of francois mitterrand and also john chancellor kohl knew the project was incomplete and they expected that those who would follow them will complete the project but what do instead is the development of tremendous imbalances between the into the eurozone countries it is not possible to expect the german who will always have a surplus unless of the counties such as greece and portugal have deficits ok and therefore this is how we created the let me growth padron let me jump. in here i mean people i mean we just heard that other countries would follow the it would follow the political union thing but people didn't vote for that i find that inherently undemocratic and that giving people a choice ok i mean what happens when you go in the next going comes in in greece are they going to vote against the the this austerity package they are head of course they are and not only in greece we already hear echoes of this in france

this is where francois hollande the leading member of the opposition who looks likely to win the next presidential race and france is already saying why do we have to have the sauce and i think this is the key you can see the leaders signing up for it because the exchange is clear in germany you give me the cash to survive given my debt province i'll give you my sovereignty but will the public actually comply will they agree to accept the pain of the susteren and will they agree to submit the most important sovereign aspect which is your first school your budget to technocrats in brussels that are not answerable to your population through a ballot box so i think that although there are many europeans who would like to see a united states of europe there are many who would not and this question is what did we all signed up for the issue today is the. that burden is so severe that people

will sell their sovereignty for cash right now but will they actually deliver what germany is expecting and i fear that we're going to have a meltdown have a breakdown because even though they promised they're not going to deliver. also in london i mean i do what is the political will right here because it seems to me and pippa is absolutely right you know merkel just wants to win the next election is not a cozy is praying he's going to get in and then we'll worry about it then i mean it's kicking the can down the road to keep taking it down because the politicians have no political will they have no. fortitude to really deal with this issue because again the at the end of the day it is bailing out banks the bankers get paid everybody else gets screwed. well the issue goes back to what we started our discussion on which is the political will and it's interesting the latest couple of comments because we need to bear in mind that currently greece and spain and italy story they have governments that are not necessarily democratically elect their

technocratic prime minister they both have prime ministers who were technically imposed by germany and france and i'm not sure that if we were having an election tomorrow the result will be that you know the greeks would like mr barber the most as a prime minister and the would like a mario monti as a prime minister you might have a very different result there and it looks like there is a trend develop we mean in some other southern european countries like spain and portugal we've seen the results of the elections in spain that's completely changed what was happening in the prime minister role so i think having him having a union means that you need to think about all your members and you need to be inclusive and at the moment the problem with the european union is that although stages in its inception was going to be an inclusive union giving to the less

developed member states opportunities to develop sort of structural funds through the financing that the commission of the law established back in the eighty's and we now move to a union which is basically dominated by two if not one country doing whatever they want keeping the common currency low because we need to put that into the equation germany right now has significant exports because their currency the euro is a is a low cut answer them ok guys i mean i was going to dollars mark i'd like to go to people saying here it's a low current it's a long car and see actually four of the four of the four germany very high current see for. your gold in greece and ireland ok there's a definite article is there of activity difference here i want to say here just to be really provocative here and i don't want to be mean spirited at all but it looks like the germans won the second world war in europe paper what do you think about that well look i think i think that there are

a lot of people who are going to look at it that way i think the fundamental issue here is that this is the end of the social welfare state in europe outside of germany not because people are choosing to end it but because they have run out of money to pay for it and i think the critical social question that confronts each of these countries individually is what will be the new deal between the citizens and their state about what is the state going to deliver because the state is not going to be able to deliver retirement at the old age it is not going to be able to deliver the pension benefits that everybody had expected and it's not going to be able to deliver the same size of a civil service that's going to shrink and so these are massive domestic political social questions and personally being american and free market i think this is in one way a very very important episode in history the end of the social welfare state in southern europe is going to give

a blast of oxygen to the entrepreneurial class which i welcome but it's a massive social dislocation and therefore we have to understand that's going to. go through but you have no choice if you have no money ok dimitry jump in there it's a very interesting thesis we just heard but you know but do you know that it's not the end of the world in germany or even friends it is on the end of the well everywhere and it's we're imposing on greece and portugal and ireland and that is not why the eurozone or european union supposed to be united states of the in the united states of america new york sends a lot more tax dollars to the federal treasury that the receives in terms of government expenditures on law. like delaware in the in the opposite direction he receives a lot more than you'd sense to the federal treasury so you cannot have a euro zone. with only one power to dictate the terms of the game

