with you twenty four hours a day this is our top stories now russia's foreign minister warns the u.n. security council will never approve foreign military intervention in syria but says moscow has never insisted retaining the sound regime was a condition for peace that is the syrian opposition rejects a chance for talks with the country's president instead of threatening the assad family with a brutal and bloody. plans to expand the u.s. military presence in the asia pacific region threaten to back down the philippines which is often more american troops in china the state run daily has called for sanctions against the on a nation for creating tension in the region. this is first somebody exposes

divisions within the union but predictions they'll grow even wider. members agreeing to fiscal restrictions that critics say is an affront to sovereignty and democracy. with a recap of our main stories in fifteen minutes from now on the meantime we talked to the m.e.p. martin callinan from the u.k. conservative party to learn more about where the form of the year's first summit will be felt that's our special interview next. today we're joined by martin. from the u.k. conservative party and he's also the new head of the european conservatives and reformists group at the european parliament thanks very much for joining us today the first question is the e.u. . oil embargo on iran is this part of president the country over its

controversial nuclear program i want a joint statement british prime minister david cameron along with french president . said that quote our message is clear we have no quarrel with the iranian people but the iranian 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 buying from iran but i think you know the overall. you know we have. twenty seven nations to the arabians 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 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 these sanctions be i hope 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 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 the pursuing this policy of british petroleum or b.p. would be a 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 denise 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 iraq 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 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 down 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 owned ready enough that there was only ten percent of it it is a key part of europe's attempt to diversify our energy sources and our energy base

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's 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 so. long enough even at the recent press conference of the. 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 it can give you my opinion but i think they will default you know effectively. that's being imposed on the bondholders at the moment 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 and leave the euro i did my view that it's probably the most effective way of doing that at the same time helping to save the rest of the eurozone but you know i'm not a member of the country just part of the euro zone so euro zone themselves but that seems to me to be the way that we're heading. that we delay this process the difficulties of being told that the u.k. wants to have a say in what you decide. to be careful of the way 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 germany contributing more than germany has said no to all of these suggestions and some would say that this behavior from germany is akin to bow. yeah. i would if i was a german politician i would. look at the fundamental democratic. to see.

this is the fundamental problem with the eurozone that was never resolved at the creation of it. i hope they will also continue to resist as well so that. where does that. push this forward are you. asking myself what is the point of. going to solve euro zone crisis at the moment the next crisis five years down the road if countries are persuaded to rein in. a fiscal deficit but you know this is going to take. to be implemented by.

a. country is that. there is going to provide a magic solution to a crisis that could explode in the next month or two. this is not. distracting attention from the very real things that need to be done to solve the current crisis. instead of addressing the fundamental problems. the crisis in europe none of these issues are being addressed by this 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 for to beef up that about two trillion euros do you think that. will be a big enough fire 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 amount of debt outstanding in those countries you can see that if i would not necessarily pick it up but this is a matter for the eurozone countries themselves to it was all going to be 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 in 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. in any event in any event no

negotiations whatsoever because it's pointless to get it you know it won't really raise very much money it will just drive the institutions away to other jurisdictions like new york or poor old geneva or something outside of the scope of this tax there are electronic transactions by the nature they can 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. it to deliver. maybe some european electorate are not so keen on it we're 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. my preference would be for some powers that are already in the european union to be devolved back to nation states. so i think we have integration . and in some respects gone too far and mr callahan thanks very much for sharing

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top stories this hour in r.t. russia's foreign minister warns the un security council will never approve foreign military intervention in syria but says never insisted returning the sound regime was a condition for peace and as the syrian opposition rejects a chance for talks with the country's president and threatening the assad family with a brutal and bloody end. the u.s. military presence in the asia pacific region will threaten to backfire in the philippines which is offered to host more american troops in china daily has called for sanctions against the on a nation for creating tension in the region. and this is first e.u. summit exposes deepening divisions within the union with predictions they'll grow even deeper that's despite most members agreeing to fiscal restrictions that critics say is an affront to sovereignty and democracy. as are the headlines i'll

be back with news bulletin in full in about fifteen minutes from now in the meantime kate is next with the latest sports. hello welcome to the tuesdays for round up with just hours to go on transfer deadline day and yet other headlines time running out russia's strike that pavel pogrebnyak is on the verge of joining pulling out of the transfer window slams shot . while staying put the libyan manager would govern but it is set to remain with the twice for russia calgarians help that he wanted to quit because i. am getting ready to rumble the patriots in the johns riding indianapolis educate super bowl showdown on sunday. the first football of the salk a variety and with the transfer deadline now just hours away russia's striker

probably got up new york is reported to be heading back home to get a british visa after completing his move from stuttgart to english premier league side following the twenty eight year old has passed a medical in germany before putting pen to paper for the cottages the russian has scored only fifteen goals for the bundesliga side in sixty eight appearances getting just once this season and was left out of stuttgart three nil and defeats to burst you mentioned blood back on sunday but the forward needs more match practice ahead of this summer's european championships in public and to pray and call for the manager martin we all says he wants to bolster his attacking options. now about rio is one of many in the pipeline but of those completed so far sunderland have signed manchester city left back wayne bridge on loan until the end of the season while getting midfielder kevin to boeing has completed his move to chelsea on a five and a half year contract that he will remain with the belgian club to june but then have signed marcus also twin brother of martin on a free transfer from the swedish side homes that keep me on have signed thirty year

