disillusionment in the e.u. leadership approval ratings had record lows in european nations struggling with huge levels of debt and those who are in. a war within a week the most radical and feared faction of syria's rebel movement is accused of lynching dozens of moderate opposition fighters. and the international space station will stay in orbit until at least twenty tweets for research mars missions and guard against all four as joint threats were reported and experts gathering to discuss these very issues.

as r.t. international you're with me tom would say first it's a new year but the same old problems for the e.u. leadership the most recent poll suggesting a strong streak of disapproval at their performance among people across the union archies people all over the details. low in a few months europeans will be going to the polls in what could be the most important european parliamentary elections but the latest gallup polls to to sticks well don't make good reading for those that will be standing for the top spots across the european parliament even those countries that have received some of the most help countries like spain that received forty one billion euros to bail out its failing banking sector well in two thousand and nine fifty nine percent of the population said they had faith and they supported the european leadership is another country that's traditionally been very pro e.u.

ireland they received sixty seven point five billion. bailout they're failing banking system seventy percent of the irish population and previously said that they supported the european union now that number forty seven percent well there's also been big declines for support of the e.u. in countries like sweden finland austria the netherlands denmark and the you care the first time since these type of statistics have existed you might have kingdom it doesn't finish last when it comes to use the for the you currently that statistic belongs to greece with only nineteen percent of their population supporting the european union understandable really when you see the hardships that have been inflicted upon their people by the european crisis. much of the disapproval across the whole continent is based on criticism of the euro single currency and as large as wary of financial reports and some people are looking at

alternative ways to pay their way. these colorful rich tangle notes and not money but they have a real value you can go shopping with these bills in your wallet. at the restaurant . the idea will tentative also called complimentary currencies that people of businesses agree to use for transactions within a particular area a district quarter with just a street may look like something from a kid's game but the reasons behind it are far from child's play. partick first prodding a local currencies stay within the region develop high peaks second ideological you have a lot of confidence in official commerce and i think people want to have something they understand that they can control and that they can trust not just something that is printed you don't know how with no control and leads to speculation alternative forms of money have a history stretching back decades and appear to be growing in popularity especially

tough financial times on the reason enough i think it's playing splay a lot with money and often risky games but it beyond of the day ordinary people have to pay for mistakes and losses this is why people want to have a currency that they will be sure will serve them and not go disappear somewhere in place called paradise as global finance system so manx today's maced famous headline grabbing alternative currency is the digital bitcoin but there are dozens of others and he's worldwide in france europe's second largest economy people exchange services and goods via at least twenty different types of complimentary currencies and their numbers are growing a lot of their peace lane is behind one such project the one probably outside paris she says she never considered. painted with anything other than yours until the advantages of an alternative became clear. but as with the euro is that it's

definitely not just a mode of exchange but it also became a mode of speculation to feed banks my local currency and support local projects and develop a real economy on the ground which means it works for us the people. now because restaurant is part of the project and with a flower shop and then any supermarket that is on here. that are people in the world of finance a woman nothing else but to make people who are all for their own benefit why should we allow them to do that this sticker indicates this restaurant accept cash the red wings the fish a no peach in french but also energy and the slogan was a lot polish your c.v. is used to express someone is in good health and full of energy which the local currencies hail from was certainly seem to be experts claim complimentary currencies will never replace an official one however if trust is undermined it

hard enough and conventional money people may start looking for a different type of change. from france. a new similarly uncontrollable power has risen in syria it's causing more fear monger people than the government of bashar assad ever did we must warn you the footage you're about to see is extremely graphic and these slum make state of iraq an avant also known as isis is accused of lynching dozens of opposition fighters in the city of aleppo just days ago several hundred captives of the hardline rebel group were freed by other opposition fighters in syria they described being tortured by the radical jihadist militant group and praying for death even so the obama administration is reportedly considering resuming a non-lethal aid to the syrian opposition even if parts of it is has end up in the hands of these hardline islamist security policy analysts michael maloof believes the violence we're seeing now could have been avoided if it wasn't for the western

backing of rebels the united states provided lethal assistance through jordan through the cia and through the through turkey through the opposition but the opposition is is is fragmented incapable of what's happened is that the the the more radical elements. principally the the the foreign fighters have taken over the opposition in terms of the fighting and consequently those weapons of gotten in their hands they've become emboldened they've become they've gotten better weapons as a consequence are getting surface to air missiles they got r.p.g. and as a as a result it's it's and it's given them before a force multiplier to be able to fighting successfully not only against not only against bashar assad but now to extend itself back into iraq which they know the quds forces are not capable of withstanding the the onslaught of the.