so clearly one's ones the governments begin to understand it is it you say there is an intellect and the ideological shift if you look at the last polls in greece you will see that the left has been gaining as well as the altar right now this is not a healthy situation and i am sure that you will see the same thing in portugal and you will see alternately the same thing in as you're seeing in france for the socialist actually present there and headed to gain support against mr sarkozy who did it has no idea what a european leader was spectacular leadership is supposed to be ok so clearly you will see a transient transformations that will to be taking place interesting frank is close in london again do what dmitri had to say following on paper is fascinating because what we have is the center the middle dropping out everywhere and we have going to extremes i mean this whole currency crisis and debt is creating a really intense political crisis as well because people are looking for written

answers that have not been usually considered in the center. well when people are looking for answers the problem is that in greece for example people are looking to demonstrate their way that they did these like the government the current government so effectively you don't seem forward thing happening because the left or their right wing parties have a solution to offer it's basically evolved i guess the current government and against the current situation so the problem with with all of these southern european countries any goes back to you know what these are started see as what what is the politicians strategy he's all right what is the alternative and we've we've talked about a common fiscal policy in european union the key question for me there is who's going to be responsible for that are we going to establish a treasury in brussels are we going to give more power to brussels are we going to

increase the democracy deficit that we already are on in your eyes and you way too many more questions we have time to answer i want to meet all nine years old still only because my guess it today in london and in new york and thanks to our viewers for watching us here are to see you next time and remember crosstalk.

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syria brushes off fresh arab league initiatives targeting the assad regime while washington is thought to be the bring up for military action. nothin's approves draconian new austerity measures as the city explodes with rage at war protesters say the sounds of national sovereignty to foreign interests. and tainted by so ca sion the ethics of london's twenty twelve olympic games undermined by controversial sponsorship deal with a chemical giant the infamous plant is austin which claimed tens of thousands of lives in india.

on air and online twenty four hours a day this is o.t. . the mascot swiftly rejected a brand new arab league package of initiatives on syria the proposal backs the opposition and calls for a joint arab un peacekeeping force in the country on caesar nicholas cover ports now from cairo where the league was meeting. tightening the sanctions which are already in place aborting the observers mission which was halted earlier in january and of course bringing in peacekeepers the u.n. peacekeepers interest syria these are the three main points which the arab league has come up with during their meeting and the arab league has also called on the stronger backing for a position the fact they all rallied to their support just for the opposition there is also the so-called saudi arabia draft resolution which may be discussed at the u.n. general assembly in new york on monday and there are reports that this resolution

isn't that much different from the draft resolution which the u.n. security council was trying to adopt but which was also vetoed by russia and china earlier this month syrian opposition fighters have received really strong support not just from the arab league members but also from some of the morning expected sources for example from al qaida and some intelligence from iraq officials suggest that in fact al qaeda militants are fighting alongside their armed rebels in syria of course you have to remember also the increasing pressure from washington d.c. just recently the u.s. state department has published photographs those photographs show the artillery and tanks are situated in the syria what exactly those photos were supposed to prove is not quite clear as most people by now have seen the actual pictures and images after xander tillery on the ground of course we have to think back to these so-called friends of syria which isn't quite completely formed coalition but it's

a sort of an alliance of several countries including the arab league states who are being strongly supported by the united states and france and u.k. who are going to be meeting in tunisia later this month in order to discuss the further actions that they should be taking in regards to syria of course moscow stands on the matter continues to be. leaving it up to the syrian people to decide what they want to do with their own country who is assistant dads all sides involved to call for. so ladies should lay down their arms and resolve this issue of violence peacefully. author and journalist thinks the u.s. and al qaeda could end up fighting side by side in syria to safeguard common interests but once again the united states and european union states as usual supporting al-qaeda as they did in afghanistan prior to nine eleven will they never learn it is shocking to hear american statesman like john mccain calling for

intervention presumably u.s. troops and al qaeda side by side fighting against president assad of syria this really shows up what exactly the americans are up to they are not protecting the interests of u.s. citizens and or european union leaders our very statement to back any armed attacks we saw with lethal consequence in aleppo twenty eight dead in december forty four dead in damascus this is this is getting out of hand this is getting dangerous. for us has continued its calls for regime change saying it's only a matter of time before the assad government collapses and if history shows washington may find a way around the baron's including the u.n. if it decides to push through its agenda on syria. what's in a mandate having failed to reach international consensus on syria it's been a complete waste of time washington prepares to act around the u. way for the time being the administration firmly rules out any form of u.s.

