while the u.s. steps up its drone war in yemen fears rise that the strikes may be playing into the hands of al qaida who find it more followers among the enemies of america's car a virtual anti-terrorist strategy. the journalist behind the n.s.a. spying exposé denounces efforts to intimidate him after authorities at heathrow airport used and a terrible loss to detain his partner. and more casualties in egypt dozens are killed after a failed jailbreak by islamist prisoners near cairo and the ambush of police officers in sinai this follows days of clashes that have left nearing a sow's and people dead. and crowds of protesters gather at an experimental british fracking well but alarmed locals and activists

saying they're determined to prevent the environmentally devastating operation. this is r.t. coming to life from the russian capital i'm marina josh and welcome to the program . well 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 and this may well be sending chills down the spines of ordinary yemenis who bear the brunt of the man to tax it even pushes some to join the ranks of al qaida are going off 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 miss 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. 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 militants 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 in foreign lands 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 drone

attacks a.q. a.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 al qaeda us p.r. and recruitment on their behalf always spoke to rogers 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 it's foreign for a swim 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 us would have already ended terrorism and both in pakistan and iran 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 move bloodshed the full drone strikes cannot be a viable solution to this problem. well the drone strategy is finding much approval among americans with recent surveys suggesting that up to sixty five percy ansi 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 they were believes that public opinion wouldn't be the same if washington lifted the veil of secrecy. we trouble 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 whistleblowers 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 well people are racing to protect their homes from flooding in russia's far east. and that's as water levels break all time records during the worst delusion and more than a century coming out and r.t. who travels through the most devastated areas to bring you firsthand accounts. bringing the powers of a terror act to bear of british airports authority spent nine hours questioning the partner all of the journalist who broke the n.s.a.

surveillance scale reporter glenn greenwald cold it intimidation but insists it hasn't scared him or his partner david who had all his own strong equipment confiscated are just bully boy the reports now on the incident that's caused a storm of protest. well it's been a reaction of outrage really and glenn greenwald's called it a profound attack on press freedoms on the news gathering process he said that detaining his partner for nine hours while denying him a lawyer seizing large amounts of his personal possessions was clearly intended to intimidate those reporting on the n.s.a. scandal on the g c h q scandals he also mentioned that not even the mafia stoops as low as targeting family members greenwald's partner is a twenty eight year old brazilian citizen david miranda and he had been to berlin where he was visiting another guardian journalist who was also working on the n.s.a. scandal with glenn greenwald now miranda was returning from berlin to brazil and

transferring through london's heathrow airport and that's where the british police stopped him detained him and told him that he would be questioned undiscovered jewel seven of the terrorism act it's extremely rare for the police to question anybody for that maximum allocated time of nine hours but miranda was eventually released he was allowed to continue his journey back to brazil but not before the police confiscated all of his electric equipment including his mobile phone his laptop memory sticks a camera d.v.d.'s and even games consoles this was however something that glenn greenwald's had predicted would happen although he had assumed that it would be the u.s. government that would take this sort of action let's take a listen now to what he said there are certainly. reason to think about what the u.s. government might want to do in terms of publishing the specifically for the journalism

we're doing but it's not anything that's going to constrain me or deter me or intimidate me in any way we're going to continue to report as we've been doing it's not just glenn greenwald international have called miranda's detainment on the full and inexcusable. from the general public there's been almost a sense of surprise at the very brazen way in which the police use this anti terror laws to question and detain miranda thought to long time so a lot of people waiting now for some on incentives from the british government including the guardian's lawyer as well dozens of casualties are reported in two separate incidents in egypt one was failed one was a failed prison break a tam by detained by a muslim brotherhood supporters and the other militant ambush of police buses in the volatile sinai area this continues a week of deadly finding across the country with over eight hundred people killed in clashes between islam and activists and security forces are built through has more from cairo two very bloody incidences that took place sunday and of course

