eight thirty pm in moscow these iraqi headlines russia needs to mock proceed but not chaos president medvedev outlines the primary challenges for the country saying russia is on the brink of a new political era where every voice will be heard. arab league observers arrive in syria as the conflict there reaches a bloody peak and international sanctions cause the living conditions to deteriorate. and tightening the noose on america's controversial death penalty the e.u. plugs the flow of drugs used to kill u.s. death row inmates. as the eurozone faces an uncertain future with the leaders

struggling to reach an accord on how to solve the economic problems we discuss the efforts with an m.e.p. from the u.k. interview coming up. well today we're joined by conservative any please mr daniel thank you very much for joining us first question that everyone is asking is where do you see. headed well we can now see very clearly that the euro is a recessionary instrument i mean 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 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 cheaper and 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 cost is less valid than carrying on with the current crisis on december ninety e.u. leaders agreed most of them at least agreed to move on into forming a fiscal compact in the u.k. used its veto to prevent any treaty changes now 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. would 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 so 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 no there's one thing less attractive and that is listening to the same discredited arguments from the same shameless politicians who got it wrong who got this 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 euro structures trying to leave home europe in remission and a former vice president of the european central bank that is they had 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. 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 them 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 is you know now you could say oh well they're all tax havens that's making the question they became tax havens because they had low tax why do they have low taxes because they have 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 the 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 here and 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 some sort enterprise you start perfectly rationally early ranging your affairs around qualifying for the grounds instead of creating wealth and this is the tragedy 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 indirectly 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 in 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 euros these of millions and hundreds of millions of euros and 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 that if i can sell a bottle of mineral water in person i should be lopsided in france or germany and vice versa. what we found instead is that it's a highly regulated 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 bottled 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 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 in 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 friendly jurisdictions and you have to cross 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 relocation 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 russian oil for about 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 harmonize ation of uniformity has. find itself true economic and significance of this why being a euro skeptic what are the advantages that you see of the european union and of being part of it the one thing the one thing that the european union has done 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 area. 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'll just use these things no one is going to disagree with that but i have that but 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 so many of the leaders right now who still want to forge on that with the e.u. and the euro 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 a piece in europe is maintained by trade by friendship and above all by the fact that we are now liberal democracies rather than north or tearing countries thank you.

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russia needs to moderate sea but not chaos president medvedev outlines the primary challenges for russia saying the country is on the brink of a new political era where every voice will be heard. arab league observers arrive in syria as the conflict there reaches a bloody peak and international sanctions cause living to conditions to deteriorate . and tightening the noose around america's controversial death penalty the stems the flow of drugs used to kill u.s. death row inmates. the latest in the world of sports coming your way next with kate stay with us.

welcome to the sports and here's what's coming up. fighting talk show saying going out in john terry ballasts to clear his name after police charged him with racially abusing cheap ya defender and song searching out. while also liverpool's here is suarez will appeal against his eight match ban and fine for racist remarks made tonight in the tree several. rounds on the rights boxing world champion floyd mayweather faces three months in jail for assaulting his ex-girlfriend. chelsea in england captain john terry has vowed to fight tooth and nail to prove his innocence after being charged with racially abusing q.p.r. defender and son ferdinand there's a lot you want you all said to hof will appear in court on february the first over claims he burkley abused twenty six year old ferdinand during the one nil defeat at loftus road on october twenty third at least pressed charges after receiving a complaint from a member of the public while if i'm guilty terry could face

a fine of up to four thousand dollars as i have his money i'm going to show us says the club will continue to support him and the skipper will lead the blues in this thursday's crunch at tottenham. as my my full support he has the club's full support. represents this close to a maximum level and. we have very grateful to have a player of his quality. you know what he represents in terms of history and achievements here within the club. we know exactly. as you move all these and his personality. so well for supporting whatever the outcome is that in the meantime liverpool striker luis suarez will appeal against his eight match ban and sixty two thousand dollars fine the english f.a. found the year of one guilty of racially abusing manchester united's patrice evra in the. i'm on board and field on october the fifteenth so i did play in the reds goalless draw at wigan on wednesday night and his teammates wore t.

shirts with his face on them to show their support well it's magic city or leave the table this christmas for the first time since the one nine hundred twenty nine roberto mancini's side won three knowledge of home to stoke just a two points clear of manchester united who kept up the pressure on the top and pulled back some of the goal difference gask with a final triumph at full and elsewhere robin van persie netted here's the thirty fourth goal of the year as arsenal wanted to want to tax and velour west brom hung on for a three two victory at stuttering newcastle martin o'neill made his two wins from three sunderland also defeated q.p.r. three two what everton edge swarms even want to nail but it's city who hold the psychological and the points lead. before work. but you know what they say to you. i think it is important to. know this is up.

