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 deby i mean some of the things that have been mentioned here are complete annoyance assimulate to please i've been in politics thirty three years six to sixteen of those in the late to do it resent of never had a single person come to me ask me for a lot to beating forwardness seems 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 them to see the united nations on an equal police and european union in terms of related health boards were 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 uki

is in favor of central planning as he puts it all countries all the political parties are active in parliament and westminster and indeed holyrood 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're in europe somehow you know independent france 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 nuclear weapons on your soil the decision not to have them has real independence having control over taxation your social security system pain sions you know that is independence of having a role in the world i mean does he see the sli seriously think we're going to suggest or have some early to police commissioners of more gold and give our. people who is this guy. william william i view isn't it william here what about i don't know how i am. first question here is when you know you 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 they will in one hundred people will win independence can win a game with an independent it's going to magically state it would have to go to

rebut it would 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 difference it's already you've got about it already in the euro even if the if you 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 over here is how it was one of the s.n.p. his favorite economists well i'm surprised you're one of the first ministers favorite quote i'm a c. relies on him to back a bit ahead of you time line of innocent and that's always said this alleged time easy i mentioned i've never had it i've never seen it ok well this is completely you know it is you can. become saluted by a copy today again it would well if you would at least is to blame the it in for some paranoia. all right croatia is showing up to go into the single currency is part of his conditions for entry latvia is joining the euro we had 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 can i get the scottish people vote on this but aren't you already in the out here and you're. already in the european union why would they have to re reply they are to ever vote that the scottish people devore voted on that professor baines rense a very good as a lot when i was a lot of scholarship in criticizing the concept cross of the trusteeship decide which is the city of these are you currently producing as it were a nurse or can rule people without their consent for their supposed that old good why are the scottish people 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 has 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 let's learn. 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're right it does have become more democratic we have to look at strange thing there was somebody is going to relate today i mean. ok go ahead jump in with scala needs of voice still needs a voice in 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 stretching and strong is a huge fishing industry and yet we're not going to be presented and to suggest really that scotland would be an exception to the scene we can ease you can see 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 is warmed and filed 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 in the european you know voice and the more we all seem to be able to install the united kingdom through the usa i think it was going to wales that when the tories when it is up to you but i jolly the. fashion industry but you remember. jimmy jimmy here well gentlemen it. was just me but if you're in here union is signing up to the common fisheries policy i want to go i shouldn't 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're going to see more states with with what we see as 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 responsible great government that has led the country to ruin so

i'm surprised that both jane are so determined about how they are 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 i want to go do you keep hearing for people with the referendum in two thousand and fourteen and will be in the u.s. i think i'm sorry 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 and malta voted for independence subsequently a few years later i believe twenty years from now we're wondering what 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 at the scene x. time and remember. the

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on air and online twenty four hours a day this is r.t. the european union is preparing a new batch of sanctions against syria which the french foreign minister says will be the harshest yet comes after eve back to a solution that could have paved the way for military intervention was struck down at the u.n. also getting disturbing footage from the rebel stronghold city of homs which opposition sources say is being shelled by the syrian army. of casualties no this can't yet be verified. position fighters operating out of arms attacked a number of police patrols and on bases elsewhere in the country security forces say they plan to outpost near the capital seizing vast caches of arms explosives along the way. contained some of which is my understanding. each and social networking sites have for the past ten months being one of the

activists he means and offering the world glimpses of violence this tool in three syrian activist groups reports how we got the brick through and we've just seen pictures which the b.b.c. called verify the same many differing numbers and reports getting to the bottom of what's really going on is a major challenge even from inside the country. do you think the i think they think they're. right you think. that it was a head of the u.n. security council showdown this weekend and the violence in syria seemed to reach fever pitch with activists refusing 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 part that was later significantly downgraded strict access policies they 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 banned the media by the way. because objectivity we've been filtering a bit but you know how can you justify for instance you on the people relying on you tube and broadcasting one side even though or even on you tube you have. committed by the elements it's true that to a large extent mainstream coverage of the free government can has been pretty. this graphic video appears to show every. being hanged with really clear picture of exactly what's happening in syria right now hard to know what the western allies that the were 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 pressuring china veto the latest proposal many felt it contained a case of libya russia and china believe the do right foreign military intervention as a conflict between the two sides escalates the crisis in syria is becoming increasingly internationalized but any measures in place to try to put an end to the violence again have to be very careful not to make the same mistakes made in libya seems to be backing one side. looking like. well despite the failure of the u.n. resolution some remain optimistic that person can still be forced out u.s. presidential hopeful newt gingrich believes america could train the rebels to challenge ourselves real political scientist says the motives are suspect.

