this is all. headlines now russia's foreign minister warns the un security council will never proof for a military intervention in syria but says moscow has never. was a condition for peace as the syrian opposition rejects a chance for talks with the country's president instead of threatening the with the brutal and bloody. plans to expand the u.s. military presence in the asia pacific region. in the philippines which has offered to host more american troops in china daily.

creating tension in the region. and this year's first e.u. summit exposes the deepening divisions within which predictions though grow even wider. most members agree the fiscal restrictions the critics say is an affront to sovereignty and democracy. and coming up next. from the conservative party more about where the fallout from the year's first summit will be felt. today we're joined by martin. from the u.k. conservative party and he's also the new head of the european conservatives and a reformist group at the european parliament thanks very much for joining us today the first question is the e.u.

imposed. on iran is this part of president of the country over its controversial nuclear program statement british prime minister david cameron along with french president nicolas sarkozy. said that quote our message is clear we have no quarrel with the iranian people but the leadership has failed to restore international confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear program now at what cost to the european union is this message being delivered. because you have agreed that we are not going to buy any more oil from iran number of member states to have. reasonable reason be considered a purchase that they would have to stop by oil from iran but i think you know the overall goal. you know we have come together twenty seven nations i will say to the iranians you know you know we really must. assure the nuclear program it's

unacceptable to the rest of the world for iran to acquire nuclear weapons but i will factor will these sanctions be right now you see india still buying oil from iran with gold and you have china that could possibly just step in and buy the oil that the u.s. and the e.u. don't want so how effective really will the sanctions be countries like india which of course. functioning democracies as well i'm sure other diplomatic pressure being applied to that too to maybe get them on board with the with the regime as well that you know we have to be united as a world to say to iran this is unacceptable you will not be permitted to develop. nuclear weapons. we will leave no stone to terms of pursuing this policy of british petroleum or b.p. the british government as well as the e.u. have been lobbying u.s. lawmakers for an exception from another proposed new u.s. sanctions which seek to stop western companies from doing business with iran in particular this has to do with the shah denice project in azerbaijan iran has

a ten percent stake in that while greece is now forced to find alternatives to almost one third of its oil imports from iran even if it didn't want to to begin with and here you have the u.k. asking for an exception how can that be fair when we see if there is an exemption on that i mean this pipeline that you're referring to from us about ten percent owed by. iranian state assets so it's not clear what the exact effect will be on that but at the same time you know as well as the sanctions on iran we also want to pursue. diversifying energy sources. for western europe this pipeline is a key part of that but it is rather hypocritical saying this is a message to iran there are going to be loopholes that we've accepted that there will be costs to to the west on implementing this policy on this it could well be that this is one of the costs we have to bear but i think there is not

a majority i wouldn't read enough that there was only ten percent of it it is a key part of europe's attempt to diversify our energy sources and. i'm sure they will want to continue with this but further discussions will take place on exactly what happened to this particular project so basically what you're saying is it's ok to have sanctions against iran as long as it doesn't go against the goal of the e.u. to diversify its sources that would look like that that's the view that being taken but i think the detail the detail work a lot to be done on this you know none of the sanctions are taking effect. anyway let's talk about the euro zone this question has been asked. long enough even at the recent press conference of the the i.m.f. journalist to get a straight answer of whether or not greece will default or exit from the euro so what do you think will there be a greece default or a euro exit i can give you my opinion but i think they will default you know effectively. that's being imposed on the bondholders at the moment and many

could argue that that's effectively a default anyway. maybe your question is. will it be an uncontrolled credit event i just know. i don't know what is clear to me is the current debt. is unsustainable. in my view that debt will have to be reduced considerably one way of doing it would be for them to default. i did my view that it's probably the most effective way of doing that and at the same time helping to save the rest of the eurozone but you know i'm not a member of the country that is part of the euro zone so euro zone themselves but that seems to me to be the way that we're heading the longer that we delay this process the more difficulties are being caused but the u.k. wants to have a say in what ever the euro zone decides doesn't. we can give our opinions but you know we did not join the euro in the first place we advised against the euro

