despite its mind the gulf of mexico massive b.p. wins the right to drill for oil in greenland even though the prime trial environment song even its competitors shy away. on security collapse in iraq worsens a wave of bombings killing twenty people in the capital as an al qaeda offshoot exploits the dire situation to gain control over the city of solutia. and britain's pm threatens to take on the e.u. over cutting welfare to immigrants but critics say it's a cynical move to lor voters back from the right.

oh. it's not i am in moscow here with r t international and i'm used to now with our top story this hour greenland has decided to open up one of the world's most pristine environments to oil drilling and b.p. is already rubbing it sounds the company responsible for turning the gulf of mexico into an ecological catastrophe nearly four years ago has been given exploration rights in eastern greenland greenpeace says it beggars belief that a firm with such a patchy history could be allowed to work in such a fragile breach of let's say years have reports on why the country shifted its environment first downs. british petroleum has been denied any drilling licenses in the united states for more than a year now the deepwater horizon spill taking its toll on the company's reputation but this mattered little to the new government in greenland drilling and or look split aeration off the western coast of the country particularly from body has already been a. underway for some time by the likes of shell chevron and exxon mobil but b.p.

and its partners will now explore the m.r.o. concession in the north east which amounts to thousands of square kilometers some believe there may be a huge reserves of oil there up to one hundred ten billion barrels potentially the largest in the whole of the arctic the decision of greenland leadership is a complete u. turn from what it said only nine months ago when a moratorium on any further drilling was imposed due to environmental concerns the latest move is understood to be tightly connected with greenland strive for independence from denmark for now it's been relying solely on its faltering fish industry and grants from copenhagen but it's also known to have vast reserves of diamonds gold rare metals as well as having the world's second largest reserves of fresh water but clearly it's the black gold which could make greenland both economically and politically independent and the government is happy to have more international oil giants on board to boost these ambitions however not everyone is a thrill to colleges have already blasted the move pointing at b.p.'s checkered record describing the arctic environment as very fragile they say that even

a minor oil spill in the crystal clear waters of greenland could cause a major disaster b.p. officials say they will take several years to carefully prepare for the challenging exploration work given the intensity of environmentalists criticism it's almost guarantee that this period will be marked by the protests of those opposed to any drilling in the arctic we spoke to greenpeace arctic campaigner who told us that the receipt authorities are taking are unacceptable. it's very important that the green and the government and the greenlandic population is aware that the risks that they're taking would not only have been moments of consequences but also have a spill happens when a spill happens have massive consequences for for example the fish resect saying greenland it is just too big a wrist take and the conditions ike stream the harsh. light on collision course almost on a daily basis women can scottish oil company that exploration drillings back in two thousand and eleven they had to show what we around two hundred icebergs over

a period of just a couple of months because they were on a collision course with the oil rig if one of these icebergs on chiller way and actually hits it hits the oil rig there will of course be moments of consequences and at the same time there is no technology to clean up off the spill not whether that's because the colt means that you will have to move all the all the oil manually there will be no natural degrade asian and you won't be able to use technologies in my mince like the greenlandic ones. it looks like hard up italian fashionistas are turning from designer to discount there just isn't the counter to splash on high end home grown kids or later we'll tell you why all made in china label is in this season. we take it to a big cat sanctuary in sochi as we continue our tour of the winter olympics host

city. in other news a new wave of bombings has ripped through commercial districts of the iraqi capital killing at least twenty people and after the government lost control of the city of pollution which fell to an al qaeda linked militia which then declared it a breakaway islamic state during the u.s. led war the city was a major of pocket of resistance american forces suffered a third of their total faith tallaght is there adam cookouts who fought there thinks the dire security situation in africa. i've come a long way since my time in illusion in two thousand and four there's been able to step back and you know i've been involved you know a lot of various efforts here in the united states to help fellow veterans out with p.t.s.d. and things like that so i it's it's just it's incredible to see that you know a lot of the rejections that those of us who understood what the war was about at least figured out when we got home coming true now because when you understand the

