a global frag a tagger really is around the world unite against shale drilling demanding authorities open their eyes to the risks of the dangerous technology. in the eye all the storm are interior walls of the syrian village of mali luria that means the rebel fighters was territories have it encircled and. never heard of circle the circle line with a row way. on the ground yet wrong it's a british services colossus involved in the country's day to day needs but has some big questions to answer over failure and for planes.

from moscow this is r t you with me to bomb and say to our top story this morning. saturday is a global of frag down day and international protest uniting activists start worldwide demanding a ban on shale gas drilling for activists as they're known to one death all g.'s to hear the truth about the risks of the technology although british leaders are smitten with the fuel the prime minister being a vigorous advocate of the risky technique as laura smith reports. it's going to make household energy bills. he says it will create loads of job c infuses we'll pay you if you let us do it in your area u.k. prime minister david cameron has got behind for king in a big way almost evangelical in his drive to the british people north and south

it's a tough sell as he's found out from environmental groups. people worried about the countryside being call of wind down the u.k. . campaign is barricaded to propose drilling but to much and they now vowed to move back to wherever. the wrecking energy goes next. and they've got the experience of americans to back them up one hundred times more for a clean well yeah in the us than in the whole of europe and environmental impacts all showing campaign is welcome gas and dangerous chemicals leaking out from underground contaminated water. to air quality and even quakes linked to procreate and they've been seen here in the u.k.

cooled by drilling who but the government decided that didn't just deploy a ban on the technique according to cameron it would be a big mistake to rule fracking out on environmental grounds in the choice between boosting the economy and saving me and for him and the british prime minister has come down on the side of the economy. in canada demonstrations held over the past two weeks resulted in clashes with police and arrests around one hundred officers struggled to control crowds of hundreds they use pepper sprays on poached. who responded with petrol bombs demonstrations demonstrators blocked roads and so because and fire at least forty people were arrested. so what's the word to be so dangerous about fracking and do the benefits of creating jobs and fuel outweigh the risks here's how it works is the companies need to drill deep down

about a kilometer into shale rock formation and inject a water to crack them and extract oil and gas not to run a well you need millions of gallons of water combined with sand and chemicals and much of this water loaded with cancer causing radioactive substances returns to the surface and could get into lakes and rivers not to mention that this is poisonous fluid and can contaminate the ground and then becomes the air pollution is highly potent greenhouses are a guess as are released into the atmosphere but the drilling for those are going everywhere and doing everything they can to prove their people shouldn't fear fracking as active as emily was explains. gas industry has spent millions of dollars trying to educate the general public through advertising to believe that fracking for every last drop of oil and gas is good for us and likewise they've spent tons of money both through lobbying and campaign contributions to try to

convince elected officials at the highest level as you i think are being lobbied to believe that this is in this is something that they should be behind and they often use what we call green washing to make it seem like you know natural gas just that warm alone is cleaner when in fact this is the multinational oil and gas industry and their motivation is to generate profit for their shareholders and they will do that regardless of what their costs are to local communities who are affected by this process and a larger cost to all of us through what could be long term threats to our drinking water as well as catastrophic climate change. so one of the fracking slide was right in your neighborhood well seventy four percent of europeans say they absurdly be concerned now in a village in rumania locals get to decide whether they want the u.s. and the giant chevron to explore shale gas on the homes there's a referendum next month though for now the company has altered drilling following

mass protests both on the side and in the remaining capitol out his party boy. the energy giant. locals in this remote region of remaining i have been saddled with an i'm going to guest u.s. energy giant chevron is due to begin drilling for shale gas those opal agriculture is our lives become could grow in our soil for sure or will die because we've seen them in what they have done in other places when we came up with many residents here fear that the process of fracking could release chemicals into the soil and contaminate the water. of the guy i'm so afraid of this kind of guess exploitation people see they will be big problems for our animals because the water will be affected and this one and the food for animals and for us and our children as well we have children and grandchildren what should we do these locals and environmentalist's have been camped out here braving the elements in order to stand

