infrastructure construction some are region special economic zone promises the exceptional of the treaties for developing your business in russia will come to the somali region for more information log on to invest in somalia or you. talk about here with r.t. here's a look at the top stories of russia's in anticipation of the state of the union presidential address where it's believed to be treatment it will announce changes to the country's political system its reform has been the most pressing issue since the outcome of december's parliamentary elections led to rallies against alleged vote rigging. arab league observers are set to arrive in syria as part of a deal with the country's government aimed at tackling bloodshed there that says sanctions imposed on damascus by the organization prove inefficient for the people

being the ones to feel the pinch. america's controversial practice of death by lethal injection hits a stumbling block the e.u. has imposed tougher restrictions on the sale of drugs used for deadly shots cutting out already struggling supply lines to the u.s. . as a result faces an uncertain future with its leaders struggling to reach an accord of how to save it would discuss the efforts with a member of the european parliament from the united kingdom that interview is coming up next. well today we're joined by conservative any please mr daniel hannan thank you very much for joining us first question that everyone is asking is where do you see the result headed well we can now see very clearly that the euro is a recessionary instrument it's making people poorer it's causing deflation and

emigration in the southern states is causing tax rises in the northern states if we were looking at this completely logically we would immediately move towards an orderly unbundling of the single currency but of course the european union is not looking at it logically they come at this with so much political capital and actual capital invested in it that they can't bring themselves to admit that it was a mistake and so i'm afraid we risk the very thing they purport to fear which is a disorderly breakup of the euro caused by having tried to keep it together for too long an orderly break up is that really the sheep or at least painful option here i mean there are those that would argue that a breakup would be the more expensive option but do you think there are no good options from here there are no easy outcomes when you are looking at states with the level of debt that some of the e.u. member states have so we're dealing with lesser evils but there is no question that allowing each country to return to its own currency to start pricing its way back

into the market exporting its way back to growth is less bad for all that the maybe some. short term uncontainable transitional costs is less valid than carrying on with the current crisis while december ninety e.u. leaders agreed most of them at least agreed to move on into forming a fiscal compact and the u.k. used its veto to prevent any treaty changes so when it comes to those who are saying that the u.k. probably will have less influence now in making decisions in the e.u. wouldn't it have been better if the u.k. had just got on board with the rest with this was the argument of course. that we were given when the euro was launched in the first place you have to be part of it or you'll lose all the influence you know the city of london will decline and well look who was right you know i mean look there is nothing less attractive in politics and saying i told you so but there is as you know there's one thing less attractive and that is listening to the say discredited arguments from the same shameless politicians who got it wrong says who got it badly wrong ten years ago

and who are now trotting out exactly the same logic what else has to happen before they accept that their logic was flawed all wish logic is flawed do you think the economic or political logic mainly the impossibility of jamming widely divergent economies into a single exchange rate and a single interest rate there is also a democratic cost it's not only a political cost last month we saw crews in two e.u. member states initially as in greece elected prime ministers were toppled in favor of your across respectively a former european commissioner and a former vice president of the european central bank they head what are called national governments but the governments have been put together for the sole purpose of pushing through an agenda that would be rejected at a general election so that we see the if you like the anti democratic tendencies that were always there implicitly in the eurozone we now see them explicitly

apparatchiks in brussels deal directly with apparatchiks in athens and in rome the people and their representatives have been cut off altogether all the e.u. is still continuing to ask and look for help from outside of the european union outside of the euro zone for money to beef up their f.s.f. the e.s.m. those mechanisms to help the bailouts of the euro zone countries as well as the i.m.f. what do you think of this measure of trying to look for help from the outside will it actually help solve the problem i mean this is this is treating a debt crisis with more debt. you don't help an indebted friend by pushing more loans on him when a country can't meet its existing liabilities it's crazy to extend those liabilities we should move towards a. partial orderly default in countries which simply can't meet their debts and an agreed separation of the of the eurozone so you're saying that

a euro collapse is the only solution here the collapse of the euro will be the beginning of a solution or you see the end of the euro as it currently stands will be the beginning of a solution but the real solution will come when there is a proper devolution of power so that decisions are taken more closely to the people that they affect and if you if you look at one of the really successful prosperous countries in the world the little ones the hong kong's the swiss saloons lichtenstein's the channel islands of monaco's the brunei's you know now you can say oh well they're all tax havens that's making the question they became tax havens because they had low tax why did they have low taxes because they had the small state advantage without the duplication without the big government and if you want a simple explanation for why the european union is falling behind further and further in the world economy that's it and the european union would argue that because of these projects they are in fact helping the growth expansion and progress of member states of the european union do you think it's

a good does outweigh the bad in this case if he you funds were the way to growth greece would now be the richest country in the union and germany would now be the poorest. and the crowds would be marching furiously in kiel in hamburg and duesseldorf protesting about the greek loans right. just as with individuals so with entire states if you become dependent on subsidies from somewhere else that subzero enterprise you start perfectly irrationally arranging your affairs around qualifying for the grounds instead of creating wealth and this is the trend. city of the recipient countries the best and brightest people in those countries the entrepreneurs the people who could have done so much making things inventing things selling things creating businesses in their home states because nothing can compete with the advantages of being on the e.u. payroll they all start gravitating towards either directly the brussels bureaucracy or in directly becoming contractors or consultants dependent on loans we in the

