i'm lucy catherine of. lucy is only one of a handful of journalists following the standoff between chevron and the locals in congest the and you can follow her twitter feed here for the latest on events there and one of her latest tweets she is saying that there is a heavy police presence at the chevron drilling site. well fracking is also causing uproar across the atlantic the u.s. state of texas has been shaken by several earthquakes recently with some scientists saying dozens of nearby drilling wells are to blame environmental activist and professor at the university of north texas adam brigalow believe fracking activity should be subjected to more thera regulation. what needs to happen is there needs to be more empowerment for those who are most vulnerable to the harms involved here you know companies talk about conducting this in a safe way but the there is no objective answer to what is safe this is it's it's a system that's vulnerable to what was called normal accidents that can there's going to be s

the next few days to do stay with us for that coverage reporting from granada spain for r t i'm lucy catherine of. on air and online here's a glimpse of what's lined up for you at r.t. dot com america's national security agency says it's ready to forgive the deeds of whistleblower edward snowden to field the real extent of agency's mass spying program but only if you stop spilling the beans why not more at r t dot com. also online breakthrough leave scientists pondering our universe is nothing more than just a reflection of another cosmos so everything you see including the screen you're now watching is just a mirror image that the whole three d. review of their discovery on our website. and i will be sure. to read were. i. a ten year old karl pierson has been identified as the shooter who opened fire at a high school in the u.s. state of colorado wounding two people one of them critically he then turned the weapon on himself his body was found in a classroom armed with a shotgun he entered the school looking for a teacher students were evacuated from the whole high school in the town of cente

troops stay after twenty fourteen and now says pressure is being applied to drag him back in lucy catherine off reporting now on why kabul refused to sign the deal in the first place. in a war getting out is often harder than going in and nowhere does that hold more true than in afghanistan president obama promised to withdraw combat forces by the end of twenty fourteen afghans will have full responsibility for their security in this war will come to a responsible end but the two countries have been at odds over a deal that would keep some u.s. troops past that deadline washington wants the pact signed before the end of the year it's imperative that we conclude the bilateral security agreement as soon as possible but afghan president hamid karzai says not until the u.s. cleans up its act for us to the issue of. sovereignty and detentions and the continued presence of international forces and afghan villages and the very conduct of the war itself. the simmering tensions have erupted into a war of words on sunday karzai accuse the u.s. of deliberately withholding fuel supplies to pressure him

subterranean homes they claim there may be more behind the a vixen than meets the eye artist lucy catherine off has the details. it's views like this one breathtaking isn't it that's made not a famous for drawing visitors in but it's the city's plans to force out a group of residents from this very hill that's drawing controversy now it's a bit of an unusual kind of story we're in the foothills of the sierra nevada mountains an area that's pockmarked with countless caves caves which people have called home for years now the residents are a colorful mix of characters we have spaniards immigrants students people who don't have a place to call home as well as people who prefer the home to reflect a bit of an unusual kind of lifestyle and while several days ago we had seen a protest of about two hundred and fifty supporters coming out here saying that's simply not ok meanwhile activists believe that it's not actually about the dangers of living here but perhaps there's a profit motivation behind getting the residents out of course the views here as we mentioned earlier are spectacular and there

i'm lucy catherine and. many believe the chemicals used in fracking could accumulate in the soil and water and even air pollution act of us claim there are over a thousand documented cases of contamination near drilling sites help arrests could include sensory and respiratory damage environmental safety campaigner george barda says that even if the fracking victims go to court they'd be unlikely to win. you know. maybe a poison or children but it's going to be to the people in neighboring plots of land don't pay the ones that have to suffer the consequences so huge increase rates of cancer of all sorts of a spiritual problems thousands of families have been forced to move out of that areas and one of the reasons that we're not hearing more about the specific stories of illness is that in order to get any kind of compensation from these trucking companies they have to settle out of court because they can't begin to fight the legal battles that everyone can afford. on top of chemical pollution and water contam

and lucy catherine. bond on top of chemical pollution and water contamination fracking is also being blamed for causing earthquakes on r.t. dot com you can read texas communities are being rocked by unexplained tremors which locals insist are done to fracking. sunday is a day of prayer and reflection in south africa in memory of former president nelson mandela who died on thursday poor asleep in our reports on how his life was a long walk from being labeled a terrorist to becoming the world's most respected freedom fighter. he's the man who pulled a troubled and divided land back from the brink of civil war the man who after twenty seven tough years behind bars walked free from prison in his heart was not revenge but i think that his greatest legacy to this country is reconciliation in the last three decades the world tirelessly polished the image of nelson mandela and image recognized around the world only coca-cola is better known better men who struggle for racial equality again south africa's ruling

