breaking news on r.t. residents of a tiny romanian village clashed with police in a desperate attempt to stop the american energy giant chevron exploring for shale gas. ukraine's president searches for an answer to his country's financial woes finally touching down in russia after getting the cold shoulder in china. and the world mourns mandela the death of the anti-apartheid icon sparks phase and. racial tension could return to south africa.

well from watching r.t. international with me and three. now we start with breaking news this hour and fracking protests in north east remain you have turned violent clashes have broken out between police and local so you are trying to prevent u.s. energy giant chevron from exploring the shale gas in the area let's cross live now to. you can join us now live lucy we are hearing that there have been clashes what is the latest. hi there well since we last spoke i there have been more clashes between the riot police and the villagers a few dents that have been demonstrating against the fracking chevron plants that grow in this area in front of me right now several protesters have been arrested about three and taken away in riot there's now an emergency help me a call some people have been injured in the clashes and they're taking away be injured protesters out of the area in front of me there's basically

a large line of. standing shoulder to shoulder with helmets on their sticks out the protesters have been corralled in an area across the street but police are not letting them cross this is because basically maybe about an hour ago nestor had broken a talk the road to the chevron site they stormed the site they had broken down the fences around the chevron for a matter some of them had hurled rocks at the police or worked on clashes with the police officers largely the focus or the popping them they are quite angry we have to remind you that about a week. later or raided their samples raided by the police a lot of people had been injured we spoke to two close after some as old as the sixty seven years old local marmer. beaten with a column makes the police officers they said and quite injured in these clashes right now while we do see more police units arriving to try to calm the situation

and as i mentioned the protesters are all essentially corralled in one area there have been several arrests some people injured but the police are trying to to calm down the situation right now whether a force this is going to prevent chevron from going ahead with its plans to explore for shale gas in the area remains to be seen is quite unlikely and actually ironically up until the processors had stormed the site the construction work had been going on not chevron crews have been digging in the area presumably expirations they are so very kind of climate right now at the very moment as we're speaking it does seem like the police have sort of calm the situation down but when people are so riled up it's quite unpredictable and very uncertain how this will develop yeah but we were looking at pictures you were speaking lucy and it seemed to dictate to be pretty ugly chevron might have said that they wanted positive dialogue with the protesters but it seems like that has failed. they were upset that we did that the processor said that there had been some town hall meetings

supposedly what chevron find that called the situation but the problem they say is that no one and no one has been assured for example that there won't be environmental consequences from the fracking what the people here are quite worried about is the water supply being contaminated because this is one of the poorest corners of the european union it's the water it's somehow contaminated that means their livelihood at that with chevron is you know has really statements trying to say that they're doing this responsibly but the people here simply don't feel like they've been consulted like their point of view is really being encouraged here they sort of feel based on what they told us that the government and chevron are sort of calling the shots here and that their concerns are not really think taken into account all right lisa thank you very much for keeping up keeping us updated lucy council speaking live from northeast and remind you where there is anti fracking demonstrations taking place.

you fracking is also coursing through across the atlantic the u.s. state of texas has been shaken by several of those quite sure recently with some scientists saying dozens of nearby drilling wells to blame environmental activists and professor at the university of north texas adumbrated will release fracking activity should be should jack did some more thorough regulation. what needs to happen is there needs to be more empowerment for those who are most vulnerable to the harms involved here you know companies talk about conducting this in a safe way but the there is no objective answer to what is safe this is it's it's a system that's vulnerable to what was called normal accidents that can there's going to be something's going to happen oh wrong with that at any time now whether that's too frequently occurring or whether the harms of all or of too great a magnitude i think reasonable people can disagree on that question so the real question isn't whether it's safe it's who gets to determine whether it stays in the us and the lead question the people who are more or most vulnerable to the harms

involved have to have the greatest say and so when there needs to be sort of restructuring of the political dialogue around this. front's is leading a second major intervention in africa this year sending troops and helicopters to the central african republic there are reportedly affairs in french troops on the ground already. paris began to send reinforcements hours after the u.n. authorized the mission to quell sectarian violence in the country the red cross says at least three hundred people were killed in two days of fighting in the capital bangui is christian militias loyal to see the president clashed with muslim fighters currently in control of the country. or dubbed as the policeman of africa france has been active on the continent since the colonial era his amount of its former colonies over the past decade france's led interventions in mali chad ivory coast and the democratic republic of congo that's aside from its

