calls for a recount. under pressure between britain and the e.u. brussels orders london to relax stringent benefit laws saying foreign nationals in the u.k. must be as eligible for handouts as britons themselves. next here on r.t. the head of the french institute of international relations at. pains a picture of the present political landscape all across the globe do stick with us . to the longer we all thank you very much for being with us today it's a pleasure sir so you had one of europe's think tanks i was wondering in terms of policy what do you promote and is there such thing as european approach for example there's an american approach the russian approach is there such thing as your

approach not really in policy terms because you know europe is not yet. single unified decision making specially for foreign policy i think it will take a few decades before europe is able to act as the single voice in international international affairs nevertheless i think there is a so-called sensibility and or sensitivity about international affairs europe is much closer to the e.u. where you should continent than the united states perhaps we are a little bit more realistic but do you see russia as part of europe yes of course russia is part of europe but it's not part of the european union you know i was reading the economist couple of years ago and they are making predictions on how the world would be interest and one of the predictions was that russia will be part of european union do you think it's possible you know why not first of all. russia is much too big you know and i think that. europe president loves

a lot in since the collapse of the soviet union twenty years ago and we have not they just. the newcomers and don't forget that we have a huge controversy about. just cannot emerge in the candidacy of russia. in a time when we are still struggling and debating a bangle so. about turkey so thing that i'm not saying that russia will never be in the european union you know my own vision is that in one hundred years from now or two hundred years from now the european union will have extended to the whole planet actually because i think we are the seeds of a new model of world government so the european union is a very serious thing but if you tell me in ten years that there is not the slightest chance for russia to join surprised to hear that theory for many people now that the. basis for your play very well specially with

a. badly you really think such a strong foundation that you can last and actually expand. again i'm talking long very long term horizon for fall for one simple reason you know globalization means more and more interdependence with more and more interdependence the risk of a small incidence of accidents somewhere have a huge consequence is all over the world this risk is increasing very fast which means that we will have to invent totally new modes of governance this is exactly what we are experimenting. european union level of course but progress is difficult of course in the case of the euro we know at a very defining moment. my guess by the way for the euro is that we will come out

of this stronger not weaker because we will be forced you know to invent into the new devices the new instruments of governance to avoid the repetition of such crises and but but there is no alternative for you of the supposed europe. suppose you have destroys itself itself it could happen of course. but it would be a cup a straw for a single member of the european union it will be the world so my point is that of course the realty really shaky but it is the most interesting model in politics that has been invented in the last so since world war two. and i repeat i think it will be a model for the whole world and invite me again in one hundred years from now and you will see that i am right the first polish of for example right now america

regards the crisis is considered to be a hedge and i consider to be number one i do think it will be ten years we are talking about the new type of governance of the world first of all i think that the us is no longer the hague of modern and that it's the beginning of the end and we may very well be at this stage comparable to let's say the great britain at the end of the don't seem to century. talk about seventy or eighty years for the u.k. to lose entirely its predominance and i think we have a more or less similar evolution with the us my point is that the degraded for instance of the of the note. the u.s. by standard and poor's seems to be an anecdote but it's deeper than that because it shows that no the united states is becoming

a country like the others that is they have to to put their house in in order but it will take time and the problem is that the u.s. you know they are not accustomed to thinking in those terms because the custom to think about themselves. all the other countries following the leadership is no longer the case but no we also china you know china. hates a. also to discuss and to to to negotiate the economic policies with the with the others so we have one country we have two countries that have to be the u.s. and china for different reasons the do not like to cooperate to really corporate we countries they have to. learn to learn how to cooperate with others and with the europeans in particular on financial matters but it's going to take time now what are your predictions for russia because i know you've been traveling to this country since one thousand seven hundred people say you know cynics in the

west that only decorations are changing really russia a stark mentality what do you predict for russia what how do you see now and how how do you how do you see it coming up in the next five ten years well first of all . like this country. like think it's a great country to civilization in itself and i think that what they have done over the last twenty years is quite remarkable remarkable spite of all the huge difficulties of transition after the collapse of the soviet union and i think that most westerners and his teammate who do not recognize. the kind of a nightmare you know the collapse of the soviet union with all its institutions its economy and so forth and so on well so i think what has been achieved is quite remarkable i think this country will gradually evolve in.

