american forces and the tortoise battle of pollution seven years ago. europe's financial turmoil has intensified calls within the u.k. to leave the struggling bloc well next r.t. discusses the prospects of that happening and the future of the euro zone with the british conservative party m.p. douglas carswell. i'm in manchester with douglas cause well he's a conservative members of parliament he said the political system in this country is broken and in urgent need of reform he's also renowned euro skeptic douglas gansler thanks for talking to us we use this catch all term euro skeptic what does that mean old style euro skepticism in this country used to be about trying to take this country back it used to be an inherently conservative movement that was about trying to take us back to a sort of one nine hundred fifty s. status quo i don't have much truck with that at all i mean you're a skeptic because i want change and i want to really change the way this country is

run i think fundamentally europe is in the mess that she is today because she's trying to do too much by conscious deliberate design how currency is a mess because it's a product of conscious design agricultural policy have fisheries policy trade policy you know we need to let go and we need to allow the different parts of the european continent to do what suits them best incidentally i would say that that's why the european continent grew to global prominence in the first place it's precisely because we never had the political centralization that russia had that china had for the mobile empire had that the ottomans had that europe was allowed to prosper in the first place so we need a decentralized europe and i'm afraid i think that means rejecting the whole e.u. project completely so you think that question should leave correct we should have an in out referendum and i would vote for us to come out of the european union the european union and one nine hundred fifty s. political structure it's an outdated architecture for

a modern continent. when we joined the european union or what became the european union in the early one nine hundred seventy s. western europe at that time accounted for thirty six percent of global g.d.p. today the european continent accounts for far less than that by twenty twenty it would account for a mere fifteen percent of global g.d.p. we joined what we thought. was a prosperous trade block it turns out we shackled ourselves to a corpse i think we're better off out and you talk about an in out referendum but isn't there a middle way where we have a trade relationship with europe that without any of the politics involved in effect if we hadn't in our referendum and most people voted for us to leave the european project as it is we know that your opinion and massive still be there we would still have people with whom we want to be good neighbors personally i would like us to continue to have the free trade and the free movement of people between

our countries we would still have to cooperate but i think that can best be done through bilateral structures or by ad hoc arrangements. i would personally like us to to stop being rather grudging tenants in the european. apartment and become good neighbors to the european countries that are next to us we need good relations with continental europe but we're not getting them by being in this one nine hundred fifty s. apartment block despite the fact that u.k. didn't actually join the euro zone and british taxpayers are still covering the currency to the tune of billions of pounds is that wrong it's absolutely wrong you know we have found ourselves in the ludicrous position of having to bail out a currency that we chose not to join and i think it's wrong for us to have increased british liabilities to over twenty billion to prop up a currency that i think needs to be allowed to break up. within europe within

recent years we have allowed new currencies to be created when slovakia broke away from the czech republic they did so very simply by creating a new currency when argentina had pegged her currency to the u.s. dollar turned out to be a disastrous mistake brought about by politicians and when is ours when eventually they had to break that link they were able to devalue their currency default on their debts and start again and as a result of that both slovakia and argentina are doing pretty well that i think is the answer for for greece portugal for ireland probably for spain and italy another way perhaps of looking at it is that maybe the german center of the euro zone should be allowed to establish its own currency whichever way you look at it it involves breaking up the euro. recently said admitted really that it's not going to be able to meet its debt obligations certainly for the next year and possibly two years and current circumstances how much the british banks stand to lose in greece portugal and ireland well british banks are liable for quite

a lot of money billions of pounds at least that used to be regarded as quite a lot of money until our government started printing it but e.t.s. the case the british banks are going to take a hit and they're going to take a hit not because of some abstract problem in the euro saying they're going to take a hit because their investment team's on their fixed income debt bought greek and portuguese and other government debt that they regarded as fixed income but turned out to be a really bad investment now when my constituents buy shares in a company that's badly run and lose money the government doesn't step in and underwrite their loss so i'm very very concerned that taxpayers in my constituency will be asked to bail out banks that brought this upon themselves now if if it is the case that we are going to have to prop up some of these banks because these banks have been so badly run such victims of their own greed that unless we do so our economy will disintegrate then then at least let's prop up. the banks here in

britain that's not channels are all that money all the way via athens violet's been of other folk party countries if the problem really is that we don't want to allow banks in this country to face the consequences of their own fiscal folly then let's address that here in this country rather than channeling money through third party countries but it's all very well to say british money to bail out british banks where we're operating within a block britain is not not an isolated place yes of course there is a large degree of interdependence in the global economy and a good thing too but the idea that. simply because if banks if there is a default in the euro zone british banks will take it therefore we've got to keep on signing a blank check that's absurd and think think through the logic of that you know ever since the bailout started eighteen months ago every single bailout has increased the amount of debt greece portugal and ireland well perhaps and that exception but greece and portugal certainly have more debt today than they had when the bailouts

