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g.m.'s in crisis eight wouldn't even be able to actually pass the points of never send. welcome back while u.k. prime minister tres m a plows ahead with plans for fracking in britain the un weighs in tomorrow with a report and fracking has implications for the paris climate agreement which attempts to avert global destruction the u.n. report is also set to outline potential earthquake risk posed by fracking joining me now is professor peter stiles forward visor to u.k. prime minister david cameron and an expert in applied and environmental geo physics professor styles peter thanks for coming on going underground even the u.s. geological survey admits that there is some quake risk but it's incredibly rare

and what were you telling m.p.'s in the twenty four hours as well or earthquake risk i've worked for forty years on earthquakes induced by mining coal money that is and a variety of places from south wales through stoke where i'm now in yorkshire ok so mining activity is capable of causing earthquakes it's actually in fact it's closer to suture bigger than the want to trickle by fracking in two thousand and eleven. after the fact i'm one of the few people who have actually monitored fracking in the u.k. those are monitored with a ph d. student two thousand and well before not in the one nine hundred ninety s. with b.p. karaoke said story earthquakes caused by fracking being that the company is generally more than two hundred who they do accept that oh yes they do that and in two thousand and eleven there were a sequence of earthquakes so severe that with the very first trucking. and i monitored together with the british your logic server and produced

a report for government now let's be sure let's be clear these are critics which on a global scale was people in earthquake prone countries would laugh at but they have caused concern rightly so and the government reacted i am on the basis of our report and put a limit of north point five magnitude on the earthquake which could be generated by fracking before fracking had to either stop temporarily or possibly even completely . the issue is a no prime five earthquake is extremely small and can be produced by a fault which is only about fifty meters long and has a displacement of only about a metre now when we're looking for those faults we use seismic reflection techniques which are standard industry exploration techniques they cannot see faults of that size so why was point five put is the limit in the first place ok there is a there is a rush now to that and if you look globally particularly us after the earthquake

it's caused by various tectonic effects another with what we've called natural creeks and induced earthquakes there is a transitional node point five that looks. above that we are actually stimulating folks to move ok on the force are probably already in existence but a new start will probably cause in local cracking within the rock which is what fracking is so there is a distinction but at no zero point five but we recommended no point five years when you started to get concerned ok the government in this wisdom at the time which was back that was the point at which they would stop now there is a difference we recognize that open fire was important i guess they were intending to be cautious but they decided that no point five would be the eventual limit to which a race could you see there's been a spate of reports recently there were ones that earthquakes in oklahoma people

talking about seismic activity there south korea one of their worst earthquakes which ended or displaced hundreds of people but even those scientists saying the south korea one it was scientists from glasgow university his government if if i were in. germany they said there may be a connection that was that year thermal well all right that was a different kind of well anyway. i always ask people do you realize that fracking is actually involved in geothermal energy because i give a lot of talks a lot of people actually. believe that only oil related activity fracking deep. deep geothermal energy does too i am because what you're trying to do is produce pathways and rock now and granite where we get your tenantry there are no pathways naturally anyway so you're from comics so it's a process which has a variety of uses and if you like. the one which is drawn much you must tension of

course is to do a share of us before i get to your possible solutions we invited quadrille or any of us on know they were available to come on with the government says the sector is governed by one of the safest most environmentally said well regulated systems in the world and and the u.k. has over sixty years experience in regulating on shore oil and gas what you think of that and offshore is very good on shore there's not been a great deal on foreign oil and gas regulated. and i can tell you that through the whole of yorkshire we're mining is taking place ok we have much more detailed maps of faults ok from the surface you cannot see a fault i'm generous here ok you can see a fault which has a displacement of five meters ok now five meter fault has the capability of producing an earthquake far exceeding the threshold far exceed far exceeding what we actually have probably in the future whereas we can mark faults down to

a few centimeters underground on those those folks are marked we knew of the zero and they are nearly seven hundred metres closer to where the fracking will take place than the measurements at the surface. so i actually contest whether they do know the the infection due to using a mess on wrong is b.p. data which was wired many many years ago it's quite rudimentary by to do standards and today's standards can use all five pieces you see the government all getting a bit tired of this the business secretary greg clarke said that we should be going with fracking which i should say there are tax breaks on to the taxpayer is actually subsidizing it and saying that in fact instead of instead of fracking being like something in the planning commission for it should be called public to development and should be able to far be fast tracked would you agree with that well i'm not ideologically opposed to fracking believe me right because i believe that the u.k. should seek a sustainable source of gas for itself rather than importing it from all sorts of

