tribal groups in iraq set up to drive out radical islamist militants while the embattled government backed down its offer help by both america and iran. they are contaminated high levels of radiation at record companies 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 drilling companies are willing to admit. there's even nations deal with dead by joining the great european fire sale we look at whether it's actually helping patch up national budget.

live from moscow you're watching r t international with me and he said now way 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 to political rivals iran and america have united in opposition to the islamists as 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 its fight against terror for one the kind of terror that is now so rapidly metastasizing in syria and walk 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 the vox six a closer look at the group which is among the most radical jihad us in the region it was a stop us at the start of the war in iraq and pledged allegiance to osama bin ladin 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 and levant by 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 span several countries including syria and iraq geo political researchers sariah supper for all rich 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 grown 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 eventually but the us 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 have personally 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 accept what america is that you want this still continued to support. the states in the u.s. and drawing in energy boom due to fracking are having to deal with the backlash that comes with it a new report found that people live in those states have filed hundreds of

complaints of well water becoming contaminated because of oil and gas drilling for casting doubts on claims by industry bosses that these problems are rare let's take a closer look the associated press looked at four u.s. 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 amount of. time in four cases drilling firms did agree to take corrective action their pennsylvania sought nearly nine hundred complaints in the last two years alone and over a 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 report and i witnessed public anger over fracking in the state of new york where people want the practice to be

banned. it was a top story and twenty third t.v. camera man was a top priority with this new york's more than a thousand people gathered in albany new york city capital to take the garbage can type packing probably the only it was the governor andrew cuomo to get cracking he was taking notice wow did you see copying was me to say q in the sequel to where the governor is gets most of the books eight of these things because the right think you already outlined to schools and jackie throughout the year was the issue he's currently if you wait to see the various interests could probably get which will ultimately lead to a decision on whether or not he was cracking comics move works takes now over the past ten years tracking has led to a us 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 was conducted studying the course thinking that the chemical in talking to the candidate you will get the ball was dangerous so many of us that i spoke with thank you for writing seem cases dangerous was taking place throughout the day to the drought the country and they don't think those cases because these are where they live their contamination high levels of radiation oh it's great the bottom line is extreme a credibly dirty form of extreme an extraction like i have any place in new york state i feel like the fracking companies you know hard code is because they're not console people's houses this is life or death you know what are you now for a new album we think is freaking upstate new york we're going to ruin our time and we need to do to renewable energy joy we were going to survive life on the planet

the next twenty or thirty years. because i don't know how long the mother is going to let us blood pick holes in the ground before she does so that gets rid of the problem for us states that have been nurturing not rocking energy boom are now a dangerous consequences of burning to seceded rats pennsylvania west virginia violence taxes received hundreds of good only last year related to water pollution and numerous cases where i actually confront real estate they do not want to be the next fracking but the question is will the governor of the state listen head heed to the concerns of his constituents reporting from albany new york and read up or not artsy. fracking requires companies to bomb chemicals into the ground to break apart rock and free the gas water can then return to the surface containing salt on the metals and radiation as well as causing air pollution anger over fracking has ignited activists across the globe

a 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 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 it bill 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 drink. in 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 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 auctioning off the family silver the beds are high but has the great sell brawn and big money that's are selling 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 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 of led to public anger and frustration they're selling history and culture they're selling beauty things there's 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. splitting the same legal gone 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 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 borg it may not be as much of a jackpot as one might think if i were in the us i wouldn't be buying many of these things all of these countries have serious. medical risks for any kind of foreign investor anybody trying to buy an asset in france or buying a house in 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 cilia r t and financial expert patrick young believes the fire sale is a mere distraction from the real problems plaguing the girl's own when you've had a sudden shing incredible recession as we've seen in many parts of europe there will alternately be a point in time when the economy binds us back to some degree but truly the problem is that the euro is still fundamentally

a counsellor us disorganised monetary system at the core 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 and 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 in our t. 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

and go by devils or hard look at how others choose to report the polar vortex thank gripped the u.s. this week. talking about language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports but unlike the pollution no i will leave that to the state department to comment on your latter point. to secure your car it's all your dog. knows i. think you know more. when you need a direct question the prepared for a change when you know you should be ready for a. critical speech and let down the freedom to question.

