and we had the chance to talk to kayleen one of our correspondents she and one of our cameraman john conway are now we jailed in columbus georgia they were covering going to annual demonstration outside fort benning which holds training center for latin american soldiers and policemen air every year thousands of people gather at the gates of that institution with demands to shut it down among its graduates are many of the continent's most and poorest torturers mass murderers dictators and state terrorists some call for banning america's terrorist training camps kayleen our correspondent said there was no be severely as to the police on their part they stayed away from the gate as they were asked to but what followed by all standards nonviolent and rally were dozens of arrests even one ninety year old priest was arrested r t merica crew were arrested as they were doing their job trying to capture on camera the whole event including the arrest they are now we jail for that is not quite clear right now they could be charged with disobedience to the police or federal trespassing has been

our crew has finally been released from jail in columbus georgia correspondent kayleen ford and cameraman john conway were arrested while covering a massive rally outside fort benning which also training center for latin american military officers and policemen thousands of people gathered at the gates of that institution in the state of georgia with demands to shut it down among its graduates are many of latin america's most notorious torturers mass murderers and dictators some call for banning america's terrorist training camp those by all standards nonviolent demonstrations happen every year activists say usually few people get arrested by police but this time they say it was different so many more got arrested we talked to caylee in our correspondent earlier during the brief phone call she made from jail she said she had seen indiscriminate arrests of dozens of activists she herself and her camera man were seized as. they were trying to capture on camera what was going on as they were doing their job she was furious over there she she was saying they stayed away from the gates of the

they were asked to no harm to anybody but never the last both she and her cameramen got taken away kayleen and john were charged with taking part in an unlawful assembly and refusal to to a police officer. to obey a police officer rather you know you know activists of this rally say this year's demonstration was was different because because the authorities by all these indiscriminate arrests try to send a message as they see it to prevent them from speaking out on what's behind the training that thousands of latin american military officers receive in the united states and again i want to mention the rally has brought together thousands of people protesting that is human rights activists victims of torture one of the arrested was a ninety year old priest kerry going to fort benning academy's become tourists really and even named the school bus so how has it got this reputation. well carrie you're right there has been a growing public outrage with what's going on at ford and his training camp for latin american military and law enforcement officers they've traded around sixty thousand of t

the name change but the practice is there remain kayleen ford our reporter was covering all bases on the rally outside fort benning where the training center is located i'll keep you posted on the situation there as we get more information from them hopefully they will let them go and caylee will have the chance to tell us the story behind this rally. russian businessman back to boot pleaded not guilty in new york to charges of terrorism and supplying arms to leftist colombian fock rebels that came after he was secretly whisked out of bangkok on tuesday in an extradition moskos said it was illegal marina fortnight takes up the story. a two and a half year campaign to get one russian citizen accused arm dealer victor boot begins to face american justice victor boot came into u.s. custody on tuesday set to stand trial on arms smuggling and terrorism charges one conspiring to kill united states nationals to conspiring to kill united states officers and employees three conspiring to use an acquire anti-aircraft missiles and for conspiring to provide material support to the fark meantime

i'm a member of the price i'm sorry ok i'm sorry among those arrested were r t correspondent kayleen forte and r.t. cameramen john conway both there on assignment covering the protests that brought together thousands of people. yet 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 you my rise tell me why i'm getting a 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 offi

kayleen and john were charged with taking part in an unlawful assembly and refusal to abate to a police officer activist of this rally say this year's demonstration was was different because because the authorities by all these indiscriminate arrest try to send a message as they see it to prevent them from speaking out on what's behind the training that thousands of latin american military officers receive in the united states and again i want to mention the rally has brought together thousands of people protesting that is human rights activists victims of torture one of the arrested was a ninety year old priest there has been a growing public al. with what's going on at fort benning and is training camp for latin american military and law enforcement officers they've trained around sixty thousand of them many of whom have returned to their countries and became very dangerous they committed all kinds of human rights abuses for example the nine hundred ninety three the united nations truth commission on el salvador named the army officers who had committed the worst atrocities of the civ

murderers dictators and state terrorists some call for banning america's terrorist training camps kayleen our correspondent said there was no be severely as to the police on their part they stayed away from the gate as they were asked to but what followed by all standards nonviolent rally were dozens of arrests even one ninety year old priest was arrested r.t. merica crew were arrested as they were doing their job trying to capture on camera the whole event including the arrest they are now we jail for that is not quite clear right now they could be charged with disobedience to the police or federal trespassing has been covering this grow who growing public outrage with what's going on at fort benning and its training camps for america and military and law enforcement officers they train around sixty thousand of them many of them of return to their countries and committed human rights abuses actually due to their show like secure and massacres in one thousand nine hundred ninety three for example united nations truth commission on el salvador named the army officers who had committed the

allegedly failing to have a office's instructions despite the crew claiming they followed every order kayleen forty's at the center of the story described the action of the police as brutal. it was very stressful we were treated like any other inmates and of course we were not given any special treatment any special privileges we were actually separated men and women and so i didn't get to to speak with my cameramen hardly at all we could see each other occasionally through the window and we sort of you know communicated with each other to try to tell each other that we were doing ok it's a piece. of never any sort of violence never any sort of vandalism in fact the people who do those protests though they were protesting against the you know the so-called school of assassins the school of the america has been for banning they're not protesting against this town and they've actually enjoyed quite good relations with the surrounding community. of columbus georgia this year however has been different. there were some arbitrary detention there were some arrests that innocent bystanders every yea