contributor countries grumble about it but the real pain is felt in the recipient countries and one of the recently approved budgets is for the acquisition of new buildings for the european parliament for example do you think this spending is justified and necessary i mean you know how crazy at a time like this when everybody i mean you know every member state people are looking at how to trim budgets you know do they do they really need two cars can they find a cheaper mobile phone operator all of my constituents are making these decisions we're all seeing a real decline in living standards and the european union is why you believe fire these euro's these of millions and hundreds of millions of euros that visitors centers and museums and you know more entertainment allowances for commissioners and you know extraordinary my favorite story of the last commission was that. herman van rompuy and manuel barroso flew to the same summit in russia

in separate private jets leaving brussels within four hours of each other and austerity is for the street sweeper in sluggo for the classroom assistant in corfu it's not for the euro you've been an m.e.p. for about twelve years now what do you know now that you didn't know before when we joined the european union we thought it would be a common market that was the phrase that people used and if pushed what we meant by common market was mutual product recognition right if i can sell a bottle of mineral water in person i should get absolution france or germany and vice versa what we found instead is that it's a highly rink. lated market so you find that in order to sell a bottle of mineral water the bottle has to contain the following minerals but not any of these you know the volume has to be not greater than x. and not less than why the water has to comprise the following elements you can then find that even a bottle of mineral water that was never intended for export that is only consumed within a very small radius of where it's possible can fall foul of the e.u.

regulations and be declared illegal and so instead of getting a common market we have the opposite we have a restricted market where instead of being extended consumer choice is diminished so following your train of thought here are you saying that a european union can exist in current form for example if only it decentralizes power instead of consolidating it it wouldn't exist in anything like its present form i mean in one hundred seventy three which was the year that the united kingdom joined western europe was thirty six percent of world g.d.p. today it's twenty five percent and twenty twenty will be fifteen percent why is that the main constraint. a big inefficient government is international competition. you can raise your taxes up to a certain point and then the money starts going abroad to friendlier jurisdictions and you have to crush it and you can bestow incredibly generous entitlements on your workforce maternity leave and paternity leave in

a forty eight hour maximum we can go up to a certain point then the jobs start relocating but the european union gets you out of that problem it obviates the challenge of external competition it allows you to export your costs. to your rivals and you could just about see the rationale for that fifty years ago when the main competition was coming from greece it is of course ridiculous when the main competition is coming from india china and so on and that's why the european union through this policy of centralization of harmonization of uniformity has consigned itself to economic and significance of this fight being a good. skeptic what are the advantages that you see of the european union and being part of it the one thing the one thing that the european union is dog is it has a major impossible. the secret diplomacy on any given day in brussels will be a meeting of agriculture ministers will transport ministers it doesn't even make a press release and i would such a normal thing for that to be happening so that is

a good thing that we should be talking together that we should be collaborating on matters that we can't achieve singly and we should be arbitrating i just new species no one is going to disagree with that but to have that big you really don't need all the rest you don't need the bureaucracy you don't need the common agricultural policy you don't need the common fisheries policy you don't need the euro all of the rest is not only irrelevant to that goal but is actively harmful to it because as we now see the extent of integration far from spreading peace and goodwill in europe has had the effect it's actually increased national antagonisms to a greater level than they've been up since the second world war now many of the leaders right now want to forge that with the e.u. and the hero in its current form especially german chancellor angela merkel she has equated the survival of the euro and the union to the survival of peace what's your take on that the e.u. is a consequence rather than a cause of peace and you are the idea now that peace in europe depends on

these massive bureaucracies in brussels is crazy in europe is maintained by trade by friendship and above all by the fact that we are now liberal democracies rather than tearing countries thank you. lines in. brighton

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unpunished. rushes in and says a patient of the state of the union presidential address words believe. changes to the country's political system reform has been pressing issue since the outcome of december as parliamentary elections led to rallies against alleged both ways the. arab league observers are set to arrive in syria as part of a deal was the country's government aimed at. tattling bloodshed their deaths and sanctions imposed on damascus by the organisation prove inefficient little people will be the ones to feel the pinch. and america's controversial practice of death by lethal injection hits a stumbling block the e.u.

has imposed tough restrictions on the sale of drugs used for deadly shots cutting an already struggling supply line to the u.s. . so we have lines here in our team sports next with andrew. good morning. racism. charges. against. this city is sure they will. get. real. and. great. after victory. but first chelsea in england captain john terry he's back to fight tooth and nail

to previous innocence after being charged with racially abusing another player he led pairing court in february the first. during a match against q.p.r. defender anton third and please press the charges after receiving a complaint from members of the public if found guilty terry could face a fine of up to four thousand dollars chelsea manager. says the club will continue to support him and terry tonight. but he has my full support he has the club's full support. represents this club to a maximum level and. we have very grateful to have a player of his quality. you know what he represents of them's of history and achievements you know within the club. we know exactly he's human values and his personality. so well for supporting whatever the outcome.