involvement in libya as for the current conflict the moments in the central african republic early this year france refused requests to intervene from former president bush is easy who was ousted in march by muslim rebels but now it has decided to act lawrence freeman the from the executive intelligence review magazine police french domestic problems are behind the decision. recently france has become more active militarily and i think the problem with that france and britain have not given up their intent on having access to news of some of the resources and wealth of the african countries or so i think france is suffering serious problems home. devastating collapse in living standards throughout all of europe so many of these things i think combining to push france forward into some of these more activity is. more of them recently than we've seen

before the cranes president viktor yanukovych has met with vladimir putin to discuss strategic ties with russia you see an ecovillage made a pre-planned detour to sochi for the meeting on his way back from china where he was hoping to secure an aid package for ukraine's economy would we can i join paul scott live who is in kiev for us paul what more can you tell us about this meeting between the two presidents. well ukraine's under fire president picks a young the covert stopped off in sochi for a meeting with his russian counterpart vladimir putin on the way back from a visit to china and the coding to quote attribute it to you cranes prime minister the cove it was looking to secure and cement a strong economic ties with russia what's been described as a road map to remove disagreements between the two countries in the areas of trade

and the economy not the ukrainian economy is struggling right now the country is heavily in debt and it is struggling to pay somebody gas bills to russia and it's great that you have a car which was looking to try and secure some kind of deal on that front but any media suggestions in any reports that kiev is on the brink of signing the customs union with russia alongside kazakhstan and belarus that has been dismissed with russia say the topic wasn't even discussed but that's going to be of little consolation to the thousands of protesters that you can still see behind me who are continuing their demonstrations in defiance of the weather really as you can see the weather is up pretty bad here but the demonstrations do continue with organizers saying they hope that up to one million people will descend on kiev on sunday now some of the protest as has been caused by the forceful dispersal of demonstrators last weekend the authorities have launched an investigation into

those events as my colleague arena ghoulish the reports. the crew when you delete now my gun uku the worst moment was when i saw people being beaten on the ground at my feet they were just kids and i couldn't do anything about it and it was terrible it must never happen again. the night of november thirtieth when peaceful protests in the heart of kiev were broken up by ukraine special riot police force dozens and end up in hospitals images of police beating defenseless people emerged. on the internet the. was the next day it was the police on the receiving end of the violence but at the hands of a mob and not the peaceful protesters who were dispersed just the day before. i got hit by either a brick or a piece of pavement score in the face it's hard to tell because everything was

flying no one could predict it would go like this that there would be rocks bricks molotov cocktails when it was a bit of well i was scared for my units who were there because it was totally unexpected right in front of all of this there were these boys eighteen nineteen years old who serve in the army and everything was flying at them rocks molotov cocktails. and these men are among the officers still in hospital a week after the attack some received injuries severe enough to leave them disabled or to convince them to leave the force but both undone and i determined to return to service and see don't have any animosity towards the crowd on independence square and i can understand the people they want to express their opinion. people have the right to voice their opinion but without breaking the law it would not be an overstatement to say that many people here view is there any means number one

especially after last week's intense clashes there is opinion out there that the police force were simply following the instructions they have received and it's those who gave the orders that should be held responsible for the violence so. the recordings on the internet of the actual orders that received. to clear we must create a parliamentary commission and find the person who blew it all up and hold them criminally responsible i'm sure the orders came from someone higher than the head of police. as the protests enter their third week the tension is palpable no one wants a repeat of last week's nightmare. calmer efforts from both sides among people whose patience is already. well economic troubles were the main reason cited by ukraine's leadership rejecting an association agreement with the decision that's left the country's population