being created. pointed out to many pitfalls that there would be along the way it looks like finding out the hard way that you know you can compress seventeen countries economic policies into one currency zone while still operating seventeen different economic policies well there are still some people who would argue that there are other solutions to this crisis one of which would be the issuance. of other would be the further of funding mechanisms vailable for countries that may need them with germany contributing more and germany has said no to all of these suggestions and some would say that this behavior from germany is akin to zero. yeah. i would if i was a german politician i would. look at the fundamental democratic. perceive.

this is the fundamental problem with the eurozone that was never resolved at the creation of it. and i hope they will also continue to resist as well so the. where does that. push this forward are you. asking myself what is the point of this. crisis at the moment the next crisis five years down the right if countries are persuaded to rein in. a

fiscal deficit you know this is going to take. to be implemented by. a. country is that it. is going to provide a solution to a crisis that could explode in the next month or two. this is not. what worries me about the whole thing is that it's distracting attention from the very real things that need to be done to solve the current crisis. navel gazing of rewriting treaties and agreeing. instead of addressing the fundamental problem which is there's too much debt in europe and there is a. crisis in europe none of these issues are being addressed by this fiscal pact so i don't think it work and i think it's essentially pointless let's talk about the european stability mechanism. this is the funding facility which will be launched and put into place in the target is to have five hundred billion euros in funds

that will be available for countries that may need it in the future and also the e.c.b. is asking a for that amount to a trillion euros do you think that. will be a big enough far wall to question any impact that a possible default or euro exit may have on other countries. if if spain or italy runs into trouble you know you could look at the. damage in those countries you can see that if i was not necessarily picking up but this is a matter for the eurozone countries themselves to resolve either through essential fundamental structural problems namely in the euro zone. you know the being seventeen different countries this is the difficulty with david cameron uses veto with the e.u. summit against any treaty changes because he failed to get guarantees to protect the interests of the u.k. particularly of the city of london and france is circulating its blueprint for proposal on a new financial transaction tax how big of

a deal do you think this could become our position is that we will not accept a financial transaction tax or do you look. at any of it. because it's pointless to get it you know it won't three raise very much money it will just drive the institutions away to other jurisdictions like new york or singapore or geneva or something outside of the scope of this tax there are electronic transactions by the nature that could take place in many different locations across the world so we don't begin to raise very much money we think will be bad for european business. we think it's unfairly targeted it will be paid by. by pension fund by individual investors the big banks and others who are the targets of it would be clever enough to do their transactions elsewhere which would avoid the tax so it doesn't operate on a worldwide basis it will be will be completely ineffective so they are the new had a european. parliament you said that the agenda

is striking a chord with the european people what is this. i think it's a realistic acceptance of the limits of european integration you know there's a lot of people are very keen to. make you know. hyperbole and statements about about european integration because of european unity etc you know you're seeing with the eurozone crisis the limits to that we can make all the grand statements we like when it comes to putting. our pockets to deliver maybe some european electorate that i was seeing the limits of national sovereignty being being exceeded in many areas the importance of sticking to their fundamental national democratic principle which is the basic building block of the european union so what are the limits of european integration at what point do you say enough is enough i think we've reached out that now in fact my preference would be for some powers that are already in the european union to be devolved back to

nation state. i think we've got thirty we've had a bit of integration. in some respects gone too far. thanks very much for sharing your views on the program. were shot four times in total and there were. three of the boys are still in my body. and people should be allowed to defend themselves wherever they are gone from the law abiding decent people are not a problem national rifle association. basically retired military police. to shoot holes in i'm sorry if you know that the bullet comes out

