on assignment covering the protests that brought together thousands of people. the only thing i asked 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 that 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 you my eyes tell me what i'm getting at wrist i kept asking them and i never got an answer and every year thousands of people gather at the gates of the training camp dubbed the school of assassins calling for its closure officially there to train latin american military and police it's called many of latin america's most notorious torturers mass murderers and dictators despite anger at the establishment violence has never been

part of the protests so why the mass arrests now we feel like the message was look you know we don't want you to be there we're going to make it dangerous you know to make you think twice to even show up despite the outcry from many at the rally that their rights of freedom of speech and assembly were trampled upon. it's not a story that's caught the eye of the us media we can see the newspapers of this country editorialized in favor of free speech and first amendment and 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 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 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 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 you know 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 still rests disturbing. while it is clear that police pleiku should rule in maintaining or do during public demonstrations the indiscriminate through media in 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 gonna shut down r t washington d.c. you're watching the weekly here on our t.v. still to come on the program. lieutenant is done we're going to use the heating of the he do we need gas he don't develop your nuclear power we're going to use the good. energy efficiency of ice coming from vladimir putin during a business visitor 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 the nationwide battle was initiated by the same right wing party behind last year's vote to ban the building of new minarets at a country famous for its democracy the proposals have been criticized as an attack

on immigrants archy's tests are so 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 of columns and a few hundred because they are criminals that doesn't have anything to do with. that 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.v.p. and here is what he had to say on the initiative people. have the. place for them. 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 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 drug. in. or he's

a swiss is a drug dealer a swiss doug drug dealer a better one so i don't make a difference between someone who has done 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 are teens tess are reporting from zurich russian president dmitry medvedev has urged the country's political system to be shaken up and his latest video blog entry 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 it is just coasting ultimately to degrades just like any living organism which remains static for these reasons it's become necessary to raise the degree of political competition but i maintain six the task of any democracy is to

improve the quality of pulpy of representation make sure that the political majority is not just static o'brien but that it does not become the majority consisting of actors and dummies but dr of political science and united russia party member dmitri pollack out of 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 develop 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 interparty of discussion such as the dissipation the 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 these lucio 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 to three projects should provide this kind of feedback in order for systems to be sustainable commentary from dmitri pollack on of with united russia party still ahead this hour from basin of life to a hotbed of debt. after decades of mismanagement the water isn't one of the world's largest landlocked went away and took a gigantic fishing industry but now it's coming back i'm when the france joined me me errol see infantry. but first it's the latest show of the set in a crisis hit eurozone nation tens of thousands of taking to the streets of dublin to protest ireland's harsh austerity measures workers have been calling for the cuts to be direct at the rich and banks instead of ordinary people earlier ireland confirmed it's negotiating with the e.u. any international monetary fund for one hundred twenty billion dollar loan to save

its crippled economy elsewhere in the eurozone there are fears portugal and spain may be next up for a bailout british conservative m.p. douglas carr's well tells our t.v. euro zone is like sharing your bank account with your neighbors some of them would happily spend everything it. you cannot have a common fit 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 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 he 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 spend more than they should that's exactly what's happened in the earth it's not sustainable currency union between russia and the european union is a possibility according to russian prime minister vladimir putin and german chancellor merkel 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 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. you missed the chases as i say the gym and community doesn't like nuclear power but i do want to make any comments. you actually believe don't understand what you're going to use for heating he didn't gas he don't develop new nuclear power what are you going to use in the

woods and all that i suppose if he'd have to get out to. also in this week's news china is seeking to ease tensions on the korean peninsula by proposing an emergency meeting of the six nations involved in the north korea disarmament talks a high level envoy was sent to seoul to speak with a south korean president but the south said it wasn't interested in formally resuming talks on nuclear disarmament tension remains high on the peninsula with the u.s. and south korea having begun a four day joint military exercise in the yellow sea john yang has reportedly deployed surface to surface missiles in response just days after it fired artillery on an island belonging to the south killing four pepe escobar a brazil based correspondent for the asia times says the only way to resolve the conflict between the two koreas is to proceed with the talks. you can accuse the north korean regime of anything but they are rational actors they are not reason they're not foolish that they have

a kind of bunker mentality when they feel they're under siege state can react and sometimes some predictable ways but usually very aggressively like if you corner a cat's. the cat will go at you even if you're a huge lion so the only possible solution which the north koreans themselves are only 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 a surrogate brooke back to read but laura lest there alys you know you know very very sensitive border. they don't want always a unified korea with american bases in the what is today north korea which is very chinese and the chinese way of dealing with it are saying so and we always go back to the same point fools who spin. did this new installments of the endless cold war in the koreas to its own benefit then usually of course the

