the. book i'm buying this is r.c. the headlines. end up the syrian opposition alliance pops up in exile adding more diversion to the already front should anti regime movement while rebels on the ground apparently receive high tag arms from the outside. sweden says no to ecuador was requests to question julian assange to the embassy in london we can leak says there's no meaningful explanation for the refusal and no legal guarantees that stop all one just hand him over to the u.i. . during the army now

a law that allowed arabs living in israel to avoid military service expires triggering concerns the government is stoking social conflict at home to tighten its grip on the minority. and up next on our interview with the legal counsel to the european council zhang claude a parade despite the economic gloom swamping of europe he says the difficulties are a natural and transitional step forward. today we're joined by a. legal counsel of the european council and he also spent more than two decades as head of the legal service of the e.u. council of ministers and yes participated in a lot of the important decisions taken over the past twenty years notably the adoption of the new treaties in the european union thanks very much mr pearce for joining us today i'd like to start by quoting something you had written in the van

for two thousand and eleven and the financial times you had written it's time to admit that the large part of the you was too rapid europe's citizens no longer understand the purpose of the e.u. and for all its increased powers the european parliament the supposed repository of democratic legitimacy in europe is a relative failure like to ask is is there something fundamentally wrong with europe at this point you know this. adventure is something which is new has never been made. so we are experiencing the problems with the currency i'm sure we talk about is an example but. we fault in the beginning. to bring democracy. making or members.

will bring more. diverse work. for example but. this has been the reason you're. so that's one of the experiencing. adventure as well then again there's the question of sovereignty where individual member states feel like they're just giving more powers to brussels these. members of the euro. and union. of them oh nation states with all of history. civilization behind them so it's difficult for these states maine very good greece spain portugal and so on france. to. share. the same to share their power. but in this is city i think in the more than the word first of all and we

have been in the european union all that peace between us because we have been fighting also or the time during these two and then we have decided to try to have more poor spurted together to build an internal market among all of us which is five hundred million consumers and then policies but that's the argument always presented by the e.u. this notion of there being no war being more peaceful but if we look at the situation the economic and social situation of individual member states this isn't exactly a conducive or a recipe for peace is it really me at two thirty does agree with you the new has cannot make any decision that some member states so if you have the ear you say that's a story of the not story of the number states no member states would remain in b. if you in its interests. in it and they out

there this states because they think that european union his helping if they want to be simply saying european union is a creation of the states what are you worried about the a growing social unrest in individual countries as well as the rise of the extreme political left and right of course. it is wise since. one year when young hof i am trying to give my two to two to gave a little bit grain of sand to the discussions and to try to accelerate the way we are taking decisions in order to finish with your crisis. because we cannot go on in some countries with austerity and not giving hope to the people it is not possible just possible that people are desperate there will be in years

a falling unemployment is increasing and so on and so forth and we have a heavy price paid to co-produce parties because of them and you have these reactions of people in the streets which are completely understandable they they they have no hope of people so i think we have to give hope to these people and to take decisions visible credible understandable as soon as possible and now it's obvious that we cannot go on we have a simple fact that we need strong wars legally binding moves for the member states to behave and to have a lot of convergence of their budgetary and economy.

in a question that. it's do you really need the euro to pursue this european project this is not the question we have the euro this question was twenty years ago which has been solved by governments. they

have sure isn't the currency so now we have the currency and what would happen if you were exploded that would be a catastrophe total catastrophe not only for greece portugal and so on but the country which has been benefiting from the most is probably germany and that would be a catastrophe for germany if you look at the trade again. of course they do a lot of trade with china but if you look in. the global picture china is a tiny part of the external trade most of the trade is done you have europe what do they do with. you know if you were exploded what you'd be the consequence of some currencies new currencies. devaluate and there will be a war of the valuations and there will be a great banjo for interval market and there would be

a great danger for the european union there is such european integration do you think that members of the government. or longer of a month and so on would take the responsibility to both the worlds this i don't think so now one of the pillars of the. free movement of people no internal borders but there have been a lot of talk about strengthening border controls and also a rise in anti immigration rhetoric where does that leave europe first we we have this freedom of movement but actually the number of workers going from one thousand three to end is unfortunately the quite weak weak you have example because of the language main leak and also the attachment to people to their regions so we have to take or decisions we can to improve the.