up to us oil giant chevron and the remaining government which has given them the green light to start exploratory drilling in that field day but that without any public consultation. ok let's look biggest problem and problem. gives you just people and two real true. feeling of puking because they didn't ask. we didn't matter to them. the sense of betrayal is acknowledged by most protesters there are many in prime minister was against fracking during his election campaign but after being voted into office he changed his mind and granted chevron permits for the controversial practice for now nothing is happening chevron was forced to leave the area last week on able to get past the locals human chain around the site but it's only

a matter of time before they retire when they come with guess we don't have any future because the children present the future the old people in the village told us that they can die but this is important for us to have a future chevron told our sea that they have all the required permits to begin drilling and plan to return to the site and begin fracking safely assume as they can something that's less than reassuring for the growing number of people gathering here result when we hope to stop them even if it means paying with our lives if you want to send the army we will die if it is speeded for us to die so let it be who won't give up until the outflow frankly remain you want to see congested romania on air and online will be following the day of protest against king as they gain steam around the globe or stay with our team.

europe and other states are being urged to take in displaced syrians the un refugee agency is estimates that four thousand people a day are fleeing across the mediterranean there's still no end to the bitter fighting there with the rebels appealing for more money and western military aid to fight the regime which is where if a national is one of the few journalists who has been reporting from syria and has spoken to members of the free syrian army inside rebel held territory. we cross the syrian lebanese border every day many times a boy and her son is a soldier for the free syrian army not just hard to miss for we take injured people to lebanon hospitals we get i mean nation from there we bring mojahedin in and out

if i just want to go to see their families our cell is a safe haven. our soul is a mostly sunni lebanese village on the syrian border along this road which appeared here in the first days of the conflict in two thousand and eleven it's possible to reach all of syria's main battlefields bringing weapons or militants and many have done in those two and a half years. damascus has repeatedly called on foreign nations to stop supporting what it calls terrorists in syria but with these calls apparently ignored taking the capital remains the ultimate go for all the forces fighting president assad in addition to that has the security belt that the regime created around damascus is huge and to targeted we need many fighters in advanced weapons and to be honest we don't have those kinds of weapons but what we can do is watch operations here and there to relieve the pressure on the regime last month's attack on the village of malala here in the southwest of the country could be part of that strategy this

ancient mostly christian settlement lies in a valley surrounded by mountains on the way from homs to damascus it's loyal to the syrian authorities but surrounded by f.s.a. held villages it is practically the only obstacle preventing fighters from two large syrian battlegrounds uniting. in more than a month of clashes between islamists and opposition fighters on one side and governmental forces on the other dozens were killed according to government sources and the siege continued while we feel and at the scene what you can see over there is no level it's we can see actually the village itself of what we can see is the hotel saffir that the militants have been holding for weeks now so right now we are on the other side of the clashes. but from here to the hotel is territory held by the rebels after safai hotel it's the regime this is the highway to

damascus but we cannot reach it because of my own lula. the fighters seized control of the heights around the village while we were filming it was still held by them. is this really makes you think the price is hundreds of thousands it's just used to just take a look at there is no shortage of these days does this do leases where you see these trees that house that. the soldiers of the syrian army when we were in mali alongside the army there were snipers in these very caves in the mountains around the village stopping us from getting out but i'm stuck here in this corner and we're now trying to get out of here. but while f.s.a. soldiers can hold their opponents they seem unable to make their own advances. and f.s.a. fighter was injured in an order he says they need more money and american military

aid washington has conceded a limited assault on syrian military bases over august's chemical attack. if they strike with just ten rockets the regime of bashar al assad will fall by itself. but america changed track after moscow pushed washington to agree on a peaceful way forward pulled its warships spec from mediterranean and put its tomahawks on hold it didn't please everyone i love seeing us all of them are liars the americans the arabs all of them i don't know how i can express it better and we're not hoping for anything from them. with army forces struggling to combat fighters haydon in the mountains and militants helpless in the face of government tanks a two or three and. the country's at a deadly impasse is neither side prepared to blink first. margie's maria for those you know reports from fragmentary syrian rebel held territory. syrian

rebels. as a family's killed in an afghan taliban attack on an international residence complex we talk to a candidate for next year's presidential election who explains to us what he thinks is behind the increase in insurgent attacks that's a hate. and a decades long row over. who's using all the water reaches boiling point in the cellar and us with three states a locked into a legal battle the details coming up. right

