was am i am. tribal groups in iraq step up to drive out radical islamist militants while the inbounds hold government in baghdad is offered help by balls america and iran. iraq and to me to look at british brokers that know how or why. i made public anger over franking in the us a new world paul signs there are many more complaints of contamination that authorities and drilling companies are willing to admit. and as e.u. nations deal with dad by joining the great european fire sale a look at whether it's truly helping patch up national projects.

international news and comment live from moscow you want to national with me. thanks for joining us. and iraq local tribes have stepped in to liberate their homes from al qaeda linked to militants sunni elders have asked government troops to pull back from province as local militias retake key positions from islamist forces meanwhile foreign powers have also weighed in driblets call rivals iran and america have united in opposition to the islamists has always been a trick and 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 its fight against terror for one the kind of terror that is now so rapidly metastasizing in syria and in walk radical sunni militants are gaining food holding iraq's unbar 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 in 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 exist for regime change in syria so still lots of differences when we see some early indications that common interest could be slowly coming to the forefront after years on the back burner. the militants dominating fighting rather for domination in iran belong to the so-called islamic state of iraq and leave the land and let's not take a closer look at the group which is among the most radical jihadists in the region so it was established at the start of the war in iraq and pledged allegiance to

osama bin laden in two thousand and four that time they were going to zation called itself in a rug it was later rebranded to the islamic state of iraq and leave bond 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 unbind near baghdad the ultimate goal of these radicals is the creation of an islamic state that was planned several countries including syria and iraq and one true political research or told my colleague and he said now if it's naive to think iran and america will unite efforts in the region because they have totally different goals. it seems america would like to help the iraqi government fight 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 is to have 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 with deeply if you run. america well is sitting nice and cozy because 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 think they 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 that. 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 at face value when this still continued to support them. and news just in from iraq local officials say

a suicide bombing has killed at least twelve people and wounded dozens in baghdad that target targeted a military recruiting center in the heart of the capital no one has claimed responsibility for the bombing such attacks have become more frequent as the islamic insurgency has escalated stay with anti international the latest. excuse me 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 while water becoming contaminated because of all and gas drilling and for that casting doubt of claims by industry bosses that these problems are rare let's now take a closer look at that so the associated press looks at it for us state since twenty ten in ohio one hundred ninety complaints were registered with six confirmed cases of contamination people in west virginia filed over one hundred twenty complaints

in the same period in four cases the drilling from agreed to take corrective action pennsylvania 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 that and there's been two thousand complaints but authorities there insist not a single case of contamination has been confirmed that is more important eyewitness public anger over fracking in the state of new york where people want the practice to be banned. i was the top story in twenty thirty that for man top priority to get this new year one thousand people gathered in albany new york state capital to take the car and to type packing probably only it was the governor andrew cuomo to get cracking and he was taking notice wow did you see how he was me to seek you in the

seat building where the governor is to expose the little eight of these things because the right thing you know how wide schools and through the years things should be currently thank you wake was see even to see jurors could probably get which will ultimately lead to a decision on whether or not he was rocking to come to move work states now over the past ten years tracking has led to 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 the long list of scientists that environmentalists who conducted study that was 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 thank you thank the c.e.o. placing the data throughout the country and they don't see those cases was either

where they live or contaminated high levels of radiation oakridge the bottom line is extreme credibly dirty form of extreme and it takes traction because i don't have any place in new york city i feel like the fracking companies have no heart was there is because i was there not console people's house this is life or death in our quandaries now we knew about we think this 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 would take a degree before she does so it gets rid of the problem for states that have been nurturing the rocking energy boom are now seeing the dangerous consequences of going to cedar rapids pennsylvania was would you know why you woodstock's is receiving hundreds of them really last year when we needed to water pollution and

numerous cases were actually consider was real because they did not want to be the next fracking what was the question is will the governor of the state listen and heed to the concerns of his constituents who heard it from albany new york and read up one eye on the arctic. fracking requires companies to pump chemicals into the ground to break upon him for a big ass hole to come then return to the surface containing something heavy metals and radiation as well as causing at pollution and go over fracking as united many acts of us across the globe but renewable energy other kids tyson slocum says there's a reason why we hear so little about the dangers. it 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 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 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 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 that

debt mountains and repair the budgets european government have resorted to saying all the finalists over the bids are high but has the great sale brought him big money. like. 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 they're selling history and culture they're 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 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 done 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 investor i wouldn't be buying many of these things all these cars. trees have serious political risks for any kind of foreign

investor anybody trying to buy an asset in france or buying 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 cilia r t and financial expert patrick young believes the fire sale is a mere distraction from the real problems plaguing the u.s. and 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 us back to some degree but truly the problem is that the euro is still fundamentally a counsellor as disorganized monetary system at the core of the european union the mediterranean countries have still done little or nothing to organize what is affectively and 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 when i see international obsessing about the way. forward 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 like the pros and cons of genetically modified food you just walk outside and go by example there are. a look at how opposite tries to uphold the text the british think was this week's this.

