from a stupid. joke to. smoke on the water a landowners in the us blamed corporate greed for contaminating their soil and water as fracking expands worldwide promising big money for big business. the slaughter everywhere they were all children i saw them with my own eyes as horrifying reports of war crimes keep coming from rebel occupied syrian town of hadera r t hears from survivors of the massacre carried out by the islamist. ukraine at a crossroads the country's president is in russia seeking the financial help the west is unwilling to give and that's amid month long protests back at home that oppose any deal with moscow.

the international coming to life from moscow with me marina joshing. echoes a contra side get away from the city hostile an idea ruined for some americans by the negative effects of fracking boom in places like texas the ground drilling technology has become a proven way to boost corporate profits but has got to find out it's the landowners who pay the price. the local government in texas tells steve lipski that the water from his well water that he can set on fire is safe to drink and to use in his home . you can't get in here. thank you but steve has the assessment of other experts who say he's well is it ticking bomb in his backyard loaded with methane and other contaminants why the starkly different assessments steve claims

that a fracking operation nearby contaminated his well and that texas energy authorities are shielding the gas company they don't want the world to know that it really is this bad they don't want it in official documents it could be that the fracking allowed gas from lower formations into the aquifer and subsequently into steve lipski as well the gas company denies the claim the lipski is sued the range resources corp but the firm counter sued and won in cause and effect evidence a ground water is incredibly difficult to prove my d.s.l. us are is an engineer who worked with the federal environmental protection agency is not surprised that the state oil and gas regulator sided with the gas corp concede that the rights it seen come in survival from oil and gas production issues should be putting in charge

of also regulating the protection of groundwater from going down swells and there's any parent conflict of interest in that determined to fight for his home father of three steve has been shipping fresh water from the city on trucks at a cost of five hundred dollars a month but the family now faces another blow from the fracking corporation of four point two million dollars lawsuit for defamation. steve lipski is dream house and it's a beautiful property has become his nightmare several of his neighbors apparently have the same problem but they're reluctant to speak out after they saw how the gas company went after mr lipski they shouldn't expect much help from washington either so why do you sell us are says the environmental protection agency has not put nearly enough resources into studying the effects that fracking has on groundwater

but that didn't stop the e.p.a. from coming up with a reporting favor of the practice. phillips case word vice to vent the gas constantly to keep it from accumulating under their property as their neighboring gas well continues to frack these guys thousand feet do you pretty much standing around the top of the one hundred years from now when somebody dies because there's some timing on the border and they're able to trace it to this fracking everybody else instead who cares invest in a philosophy for now it seems that the authorities at all levels are so fired up on fracking potential profits that households like steve leaves his family are left to fight alone to get a healthy environment in their homes going to check on our t.v. parker county texas and the conversational industry is already experiencing some unwelcome festive attention across the ocean in the you can protest here is dressed

as santa us and block the entrance to the drilling side with the wind turbine blade but this won't be enough to stop the government from further shale gas exploration as lorson is now explains. what started in bold combs sussex where locals and campaigners barricaded a test drilling site but two months that's continued in soul food with demonstrators blocking roads to stop drilling equipment big deliberate but it's full steam ahead for fracking ministers are preparing to identify sauza as of square miles bright for exploration across the country but the announcements likely to add more fuel to the fire of the protest movement an enormous amount of water involved in sort of what you do if you plastics rocks with water and chemicals people are concerned about the waste they're concerned about the noise here in the u.k. though the government so keen to get locals on board that it's offering up front

payments of one hundred thousand pounds per well even if no gas is produced but campaigners look unlikely to sell their country even at that price. while the local campaign here for friends of the earth hopes the u.k. government will have what it takes to stand up for its people. we've only had a handful of exploratory drilling sites across the u.k. but already we've seen huge local opposition whether it's in the south easterly or the northwest where we're seeing it now and i think with the government's new licensing round which is going to open up another two thirds of the country to potentially to fracking we're going to see even more position and i think the government is going to have to put a moratorium in place like it had done previously and actually listen to the concerns of communities because there's a very loud and clear message. well check out our website for the latest on the act of a struggle against corporations and there are now campaigners in the us raising the

alarm after or the coast guard offered to ship fracking waste down reverse sting them out so there's a potential pollution hazard. people put in albums entire families kidnapped christians and it's executed these horrifying reports come to our chief from the town of draw north of the syrian capital which has been occupied by islamist rebel groups at least eighty people are said to have been massacred by the rebels but as the syrian army continues to liberate a city that number is expected to rise our crew spoke to some of the survivors. when dawn was breaking over address the al nusra front and the army of islam gave a signal for their fighters to attack they came in hundreds making use of bad weather and the element of surprise over government forces it was a year after fierce fighting with the syrian army the rebel factions achieve their objectives with the city soon falling into the hands of those who the residents of

