freed captives of an extremist group in syria told shocking details of their ordeal as the militants fighting under the black flags of al qaida emerge as the most radical power in the region even forces. the united states is still eating the fight in syria america's middle east policies are raising eyebrows with washington's offer to help fight the same militant group in iraq appearing together with iran. and historic sites go under the hammer in europe as cash strapped governments invent new ways to meet their budgets plus. meet i love the great companies our fears over fracking as

a new report reveals hundreds of complaints of contamination but officials in companies seem to ignore them. from a studio center here in moscow this is already twenty four hours a day as several hundred captives of a rebel group linked to al qaida have been freed in syria they were being held by fighters from the islamic state of iraq and the one of the most radical jihadist militant groups in the region middle east correspondent paula slim has more on this and you may find some footage in her report disturbing. this group is looking as if the actions of kerry's odds 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 is now make state in iraq and the live event which is calling itself the i guess is the understand is that the people killing each other for to flee from the film. and also some journalists among them as you seem they were shocked in their haste as well as being handcuffed now this comes off to these is an honest level captures the frustration of and let's hope and what we witnessed much recently is a position that's killing opposition of the free syrian army is certainly horrified by the rise of these radical rebel groups there's no denying that imus's is worse than the syrian president bashar assad fighters on the i if it's were using the children's i hospital as the central detention facility and dozens of bodies were discovered inside they appear to have been executed those who survived in the some of the eyewitness reports that are coming through saying that the excitement was

worse than they were ever treated by the regimes intelligence one of them saying that he was praying bombs were dropped that planes were dropping bombs to put an end to their ordeal not fighters of the same insists who are behind executions and kidnappings in syria are now controlling key cities in iraq's biggest province with researchers and analysts saying that the lives of radicals in the region is that knowledge being fueled by the u. s. policies so certainly a very worrying picture unfolding in this region. and in iraq tribal leaders in the city of fallujah in the anbar province are calling on our car to find us to leave their city is currently surrounded by iraqi government forces ready to launch their offensive and the u.s. is already speeding up its missile deliveries to the country to help now that's in contrast to the syrian rebels who are still enjoying major support from washington that's according to geopolitical 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 said face value when 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 foreign forces from america and yet in syria next door in syria the same group 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 the countries themselves meanwhile a suicide bombing has killed at least twenty three soldiers at a military recruitment center in baghdad the attack is believed to be in retaliation for government attempts to push al qaeda fighters from fallujah the u.s. is weighing in offering help along with iran which says it's ready to send military

equipment is going to look 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 iraq radical sunni militants are gaining foothold 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 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 more the fresh u.n. resolution on syria seeking to condemn the assad government has failed the statement drafted by the u.k. expressed outrage and strikes on aleppo which have been carried out since last month over seven hundred are believed to be killed the resolution was scuppered after diplomats refused to a member offered by russia over more of the developments in the syrian conflict as well as an analysis of the situation in the whole region to dot com. want to steer it in europe may be forcing many to tighten their belts to the max for others it's offering good opportunities hard pressed european governments looking to plug a budget holes putting the nation's legacies under the hammer. takes a look at whether the gamble is worth 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 of led to public anger and frustration bestselling history and culture they're selling beauty things a priceless and they've touched the price factor so 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 citizenship for a little over a million euros you get a maltese passport and therefore become an e.u.

citizen move this been put on hold as two thirds of the public at opposition leaders cry foul the very. same legal going through these which. meant a huge international down which which was uncalled for because more go to date has one of the lowest rates of unemployment in the whole european union it's a question of principle our citizenship should not be pulled out on say proponents of privatization see it as a necessity for 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 risk 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 silvio. when we talk to financial expert patrick young on this issue and he told us the big sale is no remedy to the euro zone's real problems when you've had a swinge ing incredible recession as we've seen in many parts of europe there will ultimately be a point in time when the economy binds the spark to some degree but truly the problem is that the euro is still fundamentally a counsellor us disorganised monetary system 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 is 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 u.s. military bases operating in britain you laws are set to come into force and there's no need for parliament's approval pictures or failing to clean up after your dog could be enough to get you arrested the full details coming up later in the program . hundreds of complaints over well water contamination have been filed in u.s. states where oil and gas drilling known as fracking is taking place pollution was confirmed in a number of cases raising further down so over the safety of the controversial technique a recently published review by the associated press details the problems in four states in one hundred ninety complaints have been registered since two thousand and ten in six cases contamination was confirmed over the same period west virginia has

one hundred twenty complaints and in four cases the companies taking corrective action in pennsylvania there be nearly nine hundred complaints in just two years with one hundred of them confirmed as pollution and texas has two thousand complaints made by the public although authorities haven't confirmed any of those were indeed cases of contamination and over fracking is spilling over to the state of new york as well or to witness the latest protests that. thank you and that's how the city people gathered in albany new york city capital to take part in and anti-gay backing rally only was the governor andrew cuomo to keep tracking him in his state you should really think you're going to see even to see tourists probably get which was to leave his decision on whether or not he was rocking to come to new york state now over the past ten years tracking has led to a u.s.

boom in oil and gas production generating hundreds of billions in revenue for companies and landowners but it's also created concerns and fears about pollution coming in i think the candidates if you will the ball changes so many of you that i spoke with thank you all ready seen cases dangerous was taking place if they'd brought the country and they don't see those cases that i see the where they live they are contaminated high levels of radiation outbreaks the bottom line is extreme a credibly dirty form the 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 is because they're not concerned about people's health this is why it's hard to get now what is now a new album we think is tracking upstate new york we're going to ruin our primary and real estate they do not want to be the next rocking the question is who could

talk of the state listen and speak to the concerns of his constituents the forty from albany new york read up or nial arctic international live her moskos to accompany this have a newborn celebrity of north pole origin which has become an object of obsession in the headlines. for texas the polar vortex the polar vortex we look at why the polar vortex seems to. north america but the minds of the global media help repeating how cold the cold actually is. if you. know opportunity. to start to construct your own.

