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pretense of fighting terrorism. is the euro on the brink of collapse and should the strong countries of the eurozone ditch the weaker ones. and it puts these questions for a member of the european parliament that's a special interview next. i'm talking to roger helmer who's a you're a skeptic member of the european parliament he's very eminent he opposed to further integration with the european union and also supports renegotiating many of the e.u. case treaties with the right to have a thank you very much for talking to r.t. first of all how would you characterize the u.k.'s relationship with the e.u. there's a big question we have always been reluctant members of the european union when we joined it we were told that it was merely a trading operation we had a referendum i voted in favor if i had known then what i know now i would have

voted against. but we have this unfortunate feeling that on the one hand we don't like it very much we resentments and on the other hand many people think well you're a long way away it doesn't affect me very much so let them get on with it. in fact of course it does intimately affect the lives of all of us and huge swathes of policy areas have decided in brussels not decided in the u.k. in my view it is making us poorer and less democratic and less free and i believe we would be better off out and do you support this state a referendum on being and if it were possible well i think we should stall with the referendum that every major political party in britain promised us which is the referendum on the lisbon treaty what they are now saying is what has been ratified it's too late no it isn't too late we should have a referendum saying do you accept the terms of the lisbon treaty or do you wish the government to renegotiate those terms and that would give i'm sure we get

a reading. that would give a british government a very strong position a very strong mandate to renegotiate so that's what we want to do now the question that is also arising should we have a referendum in or out. i'm less clear there what the outcome would be. i think probably after a good campaign we would actually get an out vote but i'm less confident of it and of course if we had an interrupt vote on the part and the people voted to stay in i suppose the issue would be off the agenda for twenty years so from my point of view that is a high risk route i would just like to see the referendum that we originally were promised it always interests me to meet members of the european parliament who are opposed to the e.u. as a construct how does that work well i'm often asked that question and there's a sort of underlying assumption that if you take the brussels shilling then you're all there to support them and sadly that applies to too many people it applies to the great majority of any p's and virtually all the stall thirty all the

commissioners and so on i take the view that i'm not elected to support the european union and to promote it i'm elected to represent the interests of the people who voted for me and i recall that in the last election in two thousand and nine. a majority of voters in my region and nationally i think supported broadly euro skeptic parties or at least they believed that the conservative party was euro skeptic which brings us to the as you that in terms of the coalition government it's really failing to deliver on that expectation prime minister david cameron's position is here a skeptic didn't seem to be any doubt before he came to power that now it doesn't seem to be say clare i think it's tragic something that my colleague dan hannan points out is that the higher people climb up the greasy pole the more sympathetic they become to large centers of power like the european union you take william hague he had a reputation as a clear principled euro skeptic i had great confidence in him it seems to me now

that he's shifted his position he's trends that he's sort of prepared to accommodate he's prepared to come up with a few euro skeptic quotes from time to time but but actually we've accepted regular regulation of the city of london we've accepted the. matic service we've accepted the investigation order we are passing powers to brussels arguably more quickly than the previous labor government did and i personally am deeply unhappy with that and william hague in fact expressly to end the year pest occasionally i say i believe was treason may have actually signed it off but it was an unforced error we didn't have to we could simply have said no we could have introduced as with the european arrest warrant we could have introduced national protections and safeguards in the way that some other member states have we just seem to roll over and play dead something like thirteen hundred i think british citizens were sent abroad under the european arrest warrant last year that's more than half of all the

cases in the whole of the european union i've followed the case of a couple of my constituents who have been appallingly badly treated absolutely wicked the freedoms that we used to believe were inherent to english men and women have just been taken away from us so i think that their pay and investigation ought to and arrest warrant to something which is something which enables europe wide investigations to take place against criminals and potentially against terrorists that's got to be a good thing as a net it's intended to do that but what it does is it sets aside all of the safeguards and checks and balances that we normally associate with the extradition of criminals of course we know several agents to extradite criminals and terrorists and we had those and they do take time because the safeguards take time but it's right that they should it is not right that innocent citizens should be sent abroad held in jail as in the case of my constituents for nearly three months tried

acquitted then recalled because the prosecutor is appealing against the acquittal and now recalled for a third time one of them has been acquitted twice and is told he must go back again for a formal judicial process to confirm the acquittal for heaven's sake this man has had two years of his life ruined. despite the fact that two courts in rico because in regard to courts and rigor have separately found him not guilty this is just unjustifiable treatment of british citizens let's talk about what's happening in europe at the moment recently we've seen a rise in protests against austerity measures what do you see that going forwards well i could see a long period all quite serious process and on rest but the political and broader economic questions are really very interesting we're seeing that the german people are becoming extremely reluctant to be the bankers of last resort for the euro zone germans who retire at sixty five don't want to keep paying

