video for your media project free media r t dot com. the war on shale protesters around the world unite against 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 rebel strongholds lots. ever heard of serco shook the roadway and on the ground you. know it's a blue chip government services company is that few britons have ever heard off which is being investigated for a massive fraud and mismanagement. at

six pm moscow watching r.t. with me marina josh welcome to the program global frag down days on saturday marks a worldwide progress uniting all activists who want to put an end to shale gas extraction frakt of us as they are called are urging their governments to stand up to the oil and gas lobby however in britain the authorities seizing very differently the prime minister as become a vigorous advocate of the risky technique as laura smith now reports. it's going to make household energy bills she says it will create loads of job c. and uses will pay you if you 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 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. in bold. locals 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 of gas and dangerous chemicals leaking out from underground contaminated water systems. to quality and even quakes. and they've been seen here in the u.k.

record 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 the environment the british prime minister has come down on the side of the economy. meanwhile over in canada rallies over the past week have resulted in clashes with police and several arrests in the new brunswick province riot squads use pepper spray and. baton to force back a crowd of hundreds of protesters who were tailgated with powerful bombs demonstrators block roads and cars on fire at least forty people were arrested. so why exactly are environmentalist so concerned about this particular form of oil and gas extraction well here is how it was so take a look how it works they engineers need to drill down about a kilometer into shale rock formations and jaf water to crack them open and extract

oil and gas to run a well millions of gallons of water combined with sand and camel coals and much of this water loaded with radioactive substances seeps back to the surface with a potential to get into lakes and rivers not to mention that poisonous foods can contaminate the soil and then comes air pollution that's highly potent greenhouse gases are released in the atmosphere environmental campaigner when asked as fracking has moved beyond the point of regulation. i'm here in solidarity with the people in so-called new brunswick make more people who are being accused of being violent throwing molotov cocktails as possible there's an unprovoked element there we don't know with the people in romania today yesterday who are being cleared from the roads the farmers by the police with the people in my community i live four miles from balkan i've had to jump over a fence to get out of the way of the police it has been absolutely appalling the

way our police force who are supposed to protect life and property are being made by our government to force through corporate eco side we're not fringe environmental nutters eco freaks we are i'm a regular person who lives nearby who's looked at the uninvested research and i do not trust this it is not a bridging feel we should have kicked our addiction to fossil fuels decades ago now if you solar panels and wind few wind turbines won't sort it because we've continued to get fossil fuels out of the ground with increasingly dangerous techniques we have two groups here environmentalist on the one side and politicians on the other but how can you reconcile these two groups i mean can they meet each other halfway somehow know not if they want to go ahead with the extreme fossil fuel industry it is unregulated will the uninvested experts and those who used to be in the industry who have turned around and now whistleblowing are saying this cannot be regulated it's not environmentalist it's regular people it's native

people on the ground it's people in rural pennsylvania rural australia upper middle class middle middle england it's people across the world remaining in france germany are saying no because they're looking at the truth not what this short term political ambition and industry corporate interest is trying to force on us. now what if our fracking side was right in your neighborhood well saudi four percent of europeans say that certainly be concerned bods and while remaining in village locals get to decide whether they want u.s. energy john chevron to explore shale gas under their homes there is going to be a referendum in late november but for now the company has to span a drilling following mass protests both on the side and in the remaining capital markets boyko that those fighting the energy giant us at chevron cost the remaining government let's say explore treats really for shale gas in the area protesters

from. our city with the local villages in opposition to the deal that in him is this beautiful floats they didn't come to us to explain what they want to do or how it will affect us that's why we're protesting. is dangerous because they will poison our water and we won't be able to farm anymore and raise our animals and if we can do this what are we supposed to do. maybe and government says brace shale gas in order to achieve energy independence but that's something that local villages 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 that just 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. 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

in 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'm so afraid of this kind of guess exploitation people see they will be big problems for our animals the wood who will be affected and this one on the food 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 remaining government which has given them the green light to start exploratory drilling in that field over that without any public consultation problem. gives you just people and two real.

feeling of puking because they didn't ask. we didn't matter to them the sense of betrayal is echoed by most protest as 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 and when you 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 said 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 head when we hope to stop them even if it means paying with our lives and if they want to send the army we will die if it is fated for us to die so let it be who won't give up until the outflow franking in romania poike

a oxy pretty gestae romania paranoia and we'll be following the day of protests of course against frogging as a game momentum around the globe so at this point twenty six countries are expected to take parts with thousands of people taking to the streets across north america and europe as well as in africa and australia along with opinions from experts and activists are still to come here on our. a car bomb has struck an army intelligence building in the city of one hundred thirty kilometers east of cairo according to security officials six people were wounded in the attack however a conflicting report by local media says one person was killed and ten injured

several buildings within the army compound are believed to have collapsed there have also been reports of another car bomb near the complex that failed to explode a suicide bombing has claimed the lives of sixteen syrian soldiers near damascus as being blamed al qaida affiliated militants and meanwhile other opposition factions have been pleading with the west for military and financial aid are doesn't really have an option is one of the few journalists who has been reporting from syria she spoke to members of the free syrian army inside rebel held territory. and we crossed the syrian lebanese border every day many times of what his son is a soldier for the free syrian army not a job in this field we take injured people to lebanon hospitals we get i mean issued from there we bring in and out if i just want to go to see their families our 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 when these calls apparently ignored taken the capital remains the ultimate go for all the forces fighting president 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 mahler 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 feel and at the scene what you can see over there is a village we can see actually the villages south 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 rula. 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 prices hundreds of thousands of tourists used to just take a look that there is no shortage of these days does this mean this is where you see these caves that house the current 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 a boom have mount an 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. 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 artillery and. the country's at a deadly impasse is neither side prepared to blink first marty's morea for reports from fragmented syrian rebel held territories. syria on the rebel group. too. coming up america's a man killing machines are on their radar as a senior u.n.