began at what point do we realize that these bailouts are not helping these the first bailouts in history that are scooping and ladling water into the boat eventually they're going to sink it you know sort of struggling and almost an isolationist line here how does that tally with for example britain going into libya i mean isn't it sort of isolationism on the one hand expansionism on the other on the contrary if you think that what i said was isolationist i probably didn't make myself very clear i want britain to be a truly global player and not locked in a small room in the north west coast of europe doing everything with two or three other countries i want us to be truly global players it's right that we're global players by virtue of locking ourselves in the diplomatic room with europe i think we have less influence than we would have let britain after all has countries around the world that were once in effect offshoots of britain australia new zealand even india the rising power of india has a common. system in

a parliamentary system like our own we have so much in common with the world why are we shutting off cells away from it it is the european project that is making us insular and isolationist and then go on to talk about politics more generally is first and broken as their prime minister said our political system i think is broken our political system i think in effect what we have is there an eighteenth or nineteenth century system of parliamentary democracy trying to hold to account a twenty first century sides government it doesn't work it doesn't work. well in the interest of the taxpayer or in the interests of getting the best public policy again and again and again people vote for something it's not delivered and the people that they vote for end up simply providing excuses as to why it doesn't happen i think we need more direct democracy we need instead of delegating decision making to politicians who then delegate power to the whitehall elites in the mandarins we need direct democracy so that people can choose things for themselves

in this country my grandfather's generation used to have food rationing what they had in their larder at home in their kitchen was given to them by government you know those days are gone and a good thing two people can now choose for themselves what they eat they can choose for themselves where they go on holiday they can choose themselves the clothes they wear why can't we have a little bit more choice about the public policy in which we dress ourselves as well as from the outside the situation in the u.k. looks pretty corruption in the media media's close links to u.k. politics particularly the conservative party these old boys' network the political system that is very slow to reform itself what kind of message is just saying that sends to people who are losing their jobs and suffering from state cutbacks you're absolutely right britain has had a series of crises of the elites and we've seen from the m.p.'s expense candle from the hacking inquiry and the close collusion allegedly between senior police

officers and the media the banking crisis we've seen a series of crises where the political elite has got it wrong what do all these crises have in common number one they were all unaccountable concentrations of power now what's extraordinary is that the age of digital democracy the age of the internet allowed us to see what m.p.'s were doing with public money it allowed the whole thing to come out it allows people to hold to account the rich and the powerful not just in this country but throughout the world so you know i think in a sense although these crises. abbat they show which way the wind is blowing we're going to have more openness in government unaccountable concentrations of power whether they exist in banking the media or politics are going to be broken open everything that the internet touches it opens up it opens up to greater accountability that's going to happen in politics and a very good thing too now politicians minor like it political parties might lose market share to new entrants in politics there may be more competition to decide

who gets to be our politicians but this is a good thing direct democracy is good and what is preventing you from pushing through the political reforms that you say clearly to what i would like us to have gone much further in opening up the political system in britain to choice and accountability you might say we need our own version of glasnost we need to make sure that the people in westminster are vulnerable to the wishes and the will of the people in a way that they're not we need openness we've gone some way to delivering that but we've not gone far enough and i think the reason why we've not gone far enough is bluntly because it suits the political class to carry on with some of the and satisfactory things we we have at the moment we promised that we would allow the voters the power to recall. their own politicians they have it in california they have it in many american countries in fact most of your viewers i'm sure can be recalled from their line of work pretty much any day of the week yet politicians you can't sack them for five years and in safe constituencies even longer i would

like to allow the people to directly hire and fire the political class some changes have been made to make things better but not nearly enough and no prizes for guessing why that is doubtless carswell thank you very much thank you. a very warm welcome to you this is your news today protesters on the. street they have. to. leave the sentence when you show inside the troops it isn't a good look for example the status of the human experiment is it succeeding or will . we pursue this in this musical which it knows absolutely trying to make sense of

global economy and it's all came to us financial temples to the research public to maintain all confidence in markets and ignore the primitives wants to be seen trade imbalances recession look to the nations close to collapsing the subprime loan fleet close homes people. to fail slip belabor this again feel a little like think if the us crash and seven and smashed see things change just like ultimate in the transition in streets the i.m.f. implodes strikes me i'm just programs in greece where the total economy. top stories on our t.v. cheering the killing of one mad while ignoring the deaths of thousands of civilians in the libya support all the problems in the us media is approach to get all things demised all that says libya's new rulers also stay quiet on how they're going to rebuild infrastructure destroyed by civil war and nato has bombs. while

sa saving the euro are at risk is a crucial meeting of european finance ministers this council the head of wednesday's e.u. summit well it's cast doubt over whether the prospects of the solution being found to be deepening crisis. police of clash with hundreds of corporate demonstrators in the u.s. city of oakland crowd. stoop to the streets to protest earlier arrests and the forced removal of tents and riot squads and use tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the gathering. also a new study says the u.s. new secret uranium based weapons in iraq general ellis says that increases cancer and innocent civilians will report new generation of bombs were deployed by american forces in the notorious rattle of flu shots seven years ago. for all the latest in sports with andrew and you've got more of the fallout between carlos magister city we hear it's getting worse and he's threatening to see the manager

