but britain opts for energy over environmental concerns with a plan to potentially open up the pristine british countryside to shell gas fracking despite widespread public opposition. if you can't get into your home. if you think it has a fracking link to earthquakes weren't bad enough we meet the texans living in the shadow of a shell well he was drinking water has started to burn. they don't want the world to know that it really is this bad they don't want it in official documents. also the syrian army moves in to clear the damascus suburb of og from extremists who according to locals launched a religious massacre beheading adults and children and wiping out entire families.

plus ukraine's opposition fears as a european bloc quad the president comes to russia for a loan and a better gas deal after the e.u. turns down his plea for a. five pm here in moscow you're watching our chief international with me and he said no way our top story a new energy boom may be coming to the british countryside although so far it's had a far from warm welcome a government report has laid the groundwork to open up potentially all of non-metropolitan u.k. for oil exploration including shall gas fracking live now to our chief sarah firth who joins us from london sara it's all very technical what did you take from this report. for the reports titled the regulatory road map for on shore oil and gas exploration and why this is done is lay out the processes that

operators should follow if they're going to want to do the on shore oil and gas exploration it's really setting out the government's stall on their views for the future when it comes to this issue you know it was described as an important next step in unlocking the potential of shale gas in the u.k.'s energy mix and there are four reports covering england scotland wales and northern ireland so essentially all over the u.k. and it is laid out as we said the government's view for the future all of this now the department for energy and climate change consulting on fourteen licenses that consultation usually takes about twelve weeks so it's expected that early next year we'll hear an announcement on new licenses that are actually granted but as we said today this report really laying out that the government are wanting to push forward

with shale gas production and really as they said make this a passage of the u.k.'s plans for energy security in the future fracking haven't had the warmest of welcomes in the u.k. among other places does the public still have a say in all of this. well it's a controversial technique and we've seen across the widespread opposition to this as he said the government has very much tried to highlight the benefits that will come from this saying that it will shore up energy security in the u.k. talking about job creation for the months local communities will be seen test sites already using this technique we have seen activities from activists and opposition groups just yesterday in fact in manchester near a test site we saw a group of activists laying down the wing of the wind turbine in opposition so certainly the government aren't going to have an easy time i think convincing members of the local community who are concerned over issues about water pollution

about earthquakes in areas where test drilling has been carried out so a lot of convincing that still to be done this is a very bulky report that we've seen published today lots of nitty gritty details of quite hard to get a full understanding of it but as we said it's really made very clear that the government is going to want to push ahead with this technique all across the u.k. so refer to live from london thanks for those details as. well the founder of frac free sussex in southern england tells us that the gas extraction process simply cannot be made safe. it is an inherently unregulated will process say fracking is an oxymoron it is simply not possible it's such a human arrogance to say that we can legislate for the vagaries of subterranean geology what i have learned from the people i now know personally in pennsylvania and australia has made me very scared as a mother of someone of a child as someone who lives four miles from a fracking well in

a country that already has sixty percent plus potentially licensed for this eco cycle nightmare this technology cannot be regulated they're making all kinds of you euphemistic excuses about oh it's not to do with the fracking it's to do with poor operations it pollutes drinking water it pollutes a it is widely proven to trigger seismic activity both nearby and. so what's down the road for britain for fracking revolution takes hold well look no further than texas they sell gas drilling capital of the world their property prices are tanking your wells ranks mile stretch for miles and even earthquakes have been linked to fracking and that's not all it's going to church or can explain its. 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 hear it 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

conceit that derives its income in survival from oil and gas production issues really putting him in charge of also regulating the protection of groundwater from arguing as well and there's an inherent 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 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

