hello there this is r.t. from moscow. these are all top stories syrian rebels as heavy weapons from abroad for the first time despite american official fears they might be used to target civilians. also headlining for us about. confirms that sweden refuses to question the wiki leaks a preview of london to make concerns the country wants more than just solving the sex crimes complaint against women. and arab israelis are no longer exempt from military service risking a call the fight against their own people all volunteer and be labeled a traitor. next the former top legal man at the european council explains why he

thinks europe's economic troubles are natural and part of a 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 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 two thousand and eleven and the financial times you had written it's time to admit that the large print of the you was too rapid europe's it is it's 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 whole. venture is something which is new has never been made. so we are experiencing. problems with the currency i'm sure we. exempt but. we fall in the beginning. to bring. we call making or members. we bring more. diverse work. for example but. this has been decreasing or. experiencing. adventure as i said there's the question of sovereignty where individual member

states feel like they're just giving more powers to brussels these. and union a lot of them owed nation states. history. civilization behind them so it's difficult for these states maine very good greece spain portugal and so on all fronts. to. share. the same to share their power. and this is city i think in the more than the word first of all and we have been to the european union all the 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 power spurred to build an internal market monkey 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 is it really for a million to thirty does agree with you the new has cannot make any decision that some member states so if you have the year you said the story of the story of the number states no member states would remain in b. if it was in its interests. in it and. there is states because they think that european union his helping if they want to be simply seeing european union as a creation of states what are you worried about the 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 you're off i am trying to give 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 countries with austerity and not giving hope to the people it is not possible just possible that people are desperate there will be mirrors are falling unemployment is increasing and so on and so forth and we have the heavy price paid to co-produce towards green party's because obama and you have these reactions of people in the streets which are completely understandable they they they have no hope of pull 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 words legally binding the hooves fall the member states to behave and to have a lot of convergence of the budgetary and economy cortices in order to establish who really are and you economic and monetary union but you've already had been his rules before and you just added new rules and those old rules didn't really help that no we do not have this was we did not say that. a national 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 must discuss and have the greenlight of your companions in the

common currency that's all the work we have to do now and the work which. begin two years ago in the which is world advanced now not enough we should go much for that but it's precisely bs words isn't it of control of getting more powers from individual member states that is creating this recess defense from those countries . it is corn for by your companions you are in the same boat you are i'll be nice to a team of. clambers of a mountain linked together by. you in the same boat rowing if one is fading the others will fail probably it's a team so you are sharing the powers we're deciding to get 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 who you are crisis that we're in i think i do think that the time has come to take the final decisions the final decisions and that's a question for me holding 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 this question was twenty years ago which has been solved by governments polymaths and so on 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. for a few more 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. preacher 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 be the consequence 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 from 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.

is this free movement of people no internal borders but there have been a lot of talk about strengthening border controls and also a rise in the ante 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 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. within the union and what i'm proposing some measures in my book on this and then the thing is immigration reform can threes you know with all the demographic trend in the countries over european union they have just past perfect

just such as in the russia such as in other countries as well. that means that we have more. people and. get people to support it so we win the grecian form of the counters as well and we have to prepare people and we have i think to have a common. you. to do to prepare ok i'd like to bring up defense and military spending and particular with regard to syria now a lot has also said that a military intervention is off 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 the small finances of the e.u. many members of the european union and 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 of this being the. big three and so on and i don't see any

intervention all you were. in syria would would. that means to. be a pretty big crisis you know i was spending in the media expenses have decreased a lot in order encounters and libya has shown that. we have. big operations outside of our territory. thanks very much for this interview. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

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tonight's headlines that r t syrian rebels are thought of trying to heavy weapons from abroad for the first time despite american officials fears they might be used to target civilian airliners. during the song just lawyer confirms that sweden refuses to question the wiki leaks a free move in london a big concern for the country wants more than just solving the sex crimes complaint against him. and arab israelis are no longer exempt from military service risking the no call up to fight against their own people all volunteer to be labeled a trait. this is r.t. you know wednesday world sport.

hello welcome to the wednesday small round up with partridge on day five of the london olympics here the headlines silver lining russia win a three medals on day four of the olympics for maria sharapova he's not in a third round in the women's tennis. plus simply the best american swimmer michael phelps claims an unprecedented nineteen million pick medal shattering a forty eight year old record held by russian. i'm going for gold we'll look at russia's medal how close of the wrestling match has the team names to better than three top gongs from beijing. so let's start in london where russia failed to pick up a gold medal on day four of the olympics however there were a couple of silvers to sweeten the pill as for him from corporate reports 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 of a team event of a can only claim a silver behind the united states who won by a large margin over main favorites coming into the competition but russia they were hindered really by mistakes from victoria. those mistakes really because from the battle of 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 or there was another silver for russia and the women's weightlifting in the sixty three kilogram category which was one bus for to sort of carry over while she went up against her perennial rival from kazakhstan my dear and it was a mensch of a current 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 turn out to where woman to to try make the podium so you taking my injury into account i am happy to have won a silver. bronze for russia in the judo and it's turning out to be an excellent olympics for them on the judy amount in front of the latest to win a medal for them of oh you could only 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 over the other 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. well there was a near miss for russia in the men's skeet shooting events where. we're celebrating

