know there you are with our team that's half of the main stories we're covering for you this hour the incumbent prime minister claims victory because of his first parliamentary vote since it declared unilateral independence and sent it through music it unprecedented poverty corruption and ethics. heavily of a divided nation. a new russian ad campaign tends to horrifying images of substance abuse to battle the country's addiction problems deformed unborn babies and children eating dinner just some of the shocking seeds used to

get the message across. and american activists accusing us of hypocrisy as washington the monster release of political prisoners of war the keeps its own under lock and key among them is to gitmo is free and throw those three decades let me say he's innocent. the european superstate was supposed to herald safety in numbers but critics say the grandiose scheme has taken a number of its members to the brink of collapse john gorman head of the referendum campaign for the states and better for out in in the. today i'm talking to john gaunt british media personality and head of the referendum campaign he's demanding that the british people should be allowed to vote on whether they want to remain members of the european union john gordon

thanks very much for talking to r.t. now first of all tell me a bit about the e.u. referendum campaign is this is purely about getting our democratic right to have a vote because three leaders have promised as it was a labor party manifesto commitment by tony blair then gordon brown of course and then david cameron famously in oppositions gave a cast iron guarantee that he would have a referendum on the subject so once i realized it was vance i thought yeah hold on this is wrong and i do believe we've been denied our democratic right so that's why i'm involved in the you referendum campaign it would be costly to implement a referendum on being in e.u. i mean the u.k. is already a member of the european union isn't it better just to let sleeping dogs lie yes you would be costly but it's costly to be in it it's costing the british taxpayer forty eight million pound a day to be in the e.u. we've just given island another seven billion pounds of our money saw another four hundred fifty million pounds in the budget increase it's going to be

even more than that so it's costly already and anyway i'm not saying vote to get out what i'm saying is let's have the discussion you know on the b.b.c. and on programs like this you know the pros and cons of europe so that the british public can decide whether they want to be in the and i must stress i'm not and certainly this campaign isn't until european it's it is just saying let's have a vote let's have a democrat who are and i think democracy no matter what it costs it's a price worth paying but you say you're not telling people how to vote but surely the very fact that you want a referendum suggests that you're not happy with the status quo and therefore want out more or clearly clearly. the reason we want a referendum is because we want the british public to decide and i would i of course i personally will probably end up voting to come out but what i want more than that i don't want to have the big grownup debate about it i want the b.b.c. to fulfil its role to have both sides the argument properly discussed rather than just peddle as they have done for so many years the pro e.u.

line we need to have an honest grown up debate who knows i might change i may change my views i may begin to think the forty eight million pound a day would give you is a good value assume one but i'm quite willing to find out what i just believe in democracy i'm a democrat and i believe you know i ask you straight forward question i'll ask anybody watching this program give me three good reasons why we shouldn't have a referendum now people could give me three good reasons why we should stay in the e.u. all three good reasons why we could should leave but i don't think people can come up with three good reasons why we shouldn't have a democratic vote on it well i'll give you one constitutional resent the lisbon treaty you said successive leaders have promised a referendum of course that's true but since the implementation of it has been cheating that's become rather moot point hasn't it do you think we missed the boat on a referendum no i don't i think gordon brown had absolutely no right to sign the lisbon treaty stroke constitution it was the same thing at the manifesto commitment by

labels to have a referendum on that they played with words david cameron played with words once he got into power he said oh no we cannot win now because we've been ratified he could say he could have said yes we can't just what nick clegg wanted one of the straight in or out so no this is why our campaign is so simple laura it's a straight show we stay or shall we go down the clash the older punk rock song group used to sing that's where we keep an eye on that so the man in the street can understand it we don't want to get carried away with this treaty that constitutional that discussion let's center on the basics. max should we be in this club or not you know with the e.u. so the euro crashing and burning at the moment there's never been a chime persons first to have this discussion arlen's in a lot of trouble at the moment in the e.u. in the i.m.f. and step ten to bail them out surely arland would be in a lot more trouble if they didn't have that kind of backup so isn't the e.u.

