four thirty pm in moscow you zero r.t. headlines the nuclear conundrum the un atomic energy agency fans the flames of anti iranian sentiment by publishing claims that a mysterious foreign experts helped with the country's alleged nuclear weapons program and that is u.s. media goes as far as naming a former soviet scientists who says he's not a nuclear specialist at all. yeah entire regime of free syrian army reportedly stages a major assault on a loyalist base in the suburbs of damascus this as army defectors and the arab league are ratcheting up the pressure on president assad despite his pledge to hold

talks and continue reforms. output not down a string of the vacations of anti-corporate occupy protesters or frost america fails to stop the movement from gearing up to shut down wall street demonstrators have already returned to new york's zuccotti park although without their teds after being forced out on tuesday. and a warm cosmic welcome the international space station crew joined by three new members as a soyuz rocket safely delivers them to orbit they are due to stay i says for four months. now so we hear from inside europe's financial elite as belgian euro m.p. dirt yeah to epping tells us what went wrong with the eurozone and why the debt crisis can't be resolved until the e.u. addresses its leadership problems the interview coming up. europeans will still miss building the european parliament in repeats of the french

revolution according to a pink member of the european parliament mr why are people so fed up with the e.u. well i've been become a bit less optimistic because since i wrote the book many things happened in particularly we're facing now a euro crisis a crisis in the eurozone and nobody actually knows what to do we go from one summit to the other every time we think we found a solution just to find out a few weeks later that the problem is still there and even in a bigger size so i think that. we are facing some fundamental questions in the european union and this idea of ever closer union and ever bigger budgets and ever more institutions it's base will be the wrong way we have to take tough decisions greece may know not to get a second bailout how do you think this year across this will end well this is the big question everybody is wondering actually nobody knows the european parliament

doesn't know the commission doesn't know the heads of government don't know everybody hopes for the best but there is no guarantee for success if this crisis is lingering on its known to infect the entire eurozone and not only italy and spain but also for us so we have been facing a problem that is growing all the time whereas we thought we could menage is by putting greece inside so greece is the worst of the problems but not the only problem there are more problems to it and sometimes wondering whether either it will be solved by greece leaving the eurozone and if agrees or not leaving the eurozone it will become worse and worse and worse to stage the point at which for example germany the netherlands finland emotional say ok we're going to leave the euro zone and you get a coup. please break up of the news though of course this is something that may not

happen tomorrow but it may be one of the scenarios we have to keep in mind how is this crisis affecting people in the street the currency looks to be still quite strong but that is because the dollar is very weak basically the currencies of the major powers in the world japan the united states and the euro are quite weak but of course what is the effect of this eurozone crisis is that there is little growth actually our economies are not growing in the north they are in the south they're not growing and the main problem of the euro crisis is not so much the euro itself it is rather a gap of competitiveness between the north and the south the north is still growing the south is in a crisis and stagnation in recession and as long as they are in the euro zone it's very hard for them to grow so if there's no economic growth it is also because of the fact that investors have no confidence in any growth in the in the eurozone.

because for the south of europe the in the euro is too expensive it pushes them into a recession even greece in a depression is really in a recession and spain in a recession and portugal in a recession that has forty percent of the eurozone in trouble and the question of causey's whether the currency will survive that could be you citizens actually do if they don't agree with the policy you see the european elites to which i myself also belong always thought we don't we are doing the right thing for the european public we are doing good things nice things and people have to be grateful to us for what we are doing and we are creating more institutions big buildings more competences more agencies and people happy about it and actually what we see now are the first time is that lots of people are angry with the e.u. and it's not only farmers it's the men industry. eight the germans get angry

