b.b. wins the right to drill in greenland pristine ice after promising it will be careful activists are unconvinced pointing to the gulf of mexico disaster and the firm's checkered past as warning of what's to come. the security collapse in iraq worsens a wave of bombings killing twenty people in the capital as al qaeda offshoot exploits the dire situation to gain control over the city of fallujah. 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 lower voters back from the right.

live from our studios in moscow you're watching r t international with me and he said now a greenland has decided to open up one of the world's most pristine and dangerous environments to oil drilling and environment so unforgiving 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 let's say yourselves he reports on why the country shifted its environment first. 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 . this mattered little to the new government in greenland drilling an 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 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. 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 admitted its ignored safety procedures a year later leaks have been a lot going to field spilled almost a million tons of crude into the landscape there in two thousand and ten the deepwater horizon rig exploded sparking the worst offshore oil spill in u.s. history doing incalculable damage to livelihoods and the environment and finally

a year later thousands of tons of chemical that a mix of water and oil were spilled when a pipeline berth in another alaskan oil field this track record was of special concern to greenpeace an arctic campaigner who we spoke to and he told us that greenland should think twice it's very important to green only government and the green only population is aware that the risks taken with you have been moments of consequences but also have is a spill happens when a spill happens have massive consequences for for example the fishery state so you agree it is just to be your wrist say the conditions are extremely harsh. like on a collision course almost on a daily basis women can scottish oil company that exploration drilling spot 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 all these bearings on so we can

actually hits it hits the oil rig there will of course be environmental consequences and at the same time there is no technology to clean up the spill last 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 my minutes like the greenlandic ones. it looks like hard up italian fashionistas are turning from designer to discount it just isn't the cash to floss on high end homegrown croteau or they do we tell you why a made in china label is in this season. also 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 the commercial districts of iraqi capital killing at least twenty people that's as the country's

bloodless army could be preparing to attack and recapture for lucia after an al qaeda linked group gained foothold there let's get more now from our two's paula slayer she joins us live so paula what steps is baghdad taking to retake fallujah. well is not the elements with al qaeda links have overrun the iraqi cities of ramadi and thousands of residents are fleeing these area as government forces launch airstrikes and fire artillery shells the iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki has vowed that government forces will not leave this area until all these extremist elements are to quote him eliminated but he does admit that for now the government has lost control in these cities in recent days the militants received a boost as they were joined in the fight against the baghdad government by sunni tribesmen and what is interesting is that it marks a change from the years prior to the u.s. withdrawal when major sunni tribes turned against al qaeda what we're witnessing

now is that they join forces with these al-qaeda groups against the shiite led government now the american administration has been slammed for creating the situation there are many who predicted that once the u.s. forces withdrew from iraq they would be a vacuum that would be created and that this would be fulled with extremist elements the u.s. secretary of state john kerry has promised support for the baghdad government that he has ruled out the possibility of boots on the ground he has said that the u.s. would not send troops back to that country to quote kerry he says that this fight is the fight of the baghdad government. cheese polls we're reporting live on the latest developments coming out of iraq violence going on across the country thanks paula well i'm cookouts fought in flu shot during the u.s. led campaign he thinks that the dire security the dire security situation was the inevitable result. i've 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 fellow veterans out with p.t.s.d. and things like that so i think it's it's is it is incredible to see. 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 stand it was really only a matter of time before this happened. you know. look the country's prime minister and his cabinet have completely failed to save the country. the hasn't been able to stop terrorist acts which is the taking the lives of the civilians in 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 didn't buy that did south except that 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 i mean is that this is a fight against al qaeda when in fact it isn't. on our website we're running a project dedicated to keeping tally of the violence in iraq especially the human cost also there read up on a former u.s. commanders dire predictions for afghanistan's future he tells us all mind how the holy contested helmand province could fall to the taliban this here where they could challenge the authority of kabul. 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. but moken mirrors rumors abound that the governor of new york is about to allow marijuana in the medical system that to on our website for you. compared to any other nation wide distribution i would see in the bank is almost free from all those mistakes. significant number of mistakes happen and we try to rectify it and we try to put a system where you can detect any fault in the any problem that exists in the system that does computer that is so that you can check that from your head office

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market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on our. welcome back here with our to 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 gradual for popular support as waters increasingly look further and further right wing when it comes to immigration u.k. independence party says david cameron is completely mis judging 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 it's not being racist is actually being realistic and listening to those people all that we suggesting you keep 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 well perth might not be the first thing to spring to mind when you think of winter olympics but these big cats are a symbol for sochi two thousand and fourteen for a reason the area is home to the endangered creatures who are fighting tooth and claw to survive three months slave in sochi to find out what's being done to help

