the road ends at brushy mountain. and there's -- there's nowhere else to go. >> when i first come up, my heart was beating hard. you could see the windows open. you could hear the people yelling and screaming in here. i'm looking at it like, "what have i got myself into now?" >> this ain't no playground. there's killers here, have been for years. always will be. >> the most violent of brushy mountain's inmates are housed in the prison's maximum security unit. >> we'll take anyone from any other facilities. there are times when another institution needs to transfer an inmate that maybe caused a problem. brushy is known as the end of the line. if you come here, you stay here. >> inmates in the max unit are locked up 23 hours a day with just one hour of yard time. there is no physical contact with other offenders. only designated workers or rock men are allowed outside their cells at other times. >> we work seven days a week. you come out, you feed, you clean whatever needs to be cleaned. you know what i mean? i've had t

today, inmates considered escape risks are transferred from other prisons to brushy mountain.ne of those inmates is michael king, a veteran of the 1990 gulf war, he returned home to find his life shattered. >> i was in the army and stationed in iraq and my wife and daughter were murdered while i was over there. i came back and i tracked down the guy that killed them, and i interrogated and found out he was the one that killed them, and killed him. i had just come from a war zone and my head was pretty screwed up, my whole world had just crashed in before me. i was over there, i was thinking maybe i would die, and to have her and my daughter die was just it totally screwed me up. and i guess i went a little bit ballistic, you know? a little bit insane. >> we first met michael king when he was in yard doing exercise, and by yard, i mean he was in a confined cage. he was doing a kind of a strange thing for an inmate. he was doing yoga. you see all of these other guys lifting weights, trying to build themselves up and he was doing a deliberate exercise, yoga. we found out his yoga

. >>> at the brushy mountain correctional complex in tennessee, we met an inmate who knows somethingerving hard time. brian lautenschlager is serving a 90-year sentence for armed robbery and attempted murder. >> been in here so long, sometimes it seems like i was born in here. >> how long have you been here? >> i've been -- in prison, all together, 18 years. came in when he was 18, got out when i was 24. now i'm 36, going on 37. >> along with working out, there's one other way that lautenschlager copes. ♪ i was 18 years old ♪ when they sent me to prison ♪ far away from my home in east tennessee ♪ ♪ still see the tears my darling was crying ♪ ♪ as she whispered i love you said she'd wait for me ♪ >> when i first come to prison, i had a girlfriend and she was telling me how she was going to wait on me and all this. and things change. and i'm still in here. and she's gone. ♪ it's been 18 long years ♪ in this old cold prison ♪ ♪ sometimes i think it's been so long ♪ ♪ i lost the girl i love to the arms of a stranger ♪ ♪ the only home i know is surrounded by stone ♪ >> a sense of freedom,

brushy get stirred over the planned u.s. missile defense shield in eastern europe as president medvedev warns of deploying strike systems unless moscow is assured that it's not a target. and vladimir putin formally selected as the ruling united russia party's candidate to run for president next year. five pm in moscow i met tries to bring you today's top stories in a look back at the week's news here on r t we begin in egypt where military rule where the military rulers have warned of grave consequences if the crisis doesn't end this comes a day before the country's first parliamentary election since the fall of hosni mubarak the muslim brotherhood claims it's set to win the majority of seats artes and he said no way has more from cairo. when you talk to people here on talking or about the muslim brotherhood most of them talk about it as their revolution being hijacked because of the organization is very well organized itself they claim that they're going to win some forty percent of the votes on one day's election the movem

and there are new signs of brushy within the e.u. itself as britain clashes with germany which ones countries to surrender more control of their own financial and political decisions. welcome this is r.t. it's eleven pm now friday night here in moscow my name is kevin now in our top story france's foreign minister has told syria it's too late to implement long promised reforms and says tougher sanctions and i needed earlier this week the arab league suspended syria's membership and gave it until saturday to stop the violence threatening further measures tesser center reports from brussels on the growing pressure from europe. tough words coming from the from ellen page he had met his counterpart in the turkey and they both agree that syria needs tougher and stronger sanctions now again you were mentioning earlier these sanctions are saying they're saying it's too late to implement any reforms at this point and this is coming on the back of the three day deadline for the arab league given to syria to basically and the bloodshed now asi