down with fracking say demonstrators around the world hitting the streets to protest against the controversial drilling technique demanding that their governments consider its environmental impact. with syria locked in a deadly struggle between the government and opposition forces or he gets access to a rebel stronghold plus. a lot of radio programmers and police in italy is a new round of budget cuts angry crowds gathering on roads streets. u.s. privately approves more than a billion dollars in aid to pakistan as the u.n. pushes washington for transparency over its deadly drone program.

five am in moscow i match resident good to have you with us here on r.t. our top story demonstrators marking a frock down day with activists around the world urging governments to put an end to the controversial extraction method steak a look at what's been happening at some of the protests now in the state of pennsylvania it's become something of a symbol for gas development gone wrong with numerous fracking accidents in recent years and fracking sediment particularly strong in pittsburgh and philadelphia in new york protesters demanded authorities change their way of thinking about the environment on the other side of the atlantic spanish activists have been campaigning for renewable energy energy sources and a group called young friends of the earth gathered in london to highlight worries about how the younger generation could be affected by fracking as artie's laura smith reports british authorities still say yes to the practice. it's going to make household energy bills she says it will create loads of job c.

infuses will pay you if you do it in your area u.k. prime minister david cameron has got behind working 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 found out from environmental groups and local people worried about the countryside being hauled off and down the u.k. in both. local and campaign is barricaded to propose during the night but to money and they now vowed to move back to wherever. the wrecking 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 high risk to air quality and even earthquakes. and they've been seen here in the u.k. record by drilling. 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 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 so take a look at fracking how it works and why so many people say they're worried about it first they drill into shell rock vertically and horizontally creating a well water and chemicals pumped in there too x. . gas millions of gallons of liquid are needed for the process possible range of different substances in the sand problems many of the chemicals can rise back up to

the surface possibly contaminating drinking water in nearby lakes and rivers additionally the soil was affected by the substances experts say the food grown from the soil could pose health dangers methane also a chief component of underground natural gas and it leaks up from the fractured wells and pollutes the environment campaigner vanessa vine says that the technique also she thinks 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 and 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 if you solar panels and wind if you 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 look. so political ambition and industry corporate interests is trying to force on us one survey finding seventy four percent of europeans think they're worried about the possibility of companies using

fracking techniques in their backyards what happened in one romanian village locals protested against oil giant chevron forcing it to suspend fracking work there and in the capital bucharest will now be a referendum next month on how to move forward on that artie's policy boyko met some of the folks who stood up to the company. u.s. soldier at chevron has the remaining governments blessing to start exploratory training for shale gas in the area but protesters from pena gathered here our city with the local villagers in opposition to the deal more than immerses put up a fraud see if 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 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 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 on 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 actually be a threat out there for the guys i'm so afraid of these kind of guess exploitation people say they will be big problems for our animals group to what it 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 romanian 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 the 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 were time when you 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 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 we want to send the army we will die if it is faded for us to die so let it be who won't give up until the frank miller mania point came on to see just a romania. or several protests against fracking going on around the world you can track them on our website r t dot com here we've plotted with all the different protests on the countries that are highlighted in green like south africa there or argentina or the united states lighting up the places where we are having protests that have been gone on against for.

a suicide bombing claimed the lives of sixteen syrian soldiers near the capital damascus it's being blamed on al qaeda linked militants meanwhile other opposition factions have been calling on western governments for military and financial help artie's merino offer maria finn otieno one of the few foreign journalists reporting from syria she spoke to members of the rebel free syrian army inside territory they control. on the usually we cross the syrian lebanese border every day many times of 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. 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 bringing weapons on 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 addition to that. 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 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 preventing fighters from two large syrian battlegrounds uniting. in more than a month of clashes between islamists and opposition fighters on one side and governmental forces on the other dozens were killed according to government sources and the siege continued while we filmed at the scene what you can see over there is a little a village we can see actually the village itself what we can see is the hotels a fear that the militants fatheads 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.