the city have dubbed the decapitated hours. a friend of mine told me that he claimed he was insane in order to save his life and avoid the militants they believe just story and let him go he also said his children have been emotionally scarred from the savage act they have seen on the road between their house and the places where the choir is gathered people's heads were chopped off and the bodies thrown all over the road. slaughter everywhere the eldest was only twenty years old he was slaughtered they were all children i saw them with my own eyes they killed fourteen people with a machete i don't know if these people were alawite since i don't know why they were slaughtered they grabbed them by their heads and slaughtered them like sheep. and industrial town is inhabited by thousands of workers and their families who were all trapped when the fighters surrounded the town and details of what happened there are still uncertain you know we've only had leaks about massacres that have

been described as the most gruesome since the start of the syrian crisis civilians told us that the workers of the not to be crude were all legs acute and burned during the first hour or so they tack whole families were massacred we do not have an exact estimation of the number because we were unable to get into the town but the number is high the at the moment vision for the syrian army commanders in the region decided to besiege the town and protect civilians by isolating them from areas where fighting is ongoing on a move seen necessary by the military whose operation is not expected to be an easy . one image of. r.t. events are now under our yet again reaction from the mainstream media which has been silent on the issue we spoke to a geopolitical analyst who says the world should be aware of the part american officials played in supporting the islamist militants. in recent weeks there's been

an important shift in the relationship between the united states government on the one hand and what is now being presented as the new islamic front and we see doll that the united states is in fact negotiating and establishing a dialogue with the leaders of these terrorist organizations i should say that in this particular case the people who have dialogue with with the terrorists they have blood on their hands they have provided funding most of the military and logistical financial aid has been china holds to these al qaeda affiliated organizations and that's what we have to address there can be no peace as long as the west the military alliance supports the terrorists. coming up on r.t.l. landmark judgment a court in america rules in a sea collection program may be unconstitutional after answering an invasion of

privacy complaint and germany's in every phase out nuclear power but the alternatives come a high price for the environment and consumers. we try to tell you we warned you so the government is not publishing well we have been reporting on this show that they have to buy scheme well because with a one hundred percent guaranteed outcome a crash in the real estate market people will be underwater negative equity and the banks will need another bailout and the wealth and income disparity will increase yet again.

welcome back you're watching r t international. aid ukraine are holding their breath as president had a car which had russia seeking loans debts the country the country's trouble economy desperately needs the opposition. here's andy deal with moscow could undermine the arab nations for closer ties with europe cross live to our correspondent corpus going off so igor we don't have to choose

a leader of the two neighboring countries will be meeting do tell us more about the significance of this well despite everything that's been happening in ukraine for the past few weeks here have still has been trying to sit on two chairs at the same time either leaning more towards the e.u. who are leaning more towards russia but to the protesters are still there and they're closely watching in fact they said that there are further actions will largely depend on the outcome of this meeting in moscow. well despite these promises not to do so it is feared it would end up as an end in the european union that president. is discussing the warrants and gas prices will also discuss the customs union it's interesting is that the street protesters have actually passed the so-called resolution banning him from doing so which is which has been greeted with a mixed reaction since how can street protesters and elected president from doing

so is a ban not a demand in itself but on the other head ukrainian economy is in bad shape brussels did you read the rights to financially compensating that we forms that it demands from the king of while there is speculation that moscow may be looking at giving ukraine multi-billion. clashing gas prices which clearly isn't needed with applause in the west and my colleague i did see it i should have skied took a closer look at the latest rhetoric. from the threat of sanctions if he goes to moscow now afterwards is why i see it. might be interesting to know that. the bank accounts in general cannot be open to any more for some creaminess to open a questioning of the green government's credibility this government of ukraine has clearly discredited itself in terms of economic help from the e.u.

the reaction of europe's officials to the events of last month in ukraine has indeed made to reach cocktail they've effectively played with ukraine's expectations some have expressed uncertainty about aim future dialogue with key. we're lacking a decision by ukraine's leader in a situation when ukraine's president says the offer is not good for his country we need to take a break and think it over while other signals still hold political statements on twitter are not the best way to resolve the matter the best signal we could make is to tell you krane that our doors are still open for it. all this marks quite a change from the sweet talk of many european leaders before the vilnius summit in november where president which had refused to sign the euro so he asia india is the author of signing the most ambitious agreement the european union has ever offered to a nonmember state is still on the table we should always respect ukraine's