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transported to health care prisons a school services and many other public services and in the u.k. there's one for him with the famed in all those pies but a few in the u.k. will know much about it even though it's accused of charity performance and even overcharging taxpayers for work as a cillian best against the suspicions about sicko. for bicycles for rent a health services prison speed cameras and lenses and even the government's work programme for the jobless chances are they're operated by global private companies that you may have never even heard of have you ever heard of the company's. shoko know what about to serve. have you ever heard of the compass group the compass being. that have you ever heard of serco and when you're away. on the ground you know one of the biggest companies providing public service is a thanks to outsource government contractors a company called

a circle operating various services for the transport for london electronic tagging of presidents for the. history of justice and some out of hours general practice services for the national health service these are just full of areas of the company operates and the company is currently making headlines as is being investigated for fraud mismanagement the long list of complaints on the quality of the service it provides are they competent to have their expertise. they really effectively manage the service and i think. it's becoming clear that. for its part has said that the situation is being dealt with we will embed quickly and effectively any changes needed into the way we do business and we expect to emerge stronger as a result their practices. two different things the u.k. government is set to continue on its massive outsourcing drive the n.h.s. or the health service for instance isn't working on its single one big contract to

date inviting bids valued between seven hundred million and one point one billion pounds one of the reasons for these public service markets often is because the pace and scale of reform is causing significant problems in the rush to develop this market is avoidable errors have often been made in design and oversight and what we would the government is to slow down learn quickly from mistakes and correct them out of the system before another mistake grabs the headline but there doesn't seem to be any slowing down on the part of the government and for those in the private sector it's simply business as usual just. those voices in your head might just be real scientists say they're not only a step closer to each fourth but a discovery might allow minds to be manipulated to find out who could assume to rain our brains. and the monster

bushfires that are ravaging southeast australia. right now we've got a gallery of genetic images showing just how terrifying the blazes are stricken households. a family of six has been killed in the latest surge of violence in afghanistan as the country's government comes under pressure to make peace with the taliban for children when none the victims when a taliban suicide bomber detonated a car full of explosives by leaving an international compound east of kabul and they took convoy is said to have been the target line forces and diplomatic missions often come under insurgent attacks as the country braces the south for nato troops withdraw in two thousand and fourteen one presidential candidate for the next year's election told us that pull government control is to blame i'm afraid the increase has been very very evident in the past few

months mr karzai is not living in afghanistan that will be remembered as a stable afghanistan and afghanistan but our government has public support a government that has been able to attack bigger problems that people are suffering from which is poverty lack of jobs corruption lack of rule of law there be some some some achievements but these achievements of not been because of this government these are for your students have been because of the mass inertia of the presence of the international community and the global push towards freedom of speech women's rights or some technological advances in the communication area or in the in the media area these are not government made achievements that were here because of the presence of the international community this government has not produced anything that is sustainable or tangible. around the world now for some of

all of the other top stories the u.n. and surging washington to lease more data about the drone strikes to the organizations the latest reports that these four hundred fifty civilians have been killed but he's done afghanistan and yemen in unmanned attacks since two thousand and four a figure that's been downplayed by the u.s. the u.n. wants an investigation to provide accurate casualty figures. supporters of egypt's to praise president morsi have stage a massive nationwide protest at these ten people were reportedly injured in clashes between demonstrators and residents in the city of that asic while south of cairo one person taking part in a march was greeted by gunfire the muslim brotherhood has been organizing almost daily demonstrations since morsy is overthrow in july. clashes in colombia as over a thousand indigenous people rose up over land rights and onto cultural pollution and the rally was being led by farmers who claim that illegal mining is affecting

