patrick mercer is a member of parliament of the conservative party and a former shadow minister for homeland security's been a frequent commentator on defense and security issues patrick thanks for speaking to r.t. now even very outspoken on the human rights act on how essentially is allowing foreign criminals to stay in the u.k. on the grounds of human rights what does that say about britain i think it says the britain has surrendered far too many powers to the european union. is interpret ing the the rules and regulations in the strict strictures of europe in a much more proper but in this way in this case on helpful way the most of the members of the the loopholes the foreign criminals can exploit to stay in the case is that making britain a target do you think i think if you look at foreign nation. attitudes towards the united kingdom particular issues like terrorism for instance. london

widely called in french circles londonistan for the ease with which jihadists etc can live prosper or indeed in place in particular in london and also in britain i think it's worth also remembering that forty percent of america's external intelligence. are directed at the united kingdom and i'm not because clearly because of the actions of a majesty's government but because of actions of his loyalists fundamentalist cetera inside this kingdom directed at the us now if we have that if that is the case of this is just the way that we are regarded it was seen as being a soft touch for insurgents for four malcontents or ones or rather yeah i mean i just that is terribly unhelpful to this country surely that's a concern with the olympics coming up you could argue it two ways of course you can say well the resentment of these people here that they don't want to spoil a good thing. or feel that for. britain of course is going to be targeted and she's

labeled as the little satan on the islamist web sites and all those sorts of charming places i read so much of so much of. britain's a target she's been attacked before her soldiers sailors and are under everyday attack in places like afghanistan pakistan. of course we remain a. very high on the terrorist list of priorities so how does the government get out of the situation now and obviously human rights have to be respected but of course where do they draw the line i think is very important that human rights of course have to be respected and that's one of the reasons why our servicemen and women are dying abroad at the moment to make sure that that nations don't respect human rights or have a good partner rephrase that not nations but that causes that don't respect human rights or that we fight against that sort of narrow mindedness human rights are crucially important but there's a difference between the human rights of those who would endeavor to kill british

citizens and the human rights of british citizens what greater human rights is in the right to life he or she who would try to take your life away from you must be dealt with realistically or must be dealt with sensibly we must bear a gate from the front from from the strictures of the human rights act and we must replace it with a bill of rights as the current prime minister promised before the last election is the case of the government being hamstrung by europe or is this too weak to stand up to the e.u. . i think things have not been made any simpler by the fact that we don't have a conservative government per se that we have a coalition albeit a conservative led coalition but a coalition the liberal democrats of course have set their face against any tinkering with the human rights act and therefore individuals like myself who. campaigned on the fact that we would have a british rule a bill of rights i fear are going to be frustrated for some considerable time how damaging are these directives from europe and in. just had another with the e.u.

threatening to sue the u.k. if it doesn't relaxes welfare system for migrants well i mean you're a skeptic so i'm afraid you're you're not going to get any any warm words of praise for me about the european union is damaging so you know the kingdom we are a sovereign nation and sometimes one wonders home sovereignty will still show was european history as a place to pull we do need to have a referendum on our continued presence inside view of the european union either on our entire persons or the terms of which we find ourselves now again this was part of the conservative mo fester before the last election given what's happening in the new euro zone crisis the financial crisis do you think this is the death knell has his has sounded forceful even the concept of europe well i think the concept of europe for concept of europe is constantly evolving and constantly changing i think that's a healthy thing what i hope is that britain in the same way that we very sensibly

stayed out of membership of the euro itself i hope that we could send you to be skeptical about off further of all the following the recent riots across the cave the police were criticized for not acting more forcefully is this a case because the respect for human rights has gone too far do you think. human rights is a question of a balance between the majority and the vocal minority. the rights of the individual are preeminently important we live in a democracy believe in a civilized democracy where individuals are allowed to live their lives or should be allowed to live their lives and safety freedom to speak speak what they wish will say what they wish and to an extent do what they wish the trouble is that because of influences such as the human rights act because of the influences of of what i would regard as the. as the less sensible members of the of the saloon the liberal press and the liberal establishment that those who would seek to

disrupt society either by deeds words or actions inconvenience and danger the majority and endanger the majority of society unnecessarily so how many people did we see protesting say in the student riots before christmas well i don't know how many were but clearly a tiny tiny minority inside the country were they were they protesting legitimately for the most part absolutely of course they were should they be allowed to continue protesting of course but not violently now the police must protect the majority from the volunteer or the disruptive minority that is as much a part of my human rights are huge human rights as to say that once a man or woman is arrested they should be treated decently by the police of course they should but it's a question of balance it's a question of proportionality now the police god bless them please please understand i only big supporter of the police force have been so lambasted by the

