from a. look. at a global frack attack or rallies around the world unite against shale drilling demanding the authorities open their eyes to the hazards of technology. in the eye of the storm our jury pools on the syrian christian village of mo you limeys the rebel fighters who have surrounded it and. never heard of serco and what a row way. on the ground yet wrong is a british service as losses involved in the country's day to day needs but has some big questions to answer the failure and fourteen.

it's just going pasta one pm here in the russian capital you love with us r t you with me to say it's good to have you company with us to our top story now saturday is global fragged on day and international protests uniting activists to worldwide demanding a ban on shale gas drilling for activists as they know no one the authorities see hear the truth about the risks of the technology or the british leaders are smitten with the fuel the prime minister is being a vigorous advocate of the risky technique as laura smith reports. it's going to make household energy bills cheap 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 flocking in a big way evangelical in his drive to sell it to the british people north and south it's

a tough sell as he's found out from environmental groups and local people worried about the countryside being hauled off and down the u.k. . locals and campaign is barricaded to propose drilling but to money and they now vowed to move back to wherever quote a wrecking energy goes next. and they've got the experience of americans to back them up one hundred times more fracking well yeah in the us than in the whole of europe and environmental impacts all showing campaign is talk of gas and dangerous chemicals leaking out from underground contaminated water to refer to quality and even earthquakes. and they've been seen here in the u.k.

cooled by drilling. but the government decided that didn't 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 the environment the british prime minister has come down on the side of the economy. in london in canada demonstrations held over the pos we can resulted in clashes with police and arrests around one hundred officers struggle to control. hundreds they used pepper spray on protesters who responded to with petrol bombs demonstrators blocked roads and said because i'm flying these forty people arrested. so what's thought to be served dangerous about fracking and do the benefits of creating jobs and fuel the risks here's how it works right now the companies need to drill deep down about

a kilometer into the shale rock formation and inject water to the cracks and crack them and extract oil as well as gas not to run a well you need millions of gallons of water combined with sand and chemicals and much of this water is loaded with cancer causing radioactive substances returning to the surface and could get into the lakes and rivers not to mention that the poisonous fuel would can contaminate the ground and then comes a point lucian as highly potent greenhouse gases are released in the atmosphere but the drilling firms are doing everything they can to prove that people shouldn't if you have fracking as activist emily explains. this tree 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 we're millon is cleaner when in fact this is the multinational oil and gas industry and there are basic 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 the larger cost to all of us through what could be a long term threat to our drinking water as well as catastrophic climate change. whatever the fracking inside the woods right in your neighborhood well seventy four percent of europeans are say there is certainly be concerned now in a village in romania locals get to decide whether they want to the u.s. energy giant chevron to explore shale gas under their homes there's a referendum next month for now the company has halted drilling following mass

protests both on the site and in the romanian capital r. g.'s pulling boy commandos are fighting the energy giant. locals in this remote region of or mania have been saddled with an i'm going to guest u.s. energy giant chevron is due to begin drilling for shale gas. agriculture is our lives if they come to drill in our soil for sure all will die because we've seen on the internet what they have done in other places when they've come up with many residents here fear that the process of fracking could release chemicals into the soil and contaminate the water. i'm so afraid of this kind of gas 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 have been camped out here braving the elements in order to stand

up to us oil giant chevron and the armenian government which has given them the green light to start exploratory drilling in that field day but then without any public consultation the sense of betrayal is acknowledged by most protesters 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 and when they can guess they don't have any future because the children present the future the old people in the village told us that they can die but they say it's 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 they want to send the army we will die if it is faded for us to die so let

it be who won't give up until the outflow franking in rumania poike a pretty gestae romania. on a and online it will be following the day of protests against fracking as they gain steam around the state with r.t. . right to to our top story front which has recently upheld a ban on fracking has been accused by oil companies of sacrificing access to a major source of energy let's now talk more on the pros and cons of shale drilling with geo political commentator and former oil field executive or even our crane who's joining us live miss acquaintance very good to have you with us now you used

