raiding afghan homes and immunity from local laws the controversial demands for u.s. soldiers to remain in afghanistan are wrangled over at a key gathering of tribal elders. ukraine scraps preparations for a trade agreement with the e.u. after its parliament rejected bill which was one of europe's main conditions for the deal. and he used plans to launch its own drone program trigger a major concerns with activists warning there be no guarantee they'll be used for peaceful purposes. life or most of your central moscow this is r.t. with the twenty four hours a day. u.s.

troops may remain immune to afghan laws and still be carrying out military operations after their combat mission ends in twenty fourteen that's what a draft security deal suggests the afghan president said he wants it to be signed after the elections despite admitting there is little trust between him and washington the loya jirgah council of elders has started debating the draft according to the agreement up to sixteen thousand u.s. soldiers will stay for ten more years and possibly beyond they'll be playing a support role for afghan forces while still being able to carry out military operations against al qaeda and its affiliates it also includes raiding afghan homes and exceptional circumstances and that's an issue which has been extremely difficult for afghans and here's another stumbling block the deal gives american forces immunity to afghan law placing them soley under u.s. military jurisdiction. he's a candidate in the upcoming afghan presidential election says the government is not considering the will of the people. i think the afghan president is trying to use

this as a personal game the people of afghanistan. and all others who are involved in this country that we're tired of or we're tired of bickering and we're also tired of. being playing politics with the lives of people of afghanistan on one hand the president wants to portray himself as a patriot on the other hand he's not able to even take care of corruption a rule of bringing rule of law and good governance that's what the people are suffering from he's trying to distract the people of afghanistan from what he hasn't been able to do to for this country we spoke to retired u.s. air force lieutenant colonel karen could tell skin she says there's one key part of the deal the loya jirgah council will never agree to. i think that they won't approve it as written number one and i also don't think the parliament which also

must approve the deal will approve it as written and of course remember from iraq that was the sticking point in iraq jurisdiction over abuses in criminal acts conducted by american soldiers in the country itself so that's a huge problem it's a it's a sovereignty it's a clear sovereignty issue and it does galvanize people so i don't believe that the loya jirga or the parliament later will approve that that aspect. will be up the first steps to freedom some of the pale green peace activists are reunited with their loved ones while the destiny for the rest of the arctic thirty gallon still hangs in the balance a special report on the oil platform stalled in case is just ahead. ukraine has decided to hold preparations for a trade agreement with the e.u. it comes after the country's parliament rejected a bill which would have allowed to jailed former prime minister yulia timoshenko to receive medical treatment abroad ortiz in the us she has more on the tricky

relations between kiev and brussels. the main condition is said by brussels that is letting the former prime minister walk free from prison or at least be sent for medical treatment to germany she is suffering from severe back problems has not fully been fulfilled but whether or not this association deal will be signed it would not be relevant to the gas deals and gas agreements that ukraine already has with several european and american oil and gas companies like chevron exxon mobil and royal dutch shell in fact he has already let them into their market i remember some time ago the ukrainian energy minister telling me that the amount of natural shale gas which ukraine possesses and we talking here potentially the biggest amount of shale gas in the whole of europe without would not only solve its domestic gas supply problem but also make it make the country into an exporter in the region the government just so keen on pushing this extraction of shale gas that it's been to a large extent neglecting the war in calls from the countries

a caller in saying that fracking using fracking in the east of ukraine in highly populated areas would cause ecological catastrophe exploding. at the depth of one kilometer may cause poisoning of ground waters and this would make areas large areas in the east completely uninhabitable but in any case experts say that even if ukraine starts producing and extracting shale gas from its soil this would not happen until the year twenty twenty. take a closer look at fracking the method involves breaking up rock at least one kilometer below ground opponents say they could be grave environmental consequences warning the use of explosives in chemicals contaminates water supplies and pollutes both the ground and the but advocates of the technique say it will help to solve the energy crisis and create more jobs members are deeply divided on the issue and he johnson pushing for widespread exploration. has been following the resistance of europeans to fracking in their countries. a number of european countries