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on the dot com. headlines on r.t. russia's foreign minister warns the un security council will never approve foreign and military intervention in syria but says moscow has never insisted that retaining the assad regime was a condition for peace of the syrian opposition rejects a chance for talks with the country's president instead threatening the assad family with a brutal and bloody end plans to expand the us a military presence in the asia pacific region threatened to fire on the philippines which is offered to host more american troops in china state run day leaders called first sanctions against the island nation creating tension in the region. at this year's first e.u. summit exposes deepening divisions within the union with predictions though grow

even wider that's despite most members agreeing to fiscal we're stricture than this the critics say is an affront to sovereignty and democracy. and other sports with kate. well welcome to the latest paula thank you for joining me and here's a taste of what's coming up. i quit remains my successful manager god but the end is set to resign off the decade in charge of the twice for the russian champion. plus deadline day russian strike pavel pogrebnyak is on the verge of joining political dugongs transfer window slams shut at midnight. getting ready to rumble the patriots and the giants arrive in indianapolis headed super bowl showdown on sunday. but first a football of the soka variety and remain head coach going by the f.

says he's prepared to quit the club after eleven illustrious years at the helm of the twenty four russian champions the fifty nine year old says he's had disagreements with the president the beach it's the modern can over budget and transfer policies have sold a number of key players over the last two seasons most recently christian abode to dinamo mosco earlier this month i have a video of intends to stay on and work at the club's junior academy the former player who is also the vice president's rubin's most successful manager after joining in two thousand and one he led them to promotion to russia's top flight for the first time in his first season and then went on to fight back to back league titles in two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine the also won the russians to pick up the following year carney fifth in the domestic league play olympiacos in the last thirty two of the europa league on february the fourteenth. told me was talk of a budget now he's on the verge of signing for english premier league side fallen from gaunt before this tuesday's midnight deadline the twenty eight year old has

scored only fifteen goals with in this league a side in sixty eight appearances and netted just once the season but he's undergoing a medical quite in cottage for the manager martin you don't set up the balls to do the talking options while reports suggest a call to his bobby zamora might be. moving on to a pikey p.r. i might find out where ac milan have unveiled their latest signing strachan actually lopez the twenty seven year old has described milan as a dream club after joining them on loan from fellow italian sidekick anya the striker who holds by his argentinian and italian citizenship post photos was announced chief executive at the am galliani also refused to rule out the possibility of signing call us to the us from manchester city. this terrace is their own is not forseen marks a lot that has arrived and i have never said davis is coming after that let's wait and see what is coming in summer the market is nearly closed but nevertheless it is very dynamic and you'll never know what is happening very well managed

a city manager at about a month cheney has been bested by the recession has banned captain vincent kompany for this tuesday's premier league trip to everton city hold a three point lead at the top over rivals manchester united and eight points over tottenham when cheney thinks the title race is between the top two. so i think that is difficult for the other because maybe if it is impossible that the united. or the games i don't get is very different you know sixteen games everything can happen also that not in our game and therefore there is the data about the moment that city united. well rivals united could go joint top if they beat stoke adult trafford and the city stumbled through only their third defeat of the season so placed top level host rock bottom wigan fourth place chelsea will have to do without injury to captain john terry as they get just one as we have lost only once at home though the blues have completed the signing of twenty year old belgian

having to point gang meanwhile liverpool could catapult themselves into the top five if they win at lowly wolves the chance of european football mean that top priority. should look good sixteen league games left will be. caught fraying away. for free in the cook to go home to be brain there's a lot for us to play for the season. so the qualification for the champions league sport is one of small bears to to do as more should we possibly can make is as good a season for everybody as we can on the. well meanwhile at the africa cup of nations i retired fans were given a treat ahead of their final group game the mother of captain did a drug but for theo helped launch for around sixty supporters who'd made the fourteen hundred kilometer trip for their clash with angola and it was a good day all round for the elephants fans there to know when setting up a quarter final with equitorial guinea well captain rather was rested in that wind

