the book. i'm in manchester with douglas cause well he's a conservative member of parliament he said the political system in this country is broken and in urgent need of reforms 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 the 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for us to come out of the european union the european union and one nine hundred fifty s. political structure it's an outdated architecture for a modern continent.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

will 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 had only referendum and most people voted for us to leave the european project as it is we know that your opinion and mass would 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 you k. didn't actually join the euro zone the 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 or 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 and greece and recently said admitted really that it's not going to be able to meet its debt publications certainly for the next year and possibly two years under 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 year and 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 but they regard it 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 let's not channel of all the money all the way of our athens values been of a third 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 but

that means we're 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 i 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 are is an 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 think that you're sort of throwing an 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 and 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 and is questioned 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 size 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 and 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 dire we got 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 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 in 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 unsatisfactorily 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 plus some changes have been made to make things better but not nearly enough and no prizes for guessing why that is because well thank you very much thank you.

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california to take nearly one hundred activists and chased the rest stealth with tear gas a non-lethal rounds. in the euro zone straight in the balance of the merge and see if some has just broken up in the. latest effort to sort out europe's runaway finances. parliament allowed the chancellor to expand the blocks but infighting over how to deal with the banks has been casting a shadow will progress more on all that in fifteen minutes time next though when the sport. hello and welcome to sports today great to have you with us once. of his hopes of ending the year as world number one our entire second straight loss of a championship. for her is tens of thousands are expected to come and see russia's

first ever grand prix fixe. races to meet its unique trial. on corruption crusade fee for open cases against the ten football officials bribery scandal tsonga keeps rocking the sport's governing body. will start with some world number two maria sharapova is all but at the championships in istanbul two thousand and four when suffering a second the group defeated as many mansions here in turkey or sharapova offered a lot of resistance to the french open champion ali of china. threw away for the love lead in the first round to my break as molly reeled off seven straight points to take it to seven four hundred china's sweet i'll say freezing breakpoints will servant of the ranch to win in two seven six six four. all but kiss it goodbye to preach one of the hopes for claiming the top spot in the world rankings you know

your own world number four the. campaign for the best possible salt of the russian was in cruise control against australia. still top of the group. of all entries the . top wrong doing carl and he is playing a beer as one of the over in the late march as one of the over bringing up the rear in the red group losing out. on the cheers but it's going well so far as one of the all the shows five two on the set that. the organizers of the russian drum pre-sale very expecting around eighty thousand fans to attend the race in sochi russian motor sport fanatics well have to wait another three years until the race adventure gets underway it's true to be held in two thousand and fourteen. which will also be years of winter olympics in the year of course well they were region of two hundred million dollars will be spent on making the racetrack and the

organizers are expecting plenty of spectators to turn out and want to rush motorsports biggest ever event. planned in that around eighty thousand spectators will turn the reefs motor sports isn't that popular in russia at the moment though we're sure this will change and in the future we can add more students to learn more fans watch the grand prix if there is the demand. russia has done is a bit of his income for the mood of next week's non-title cruiserweight bias against james toney the three fighters held a joint media conference in the russian capital at about about some of four november with the american more than happy to pose for a waiting press however toni's entrance couldn't compete with that of his opponents limited arriving in style helicopter. with his trainer legendary costa and zoom. well a bit of is because the weight divisions number one contender of a double to be a belt i'm a size four is confident he'll have too much for his american opponents. which i

don't want to be rude so we won't hear any insults from me with all due respect to trainability mcgirt and my opponent we will win and it's going to be we'll deserved to be the. dean of is roy heavily on his former club bars as a russian coach named an experimental squad for his first match in charge of a national team of five out of twenty three players are from because onside believe deneuve twice led the current cup however only one player has been called up from the reigning cage champions about you live alexander rubble of retains his place in the squad featuring both experience and young blood pressure appearing to kickstart their time to the prince of control which also features sweden the czech republic and world champions finland prayer cup in finland the first leg which will get underway in early november. the france rugby team have met their president nicolas

sarkozy palace congratulated them on their heroic final defeat at the hands of new zealand or even hours of arriving in the french capital the players ready on their way to meet president sarkozy well it had struggled for much of the tournament and three games facing new zealand in the final however of the french produced an excellent performance from lucky to lose by just a single point seven the final score in favor of the all blacks france are still yet to win the william webb ellis trophy sunday's defeat in the final is a third time fall in the final hurdle. moving on to football and thief has launched probes into another ten caribbean officials for bribery scandal continues to rock the sport's governing governing body the ethics committee widening their. investigation which already resulted in. the top executive mohammed . for president of the asian football confederation had been in the running for

free for presidency earlier in the year but the qatari was charged with offering bribes for votes all out of the race he was very found guilty and of the heavy penalty in july and a separate incident jack warner also said a few for vice president in june after allegations he asked for money in return for votes in england's two thousand and eighteen world cup that. examines the city's striker cost havers is frightening to see the club's manager roberto mancini was fined over one and a half million dollars cheney accused the argentine of refusing to come up the bench play in a game against by munich last september internal investigation by managed to save the banks very manager's planes but ted is he maintains he only refused to warm up and is now considering suing mancini for defamation but as has for mine to appeal to the club board against the charge of their tails he could take the matter to

a premier league tribunals. meanwhile. is reported to be on the long list of war for the year award cameron star is among the fifty players receiving renault along with ten barcelona will be announced on the first two school four goals and will switch gears from into when he scored thirty five goals in one season was latest came in his side's five three defeat to serious car moscow at the weekend and i was time to enjoy violence at the risk of a strike from the russian premier league is goals galore.

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a bigger hit over their exposure to the blogs flaky finances. summit tonight. clashes is the answer wall street protests spread police in oakland in california to take nearly one hundred activists and chased the rest stops with tear gas and rubber bullets. welcome you're watching r t with me kevin i mean it's now eleven pm here in moscow and our top story for you most prominent son saif could appear at the war crimes tribunal he's reportedly ready to surrender to the hague where he's wanted on charges of crimes against humanity he's been on the run since revolutionary forces took control of certain last week and is thought to be somewhere live.