ghouls to. catchment area things like that i think we've seen a whole so shift in the relationship between the state in the citizen and that's what we need to change it is a bit of a dichotomy there isn't it the government have to be seen to be protecting people but at the same time protecting their individual liberties have they overstepped the mark well that's it i mean the last government it was typical played a lot of politics with this and they presented this is a sort of seesaw trade off and yet when you look at the measures one by one they were to dial freedom to very little for our security the proposal to extend attention that charge to ninety days was not justified on the evidence that we actually saw about police investigations id cards something that was said would help stop illegal immigration and terror and terrorism as well it was very clear when we looked at both the the very vulnerable design of the cards but also the way the system would work in practice allowing foreign nationals to come in for three months before they'd need a car well that's no use to stopping terrorism so the real danger is that we've given up a lot of our freedom and it hasn't made us any safer top the argument of course is

that if you've got nothing to hide you've got nothing to fear where do you stand on that i just think there's been too many examples of injustices i think too many people have found themselves on the wrong end of the state through very arbitrary action whether it's the market trader endorsed and fined and given a criminal record for selling in selling vegetables in pounds and ounces rather than. metric we've got other examples of day to day citizens who have come up against the harsh justice of the state and i think it's about time we start standing up for the british citizen and i don't really like the slogan that's all but what can be done now to reinstate britain's legacy where you're seeing a range of things to go home of his counterterrorism review which is great we've seen the new coalition government scrap id cards i spoke out very very much in favor of that and there's a whole freedom bill that we're going to be debating shortly great opportunity to repeal some of the draconian legislation and some of them this. every legislative

graffiti that we've seen littering parliament over the last thirteen years we've had three thousand new criminal offenses hit the statute books but it hasn't cut violent crime police record violent crime has gone up that's just i think a few of the example of the kind of things and the way we can change the conversation for the state has with citizens what is this freedom bell well it's a piece of legislation it was in the coalition agreement it's going to be coming out later on i think this year or early next year and it will be i'm hoping we haven't seen the details but a range of things that will be repealed i'm hoping that we're going to look at control orders i'm hoping we can reduce the level of pre-charge detention i love to see strength and jury trial in this country we've had the first criminal trial without a jury for four hundred years recently and scale back some of this intrusive surveillance as well it sounds a lot like this government will be dedicated to undo ing a lot of what the last government did without actually having any kind of original ideas that say well i'm not sure that's true i think protecting british liberty is

a fantastic tradition of god in this country but i think it's also very relevant to what we've got today but the idea is to have less law so you're going to create new laws are going to try and get rid of some of the old stuff but i do think it's important that we actually take stop presenting this thing as a debate between having on the one hand security and liberty on the other hand one of the things i'm going to be talking about in the next month is the importance of strengthening the justice system not just so that we've got the safeguards that protect the citizen but the so we can use it to take the game to the terrorists i think we should have a much more abbas process prosecutorial strategy more use of plea bargaining and lift the ban on the use of intercept evidence so there's also new ideas and i hope some of them will get some favorable reception from the home office in the government as a whole things like the european investigation or seem like they would make it easier for terrorists and other criminals to be prosecuted you're white surely that's a good thing to be great if it was limited to counterterrorism that would be perfect great but it isn't. and we've seen the european arrest warrant we got from twenty

four requests coming to britain in one year to over a thousand and i'm afraid there's a lot of british citizens who are either innocent or against whom the charges are very shaky being swept up in this and i feel the european investigation order would only exacerbate that risk because what it basically allows is for an investigation authorities to demand not requests demands british police forces cash cash strapped at the moment going under all sorts of pressure with the tight budget situation it's going to demand that they prioritize every one of the requests they get i think that's bad news for the enforcement but i also think it's bad news for the british citizen because the protections around the data whether it's bank records of d.n.a. whether whatever it may be just not there in countries like bulger will remain from that perspective it's not really looking very good is it william hague the foreign secretary has in fact further into the european investigation of what if it was the home secretary but you're right it doesn't take these decisions

