tribal groups in iraq step up to drive out radical islamist militants while the embattled government in baghdad is offered help by both america and be wrong. hundreds of complaints have been lodged in america's energy boom states because of water contamination allegedly caused by fracking and other drilling methods look at why we rarely hear about them. and nations deal with dad by joining the great european fire sale we look at whether it's actually helping patch out national budget. oh. hello and welcome live from moscow you're with r.t.

international i mean east and now a with our top story in iraq local tribes have stepped in to liberate their homes from al qaeda linked militants sunni elders have asked government troops to pull back from anbar province as local militias retake key positions from islamist forces meanwhile foreign powers have also weighed in do political rivals iran and america have united in opposition to the islamists is going to now reports. because of politics of the last few decades you think about the u.s. and iran as enemies that don't have anything in common but they do and it's fight against terror for one the kind of terror that is now so rapidly metastasizing in syria and in your book radical sunni militants are gaining food hold in iraq's own bar province and the iraqi government is struggling to drive them out now for americans who had heard the term state sponsor of terrorism so many times used to try and iran this whole setting sounds unusual and u.s.

secretary of state john kerry saying that iran might play a role of the peace talks on syria also sounds unusual among the audience that is so used to the hostile rhetoric although on syria both washington and tehran say they want to stop the spillover of terror iran does not share washington is just for regime change in syria so still lots of differences but we see some early indications that common interest could be slowly coming to the forefront after years on the back burner. the militants fighting for domination in iraq belong to the so-called islamic state of iraq and love on the stick a closer look at the group which is among the most radical jihadists in the region it was a sadness at the start of the war in iraq and pledged allegiance to osama bin laden in two thousand and four at that time the organization called itself in iraq it was later rebranded the islamic state of iraq in the volume i twenty thirteen it had established

a strong presence in conflict torn syria last week the group seize control of a key city in the iraqi province of anbar near baghdad the ultimate goal of these radicals is the creation of an islamic state that would spend several countries including syria and iraq geo political researchers sariah said before over its told me it's naive to think iran and america will unite their efforts in the region because they have totally different goals. it seems america would like to help the iraqi government fight terrorists that were created because of the occupation of the foreign forces of america and yet in syria next door in syria the same group are being aided to overthrow the government in syria so america is continuing its two political games in the region and of course the people that suffer are the countries themselves iran is a neighbor of iraq so the spillover deeply in iran. in america will is

sitting nice and cozy across the ocean you mentioned that the u.s. and iran have been propping up different sides of the conflict in syria are they really united over this struggle in neighboring iraq or does it go deeper. i have personally different goals as far as extremism is concerned i do believe that it is a goal for iran to fight extremism and the other hand you know the. united states is still feeding the fighters in syria through its ally jordan so it's very hard to to accept what america has to say face value when this still continued to support now. the states in the u.s. enjoying an energy boom due to fracking are having to deal with the backlash that comes with it a new report found that people who live in those states have filed hundreds of complaints of well water becoming contaminated because of oil and gas drilling for

casting doubt on claims by industry bosses that these problems are rare let's take a closer look the associated press looked at us states since twenty ten in ohio one hundred and ninety complaints were registered with six confirmed cases of contamination people in west virginia filed over a hundred and twenty complaints. in the same period in four cases though the drilling firm did agree to take corrective action in pennsylvania they saw nearly nine hundred complaints in the last two years alone and over one hundred cases of pollution were confirmed in the past five years but the state of texas is the clear leader in the number of people fed up with fracking there's been two thousand complaints but authorities there insist not a single case of contamination has been confirmed or jews were reported i have witnessed public anger over fracking in the state of new york where people want the practiced to be bad. i was the top story in twenty thirty that for a man was

a top priority because this is new york you would have thousands of people gathered in albany new york city capital to take the car and to type back in the valley was the governor andrew cuomo to get cracking he was stating how this rally that you see talking was me just take you in the sequel to where the governor is gets all the little aide. was the right thing even though he outlines the schools and jackie who is the hero of the station currently if you wait to see the various interests could probably. which will ultimately lead to a decision on whether or not he was rocking the comics movie work states now over the past ten years tracking has led to a u.s. boom in oil and gas production generating hundreds of billions in revenue for companies and landowners but it's also created concerns and fears about pollution