lucy catherine of r t moscow by backing off an hour's time with more of the world's top hourly headlinesfor now though abby martin and breaking this is that. ukraine is in a tough spot right now trying to figure out whether to join the e.u. or the arrangements custom union it would be nice if they would you know maybe allow the populace to vote for their future via referendum but sadly it looks like the politicians will be making the historic decision i can see why some people want to look west and some people want to look east but i don't understand why so-called ukrainian nationalists want so desperately to join the e.u. first off any nationalist groups in the e.u. are automatically demonised as right wing extremists and the politically correct west patriotism is pretty much a dirty word generally nationalist like their culture and the people who are part of it but if you look at migration trends within the e.u. we see that the slavic part of it is flooding western europe looking for work i have many relatives from the slavic part of the e.u. and almost all of them have to work abroad

san miguel giving up is simply not an option reporting and we're not a spain for our team and lucy catherine of saudi arabia delivers a severe punishment a political activist is sentenced to four years in jail three hundred lashes and a travel ban after calling for a constitutional monarchy and criticizing the ruling family had to r.t. dot com for the full story there plus following the hippie slogan make love not war can be punishable as an italian protester may end up in court after kissing a riot police officer on a website we've got all the details. now it's proving to be a tough month for gay rights this week as strongly as high court overturned the country's first law allowing same sex couples to marry before that india would lead to legislation that criminalizes homosexuality while croatians overwhelmingly voted against same sex marriage in a national referendum. reports. most western countries already recognize in some form the right of gay couples to get married and adopt children but in other parts of the world there is the opposite trend in most immersed in a week. we've been marr

life all the kids at school have their fathers but we don't reporting in come on in yemen and lucy catherine of. foreign policy analyst phyllis bennis says that whatever comes to international law the u.s. feels it has a free pass. there is no justification for killing children old people noncombatants there's no legal justification there's no moral justification the fact that these are the victims these are the actual the sounds of us drone strikes goes to the heart of what's wrong with drone strikes the idea that they are somehow surgically accurate is simply demolished that argument is demolished by the amnesty international report by the initial report of the un special rapporteur the reality is that if the us says we have determined that it is legal to use drone strikes in afghanistan to use drone strikes in pakistan where we are not at war the fact that it may be a violation of international law is simply dismissed as irrelevant international law in the united states unfortunately is too often only applied to other countries and not to ourselves it's not just they have a civilian death

i'm lucy catherine. for tasks or staring down fans in the shiraz fracking side and scuffles with police you can see all our pictures from the scene online at our dot com. and on thursday the world lost nelson mandela a leader who followed racism and inequality and became an international symbol of freedom and justice are just fall asleep looks at the legacy of the man to build a new south africa and being decades of a part a in the country he's the man who pulled a troubled and divided land back from the brink of civil war the man who after twenty seven tough years behind bars walks free from prison in his heart was not to avenge. his greatest legacy to this country is reconciliation but in the last three decades the world tirelessly polished the image of nelson mandela and image recognized around the world only coca-cola is better known better men who struggle for racial equality again south africa's ruling white minority had a dark side the world has conveniently forgotten about now someone that i've b

i'm lucy catherine of ramen and campaigner helen rimmer says governments are using false promises to cover up the needles technology. extracting shale gas isn't cheap and one of the arguments that the government was putting forward to shell gas was that it was going to bring down our energy bills but your energy analysts and even now the secretary of state has said himself that this won't bring down energy bills because we are in a year of pay in market that we don't think it's going to affect fuel poverty we don't think it's going to have a huge economic benefit or certainly get major coverage we're getting more local people in the area becoming aware of the risks of for can three of these local protests so we think it's all i think up and it's all helping to build a movement against fracking because people they don't want to take a risk so we need the local councils to listen and we also need our members of parliament to listen and make sure that the government is hearing that this isn't popular that don't want it in the u.k. and it's unnecessary. on thursday the world lost nelson

