global frack attack rallies around the world unite against shale drilling demanding the authorities open their eyes to the risks of a dangerous technology. in the eye of the storm r t reports on the syrian christian village of mali and meets the rebel fighters who have surrounded it also. never heard of serco shook the roadway. on the ground you're wrong it's a british services call losses involved in the country's day to day needs but has some big questions to answer over failure and fraud claims.

thirty coming to life in moscow with me marina joshie welcome saturday is a global frag down day and international protests uniting activists worldwide demanding a ban on shale gas drilling frack to venice as they're known one their authorities to hear the truth about the risks of the technology although british leaders are smitten with a fuel the prime minister 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. infused we'll pay you if you let us do it in your area u.k. prime minister david cameron has got behind. almost evangelical in his drive to the british people north and south it's a tough sell if he's found out from environmental groups and blue cool people

worried about the countryside being hauled off and down the u.k. in bold. new cool campaign is barricaded to propose drilling but to money and they now vowed to move back to wherever. the fracking 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 gas and dangerous chemicals leaking out from underground contaminated water. to as quality and even earthquakes. and they've been seen here in the u.k.

looking forward 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 firmly on the side of the economy. loris miss and london reporting there and over in canada demonstrations held over the past week resulted in clashes with police and arrests around a hundred officers struggled to control crowds of hundreds and they used pepper spray on tan service responded with petrol bombs demonstrators blocked roads and set the cars on fire at least forty people were arrested. so what's thought to be so danged. about fracking and do the benefits of creating jobs and fuel our way the risks here's how it works the companies need to drill down about

a kilometer into shale rock formations and inject water to crack them and extract oil and gas 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 legs and rivers not to mention that a poisonous fluid can contaminate the ground and comes air pollution is highly potent greenhouse gases are released in the atmosphere but the drilling firms are doing everything they can to prove that people shouldn't fear fracking as activists amalie worth explains the oil and 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 is who i think are being lobbied to believe that

this is and 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 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. well one of the fracking side was right in your neighborhood well seventy four percent of europeans say be concerned now in a village in romania locals get to decide whether they want the u.s. energy john chevron to explore shale gas under their homes there's a referendum next month for now the company has hold to drilling following mass protests both on the side and in the remaining capital bullyboy them as those

fighting the energy giant. u.s. soldier at chevron cost or maybe a government blessing to start exploratory trilling fishtail gal secure area protesters from. our city with the local villages in opposition to the deal there may be a government says. shale gas in order to achieve energy independence but that's something that local villagers here say that they don't want to pay for with their safety here's my report on the bustle waging between chevron and the people who want to open their doors to fracking locals in this remote region of remaining i have been saddled with an on going to guest u.s. and the giant chevron is due to begin drilling for shale gas. agriculture is our lives become could grow in our soil for sure. because we've seen what they have

done in other places when they grew up many residents here fear that the process of fracking could release chemicals into the soil and contaminate the water. of the guys 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 the song on the food for animals and for us and 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 romanian government which has given them the green light to start exploratory drilling and not feel david that without any public consultation the sense of betrayal is that by most protesters chevron were 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 can guess they don't have any future

because the children present the future people in the village to. just that they can die but they say it's important for us to have a future chevron told r.t. 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. 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 fated for us to die so let it be but we won't give up until the outlaw fracking in romania. i see. romania and in france which has recently upheld the ban on fracking authorities have been accused by oil companies of sacrificing access to a major source of energy but jew political commentator and former oil field executive crane thinks it makes no sense to sacrifice the environment in the name

of profits and job creation 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 of all 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 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. well we'll be following the day of protests against fracking as the game went him around the globe twenty six countries are expected to take part so far with sauza is ready to take to the streets across the u.s.

and europe as well as africa and australia more updates and aspirants union activists of course is available here on r t and on air and online or t.v. dot com. in syria at least sixteen government soldiers have been killed in a suicide blast near damascus believed to have been the work of the militant illness or front other syrian rebel factions are appealing for more money and western military aid to find there is jeem artist marie is an option is one of the few journalists who has been reporting from syria and has spoken to members of the free syrian army and side rebel held territory. usually we cross the syrian

