again this is the headlines. another syrian opposition alliance hopes up in exile adding more division to the already fractured on two regime movement while rebels on the ground apparently receive high tech homes from the outside. also sweden says no to aquittal was a request to question julian assange at its embassy in london we can make says there's no meaningful explanation for the refusal and no legal guarantees that stockholm won't just hunt him over to the u.s. . or 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. and up next an interview with a top legal man and the european council. despite the economic gloom think europe he says the difficulties are a natural and transitional step forward. today we're joined by a p.c. was the 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 and event for two thousand and eleven and the financial times you had written it's time to

admit that the large amount of the e.q. 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 i like to ask is is there something fundamentally wrong with europe at this point you know this whole european union adventure is something which is new has never been made in history so we are experiencing and the problems were how were the currency i'm sure we are going to talk about is in the example of the bottom of. we fault in the beginning we had delegations of national bottom lines forming to grow serves to bring democracy to you recall making or members of european parliament be elected by people will bring more democracy most work but one person for example but to be elections has been

decreasing rules. so that's one of the ballrooms we are experiencing with this new adventure as i said well then again there's the question of sovereignty where individual member states feel like they're just giving up more powers to brussels these states members of the you'll be an union. of them over nation states. history. suzy should be behind them so it's difficult for these states maine very good greece spain or portugal or song of 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 spurge and to build an internal market among all of us which is five hundred million consumers and then. but that's the argument always presented by the e.u. this notion of there being no war being more peaceful but if you look at the situation the economic and social situation of individual member states this isn't exactly a conducive or a recipe for peace as it were in the crimea to those who disagree with you the new has cannot make any decision that some member states so if you have the ear you said the story of the story of the number states no member states would remain in the u. 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 simply seeing 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. that is why since. one year when you're half i am trying to give my two to two to give 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 companies with austerity and not giving hope to the people it is not possible it's just not possible that people are desperate their revenues are falling unemployment is increasing and so on and so forth and we have the heavy

price paid to co-produce parties because of that and you have these reactions of people in the streets which are completely understandable they they they have no hope of course 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 with a simple fact that we need strong wars legally binding hooves fall the member states to behave and to have a lot of convergence of the budgetary and are going to make policies in order to establish who we are and you economy and monitor unions but you've already had these rules before and that will do you just added new rules and those old rules don't really help that you know we do know how this was we did not say that. we

national or budget you are going to make we are going to say yes or no before you are going to be able to accept it. we have said before taking any economic policies of importance you most discussed and have the green light of your companions in becoming parents that's all the work we have to do now and the work which has begun two years ago and which is world events now not enough we should go much further but it's precisely bs words isn't it of control of getting more powers from individual member states that is creating this recess dance from those countries. it is a corner for by your companions you are in the same boat you are i'll be nice to a team of albinus to climb a mountain linked together by. you in the same boat rowing if one is failing

the others will fail probably it's a team so you are sharing the powers we're deciding to give and no one should be the weakest link which might bring a catastrophe how long will people have to bear the brunt of the consequences of a free and you're a crisis that we're in i think i do think that now the time has come to take the final decision is the final decisions and that's a question for me over weeks of hmongs lot of years i'd like to bring up a question that's been thrown around by some analysts and observers 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 their 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 you will 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. picture china is a tiny part of the external trade most of the trade is done reviewable what do they do with. you know if you were exploded what would be the consequence of some currencies new currencies. devaluate and there will be a warm day valuations and there will be a great binge of four into the market and there will be a great binge of the european union as 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 would i don't think so now one of the pillars of the e.u. was this free movement of people no internal borders but there has been a lot of talk about strengthening border controls and also a rise in the anti immigration rhetoric where does that leave europe first we we have this freedom of movement but actually the number of work going from one country 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 mode b.d.t. of labor within be 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 of the european union they have just got past perfect just such as in the us in other countries as well. that means that we have more old people or 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 do to prepare the cad like to bring up defense and military spending and particular with regard to syria now has also said that a military intervention is not out. the table in the context of via un security council however when france does that when it's ready to spend on a military intervention given this mall finances of the e.u.

many members of the european union and how broad with the impact be on the whole economy where i don't think you know maybe i was one thing syria is another thing is much more the being. bigger can three or four and i don't see an intervention of the e.u. as such in syria would we. the means to do that i doubt. because it will be a pretty big crisis you know i was spending in the media expenses have decreased a lot in order european countries and libya has shown that. we have to figure. big operations outside of our territory. thanks very much for this interview.

