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 the wrong. air contamination high levels of radiation at record companies have no hard hit sites are down amid public anger over fracking in the u.s. a new report says there are many more complaints of contamination than authorities and really companies are willing to admit. and as e.u. nations deal with debt by joining the great european fire sale we look at whether it's actually helping patch up national budgets. oh. it's twelve noon in moscow coming

to you live this is our international with me and he said now i will get to our tops story in a second but first this hour breaking news on r.t. up to five people have reportedly been killed and up to seventeen injured in a powerful factory explosion in central japan the blast was at a chemical plant owned by mitsubishi reports suggest it was caused by a hydrogen leak from a heat exchanger which was undergoing maintenance there's been no official comment so far we're tracking this story will bring you more details as and when we get them. iraq local tribes have stepped into the break 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 geo political rivals iran and america have united in opposition to the the mess islamists as going to camp 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 iraq 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 find 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's 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 the violent take a closer look at the group which is among the most radical jihadists in the region it was established at the start of the war in iraq and pledged alliance to osama bin laden in two thousand and four at that time the organization called itself al-qaeda in iraq it was later rebranded to the islamic state of iraq in the volume by two thousand and thirteen it had established a strong presence in conflicts 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 spans several countries including syria and iraq geo political researchers sariah seven for overage told me it's naive to think iran and america will unite in their efforts in the region because they have totally different goals. it seems america would like to help the

iraqi government find the row 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 this is all over with deeply in iran. and 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 the struggle in neighboring iraq or does it go deeper. i'll have totally different goals as far as extremism is concerned i do believe that it is

a goal for iran to fight it through. and the other hand we know the. united states is still feeding the fighters in syria through its ally jordan so it's very hard to to except what america said face value when this still continued to support that. the states in the us enjoying an energy boom due to fracking are having to deal with the backlash that comes with 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 their casting doubt on claims by industry bosses that these problems are rare let's take a closer look at the associated press looked at for us state 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 time. period in four cases the drilling

firm did agree to take corrective action in their pennsylvania saw nearly nine hundred complaints in the last two years alone and a hundred cases of pollution 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 archies very important i have witnessed public anger over fracking in the state of new york where people want the practice to be bad and. it was a top story twenty thirty that for man top priority to get this new year more than a thousand people have gathered in albany new york state capital to take the car and to type rocking probably the only it was the governor andrew cuomo she was cracking he was taking notice wow did you see copying was me mistake you see in the

sequel to where the governor is gets most of the books eight oz was the right thing even though he outlined schools and jackie throughout the year the distinction he's currently doing was sixty five percent interest probably. which will ultimately lead to his decision on whether or not he will allow fracking comics to move work states now over the past ten years fracking has led to a us boom in oil and gas production generating hundreds of billions in revenue for companies and land owners but it's also created concerns and fears about pollution a long list of scientists that environmentalists was conducted studying the kursk thinking that the chemical in talking to the candidate you will get the ball was dangerous of many of those that i spoke with a cable ready seen cases to change the sinking feeling of the state throughout the country and they don't see those cases was either where they live their

contaminated high levels of radiation oakridge the bottom line is extreme a credibly dirty form the extreme end of the extraction like i have any place in new york state of i feel like the fracking companies have no hard code is because they're not console the people's house this price are down to now quandaries now for a new level we think is fracking upstate new york we're going to ruin our fire and we need to do to renewable energy joy we were going to survive life on the planet the next twenty or thirty years. yes because i don't know how long it but there are still it is good because of the growth before she does so it gets rid of the problem for states that have been nurturing the rotting energy boom are now seeing a dangerous consequences of burning to dissociated brows pennsylvania west virginia ohio woodstock says received hundreds of the links last year believe it to water pollution and numerous cases where i actually couldn't store it was real i say they

do not want to be the next fracking. the question is will the governor of the state listen and heed to the concerns of his constituents the forty from albany new york read up or nial party. tracking 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 of the metals and radiation in the bones called 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 are in 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 in 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 will give you a year's supply of free drinking water or you have to do is sign this nondisclosure agreement that forbids you from ever mentioning this publicly the lack of good information about well contamination and all of these gag 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 off staying off the

family silver bits are high but has the great south broad and big money talks are something it takes a lot. 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 an 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 government debt in the euro zone is greater now than it was a year ago and some of the sales have led to public anger and frustration bestselling history and culture there selling beauty things that a priceless and they've touched the price tag to it i think that's absolutely reprehensible there's absolutely no guarantee that that 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 the very. same legal gone through this which is trades meant a huge international don't it which was uncalled for because more go to date has when the lowest rate of unemployment in the whole european union it's a question of principle over citizenship should not be pulled out on say proponents of privatization see it as a necessity for either 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. and financial expert patrick young believes the fire sale is a mere distraction from the real problems plaguing the euro zone when you've had a swinge ing incredible recession as we've seen in many parts of europe there will alternately 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 disorganized monetary system at the core of the european union the mediterranean countries have still done little or nothing to organize what is effectively 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 substantial issues europe needs to restructure it needs to be more competitive because already other countries are eating its lunch. coming up shortly here on our t.v. obsessing about the weather polar vortex 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 like the pros and cons of genetically modified food you just walk outside until pineapples are hard but look at how others choose to report the polar vortex that gripped the u.s. this week. if you. need to know opportunity. start

