i mean how often do you have to memorize a phone number nowadays and we've all seen bad parents just sit their kids in front of the technology and ignore them to chat on facebook about what they saw on netflix but on the other hand for the first time in human history you have the power of knowledge at your fingertips there is an instructional video to do anything you want on you tube and getting basic information on any scientific or historical topic is one click away if you find the idea of the self-made man romantic the now a short time because anyone who has the will to learn it can learn you know i don't come from money without the internet i would definitely not have this job and i'd probably be worshipping at the feet of rush limbaugh deluded by the mainstream media modern technology can make your mind with information or break it with cat videos and dumb trendiness but that's up to you and this is just my opinion.

wealthy british style. markets weiner scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on. again it's claimed britain squeezing most of the population from one of its smallest remote outposts ascension island in the south atlantic it's apparently to make way for a u.s. military base well let's have a closer look at what we're talking about it is this tiny spot of i'm up coming up now it is just over

a thousand kilometers from anywhere but it's home to just under a thousand people to whose communities thrive for more than a century now though they're being forcibly cast out laura smith reports next on how it's a trick the ukase pulled off before. it's a tiny island in the mid atlantic made of volcanic rock and covered in pigeon guano but to eight hundred people it's home but now the story of ascension island has all the hallmarks of being another diego garcia the british owned indian ocean islands whose inhabitants were forced to leave to make way for a u.s. base despite having lived there for generations. good memories. it's not for them. you know when you see them you got this because they are enjoying the. islanders accuse the british government of.

operating families who have been there for more than a century ten years ago it all so different person was promising democratic institutions for the islands a legal right to live and to own property it wanted a viable community that but today the population is already decreased by a quarter with communities replaced by contract workers retired or unemployed people over eighteen have to leave and the similarities with diego garcia and the dominant feature on the island is you guessed it an american base heavily used during president obama's recent trip to africa there are also satellites and submarine tracking stations and one of those now infamous listening posts run by g c h q the british government now conveniently insists ascension has no indigenous population and many residents believe they intend to evacuate the island completely

and abandon it to the americans far from the dreams of a permanent home they had a decade ago. reduced to paul in the special relationship. david lindsey is family comes from the island and he says it's outrageous that british citizens depend on the u.s. military ambitions most people on ascension i would say the indian origin of my family certainly is that i was born there there is a very very strong sense that ascension of this being one might almost say starve to death there is a precarious character of political representation there is the absence of guaranteed property rights or indeed a very much property rights and it is a serious question to be asked about why on british territory british citizens living there for british passport holders of why these peoples are being treated like this for the sake of a station with a base which is almost certain you might know more of the details of this in fact

engaged in the activities that have been such a huge global story in terms of spying on pretty much everyone but that is happening on british not an american and a british population there is being mistreated so we would use brief time a suicide attack a struck a shia mosque in baghdad has killed at least twenty five the blast caused the roof to collapse on to the congregation which was mourning a man killed by militants on saturday at least fifty people are injured many more are still trapped. earlier deadly violence erupted of the only things for kurdistan province in northern iraq at least four target explosions killed four local security force members in the kurdish capital erbil further shootings then injured thirty six the attacks come a day after local elections saw the main opposition group beat president taliban his party into third place. more deadly terrorism in pakistan's push our city this time a car bomb near a police station in the storage market has killed at least thirty seven injured

over one hundred more the force of the explosion destroyed shops vehicles left a crater at the blast site it's only a week since suicide bombers killed eighty outside a christian church in the same city while on friday a bus explosion killed seventeen government employees. ukraine is approaching american energy giants to develop its shale gas fields the desire for energy independence and the high price of gas that kiev is currently paying to russia is said to be behind the move but the supposed benefits from the proposal have left some in doubt there's a leg reports next so then there's a less to see the crane that some way to introduce oneself not only did the new u.s. ambassador to ukraine congratulate ukrainians on their independence day in their language but he also made his embassy employees sing a traditional song. to bring more sweet music to ukrainian ears mr piatt said the country's european

integration will be his priority as will ensuring an easy passage for american oil and gas giants into its market exxon mobil and chevron the two companies interested in cooperation with ukraine they will bring american technologies know how and money into ukraine it will be good for the country and will help it become energy independent. mr piet certainly knew what strings to pool as the energy issue has been one of the most intensely debated in ukraine which has long been unhappy with the prices of the gas advice from russia ukraine has been fighting for its energy independence since the nine hundred ninety s. and when the first stock of the country using its shale gas reserves came up many breathed a sigh of relief but as the time passes by this optimism seems to be waning while ukraine's energy minister was visibly happy with the shale gas initiatives once it's operational we will strive to fully meet our domestic energy needs and to even

become an exporter some raised a sensible question would the country actually win by letting foreign companies handle their resources enormously administration of ukraine's western ivanna from course krege and said no to chevron's shale gas operations on their soil leaving the company would simply rob them. under current conditions our region will not receive anything from these gas extraction this display of unease matters little though as energy experts expect gas corporations to be a lot to let parliament issue such permissions instead of regional authorities and while ukraine's west is being defiant the east of the country has already given up recently key a finalist a ten billion dollar deal with shell for the exploration and extraction of shale gas a former press officer for ukraine state gas company enough the gas says the issue has been turned into a major political power play here but it's still unclear how much gas is there and whether it'll be possible to extract it yet everyone makes such

a big deal of it it's like cooking a hand which hasn't been caught not even knowing if that has actually exists even the most optimistic forecast suggest that ukraine would not start extracting its shale gas until the year twenty twenty that's if there is any gas at all but until then a question remains pretty much open with this lead to the country's much desired energy independence or simply do a change in who they're dependent on. reporting from kiev in ukraine. thanks so much for your company this hour date the week's top stories and bringing more today's news headlines in just a couple of minutes you're watching r.t. . comments i want to. make up something that is quite simply.

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