it's in the outrage for somebody to believe and it's an 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 their own people what's happening in syria and what happened elsewhere in libya is basically to bring it down and be what they need to do and what they're doing 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 had done so and never and

nothing like that would have ever happened. well stay with us in a few minutes we reveal the export of design revolutions. ever since i've been traveling the world teaching people how to get rid of their best dictator. that's bad it sounded uprisings were over the world on us got it about us that story coming out. and the steady drumbeat of war people coming from washington and tel aviv staring up global concern that that reaction against iran will jeopardize the future of the region. transparency interactive on the web serving that's probably just describe the future of russia's democracy the latest article detailing his electoral program he says the country should no longer tolerate a political circus the needs of the people being put on the back burner to go to school as teachers. well the main idea of the sort of go is that civil society in

russia has grown and developed and become much more active most importantly compared to say ten years ago and what comes to the state well it's a lagging behind at the moment people do want to be more active and have more influence on the political life and one of the mechanisms providing them with these opportunities is the internet and this is not only about the tens of thousands of people who now take to the streets for this or that rally is about millions of interest users in russia who over the past few years have become very active there is stories of blogs and forums videos all internet wars between political movements and all of them are going on on the web and the prime minister wants to see the role of the internet is influenced increase more user friendly government websites to provide proper bases for public discussion and not only on initiatives put forward by the state any person any internet user has to be able to put forward

their own draft law and if it gains say one hundred thousand approval signatures from other users it has to be reviewed by the parliament the internet also gives another opportunity to evaluate civil servants for example if locals of a district of any city are not satisfied with the way the head of the local police department works or a judge or even a principal of a local school they have to be able to voice their concerns on the web be heard by the authorities so that the civil servants can be substituted but let's move the web aside for a bit and our focus on all the initiatives like reintroducing the elections of local governors was initially put forward by the president and supported by the prime minister now another initiative in this sphere is easing the rules for registering new political parties which should make waiting for more competition but now this brings us to another problem of corruption and the prime minister is proposing to increase the salaries. civil servants in exchange for their complete

transparency and put together a list of the most corrupted jobs and it's in the ninety's many people wanted to become all the guards now there a need for civil servants because these positions are often viewed as possibilities to make easy money and if the prime minister. it's time for that to change as well this is the fourth article published since he announced that he is going to run for president during vote in march and together they put together. a running high in the run up to the presidential election with a wave of recent protests across russia political analyst. awareness. it's mostly just emotions fueled by the media some people were obviously irritated seen 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 its long and when they felt the hand or the west behind it so it's mostly media driven there is no real cost struggle behind it there are people and reach people in both radios there are people all kinds of ethnic groups in both races so right now i think it's mostly a positive effect because it sort of wakes up the government to the needs of the people. but i you can catch more on that story and much more on our website. and look at what's waiting for you there now on the russian street artist regulars opinions through his bureaus guerilla tactics the secret identity and nickname the russian banksy the british and. last one some us business people into sex dungeons and the workers who say it's all down to politics and the economy will store in much more of what you don't come.

to us and qatari officials criticize the notion of military action an ongoing western sanctions against iran and your security conference in munich they warn that any armed conflict would be disastrous for the region however it was named a 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 ing their system there are actually following the nuclear treaty agreement there is no violation to that end but no matter what they saying that sanction are coming because that's a suspicion they are. no matter what they are just

a fine or opening their facility there is some judgment already been rendered against you ran a round 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 day it's probably israeli coming that spread at this point because they think if iran reach the level of capability of building the nuclear what would be devastating for them. 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 an hour to an interview with the former head of israel's intelligence service he says

television western leaders are attended to demonize iran in order to stir panic and suspicion surrounding the islamic state here's a taste for what's coming up. the leadership believes that in order to arouse international public opinion in order to mount pressure upon the iranians it's necessary to impress upon the world at large public opinion the 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 if the stench will 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.

that fear is witnessing a growing outcries the country's aggression minority forces its anger escalating state level discrimination and now hoping that an upcoming referendum could see their language officially recognized it's viewed by many as the first step in the long road to restoring their basic political rights parties asking us to. this professor from a lot of wants everyone in his country to have equal rights that's why he had no second thoughts when the initiative of a referendum to make russian the country second state language came up. can't accept the policy of true true to my friends from the russian minority those who also voted for 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. ethnic russians make up

a third of the us population the idea of holding this referendum came after what they describe as ethnic discrimination had reached a critical point if the radical 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 flood to the. 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 move. we allow these people to live in our territory after the collapse of the u.s.s.r.

we said you can live here under certain conditions but if they are trying to alter the foundations of our state then we will have to be tougher and make new laws. and some lothians have already started to act this lawyer told us you have numerous reports of people being blackmailed from taking part in the voting those who would not talk on camera afraid of sanctions but. some are already scared to go voting their employer. there you see a stamp of the past bird and the two part in the land which were for random then he would immediately fire down. the russian speaking minority in latvia is estimated at three hundred thousand people out of the population of almost two and a quarter million another three hundred twenty thousand ethnic russians are classed as non-citizens and are forbidden from voting this ban experts say could prove to be crucial russian may become largely a second state language only if at least seven hundred fifty thousand people vote

for it organizers of the referendum say realistically there will be only half of that the result will be then deemed unconstitutional but may still become a major talking point lot of years russians hope that the referendum will help brussels notice their distress call and have a hard talk with the vote takes place on february eighteenth with a final official results a few days later. r.t. reporting from reader in large via. take a look at some other international headlines in greece greek party leaders will gather again to resume talks in a one hundred thirty billion rescue that comes after a meeting on sunday ended without any deal reached the country's prime minister lucas papademos seeking support for tough reforms as a condition for the pay that the board called this week to secure the package by march. an illegal medicine for he has collapsed mr stone to people.