of san miguel giving up is simply not an option reporting it we're not a spain for our tea i'm lucy catherine of. now to italy where hundreds of people have once again rallied on the streets claiming that some of the government policies are leading to falling incomes and growing unemployment anti austerity protests got a second wind across the nation and in some cities dissent and send it into violence demonstrators and raged with tax hikes and biting cuts to a handful of sectors and clashed with police on the streets of touring rome and venice spearheaded first by farmers and truck drivers the movement was later joined by students and small business owners earlier r t spoke to european asset manager erich krauss who says that the public's discontent is driven by the ill management of the country. the protests are very global there they have not clearly articulated any goals and you know why it mixture of left right. everything from small engine printers to sar murs laborers the unemployed students so it's polymorphous but the country's basin very tired of being governed and the problems with

accuse karzai of putting the country's security at risk in order to score political points at home lucy catherine of r.t.e. moscow it's been a pleasure having you with us here on r.t. international today i'm rover sushi and half an hour you'll be asked about all of us here but between then and it's going to be mad max the car is a report coming away and justice. will. science technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. this is the place that has been consecrated to god for almost a thousand years people came here twenty some years ago. and i was took life on the silence of. people of the love of christ working. people so you can. come to something happens on this island that makes them return to it again and again they say the below saves them. join me james brown on a journey for the soul. only. welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser you know wired magazine this week feature of the absurd creature of the week tongue ating i suppose. this parasitic i supplied can sell as the tongue of a rose snapper a fish and replaces it with its own body providing

consequences for them if they continue to protest reporting and put in just romania for r t i'm lucy catherine of fragging is also causing uproar across the atlantic the u.s. state of texas has been shaken by several earthquakes recently with some scientists saying dozens of nearby drilling wells are to blame environmental activist and professor at the university of north texas adam believes fracking activities should be subject to more thorough regulation but what needs to happen is there needs to be more empowerment for those who are most vulnerable to the harms involved here you know companies talk about conducting this in a safe way but the there is no objective answer to what is safe this is it's it's a system that's vulnerable to what was called normal accidents that can there's going to be something going to happen wrong with it at any time now whether that's too frequently occurring or whether the harms involved or of too great a magnitude i think reasonable people can disagree on that question so the real question isn't whether it's safe it's who gets to determine whether it stays in

i'm lucy catherine. and many believe that chemicals used in fracking could accumulate in the soil calls in water and even air pollution activists claim that there are over a thousand documented cases of contamination near drilling sites just like these that's as the health risks could include sensory and respiratory damage environmental safety campaigner george barda says that even if the fracking victims go to court they'd be unlikely to win. you know pursue shale gas and gas maybe or poison your children but it's going to be to you that the people in neighboring plots of land don't get paid the ones that have to suffer the consequences the huge increase rates of cancer of all sorts of research are problems thousands of families have been forced to move out of the areas and one of the reasons that we're not hearing more about the specific stories of illness is that in order to get any kind of compensation from these trucking companies they have to settle out of court because they can't begin to fight th

of san miguel giving up is simply not an option reporting it we're not a space for our tea i'm lucy catherine of. online right now an offbeat approach to heating in siberia instance a story burning three terms of poppy seeds in fact was enough to keep locals warm for an entire day find out why they were doing this if it were taking up full advantage of a huge haul they had on line from a school store but also explain why a number of u.s. retailers are planning to place cameras in their mannequins generally holiday shopping peak it's quite creepy and if you want to read it more about that as well as online from us. members of south africa's government are paying their last respects to nelson mandela before sunday's funeral but as the country mourns his death appears to be revealing some sore spots in the still divided state fall asleep reports next from a johannesburg sub where we're live so far from what mandela envisioned for his country. it's definitely unsafe because they have you seen a white person around. this core. is taking us on a drive through the streets of his childhood this was a

accuse karzai of putting the country's security at risk in order to score political points at home lucy catherine of r t moscow some of the global headlines for your brief right now into the world update we go the thai government and the opposition have now agreed upon a truce for the next few days earlier protesters were let into government buildings including the prime minister's office which they had repeatedly attacked over the weekend of the nine days of confrontation that left four people dead by the proposed to amnesty bill for the former prime minister who was ousted in two thousand and six. alleged boko haram militants have attacked an air force base in nigeria at least twenty four gunmen in two gods are being killed during the battles but more casualties among the personnel on the base are expected authorities have now imposed a twenty four hour curfew around the side and a nearby city the attack comes a week off the nigerian military bombarded boko haram hideouts on the border with cameroon. well thank you for joining us here on r.t. international just a moment a look at the lives of m