because they do not support bailouts of other countries and people in easily and spain and portugal inquiries are angry because they say europe is the problem and germany is the problem problem germany should pay faster and more so the public the public opinion in both the south and the north are going in different directions in finland we've seen the rise of the party the true finns in in holland we've seen the rise of the project of mr wilbur's in germany the role of discontent about what's going on now and the same you see in the south but for different reasons so there are so many different forces going on that you really have to ask the question whether the euro will survive all this do you leaders on the stand people's problems they still think that the fewer things they say about it the better it is every time they have a summit and they will proclaim that they found a solution a solution only last one or two weeks and then there's another crisis and we have

another summit and we're now going leaping from summit to summit the man in the street is worried the man in the street doesn't know where this is going to end and they're worried because of their savings because of their pensions and because of their jobs and so are the men in the street has the impression was that european leaders the elite is not in charge and doesn't know where to go and that is not an easy solution to it but. the european leaders always thought it we're doing the right thing for the citizens and they have to be grateful and what we do not be challenged and now it is challenged in the streets of a police in italy and at the ballot box in germany and in finland and this is a message i think the ukrainian still has to understand do you think the european union will survive this crisis i think some countries are very competitive i think scandinavian come. these have shown to be competitive germany's competitive another

losing a bet it is the problem of the european union is that the economy's in southern europe are not competitive and they're slipping back and we have this crisis in greece which is basically now depression and we've got recession or it at least take nation and it's really spain and portugal i think ireland will get out of the problem because it is restoring its competitiveness ireland is really improving but still will have forty percent of the eurozone in trouble and what these countries have to do is to improve and increase their competitiveness and says nick they cannot devalue within the euro zone they have to bring about a sort of a domestic develop ration by reducing salaries by cutting the public sector drive by making the labor markets more flexible and this is very hard to do because people immediately feel the pain and they start protesting against it's not only against those measures against the entire project of the european union some people

are saying that european union is like the soviet union. while they both try to be sort of a union and what the soviet union showed is that if you want to hold more noice everything too much in an unnatural way that it will collapse so what we have to be careful about is that we cannot try to harmonize everything that is under the sun and legislate on everything that is under the sun peoples in europe the peoples in europe there are out of all the different or different cultures different languages and we have to keep that into account and we can be successful in european integration if we just know where the limits off but now we're acting as if there are no limits and that integration can go on. without any without any sort of a mechanism of correction so i think that if it's very important to know where these limits are. to focus our budget on about five or six point to be efficient

there and then europe can grow again how these internal divisions affecting the e.u.'s foreign policy it is very simple if britain france and germany agree we have a common european foreign policy if they do not agree we don't have one and you have one or two countries acting on the row in this case germany didn't want to support military action against the regime of colonial the duffy. and they even didn't support the resolution the united nations in the security council which was very disappointing i thought so the only alternative was for the british and the french to go ahead with the efforts by european union doesn't have that force so it's the friends of the bridge that will have to take the lead and since the americans were leading from behind as it is called these days well we actually had to do it it took much longer of course then in visage. and i hope the regime is now gone forever because gadhafi has been a shame for all of us i have seen all these european leaders kissing and hugging

gaddafi bending him thinking that he would be a good ruler. and advising his son and how to write a thesis in the london school of economics these things were all completely wrong and i think mistake at our feet was a dictator and he has been a dictator all along everybody has seen the downing of the airplane in lockerbie and 1980's so what are the prove the unique we knew it and still they go there to start kissing etc and just just a few months later they have to bump it so i think it is a real has been a reality check for european leaders who are lying to her in case african dictators to be more careful has immigration policy to be you've been a success one of the aims of libya mr gadhafi was to make a sort of a date for immigration to europe through ritually and putting pressure on the european union and getting billions of. of euro in return but of course here again

our immigration policy is not yet really a common immigration policy there are lots of problems there's a flow of people from africa from northern africa in particular and we've not been able to deal with that yet we have proclaimed a common immigration policy ten years ago and still it doesn't work so a lot of people that's a lot of people are illegal. and lots of people get a chance to get integrated in your view. so i think it's something we have to work on and this is one of the of of the of the focus points of the courts the european union should do rather than spend its time when all the spec you project these are policy areas we have to last in a very short period of time. a pink member of the european parliament thank you for speaking with out the.

