well the u.s. steps up its drone war in yemen fears rise that the strikes may be playing into the hands of al qaida and find more followers among the enemies of america's controversial anti terror strategy. thousands protest an experimental british fracking well with alarm locals and activists saying they're determined to prevent the environmentally devastating project. people raise to protect their homes from flooding in russia's far east as water levels break all time records and our secret travels through the most devastated areas to bring you firsthand accounts of this disaster.

it's twelve noon here in moscow you're watching archie with me and he said now 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 according to a report from washington this may well be sending chills down the spines of ordinary yemenis who bear the brunt of the young man attacks and even pushes some to join the ranks of al qaida or. reports. 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 charred 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 and locals say as soon as the dust settles from drawn attacks q.e.p. arrives on the scene 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 l. kind us pure and recruitment on their behalf. but we spoke to ross

a body an advisor to yemen's prime minister who says that it's a clear cut fact that america's drone strategy isn't working otherwise its foreign phrase 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 ended terrorism and both in pakistan and in the robe a successful strategy cannot rely on sheer military force alone because it is much more than a security threat the end the line cause of terrorism or in the political social educational and most economic problems of our country we believe that bloodshed can only lead to more bloodshed the full drone strikes cannot be a viable solution to this problem where the drone strategy is finding much approval among americans with recent surveys suggesting that up to sixty five percent say yes to strikes abroad but that reverses when asked about the use of drones at home

with less than a third supporting the option foreign policy expert robert nyman believes that public opinion would be the same if washington lifted the veil of secrecy. we should all 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 obama

administration is refusing to disclose any of this information and then makes it much harder for the media to do their jobs i felt jailbreak in egypt thirty six muslim brotherhood prisoners are killed during an escape attempt this comes amid the chaos of the past week with casualties nearing a thousand people prompting the country's foreign backers to reconsider their military aid to cairo that story coming up. and the success story gone sour for hungary where farmers say they're being punished by e.u. agricultural companies since joining the block what was once a big income source for the country is now restricted to local markets. but first a sleepy village in the british countryside is turning into a battleground between fracking giants versus anxious locals and activists thousands of protesters have descended 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 there unconvinced by government assurances are 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 quit drill is doing exploratory drilling you have the police over here trying to stop any possible protesters from getting in a clearly fracking is divisive a topic over here you've got residents debating 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 climate on the water we spoke with one of those residents and talk to her about what her fears are if fracking doesn't do happen now 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 they once 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 eco sudden technology it can all 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 lost 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 ascites 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 the reason that they think there might. be if there's impact that will affect them when you don't if there's a bowing out how was your evacuation plan to manage 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 to self-sufficiency david cameron has said that it 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 on tests are cilia . many people are in the dark over fracking and given the confusing nature of how it works that's no surprise so here's a simple explanation first off oil companies drill down to shale rock formations a kilometer or more underground then they drill horizontally through it once that's 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 that

all those toxic chemicals they pumped in those can float right back up straight into your drinking water your lakes your rivers what's worse fracking result in an enormous amount of waste including radioactive water which then has to be dumped somewhere the toxic brew 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 the entire process 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. i mean candidate for the u.k. green party believes it's because london is fully vested with big business. the links between of government and the fossil fuel industries are there for all to see and therefore you know there's got to be strong suspicions of vested interest is interest their work no big surprise until we get

a message going to change of government in this country the priorities are going to trying to be looking off of the parties in these big companies campaign i'm always focused on going to be the cyber corps so a lot these days are threatened by this industry. and that's before. the whole country starts to realize just how corrupt this government really is and i think people are just seeing through the thin tissue of lawyers and the 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 bloody nose come the next election. sparing no effort to get to snowden online for you today the u.k. detains the partner of the guardian journalist who helped edward snowden which is now the most wanted man in earth revealed the n.s.a.'s worldwide spy program. plus a breakpoint 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

for you at our teen dot com. 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 a historical record for the region and are expected to reach the peak only by mid week around thirty thousand people have already been evacuated by emergency services and authorities say this could just be the beginning paul scott is in the thick of events and talk to some of the victims of. the scale is breathtaking as

far as the eye can see floodwaters of mud 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 throughout the moments 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. we prefer instead to brave it out with me to alexei for two weeks now he's been living in his attic with his brother slava and cats. we have to travel to dry land my 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 travelling 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 clean up 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. we're 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. well of the authorities handling of the crisis has been praised up to now it could still lay ahead with more rain expected in the next few days one of the main areas of concern to the hydroelectric power stations which is straining against a critical mass of water threatening to send millions more tons down on to the already devastated region. the i'm all region is of civil unrest and incredible pictures of the volcano eruption in japan and it's all coming up after the first.

