further violence russian leaders as nationalists embrace the slogans heard during the clashes are the greatest concern. for disturbing russian anti drugs campaign is setting out to shock but the producers say it's the only way to stem the country's plague of not politics there are over one hundred thousand drugs related deaths in russia every year. and attempts to drop gang away from the brink of conflict are under way as russia's foreign minister holds off with his north korean counterpart the close meeting comes just weeks after the north shelled a south korean island caring for. now e.u. leaders hope to be able to move decisively in saving the euro at this week's summit on the continent wide debt crisis the eurozone is battling to prevent the single currency from disintegrating doggoned who leaves the e.u. referendum campaign in the u.k. those countries are better off leaving the union before collapses.

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 conte 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 of promises that 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 company it would be costly to implementing 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 he

would be costly to leave 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 the 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 where there is you know the pros and cons of europe so that the british public can decide whether they want to be in need 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 why. 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 grown up 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 good value a somewhat doubtful but i'm quite willing to find out what i just believe in democracy i'm a democrat and i believe you know you asked a straightforward 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 that successive leaders have promised

a referendum of course that's true but since the implementation of that 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 golden 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 we're now because he played ratified he could say he could have said yes we can 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 state who 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 basic facts. 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. and the i.m.f. have stepped tend to bail them out so early on and 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 well let's not forget of course to referendum they were forced to vote again because they got the decision was the political elite know personally i don't think we should be bailing out ireland i mean that's my own personal view i thought it's ironic i was watching the budget this week an island there 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 we need the british people have never been given the chance to vote on it so i think ireland actually makes it a 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 on the seven billion pounds now of course that's to protect banks like the robot in scotland but we've already bailed out the royal bank of scotland wants the british taxpayer and i'm no great union supporter normally but i actually agree with people on all pro at the moment using charge of the. union the trade drug trade drives the train workers union when he says it's not his members who got us into this mess it's the bankers and the politicians are the larger issue 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 the ordinary taxpayer and we've already bailed out r.b.s. once and lloyds bank now we're bailing them out again effectively by the back door of our island and the british people haven't been asked about this you know david cameron came to power any projects are 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 eight he's increased for a week now bowed out island he also won five star contribution to europe and we increased of course when bragged that he was going to keep the budget down actually increase the budget that was no machines thatcher handbag swinging victory for the united states look 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 me along with mirrors on wheels because 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 certainly 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 u.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 in apartments completely empty just like in ireland they're never going to be. occupied property 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 calmly you survive as well and as you say to the right across europe i mean you know germany there are people protesting they don't want to bail out these countries that they've that had a sensible banking system and of the great charlie was in brussels one two months ago in brussels they were discussing the budget they were discussing the hospitality budget they put it up to two point one million pounds meanwhile one hundred thousand europeans are on the streets all different languages order from nationalities protesting about the austerity cuts one hundred thousand people inside they 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 maybe 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 we're seeing 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 happening in the u.k. without thinking either of the e.u. or the your pm court of human rights in effect 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 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 but our 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 and throwing extinguishers are through she could kill somebody however the same token they got carried away i do think it's right there protesting i do think it's right the unity joining them i do fully support the protest i don't support or come down the violence and i fully support the troops and i hope the protests escalate and i think they wounding she approaches this week for example i've heard many of those the 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 the students and the trade unions and others who might join with them going to do now 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 first on the door mat before the credit card people will be beginning to lose their jobs people being living proof of 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 not about it isn't over it certainly isn't over under debate about europe is definitely not over and about the game that will continue don't go on thank. you. lou we know to keep the peace but beaches. but also on the border of peace and

more. they are responsible not only for themselves. but also for their loved ones. ready to take any risk. street. this is a cable from the u.s. embassy in colombo to talk about here an apparent june seventh incident of extrajudicial executions the military reported to the press that on that day that those nine guerrillas in the best edition by instructs you including you know and there are 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. to the. party's top stories president medvedev is vowing to use any legal means to punish the perpetrators of the weekend's football riots in downtown moscow and to prevent further violence the russian leader says nationalist embrace the slogans heard during the crisis are the greatest concern. a disturbing russian anti drugs campaign is setting out to stop the producer say. it's the only way to stamp a country's plague of narcotics there are over one hundred thousand drugs related

