you know everybody in this country has the right to vote. before chavez cattlemen station from individuals forty seven kilometers away and they have to travel through the jungle and we swim across a river malon you need your parking station is a thousand meters away i mean from any individual in the entire country so everybody has the right to vote and their guns are electoral commission which is its own branch of government something else that happens to it was it was three branches of government before which was judicial legislature that executive any groups of the citizens of there and an electoral one so that he had this independent commission that it go you've people their rights back but there's boris johnson i've appointed months and you mentioned gallagher justin trudeau didn't allow thousands of venezuelans to vote in the consulate so we've thousand in a travesty in itself that is as far as i understand it it's

a complete contravention of the vienna convention on the magic relations it is sovereign territory you can't tell somebody that they can't do something about sovereign and this it. can decide that they were going to stop those people from voting how they did it i'm not sure whether they actually put people in front of the doors or not however there are only six thousand acts that vendors are going to act on canada. with an abstention greater forty eight percent for truck out remember which one of the truth that they're so similar in only three thousand it's true to a country that's going to have has a population of twenty million and again it's political these are all countries that are more upset with the fact that you have. a very leftist distributed government because while. the country is the other countries you mention canada the result has gone from left to right argentina has gone from left to right center to that wall that women are very very anti they're not socialist governments and

it's a saying reason that people always condemn chavez in my view just finally and briefly when you talk to ordinary venezuelans they wanted to vote for the dura the ones that use were diverted from a door despite the fact the united states seems to be threatening oil sanctions if the douro want well i mean the voters i suppose there would not only be people who wish to vote from a juror. i mean obviously you're not really allowed to ask you are you going to vote for it you can say it would you like to tell me you're going to vote for and you know that it was a mixture so it wasn't all the major thing is. there a very proud nation and that for for decades latin america has being run by it the cia formed. a different description and

when they have a country and a president and the previous president to go where we actually want to take back our sovereignty be a sovereign nation it adds to that fight and so yes as i mentioned sanctions have been put in place other side actions of being threatened to go no doubt be more sanctions let me. doesn't want to roll over to it when it has failed thank you after the break. as the u.k. government announces plans to accelerate fracking in britain we'll ask former number ten advisor professor peter styles about whether to expect quakes in england on this week's news plans for banging up and the man who's frankly boiling over a bunch of biased be all the more coming up part two of going underground.

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 styles former advisor to u.k. prime minister david cameron and an expert in applied and viral mental 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

when you telling m.p.'s in the twenty four hours as well that quake risk i've worked for forty years on earthquakes and just by mining coal mine you've got this and a variety of places from south wales through stoke where i'm now in yorkshire. so mining activity is capable of causing earthquakes. actually in fact it caused us a future bigger than the moment which are caused by fracking two thousand and eleven. fact i'm one of the few people who have actually monitored fracking in the u.k. as i monitored with a ph d. student two thousand before in the one nine hundred ninety s. with b.p. carry out he said story a great cause by fracking is that the company is generally a mortgage lender the they do except that oh yes it is. and in two thousand and eleven there were a sequence of of craig's associated with the very first traffic. and i monitored

those together with the british geological survey and produced a report for government now let's be sure let's be clear these are a quick switch on a global scale most people in earthquake prone would laugh at but they have caused concern. and the government reacted on the basis of a 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 an open side earth 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 exploration techniques they cannot see faults of that size so why was point five put it a limit in the first place ok there is a there is a russian out of that and if you look globally particularly us after the earthquake

it's caused by various tectonic effect in other words what we call natural creeks and use good quakes there is a transition point five that looks. above that we are actually stimulating thoughts to move. and those files are probably already in existence the news that we're 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. the government in this wisdom at the time which is dec decided that was the point at which they would stop now there is a different we recognise that opened fire was important i guess they were intending to be cautious but they decided no point five would be the eventual limit this could have been a spate of reports recently there were one thousand quakes 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 with south korea one it was scientists from glasgow university and government who were in. germany they said there may be a connection that was a geothermal well. that was a different kind of well anyway. i was asked 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 if you for asking do you. think geothermal energy does too. because what you're trying to do is produce pathways rock now in granite get you to energy there are no pathways naturally anyway so you're from granite so it's a process which has a variety of uses and if you like. the one which is drawn much it must tension of