them still be hunted resourceful scavengers persian let the smallest little while can't one stone these mountains in the caucuses. now these full of three elusive and skillful predators and being introduced to their natural habitat after fifty years thanks to the caucuses nature reserve leopard sentence it's part of a program listen 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 with them to get used to their new home and each other who the connection wasn't to mediate but dick come and there for his kids 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 hope to this group can lead to a resurgence called 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 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 them 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 them would say in so she's nature park for. such one of the twenty fourteen olympics what's this place like the why is is so special as the russian resort prepares to welcome the world power the games should be the city's present and future lot more sochi will bring you this is a moment to everybody from a very cold and snowy windy mountainous stop here beyond the olympics what the bombing would say. on our chain. italy 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 trying to traipse are slipping into the country and they're convincing enough to win over kastrup shoppers it's going to have 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 the 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 the. rubbish that the junk food the drunken 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 war has its own chinatown as well whole district in the center of the city filled with showing 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 styles 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 these chinese schools are not made in china anymore the materials are imported yes but since there are assembled here who are just lieschen allows the made it will be stamped on every

item something italian companies want changed if you need shelly's. off the proc but there we are working on quality and not. on quantity with large quantity and lope. proved the perfect tactic for the chinese who poured into the bank of italy germany at least one hundred million dollars out of italy to china. r t. so more of this hour's world headlines for you the opposition syrian national council has total confidence 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 legislation's been slammed by the un's refugee agency which it calls its 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 reach and sudan. parties are planning to move heavy artillery into the capital ahead of mass opposition rallies planned for next week and 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 citizens council to carry out reforms before any new elections are held. a stampede at a muslim ceremony in northern china has left at least fourteen people dead many

others were 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 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. it's often hard to imagine banks going out of their way to help the poor but next sophia coheres from a bank with jesse economists lauded for using them to bring millions out of poverty .

there are many internal battles in society liberals and conservatives will never agree on gun rights or abortion but there is one battle that is often more generational than anything the battle for school uniforms teachers argue that uniforms eliminate a big distraction in the classroom and break up the caste systems that can evolve at school between the cool fashionable kids and the ones who can barely afford lunch like me in my younger years but teenagers will scream uniforms course their freedom of expression and that they have a right to express who they are their individuality who has the right to dictate to them what to wear the thing they don't realize is that if the school doesn't tell them what to wear that big corporations and m.t.v. will all the cool individuals who dress alike and blindly follow all the trends are just obeying corporate marketing instead of their parents yeah for some reason it is bad if the school punishes you for dressing improperly but if the cool kids make

your life a living hell for not wearing the right brand of shoes well that's all well and good for some reason hey look at it this way school uniforms are cheap which leaves more money for parents to buy you video games being individual in your actions and not a fake individual in trendy clothes but that's just my opinion. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each good. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge they cherry sub they can the very strong position against them all and we think that. the genetically modified products are pretty cool tool there is no. evidence that there is any problem with genetic engineering when you make a deal. or is free cheese always in the most trash i don't believe

the. poor and the free. enterprise is profit. for social justice golden rice are cheap. drugs some of the sixteen percent 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 foot they enter our 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 notice. the faces changing the world writes now. on full picture of today's news long i pondered on from around the globe. dropped to. fifty. come to serbia. shevardnadze now few things are more depressing than looking to. escape. there especially when it's out by choice but by circumstance is there

a global solution to the poverty maybe not but luckily for sure we have. why does poverty persist why are the poor poor and the rich richer over half of the world lives on less than two and a half dollars a day children have no chance caught in this cycle below the poverty line what does it take to tackle poverty can a rising tide lifts all boats kind of to empower and encourage we speak to an anti-poverty pioneer who began with faith and a few dollars for. our guest today is the homage you know snuggle peace prize winner the pioneer of micro finance to financial strategy that's lifted millions out of poverty mr yunus first of all let me start by saying that we're really glad to have you on our program today and i'm just going to go ahead and

start with a question that all of our viewers are asking so how soon can worst pay back their depth to your bank is there a risk of being indebted for life to your bank for example. in the bank. to repay the loan is chosen by the board or she could pay it back in one month she can pay back in six months whatever she decides or two years is flexible but the current not conventionally with most of the borrowers like the end will cycle we did a one year in a week to the stallman you pay back your loan and then you borrow another one and continue to do that. but what happens and it's no question of getting into debt burden but what happens if you cannot pay the housing there's no question of oh it's up to her if she said i cannot pay back we didn't fifty two weeks of the one year and i need a few weeks weeks more reschedule it as long as she wants to pay we have no problem

we're not here to punish her for the time period we're here to help her so that she can use the money and earn enough money because these are all income generating loan in other words you invest in something which will generate income and you pay back the bank instantly have some money left for you out of your income so it's time period is not a big concern for us it's up to you and if you say well i thought i'll pay back in six months but then it in the fifth month they found out that i'll need more time then six months you say it and we reschedule it for another whatever number of months you need because after all you're paying back we have no grudge against you or any any other thing we don't want to make any problem for the borrowers we are we're not in a penalty mood for anybody we're not punishing anybody for anything we all to or want to be helpful to them so that it's defined it convenient they find it helpful to deal with the bank now i know your organization was eventually created to help.