continues to engulf a growing number of us. we talked to. the former chief accountant for the european commission and she says that brussels only cares about propping up the idea of the e.u. however much the budget gross discussion is now. i. i. i'm talking to martha and dress and who is now a member of the european parliament for the u.k. independence party but she was formally the european commission's chief accountant while she was in that job she raised concerns about flaws in the commission's accounting system which she said left it vulnerable to fraud bartram dress and thanks for talking to us today now were you a euro skeptic when you joined the commission as chief accountant no i was not a euro skeptic in fact i thought you were a project was a project of cooperation i thought they were sharing solutions among the different

member states so i was quite owners to be able to be part of the european union and also or to be part of our if i had minister to reform and that they were undergoing what happened or what did you find out to make you change your mind when i found out that they had no control on the payments they were making out of the european union budget basically you know they didn't ask if people qualified to get the funding from the european union and i was responsible for the signature of the space it's so i had the highest responsibility and i thought i needed to know if i was playing to the right person and for the right purpose and they just didn't care and they didn't allow me to make change use to be able to determine if we were making the right pane so what does what does that all mean well this means that you

funding is going to people who do not qualify for these who do not need the funding and who use it for other purposes and this is very dangerous because you know there are many other purposes for which the money can be used. when they raised the money from the peon taxpayers they are short of saying this is going to be used for certain. purposes and certain extent they are lying to the european taxpayer i thought i was working on behalf of the european taxpayer and my obligation was to make sure the payments were correct others didn't see it like that they did that in fact you were fired for blowing the whistle do you think anything's changed since i don't think anything has changed i now see it in the budgetary control committee so all the committee in the parliament that oversee the

payments out of the budget and i see it in the budget committee of the committee that oversees the planning of the budget and in both committees i can see that they have no respect for european taxpayers' money and i don't see that fundamental changes that they shouldn't have taken plex you know once anybody who makes up payments in the long run will. take care that the payments would ask the questions what is this painting and what is the purpose and this questions are not asked why they can reach the solution is to blame the member states only gave the money to the u.k. it's the u.k. who is committing the irregularities well yes but you paid the money out the to us the proper questions they dealt so for me nothing has changed a lot of window dressing but nothing and are you suggesting that the commission is

being defrauded and if so who by. well it's being the products to a certain extent in. talking about fraud they saw with very problematic because obviously you have to prove it and it's very difficult to prove fraud in places where you don't have adequate systems to control ok there is no all the tray so it's very difficult to prove but you know there are beneficiaries who are getting the money without being qualified to get the money that is the essence of the situation do you think brussels is capable of reform is there a will to tighten practices like that no i don't think that it's any will to tighten this practices because they have a different agenda they want to promote the european union project and to promote this project they're going to be able to give the money to the people who will support the project not the people who really care about their lives.

in a proper way not the people who are going to use this funding to grow the economy of a certain member state but the people who will promote the european union project how deeply entrenched you think best interests are in brussels where the real power play is well from my experience in the commission fundamentally but also now that i'm in the parliament a powerful people in the you are the directors general in the european commission the european commission has different directorates with different substantive issues you have environment kaname culture and this directive the generals are the ones who hold the power you know the commissioners come and go every five years but this direct or general normally have been there for decades and they hold the power there you know who they need to give the funding to get the support where in

times of austerity at the moment and members all. across europe are cutting that state spending is there any sign that brussels is doing the same now absolutely you know last night we spent six hours approving in the budget committee the two thousand and twelve budget and they have they are asking for a over four percent increase i was even asking for the creases but fundamentally saying we should at least reduce the allowances for the enemy piece and they don't want to reduce them i mean i think we should show the example and the every piece themselves don't want any reduction and the council of ministers had decided they wouldn't give more than a two percent increase and here the parliament goes back and say no we want more

than four percent so i don't think there is no will to reduce and i am a lonely voice really in the parliament in what we first reduction of the budget and ultimately it's your goal to as it were destroy the system from where then ultimately my role or my goal is to make people in the u.k. but also around the rest of you know the truth about the european union you know the truth about how their money is being spent this is my job and then it's up to people to react to this new information or to this information and it's not you know for some people you know we are now in the middle of a crisis and people saying well the year budget has nothing to do with price but i will give you an example greeks was brought into the european into the euro zone when they didn't qualify to get into which now people say greece live well maybe in

that account but. rippin commission has asked that this ticks off its uterus that who should have challenge the figures and they then challenge that side. ten years later they learn so something is wrong but they are there they have one thousand people working in uterus that to analyze the figures they should have come another thing the budget was used to grow the economy of all these countries that came into the euro zone greece got sixty billion pounds in the last twenty years out of the european union budget the question is were there the money goal because the greek economy has not grown so where did the money grow william hague the u.k.'s foreign secretary says that the e.u. budget is now under control is that the truth and i think it's not the truth i have to challenge his. speech because he doesn't know. he

