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 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 and helpful way the most other 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 particularly issues like terrorism for instance. london

widely called in french circles londonistan for the ease with which jihadists etc can live prosper indeed in place in particular and also in britain i think it's worth also remembering what 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 fundamentalists etc inside this kingdom directed at the us of a 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 reserve any of these people here they don't want to spoil a good thing. moral that's right. of course is going to be targeted and she's

labeled as the little satan on the islamist web sites and lives of charming places i read so much and so much of. britain's a target she's been attacked before her soldiers sailors and there are under every day 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 this 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 that don't respect human rights or beg pardon or rephrase that are not nations but causes that don't respect human rights or the we fight against that sort of narrow mindedness human rights or crucially important but there's a difference between the human rights of those who would endeavor to kill british citizens and human rights of british citizens what greater human rights is than the

right to life he or she who would try to take your life away from you must be dealt with realistically it 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 be hamstrung by europe or is this too weak to stand up to the. 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 only recently we just heard. another with

the e.u. threatening to sue the u.k. if he doesn't relents his 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 to the united 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 of the european union either on our entire persons or the terms of which we find ourselves well again this was part of the conservative motive 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 the post-war 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 the earth revolved the following the recent riots across the case 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 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

are the by deeds words or actions inconvenience and danger the majority of 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 tween the 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 violent 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

lily livered conduct of the last government that when we have things like the g twenty protest 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 and in these cases and helped by the fact they don't get robust and stringent support from politicians including those of my own party most of them done right seeing how should they dealt with them they should have dealt with the riots with do you 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 guess i 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 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 would it 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 learned that 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 the thinking of a achieved anything positive that i think i think there is 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 at the altar conference they are lies deciding that there are no incident to hit that would be that by a 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. as occurred to me the best way i don't personally see every american every professional realized soldier leaving afghanistan between two thousand and fourteen two thousand and fifteen numbers will leave school sleepless probably will be. rolled down but there's going to be no i

presence in afghanistan for the foreseeable future. and so damaging. well you can look at the new tenet of military strategy or operations at the operational and strategic level allows you to say that your enemy this is when we get a surrender that's not war patrick thank you thank you very much and. a very warm welcome to you this is your news today protesters on the wall street they are. least intense

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which pleats compared to a big detroit screen and also the kremlin cup final here in moscow. and a big victory it's a scam moscow threshold aside less than tomas to go in the western. so let's start with football way in the russian premier league two matches in game week twenty eight take place on monday with much if remain unbeaten in the domestic league under their coach jessica sero this time they claim to come back to one victory on the road against second from bottom spot top now to look upon themselves at gold on behalf time due to precise for a kick from. the muscovites woke up in the second half and finished the match on the right side of a two one scoreline denise and younger it's on the scoreboard for the visitors. in the late game dinar more school and to attain form. group b.

in its goal is after forty four minutes of play. in the midterms and it remains the team to catch in the premier league sent because brookside maintaining their two point lead over tests come moscow with a convincing victory waitressed off it is does need it nine minutes to open the scoring was done they registered and now the goal their fifteen minutes and defend it goes smaller. in the area so the referee had no i. the option but to point to the sport's alex on the look of it making no mistake there to know now by the thirty second minutes in an extended belly to three girls behind at the home off tech cross a typical mountain pulled one goal back straight after the break but that was it for the hosts so three one to finish and in it are still on top of the standings. to score a main well in the hunt to challenge senate for summit supremacy after coming out

the right side of an eight goal thriller with angie it was a tall they gave the house another late in the fourth minute but then it was time for say scar show as the muscovites fitting five goals in a row to do well and made the biggest contribution to added a hat trick on the night talking a lot and on the door sprawled one apiece to make it five while she was able only for two late goals to leave the final spall a little more respectable. to control proceedings in dagestan five three to taste the final score there been much. sponsored more score meanwhile have gone forth in the standings as their fresh rock bottom f.c. tone at the recent state do for nail marks opened scoring for the muscovites in the tenth minutes then brazilian striker doubled the lead just before the break and see plenty of time to find his powerful shot into the top right corner after the break spots on saturday to do tickle you must contributed with his career his first go