nature of war as a racket you want to stand the true motivations behind the united states in a very general occupation when you want to stand what kind of puppet government was installed in iraq your stand it was really only a matter of time before this happened. well iraqi lawyer. says the country's prime minister and his cabinet have completely failed to save the country from. the hasn't been able to stop terrorist acts which is taking the lives of the civilians involved he is now accusing the ties there which is someone else that being the one who is causing it he is the government is totally incapable of controlling she didn't believe that it sells except the people who are being put and very tight slot because the government is allowing people to go out and beating anybody who comes out in the street even raising their voices this is really

a tragedy but the problem is not there the problem is that the governments of the world and the international media seems to swallow this idea that somehow what is happening is that this is a fight against al qaida when in fact it isn't on our website we've got a special section dedicated to keeping tally of the violence in iraq especially the human cost also there you can read up on a former u.s. commanders dire predictions for afghanistan's future he tells us online how the whitely contested helmand province could fall to the taliban this year and where they could challenge the authority of kabul. and google glass already needs to look sharp another u.s. companies unveiled contact lenses powered with nano technology which could revolutionize the wearable computer market. smoke and mirrors rumors abound that the governor of new york is about to allow marijuana in the medical system that two on our website. will be right back in

a few moments after this break and tell you why britain's freaking out over foreigners and how the chinese dragon is breathing down the neck of a talian couture. it was a. very hard to take a. long. have you ever had sex with that big here's.

the thing. i know c.n.n. the m s n b c news have taken some slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's closer to the truth to might think. it's because one whole attention in the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on here. to be coming back . at our teen years we have a different price for the show because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not. good. at.

you guys stick to the jokes that will handle the stuff that i've got to. the fact that. they were going to do it if you did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy trek albus. role. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and our craft similarly we've been hijacked right handful of powerful transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers one still just my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem try rational debate and

a real discussion critical issues facing that define ready to join the movement then welcome the. welcome back in with our team international live from moscow britain's prime minister wants the country to stand up to the e.u. and demand the right to stop paying welfare to new arrivals from abroad his critics say he's scrounging for popular support as voters increasingly look further and further right wing when it comes to immigration u.k. independence party says david cameron is completely misjudging the public mood. we've had mass open door immigration in the united kingdom over the past decade it's had problems on schools hospitals infrastructure and pushing down wages in the country that is why he is struggling and he can't find

a solution politicians are not listening to people in the streets of or into places around the country go to lincolnshire for example they are telling us that they have difficulties in their community because it's changed now that's not being racist is actually being realistic and listening to those people all that we suggesting you could be is that anyone who comes to this country has to be able to afford to work here pay taxes and contribute to this country but we have to have a sensible immigration policy which brings the best in and ensures that they stay here and pay for the future of this country in the same way that indigenous people do the leopards might not be the first thing to spring to mind when you think of the winter olympics but these big cats are assembled for sochi two thousand and fourteen for a reason area is home to the endangered creatures who are fighting tooth and claw just survive three months a is in sochi to find out what's being done to help still be hunted resourceful scavengers creation let the smallest local wild can one stone

these mountains in the caucuses. now these full of three elusive and skillful needed to be introduced to their natural habitat after fifty years thanks to the caucuses nature reserve leopard sentance. it's part of a program lim to the sochi twenty four team winter games that aims to preserve and improve the region's wildlife and environment. though the animal has been spotted on the russian caucasus a few times there is no viable leopard population there our program is designed to start a new population of the personal library in the caucasus mountains and to restore the species in its natural habitat but there has been success here two cups born at the national park in july with the first ever born in captivity. their parents have

been brought in from lisbon zoo in portugal to to yes for them to get used to their new home and each other. the connection wasn't to mediate but it didn't come and then for his kids it was captured on camera the help of the family will be wanted to do using g.p.s. chips well the next twenty years all in all the center now has ten leopards. it's hope to this group can lead to a resurgence for the species the leopards live in a temporary open a cages in the reserve which i quipped with cameras there observed closely while the adept before being released into the wild their food is pink and nice in the cages to shop in out their hunting skills. one cub that wasn't shy about cameras was groom his mother neglected him after he was born now they keep his act

as force to parents taking him for walks feeding him and giving him extra love and attention. now graham he is only six months old he's pretty happy and he will be here making sure that there's more of him out of this nature park to bomb with say in so she's a nature park forty that such a home of the two hundred fourteen olympics was this place lying down the line is so special as the russian resort prepares to welcome the world power the game should be the city's present and future a lot more sochi will bring you this is the moment they are reporting from a very cold and snowy windy mountainous stop here beyond the olympics but the bombing marks a. marked change. he