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 p.a. from coming up with a reporting favor of the practice. believes his word vice to vent the gas constantly to keep it from accumulating under their property as their neighboring gas well continues to frack slide thousand feet do you pretty much stay any run on 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 frack him 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 leave his family are left to fight a low to get a healthy environment in their homes. going to check out our team parker county

texas. keep across the latest on the locals and activists struggling against big energy interest in our team dot com we have an online report on campaigners in the u.s. warning towns trophy after the coast guard offered to use rivers to ship toxic fracking away. the syrian army has reportedly liberated key districts in the city of hadera which hasn't seems witnessed atrocities described as the most barbaric since the war started almost three years ago local residents have told r.t. that adults and children were tortured and beheaded i have to tell you in of islamic rebels who tried to seize control of the area and some estimates put the number of civilians killed and around two hundred a crew from marty's arabic channel is there . when dawn was breaking over our 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 you to say yeah after fierce fighting with the syrian army the rebel factions achieve their objective with the city soon falling into the hands of those who the residents of the city have dubbed the decapitated us. 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 acts they have seen on the road between their house and the places where the fighters gather equals heads were chopped off in the bodies thrown all over the road. in the 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 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 a few 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 not to break all legs acute and burned during the first hours of attack 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 that the woman at the vicious and syrian army commanders in the region decided to besiege the town and protect civilians by isolating them from areas where fighting is ongoing and a move seemed necessary by the military whose operation is not expected to be an easy. r t. the cold blooded assault

was reportedly carried out by the al qaeda linked to al nusra front it's also suspected that some members of the newly formed just lama chrono group were involved a radical organization that's apparently now forging ties with the u.s. the meeting could even take place this week foreign affairs analysts are split over whether the u.s. should actually negotiate with the group. it's very important that both sides now recognize that there should be a political settlement and that means talking to the people with guns as long as they have some agendas or to read there could be common ground if they're just jihadi fundamentalists who want to slaughter everybody who is not to the sunni or who agrees with the interpretation of islam then obviously it's impossible but that is not good majority view i think the majority view among the sunnis of syria is that there should be a negotiated settlement they don't many of them like the sockeye do infiltration that's happened in the last year or two you don't go see it with terrorists but i should say that in this particular case the people who have dialogue with the

terrorists they have blood on their hands because they have they have facilitated the training of these mercenaries in saudi arabia and qatar they have provided funding they have not provided a significant level of funding to the so-called moderate opposition forces all opposition brigades and those moderate opposition brigades in fact isn't it 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 military allied supports the terrorists. snowden strikes again with a new leak now no way it's been caught conducting covert surveillance with the end targeting russia just weeks after sweden was found to be had it as well live analysis that i i mean

. i mean people name me as. i'm a bit faulty. sadly i've got no family no. i'm still looking for my cold a good life doing. so my place in the world. i literally have no place to live. he said chewing on the bread that you bought with the last money you were able to beg and all they can say is get out of here. there are

only two possible outcomes to the situation you have to go to miami and it's all about fancy cars with all chicks the other option is you die in the ring breathe deep breathe deeply. welcome back you're watching our international live from moscow pro e.u. protesters in ukraine are holding their breath while president got a call which is in russia for talks parties europe is going on joins us with more on the ongoing negotiations. despite everything that's been happening in ukraine over the past couple of weeks we hear for still widely perceived to be trying to sit on two chairs at the same time either leaning more towards the e.u. or more towards russia but the protesters are still there and they're closely watching this meeting of the two presidents currently taking place in moscow and

they earlier said that their further actions are a largely going to depend on its outcome and we do know that the two leaders are expected to discuss the lawns and gas prices but the question is will they discuss the customs union which the ukraine opposition is strongly against but the ukrainian economy is not in the best shape brussels. financially compensating the reforms that it demands from kiev while there is speculation that moscow may be looking at giving ukraine multi-billion dollar loans and slashing gas prices something which is clearly not being we did with applause in the west artie's. he took a closer look at the european union's latest rhetoric. from the threat of sanctions if he goes to moscow and afterwards as well. might be interesting. clones in general cannot be open anymore for some cream to open questioning of the

great 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 a reach cocktail they've effectively played with ukraine's expectations some have expressed uncertainty about any future dialogue with. we're lacking a decision by ukraine's leader in a situation where ukraine's president says the offer is not good for his country we need to take a break and think it over. while others signaled there was still a whole political statements on twitter 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 more explained the change from the sweet talk of many european leaders before the vilnius summit in november where president had refused to sign the. deal the offer of signing the most ambitious agreement the european union has ever