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nuclear conundrum the u.n. atomic energy agency fans the flames of anti romney and sentiment publishing claims of a mysterious for an expert help with the country's alleged nuclear weapons program and u.s. media goes as far as naming a former soviet scientists who says he's not a nuclear spy. anti regime the free syrian army reportedly stages a major assault on a loyalist base near the capital damascus this as army defectors and the arab league ratchet up the tension on president assad despite his pledge to hold talks and continue reforms. not down the string of addictions of anti-corporate occupy protesters across the us fails to stop the movement from gearing up to shut down

wall street demonstrators have already returned to new york city are told though without their tents after being forced out on tuesday. and a warm cosmic welcome the international space station crew joined by three new members as the soyuz rocket safely delivers them to orbit they're going to stay aboard the u.s.s. cole for much. more news in a less than a quarter hour but first unit is here with sports so now we know all the teams will be hitting the pitches of for euro two thousand and twelve next year exactly we do last night not there are plenty of tears but plenty of joy as well as the last four teams don their birth we're going to have a look at who they are and just the sack. thanks for joining us tony ahead this hour i am if you know me these are stories in print

. job in the czech republic through a shed the republic of ireland and portugal become to live. with their birth euro twenty well. hardwood hardship it seems early a day goes by lately without another twist in the n.b.a. lockout so we get to grips with one of the most from rooney is tales in recent american sports. on hitting new heights a group of dirt devil mountaineers retell the stunning story and most school of conquering the world thirteen the highest peak in the winter a feat which had never been done on. a football where we now know the sixteen teams who will fight it out for european glory next summer portugal the republic of ireland czech republic the last side's to secure their euro twenty twelve places after tuesday night's second leg playoffs the russian interests was focused on the

turkey encounter a draw on the night for the turks would ensure a russia favorable placing in part. for the finals draw or not is what happened in the final score in zagreb croatia essentially with the tie in the bag after the opening leg they won by three nil the defeat seeing turkey part ways with a big today. portugal also into the finals a six two win over both new herzegovina the way they put their place christiane or another one held both helping themselves chip braces in lisbon on the first leg which ended goalless in sydney know a distant memory following a ruthless. the steals tax proposal from the hosts to the visitors well we did twice double matters in an entertaining show. the republic of ireland are celebrating after making it through to the finals of a major international competition for the first time in a decade pulling

a five want to win for estonia for opportunities meant taking their foot off the pedal somewhat after a tour victory in tallinn on friday but one one was how it ended up last night stephen ward constantine have the stories and problems of the. czech republic managed to stretch their impressive record of reaching every european championship final since czechoslovakia split into two in one thousand nine hundred ninety three michael ballack side claiming a free will i get win over montenegro peter you're a check scoring the only goal of the night and the second leg. so the sixteen teams who will be drawn into groups for those games are not set poland and ukraine will be automatically drawn into groups a and d. respectively while other teams will discover their fate on december the second in kiev reeling champions spain well there are one side all squads will be hoping to

a void the world's top ranked team share the first part with twenty ten world cup in the shop the netherlands poland and ukraine plenty of heavyweights in the second part as well with germany italy and england all first selections alongside russia. portugal krishna's sweden and two thousand and four with reach make up the foursome in cool three while france denmark the czech republic and arlen's will be drawn last from pop for russia to dick advocaat with their fingers crossed that they don't come together with spain portugal and france a definite group of. basketball where the n.b.a. has now canceled all of its gains until at least the middle of december kevin durant's camillo anthony unco deciding to go down the lawsuit routes against team owners events of course he looks at how the disagreement moved from courtside to