deaths in iraq time. and attempts to draw yang away from the brink of conflict are underway as russia's foreign minister holds talks with his north korean counterpart in moscow at the close meeting problems just weeks after the north shelled the south korean island killing for. more details on all those stories at the top of the hour up next all the sport highlights we. get to have your company this is sports today i'm you know the u.s. are headlines sitting pretty u.h.c. i regain the lead in the kontinental hockey league with victory over rivals c.s.k. . demolition job barcelona take no mercy a 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. 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 cantor namo 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 on the playoffs or the nama been excellent and find themselves leading the western conference zero are all stars are so good like we don't have

any stars but we have a good team like good players playing 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 at the armament in the game or serious car was struggling to generate in your friends as nama 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 as cisco would take the lead very much against run a play thanks to d.s. passion strike it wouldn't take long for the nama to draw level despite being short handed and exceed pradesh or managed to skate the length of the ring and do not account to manage to get the puck pasty bunny can't have a second attempts 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 these

kind of lift the penalty box and he got on the end of an excellent pass before leaving the goaltender for dead and made it to one did on a one finish to meet everyone midway through the second of a powerplay x. or reverse pass one muscle you off and he was there for the simplest of chances to score it doesn't happen so often. i think it helped us and it didn't hurt them because we're both hands 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 into a prime sign of a perfect opportunity to make the game safe early in the third as they were awarded a penalty shot but this time most of your couldn't get the puck possibly kids kind of his sign on life line and says kalpana go back minutes later things to your mind it's excellent shot which sailed over a bowl of scrubs trying to set up

a grandstand finish the home side hold on preserve free to win support of three points to get to scores a good team but they play pretty good too. but they still want to get an important victory for the nama who are really starting to look strong contenders to win b.c.s. could go in cobb county hoping for much to improve to france in eleven and they'll need it be one 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 the russian known among the public 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 gomes lead off for

giving away the penalty in the first place one one how it ended up one of three darby's on sunday stuart holden scored an eighty eight minute winner ten month old and beat blocker two one in a scruffy like a sure clash well wolves winger stephen hunter 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 that statement arising after the left back said arsenal were in crisis and wouldn't win the championship. by the way we want to place. not by a statement show for a new body plays against us personally i believe. you or is. or is respect your opponent and much more 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 of the league table in spain the home side got off the mark nine minutes in a typical barcelona move and the typical fashion david via with the final touch. things got worse for after the how far mark on me s. the doubling his size of on to produce a perv to 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 is fourth deserves equal time on the arjun tines highlight reel of the sociedad to finish on able to even get in a tackle five know how the one sided macho would eventually finish her kitchen making sure at the second attempt here. the reality grid

knew a win was vital which is our golf if they were to keep the pressure up and pep guardiola charges the coast delivered a brilliant touch and christiane are now though getting things going for goal number one it was a message they finished it off but i'll go himself an insured he would finish the weekend joint top of the goal scoring charts with lionel messi both men not seventeen so far this season. another two realities tally just after the break took the full advantage of a wonderful pos from. the home side did manage a reply from the spot. soon afterwards but that was to be their solitary 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 a decade courtesy of

a rush of the chicago bears famously beat tennessee fifty nine zero in a 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 ranked defense having a tough time under rated unit storage devin mccourty forcing johnny knox to fumble and gary guyton makes it twenty one 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 in. 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 against his former

us c. college team with carson palmer taking the interception forty five yards to tie the game at seven somewhat surprisingly good 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 armor 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 and if the straight loss streak that previously managed to avoid since two thousand and three the op 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 adverts like this one james harden helped facilitate that effort before the reserve guard decided to take to the skies and

sell the crowd witnessing a dunk fest in the first quarter alone thirty one thirty team the thunder at this stage the couple years finishing with only two players in double figures the one hundred six to seventy seven blue eyed 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 all for dunhill championship title in south africa having gone five shots clear at the start of the nine martin so his lead reduced to one after a triple bogey on the seventeenth his playing partner on third run later on three and michael was hot in his heels but the martin sent his second shot on the par five hole into the green while michael the water the twenty four year old would then hold his nerve to sink a birdie which gave him a two shot victory and a third european tour title martin also becomes the first player to successfully

defend the title on the tour since porter cardington won 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 slopes in france the austrian who was fourth for the first slalom clocked fifty three point zero six seconds in the afternoon time was enough to compact create benjamin rake by three tenths of a second frenchman steve missy a roughed up third place finish in a second behind the winner. in switzerland tessa worley took victory in the women's world cup giant slalom some more writs the french native skiing to the top step of the podium by the narrowest of margins seen off tiny pertaining to finland by a tiny one hundredth of a second slovenian. completed the top three. and that is all your sports and.

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