markets. why no one should really be happening to the global economy with much stronger i know very hard look at the global financial headlines. there's a report on our. welcome back here's a recap of the main stories we're covering today on our t.v. israel has a bluntly rejected president obama's view of the borders of a future palestinian state based on pre-one nine hundred sixty seven lines well it an unusually sharp rebuke to his closest ally prime minister netanyahu said the proposal would leave these rail quote indefensible. now the u.s. action in libya is now formally unconstitutional after congress leaves the sixty

day long campaign to go on without official approval but the white house insists the operation is on solid legal footing. and a religious group in the u.s. claims today the world will act but they say the apocalypse will start with a giant earthquake little girl across the. aisle turmoil in the arab world has prompted some european states to impose border restrictions to keep out refugees fleeing the violence well next i'll go and often spotlight asks the secretary general of the council of europe if freedom of travel within europe could become a thing of the past. hello again to walk them through spots like the injury shell put on take i'm going to hold on today my guest is. the tour uprisings in the arab

world led to bloody conflicts some of which are still going on the fourth humanitarian situation in the region forced thousands of people to flee their homes and sail overseas to the safe and happy new year of suck the old world was not a theft the problem has scared the europeans so much that some governments have restricted the border control end up thinking even suspending shan't get agreement basic for the e.u. are we witnessing the end of the united for europe and if not how is the old world going to respond to the challenge here is the same general of the council of europe probably out of the other. two months ago several european countries and the u.s. started bombing the gadhafi loyalists in libya today the old world is feeling the kid back from the operation as thousands of refugees are coming to the continent

every day from libya and other arab countries several states like denmark and belgium have already introduced strict control measures on the borders others proposed to leave the shang get agreement which allows the free travel inside the united europe and is the cornerstone i'll be here. thank you very much for coming thank you for being here ok i didn't hear any day but your yes. well first of all speaking about the problem that we're. having europe especially in saddling you have they if the unrest on the other side of the mediterranean continues all the european country ready to absorb immigrants or will additional restrictions be introduced just well i would say that for the time being if you are not prepared. because there is no real burden sharing

within the singing area. also. the ability to receive people from facilities and people. being trained to receive people in a proper way are not sufficiently in place so there will be a very big challenge you can see that already. people are coming around that some contours have started to cross the borders yes we are seeing it and we also are getting reports that the delhi government is introducing border controls inside the ship again in france is also considering this possibility is there a serious risk that there may and no war. open borders in europe that we have seen yes there is a serious risk but we have to. take

a look around the fact that there are two different danger our government is arguing for closing or making restrictions on the border because of the long war. criminals. and that is something different than. what you're operating on namely the problem of salem secrets so we have two problems i think with the open borders one is international crime we have had for a very long time. course the pressure on the borders from. also i believe you should the europeans try to do something to find the cause try to to convince their mcgreevy and sustain to stay in their home as the stay stay in africa rather than seek asylum in europe and it's impossible to convince them. i don't think it's possible to convince people but but we can do is to help the

contras to overcome all the problems in turn problems have some economic and social development so that more people want to stay in this congress but that is a much more long term project so you cannot say to people that wants to live there don't have a job don't have sufficient food or. opportunity for their own children they should stay where they are and not leave the country well the recent influx of immigrants into countries like italy and france has prompted calls for the re-instatement of internal border controls within the european union spotlights even a genius has bred that. the tiny talent island of lampedusa has been swept with waves of illegal immigration resembling a human tsunami situated between north africa and southern europe the island this is is this to nations with desperate to lesions and libyans trying to scape unrest

in their homeland to cope with the influx of migrants eataly handed out residents visas allowing them to travel in the european union after france noticed more and more refugees headed in its direction in blocked all train services from italy and these and a european parliament could knowledge agree on how to control immigration through each member state put in its interests first and when a charter for the problem in while migrants have been getting passed from one state to another the whole situation eventually led to the leaders of france and italy filing the current proposal to the group in commission in which the urged them with my zation additionally an agreement denmark decided not to wait for the reform and reintroduce border controls for radical new members some of the european countries have similar sentiments which in the biz. if we travel on the question.

