it was germany germany and friends in the names of francois mitterrand and also john chancellor kohl knew that the project was incomplete and the expected result of those who would follow them will complete the project but what that instead we saw is the development of tremendous imbalances between the interim eurozone countries huge is not possible to expect the german who will always have a surplus unless other countries such as greece and portugal have that is it's ok and therefore this is how we've created the let me growth pattern the region being given here i mean people i mean we just heard that other countries would be it would follow that political union thing that people could vote for that i think that inherently undemocratic and that giving people a choice ok i mean what happens and then when the next kerry comes in in greece are they going to vote against the the this austerity package price their bread of

course they are and not only and greece we already hear echoes of this and france this is where francois hollande the leading member of the opposition looks likely to win the next presidential race and france is already saying why do we have to have this us there at eight 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 problem i'll give you my sovereignty but will the public actually comply will they agree to accept the pain of this us terry and will they agree to submit the most important sovereign aspect which is your let's call 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 why.

did we all sign up for this issue today is that the debt 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 because they've actually also in london i mean i've used it where is the political will right here because it seems to me and it was absolutely right you know merkel just wants to win the next election it's 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 just 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 of currently greece and spain and italy

story they have governments that are not necessarily democratically elected 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 top of the most as a prime minister and the would like for my own money as a prime minister you might have a very different result there and it looks like there is a trend developing in some other southern european countries like spain and portugal we've seen their exults of the elections in spain that's completely changed what was happening in the prime minister role so i think having him hugging 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 european union is that although each initial stages in its inception was going to be an inclusive union giving to the

less developed member states opportunities to develop some structural fans through their financing that's 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 is a low currency help them ok guys are very much gold going to market i to get a feel for the year it's a little currency and it's a lot currency actually for the for the for germany markets are very high currency for the. your goal in greece and ireland ok till there's a better that was is there of activity difference here i want to say here just be really provocative here and i don't want to be mean spirited at all but looks like the germans won the second world war in europe there but 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 the civil service that's going to shrink and so these are massive domestic political social questions 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 or to well come but it's a massive social dislocation and therefore we have to understand this can be very little you know it would 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 you know that it's not the end of the world for a state in germany or in france it is all you know is normal they went everywhere and as we imposing on greece and portugal and ireland if that is not what a euro zone or a european union supposed to be united states of in the united states of america new york sends a lot more tax dollars to the federal treasury good being the receives in terms of government expenditures on life. delaware and i've had these in the in the opposite direction he's receives a lot more than it says to the federal treasury so you cannot have a euro zone with with only one power to dictate the terms of the game

so clearly one's one's governments begin to understand the answer that you say there is and in the election 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 ultimately the same thing in as you are seen in france for the socialist action the 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 that on some transformations i would be taking place interesting frank is close and in london i can do what dimitri had to say following on pippa's 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 that 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 thing in greece for example people are looking to to demonstrate their way that they did because like the government the current government so effectively you don't seem faulting 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 these southern european countries and it goes back to you know what these are started see as what what is the politicians strategy is 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 i mean in your eyes and you wager many more questions here time here answer what i mean all time yes or slowly because my guess it today in london and in new york thanks to our viewers for watching us to see an example remember cross talk. to. me.

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today in harlem since once again flared up. these are the images the world is seeing from the streets of canada. for a shelter. israel accuses iran of being behind bomb attacks targeting israeli embassies in georgia and india which four people are reportedly injured and. russia says it regrets the arab league winding down the observer the war against syria and stresses a proposed peacekeeping mission can be deployed only once the government and opposition forces agree on a cease fire. fiery protests in athens followed by chaos and looting as public outrage escalates after the greek parliament says it was staring a bill to secure another round of the e.u. cat.

midnight in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has blamed iran for attacks on its diplomatic staff in the indian and georgian capitals for people reportedly injured in a car bomb blast in new delhi while in tbilisi the device was discovered before it went off or these tests are silly as were. details still trickling in as the investigation continues but what we do know so far is that there have been two car bomb attacks one in new delhi india one it's at least in georgia both targeting the israeli embassy now what we're going to georgia will stop before anything could happen the local embassy staff and found and it was defused before it could go off however in india it's a different case now the number of injured there risen at present it's now at four

and among the injured is a diplomat's wife to be nice the wife of the military attache is among the injured and she's now in hospital although her condition is not critical but as to exactly what happened according to eyewitnesses they saw a man on the motorcycle following the diplomatic car that's going to object after which the car exploded this explosion did happen less than a mile from indiana promiser muddleheaded singh's residents say they are currently looking for a have believed to be on that motorcycle now in terms of a diplomatic a statement prime minister israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu did come out rather quickly and a meeting of lawmakers saying that he believes that iran was behind both attacks on the israeli embassy now this is indian and georgian authorities are holding back until the investigation reveals more details some indian terror experts had expressed skepticism on the involvement of terror ross saying that it will be difficult to carry out such an attack without the involvement of local people and the region a bastard to india had also said the terror ron had nothing to do with it to put it