other places and i won't name them ok. but i have said i've given more than one hundred lectures in the us and almost all the structures i've said all of these basins run off shore the boland basin runs into the irish sea why did we not start as we've done with which form which farmhouse it well on show but all the oil and gas is extracted offshore because it's cheaper it's not any different in a few different the well doesn't know whether it's under water under or you could actually have the wellhead on the show but you have to fracking could to place offshore ok so what do you want buffer zones of some well and not to a five man citizen this is not just me in two thousand and four there was a report done for d.t.i. by various people including the geological survey and professor separate durcan from the period college looking at unconventional energy sources and they recommended that the should be a five hundred meter set back from work to areas of the will from old panels of

coal so this is this was recommended in two thousand and four but was never an option and now i found that you can recommend things to government but they don't necessarily take notice of them present itself thank you thank you. but someone who thinks he knows more than all the skeptical experts and academics on the subject of fracking is a broadcaster former liberal democratic member of parliament lembit opec is here to go through some of the week's stories lembit you obviously want to maybe destroy all human and plant life on the earth fossil fuels. and where do you get the energy everything has consequences coal mining nuclear power for example even turbines and hilltops have yeah consequences so obviously so that's just do it all let's go to the whole of the really setting really the obvious is seen the report well the psychologist are you funding fracking

a nuclear weapon manufacturing you've put the same to provoke me fracking is. one of the solutions to our energy deficit we haven't got enough ways to get all the energy that you ecologist and presume you are one of them i mean no view one way to power all the electric vehicles if we go on to electrify our society we have to double the energy output to something like one hundred thirty five gigawatts this is one of the solutions because the story goes deeper than that the college is also pointing out something quite interesting they're saying that various banks failed you if you want to ethically invest and they're pointing out that some of the banks invest in nuclear weapons manufacturing there's a whole precedent there for that as well this is something called hypothecation in a way in hypothecation you only pay taxes for the things you agree with and don't pay taxes for the things you don't can you really do that with banking and investment well there i think all investors go to them and that case because most banks spread bet and some of the things they spread out on you might not like

a great system so you think that fracking is the way forward even if it causes earthquakes and climate change if you don't want fracking then give me a credible alternative nuclear power could do it but i'm not sure i can you are not i don't think the ecologists like seventy look this is about banking let's go into this about people who have no chance of getting a bank account a little in any deposit amount in the bank public sector executives report local authours enhanced powers right for misuse for convicting hundreds of homeless youth figures show now get this first of all of all homelessness has gone up by a massive amount it went to zero in windsor over the weekend because of the royal wedding when they were all kicked out their possessions taken by the police i think the police are saying that some of the owners in windsor will have them back now prevails over here as a marriage but are a bill who don't go and do it but if they hadn't left under these rules they could

have been fined up to a thousand pounds begging that's think about that just so poor. or you're begging but you're going to pay a fine then you can get banged up in prison for it i suppose the authorities could say well it's better than sleeping on the street i'm not sure that this is caricature of course servitors i'm no longer dots are you this only works if you think that punishing people gets them back on the straight and narrow and i don't buy that ok well certainly punishment has been the charge against the israeli government as the mainstream media forgotten about a story with thousands of dead or injured in gaza and the west bank let's go to this tweet you might have to explain it to our international viewers who don't do frankie boyle is one of the great comedians of the age some people think some would say he is certainly one of the great celebrity comedians in the united kingdom quite edgy with his humor now he says that his humor was that it said let me quote precisely there were of course various steps in this week's new world order

monologue about the situation in gaza he says and about israel being an apartheid state edited out for reasons nobody has yet explained to me despite assurances to the contrary the state mandated b.b.c. he is claiming the b.b.c. politically edited these out there's no other way to interpret it and he's asking why there's all this episode of new world order and here david baddiel on who is talking about jeremy corbyn and legit anti semitism on a show about garza you're right the inference is by this editing if this is what's happened it wasn't acceptable to make a joke like that which was perhaps an anti is really some of regular oil jokes. because that will be more there when there are jokes people might want to i should say we did call the b.b.c. up meanwhile i think we can all celebrate the confirmation hearing of the new head of the cia except this guy who lives in moscow who didn't even go to the ceremony used to work there edward snowden snowden up to his old tricks again after he says