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it's of government's government confirms its security forces have killed thirty six muslim brotherhood supporters that attempted to escape during the present transfer officials claim the prisoners took an officer hostage but suffocated when police used tear gas this is 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 power over power with chaos on the streets of egypt the air now plans to review the aid it is providing to the country urging the army to restrain its use of force lawmakers 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 is also avoided calling the ousting of president morsi a coup which would mean they have to end the supplies

a profit us companies can afford to lose according to political scientists and activists sarah marusek. it was. very they are listening they are going to. be leading and i. already been given the security all the way to the words the very thing you heard might like you and basically on the credit system that the egyptian army is a pretty face the voters who are actually for the brother of yours to come as well because the they supporters above and beyond that and we see this means that if unity government. and us companies in the winter are going to be and risk in our economy that struggling is just not in the inner. most americans are quite ignorant not only about what's going on in egypt our role in it it's very unlikely that you make. your decision on aid to egypt and there are other things that they can do that right now. the 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 wednesday and may also include a bad on all over the just political parties and artie's paul those three are now reports of 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. 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 while the muslim brotherhood believes that the christians in egypt have a hand in what is going on this talk to to beat me with stones one of them hit me with an axe in my head they put the church on 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. the 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 counting worry i called them yesterday was the last call between. getting on 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 bashir may have shows me around what remains of his church he's placing his faith firmly in the police budget and the but i feel that the rest of members you and brotherhood leaders and starting an investigation and prosecution is a good sign for you in the street the muslim brotherhood is starting to have major losses announcing the state of emergency so all the police do have a chance. but

a chance at washed 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. five city egypt. violence is also escalating in egypt's border region of sinai twenty four policemen have been killed there in the ambush according to the country's security officials two police minibuses have under attack as they were passing through a village near the town of rafa militants have been flocking to the volatile region since the egyptian revolution in twenty eleven attacks on security forces in sinai have increased sharply since the ousting of the hama morsy in the beginning of july . the u.n. team has arrived in syria to start a long anticipated investigation into the use of chemical weapons in the ongoing unrest both the government and rebels have traded accusations of the point military grade poison a chemical strike near syria's largest city aleppo in march killed dozens of people prompting international condemnation. from a fisherman have staged

a protest over the placing of an artificial reef by gibraltar thirty boat sailed into the territories waters claiming the reef prevents them from fishing in the area to brother says they should be working there in the first place this is the latest in the political spot between the u.k. and spain over the rock sovereignty. some breathtaking pictures from japan where one of the country's most active volcanoes has erupted sending a massive plume five kilometers into the air the ash has covered the city of fargo shima forcing people to don masks and rain coats to shield themselves the eruption put railway service on hold although no major damage or injuries have been with. what appeared to be an 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 are ready to do anything to save themselves from bankruptcy as artie's

alexy are 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 is 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 of it 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 there was only a 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 one 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 where you're miserable wish i was in atlanta 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 want. what we produce at the same time we've lost all our eastern markets where we were the primary exporters in the one nine hundred eighty s. and what we were told the situation became so bad that at some point it can get in government had to act swiftly. 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 one of those measures was the introduction of a moratorium on purchases of agricultural land by foreign nationals i mean 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 all the latest in the world of sport coming your way just a minute. well . science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered wealthy british style it's time to write limericks with. the. market find. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two kinds of

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finished top of the medal table in the first. plus a white in the doctor russian box that alex on the seventh can is set for the fight of his life as he prepares to take on the bloodied me a pitch go for about heavyweight showdown in. in moscow. and golden eye russia's world champions unveiled a new program as the judo target top honors at the country's maiden winter olympics in sochi. but let's start with athletics after russia finished top of the medal table at their first home world championships here in moscow with pole vault superstar yelena isinbayeva climbing one of seven goals for the host nation the saudi one year old missed out on a new world record but still cleared for me to eighty nine to claim her third world title and lights up the luzhniki stadium america's journey pursuit took silver and cuban yet asleep silver the bronze. was given.