project ever since john boehner started back in the olden days of jamming having elites jam it down on the public and they're all the elites have been consistently terrified of allowing referendums help out our scottish national party friend if the scotland achieves independence will you allow the people of scotland to vote on whether to stay in the european union and ask our labor party fred why not let the people of scotland vote on that and why not let the people of the united kingdom as a whole vote on that why should laws be made in brussels that apply to people in the united kingdom or in scotland if it's independent when the people of scotland in the united kingdom have never consented to surrender their sovereignty to a bunch of bureaucrats in brussels ok i can if you want to go you want to answer one of those questions or both is a completely separate to be i mean some of the things that have been mentioned here are complete annoyances in l.a. to police i've been in politics for three years six to view the sixteen and i was in the late to do it was in of and i've never had

a single person come to me ask me for a lot to beating forward you seem to think i should be a focus of a political party i joined the s.n.p. because i want to go on to an equal nation among all of the c.n.a. to nations on an equal police and the european union in terms of related health boards we brought in a couple years ago i don't know where the professor's been and i don't know if he's keeping in touch but talking about central planning. no political party in the u.k. is in favor of central planning. all the countries all the political parties are active in parliament and westminster and indeed i actually believe in the mixed economy to one degree or another so i think that professor is completely out of touch with viewpoint on these issues in terms of the european union i think it's preposterous to suggest that if you in europe somehow you know independent friends notably did not send troops to iraq and independent scotland if we'd been in power would not have done so that's real independence not having. weapons on your soil

the decision not to have them is real independence having control of. your social security system pain sions you know that is independence of having a role and in the world i mean do you see the silly seriously think we are going to all of somalia to police commissioners of all gold and give all. but who is this guy going to go on with william william if you listen to it william here what about when it was how i was the reverse engineer was when you know it themselves are not so wound up about this issue i mean obviously the scots are but there's a lot of it i wouldn't say indifference but it's not an issue that you have fire in your belly about or maybe i'm wrong ok i mean the average englishman is not overly worried about scotland staying in the united kingdom. i think there is a sense in england of more particular english identity when i attended a really interesting discussion which the institute for public policy research organized into this the same lost last week but i think there is great support for

the united kingdom staying together still in terms of the e.u. i mean i must disagree i mean i think there are. three and a half million jobs that depend on us having a positive relationship with the e.u. one of the benefits that we have of being part of britain is that our relationship with the e.u. is stable and secure there is a great legal who will in one way or people with. an independent scotland game with an independent is going to magically state it would have to rebut it with an independent counsel appointed how it would have to be a member of the european union it would have to do with your re exception process and why it's already in it there's a huge downside it's already huge doubt about that it's already in the euro it is already look at a work on the hard very hard and book of scottish independence by joseph martin's he expresses doubt if you look at the hughes how it was one of the s.n.p. his favorite economists well i'm surprised you're one of the first ministers favorite color missy relies on him to back a bit ahead of you time line of the innocent and that's always said this alleged

time easy i mentioned i've never had it i've never seen it ok what is completely. saluted by a copy today of kenneth wood well if you will be named the it in for some part of the european union all right croatia is showing up to go into the single currency as part of its conditions for entry latvia is joining the euro we haven't already seen that is the possibility we're not in the possibility they're going through a recession process you lose the u.k. octo and in principle in the end you have to say not as being part of the year i don't think i'll be in scotland ok david what do you think about it is rubbish ok i'll go to you and i get the scottish people vote on this but aren't you already in the european union there. already in the european union why would they have to re reply they are there for a vote that the scottish people devore voted on that professor baines rense a very good as a law when i was a law professor was a voluntary scholarship in criticizing the concept cross of the trusteeship decide

which is the city of the us he prisoners of war can rule people without their consent for their supposed old good why are the scottish people are good enough to vote on whether they're going to be ruled from london why don't they have the right to vote on whether they're going to be ruled from brussels nobody ever asked them to vote on that what are rightly these are issues and you did a. poll and the it was one nine hundred seventy five and you know these issues are decided it. was parties who stand their parties who stand who want to take britain out of the european union and they are humiliated to every single general election that happens so i think the vast majority of the british people want to stay within the european union we do have to reform the e.u. look you are right it does have become more democratic we have to look at strange thing there was somebody going to elect today. ok go ahead jump in with scala needs a voice strongly the voice of the european you know it's preposterous but