for the team to make it three nil and finally i really found the net once again for the home side two minutes before the final whistle to seal the final result before mail. meanwhile in the english premier league current leaders manchester city have gone five points clear of their closest rivals united that softer threshing cross-town rival six one at old trafford mario balotelli and i didn't check to make sure the double there for the visitors bottom for us. as a consolation go before the service man. cannot three one win a second stoke city editor meanwhile picked up all three points in other games tottenham is on the winning track as they'd like to go to one third place chances surprisingly lost two leagues from you boys park rangers. i took it now and in the kontinental hockey league have gone fifth in the western conference following a six one victory against slovak side left thomas opened the scoring for the house

just a minute before the first break. levelled matters five minutes into the second period and gave supporters hope for a close of outcome but those hopes were dashed by center who contributed with grace ten minutes afterwards except of course finished demolition with six go on the night so six one to the. moving on and for the second straight susan a russian has failed to win the kremlin cup the country's premier tennis tournament no locals in sunday's two finals with serbs monopolizing the men's decider reigning champion viktor troicki went into the clash slight favorite but it was a series fellow countryman wanted to play which started the bright eventually securing the open on a six four scoreline the second set a more straightforward affair for tipsarevic winning it six four six two the final

score they're meeting at different places and takes home the kremlin. wrapped up her first ever double take title in the russian capital city beating chi kinetic single spine not fighting back against the stone and to take it for a six seven six seven five tough two hour and forty minutes. the n.b.a. lockout is meanwhile showing no signs of coming turnaround the first two weeks of the n.b.a. season are lost and all games until christmas could be called off that didn't stop the lake's top stars from putting on a show for a chargeable cause in oklahoma city came durant as want to and base corn tattles and a local hero showed just why a twenty three year old posting forty two point six rebounds and eleven assists

last year's n.b.a. finals and what the form change showing a lot of fans could be next seeing this year and they met with the federal mediator for thirty hours over three days this week left without a new collective bargaining agreement. and the world championships it ran have wrapped up the constructors' title for the seventh time in a row thanks to sebastian loeb's victory at the canal to mint event of the year in spain the seven time defending champion and his win drought having gone without a victory since july they thought a seven year old forgetting all about that with the brown during the final stages to last follow with after yielding to team mate may have been in itself is now just a point behind love and could get take this season's title what any scored. in his very couple may start in the boardroom load now with his fifth victory at the end

the bag with only one race to go. and finally kick boxing where washers are slant as leon failed to defend his double of five super lightweight title against one of the world's toughest standup fighters from the netherlands but for now and watch the pot for us. mean twenty two year old jewish month as leon court time will kick boxing champ down and currently kicking on the door of the stand up fighting a late placing of a title challenge from the sports powerhouse the nuance the former it's show time champ cars are joe wilson his eyes and says leon's w five belt the five round belt was one of the main events of the tournament held by world leading w five and it could promotions and must go on saturday night the defending champ and was quick to drop the contender in the first round although the number down didn't hurt the

dutch much the twenty four year old promptly fall back with a bunch of heavy strikes done and done and. wilson kept him busy with low and high kicks fulfilling a game plan he revealed afterwards. the game plan was not to box with him because he's a good boxer you know so it was kicking kicking that was my on my strategy for this one and that strategy proved to give wilson the edge in the night the dutchman winning the fight but a split decision to become the w five world champ down at sixty kills however there is little time for the winner to rest on his laurels as he confessed he still has some unfinished business with the current it's show time champ and how we are now on this planet the futures of the next five from our show time and into weeks i will be ready to fight again but i will fight in

a. good space to spain again somebody that has my might and show them both titles i want to back this season which he's a very strong fighter it was a close fight with both of us giving our all yes i think the first round was mine fair and square. from run to run to be honest this gets really hurt me now but it wasn't all the van had to produce some more spectacular action taking place and night the fight killed ryan a final a tournament in the team the crowd with two heavyweight battles pretty key maist unanimous decision victory over milad in could apparently still the show meanwhile ukraine's roman mile of good jeweled zaki is present in japan under sixty five kilos clash between one thought and taekwondo specialist respectively so my yellow the younger man by ten years claimed his thirteenth career victory in style robots

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and build a democracy on the ruins of a once prosperous nation. plugged in wiki leaks suspends its whistle blowing a corner by american financial institutions refusing to accept donations credit cards it's found a valve's to fight the financial blockade. and in business obscene movies ratings agency has downgraded with outlook for the russian banking sector from stable to negative adelaide. is this new round twenty. international news and comment live from moscow this is r t with you twenty four hours a day the british parliament is preparing to vote on whether to hold a national referendum on its continued membership of the european union the debate was forced off the more than one hundred thousand people signed a petition demanding a say the vote will be binding but prime minister.