have had large scale anti fracking protests take place recently as sort of the prospect of more drilling has been rolled out across europe but one of the largest anti fracking stories to take place over recent months happened in other mania where locals actually formed a human chain around an area where u.s. oil giant chevron was given the green light by the remaining in government to begin exploratory drilling now i travelled there to cover the story and i spoke to a lot of the locals there and they are all most of them farmers they live off the fat of the land and for them they were genuinely frightened by the prospect of their groundwater being contaminated their food not being safe to eat they were talking to me about having to safeguard the health for their children as they see it as governments siding with large for peroration xah not protecting the interests

of their citizens who are talking about genuine risks that they see from this technology fracking has been associated with air pollution water contamination water depletion earthquakes and of course climate change the oil and gas companies have spent billions of dollars really selling a story about how fracking is safe and the reality is quite different i think that's something that anti fracking campaign isn't protesters in the us and in europe are no doubt reassured by is that large scale protests and citizens off position to this technology really does work for example france has just up held a ban against fracking because of the environmental risks involved. the e.u. is now considering a generalized guidance to shale gas drilling get to cork policy officer from the

watchdog of food and water europe says if a complete ban is impossible it should be as transparent as possible what we expect from european policymakers i mean remember they are going to push ahead with regardless we would want at least from data gathering to happen about what exactly are the impact of shale got through that we have a clearer picture unlike in the u.s. where we still lack a clear picture about the environmental impact of large scale correction but we would really want a high degree of transparency and accountability for the companies that want to use these invasive technologies in a densely populated continent the reason why energy companies want to do this is because they anticipate higher gas prices in the future that could fund that kind of extraction not because they anticipate lower gas prices it's going to be expensive it's going to be risky and we should just turn away from it e.u. states are on their way to launching their own drone program that's off the leading members of the bloc signed an agreement to invest in new on manned aircraft

technology the plans are alarming activists who say it's difficult to determine whether the drones will be used only for peaceful purposes or has this report. group has been dubbed drone club and their intention is to develop a new generation of unmanned aircraft over the next ten years now the reason that they're doing it this is that they believe they're being left behind when it comes to drone technology by countries like the united states and israel currently both britain and france do operate drones they use the american bill to report drone interesting lee enough though germany has said that they are opposed to the use of any kind of weaponized drones and the european defense agency has been quick to point out the non weaponized uses for drone technology however the use of drones particularly by the united states in countries like pakistan and yemen and the widespread civilian casualties that are being caused well that's left drone

technology as a very emotive issue and here in germany unsee war activists on topic about the decision to develop them here are very very concerned i think that the very nice phrasing that they've tried to say that says for to control human trafficking over the mediterranean airspace and so forth for surveillance purposes i don't see them necessarily helping migrants coming from africa from lampedusa didn't help just to save any of those people so there is no control about these things they can see it being used for humanitarian purposes but actually they could be used for lethal purposes well this comes after a recent u.n. report that was somewhat damning of drone technology in fact referred to them as being a danger to global security and the by using these type of weapons and encouraged more nations to try and acquire them for more on this we're now joined by russ back

she is from the german drone campaign she's in the states just being attending a drone conference in washington also tell us why do you think you want sits on drone program. well first of all there is the interest of the weapons manufacturers in europe and secondly the fact that the u.s. uses drone its drone monopoly and. technology along with israel to control foreign policy of the european countries to some degree it was a nato ally turkey for example was not allowed to purchase a drone from the us weaponized drone and italy requested to weaponize their six reaper drones and the bomb a ministration agreed in may two thousand and twelve but it's being held up in the house so they want independence but the main thing i think is the weapons

manufacturers so you're assuming this is all for military purposes but of course the saying that they use for civilian purposes two very useful for the likes of traffic monitoring border control for fighting so it's not just for military purposes. no it's not and this is one of the complex issues of the german drone campaign is against the use of drones for war surveillance and oppression. and the defining what that is needs to be addressed by the international community certainly all surveillance very many surveillance drones can be weaponized and. using them lethally is integrated very closely with the surveillance capabilities of the three things you mentioned for example firefighting and police. it's used we fear that it will be used to prevent peaceful demonstrations even in europe and certainly in border

