which is why you should. only. read captives of an extremist group in syria tell shocking details of their ordeal as the militants fighting under the blunt land of al-qaeda emerge as the most radical power in the region feared even by anti assad forces meanwhile. is still feeding the fighters in syria america's middle east policies are raising eyebrows with washington's offer to help fight the same militant group in a rug appearing to draw it together with iran. also this hour a huge fire sale islands councils and historic cities go under behind the in europe as cash strapped governments in brand new ways to need their budgets aren't. going to be to get rid of your. fears of

a fraud king as a new report reveals hundreds of complaints of contamination but officials and companies seem keen to ignore that. international news and comment live from moscow you're watching out international with me thanks for joining us. several hundred captives of a hard line rebel group linked to al qaida have been freed in syria they were being held by fighters from the islamic state of iraq and live band who are one of the most radical jihadist militant groups in the region she is middle east correspondent point to see how small now and this and you might find some footage in her report disturbing. this group is looking as if the actions of kerry's are

increasingly horrific there is video that is circulating of a terrible execution the video is verified but it comes from the syrian city of aleppo and what we see in it is people who have been killed by this al qaeda affiliated islamic state in iraq from an event which is calling itself the i guess is the understand is that the people killing each other for to flee from the family . and the options to journalists among them as you see they were shocking in hades as well as being handcuffed now this comes after these islamic rebels have to be hit with a trace of and let's hope and what we're looking at the solution is a position killing opposition of the free syrian army is certainly horrified by the rise of these radical rebel groups there is no denying that i insist is worse than the syrian president bashar assad fighters of the eye is is we're using the children's eye hospital as the central detention facility and dozens of bodies were

discovered inside they appear to have been executed those who survived and some of the eyewitness reports that are coming through say that the treatment was worse than they were ever treated by the regina's intelligence one of them saying that he was praying that bombs would drop that planes would drop bombs to put in to their ordeal now fighters of the same group as i insist who are behind executions and kidnappings in syria are now controlling key cities in iraq's biggest province with the searchers and analysts saying that the wives of radicals in the region is that knowledge being fueled by the e.u. is policy so certainly a very worrying picture unfolding in this region the u.s. as a red is speeding up its missile i'm drawn to neighbors to iraq while the white house has asked for the senate to allow a patrick helicopter sales to assist the iraqi government it's a different story in syria where rebels to enjoy a major supporter

a washington political research. 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 now it seems america would like to help the iraqi government fight terrorists that were created because of the occupation of the fire 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. a suicide bombing has killed at least twenty one soldiers at a military recruitment center in baghdad that is believed to be in retired into

government attempts to push al qaeda fighters from saluja the u.s. is weighing in offering help along with iran which says it's ready to send military equipment. looks at tehran and washington finding themselves on the same side of the conflict. 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 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 fine iran this whole setting sounds unusual and u.s. secretary of state john kerry is 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 for regime change is serious 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. meanwhile a fresh un resolution on syria is seeking to condemn their assad government has failed the statement drafted by the u.k. expressed outrage at as tracks on aleppo which have been carried out since last month over seven hundred are believed to have been killed the resolution was counted after diplomats refused to add amendments offered by russia. and for more on the developments in the syrian conflict as well as analysis of the situation in the whole region had to ask. why the stars change europe may be forcing many to tighten their belts to the max for others it's all saying good

about here so is hard pressed european governments looking to block budget holes pushing their nation's legacies under the hammer. takes a look at whether they got the candle is was the cost. 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 are told and one of the most surprising items recently put on the market

was. ship for a little over a million euros you get a maltese passport and therefore becoming the 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. meant a huge international damage 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 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. play 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 we took acts that patrick young on the shit he told us the big sale is no remedy to the usa has real problems 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. security is being tightened around us military bases operating in britain new laws are set to come and falls and there's no need for parliament's approval taking pictures of failing to clean up after your dog could be enough to get your rest of the full details are coming up later in the problem. hundreds of complains over well water contamination has been filed in u.s. states where oil and gas drilling not as frank has taken place pollution was concerned in a number of cases raising further downs over the safety of the controversial

technique a recently published review by their so you see the press details the problems and for us states in ohio one hundred and ninety complaints have been british that since twenty ten in eight cases water contamination was confirmed over the same period of time west virginia has seen one hundred twenty complaints and in four cases the companies are taking corrective action there and in the state of person excuse me of pennsylvania the number of complaints have reached nearly nine hundred that's just in the last two years and in more than one hundred of them pollution has been registered the state of texas has a shocking two thousand complaints made by the public although authorities haven't confirmed any of those were indeed cases of contamination over franking is spilling over to the state of new york is one how. can i witness the latest protests. what the how the city people gathered in albany new york state capital to take the car it was

a tight rocky rally was the governor andrew cuomo she was rocking it was stated was that she was relieved that the week was sixty that missy jurors could probably get which will ultimately lead to his decision on whether or not he was rocking i keep calm moving work states now over the past ten years fracking 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 the concerns and fears about pollution in the candidate you were the ball was dangerous and so many of us that i spoke with say we've already seen cases dangerous was taking place was made throughout the country and they don't think those cases that's the key to our they live their contaminated high levels of radiation the earth right the bottom line is extreme credibly dirty form of the extreme end of the extraction like i