of san miguel giving up is simply not an option reporting it we're not a space for our tea i'm lucy catherine of. autism could be seen as a reason for deportation from australia an immigrant family faces the possibility of being sent out of the country over their son's mental disorder even though the parents are ready to pay the extra costs for special schooling had all the dot com for the full story. about breaking gingerbread village. display in new york city on the end of motion section of our website we've got footage of the world's largest community i plan to go visit that. now police are investigating what drove eighteen year old karl pierson to open fire in his school in colorado critically injuring one girl armed with a shotgun the high school senior entered the building looking for a teacher after firing a series of shots she then turned the weapon on he then turned the weapon on himself the tragedy came just a day before the anniversary of the sandy hook elementary school massacre in connecticut which killed twenty young children and six adults jill stein is a former u.s. presidenti

reporting in come on in yemen and lucy catherine of. how to discuss the issue of the american drone warfare we're now joined live by reuben patter he's the creator of the so-called drone survival guide thanks for joining us what exactly moved you to make this survival guide. well i think. when you see the amount of drones to be in use and. i mean. domestically but also brought the military but also for civilian use. i think it's taken a flight in the last few years and the idea that maybe in the near future our skies will be full of them i mean they can if peaceful peaceful purposes are long before but i mean if this is the case and the f a a estimated that in two thousand and twenty. already thirty thousand drones food for u.s. soil i think we should learn to you know what they look like and what they're capable of i just for our audience take i want to explain that it literally looks like a dictionary there's dozens of drones pictures of them and you basically point out which ones are specifically dangerous which ones you can kind of

oil giant chevron from drilling fish gas in the area artie's lucy catherine or visit the site of unrest. we're here in this is just moments after a very tense clashes between protesters who are against chevron conducting exploration for shale gas drilling here in this area in northeastern mania what you see behind me over there is actually the chevron site now protesters had ran across the street they broke down the perimeter of the chevron location tore down the fences and entered the area there were actually inside the chevron test exploration area the police had to run and there weren't arrests made at the moment but then as you can see these units riot police officers had been called into the area this is when things very much escalated and we had several protesters arrested there were options between the police and the demonstrators and actually if we pan over here you can see people very upset about what's happening here with chevron and. these protesters who have been camped out here for over a month earlier that's the count was actually broken up by riot police officers today sa

of san miguel giving up is simply not an option reporting it we're not a spain for our tea i'm lucy catherine of. on our website right now an offbeat approach to heating in siberia birding three tons of poppy seeds apparently was enough to keep the locals warm for an entire day the how and why well the authorities took full advantage of the huge haul online that story interests you and read up more so online from us also explain why the number of u.s. retailers applied to place cameras in the manic kids during the holiday shopping peak r.-t. dot com. members a south africa's government are paying their last respects to nelson mandela before sunday's funeral but as the country mourns his death appears to be revealing some sore spots in the still divided state paula slayer next reports from a johannesburg suburb where life far from what mandela envisioned for his country. it's definitely unsafe because they have you seen a white person around. this core. is taking us on a drive through the streets of his childhood this was a wealthy white neighborhood during the time of a party eight. is now a

of san miguel giving up is simply not an option reporting we're not a space for our team and lucy catherine of. we've got some breaking news here in our to at least twenty one people are dead in twenty injured after a bus and a van collided into a city that's according to philippine police report suggests that the bus fell from an elevated manila highway and fell on top of a van rescue workers are still trying to extract people from the wrecked. now another new saudi arabia delivers a severe punishment of political activists is sentenced to four years in jail three hundred lashes and a travel ban after calling for a constitutional monarchy and criticizing the ruling family head to r.t. dot com for the full story there plus following the hippie slogan make love not war can be punishable is an italian protester may end up in court after kissing a riot police officer on our website we've got all the details for you. now this week a delegation from saudi arabia allegedly visited israel to discuss mutual concerns over the recent around nuclear deal reports of long suggested that the two former f