a long list of scientists that environmentalists conducted study that was concluding that the chemical in talking to the candidates if you will the ball was dangerous so many of them i spoke with thank you for writing seem cases to dangerous to the city like the state throughout the country and they don't see those cases because the to where they live contamination high levels of radiation oh it's great because the bottom line is extreme a credibly dirty form of extreme and it takes traction because of anyplace new york state i feel like the fracking companies have no hard code is because they're not console people's houses this price are down to now quandaries now renewable we register can upstate new york we're going to ruin our fire and we need to be to renewable energy joy we're going to survive life on the planet the next twenty or thirty years. yes because i don't know how long it would take hold of the growth

before she does so it gets rid of the problem of course states that have been nurturing not rocking energy boom are now seeing a dangerous consequences of going to cedar rapids pennsylvania west virginia all ohioans taxes received hundreds of the early last year leave it to water pollution and numerous cases who are actually concerned real fast they do not want to be the next fracking. the question is who the governor of the state listen and heed to the concerns of his constituents the forty from albany new york read up or nial artsy. rocking requires companies to pump chemicals into the ground to break apart rock and free the gas water can then return to the surface containing salt heavy metals radiation as well as costs air pollution anger over fracking has united many activists across the globe but renewable energy advocate tyson slocum says there's

a reason why we hear so little about the dangers. the fact is that the hydraulic fracturing process is injecting millions of gallons of highly corrosive and highly toxic chemical mixtures into the ground and some of them already small traces it still is harmful. for health but it's more difficult to pick up especially if different state agencies lack the resources to do the full kind of testing required what this investigation shows is that basically most of these states are just operating hotlines where people can call and report these concerns that they're having but we're not seeing a systemic follow up to to determine exactly what if any contamination has occurred at the oil company will say listen we'll give you ten or twenty thousand dollars in cash we'll give you a year's supply of free drinking water all you have to do is sign this

nondisclosure agreement that forbids you from ever mentioning this publicly if the lack of good information about well contamination and all of these. orders on these nondisclosure agreements it's having a huge impact on policy. hard pressed to deal with their debt mountains and repair their budgets european governments have resorted to auctioning off the family silver the bizarre high but has the great sell grown in big money tests are silly it takes a look. it's been dubbed the great european fire sale in a bid for cash these are just some of what's been up for grabs but even funds raised from headline grabbing deals might not be enough like six greek island sold for eight point five million euros and italian island sold for two point nine million exclusive rights to use the coliseums image on their products for fifteen years twenty five million euros don't have

a debt of the euro zone is greater now than it was a year ago and someone. the sales have led to public anger and frustration bestselling history and culture best selling beauty things a priceless and they've attached a price tag to it i think that's absolutely reprehensible there's absolutely no guarantee that the privatization will help consumers at all and one of the most surprising items recently put on the market was citizenship for a little over a million euros you get a maltese passport and therefore become an e.u. says it a move that's been put on hold as two thirds of the public at opposition leaders cry foul is very split in this same legal going through this which is trades meant a huge international down which which was uncalled for because more go to date has one of the lowest rates of unemployment in the whole european union it's a question of principle our citizenship should not be pulled out on say proponents

of privatization see it as a necessity for even nations that are in dire straits but also warned that by europe at a bargain may not be as much of a jackpot as one might think if i were investor i wouldn't be buying many of these things all of these countries have serious political risks for any kind of foreign investor anybody trying to. buy a house and italy has to reckon with the possibility that ten twenty years down the line a government is just going to nationalize whatever they whatever they want to nationalize but for what it's worth this sale continues tesser sylvia r.t. and financial expert patrick young believes the fire sale is a mere distraction from the real problems. when you've had a swinge ing incredible recession as we've seen in many parts of europe there will ultimately be a point in time when the economy binds the spark to some degree but truly the problem is that the euro is still fundamentally

a counsellor us disorganised monetary system the court of the european union the mediterranean countries have still done little or nothing to organize what is affectively an intergenerational warfare older people can keep and get on hold on to their jobs younger people simply have no chance of getting any jobs in the first place let alone keeping them and therefore we do not have a sustainable recovery europe it's trying to paper over the cracks it is simply failing to address the very very substantive issues europe needs to restructure it needs to be more competitive because already other countries are eating its lunch coming up shortly here in our t. obsessing about the weather. for texas the polar vortex the polar vortex you don't to worry about the confusing stuff the stuff with new ones like the syrian civil war or like the pros and cons of genetically modified food you