will appeal against his eight match ban after the english f.a. found him guilty of racially abusing manchester united's patrice evra in the game in october suarez played liverpool's neil neil draw last night while his teammates wore t. shirts with his face on them to show their support what is managed to city who will leave the table this christmas day stay two points clear headed to night after three nil win united keeping up the pressure with a five more thrashing of following arsenal move into fifth after two one win over aston villa robin van persie on target from the spot for the gunners after his thirty fourth goal this season newcastle lost three two visiting west brom sunderland beat queens park rangers by the same scoreline while everton to eleven after a narrow one zero win over swung. but as mentioned earlier tottenham fourth place chelsea tonight's first could go within seven points of man city with a win over the police but despite a great run this season spurs boss harry redknapp denies his side of the sabers. go

free which is a very choice between two two good teams and. here we have come a long way for sure you know a few years ago we would be sitting here talking about. you know an even game if you do it between us and looks at the moment the two evenly matched. in the meantime the russian national team of twelve behind denmark in favor this year ending world rankings world and european champions spain raincy prayin for the fourth year running with another ins and germany completing the top three well as were the biggest gainers of the year collecting more points than any other country to break back into the top fifty all of the other end of the table american samoa finally moved off the bottom recording that this victory last month after three straight defeats. while he rushed premier league side tom are on the brink of going bankrupt let me tell you dollars and allegations of the best. nick has stepped

down is their presence saying there's no hope of saving the fifty four year old club thomas currently for the league and seven points from safety after suffering a sixteen game win streak and unique believes twenty three million dollars needed to run the supply side b. side every year has become an affordable local government and other sponsors have pulled out as a result of an ongoing police investigation into claims to club officials embezzled funds on the next day shuttle to be at terek on march the third. you know the news box of floyd mayweather has been sentenced to ninety days in jail for assaulting an ex-girlfriend the five division world champion admitted hitting his former partner jaycee harish during an argument at her home last year mayweather was also ordered to pay two and a half thousand dollars fine and complete one hundred hours of community service the thirty four year old agreed to

a plea deal meaning he will not have to answer felony charges of beating miss harris and threatening to their children. to ice hockey and the k h l matter where you greg have posted their sixth consecutive victory after beating spartak moscow in the russian capital the siberian tamely joining the elite league last year but they were already causing quite a stir with more on the story is that only costs are at. ice hockey club you grow up from siberian city of conti muncie's was founded in two thousand and six and spent the next four years clawing its way into russia's elite and its ricky cage show year that see which was certainly lacking in star power still managed to end the regular season in central place and put it fine for the playoffs on first exams though you grow was knocked out from conference quarter finals in twenty days and hunger for postseason action is evidently as strong as ever. we have

a funny toast and scrawled which is vital for a team without any so-called star players and it was proved last year when the rockies and made it into the k.h. out playoffs which despite a slow start this season for various reasons were back on track and will be fighting for postseason qualification again in their latest match you graham managed to come from behind and defeat sports must go to record their six successive victory said berens now sits in the middle of the cage shell standings by four in better shape than their wednesday opponents the posted their fourth loss in a row obviously i'm really happy with the score we stuck to our game plan and we worked hard and we were able to come back there the end of the game so it's a victory for for us danny group is you grosse canadian import was signed with siberians in less than a couple of months ago though his november debut was more by an injury the defender got back into action in almost no time in order to continue helping his team get to the coveted playoffs it's

a work in progress we've been playing well lately i think we haven't lost in five game now so i mean we're definitely headed the right way and hopefully we can go in and get ready for the playoffs you grass' roster is by no means star studded however even this regular season match against spartak moscow showed that this siberian side is capable of reaching new heights on pure passion and character. ramon cossar of our city. most pro. basketball to score have become only the third side ever to complete the euro league regular season unbeaten their ninety one points to eighty three when you need to hard giving them ten wins from ten games in group b. . school within seconds of the tip off that set the tone for the game which they dominated the last year to see each chipping in with eighty. the army removed ready to guarantee their place in the last sixteen but they were determined to keep out of the can run going on with the side to be the next round elsewhere but the

russian side is design also finished off their regular season in style a sixty three seventy six road win for them over union limpia seeing them qualify from third spot in group d. terrible idea they had another good game as his side that can't union at bay the slovenians ending up with the worst win loss ratio in the euro league this season with just one victory and nine. let's finish with a football goal what should have been at least in the running for the goal of the year award but for one small matter this cracker found the back of the net in the hong kong top flight over the weekend an amazingly athletic overhead kick that made the lights of my united going green with envy but the trouble was it was a no go as nigerian defender festus baes attempted to clear the ball magnificently fortunately his side citizen went on to win it free to bars his effort since gone there are the. it is all sport for the moment

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