steve. if you're just joining us a very warm welcome to the headlines now. in the syrian capital striking close to a government building just. undo the ruinous effects of austerity on the union member nations grow wary of german proposals of a political federation. the country's involvement in the u.s. led war. on an almost daily basis. let's get some more insight now on the

e.u. is mounting debt we spoke to peter he's the author and head of belgium's workers party and the discussion. today we're joined by peter merton c is a belgian politician of the worker's party and he's also the author of a book called how dare they which focuses on the european crisis and he tries to dissect and five alternative reasons behind it what's going on in europe thanks very much mr martin's for joining us today for course the obvious question is the title of your book is how they are thinking who is they who are you referring to after the crisis of two thousand and eight. we asked ourselves. what is the change finally after describes because i remember in two thousand and eight there were lots of colorations of for example sarkozy was also obama

all the political leaders of. the financial sector and the financial capitalism we're going to take really radical measures to change that and i wanted to see for yourself to this declaration is what he's changed and i think basically in the financial level there is nothing changed. and if there is something changed on the contrary those who are responsible for the crisis of two thousand and eight have had have received more power and more and even more financial resources so the most important figure i think of the book is the study of the. could. we see investment bank that says that one hundred percent of adult population. in the world little. more than thirty eight percent of all the.

earth's so if i understand correctly from your answer. refers to what the leaders obama sarkozy or the bankers or the elite who are you grouping them all together in that block some of them chris. but in each case there is little else in europe and in the united states that is composed. of industrial capitalists ceo's of. enterprises of bankers and also of some politician it's a circle the system an upper class from people that know each other well received a banking system in trouble again we have austrian banks in trouble even german banks that are supposedly safer. is in big trouble now if the problems keep persisting despite the solutions the leaders have offered in the past does that mean fundamentally the problem the root of the problem has not been solved i think

the root of the problem is in the productive sector because there are a lot of forces that are telling that it's only a problem problem of the financial sector but in my vision you have this problem of overcapacity in the production that is present. today like the automobile factories and so traditionally what. economy do to resolve this problem that there is more capacity from production their capacity of course they get close to do you get to restrict relations and so on and so on to demolish productivity capacity but neo liberal way was also another way to tackle the crisis and this way was to create artificial consumption and they did it by reducing taxes for the richest people in the united states afterwards in germany

and everywhere in europe they did it to give to middle class to its credit cards. three four five credit cards the system existed to enlarge the artificial consumption and they did finally to also give to people. predatory loaning loans to sell them houses they knew were very good that these people never could. pay them back and the problem of the banking in the banking crisis of two thousand and eight was that. small banks disappeared in the bigger banks state and we have to program that school to fail syndrome and it is this too big to fail reasoning that's holding everybody hostage the economies of europe hostage and even holding politicians in their heads now at what point will this reasoning be not enough anymore you can't anymore say it's simply too big to fail so in order to change things i think there will be a need to question from from from the from from the basic we need popular movements

are we we are going to in my opinion to or europe or to a very large number of social conflicts we are seeing it already. beginning of the beginning of the spring of the peoples and we're going to need it so it's true we're seeing a lot of social upheavals now across europe are you saying that only when these social upheavals reach critical mass will there be any change at all that this has got to happen or europe is crossing points of three possible ways and there is the one way and this raised. from frank food from and from berlin this is a more authoritarian europe and they want to save the euro by a turd measures by taking national survey nitty overnights to the european level by mixing in matters of salaries for example of each country's of the pensions of translucent. across importance in my view is that

europe will separate again and that we have. two three or four europe's. strong states. in the. one hand middle states like france belgium and luxembourg on the other hand and then the so-called states but it's nationalism again and we'll have a conflict in europe and then there is a tertiary in my opinion that is the rate that give the people's right the most movements or strong and if they find political translation it's will be possible to go to. something like a socialist europe or a group of so you dirty of corporation or banking system it's public to our energy system you're probably right it is democracy and one of the countries of course at this crossroads having to make a choice is greece you talked in your book about

a lot of the myths surrounding greece why do you think it's needed misrepresent that if you have to official figures everyone can live them up and everyone can see that. the. greek people are working. more than two thousand and one dollar a year and that is for example more than six six hundred i would say year more than that in germany more than five hundred dollars a year more than in belgium so dismissive of the lazy greeks it doesn't exists and so i was asking myself why why are they telling such things on mainstream media. in germany in. belgium and i think it's very easy to understand because the. establishment who has the most. profits from this story since ten years that is the german establishment and the dutch