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italy may be the world's fashion capital but its designers need to look over their padded shoulders at what's coming in from the east chinese fakes are slipping into the country and they're convincing enough to win over kastrup shoppers your group is going to have signs up the competition. and you're not going to say four generations of this family have made their living from the textile business italian kashmir silk garden you name it these people have quality clothing in their d.n.a. a high end quality which fewer and fewer customers are able to afford now we declare this the people they they are interested in the nice things but that they have no money to buy and they go to buy a cheap pair of boots and this is ladies and also why is the proud i call rubbish. jack for the joke of clothes or as the

economy struggles to go on this recession in half a century demand for a luxury goods among italians is going down but for some the crisis has provided great opportunities just like many other cities across the world roma has its own chinatown as well whole district in the center of the city filled with showings businesses which go way beyond cities to take out and include shops or even boutiques and chinese walls which have been spreading all around formal casual sporty every size and style of clothes and footwork are presented here and with a price tag sometimes as much as ten times lower than the competition it's flying off the shelves there is nothing to think about here i'm not going to spend my last cash under such i buy chinese stuff yes many good cotton clothes sometimes but i always check the label first and here's the point line these chinese clothes are not made in china anymore the materials are imported yes but since there are

assembled here who are just lieschen allows the made in italy stamped on every item something italian companies want changed if you need. some blood off the proc about there we are working extensively on quality and not on that on quantity but large quantity and low pay. proved a perfect tactic for the chinese who quoting to the bank would be really gentle at least one of the half million dollars out of italy to china. or to the room. looking out some of this hour's world headlines for you the opposition syrian national council told a conference in turkey that it won't take part in talks with president also the government other members of the key western backed coalition are expected to decide on monday whether they'll take part in the geneva two meeting the talks are scheduled for later this month with the aim of getting the many warring factions in syria to agree to stop fighting after almost three years of violence.

there's been a mass protest in the israeli capital by thousands of african migrants angry at a new law that allows the government to send them to desert jails the legislation been slammed by the u.s. refugee agency which says it causes hardship and suffering three hundred people have reportedly been arrested since the ball was brought in three weeks ago it's thought there are about sixty thousand african migrants in israel mostly from eritrea and sudan. why authorities are planning to move heavy artillery into the capital ahead of a mass opposition rally planned for this weekend this is huge numbers of activists marched to the capital keeping up their calls for the prime minister to quit. shinawatra has already yielded to pressure from the streets and planned new elections for february protesters say that's not enough they want to set up a citizen's council to carry out reforms before any new era.

a stampede at a muslim ceremony in northern china has left at least fourteen people dead and many others injured four are critically ill it happened when traditional religious food was handed out to people attending the event. record low temperatures are set to hit parts of the u.s. as winter storms continue across the country forecasters say the phrase could hit minus fifteen degrees celsius in the midwest and are warning people to stay at home extreme weather has claimed the lives of sixteen people this week and grounded thousands of flights next meet the devout family with man with no children of his own but who are still lovingly raising more than seventy kids.

approximately sixteen percent of imports came from illegal fishing. the european union is ironically taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth so this is a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action. given for the territorial waters they fish they load this fish into the ships and leave for europe. to day illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths. dramas that can't be ignored to. stories others refuse to go to. places change the world right.

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given you see. these pictures of him skiing as an army recruit were taken in the nineteen. i never thought that he would become a clergyman was seventy children and yet when he returned home after two years of military service. i had no doubt that he would join the priesthood. so what happened to him on the border with afghanistan. after graduating from some unary nicholai was appointed to a post or in the city rests on the continents of europe and asia its river forms the border their planes the spotters the i can see the region is subject to blazing

heat in summer and severe cold in winter the famous or in vogue shoal is one here to start choosing temperatures. the young clergyman and his wife came to the village of one hundred kilometers from morn there is nothing remarkable in the village other than rows of buildings. this prompted father nicholai to plan the construction of three churches in orthodox school and a charity house. in home so cute by terrorists square meter of two hector's. students give them more money was needed to buy the houses so and then syria them zone but when construction work began father knew i didn't have enough money to complete it that's the way it was. but miraculously the project was completed.