in fact his forty first birthday he couldn't quite scared a perfect birthday present a bronze medal as he eventually lost his shootout for the bronze medal with his sorry opponent of russian had come into the competition the second doctor qualification 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 different points fifty four of already won 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 blanche side a lot of confidence van and also great news for actual 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 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 an olympic gold just a couple of days ago. if you come through anyone out i would like to make any predictions only the mud will show who has what it takes to win i'm sure the condition will be fair and square and all sill of my kitchen for it's where definitely looking forward to getting more olympic goals and will with them. supporting our teammates we're 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 but 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 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 over the 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 in the women's right race 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 his 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 with big events to come where russia should do very well by boxing and the wrestling lots of hopes of bacon increase their medal haul over the next few days. d'arcy london. in the meantime swimmer michael phelps has claimed his record nineteen selim picked medal after helping the u.s. four by two hundred meter freestyle relay team to gold phelps was the last woman in the quartet with the goal of becoming his fifteenth top gong the twenty seven year old surpassed the record of soviet gymnast that is so lucky even though he won eighteen medals from one nine hundred fifty six until one thousand nine hundred sixty four her individual record of fourteen medals still stands but american fans are certain that phelps overall record after these games will be almost impossible to beat. we were here for to see eighteen or nineteen there we got it all we could

say is will be a cold day in the building so for somebody other than phelps owns that record car she was unbelievable but you know the race started really strong and then we got it we had a lead that it got close for them to see michael just pull it away at the end and watch you know some history is really a very special time for me and there was more joy for america in the pool as alison schmidt beats the olympic record in the women's two hundred meter freestyle to clinch hope that. was another olympic mark fell in the women's two hundred meter medley a sixteen year old chinese star you she when added a second go to her recent world record in the for me to medley. for me while indonesia and south korea have appealed after eight badminton players were disqualified in the women's doubles to south koreans as one each from indonesia and china have been accused of trying to lose in the attempt to manipulate the pool for the knockout stage decision is expected before this wednesday evenings quarterfinals. found on the women's tennis while russia's main medal has maria

sharapova is playing germany for sabine lisicki it's one set all their butts maria kirilenko is through after beating germany's you yogas in straight sets western region williams thrashed russia venus vulnerable six one six love nagisa throw the last two top seed victoria azarenka however not as as much. will be as long as joe will be on the second run victory of the military on the beach the longest teles mansion in the history of the french one six three three six twenty five twenty three after three hours and fifty six minutes. while russian cyclists. claim bronze in the women's time trial defending champion christine armstrong of the united states took gold ahead of germany's you did aunts. while in a synchronized diving russian media at the heart of the new guinea because that song one silver in the three meta dies behind the chinese pair with the usa taking from towns in cycling great britain's bradley wiggins took gold in the men's time

trial to set a british record of seven and a bit medals the thirty two year old followed up last week's tour de france victory by beating germany's world champion tony martin into silver with british teammate chris froome taking its. third as we heard russia are expected to dominate in all seven weight categories in the wrestling while trying to improve on their beijing result of three gold two silver and bronze on course or introduces the team. the best he could do hope for one bronze in beijing in the fifty five kilogram class four years ago is the only one of the seven wrestlers making a second dylan bigots and this time though he will try his luck one step over his previous weight in the sixty kilograms of vision jamal adar soldano will defend the russian colors in the lightest fifty five k. division that breeds on european champion won his ticket to london by defeating world champion victor live a diff in the russian nationals head on to the sixty six kilogram class where

a long go guy is certainly on the why of course after that's when it's a year old won the most recent european championship and the russian side still in st petersburg the gun position for a place in london in the seventy four kilo category was widely considered the main event of the russian nationals in st petersburg featuring a clash between the sydney champion of downside and suits on a world champion uprising and they did denise our wish despite his brother bo bice or support who is a three time olympic champion himself citee of last given the coveted place on the team. orders ship of russia's republic of double jean o'boyle korea to wrestle in the eighty four kilogram class while that's once a twelve european and russian champion albus along that diesel will try to roll the mats in the minds of sixty loads of vision the super heavyweight category of one hundred twenty k. features the explosive doug astonied below michael who missed the previous games john illness. olympic wrestlers are in for five ballots if they are to go all the

way that is starting on the fifth of august room on cos rev or t. . and that's all the sport for this wednesday i have. well for science technology innovation all the news developments from around russia we've got the future covered.