as was the case you see the prices hundreds of thousands of troops used to just take a look at these national these days does this do leases where you see the strains that thousand pounds 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 i don't know how mount an f.s.a. fighter was injured in an order he says they need more money and american military aid washington has considered a limited assault on syrian military bases over august's chemical attack but 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. saying 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 a to agree and. the country's at a deadly impasse neither side prepared to blink first marty's morea for notion of reports from fragmenting syrian rebel held territories. syria on the rebel. scene in a row morality against italy's two thousand and fourteen budget turned violent with scuffles breaking out between protesters and police at least fifteen

people arrested several people wounded as well r.t.c. group is going off reports. at some point during this mass protest rally which has been taking place throughout the last two days really in central role over young a radical protesters started throwing eggs at the finance ministry and. bottles sticks and the so-called thunder flashes or paper bombs as they're pulls 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 only 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 the environment and it's going to be a threat to the health of the locals living in that area italy's going through the worst recession since the second world war youth unemployment is standing at just over forty percent and really these latest protests have been caused by the release of the you 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 still to come here on r t a nearly anonymous firm operating britain's health care schools and transport services. never heard

a circle. the runaway. on the ground did not exactly learn about a british blue chip government services company few britons have ever heard of but was being investigated for massive fraud and mismanagement this and more still to come. but first the u.s. quietly approved one point six billion dollars in military and economic aid to pakistan that puts an end to a two year hiatus during which washington cut off funds to the country the deal comes after the u.n. data released by the u.n. or rather collected by pakistani officials that indicate that in the last decade u.s. drone strikes killed more than four hundred civilians in pakistan and you are it is richard becker thinks pakistan's government is ready to overlook the deaths in return for washington's favor. 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 pakistani 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 our in the interest of empire and those who collaborated with the center of power in washington let me more stories for you online including this filled to the max u.k. prisons with ninety nine percent capacity only about eight hundred forty cells empty in the country click on r.t.

dot com for more on that plus. a japanese company invented a carbon wetsuit that can protect against radiation amid growing fears of radioactive water leaking into the sea from a shrewd nuclear disaster are full story on our website. a huge firm involved in operating britain's healthcare schools transportation and many other services has now been accused of massive fraud and mismanagement but as for but for such a large company with fingers in so many pies it's hardly known to anyone in the country are has more. for bicycles for rent to health services prison speed cameras and lenses and even the government's work programme for the jobless chances are they're operated by global private companies that you may have never even heard of have you ever heard of the companies. should know what about. have you ever heard of the come to school to compete. never had never heard of

serco. 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 powerful of areas of the company operates at and the company is currently making headlines as is being investigated for fraud mismanagement and a long list of complaints on the quality of the service it provides are they competent to have their expertise. come they really effectively manage the service and i think. it's becoming clear that novak whom 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 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 is because the pace and scale of reform is causing significant problems in 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 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 tests are still you are to london now to some of the stories making international headlines in argentina

a commuter train slammed into a platform injuring people enduring at least eighty people and wedo salaries yet 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. a median state of which are presidential in these thirty two people have died after drinking tainted liquor police arrested the owner of a shop where the victims mostly mostly laborers had bought the alcohol more than fifty people being treated in hospitals several of them having gone blind because of the toxic brew. in the u.s. state of texas several hundred gun rights activists carrying rifles rallied at san antonio's most popular tourist attraction the alamo the protest stage after several people who carried shotguns into a coffee shop were arrested got out of the kids gathered in the streets calling it a violation of their constitutional rights police oversaw security of the march without any incidents reported. in paris hundreds of students rallied in

support of a deported romo schoolgirl this despite the announcement by the french president francois hollande that she could return to the country but without her family protesters surrounded by police march of the city's streets chanting slogans and waving banners at least one person was arrested after trying to break through the security cordon. while in the czech republic some citizens don't seem as supportive of minority groups in the city of more than three hundred protesters demonstrated against the country's roma community who tried to march toward a district heavily populated by the group of police holt of them with tear gas. finally in the news block a decades long feud over water resources between three neighboring southern states in the us is heating up all of planting the finger at each other for over consumption which they say could threaten agriculture and industry in the area or he's lose war reports. 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 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 lanna 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 also a lot of climate change strands we believe see less rainfall the new year will last ten years and that certainly affects the flow into apalachicola and there's a lot of other variables that of oysters and have been just bridgewater's 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 they come to. a consensus around something that both people have some give and take in the you're

either 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 the courts i would hope that within the next five years the three states can get to the table and bring resolution of the in columbus georgia list of all party and still to come a staying with us a closer look at the gun control debate in the united states focusing in on a small county in kentucky where firearms are a part of everyday life. it's

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this is cumberland county in south kentucky deep in the american countryside far from the sprawl of the life. a place where alcohol is neither sold nor consumed in the bible reign supreme. in a village of eight hundred people there are forty churches. it is a pious closed community get weapons are a part of every day life here for protection and so hunting. exposed from childhood it is not unusual here to own your first gun in kindergarten. how many people own guns in this village more provigil than down at time of these things that are here here i've seen that in the absence of the being here here i'll go.