eight thirty pm moscow thanks for being with us these are our top stories at r.t. tonight flashback to iraq the same experts that played baghdad had weapons of mass destruction now endorse a suggestion for the iran is developing a nuclear bomb that says western media wrongly names the so-called nuclear scientists mentioned the political. regime the free syrian army reportedly stages a major assault on a loyalist base near the capital damascus is the arab league ratchets up the pressure on president assad despite his pledge to reform. out but not doubt the

strength of which and see corporate occupy protesters across the us fails to stop the movement from gearing up to shut down wall street. a warm cosmic welcome the international space station crew is joined by three new members as a soyuz rocket safely delivers them into orbit if you stay at the isis before march . that's a wrap of our top stories now next we hear from inside europe's financial elite as belgium your own you're an epic tells us what he thinks went wrong with the eurozone and why the debt crisis he thinks can't be resolved until the e.u. addresses its leadership problem. europeans will storm with building the european parliament in a repeat of the french revolution according to burke young epping member of the european parliament disrepute 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've found a solution just to find out a few weeks later that the problem is still there and even in the 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 basically the wrong way we have to take tough decisions greece may not 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 it's going to infect the entire eurozone and not

only italy and spain but also france so we have been facing a problem that is growing all the time whereas we thought we could and many ways by putting greece inside so greece is the worst of the problems but not the only problem there are more problems through it and sometimes wondering whether either it will be solved by greece leaving the eurozone need agrees or not leaving the eurozone it will become worse and worse and worse two states will point at which for example. germany and other limbs finland emotional say ok we're going to leave the euro and you get a completely break up of the user 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 crosses 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 growing 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 rules in 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 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 is forty percent of the eurozone in trouble and the question of causey's whether the currency will survive that could be used as actually to if they don't agree with a policy to 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 we are creating more institutions big buildings more competences more agencies and people happy about it and actually what we see now. the first time is that lots of people are angry with the e.u. and it's not only farmers it's the man in the street the germans get angry because they do not support a bill out of other countries and people in easily and spain and portugal in greece 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 go in different directions in finland we've seen the rise of the party the true finns and in holland we've seen the rise of the party of mr wilbur's in germany lot 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 you're all survival 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 another crisis we have another summit i will now go in 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 a man in the street has the impression was that european leaders the elite is not in charge and doesn't know where to go and there 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 should not be challenged and now it is challenged in the streets of greece in italy and at the ballot box in germany and infamous and this is a message i think your community still has to understand the. european union will survive this crisis i think some countries are very competitive i think scandinavian countries have shown to be competitive germany's competitive another losing at parity with the problem of the european union is that the economies in southern europe are not competitive and they're sitting back and we have this crisis in greece which is basically now depression and we've got

a recession or at least a tech nation in italy 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 eurozone they have to bring about a sort of a domestic develop ration by reducing salaries by cutting the public sector of by making the labor market more flexible and this is very hard to do because people immediately feel the pain and they start protesting against it not only against those measures against the entire project of the european union some people 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 one on us

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 people in europe there are all be 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 are 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. i'm of correction so i think that it's very important to know where these limits are to focus our budget on about five or six point to be deficient 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 gree we have a common european foreign policy if they do not agree we don't have one or 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 poland all the duffy. and 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 effort which 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 discord these days well we actually had to do it it took much longer of course than 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 that duffy pandering him thinking that he would be a good modern 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 misstated 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 that you need we knew it and still they go there and start chasing 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 trying to in case african dictators to be more careful has immigration policy to the e.u. been a success one of the aims of libya and mr gadhafi was to make a sort of a gate for any great. into europe through the way to early and putting pressure on the european union and getting billions 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 as a lot of people get in a lot of people are illegal. and lots of people don't want to get a chance to get integrated in europe. 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 core task the european union should do rather than spend its time on all the special projects these are policy areas we have to master in a very short period of time. i think a member of the european parliament thank you for speaking with r.t. . twenty years ago the largest country in. certain places.

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the top stories tonight flash back to iraq same experts the claim baghdad have weapons of mass destruction now and there was a suggestion that iran's development of nuclear bomb which has western media wrongly names the so-called nuclear scientist mentioned in the fall. the regime free syrian army reportedly stages a major assault of loyalist place near the capital damascus as the arab league ratchets up the pressure on president assad despite his pledge to reform the. output of doubt a string of the big shouldn't demands of corporate occupy protesters across the u.s. fails to stop the movement from gearing up to shut down wall street. on a warm cosmic welcome the international space station crew is growing by three new

members a soyuz rocket safe has been listening to more bits that you to stare the isis for for months. this is r.t. . thanks for joining us this is indeed sports plenty ahead over the next ten minutes or so including the following. that your law the czech republic croatia the republic of ireland and portugal become the last four teams with their birds eye to europe when teachers well. are going hardship another day another twist in the n.b.a. lockout signed we get to grips with one of the american sports most acrimonious tales sure. i'm hitting you heights our group there general nineteen years three tell her stunning story in law school offering gusher proof in winter