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welcome back you're with our international live from moscow in new york the u.n. security council members have failed to agree over a new statement on syria u.k. backdraft would have condemned the syrian government for the bombing of aleppo where hundreds were reportedly killed recently according to diplomatic sources russia said the statement was unbalanced and wanted to include a condemnation of violence by the syrian opposition but the u.k. refused to approve the amendment and so the draft was dropped altogether for the second time since december. meanwhile the world's chemical weapons watchdog is urging syria to speed up the removal of its toxic arsenal it's feared violence in the country could derail the disarmament process which is due to be

complete by june and international efforts to mediate peace in syria have hit a new hurdle the main western back opposition group is split on whether to attend the geneva two conference later this month although some analysts and says the umbrella group doesn't have the support of the syrian people. the term syrian opposition is as strong as it could be this these groups are neither syrian nor a position so they don't have in their interest in the good the benefit of the people or of the country these groups are very very often influenced by the west by turkey by the goal if states we have to imagine or to see those groups more like militant gangs like a sort of mafioso those groups who claim about themselves that they re priests and the moderate opposition of the mob are moderate rebels don't have any influence on the battleground we know in the meanwhile that the fights on the ground are always

by slamming extremists a group of n.s.a. was a blowers want a conversation with barack obama about the systematic uses the agency is accused up in a letter in the format we've been working on it say for a total of one hundred forty four years that they are seeking an opportunity to brief the president on all the issues the agency is still in hiding to read the full story on our website and. also online global. monsanto repeatedly called the world's most evil corporation announces an increase in profits and major expansion across america see how the g.m.o. giant is dominating our team. right. first street. and i think you're.

going to. be in. another world news this hour. there are hundred angry activists to fight a protest ban and clashed with police in central office after they were denied the right to march on parliament violence took place while the greek six month presidency of the european union was being officially inaugurated the ban came just into force just hours before a group of commissioners led by a european commission president jose manuel barroso a right enough and. thousands of people are fleeing the city of bend to you in south sudan expecting a massive offensive by government forces to recapture the key oil rich area from rebels at least a thousand people have been killed in ethnic violence between supporters and

opponents of the president since december when he accused his former deputy of plotting a coup a total of two hundred thousand people are now thought to be displaced across the country. here in the rugged outside a court in london after an inquest concluded that police acted unlawfully when they shot dead in our man chance of murderers were heard as police spokesman responded to the verdict mark duggan staff and twenty eleven triggered one of the worst bouts of rioting in britain for a generation had been under surveillance because of suspicion he was planning to eventually cousins. as a blast of cold weather that's been tormenting the us eases we've taken the opportunity to look at how the local media set all of their news aside to demonstrate just how freezing freezing is our teams honest the teacher from the reports and more talked about in the us media than the most ridiculous celebrity baby name and the royal wedding combined it's called

a polar vortex the polar vortex the polar vortex the polar vortex more frightening than your worst nightmare a whirlpool of dense frigid arctic air ladies and gentlemen meet the cold it's a cold hell if you can imagine so it is the coldest it has been decades. every thirty seconds and all it's really cold out this is the most important mainstream news story for days on end we have a team of correspondents covering this arctic blast it's really obvious that it's cold but just to keep your journalistic integrity you want to first hand account of how cold it is and if a mailman is all bundled up saying yeah it's cold then you know it's actually called here's a hamburger and a steak even though there's really only that much to eventually talk about how's your skin doing since weather is weather no matter how hard you try to keep your attention look at this is a little mall not as deep as chicago pizza hard as a rock you could use this as a weapon if you wanted to is ok temperatures dropping to subzero extremes is a rare occurrence in certain parts of the us but i am doing it up like there's no

tomorrow might be a tad over exaggerated your goal is to remember us people know it's cold people know they shouldn't go outside you don't need to go on and on and on and meanwhile there's really really important news that's not getting covered then again weather coverage doesn't require bringing up the truly unpleasant you don't to worry about the confusing stuff the stuff with new ones like the syrian civil war like the pros and cons of genetically modified food you just walk outside and go by examples or heart as a result other countries are rolling their eyes at us because we're complaining that it's cold but they're also rolling their eyes at us about everything else it looks like the us mainstream media are taking their tips from an old piece of advice if you don't know what to say just talk about the weather and if they see it you're going to r.t. new york. bring you more news in about half an hour from now up next with abby martin and breaking the sound.