establishment and so in creating this false conception of the greek people you can say but no it's no it's not a problem of economy it's not a problem of the eurozone it is a problem of lazy greeks what about. the euro project some would argue that the question of whether or not the euro is needed to pursue a united europe is a moot question the fact that it's what it was chosen as a single currency years ago means that the decision has been made and there's no turning back do you agree with this so you have a europe. organization called table the european round table of industrialists and they are. beyond the scenes really of most powerful organization who has pushed this concept of one of euro. since the end of the eighty's in politics and so from the beginning on. european monetary union was

conceived as a concept to create a big competitive europe that could compete competes with the united states needs etc etc and they knew very well that at the beginning of the euro there were large inequalities in europe so they knew it and they said oh it's no not a problem we create a system. called the jones. and that was a treaty of mastic the norms of maastricht and they said no we're going to level up all the countries to prepare two thousand and two into the introduction of the euro and now we are ten years later and we see that the inequalities in europe. level to at zero but it's created more inequalities than ever in the last fifty years in europe and of course the country in focus right now with spain again we're seeing the same solution being prescribed assets prescribed to greece and

ireland i think really that the financial sector in all of europe should be transformed tyrannically in that we need the public sector in firings in all over europe because now they can be allowed spain into a. but it's all a very short term measure as it's structurally it isn't changing a lot and i hope they will help as a short term but you need also measures at the long term in europe and so i instance it once stupidity what is stupidity stupidities do something twice again and think there will be another results because they said it will solve the crisis in greece now it's for five years greece is in recession it's becoming much worse and much worse and now they're going to take the same program to spain in the are expecting magically another result and just briefly talked about socialism two point zero one your book what exactly does that mean by

doing to this computer system has to change seriously and i think we are going to need to again socialist system where. there is a large public sector and it will result in a system also where. democratic control and i think that for all those sectors that are to big to fail for humanity like banking sector like energy sectors if it is too big to feel for the future of humanity in the world you can we do have a public control and indeed there is to sort of sources they say in belgium. and the father of the world it's working force people are working on thinking and creating things that the father of the world and then you are the mother of the world and they say this nature. and this capitalist system has a problem with. this all for your father and his own mother they are exploiting the

workforce and they are exploiting nature and socialism two point zero a my view is a system that is not exploiting its mother and father but it's a respecting workforce and we should respect and peter. martin thanks very much for your time my pleasure. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations are the day.

political. war. on an almost daily basis. in the world of sport with paul.

thank you very much welcome to the sports headlines haze was coming out continental quest to germany and italy prepare to go head to head in the second semifinal of the european football championship later on this last day. steady progress serena williams drops just five games as she progresses to the last two of wimbledon along with the russian maria sharapova. and second chance a global sports manufacturer is looking to discover a young russian talent i thought that chance of stardom had gone. but starting with football and italy and germany do battle later on thursday for the right to face spain in the final of euro two thousand and twelve a mysterious building in warsaw which of important is in the polish capital and caught up with fans from both sides of the divide. many it's really a true clash of the titans. these two countries to establish themselves as

a powerhouse of european football over the last seventy years germany have looked imperious so far in this tournament played for one for their supporters would have preferred a semi final clash against england but instead they will have to pick their wits against an italian side who have never managed to beat a major tournament. a little bit of course and a lot of my friends saying so we are not able to beat. but for me it's clear this time it is the exception that's going to govern the route. no one gave it really much hope before this tournament started they were humbled three nil by rusher and the only warm up game was some of the players were caught up in yet another corruption scandal on the eve of euro two thousand and twelve. in the first part in first turn easily was not so good we play like that we make people feel that we are. not so good and then we do at the end you show us so the last match against england was perfect yeah we deserved to win because we played very well

germany a well known for their forward thinking and efficiency and these euros are certainly no exception they've even created a mobile fan embassy to help out those supporters who are needed assistance these have been in existence since the world cup in italy in one nine hundred ninety s. and the mobile embassy receives funding from the german football board and provide a vital service to our fans we started our website seven months ago we are producing to every every match we are producing a frenzy and we have a fan guide we have a helpline where fans can contact us twenty four hours in case they have any problems also was reasonably quiet the day before the match the vast majority of supporters yet to arrive in the polish capital however expect a fantastic atmosphere on thursday as two of the biggest powerhouses of world football not corns for a place in the euro two thousand and twelve final but unfortunately euro two thousand and twelve championships are coming to an end in poland the last game

