ok well then spygate spygate spygate and we move on now individual of the center of the so-called spygate is cambridge university professor stephan alba who apparently contacted several of donald trump's aides they were suspected of having links to the russian government something though they deny legal and media analysts lionel believes that the real issue has been lost in the media buzz it's amazing how the focus on the word by first is informant when in fact the real question is what is the role that this gentleman was involved in what was mr helper . who cares is he a spy what do you mean by that they also go through these great graphics of how many times you used the term and and he needed in this context the same thing happened when trump used the term wiretap they said there was no wiretapping and

they technically were correct because they were focusing on the the age old wiretapping of your verses surveillance in their life i mean are they that serious did they miss the point the point is not whether this gentleman that by the way was out here by the media. question is now whether he technically falls under the the definitional rubric of spy versus informant question is what was he doing there in the first place why was mr trump the subject of this type of directed intelligence scrutiny in the first place. israel has turned back a group of palestinian ships that were trying to breach the gaza blockade and sail to cyprus the main vessel was carrying patients wounded in recent border protests as well as students hoping to get an education abroad seventy people on board were

trying to reach limit in southern side it was intercepted nine nautical miles of the coast of gaza where as under the accords that foresee a two state solution israel is obliged to let vessels out to twenty nautical miles something though that it's never allowed that often stopped just six miles from the palestinian coast a correspondent in q three was one on one of the boats that was trying to get out. so now we're in the middle of the sea as you see there are expansive tons of boats . into the sea turned out we know that there we are going to sail to eat out of the wild where and not at the wild is the last point we can we can reach what the us are continuing to think much of it turned it back and they're continuing the protests but here in another way this is more of it and the time to break this season has been imposed on gaza strip for more than eleven years. so now we're

entering the fun out of that time is right what ships that. go closer to the palestinian boat that they started asking them to leave. it's not clear we're trying to get closer and to see what's happening all we see is is right you want ships coming closer. and very close to the palestinian protester boats policy is one wants to go back to the seaport and something happens now we started to feel that it's getting a bit dangerous. israeli forces that hamas was using people to carry out quote a propaganda operation breach the blockade the i.d.f. said that they're also ready to provide needed medical assistance to palestinians who will later be returned to gaza. meanwhile the israeli parliament is debating a new law to ban the filming of its soldiers those behind this bill say that

recordings are often used to undermine the quote spirit and the chase have repeatedly stressed that the i.d.f. is acting legally and with restraint despite footage like this going viral. these amateur videos are insured late on aspects of the conflicts that might otherwise not get brought up in the public debate here in israel and it's very important that we have that debate on the conflict the bill suggests tough punishment as well photographing i.d.f. soldiers with quote the intention of undermining spirit well that would get you five years behind bars intention to harm state security plans

a ten year jail sentence yet no explanation is that he's even given on how to decide intent experts have told us such punishments go against freedom of speach. this is an absurd piece of populist legislation just meant to limit the constrain the freedom of speech freedom of protest in israel something that contradicts the founding principles of this country and by the way this is very hypocritical as well because members of the right whenever settlers are evacuated they also filmed i.d.f. soldiers this is a time honored tradition in this country in this legislation goes against that value right we can do for us. soldiers. you can never take them to call you cannot go into figures there and they think this is this is. against this law for this and that explosion

because you know when you don't allow people to take pictures of sort of jails it starts we start to your store before the mall for a speech then your move to. taking photos off manned or whatever this is the end of the more costly. demonstrators have gathered on the streets of naples in italy they're angered by the president's torpedoing of the euro skeptic coalition's bid to govern protesters there brandished posters bearing the slogan our vote is important the leader of the five star movement one of the parties which tried to form a coalition joined the march and made a speech. i thought it. absolutely they said no to the government chosen by talents and then they said yes to a person who doesn't have the support of italians all the parliament with all respect to course they really it seems you can run in the election and be voted for by the people and still not be appointed. to the euro skeptic coalition failed to form

