technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we go into the future covered. down with fracking say demonstrators around the world with the streets protesting the controversial drilling technique demanding their governments consider its environmental impact. with syria locked in a deadly tug of war between government and opposition forces are t. gets access to a rebel stronghold. violent clashes break up between protesters and police in italy is another round of budget cuts causing angry crowds to gather on the streets. and that's partly a bruise more than a billion dollars in aid to pakistan as the u.n. pushes washington for more transparency over its deadly drone program.

three am in moscow i met president good to have you with us here on r t our top story demonstrators are marking frak down day with activists all over the globe urging governments to put an end to the controversial extraction method stake a look at what's been happening at some of the protests in the state of pennsylvania has become a symbol for gas development gone wrong with numerous fracking acts in this in recent years anti fracking sentiment particularly strong in pittsburgh and philadelphia in new york protesters demanding authorities change their ways of thinking about the environment across the atlantic a spanish activist campaigning for renewable energy resources a group called the young friends of the earth gathering in london dilate concerns about how the younger generation could be affected by the procedure as artie's laura smith reports british authorities are still saying yes to the technique. it's going to make household energy bills she says it will create loads of job.

we'll pay you if you do it 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 as he 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 local gas and dangerous chemicals leaking out from underground contaminated water it's referred to as quality and even quakes. and they've been seen here in the u.k. record 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 going 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. let's take a look at how fracking works in his house why are so many people say they're concerned about it first to drill into shale rock or vertically and horizontally creating a well water and chemicals pumped into. millions of gallons of liquid are used for

the process possible range of different substances and the problem is many of the chemicals can then rise back up to the surface and contaminate drinking water in nearby lakes and rivers and initially the soils affected by the toxic substances and experts say eating food grown from it could pose health dangers methane also achieve component of underground natural gas and it leaks from frac wells and could pollute the air environmental campaigner vanessa vine tells us that the technique also can't be regulated 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 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'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 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 on 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. now 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 operations there and in the capital bucharest for now be a referendum next month on how to proceed artie's polya boyko met some of the people who stood up to the company. u.s. oil giant chevron cause the remaining governments blessing to start exploratory trading for shale gas in the area but protesters from pena gathered here our city with the local villages in opposition to the deal more of an enormous political followed suit they didn't come to our stooge doing 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 form any more and raise our animals and if we can do this what are we supposed to do. there are many in government says that they need to embrace 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 or mania have been saddled with an ongoing to guest us and the giant chevron is due to begin drilling for shale gas those opal agriculture is our lives become can grow in our soil for sure or will die because we've seen them in the you know what they have done in other places when we grew up with. many residents here fear that the process of fracking could release chemicals into the soil and contaminate the water he expressed not just at the garden i'm so afraid of these kind of guess exploitation people say they will be big problems for our animals group 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 and 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 to real. this. 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 before still 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 time when you guess they don't have any future because the children of 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 well chevron told us see that they have all the required permits to begin

drilling and plan to return to the site and begin fracking safely soon as they can something that's less than reassuring for the growing number of people gathering head result was not going up 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 fail is for us to die so let it be who won't give up until the franconian rumania point oxy pretty juste romania. we're also following anti fracking demonstrations that are going on in some other countries around the world you can find them all on our website r.t. dot com we've also plot of them on our board here the ones that are lighting up in green are the ones where we've still got some demonstrations going on here so you can see north america africa australia as well.

a suicide bombing claim lies a sixteen syrian soldiers near damascus it's being blamed on al qaeda linked militants meanwhile other opposition factions have been calling on western governments were meant for military and financial aid artie's where if emotional one of the few journalists reporting from syria and she spoke to members of the rebel free syrian army inside territory they control. i know you'll be cross the syrian lebanese border every day many times i blew out his son is a soldier for the free syrian army not for joe are you on a mission of 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 fighting president assad. has a part of the security belt 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 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 is practically the only obstacle to venton fighters from two large

syrian battlegrounds uniting. in more than a month of clashes between islamists into positions 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 a village we can see actually the village itself and 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 all still held by them not.

just the cages you see the prices hundreds and thousands of tourists used to just take a look at these national these days does this to me this is where you see these caves that house them hides from 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 overall costs 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 pulled its warships spec from mediterranean and put its tomahawks on hold it didn't please everyone. but sing 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 this. was army forces struggling to combat fighters haydon in the mountains and militants helpless in the face of government tanks artillery and nation 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 police and protesters at least fifteen people arrested several

others wounded as well our reports from rome. at some point during this mass protest rally which has been taking place throughout the last two days really in central role. of a young a radical a protester started throwing eggs at the finance ministry and also 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 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 currently going through according to different figures from fifty thousand to seventy thousand people took part in this event 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 it's going to be a threat to the health of the locals living in that area of course the locals are a very tired off as you've absolutely correctly said this political unrest and also the heavy economic problems and really the latest protests have been caused by the release of. the latest state budget which critics say doesn't really solve any problems and what we're seeing here now really reminds us that italy is still in law in the same line with the other sovereign 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. and coming up later in the program the hand that feeds pakistan