the way in the more liberal way but all this will take time do you agree that image of russia in the west is slightly distorted if not iraq it is yes i think the. worst country in particular but not only in france. tendency to look at russia in a very very good. because the way. i think this is probably has a negative backlash as a consequence because i think that for the for the for the russians if the bill see them constantly you know criticize for not being enough democratic and so forth and so on that in the end can have a negative feedback effect so we should be more tolerant but by the way many of the people who criticize russia constantly do not even trouble in russia it's true

nevertheless russia and france do share a very special relation and do you agree that this took us are closer than any other european countries president but america we kind of have good relations but we have fundamental blocking points with france we share. nearly what i think we get ourselves as opposed to other countries. i think that russia is in many ways a much stronger relationship with germany than than with france but. you could in economic terms but i think it is true nonetheless that france and russia has always been kind of a special relationship and it's very interesting because one of the new presidents in france for instance want to change the relation and that was the case with sarkozy at the very beginning because at the beginning of his terms like was he was a little negative about about russia but usually after the while when the when the

newcomer is job so to speak to the classical relation is restored. so it's exactly what happened with president sarkozy by the way so and also it's important to see that in russia in france. russia is culturally quite popular for instance many of you know our best hope. because the deal we even though we do have this special relationship that you have a lot more of you know right now we don't always agree politically for instance in the case of libya sarkozy was so adamant for khadafy to go not so much what he thinks well. i think two things. at least. if there is you know when you have circumstances such as the so-called arab spring that some people prefer to call the islamic spring which i think is

a little bit exaggerated but the way to behave is not obvious at all because we know that doing nothing is not desirable and acting too quickly has also some drawbacks so the choice is difficult and we know that there are many obstacles for instance the. world will not be an easy one. but this being said i think it's important for russia not to give the impression that. it is always on the on the side. of dictators. so to be too much conservative to be on the side of saddam hussein and their feet. kim jong il. it's it's not it's not it cannot be a long term policy so. it's

a difficult balance but i think that was also heavily criticized france france is against a military intervention differently it's not that we really stick you know there is no support for military intervention nobody wants to intervene militarily in the in the case of libya it was risky but there was after all support in the security council and more important than that there was support from the arab league in the in the end there was actual military involvement of some arab countries in the case of syria it's a totally different situation thank you very much for this interview.

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machine would be so much brighter if you knew about sums from finance to impressions. these from stunts on t.v. don't come. the headlines on r.t. twenty six thousand airstrikes and no civilian casualties outrage greets nato as claims of a flawless libya intervention all as a new and just as bloody campaign unfolds against gadhafi his former supporters. russia's freshly elected parliament has chosen its speaker the new state duma convenes for the first time two weeks after its election sparked mass protests and sun calls for a week. and a fresh between britain and the e.u. brussels orders london to relax stringent benefit laws saying

a newly arrived immigrants in the u.k. must be is eligible for handouts as britons themselves. time to dive head first into the latest action from the world of sports with kate. hello welcome to the latest sports and here are the top stories on the brink fears grow that russian premier league club told him could collapse amid a mounting debt crisis. last guilty liverpool striker luis suarez was fined and how does that match banker racially abusing manchester united defender a tree several. hundred forging ahead scar stretch their lead at the top of the western conference after thrashing to scout five two here in moscow. first russian premier league side f.c. tom are on the brink of going bankrupt amid debts of four and

a half million dollars and allegations of embezzlement so to get in the nick has stepped down as their president saying there's no hope of saving the fifty four year old club top mccartney bottom of the lake and seven points from safety after suffering a sixteen game winning streak if you make believe the twenty three million dollars needed to run inside the site every year has become unaffordable to make matters worse local governments decided they were no longer sponsible cycle other sponsors have pulled out as a result of an ongoing police investigation into trains to club officials besant funds well tom's next day we should want to be direct on march the third the first thing after the winter break. while it controls one of the league's wealthiest clubs and he has once again being linked with aston midfielder and russia captain and that i should have in his former agents that he's like those says the thirty year old is hoping for a move from the emirates back to his former club suneet but this isn't petersburg have not expressed an interest and is now filled by portuguese danny so a move to in january could be more likely but i just love was bought by billionaire

sort of and gary move in january and since signed stars such as samuel eto and brazil legend roberto carlos. well meanwhile moscow would feel though that he's going to cough has been named russian player of the year after the twenty four year old finished twenty eleven o'clock i was top scorer and became a regular member of the national side which i'm portly reports. here to difference a year makes twelve months ago denise closer call was just one of a number of talented russian midfielders however at the end of two thousand and eleven he's established himself as one of his country's key players in this position. bush of course has no particular reason for his rapid improvements though he did pay tribute to his new coach looking mighty fine. the fact that the coach believes in me is vital and when you have this belief it's much easier to play on the field i remember back in two thousand and eight when i was playing and

the coach at that time that i should that i he didn't believe in me even though i was scoring regularly belief for me is everything. bush record has been like in my chief of a vast majority of his career two thousand and eleven has been a frustrating campaign for the team is very failed to live up to very potential however crucial call has been perhaps a team's key player and a former coach anatoly bush advance says denise is developing into an excellent midfielder. just that you know when you have a side he's a very versatile plant and has everything you would want to find in a modern day. defensively he is very sound while he is excellent for getting food and schools a lot of goals especially for midfielder i'm really happy that he managed to break into the national team and i'm sure he can continue to go from strength to strength . bush recalled was like a much each top scorer with eight goals which is an impressive return for midfielder and that helped a twenty four year old break into the russian national team and he managed to grab