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welcome back to our to international and a developing story here now five people have been killed and seventeen injured in a powerful factory explosion in central japan and firefighters if this was a chemical plant owned by makes a big shake investigators suggest it was caused by a hydrogen leak from a heat exchanger it was undergoing mate and police say all the casualties are company and were rushed to hospital the plant. of russia's north caucuses region have been put on security alert after five bodies with gunshot wounds were found in four separate cars so explosive devices were also found out he's in mexico city's. 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 versions nevertheless the authorities of the region have imposed a special security alert mode which is called the counter terrorist operation mode into district of this terrible region on the usual day that she has would 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 legs 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 concerned the special security model not concerned fans in any way because there are 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 but the u.k. refused upper of the management so the draft was dropped altogether the second time says to send. another world news this hour. several hundred angry angst is defined approaches a ban on clash with police in central africa this after they were denied the right to march in poland 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 the e.u. commission is led by european commission president jose manuel barroso arrived in athens. thousands of people are fleeing the city been tear 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 one here cuse his former deputy of plotting a coup a total of two hundred thousand people and also thought to be displaced across the whole country. you see as arrested outside a court in london inquest concluded that police acted lawfully when they shal dead and an unarmed man chalons of murderers were heard as a police spokesman responded to the verdict duggan's death in twenty eleven triggered one of the worst balance of writing in britain for generation it had been

under surveillance because of suspicion he was planning to of the entries cousins monitor. a group of n.s.a. whistleblowers a conversation with bob a systematic abuses the agency is accused up letter of the film has been walking out of the n.s.a. for a total of one hundred forty four years said they're seeking an opportunity to brief the president all the issues the agency is still apparently hiding read the full story on our website. and also online global biotech care behave of monsanto don't buy it some actually is the world's most evil corporation. and also as an increase in profits and a major expansion across latin america see how the tram how dry it is dominating attitude on. the street. first street. and i think you're.

going to. be. as the blast of cold weather that's been to mentoring the united states eases we've taken the opportunity to look at how the local media said all of the news aside to demonstrate just how freezing freezing is also going to citric in a report. 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 it's a whirlpool of dense frigid arctic air ladies and gentlemen meet the cold 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 little mall not as deep as chicago pizza hard as a rock you could use this as a weapon if you wanted to it's ok temperatures dropping to subzero extremes it 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 you go as. 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 while the really really

important 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 are to new york. and coming up next the special report on the run and gun violence in young.

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. right to see. first street. and i think you're. on a reporter's twitter. instagram. they in the. as part of their mission to transform the state juvenile justice system j.p.l. hold favors to educate young people about how the law can affect their lives and a number of national studies have looked at the fact that when you take

a child away from their community you take them out of school you take them away from any support system they're often housed in inhumane conditions rarely get adequate education or treatment you're disrupting their lives without actually providing them with any positive interventions are positive supports and so what happens is that upon release they're even less prepared to deal with society too often. find it hard to finish school or to fund employers that will hire them. one block away from the prison is liberty's kitchen and organization dedicated to helping at risk youth right now a lot of a so i'm trying to scream i pad but i'm going to do a lot of the time i was on a gun charge i want it for thousand bad police. dog and ization trained sixteen to

twenty year olds in a working restaurant work often begins with a group discussion over a daily quote it's easier to build strong children than the paper of good men is easy to build strong children in the paper will commit liberty's kitchen aims to put you on a road to a self-sufficient life you know mongul school right now because their money that you make a lot of the young people i work with don't have examples only miles of people get up go to work every day they young sixteen seventeen years old so naturally they don't have work experience a lot of folks don't want to because you have to make a commitment to trainees and that's doesn't that everybody's will do for kids who don't have support it can be hard to live up to the requirements of probationary period. so that means that they need to check in once a week drug court so they've got to.