a force for good but let's not forget of course to referendum they were forced to vote again because they got the decision was the political elite no personally i don't think we should be bailing out ireland i mean that's my own personal view i thought it is ironic i was watching the budget this week in ireland their stand up to a million euros in the one percent losses at four percent to seven hundred fifty thousand by their child benefit is crazy the amount they pay out in child benefit their corporation tax they keep it at twelve and a half percent no wonder countries a reader companies are relocated from germany from portugal from spain and from the united kingdom to ireland well how can you have monetary union if you haven't got every other form of union and political union in place the answer is you can't how can you tie the economy of greece to the economy of germany it's just ludicrous the holding is a nonsense and the worst thing is with the british people have never been given the

chance to vote on it so i think ireland actually makes the focus our minds even more on whether we want to be in this club and it's ironic that we're not even in the euro zone and we have george osborne of course playing under seven billion pounds now of course that's to protect banks like the roll back to scotland but we've already bailed out the role of bank of scotland wants the british taxpayer and i'm no great union supporter normally but i actually agree with people of bob crow at the moment use in charge of the. union the train drug trade drives the train workers union when he says it's not his members who got us into this mess is the bankers and the politicians are the large regulation but it's his members who are paying for it. just like the students who are protesting it's them who ended up having to pay for it who would marry taxpayers and we've already bailed out r.b.s. once annoyed by now we're bailing them out again effectively father back door of ireland and the british people haven't been asked about this you know david cameron came to power and. we're going to ring fence the n.h.s. and we're going to ring fence for

a night but he didn't just ring fence for an eight he's increased for a who's now about island he also run failed stock contribution to europe and we increased it of course went to grad school bragged that he was going to keep the budget down actually increase the budget that was no machines thought chair handbag swinging victory for the united kingdom it was a dismal failure and people should say and he's spinning it him and clegg at the moment got more spin than a washing machine assembly line and the british people are waking up to this in the british people are saying no we can't afford we can't pay we won't pay that's what the student protests are about and we're going to see more protests during this winter of discontent because ordinary folk who say why should we lose forty thousand police officers why should public sector workers be losing their jobs why should meal on wheels on wheels be cut why should help for the elderly because why should the arts budget because why should we not have enough money in our coffers but we've suddenly can find seven billion pounds there'd be no need for these cuts

what's the economists argue if we weren't in the so there'd be no need for the students to be protesting and that's what needs to be discussed and we are seeing lots of protests they started off in continental europe and they've now undoubtedly spreads the k. do you see this as the sort of beginning of the end of the e.u. i certainly think the euro is crashing and burning our belief portugal will go spain will go is inspiring just true three weeks ago or do a lot of radio shows over in spain there's swathes of swathes of council not so it's not council housing estates with brand new houses and apartments completely empty just like in ireland there never. going to be occupied. boom fueled by a reckless lending again i believe that they'll crash i think we need you when the euro begins to crash then you have to ask yourself can the your oh so when the euro collapses can the you survive as well i know as you say to the broad across europe i mean you know in germany now people protested they don't want to bail out these

countries that they've had a sensible banking system of the great ironies was in brussels for two months ago in brussels over discussing the budget they were discussing the hospitality budget they put it up to two point one million pounds meanwhile one hundred thousand europeans were on the streets all different languages order from nationalities protesting about the austerity cuts one hundred thousand people inside there were basically voted to increase their budget for oysters and champagne that's what's wrong there's a disconnect between the political elite not just in the united kingdom but right across europe and the ordinary man and woman in the street and i think ordinary men and women have had enough they're the ones losing their houses they're the ones losing their jobs through no fault of their own and something's got to give and i think what's going to give is definitely the euro and probably the and in a what lot of ways bring it on say are but first and foremost let's have a democratic vote be much better for us to have a vote and decide we want to leave this before it collapses with people on the streets demonstrating what really amounts to civil unrest is this really the time

to be talking about something like an e.u. referendum which seems like a separate issue in the face of all this trouble that with thing you can't really discuss our economy you can't discuss our laws you can't discuss our human rights you can't discuss any kind of cases that are going in the u.k. without thinking either of the e.u. or the your peon court of human rights it affects every aspect of our lives because we are part of it we were never given the chance to vote on it that's why it's becoming a hot potato and this lie that they're spinning in a nick clegg and david cameron we're all in this together well actually we're not because nineteen out of twenty four. all of the cabinet a multi millionaire and briefly about the students do you support what the students are doing in terms of going out onto the streets burning stuff throwing things that are support students completely in their right to protest today in the daily telegraph front page the metropolitan police chief are saying don't let you choose children go on these protests what a load of nonsense i don't live in a country where our chief of police tells you to come protest because of course you

can't condone kids send throwing extinguishers up through she could've killed somebody however the same token they got married a wife i do think you tried the protesting i do think it's right the unions are joining them i do fully support their protests i don't support the calm down the violence and i fully support students and i hope the protests escalate. and i think they will on the recent protests this week for example have been universal sit ins and stuff i hope they do it's great to see students protest against the silly healthy about young people being angry now that the coalition governments approved these cuts in student funding what are the students and the trade unions and others who might join with them going to do now but that was really going to happen is come january thirty first into february because what's going to happen is christmas so traditionally british people of them still celebrate christmas they're still going to buy their children christmas from thirty first fabulous on the door mat before the credit card people will be beginning to lose their jobs people have been

living through for this on their credit cards to pay their mortgages they're going to start defaulting that's when the real protests are going to stop and parliament can think it's over it isn't over it certainly isn't over and the debate about europe is definitely not over and about the year that will continue don't go on thank you. this is a table from the u.s. embassy in colombo to talk about here an apparent june seventh incident of extrajudicial executions the military according to the press that on that they'd killed nine guerrillas in from back the best edition by instructs you including you know and their strongly suggest however that the nine were executed by the army and then dressed in military fatigues.

