union could be formed of a strong fiscal. coordination but also a better social policy that would sort of supporting the euro only in my system it is that this europe will not be able to form such a political union there is too much had originated he had the countries two different. countries are too attached to their own so often t. they have different styles they have a hard time working together on international issues think of iraq. and so it will be very hard to to have one address that foreigners can call have and emerge she is there. that they will speak with one voice that are willing to give up their very seats in the united nations and the i.m.f. and they will speak voice it is at the moment inconceivable. that britain will give up their rights but also france is not even thinking of giving that up.

germany will become too powerful there's simply too much that prevents europe from becoming one political union if you want a german chancellor i'm going merkel she said that political union is already taking shape is it though and what is she basic that statement on well from where we are we are making progress in the stand in the sense of suggestions of because these are suggestions or plans to have stricter rules and to enforce those rules and her view and in her reality that is working moving towards a political union but my critique is that what is lacking and was really needed for political union is also in sense of society i think is not example germany germany is a society how do we notice that germany is a society. the parts of germany form east german states.

that are a real diary financial economic situation much worse than than greece is right now do we notice anything about that in the rest of the world because west germans take it as as self as something self evident that they are to supports east german states. there's massive transfers of money going from west to east to maintain a sense of unity and a sense of stability and therefore a sense of society those conditions are not in place and not can be imagined to be in place in europe at large how realistic is this transfer significant transfer of powers to brussels spending powers taxing powers given that you have so many different countries there's resistance coming from different places how realistic is it that it will actually happen the pressure is huge and

the financial crisis is big and the euro threatens to fall then lots of things are possible and and politicians will agree on all kinds of things including transfer of power that was inconceivably before or is actually consume inconceivable right now because people don't want to transfer the power but when the crisis is really there then i see them. being able to do such a thing but it won't result in others because it's it means that you put some kind of control in the hands of the few there in brussel but they don't have the power to control the financial market they don't have the the financial power to deal with these kind of instabilities and they don't have the political influence to deal with all the different interests throughout europe it is sort of an and idea that i think that in the end to a backfire because if you make centralize this power too much.

then what we will see is is it means a lack of dynamics lack of the flexibility as we've seen already because takes forever to get these decisions and then take forever to get through all these different parliaments and it takes even longer then to implement that i mean that we talk about the long lags. and so it just makes the politics too complex the greek government spokesman said quote unquote greece faces an exit from the europe bloc unless it clinches a deal on a second one hundred thirty billion bailout from its international lenders how much do you think they really believe in this threat is it something that they really think is likely or are they using this rhetoric to gain support for pushing more sturdy measures i think that they use it now as an argument to enforce all kinds of cutbacks and to get popular consent which they need into in order to make the

policy effective i think that greece is still in overall the zire to hold on to the euro and the reason is that the greeks are very suspicious of their government there so they desperately want to have european government involved in their country because there's sort of a countervailing power against their own politicians the same story applies to the italians. and the issue is whether this is going to work i don't think so i think the left right and center are preparing for. the fall out of greece and the greeks are forced to step out of the euro because this is unsustainable. they were not going to need you to your ear. the economy is going to do worse which also makes it more difficult for me to get ereal and so this is simply not to sustain a sustainable situation the best spreadsheet is to do what iceland did argentina

has done so many other people other countries have done before is allowed to have their own currency the value it through to make their country much cheaper newstead as a sort of the beginning all the. efforts to organize commercial activity at the naval going to sell you have to sort of recover that and sort of and one way to do it is by lowering the price which you only can do with your of your own currency and to make it much cheaper if you don't do it the only alternative strategy is the very painful one is lowering salaries and wages and cutting back and that causes a huge depression in the economy and that's a real harsh way of making that adjustment well let's talk about politics now the two main cheerleaders pushing the euro forward of course in germany's angela merkel and french president nicolas sarkozy now there will be the french elections in two thousand and twelve that germany will have theirs in two thousand and thirteen what

do you expect to happen in these elections and how would it affect the european union and the euro zone would we see a change in government a change in rhetoric that would eventually play out differently in the euro to hold on to the european union and especially to hold on to the euro. everyone has to make sacrifices and it's always possible if the european interest prevails over national interests and as a message messages very hard to sell to any lection time you see in election time the people usually withdraw behind back behind the border so to say and basically talk about national interests interests that are close. to the people who are going to cause their vote. it turns out this whole european story is a hard sell for properties it's true in germany in france is also true in the

netherlands. and so politicians always have a difficulty all for asserting the sort of common european interest. that is sure to costing. money so resources. will suffer until that also is again an illustration of a lack of political union like a society that will become an issue and at the fate of european union is dependent upon local or national elections i'm not going to and that's of course crazy i mean you cannot imagine that a country any country. that faith or of any country is dependent upon the outcome of local quebec elections that's unheard of and that's illustrates once again the the union in europe is not all that strong and it is forced it exists among the sort of european establishments if you walk around in brussels you feel like