suffering decisions but that too will rapidly changed once again because each side in the us proposed compensation for saying the deal was in order no it's a blackmail all for the souls who try to make out of the president. and of course it's connected so with they are present connect that with the interests of the. school wants to get some benefits from joining the deep and comprehensive free trade area we've got the money is still the main sticking point and grain needs billions. millions and both sides refuse to budge in their demands that makes this continuing standoff both geopolitically and the streets of the beach is going to forestall the fifteen billion dollar loan from all reviewed rumored to be the likely result of this trip despite harsh rhetoric coming from europe has been insisting that ukraine will not step down from the euro association

however they protesting crowd behind the barricades already made it clear that every step of ukraine's president and moscow will be closely watched. reporting from kiev in ukraine well as another party involved in trying to sway ukraine towards the e.u. integration with an array of american politicians visiting key of lately to support the protesters at a national affairs commentator rick ross explains washington's heightened interest by its desire to ultimately lure ukraine into nato. what's important to realize is that the west has crafted a program for integrating ukraine into the west which means not only the european union the european union is the economic component of the arrangement the north atlantic treaty organization is the real you know. goal of western policy piece of the ukraine so the intent is to use the war economic benefits trade benefits. you know pieces to soften the ukrainian or ukrainian populace ultimately for

absorption of the north atlantic treaty organisation. while laos has long been striving to lure your brain into its ranks but it's the current ukrainian president who actually shelled membership plans three years ago that signify a hold in the alliance expansion to the east towards the russian border which peaked in the late one thousand nine hundred thousand as you can see on this map ukraine to gather with belarus remains the only blank spot standing between nato and russia now more expert opinion and analysis on the situation in ukraine ourselves available on our website r.t. dot com where you can also find all the facts and numbers regarding what brussels and moscow can offer ukraine in case of closer partnership.

a judge in america has ruled that the national security agency may have violated the constitution by collecting telephone data the decision follows a lawsuit over violations of privacy the judge ordered to stop collecting the plaintiff's data and for information already gathered to be destroyed however the decision can come into force because the government has at least six months to appeal chris kid the owner of a secure online messaging service and move his company to avoid u.s. intelligence controls as everyone would comply with legal searches but not mass secret surveillance it's not a strong argument compared to the right of people to have privacy in their papers from unwarranted searches so what's what's basically happening the argument the government's making is that the metal data that they're collecting which is all the information about the phone calls who called who at what time how long the call was all that information they think that's fair game that they should be able to grab as much of that as possible most people who who look at this you know from

a situation like a normal person would say it's just like wiretapping the reality is this they don't need to do a dragnet on everybody if they really care about terrorists i mean most people would say yeah if there is a suspicion or a reason for people to be surveilled like this go to a judge get a warrant we'll cooperate everybody i know in this business would cooperate with a legal warranted search but when you go on a fishing expedition to catch every fish in the ocean and then throw ninety nine point nine nine nine percent of them back in the water that's that's not good. now the american public deserves a chance to see how the secret services get permission to monitor data that's how edward snowden who opened the world's eyes to the is a massive spying operation commented on the judge's decision and he says it was the made reason behind his actions josh gerstein a senior white house reporter considers that snowden's revelations made the courts take the side of the victims of surveillance. on the past these kinds of lawsuits

failed because the courts and ultimately the supreme court concluded that it was too speculative that the individuals who were suing couldn't really show that there was a high likelihood that their communications had been tracked or intercepted that's why the supreme court threw out a case like this a couple of years ago but in the wake of the snowden disclosures there are now documents public records and declassified information about how this program works that indicate that virtually every american is affected by it. if they use a telephone at any point to receive a call or make a call it's very likely some information about that call is being retained by the government for five years so the judge essentially. the scene here in the background has basically changed that individuals who sue over this now do have standing to pursue their suits so while the innocence appetite for personal data seems far from being satisfied some groups have found quite an unusual way to stand

up for digital privacy. you've been. telling the. company to. now this humorous video implores speak will not. say spying on them during this holiday season so i had to call for the full story. also online today for the four released information about the boston bombers show the elder it's her nine brother tom airline confessing that he heard voices in his head of the for the attack. in the wake of the fukushima disaster germany has been shutting down nuclear

reactors the country plans to completely abandon nuclear power by two thousand and twenty two but almost a fifth of germany's energy comes from atomic power plants so berlin aims to go green to keep the lights on well let's have to go closer look at the pros and cons of the green energy unlike fossil fuels these sources of energy are renewable and should be environmentally friendly but wind turbines and solar panels are expensive to install and take a long time to pay off driving a pulse hold bill energy bills and also some of the green energy sources are dependent on the weather since you don't get wind and sun every day and the only produce relatively small amounts of power compared to conventional energy sources pay all reports on the cost of germany's transition. disagreeing with germany's no to nuclear has become it to be topic in a country that has set itself up as the world leader in renewable energy that can

