b.p. wins the right to drill in greenland pristine ice after promising it will be careful but activists are unconvinced pointing to the gulf of mexico disaster and the firm's checkered past as warning of what's to come. a 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 solution. 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 bore voters back from the right.

oh. that's twelve noon in moscow you're watching r t international with me and he said now it good to have you with us straight to our top story this hour greenland has decided to open up one of the world's most pristine and dangerous environments to oil drilling and environment so one forgiving in fact that many international oil giants have shied away from getting involved because of the potential risks but not b.p. the company responsible for turning the gulf of mexico into an ecological catastrophe nearly four years ago has been given drilling 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 region alexi are reports now on why the country's shifted its environment first steps. 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 oil exploration off the western coast of the country particularly baffin bay has already been 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 northeast which amounts to thousands of square kilometers some believe there may be a huge reserves of oil there of two 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. well for b.p. these past few years have not been kind when it comes to its track record in two thousand and five fifteen people died and almost two hundred were injured in an explosion at a b.p. texas refinery the company later admitted it ignored safety procedures a year later leaks of an alaskan oil field spilled almost a million tons of crude into the landscape in twenty ten the deepwater horizon rig exploded sparking the worst offshore oil spill in u.s.

history and doing incalculable damage to livelihoods and the environment well finally a year later thousands of tons of chemicals and mix of water and oil were spilled when a pipeline burst in another alaskan oil field this track record was of special concern to greenpeace's arctic campaigner who we spoke to he told us that greenland should think twice. it's very important that the green and the government and the greenlandic population is aware that the risks that they're taking with other only have been moments of consequences but also have is a spill happens when a spill happens have massive consequences for for example the fish reset so you agree it is just too big a wrist shake and the conditions are extremely harsh. like on a collision course almost on the daily basis when we can schedule company that exploration drilling spot in two thousand and eleven they have to cheer 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 all these birds on sort of way and actually hits it hits the oil rig there will of course be environmental consequences and at the same time to use new technology to clean up all of those. whether that's because the cold means that you will have to remove all the all the oil manually there will be no natural degrade asian and you won't be able to use technologies in mind it's like the greenlandic ones. it looks like hard up italian fashionistas are turning from designer to discount it just isn't the casting splash on high end homegrown tour later we'll tell you why i made in china label is in this season last. we take you to a big cat sanctuary in sochi as we continue our tour of the winter olympics host city. a new wave of bombings has ripped through commercial

districts of the iraqi capital killing at least twenty people is after the government lost control of the city of fallujah which belong to alissa which then declared it a breakaway islamic state and the u.s. led war the city was a major pocket of resistance american forces suffered a third of their total faith talents they're out of cash to fraud. there thinks the dire security situation was inevitable. i have come a long way since my time an illusion in two thousand and four and been able to step back and you know i've been involved in a lot of various efforts here in the united states to help veterans out with p.t.s.d. and things like that so i it's incredible to see that you know a lot of the predictions that those of us who understood what the war was about at least figured out and we've 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 invasion

occupation when you want to stand what kind of puppet government was installed in iraq your standard it was really only a matter of time before this happened. iraqi lawyer mark karr says the country's prime minister and his cabinet have completely failed to save the country from ruin he hasn't been able to stop the terrorist acts which has been taking the lives of the civilians and that he is now accusing the guy there which is someone else that being the one who is causing it he is the government is totally incapable of controlling she even by that itself except the people that are being put and very tight slot because the government is allowing people to go out on a 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're running a project dedicated to keeping tally of the file and to iraq especially the human cost also there read up on a former u.s. commanders dire predictions for afghanistan's future he tells us online how the one that contested helmand province could fall to the taliban this year where they could challenge the authority of kabul. google glass already needs to look sharp another u.s. companies under veiled contact lenses powered with nano technology which could revolutionize the wearable computer more. smoke and mirrors rumors abound that the governor of new york is about to allow marijuana in the medical system that too on our web site. still ahead this hour the week sports with kate and in just a moment we'll report on why britain is suffering a migrant migraine.

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welcome back here with our two 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 the 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 can pay 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 leopards might not be the first thing to spring to mind when you think of the winter olympics but these big cats are a symbol for sochi in two thousand and fourteen for a reason the area is home to the endangered creatures who are fighting tooth and claw just to revive the right martha is in sochi and found out what's being done to help still be hunted resourceful scavengers persian leopards the smallest little while can't one stop these mountains in the caucuses. now these full of three elusive and skillful predators and being introduced to their natural habited after fifty years thanks to the caucuses nature

reserve leopard sent him it's part of a program linked to this twenty four team lead to gains that aims to preserve and improve the region's wildlife and environment. richard though the animal has been spotted in the russian caucasus a few times there is no viable leopard population there our program is designed to start a new population of the persian leopards in the caucasus mountains and to restore the species in its natural habitat 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 who the connection wasn't to mediate but dick come and their first kiss was captured on camera the health of the family will be

monitored using g.p.s. chips for the next twenty years all in all the center now has ten leopards it's home to this group can lead to a resurgence for the species the leopards live in a temporary open the cages in the reserve which i quipped with cameras there observed closely while they adept before being released into the wild their food is pig releasing 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 you 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 nature park for. such of the county fourteen olympics what's this place lying on 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 what more sochi will bring you this is a moment to everybody from a very cold and snowy windy mountainous stop here beyond the olympics but the bombing what's a. change. in the way maybe the world's fashion capital but it's designers need to look over their padded shoulders at what's coming in from the east china is fakes are slipping into the country american vincent enough to win over cast drop shoppers their corporate skin all sizes up the competition. on july first i 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 it but now with this the people they they are interested in a nice thing sir but that they have no money to buy and they go to buy a cheap pair of boots and this is that is also why the pride of the rubbish that the junk food the junky clothes. 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 rome has its own chinatown as well whole district in the center of the city filled with showing these businesses which go way beyond sticks to take out in cold shops or even teach the chinese poles what you've been spreading all around formal casual sporty every