a government after the italian presidents were rejected their choice of finance minister he was seen as anti european the president then appointed a pro europe prime minister fresh elections look to be on the horizon. the failed coalition was called for the president to be impeached they've accused him of bowing to the pressure they've also been calls for a petition to change the constitution to how they directly elected president on the show they do because he's been looking at the track record of brussels when it comes to getting its way. you couldn't win an election create a coalition put together a plan for reforms and a ruling cabinet but turns out you still don't get to govern well that's if you're in the e.u. and you have a euro skeptic agenda if you're president i asked for the ministry and authority it's of political figure was not seen as supporting a line that could provide from the essentially this means that the majority of voters who between them opted for the five star movement and northern league two

parties with an anti e.u. agenda in march actually don't get to decide the president awaits a red card because he doesn't like one proposed minister and q political crisis possible snap elections is this really how democracy is supposed to work. find a constitution the government can't commit to changing. this is a limited sovereignty it's a piece of democracy there is a way brussels hasn't shied away from warning the new italian government against disobeying the e.u. rule book and it looks like it's got its way no matter what the tally in voters want it and when has that happened before oh yes back in two thousand and five a referendum was held on whether or not to adopt a european constitution here in france as well as in the netherlands voters

rejected the idea yet despite that clear. pushed ahead branding it the lisbon treaty three years later which contained many of the changes the constitution had attempted to introduce but this time the majority of the public didn't have a say because parliament simply ratified it island the only e.u. member which stuck with the referendum rejected in this bill treaty. but that wasn't didn't go down well with brussels but i believe we should not rush to conclusions believe the truth is a lie and we should now try to find a solution and despite a clear fifty three percent no vote the irish will back at the polls just sixteen months later for what must have felt like they finally got the answer it was looking for yes you were supposed to jump for joy what about greece

the mediterranean country drowning in a sea of its own it's a vote is decisively rejected the terms of an international bailout in two thousand and fifteen philip i would like to say that the greek people made a historic and brave choice they respond to the existing dialogue in europe but democracy worked in an unexpected way despite the greeks saying no to a sturdy their government venture did agree to a painful bailout plan and what about the dutch who rejected plans by the e.u. to sign an association agreement with ukraine back in two thousand and sixteen. if you could cannot just be ratified we have to take into account this no vote well despite their vote brussels went ahead and did it anyway so while many in the may vote against the blocs plans it seems that the e.u. prefers to have its own way with god less. another day

another scare story ahead of football's world cup in russia british tabloids are claiming russian hooligans are threatening to kill gay and transgender phones mr churkin as the story. as the world cup is just around the corner it seems to be scaremongering goal war from some of the tabloid newspapers here in the u.k. essentially spreading the message of don't go or else and discussing all sorts of possible horrific scenarios that could take place among the one of just many of the latest stories being discussed are legit death threats being made against the l g b t community and this is by far not the first time that something like this is being discussed we've seen headlines talk about things such as russia about to unleash its hooligans how the police are quote thuggish in russia how there is a threat of being whipped by cossack horseman during the world cup this summer as

well as talk of racism in hoppers potentially breaking into your phones through wife i when you're there as a fan and while all of this whipping up a frenzy is unraveling we've been hearing officials from both sides really in russia as well as here in the u.k. say that everything is going to be ok among those people was britain's top football police chief who was speaking at a foreign affairs select committee hearing who said basically russia is on top of it and the same message came from the england football association but we've been engaging the last two years into the foreign office pool so the thing that they say to try to see those resources from the russian authorities with a great number of meetings with them and every time we've met them there is a consistent reassurance of the spear a show of support to say that the shows should to the best of the disability security team have been impressed with what they see on the ground in the city and

particularly organizations went to the confederations cup last year the traffic. coach for the school well the foreign office has also been releasing certain instructions that have been playing down any worry about what could happen during the world cup they have said that among other things since twenty. sixteen five matches involving british teams have taken place in russia and those went without any trouble and of course the fact that british police and russian police have been cooperating ahead of the world cup and british police will in fact also be present on the ground as the world cup unravels earlier we heard from daryl teller's an england football fan and author of the book workwear him we should be here he told us his experience with russian fans have been very different from what the tabloids depict well i'm a black gay football fan and have been for thirty years out here in britain and my personal experience was one of safety feeling safe and feeling secure during the

champions league two years ago i was hosted by c.s.k. fans going through racism we managed even to be interviewed on the pitch but the nice stadium of c.s.k. with the rainbow flag. oh i didn't need to hide my identity while i was there and i hope it will be the same for l g b t fans traveling to the world cup. polish defense ministries asked washington to permanently deploy thousands of u.s. troops in the country poland says that is directly appealed to the u.s. after nato ignored a similar request for almost twenty years. because. this president is of great importance because it is the three. of the only ones in the world to have the ability to defend their positions against the three actually the request came in the form of a document from the polish to defense ministry and it was titled proposal for a u.s.