bitterly divided reporter martin who's written extensively on ukraine says protesters calling for integration would be disappointed if the deal happened. i think it would be a nightmare come true in the long term ukraine and the european union have a lot to gain from increased relationships with each other but the package that the e.u. was proposing and the price you create would be severed ties with russia on the east bloc would in the short term cause a very we'll drop in standard of living for the ukrainian people much greater energy price costs and the european union and european commission given their own financial woes would not be in the position to give ukraine the necessary financial support it would need me situations the european union has major problems with in its own area that it really must result of before it can really new its all first to reach out to nations like ukraine and i think there really needs to be a fundamental reassessment in brussels of what ukraine needs which has not been

adequately recognized in brussels. and your pain that politicians have been lending their support to the opposition in kiev online we've got more on that and that the reaction it's course had to call. now coming up want to live in central paris then brace yourself. like it's right here day here. we find out how people managed to squeeze into the french capital paying a video and still accommodation. to be u.k. now where the government is planning to ban extremist preachers from visiting mosques and islamic senses as we report in a few minutes time prison authorities claim it's largely in the jails where people

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all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks about six of the ip interviews intriguing story for you. in trying. to find out more visit our big teeth dog called. south africa's first black president nelson mandela will be laid to rest next sunday at his family estate but his paper around the globe mourn the loss phase online saying the death of the iconic leader could reaganite right sure segregation this time though it's those living in white dang types in south africa that are worried. as mall. for many years south africans in particular have been asking themselves the question what happens when mandela pos is on and for

a long time there was a war we that everything he stood for which was essentially bringing white and black south africans to give it would disappear when he dies this question has become less urgent as the years have passed on and a new generation of south africans has come to the fore but certainly there are pockets of particularly white south africans who are today afraid now i visited the community of claim fun tain which is a white on cave they you find only off the condos and all these a white south africans who can trace the roots back to european settlers who came in the sixteen hundreds you need special permission to enter the area there are security guards everywhere there are statues paying tribute to the founders of a party which was some africa's legal system of discrimination between blacks and whites people there justified the existence of such enclaves as merely a way of preserving the history the culture their language they argue against any

kind of claims of racism we feel strongly about our identity and we want to protect that and preserve it this together with the fear that some white of economists feel has caused some to put in place contingency plans now there's a group called the state land is they estimate that their figures are around eighty to one hundred thousand people and they are all linked through mobile phones in such a way that if in any time they believe a genocide happens and they do believe that a genocide is coming against white south africans they can they mobilize him selves and move to an area where they will be able to both protect themselves and be completely self-sufficient and i visited this community and this is what they had to tell me right now oh we're this stage or little six. little sort of is really a true constructs these white south africans our. are in the minority the majority really credits mandela with bringing the country back from the brink of civil

regardless of the color of the skin they race the creed they have been made to south africans regard mandela as the hero of the struggle against apartheid and seen him as one of the greatest sons this country has ever given birth to. just a click away for you right now if recent u.s. spy revelations weren't enough the new emblem for america's latest intelligence gathering satellite might leave you a bit more concerned take a look at their sin is that emblem at r.t. dot com. plus an issue of national security born attempts to mask its failures japan introduces new state secrecy laws we've got all the details online. right to see. her story. and i think you're. on a record like. i. am

. the u.k. government has announced new measures to crackdown on islamist extremism the move follows the brutal murder of a british soldier by two muslim converts him a part of the plan is to block extremist material on the web and ban those encouraging extremism from visiting mosques however as artie's or smith reports it's the jails where converts are becoming increasingly radicalized. wormwood scrubs prison in west london temporary or longer term home to around fourteen hundred male prisoners apart from the inevitable gang activity and drug taking that goes on inside many prison inmates find religion while they're doing their stretch some are genuine others not so much you speak to some prisoners or noble tell you

a dipshit better food or a dollar to get more time a show or are just to be seen as to be part of a gang culture i've done it for protection i've done it because i was buoyed evidence from the prison office's union shows prisoners aren't necessarily so much finding gods as having shoved in their faces muslim gangs have grown in power and influence in jails all over the country and the prison officers association is concerned that they target vulnerable new arrivals for conversion and that those who are muslims already are being forced into more extremist views so any religion look at those who watch on to and use that religion is an excuse for treatment and we're particularly concerned by doctrine is clear evidence that there are youngsters being radicalized. and forced to join the right to causation