lebanese border every day many times aboout her son is a soldier for the free syrian army nothing in this field we take injured people to lebanon hospitals we get i mean issued from there we bring mujahideen in and out if i just want to go to see their families cell is a safe haven. our cell 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 president assad know to do that. the security bill 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 my lower 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 level it's we can see actually the village itself 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 this door. 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 lula. the fighters seized control of the heights around the village while we were filming it was still held by them. because the majors using the crisis hundreds of thousands of troops used to just take a look at these national these days does this mean this is where you see these caves that house 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 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 have murdered an f.s.a. fighter was injured in my dollar 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 up to moscow pushed washington to agree on a peaceful way forward it's warships spectrum mediterranean and put its tomahawks on hold it didn't please everyone. 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 he didn't in the mountains and militants helpless in the face of government tanks

artillery and. the country's at a deadly impasse is neither song prepared to blink first. or tease morea for notion of reports from fragmented syrian rebel held territory. syria rebels. as a family is 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's saying is behind the increase in insurgent attacks that's ahead here on our team. and a decade's long route over who is using all the water which is boiling point in the southern us where three states are locked in a legal battle the details are coming up soon. time to research. the global financial system is the time to rebuild something

better something less corrupt in fact this 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 well the former french prime minister dominique de villepin recently said the u.s. has used its three phenomenal privileges to put the financial stability of the whole world. dramas that can't be ignored to. stories others refuse to notice. faces change the world writes never. sold pictures of today's events no longer runs from around the globe.

dropped. to fifty. welcome back this is our team transport health care prison school services in the u.k. there is one firm with a finger in all those spies but few members of the public know much about it even though it's accused of shoddy performance and even over charging taxpayers for work that's are still investigates the suspicions about circle. 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 you ever heard of the companies. should know what about to serve. have you ever heard of the compass group the compass being. never have you ever heard of serco. eroei and on the ground you

know one of the biggest companies providing public service is a thanks to outsource government contractors a company called a serco operating various services for the transport for london electronic tagging a presence for the ministry of justice and some out of hours general practice services for the national health service now these are just around the areas of the company operates and the company is currently making headlines as is being investigated for fraud mismanagement and a 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 most think whom serco 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 and publicity are 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 is the borking on its single a big contract to date inviting bids valued between seven hundred million to one point one billion pounds one of the reasons that these public markets often fall is because the pace and scale of reform is causing significant problems in the rush to develop public market is avoidable errors have often been made and design and the site and what we would the government is to slow down learn 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. all those voices in your had might just be real scientists say there are no you

step closer to eavesdropping in our thoughts but that their discovery mile our minds to be manipulated find out who could soon rain our brains at our dot com. and the monster bushfires that are ravaging salvi really are 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 four children were among the victims when a taliban suicide bomber detonated a car full of explosives while leaving an international compound east of kabul a nato convoy 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 and one presidential candidate for the next year's election told us

that poor 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 the big be some some some achievements but these achievements of not been because of this government these a few achievements have been because of the mass inertia of the presence of the international community the global push towards freedom of speech women's rights or some technological advances in the communication area or in the in the media 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 and some other stories from around the world the un is urging washington to release more data about its drone strikes the organization's latest report says at least four hundred fifty civilians have been killed in pakistan afghanistan and yemen and a manned 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. and say torture activists have subject themselves to feeding through a nasal tube outside of appeals court in washington d.c. in protest at the indefinite detention of inmates at guantanamo bay i want to spend more than three months on a water only fast in solidarity with the prisoners who remain on hunger strike over one hundred detainees started refusing food in over their mistreatment with dozens having since been subjected to forced meetings by u.s.

authorities. athens has seen another long. to protest against greece's far right golden dawn party the gathering was aimed at commemorating the killing of an anti-fascist rapper whose murder was confessed to by a golden dawn member your organization's leader denies the group was in any way connected to the a tat of the stabbing sets the greek government why crackdown against the party. in the u.s. three 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 was wall looks at their dispute. for over two decades three states have been in a bitter battle over water now the fight has reached a boiling point there certainly is 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 in 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 is 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 all a lot of climate change strands we see less rainfall in the 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 other 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. consensus around something that both people have given taking on they you there win or lose usually in court you think of the cost of twenty three years of litigation and these yes 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 corps would force atlanta 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 the three states can get to the table and and bring resolution of this in columbus georgia list of all party. and up next a self-confessed economic hit man tells abby martin how rich countries plunder the resources of poor countries and breaking the sat.

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. according to the behind center's numbers we have more than two thousand political prisoners and behind right now of course if you look at the system what the bahamian government is trying to do is they're trying to label many of these prisoners as terrorists.

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