permanent presence in poland and now this document outlined the government's willingness to dedicate two billion dollars to the construction of a military base a permanent military base there and it also suggested the location for the base as well as locations for military hospitals and housing facilities for the troops that would be stationed there now russia's already reacted to this the kremlin spokes person dimitri called the move expansionist basically he said that it would inevitably lead to russian countermeasures it's a bit difficult to see how this stablish min of a permanent us military base in poland would give the government there any more power than it already has because seeing is there's already four thousand nato troops stationed in poland and other ball and the baltic countries such as the stony a lot of lithuania they are constantly rotating between these countries and maintain essential permanent presence there another thing is that there's military drills going on throughout europe almost every month actually and a lot of them occur on russia's border one of which is called ball tops and it

actually occurs in poland it's a u.s. led maritime exercise it encompasses troops from seventeen nations it's five thousand seven hundred troops in total forty two ships and two submarines but actually that's going to look like basically nothing in comparison to another military drill they have scheduled it's called anaconda it's supposed to be coming up in november it's happens actually every every two years it's also in poland but this year they have scheduled something different ten thousand troops are supposed to be in attendance from around ten countries allied to nato and that's all according to nato as website so. it's it's hard to see how a permanent military base in permanent u.s. military be simple and would give the government there any more pull with russia for example. a russian m.p. was forced to miss a un general assembly meeting earlier this month after finding his visa had been an

old constantine course a child who oversees foreign affairs in the upper house of the russian parliament was added to the u.s. sanctions list back in april to explain to his visa which allowed him to take part in meetings at the un's new york headquarters was canceled meant that he had to sit out a discussion of a resolution that actually coauthored the recent u.s. sanctions against russia targeted more than a dozen top government officials and seven of the country's richest men sanctions were linked to the ukraine crisis and moscow's alleged attempts to interfere in the twenty sixth the us presidential race on sunday because the chief says that washington never explained why he was targeted. and actually up earlier with your. i was added to the think sions list with no explanation the only reason given on the u.s. treasury department's website is that i'm an official of the russian government it didn't affect any of my personal interests as i don't have bank accounts or assets in the us is made it impossible for me to continue my attempts to bridge the gap between our parliaments then i also had my visa an old we should allowed me to take

part in the un meetings in the us it's a blatant violation of the us as the host of an international organizations h.q. it goes against international law and rules of diplomacy i'm assured that i was told it did for my beliefs and political activity which has nothing to do with the united states. as many as seven hundred mexican children have been separated from their parents at the u.s. border with mexico since october if it came to light in a new office of refugee resettlement report and it's probably good accusations that the trump administration has been using excess force this image now in particular of small children caged and sleeping on the floor when viral and caused outrage it was assumed that showed the harsh consequences of trying to policies towards mexican migrants though as it later turned out critics have been a bit too quick in rushing to judgment.

and. i found out. this is happening right now in the any debate that matches is how we foresaw government to get these kids back to their families this false the seemingly possible. thanks thing with i'll tell you more news in half an hour long.

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well. this is a pat on the land. five years ago it was all grass. like that over there now we have this this pumper going day in day out we didn't have any choice really we could have put it over that way or ways i mean we could have moved it a little bit. but we have to let the people who own the mineral rights get to those minorities and they compensated us for what they took here but the company built it and we have it now for all next forty years i'm guessing i don't own. my

house up there and there we have we used to have a beautiful view. and now we have this to look at brings in a little bit of money. very little if they took us out of here and get back all the money i made off of it. oh it going to happen. someday you know on oil is all pumped out of the ground they will come back here and level it all out and turn it back into farmland but that's you know like i say