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mission to teach the creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. don't stop stories another syrian opposition alliance pops up in exile as the mole division to their own brady french anti regime movement while the rebels on the ground apparently perceive high tide comes from the outside. sweden says we do is request to question treatment asuncion its embassy in london we can make sense there is no meaningful explanation for the refusal and no need to guarantees that stone home one just hand him over to thank you once. and you're in the army now a new law that allowed arabs living in israel to avoid military service expires triggering concerns the government is stifling social conflict at home to tighten its grapes on the minorities. right now it's time for us full subject with ron.

fellow and welcome with this is for an artsy with me a reminder calls for of london olympics and the rest of the headlines first. grading for gold rush acclaims three olympic medals on day four of the summer games in london but none of those were off the gold variety. simply the best american super swimmer michael phelps wins again to capture an unprecedented nineteenth olympic medal and shatter a forty eight year old record previously held by russian gymnast. and high hoops the courts gone to moscow's treats with a twenty thousand dollars prize up for grabs just spectacular and holds free basketball tournaments.

so let's start with the olympics 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 poured for the now report. two silvers and a bronze was russia's medal haul from day four of the two thousand and twelve olympic games here in london although high hopes for russia's female gymnasts have a team event but they could only claim a silver behind the united states who won by a large margin of the name favorites coming into the competition for russia they were hindered really by mistakes from victoria. those mistakes really did cause some in the battle try and win the gold 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 or there was another silver for russia and the women's weightlifting in the sixty three kilogram

category which was won by side a carryover where she went up against her perennial rival from kazakhstan. and it was eventually because i had one bad events 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 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 going on where i want them to come to try and make the podium so you're taking my injury into account. and then i was never bronze for russia in the judo and instead i'm going to be a student and beat them to the amount of on the front of this and just win a medal for them both couldn't get through to the final but nevertheless he was

more than contend to win yet another medal for russia in the judo. you know in the buildup to this olympics and picked up a very serious muscle injury six months ago so i underwent surgery to get to try it and i want to say thank you to my german doctor committed possible for me to win this medal. but i was a near miss for russia in the men's skeet shooting events where valerie sharman was celebrating in fact his forty first birthday couldn't quite scared birthday present of problems medal as he eventually lost his shootout for the bronze medal with his qatari opponent of a russian had come into the competition in the second opera 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 the latest match against china by some to free points to fifty four of a ready one two from two and are looking to qualify from the quarter finals at such

an early stage in the competition so i will give david blatz side a lot of confidence van and also great news for russia's team all tennis players with wins for maria sharapova maria kirilenko viewed as one and not a 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 the today team are leading the russian charge in london at the moment and on wednesday they do have an axe chance of getting a third gold medal could well down itself 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 man sure to upset the odds to claim an olympic gold just

a couple of days ago but you can if you come true. anyone out i would like to make any predictions only the month will sure who has what it takes to win i'm sure the completion will be fair and square and all silver of my kitchen points but we're definitely looking forward to getting more olympic goals and all that desperately supporting our team mates to see 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 makita lopin said has reached the final of the hundred meters brushstroke and the women will race in a four by two hundred meter freestyle relay the weather has turned a little bit here in the british capital and rain is predicted i wouldn't next 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 rice at the weekend and

she will compete in the time trial and denis 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 the four days of competition but one big events to come what russia should do very well by boxing and wrestling lots of hopes of bacon increase their mettle over the next few days. d'arcy london . and let's say in london aware of forty eight year olds and the correct word has now finally fallen after the united states four by two hundred meter freestyle relay team were fastest in the pool american michael phelps was the last winner and that quartet with the goal of becoming his nineteenth career olympic medal and his

fifteenth. gong that's when a seven year old surpassing soviet jim this letter lets enough who won it's all it's all for eighteen medals from one hundred fifty six until nineteen sixty four her individual record of fourteen medals still stands though but american fans are certain that phelps overall record will be near impossible to beat that we were here for just the eighteen and nineteen and we got it all i can say is it will be a cold day in the hades before somebody of the phelps owns that record gosh it 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 our family came from seattle we're excited to be here it's a proud time and there was more joy for america in the pool as alison is schmidt's lower than the correct word in women's two hundred meter freestyle taken her third medal in london in the process while in the other olympic mark some bold in women's

two hundred metre medley as a sixteen year old chinese sensation again she went at it a second gold to her recent world record in the four hundred meter medley. and find that the sixteen international teams gathered in moscow all over the weekends for the capitals six straight basketball tournaments with a twenty eight thousand u.s. dollar it's a prize up for grabs as nicholai scholz 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 hopeful teams simply failing to make the cut these time around only the cream of the street will select able to gather to battle for glory and a small factor of the twenty thousand on the first prize and while the stars of the game won't be seen on going in london the olympics the twenty sixteen games in rio

de janeiro much will be where the borders make their day so much more and more people are getting interested in their style of basketball if the bill is actually supposed to introduce three on three in london as a potential olympic sport was there for very soon in twenty twenty or even twenty sixteen it will feature in the olympics that will. hold to slovenia could match their performance of last year to party at the quarter final stage while france russia also fanatic to deceive head into the locker room early on it was mr rayney and tina headdress who stole the limelight of a common compact the embeds from rome a near in a nail biting final tournament m.v.p. poorly especially on this stage in his teammates exceptional knowledge of each other is the key to this success well we're a very long time goes well we usually play together in this during the summer back in villanova we played together like three times a week so we know each other for a long time now and it's not

a first time we were playing together but the show didn't and did the who's who of the slam dunk world thing gather to find time for the five thousand dollar person on fox and of course their respective a.p.'s acrobatic skills edging an extra wow factor to the events the dispersion style of play repartee grown in stature the future looks bright for the sport and the players lucky enough to be part of a nicolo chose our team or score. i'll be back in just under a couple of hours from now but don't forget that our youtube channel is available to you at any time just search for r t sports news and you will find us thank you for watching. the world. series technology innovation all the latest developments from

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