luxembourg which is lying through is able to send someone to the council of ministers to talk about and scotland is a huge fishing industry and yet we're not allowed to be presented and to suggest really that scotland would be an exception to the scene we can use you can see up to any instances professor milnor well can he sell directly to that coalition twenty five years ago. william guy had any you ought to look you ought to look at what the head of the scottish fisherman's federation betty armstrong has been saying in the last twenty four hours he has said that he was warned and felt that scotland going independent would mean that we would have fewer votes in the european council to discuss fisheries much as estonia you've got the fishing industry worried about our lack of influence we how do european you know voice and the more we all seem to be able to install the united kingdom through the usa going to school when the tories when it is up to you but i jolly the. fashion industry

but you remember. jimmy let me. just let me if you're in here union is signing up to the common fisheries policy i want to i'm going to be a shooting anymore so i don't want to talk about an issue any more i want to talk about an official of the european union david thank go to you ok we have this issue with scotland we have an issue also in belgium where we have. a fragile state to say the least here what is the future we are going to see more states with with what we see is the european union and we are going to fragment even more and is that a good idea but maybe it is a good idea because it might be more democratic as you pointed out well but putting aside whether we say split belgium in half and then we can divide antwerpen in half again to sort of recreate the previous division of germany able to a belgian version i think the e.u. has some long some short term stability problems because greece among others. it was well known to the euro krauts that the greece find great financial figures when

greek came into the e.u. were absolute frauds and that the greek system was not sustainable and then finally the rest of the world has found that out and now you have the question about whether they're going to try to force ultimately the european central bank and the taxpayers of scotland and germany and the rest of the europe to bail out this praful get your response of great government that has led the country to ruin so i'm surprised that both the so determined about how they were going to keep scotland in the european union one way or another when this is an institution which in its free trade side has been very good i would say for all of europe but is based on lies and fraud about the financial conditions of these welfare countries like greece which exist only because the workers in other countries have to work even harder so they can bail out the government workers in

greece but i'm going to we're almost out of time we're almost out of time but if i want to go do you keep you informed people will do the referendum in two thousand and fourteen and will be in the u.s. i think i'm forty seven independence has been forty seven independence referendums that only forty five forty two have been been won by the party of independence because people want to vote for something positive and something negative of the five that were lost montenegro in malta vote for independence subsequently a few years later i believe twenty years from no wonder all the fuss was about the fifty one members the united nations and one thousand nine. hundred ninety three we want to go into one hundred ninety fourth and clear out all the will be a chair in the general assembly for you many thanks to my guest today in denver edinburgh and in london and thanks to our viewers for watching us here r.t. see you next time and remember.

back to basics. oppression economic punishment from president assad syrian regime to push through a polarizing un resolution. modern technology to support political activism prime minister putin goes on life has begun to improve russian democracy. wind of change and not as the country's russian minority prepares for its first political battle in a long struggle for basic rights. with

well nisa much more you know with the welcome to the program the european union is preparing a new batch of sanctions against syria which the french foreign minister says will be the harshest yet it comes after an e.u. backed resolution that could have paved the way for military intervention was struck down at the u.n. meanwhile in syria security forces say they've cleared all but two positions strongholds around the capital seizing past caches of arms and explosives along the way to position fighters in these have also reportedly attacked a number of army bases and police patrols with conflicting reports of casualties fighting has reached a peak in the past week hundreds more to know. and some disturbing images. each video social networking sites have for the past ten months being one of the i. to vist he means and offering the

world glimpses of the violence that's torn through syria actually his goods report how we got the brick through and we've just seen pictures which the b.b.c. can't verify the same many differing numbers and reports getting to the bottom of what's really going on there's a major challenge even from inside the country. that if. the head of the u.n. security council showdown this weekend and the violence in syria seem to reach fever pitch with activists reporting a massacre in homs that was all over the headlines and watched with horror by people worldwide initially the death toll that night was put over two hundred there could be as many as two hundred just in the last hour or two that was later significantly downgraded strict access policies that have made it difficult for