his first of a goal for his country against andorra denise looks certain to be selective to pick up a cut squad of a year of two thousand and twelve finals however he's taking nothing for granted. but on the patil of the i don't even want to think about trying to break into russia starting eleven at the moment i would just like to make the squad as there is six months till the euros get under way and a lot can happen in this time in the end it's dick of the cost decision and if he decides to call me up then i'll be delighted that. two thousand and eleven proved to be an incredibly productive year for denise now. the trend. is to be looking to improve if he continues to progress at the rate he's currently going out and he could become a key member of the catch russia's share of the euro two thousand and twelve championships which abandoned for eternity. while over in england liverpool striker

luis suarez has been banned for eight games and fined sixty two thousand dollars after being found guilty by the football association of racially abusing majesty united defender patrice evra in the one one draw at anfield on october the fifteenth the year guys started now is the allegations and has a fortnight to appeal saying on twitter it was a painful and difficult day for him and his family while liveable said we find it extraordinary louis can be found guilty on the word of patrice evra alone the ban will not start until any appeal has been heard in the twenty four year old is expected to play for the reds of wigan this wednesday night though he could miss the carling cup semifinal against manchester city plus league matches against manchester united and arsenal. while in the meantime league leaders manchester city entertain stoke this wednesday evening hoping to at least retain their two point lead over rivals manchester united and city manager about the mancini says the aim is to finish the packed christmas programme still at the summit. is important to

stay on the top. as important as they agree is most. important to state in the end you know this isn't because we know that can happen also that we can or the second position you're in this is going to happen is if you got to stay on the job for thirty six games the games. but we drive responsible well in other games this wednesday night united go to full fifth place all small go to aston villa newcastle have lost any ones at home so far take home west from everton face one zero and sunderland travel to neil warnock's key p.r. who produced a valiant showing last sunday's to no time defeat to united which was knighted by black cats boss martin o'neill. first of all a good lot of respect for the manager. and actually manager for a long time in the queue so you would know what to expect from his teams. and they

could consider. i feel. i was really having a look at the matches united. did a number of chances of course not just you know to have this world seem to me so i don't think that their confidence would be good to losing. well on cheers a night more pressure was heaped on blackburn manager steve kane as his side slip to the boss of with a two one home defeat to basement and local rivals bolton was twice came from behind to draw two two with no reach but are still just two points above the drop zone while over in spain defending champions real madrid us through to the last sixteen of the copper del rey a comprehensive five one home win at the thirty year old but again that saw them through seven one on aggregate so the espanyol and while also advanced. and in the meantime the russian national team twelfth behind denmark in year ending world rankings well the european champions spain reigned supreme for the fourth

year running with the netherlands and germany. completing the top three wales were the biggest gainers of the year collecting more points than any other country to break back into the top fifty while at the other end of the table american samoa are fine even for the bottom after recording their first victory last month after thirty straight defeats. do i suck in ours garson petersburg have extended their lead at the top of the western conference to twelve points after winning five two at cisco well this guy had gone ahead through that his passion early on but that scientists back into life is fine humble netter grace i signed on to score five times. you know got one back. we've got the final goal of the night five two to start a final result that defeats this guy in its place in the western conference. two into sports now and russians katherina style yet obama has come up short of a first podium finish at this season's freestyle world cup it was the second mogul

event of the season ski resort medal bell and five star yacht over was the first across the finish line in the small final against heather mcphee the judges sided with the americans awarding her the bronze on points american and a kidney took first place to extend her perfect start to the season t.v. series. but in the meantime with just two hundred twenty days to go before next summer's london olympics giant rings have been unveiled at the entrance to the channel tunnel in northern france it took two days and five climbers to install the symbol and each is over nine metres wide and almost five metres high britain's former olympic triple jump champion jonathan edwards says they'll offer a warm welcome to the millions of visitors expected in london next summer. but see the rings on the entrance to the euro so the logs leave it welcoming people coming from europe to our games to twenty two but one of the great things we want to do is

extend the welcome to the entire world europe included and this is a great symbol of my goal and let's finish with a football goal which should have been at least in the running for the goal of the year award but for one small matter this krakow found the back of the net in the hong kong top flight over the weekend. amazing the accuracy of the cakes that make the light so much tonight as you play rooney go green with envy but the trouble is it was a known goal for this nigerian defendant festus base attempted to clear the ball and fails magnificently the name of the site citizen went on to win three two bases that fits the system virals needs. and that's all the sports war in just a two hours i hope you'll join me again that. culture is that so much maybe you're going to make it a lot of people

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