this no jeana hospital participated in the torture program that. beating an innocent pregnant woman stomach ainley raping a man with meals he tried to refuse and freezing a shackled prisoner until he died she personally wrote the order to destroy ninety two tapes of cia torture of course snowden he's not the favored son of the cia he's the bad boy who ran off to moscow but what he's saying i think some of it is corroborated he has a say said that as the new head of the cia she won't be torturing people she was a bit equivocal when asked whether donald trump would if he told her to torture people what he or she would do what we know what donald trump thinks he said congratulations to our new cia director gina hospital where he's bound to say that but on the record for supporting torture and that he wants far harsher torture fits very comfortably together here but there's a slight confusion because we're told she's had something of

a chance formation on the road to the cia and she's got new views on this but it doesn't take away her past and past behavior is a good indicator of future behavior a lot of people would say so maybe this is exactly the kind of person a president who isn't entirely averse to torture was like in this kind of position i think this one is probably going to come back to bite the ministration if she didn't destroy all the tapes they don't think thank you and i should say to viewers of the rather near daily mail and scott just guardian both reported over the weekend on suppose connections between this program and the trump campaign via we can it is true that julian assange has been on this program and so is former trump national security advisor michael flynn and trump advisor carter page we have ascertained no connections between them as for this program being part of a conspiracy to elect president trump as detailed in the twenty seventeen us director national defense intelligence report we again deny all allegations about them for the shoulder back on family details from days of u.k.

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go home. gotten used to it the media hate trump and the president returns the favor in kind how is this mutually charged hate fest changed media and journals or just some corporate liberal media to report the news anymore and is journalism make a fake profession in the service of partisanship. fifty years ago breaking within two cons again as a sleeping pill does is what i believe because a lot of the us has said this thought the side effects were terrible but not on known as shown in dodge one football will be here not the war. will come up across europe victims are starting legal battles demanding at least some compensation in two ways first will the physical damage itself as well that the constant reminder that the people who actually perpetrated this crime has never been able to justice and there has been

a couple of. you don't shop there no you know there's a little work i do church of reception sure the warco donald trump casts doubt on next month's planned meeting with the leader of north korea saying the highly anticipated talks may be delayed or may not even take place a small. meanwhile north korea is reportedly dismantling its only nuclear side as part of a bargain with the u.s. we have access to the area and our correspondent will be reporting on his journey there. as you can see behind me we're being greeted like celebrities here those who go to north korea. the german government admits that almost two thousand

far right extremists in the country may be in legal possession of a firearm. and after eighteen years google quietly drops its don't be evil slogan the change is only noticed a month after it took effect company employees are also protesting against involvement with the u.s. military. hello and welcome in the karen and this is r.t. international our top story this hour donald trump says his much anticipated summit with north korea on the twelfth of june might not happen the comment came during a meeting with the south korean president moon joining in the u.s. capital both washington and pyongyang have previously suggested they may not be

willing to hold talks unless certain conditions are met r.t.s. american reports from washington. well according to trump the summit could take place or it might not even take place but the president has never really been one hundred percent sure we are working on something and you know there's a chance that it'll work out there's a chance it's a very substantial chance that it won't work out that doesn't mean it won't work out over a period of time but it may not work out for june twelfth i think it will be very successful but as i always say who knows what's going to happen you know i often say who knows who knows but you know it all works maybe you everything can be scuttled everything can be settled but speaking of mixed messages on one hand a special coin is being produced just ahead of the summit of depicting the two leaders meeting and all smiles then there's trouble guaranteeing kim safety and promising that north korea will be a rich country we make a deal i think kim jong un is going to be very very happy and he'll get protections

that will be very strong his country would be very rich then on the other hand trumps threatening the libya scenario the model if you look at that model with gadhafi that was a total decimation we went in there to beat him now that model would take place if we don't make a deal most likely but let's quickly remind ourselves what happened in libya in two thousand and three gadhafi renounced his nuclear program but despite that he was overthrown in a nato led campaign years later so not a fairy tale ending for gadhafi but it's not just rhetoric that could be jeopardizing diplomacy there's also joint military drills being held between the u.s. and south korea on north korea's doorstep but thankfully some are questioning the need to provoke young yang especially considering the historic meeting that took place last month between the north and south and this also comes at a very special time just as the u.s. is going back on its word to adhere to the iran deal pulling out of it entirely