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in the u.k. and peace introducing new norms to protect u.s. military bases in britain a person could be punished just for walking a dog near by the government's using legislation enacted over a century ago to move ahead without parliament's approval. 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 floor 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 remember that was listening in to you and all allegedly listening in to angela merkel's telephone 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 there will 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. more stories for just a click away including reaching for a new u.s. navy is taking to the air with a new craft fitted with a rolls royce. and a boeing. to a website for footage of the machine being put through its paces. google is in france for not telling users just what it's doing with their private information to find out exactly what the global. call. parts of russia's north caucasus region have been put on security alert after six bodies with gunshot wounds were found in four separate cars police are hunting for three suspects who are thought to be armed and driving a car across the region. details. 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 in two 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 such 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 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. russia is losing its patience with senegal the russian foreign ministry strongly urging the country to free a trawler detained in dhaka without any further delay meanwhile the owner of the ship is preparing to file a suit against the african country of the international tribunal for the law of the sea or does your piskun of has been diving deeper into the story. well these are some firm demands coming from the foreign ministry to free the sailors at once since frankly the situation is beginning to look a bit shady there the troller was arrested over the weekend eighty two crew members are on board sixty of them are russian citizens and cynically authorities are accusing them of go fishing but at the same time they still haven't been able to provide any evidence proving their claims and now there are also reports that some of the crew members were injured during the arrest and apparently they are not

being provided with the necessary medical assistance and also the traveler is now running short of course will supplies including fresh water at the same time greenpeace has come out supporting senegal's actions in this situation leading the russian authorities to question the real motives behind the arrest greenpeace says it's been tracking this vessel for a long time why are they taking upon themselves the government's responsibility to protect their waters and biological resources therefore based on the statements from greenpeace one may conclude that the military of senegal is acting upon these claims as you may know senegal's fishing minister heads the green party in senegal and was until very recently a member of greenpeace and so you see the connection between this harsh and unprecedented attack on the russian trawler and its detention with greenpeace's actions with greenpeace have been quite complicated especially after the arrest of

the so-called arctic thirty a group of peace activists in the russian north who are accused of cool again isn't but then were all released as part of the mass amnesty in december some other news in brief this suicide blast in the pakistani city of corruption killed three including one of the country's best known police commanders charge we asked landed to buy previous assassination attempts but this time exposes laden vehicles ran directly into his convoy attack came just hours after three suspected members of the pakistani taliban were said to have been killed in that city. in thailand government demonstrators have relit to drum up support for a citywide hope next week operation shut down bangkok hopes to bring government work to a standstill and topple the current ruler and looks in iraq has already yielded to pressure from the streets in a new elections for february the protesters claim that's not enough citizen councils to carry out reforms before the new elections.

islamists prime minister is handing over power to a caretaker government. that has agreed to resign as part of a deal with his opponents it was negotiated after a political crisis sparked by the assassination of a left wing politician in july three years after an uprising in the state's caretaker administration will supervise new elections regarded as the final stages of the country's transition to democracy. funnily enough the police in the class of people commemorating the first anniversary of the assassination of three kurdish rebels female activists from the kurdish p.k. k. party were killed in paris last year broke out after officers but demonstrators from reaching the french consulate laid a black wreath in protest. considered a terrorist organization by the e.u. and us has been battling for an independent homeland since one thousand nine hundred eighty. one cold comes in winter it's normally just cold winter but this week the american media has been having a frenzy every new to the polar vortex promoting the image of

a frosty villain taking its toll in the u.s. but as the blast of cold weather eases we look at how all of the news has been frozen out to demonstrate just how freezing freezing is. 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 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 a firsthand 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 lumo 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 is no tomorrow might be a tad over exaggerated your goal is very normal 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 be well they're really really important. not getting covered then again weather coverage doesn't require bringing up the truly unpleasant you don't to worry about the confusing stuff the stuff with new ones like the syrian civil war like the pros and cons of genetically modified food you just walk outside and go by examples or heart as a result other countries are rolling their eyes at us because we're complaining that

it's cold but they're also rolling their eyes at us about everything else it looks like the us mainstream media are taking their tips from an old piece of advice if you don't know what to say just talk about the weather and if they think you're going to r.t. me or. one. in just over half an hour with me in the team but shortly murder rates soaring in new orleans the reports on the rampant gun violence that shell shocked is just ahead for you after the break here noting.

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 carets 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. death penalty crazy what you need 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. for our girl without help almost not if you see for doesn't grow on trees someone pays for it but that's just my opinion. it's just pure forty 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 and consequences that will result in lifestyle being

degraded more to answer yet a lot of kids are. as part of the mission to transform the state juvenile justice system j.p.l. hold fears to educate young people about how the law can affect the 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 humane 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 with time in jail in the criminal record many youth find it hard to finish school or to find employers that will hire them.

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