you gotta look good sir. freed captain of an extremist group in syria shocking details of their old deal as the militants fighting under the black flags of al qaeda emerge as the most radical in the region. and. it's still. in syria america's middle east policies are raising eyebrows with washington to help fight the same militant group in iraq draw it together with. historic sites go under the hammer in europe governments invent new ways to me. plus. i look at the great companies that are. over fracking is

a new report reveals hundreds of complaints of contamination but officials in companies seem to ignore them. from the studios and to here in moscow this is. twenty four hours a day several hundred captives of a rebel group linked to al qaida have been freed in syria being held by font is from the islamic state of iraq and event to one of the most radical jihadist militant groups in the region middle east correspondent paula has more on this and you may find some footage in her report. this group is looking as if the actions of kerry's odds are increasingly horrific there is a 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 qaida affiliated is now make state in iraq and the live event which is calling itself the i guess is what we understand is that the people killing each other because of the from the from the feeling and the emotions from the journalists among them as you seem they will shake their heads as well as being handcuffed now this comes off to these islamist rebels captured the interest of and let's hope and what we witnessed much recently is a position it's killing opposition 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 all the eye is is 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 and some of the eyewitness reports that are coming through saying that the treatment was was

abandoned they were ever treated by the regimes intelligence one of them saying that he was praying first bombs would drop their planes would drop bombs to put an end to their ordeal not fighters of the same group but this it's 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 province are calling on all car the fighters to leave the city 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 and 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 save face value when this still continued to support now it seems america would like to help the iraqi government fight the very terrorists that were created because of the occupation of foreign forces of 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 are the countries themselves. meanwhile a suicide bombing is killed at least twenty three soldiers at a military recruitment center in baghdad it is believed to be in retaliation for government attempts to push al qaeda forces from fallujah u.s. is weighing in offering help along with iran which says it is ready to send

military equipment but he's got to take on looks at to run 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 it's 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 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 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. and we're just getting some news in here on r.t. international a car bomb has gone off in ramadi in iraq another city controlled by al qaeda linked fighters and we'll bring you more details as we get them well for now though let's talk more about the turbulent situation in the country with these middle it's from roehampton university and he's joining me live from london it looks like iran and the u.s. are being drawn together by this conflict in iraq what will this do to the newly established relations between the. right now the united states has an interest in somehow reversing the religion to opposition. from sunni militants groups

affiliated to al qaida. who are posing serious challenge to the government in iraq made by real money maliki the prime minister who it also happens to be an ally of iran. after. a couple of years at least if not more of. the united states has really lost. the sunni militants again. affiliated groups in syria. have actually started calling a serious threat to its own interests u.s. interests in the middle east so this is a opportunistic alliance between iran and the united states similar alliance has been seen in the past but we do not know how long it will last

although the current nuclear negotiations between iran and the united states may give it some light let's talk about those developments then in iraq itself al-qaeda linked fighters are controlling two key cities now in its biggest anbar province how did they manage to gain so much power does it surprise you that they have done so so quickly. there have been underlying problems since the order to role of saddam hussein and specially. since the united states we drew from iraq there are three major things happening first of all the sunnis who are a minority in iraq have suddenly found themselves. ducked by this government led by prime minister nouri al maliki the vice president.

has. excluded airlie he's on the run he was accused of being a better supporter the finance minister has been. practically removed and. m.b.a.'s from the sunni minority community have been targeted so as i say it is a bit of blaming maliki for this as well as of course the u.s. but is it more of an internal political problem when really his policies have actually failed here and has included everybody within the country. well i think what i was saying i could go on to say that you just aren't all the same problem. the shiite majority has imposed itself under the leadership of. nouri al maliki. the same time the sunni minority that was all by doing the rule of saddam suddenly finds itself. and

the united states has recruited in the last year or so all its occupation. significant tribal militant groups in barbara brahmans and also in nearby cities again. the united states was paying to fight al qaeda now new deal maliki is not one predicting with the sons of iraq as they were called them so they are right and all these forces are combining together against. him or a more serious challenge. he packed thank you very much indeed for this middle east expert from roehampton university in london thank you very much indeed for joining us meanwhile a fresh un resolution on syria seeking to condemn the assad government has failed the statement drafted by expressed outrage today strikes on aleppo which are being