in context iran had also been blaming israel for a series of killings killings of scientists and officials related to the controversial nuclear program and the accusations are fuel to the flames were already rising international tension iran is currently facing harsh sanctions over its nuclear program the sanctions coming from the u.s. and its allies as well as the e.u. and these are all time and time again that if the sanctions against iran the words they are willing to be answered we're going up to a military level of course it is the backdrop of this international conflict international tension about such incidents such as today's car bomb attacks will be scrutinized and the implications analyzed. closely following the tension between israel and iran you can find more expert analysis on plenty of this on our website r.t.e. dot com. russia says a ceasefire is needed in syria before

a joint arab un peacekeeping mission can be deployed in the country the idea of the mission was put forward by the arab league at a recent meeting in cairo to moscow has rejected the plan after arab states also vowed to fully support the syrian opposition and cut diplomatic ties with the country's government or he's murray if an ocean has more from damascus. lots of problems in the original damascus who are furious over the initiative pushed forward by the arab league to send international peacekeeping force to syria calling this initiative act and flagrant interference in the in the country's internal affairs president bashar al assad blames the eleven month long bloody. crisis here in syria on the arab western conspiracy in support of the armed terror groups of great and here in the country and series of the to cairo where the ministers of the twenty two countries of the arab league were meeting has said has come out actually with very strong statements saying that this initiative by the arab league mirrors hysterics over the countries this

law is a good healer to secure the u.n. security council's interference in the countries in syria is internal affairs have to china and russia vetoed the resolution many of those we've managed to speak to here in damascus also fear that this initiative made pave the way to foreign military intervention something they're really afraid of and they're very much opposed to moscow has been very quick to react following the meeting with the foreign minister of the united arab emirates russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov that russia needs more information more details on this plan to consider how successful how effective it could be. but first in order to deploy a peacekeeping mission we need the agreement of the host secondly you should first be peace which the peacekeeping mission will be in help sustain things are not that

optimistic here in syria right now with partners escalating recently the terrorist number one the head of al-qaeda has that he bathilde card the facts of the uprising here in syria urging all the muslims of turkey lebanon and other countries in the region to get united to help the syrian opposition fight against. the syrian crisis also currently being discussed at the un general assembly or his artist our situation is following developments in new york. oh week after double veto came from russia and china on a syrian resolution at the security council we're seeing the saudi arabia and qatar attempting a symbolic push and another you one body the general assembly it consists of over one hundred nineteen members put it's important to keep in mind that it's not nearly as powerful as the security council where the resolution was blocked and

whatever document the general assembly would cost would largely be symbolic now is key to remember that russia and china blocked the resolution and that's pretty much the exact same text on the table of the general assembly because it said that the text was biased as it would not acknowledge the existence of armed groups on the groups on the ground i would only put the blame on the syrian government as well as called for the president of syria to step down and russia and china said it's really not the business of the international community to call for regime change and what's key in terms of what we're expecting to come out of the united nations is if this vote does take place and if this vote which we are expecting will support the text of the documents it will only be a recommendation it will not be by any means binding and it's important to note that some members of the general assembly are raising their eyebrows there questioning the entire even legality of this meeting taking place because qatar is currently presiding apa general assembly and they're saying the fact that tar is using this opportunity to push through its own country's interests is questionable

you know corker u.k. based journalist a contributor to the guardian newspaper says instead of diplomatic world powers should not focus on urging both sides in the conflict to lay down their arms. why have we got peace in syria over the last eleven months that the government has said they would make concessions the government can open to talks but the opposition has been caked on by irresponsible west powers and its allies and i think they would have had a peaceful solution to this months ago had the opposition not been egged on by the west they are being encouraged to take a very hard line the west has been denouncing the government parlance but it hasn't been denouncing the violence by the opposition and it today it does does that then we don't have any peace in syria so you know that he is actually the western powers in the arab league and what responsibility now say to the opposition forces look you have to stop the violence the government stops the violence everybody stops the

violence and then we can now call the talks that can go on while the opposition are saying point pilots we got yesterday the announcement from the leader of al qaeda supporting the uprising that's been terrorist bases in syria over the last few days . and so the violence has stopped but it has to stop from the opposition mockers from. the state of journalist and middle east specialist easer winstanley tells our t.v. that the syrian opposition is fragmented and disunited over how to fight the assad regime here's a quick taste of the interview coming up later this hour. although both sides deny their fences in in military intervention essentially in political differences there is different trends in the syrian opposition and mainly between people who support outside intervention and the protestors don't save the syrian national council which are now openly in favor of the no fly zone which to me seems ridiculous because there isn't any even claim of. the syrian regime for all its many crimes

