britain opts for energy over environmentalists concerns with a plan to potentially open up the pristine british countryside shale gas fracking despite widespread public opposition. you pump it into your home. if you think it has a fracking link earthquakes weren't bad enough we meet the texans living in the sound of a shell well drinking water and started to burn. the world to know that it really is as bad they don't want it in official darkness. also the syrian army moves into clear the damascus suburb of odd draw from extremists were courting to locals once a religious massacre beheading adults and children and wiping out entire families.

plus ukraine's opposition fears a european block watch as the president comes to russia for a loan and a better deal after the e.u. turns down his plea for aid. alone welcome you're watching international live from moscow a new energy boom may be coming to the british countryside but so far it's had far from a warm welcome a government report has laid the groundwork to open up vast swathes of the u.k. for oil exploration including shale gas fracking archies terra first explains well this is a regulatory regime the. oil and gas exploration and it's the government setting out the still for where they see this drilling technique taking the you. in the

future and there are four reports for england scotland wales and northern ireland so essentially all across the u.k. and it's been described as an important next step for the potential of shale gas in the u.k. energy mix now it's a bulky document but if you look at the actual wording of it and there are some parts where it seems the government of excess says that they don't fully understand the environmental consequences of this controversial technique known as fracking but nonetheless they are going ahead looking at ways to expand its use in the u.k. so you can to the department for energy and climate change this morning and they said they've got more than a dozen applications that are under consultation at the moment so they're being considered in that consultation process usually lasting on average of about twelve weeks so you can expect early next year that we're going to find out where the new licenses are actually going to be granted across chunks of the united kingdom and

as he said the government has very much tried to highlight the benefits that will come from there saying that it was shore up energy security in the u.k. talking about job creation but amongst local communities where we've seen test sites are 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 if she's 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 detail quite hard to get a full understanding of it but as we said it's really made very clear that the government and going to want to push ahead with this technique all across the u.k.

. u.k.'s energy minister has held this report as the next step in unlocking britain's fracking potential but let's get a different perspective on this from london campaign officer for the young greens but now they have and joins us now this report has a lot to gain this report claims i should say that britain has a lot to cook to gain from a fracking why are you so set against it. fracking to very little to bring down prices that will do very little to resolve the chronic crisis that we face generates a false hope for the issues that we we're looking to resolve it won't be done in a few prices the government has admitted this and it's simply entrenches our dependence on fossil fuels for the long term. the government insists that tough regulations will be enforced to ensure that fracking is safe are they being honest

here what's your argument. well much of the research that's come out of where fracking is actually happiness is highlighted serious concerns about the practice of fracking and we've found i mean certainly there's major concerns about the chemicals used in the process costing gins and heavy metals being leaking into the water table and this is why multiple governments have banned fracking in their communities front's has taken the sat of funding fracking and we really have major concerns that the u.k. government hasn't listened to these issues around fracking. why then especially if you say that the british government itself has said that it's not going to help the economy would they be so head set on expanding the possibilities for fracking in the u k. well i mean certainly we're seeing that this is a way of inflating the carbon bubble i mean people are looking to make short term investment short term games at the expense of long term climate resolution i mean

certainly fracking is a great way of making profit for companies in the short term and we're seeing that government is very keen on supporting that but ultimately that short term boost in g.d.p. growth will result in devastation in communities will zero in long term consequences for the climate really it's a very short term list way of dealing with the energy crises that we face and the economy that we believe that we're facing that but we hear so much about the opposite how much it will help the economy isn't that going to sway voters. what i think people people are particular listening to that and i think you know currently. we're seeing the government is simply focused on investors' wealth i don't think people see fracking happening in their area as a way of delivering real real jobs or real wealth to typically these companies import work is in they don't tend to you dissolve unemployment levels around in the in their communities and the devastation that fracking promises to bring into these

communities in terms of pollution in terms of devastating scenic areas could devastate local economies and local local communities so it's really offset by the costs of what fracking promises to do it simply offers the opportunity to what wealth from government subsidies and commodity sells up to holders and companies and it's not about people's wealth being sounds like you're saying it makes the rich richer ben-ali happened thank you so much london campaigner for the young green. so what's down the road for bridge if a fracking revolution takes hold well look no further than texas the shell gas drilling capital of the world their property prices are tanking near wells rank smell stress for miles and even earthquakes have been linked to fracking and that's not all and you can now explains 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 corporation conceit that the rights it seemed calm in survival from oil and gas production issues really put him 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 guest company went after mr lipski they shouldn't expect much help from washington either why do you sell us our 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 report in favor of the practice. phillips kids were advised to vent the gas constantly to keep it from accumulating under their property as their neighboring gas wells continues to frac slide thousand feet deep we're pretty much standing around 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 fracking and we've got the options to head who cares invest in a few loss of feed 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. gonna check out our team parker county texas . keep across the latest on the locals an activist struggling against big energy interests that are to dot com with an online report on campaigners in the u.s. warning of catastrophe after the coast guard offered to use rivers to ship toxic fracking waste. the syrian army has reportedly liberated key districts in the city of audra which has its seems witness 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 by a battalion of islamic rebels who tried to seize control of the area with some estimates put the number of civilians killed at around two hundred a crew from

artie's arabic channel is there. the autumn when dawn was breaking over our drug el newser front and the army of islam gave a signal for their fighters to attack that 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 objectives with the city soon falling into the hands of those who the residents of the city have dubbed the decapitated hours the other 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 job or 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 and the bodies thrown all over the road ahead of 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 you know that they grabbed them by their heads and food and slaughter them like sheep madra in industrial town is inhabited by thousands of workers and their families who are all trapped with fighters surrounded the town with a few details of what happened they are still on certainly mean and we've only had leaks about massacres that have been described as the most with gruesome since the start of the syrian crisis ceilings told us that the workers are not to break all legs acute and burn during the first hours and late attackers 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 other the woman in your position through the syrian army commanders in the region decided to besiege the town and protect civilians by isolating them from areas where fighting is ongoing moves