you are the european union is for real but as soon as you away from brussels and walk around in the country and the rest of europe you see the brussel is far away from from them. and it's not real reality that people really live with now when we talk to experts analysts and economists to even if they are euro skeptics it's a situation seems to have gotten so complicated that they would also mention concessions and they're saying that there are two choices now one is being forced into more europe more integration otherwise the alternative is a financial crisis are these the only two options left. i do think that if if you give up your up to your oath which i think you need to do you will face a so-called crisis or kinds of institutions will get into serious trouble banks will fail countries will look at the trouble unemployment go up we will see your

face a serious depression i think all that will materialize but what i also see is the possibility and that's what i would focus on of restructuring and rethinking the way be doing things rethink also the way you mean viewed the economy focus less on economic growth focus more on quality being more concerned the system ability and so if you also would have for that i see action an opportunity arising if we give up on an ideal that i think is an old fashioned wall. and sort of people are cells for the next stage now when we look at what politicians are doing right now it seems that they're walking on eggshells when it comes to dealing with financial markets and banks are careful not to rock the boat they're careful to instill confidence in the markets what role do you see the financial markets and banks playing in this current crisis lest we forget that they had also that just gone

through the two thousand and eight financial crisis and they were painted in a negative light at that time well the terrible thing is that we see that one sector the financial sector is keeping the rest of the economy hostage including the politicians and then all the politicians are to scare it's for these banks to fail it is is unfair it is unjust. and it's also dangerous for should say debility of our economies so that has to stop are you a climber thanks very much for your time. the close up team has been to duck you stop first place to the most ambitious football club in the world. if not all of our

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hello there welcome to the sport and these are the headlines don't panic manchester united boss sir alex ferguson says the league title is still up for grabs despite a shock loss to newcastle. plus playing again sandman to strike at two houses fifteen gangbang and become a real lifted by the country's prime minister. for the next knee m.b.a. is the new jersey side slumped to their six defeats in a row at the hands of boston. but first manchester united manager sir alex ferguson says there is no need to panic after his side's surprise three nil defeat to newcastle a result which leaves the red devils three points behind leaders manchester city in the title race stemberg put the magpies ahead with his fifteenth goal of the season last night and that was followed by a strike from your home comes by for

a late goal from phil jones gave the home side the wind and united a second consecutive defeat but afterwards said his team had the experience to cope with the setback and we're still in the hunt for the club's twentieth league title in the other game bolton moved off the bottom of the table off recovering from a goal down to win two one having seen goalkeeper tim howard schools the first with a free clearance for david in goal gary cahill got the other side this is how it affects the table united missing the chance to go level on points in the city new castle stay seven but are now just a point behind liverpool while at the other end bolton move off the bottom and are a point from safety but it is very congested blackburn prop up the table under just behind wigan with any three points separating the bottom right. now and you striker samuel eto looks set to play for cameroon again after his country's prime minister helped lift his fifteen gang ban. cameron's football federation imposed the

sanctions on you after claims incited teammates to boycott a friendly with algeria in november after disagreements over pay prime minister paul buyer a friend of etsy has now stepped in and the ban has been lifted even though i could see cameroon reprimanded by faith or the so called political interference however whatever happens as he won't be at this month's african cup of nations after his country failed to qualify. well over the last couple of years the russian premier league has attracted a growing number of foreign plays apart from ed too there's also a spot at moscow's aiden mcgeady he settled into a new way of life since his move from scotland and as part of our look back at twenty eleven here's how he was coping at the start of the season. you've been in russia just about a year now believe the start of august you came last last year how is your russian experience being so far over always been good overjoyed. of enjoyed the shore but

before we have way forward here obviously a picture but doing your bit. of enjoy this will fall over should be football was the main thing the. reason we were. and what she always said the difficult part is so i'm figuring into a way for here in the language but you know i'm getting slightly better that is well not so that's going to say are you taking lessons oh i had one wish in a couple days ago enough that my but in this for us of what i want on the half i was just as good because i'm a mother and every single day what's your typical day here at fort acma school quesadillas you may think the bonus is you come in for ten o'clock in the morning normally and then you see the doctor you get with and you think all these boxes in her your shoe and mylar while using her body is actually eleven and. after you die off stage the best awesome game you can go. was so it was a good life obviously do you believe the team can finally fulfil what they've been