within the union and what i'm proposing some measures in my book on this and then the thing is immigration from the third countries you know with all the demographic trend in the countries over european union just past perfect just such as in the. other countries as well. that means that we have more old people and less younger people to support them so we will need to be grecian from other counties as well and we have to prepare people and we have i think to have a common policy in the european countries to prepare ok i'd like to bring our defense and military spending in particular with regard to syria now a lot has also said that a military intervention is. the table in the context of be a u.n. security council however when france does that when it's ready to spend on

a military intervention given this mall finances the e.u. many members of the european union how broad would be impact be on the whole economy where i don't think you know maybe i was one thing and the other thing is much more being. bigger. and i don't see an intervention all the e.u. was. in syria would would. that means. a pretty big crisis you know i was spending in the media expenses have decreased a lot in order. and libya has shown that. we have to figure these big operations outside of our territory. thanks very much for this interview.

if they shoot something inappropriate from the public they can easily be shown. casualties of war ok. i wish he would have never happened but it has happened. in a war a t.v. camera becomes an unnecessary what destroys their own safety all foreign nationals including journalists and inspectors should leave. and it's clear what happens with such witnesses i got on my site. many checks. purses shooting. food in full storage is here for going

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china corporations are all today please. top stories i don't see another syrian opposition alliance pops up in exile ending war division to their own right in front should anti regime movement while rebels on the ground receive high tech arms from the outside. sweden says acquittals request to question tonight on sunday's embassy in london we can leak says there's no meaningful explanation for the refusal and no legal guarantees that stockholm won't just found him over to the us. here in the army now a law that allowed arabs living in israel to avoid military service expires triggering concerns the government is stoking social conflict at home to tighten its grip on the minority. are right now romano joins me now with

the latest from the london olympics so american swimmer michael phelps smashing a forty at record plus rushing three models on day four of the games tell us more that's right so michael phelps won his nineteenth olympic medal and that's one more than solve your gym this larisa lives in a but the russian still holds the world more for most individual limbic awards i've got more on that in just a second. hello and welcome to this is more than artsy with me ramon coffer of love that takes and their rest of the headlines up first. craving for gold rush explains three of the medals on day four of the summer games in london but none of those were all the gold variety. in the u.s. . simply the best american super swimmer michael phelps wins

a ganza capture and i'm president of nineteen for the big medal and shatter a forty eight year old record previously held by a russian gymnast and high hopes the courts come to moscow streets with a twenty thousand dollars prize up for grabs at the stick secular annual spring basketball tournament. let's start with the pics where russia failed to pick up a gold medal on day four of the london games but there were a couple of silvers to sweeten the pill as richard van poured for the reports two silvers and a bronze was russia's medal hole from day four of the two thousand and twelve olympic games here in london while there were high hopes for russia's female gymnasts of a team event of a can only claim a silver behind the united states who won by a large margin of the main favorites coming into the competition but russia they were handed really by mistakes from victoria come of. those mistakes

ready to close them in the backs of the try and win the goal but nevertheless it was a credible four months by a very young and talented side and hopefully they can go from strength to strength in the individual competitions and win more medals for the russians while there was a silver for russia and the women's weightlifting in the sixty three kilogram category which was one bus for two. well she went up against her perennial rival from kazakhstan. and it was a mensch of a cause and who won that battle bends with the last lift of the competition to bring home a. gold medal for her country and russia had to settle for silver nevertheless she was content to pick up a medal for russia in the weightlifting. i've been preparing to fight for the gold medal but as many of you may know my injury got in the way so my primary task was to help the team and if anything's turned out to where want them to come to try

make the podium so you taking my injury into account i am happy to have won the silver then i was not a bronze for russia in the judo and it's turning out to be an excellent lympics for them and what you do amount in front of the latest to win a medal for them of i couldn't quite get for it before i know but nevertheless he was more than contend to win yet another medal for russia in the judo. you know boredom over in the buildup to this olympics i picked up a very serious muscle injury six months ago so i underwent surgery to get it tried and i want to say thank you to my german doctor who made it possible for me to win this medal. was a near miss for russia in the men's skeet shooting events where valerie sharman was celebrating in fact is forty first birthday couldn't quite get the perfect birthday present a bronze medal as he eventually lost his shootout for the bronze medal with his qatari opponent of a russian had come into the competition the second doctor qualification but his

