the u.k. saying there is a severe threat posed to the country by a. growing number of britons set off to join the extremists in the middle east. we report on the european most have decided to join their cause. and china seeks to protect itself from aerial surveillance vowing to intercept more american planes the.

good morning from eight am on saturday here. in the whole news team thanks for joining us on. the u.k. has raised its threat level to severe over the danger posed by islamic state extremists david cameron outlined new measures to combat the growing tide of people wanting to head to the middle east to fight what they see as a holy war. reporting on the challenge to britain's traditional values. how quickly it seems david cameron's world has turned just a year ago he was saying this there will be no political progress in less the opposition is able to withstand the onslaught and put pressure on assad so he knows there is no military victory so we will also increase our efforts to support and to shape the moderate opposition my but now he's been forced to say this what we're facing in iraq now. is

a greater and deeper threat to our security than we have known before is definitely growing drone attack has today raised the threat level for the u.k. from international terrorism from substantial to severe. that means that a terrorist attack is highly likely. but there is no intelligence to suggest that an attack is imminent but what's causing huge concern is the fact that sas the mates of more than five hundred british hard this have traveled to iraq and syria with around half of them now back in the u.k. and some are suspected of planning attacks on home soil but community leaders warn the whole sector of society has been singled out as a scapegoat sibling is being put on most muslim community in britain and the reality is that listen community and a mosque in britain did not create a foreign policy which to indigenous iraq. and what is happening in syria

extreme ideology appears to be gaining momentum around the world forcing countries like britain to reassess security measures but there are growing voices that argue the u.k. government should be reassessing the very foreign policies that created the right in the first place arenacross survive reports in from london for r.t. and a new video has been circulating online showing a twenty one year old london bragging of joining what he dubs the golden era always jihad and calling on other young britons to follow his lead brian becker the co-director of the international action center he expressed concern that the rise of islamic extremism across the u.k. . the u.k. joined with the united states in carrying out a war against muslim countries in the middle east as it's perceived in them in the middle east and amongst muslims in the u.k. is that the u.k. government is part of a war against islam and this facilitates and plays into the hands of those who are

who are promoting political islamics especially extremist elements who show yes this is a war against islam and yes we can build in recruiting organize on this basis but fundamentally it is the policy of the u.k. government in hand with the united states government that has created the conditions for this development i think behind the terror threat level is the real politics of what's going on the terror threat level it's not really about perceived terror it's about preparing public opinion in the u.k. and in the united states for an escalating intervention by the united states in the u.k. in the middle east and they always have to do it on the pretext of protecting the domestic population against the threat of terrorism now the u.s. military has released a video of an asteroid called the islamic state in iraq and the footage shows are truck being destroyed while driving along the road near the northern city of irbil in total the u.s. has conducted more than one hundred s.

strikes again jihadist positions in iraq and washington has called on its international partners to combine efforts to combat the group. now the jihadist threat is casting a shadow over their security plans for the nato meeting in cardiff next week as marina calls for every did mention some of the measures have made the welsh capital look more like a high security prison the three metre high sixteen kilometer long friends has already been dubbed the ring of steel it's meant to protect one hundred fifty world leaders along with thousands of staff and journalists during a two day event a police forces from across the u.k. have been called in to maintain security total cost of security measures as well so far unknown but some critics claim downing street is about a foot a bill of up to fifty million pounds well there certainly are some locals have taken to twitter to express their anger at their city being turned into ultimately a a high security zone so also without as actually wondering why there was

a need to erect anti duck walls lindsey german though from the stop the war coalition she thinks the fact that nato leaders have to hide behind the fences says rather a lot about their policies like closing lots of schools that children won't be able to attend because of the summit and of course if there's a teacher strike or something and the teachers close the schools as there's outcry but this is supposed to be acceptable many local people as well are absolutely fed up with the money that is being spent on this summit when they're faced with austerity we think nato is not a force for peace but a forceful military action on the wall says a great deal about the popularity of course that they feel they have to meet behind still. highly fortified. places after one of the places they fenced off is called it also well if a call so listen secure for the heads of state it's nowhere.