to work in the oil industry yourself what is it that makes fracking worse than the other extraction techniques of oil and gas. ok what we're talking about here is the extraction of shale gas primarily from unconventional geology and this is a very different technology a very different technique from the usual process of extracting from conventional reservoirs the gas has to be extracted from what's known as tight geology that's a very good description because it means that the geology is very compact it's very difficult to to drill through and is very low prosody and purr me ability in that geology so consequently the geology has to be opened prosody and permeable if he has to be created and this is done through high pressure high volume hydraulic fracturing with literally millions of gallons of water primarily this is

fresh water mixed with a very toxic. recipe of chemicals so what we're talking about here is is a number of issues we're talking about a phenomenal usage of fresh water which once the chemicals are out it is lost to the system and we're also talking about the fact that this the so is that true is that what you said lee sort of forced to force drilling in and then the natural way and these companies who are doing this are. do they actually have government behind them too i mean how much leeway do the government have behind all of this or do they know what's going on are they with the companies and i'm absolutely up with of course the against them of course they go of course the government are supporting it in fact it's a government. industry driven agenda and of course what we're seeing all around the world is people reacting against this because the reality is that everywhere in the

world where this process has been put into use it has resulted in the contamination of the water of soil and of the air and when the governments and the industry are promoting the shale gas agenda they conveniently leave out the evidence demonstrates that this is an abomination but we're talking about job creations here as well i mean with these companies are they there is that aspect of things or shouldn't the public put job creations above everything else i mean seeing that we are in tough economic times right now or or do you think. well i think the thing that should be put above everything else is protection of the water supply because if we don't have access to fresh water then basically we're talking about the potential end of life so as for the jobs and as for the gas i mean to some extent you know what price the end of an ecology or the end of life on

earth is we know it in fact in recent days actually in the financial times just two days ago a report was published that stated categorically that the government estimates in terms of the numbers of jobs in this industry would create are grossly exaggerated and the likelihood is that maybe over the space of twenty years some ten or fifteen thousand jobs may be created which is actually. you know my minute right political commentator they end our joining our crane or joining us now live on r t to speak more about fracking and that worldwide expected. activist day that will start off today around the world thank you for joining us on r.t. . in syria at least sixteen government soldiers have been killed in a source side blast near damascus believed to have been the work of the militant al nusra front of the syrian rebel factions are peeling for more money and western

military aid to fight the regime is maria for 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 and who on her son is a soldier for the free syrian army. general hard to miss for we take injured people to lebanon hospitals we get ammunition from there we bring mujahideen in and out the fighters want to go to see their families our cell is a safe haven. arsenal 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 bring in 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 crested and assad in the digital. the security belt that the regime created around damascus is huge and too 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 to venton 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 filmed at the scene what you can see over there is my little a village we can see actually the villages south of what we can see is the hotel saffir that the militant fathi holding for weeks now so right now we are on the other side of the clashes. my 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. as was the case you see the price is hundreds of thousands it's just used. just take a look at this national these days does this to me this is where you see these trees

that house them our soldiers all 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 when i was 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 i don't know how mount an f.s.a. fighter was injured in manoa he says they need more money and american military aid washington has considered 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. 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 come but fighters haydon in the mountains and militants helpless in the face of government tanks at two or three and. the country's at a deadly impasse is neither side prepared to blink first. or tease morea for national reports from fragmented syrian rebel held territories. syria on the rebel group. too. as a family is killed in an afghan taliban attack on an international residence complex stuff. to a candidate for next year's presidential election we experience was what he thinks is behind the increase in insurgent attacks so that hate.

the global financial system is complicate time to rebuild something better something less corrupt perhaps in fact three architecting of 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 the former french prime minister dominique de villepin recently said the u.s. has used its three phenomenal to put the financial stability of the whole world at risk.