caves of san miguel giving up is simply not an option reporting we're not a space for our tea i'm lucy catherine of now take a look at some other stories from around the world a suspect a grenade attack on a bus has left at least four people dead in kenya's capital nairobi more than thirty people are reported injured and it is the latest in a string of assaults that have killed thirteen people since the beginning of the week candy has experienced an increase in violence over the last several years with much of it blamed on somalia and rebel groups. fans china has joined the move club it's amanda lunar rover has landed and rolled into the surface of earth satellite becoming only the third country to do so after the u.s. and the former soviet union the exploration vehicle is named the jade rabbit after the story of a mythical chinese moon goddess who kept a pet rabbit the rover will spend three months carrying out geological investigations but even before the mission blasted off america was critical saying it could raise a cloud of dust during touchdown. more than five thousand people have been ev

the next few days to do stay with us for that coverage reporting from granada spain for r t i'm lucy catherine of. and on our website right now and off beat approach to heating in siberia burning three tons of poppy seeds it was enough to keep locals warm for an entire day find out how to use the words took full advantage of your huge online. also we explain why a number of u.s. retailers are planning to place cameras in the air america is joining the holiday shopping. police are investigating what drove eighteen year old karl pierson to open fire in a school in colorado critically injuring one girl armed with a shotgun of a high school senior and the building looking for a teacher and turned the weapon on himself after firing a series of shots the tragedy came just a day before the anniversary of the sandy hook elementary school massacre in connecticut which killed twenty young children and six adults jill stein is a former u.s. presidential candidate for the green party shared with r.t. what she believes is fueling the nationwide rise in gun violence. we have about one hundred times the rate

and lucy catherine. protesters tearing down fences at chevron's working side and scuffles with police you can see all our pictures from the scene online at r.t. dot com. on thursday the world lost nelson mandela a leader who fought racism and inequality in his own country to become an international symbol of freedom and justice he's transition from a vilified armed radical to freedom fighter was packed with controversy and regularly burnished by the mass media and hollywood as artie's policy reports. he's the man who pulled a troubled and divided land back from the brink of civil war the man who after twenty seven tough years behind bars walks free from prison in his heart was not to avenge i think that his greatest legacy to this country is reconciliation but in the last three decades the world tightest he published the image of nelson mandela and image recognized around the world only coca-cola is better known better men who struggle for racial equality again south africa's ruling white minority had a

are already here and the work looks set to go on reporting input in jest romania for r t i'm lucy catherine. on thursday the world lost nelson mandela leader who fog racism and inequality in his own country to become an international symbol of freedom and justice packed with controversy his transition from a vilified armed radical to a freedom fighter as been rango really polished by the mass media and hollywood as artie's policy or now reports. he's the man who proved it troubled and divided land back from the brink of civil war the man who after twenty seven tough years behind bars walked free from prison in his heart was not to avenge or i think that he's greatest legacy to this country is reconciliation. in the last three decades the world tirelessly polished the image of nelson mandela and image recognized around the world only coca-cola is better known better men who struggle for racial equality again south africa's ruling white minority had a dark side and world has conveniently forgotten about nelson mandela been leader of the struggle. a radical. someone. embraced violence and as a

russia's medal hopefuls is the sled hockey team which is competing for the very first time artie's lucy catherine of joined in them in training. i copied as it should be intense fierce determined and. like you it still hockey just with two sticks one in each hand with extra risks. for you miss you're constantly flying around at high speeds collisions and everything for it's all crazy fast and tireless commitment we're just. we're here training all the time morning to night every day these seventeen paralympic athletes are in a twenty fourteen russia sledge hockey team and thirty six year old buddy i'm so you can is their captain he was injured in two thousand and two while serving in the russian military in chechnya. still visible before the age of twenty five i used to have a completely different life were also for both of but after the injury i turned to sports to realize my potential. he went from swimming to taking up a chance to join russia's brand new sledge hockey squad. no one is going to bring you things on a silver platter but here we had an opportunity to work for it since two thousand

caves of san miguel giving up is simply not an option reporting we're not a space for our tea i'm lucy catherine of. online from us right now locals in siberia are trading high for heating oil two story house a bank and a school couple different day from the burning of three terms of poppy seeds find out more online from us about the residence off big solution to meeting their energy needs also to it r c dot com or expanding one number of u.s. retailers are planning to place cameras in their manic kids during the holiday shopping peak there is no escape. a protest mode once again sweeping across europe people angry with their government's policies have taken to streets in a number of cities in madrid crowds have surrounded congress outraged by an earlier draft legislation which allows authorities to hit those protesting outside government buildings with heavy fines and spine these are the only europeans angry with their government policies either this is a significantly nationwide on tuesday or of the process indeed a descent into violence in places demonstrators enraged with tax hikes and bitin