played in the country taking place on thursday at the was on national stadium just behind me but overall the tournament has been very well received by the locals on the holds of visiting fans and everyone will be hoping for a classic encounter with italy take on germany richard i'm all for it r.t. . well germany's influential midfielder bastian schweinsteiger has been declared fit for the match after shrugging off an ankle injury forwards mario gomez lukas podolski and thomas morrow vying for rico after being rested against greece italy collini rossi and not so abate a are all injury doubts for coaches are prandelli who was quite dismissive when it was suggested to him that germany were the favorites. we should go home and should of course it will be greta take on this enough course we're convinced that we can actually play our own game so we are very calm and we're very keen to put into practice everything that we have been working on in training that it's going to be

a very exciting game. what will be decisive is it will play our game will bring our strengths we will try to have a reason and will not let me to late show us how we have to play so it's a confidence thing where to be cheeky we have to be strong and brave but we must also concentrate and we must work hard. meanwhile after their poor showing at the euros the netherlands are looking for a new manager this afterbirth are mouat stood down the sixty year old was contracted to guard the dutch through to the twenty fourteen world cup and beyond the contract until you're a twenty sixteen. has decided to resign after the dutch failed to register a single point during the group stages in poland and ukraine a surprising turnaround after driving the world cup final in two years ago. meanwhile in tennis maria sharapova has progressed to the last thirty two wimbledon after resuming her reign delayed second round match with tsvetana pironkova early

on thursday the world number one was a set free one up when play resumed however she lost the second on a tie break pulled herself together in the decided to take it in style six love next up for her is the way i see. well another big name to progress today is arena williams the four time champion winning her second round match with hungary and melinda sink six one six four next up a triumph. well to action on thursday world number two victoria azarenka takes on swiss romine operandi while defending champion patrick a bit of a is up against elena baltacha of great britain. well in the men's game for three andy murray is taking on evo college of croatia the brit is a set up where world number two rafael nadal plays czech lukas rosol seven seats david for that the frenchman coming to chaper france in straight sets bloody right it who has lost in the final three times is playing if you will of the germany he's

four one up in the first set. now the russian olympic committee have unveiled the official uniform to be worn by russia's competitors at the london games in an extravagant presentation in the country's capital all members of the current impacting as well as in pick champions paraded the new kit a five hundred strong dog tree while spectators with a pulsating performance while many prominent musicians politicians under fleets are present on a tour. english double decker boss president of the russian olympic committee i was on as you called was in attendance and russia has the potential to better their performance in beijing four years ago. have for about twenty five gold medals so it will be actually a little bit more than in beijing of course russia will come to america and china. called collate the results of the last world championship we can say that china will have probably the first place in the united states the

second. and finally back to football where a major sports manufacturer has headed a scheme aiming discovering young talent for they may have missed their big chance well by don young reports on those in russia who are getting a second opportunity. they love the game they have the skills and have been dreaming of becoming football stars here is there a shot at the park. within the jones program seeking gifted players from all over the globe from sixteen to twenty years old and strictly without professional contracts the russian selection saw dozens of contenders exploited and assessed by professional coaches at the table when you margaret look at this he did

all the hard work and failed to score he looks great but i want to make sure he's got what it takes to finish the nineteen ninety three russian cup winner. and t.v. commentator on the the life and he's call it faced the hard test on sunday selecting only four lucky ones who are present the country in the finals in barcelona among the magnificent one hundred nature all born talents from pole with a world fighting for their dreams to come true price is sixteen out of one hundred ten global participants will go on the global war on the football tour to best's nike teams like you vandals like manchester united if they try for ever even if they aren't their future looks promising for the other parts but still i presume that some of these guys most likely those four who will be chosen today will be able to start playing in the russian premier league or the first division in a couple of years so if you're curious you can follow the winners careers and see

if i'm right and here they are. are you all go off here a minute. and legs loves me or not the ones who made it to the finals but maybe still at the very beginning of a long and glorious way while useful you can always see if a player is really good even when he fails you see that he has the skills is the way he acts that really matters in any of these four have the potential to play in a professional level robert virginia on r.t. moscow well that is all from the world of sport for now i'll be back with more in a little under two hours time here on r.t. wild weather is next.

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