well it is interesting to see how trump and this is topping barger seem to be out on. odds with each other i don't know because management style is to create chaos and so you have some order comes from it or what in fact may be his style problem is that washington confuses the idea of negotiation with the idea of surrender the meeting for trump and him in singapore should have been the beginning of a dialogue of a process instead john bolton others of lay down the law here's what you're going to do working bolton said tell us where we should send our planes to pick up your stuff and take it away i mean if i would north korea particularly watching it how the us tour of your own agreement if you have any mind at all you would be very very skeptical it's very important that people understand that president moon of south korea is really the most important president here not trump i know trump thinks it's always all about him but president moon of south korea i believe is the one who's really in the driver's seat here and they are playing a very important role both in terms of south north korea relations but also

bringing the united states along it is possible that north and south korea could continue to build their relations there are a lot of economic issues that they could work on diplomatic issues really for cation of families that have been separated. to meet its end of the bargain north korea is reportedly preparing to dismantle its nuclear test site and the countries the moat northeast there are being six nuclear bomb tests since two thousand and six which were carried out inside a mountain is the world's last officially active nuclear test site north korea released an official statement describing how the site will be dismantled is that is that will be a controlled explosion to collapse all of the tunnels this will result in the entrance points being blocked as well after that the above ground facilities will be destroyed and some changes have already been observed by experts on satellite images shows in april and may buildings have been demolished together with

a rail line altie is one of the field channels that have been invited to witness how north korea is fulfilling its end of the bargain the ghost on of has this report. we're in the beijing international airport and as you can see behind me we're being greeted like celebrities here those who go to north korea we've been here for the past couple of days and all journalists spots of this press tour have been amassed in the chinese capital because that's where we got our visas that's when we where we got our tickets and now we will be proceeding to check in to our flights those are the windows that we're waiting for the personnel and so i'll be signing off and meeting you hopefully greeting you from north korea itself next time so this is the choreo flights we will be taking to get inside north korea thing is we aren't even exactly sure as to where exactly we're headed because according to our media two documents we're going to the southern port city

of one sound but according to our boarding passes we're headed to the north korean capital pyongyang so i guess the north the option but to find out on board of the plane. this time it seems to you know who's going to pyongyang or two once on. one time ok thank you. so there are roughly twenty john that's here on this plane and so as we're going to one son i just want to give you with a glimpse as to what's going on on board would be even though to press pieces like this one for example the pyongyang times it's mostly about politics but also features pieces like recipes for this right send money or cake and also we've been given and at this very very karl a colorful. magazine which features everything from the latest one as to what's been going like in the life of me i'm going on the supreme leader of north korea but also potter if each is around still young and the like two pieces like the ones

for example of how you speak the local be speaking in prose. so you walk out of any airport what's the first thing you expect to see it's a bustling crowd of people pushing and shoving it's a taxi drivers offering their often overpriced services well check this out nothing of this sort here it's just an empty parking lot and three buses that will take us to the city we will be taking an eleven hour train to get there and then we will be writing for four more hours by car and hiking for another hour but we're being told that the spectacle is well worth it. we'll be getting regular updates from eagle in north korea he's now on his way to the test site will let you know as soon as he

gets there and for more days thousand pictures you can follow his journey on twitter. the german government has admitted that around two thousand far right extremists are in legal possession of at least one weapon according to media reports the country's green party says the government is sweeping the problem under the carpet artie's peta all of that takes up the story. here in germany almost two thousand people identified as far right extremists have a permit to possess a firearm that's according to the government's own statistics twelve hundred of that number described themselves as reich citizens and since november of twenty sixteen around four hundred fifty of them have had their firearms licenses taken off them by the state but he was right citizens and dangerous right citizen is a catch all term for

a loosely affiliated bunch who claim that the federal republic of germany is illegitimate and say that the pre-war value more constitution remains in effect that's the same system that allowed hitler to take power well today's reich citizen groups come in several shapes and sizes but almost all of them have some link to why the neo nazi groups of far right ideology. the historical revisionism forms an ideological link that connects various right wing extremist currents and right wing extremists among right citizens use those connections to cause confusion to provoke authorities and to create a social platform for right wing ideology estimated that there's around eighteen thousand of these right citizens in germany some are allegedly preparing for a day when they'll rise up and take their country back but these are just hollow empty threats.