it's going to be out of most of our lifetimes it would be out of mind for sure. you have nothing to say about where. i should say i have nothing to say you can suggest but they don't have to listen to you don't i mean you have no legal say in it put it that way so yeah they can put a wherever they want they don't need any your permission are all industry follows the proper practices and i don't think we'll have a problem but there's always that if they don't then we could have an issue in the biggest issue would be to to ground water as i see it when we live on our air in rural areas most of us depend on wells for our our drinking water and all the water we use in our old so if that would happen it would be a very bad thing. as a lot of fracturing job that's where they pump the sand the fluid and you know the

chemicals they use s. it is one they use a chemical called bio bio it kills all biological elements so so when they pump out that often to ground. and of bacteria is going to kill any kind of living organism of any car it kills because of one of our guy has. got some of it on his hands and i and i disturb just swallow his hand we're bad because that's what my old bio bio kills biological. anything. i'm pretty sure is it's is wrong in the water. for this or it is as is the nobody drinks the water out of iron stepfather from north dakota i think everybody drank so bottled water you know it just is just like if you ever. drop water on the out of the faucet night is in this state it's pretty nasty when we're fracking

no oil or grease is allowed to be spilled on the ground if you make an a mistake and you drop one cup you have to clean it up and take it away with you it's not polluting north dakota the air is clean the water is clean. this is privately owned land this is not government land any less the environmental protection agency finds scientific proof that there is real pollution going on they won't be able to shut this down. and so far there is no proof. there's just. propaganda. is it possible to respect safety measures while tracking. down how deep it is advocating his notion and it attempt to avoid all risk of polluting groundwater it seems the success is very unlikely. the question is being raised to address the

attention of anti-fashion groups. one thing is certain the practice if i try the tracking to be as large quantities of drinking water. ten young is the owner. if you clip services accompanied the facilities to shipping of water for fracking to pipelines and provides water storage and its huge tanks as well. these thinks are used to hold water for the fracking whole thirty five thousand barrels and so they'll pump water from one to the other until eventually it's over to the frac and down the hole. it's fresh water all that water that's run in tears coming out of the city water line so it's all clean water . you know that's been millions of dollars on water for one is one of the biggest expenses one of these wells. on the water after the frac they just

blow up back out of the ground and they all went off to a disposal facility. right here this is called a flare natural gas comes up with the oil and so they have to get rid of it so they just burn it off right here. comes out of the pump jacks goes underground to the treaters in there it separates the oil the water in the gas this site here produces more water than what they can pipeline out here so i have to come in with a truck intricate out take it to disposal facilities. keep their lives sixty miles out of williston on fort berthold reservation for black gold flows freely and accounts for one quarter of north dakota's production. this oil field isn't all that good for everybody we have secured land here we have

virgin land here and now there's oil roads oil spill. at night some of these trucks to drive along the gravel road and they don't poison . rocking water and water lol these things into the ditch. because they're too lazy to drive to the dump. and that is going into our river going into our creeks if going into our spot on. the fields not in the water but it is you know they're not telling the truth. i have twenty nine grandchildren i want them to enjoy this river where i do don't want them to walk in the water i want them to catch a fish if you can eat you know want to grow garden did you would have to worry about poison in the planet i want to have plants with better medicine if not before and now because of the things that are in the water.

oil workers are best suited to judge the eventual pollution risk caused by fracking . unfortunately this problem is not a priority they are in survival mode first and foremost they are in need of work. during the drilling phase radioactive to prepare a back to the surface is a major risk for workers and the environment some companies clearly are not concerned and do not hesitate to suppose that these toxic materials into wild dumps . special teams are left to ship them back to suitable treatment sites. in north dakota no one with an oil rich piece of land will tell you that fracking could be an environmental hazard. doing so could jeopardize one of the best ways to get rich quick. of course aviva stories have been in rhetoric christmas two thousand and fourteen all

science turned red thanks to saudi arabia the staggering fall of the price per barrel of oil put it in and the moment of the phoria the us rise and the first producers of crude oil based the shale oil. we can feel the concern brought by the price cut everywhere and will is to now shows the science of a boom town going bust. people in this town are very very suspicious of oil booms because that almost always comes with a large bust and the bust to be rather difficult and now that i'm a part of this town i'm a little bit worried because we're seeing gas prices start to drop down and i'm wondering what's going to happen to my business because we have a message here. january two thousand and fifteen the price per barrel fell below the crucial fifty dollars mark. in this little town here west and is.