thinks it's under control because he's asking for a freeze on the budget but while he was talking about the freeze there was somebody in the budget committee was trying to vote in favor of an increase of four percent so it's not under control and also. you know with or know exactly where the money is callie and i think we should know it's basically for everybody you know as i told you why is it that greece hasn't grown its economy italy spain portugal what is what are all the structural reforms that we have been paying for the last take. so no it's not done that and members of parliament here in the u.k. now looks set to hold a debate on whether that should be a referendum on britain's membership of the european union do you think britain is hooked on the e.u. despite talking about wanting to leave. while i think that the government might be

hooked to the european union i don't think that the country has to hold its will to the people i think. the u.k. could european union negotiate another type of relationship when there are people who are very critical about you know what would happen how would we trade. the u.k. trade they've done existed before the european union try think it could go back to its. u.k. it's one of the biggest importers from the european union so forty two percent of the imports come from the european union so i think the u.k. seen a very solid position. and i think it would be healthy not only for the u.k. but for the rest of the member states because it would force i really need to see asian of the european union and all the trade agreements that we have i don't see

of course this doesn't happen in twenty four hours i mean of course now we have seventy percent of the legislation coming from the you of course that would be interim period or the u.k. would have to develop new legislation of its own i mean of course it doesn't happen in twenty four hours but we first have to make the decision to leave and then. start the process euro zone countries are staring down the barrel of a gun basically what e.u. grandees are talking about is in forcing more fiscal union in the face of economic collapse which seems like a desperate measure who stands to gain the most from keeping europe together i think the. director is generally the bureaucracy in brussels who stands to gain those people who have been pushing the project all along and they want this european union who are they will hold the power over all the member states and

finally as a euro skeptic do you feel anywhere vindicated by what's going on in the euro zone at the moment. sadly yes i feel the kate because you know if people had heard and had sort of responded to my claims that here said go. maybe this wouldn't have happened so yes i feel vindicated but it's sad to say because we could have prevented all that's happening today not trying to us and thank you very much thank you. the longest big game hunting history. she was trying to stall and data. but sprung the traps they laid for. him up on the radio we have the search blogs

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sports. thank you for joining me for the sports on this big night of european football qualify us and here are the top stories keeping cool. is russia this tuesday night a place at the european championships at stake. while on her against general secretary during both a visit to moscow as russia announces more plans for the twenty eighth. and mixed fortunes for the ball says andy roddick soldiers on the formal wall number three david nalbandian crashes out in shanghai. but first a football and green bean lead his russian made just a point against me in moscow this cheese day knights to secure a place at next summer's european championships but that's russia coach to convict on has warned his players that are opponents could use sporting tactics as

a side to keep their heads at the cyrena which of our poor feet with all its. going into their final qualification group game russia find themselves in excellent position they top their pool by two points and the remaining fixture is against andorra a team run to the very bottom of a fever rankings alongside the likes of american samoa and monster rants russia a massive favorites to claim all three points even both a draw would suffice and advocate says they'll look to qualify playing good football we've tried to play with work you can do. thing to team is do well long game a little bit more better than the other one but still i think the team is playing quite attractive who will the dutchman does have a few selection concerns constantine's that one of another example and you call for both suspended after picking up the yellow cards in slovakia last time outs well

you are sure coffers lost his battle to be fit after picking up a knock in jelena owen's a go if it is ok and he's likely to retain his starting spot while some of the fringe players may be given a chance in the first eleven however advocates biggest concern is having an dorrans may try to use less fanfare means to stop his team brazil's towards putting two more of close to failed to do with it because this is quite irritating to play realize it as well in. what they do is. they don't want to play for world. one man who will know more than a thing or two about i'm doris tactics is andrea shot in he was sent all four years ago against the same opponents as russia just about qualified for euro two thousand and eight and missed the first two games of that tournament due to his red card and of the counters warning his players not to react to be antics of error opponents

i'm into the world to the players and the so we have to blow through discipline because this is the way we like to play if we are on to froogle. we have to prepare for that it's been a very good qualifying campaign for the russians have dominated every one of a nine games so far that they've played in the group and they'll be looking to book their ticket to poland ukraine in style russia going touching distance of next year's european championships or standing in their way a bridge in poland and ukraine are under unsigned but have only won one competitive match in their history what to go back outside will obviously start as massive favorites and of russia play to anything like their full potential and they should have absolutely no problems whatsoever in picking up points richard pombo played r.t. moscow. well russia are the only side he can make it to the tournament from group a second place island will take on third place our media in dublin with both sides