carried out since last month seven hundred are believed to be killed in the resolution was scuppered after diplomats refused to add amendments offered by russia well that for more on the developments in this hearing conflict as well as analysis of the situation as a whole in the region had to r.t. dot com. one of sterett in europe may be forcing many to tighten their belts to the max for others offering good opportunities are press european governments looking to plug budget holes or putting their 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 have led to public anger and frustration bestselling history and culture there selling beauty things a priceless and they've attached a price tag to it i think that's absolutely reprehensible there's absolutely no guarantee that that privatization will help consumers at all and one of the most surprising items recently put on the market was. ship for a little over a million euros you get a maltese passport and therefore become an e.u. says it a move that's been put on hold as two thirds of the public at opposition leaders cry foul the very. same legal gone through this which. 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 over citizenship should 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 tests are still. well we talked with financial expert on the 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 corner 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 has been talking around us military bases operating in britain new laws are set to come into force and there's no need for parliament's approval taking 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 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 doubts over the safety of the controversial technique when a recently published review by the associated press details of problems in four states in the hundred ninety complaints of been registered since two thousand and ten in six cases contamination was confirmed over the same period west virginia has seen one hundred twenty complaints and in four cases the companies are taking corrective action and in pennsylvania there's been nearly nine hundred complaints in just two years with one hundred of them confirmed pollution and texas has two thousand complaints made by the public although authorities haven't confirmed that any of those were indeed cases of contamination when i go over fracking is spilling

over to the state of new york as well. witness the latest. more than a thousand people have gathered in albany new york city capital to take a hard time and tide rocking the ali ali was the governor andrew cuomo she was rocking the make you think you should really think you make the c.b.c. tourists probably. which will ultimately lead to his decision on whether or not he was rocking the comics movie work states now over the past ten years fracking 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 talking candidates if you will that the ball was dangerous so many of us that i spoke with thank you all ready seen cases to see interest was taking place

in the state the drought the country and they don't see those cases was either where they live their contaminated high levels of radiation or breaks the bottom line is extreme a credibly dirty form the extreme end of the extraction like i have any place in new york city i feel like the fracking companies have no heart was is because they're not concerned the only people's health this guy is are down you know what is now three new above we think this fracking upstate new york we're going to ruin our primary and we'll say they do not want to be the next cracking was the question is who should talk of the state listen and heed to the concerns of his constituents the forty from albany new york read up on iowa arctic. will be back in a few moments and after the break we track the boiling water surrounding the seizure of a russian trawler by senegalese authorities without any evidence of wrongdoing.

imports came from. the european union is 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. territorial waters they fish they load the fish into the ships and leave for. illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths.

with economic down the fine. and the rest. will be briefly. in the u.k. m.p.'s are introducing new goals to protect u.s. military bases in britain could be punished just for walking a dog nearby 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 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 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. stories we're just a click away including reaching for. the u.s. navy is taking to the air with a new. machine put through its paces. find. what it's doing with their private information on exactly what. parts of russia's north caucasus region have been put on security alert. with

gunshot wounds were found in four separate. the three suspects were thought to be driving across the region. the 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 into districts of the region on the usual day that she wants would not have probably led to such a high security alert mode but of course in a month's time we'll have the sochi olympics and the whole region is basically in a special security mold right now this concern several regions in the russian south

some of them are as far as seven hundred kilometers from the city of sochi but still no nevertheless they are in a special security mode 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. 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 follow suit against the african country at the international tribunal for the law of the sea. 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 similarly authorities are accusing them of illegal fishing but at the same time they still haven't been able to provide any evidence proving very quaint so 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 trial is now running short of course will supplies including fresh water at the same time in between piece has come out fully 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 it upon themselves the government's responsibility to protect their warders 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 relations 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 a mass amnesty in december. some of the news in brief a suicide blast in the pakistani city of karachi has killed three including one of the country's best known police commanders. survived previous assassination attempts but this time exposes laden vehicle was rammed directly into his convoy came just hours after three suspected members of the pakistani taliban were said to have been killed in the city. and the government demonstrators have rallied to drum

up support for a citywide halt next week operation shut down bangkok hopes to bring government work to a standstill and topple the current ruler. has already yielded to pressure from the streets and announced new elections for february the protesters claim that's not enough citizen councils to carry out reforms before any new elections. and. in a funny world update this is islam as prime minister is handing over power to a caretaker government larry had secreted resign as part of a deal with his opponents it was negotiated off to a political crisis sparked by the cessation of a left wing politician in july three years after an uprising in the state can take administration will sit supervise new elections regarded as the final stages of the country's transition to democracy. in just over half an hour with me in the team in the meantime it is all t's financial guru mexico is looking at the profits legalizing marijuana will bring to the u.s.

economy this is after the short break. when a country experiences a tragedy like the recent terrorism involved ground 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 two one 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 fail 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. for our girl without help almost none of you see for doesn't grow on trees someone pays for it but that's just my opinion. i don't have a political stance i do have a stance as an individual and as a member of society i do not want someone looking through my bedroom window whether it's an impartial observer or not whether they're going to prosecute me or not.

i welcome the kaiser report i max kaiser let's talk about gun. yeah stacey max everybody is legalizing around the world you know now that colorado has legalized marijuana following on your why and now peru wants to legalize it new york state is now saying that they want to legalize it so it's a mass rush it's like marley's heaven and he must be controlling this from heaven in fact but as marijuana stocks hit record high. and then. you know get some dreads i think it's. one of the big african killer jamaican killed there.