control. could be very lethal it's on the borderline of the war but will it will europeans really be concerned will europeans really be concerned if the drones are used for surveillance because obviously that's in the name of security isn't it national security and personal security well there is a difference between using a drone for example to search for victims in a flood and using it as an oppressive means to control civil society and i think that europeans would be i can't speak for people in all countries but certainly germans would be strongly against surveillance by drones we know that they are outraged about the n.s.a. surveillance and the drone surveillance and n.s.a. surveillance are very closely linked so what you're talking about is legislation here after all your concern so the u.n. is concerned about these drones being

a danger to international security and infringement of personal rights do you think some form of international legislation could be formed over the use of these just briefly. yes this is what the german german drone campaign is seeking and we had quite a bit of success though were not total success in the recent. election period and now in the coalition agreement between the see the you and c.s.u. with the social democratic party regarding drones we had they have decided to put drones into the arms control programs they have both the c.d.u. and the s.p.d. have agreed that they want to seek a ban of fully automated drones weapon systems and they have also taken off the table for the moment germany acquiring weaponized thanks a lot we'll leave it right from the german drone campaign live here not too great

to talk to you thank you. a mass exodus is bringing christianity in the middle east to the verge of extinction the continuing bloodshed in countries like syria and iraq is causing christians to flee their homes or face sectarian violence a lot of the situation coming our way shortly here on our team. to. elect.

to speak our language. program documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world's hot spots of the c.r.p. interviews intriguing stories. that try. to find out visit our big. dog called. christians in the middle east are facing increasing sectarian violence with the civil war in syria and instability in egypt and iraq forcing them to flee their homes u.k.'s minister for faith has called on western governments this week to protect christianity from becoming extinct in the countries where a mass exodus is taking place. reports. for many christians in the middle east the

arab spring has been wintry at best the international society for human life says that for want of if we five acts of religious discrimination in the world today are perpetrated and carried out against christians nowhere is this more acutely felt than in the middle east and north africa if you look at syria for example we tend to say of the total population is christian a third of them have already fled from the civil war that started two years ago and that number continues to grow off to the murder of father best serious nasser last year in two thousand and twelve the threats and the persecution of christians escalated so much so that many today say the night me facing the questions of syria is the same night me that the questions of iraq have been living under since the invasion in two thousand and three. a homo. i believe it is all systematic and planned foreseen christians to leave in iraq for

instance less than two hundred thousand christians remain we do have concerns we do hope we can stick to our land syria which is the cradle of christianity we also hope that the pope and heads of christian denominations shall call for denouncing violence and adopting dialogue in august of this year the christian town of mahmoudiya outside damascus was attacked by rebels tens of soldiers were killed and many residents fled it's still not clear how many of them have not returned to the village and where in syria they have been displaced only i visited the town of homes where syrian soldiers took me to the frontline and showed me the damage the rebels had carried out against a local church one hundred this is the church unfortunately it was not like that before look at this destruction in mass from here the explosions were coming down on people praying of course people started crying out for help from us because the

. priest was raised here and they were captured here in the church elsewhere in egypt to be muslim brotherhood supporters have blamed christians for the armies of the president mohamed morsy more than eight hundred christian sites were attacked and some thirty two churches razed to the ground while in iraq after the american invasion back in two thousand and three half of the iraqi christian population lived in four other middle eastern countries and american think tank the pew forum says that christians face harassment and oppression in one hundred and fifty nine countries this is nearly three quarters of all the countries on the face of be zero point three on teen television. or the plight of christians in north africa and the middle east is the focus of a summit of church leaders at the vatican to talk more on this let's cross live now to the international law sultan to the catholic church in the middle east harry harry the u.k.'s minister of faith has described this as an exodus of biblical

proportions you would agree with that. well i would agree with the exit and i would agree that it is of alarming proportions whether it's of biblical proportions or not bill i think that is a little bit premature for us to determine at this stage but there is a lot of concern and a lot of follow up as to what is happening as your report said across the whole middle east north africa region what about the term extinct that's really very alarming that some countries could be extant of christianity. you know the the use of extinct or extinction is something i heard the minister say this and we had a number of discussions on this i've been working on a commenee coalitions for a whole number of years well over a decade two decades even and this idea of the alarm with which the christians are