many foreign networks to get their correspondents into the country to collect evidence at the end of last year i leveled this criticism at the foreign minister's spokesman we've never been in the media by the way. because of the objectivity we've been filtering but you how can you justify for instance you on the people relying on you to. broadcasting one side even though or even on you tube well you have also atrocity committed by the elements it's true that to a large extent mainstream coverage of the pro-government can has been pretty sparse this graphic video appears to show every gene supporter being hanged with any clear picture of exactly what's happening in syria right now it's hard to know what the western allies that the u.n. basing their assertions on was not really about genuine concern for human rights and democracy. this is all about regime change dissatisfied with the wording of the

resolution especially in china vetoed age the latest proposal many felt it contained disturbing a case of libya russia and china believe the do or a pin for foreign military intervention as a conflict between the two sides escalates the crisis in syria is becoming increasingly internationalized but any measures imposed from a player to try and put an end to the violence again has to be very careful not to make the same mistakes made in libya be seen to be backing one so it was increasingly looking like. the must get syria. where despite the failure of the un resolution to pass summary and hopeful that time before start using force covert ways one such u.s. presidential hopeful newt gingrich believes america could arm and train the rebels to try to. doctor another political scientist thinks freedom is an issue.

it's an outrage for somebody to believe and enson insanity that during during the time of a u.n. resolution is being taking down toward syria the syrian government is going to actually crack down on homos this is definitely an act of terrorism done by the by the by the gangs that this already been getting money and weapons from different countries so they can bring down this regime so this isn't an outrage for somebody to actually believe that the government is actually doing so for after their own people from the very beginning it was actually a conspiracy people need to know that syria is the only country left in the middle east that is actually with the resist any resistance movement that it's going on and basically what they need to do and what they're doing with their conspiracy is that actually bring down the regime and. to make president assad not be an

ally to iran and this is why president assad was never asked for any reform he was asked from the beginning to change the stances and if he'd done so and never and nothing like that would have ever happened. stay with us in a few minutes reveal the export of designer revolutions. ever since i've been traveling the world in teaching people how to get rid of their biskupic a. rising of the world around us and god by the us don't come here. the steady drumbeat of war coming from washington and stirring up global concern that victory against iran but on neutral. transparent interactive on the web savvy prime minister putin sees the future of russia's democracy as the outlines his vision for greater social economic

prosperity. this from his latest article. on this. what are the main points of the prime minister's article. good morning and the main idea of this latest article by the prime minister is that civil society in russia has grown and has developed and most importantly has become much more active compared to say ten years ago and according to the prime minister when it comes to the state on its behalf it's currently lagging behind and people do want to be more active they want to be a more horde of state life and especially off the decision making and discussions especially around new draft laws for example and what each of you are going to put in one of the platforms which has to provide society with the opportunity to be a part of this discussion is the internet do important says that all governments sites have to be more user friendly so that it would be much more easier for

internet users to discuss the draft laws and very important evaluate the effectiveness of this or that civil servants and this when we talk about laws for example this goes both for laws proposed by the states but also for draft laws which may be proposed by society itself and put into says that if an idea put forward by some internet users gains at least one hundred thousand signatures online then it has to be reviewed by the parliament as well and like i said evaluating civil servants right there on the spots especially the local governors or the heads of. judges which are appointed by the state. has to

be done as well and if society is not satisfied by the way they work then they have to be changed now also in the sort of the logical point in support of some of the initiatives put forward earlier by president need videos which are aimed at reintroducing the election of local governors and simplifying the rules for a registration for registering new political parties and so the prime minister says that one of the key points securely and which drives basically the development of democracy is competition and this competition has to be increased and it has to provide the conditions for the further development of democracy in russia you guys like you important remembers how it was in the ninety's say when many people wanted to become all the guards all now the situation