at his former chelsea team mates michael and had a good day's work out with the thirty two year old frenchman and his new side shanghai shane was put through their paces at a training camp in volunteer experience striker was the first man to leave the blues after the arrival of manager and regular force and has become one of the biggest foreign acquisitions in the chinese league had also being linked to the fast rising club before signing a one year extension to stay at stamford bridge until at least the summer. reading on to motor sport in our formula one supremo bernie ecclestone is pushing hard to get russian driver vitaly petrov in the sport ahead of the new season but that all has been frozen after the right now hired former world champion can be like it and once the russians. return can says ecclestone is keen for the trough to stay in formula one the eighty one year old wants to promote the sport in russia such a host country's first born prix in twenty fourteen across the finish tenth in last season's championship denies patron team all that he was signed for for ali well

former force india driver has been so all is also without an f one driver while the german has also just been handed an eighteen month suspended sentence for last year old team lotus runner lots so phil was found guilty of cutting locks in the neck with a champagne glass at a nightclub in shanghai after the chinese born free in may also pay a fine of more than two hundred fifty thousand dollars. over in america the new york giants have arrived in the annapolis ahead of super bowl forty six without face the new england patriots at the lucas oil stadium next. sunday quarterback eli manning was among the first to get off the plane the game will be a repeat of the two thousand and eight final things saw the giants defeat the patriots and four more in one's perfect season both sides coming to this year's championship in strong form the patriots have prevailed in the last ten matches in a row all the giants also boasts a five game winning streak tom coughlin can't wait to make it six.

we've done it in anticipation of this of coming out here to indianapolis of getting started on this wonderful super bowl week of our conducting our meetings and practices here acclimating our players to the surroundings having an opportunity to get over the stadium tomorrow for media day so we're excited to get things started . and finally the powerhouse of russian women's basketball spot and kay are preparing for their last group match of the year and on wednesday the club has gone from strength to strength despite the murder of its flamboyant own a two years ago cause it impossible for feels more on a fascinating story born in lutherie any nine hundred forty seven commoner chiming to eighty two years railed before being unmasked as a spike in one thousand nine hundred seven and sent to jail but five years later the multinational citizen and speaker of nine languages was released in a riot in moscow where he became

a concert promoter overnight in shows for michael jackson and lies in the nearly. dark chorus initiated surroundings may have been called the can trade during his time as a spy. but this was where his real passion lay the former k.g.b. man sponsor different clubs including literary in the euro league champions shall garous however he truly established his heart would employ with moscow region side sparta before leading the russian women's team to european silver so a lifeless ordinary which ended tragically in two thousand and nine the best possible lover and interpreter was murdered as a hail of bullets hit his car in central moscow he died at the scene his killers were never found but the legacy of common knowledge leaves own. for us he was a friend a father mentor it was always

a family atmosphere even professional we always felt close to the players but the people are. sparta quickly establish themselves as a basketball dynasty winning all available silverware in russia and europe over the past five years sitting in a record with force which you really titles and they were getting the twenty ten triumph to comment on as his wife and former play on that he would carries on his legacy she's now president of the club which plays under the name sports and key it changed its name for copyright reasons but kept the last letter king in memory of their four mona or the most influential figures in women's basketball he really kind of set the standard for the rest of the world in the way he treated the girls the way he interacted had he not come along and fell in love with women's basketball we probably won't be standing here with an excellent infrastructure and

solid rules to sport and are a perennial top flight side and their motivation is to get back on the very top after finally losing last year in their fifth straight year early showpiece yet the club is not only about it senior team it also has a youth academy where hundreds of kids are keen to begin. the next generation of stars does knowing that he's now building younger players to get his point to play professional basketball to hopefully play for you national team one day says a lot about what he's building here sparring kids are currently top of the obscene the euro league and leading their domestic championship their winning traditions were stablished in the poorest wilder family traditions that make common knowledge form a club special a just as important because they about are both orci and. i think.

you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom hartman welcome to the big picture.