well the u.s. steps up its drone war in yemen fears rise that the strikes may be playing into the hands of al qaeda find more followers among the enemies of america's controversal anti terror strategy. thousands protest an experimental british fracking well with alarm locals and activists saying they're determined to prevent the environment to the devastating operation. people raced to protect their homes from flooding in russia's far east as water levels break all time records artie's crew travel to the most devastated areas and brings you firsthand account of this is asked or.

not i am here in moscow you're watching r t with me and he said now a our top story this hour the obama administration is willing to step up drone strikes in yemen even further despite no precise intelligence on terrorist targets there that's according to a report from washington and this may well be sending chills down the spines of ordinary yemenis who are bearing the brunt of the on math attacks and some estimates for every one terrorist taken out by a drone strike fifty civilians are killed more details now from r.t.c. a corpse cannot recent research suggests that since two thousand and two was drone strikes in yemen have claimed the lives of over eight hundred seventy people ninety nine percent of those victims were killed under the obama administration thirty eight since late july alone washington claims most of them were suspected al qaeda terrorists but locals are painting a different picture it's hard to verify the exact number of civilian deaths i would

most reports are often contradictory and the bodies of those killed in drone strikes are sometimes too badly. hard to be identified in september last year thirteen civilians were killed including women and children near the village of rada in eastern yemen u.s. officials were anonymously quoted as saying their intended target was completely missed and the incident was a mistake but no official acknowledgement or apology followed here's another example this time from two thousand and eleven conflicting reports blame a drone strike for the deaths of up to fifty people including around thirty civilians after a police station fell under militant control washington maintained its stance of not commenting on individual cases all these drone strikes in yemen at least seventy nine in total under president obama are done in the name of counterterrorism fighting al qaeda is offshoot on the arabian peninsula known as a q a p but there are suggestions that such attacks combined with civilian deaths to destroy homes and crippling poverty are actually drawing people closer to a q a p

something even president obama acknowledges this is not to say that the risks are not real any u.s. military action for lance risks creating more enemies and impacts public opinion overseas the very precision of drone strikes and the necessary secrecy often involved in such actions can end up shielding our government from the public scrutiny that a troop deployment invites it could also lead a president and his team to view drone strikes as a cure all for terrorism the locals say is soon as the dust settles from drawn attacks a q a p arrived on the scene and rebuilding homes and offering to pay funeral costs turning the u.s. policy into an ideal recruitment tool and although the strikes are conducted with the go ahead from the yemeni government every civilian death is likely to fuel

resentment in the country meaning america may unintentionally be doing well kind us p.r. and recruitment on their behalf. we spoke to rai body and invites her to yemen's prime minister who says that it's a clear cut facts that america's drawn strategy isn't working otherwise its foreign for race would be over by now. it does not simply come down to how many deaths have been caused by the drones we believe that if drone strikes were capable of putting an end to terrorism the u.s. would have already and the terrorism of both in pakistan and in the robb a successful strategy cannot rely on sheer military force alone because it is much more than a security threat the underlying causes of terrorism are in the political social educational and most economic problems of our country we believe that bloodshed can only lead to move bloodshed there flew drone strikes cannot be a viable solution to this problem america's drone strategy is finding much approval

at home with recent surveys suggesting that up to sixty five percent of u.s. citizens say yes to strikes abroad foreign policy expert robert nyman believes that this is mostly because washington refuses to lift the veil of secrecy. shall be troubled about a secret war that's conducted according to secret law the obama administration refuses to disclose the legal memos purporting to explain why the policy is legal and constitutional american people aren't getting the information they would need to come to an informed decision about this policy and while you know we should hold the media to a high standard the government is making their job very difficult with the secrecy of the clampdown and information to crack down on willful blowers the refusal to disclose basic information like who were fighting how many people have been killed how many civilians have been killed what's the legal justification the the obama

administration is refusing to disclose any of this information and that makes it much harder for the media to do their jobs. a failed job break in egypt thirty six muslim brotherhood prisoners are killed during an escape attempt this comes amid the chaos of the past week casualties nearing a thousand people prompting the country's foreign backers to reconsider their military aid to cairo that story in a few minutes. but first a sleepy village in the british countryside is turning to a into a battleground between fracking giants versus anxious locals and activists thousands of protesters have to send it on the area where drilling for gas has been halted on advice from the police citing america's tragic experiments with fracking residents fear the worst saying they're unconvinced by the government's assurances our tests are silly is there for us. well we're here in balcombe but this is the site of where an oil and gas company could drill is doing exploratory drilling you