aiming to keep their european championship dreams alive the irish need a point to confirm second spot and a play off place but will be without their captain robbie keane striker suffered a thigh injury during the pride a two know when iran dora west brom's signed in talks will take his place up front shay given or take the captain's armband and the goalkeeper is fully aware of the dangers of playing our media who themselves could grab second spot with a victory at the stadium. or in a home parks with we're going to the belief that we can go on and beat them and i know they'll be calm and think in the same but. you know it's a chance for us to you know center on hands which which is all you can ask for in alaska a million we've got to go out there and and do the business. and armenia had a taste of the of even staging with a training session on monday the eastern european side lost one millet home to ireland in the opening round of last year's european qualifiers but says that defeats they've only been beaten once in eight matches during this campaign and have won their last three games scoring eleven times in the process and conceding

just once so they're brimming with confidence but are also full of respect for the irish. team but those who we believe we can win because. of their own king. it's important for us three points. but you know other kids there understand there is a very strong. and this is how the group they carry the looks just a draw for russia would ensure they automatically qualify for next summer's european championships and also a point for island would mean they'd finish second get into a two legged playoff. general secretary jerome valcke a has been on a visit to russia to check on the host nation's progress the twenty eight world cup it might be just under seven years until the competition kicks off but there is just one year to go until russia must name the eleven cities and twelve stadiums which will host football's biggest tournament and the country's sports minister is

confident that russia's preparations so far. russia was given the right deal host the world cup we've had a lot of meetings and consultations with all do six budgeting branding and other important issues concerning the world cup it's quite basic a world cup you need all cities we stadiums public transport a. local transport i would say national domestic transport between the cities that . you have to ensure that all these different group of people the media the officials the players and the fans they can enjoy the country during the period of the world cup. tennis now in the winter just enough has lined up a meeting with second seed andy murray in the second round of the shanghai masters following the russian's hard fought opening when last week's winner in tokyo laurie received a buy in to the second round but just not cut to make it the holder way to see cave from a set down to knock out results published by lucci after two hours and forty five

minutes on court for meanwhile ten seed andy roddick is through to round three but the american captain battled back from a breakdown and saved a set point in the second set before breaking bogo is critical at the neutral to love to close that tight match in straight sets stunning on the way next to his nicolas almagro who had the better fellow spaniard tommy robredo one of america's top man lawdy fish threw away a one set lead to go out to australia up and come up but not totemic. wall for mark world number three david nalbandian when crushing actually florian mayer in straight sets the german number fifteen seed converting the first of its three right. now in line to buy top seed. kind of the meantime yank the tips out of it became the biggest first round casualty so b. as number two was seeded ninth in shanghai when trying to connect the i located the spaniard prevailing right tiebreaker just over two hours. and

finally russian mixed martial arts a supremely though you have all young career is preparing to face one of his biggest challenges the last emperor goes up against american jeff monsoon in moscow on november the twentieth and sees the fight as a chance to revive his career that's right with onion reports. fulls never stands up the wards of financial had dominated the mixed martial arts heavyweight division for a decade that changed last year. suffered his first actual defeat in june twentieth i i brazilian fabrice ever do forcing the russian to tap out that in essence he started a downward spiral on the canvas with subsequent losses. and dan henderson. retirement had been optioned for

a thirty five year old but even any good claims he's far from dumb and he's thrown back. into three bouts i lost i felt like. the wind somehow eluded me i felt i could do it i had chances but goals will was different the opportunity to get back to winning ways will be unique one. set to take part for the first son in a pro mixed martial arts clash in moscow jeff monson the man who stands between him and redemption on november the twenty four year old is a two time world submission worsening champ found that his nickname snowman from his brazilian jiu-jitsu counterparts as a sign of respect for his ice cold demeanor and the pressure from. you know a long time ago he's the best heavyweight of all time. privileged to fight him as

an honor and but i'm going to train hard and you know. expect to win so i expect to win but i think it's going to be very difficult challenge those sentiments echoed earlier but it's less a fight than the launch of an entire career. still it seems has been left and. sure and in the build up. there will have a great training camp of the netherlands with both strong wrestlers and standup fighters there i'm going to invite. just one the world submission rest in championships and beat no less than for bruce who are two men in the finals so he can be considered the world's best wrestler at the moment there are no end of fans looking forward to seeing the other rise again but the mention self is remaining composed as usual hype what hype is just another day at dampers office almost a victory that's what will be at stake for me in this match on do i will fight for

it's. his greatness is beyond question his legacy secure the one suspect's father himself beliefs and when next time out he's the only alternative robert but in young our team. i think it's. well thank. you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've got the huge you're covered.

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