the war on shale protesters around the world unite against the drilling technique known as fracking urging their governments not to sacrifice the environment for the sake of short term profits. with syria locked in a deadly tug of war between the government and opposition forces are to get access to a rebel stronghold plus. ever heard of serco should weigh in on the ground you know it's a blue chip government services company that few britons have ever heard of which is being investigated for massive fraud and mismanagement.

this is r t coming to you live from the russian capital a marina josh welcome to the program of global frag down day is on saturday marks a worldwide protests uniting all activists who want to put an end to shale gas extraction frak to this as they are called are urging their governments to stand up to the oil and gas lobby however in britain the authorities see things very differently prime minister has become a vigorous havoc out of the risky technique as laura smith now reports. it's going to make household energy bills. he says it will create loads of job c. and use that will pay you if you let's do this in your area u.k. prime minister david cameron has got behind working in a big way almost evangelical in his drawing to sell it to the british people north and south it's a tough sell leg as he found out from environmental groups cool people worried

about the countryside being called off and down the u.k. in both the local and campaign is barricaded to propose during the two months 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 for a clean well yeah in the us than in the whole of europe an environmental impact all showing campaign is gaffes and dangerous chemicals leaking out from underground contaminated wolf just like to ask for the sea and even quakes lakes and cracking and they've been seen here in the u.k. premises for by drilling who did what the government decided that didn't justify

a ban on the technique according to cameron it would be a big mistake to rule cracking 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. meanwhile over in canada rallies over the past three have resulted in clashes with police and several arrests and a new brunswick province riot squads use pepper spray and baton stay. four hours back a crowd of hundreds of protesters who were retail media which had four bombs demonstrators blog road cars on fire at least forty people were arrested. so why exactly are environmentalists so concerned about this particular form of oil and gas extraction well here's how it works the engineers need to drill deep down

about a kilometer into shale rock formations and inject water to crack them open and extract oil and gas dry well you need millions of gallons of water combined with sand and callicles and much of this water loaded with radioactive substances returns to the surface where the potential to get into lakes and rivers not to mention the poisonous fluid can contaminate the soil and then comes air pollution as highly potent greenhouse gases are released in the atmosphere and spite of all that there are plenty of powerful interests termonde to push the case for shale as your political commentator and oil field expert in our crane explains when the governments in the industry are promoting the shale gas agenda they conveniently leave out the evidence that demonstrates that this is an abomination 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 all life so as for that job as for the gas i mean to some extent you know what price 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 that 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. minute. what if a fracking side was right in your neighborhood well seventy four percent of europeans say that certainly be concerned but i wonder maybe a village locals get to decide whether they want a u.s. energy giant chevron to explore shale gas under their homes and there's going to be a referendum in late november so for now the company has to span a drilling following mass protests both on the site and in the remaining capitol

hill those fighting the energy giant. u.s. soldier at chevron cost the remaining government's blessing to start exploratory training fishtail galson area protesters from. cabbage darcey with the local villages in opposition to the deal maybe the government said great 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 local people that just want to open their doors to fracking locals in this remote region of remaining i have been saddled with and i'm going to guest u.s. and the giant chevron is due to begin drilling for shale gas those opal agriculture is our lives room can grow in our soil. because we've seen them in the you know

what they have done in other places when they grew up on monday morning many residents here fear that the process of fracking could release chemicals into the soil and contaminate the water i grant you the defense of guys i'm so afraid of these 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 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 giants chevron and the remaining 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 echoed by most protesters 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 and when they come of guess they don't have any

future because the children present the future people in the village to. told us that they can die but they say it's important for us to have a future chevron told us he that they have all the required permits to begin drilling and plan to return to the site and begin fracking safe as soon as they can something that's less than reassuring for the growing number of people gathering head. 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 fate is for us to die so let it be called who won't give up until the outflow frankly in rumania going to see. romania while on air and online today will be following the day of protests as they gain momentum around the globe twenty six countries are expected to take part with sauza as of people taking to the sharifs across north america and europe as well as in africa and australia more updates along with opinions from experts and activists

are still to come here on r.t. . right. now to some news just in from egypt a car bomb has reportedly struck an army intelligence building in the city of a smile one hundred thirty kilometers. now that according to security sources the blast reportedly injured at least four people and caused part of a wall to collapse more casualties are fear and we'll be bringing you more on this as we get to distinguish us here in our team. meantime a suicide bombing has claimed the lives of sixteen syrian soldiers near damascus it's being blamed on al-qaeda affiliated militants and other opposition fractions

meantime have been pleading with the west for military and financial aid are just more of an option is one of the few journalists who are reporting from syria and she spoke to members of the free syrian army inside rebel held territory. we crossed the syrian lebanese border every day many times of what her son is a soldier for the free syrian army nothing to miss for we take injured people to lebanon hospitals we get i mean nation from there we bring mujahideen in and out if i just want to go to see their families a 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 when these calls apparently ignored taken 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 tartars on one side and governmental forces on the other dozens were killed according to government sources

and the siege continued while we feel that at the scene what you can see over there is only a village we can see actually the villages south of what we can see is the hotel saffir that the militants there feed holding for weeks now so right now we are on the other side of the clashes. 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 rula. the fighters seized control of the heights around the village while we were filming it was still held by them. it was the patients using the crisis hundreds of thousands it's just used. just take a look at these national these days does this to me this is where you see these trees that house then. the soldiers officer an 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 mount 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 off to 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 to find terrorists he didn't in the mountains and militants helpless in the face of government tanks to agree and. the country's at a deadly impasse neither song prepared to blink first marty's morea for notion of reports from fragmented syrian rebel held territories. syria rebel group the north sea. and the planning coming up for you in the program including water wars three american states have been trying and failing to share a local river accusing each other over using the resource the details of the dispute are available online and on air coming up short.