for this. is difficult because we never. thought that but is but the post on the top of that. well as we said by start and host fourth place chelsea in a key london dobby this thursday night spurs could go back to within seven points of manchester city and still have a game in hand if they beat the visiting blues but despite their second best ever run this season top manager harry redknapp reckons it will be a close game. for you which is a very choice you know between two two good teams and. you know 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 chelsea and it looks at the moment to be evenly matched teams i would say well meanwhile over in spain barcelona are aiming to reach the last sixteen of the copper del rey with victory at having two third division side hospital at pep guardiola side holds

a one believed for the first leg from the neighboring minnows but he will rest several key players after sunday's club world cup triumph over santos boss i have now won thirteen out of a possible sixteen try face found even though railway track coach chose a merino suggested there whilst last achievement was mind thinks it would benefit the club. said yesterday as a compliment with thank you and that's all each word coach says is highlighted by the media way too much we were likely to played and lucky to win and we're happy and i think that the fact that a spanish team can win this cop is a positive thing and that is all. well meanwhile just like manchester city in england the french league big spenders paris social now enjoying life at the top of the table this christmas the capital club when three point their home pay. one victory and sound of ten records i have the best story made a poor job of it you see charts it's not bottom swiftly made up for the

argentinians blip just after half an hour the home side went all out in search of an equaliser in the second half but it's still held to blame now the fancy one will take the outright lead in the league after one pair last for two with a view earlier in the day. while back here in russia the national football team will play to sign world cup winners you're a guy in their final friendly match before the start of the european championships next summer together because many will face the south american side good moscow on may the twenty fifth and then heads to a week long training camp in switzerland before the tournament starts in poland and ukraine until the eighth russian will play in one other friendly before the tournament which is a way to denmark on february twenty ninth. now in other news world champion boxer floyd mayweather jr has been sentenced to ninety days in jail for assaulting his ex-girlfriend the five division champion admitted hitting his former partner josie

harris during an argument at her home last year mayweather was also ordered to pay a two and a half thousand dollar fine and complete one hundred hours of community service with thirty four year old agreed to a plea deal meaning he will not have to answer felony charges of beating miss harris and threatened to their children. basketball now and his gun was going to have completed the euro league regular season unbeaten for the second time the army men were the first club to complete the feat six years ago and their ninety one points to eighty three when a car in spain again gave the muscovite side to ten wins from ten in group b. scored within seconds of the tipoff just about set the tone for the game which they dominated the last chipping in with eighteen points for the visitors the army men were already guaranteed a place in the last sixteen. they were just trying to keep them on the wrong going and over the side to be going into the next trend.

now reigning world and european champion has fought back from a slow start to grab the preliminary lead at the halfway point of the russian or a speed skating championships here in moscow the twenty eight year old had to settle for second best in the opening five hundred rituals and then went one better in the five thousand meters to inch closer to retaining his crown the national tournament is a chance for the skaters to qualify for next year's european championships however will discover the answer to sit out the continental event as he wants to focus on the defense of his world title to moscow next february while on the women's side we've got that i'm not sure but also lived up to her status of tournament favorite films better has prevailed in the five hundred and three thousand leave the standings to more if it's to go. to ice hockey now and new boys you could i have posted their six straight victory in the k h l after coming from behind to into one

spot at moscow the siberian team reached the playoffs in their first season last year and they have to go one better this campaign lancaster of reports. ice hockey club you grow up from say beer in city of handy man sees was founded in two thousand and six and spent the next four years glowing its way into russia's elite in its rookie cage show year that team which was certainly lacking in star power still managed to end the regular season in center place in qualifying for the playoffs on first exams do you grow was knocked out for a conference quarterfinals in twenty days and hunger for postseason action is evidently as strong as ever. we have a very tells and it's called which is vital for a team without any so-called star players and it was proved last year when our rockies and made it into the k. play offs. despite a slow start this season for various reasons we're back on track and we will be fighting for postseason qualification again in their latest match you grant managed

to come from behind and defeat sports like moscow to record their six successive victory said berens now sits in the middle of the cage while standings by four in better shape than their wednesday opponents who 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 here again a game so it's a victory point for us danny grew as you grass canadian import was signed with siberian less than a couple of months ago though his november debut was more a brain injury the defender got back into action in almost no design 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 games 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 archie moscow. and finally only a select few are immortalized in bronze while they're still alive and australian cricket legend shane warne has just joined that elite one of the greatest bowlers of all time was present in the flesh of his statue on the parade of champions cricket ground where he is the former record holder for most wickets taken by about test cricket and impressive tally of seven hundred and eight hundred forty he still takes to the pitch just in the domestic me warn is i mean the eleven for australian sports one to be a star it was such an honor and he was formatted by the result. looks fantastic it's very very good so i was very proud it's a great on our side sort of weird seeing yourself up there but it's a very good likeness and very proud of it. that's all the sport by fire.

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