the thread of jihad is taking over the more moderate opposition has corso the view on syrian rebels to shift recently former cia director michael hayden said the assad regime is a beginning to look like the lesser of all evils the former us ambassador to syria iraq and afghanistan ryan crocker agree that assad is not as bad as the jihad is while russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov welcomed the change of stuff i mean well in iraq that the government has been able to push our kidal into militants out of the city of fallujah with the u.s. stepping in to help cross talk to the weather isn't all vent can lead to any good. united states spent nine years applying hell fire missiles and drones and automation in attacks of all sorts of kinds and none of that worked it is the

definition of of mental illness to keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results introducing weapons into iraq at this time from the united states will likely have as much success this time as it did the last time i mean this is kind of deja vu all over again do you do the same thing again it's really quite amazing i mean we have to remind our viewers here there was no al qaeda in iraq before the invasion and now they have i mean come on i mean what is the learning curve here with all of the distortions of the result of meddling right murder by the united states is this spirit seeking sovereignty self-determination dignity it's a rule all right i'm going to when i'm done i'm done but it's and it is a good thing goes off it for a few minutes and some good words later itself said ask those p.k. well you can we do for you. if you want.

the white house has agreed to extend the life of the international space station until at least twenty twenty four it's hoped more nations could now take part in the work on the ice says including trying to prevent a asteroid strike as well as planning missions to maz i think that if you can report. leaders of space programs from all over the world have gathered in washington to map out the future of space exploration and any progress here is a link for the form of humankind and never just one nation and by the way this meeting is the first of its kind going to minister a level with over thirty countries participating that we will advance further faster if we work collectively the explosion of a meteor over russia last year added to the urgency of creating a global asteroid warning system scientists say although extremely expensive it's

technically feasible but it cooperation deal like that is yet a distant shot first because the result there has to be a political will what country would sign off on an agreement with a clause saying parties can pull out of the program if their new leaders reach so it's country would risk enormous losses in such a case especially say any future international marson venture would require a steadfast commitment i just don't see any nation having enough commitment to be willing to fund an amount of money that would take with today's technology state of today's technology to go to mars alone there was a strong and now well established cooperation between russia and a number of other countries at the international space station but beyond that it's still just talk talk that is happening here in washington i'm going to check on r.t. . the i says is not all the world's main ascent of

a space exploration it took ten yes and over thirty missions to assemble the results of football field size engineering marvel one of the made ideas behind extending its operation is to allow more private companies to supply and compete for lucrative contracts associated on the u.s. space shuttle program in two thousand and eleven astronauts have been ferried back and forth in the station on russian spy. cropped and space scientists at what crawly things the russia u.s. corporation ships of as a basis for feature recess absolutely essential that there be a partnership between the united states and russia and then other members of the world community can join in bringing additional resources both scientific resources and financial resources to allow us to leave the planet earth there is a space club if you will that the united states in and russia created of of the there is a prestige a national capability that six pressed by the ability to explore space india has

just had a very successful launch of a probe. and you'll see increasingly pilot a strong program in china a strong program in india and other nations having substantial international space efforts our job the job of the space scientists and engineers is to build the next mission so that when it comes time to retire the international space station the next mission to extend human presence away from the earth into space will be ready . coming up in the program nationalist among fest festivus. he looks at how japan's right wing movements are becoming more vocal about the need to regain self-respect and make its presence felt it's. also an r.t. international report on the security plans aimed at keeping the russian city of sochi safe during the twenty second winter olympic games will have.

to show what you're arguing for is that kurds should put that make up identity above that national identity let me ask you a personal question are you a kurd first or an iraq a first i'm a kurd first then i'm a rocky i'm not iraqi that i'm a kurds because let me ask you that question i'm from holland i have been bombarded you know i still remember the smell of the chemical weapons so what iraqi identity brought to me iraq and to brought to me the killings of people grace four thousand five hundred villages were destroyed. we speak your language as i think about the war not against. news programs and documentaries and spanish more matters to you. a little too much of angles to the

stories. you hear. detroit altie spanish. visit. but. i would like to know that you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy albums. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been a hydrogen client handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once told by job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem trucks rational debate and

a real discussion of critical issues facing up to find a job ready to join the movement then walk a bit if. you drop some of the sixteen percent of resume includes came from illegal fishing in. 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. gives long for the day to enter territorial waters because they fish they load the fish on to the ships and leave for europe. to day illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths.

is still watching our to international and i'm president of level of security is in place around the russian city of sochi the host of the twenty fourteen winter olympic games tens of thousands of police officers have been drafted in with the sole aim off keeping citizens of visitors and athletes safe artie's pulse thought takes a look. the twenty second olympic winter games in two thousand and fourteen i wore the two defeat be of such i as soon as russia's black sea resort was awarded the game seven years ago sell observed as a question the choice of host city such as close proximity to the volatile caucuses region was they argued a cause for concern. and the recent twin terror attacks in volgograd some seven hundred kilometers from sochi every ignited some of those worries