have the police over here trying to stop any possible protesters from getting in a clearly fracking is a divisive a topic over here you've got residents debating it the issue many of them pointing out to what they see will be the consequences if big companies go in to their neighborhoods to their area and the consequences that impact on the climate on the water we spoke with one of those residents and talk to her about what her fears are if fracking does indeed happen how ministers who many of whom my industry invested who are saying that there is no evidence of contamination and that they can regulate this safely and that this is been going on for decades none of which statements are true on the kitchen very the willfully lying or they haven't done the research that there is ample evidence of desperate home that is done the seismic activity is triggered the water is contaminated and the bottom line is this industry this technology is an extreme because on technology it cannot be regulated once you mess with the subterranean geology even the industry's own figures say

that all the wells will leak in the end it is just insane that this is being allowed to go ahead instead of reinvesting in safe renewable energy technologies that will give us energy security will give us last employment and one hundred people it's quiet right now because they've stopped operations having taken the advice of the police and more protesters will be coming to this area and right over there this is quite a common a sight around here were residents gather to argue fracking or to discuss with police when police officers come over to where they are camped out for these things that might you know if there's impact that will affect them then you're going to have as a player out how once you're not you ation patronage the u.k. government is looking to the example in north america in the united states where they say that the energy market has changed the bills have been lowered and this has increased a self-sufficiency david cameron has said that that is this will also increase jobs as well as lower bills but clearly the residents here who are here camping out are

saying that the positives do not quite outweigh the negatives that they think fracking will bring to them. reporting from balcombe i'm tess or sylvia. when many people are in the dark over fracking and given the confusing nature of how it works that's no surprise here's a simple explanation first off oil companies drill down to shell rock formations a kilometer or more underground then they drill horizontally through it once that's been done engineers lower explosives into the hole and set them off to riddle it with cracks those cracks are then pumped full of pressurized water and a toxic cocktail of chemicals that tears matter apart isolating gas and oil from the shale before extraction so what's the catch you might ask well remember all those toxic chemicals that they pumped in those can float right back up straight into your drinking water your lakes your rivers what's worse fracking results in a tremendous amount of waste including radioactive water which then has to be

dumped somewhere the toxic drilled fluids also contaminate the ground slowly spreading through the earth near the drill site and to top that off a tremendous amount of highly potent greenhouse gases are released during this entire process door facing the environmental impact of conventional oil and gas exploration so those are the dangers but why isn't the government worried as much as others and m.e.p. candidate for the u.k. green party believes it's because london is fully vested with big business. the links between. government and the fossil fuel industries their fuel to the. therefore you know there's got to be strong suspicions a vested interest is interest their work it's no big surprise until we get a massive change in this country. the priorities are really trying to get we're looking off of it about these in these big companies i'm always focused on what's

going to be the cyber corso a lot. of bodies in the street. and that's before. the whole country starts to realize just how corrupt this government really is the thing people are just seeing through the thin tissue of lawyers and connections with these big industries and it's becoming clearer and clearer got it i think this government is headed hopefully for one hell of a lot you know come the next election coming up we've got a success story gone sour hung gary farmers say they're being marginalized by you agricultural company since joining the block was once a big income source for the country is now restricted to local market. there's no relief in sight for the tens of thousands of people living in russia's far east battered by the worst flooding in more than a century water levels have already broken storable record for the region and are expected to reach the peak only by made weak around thirty thousand people have

already been evacuated by emergency services and authorities say this could just be the beginning archies paul scott is in the thick of events and talked to some of the victims. the scale is breathtaking as far as the eye can see floodwaters submerge swathes of eastern russia homes destroyed and livelihoods ruined water beneath me is three meters deep and all around you can just see rooftops and treetops sticking out from above the water we've even just come across one couple who are preparing their dinner on the roof some of the steadfast few who at the moment have refused to leave their homes this is the island of leyte the middle for most of the residents have been evacuated to safety forced out by the deluge but some have simply refused to leave the furring instead to brave it out me to lex say for two weeks now he's been living in his attic with his brother slava and cats. we have to travel to dry land by boots to meet my wife who brings us food

from the city and i have to stay here to try and save what i can there's no other place we can live. a little later on we spot a couple they need to reinforce their roof and get help from the emergency services that we're traveling with it's an attempt to keep out the worst floods in the region in over one hundred years not everyone is prepared to wait it out of the thirty thousand displaced many have found themselves in temporary accommodation centers that have been hastily assembled in places like schools thousands of troops and emergency crews continue to arrive in the area to help tackle the disaster. russian prime minister dmitri medvedev has allocated three point two billion rubles to the cleanup operation in order to get the region back on its feet and over the course of the weekend fifty tons of humanitarian aid arrived in the region as well including food life jackets and. in the meantime there are fears rescue workers

could be confronted with a major health crisis medics are warning the rising waters could be a breeding ground for diseases such as hepatitis and dysentery but for the time being local officials maintain they're getting all the support they need. they receiving a lot of help from emergency crews sent in by moscow troops and rescue workers arrived with boats another equipment to give us a hand where the author as he's handling of the crisis has been hailed as a success but people like alexei the hard work is just beginning. if the water recedes we will have a chance to rebuild our life here if not we don't have any other place to go we are really desperate pull scott r.t. the ammo region our report on the carnage continuing in egypt and a look at hungary's collapsing agricultural fortunes after a break. well

. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. exactly what happened that day i don't know but a woman i killed. piers later is when i got arrested for. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results. innocent people to confess to police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like meant no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse and they were off taking they could get what they wanted they can say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said.

age of government confirms it security forces have killed thirty six muslim brotherhood supporters that attempted to escape during a prison transfer officials claim the prisoners took an officer hostage but suffocated when police used tear gas this as the death toll climbs to over eight hundred in less than a week of violent clashes between supporters of ousted islamist president morsi and those backing the military that took over power with chaos on the streets of egypt the e.u. now plans to review the aid it's providing to the country urging the army to restrain its use of force all makers in the u.s. have also called to cut military contracts so far egypt has been receiving heavy weapons jets and surveillance equipment to the tune of one point three billion dollars a year washington has also avoided calling the ousting of president morsi

a coup which would mean they'd have to end the supplies of profit u.s. companies can't afford to you lose according to political scientists and activists our nerves that. even if. they are listening they are learning about. what really their hands are. already been given. all the way to the very thing you're at might like it and basically it's on the credit system that the egyptian army is pretty fixed the borders who are actually for the brother of yours to come as well because the these borders above and beyond. this means that if unity government. and u.s. companies are the ones who are going to be and risk in our economy that struggling is just not me. that most americans are quite ignorant not only about what's going on in egypt. it's very unlikely that you make. your decision on

egypt and there are other things that they can do to bring out. weak. muslim brotherhood may end up listed as a terrorist organization under egypt's new constitution according to reports the draft is expected to be announced on wednesday and may also include a ban on all religious political parties as paulus leader now reports the violence in the country has left some families scarred for life. the tears are the same as is the heartache and tragedy to families for ever changed by the violence engulfing egypt. cats some said he died from two bullets one was in his heart the police killed him they were standing on top of the roofs they burned some of the bodies and they burned some people alive. the muslim brotherhood believes that the christians in egypt have a hand in what is going all this started to beat me with stones one of them hit me with an axe in my head they put the church and fire and threw molotov cocktails at

it sophia sun up till belong to the muslim brotherhood he was just twenty three when he was killed by police on wednesday iman is a christian he was protecting them on a street when he says muslim brotherhood leaders stormed it bashing him on the head with heavy sticks they're on opposite sides of the political divide but both families will forever carry the scars of this week's deadly violence. violence started on wednesday when police moved in to break up protest camps set up by supporters of ousted president mohamed morsy hundreds were killed. dozens more died two days later when security forces laid siege to a mosque where protesters had taken refuge by sunday morning they'd cleared it out but the confusion remains the government has announced plans to outlaw the brotherhood its arrested and detained hundreds of its leaders and supporters among them romney's brother has some whom he hasn't heard from for days talking worry i

called them yesterday was the last call between. between me and him and he was in the house to the national security hospital and he told me that he's alone and he's worried that the policy which they can. plan to do to do this plan to kill this these people. but the same charge is leveled at the brotherhood critics say that they as much as the police. planned to kill this is one of the churches that was destroyed this week more than fifty churches were burned and looted around the country what was valuable was taken what remains fear and uncertainty for egypt's future but szymon hair shows me around what remains of his church he's placing his faith firmly in the police are just a number of the but i feel that they're rested and pursuing brotherhood leaders and starting an investigation and prosecution is a good sign in the street the muslim brotherhood is starting to have major losses

announcing the state of emergency laws the police they have a chance. but a chance at wash many are asking as each hour brings with it more violence and uncertainty to a country seemingly on the path to civil war policy r.t. firearm city egypt. and sparing no effort to get snowden on line for you the u.k. to change the partner of the guardian journalist who helped edward snowden who knows the most wanted man on earth revealed the n.s.a. as world wide spy program. was bitcoin is declared legal tender in germany as it becomes the first country to officially recognize the digital currency for legal and tax purposes more on that at r.t. dot com. it's.