is that many people want to become civil servants because they see these visions as great opportunities for easy money this has to be changed according to the prime minister and competition is one of the most effective ways in order to improve this situation now another issue which is being. the attention on which is being aimed in this article is corruption and by going to poison is talking about plans to increase the wages for civil servants in exchange for their absolute transparency and. this is one of the also key points of this article and this is not forethought ago which has been published by the prime minister since he announced that he is going to run for president in march according to his press secretary dmitry peskov these articles are laying the

foundations for his money faster. ok ok scale fair thank you for that. well putin's article comes after more than two hundred thousand people including his supporters and opponents took to the streets across russia to voice their political views that's ahead of the presidential poll next month political analyst amaechi babiche says this isn't deeply rooted. it's mostly just emotions fueled by the media some people were obviously irritated seeing the same two faces on television maybe too much in the last few months especially some people were terrified when they saw their position and it's small and when they felt the hand of the west behind it so it's a small stream media driven there is no real cost struggle behind it there are people and reach people in both readings there are people all kinds of ethnic

groups involved so right now i think it's mostly a positive effect because it's sort of wakes up the government to the needs of the people so until now the consequences from are mostly positive i hope it will continue in that way if there is a real split in society of course it's not going to be good for the country. but you can catch more of that story and many more on our website r.t. dot com here's a look and what's waiting for you right now the russian retorted this makes the. rules. take the secret identity and hand them in the name. of what. business people in the sex dungeon you can work with you say it's all down to politics an economy story much more.

turkish tyree officials slam the notion of military action and ongoing western sanctions against iran and the new security conference in munich on that any armed conflict would be disastrous for the region whether it was named beirut based political analyst believes that iran's opponents are already focused on a confrontation. all the inspection by the nuclear agency. found that iran is actually weaponize in their system they are actually following the nuclear treaty agreement there is no violation to that end but no matter what they saying that sanction are coming at iran because that's a suspicion they are. no matter what they are justifying or opening their facility there is some judgment already been rendered against iran's

a brand said very clearly they're willing to cooperate with the international community but you have to wonder what really the international community at this point and what the american want to disappoint and as i said there's a lot of politics in it especially election. probably there is really coming that spread at this point because they think if you have one reach the level of capability of building the nuclear what then would be devastating for them. to catch up at this point and i think before six months we might we might heading into a major confrontation in the burgeoning gulf when about fifteen minutes time on r.t. an interview with the former head of israel's intelligence service he says to me then western leaders are tempted to demonize iran in order to stoke panic and suspicion surrounding the islamic state is

a taste of what's coming up. the leadership believes that in order to arouse international public opinion and in order to mount pressure upon the iranians it's necessary to impress upon the world at large public opinions of national public opinion this is a serious international threat and i believe that in this context probably the leadership here believes that using the word existing shal rings a bell which also brings you back to days gone by in the twentieth century. of nazi germany the world war two and of course the holocaust and. these apparitions these. pictures these experiences recalled in order to impress upon the world that maximum pressure should be mounted on the run.

is witnessing a growing outcry as the country's russian minority voices its anger over escalating state level discrimination you know hoping that an upcoming referendum could see russian fishley become the nation's second language move is seen by many as the first step on the long road to storing their basic political rights. as the story. this professor from a lot of you wants everyone in his country to have equal rights that's why here are no second thoughts when the initiative of a referendum to make russian the country second state language came up. with a can't accept the policy of true true to my friends from the russian minority those who also vaulted from independence in one thousand nine to one we were shoulder to shoulder back then but now they're being treated like garbage new citizenship for the jobs here. and for the referendum ethnic russians make up a third of a lot of the us population the idea of holding this referendum came after what they

describe as ethnic discrimination had reached a critical point almost twice as many signatures one hundred eighty thousand then they required ten percent of those eligible to vote work collectively if. nationalists initiated their own referendum to close russian schools in latvia they failed but it was a worry in cool that's why we gather signatures for a language referendum to legally protect ourselves after we did the ruling nationalists when hysterical trying to jeopardize the votes in the minority points to a recent statement by the country's president yes at the referendum means voting against large media as proof of escalating state level discrimination the nationalist camp denounces all such accusations however they believe their vote carries a threat to the country's sovereignty and are sending a stern warning. to shoot we allow these people to live in our territory.