water resources and spoiling crops in a wide berth side and the government of the rural population accuse the president of allowing free trade to undercut causing their own costs to rice. a hostage drama and of paris where an armed when took four people captive at a bank in the capital the frenchman who's in his forty's demanded that the state provide social housing for him and his disabled son to police around in the building the man was eventually persuaded to surrender after two hours and no one was harmed. dramas that can't be ignored to the. story others you know. for instance changing the world right. to pictures.

from the. book. in the us three in neighboring states are struggling to divide supplies from one shared river a battle that's been going on for decades they blame each other for using too much water this wall looks at the dispute. for over two decades three states have been in a bitter battle over water now the fight has reached a boiling point there's certainly an issue about whether there's enough water for everybody georgia alabama and florida all have a stake in the apalachicola chattahoochee flynn's river system it's the source of drinking water fishing business and recreation or i'm standing right now i am and georgia just on the other side of this river that's alabama now the water is

flowing down south into the state of florida and with all three states having a stake in this river it's leading to a war over water early october florida filed a lawsuit against georgia and the supreme court the sunshine state charged its northern neighbor with using too much water florida says georgia's water consumption is drying out business for oyster farmers oysters need a healthy mix of fresh and salt water to thrive so who is sucking up the most water many blame atlanta the city is growing and so is its third for water. is population growth this combe this climate change is coming we're starting to stretch our water resources particularly periods of drought but outside florida experts keeping an eye on the water level of the chattahoochee river say it's not all atlanta's fault but that there's also a lot of climate change strands we see less rainfall the new year will last ten

years and that certainly affects the flow into apalachicola and there's a lot of other variables that if you know the oysters of than just bridge waters the neighboring states have been fighting over the rivers resources for over twenty years one lawsuit after another there's been no solution that quench is everyone's thirst it's not very often that the come to. a. a consensus around something that both people have some given taking on though you're either win or lose usually in court you think of the cost of twenty three years of litigation and the u.s. and then the federal agencies that are involved it's enormous for the most part the river is regulated by the army corps of engineers' if florida gets its way the court would force that lana to cut back on its water consumption and divvy up the water among the three states but some that have a stake in the river still hold out hope that the dispute can be settled outside of

the courts i would hope that within the next five years to three states can get to the table and bring world solution of this in columbus georgia list of all party. up next to every want in blast big business for getting its hands on the third world and breaking the set staying with us. you know when i look more and more into it i find that there were a lot of myths and exaggerations about what happened in russia during the soviet era however one really bad rumor seems to be true if you were an outspoken advocate against the soviet status quo then you could be considered insane and be locked

away until the psychiatrist convinced you that khrushchev was brilliant scary stuff but sadly famous grammy award winning singer lauryn hill might be living the life of a soviet dissident right now she was convicted of failing to pay five hundred thousand dollars in taxes but strangely according to the international business times she was ordered to undergo psychiatric counseling because she believes in conspiracy theories related to the music industry who wrote in a row tumblr account that the. music industry is manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex this is a strong accusation from hill but is actually irrelevant if it is true or not you see punishments are supposed to fit the crime and the crime of tax evasion should not have a punishment of mandatory counseling or as more paranoid types like me like to call it reprogramming all the are usually trivial this celebrity case actually sets a dangerous legal precedent but that's just my opinion.

i'm very sad this sucker of the global financial system is. time to rebuild something better something less corrupt perhaps in fact acting in the global financial system is happening right now as i speak these words doesn't matter whether you like it or not it is happening why the research well the former french prime minister dominique de villepin the reason they said the us has used its three phenomenal privilege is to put the financial stability of the whole world at risk. kids make it with zero if. the consumer. chooses to. choose the stories get him to. choose the access to.

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