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the human race to servants to free of g.m. and chrysler state would even be the same if we passed 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 on 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 wiser duke a prime minister david cameron and then expert in applied and vital mental physics 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 what we're telling m.p.'s in the twenty four hours well the quake risk i've worked for forty years on earthquakes and used by mining coal mining got this in

a variety of places from south wales through. yorkshire ok so mining activity is capable of causing earthquakes. actually in fact it's cause earthquakes which are bigger than the ones which are caused by fracking in two thousand and eleven. the fact i'm one of the few people who have actually monitored fracking in the u.k. is i monitored with a ph d. student in two thousand and well before not in the one nine hundred ninety s. with b.p. karaoke said story earthquakes caused by fracking being the company's delay of the two hundred they do except that now yesterday. and in two thousand and eleven there were a sequence of earthquakes associated with the very first rocket. and i monitored together with the british judgment survey and produced a report for government now let's be sure let's be clear these are critics which on a global scale most people in earthquake prone countries would laugh at but they

have cause concern rightly so and the government reacted 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 not 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 meter now when we're looking for those faults we use seismic reflection techniques which are standard industry expression techniques they cannot see faults of that size so why was point five put a 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 not creeks and induced earthquakes there is a transitional note point five that looks. above that we are actually stimulating

folks to move ok on the false 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 was when you started to get concerned ok the government in this wisdom at the time which is jack the side 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 in earthquakes in oklahoma people talking about seismic activity there south korea one of their worst earthquakes which injured or displaced hundreds of people but even those scientists saying we

south korea one it was scientists from glasgow university and government if if i were in. germany they said there may be a connection. that was a dear 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 you get your terminology there are no pathways not really anywhere 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 sound 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 where mining has taken 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 map faults down to a few centimeters underground on those those folks are marked we know where the are 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 with that 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 but to do standards and today's standards can use all five pieces you see the government are 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 such as i've said all of these basins run

off shore the bowland basin runs into the irish sea why did we not start as we've done with which farm which farm house it's well on show but all the oil and gas is extracted offshore because it's cheaper it's not any different from 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 two or five pounds additional 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 several 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 areas in other words from old panels of clothes so this is this was recommended in two thousand and four but was never optioned 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 the 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 on 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 there 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 or 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 of course the story goes deeper than that the ecologist is also pointing out something quite interesting they're saying that various banks fail 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 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 ecologist 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 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 your 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 not one of the tell 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 the 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 do frankie boyle is one of the great comedians of the rage 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 edited 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 reggae boil the jokes . that work will be more there when there are jokes the people might want to censor 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 involved beating an innocent pregnant woman stomach ainley raping a man with meals he tried to refuse and freezing

a shackled prison until he died she personally wrote the order to destroy ninety two tapes of cia torture of course snowden he's not there the favored son of the cia he's the bad boy who ran off to moscow. what he's saying i think some of it is corroborated as i 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 i don't think thank you and i should say to viewers of the rather near daily mail scott just guardian both reported over the weekend on suppose connections between this program and the trump campaign via we can leaks while it is true that julian assange has been on this program and so is former trump national security advisor michael flynn 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 u.s. director of national defense intelligence report we again deny all allegations and that's it for the shoulder back on saturday the details from today's of u.k. prime minister's questions until then you can keep in touch with us via social media see one thousand one hundred thirty four years to the eve of the birthday of czech journalist max board without whom we might never have had the works of franz

kafka. in some american cities the police have killed themselves cling to ready to eat. people who walk on the streets of the united states are at risk from the very people who are supposed to protect that people are no more afraid of the police than is often. you can see something happening and this is why i don't want to call the cops. rather than call the cops in those young men lose their lives chasing the good with the fingers on the trigger you never know better safe than sorry i don't know that someone else is going to pull a gun so yeah unfortunately around around here we end up on our guns a lot still from such but cool. to.

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i was. north korea gears. as part of a bargain with the u.s. given rare access on our correspondents reporting on routes. me we're being greeted like celebrities here those who go to north korea. the u.s. ambassador to israel controversially poses with an altered photo of jerusalem with one of the most sacred muslim sites removed and replaced by a jewish place of work. on germany admits that close to far right extremists there may be in legal possession of firearms.