the court room. the league's labor stalemate is nearing the one hundred forty day mark but the battle for a new collective bargaining agreement is yet to reach its climax the only thing that n.b.a. commissioner david stern and players representative billy hunter agree on at this point is that the two thousand and eleven two thousand and twelve season is under threat fans of the game of course don't want to hear that especially after last season's wildly exciting spectacle we saw the dallas mavericks upset the odds and secured the n.b.a. crown the owners insist on bringing the cost of players under control by introducing a hard salary cap. teams could exceed the total salary limit through luxury tax and other exceptions under the previous agreement something the players would like to keep intact. the multimillion business of basketball also raising obvious questions about a revenue split between the two sides the players previously took home fifty seven

percent of all basketball related income and the owners want a bigger slice of that pie and b r i lose not only salaries but also money from such sources of broadcast rights gave receipts sponsorships concessions and many others the owners also want shorter contracts paying less guaranteed money to cut their losses on underperforming players commissioner stern claims that the n.b.a. lost over a billion dollars under the previous agreement including more than three hundred million last season really for the twenty two of the league's thirty teams were also in the red last year according to stern of the owners ultimatum like final proposal which calls for a fifty fifty split of annual income and a seventy two game season starting december fifteenth wasn't patently rejected by the players and now a class action and i trust lawsuit against the league has been filed by players in at least two states they're seeking triple the amount of money they would have made

had the full season gone ahead being sue in court cases could now take months once . the national football league meanwhile had a lockout of their own to settle for this year but that dispute is completely forgotten by now with the n.f.l. busy rake in an enormous profits its revenue sharing system and secure your team parity allows everybody to keep their pocket stuff. while the n.b.a. which is sad only six different champions since one thousand nine hundred ninety nine looks to suffer greatly after just beginning to restore its popularity since the michael jordan days during the past season yvonne's a gorski party. the ups and downs of monsoon climbing finally where an international group of nineteen years have been captivating moscow audiences this week with tales of rewriting record books on surviving possibly the most inhospitable terrain on earth are shown krikorian states of the story. kerkorian

range press across the borders of pakistan india and china because the highest concentration of peaks in the world original work eight kilometers in parts k two question rule one road peak in question room to these cool peaks had never been climbed in winter until these year. simona moreover italy has a daily swoop and poor richard's dream of the united states becoming the first man in history to reach discernment of any career corum a thousand there in the winter months the trio removing gushy broom two from the list of one concord peaks it was really a challenge and nearly exploration adventure and probably the secret had been the team means myself beings in call even worked so well together we have the same wish to see an end of the scene positive approach to the venture that the end we were in the shop. had been working together for many years they made their names with

another a thousand meter stands in mecca luthier park in two thousand and nine while richards was a relative unknown or more insistent on the climate not to mention supposed a job or for the vendors it should vision not only would he strengthen the team said nikolay will be able to recall the hopeful historic steps of region one of world climbing smores to be able summits i think some people can do it but is necessity to have. many appointments together. for example book training team with ration five a team of people who are looking for one aim to many details that need to be together. in one moment and in the season is difficult but i think it's different because always it's not like this it was far from being straightforward but seventeen days after arriving in the first base camp an altitude of her own five thousand meters they reached their destination hours of thais in waiting and

painful struggle lead in them for the sun it in speechless wonder. they want done after area sand there's descend. and this particular challenge would involve the biggest danger of being faced division on the very last day you javelin sure upset all the slopes of question rule five there in all three under endless piles of snow just to morrow how work was thankfully able to not only rescue himself for his former it's. a question to with a sense of triumph. the end of chapter but certainly not the end there are still forty thousand he got beat without waking someone. climbing we've got to pick out a key to the big question for a while and. then the part of the last that they say will be over the next one professional see an insurgent terms usually have only a ten percent chance of success and live in

a ninety percent chance of failure but for people who themselves make the impossible possible that term percent can be just enough for a tone rig or eons card see i've never been so thankful to be in the warm studio as when watching all that is all the sports. twenty years ago in the largest country in the book to some two cases of. what had been more determined to teach began the church. where did it take the. wealthy british scientists i'm told some time to try to find. target.

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