well. you may introduce restrictions you may you may tighten the the border control but what from the humanitarian point of view and europe is very humanitarian a reentered place in the world what should we do to people that have crossed the sea on a small girl the people who are desperate the people who may die people children in land that have left behind all their belongings one of the going to do to turn them back and then. they go through rubble i think this is the crucial issue for europe because now we are telling these contras that they should develop a mock received. of democratic institutions so what we have to do is to do you get these people to handle these people in human mistake way that is a concern for the council europe that is. not is the guardian of the human rights

convention european human rights convention we have to see to it that these people that are calming is being treated in accordance with the. principles of the european commission on human rights and therefore we have made known guidelines for the forty seven governments on how they are going to should deal with these people and also we are to train training appreciate that take care of these people they're not coming to the borders in compliance of. european convention well as they say a lot depends of the point and the points of view for example. the council of europe has has started an inquiry was called for an inquiry into the death of sixty one of those people and you say it was the fault of the of the military rescue units there that we're able to say that but. we have and there are reports that

this this illegal immigration really good immigration becomes a business in africa so so shouldn't we try to through all this pressure on those who are organizing this illegal business absolutely absolutely you should do that and you should have more cooperation between. european states and also. those states. that are hosting that kind of people you know neighborhood course but having said this we have to take care of and protect people where do they are sold to say recruit recruited by. by people. that are. making commercials who are after all does or not the whatever whatever people say whatever people feel towards towards them and see even if they sympathize then they vote for their governments first of all in order of those governments to protect

their own citizens so do you think that if the governments will continue putting the rights and the interest of their own said he is in front of everything else may this continuing unrest continuing immigration lead to. a worsening of relations in general between the european countries and the arab and north african countries are there signs that there may be problems. maybe problems of course you can see already that on the european continent immigration is causing a lot of political kumari. so that is why we have to handle this in a careful way and that is why also we have to put much more emphasis on assisting these contests in order to go forward. set up a democratic institutions to have economic development because that is the root

cause and unfortunately the european countries as well as the united states have not been able to see what was coming we thought that these were stable countries put. out of killed the world is corruption and mismanagement in this country is created it was so much rationed and we got these revolutions and you said recently i quote we began to work it would turn easy in officials and the venus commission made the devices our new laws organizing elections and preparing a constitution in tunisia and quote what role can the council of europe play in the reforms in those countries that are not. members first of all if you want to establish a democracy you need laws that can safeguard pretty and clear elections then you

need a call to the head subsects and balances between different institutions we have excellent worldwide recognized expert keith that can assist these countries in doing so and that is why we have more deployed events commission in tunisia which is being used all over the world for that kind of nor making and writing a constitution it's so this is a starting point for any democratic development also soulful and economic development and then we have. conventions that are or when for non comes for your members which could be very important for them to do or in port au prince the caller mentioned partly corruption which is a huge problem in communities as well as in egypt all these conference. so we have instruments that can be helpful for these countries in order to develop. their economy on this optional others. so there's

a thought of your own yeah and the secretary general of the council talk you talk like we'll do that shortly after the break so stay with us we'll continue from four years in the us from. the book. the butler. says twenty years ago the largest country in the business or exhibits. it slept must have been the beach began a journey. where did it take the. if. it is easy for you to. see if he. pleased.

to. see. the book. the biggest scam. the bad. the butler. welcome back to spotlight our in auburn just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is in the yard land secretary general of the council of europe we were talking about the situation in europe strait in northern africa the relations between between the two parts of the world can be

endangered if the if the unrest continues no never as my guess just mentioned and there there were rumors by the way i said that those countries are not council of you have numbers and you're trying to influence them but there were rumors that countries like to nisha for example may soon become members of your organization how did grounds for such rumors or is just like the jacka not i don't think they will become members but they have. become party to some of the very important instruments actually they are already a member of the venice commission which is giving advice not only to conquer europe member states quote. the congress all over the world on the law making writing a constitution so they are already a member there they can join some of the very important conventions world will happily and future i cannot say but we haven't discussed to get in the

member countries that are side what we have defined as europe in particular tribes . there's been lots of talk now and there are people trying to understand why and who's fault is it and what's to blame that that the muslims experience difficulties in becoming integrated into the society. why is there more misunderstanding between between europeans and the muslims than with any of that group of people. i think it has to do with the fact that we in europe we are not used to deal with. we diversity. we have always been a continent or were diverted to actually but. when the muslims came we were in all the time you're with these people. there you know i was thinking how does

religion to be this is do with the tradition in history the way they are living it's quite different from how we are living. i think also that the terrorism vibrancy in which is not scare people away has this case in which is totally put you slug of course but the fact that some of these terrorists claim that i think in the name of islam is scaring people a lot. so this is changing people's minds. so i think it has to do with political leadership and also we we need to change all night so hard to do we are people. that change you yes you think you think that muslims should become more integrated yes absolutely you shine more accepted you should more thought hey you said mentioned political leadership this is right for example mr sarkozy is pretty radical yes in this in this respect and this may be

