for social justice golden rice market. disillusionment in the leadership approval ratings he had record plays in european nations are struggling with huge levels of debt and you think you are in. a war within a war remains a radical and feared faction of syria's rebel movement is accused of lynching dozens of moderate opposition fighters. and to the international space station will stay in all of it until at least twenty twenty four to keep up the research plan mogs missions and god against possible asteroid threats as we report our next gathering to discuss these very issues.

it's just composite eleven am here in the russian capital if you just joined us a very good welcome to you with me tom would say on r.t. international. it's a new year but the same old problems for the e.u. leadership the most recent polls are suggests a strong streak of disapproval at their performance among people across the union archies peter all of us has the details. no 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 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 their 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 you in countries like sweden finland austria the netherlands denmark and the you care the first time since these type of statistics have existed i took to give it doesn't finish last when it comes to the full view 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 it's not just european politicians that have seen a downturn in popularity the euro itself is also hit huge lows

and well europeans look to alternative types of currency to secure their finances we can find out more on that from maria for not. these colorful return to a new and not money that the real value you can go shopping for these bills in your wallet. the asterisks. 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 prague local currencies stay within the region develop high peaks second idealogical you have a lot of confidence in official comments 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 new 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 to lend splay a lot with money and often risky games but advantage 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 fiscal paradise as global finance system so banks today's maced famous headline grabbing turn to currency is the digital big coin but there are dozens of others and he's world wide in france europe's second largest economy people exchange services and goods via a least twenty different types of complimentary currencies and their numbers are growing. there the slain is behind one such project the one probably outside paris

she says she never considered paying anything other than euros until the advantages of an alternative became clear. 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 local currency and support local projects and develop a real economy on the ground which means it works for us the people. it's part of the project along with the flower shop and the any supermarket that is wrong. here poor. people in the world of finance that we're 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 means officially no pitch in french but also energy and the slogan was over the parish your seed is used to express someone is in good health and full of energy which the local

currencies here in france certainly seem to be experts claim complementary currencies will never replace an official one however if trust is undermined hard enough in conventional money people may start looking for a different type of change brief notion r.t. from france. and you similarly uncontrollable power has risen in syria it's causing more fear among people than the government of bashar al assad ever did we must warn you the foot issue about to see is extremely graphic this state of iraq and levant also known as isis is accused of launching dozens of opposition fighters in the city of aleppo just days ago several hundred captives of the hardline rebel group with free by other opposition pointers in syria they describe it being tortured by the radical jihad as the militant group and praying for death even so the obama administration is reportedly considering resuming non-lethal aid to the moderate

syrian opposition even of part of it end up in the hands of more hardline islamist security policy analyst michael maloof it believes the violence we're seeing now could have been avoided if it wasn't for the western backing of rebels. united states provided lethal assistance through jordan through the cia and through the through turkey to the opposition but the opposition is is is fragmented incapable and what's happened is that the the the more radical home of the. principally the. the foreign fighters have taken over the opposition in terms of the fighting and consequently those weapons of gotten their hands they've become emboldened they've become they've got better weapons as a consequence of getting a surface to air missiles they got r.p.g. and as a as a result it's it's and it's given them or force 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

who's forces are not capable of. withstanding the the onslaught of the. the thread of jihad is taking over the more moderate opposition has called the view on syrian rebels to shift recently former cia director michael hayden said the assad regime is beginning to look like the lesser of all evils the former u.s. ambassador to syria iraq and afghanistan ryan crocker agree that assad is not as bad as the jihadists are while russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov welcome the change of stance. meanwhile in iraq of the government has been able to push al qaeda linked militants out of the city of fallujah with the u.s. stepping in to help cross talk to baith whether its involvement can lead to any good. the 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's a weird thing goes off it for as you mentioned some good players itself that 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 home to more nations could now take part in work on the ice says including trying to prevent asteroid strikes as well as planning missions to mine i tunes that 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 syria conflict and never just one nation and by the way this meeting is the first of its kind of going to ministerial level with over thirty countries participating we will advance further faster if we work collectively the

explosion of a meteor all 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 prove out of the program if their new leaders. which 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 the. 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 international space station took ten years and thirty missions to assemble the result a football field size engineering model extending its operation means allowing more private companies to supply call go and compete for lucrative contracts also see end of the u.s. shuttle program astronauts have been ferried back and forth to the station on russian soyuz spacecraft scientists christian five a tang says a smaller nations are really at the end repeatedly entering the space race. the opinion of for russia and the plans of russia in terms of space exploration will be a key element in. space exploration scenario we're very pleased to see that also small countries who still a few years nobody could think about them being actively involved in space projects

they are more and more understanding the value of space services they are more and more understanding of key importance to play a role in the global. space exploration scenery and more and more of these countries are developing capability things which are an amazing space station for me is. that such corporation can do this by all the different approaches differences in different countries. coming up in the program and nationalists among pacifists. giving them the. power she looks at how japan's a right wing movements are becoming more vocal about the need to regain self respect and make its presence felt. also here on our g.'s national report on the security plan saying that keeping the russian city of sochi saved during the twenty second winter olympic games will have all the stories off to the.