offered to a nonmember states still on the table we should always respect ukraine's suffering decisions but the tone rapidly changed said the proposed compensation for signing the deal was not in its a bleck my own. try to my. president. and of course it's connected with they are present connected with the interests of those core wants to get some benefits from joining the deep and comprehensive free trade area with a european union the money is still the main sticking point ukraine needs billions the e.u. offers millions and both sides refused to budge in their demands amidst this continuing standoff both geopolitically and on the streets of kiev which is going to moscow with a fifteen billion dollars loan from russia. 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 the 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. as if they didn't have enough to sort out back home several american politicians have been coming to kiev to show their keen interest in ukraine's fate international affairs commentator rick ross of thinks the ultimate goal is to lure the country 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 european. the union is the economic component of the arrangement the north atlantic treaty organization is the real you know. goal over 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 in the north atlantic treaty organization. nato has long wanted ukraine in its ranks for president yet a covert shell to membership plans of twenty ten that halted the alliance expansion to the east towards the russian border now at the moment as this map shows the only blank spots between nato and russia or ukraine and the ropes more expert opinion and analysis on the situation in ukraine are always available on our website r.t. dot com you can also find all of the facts and numbers regarding what brussels and moscow can offer ukraine in case of closer partnership. the latest leak from edward snowden has exposed norway's role in america's global

spying operations the nordic country has been sharing intelligence with the u.s. on russia's political elite as well as oil and gas companies and ordinary civilians . us director of the center for international and strategic analysis joins us now live so targeting politicians and energy companies this clearly has nothing to do with the fight against terrorism. no no it does not it's more a say a remnant of the cold war i don't think the fact that more or less conducting widespread intelligence operations against russia will come as a big surprise in russia itself. and this is probably a kind of activity that goes in the opposite direction as well and this is a multi faceted. kind of operations i'm also interested go far beyond the war on terror and the fight against al qaeda the report says america's collaboration with

norway resulted in quote several success stories they didn't specify but what do you think the success stories could be i mean that's that's impossible for me to say what concretely that might be but but nor will russia shares common borders. norway has an extensive network of signals intelligence up in the north. which collects singles and toe drums about all kinds of especially military russian activity which was also the against the soviet union during the cold war but not actually there were also these capacities also people seeing moves that are relevant or stemming from more political and economic sectors which could be zero interest to either norway or some of the various allies in this case since the revelations coming from the united states which makes the headlines

correct me if i'm wrong it sounds a little bit unfazed by this sort of spying of spying all countries do it earlier this month another scandinavian country sweden was const buying on russia for the n.s.a. how far does it go is this just the tip of the iceberg. when you cross the line. but i mean when then it comes to the relationship between control of norway and russia i think it s. not to large extent fail to take into account what us actually expired since the cold war in a country like norway and i think for many a lower order scandinavian countries as well to keep russia as more or less. a useful enemy in order to justify continued military expenditures and the upkeep of the institutions that were established during the cold war so in reality many

people in the elite in norway still consider us justified or not russia to be a continued threat that needs continued norwegian countermeasures both military and intelligence wise but i'm i'm phase those of because i mean this is largely to be expected. this is not very much of a big secret region singles intelligence capacity has been used against russia i think it's also quite clear that russia also do have a significant interest in the defense keep it capacities of norway and also when it comes to some of the industrial and was technological aspects of norway so nervous and russia are not complete lies in this respect there is still a large amount of distrust on all i think mutual intelligence operations going on

against each other. as director of the center for international to dick an analysis thanks so much for your time. well another blow for the n.s.a. on its home territory a federal judge in america has made it clear he thinks its secret gathering of personal data was in fact unconstitutional the government can now either appeal or delete all the data gathered on five plaintiffs who filed the case chris kid they who owns a security online messaging service and moved his own company to avoid the prying eyes of u.s. intelligence well he thinks there is absolutely no reason for such blanket 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 method 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. edward snowden has now stepped forward to help look into allegations of u.s. spying has offered his services to brazil but says his assistance will come at a price find out what he wants on our website. up next the homeless man finds his feet by using his fists stay with us for that.

they're 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 will just be banging our heads against the wall out of boredom and i've probably checked my email about seven times obama's place note i said most of us but the president isn't supposed

to be like men. all of us it's one thing when you're fourteen and too stupid to realize that selfie 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 siding 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.

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