grab your tuning in from right around the world are welcome to moscow and to r.t. international my names you know neal good to have your company our top. story north korea is gearing up to close its nuclear test site in the country's remote northeast there have been six nuclear bomb tests there since two thousand and six which were carried out inside a month and it is the world's last officially active nuclear test site now north korea's described how the site will be dismantled saying there will be a controlled explosion to collapse all the tunnels will result in all the entrance points being blocked as well after that the above ground facilities will be destroyed well some changes have already been observed by experts on soft light images taken in april and earlier this month buildings have been demolished together with a real wait in line and

a group of international journalists have set on an arduous journey to witness the dismantlement of the nuclear facility now they're taking an eleven hour train trip with the courage is windows covered the journalists have been instructed not to open the blinds throughout their entire journey then to get to the mountain area a very remote one crews will spend several hours traveling by bus then an hour on foot to the site itself artie's igor's them off is among them this is his most recent 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 parts of this press tour have been amassed in the chinese capital because that's where we got our visas that's what 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 to 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 place. this time it seems seems you know we're going to pyongyang or two once on ok once on 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 what glimpse as to what's going on on board would be given out press releases like this one for example the pyongyang times is mostly about politics but also beaches pieces like

recipes for this rice and money were in the cake and also we've been given and this very very karl colorful a career magazine which features everything from the latest one has to what's been going like in the life of him going on the supreme leader of north korea but also part of it peaches kind of rama's old young and the likes of pieces like the ones for example of how you speak the local be speaking for. i. so you walk out of any airports 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 won't 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 would 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 yeah igor is a done off there just to recap he is on his way to the nuclear test site and he report back right here when he arrives and while you can follow igor on twitter where he's posting details on photos from the reclusive country than ever he can find out for instance what kind of food you might expect in north korea and have a look around local hotels to see what they are like. donald trump meanwhile is casting delegates on the much anticipated summit with north korea due to take place on the twelfth of june during a meeting with the side korean president in washington trump said the event might not happen at all. but we are working on something and you know there's

a chance that it will work out there's a chance it's a very substantial chance that it will 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 a lot of good things going to happen a lot of bad things going to happen we'll see how it all works maybe if you want a lot of things change everything can be scuttled everything can be scuttled but washington appears to be sending mixed messages with the white house issuing a commemorative coin ahead of the summit which the pics trump on the north korean leader. president trump out earlier war north korea it could face the same fate libya to remind you of the big gevalt bits weapons of mass destruction but still face the nato intervention done mcadams from the rumpole peace institute believes such threats render washington irrelevant for peace talks. you have basically

talking about libya as the model for north korea we know what happened to libya libya voluntarily gave up its weapons and was overthrown nonetheless if that's not a red flag to the north koreans i don't know what is i mean if i would north korea particularly watching it how the u.s. tore up the iran agreement i would believe if you have any mind at all you would be very very skeptical i think the u.s. is essentially irrelevant to the solution of the korean problem and that may be one of the silver linings of the fact that the trump administration seems to have no clue what it's doing the north and south are clearly moving ahead we saw that historic leading on the border we saw for talks progress moon was elected to do exactly what you're trying to do and i think it's actually the u.s. the intervention it's the neoconservatives who are isolating the us and making us irrelevant i think that the ball is in play with north and south korea u.s. is irrelevant at some point if a deal is made between the north and the south eventually the u.s.

will have to be asked to leave. america's ambassador to israel has come in for criticism after he was seen posing with a rather controversial gift david friedman was presented with a photograph of one of the most sacred places in jerusalem but the image had been altered to show the jewish third temple on the site where the islamic al aqsa mosque is currently situated the third temple is a biblical reference to a new place of worship to replace an ancient one which was destroyed the u.s. embassies asked for an apology saying the envoy was on aware that he was being given a doctored picture of the region is still reeling from deadly protests against the relocation of the embassy to jerusalem with more here's our middle east correspondent paula sleazier. the photograph immediately sparked fierce criticism from the muslim world saberi cut who is the secretary general of the palestine liberation organization the p.l.o. there's a friedman expressed to quote rude and hypocritical behavior you then have

a tb who is an arab israeli lawmaker and comes from the israeli arab dominated political alliance called the joint let's and he has responded to the photographs by saying that this madman wants to bring peace a good thing you didn't put the embassy there at the same time we're hearing that the american ambassador has apologized freidman must not the words of the image thrust in front of him when the photo was taken he was deeply disappointed that anyone would take advantage of his visit to create controversy the u.s. policy is absolutely clear we support the status quo on the her arm al-sharif temple mount now here which is the organization from which the man who gave the present came from has expressed its own concerns about the incident it says that the man who presented the picture actually acted on his own behalf but the problem is that the american ambassador already has a record of controversy even before this event he is

a supporter of israeli settlements in palestinian territory and in the past he's also called on the u.s. state department to stop calling the west bank israeli occupied territory and this incident comes at a very unfortunate time it follows the inauguration of the new u.s. embassy in jerusalem from its original base in tel aviv and as you well know that sparked a barrage of both international and regional criticism. google may get flak from many quarters but if there's one thing about the company that people had moderate it was their corporate motto don't be evil but that slogan has not been largely removed from the company's code of conduct with the internet behemoths new dealings appearing to have rendered out particular principle obsolete. don't be evil the folks of google certainly thought so for the first eighteen years until that is they quietly removed probably the most famous phrase in their corporate for .