i'm. down with fracking say demonstrators around the world who hit the streets protesting against the controversial drilling technique and demanding that their governments consider its environmental impact. with syria locked in a deadly struggle between the government and opposition forces r.t. gets access to a rebel stronghold. violent clashes break out between protesters and police in italy is a new round of budget cuts because angry crowds to gather in the capital streets. the u.s. quietly approves over a billion dollars in aid to pakistan is the u.n. pushes washington for more transparency over its deadly drone program in the region .

two am in moscow i matter as a good to have you with us here on r t our top story demonstrators around the world marking frock down day an international protest uniting activists who want to put an end to shale gas extraction frakt of this as they're called are urging their governments to stand up to the oil and gas lobby there's been action so far in new york they hit the streets demanding that authorities change ways of thinking about the environment on the other side of you than to spanish activists have been campaigning for a nubile energy sources environmentalist also gathered in belgium and ireland hoping to bring about change a group called the young friends of the earth gathered in london saying they want to send a message to people in charge to stop and think about the younger generation sorties laura smith reports britain is nonetheless putting fracking on the fast track. it's going to make household energy bills she says it will create loads of job c.

and we'll pay you if you do this in your area u.k. prime minister david cameron has got behind for king 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 campaign is barricaded to propose during the night 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 an environmental impact showing campaign is talk of gas and dangerous chemicals leaking out from underground contaminated water to refer to as quality and even earthquakes. and they've been seen here in the u.k. record by drilling. but the government decided that didn't justify a ban on the technique according to cameron it would be a big mistake to rule being 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. take a look at just how fracking works and why so many people say they're concerned about it first you drill into shale rock vertically and horizontally creating a well water and chemicals are pumped in there to extract. gas millions of gallons of liquid are used for the process plus

a range of different substances and sand problems many of these chemicals can then arise back up to the surface and contaminate drinking water in nearby lakes and rivers soil also affected by the toxic substances experts saying eating food grown from it could pose dangers to health methane also achieve component of the underground national gas and it leaks out from frocked wells and could pollute the air environmental campaigner of an a surviving tells us that the technique also can be regulated i'm here in solidarity with the people in so-called new brunswick to make more people who are being accused of being violent throwing molotov cocktails is possible there's an unprovoked element there we don't know with the people in romania who are being cleared from the roads the farmers by the police with the people in my community i live four miles from borkum 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 has 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 a few 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 it is unregulated will the uninvested experts and those who used to be in the industry who have turned around and now whistle blowing 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. and one survey found that seventy four percent of europeans say they're worried about the possibility of

companies using fracking techniques in their neighborhoods what happened in one romanian village locals protested against oil giant chevron forcing it to suspend fracking there and in the capital bucharest allow be a referendum next month on how to proceed artie's polly boyko met some of the people who stood up to the company. us oil giant chevron cost the remaining government blessing to start exploratory trilling fishtail gas in the area protesters from. gathered here are a city with the local villages in opposition to the deal more of an enormous political followed suit they didn't come to our studios point 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't do this what are we supposed to do. the media and government says that they need to 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 local 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 cast us energy giant chevron is due to begin drilling for shale gas goes up will agriculture is our lives become could grow in our soil for sure or will die because we've seen him in 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 be a threat out there for the guys i'm so afraid of this kind of guess exploitation people say they will be big problems for our animals because the water will be affected and this one 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 giant 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 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 acknowledged by most protest as chevron were forced to leave the area last week i'm able to get past the locals human chain around the site but it's only a matter of time before they were a time when you know they can guess the done has 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 us see that they have all the required permits to begin

drilling and plan to return to the site and begin fracking safety soon as they can something that's less than reassuring for the growing number of people gathering head result was not when we hope to stop them even if it means paying with our lives if you want to send the army we will die if it is fate is for us to die so let it be who won't give up until the out frankly in romania or loike a oxy for you justy romania. and there are fracking protests going on in countries around the world you can go to our website r.t. dot com to take a look at them we've part of them here on our screen just to show you the ones highlighted in green are the ones where we stood up protests going on there's still a handful of them demonstrations going on in africa and australia for example.