there's no claim that it's a problem to people so that no fly zone just seems a political pretext to invade any. buildings on fire or stores looted dozens injured this is how the greek public made a new round of drastic cuts approved by the parliament tens of thousands protested the deeply unpopular package needs to get a second bailout from international creditors or his jacob greaves has more from athens. based on those pictures as events that took place last night really getting a sense here that the government the greek government is under attack from all sides now you've got the the euro zone international monetary fund really increasing the pressure saying because haven't gone far enough and they have been implemented correctly also we saw taking place last night we have the demonstrators now really seeing in very large numbers up to one hundred thousand people in

attendance and they're growing in anger throughout the course of that evening in the end we saw clashes taking place with police and that resulted in a certain amount of petrol bombs being thrown at police by some anarchists in the crowd also police to tally a thing by firing tear gas into the crowd there is always seeing in total in dozens of injuries we also saw dozens of buildings of flame all this of course taking place in central athens now there is a lot of discontent as well within harlem and we saw that take place last night a number of m.p.'s forty three from the ruling coalition made up of socialist because served as they rebelled against this latest measure of was there if he cuts now what we're talking about here really is fifteen thousand job cuts in the public sector also that's going to be accompanied by slashing by twenty percent of the minimum wage and cuts the pensions three those who are being affected by those who

are probably most exposed by these crisis conditions have to bear in mind this is something that greece is really where that for some time it's a situation they are all too familiar with and have austerity measures for a number of years impose them by international bodies and there hasn't been that many positive financial indicators since you seem g.d.p. slumping in two thousand and eleven so the main message coming from the demonstration taking place yes they said and the protests this is that what price are they expected to pay for these bailouts creases the whole general elections in april international consultant and author adrian so she thinks the new government was no choice about how to deal with the new debt crisis. a new government would have no choice because it would probably be a new government that is in one way or another subordinated to a global power mass and so to speak the money powers because in

a way all governments whether it's in greece in italy in spain in the u.k. in argentina all governments today have two choices they can either government or the people which means governing against the bankers or they can govern the bankers and that means that they will be always be against the people and it's so sad to see the same sickening scene time and again protests and think into the streets they are repressed by the police who tear gas we throw stones somebody gets injured hundreds going there somebody always ends up getting killed and i always figure that it's the poor people on the streets fighting the police who are also poor and i always wonder if there are a cigar smoking perched on the fiftieth floor boardrooms looking down of these scenes and just laughing out of your population decline one of the toughest issues russia faces of the long term but the disturbing trend can be reversed according to the country's prime minister and the latest campaign piece in his bid to return as

president vladimir putin is put forward plans that article for social reform that he hopes will significantly improve the demographic situation proposed measures include better welfare for families with several children smarter immigration policies including a repatriation of russians abroad the article title building justice focuses on the salary i get for a teacher's and doctors as well as making housing affordable to all by twenty thirty putin has stepped up his election campaign in the light of the opposition protests and as political analysts reaching babiche explains now mainly addresses russia's middle class. my hold is that with your knowledge the stance that he's a doctorate right now it's not the reach you know reach seeking people he's a lead trip these are the real russian media quasi you know people who are eating all to leave in small towns who have a really hard time and to the market economy it's so i hope he's economic policy will move a little more to the dept you know we've had

a former finance minister who did we have that different people to the right now we believe we should rights he wants to gear the state sport of some more to he's real electorate which means you know the masa of the russian people can always catch more of our stories that are t. dot com here's what's a click away you're right now. stripping down to shake things up right don't believe the truth about the message behind this ukrainian visit moves top one talk was practical on a visit to russia. nothing says i love you like a cockroach find out more about the creepy crawly valentine's day gift some love birds are sharing with their spirits the spirit parts are.

after more than two decades the effects of one of the world's worst ever industrial disaster is still lingers in bhopal india now the scandal is fixing itself to london's attempt to stage a green olympics this summer or he's ivor bennett has more on a controversial new partnership. organizers claim is the greenest most sustainable and then pick games ever but a poisonous cloud of controversy hangs over london twenty twelve because of links to this bhopal gas leak nineteen eighty-four one of the worst industrial disasters of all time the left a toxic legacy still claiming lives the company responsible zahn now owned by dow chemical a major olympics american alexander was part of the game's effects watchdog but is just quit in protest our is supposed to be about us and instead all of us are going to have. fifteen thousand people died when

poisonous gas leaked from a factory in rural india a subsequent fall out killed another ten thousand congenital birth defects in the area a ten times the norm in the rest of india for a was ten of the time the gas she inhaled left permanent damage and as well i can't believe how it was open and the money's been. fair i got just one thousand dollars compensation part of four hundred seventy million dollars payout in one thousand nine hundred nine by union carbide factory owners dow chemical company in two thousand and one but denies any lingering liabilities but the indian government disagrees demanding dow stumps up one point six billion dollars to clean up a contamination that lives on people's building that was.