old last year and full medical strike if you will see say a two and a half year contract for undisclosed fee and defender the ridgewell joins west brom from coming in. other room a new thing clued mattias even decide rome is experience midfielder that the designer i want to preload to the rest of the season while croatia strike i did he say yeah love it seems that the rangers for everton the toughest guy got me some are possibly going to top them these books this place to have dropped and it's. not elsewhere ac milan about their latest signing strike i'm actually lopez the twenty seven year old has described milan as a dream club after joining them on loan from fellow italians like to come near the striker who holds both argentinian and italian citizenship first for photos with finance chief executive briana galliani who also refused to rule out the possibility of signing call us so much a city. services the road is not full steam. 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 never know what is happening in the world meanwhile back in russia coached over by the other except to stay at the helm of twice former russian champions are being after the club's board of trustees turned down his resignation letter while their press officer has said that the letter never existed well the fifty nine year old manager allegedly wanted to quit after disputes with the management over budget and transfer policies ravine apparently fifth in the domestic week i will play a little p.r. course in the last six or last thirty two i should say of the europa league on february the fourteenth. when the lunch to city manager roberto mancini has been boosted by the return of band captain vincent kompany for this tuesday's premier li trip to everton city hold a three point lead at the top over rivals manchester united and a points over top no one cheney thinks the title race is between the top two. so i did that is difficult for the other because maybe if he was you that the united.

or the games i think that is really the feeling of the sixteen games if you can also that they're getting them before there is the data about the moment. well with the top forty not sure this tuesday night united could join city as joint leaders if they could all traffic and city stumble through only their third defeat of the season they want third place top another host rock bottom fourth place chelsea will have to deal with that injured captain john terry as they go to swanzy is lost only once i'm stuff all this season while liverpool could catapult himself into the top five should then when the wolves took the chance of european football being the top priority. he'd move to sixteen league games left. cote for an away. move. from the cup to go home to my brain there's

a lot for us to play for the season and certainly the qualification for the champions league sport is one of the small the best thing to do there's more should be possible because it's good this season for everybody as we can. well meanwhile over the africa cup of nations as they an historic rate of pursuit don't they beat back enough outside to want to claim their first victory at the tournament the forty three years and getting to the quarter finals following and i can defeat and bad draw the winner sounds first event since beating is going to end nineteen seventeen finals because champions as they also get through to the knockout stage thanks to ivory coast also beating angola to nail the obvious had already sealed their last eight spot a game early so the fans were no relaxed mood before that final group game with angola and were also given a real treat the mother of cancer. killer to help cook lunch her round sixty supporters of the fourteen hundred. living to trip to watch them pick up their third win out of three elephants school next play co-host equitorial guinea on

saturday. while gaga was rested in the two male angola win but his former chelsea teammate did have a good day's work out in spain as the thirty three year old frenchman turned his new side shanghai shin wa were put through their paces as a trainee kalimat anthea experienced striker was the first man to leave the blues after the arrival of manager and the revelation for us and has become one of the biggest foreign acquisitions in the chinese league had also been linked to the fast rising club before signing a one year extension to stay it sounds of bridge until at least the summer. staying with football and the current investigating the death of former wales manager gary speed says the former midfielder might have killed himself accidentally and not committed suicide cornell a close reinberg said the cause of death was by hanging and said speed with a makeshift ligature around his neck that may have slipped or stepped from the star case leading to his loft the inquest heard that days before his death the forty two year old former player had texted his wife louise and talked in terms of taking his

life but later dismissed it the couple had also had a rout on the night before his death on november twenty seventh. moving on to motor sport now a formula one supremo bernie ecclestone his pushing hard to get russian driver vitaly petrov in the sport ahead of the new season with all of us being frozen out of the lead to run a team now hart former world champion can be like him and that's the russian's manager. says ecclestone the skills of the throw off to stay in formula one the eighty one year old wants to promote the sport to russia and such he will host the country's first born prix in twenty fourteen who mean well but they're all few finished tenth in last season's championship denies he's joining the coaching team for the tour signed so far a. well of form of force india drive one hundred and so is also without an f one driver while the children has also just been handed an eighteen month suspended sentence for last year's ball with the team. just when i think that everything looks such it was found guilty of cutting logs in the neck with

a champagne glass at a nightclub in shanghai after the chinese contrie in may and will also pay a fine of more than two hundred fifty thousand dollars. the n.b.a. now in the memphis grizzlies have slumped to their force defeat in a row after an eighty three points to seventy three loss to the san antonio spurs despite having played just twenty four hours before the spurs showed no signs of sluggishness bonus three point two in the second quarter established a comfortable thirty one nineteen eight and the advantage with ten points at the break helps all this colella dunk someone trying out another looks like relinquishing their lead danny graves three pointer in the final quarter but some of the women ages three to seventy three again the final score san antonio and are sixth in the western conference memphis at ten. staying in america and the new york giants have arrived in indianapolis ahead of super bowl forty six where they'll face the new england patriots at the lucas oil stadium next sunday

the game will be a repeat of the two thousand and eight final which saw the giants beat the patriots and small new england perfect season get it all quarterback eli manning was among the first to get off the plane both sides coming into this year's championship in strong form the patriots have prevailed in the last ten matches in a row of the giants also boast a five game winning streak coach 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 in this wonderful super bowl week of our conducting our babies and practices year acclimating our players to the surroundings have enough to really get over the stadium tomorrow for me day so we're excited to get things started for me while the patriots are out on sunday and they're also prepared to spend the next few days working hard but also intend to enjoy the unique showpiece. great to be here i grew doris where you play you know super bowls incredible experience for all of us

and i've been very fortunate my career to be my fifth time and you know you try to communicate to the younger players so special it is to be here because you really do never know when you're going to come back and that's that's what makes for a fun week even deal with you guys for another week is fun for the players had us all this postseason saving i think. you know 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 harpur welcome to the big picture.

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