money to greece where they retire at fifty eight in order to maintain a mediterranean lifestyle so there's deep unhappiness. i think it comes down to the issue of the euro currency we euro skeptics have always said that the euro or the euro currency couldn't work because you had disparate economies with different economic cycles they can't all have the same monetary policy and therefore they can't all have the same currency and frankly for best part of ten years the euro seemed to work sort of all right and people say well you predicted all these disasters nothing's going wrong well no it has and this is exactly what we expected you simply cannot have germany on the one hand which has been extremely careful with inflation and wage rates and all those things in the same boat for union places like greece and italy and spain which have been entirely profit and of allowed their unit labor cost to run out of control cease to be competitive. those countries want to do that he will germany want to revalue within

a currency union they can't so either some of the peripheral club med countries are going to have to peel off at the bottom or germany is going to have to get out at the top you could have a currency union probably of germany the bene locks for all. but the moment you put in all these other countries it just isn't going to work what's the solution that recently european central bank has said that countries opting out of the year is a would be committing economic and political suicide wouldn't be tantamount to suicide but they face a very hard choice because staying in they're going to have the most desperate. getting out of the first movement they're going to have desperate problems it's a choice between two evils and i'm in the difficulty to say which is the greater evil but in a sense they don't they may not have a choice because the bond markets may decide for them. and i personally think that a country like greece would go through a period of desperate pain if they left they would certainly have to default or

it's cool that's much polite of them to fall but they have to do something like that basically people who lent money to greece would have to take a haircut and probably quite a substantial haircut but that's roughly what happened to argentina or whatever it was the one hundred ninety. and it's terrible at the time but the country comes through and actually it's much better off afterwards it's just like when britain left the exchange rate mechanism you know it was called black wednesday suddenly in retrospect we realize it was goldman wednesday because we had a long period of sustained economic growth because we got our currency back to the right level that's what greece needs that's what spain needs of ireland needs. but they also committed politically emotionally psychologically to the euro project but they they dare not bring themselves to make that leap they may be forced to make it by the markets and when they do that i think will be the point at which the european union. it starts to unravel because they've invested so much sort of like

the lord of the rings you know all the power is in the ring and when the rings dissolved it's gone all the economic and political motivation of the european project comes to a central point in the single currency when the single currency starts to break up calls big questions to be asked about the about the viability of the union so you see this affecting the economic and political union as a whole yes i don't think the european union can last forever i i like to compare it to the u.s.s.r. we didn't do a comparison too far but there are a lot of factors essentially both the u.s.s.r. and the european union have decided to create structures that ignore the identity and aspirations of the people and eventually the aspiration and identity of the people reassert itself the soviet union lost what was it about seventy years the european union has just lost it about fifty years. and i wouldn't be at all surprised to see the same pattern i think in twenty years time there may be something that's called a european union but i think it will look very different and be much less in

influential than it is today and yet becoming a member of the euro is a is still something that countries aspire to estonia well become a member in january yes i think it's only is very unwise to do that. i could see a case for a baltic currency union i mean the one and a half million people that's very very small country to have its own independent currency although quite small countries like singapore and switzerland have independent currencies and redraw the world with them but there is a case there will be case for baltic union there is not a case for a stone in my view being in the same currency union with germany aren't in greece want to have a thank you very much my pleasure. imagine your life under the big cities. eco friendly.

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hello and welcome to the sports means thank you for joining me and here are the headlines must win game russia head to dublin for that crucial european qualifier against island. while one win away caroline wozniacki closes in on serena williams' number one spot in the w.t. a rankings. and rowing back thing is russia rejoin us forces with the u.k. to help we gain the country's called the rowing glorious. let's start with football and russia are preparing for that crucial euro two thousand and twelve group the qualifiers against the republic of ireland on friday and macedonia on cheese day the squad have left the dublin with coach dick advocaat saying they must win their next two games following defeat to slovakia in moscow a constant battle as will. russia spinal two miniatures of two thousand just around the corner and dick advocaat side haven't had the best of starts of their

euro twenty twelve campaign but they're looking to put things right over the coming week or so simple we did not. we didn't we were missing out losing for against overcame what if you lose another game you have to win away games and look at has called up two names to the squad. from spartak and put all my money for the test card but it's likely the same names who are so disappointing last month against will have the chance to make a man some friday again i also said it last time it's just two younger players i mean to get to know the way it goes in the national team was training in a different level for them it's important to feel that they are part of that the republic of well in top group b. on goal difference from sol back here will russia wise third the irish have a strong home record and will take on raw. sure at the newly constructed of us

stereo in dublin on the eighth of october the boys in green will try not to upset their passionate fans in what's widely to be a sellout encounter little prince pictures are starting to come on i haven't seen lots of matches about and for the past few years but i know that all the key players like shay given robbie keane and damien duff and aiden mcgeady are all in the squad and about their play i would say that you can see the results of giovanni trapattoni has worked with his team he's a very experienced and emotional manage it and you can see that the irish play with the hard dick advocates charges have already pre some trouble because of injuries. of tottenham hotspur would probably miss the match against ireland as well as alexander kids from senate who has a return to the national side but if you reckon fever has recovered from his injury and his feet to play so russia are getting worse minute preparations ahead of their two away mattress dick advocates man will be eager to prove that a home was to slovakia was nothing more than a blip however it is going to be a challenge as anything other than all six points will be seen as