course has to do with shale gas before you get your possible solutions we invited quadrille and any others on either available to come on with the government says the sector is governed by one of the safest which 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 there is in offshore is very good on show there's not been a great deal on falling gas regulated. and i can tell you that through the whole of yorkshire where mining is taking place ok we have much more detailed maps of faults from the surface you cannot see a fault i'm generous here ok you cannot see a fault which has a displacement of five meters. now five metre thought has the capability of producing an earthquake far exceeding the threshold far exceed far exceeding what we actually had probably for whereas we can mark folks down to

a few centimeters underground and those those faults are marked we know where they are and they are nearly seven hundred metres closer to where the fracking will take place than the measurement at the surface. so i actually contest whether they do know the the. are 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 only 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 the taxpayers actually subsidizing it and saying that in fact instead of instead of fracking being like something any 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 boland basin runs into the irish sea why did we not start as we've done with which form which farmhouse it well i'm sure but all the oil and gas is extracted offshore because it's cheaper it's not any different you know through 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 fantasy and 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 setback from work areas rather with from old panels of clothes 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 reza greatest us 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 on hilltops have yeah consequences so obviously so that's just do it all this go to the all the really really the obvious is seen the report well there's

a ecologist 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 i presume you are one of them i mean highest level view on with her 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 now there's a whole precedent 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 in 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 tracking of 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've seen you on that i don't think the colleges like that look this is about banking let's go into this about people who have no chance of getting a bank account little in any deposit amount in the bank public sector executives report local off or it is 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 positions taken by the police i think the police saying that some of the owners in windsor will have them back they're pretty sure they are they married but very well you don't go in but if they hadn't

left under these rules they could have been fined up to a thousand pounds for begging that's think about that the 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 carol servitors i'm one of the choice 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 don't 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 that it wasn't acceptable to make a joke like that which was perhaps anti israel and some of regular boil the jokes. that work will be more there when there are jokes as people might want to thirty 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 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 he has a say so i 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 for mason 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 let me know vic 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 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 and

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called the justice and there's been a couple of. guys . breaking news this hour the u.s. led coalition has reportedly bombed to syrian government positions in the eastern province of a terrorist or. furious chris paul the woman

poisoned in the u.k. alongside her double agent father gives her first media interview since the attack she says her life had been turned upside down and that she wants to return to russia. political newcomer just happy conte is excepted as italy's new prime minister breaking an almost three month long impasse it clears the way for two populist euro skeptic parties to form the country's next government. try broadcasting live direct for our studios in moscow this is an international john thomas certainly glad to have you with us now syria's news agency is reporting that the u.s. led coalition has bombed two syrian government positions in the eastern province of darrow's or a local journalist mohammed ali has more. syrian army issued

a statement just about thirty minutes ago can get back and describe it as going to question by the u.s. led coalition attacking some syrian army positions between you and me me in what is important to know to according to the syrian army. is such an aggression as the syrian army describe it comes. there were. also known as isis terrorists gathering nearby definitely this is not the first time that the u.s. led coalition attack syrian army positions previously this happened here and also where u.s. troops are also happen to be u.s. and started in september two thousand and sixteen and out. to the killing of thousands of syrian army soldiers and also led to the. control over of three strategic areas at the time. from on this we can bring in our senior correspondent jeff who has six tenths of

experience in syria who can kind of help us understand the situation a little bit better so what we know so far well first of all the job of where this happened this allegedly these strikes took place near the t two pumping station it's an energy installation in the middle of nowhere really it's we passed through it on our way to do it as old once and. just surrounded by desert it's completely empty there isn't much in the way of any military installations in the area but. as the correspondent the force mentioned there is the background of what is currently happening t two is located one of the last remaining and one of the largest isis pockets in syria the syrian military had just pulled back to big isis attacks and a lot of losses on both sides and they had just launched an operation to eradicate one of these last pockets. isis pocket and suddenly hearing that one am reports of