time very soon this sucker of the global financial system is putting time to rebuild something better something less corrupt perhaps 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 at risk. deliberate torch is on its big journey to structure. one hundred twenty three days . number two cities. really fourteen thousand people or sixty thousand killing. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others.

a large. m r t r. welcome back this is r t a giant firm that's involved in operating britain's health care or schools transport and other services is accused of massive fraud and mismanagement over such a large company or whether its finger is in so many pies it's hardly known by anyone in the country is are things that are still you find out. for bicycles for rent a health services prison speed cameras ambulances 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. never had never heard of serco when you're away. from 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 a president for the ministry of justice and some out of hours general practice services for the national health service now these are just pound for areas of the company operates at and the company is currently making headlines as is being investigated for fraud mismanagement of a long list of complaints on the quality of the service it provides are they competent to the have their spittoons. come on they really effectively manage the service and i think. it's becoming clear that. 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 they're practicing. publicity of 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 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 service markets often fall is because the pace and scale of reform is causing significant problems and the rush to develop this market is avoidable errors have often been made and 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 sort of silly r t. and who rules the road in germany well

a self-proclaimed king told police he did when he was pulled over for speeding even produced a driving license issued himself as head of state will find plenty more facts about the self-styled monarch at r.t. dot com. and also online lynn's new weapon and its war against illegal migration tens of thousands of people have received text messages telling them to leave the u.k. but it turns out some of the received these are far from being illegal immigrants. now a senior afghan officials including tribal elders say they'll vote next month on what role u.s. troops will be allowed. to play in the country the nato led combat mission will be wrapped up by the end of twenty fourteen but the u.s. wants to keep some boots on the ground a draft bilateral pact between washington and kabul to give american troops

immunity from local laws but the sad part of the deals being heavily contested ganesan and as most foreign forces prepare to withdraw they'll be turning their backs on a resurgent taliban six civilians were killed in the group's latest assault when militants targeted an international convoy on friday the afghan government is now under increasing pressure to strike a peace deal with insurgents presidential actions will be held in april and we asked one candidate why the outgoing karzai administration seems unable to contain the violence. 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 big be some

some some achievements but these achievements have 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. look at some of the stories from around the world a suicide bomber has killed thirteen people and injured many others in. in central somalia the explosion went off in a restaurant popular with the opium and somali troops the areas currently in the grip of an insurgency by islamist forces the group behind last month's deadly mall siege in neighboring kenya. melanne appeals court has ordered

a two year political ban for italy's former prime minister silvio berlusconi following his tax fraud conviction however the decision will not come into effect until a separate vote in the senate and that's expected next month the court had to determine the length of the ban after a ruling by italy's supreme judges if the senate votes to expel berlusconi he could spend a year either under house arrest or in community service. the u.n. is urging washington to release more data about its drone strikes a recent report from the organisation's has at least four hundred fifty civilians have been killed in pakistan afghanistan and damage in a manned aerial attacks since two thousand and four the figure that's been downplayed by america the un wants an investigation to provide accurate casualty figures. three neighboring southern states in the united states are caught

up in a long running battle over the resources from one shared river they blame each other for using too much of the water supply liz wahl looks into 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 in 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 cone 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 atlantis 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 the oysters have been just for its waters the neighboring states have been fighting over their rivers resources for over twenty

years one lawsuit after another there's been no solution that clinches everyone's thirst it's not very often that the come to. a. consensus around something that both people have some given tell you can they you're either win or lose usually in court you think of the cost of twenty three years of litigation and these heroes 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 that the three states can get to the table and bring world solution to this in columbus georgia liz wahl

r.t. . and has a report is coming up here on our team after the break. you know when i look more and more into it i find that there were a lot of myths and exaggerations about what happened at 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 does that 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 her own tumblr account that the music industry is manipulated and controlled by a media. military industrial complex this is a strong accusation from hell 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 is more paranoid types like me like to call it reprogramming although they are usually trivial this celebrity case actually sets a dangerous legal precedent but that's just my opinion. it's a quick fix for a long and increasingly intoxicating addiction the us may have avoided it but it keeps dragging the world into an ever deeper debt. is it still possible to break

this vicious cycle. real damage and complexity of this oil spill is not something you can grasp just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil this is a huge step backwards for the marker c. it's a step forward for oligarchy carex it is toxic as it looked like spraying and. it was it was not a picture that either the government or b.p.

really wanted to have out there i don't want dispersants to be the agent. of this. welcome to the kaiser report imax guys are time to reset this sucker the global financial system is couplets keep time to rebuild something better something less corrupt perhaps 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 reset well is former french prime minister dominique de villepin recently said the u.s. has used its three phenomenal.