thanks for staying with us for news transport health care prison so schools services in the u.k. there's one for him with a finger in all those pies but few members of the public know much about it even though it's accused of shady performance and even overcharging taxpayers for work that investigates the suspicions about sicko. for bicycles for rent to 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 you may have never even heard of have you ever heard of the company's. what about. have you ever heard of the confiscate the company's b.

have you ever heard of serco. and on the ground you know one of the biggest companies providing public service is a thanks to outsource government contractors a company called serco operating various services for the transport for london electronic tagging of presidents for the ministry of justice and some out of hours general practice services for the national health service now these are just full of areas of the company operates and the company is currently making headlines as is being investigated for fraud mismanagement of the long list of complaints on the quality of the service it provides are they competent to have their expertise. and 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 that practices. publicity 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 it's a contract to date inviting bids valued between seven hundred million and one point one billion pounds one of the reasons that these public markets often well is because the pace and scale in the reform is causing significant problems in the rush to develop public service markets avoidable errors have often. been made and design an oversight and what we would urge 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

sort of still yard wonder. those voices in your head might just be real scientists say they're not only a step crazy eavesdropping on our thoughts but that their discovery might allow our minds to be manipulated find out certain brain our brains and our team. and the monster bushfires that are ravaging southeast australia right now we've got a gallery of dramatic images showing just how terrifying the blazes are for 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 where monk victims when the taliban suicide bomber detonated a castle of explosives on leaving an international compound east of kabul and they took convoy is said to have been the target foreign forces and diplomatic missions have seen a surge in insurgent attacks as the country braces itself for nato troops withdrawal

in twenty forty one presidential candidate for next year's election told us that all government control is to blame. for the free 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 the people are suffering from which is poverty lack of jobs corruption lack of rule of law there be some some some achievements but these are. not been because of this government these a few achievements 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 a 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 other top stories the u. one is urging washington to release more data about its drone strikes you're going to as ations latest report says at least four hundred fifty civilians have been killed in pakistan afghanistan and yemen in unmanned aerial 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. ante torture activists have subjected themselves to feed it through an angel side an appeals court in washington d.c. in protest and the indefinite detention of inmates at guantanamo bay one or spend more than three months only works only fost in solidarity with the president who remain on a hunger strike over one hundred detainees sort of refusing food in february over

their mistreatment with dozens having since been subjected to force feeding by u.s. authorities. athens has seen another large protest against greece's far right golden dawn party the gathering was aimed at commemorating the killing of an empty flashes red her murder was confessed to by a golden dawn member when i was asia's leader denies the group was in any way connected to the attack but the stabbing said the greek government on a wide crackdown against the party. hostage drama in paris where not an armed man who took four people captive at a bank a frenchman risen in his forty's demanded that the state provide social housing for him and his just able some of the police surrounded the building the man was eventually persuaded to surrender after two hours and no one was harmed.

up next to the world economy after the us government painful shutdown max and stacey look at how the financial order could be reshaped. switzerland will soon vote if they should start giving out thousands of dollars in cash to every adult citizen in the country you heard me right there's a grassroots campaign that is trying to get the government to give out to every adult citizen two thousand five hundred swiss francs approximately two thousand eight hundred dollars per month the motivation for the project is that many in switzerland fear that the financial crisis has caused wealth inequality to skyrocket you know i'm not an expert at swiss culture so maybe people there are different but if they gave out thousands of free dollars per month anywhere i've lived you would see the majority of people going into early retirement and not

working at all and sort of like how they tell people not to feed the bears at parks because then the bears lose their instincts and will go hunt because getting a sandwich thrown at them is a lot easier i mean why go through the effort of odd thing when the sandwich just magically appears handouts often creates law according to reuters some people are proposing a much better law for switzerland limiting executive pay to being twelve times higher than that of the lowest paid employee although this plan is making headlines it seems like a much better idea because it doesn't to motivate people to be productive and yet it would create almost utopia like levels of wealthy quality also if the bosses salary is tied to the employees that a lot of people be getting raises very soon this one to twelve p. ratio is much better than the free swiss francs and it gets my seal of approval but that's just my opinion.

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