size and style of clothes and foot were 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 they make good cotton clothes sometimes but i always check the label first and here's the punchline the 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. off the proc but there we are working on quality and not. on quantity with large quantity and low pay. proved the perfect tactic for the chinese who poured into the bank of a really gentle at least one of the half million dollars out of italy to china. or

tea room. it's more of the world's headlines this hour for you up of the syrian national council has told a conference in turkey that it won't take part in talks with president also its government other key members of the key western back i should say coalition are expected to decide on monday whether they'll take part in the geneva two meeting 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 fountains of african migrants angry at a new law that allows the government to send them to desert jails legislation's been slammed by the un refugee agency which says it causes hardship and suffering three hundred people have reportedly been arrested since the law was brought in three weeks ago it's thought there are about sixty thousand african migrants in

israel mostly from it and sudan. authorities are planning to move heavy artillery into the capital ahead of mass opposition rallies planned for next weekend this is huge numbers of activists marched through the capital keeping up their calls for the prime minister to quit. has already yielded to pressure from the streets and planned new elections for february but protesters say that's not enough they want to set up a citizen's council to carry out reforms before any new elections are held. a stampede of muslims are mourning in northern china has left at least fourteen people dead and many others injured four are critically ill it happened during a traditional religious ceremony as people surged forward as food was being handed out. record low temperatures are set to hit parts of the u.s. as winter storms continue across the country forecasters say the freeze could hit

minus fifty degrees celsius in the midwest and are warning people to stay at home the extreme weather has claimed the lives of sixteen people this week and grounded thousands of flights across the country. seven days of top sports is next with kate partridge. some of the 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. on the territorial waters they fish they load the fish on to the ships and leave.

illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each good. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge. they can the very strong position against g.m.o. and we think that. anymore the free products are a pretty cool tool there is no. evidence that there is any problem with genetic engineering would you make a deal. or is free cheese always in a mouse trap i don't believe that. free. enterprise is profit. these golden

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of it. dynamic that i'm on last night straight when three two in overtime at home to bodies to stay top of the k h l on course for a third straight gig are in car. plus high hopes russian johns just almost go win the first ever all russian showdown in the euro league top sixteen of the all the men trying to get a first continental time in six years. and i don't think we we need to teenager later in the ice don't stop it looks to shine at russia's winter olympics in sochi. but let's kick off with football and the january transfer window as prolific as legal strike out robert leavened of ski has agreed to join trouble when his buy in munich from arch rivals dortmund at the end of the season the twenty five year old underwent a medical before signing a pre-contract agreement for a five year deal with the league leaders the fifty six count poland star helps

dortmund facts about domestic titles in two thousand and eleven and two thousand and twelve while also scoring the league's second best tally last season of twenty four goals in thirty one matches but now he sets to rejoin midfielder mario you also moved to buy in from dortmund last summer. while three days of national mourning is being observed in portugal after one of the country's greatest ever footballers you say vo has died at the age of seventy one the mozambique born forward scored a phenomenal seven hundred thirty three goals in seven hundred forty five matches and helped benfica win eleven domestic brands and one european cup he was also the top scorer at the nine hundred sixty six world cup in england with nine goals including four against north korea and had been a football ambassador since retiring in one nine hundred seventy nine. meanwhile coach carlo ancelotti as well as his assistants in

a deans of damage watched spanish giants royal madrid edges form a side french league leaders. one nil in a friendly in cats are twenty year old has say scored the nineteenth minute winner to upstaged teammate and ballon d'or nominee christiane i rebelled zero karim benzema went close to making it to nil early in the second half was denied by the woodwork. well p.s.g. frontman zlatan ybor him of it also failed to make an impact in that profile friendly bunch the sweden captain showed off his beach football skills in the desert as his guitar own club travels to the gulf country for a training camp during the winter break even have a bitch was also on the long list for the ballon d'or but failed to make the cut after sweden crushed that's two right now those portugal four two on aggregate in last november's world cup playoffs while the thirty two year old says he'd love to reignite with lionel messi after the boss alone a star was linked with a move to p.s.g. . if he's on the market of course is there because like

a explained before the project of peace is to dream big and to dream big if you can have a player like missy you don't dream big. dream is reality. and it was eight twenty seven's birthday to remember for hull city midfielder tom huddlestone who fired in the fourth goal of the tigers six nil home demolition of fallen in the english premier league to the point you make i haven't found the net since going for top name in a full two thousand and eleven and valves not to have his hair cut until he struck again over two and a half years and fifty five games later he ended that drought raising fifty nine thousand dollars for charity earning a place in the barber's chair. oh yeah the last place he votes that have been ready for the physio or the doctor ever that was at tottenham or overseas and. showed me a long time to finally go into a celebration on to ice hockey and help our house jesco moscow came up just short

of the spangler cup losing five three to geneva in the final of the invitational event in switzerland the local club storm to a four nearly had before alex separating got one back that says late in the second period alex in the follow noted discussed second soon after the break just followed what tussle which in the call then the key designed serve made it for three to hand says a lifeline with three minutes to go that joy was short lived as with a minute left on the clock as well as the bag gavin's sealed geneva suffice for a victory. well meanwhile in the cage fell defending champions and i was go one may ninth game in a row three two win over time at home to barry's to remain top of the table and on course best third straight cup robert about onion reports. just five seasons into the continental hockey league's he's three.