twenty two minutes past the hour let's launched now a check of some other headlines from around the world a u.n. team has arrived in syria to start a long anticipated investigation into the use of chemical weapons in the ongoing unrest there both the government and rebels have traded accusations of deploying military grade poison a chemical strike near syria's largest city aleppo in march killed dozens of people wanting international condemnation. banished fishermen have staged a protest over the place setting up an artificial respond to brawl to thirty boat sailed into the territories waters claiming the reef prevents them from fishing in the area there says they shouldn't be working there in the first place this is the latest in the political spat between the u.k.

and spain over the iraq sovereignty. and breathtaking pictures from japan where one of the country's most active volcanoes look at that has a rapid sending a massive plume thousands of kilometers into the sky the ass has covered the city of khost. forcing people to don masks and raincoats to shield themselves the russian put railway service on hold although no major damage or injuries have been reported. what appeared in economic blessing at first has now turned sour for hungary the country's farmers claim their profits have dwindled since the country joined the european union as the market is flooded with cheap imported produce they now say they're ready to do anything to save themselves from bankruptcy as artie's alexy yourself ski reports. at first glance it looks like a hungarian success story two decades ago this farma started his business with just four pigs nowadays he sells fifteen hundred every year and couple that with several

hectares of some flour and melon fields you may think this is a lot but andres says it's only just enough to keep his business afloat he says he'd have been far more excess if his country stayed away from the european union but now i can only sell my produce to local many markets transnational companies have flooded my country off to a session and they sell cheap meat imported from denmark and holland his production is cheaper but they feed their pigs with expired canned meat while we feed our pigs with corn and natural food for us the recession was a huge blow to all. the poor production industries one of the examples of how an already ailing hungary an agricultural industry suffered an even greater decline after joining the e.u. and the numbers speak for themselves in the late one nine hundred eighty s. there were more than twelve million pigs in hungary primarily meant for export to other countries of the socialist bloc by two thousand and four when the country became

a member of the european union it was only half of it left now ten years later the figure stands at around three million while this particular cultural sector so dwindling numbers some others like sugar production even went bankrupt what was meant to be free market competition turned sour when would have passed was told to play by the e.u. has rules. the only industry which felt a positive effect from the e.u. accession was local wine making with its famous the kind bottle selling well across the continent but the country's political elites say this is a poor consolation for a country which has exceptional agricultural conditions when you're miserable the shadow was in atlanta and we have everything to be europe's most powerful agricultural nation we estimated that the ten million people of hungary can feed thirty million in europe but in the e.u. nobody wants what we. produce at the same time we've lost all our eastern markets where we were the primary exporters in the 1980's that will play only a little shallow if the situation became so bad that at some point it can get in

government had to act swiftly they lash out when the floodgates of cheap european farm produce were opened into hungary prices for our own milk poultry and meat crashed and tens of thousands of our farmers almost went bankrupt we were forced to implement the tempest legislation in the whole of the e.u. to protect our own producers of it all and all one of those measures was the introduction of a moratorium on purchases of agricultural land by foreign nationals and fears huge transnational companies would swallow up everything for themselves with no benefit for the local community it expires next year and it doesn't understand yet what that would mean for him and his colleagues but this time he wants to be prepared for a potential crisis and is forced to find new markets in the east ready to sell even to china if it means keeping the farm alive alexy rush of ski reporting from hungary. next on our t.v. look at the end result of the tactics employed by police to interrogate suspects

that's just ahead. you know people in moscow say there are like whole web sites and facebook groups about the childfree lifestyle which i didn't believe until i saw the cover for the aug twelfth copy of time magazine yet child free is no real thing sadly basically these are people who have started a cool trend of not having children and using their time and resources completely for themselves you know if you don't want to have kids that is your business and i really couldn't change your mind even if i wanted to but there are people all over the internet who are just swimming in their own self-satisfaction like pigs in slop because they are part of the no kids trend the sickening part about this trend or

should i see mentality is that these people glow in adore themselves for being too selfish to give their time and money to a child oh i'm the center of the universe and i'm proud of it. this is an extremely antisocial and destructive mentality to adore yourself for contributing nothing to anyone else nothing to society and nothing to the future but wait let me put it this way if your life is shopping wearing ironic t. shirts starbucks and texting on your i phone about your stupid feelings that maybe is for the greater good the church childfree but that's just my opinion.

the crime is that of viola manville a seventy four year old woman found dead on the twenty ninth of november one thousand nine hundred eighty eight along this dirt track. dozens of suspects will be questioned and all will be released including frank stirling seen in this photograph. two years later detectives trained by reed reopen the case and are convinced frank is guilty. a few years earlier his brother had been sentenced to prison for raping viola manning and franks is thought to have wanted revenge. the police are relentless and presto until he cracks the eleventh of july one thousand nine hundred ninety one and exhausted frank sterling admits to the murder his confession is recorded. many years later the murder of a four year old.