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 beat people to death i mean we just cannot restrict ourselves because something might be used in a in the wrong way. well

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to have you with us here on t.v. today i roll researcher. welcome back to return to international live from moscow and it's a valid big story here five people have been killed and seventeen injured in a powerful factory explosion in central japan the blast was at a chemical plant owned by mitsubishi investigators suggest it was caused by a hydrogen leak from a heat exchanger which was undergoing maintenance police say all the casualties are company employees. parts of russia's north caucasus region have been put on security alert after five bodies with gunshot wounds were found in four separate cars two explosive devices were also found arches alexy ourselves has the details

two of these people were reportedly taxi drivers and reportedly at one of these one of those cars as 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 considered launching a criminal case and several criminal articles such as illegal possession of arms manslaughter act of terror is not among these considered diversions nevertheless the authorities of the region have imposed a special security alert mode which is called the counterterrorist operation mode into districts of the starr report region on the usual day that. events would not have probably led to such a high security alert mode but of course in a month's time we'll have these sorts your lympics and the whole region is basically in a special security mode 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 we 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 special accreditation but this will not concerned the special security model not concerned 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. 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 the syrian opposition u.k. refused to approve that amendment so the draft was dropped on together for the second time since december. look at some other world headlines for you this hour.

several hundred angry activists to fight a protest ban in clash with police in central athens after they were denied the right to march on part of a meant by this took place while the greek six month presidency of the european union was being officially inaugurated the band came into force just hours before a group of commissioners led by a european commission president jose manuel barroso arrived in athens. thousands of people are fleeing the city of bend too 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 fought to be displaced across the country. furious interrupted outside a court in london after an inquest concluded that police acted lawfully when they

shot at an unarmed man chance 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 he had been under surveillance because of suspicion he was planning to avenge his cousin's murder. a group of n.s.a. whistleblowers want a conversation with barack obama about the systematic abuse is the agency is accused out in a letter the four men who've been working at the n.s.a. for a total of one hundred forty four years they are seeking an opportunity to brief the president on all the issues the agency is still apparently hiding with the full story on our website. also online global biotech behemoth monsanto dubbed by some activist the most the world's most evil corporation announced an increase in profits and major expansion across latin america we have the g.m.o. giant is dominating at r.t.

dot com. right to see. first street. and i think that you're. on our reporters twitter. and in. the end. as the blast of cold weather that's been tormenting the united states eases we're taking the opportunity to look at how the local media set all of their news aside to demonstrate just how freezing freezing is our tease us to see a chart in 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. the 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 is 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 ok 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 is 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 by examples are hard 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. in a couple of minutes over talks on a boycott and worlds apart say with our team time that's.

what 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 do remember recommends getting rid of the moratorium on the death penalty for various 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. 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.

it's a pure twenty four to thirty six month scam to make five percent on the money that was given to them from the corrupt marconi the bank of england to begin with and it will result in ecological all cost who cares more debt to the u.k. economy so what and other consequences that will result in lifestyle being degraded more chance or you know to look kids are. a lot of welcome to worlds apart and a half years ago egypt and much of the arab fault were going through dramatic changes that even the most creative screenwriter couldn't imagine hopes were high

if you just seem bright and be happy and simply within reach what happened to those dreams while to discuss that i'm now joined by a prominent egyptian actor and activist. mr ricketts i really appreciate your being on the show and thank you very much thank you thank you very much for inviting me now i remember that back in two thousand and eleven you spent days on tougher square alongside all the protesters calling for president hosni mubarak to step down and eventually thanks to your efforts and the efforts of thousands of other dedicated patrick activists he eventually deed and in one of the interviews you gave back then you said that that made you feel very proud of the egyptian people i wonder if you still hold on to that pride i. are you proud of what is happening in your country now yes i'm definitely proud we went down two thousand and eleven to object to a number of wrong things that were happening in our country and when they happened

again we just took to the streets again very quickly and very effectively because three days instead of eighteen days the second time so i'm still asked bro but i remember that one of the main slogans that you could hear on tap for square background was brad freedom and human dignity and if you take those as as a yardstick of. success or progress the the picture is not really bribe because your economy is much worse than it used to be more people have been arrested or killed since the ouster of mubarak than prior to that and when it comes to human rights and human dignity the progress is very limited to say the least so isn't egypt pretty much back to where it was before the arab spring only much worse i think what's happening now in the.