trying to do for years now and when the championship when you start the season that was a few ones in. you know that the way we started the the chairmanship was really really well but i mean who's to say no because going out on and of unbeaten games you know the spot which i'm sure up to christmas and then the second you know second top or second place has gotten away with princess and since i think it's always there's a very very young squad we have. you know often over all of we have the pull of the just the fit and the practice you could have really gone to your pick of clubs why did you choose russia in the first place for me it was the chance to go. to complain about all the. troy took it over to the tombo them to say no i'll stay so to show you because i think it was time for me to the so i move on it was best for everyone but do you miss the old firm you are the thrill of the the huge game in glasgow of course some themes are a must the game you know what i see on t.v. and i want to call me you know you are the best thing in football. to know for me

it was probably you know a sunny afternoon at parkhead saw the often a pocket. and it doesn't get much better now but i just finally. on a lighter note is there anything you miss the bites about scotland and home you know they're the deep fried mars bars are they i am very deep fried or state of table as of the watch other big five miles well if of course as well as those home conflicts. i think the main thing that eat mice is has been there we just are not going this year period show friends but that's that's always a part of life. there must be an order or russian ships of the. border which are over here and the russian receivers are great for me thanks so much for your time all right sure or at your spot i say mcgeady settling in in moscow now in tennis defending champion roger federer has become the latest top seed to advance into the quarter finals of the season opening event in catarrh the world number three had knocked out russia's nick ivory genco in the first round and face levine

in qualifying good agassi mbia the swiss master rarely ever troubled by his lesser known opponent is federer dominated left right and center to win in an hour flat sixty six agree the final score and that is said to be of italy's trying to put an end to federer is nineteen match winning streak in the quarter final. also through to the last eight is top seed rafael nadal the spaniard shrugging off his somewhat slow start of the torment to blitz german paula denis premo my saved so great pointy faced on route to an easy sixty sixty when standing in the way next is russia seventy eight past the hour of the it. while it was a hard day's work and a half or two frenchmen joe were free to stronger and gael moan face number three seed to tsonga was up against israelis flavia bowler and salvaged a couple of set points in the first set before taking it on

a closely contested tie break to keep the pressure on the song early in the second set but the world number six held firm courtesy of powerful forehands and killed off a match with any smash save six seven six six three the way it finished and up next is spaniard al bad who received the oct after russia's alex program a lot of retired. well known feast receded fourth in cat are needed almost two and a half hours to outmuscle germany's benjamin becker becky ridge rank that side the top three hundred in the world that stretch mon face to the. they meet in this group will encounter the german battling back from a set down to force the decider which eventually lost seven five months east in place of the detroit city in the quarter finals. i possible now more measuring has been taped on the russian owned new jersey nets in the n.b.a. they skated to their sixth consecutive defeat in seven games so far this season it

was a close first half of the boston celtics t.d. garden stadium before visiting nets taking a one point lead before the big intermission rookie marshall brooks once again may go to man as important eighteen high seventeen points but the home side pulled off a sterling third quarter scoring twenty nine for new jersey could only manage twelve paul pierce inflicting the biggest damage and would finish with a gang leading twenty four as the celtics held on to an eighty nine points to seventeen victory their fourth in a row after losing the three matches of the season. in other news british cyclist mark cavendish believes he can succeed at both this year's tour de france and the lympics which will be held just six days later the reigning world road race champion was enjoying a photo shoot with his new team sky they've just named their twenty three man squad for the twenty twelve season also when it is that of

a star either bradley wiggins who was sitting on the right there cavendish won the sprinters green jersey at last year's tour de france and hopes to repay that success but also things he'll have something left in the tank for the lympics road race in london which is being held less than a week after the tours ended. it's physically possible there was there will be room you know or i mean figure it's going to be taught it's going to take some real structured training some real structured record everything is going after work perfect. for it's physically possible move away from the time to do it and finally there is a for. face back at the top of the standings in the dhaka rally nine time when estefan petter hand still has reclaimed the overall lead after the fourth day of the two week race in south america the frenchman clocking the fastest time from san juan to two g. though and put a hands on our lead his nearest rival. by almost six minutes in south african was third fastest during stage four while on the bikes spain's defending champion mark

o'meara gained some ground on the overall leader cereal display of france coma led the way finishing just over two minutes ahead of death rate but still trails by over eight minutes in the general classification while a crash involving brazilian kleinman. dented his title hopes. so that brings us to the end of the sport for the moment we've got the weather coming up next here an arctic. well. science technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered.

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pm here in moscow well welcome to you for just. the top story the e.u. says it's a great in principle to have a radian crude the sanctions could come into effect by the end of january unless around back some legit nuclear weapons program responded to the sanctions with threats to block oil trade through the crucial strait of hormuz leading to a continued deadlock in the gulf american warships were also present in the region with a mission to prevent any hindrances of. passage u.s. and israeli forces are planning to hold a missile defense drill in the region following iran's recent ten day naval exercise for the john reese from the stop the war coalition who told the west in worries over iran's supposed nuclear ambitions i've always just put it excuse me things to curtail a rainy influence in the region.