today the first incidence yesterday was apparently a botched prison breakouts was state media report it was on sunday thirty six thirty six prisoners who had been picked up during the ramses square crisis on friday when most who support is and security forces were engaged in bloody street battles were basically in a police truck being moved from a security directorate to prison pending fifteen days in jail pending investigations now according to state media they were attacked this police truck was attacked by armed groups the police responded with tear gas and office there was an allegedly kidnapped in the in the meantime these prisoners were basically suffocated to death however the muslim brotherhood have a different story they say the prisoners were in fact killed by the police forces and that more and more than thirty six were actually dead it's now the second incident happened in sinai this very very difficult area of egypt's what the

rebates reports are saying are actually conflicting one source talking to a piece said that armed gunmen attacked two police cars with weapons and basically mowed down these police officers during in. other sources as saying that's a rocket propelled grenade. it was fire police and that's what led to bed death this is basically the single biggest death toll in sinai in the last few years so it's a significant event as that particular area continues to heat up dozens of churches christian businesses and homes torched run stockton raided by supposed islamist supporters of ousted leader mohamed morsi i spoke to one christian family down south where most of this violence that actually occurring in the area he told me that a local islamist family had actually threatened and demanded extortion money to protect her business so what we're looking at here is a really serious crackdown on the christian christian communities to the point where some of the senior members of the churches suggesting that they don't have public appearances christians themselves of feeling that they have to stay at home

meanwhile churches are going up in flames almost every single day the people are actually saying the security forces are not helping the situation they're not responding to calls for help so the actual citizens themselves about to form a human cordon around these churches to protect them from the bloody onslaughts really this is a kind of culture of impunity contributing to this crisis which is the story that we're going to be watching as it develops in the coming days. well the signs are currency bitcoin is taking baby steps towards the big money world. been declared legal tender in germany the first country to officially recognize the digital currency for legislative and tax purposes more on that and other stories after the break. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future

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welcome back this is our team now a sleepy village and the british countryside is turning into a battleground between fracking giants versus anxious locals and activists salans of protesters are have to say and on the area where drilling for gas has been halted on advice from the police side america's tragic experiments with fracking residents fear the worst saying they're unconvinced by government assurances are just us are silly is there for us. well we're here in balcombe but this is the site of where an oil and gas company called drill is doing exploratory drilling you have the police over here trying to stop any possible protesters from getting in to clear the fracking is a 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 how ministers who many of whom my industry invested through 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 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 the technology 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 is 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 there if you think there's a way to know if this impacts it will affect them that you're going to physically walk out how was your evacuation plan for village 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 or cilia while many people are in the dark over fracking and given the confusing nature of how it works that's no surprise well here's a simple explanation first of all first off oil companies drill down to shale rock

formations a kilometer or more underground and then the drill horizontally through it once that's been done engineers lower explosives into the hole and set them off to riddle it with cracks and 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 they pump him they can flow dry back up straight into your drinking water your lakes your rivers and what's worse fracking results in an enormous amount of waste including radioactive water which then has to be dumped somewhere the toxic drill fluids also contaminate the ground slowing spreading through the earth near the drill site and to top it off a huge amount of highly potent greenhouse gases are released during the entire

process war thing 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 i am a peek out of eight for the u.k.'s green party believes it's because london is fully vested with big business the links between. government and the fossil fuel industries there for all to see and therefore you know there's got to be strong suspicions a vested interest is interest their work is no big surprise until we get a massive change in this country the policies are going to show you are going to be looking off of the parties in these big companies i'm always focused on what's going to be the same across so a lot of these toys and there is a disability industry. and that's before. the whole country starts to realise just how corrupt this government really is and think 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 and i think this government is headed hopefully for one hell of a bloody nose come the next election all coming out here in r.t. we've got a success story gone sour kerry and farmers say they're being a marginalized by e.u. agricultural company since joining the block what was once a big income source for the country is now restricted to local markets. now there's no relief inside 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 the middle of the week around thirty thousand people have already been evacuated by merging the services and authorities say this could be just the beginning artist 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 were preparing their dinner on the roof some of the steadfast few who at the moment refused to leave their homes this is the island of lady merrill 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 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 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 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 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. 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. livio thor's he's handling of the crisis has been praised up to now the