a feat which had never previously been. let's get going with football where we now know the sixteen teams who will fight it out for european glory next summer portugal the republic of ireland the czech republic and croatia securing their euro two thousand and twelve places after choosing one second leg play offs russian interest was focused on the crease that turkey encountered a draw or better on the night from the turks would ensure russia fearful placing in paul for the final straw that's what help a new mill the final score in zagreb croatia essentially have the tie in the bind following the opening lead which they won three nil defeat saying turkey part ways with monitor guus hiddink today. my porch killer also into the finals a six two win over bosnia herzegovina the way to third place christiana rinaldo and held her prestigious both helping themselves to grace and list on the first leg

which ended goalless ends in it's a not a distant memory following a ruthless display of a tackle from the host though the visitors did place less. in an entertaining clash . republic of ireland are celebrating after making it through to the finals of a major international competition for the first time in a decade following a five one get win over is still mia giovanni trapattoni men taking their foot off the table some water after a four nil victory in tallinn on friday one one how it ended up last night stephen ward on constantine possibly have the scores at dublin's obviously. all in the czech republic will also be on their travels come june michael ballack signed maintaining a record of qualifying for every european championships since he won independence in one nine hundred ninety three with a carry over montenegro peter euro check scoring the only goal of the night and

choose day in the second leg encounter three nil the score on. so the sixteen qualified teams will not prepared to be drawn into groups hosts poland and ukraine already selected groups and he and d. respectively while the other sides will discover their fate on the september second in kiev meaning champions spain one side all sports will no die before being to avoid the world's top ranked team sure first on the twenty ten world cup or in a shop in the netherlands on the train plenty of heavyweights in the second part is well with the important germany italy are up for selection alongside russia. portugal creation sweden on euro two thousand and four winners greece make up the foursome in pool three but from denmark the czech republic will be drawn last from for russia. don't come together with spain portugal

on fronts step up to. basketball where the n.b.a. has now canceled all of its games until at least the middle of the samberg the players deciding to go down the lawsuit against the team owners even the looks at harvard disagreement move 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 secure 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 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 the d r i colludes not only salaries but also money from such sources as broadcast rights gate 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 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 was a phatic be 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 and sue in court cases could now take months. the national football league meanwhile had a lockout of their own to settle earlier 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 security and parity allows everybody to keep their pocket stuff. while the n.b.a. which is sad only six different champion since one nine hundred ninety nine looks to suffer greatly after just beginning to restore its popularity since the michael jordan days during the past season and bonds of course the arche. trying times

ahead for english rugby with the national team now on the lookout for a new manager not after martin johnson stepped on today after over three years at the helm following a controversy laden twenty eleven world cup campaign a forty one year old is widely considered one of in its greatest ever clear sunday we want to win the sideshow world cup title in two thousand and three but the legendary lock forward wasn't able to translate his skills into the sidelines winning just the one of the few things. by france in the world cup quarterfinals this year with the size captain and other p.c. drinking partying before hand it's not yet clear who will replace johnson to the ups and downs of mountain climb and finally were an international group of mountaineers not being captivating moscow audiences this week with tales of rewriting record books on surviving possibly the most inhospitable terrain on earth are simply koreans to the story. kerkorian range spreads across the borders of

pakistan a nd in china it goes the highest concentration of peaks in the world original eight kilometers in parts k two question rule one road peak in question room two these coolpix had never been climbed in winter until this year c one and moreover italy has a danish roopa and corridors through the united states becoming the first man in history to reach the summit of panic or recall them a thousand or in the winter months the trio removing cash of room two from the lease of one point at peaks it was really a challenge and there we'll explore asian adventure and probably the secret had been the key means myself being from call even worked so well together we have the same wish using any of the scene people posting adventure day to be anywhere on the . morrow and rupa had been working together for many years they made their names

with another eight thousand mrs sands in mecca lupul in two thousand and nine while richards was a relative unknown but more insistent on the climate not to mention super photographer for the dangers of vision not only would his strengthen the team technically but will be able to recall the hopeful historic steps of region one of world climate smallest fabled summits i think some people can do it but he's necessity to have. many appointments together. for example book training team of all the ration inside the team the people who are looking for one aim to many details that need to be together in one moment and in this he's in these difficult but i think it's interesting because it's not like this it was far from being straightforward that seventeen days after arriving at the first base camp an altitude of around five thousand meters they were. each their destination hours of

ties and weights in painful struggle lead in them to the sun in speechless wonder. after area sand there's descend. and this particular challenge would involve the biggest danger of being enticed position on the very last day huge javelin cheer up to the slopes of question five there in all three under endless piles of snow just to morrow however was thankfully able to not only rescue himself from his former it's. a question room to send the triumph of. the end of chapter but certainly know the end there are still forty thousand meter peaks that someone. climbing without it became. a national one and then the. number of the last that they saved will be over the next one professional see that such attempts usually

have only a ten percent chance of success and live in a ninety percent chance of failure before people who themselves make the impossible possible that. can be just enough for to. cart see how extraordinary shots and that's where we end the sport this art world weather is coming up in just a tick. down the official. i pod touch from the. video. feed now with the palm of your.

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