explain how you know this kind of phenomenon where bodies are dressed up as guerrillas and presented as killed in action and this and this idea that you need to produce bodies actually encouraged paramilitary collaboration this is a cia document central intelligence agency they knew about these activities they knew they were happening they knew about links to paramilitary groups and yet u.s. aid continued to flow.

incumbent prime minister claims victory in kosovo his first parliamentary vote since it declared natural independence from some of the. three years ago but unprecedented poverty corruption and ethnic strife and every body nation. new russian ad campaign horrifying images of substance abuse problem of the country's addiction problem for unborn babies and children into these are just some of the shocking scenes used to get the message across. american activists accuse the u.s. of hypocrisy is washington demonstrably so and so prisoners of war. will compete

on this. one on death row for most three decades in its business and. all the sports news up next with you know and another week and another four months from the team you support in the primary and the i'm looking not just saying this the best team in the world up the moment carry this you know argument another five goals at the weekend and nobody even blinked and i remember one more not coming up in a second. good to have your company this is sports today i'm you know the u.s. are headlines sitting pretty i regain the lead in the kontinental hockey league with victory over rivals c.s.k. . demolition job barcelona take no real sociedad to stay top in the

league with the executioner in chief once again the line on this. eastern new england stretch their winning run in the n.f.l. to five rushing chicago thirty six seven sunday night. at the start of the continental hockey league era not very many observers gave newly merged. chance of success but midway through the season it's the moscow based club who are looking down on the rest after a come from behind win over near neighbors c.s. richard fleet took up his seat for this one. says current unama two of world hockey's most famous clubs however moscow rivals are enjoying contrasting fortunes this season at the halfway point beyond human such as been their poor form are in danger of missing out of the playoffs or the nama have been excellent and find themselves leading the western conference as they are are all stars are so good

like we don't have any stars but we have a good day and like good players are going for the team all year and. everybody is doing hard work every day and. it's fun to be in this demand i really like to do damage dominate to be a bit exchanges as they bombarded the visitors goal but a mixture of a bit of luck and wayward shooting can be on them and in the game a serious car was struggling to generate in your friends as the number goaltender alex the bulk of it was a virtual spectator for most to be opening period but try as they might the western conference leaders just couldn't find a goal as the teams in the first period tied at zero wall on the home side were made to pay for their wastefulness in front of goal just thirty six seconds into the second period and say a scout would take the lead very much against run a plane thanks to d.s. passion strike it wouldn't take long for the number to draw level despite being short handed and exceed with a shot of managed to scrape the length of a ring and do not accounting manage to get the puck past the bunny can't have a second attempt and just a minute later bloom wants to take

a deserved lead just to say it's cause power play was coming to an end to his career of let the penalty box and he got on the end of an excellent pass before leaving the goaltender for dead and made it to one dollar one finish to made everyone midway through the second of a powerplay credentials x. or reverse pass by muscle you off and he was way for the simplest of chances to score it doesn't happen so often and. i think it helped us and it didn't hurt them because we're both of us went up and of course it was. hard for them so maybe that was the most important game most important. time and again. we managed to turn either of them signed have a perfect opportunity to make the game safe early in the first as they were awarded a penalty shot but this time most of your couldn't get the puck possibly kids kind of his sign to mind for mine and says kalpana go back minutes later things to your

mind it's excellent shot which sailed over both of clubs trying to set up a grandstand finish the home side and hold on for a deserved free to win support of three points to get to. a good team but if they're pretty good to. go through but they still want to get an important victory for the nama who are really starting to look strong contenders to win b.c. is bigger in camp since car will be hoping for much to improve two thousand and eleven and they'll need it be want to think about making the playoffs which we don't see. ok that brings us to football where chelsea have missed a chance to return to the english premier league summit the blues look in fact to come away with just a point against tottenham rushing on i'm on public shame open for spurs after a quarter of an hour but didier drogba surprisingly on the bench for the first level matters seventy minutes in then in stoppage time the ivory coast man had the chance to win it for chelsea from the spot but spurs goalkeeper for

a lead off for giving away the penalty in the first place was one how it ended up that not one of three darby's on sunday stuart holden scored an eighty eighth minute winner ten month old in a block or two one in a scruffy like a sure clash well wolves winger stephen hunt made all the difference in the midlands match up with birmingham. game ahead on monday with leaders are still taking on a month chest united side to trail by just a point no end of banter in the run up to the highly anticipated clash with gunners manager arsene wenger claiming united defender patrice evra was being disrespectful statement arising after the left back. said arsenal crisis on wouldn't win the championship. by the way we want to play. not by a statement of a new. place against us person i believe. you or is.

