as mazie is no policies in place we have the british prime minister david cameron talking about reshowing jobs back to britain iran's leader has some rouhani worrying investors for a post sanction era out of it tinseltown to with goldie hawn teaching us all about the importance of meditation in amongst these days we had surveillance global warming the losses of the universe in between the smoke kind of haze and go to the champagne they want to focus on the global financial recovery seem to take a bit of a backseat this year and i forgive me but we're not exactly in a booming economy just now so this is a sense of complacency coming into this when i spoke to the head of the o.e.c.d. and i asked him what concerns him the most complacency. the fact that people feel comfortable but they have lost a few or they have lost the sense of urgency and the do think we're out of the woods we're not out of the woods growth is very slow on

a problem it is historically high inequalities are growing there's a great loss of trust in everything that we have built in a hundred years in all our institutions so we're not out of the woods should the courses is not over show let's continue to work hard don't feel complacent now one thing that ran through the forum was income inequality and the dangers that can come from it the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. doubles is the highest part of europe and it's a place where the global elite come here to discuss how to enrich themselves and of course improve the lives of the ninety nine percent that live down in our dollars house tried to raise that image to this year of the hierarchy system by introducing the topic of income inequality which the forum said was the biggest threat to the global economy right now but you know when you got eight c. billionaires in attendance it's quite difficult to take that one seriously as

a certain element of irony to that and according to the latest reports half of the world's poorest population that is three and a half billion people now have the same amount of well as the eighty five richest people at it's about the one percent richest now have an accumulated wealth of one hundred ten trillion dollars that's sixty five percent more than the world her stand from up here is difficult to imagine how those people will become a priority for the people of double well we are all equal in the eyes of god no matter how many millions or billions that we might have to weigh in. the buying can at this time of year the whole of gets involved in the financial for even the church itself you're off to get a condom if some politicians would come pay pricing for a solution to the financial crises. now i caught up with

a nobel prize winning economist robert on the problem here's what he had to say there should be a recognition that we need some inequality because people won't work if if they think their income doesn't depend on it and i think it's ok to have billionaires actually for you know people who invent a new computer system people don't really begrudge them. but there has to be some limit and we don't want there is a problem that some of the most wealthy people don't look like the most deserving people the issue that's really driving a lot of concern now is rising inequality at the top especially in the united states where the top one percent or the top one tenth of one percent and they tend to be in finance and are making a huge amount of profits now and. one thing that's pointed to is. that they're robbing the government and. making it easier for

them to continue doing the economy has to go on to the people and. we have to work on preventing excesses like that now one way to solve the problem could be to tax the rich so i bumped into the c.e.o. of young here on the streets of davos and i proposed this option to head there is a general acceptance that the rich need to play more. and income inequality is an issue and that's something that we will need to contribute to having said that if we push it too far and remove the incentive to work remove the incentive for entrepreneurship been going to hit in the you know in the. opposite direction so like everything in life there's a balance lost you you quite very good about tax evasion he said that the rules want to fit for purpose the has been some progress in the last year they still are not quite up to scratch but the difference between progress and i think many

countries are focused on this and the important thing is countries are working together which i think is very very healthy but what we do continue to see is that countries compete to around turks. something i've heard many times over the last few days here at davos is come to our country interest in our country because the tax rates are lower and as long as that continues we will see companies organizing their affairs in a way that allows them to pay less in terms of where they set up their operations so supposing any else it is that is every single country in the whole world to grade what she is probably unlikely so you know in my lifetime you know as well as income inequality gender inequality was one of the themes a shia was just sixteen percent of the patisserie buttons being women and so i caught up with the vice president of manpower mara swan and i asked her why so few women part of it's the structure because what you the level of the people that need to turn so intent until businesses improve the number of people in the c. suite it's very difficult for davos so they're actually just representing what's

happening in the c. suite today so that's part of the problem and you know you know we can we can change that and so we see business changes now one woman how to make up this sixteen percent was the finance minister of nigeria and one thing that comes up year after year is the breaks and the question of whether or not they still have the dynamism that they want happen they were put together so i questioned her whether the mint countries which is mexico in tunisia nigeria and turkey one of those countries are ready to take over from the brakes. absolutely i hate to describe it as the new brick but it's its own thing you know but i think it has an equally valid you know state of being if you look at the countries these are countries that you cannot afford to ignore in the future you can't ignore indonesia turkey which is correct arista all mexico on nigeria because these countries

nigeria will be the fourth largest country in the world by twenty fifty it's going to have a huge market. has vast resources you look at indonesia the same thing a large population big market in the future it's going to be powerful turkey you know has its characteristics of the in both europe and asia you know it's very strategically important a mexican of course is not as a middle income country at the cutting edge of several of the brics a mint need to do well in terms of social protection and so on so yes i think this group it has its own dynamic and we're excited to be in it. now russia is of course one of the bric nations and doubles is a great opportunity for russia to come here and warm up the international image of course you've got an audience of influence and power wallets now one of the themes this year was a loss of trust in the banking system so with russia having revoking thirty two