thanks for joining us for almost five months now government forces have been operating in eastern ukraine and the pummeling of cities continues with artillery and the very latest attack on friday hit a square near a railway station in the city of donetsk a stronghold of anti-government fighters a bus and a car were completely burned out but luckily no one was killed elsewhere soldiers have been encircled for a week near the city of vice and there will now be able to escape through a humanitarian corridor or and take care of militias have been making advances in recent weeks propped up by a growing number of foreign mercenaries as artie's polis live reports. that's our word everybody is war and several every european is a war. and more and more overseas fighters are signing up for joining the anti kiev troops in eastern ukraine the wall is slowly advancing into city center this used to be a hardware store but like a growing number of soft targets around the city it has been reduced to rubble

a growing number of europeans are saying enough is enough and are backing their words up with action twenty five year old niccolo was a professional soldier with the elite french mountain troops for five years now he's pushing his skills to good use in ukraine alongside a contingent of other foreign volunteers he's training and government forces in urban guerrilla warfare. for the commitment there is here these are people's militias these are not mercenaries or professional soldiers so they need instruction they really have the motivation whereas the kiev army which is a kind of puppet of nato they don't have any motivation whatsoever we have seen them before they are very unmotivated and they do not really know why they are friday and against whom they are already or the so that is their main strength over the aid is also a symbolic. for many of these people from the west it's the first time to come defend what is considered by western governments. or bad guys cause it's very

important to show the people from the west are distinct from their governments and they are ready to come and fight and risk their lives to defend another world it's not just france volunteers from c.b.s. spain germany poland israel and the united kingdom are indeed on the front line. we believe that ukrainian army will not be able to sustain. or even fall because it's each day goes by they lose money do lose motivation do lose manpower. lose so each day that goes by they grow weaker we grow stronger stronger. now finds itself in between a rock and a hard place what to do is move its young men sign up to fight against its ally. and put it all legally we don't see what the french government can do to us because first of all we're not paid so we're not mercenaries we're not terrorists we're not

and of course it's a mission of information it's a political mission it's a mission of soft power a mission that's growing stronger as a brigade of western volunteers is put together under the name of the united continent they're showing just how disunited europe is on the question of ukraine policy r.t. did it's eastern ukraine. moscow and brussels have agreed that ukraine is obliged to pay its outstanding gas bills and of course the e.u. depends heavily on russian gas and ensuring the safety transit of supplies through ukraine is key and fitch rating agency estimates that our europe will remain reliant on russian gas for at least another decade that's because other suppliers won't be able to meet the e.u.'s demands it's currently too expensive to overhaul the current infrastructure and other sources of energy such as shale gas are largely unreliable ukraine also gets its gas from russia but as outstanding debts

now are more than five billion dollars and with the state coffers nearly empty people are being encouraged to cut down their energy usage as only a patrol car now reports. it looks like ukraine's capital is in for another sunny week although throughout the hot summer a key of was not blamed up for air conditioners but rather elektra's boilers as the government saving gas for the winter people have been left with cold showers in the summer the country is preparing for december way in advance like in this school where kids will now have classes on saturdays to avoid the deep freezes of christmas with two months of holiday i mean but some think the public's efforts shouldn't end there wasn't just the future how much do you know the jewel in the evening we can leave the lights off in our houses we can just light candles he will create a romantic vibe and lift your mood i think such light is much better than those

bright lamps. energy efficiency campaigns are running wild begin there to be did you put it in that home but as you brain but then with the video you never get it is often said. here's a set of stickers being promoted on line so leave your bedroom lights off and you're a patriot but plug in a computer or a laptop and do your this. to train go r t. and human rights watch has called on key have to reveal the whereabouts of a russian photojournalist who went missing in ukraine over three weeks ago and the watchdogs deputy director for europe and central asia said the rights of media workers are being infringed upon in ukraine both by militias and the army as he also said or thought he said frequently detained a russian journalist before they lost contact with a photo reporter dr stanton was on the fifth of august he have continued to deny

having him. all right coming up here an aussie international in china signals it'll move to prevent america from spying on its naval fleets it's off to china intercepted an american submarine plane very close to one of its naval bases later in the program we'll look at how the tensions in that region up softly been flaring up. also ahead for you the super bowl viral ice bucket challenge has raised tens of millions of dollars for charity but where's the money going to find out in just a few with. gender