concentration just let him down at a vital moment and he was unfortunate unable to get on to the podium for russia's basketball team but he continued to go from strength to strength the men's team winning their latest match against china by some to free points to a fifty four of a ready one two from two and a looking to qualify from the quarter finals at such an early stage in the competition so that will give david blatz side a lot of confidence van and also great news for russia's female tennis players with wins for maria sharapova maria kirilenko viewed as one of the over and not to patrol as probably looking to try and repeat the success of the last olympic games in beijing in two thousand and eight russia completed a podium lineup of gold silver and bronze promises to be an unfolding day of action all day five more years under a farm and. now that you day team are leading the russian charge in london at the moment and on

wednesday they do have an outside chance of getting a third gold medal kid with any self will compete in the ninety kilogram section in his day has been a world champion he will not be a favorite this time around but it doesn't mean he can't spring a surprise just ask his teammate one sure to upset the odds to claim and the olympic gold just a couple of days ago if you can if you come true. anyone out i would like to make any predictions only the month will show who has what it takes to win i'm sure the condition will be fair and square and will sill of my kitchen for its wear definitely looking forward to getting more olympic gold and will with desperately supporting our team mates where one team and i know where they can do it. and also fighting for a medal will be russia's fencing team they have won bronze medal at the moment look out for the name so people can buy in the individual saber and in the pool russia's swimmers are hoping to add to their bronze nikita lopin said has reached the final

of the hundred meters pressure and the women who raced in a four by two hundred meter freestyle relay the weather has turned a little bit here in the british capital rain is predicted i would an x. couple of days but that won't worry one russian cyclist old as evidence guy if you remember when a bronze medal in the pouring rain and the women's right price at the weekend and she will compete in the time trial and dennis menchov will compete in the men's event but in the warm indoors the russian male gymnasts in artistic gymnastics will be going for a medal in the all around competition. has been a decent if not spectacular start to be one two thousand and twelve games for russians are two golds two silvers and four bronzes to show off four days of competition but with big events to come where russia should do very well by boxing. wrestling lots of hopes of bacon increase their medals over the next few days. d'arcy london.

and let's say in london there were a forty eight year old olympic record has now find the fall and after the united states four by six hundred meter freestyle relay team were fastest in the poll american michael phelps was the last swimmer in the quartet with the goal to become his nineteenth career in the big medal and his fifteenth top guy. long the twenty seven year old surpassing soviet gymnast later resell it in a whole one it's a little over eighteen medals from knight in fifty six until nine hundred sixty for her individual record all fourteen medals still stands though but american fans are certain that phelps overall record will be near impossible to beat we were here to see eighteen and nineteen and we've got it all i can say is it'll be a cold day in the hades before somebody of the phelps owns that record because he was unbelievable but you know the race started really strong and then we had it we had a lead then it got close but then to see michael just pull it away at the end and

watch you know some history is really a very special time for me your family came from seattle excited to be here as a proud time. and find that a sixteen international teams gathered in moscow all over the weekend for the capitals six and st basketball tournaments with its weight two thousand u.s. dollars it's a prize up for grabs as nikolai charles now reports. the moscow open one of the most anticipated events of the street basketball season popularity for the sport is growing each year with many hope for team simply failing to make the cut this time around only the cream of the street will select able to gather to battle for glory and the small factor of the twenty thousand dollars first prize and while the stars of the game won't be seen on going london olympics the twenty sixteen games in rio de janeiro might well be where the borders make their day be so more and more

people are getting interested in this style of basketball fever is actually supposed to introduce three on three in london as a potential olympic sport therefore very soon in twenty twenty or even twenty sixteen it will feature in the olympics. holder slovenia couldn't match their performance of last year departing at the quarter final stage while host russia also flattered to deceive head into the locker room it was with you a new team headdress who stole the limelight overcome in the capacity embarrassed from rome a near in a nail biting final tournament m.v.p. poorly this is a new year and this stating his teammates exceptional knowledge of each other was the key to their success very very long time goes well we usually play together in this during the summer back until we play together like three times a week so we know each other for a long time now and it's not a first time we play together but the show didn't and the who's who of the slam

dunk world thing gather to fight for the five thousand dollar person over and of course the respect of a piece by carette excuse edging an extra wow factor to the event with this urban style of play rapidly growing in stature the future looks bright for the sport and the players lucky enough to be part of it nickel or chose our team or score. i will be back in just under a couple of hours but don't forget that our youtube channel is available to you at any time just search for artsy sport years and you will find us thank you for for watching.

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