official urges washington for the land raid in its drone program stay with us for that and war stories coming your way. in your. face i think you. should have you with us here on t.v. today i roll reese you should. write to. her street. and i would think that your.

on a reporter's. welcome back this is our america's dabney drone strikes are essentially above the law and must become transparent and accountable as according to the un special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism washington has so far refused to disclose details on where its on man aerial strikes occur and how many civilians are killed journalists and foreign pakistani air force officer assaulting them holly says drone warfare is play into the hands of terrorists. the united states rapid entry

is hiding fact it has not come clean and i hope that the united nations which has not only done it but its own head of the said this general was in only a month back and he made it pretty clear that the use of the drones for accusation is totally contravention to international law pakistan has suffered probably the most in the region because not only because of terrorism but because of terrorism bit which became enhanced or into the drone strikes and previously chief in pakistan have been accused of actually providing a tacit approval i'm not sure whether that is true or not but the fact remains that to draw backs have caused collateral damage and the collector of damage in turn has given a mock rise to the number of terrorist because they have been able to recruit some of the relatives of the people who have been slain in these attacks you know sent to me and that is how the terrorism in pakistan has spread. now senior afghan

officials including tribal elders say they'll vote next month on what were all u.s. troops will be allowed to play in the country the nail our combat mission will be wrapped up by the out of twenty fourteen but the u.s. wants to keep some boots on the ground a draft bilateral pact between washington and kabul could give american troops immunity from local laws but that part of the deal is being handled contested in afghanistan 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 and international convoy on friday the afghan government is now under increasing pressure to strike a peace deal with the insurgents presidential elections will be held in april and we asked one candidate why the ongoing 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 may be some some some achievements but these achievements of not been because of this government these if 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 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 who rules the road in germany well my self

proclaimed kang told police he did when he was pulled over for speeding and he even produced a driving license issued himself as head of state but you'll find plenty more facts about the self-styled monarch at r.t. dot com. also online for you today one of the new weapon in 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 recipients are far from being illegal immigrants. john firman that's involved in operating britain's health care or schools transport and other services is accused of massive fraud and mismanagement but for such a large company with its fingers in so many pies it's hardly known by anyone in the country as artie's tusshar so you know reports. 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 companies. should know what about to serve. have you ever heard of the compass group the computer. never had never heard of serco. eroei and on the ground you know one of the biggest companies providing public services at things to outsource government contracts is a company called a circle operating various services for the transport for london electronic tagging of presidents for the ministry of justice and some out of our 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 a long list of complaints on the quality of the service it provides are they

competent to. they have their expertise. 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 isn't working on its single big it's a contract to date inviting bids valued between seven hundred million to one point one billion pounds one of the reasons that these public service markets often well is because the pace and scale of reform is causing significant problems in the rush to develop public 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. wanted. to look at some other stories from around the world a suicide bomber has killed thirteen people and injuring many others and a town in central somalia they suppose a one off in a restaurant popular with the opium and somali troops the jihad is a group which is spearheading an insurgency in the area has claimed responsibility for the attack the terrorist network was also behind last month's deadly mall siege and neighboring kenya. a 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 that's expected next month court had to determine the

length of the van 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 community service. the crew of a u.s. own ship has been charged in india was illegal possession of weapons and answering the country's territorial waters without authorisation a crew members and an international team of twenty five security guards were arrested on friday at a southern indian poured that's after they failed to produce documents allowing the transportation of weapons and he has been sensitive about the presence of armed guards on merchant vessels since italian marines shot two fishermen last year now as the united states counties the cost of its government shutdown max kaiser breaks down why the country's financial system is malfunctioning and i can watch the show in time here on our. fred it is created spontaneously from nothing

and that the spontaneous credit creation from nothing not even a fractional reserve but zero reserve then becomes the collateral for even more credit creation and you create this global daisy chain of credit that has no collateral whatsoever but is nevertheless used by the top one percent to acquire assets who happen to be going up in value as long as they keep creating phony credit and again this is all tied to rating agencies being able to say look here's a steaming pile of dog poop and we're going to give this a aaa rating and then say using that as collateral to go to the bank and borrow twenty million dollars to buy a chateau or to borrow half a billion dollars to buy a company if they're willing to say that this steaming pile of dog poo is a aaa rated security that i'm going to borrow against then so be it that's the new papacy in the post-capitalist world the vatican pope of goldman sachs and j.p.

morgan says this crap to be to replace it as collateral would be security. up next i look at a small county in kentucky where a firearms are part of everyday life even for children. 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 crew. emmy 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 her own 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 of these are usually trivial this celebrity case actually sets a dangerous legal precedent but that's just my opinion. according to the behind numbers we have more than two thousand political prisoners

i'm 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. that you know the price is the only industry specifically mention in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy but there's. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and its proximity we've been hijacked by handful of friends national corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once i'm john mark and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going. to go beyond identifying. rational debate and real discussion.