a whole i think in fairness they were landed with a very poorly drafted text and a very quick decision to make the decision they've taken is that they will opt in and then continue negotiating and try and remedy the defects i think that's very difficult when you talk to and you lose your negotiation leverage but you know unfortunately they got this this decision loaded on to that without having to be able to influence the preliminary stage of the of the text the directive and i'm afraid it's one of those decisions which i think regrettably we ought to the more we should have stayed out i can you see any hard evidence that this government will stop the transfer of those kinds of powers to the european union well we've already said we got a review of extradition ongoing there are some things that we can do without going to change the european arrest warrant decision so that's one thing i think you are hearing a different conversation but what we need to do is and this is the point i made in parliament about the scrutinize every decision that comes up very kind of. you know

if they're sensible or enforcement measures we should be taking in partnership with our european colleagues let's do it but we also need to scrutinize the protections for the british citizen and also the norm for impact that it will have what do you support a referendum in britain at this stage as to whether we should carry on being a member of the european union when i think it's too late for a referendum on that i think at some point and of course once that is been treaty entered into force the whole issue of the referendum became legally moot politically it's still a very hope and i think you know listen very you know short clear what our position in terms of the coalition position it's not it's not in the coalition programme for government but david cameron made it very clear in the run up to the election the conservative position was that we would try and alter the terms of trade the conversation between britain as a nation state and brussels if the end of that period we're not getting the answers and the kind of change of direction that we want the referendum question could come back onto the table i suspect the referendum look which we're going to be introducing via legislation which will prevent any further transfer of power

without a referendum within the medium term at some point make some kind of referendum inevitable now you came under fire thought if you email address to be removed from various websites how do you defend that as someone who supports freedom of information first of all what i own is one lobby group to stop sending me a bombardment of emails. there's a system a device they set up which allows them to send you clone emails and so i was getting hundreds and what can you just take your list very politely was no and then the question was why and one of the reasons why is that i was advised if you have your email address in the public domain you can all these lobby groups to stop emailing me this basically junk so that's what i mean what my email address is available people can e-mail me my office has been very accessible via my website.

she's been nominated for awards from my website because it's very user friendly inaccessible but what this is really all about is me saying look actually an m.p. has a limited amount of time and we work hard there's a huge amounts in terms of demands on the time what i want to do is prioritize my constituents the ones that are in the greatest need the issues that i think voted to deal with and not play pits a path to take ping pong with lobby groups and their clone emails i don't think that's serious business and you'd be amazed at how many people have emailed me to say they agree to what do you think the biggest threats to civil liberties in person today is i'm not sure there's a single biggest threat but for me reports of a journalist put it quite well he said we seem to be lost on liberty reflex and i heard phil johnson from the other end of the media spectrum from the daily telegraph say this they say something similar today we used to instinctively react against the state's incursions into our freedom and to offer free space and i think

that what the last government which was very cunning and surreptitious was to be so on the sly some freedom and there's not one big thing which is the culture change that happens when you gradually eroded free speech when you gradually erode the justices system when you gradually extend detention without charge we've got to do i think the single biggest challenge is to stop scrutinize text the case for these new laws these new powers and one of the suggestions i heard today was i need to have one queen's speech every five years in a parliamentary term that may be getting a bit too far but i certainly would like to see a sort of chilling effect on the legislative hyperactivity we saw in the last government do you think that's the fault of an apathetic population that isn't really taking any notice of a slow but steady erosion of literacy i think is a little bit about i think the media are a much more acutely sensitive to now on both sides of the political spectrum and it's the guardian of the daily mail the very conscious of this issue now but of course it affects one person at one point in time they. complain about it they may

raise the profile of a injustice but we picked off one by one as individuals in different ways in different parts of our life and civil liberties are always being inherently vulnerable to that kind of. abuse but we've got to do is recognize it as a much bigger issue and protect the tradition of liberty we have in our country otherwise children are going to find themselves growing up in a in a very different kind of society with a very different kind of culture. very much thank you. for the close up she has been to the saucily in regions where the biggest russian salmon gabby are processing factories located mounds argy goes to northern paradise where many still live off the land. you always are being found to find a comic. book years first free elections read. thousand years

ago swelled to the most good region russia close up. forty two thousand americans die each year car accidents only a thousand. seven hundred thousand people. and thirty two thousand will kill themselves cancer in all its forms kills five hundred sixty thousand of us here part disease is even more devastating it kills over eight hundred seventy thousand americans every year. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images seeing from the streets of kenya that. operations are today.