a reflection of how the what the society thinks in france what's your opinion what's your reaction to the complete ban on the veil in france is it is it like a restriction on our freedom or is it. a defense of european values and traditions. wrote this is. something with their tradition. but i would note i'm coming from scandinavia we have have a much more pragmatic approach if. because. it could come with a real threat to the society i would say that we should have a law against it but it is not a big problem in society. i'm living in france i never see any woman in brooklyn so why should we have a law against it. but france has

a different tradition on this song well i can see the car is threatening human rights but i would say that the fact that many women are forced to wear a burka is a problem it's very difficult to make laws against such a thing while we're talking about a symbol it's a purely symbolic thing the burka the burning of the book like the qur'an the things that these are symbols they don't mean anything for for a real life example if an american priest burned a book it is nothing to do with life. on the other side of the globe this isn't the point an important symbol and i think that today this this competition between between the east and the west and muslims and christians is all about those simple symbolic acts how important are they the bull the qur'an the flag or the the the the movers shouting in the early in the morning it is

a loud speakers. i would say against a very important and we gave her important i called you have to pay respect to the fact that really he's a very important for many people and we have to respect it. even if it's so loud you know even if it is five o'clock in the morning. in your neighborhood years i think so but but i don't think i should impose this on us. that's something different and i don't think we should burn books and all that kind of things because it is in so i mean you know i've been through a course a lot of. time in frustration and anger in many circles of the world so why should we do it i mean we should say to people be it yes you have the freedom of expression you can say what you want you can make. it quite two or you

can burn a book you have the right to do it but why should you do it it's not an obligation but what do you think if you try to be tolerant in europe then you think zero tolerance for from from the other side from the new drug cartel you probably should go to the newspaper and as a reaction people die people are killed you burn a goat and other people die while the book burned in america isn't worth killing people no i mean this is zero tolerance if if europe will be tolerant facing zero tolerance this means you're europe's culture is due yes. i'm against cause why should be. and why should be killed people because it was spurred. this is the extremists and. try to say to people that please now think about all those things all these symbols that are coming up in the political debate is also used by extreme political forces and i think it is also filling

a gap. because. i mean. center oriented politicians the many have paid to do the right things with unemployment. guiding the economy and all this. and therefore. all the forces are prevailing in this political crap simples. well since we've heard nearly here. there's one more talk about the complete failure of multiculturalism in europe. the agree that it is failing that it's falling apart do you think it it does still have fusion not i don't think it has failed but there are so many different missions or what is multiculturalism i'm talking about the diversity we have always had. with respect to religion ethnic background and all this

in europe we are becoming more and more diverse so we should for instance to today most countries are respect the right or homosexuals. which is and you use not a new parliament but a parka and we recognize it with its symbolizes development in obvious aside to be becoming more and more diverse and we have to respect it and you cannot you have a video so when for instance the president sarkozy said this about the color i can understand because he also added. a chance for america lead it's also that. we should know a lot of societies to develop that idea we should not have perez inside his bid in the society with the developer all knows. because everybody should have something in the same basis the same laws but not only on the

polling the political sphere and mean i mean on the summit level but on the grassroots level we are witnessing today the rise of a serious praised far right parties in the first big point is. extremely powerful the police there is there i mean there the whole european project is addressed. it has been not only at risk. to save fall apart. earlier. because of even not able to do literally diversity so we are not able to live with diversity barely with respect if problem then. the whole project is at risk that is why i think we should now pay much more intense attention to what is holding us together to convey to people what are the common european standards the values

that are for all these are rights and obligations and that these rights and obligations are actually trying in the european convention on human rights and this is the wide salvi important to strengthen the whole human rights system that we have in europe which i am representing and another question i want to ask you since we still have a couple minutes in the show one of the main. problems that you're working on today is the reform of the quickness try as brick and it's going to concern russia to you can you can you comment here that's going to be what it knew how to put it in the context of your talk about because this court is actually representing the common values that they have on the court on the continent and that is why it's so important to strengthen them and that is why it's all be important to reform the courts or that it can be stopped. the fact is. one hundred people

thousand cases pending in the court so we have to make the court more efficient point be able rush enter yes yes that's right and that is about you have to make proceedings in the court more efficient and that is why we also need to pay much more attention to helping accomplish that dimension and some orders to reform to do good. pipe against corruption so that all these applications can be taken care of mess to clean and not coming to court as transport so i mean very dark. two lines or reforms here and one it is in the member states when using the court thank you thank you very much for being with us and just to remind them that sadam a guest was probably on yahoo and the secretary general of the council of europe and that's it for now through all of us will be back with more on from the comments on the ones willing to in and outside russia until then stay on target see and take

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