licenses from its banks in just six months i caught up with the head of the tb the second largest lender in russia and i asked him about the clamp down if you. will the government for many poor to be prepared before the speech one of the weak point zero for russian and west employment was mentioned the relative weakness of the russian banking sector and this is because we do we still have quite a number of very weak financial institutions and banks so we are very much to putting the polish over central bank i mean the banks or the building was. i think thirty licenses was the rule withdrawn the use here it's only represent one percent of the banking all the old people the old the retail deposits and the assets so he doesn't very much effect be. in the banking sector i say but it's clear and he did say he'd say it's making us less dangerous or less risky for both

corporates and then people to work with such bad so i think it's it's a very healthy process it's like leading up to the russian banking sector now saying as we are in a skier is all i hear in davos and we get the tsotsi winter olympic games just days away which russia is why people give a boost to the economy i caught up with the biggest investor into the gaves the russian billionaire that fell back i asked him why he invested so much money shorts he is very but you call situation. of very a particle should say should be for russia because this is. absolutely unique opportunity to go service government to be part of developed my own unique last august to reach to sports because i'm to believe this one was a beautiful place we each. have unique to climates as a mom to snow it's next to see beach. variable.

nature and i think we in the west because we believe set off to really begin this will be the new life of said reach so another devil's food for another you know ego stroking and congratulating days as well as the full day. now it's time to mate to go see if i can learn to be as was trying jamie die of an often they skis lights whizzing around on his diamond encrusted days they get by. well going to the future. is here so we hit the road to focus on new technology.

on this show no policy is complete without school shootings. and we learn about the next until soulive unleashes the sense that potential to save lives. we've got the future of coverage. do you think his values are maybe also reflected the n.b.c. massive surveillance operation that is going on when we're talking about defending against terrorism which ultimately i think is it's where it is a catch twenty two right because you don't want to take a program away that is saving people and creating a safer environment but at the same time you know i truly believe that we all have a right to enter a freedom i believe we should be surveilled etc. according

to a new oxfam report the rich are getting richer at an alarming pace middle classes all over the world are under pressure and the poor well are only getting poorer with growing income inequality how can we expect democratic institutions to survive not to speak of maintaining social tranquility is it time to start broadly sharing prosperity. we don't want to know about climate change since quote the implications also terrible coming up cities which will sink at current rates of global warming. industry studies warn fracking is much more dangerous than previously thought. and

polluters saying there's need to shelter chemicals for children. i didn't pick it out to head. to the point where i can't even do it anymore. the areas today was so bad the alarm was going off these are one of the many incidents documented near frank thought as the animal symptoms correspond with known effects from chemicals used in fracking the skin seems to have some serious merit to having school and on. infertility cancer and birth defects new studies have added to the list of the health effects of fracking toxicologists examine just a third of the nine hundred chemicals they pump in the wall to the ground and air force in ten chemicals profound to hit kidney and immune systems to maturity affected the nervous system and blood and can three of the chemicals damage the

skin and other sensory organs whirls and now even being drooled reports c.n.n. inside schools to gas wells in leverage high school in new york spilled killing the trees and vegetation where students play right there every day by more reports the new york times eighteen children at the school had come down with two red syndrome a new logical disease with symptoms similar to the kittens found out for excites the ferric agency from small towns with frank sites like beery colorado now how evolution nine times higher than america's cities that don't yet have really richard cheney used to run all giant halliburton as vice president he pushed through congress breathtaking legislation called the highly potent loophole is a no exempt from the clean air act clean water act safe drinking water act results

conservation act environmental policy act environment to liability act the community rights and no act and most other federal laws on environmental health the most a list to show you some of the lower just unfiltered water supply in the world it provides top water to millions on the east coast or to submit fracking is already affected the allegheny river running through new york and pennsylvania the supplies cities with their drinking water. listen to a representative from the fracking industry dana bone of lobby group energy in depth great to speak to you will the industry still insist there's absolutely no evidence of environmental damage the process has been used over one point two million times across the united states with zero evidence of water contamination.