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rush in venice well are seeking to reinforce their cooperation as president chavez visits moscow in the first leg of a diplomatic tor and venezuela as one approaches key latin american partners and the ninth time the leader just paid a visit. to the u.s. midterm election just weeks away it's the women candidates for spicing up the race but contenders such as republican christine o'donnell are being accused of playing on emotions instead of policies to win over voters. and the u.s. is losing another key supporter in afghanistan as it only announces it's pulling out by twenty four chain the surgeon comes just days after four italian soldiers were killed in a moment turn. up next with all the latest sports with andrew. thanks

for watching the sport and this is what is coming up. a story russia has set to host its first ever formula one grand prix. the latest action from the k. is the bottle inside of each as a point and you coach. is put on hold after its american owners take court action to block the deal. but first history is being made in russia today a deal is being signed to give the country's first ever formula one race. bernie ecclestone is signing a deal to put sochi on the racing calendar the first russian grand prix will be states in twenty fourteen at the black sea resort where a track is being built it's a six year contract with the option of extending it for another five in the move follows a series of f one fans in the russian capital over the last year not to mention the

emergence of rhinos batali petrol as the first russian driver in formula one sochi and then they are also hopes to briefly explain to the full team. now they are the worst team in the kontinental hockey league at the moment and the chairs have appointed a new coach after losing the thirteenth game from fourteen former tractable under a number of takes over from alexey had a shot after the chance lost service last night the defeat keep them rooted to the foot of the table while service down we thought the third elsewhere to discuss late goal by dimitri morning i couldn't save them from a six four defeat at home to offer my teeth while there were two dinner and meetings that the inside of a ruthless against the school ones thank you. goaltender. if you. could see. the normal for an exhibition game against play two for me and i

fell last week but it's since been fitting for the message take three games break. out tonight sky play u.s.c. dinar my with a chance of anything into third spot in the lake and i've got every race and to think i should be competing for owners by the end of this season and i like to skate shelf and put on cars that have takes a closer look at the big spenders from some pay to spec. brushes northern capital st petersburg is a home to star athletes like a boxing giant nicholai of all who have fallen big figure skating champion you get a pollution goal and of course arsenal's striker andre out of shopping and in the last couple of years the city's ice hockey team had been accumulating some players including from the n.h.l. to stake a claim for the guarin cup. first up sky is an old solid yet no russian abbreviation which means the central club of the army hence the nickname army even though today

the players are all for being to use even minutes away now let's jump straight to the history this team has never been crowned champions of either the u.s. is still the russia however it's becoming increasingly evident that skulls are becoming russia's next major ice hockey power the club still injected star studded with thirty being only one of the years on the road to success. and confidence of the president alexander mcdaniel explains it would be for most of that you or the pros or would you go over. the last season rule number three as a regular season. with what it was. terrified of and. if i was about the evils of people for far away for a loser for it was a quickie here are some names that might ring a bell for an end of the national rugby league alexei yosh and you getting the bulk of moxie. you know again no all these guys were at one point instrumental in their

respective n.h.l. clubs or former i did their yosh and such kompany is obviously a plus in his hands but they get our income first of all it's a lot of the control players former pro players. so it's make. them because they follow a. lot of guys play pretty much and i think for a different. environment but again it's a car it's a great city people are you know the fans are trying to find the stars you can on the roster was a lot of soul dollars and a lot of fast influence this place has been exciting to bear and you know they're all in the playoffs but don't forget their existence in twenty ten head coach ivan sonata picks up the reins from compaction gary smith who led the team to second place in the regular season a long time canadian ex-pat having lived in italy for the last twenty five years as

a nazi admits that reading is syria is so far his biggest challenge in russia as for the game of hockey well desire to win is probably universal in any country the goal is always to be the best you can be and of course we want to be amongst the best so. you know we we have to understand that is expected of us we have the capabilities to feel just means we have to make to be amongst those best for best things and that's we're fighting for it getting a back up spent ten years in n.h.l. san jose sharks where he became an all time goaltending leader in several categories but he star status seemed to have put in major strain on the management's wallet so after becoming a free agent at the end of last season he promptly signed a four year deal with st petersburg sparking competition among all of the cape shells forwards as to who will score at least a goal against the two thousand and eight world champion however that's nothing to . according to the book of sunday's each of all we're going to win the game.