a failure back home concern about out of. moscow meanwhile english premier league side liverpool say they've agreed to sell the club to the owners of baseball team the boston red sox and the bulls bought announce the sale to new england sports ventures on the club's website however they'll now face a legal battle to force through the south of the club's current owners tom hicks and george gillett the pair claimed the deal has dramatically undervalued the club after they put it on the market for five hundred fifty eight million dollars while they face in mid october deadline to settle refinance their four hundred forty five million dollars debt the world bank of scotland. tennis now and caroline wozniacki is just one win away from securing the world number one spot after beating italy star irani in her opener in beijing fresh from her triumph in tokyo last week at dane got her quest for a sixth title of the year off to a quick start she received. the buy in the first round was very much veronique in

the second half of her opponent out in straight sets six four six two all she needs to do now to unseat serena williams at the top of the rankings. transcripts of a and reach the quarter finals should was the ask you succeed at the twenty year old will become only the twentieth woman to take the top spot since the rankings began thirty five years ago. was on the right could become the world number three she came from a set down throughout the last belorussian no yet kurylenko five seven six four six two the final school spawn a rival moving into the last eight and is certain to overtake venus williams third in the world however the french open champion francesca schiavone could beat them both to the spot so on the right about the each other in the quarter finals of the italian beat another russian up to seven. hundred pounds thank you i got it i think i became only eight active player on the tour to record four hundred wins the world

number six defeated proud to marry in a church for the first time in his career to reach the landmark next step for him is american wild card john isner top seed novak djokovic should receive over into the last eight after mardi fish called out of the tournament. and i saw the severe hard edged metal on penalties to pick up their fourth straight win in the k h l metzeler twice came crying about trying to gain access to all that just a minutes ago but the forward went from piro to zero in the shootout as he felt to be the big body in toss off. the same could be going into a goal for the hosts elsewhere because that side bodies run away in the second period to trans am or five to also on home ice. and finally the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of russia's first rowing club has been held in some petersburg it was built by the british and us out. correspondence which is that relations

between the two countries in the sporting field are still going strong. europe has played a crucial role in the cultural development of some petersburg over the last three hundred years italians took care of the architecture french was we are soccer season language of choice but dutch the city's distinctive canals of the united kingdom helped set up the country's first ever rowing club one hundred fifty years ago but which unfortunately over time has fallen into a state of disrepair the original one existed. and a couple hundred metres from this place. during the sea go for a second goal we're. building. this here and the. one hundred people in the russian only sport decided to initiate a struct not just for yulia any killer the director of the russian army to rowing association this place has a special meaning she learned how to row here during his student days and

personally wanted to restore the club to its former glory to help a new generation of to learn the sport. this idea came to us a long time ago because a lot of us used to train here and it was sad to see just how low the standard of rowing in russia had fallen to we all got together to see how we could try and restored the place and keep the tradition going ascent because berg has always had a number of places where people have pro. links in the field of rowing between russia and the u.k. still remain strong one hundred fifty years on five time in pick champions as steve redgrave has visited besides a clubhouse has a distinctly british feel so it's from a technical and coaching expertise the u.k. is able to watch is likely to see among the improvement in the standard of the sports not just around some petersburg but across the country as a whole who would like to or suborder. eight zero for centers and verse to hear and

. all the other things to help them to attend and the royal regard to the year and a struggle for the challenge cup a special. meaning in regard to. also a broader would like to use the experience of britain coaches one of the main aims of a crime is to help develop you can interest in a city especially among students the oxford and cambridge boat race is famous world over and university rowing is popular in the u.s. but the same can be said of russia and beside it has the backing of one of the world's greatest ever rowers is that every two years is completely new people coming into it. in the seniors you our athletes that will go on for five ten some even longer. to fickle to break in. if people at the

top what happens is you slowly get your everybody's level goes up by then the older people retire and the next level of their this is imperative given the current state of russian rowing the country is just one one gold at the last prelim big gains and the prospects are looking good for london in less than two years time this is a far cry from fifty years ago roman lympics privy to be one of the greatest moments in rowing not just for russia but also for some petersburg living grand as it was known then went to six people from just one club. their team and half of them back with the medals so. probably hundreds of thousands of people went for all of the. different other cities over russia so now there is a station has become. proper again to help the helper to do well with an abundance of water one with the. petersburg will be a mecca for writing novels for mime

a country however small to fall upon hard times of the last couple of decades but due to a long standing partnership with the united kingdom there are hopes but rowing can return to its former glory in russia. don't see somebody just back. that's all the sport for this bull isn't. culture is that so much of the taxpayers' money i mean when i say i'm a real tree of peace all i'm going to because they're neighbors and gain a leg up for their exports by cheapening their currency if left unchecked. this place makes our. lives. but another is it sparkles and unexplainable interest.

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