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think of the way we think. beaches. going to gently swaying in the ocean breeze. why there's a deep little secret a secret the u.s. government would like you to know. why did you do. it. thanks for joining us it's the international china appears determined to shield itself from america's aerial surveillance so i'm able officers are pushing for fighter pilots to intensify the interception of spy planes was spotted last week

when a chinese fighter jet intercepted a u.s. navy. submarine craft and the american plane was flying close to china's naval base right around the southern islands here are the pictures for you now american officials claim the chinese jet performed a barrel roll at one point coming within ten meters of that plane a china hit back saying it was keeping a safe distance and said the recognizance missions pose a threat to its core security interests and could be treated as an act of hostility every year the u.s. flies about five hundred missions around china as well as monitoring from the sea satellites radio as well as get more on this now live with the long a specialist on china we can take this conversation thanks for joining us here on r.t. today the pentagon carries out frequent surveillance missions over the south china sea what do you think of the goal of these missions. well i think that this part of it require rivalry between america and china especially at santana seat which to

china of course is a and he says sure and critical. channel for a supplier of energy as well as trade but also as a conduit for channels and they will force us into that with the pacific particularly a lot of the chinese. and nuclear arms submarines are based in higher than island and we're just as gateway to the pacific because the water in those in the south china sea is relatively shallow but the height and iron of course is a is because conflagration is an ideal place for china's sir teaching summary that's now submarines you can answer marines is part of these. kind of symmetric warfare because china is no match with america as far as aircraft carriers are

concerned and indeed and not of the pop edge. military hardware but the nowadays warfare is not forged you know aircraft carrier aircraft carrier are all or tanks the tanks but there's a kind of symmetric deterrent and for nuclear the essential thing is that ok survive survival and you if i can jump in i do apologize for interrupting you here but you talk about how you talk about the these military or these american military spying missions in the south china sea you talk about hyun an island which is where this u.s. plane in recent days was just spotted about china has condemned this surveillance mission but they did not retaliate you think beijing could perhaps take tougher action in the future if these kinds of kinds of incidents are repeated well of course if china's. airspace or if military assets are threaten. and at the rep them because china would take a must wrong. risk forms but flying very very close to

our upward times for the horse aircraft is a very dangerous affair and of course one can recall that number of years ago there was a crash between china's military plane and american. war playing leading to unnecessarily tension between the two countries so i think that there are tylers now on the one hand is so trying to develop a code of conduct through military sort of exchanges heart lives and so on and so forth towards. and the intended consequences let's not forget that you there is a direct crash and you've opened fire happens then you were a dangerous affair because the whole thing could escalate and there's no stopping it wouldn't it and you would have what about the economic ties i apologize again for jumping in here but do you think the recent surveillance disputes could have a negative impact on u.s.

china relations specifically the economic ties because china holds a vast amount of america's debt well this is part of the relationship i think china knows that america knows it and china knows that this is a very powerful leverage but on the other hand china is trapped in in this investment in u.s. treasuries before china's economy is for all of the violence the system is for a little rise so the two sides are on the one hand dependent on one another but on the other hand are rivals so i think that the both sides have got to manage their relationship very carefully and both sides are doing it but unfortunately in terms of the heart an island is a very very sensitive as at the china so china is going to take a very tough stand on this you know so i mean when you consider china's vast military base there right at high now and i'd u.k.p. long wish we had more time. an international specialist on china thank you very much for your.

