to ukraine secures cut price of gas and a fifteen billion dollar injection during talks here in moscow the customs union wasn't raised apparently despite pro e.u. protests as suspicious of a secret european bloc. britain. mental concerns with a plan to potentially open up the pristine british countryside to shale gas fracking despite widespread public opposition. with you from the interior. if you think it. fracking earthquakes work but enough we also meet the texans living in the shadow of a shell well whose drinking water has started to burn they don't want the world to know that it really is bad they don't want it in official documents. also the syrian army moves in to clear the damascus drove mick stream is supporting the

locals launched a religious massacre beheading other children and wiping out entire family. life monti international h.q. here in moscow at nine pm it's kevin with us this very good to have you company our top story it's a big deal day for ukraine after several key agreements were struck between moscow a little earlier. more on those talks. the three key points that came out of this meeting are first of all russia and ukraine did agree on the price for gas for two thousand and fourteen which went down from four hundred dollars to around two hundred seventy dollars per thousand cubic meters or so far as when or stand this is a temporary measure given to the financial difficulties in ukraine itself that the second key point is that the country is getting

a low interest rate along the from russia worth around fifteen billion euros dollars in the form of moscow buying ukrainian government bonds but the third key point and perhaps one of the main reasons why so much attention was focused at this meeting since there was a lot of speculation that this could be a step towards ukraine joining the customs union with russia which the ukrainian opposition is strongly against they were spreading rumors that president unocal which was secretly brokering out the deal to do so well now both leaders here in moscow said that this wasn't even discussed and neither was ukraine's association agreement with the european union and now the protesters in kiev said that they would watch this meeting closely and there are further actions would largely depend on its outcome so now the ball is a really on their side and the other player who's reaction now we're waiting for is the european union which rejected giving finding financial aid to ukraine and

knowing the current financial difficulties it's gonna me is going through it has been sending different signals throughout the course of the last few weeks and artie's. took a closer look at the latest rhetoric. from the threat of sanctions if he goes to moscow and afterwards is why allowance then it might be interesting to know that the bank accounts in general cannot be open to any more for some craziness 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 pinball with ukraine's expectations some have expressed uncertainty about a future dialogue with kenya 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 others signaled there was still a whole political statements on twitter are not the best way to resolve the matter the best signal we could make is to tell you crave 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. 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. the deal was an order no it's a black my own. 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 comprehensive free trade area with a european union the money is still the main sticking point ukraine needs billions . millions and both science refused to budge in their demands amidst this continuing standoff both geopolitically and on the streets of. which is going to moscow with a fifteen billion dollar loan all regular rumored to be the likely result of this trip despite harsh rhetoric coming from europe which 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. political science professor nicholai petra told me that the a use taking the wrong approach to things and trying to win over ukraine. the e.u.

lost sight of the ball. the entire discussion was about. how that was to be the sticking point and instead it always was really about how to fund the transition when i look at the statistics of what financial aid is that is typically offered and has been offered over the past seven years to countries that are transitioning to european association and presumably eventually into membership it has never arrived at of more than two billion euros a year ukraine was offered one billion but that's an order of magnitude below what. economists here say that they need. meantime several merican politicians who pay visits to kiev showing a keen interest in what direction the country will take international affairs

commentator at rows of things their priority is to draw ukraine into nato. what's important to realize is that the west it's 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. goal of western policy piece of even greater so the intent is to use the law or economic benefits trade benefits. europe pieces to soften the ukrainian or ukrainian populace ultimately for absorption in the north atlantic treaty organization. well nato has long wanted ukraine in its ranks but present in a covert shelled membership plans in twenty ten that then hold to the alliances expansion to the east towards the russian border you take a look at this map for a moment you can see the only blank spots between nato and russia ukraine and belarus that's how it's panning out so you can see why that would be something

maybe they want to get on board in nato. well you can find more expert opinion more expert analysis on the situation in ukraine on our website along with the facts and figures from god he will brussels and moscow can offer ukraine in case of a closer partnership to. next tonight a new energy boom becoming to the british countryside but so far it's sort of warm welcome the government report has just laid out the groundwork to open up vast swathes of the u.k. for oil exploration including shale gas fracking the sarah ferguson latest. well this is a regulatory roadmap for on shore oil and gas exploration and it's the government setting out the stall for where they see this drilling technique taking the u.k. 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 so 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 accepted 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. now is for you can to the department for energy and climate change this morning and they said that 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 whether 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 would sure up energy security in the u.k. talking about job creation with a month's local communities where we've 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 if she's about water pollution about earthquakes in areas where test drilling has been carried out so a lot of kids. and seeing that still to be done this is a very bulky report that we see in published today lots of nitty gritty detail quite hard to get a full understanding of it but as he said it's really made very clear that the governments are going to want to push ahead with this technique all across the u.k.