or is respect your opponent and that's what to do. messi is up to his old tricks again in the premier league the reigning world player of the year bagging a brace made easy work of. trim in a top the league table in spain the home side got off the market nine minutes in a typical barcelona move and the typical fashion diva via with the final touch. things got worse for after the how far mark and raising the s. to doubling his side's upon to produce a per one two with pedro in the second half would offer even less response for the visitors from san sebastian messi getting in on the act and minutes after the break a stunning effort but his second fourth deserves equal time on the arjun tines highlight reel of the sociedad to finish on able to even get in a top kill five know how the one sided match up would eventually finish her kitchen

making sure at the second attempt here. the reality brit knew a win was vital which is our gulf if they were to keep the pressure up and pep guardiola charges on they got lucky close delivered a brilliant touch and christiane are now getting things going for gold number one it was a message they finished it off. in ensured he would finish the weekend joint top of the goal scoring charts with lionel messi both men not seventeen so far this season . di maria out aids another two realities tally just after the break took the full advantage of a wonderful pos from the job. the home side did a reply from the spot soon afterwards but that was to be their sole a treat contribution of note two points behind champions boss. the new england patriots are shaping up nicely for another shot an n.f.l.

glory the a.f.c. top dogs into the postseason for the it time in the decade courtesy of a rush of the chicago bears famously beat tennessee fifty nine zero in the snowy game last year and. also does one sided the writing was on the wall early on tom brady finding rob gronkowski for the score in the first on the birds third drunk the fence having a tough time under rated unit storage devin mccourty for joining knox the fumble and gary guyton mix at twenty one off with the return twenty six point second quarter i was key for the patriots branch ending it with a fifty nine yard touchdown reception as time expired in the first. thirty six seven. looking menacing and. the pittsburgh steelers also showing they know a thing or two about dominance on the night the cincinnati bengals did get on the board first but things went swiftly done from troy polamalu not being one against

his former us see college team with carson palmer taking the interception forty five yards to tie the game at seven somewhat surprisingly the pittsburgh defense getting into the end zone twice while their all fans feel to not a single t.d. lamar woodley again preying on the art of form palmer in the fourth twenty three seven the final score the steelers remain on track for a post season berth. switching codes and staying stateside were the le bron james list cavaliers are free falling in the n.b.a. ranks the oklahoma city thunder handing cleveland an if straight loss streak that previously managed to avoid since two thousand and three the up on coming oklahoma team seemingly working on their highlight reel to start the contest kevin durant blowing out for a game high twenty five getting a good person of his points with efforts like this one james harden helped

facilitate that effort before the reserve guard decided to take to the skies himself the crowd witnessing a dunk fest in the first quarter alone thirty one thirty team to the thunder at this stage the couple years finishing with only two players in double figures the one zero six to seventy seven blowout putting them in further difficulty after the departure of homegrown star le bron james at the start of the season. pablo martin has written himself into the gulf record books the spaniard becoming the first player to successfully defend the off for dunhill championship title in south africa having gone five shots clear at the start of the pack nine martin so his lead reduced to one after a triple bogey on the seventeenth his playing partner third round leader on three and michael was hot in his heels but the martin sent his second shot on the par five hole into the green well michael saw in the water the twenty four year old would then hold his nerve to sing a birdie which gave him a two shot victory and

a thirty year clean truer title martin also becomes the first player to successfully defend the title on the tour since quarter cardington one the open championship problem. let's end with a spot of winter sports where marcel hurt sure has claimed his first world cup victory of the season on the volga sirrah slopes in france the austrian who was fourth after the first slalom run clocked fifty three point zero six seconds in the afternoon votes time was enough to. benjamin rake by three tenths of a second frenchman steve wrapped up third place finish in half a second behind the winner. constituent tester worley to victory in the women's world cup giant slalom moritz the french native skiing to the top step of the podium by the narrowest of margins seen off tiny petain in the fin then by a tiny one hundredth of a second slovenian marzieh completed the top three. and that is all your sports.

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