western corporate media wins this but so are the chinese and florida north koreans this looks like an attacking exercise specially because the joint u.s.s. george washington which is space is floating war machine with six thousand soldiers and fighter jets it's a nuclear power you name it they could destroy a whole country if they want to know how it's going to the yellow sea as well this is the use of the struggle creation turning out of some other stories making headlines across the globe in turkey it took 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 a roof during repair work. in brazil hundreds of police and soldiers claim victory after invading a drug gang stronghold in one of rio's most dangerous slums ahead of the head of police says they encountered less resistance than expected from the heavily armed

gang members of the fighting left thirty five dead and caused hundreds to flee or barricade themselves indoors rizzo's trying to bring the rampant crime under control before to host the two thousand and fourteen football world cup and twenty six delegates. to central asia now home of the hour all seen once the world's fourth largest lake it's almost gone due to ambitious irrigation projects from the soviet era but some locals say that in the past the sea it disappeared and then returned again artie's investigated the reason that was behind the mystery. it starts with sun up these men fish in one of the worst manmade environmental disaster areas ever know. the same just dried out and then a trip turned brought to see back to us when central asia became the center of the soviet union's plan for cotton cultivation it nearly drunk dried the rivers feeding the erroll see what covered sixty eight thousand square kilometers in one nine

hundred sixty around the size of southern california shriveled to a tenth of its size by the mid one nine hundred ninety s. nearly disappearing by the year two thousand here where the greater and lesser seas split there's just enough left for modern technology to make a stab at regenerating it in two thousand and five the cocoa around dam was constructed to trap what little water still flows into the lesser sea from the searing river locked safely inside the water is growing to witness the results you must drive hours over rough sea that then there it is bright blue the fishing villages might be ghost towns now but groups of men and numbers of about twenty to thirty camped out at the newly rehabilitated beaches and catch days about one hundred kilo's a day until they've earned enough money to survive and they go back home. they live in dugout hats even in the coldest of winter but this new career means food on the

table for young ahmad he was born long after commercial fishing had ceased. i've been fishing for two years my grandfather was a fisherman but he died right now we all work for a month straight living at the shore then have a week off that's when i go home to our ask we don't get a salary we get piece work payment twenty species of fish now wriggle out of the water and into the hands of the grandfathers of this industry still around to pull out the nets once again carp bring them pike catfish. fisherman or returning to their home or foreigner overseas providing us with work and profit again they even say it will come back to our desk in around the silence still stuns the locals no waves no boats yet there's been one after our serve my term in the army i came back and the water was no longer here that was nine hundred seventy three zero people said that it wasn't the first time they will see had gone

they say the sea will be back and maybe we will live to see the good times and life will be even better we do hope the water has twenty kilometers to go until it's back. was that i did it's impossible to restore the entire ariel seat or to make it the way it's used to be if it please the northern part remains it will help solve many problems in central asia but while the industrial night of the past cannot be restored in full iraq will once again become a bill town it may never be what it once was but the arrow scene now boasts two thousand men who now fish for their living for them that's enough when de france r.t. kazakstan. finally turning back to one of our top stories the arrest of an r.t.a. film crew has fuelled concerns about the way police in some countries treat journalists covering demonstrations laurie harvest also known as the resident ass

new yorkers if they think the freedom of the press should be limited. how much freedom should the press have should they be treated differently than people on the street when covering events like protests this week let's talk about that well i think the press is how we are informed so personally i like it when i see members of the press that get in can get more information than what i as a regular citizen can get because i would look up to you for my information on many occasions the thing that they should be allowed to get more access absolutely i think the public is wary of the media but at the same time i think they're doing a lot of freedom because with cell phone cameras and all kinds of video went around that the authorities are much more careful than they were in my age when they push people around a lot more so i think that today the press does have that access but i think it's

very important that the press continues to have that access but the fact is if you're going to go someplace to protest to get that really hot story you've got to be prepared for the fact that life is going to sometimes intercede and about. what if should they intercede if the people are being a ruling oh hell yeah what about if the press are being unruly the pressure is being on really same things apply you break the rules that's what happens if you're not willing to accept the consequences for your actions don't take the actions that gives people a stage or a platform that they wouldn't have if the camera wasn't there so i think that's why we need to be more thoughtful about how we allow the press to capture what's happening so we can get a legitimate true view without encouraging people to do to things that they wouldn't otherwise whether or not you believe the press should be treated differently during a protest the bottom line is that without them the protesters voices would go largely and. that's it for this news block i'll be back with the headlines after

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