air strikes in the vicinity of the t two pumping station there are a few interesting details for example the united states the pentagon has come out in writing and said that. the wording here is very important they can't substantiate reports that there had been a u.s. strike what usually happens when they try to deal a announcing a strike or you know they don't want to say anything is they say we have no comment we have no information at this current time the wording here is very different that we don't have information about information of any such attack it's it's pretty direct as well so perhaps there is there is the opinion that it wasn't the u.s. led coalition behind the strike that perhaps it was israel because in the vicinity of t two. poor indian forces there is his bull as well and both are of course enemies sworn enemies of israel and israel has before struck struck at

iranian proxies forces that has been in the vicinity of the resort as well so you know it wouldn't come as a surprise that in the south of syria and these strikes have happened before with regards to the united states led coalition perhaps being the culprit perhaps carrying out these strikes but it doesn't make a lot of sense because the area where these strikes are reported to have happened is far far away from any u.s. assets or u.s. allies on the ground s.d.f. is around fifty one hundred kilometers to the east that's the syrian democratic forces u.s. led coalition partners on the ground the base where there are united states special forces as well as. u.s. rebels that is about one hundred kilometers to the west previously the united states last year had struck. syrian army. in the vicinity of because they were

moving to would see that because they argued self-defense you can understand exactly this time around there's no such argument the area is simply too remote and the only thing bordering t two is an isis pocket so again we must caution viewers the details at this point scan you know there isn't the there isn't a lot a lot to do by so information will probably emerge in the coming hours over the next over the next day but at this point a u.s. led strike does look suspect nevertheless that is what the syrians are reporting that is what hizbollah has reported that u.s. led coalition jets of carried out aggressive action against syria in syrian military assets and i must say that its reporters who actually contacted the pentagon in the pentagon said we don't really know anything about this at this point in time it's interesting to hear your thoughts about the geography of the region because you bring up some good points about iran being in play and not many

people realize how complex the situation really is on the ground it's not as straightforward as people believe it to be on one side you can see other thanks for being with us here in the studio to help us understand this. or more of this we can bring in political analyst richard becker who joins us now to help break down developments further richard thanks as always for being with us here on r t international. so let's start with the assumption that the u.s. was responsible which is not clear at this point which you just heard us talking about what would the motivation have been here. well i think that the it's not clear statements from the pentagon are very strange statements i think i mean they don't have information to substantiate. it can't they say yes or no. and why would they be motivated to say something like that but. i think that either the u.s. or israel carried out the attack and vote i really trying to inflict more and more

damage and the syrian led coalition of syria iran hezbollah and of course the support of russia so and we also see i think i don't very strong at times to separate the all wail of syria from the syrian government controlled from the control from the control that they have over that very valuable resource and that is. clearly one of the aims of the. and u.s. forces in the eastern part of syria so i think it is. you know we don't have the way to know exactly who carried out the attack we do are able to know that it was an attack on the syrian government and the forces that it is allied with. so you mentioned good point just a second ago like yes or no why can't they just answer one way or the other it

seems like the pentagon is playing a little bit coy in this situation using their wording in weird ways why will they not just accept responsibility if they have done it as they have done previously in the past or tonight. well i think that too is a little bit hard to say they certainly know whether or not it was u.s. forces that carried out the strike in fact i'm sure that they know who did carry out the strike it wasn't the u.s. and i think there is a. very obvious choice would be israel. and so you know this many times governments might want to have. a kind of window of deniability on many different issues and this may be one at this point i think we can't really know we'll see a little bit more i think in the coming hours so let's. now go the other direction let's say it's not the united states. some speculation has been that it could be israel who has carried out these airstrikes what would be their motivation in this

circumstance well. the israelis the israeli leadership sees this syrian government has fallen. and the iranian forces as enemy targets and it's been making them targets air strikes and other forms of hostilities. also just today we see in the news that the united states is concerned is considering the u.s. government and israeli minister said that the u.s. will soon recognize israeli sovereignty over golan heights the golan heights of course are part.