a suicide bombings claim lives of sixteen syrian soldiers near damascus is being blamed on al qaeda affiliated militants meanwhile other opposition factions have been calling on western governments for military and financial aid or teams where if a notional one of the few journalists reporting from syria she spoke to members of the rebel free syrian army inside territory they control. i know you we crossed the syrian lebanese border every day many times and what has son is a soldier for the free syrian army not for joe are you out of this for we take injured people to lebanon hospitals we get ammunition from there we bring mujahideen in and out if i just want to go to see their families a cell is a safe haven in the middle of. 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 fine thousand presidential. you know to do that as a part of the security belt that the regime created around damascus is huge and to targeted we need many fighters and 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 these 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 distractedly the only obstacle to venton fighters from to launch syrian battlegrounds uniting. in more than a month of clashes between islamists into positions tossers 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 a village we can't 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. but from here to the hotel is territory held by the rebels after safai hotel it's the regime this is the highway to damascus but we cannot reach it because of my own lula. the fighters seized control of the heights around the village while we were filming it was still held by them not sure.

how it was going to take us using the crisis hundreds of thousands it's just used you just take a look at this national these days does this to me this is where you see these trees that house that our soldiers hold 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 of whom have mount an f.s.a. fighter was injured in the newer 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 minute and helpless in the face of government tanks a to agree 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. in a row morality against italy's twenty fourteen budget turned violent with scuffles breaking out between protesters and police at least fifteen people arrested several

wounded as well r t zero piskun are reports. well things have calmed down now but what we're getting from the local media is that at some point during this rally which has been taking place throughout the last two days really in central room both young a radical protester started throwing eggs at the finance ministry and also through bottles sticks and the so-called thunder flashes or paper bombs as they're called here at the police who are providing security at the protest rally as a result several policemen were injured and we understand that arrests have also been made now labor unions and other organizers of the rally have already condemned this attack saying that it only diverted attention from the real economic problems and as far as when or stand as soon as some of the activists heard the explosions from these thunder flashes they actually tried to stop the attackers themselves these rallies they've been going on for the past two days now and they are aims to

protest against austerity measures and they have economic problems which italy is only going through according to different figures from fifty thousand to seventy thousand people took part in this event different types of workers many brought their families along and children so easy in general a peaceful rally and they are protesting against high taxes extremely high youth unemployment and also one of the other sort of points of this protest was against plans to build a high speed train line between italy and france since they say that it's going to be its construction is going to be harmful both to be environment and is going to be a threat to the health of a living in that area italy's going through the worst recession since the second world war usually unemployment is standing at just over forty percent and really these latest protests have been caused by the release. of the state budget.

which critics say doesn't really solve any problems it does support the free. salaries of. workers. the high taxes are staying the same and so many many of the locals are really on happy with the way this government is trying to deal with these economic problems and what we're seeing here now really reminds us that italy is still in law in the same line with other e.u. states like greece and portugal and actually for instance in portugal thousands have also taken to the streets also earlier on saturday also protesting against austerity measures so this is really not only a local situation here but this is what is happening really in the whole. european union and still to come in the program the hand that feeds pakistan said to get more than a billion dollars in u.s.

military aid despite international anger over washington's deadly drone program in the country. i merely anonymous sperm operates britain's health care schools and transport and other services. never heard of serco. on the ground you. know not exactly learned about the british blue chip government services company that few britons have ever heard of but is being investigated for fraud and mismanagement more after a short break. is real journalism a thing of the past in much of the western world in the name of security challenging the official media message of the elites is often met with serious threats and reprisals whistleblowers are damaged and made to feel severe consequences what remains is a deafening echo chamber all to get in line or else. it's a quick fix for a long and increasingly toxic

a picture the us may have. the political will to keep striking the world into an ever deeper debt. is it still possible to break this specious cycle. twenty minutes past the hour now of us is quietly approve one point six billion dollars in military and economic aid to pakistan that's what that puts an end to a two year hiatus during which washington cut off funds to the country if you're