spectacular people pouring freezing water over. eighty million dollars for the charity but research. suggests the money is likely to directly help the people it was meant for in the first place. we know that the statistics they publish indicate only twenty seven percent of the donated monies will go to actual research

a good portion of it will actually be wasted to speak because fourteen percent will go to fund raising itself and the administrative costs are rather high in fact the president and c.e.o. of the association makes fifty percent more than the vice president of united states although we'd like to believe the intentions are good the reality is the money is being funneled to wards a lot of pharmaceutical development which is unlikely it will trickle down and affect the suffering of those who have a list in this country i think it's quite common because there's so much money behind the cause marketing model we literally have billions of dollars being raised by activating big consumers charitable instincts that go to the causes of the problem but actually contribute often to them or to some other international headlines now it's time for the. protests that broke out over the beating of prisoners one political prisoner also went on a hunger strike over allegations of. detentions demonstrators tossed molotov

cocktails and light in the streets there demanding the royal family give up power and release all political prisoners. in bahrain has been going on for years now frequent clashes with security officials. three miners are being killed and twenty five are trapped after a gold mine collapse in the capital the shop they were working on to have been cut off by a landslide rescue teams have brought in wooden ladders to get the miners out of the cave they're in and say the work will continue over night. in iceland authorities raised the aviation warning code to read after a small eruption. follows two weeks of earthquakes in the region the space is being closed up to fifteen hundred meters and there could be further disruption if clouds form and thereby making it dangerous for planes to fly over parts of europe. well thanks to edward snowden we all now know how governments are spying on all of us

but coming up and breaking the set. and looking at the latest cia scandal which on veils just how much nations are spying on each other. while it's clear that no one is immune from spying these days whether you're joe the plumber or a resident of the bahamas or if you're on your way to becoming president of the united states in fact the spine is getting so i handed out government institutions are actually spying on each other just to stave off bad press so while the senate was busy drafting a report on the cia's involvement in torture and rendition under the bush administration cia officials were busy spying on those investigating them. but. i will thank you for joining us here on out to international boom bust is taking up the world's economic headlines just ahead here on the network unless you're joining us from the u.k. good morning to you you're going on the ground with roots. when

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you've heard of alternative music alternative culture you're even watching alternative media but now we have alternative mutual funds yep welcome to you all to new few now while many investors are embracing these illiquid alternative funds the securities and exchange commission isn't so keen about the whole phenomenon the f.c.c. has launched a broad examination of alternative mutual funds in an effort to scrutinize one of the hottest and most controversial investment products offered to small investors today all funds or at liquid alternative funds have marketed themselves as a way to hedge against market risk by employing a hedge fund like strategies such as betting on some stocks and against others trading futures and using derivatives to increase leverage they're also

a cheaper way for individual investors to gain access to strategies once only available to sophisticated investors now critics say that all funds are just watered down hedge funds and individual investors might not completely understand what they're getting themselves into quickly finding themselves in over their heads so far this year investors have poured roughly sixteen point eight billion dollars into these types of funds and with their surge in popularity the f.c.c. is focusing their inquiry on the liquidity of the funds their use of leverage and the degree of oversight provided by the fund boards so to give you a better example of how these funds have grown so quickly when a.q. our capital now that's a pioneer in this space launched its first mutual fund in two thousand and nine it managed twenty billion dollars by the end of june of this year it was managing roughly one hundred thirteen billion dollars that's significant jump other firms like goldman sachs blackstone and bank of new york are. boosting their offerings in

the space as well by launching their own all funds but not all funds are on board and many financial advisors say that they won't offer alternative funds because of the complicated strategies involved in managing them and their lack of long term track record of success we just don't know they're brand new now my take if it looks fishy and it smells fishy it's probably fishy so buyer beware. now our next guest is definitely definitely not afraid to speak his mind i recently had the chance to speak with peter schiff a boom bust favorite and c.e.o. of euro pacific capital now peter believes that the current housing market is a bubble and says if something doesn't give the.