interview it for all their lives germans have been told that nuclear energy is bad but that idea has now filled up their brains so that there is no space left for any other thoughts the race for renewable wind and solar is being financed by rising electricity bills for consumers in twenty twelve the cost paid by households was three point six euros cents per kilowatt hour now it stands at five point five cents adding about one hundred eighty five euro to the average yearly bill that seeing the emergence of groups who want an end to the wind and solar switchover and the return to nuclear this is not really those who have money who are the target audience of these green energy can pay everyone else gets left behind despite the ability of nuclear power stations like this one to generate large amounts of electricity relatively cheaply no matter what the weather conditions the pro

nuclear side of the debate in germany have struggled to get their voice heard the experts say part of the problem is that people are worryingly naive about the real issues of generating power. is that electricity comes out of the wall in their house they don't know what it takes to keep a stable power grid to do that you need big power stations nuclear coal or gas the twenty eleven fukushima disaster prompted germany to ramp up the shutdown of nuclear power stations which is being carried out with a neo religious zeal. this whole movement is like an eco religion you commit a sin creates an evil and as with other religions this leads to the end of the world this attitude to energy makes me angry so prices rise more fossil fuel power stations are having to be built to take up the slack for when the wind doesn't blow when the sun doesn't shine leaving germany's green revolution coated

in coal dust peter all of a r.t. germany. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world a car bomb has exploded at a stronghold of the militant movement has been law and issue in lebanon local media reports the blast caused deaths and injuries but there is no confirmation from security officials as well as been the target of several recent attacks believed to be in retail for they are taking the side of president in the syrian conflict. fresh gunfire has been heard in the capital of south sudan juba and that's just a day after the country's army repelled an attempt to overthrow the government and a curfew was imposed by president salva kiir thousands of civilians have fled to a un mission in juba and the coup was staged by soldiers loyal to the country's former vice president and led to bloody shrewd battles. we have today here in our team and just to have max kaiser and state herbert dive into the murky waters of

the financial world stay with us. there calling obama's happy smiling sophie photo with the danish and british prime ministers at the mandela funeral an international incident but before we rail on obama for doing something stupid a funeral we need to clear one thing up the washington post says that this action occurred at the memorial service after the funeral was over and trust me after about three hours of serious lectures at a conference or some sort of super long wedding most of us would just be banging our heads against the wall out of boredom and i'd probably check my email about seven times obama's place know i said most of us but the president isn't supposed to be like most of us because he represents all of us it's one thing when you're fourteen and too stupid to realize that sophie photos at the wake after grampa's

funeral is a bad idea but it's another thing entirely when one of the most photographed and powerful people on the planet takes a selfie at the memorial service of someone he claims to respect although i might sound annoyed this sophie is pretty much irrelevant this is just a big error of etiquette there are plenty of real concrete things with real consequences to be bad at obama over like our being religious wacko rebels in syria or signing into law the n.b.a. i wish with all my heart that we only had to be angry with obama over some minor etiquette errors but sadly they're just a drop in the obama bucket but that's just my opinion. welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser the despicable human scum jang is dead

the uncle of kim was shown no mercy after he allegedly drove the economy into an uncontrollable catastrophe and perpetrated thrice cursed acts of treachery by failing to clap enthusiastically for a supreme leader reins nephew dear leader kim jong un had also shown no mercy no remorse no pity when he had his ex-girlfriend and her girl band mates machine gun down after they sang some music which annoyed him. i know what you're thinking you're thinking that kim jong un is looking increasingly like an american high school student snarky bad music loving chubby. who doesn't hesitate to machine gun down his friends family or passer bys just because why the frick mom but those chubby little mass murdering high school students in the america look a lot like these so-called adults who also run the economy isn't this true isn't this true stacey well yes i like the reason that kim jong un gave for executing his

uncle is that he calls the uncontrollable catastrophe of the economy and you see that in our own western economies. it's not the leaders of the countries that are to blame it's all the other the people are they have austerity inflicted upon them they're sent to gulags of of work camps at tesco for free for example but the other thing that is very similar here that we see over in north korea is this airbrushing from history because jang has been airbrushed out of all the public documents the state documents of north korea so let's look at this first headline from the u.k. where we see some airbrushing happening government hides risks of controversial help to buy scheme ministers are refusing to publish the government's own risk assessment into its flagship housing policy it emerged last night triggering suspicions that they are trying to cover up official warnings that the scheme will endanger the british economy yeah i tweeted about this i said ha ha ha you.