especially now in this league where there are a lot of good teams and a lot of surprises and sometimes people expect you to win every single game one of the teams out but it's not easy and you have to challenge yourself every time and. so far as that's a challenge that we try to face plenty of ice what the experts in russia already scott st petersburg is the cage shows the dream team however such comparisons could really serve any team in any sport any real justice because the hockey league season is still young and school are doing pretty well so far and hopefully there will be just as happy in april twenty a level as they are now for a month culture of forty three petersburg now in other news the sale of liverpool football club has been stalled again american owners george gillett and tom hicks

have gained a temporary restraining order from a texan court to stop the club being sold to new england sports ventures the pair is seeking one point six billion dollars in damages claiming the sale orchestrated by the club's board was an epic swindle gillette in hades believing the price tag of four hundred seventy seven million dollars had severely undervalued the club however the board say the restraining order is a more intimate and with that swiftly to have it removed. the mall on the page liverpool hope for their star striker if another torres will be fit for sunday's merseyside darby he was sidelined at the start of the month the growing injury regime training yesterday although carrick and daniel agger for picking up knots in international liverpool are currently in the relegation zone after winning just one of their seven matches and out of form wayne rooney was thought to be struggling with an ankle injury at least that's what his man and just are alex ferguson said after leaving match of the side recently but the manchester united forward you don't. scored once the season has been i can say ever had and i could probably do

the season although he told reporters in short the goals will eventually come to play where we can. staying with football because the president sepp blatter he has been in the u.k. to discuss england's world cup bid he met with prime minister david cameron just a few weeks before the sport's governing body and his whole host the twenty eight to twenty twenty two world cup also at ten downing street last manager hello russia also bidding to be hosts and is seen as england's main rivals for the right age the tournament it's. one of the most troubled commonwealth games comes to an end today but the closing ceremony in new delhi a stranger will top the medals table but it's also been a successful games for india who finished at least three goals in boxing on wednesday these two men medals tally them are one the light welterweight division while the hosts also claim the flyweight and titles and is also drawing the table

tennis india stunning favorites singapore in the doubles final. well despite all the problems including the late completion of the athletes' village organizers say the games have been a good six games federation chief mike fennell saying the competitors had enjoyed their experience and although three athletes had failed drugs test it was still alive number. one would concede. three hundred thirty two hundred is not a bad record. and. have been concluded for shock churches that are considered by many to be not serious. duty which is shipman. has not been heard and therefore. would not want to make any comments on it until we can have gone through the process finally in basketball. has painted still

a force to be reckoned with despite spending a whole season on the sidelines the n.b.a. superstar helping the houston rockets to beat new jersey nets in one thousand china i am doing is making a comeback from a foot injury and what better place to return than at home in the league's tallest place spent just ninety minutes on the floor using because it turned things around for his through the second call to the rockets taking a ten point lead in its did pull within just the last poll with the main weekend on target for the ones that i like and chase shortly after trying to bring points but whatever jason since ninety one eighty one to houston and i mean he said playing a sweet man was. so always excited it's come back to china. against. home country particularly in disagreement with. the memory of stewart for me and when we play a little. support from the fans. today to come back even

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is a rico's russian resilin seeks to reinforce their partnership as well and president hugo chavez visits moscow on the first leg of his diplomatic tour. in other news the female fringe of the u.s. midterms why critics accuse women candidates of playing on emotions instead of policies to win over voters. than the russia closer team travels to one of the country's oldest cities considered to be the birthplace of russia's democracy. it's three pm in moscow and this is r.t. coming to you live with me and he said now way first up this hour russian venezuela

are two countries set and shaking up the system so that the global balance of power is more evenly spread the two are now set to get closer as president chavez arrives in moscow in the first leg of a diplomatic tour but in a delusional is following his visit for us hi there arena so what's in store for this visit this of course is not his first time in russia in the past couple of years. well that is right in fact this is a good hugo chavez is the ninth visit to the russian capital but it does seem like russia in manila never run out of things to discuss and of course there are several reasons for that when they meet political pundits world over seem to be close attention because these two seem to be at the forefront of the changing political landscape in the world on the one to him do you have russia an already established political power with immense a strategic and natural resources and capabilities in it only seems to grow stronger to force a lot of a lot of politicians in the west and the united states of your.