military intervention in syria but the pentagon is busy laying out an attack strategy on syria just in case should the president call for action experts say history shows the absence of international consensus would not be an obstacle to washington if it decides to go ahead with intervention the united states sees the u.n. as a tool of convenience if the u.n. is supple and going along with the united states then the united states is fine to have a u.n. sanction for its actions but when the u.n. and the people of the world or the countries of the world resist then the united states says the u.n. is unwilling to do its job and then uses other instruments like nato or other military arrangements they did that in the case of yugoslavia they did that in the case of the iraq war whenever the u.n. doesn't go along the u.s. then says well to heck with you one will use some other instrument for the exercise of american power last year the u.n. security council authorized me to protect civilians in libya but the mission

resulted in regime change the libyan authorization of force was very specific and it didn't authorize regime change in the countries that partook in their operation clue you know actually it's for exceeded the u.n. mandate and their operation i think that's symbolic of the fact that these libya that these u.n. mandates really are meaningful in terms of international law and that's just the reality of it nato countries have flooded libyan rebels with weapons despite a u.n. arms embargo u.s. government wants the u. one but they want the u.n. to do the u.s. bidding way in the united states uses the united nations in regard to be israeli palestinian question is very emblematic when the united nations passed resolutions which it has done repeatedly demanding that the israelis get out of the west bank and earlier gaza and earlier this summer. the united states didn't enforce those resolutions they didn't demand that they be enforced when it came to the united nations saying the palestinians have a right to be recognized the united states acted as if there was

a crime against humanity that the united nations there take up the issue of palestinian rights we can see here a manipulation of the united nations when it does what the united states wants fine but when it stands with the palestinian people which it has repeatedly over and over again then the united states government republican or democrat found a way to condemn the united nations. the u.s. also did not support the resolution on syria put forward by russia which would call for all sides in the conflict to stop the violence and to start a dialogue instead it chose to take sides in a civil war. one might describe the u.s. attitude towards the u.n. as use it if needed go around it if you don't like it but while an almost carte approach to the world body might suit washington it makes for a bad recipe for ability i'm going to check on reporting from washington r.t.

well more in-depth discussion on the standoff in syria coming up in around twenty minutes from now but investigative journalist someone stanley he says there's no unity in the opposition that calls for military intervention on supported by the facts but here's a taste of that interview. although both sides deny differences in in military intervention essentially in political differences there is different trends in the syrian opposition mainly between people who support outside intervention and protest. so you've got groups like the syrian national council which are now openly in favor of a no fly zone which to me seems ridiculous because you know there isn't any even right now the syrian regime for all its many crimes there's no claims that it's people so no fly zone just seems a political pretext to invade. an unprecedented humiliating sun out of greece's sovereignty in future just

a few greek protesters off the approval of a massive new austerity package that was passed running battles tore through the capital with dozens of buildings looted the torched body. out of three hundred m.p.'s one hundred ninety nine voted in favor any of those who rebelled thrown out of the party's those thirty measures were demanded by greece's international creditors for a second one hundred thirty billion euro bailout things needs the cash to pay off interest on its massive debts to keep its rapidly shrinking economy from defaulting . mr. explains more from the capital. the greek no make yours finally passed this back and it was a crucial vote always have seen violence hard violence in the streets of athens it was the worst day since the violence we had the in two thousand and eight we have seen i guess young people who did who did the youth breaking marbles

throwing molotov cocktails and then their policemen answering or throwing tear gas is we have seen fires all in the streets are around the scene that must wear on greek parliament they have. also looted many many stores around around the streets and these masers include even a lowering the minimum wage by twenty percent this is very hard because the net wage. that somebody will receive its four hundred euros and with unemployment. being much higher than twenty percent so people say that they will not stay at home they will continue to react they will continue to demonstrate on the other hand people are really angry and we expect more violence while germany's finance minister wolfgang schauble has declared that