worst 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 into the already devastated region. the move region. well here's a heartwarming story from the flooded region these barris found themselves trapped in a cage powerless to escape the rapidly rising waters luckily for them rescuers arrived and lifted them to safety by helicopter to get more details of the russian far east flight on r.t. dot com and here's what else you'll find online as. well it seems the x. files truth is out there the u.s. opens up to shatter theories of you have folks very mintz taking place in a super secret military base in nevada had for our team dot com and check out what's really going on in area fifty one. also online russia's security

services aim to bring down an underground computer network whose anonymity is serving as a magnet for criminals. the world's official currency is now have a new addition to the family germany has become the first country to officially recognize virtual big queens as legal tender value for tax purposes and recognized in law katie pilbeam from artie's venture capital program explain more to me a little earlier. the father this illegal is great for the image of the big car and the very fact that people have got to worry about breaking a law they can buy their goods and services for your freedom it's great for the transparency for the trustworthy of the coins as we know since its introduction four years ago has not been short of controversy about the show and that's because it has asians of money laundering drug smuggling and that's because it doesn't have any satiation with the central bank or central government and maybe this is something that makes it even more appealing exam now than they were is gripped. and

we're also currency manipulation and debt as well that's what makes it so are there in the people in that intervention for some government. as well as that like i say there's also the negative connotations that come with that as well because you don't have the regulation and that's a problem said by making it legal is a step towards that but you know what it might take some educating actually because another many people know about it you know how they can get it because it's not really easy to get out of the process of getting big numbers called mining and it's also through some. mathematical sort of cold you can't really get a you know it's really as you probably limited intelligible form which is confusing and it's rather. virtual but really for me i see this is what is rubber stamp of approval it is saying well it's legal and also germany is the so-called powerhouse of europe's of germany's going to use it they're saying it's ok why can't the rest of. my follow suit and it's the first country that's using it indeed it very fast

so it is significant say the least and it's been a fairly interesting moment as well we have to remember because thailand said it was illegal at the end of july they banned as a currency but first week of august we had a court in texas same it that it was legal. while i was there check some other stories from around the world. a un team has arrived in syria to start a long anticipated the rest of asia into the use of chemical weapons in the ongoing unrest there both the government and the rebels have traded accusations of deploying military grade poison a chemical strike here's your is largest city aleppo in march killed dozens of people prompting international condemnation. thirty seven people have been killed in a street in india when an express train here a group of hindu pilgrims were crossing the tracks at a station the driver was pulled from the train by an angry mob and severely beaten while two carriages were seven fire the train was not scheduled to stop at the

station. while what appeared an economic blessing at first has now turned sour for hungary the country's farmers claim their profits have dwindled since the country joins the european union as a market is flooded with cheap imported projects they now say they are ready to do anything to save themselves from bankruptcy. 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 hack tears 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 after a session and they sell cheap meat imported from denmark and holland his production

is cheaper but they feed their pigs with expired canned meats well we feed our pigs with corn and natural food for us the recession was a huge blow to the work of the poor production industries one of the examples of how an already ailing him garion 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 half of it left now ten years later the figure stands at around three million while this particular cultural sector saw 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 caillebotte all 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 of the 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 these are yours 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 one nine hundred eighty s. a little play in the orthodox shop if the situation became so bad that at some point it can get in government had to act swiftly they failed lash out when the floodgates of cheap european foreign producers 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 one of those measures was the introduction

of a moratorium on purchases of agricultural land by foreign nationals i mean fierce huge transnational companies would swallow up everything for themselves with no benefit for the local community and 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 ally alexy russian f.t. reporting from hungary. well coming out here in our teens federal of else crossed out stay with us for that. you know people in moscow say they're 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 the.