in fact systematic and must've water. contamination by fracking is admitted even in the industry's own documents in a potentially criminal suppression of must've health risks to the public leaked reports by the world's biggest firm slumbers a whole fleet casings on frank wells fail sending chemicals straight into the atmosphere in fact there's thousands and thousands of documented cases of fracking turning drinking water black families symptoms of exposure to industrial chemicals . cason is why paintings play crack that dallas the number one thing and not line. rivers at fred thought fluting with dead animals on and on snake oil most extraordinary lengths the industry goes to most all this from the public bill for all snake oil is richard heinberg great to speak to you how big is this cover up

field scientists working for the e.p.a. had found a strong correlation between fracking and problems with water quality. higher up e.p.a. officials in washington had prevented the dissemination of these of these trying to get a shock to discover or oil giants now work with disney to bring was the next generation oil and gas lobbyists have paid disney deejays and schools to take elementary class children out of class and make fracking infrastructure models while polka music blares in the background and disney employees cheer them on an industry spokesman or permitted they target seven year olds because they take in information and a morning questions about health threats like those meddling adults. the best way to spread the message about the oil and gas industry they retain the

information they remember at meat harry your friendly frock authorise a twenty four page code book from the industry which claims the environment is even better off it's been frakt comedy central host stephen colbert at a six harry setting fire to himself from his frock to water supply would be more realistic it's all part of industry moves no it's also daisy luthor to make sure the mix generation will never ask questions about deadly toxins in their adult life but why would you want to give up. loose those. crop dusters spraying poisonous chemicals on food is the hero of disney's new local stuff for children in a supremum irony of the day the film was released post reports seventy nine teams

were rushed to eat all of the monsanto field they will be working in was sprayed with talk sick as decides by a crop duster the american legislative exchange council war alec a big business lobby funded by special interests like exxon mobil is secretly funding school curriculums to did no man made climate change exists to be a good solution. long washington shanghai flowrate out in fact of all cities in the world will be on the water already this century as current rates of climate change the earth will be four degrees hotter before the centuries through leaving the planets completely without ice for the first time in forty million years sea levels will be twenty five metres higher as a great culture collapses there will be mass starvation in fact within decades the

world already set for an irreversible tipping point where ice sheet disintegration starts accelerating out of all control the effects of playing today with record floods hurricanes drought has already become a permanent feature of. vaal swathes of africa and the middle east and the american southwest your government knows the world's preeminent climate scientist james hansen is loyal to you through their teeth. obama in his speeches regular he talks about his green credentials in folks knows bill through of an upcoming keynote call to save the planet the world upside down obama's pursuing policies to squeeze every last drop of fossil fuel including tall stands coal and mountain top removal by quote favor means necessary and regardless of environmental damage huge tax

breaks he gave fracking companies are a key reason the highly complicated procedure is financially viable green initiatives touted by government that make us feel good about ourselves truthout are either useless or even more catastrophic than what they replace oil fracking joins the show ross no actual gas is a clean safe alternative energy and numerous studies from nasa and stanford university found volved me thing emissions from world make fretting actually quote the worst possible fuel for global warming and even worse than coal but the hypothesis here is shale gas is better for global warming than other fossil fuels and it's a good transitional film so we tested that the answer is well no it's not somewhere between three point six and seven point nine percent of the total amount of gas producer lifetime well is a minute the atmosphere is meant to continue leakage at the wellhead there's

leakage from the storage and processing facilities purposeful venting also accidental leaks toward into the pipeline system if you believe that we might be approaching a tipping point over the next couple of decades then you need to be really careful about pumping methane and such a potent greenhouse gas in the short timeframe into the atmosphere guilt ridden initiatives like replanting brain forests and pollution tax credits always get diluted by those who control the economy so the point where they're actually now big folk cities for. who loses all these measures knows james hansen the lawful bull drops in the ocean in any case we actually require as polish english shop coats roit now exposed agree we need a fifty percent drop in c o two emissions within six years by twenty fifty ninety percent to avoid the destruction of the planet's. given current corporate practices not one wildlife preserve the lives our indigenous culture will survive the global

market economy a capitalist market system is inherently at goal suicidal there is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world also richard smith knows to no longer matters what your politics all roll whether you like capitalism or not quote the current american way of life is simply not viable richard joins us great to see you so what choice do we have probably gotten your appreciate the dangers we face in the not just in future but right now people don't really want to know because the implications are too terrible large corporations they just can't find it in interest to act on the interests of the common good so we have to we have to nationalize socialize the whole economy take them over and run them ourselves it's either that or they'll just drive us off the cliff to collapse practically every job in the us today in one way or another depends on full fuel extraction that

cannot be green in any meaningful way. over your political views only a neutral view socialist government could reassign all those coal miners and also workers and gas fresh because it's a destructive jokes as corporations cold be expected to vote themselves out of existence the u.s. consumes so much more than anyone else. and economically militarily dictates the mobile to the rest of the world so americans decision to keep or change this system make you all save this planet seek truth from facts this is the truth you go.

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face headlines around the week's top stories here on r t live pictures now from central kiev where protesters are still holding strong no peace on the streets of the ukrainian capital as the opposition mall and offer to head the government amid intensifying riots across the country's west. syria's leaders and the rebels representatives hold their first talks since the start of the civil war world by diplomats is a major step forward. to seeing that and they have to leave and we have to put peace in life we can't give up. as bullets fly overhead we visited a maternity unit in syria where mothers and doctors have chosen life in the face of the destruction that surrounds them. and deadly clashes across egypt and terror attacks.