iraqis clearly again falling back into extreme civil strife washington says it wants to help but most iraqis are weary of any more american assistance then there is afghanistan washington plans to finally leave this year the sad reality for all involved is the fact that launched in may never be able to leave. if you. know opportunity. to construct your. kill nola be a bit give don't want to meet gangstas you don't want to be drug dealers they don't want that well we know the time that a kid came be we can see. you just needs a hundred dollars and i hope i live in the hood and what age you know somebody with

the wrong kind of make you bought a feller like me but i said what about the. i don't want to die i just really do not want to die young young. we're going to go did 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 albus. role. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across the semi-colon we've been a hydrogen lying handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once built up i'm tom hartman and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond

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. thanks will stay with us here on our t.v. international an unprecedented 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 of keeping citizens of visitors an athlete's safe paul scott takes a look. the twenty second olympic winter games in two thousand and fourteen i wore the to defeat be of sochi 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 place proximity to the volatile caucasus 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 of the state the sorties made those to prepare the special measures to stop them from this screening all their own materials checking in all the venues and preparing incredible measures of the security to provide the safest 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. in terms of security so it is a special case because this whole area is authorized to visit this 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. we have cameras into comes 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 venues and transport networks built and tested sochi is now just waiting for the sporting world to descend. altie.

now some more news up from around the world of the sour police and simple clash going into the first anniversary of the assassination of three kurdish rebels the female activists from the dish are to wait for paris last year island after this is blocked demonstrators from reaching the french on slate to lay a blank to me to see k.k. is considered a terrorist organization by the un the us and has been begging for an independent homeland since one thousand. three chords in egypt have convicted one hundred thirteen muslim brotherhood supporters on charges ranging all from rioting to weapons possession in december the government declared the brotherhood a terrorist group like using 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 pacifists nation to the right now

and as groups are growing louder in their calls for the country to take a harder line against enemies home and abroad aren't easily see a shift that's at the possible political repercussions for the entire region. 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 where the latest protests korean workers were described as cockroaches which needed to be exterminated but regardless this man is one of those behind the nationalist rallies in japan he says he'd like to see japan a more closer sight more and more there was an openness and we've been to open to the world and all 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 and so other 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 for becoming on the far right these school teachers have been protesting because they lost their jobs for not complying with what they call ultranationalist regulations in schools will not let us see what should be made is an obligation to listen to the national anthem before classes i told my pupils spawn 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 step. forward on the issue of constitutional amendment but not everyone is buying it a more far reaching goal could be reshaping the regional balance of power but there has been a talk among high profile politicians including former prime ministers should be public debate whether japan should have nuclear weapons its new materialized but it's something they really believe 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 a reality that's your shift you ought to be reporting from just by. u.s. officials say and inducted an indian diplomat who was asked to leave the country

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i made it moans in public complaints and to freshen protest a new place to figure out all the controversial drilling method is revealed in today's breaking this. question i never thought i'd ask what the frak is making the house up to in ohio last month a radio disney employees travel twenty six schools and science centers across the state promoting a program called a rock in ohio sounds innocent enough 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 interactive presentations about gas pipelines and encouraged to spread the message about the industry not just guessing here but i doubt these kids were also taught that infertility and cancer causing chemicals been found in fracking water supplies let's break this.

mani's with me in half an hour from now you still watching ninety international up next people about costs on. 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 do remember 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 rats 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. says the media leave us so we leave the. bush and secure. the party. for suz that no one is this game with the guests that deserve answers from. politic

only of our team. hello and welcome to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle when the cure is worse than the disease iraq is clearly again falling back into extreme civil strife washington says it wants to help but most iraqis appear wary of any more american assistance then there is afghanistan washington plans to finally leave this year the sad reality for all involved it's the fact that washington may never be able to lead.

to cross-talk iraqi afghan legacies i'm joined by my guest richard murphy in new york he is the former u.s. career ambassador to syria and currently an adjunct scholar at the middle east institute also in new york we have don de bar he is an anti-war activist and host of a daily radio program and in washington we cross to peter van buren he is a veteran of the u.s. state department who served in iraq and he's also author of we meant well how i helped lose the battle for the hearts and minds of the iraqi people gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it peter if i go to you first in washington the blame game is raging again who lost iraq who lost afghanistan mr gates is a. memoir of his time in office is really getting a lot of people upset and probably rightfully so from a if you're in the white house and we have to look at what's going on in iraq now what obligation does the united states have to reintroduce itself in a greater military way not with troops.