said to get more than a billion dollars in u.s. military and economic aid despite international anger over washington the deadly drone program bus. miss firm operating britain's health care schools transport and other services never heard of serco should go alone when you're away . on the ground did not exactly learn about a british blue chip government services company that few britons have ever heard of but is being investigated for fraud and mismanagement this after a short break. according

to the behind the 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 us terrorists. right to see. her street. and i think picture. on a reporter's. instrument. to be in the. u.s. as quietly approved one point six billion dollars in milot. an economic aid to pakistan

puts an end to a two year hiatus during which watergate washington cut short funds to the country the deal comes after the u.n. released data collected by pakistani officials that indicated that in the last decade u.s. drone strikes have killed more than four hundred civilians in the nation and you are activist richard becker thinks pakistan's government is ready to overlook the deaths in return for washington state 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 sectors standing governments to carry out the drone attacks and at the same time object and at the same time keep receiving the aid and 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 or for that matter to buy that are in the interest of empire and those who collaborate with the center of power in washington. any more stories or click away at r.t. dot com including this film. it's a feature ninety nine percent capacity with only about eight hundred forty beds in the country's prisons but in our view dot com for the details on that plus a japanese company coming up with a carbon wetsuit that can protect against radiation and growing fears of radioactive water leaking into the sea from the fukushima nuclear plant on our website we've got the full story. a huge firm that's involved in operating britain's health care or schools transport and other services stands 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 are reports. for bicycles for rent a health services presence 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 interests or. have you ever heard of the compass group the compass be. never had never 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 of presidents for the ministry of justice and some out of hours general practice services for the national health service now these are just a handful of areas of the company operates and the company is currently making

headlines as is being investigated for fraud mismanagement of the long list of complaints on the quality of the service it provides are they competent to have their expertise. they really effectively manage the service and i think. it's becoming. serco for its part has said that the situation is being dealt with we will him. ed quickly and effectively any change is needed into the way we do business and we expect to emerge stronger as a result that practices. 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 isn't working on its single 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 go vote is because the pace and scale of reform is causing significant problems and

the rush to develop public service market is avoidable errors have often been made and design and the site 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 still you are wanted to me now to some other stories making international headlines this hour in argentina a commuter train slammed into a platform injuring at least eighty people in the capital buenos aires said to be determined why it failed to stop at the end of the line the incident happened at the same railway station where fifty one people were killed in a similar crash last year. in the indian state of tarp at least thirty two people have been killed after drinking tainted liquor police have arrested the owner of a shop where the victims mostly laborers balky alcohol more than fifty people are being treated in hospitals with several of them having lost their eyesight how is

it a toxic. in paris students rallied in support of a deported roma schoolgirl who was despite the announcement by the french president francois along that she could return to the country but without her family protesters surrounded by police march to the city's main streets chanting slogans waving banners at least one was arrested after trying to break through the security . while the czech republic citizens don't seem as supportive over there were already groups in the city of ostrava more than three hundred protesters demonstrated against the country's roma community it tried to march toward a district heavily populated by the group but police halted them with tear gas. kaiser report coming your way after this short break stay with us here on r.t. .

you know when i look more and more into it i find that there were a lot of myths and exaggerations about what happened in 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 phil wrote in. 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 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 time to increasing the intoxicating addiction the us may have avoided. but it keeps dragging the world into an ever deeper debt. is it still possible to break this vicious cycle.

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 privileges to put the financial stability of the whole world at risk quote like a truck full of dynamite heading right toward us end quote well hold the freaking kaboom batman if you want to protect ourselves from the u.s. economy which by the way dominic to fill panther not safer can come soon batman if

you want to protect ourselves from the economy which has strapped on a collective suicide vest we'd better have solid blast barriers in place first up is the redistribution of risk at the moment the collapsing financial system is one in which risk was separated from rewards then bundled up and sold off to unsuspecting investors around the world and one of the main pillars of pricing risk is the credit rating agency as i've said right here in kaiser report many times it's time to read architect is by starting our own true global credit rating agencies oh my god stacy herbert this is the beginning of the true insurrection is the post period those couple may as dumb to depend we said well dominic developed and of course was the prime minister of france and he famously said no to that then merican when we wanted to invade iraq with everybody behind us the french refused

and he was hated freight created for. eyes were introduced to low. well he's now in hong kong and he says the chairman of the universal credit rating group and this is formed by de gong credit rating agency in china it's also backed by egon jones you know the very first american credit rating agency did downgrade american debt and rusts rating of russia so these guys are together and they're upset that the u.s. has wasted three extraordinary privileges as dominick de ville pun said he said these three privileges are the control of the currency we all know that they have the global reserve currency the control of the rules so they have the global department of justice essentially and they could change the rules midway through the game so they always win the third privilege control of the risk the u.s. decides what is risky and what is not that is where the money should go and where not he.