loony livid conduct of the last government that when we have things like the g twenty protests the death of ian tomlinson etc well i'm not saying that things won't go wrong by the police of course they were but this nonetheless has colored. so much of the police approach towards these sort of problems that we have a. institutional nervous breakdown from the police in these in these cases and helped by the fact they don't get robust and stringent support from politicians including those of my own party who should then done the right see how should they dealt with them they should have dealt with the rights with due proportionality i'm not saying i wasn't there and i'm not a police officer and i'm not going to start making specific indictments about policeman but those in my experience of dealing with riots which i regret to say is considerable most view is that once someone starts being violent there are very

very very few options left you as a member of the security forces other than meeting violence with proportionate and measured violence we didn't see enough of that. and water cannons potentially possibly i don't i wouldn't i gather wouldn't talk about the sort of weaponry and i wouldn't i wouldn't specify the sort of weapon all i would say is that imports of this country things like water cannon things like plastic bullets are used almost were i would say without without thought of course or use with thought but in northern ireland violent extremism violent disorder is dealt with extremely robustly by the police service and all the and i don't see why we treat our rich thugs in a different way from the way that we treat english thugs let's talk about afghanistan now it could be argued ten years on the gulf between the western arab world's a bigger than it was before now you're a former member of the armed forces what would you say was it was the campaign wrong to begin with what do veer off course afghanistan is

a difficult place i think that if there was going to be allied of allied intervention in afghanistan we should have looked at particular from the british experience in the past if you go into afghanistan you go with limited aims and you go with a limited time period in moving to get to enter afghanistan in two thousand. two with no clear mission statement with no clear limitations upon when their lives were going to withdraw or indeed what their aim was is very very difficult particularly for a former military man to understand can anything good command for anything of a achieved anything positive that i think i think there was plenty of positive things that are being that are being achieved that first and foremost is we've got to stop talking about afghanistan as if it is as if it is the kernel of the problem it's not it's a regional war and it stretches from the borders of iran to the borders of russia and encompasses the nuclear armed country of pakistan the presence of our troops in afghanistan or should i say more properly on the afghanistan pakistan border is as

much about maintaining the relative stability of pakistan and the relative stability of pakistan's nuclear arsenal as it is about reestablishing afghanistan as a relatively civilized country what's the best possible outcome here they've promised to withdraw troops by twenty fifteen is that likely will it be met and where will that leave the country it was an extraordinary statement by the president the united states saying to his enemies that whether he had won or not he would be withdrawing his troops can you imagine the ultra conference they are lies deciding that there are no unspent to hit that would be that buy in month x. or of year x. that they were to what the outcome they'd be withdrawing their troops i don't think so it was. his job but the levers occurred to me the best way i don't personally see every american every professional realized sold leaving afghanistan between two thousand and fourteen two thousand and fifteen numbers will leave school infrastructure to be able to be rolled down but there's going to be no

i presence in afghanistan for the foreseeable future one was announced and so damaging. well you can look no tenet of military strategy or operations at the operational and strategic level allows you to say to your enemy this is when we get a surrender that's not war patrick thank you thank you very much to.

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this is sports today plenty head over the next ten minutes or so including this hour. finished the latest russian premier league weekend with the same two point advantage over. both sides when away from. heathrow viktor troicki falls to. the all serbian kremlin cup final held here in moscow. in britain the annual n.f.l. game in london chicago her. second defeat in three years in the. room in the team to catch in the russian premier league the same petersburg side maintaining their two point lead over with a convincing victory away to rostov stunning things going after nine minutes all of them much finishing off a superb move for. the visitors then. a quarter of an hour enough to alexander the

far off was felled in the area under which doing unnecessary from the spot on to became three right after the how far more rising on a post to head home game over an hour after brock did pull one goldbach straight after the break but that was to be the host highlight three top of the table didn't . see askari meanwhile in the hunt to challenge a need for so much supremacy after coming out the right side of an eight goal thriller with samuel g. it was the company and himself who got the home side off the mark with just four minutes on the clock but then cubist c.s.k. show the muscovites having five goals in a row. helping himself to three of them this. his second right after half time third would come from his strike partner. then claimed his half trick ten minutes

from time before. blasted to the net too late girls would be the final straw in a little more respectable but there was no doubting who control proceedings. five three. the finals. in between those two games on sunday. fourth with a four. again. remember. eight thirty games. will be wide this morning in the blue half not only to. the english premier league by five points but they did. champions manchester united six one.