so for his part you could say would you ministers hold this report is the next step in locking britain's fracking potential but london campaign officer for the young group has been ali have dutch told us this is the wrong solution fracking is an expensive way of not solving the crises that we face fracking to very little to bring down prices 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 bring down into prices that the government has admitted this simply offers the opportunity to hog hoover up wealth from government subsidies and commodity sells up to holders and companies and it's not about every day's people's wealth and well being we also spoke to the fire of frederick free sussex in southern england who told us that the gas extraction process simply cannot be made safe it is an inherently evil 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 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 why it's not to do with the fracking it's to do with poor operations it pollutes drinking water it pollutes air it is widely proven to trigger seismic activity both nearby and far. so the big question most of the row for britain next if a fracking revolution takes hold will lead to look no further maybe than texas the shale gas drilling capital of the world where property prices of tank new wells rank smell stretch for miles even earthquakes have been linked to fracking too and that's not all going to change you can explains more 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 lives 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 the agency 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 our going down swells and there's an inherent. conflict of interest 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 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 report in favor of the practice. believes kids were advised to vent the gas constantly to keep it from accumulating under their property as their neighboring gas wells continues to frack is alive thousand feet deep if it were pretty much standing around on top of 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 horses to it 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. down our t. parker county texas. well when it came across the latest on the locals the activists struggling against big energy interested ossie dot com a website we've got online reports on campaigners in the u.s. warning of catastrophe two off the coast guards now offer to use rivers to ship toxic fracking wife keep abreast of the whole story online coming up here in the program snowden strikes again with a new leak now norway's big court conducting covert surveillance with the n.s.a. targeting russia this weeks off to sweden was found to be i think as well.

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a miami and it's all about fancy politics the other option you die in the ring. the syrian army. reportedly liberated key districts in the city of address which as it 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 taught shouldn't be headed by a battalion of islamic rebels who tried to seize control of the area indeed some estimates put the number of civilians killed around two hundred approved marti's arabic channels there. when dawn was breaking over our dr l. news were 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 us. how their 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. 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 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 the 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 a move seen necessary by the military whose operation is not expected to be an easy one. r.t. . the cold blooded assault and drew is reportedly carried out by the al qaeda linked to al nusra front also suspected that some members of the newly formed islamic front group were involved too it's

a radical organization supported now forging ties with the united states and a meeting could even take place this week between them foreign affairs analyst a split over whether the u.s. should actually negotiate with a 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 infiltration that's happened in the last year or two you don't negotiate 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 qatar they have provided funding they have not provided a significant level of funding to the so-called moderate opposition forces of 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 can be no peace as long as the west military alliance supports terrorists. online all gushes from a pipeline in mexico forcing followed by this to battle huge flames that badly burned for people to feed to try to make off with the black gold we've got more on that story. also online through with our t. dot com is this season a space where nice isn't it nasa is testing new space suits for the first manned asteroid missions also wanted to do list moon and mars landings too busy time for

nasa. the. latest leak from edward snowden is exposed norway's role now in america's global spying operate. the nordic countries been sharing intelligence with the us about russia's political elite as well as all the gas companies and ordinary everyday sit citizens elegant lura says director of the center for international strategic analysis and believes this was a very complex set of operations. this is a multi faceted or kind of operations and also interests that go far beyond the war on terror or on the fight against or quote. some extensive network seawalls intelligence up in the north. which collects singles and joe johns about all kinds of special military russian looked into which was also dollar goes to some of the usual during the cold war but not actually there also these capacities

also 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's made it clear he thinks it's secret gathering of personal data was unconstitutional the government can now either appeal or delete all the data gathered on the five plaintiffs who filed the case chris kitchen to secure online messaging service move his company to avoid the prying eyes of u.s. intelligence he tells he thinks 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 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 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. through tonight's big stories in brief turkish police arrested the sons of three cabinet ministers in a corruption investigation they were taken into custody in a series of raids that netted eighteen people in istanbul becomes a bad time for prime minister rigid a word with local and presidential elections planned for next year. angela merkel's been sworn in as german chancellor for term the social democrats voted to join a grand coalition with the center right christian democrat party on sunday

a power sharing agreement that gives the government almost four fifths of seats in the board to stack. from egypt now it's their students forces of the ousted president mohamed morsi have rioted in cairo university they've clashed with pro-government protesters a security both were set on fire and a ball was knocked down as the two groups filled stones at each other elsewhere they should military says it's killed a key al qaeda linked militant to the sinai peninsula it is thought that he was be on the deaths of sixteen soldiers there last august of yet keep abreast of all our news twenty four seven credit see of our web seem r.t. dot com next the story of a homeless man who's found his feet by using his face so we'll stay with us for that.

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 you 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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