have any place in new york city i feel like the fracking companies that you know heart of the is because they're not concerned it was people's health this guy's are dead you know what it is now is a new level we think is striking upstate new york we're going to ruin our highways and we'll say they do not want to be the next rocking the question is the governor of the state listen and heed to the concerns of his constituents the forty from albany new york and read up one eye on the arctic. so frank king requires companies to pump or make sure water and harmful chemicals into the ground to break apart rock and release fuel the contaminated water returns to the surface containing sold heavy metals and radiation causing absolution renewable energy out of the good times and slocum says there's a reason why we have so to talk about the dangers of fracking. 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 once the oil or natural gas companies confront landowners they typically require them to sign what's known as non-disclosure agreements 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. and so around the corner for you the new born celebrity of north pole origin which has become an obsession and that's why. we're more to the polar vortex the polar vortex so we look at why the polo voltec sings to have frozen not only north america but the minds of the global media which can't help

for piecing how cold the call to action is. approximately sixteen percent of imports came from movie goofy shit. 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 the territorial waters of the fish they load this fish into the ships and leave for. illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths.

with. technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got this huge earth covered. it will she thought international welcome back and the u.k. and p.'s are introducing new laws to protect u.s. military bases and listen a person could be punished just for walking a dog nearby the government's using legislation and a century ago to move ahead without parliament's approval lowest mass has none. there are twenty activities all together i'm not going to list them all but they range from things like pitching a tent near a base or bringing a caravan near a u.s.

airbase taking food to graphs of anything or anyone digging near a base or even failing to clear up after your dog near a base all of these things by the way you're liable to immediate arrest no further discussion the government's using two hundred year old law which comes under the control of the ministry of defense which means that these laws don't have to be discussed in parliament at all they can just be introduced completely unilaterally now they apply to around one hundred fifty bases all over the country among them are two u.s. air force bases that a key centers for u.s. eavesdropping basically they are in the middle of the country near milton keynes and their signal really stations and one of them funnels back data to washington from this network of embassy. spy bases including that facility if you're a member that was listening in to you and all allegedly listening into angela

merkel's telephone there there were previously no special laws that were put in place to govern the land around these spaces so their introduction now is raising questions among critics they're saying you know does it mean that they'll be an expansion of the bases what are they trying to hide and why is the u.k. government helping them in this campaign is also worried that it's preparing the ground for an expansion of the u.s. drone network that this is in preparation for that and we know there is strong evidence that the u.k. has been involved but its bases have been involved in the targeting of drones in the past. and to discuss this further we're now joined live by and then dispatch from the yorkshire campaign for the accountability of american bases ms percy welcome to our seats very nice to talk to you right now what do. these new laws mean for the people living nearby do they need to be worried do you think. i think

we all need to be worried but just to correct to this they're all doors merican base. crime quite severe laws are actually serious organized crime and police search which is much more to crony and the propel used by laws that are coming in. so you are she says they are american bases occupied and controlled by the united states visiting forces and the british government. has no control of them frankly. as when to stand your campaign of full accountability of the us bases all kind of activity could be going at places where this legislation is being implemented i'm come the coordinator of cap we'll call it . well one of the things is that it's very difficult to find out information but we know something about these these two bases it's current and it's an

extremely important communications base but it's also as you rightly said in your introduction. a piece and has been spying on and i don't mean merkel's phone or connection with drone activity in the image of beauty. with a link to an aria or face here that is a british base here called boarding to now for the other base buffets and you're an american base it's a very small base but i've been heard it had a good look all round it because that's one of the things that we do is to research information and one of the ways is to go and have a look and i went there a couple of months and it's pretty much generally so the question is why are they bringing in these you know wars. i think the really important question because actually these laws are little children by laws aren't terribly to you i know a lot about them having been. you know charged under them for many years and we did

actually get rid of by law was the american base that menwith hill now that's an extremely important place and that's where they do spying occupied and controlled by the n.s.a. and the national guard since i recall an office why wouldn't yeah i'm sorry they're just to go on to say. how do you how do we know we've asked parliament to questions about are there any plans for developments at the base these bases particularly at buffets and drawn which is especially at base to crowd. and they say no but you know why are they bringing in these new ones isn't going to be in any more subscribers and certainly they want to bring them in. you know very challenging these troops to really minor laws actually in my view. so what are they doing is the is the key question. right leans

a passage from the your second painful the accountability of american bases and this percy thank you very much indeed for your time a little. and of course there are plenty more stories for you just a click away including reaching for new leads the u.s. navy is taking to the with a new unmanned aircraft predictable the engine and having a wingspan why do then a body ally head to our website for footage of the machine being put through space . to google's finding frons for not telling users just small kids doing with that private information to find out exactly what the global giants been up to you talk to. the north caucuses region have been put on security alert after six borders with gunshots with gunshot wounds were found in four separate calls police are hunting

for three suspects who are sold to be armed and driving a car across the region. 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 moved into districts of the region on the usual day that she has 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 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. when called comes and when tastes normally just cold winter but this week the american media has been having a frenzy over a need to turn the polar vortex promoting the image of france to villain taking its toll on the u.s. as the blast of cold weather now eases a look at how all i think has been frozen out to demonstrate just how freezing freezing is our season is to say trick and i 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 a 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 loom ahmadis deficient 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 that it'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 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 especially if you're going to r.t. new york. and coming up next

a special report on their rampant gun violence in young. 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 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. the. economic ups and downs in the final. day to learn to deal saying i am the breath of life it's a neat take it will be everything. oh

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