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people reportedly killed and seventeen injured in a powerful factory explosion in central japan the blast was at a chemical plant owned by mitsubishi is in the secured suggest it was caused by a hydrogen leak from a heat exchanger which was undergoing maintenance there's been no official comment so far but we'll bring you more details as we kept them. so look at some other world news this hour. i'm going to fight a protest ban and clash with police in central athens after they were denied the right to march on parliament the violence took place while the greek six month presidency of the european union was being officially inaugurated the ban came into force just hours before a group of e.u. commissioners led by european commission president emmanuel grosso arrived and. thousands of people are fleeing the city of venturi in south sudan expecting a massive offensive by government forces to recapture the key oil rich area 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. various scenes erupted outside a court in london after an inquest concluded that police acted lawfully when they shot dead in on our man chants of murderers were heard as police spokesman responded to the verdict mark duggan's death in 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 avenge his cousin's murder. in new york the u.n. security council members have failed to agree over a new statement on syria the 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 syrian opposition the u.k. refused to approve the amendment and so the draft was dropped altogether for a second time since december. parts of russia's north caucasus region have been put on security alert after five bodies the gunshot wounds were found in four separate cars two explosive devices were also found let's get the latest details from marty's alexy he now joins us live what do you know about this situation well we do know that several cars four cars with five dead bodies have been found in the starr report region along highway two of these people were reportedly taxi drivers and reportedly at one of these one of those cars a minor explosive device detonated when the police was on the scene no one was injured fortunately now the authorities are considering several version of what happened they've already considering they've already considered launching

a criminal case and several criminal articles such as illegal possession of arms manslaughter and the act of terror is not among these these considered versions nevertheless the authorities of the region have imposed a special security alert mode which is called the counterterrorist operation moved into districts of this terrible region on the usual day this would probably such events would would not probably lead to such a high security alert mode but of course in a month's time we'll have the sochi olympics and the whole region is basically in a special security mold right now this concern several regions in the russian south some of them are as far as seven hundred kilometers from the city of sochi but still no nevertheless they are in a special security mode where you know that in the city of sochi itself there will be special security checkpoints cars with license plates other than those belonging to the city of sochi will not be allowed inside unless they have a special accreditation but this will not concern the special security model not

concern fans in any way because their tickets to the games is providing that they can they can be anywhere in this in the city of sochi and surrounding areas so obviously the usual fans the common fans will have nothing to worry about these letters have to be reporting live for us on this latest developing story thanks for that. a group of n.s.a. whistleblowers want a conversation with rock obama about the systematic abuses the agency is accused up in a letter the four men who've been working at the n.s.a. 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 apparently hiding the full story on our website. also on the anglo biotech behemoths monsanto dubbed by some activists the world's most evil corruption corporation i should say forty and slip there announces an increase in profits and major expansion across latin america see how the g.m.o. giant is dominating our t.v.

dot com. right on the scene. first street. and i think that you're. on our reporters there. in. the in the. as the blast of cold weather that's been tormenting the united states eases we've taken the opportunity to look at how the local media set all the other news aside to demonstrate just how freezing freezing at arts he's an associate shark and that reports. more talked about in the u.s. 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 to 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 does your skin doing since weather is weather no matter how hard you try to keep your attention look at this is a lumo noddy's deficient chicago pizza hard as a rock you could use this as a weapon if you wanted to locate temperatures dropping to subzero extremes is a rare occurrence in certain parts of the u.s. but amping it up like there's no tomorrow might be

a tad over exaggerated your goal is to remember other people know it's cold people know they shouldn't go outside you don't need to go on and on and on and on and meanwhile the really really important news that 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 buy doubles 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 think you're going to r.t. new york. coming up next a special report on the rampant gun violence in new orleans.

what a country experiences a tragedy like the recent terrorism involved ground their 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 do a 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 do remember 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. drugs 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 top of that they enter our territorial waters they fish they load the fish on to the ships and leave for europe.

today illegal fishing is taking the bread out of our mouths. oh my god. you don't have to give me a second to think about this. one who. three. for. what i know about seven people a good man got to buy the guys so yeah it's like a run through my fam but that's the close of my brothers i know about ten people who have died than all the my brightest and care every day i walk out my house the hour film directed no by six and people think yeah they all die before they even time seventeen as is almost magical journalism about oh gosh i live you know

nobody's sorrow which is. every time in my day the current decade move on is bad enough. you to see somebody in a bed in the call we don't know bottom for the seed a need to send out of your gaze and explore my lives a lot of bands. first that they happen because of violence it was like you know the shadow but we came together. the second one it was all but we still came together.