when a country experiences a tragedy like the recent terrorism in volgograd there question is what to do about it i mean we have to do something right let's never let a good tragedy go to waste one two one member recommends getting rid of the moratorium on the death penalty for prayers groups including terrorists because the death penalty is the perfect way to punish a suicide bomber also this duma member failed to mention high level cryptic kratz in the government as those who could possibly face the firing squad perhaps that was just an honest oversight i'm not against the death penalty in some rare instances but punishing terrorists after the fact doesn't bring victims back the focus needs to be on the source of terrorism soldiers can play around all day with

weapons because the government gives them a salary weapons and training some people are recruiting arming and training new terrorists you don't need to usher in a massive surveillance state to stop terrorism or go death penalty crazy what you need to do is hit the funding and training source hard if you can i mean how many of you guys out there could make a remotely detonated bomb a c. four on your own without help almost none of you see for doesn't grow on trees someone pays for it but that's just my opinion. you cannot preemptively restrict your freedoms because of the fear of what something or how something might be used everything that has ever been developed has been used for a bad purpose baseball bats which are fun for you know for baseball players to hit balls you know they've also been used to be people today i mean we just cannot restrict ourselves because something might be in the wrong way.

what's up people i'm having martin in this break in the set so yesterday we devoted our entire show they had wallace who tried the pine ridge reservation in south dakota but it simply wasn't enough and so tonight we continue to explore one of the most important and under reported issues in america today the abysmal failure by the federal government to uphold centuries old treaties and the avenues that the soup people are taking on power themselves and build a sustainable future now let's break the said. the pledge to the table they are looking very hard to take a little while to get to the. one that he ever had sex with that hurt rick

they're looking. to the to. the in. the black hills of south dakota contains some of the oldest mountains in the world it's an area of five thousand square miles that have been held sacred to the lakota people for hundreds of years nine hundred sixty eight the us government signed the fort laramie treaty which granted sovereignty the native residents and prevented outside settlers from ever occupying the land however this all changed in eight hundred seventy four when gold was discovered miners flooded the area in just

under a decade the us government had taken near full control of the black hills fast forward a century to one thousand nine hundred eighty when a landmark supreme court decision granted one hundred six million dollars in the suv for both damages and ownership of the land. but tribal leadership refused to entertain the notion that the black hills could be bought with interest the offer by the u.s. now sits in a trust and it's worth over a billion dollars and although there are rumors of potential negotiations happening nearly every single tribe member i spoke to was adamant the black hills are not for sale for western minds it's kind of hard to grasp why the second most economically devastated community in the country would turn down a billion dollars so i sought to find out why. our culture our language our souls are our ceremonies all of the earth water. everything that you know coexist on the earth here where we're related to and everything that is comes from

the black hills the black hills my grandfathers told me you know it's really par for a spiritual thing is not in those no money a price you can put on that and so that's the reason why we never sell the all the land with then does red border that is not dark brown was stolen by the federal government and given to the white people the black hills should be restored to its proper ownership. i. aside from the forced destruction of a culture and the genocide that took place against the indigenous population of north america one of the darkest stains that carries over to this day is the

blatant violation of over five hundred longstanding treaties between the federal government and native american communities every single one of these treaties is either been changed or destroyed over the years despite the words of andrew jackson who stated as long as the grass grows in the water runs these treaties will never be broken so the talk about the meaning of these treaties in the historical context of where pine ridge finds itself today i spoke with floyd looks from buffalo hand heads going to the sioux nation treaty council i first asked him how christianity has played a role in the of this aeration of native culture. in american immigrants was takers do not give yours and it all started from christianity guy are you have the power of will so what has happened since. they used good tool of christianity europeans to control and.