a deal comes after the u.n. released data collected by pakistani officials indicating that in the last decade u.s. drone strikes killed more than four hundred civilians in the country antiwar activist richard becker thinks pakistan's government is ready to overlook the deaths in return for washington's a. i think that we witnessed a charade in the relations between the u.s. and pakistan for for many many years where the u.s. carries out these blatant violations of international law. murder from the air the drones. and the government pretends to object the money keeps flowing and the charade keeps keep just keeps going on the united states has really been given a blank check by various actors then to go to carry out the drone attacks and at the same time object and at the same time keep receiving the gather they wanted the skies what they're really doing the actions that they're really carrying out which

are not in the interest of the people of pakistan or afghanistan or of the united states for that matter to our in the interest of empire and those who collaborated with the center of power in washington. you know is a plenty more stories for you on line including this builds the max u.k. prisons reach ninety nine percent capacity with only about eight hundred forty cells empty in the country but r.t. dot com for the details there plus. japanese companies invented a carbon wetsuit that can protect against radiation and growing fears of radioactive water leaking into the sea from the fukushima nuclear plant or on a website. a huge firm that's involved in operating britain's health care schools transport and other services stands accused of massive fraud and mismanagement but for such a large company with fingers in so many pies it's hardly known by anyone in the country artie's test takes a look. for bicycles for rent to health services prisons 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. have you ever heard of the confiscate the companies be. never have you ever heard of serco. 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 a presence 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 the long list of complaints on the quality

of the service it provides are they competent to have their. 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 biggest or contract to date inviting bids valued between seven hundred million and one point one billion pounds one of the reasons that these publics have this market often is because the pace and scale of reform is causing significant problems and the rush to develop public service market is avoidable areas. often been made and design and

i decide and what we would the government is to slow down and pick from mistakes and correct them out of the system before another me think perhaps 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 tests are still yard london turning out of the other stories making international headlines in argentina a commuter train slammed into a platform injuring at least eighty people in buenos aires it's yet to be figured out why it failed to stop at the end of the line incident happened at the same railway station where fifty one people were killed in a similar crash last year. in paris hundreds of students rallied in support of a departed romo schoolgirl this despite the announcement by french president francois hollande that she could return to the country but without her family protesters surrounded by police marched to the city's main streets chanting slogans and waving banners at least one person arrested for trying to break through the

security ring of office. in the czech republic some citizens don't seem that supportive of minority groups in the city of more than three hundred protesters demonstrated against the country's roma community and try to march toward it toward a district heavily populated by the group but police hold of them with tear gas. a decades long feud over water resources between three neighboring southern states in the us is heating up they're all blaming each other over over consumption of water that could threaten agriculture and local industry artie's lose walt excellent. for over two decades three states have been in a bitter battle over water now the fight has reached a boiling point there's certainly an issue about whether there's enough water for everybody georgia alabama and florida all have a stake in the apalachicola chattahoochee flynn's river system it's the source of drinking water fishing business and recreation or i'm standing right now i am and

georgia just on the other side of this river that's alabama now the water is flowing down south into the state of florida and with all three states having a stake in this river it's leading to a war over water early october florida filed a lawsuit against georgia 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 out lana the city is growing and so is its third for water. is population growth this combe this climate change is coming we're starting to stretch our water resources particularly periods of drought but outside florida experts keeping an eye on the water level of the chattahoochee river say it's not

all atlanta's fault but that there's all a lot of climate change strands we see less rainfall in the last ten years and it certainly affects the flow into apalachicola and there's a lot of other variables that if you know the oysters of than just various 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 clinches everyone's thirst it's not very often that the come to. the. consensus around something that both people have some given taking on though you there win or lose usually in court you think of the cost of twenty three years of litigation and these 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 bring world solution to the in columbus georgia list of all party after the break we take you to a community in the state of kentucky in the u.s. more guns are a part of everyday life stay with us here our. time to reset this sucker of the global financial system is complicate 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. some may disagree. but i believe america is exceptional. we can. let.