immigrating from the whole middle east north africa region is not really anything new at the moment it's very much in the news because it has become extremely alarming and the numbers are telling in themselves however i can tell your stories of our discussions we've had ten years ago where the church leaders across the whole region orthodox catholic and reform were all worried about where christians are and there have been seminars and discussions to try and find ways of staunching this hemorrhage in numbers of faithful and so in a sense this is something that the church which is a small community across the region is used to but at the moment given what happened in iraq when the numbers regress dramatically given the tensions that exist in egypt and also given what is happening at the moment as we speak in syria

have actually together for men to those fears and made christians both a leadership but also laity think about what the future holds for most of these were men women and children and what do you make of the fact that it has been said that christians in the middle east are being targeted as a result of western policies. this is another thing again for somebody like me who's been in this field for two decades almost bought from a legal and political ecumenical perspective this is nothing new i used to write many articles in which i used to say the christian communities across the middle east and north africa are unfortunately tied into western christianity and of course western christianity does not have a very glorious history when it comes to this part of the world all you need to do is think of the crusades and the consequences of those waves of wars and you can

figure out why christians and non christians alike are pretty much worried about where we are going at the moment but in a sense yes i do agree with you that one of the one of the phenomenon or one of the characteristics one of the symptoms of what is happening today is that by sheer ignorance a lot of the people who are targeting those christian communities across the middle east north africa think that they are associated to western mission groups or churches and therefore by definition are colonialist in nature hence they bear the brunt of the attacks but of course anybody who knows those communities knows that they are communities with their own identity their own rights and their own indigenous ethnic belonging to the land that has seen the bible on for over two millenia perry thank you so much for your thoughts on this harry gopi an international or a consultant to the catholic church in the middle east and north africa very

interesting here we have to say thanks for joining us live from london. what a trauma you have plenty of stories for in our web site the moment including the extraordinary sight of a brand new pilot and off the coast of japan an undersea volcanic eruption has created new as landmass as well as any towers of ash and smoke billowing into the air a bird's eye view video is just a click away right now on our team. plus one of the world's leading oil producers is under fire and it's not drilling activity that spot public outrage this time head to our web site and find out what the british oil giant will have to pay for harassing and bullying those posting critical messages on the company's facebook page. several more greenpeace activists have just been granted by a court in some petersburg bringing the total number to twenty six eleven have already walked free ahead of the trial for who can assume the others will too once their bail money is posted meanwhile russia's president vladimir putin has reiterated his view on this controversial case audi's correspondent you got to has

more. the president has commented on the situation around greenpeace saying that he does think that the goals of greenpeace as an organization are positive but he doesn't agree with the methods that it's activists choose nobody on the block. when the platform was being stormed it created an emergency situation this could have led to not one mistake by operators there but multiple mistakes they should not have been distracted from their work not all noble causes can be accomplished by any means but at the same time the state should be lenient over twenty peace activists have been released on bail the bales around sixty thousand u.s. dollars it will be returned to them when they come back for the actual trial since all of them are still accused of hooliganism and just to remind you this whole story started in september when these activists approached

a russian oil platform in the north and then a smaller group tried climbing onto it all of them were arrested first charged with piracy and then these charges were reduced to the cooling going isn't before incident has become a stumbling block in the relations between russia and the netherlands as well since the arctic sunrise the vessel which were the activists were on belongs to the netherlands and it's now actually suing russia at the international maritime tribunals demanding the release of the ship and its crew. more news in just half an hour with me in the team in the meantime mexico is off the leash again getting his teeth into the big china's began missions that's right after the spring.

and my research i randomly came across a sad statistic according to the montpelier a center for the constitution only twenty eight percent of americans have actually read the constitution although the overwhelming majority claimed that they understood some of it and now we see why the constitution especially the bill of rights are getting whittled away the average person doesn't really know what their sacred covenant with the government actually says which means the government can get away with reinterpreting the agreement to suit their needs and not yours because no one is the wiser but if you think i'm going to say blue ridge american how dare you then you are wrong the problem is that any kind of philosophy or ideology or just even asking why seems to be getting out of favor in educational systems all over the western world and beyond i mean shouldn't the average american be taught in school about you know america and like the constitution and capitalism how can the society advocate praise or defend values they don't have any idea about please let's get the stuff back into the educational system but fascist my opinion .

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