necessary by the military whose operation is not expected to be in. we wish. our team. the cold blooded assault in andro was reportedly carried out by the al qaeda linked almost to a front it's also expected that some members of the newly formed islamic front group were involved a radical organization that's apparently now forging ties with the u.s. but the meeting could take place this week foreign affairs analysts are split over whether the u.s. should actually negotiate with the group. it's really 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 agenda as a rather could be common ground if they're just jihadi fundamentalists who want to slaughter everybody who is not to the sudanese or who agrees with the interpretation of islam then obviously it's impossible but that 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 this idea infiltration that's happened in the last year or two to go to those 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 muslim reason in saudi arabia and qatar they have provided funding but 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 is a myth 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 could be no peace as long as the west military alliance supports terrorists. snowden strikes again with the new league now norway's been

a can't conduct in covert surveillance by the n.s.a. targeting russia just weeks after sweden was found to be added as well live analysis ahead. i mean people know me as. i'm a bit forty. thank you a little sadly i've got no family no. i'm still looking for my cold a good life doing. so might be place in the world. yeah i literally have no place

to live. no. chewing on the bread that you bowl 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 this situation you know you go to miami and it's all about fancy cars and hot chicks the other option was you die in the ring. the breeze deeply. welcome back to our two international live from moscow pro e.u. protesters in ukraine are holding their breath president young a call which is in russia for talks are to your post going over now joins us live with the latest details. well everything that's happened in ukraine throughout the

past couple of weeks is still widely perceived to be trying to sit on two chairs at the same time either leaning closer towards the e.u. or to russia but the protesters are still there and they are closely watching this meeting we do know that the president of just the presidents have just finished meeting behind closed doors and now the delegations from both countries are holding negotiations and the protest there is in ukraine they said that's what they're going to do next largely depends on the outcome of this meeting we do know that of course we're waiting for the results ourselves we know that they were expected to discuss lawns and gas prices but the main question is did they or are they now discussing the customs union something which the opposition is strongly against but the ukrainian economy is in a difficult situation brussels. giving. financial support to ukraine in exchange for the reform that demands but there is speculation

that moscow may be looking at giving of multi-billion dollar loans and that slashing gas prices which clearly isn't greeted with applause in the west my colleague i did see it actually look closer at the european union's latest rhetoric . from the threat of sanctions if he goes to most called afterwards as well. might be interesting to. the brink of clones in europe would not be open anymore for some to open very soon all 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 officiously events of last month has indeed made. they've effectively played with ukraine's expectations some have expressed. uncertainty about a new future. 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. 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 more explained the change from the sweet talk of many european leaders before the vilnius summit in november where president which had refused to sign the. deal the offer 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 the tone rapidly changed. in those proposed compensation for saying the deal was in order no it's a blackmail all. right on my. president.

and of course it's connected so with they are present connected with the interests of those core wants to get some benefits from joining the comprehensive free trade area with a european union the money is still the main sticking point the grain needs billions. millions and both science refused to budge in their demands this continuing standoff geopolitically and on the streets of. which is going to forestall the fifteen billion dollar loan. to be the likely result of this trip despite harsh rhetoric coming from here 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 all thinks the ultimate goal is to lord 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 union is the economic component of the arrangement the north atlantic treaty organization is the real you know. goal over western policy because of either ukraine so the intent is to use the lure of 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 but president get a covert self membership plans in two thousand and ten that halted the alliances expansion to the east towards the russian border and at the moment as this map

shows the only blank spots between nato and russia are ukraine and bellow groups but more expert opinion and analysis on the situation in ukraine are as always available on our website r.t. dot com where you can find 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 than ordinary civilians hellgate or us director of the center for international entity jack analysis believes this was a very complex set of operations. this is a mostly positive or the operations of those of interest that go far beyond the

world the world turns on the fight against or code. some extensive network signals intelligence up into law of. which collects symbols and. all kinds of especially military russian looked into which was also don't use the soviet union during the cold war but not actually doing so these capacities also people seeing or relevant or standing for more political and economic sectors another blow for the n.s.a. on its home territory a federal judge in america has made it clear he thinks that secret gathering of personal data was in fact unconstitutional the government can now either appeal or delete all the data gathered on the five plaintiffs who filed the case chris kids there who owns a secure online messaging service 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 was basically happening the argument the government's making is that the medic 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's 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 some more global headlines turkish police have arrested the sons of three cabinet ministers in a corruption investigation they were taken into custody in a series of raids that ended eighteen people in is stamboul it comes at a bad time for president message aired on with parliamentary elections planned for next year. in the german part of the man has confirmed angela merkel as chancellor for a third term the social democrats voted to join a grand coalition with her center right christian democrat party on sunday a power sharing agreement will give the government almost four fifths of seats in government. there's been an explosion near a school in the east of cairo state t.v. says device went off because no injuries or damage elsewhere the egyptian military says it killed a key al qaeda linked fighters in the sinai peninsula is thought to be behind the

deaths of sixteen soldiers there last august. up next the homeless man fights the good fight to get off the streets and back on. their 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 waiting 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 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 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.

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place to live. in the streets. every day to find a new place to spend the night it can be really hard. so much as a place to sleep. but as shelter from the cold and to kill time through the night before the underground. it's very pleasant.