on the. strike for alex ferguson's men a point to. take nothing away from. simply stunning. second spot from. wins for. everton on the day. moving on for the second straight season the russian has failed to win the kremlin cup the country's premier tennis tournament no locals at all in fact in sunday's two finals with serbs monopolizing the men's decider reigning champion viktor troicki went into the clash a slight favorite but it was his fellow countryman. who started the brighter eventually securing the first set. a six four scoreline the second set a more straightforward affair four to the start of each winning it and serve six

forty six to the final score meaning a different serve this season takes home the carty a trophy and a one hundred thirty two thought dollar to. dominate this a book about meanwhile wrapped up her first ever w t a title in the russian capital if seeded slovak downing. in singles final both about fighting back against the still mean to take a three six seven six seven five after itself to our forty eight minute battle. their twenty eleven world series teams are going punch for punch thus far in baseball the texas rangers shelling out to louis cardinals on sunday to raise memories of some today's game three loss the series all score two games apiece following the rangers four zero when former texas rangers colin around two term us president george w. bush throwing out the ceremonial opening pitch josh hamilton then started things off for the home side an r.b.i. double making this one nothing on the bottom of the first paved the way for mike

napoli three run homer which proved to be the final different. picture derek holland particularly the one in the cardinals are your side's four zero how to end it all slip this series no action stings in texas who won. last night we know we got beat you know it still thought we played a pretty good baseball game we just didn't have enough to stop those guys so i tip my hat to him but tonight you know it was about derek holland and mike and us catching the ball out there and doing some good things. what a year it is turning into for luke donald being a man who took over golf's world one ranking inmate becoming the first european to finish the top the north american p.g.a. tour money list this weekend the thirty three year old doing so often an amazing final round disney webb simpson who led by over three hundred sixty thousand dollars in the cash race the americans two boobies on sunday leaving it to open for

the briton don't needing to finish tied for second attempt to list he did one better at running off six straight birdies on the back nine part of the top since and by two strokes he could not become the first ever golfer to win the money kron in both europe and the us dollar league three michael roid by almost two million dollars with five tournaments left this side of the pool. in the n.f.l. the birds brought their a game across the atlantic on sunday the tampa bay buccaneers best efforts just not enough to slow down chicago in front of almost seventy seven thousand people at london's wembley stadium british fans eager for some grid iron action though the total attendance was some way short of the stadiums eighty two was possibly the long trip to england not slowing done running back not forte not a hint of jet lag as he opened the scoring in the first the phones getting then to see a rare two point safety scored when the bucs pin forte down the charges and zone.

well he urbanites in the second with grizzled veteran roy williams doing the rest for a forty two lead the books did rally in the fourth but eventually fell short twenty four. side coach todd haley on his chiefs run on easy winners against big rivals oakland raiders quarterbacks kyle ball around recent arrival carson palmer both struggling author of placing injured jason campbell hundred louis intercepting baller this time before taking it all the way back to kansas city's economy in the first palmer with through three intercept. i was only a thirty one year old giving one of those away to brandon flowers in the fort who turned out to score twenty eight zero the morrissey's final score. it's time for the n.b.a. lockout is meanwhile showing no signs of clearing up the first two weeks of the season are lost and all games until christmas could be called off but that didn't

stop league's top stars from putting on a show for a chart of all calls in oklahoma city kevin durant won two titles on the local hero show just why that was twenty three year old posted forty two points twenty six three points on eleven assists no less last year's n.b.a. finals on or off the bron james showing what the funds could be missing this year players n.b.a. team owners met with the federal mediator for thirty hours over three days this week but left with a collective bargaining and. some great efforts there to the world rally championship. wrapped up the constructors' title for the seventh consecutive time thanks to sebastian lo's victory at the penultimate advent of the year in spain the seven time defending champion ending his win draw it's gone without a victory since july the thirty seven year old for getting old with a superb run during the final stages. was third after you. urban india

myself and i just eight points behind and forget to take this season's title. is mini cooper is. on the podium though with win five of the year in the one race to go. now the following are the scenes the kiwi rugby faithful helping winning twenty four years for the all blacks bringing things full circle by winning the twenty eleven world cup on home soil their only other time coming in one nine hundred eighty seven also one in new zealand plenty of time passing since the very first world cup final on the all blacks how they work. much harder than expected for their second eight seven win over me dogs from so much work tallied on the suspected margin of victory nevertheless the almost quarter of a century with is over for new zealand with the webb ellis trophy created to run john tunnel and much to the light of. great.

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reported shock good seeing images of. the e.u. summit in brussels brings no breakthrough in the u.k. there are growing calls to leave them all together. so vote on whether to hold a referendum on the. rating agency has cut its forecast for russia's banking system from stable to negative will have. a very warm welcome to you this is. with me. it was a blood stained image which marks the end of the old regime but which also the future ground the.