after being fined for refusing to play in a match we look about could it be a story end to this season for russians and. the. sport hair in. the headlines. defeats. the w.t. i championships. plus page. after being fined over a million dollars for refusing to play. restoring some pride after the six one defeat to man sixty. minutes to reach the quarter finals of the cup. but first up of his hopes of finishing the season as the women's number one has suffered a blow she needs to reach the final at the championship in each board to have any

chance of taking top spot but suffered a shock opening defeat to australia. the world plays in taking part in this tournament at the moment and are divided into two groups the semifinal places. the number two seed was the favorite against those that in the opening game in their white group won the first set six one and then the second seventy five to take an unlikely degree although she isn't thinking about the semifinals just yet victoria has a rank next. not quite i think you know obviously you want to try and you know you're matching in the round robin till my scary but of course is a good chance if you if you want to so i guess it's a matter of coming out here to marry giving it my best shot and hopefully i can get that second win other was also bad news for another russian. by shoulder injury she picked up at the kremlin takeoff in moscow last week the russian went down to check. in straight sets running wimbledon champion winning in just under an hour

and a half sixty six for the final score there while. me out to be gain the upper hand in a topsy turvy tussle with her of course friend. was not me at speed had to come from a set down. four times in the second set to waltz through that six two. and although the decider was close at one point they were tied at four going towards the ascii one eight six four for the match she's been at the top of the rankings for the last thirty six weeks and has every intention of staying. i in the meantime draft back as expected has been left to russia to take the fed cup final against the czech republic next month. here for the same team that beat italy in the semi and that means a bit of an already over. the four time champions and we'll be joined by lawmakers next about and see a public chant about the cat that he and i can't ever. know the news exiled match

to city strike a college campus is threatening to sue the club's manager roberto mancini was fined over one and a half million dollars off the man cheney who is the argentine and are refusing to come off the bench and play in a game against by munich last september an internal investigation by man city backed the manager's claims maintains he only refused to warm up and is now considering suing manchin for defamation as has a fortnight to appeal to the club board against the charge and if that fails he could take them out interest regularly tribunals. three more months united have avoided further humiliation after their six one drubbing at the hands of man city at the weekend last night they got a three no win over fourth to fourth say a side older shot in the fourth round of the carling cup united making eleven changes to the side from the sky at the tiny recreation ground and they went ahead after quarter of an hour a quick one two between park jason and tom cleverley setting it in the pivot off

their for the first in the second came just before half time berbatov this time sliding the bill into the process of mark foley. and antonio valencia save the best one for last the quality strike from him from outside the box wrapping up the when united banishing sunday's blues to book a place in the last eight. also into the court of violence as championship sides target and crystal and. scoring one and setting up part choose young's winner against bolton that was also a stop sign alex chamberlain eighteen year old was bought for twelve million pounds from southampton and believes he can handle the pressure of being a young star. to war. he's a good example to corporate goes to was control did very well in this career creatures

were. controlling two groups of very early for him and both of them are figure a good example for fortune born in. angie's new signing samuel eto who has been nominated for the world footballer of the year award the cameroon international is on a shortlist of fifty along with ten barcelona plays the winner will be announced in november the first you have scored four goals since his switch to angie in august from into whom he scored thirty five goals in one season is a to skull came in his side's five three defeat to t iscar the weekend it is time now to enjoy that and the rest of the strike from the russian premier league its goal school. play. and.

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not a new race has been added to the formula one calendar the u.s. state of new jersey will host the grand prix of america in two thousand and thirteen with the new york skyline providing the backdrop was made by the new jersey governor who believes it will be a real hit with fans. it's great to be able to see that in june of two thousand and thirteen for real and will be here for three days a three point two mile road race right here reported period of the palisades in west new york and we hawkins and you can expect upwards of one hundred thousand people to attend each race over the three days beginning with practice on friday the qualifier on saturday and then the race on sunday and free will from all over the world to become its new jersey to see this race on this unique and exciting course that is a part of our state and the sport will get its first taste of india this weekend a brand new good international circuit hable be the venue for the country's first

grand prix at the track is deemed to be among the fastest in the world sebastian vettel and his red bull taken have already claimed the drivers and construct just construct as well titles but with three races that teams still want to finish the season on a high and reckon the delhi sickie will throw up a few challenges. but we have a lot of down up and down. and down in that section and also may need all the corn that is caught up to. come back so you basically. companies banking banking and the other kind of to be sick of the many of of the breaking and turning. into the corner. brings us the end of the school for them have got the weather coming up.

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well the british study done it's time to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. watch. the headlines on our t.v. cheering the killing of one bad while ignoring the deaths of thousands of civilians in libya analysts point out the problems the u.s. media is approach to the dolphins demise. on saving the euro are at risk as

a crucial meeting of european finance ministers is cancelled ahead of wednesday's summit casting doubts over the prospects of a solution to the deepening debt crisis. and a new international study says the us news secret uranium based weapons in iraq causing high levels of cancer and birth defects talks to an author of the report. just after three pm here in the russian capital and you're watching r.t. now libya's new rulers are increasingly being accused of the kinds of abuses they were rebelling against when they overthrew colonel gadhafi insert the number of people allegedly executed has risen to three hundred now this comes on top of criticism that gadhafi is body was put on public display inside a meat market fridge for five days.