organizers say security has been their main priority since day one tourism is the global threat and for terrorism there is no bond there is no terrorists but here in sochi from the very beginning of the construction phase the state that sort is made those all that money to prepare the special measures to stop them from the screen in all their all materials checking in all the venues and preparing incredible measures of the security to provide this safe environment here with less than a month to go now until the games begin tight security measures are already in place around forty thousand police and security offices are expected to be on patrol all sales of dangerous hunting equipment a bond for the duration of the games there's also a controlled stretching sixty kilometers along the coast and twenty five kilometers

inland and encompassing all venues so. in terms of security sochi is a special case because this whole area is authorized is it is only there are security details from a number of countries including the u.k. and u.s. working here. and those security forces will be coming together to protect places like this is the brand new purpose built train station in the olympic village is going to be one of the main transport hubs during the games moving thousands of spectators. most of them have cameras intercoms that connects you with the engineer and the police presence at train stations and on the train security is pretty tight . with the bulk of the work now complete with all the news and transport networks built and tested sochi is now just waiting for the sporting world to descend pull scott r.t. such a. now some more news of from around the world here on argentine national police in

the middle class on the way to the finish and there was a sense i shot three kurdish rebels the female activists from the kurdish to take a party were killed in paris last year violence broke out after offices a block to demonstrators from watching the french consulate to lay a black week with the k.k.k. it says that a terrorist organization by the king and the u.s. has been backing for an independent homeland six ninety. three call it's an agent of convicted one hundred and thirteen the muslim brotherhood supporters on charges ranging from writing to weapons possession in december when the government declared the brotherhood a terrorist group accusing it of violence authorities have been cracking down on the organization ever since president morsi was removed from power last july. some parts of japanese society want to drag the pacifist nation to the right nationalist groups are growing louder in their calls for the country to take a harder line against enemies home and abroad. looks at the possible political

repercussions for the entire region. i am it's become a tradition in japan when some foreign officials are subjected to verbal abuse on this particular occasion japanese nationalists made their feelings known loud and clear to russia's foreign minister china and south korea have also been in their crosshairs one for an island dispute the other for sending too many labor migrants to japan for the latest protests korean workers were described as cockroaches which needed to be exterminated but this man is one of those behind the nationalist rallies in japan he says he'd like to see japan more closer citee one of the other was an organization we've been to open to the world now foreigners come here and commit crimes i want us to return to pre-war period when we were closed and south sufficient. despite criticizing the government for its immigration policies the movement could not be feeling more coffeetable since twenty twelve when she was

reelected as prime minister such rallies have been on the rise. those are not only foreign nationals and delegations getting the stick from japanese nationalists there are locals who have directly suffered from their country becoming more far right these school teachers have been protesting because they lost their jobs for not complying with what they call ultranationalist regulations in schools. should be made as an obligation to listen to the national anthem before classes i told my pupils part of who were not even japanese and it wasn't obligatory to stand up and then i got fired but it's not only about instilling national pride speculation is rife that with all this stronger japan hype is eager to amend the nine hundred forty seven constitution namely article number nine which braves japan from having any kind of army other than for defense purposes in the increasingly intertwined world we can't ensure the peace of our nation without broad actively taking

a role in the peace and security of the world why don't we take steps forward on the show of constitutional amendment but not everyone is buying it and more far reaching goal could be reshaping the regional balance of power. there has been a talk among high profile politicians including former prime minister's own should public debate whether japan should have nuclear weapons its new materialized but it's something the ruling elite has been pondering for years now and non-pacifist japan let alone a nuclear power would send shock waves across the region say experts but for now even with nationalist voices getting louder polls suggest that such ideas are still some way from becoming reality next year russia's geodesy reporting from japan. u.s. officials are say and indicted an indian diplomat who was asked to leave the country the woman was hanged. let's sit and strip search in december putting accusations

that involve the treatment of and that we get the full details and. also while you all line any you parliamentary inquiry condemns the unprecedented and indiscriminate gathering of data by u.s. and british intelligence agencies the repercussions of that knew you had a website. right the same. search tree. and i would think that you're. on our reporters. and. amid mounting public complaints and to fracking protest a new priest a figure for the controversial drilling method is revealed in today's breaking the

. question i never thought i'd ask what buff firaaq is making me calls up to ohio to us month a radio disney employees travel twenty six schools and science centers across the state promoting a program called iraq in ohio so it isn't an upgrade it turns out this initiative was entirely funded by none other than the ohio oil and gas energy education program which in turn gets its money from you guessed it the oil and gas companies or the demonstration the kids were shown in iraq to presentations about gas pipelines and encouraged to spread the message about the industry not just guessing here but i doubt these kids were also talked at infertility in cancer causing chemicals been found in fracking water supplies and let's break this. imo news in half an hour from now up next day is a stealing from the people stay with.

us. what a country experiences a tragedy like the recent terrorism in volgograd this 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 to one member recommends getting rid of the moratorium on the death penalty for various groups including terrorists because the death penalty is the perfect way to punish a suicide bomber also this duma member 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. 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. of the the the. the

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