of young vulnerable prisoners. who then can become a true machine as well extremists who are ultimately released from behind these walls back into society some more world news in brief. i innocent clashes erupted between police and students who are marking the fifth anniversary of a fatal police shooting of a teenager officers used to gas pepper spray and stun grenades to quell the cries of youngsters who hurled petrol bombs and say vehicles alight at least ten people were arrested and. dozens more detained. supporters and opponents of ousted president mohamed morsi have clashed in several cities across egypt police used tear gas to disperse demonstrations dozens of arrests have been made the unrest comes despite the government passing a new law banning groups of more than ten people gathering on the streets. police

have detained six men suspected of stealing a truck carrying highly radioactive materials in mexico the suspects were sent to hospital is they may have radiation poisoning the truck was stolen on monday in mexico city and later found in a nearby field it was supposed to transport the material to a nuclear waste facility after being used for radiation therapy. a deadly storm struck northern europe with hurrican force across batted countries at least eight fatalities are thought to have been linked to the extreme weather conditions in the u.k. it caused the biggest tidal surge in sixty years for flights and rail services were frozen in many european regions poland had electricity cut off in four hundred thousand homes. now paris might be a dream destination but the romance of the french capital comes at a premium for those who want to live there and as artie's test recently a found out even if you're willing to pay the price may still be

a cramped attic or basement. it all looks great on paper but anyone with an aspiration of living in central paris quickly discovers the nightmare and becomes looking for a flat here this picturesque center of the city might as well have a sign that says off limits to anyone with a tight budget but if you must prepare for very tight quarters when you first arrive to the fire i was completely shocked because this was the smallest area that i found myself i didn't look it's from here to here. danika pay seven hundred seventy euros for this tiny twenty square meter central paris flat in the popular lot to quarter area plus another hundred for bills and internet she chose convenience over price a choice that's not quite there for others like sabina who lives just outside paris with three other people her bedroom in the basement. was about five hundred euros

when i moved so. i was looking on internet for place with five hundred euros couldn't find anything really. expensive visited a few places. couldn't find any so i decided to look for someone to serve a close suburbs in more extreme cases not only do people end up far from the center but in apartments like this one where there's no kitchen or hot water recordable it's a real problem in fronts this lack of housing we need a hundred to nine hundred thousand more housing this is what explains the high prices in july every port released by france's national institute of statistics and economic studies found that one hundred forty one thousand five hundred people were without a fixed residency in france a rent control law was recently passed as part of a larger housing reform to address the lack of housing substandard conditions and the trend of people being pushed out of paris and other major cities but changes in

living standards won't come overnight a fact many in the city of lights have just come to accept to live in paris. you know. well ok. so just are still you r t paris. you had now just ahead is the largest city in america ever to go bankrupt what is next for detroit that's in writing this. do you think that you as a representative of the. gazan government and government in general could achieve dad easing off live for the palestinian people through all the way they

communicate through the way the present themselves to do wall to community need we need respectful of from all of kind of governments good to recognize this government which recollected a from the people actually. presented from the palestinian people themselves respect our chances respect out what i would believe someone needs someone runs. the be.

happy friday folks i'm happy martin amis is breaking that well liberal lion and next mayor of new york bill de blasio by name his choice for and y.p. the commissioner now based on his campaign promises one would expect a blazin to fill those crucial position with individual vehemently against the race is a narrow minded stop and frisk program but that would be just to hope instead to blasio is gone with bill bratton who served as new york's top cop twenty years ago and most recently is l.a.p.d. chief of police and as it turns out not only was he an innovator of the controversial program back then but he thinks pretty highly of the way this harassing technique is being used today just listen to what he told journalist

jeffrey toobin he said if the cops are not doing stop and frisk they are not doing their jobs it is a basic fundamental tool police work and the whole country if you do away with stop and frisk this city will go down the chute as fast as anything you can imagine wow looks like the blasio picked a real ingenious thinker and sadly that's just the beginning bratton served as l.a.p.d. chief he approved and supported a program that mapped large swathes of muslim communities to identify potential terrorists and claimed it wasn't racial profiling to mention his connections to several companies that sell technology and surveillance here to police forces across the country so let's hope this isn't a case of for me once shame on you for me twice you can't get forward again when it comes to build a blasio now let's break this.