promises aren't enough anymore saying that greece must now implement reforms to prove it's not a bottomless pit but petra young from investment consultants t.v. advisers says whatever happens in greece there's no saving it from a collapse that will be felt across europe. in every possible respect greek greece is not a tragedy i didn't do and the reason for that is simply because the reason no way that they're going to be able to implement whatever austerity they're talking a fight against such a backlash of public opinion whatever happens there the problem for the rest of the euro zone is that knowledge we have to basically prepared to defend the whole integrity of the euro and actually if you read what's been said behind the behind closed doors you can see there's a spirit that you know what we may have to do three we may even have to end up ditching portugal from the euro zone but we're we have to defend is italy and that's really going to fall on the shoulders of the technocrat mario monti and this

is going to be our cataclysmic event during the course of the later see a problem does the euro survive at the moment i think probably a shrunken euro it's sixty forty it can do but ultimately we're going to see swinge in recession even worse than the recession radar that we've already been receiving through why do european union and that's bad for everybody in the world ultimately within the next maybe it weeks greece is going to be forced to default and that's going to be quite cataclysmic well arty's cost or program also focuses on greece's financial predicament coming your way in thirty g.m.t. the costs of the bailout rescue. the exchange is clear in germany you give me the cash to survive given my debt problem and i'll give you my sovereignty but will the public actually comply will they agree to accept the pain of the susteren or and will they agree it is to move the most important sovereign aspect which is your

their school your budget to technocrats in brussels that are not answerable to your population through and that means they're not managing the going to mean there's nothing and that's why they're mites might be provocative here but that's always the. the front. he's assessed the country's education system examine its health care the foundations for new housing policies and how his latest prediction manifest to putin lays out his plans for social reform in russia. has some of the details of his proposed changes. a lot of me if it was outlining his plan for social change in russia should he be elected president in march now the main areas he's been looking at the education system in the country also paying those who educate no teachers and doctors with long being among the groups in russia that don't really get the

the levels of pay we see in other countries he outlined a plan that could see them your c.v. a two hundred percent pay increase by twenty eight seen with pensions also an issue that vladimir putin was addressing one in every eight russians lives below the poverty level and many of those all of pension age now we also heard him discuss birth rates to give more money to families to encourage them to have a second child all those extra children are going to mean that they've got to be more houses and housing was another issue that the prime minister was addressing saying that around two thirds of the cost of buying a house in russia at the moment could actually go towards well the shady end of the construction industry something which he wanted that he stomped out in order to allow more people to buy their own homes but all of the reporting that you have to r.t. dot com for the latest updates comments and many of the stories you might have missed here's a hint of what's lined up few online spectacular photos from japan rising to its

feet once again eleven months after devastating and spot news of the stock. and sky high ambition for russia would be aviation capital if the city that well thought explains turned down the gauntlet to its competitors. the spirit of the twenty twelve olympic games may now be marred by a sponsorship deal with dow chemical the company many believe a moral debt to victims one of the worst ever industrial disasters in bhopal india ati's are bennett looked into the toxic legacy that the games are adopting the controversial new partnership. organizers claim is the greenest most sustainable

a limb pick games ever but a poisonous cloud of controversy hangs over london twenty twelve because of links to this the bhopal gas leak one thousand nine hundred four one of the worst industrial disasters of all time the left a toxic legacy still claiming lives the company responsibles now owned by dow chemical a major olympic sponsor meredith alexander was part of the game's ethics watchdog but has just quit in protest all of it is supposed to be about more than yours and instead all of us are going to have the toxic legacy of dow chemicals. fifteen thousand people died when poisonous gas leaks from a factory in rural india the subsequent fallout killed another ten thousand congenital birth defects in the area a ten times the norm in the rest of india far was ten at the time the gas she

inhaled left permanent damage and. how it would open hand the money has been. far got just one thousand dollars compensation part of a four hundred seventy million dollars payout in one thousand nine hundred nine by union carbide the factory owners dow chemical company in two thousand and one but denies any lingering liabilities but the indian government disagrees demanding down stumps up one point six billion dollars to clean up the contamination that lives on people's building that water that has been contaminated. by factory children are being born with deformities people have more cancers there's growth. boy there's there's girls have a problem with their periods all kinds of issues that have.