sure and that son the back of actually more problems coming in for spain this rating as we were saying was cut down to just above junk status until there asks for sovereign bailout this is all good news for us. and in the rush hour we've got the final fifteen minutes of trading and the artist of my six have had a pretty tough week the dow another one half percent the only day when they put on gains was the first day we'll have more on that next hour in fifty five minutes time coming up next on r.t. laura smith interviews daniel hannan member of the european parliament who criticizes the e.u. structure and blames your class for show no respect for voters. today i'm talking to daniel hand who's a conservative member of the european parliament he's vowed to bring his euro skepticism to the heart of brussels mr han thanks for talking to us now apparently

doing the rounds in brussels is a popular joke which says that if the european union was a country applying to join itself it would be rejected for not being democratic enough to mazing thing and we've stopped being amazed by it simply because of familiarity but we should be shocked by it that the only body that can propose new legislation in the european union is the unelected european commission if any country were run like if supreme power wielded by twenty seven people were immune to the ballot that would be regarded as not real. and yet the people who talk most fervently about turning the e.u. into something like a super state are remarkably relaxed about the undemocratic nature of it and from that basic lack of democracy you get the contempt for popular opinion you get the way the slide referendum results if they go the wrong way you get a sense that public opinion is an obstacle to overcome rather than

a reason to change direction it is an extraordinary and sad paradox that twenty seven countries each of them a liberal parliamentary democracy in its own right have come together and accepted a system that would make zimbabwe look democratic and how did that happen exactly was this kind of creeping takeover by technocrats i think the origins actually go back to the very beginning of the european union the founding fathers had had a very mixed experience of democracy is especially of the referendum plebiscite re kind of numb ocracy that existed in the one nine hundred thirty s. they sort of mock or see as opposed to i would go so far so they were anti-democratic but they saw it is a potentially dangerous force that could lead to demagoguery to fascism to war and so they were quite open about deliberately vesting supremum power in the hands of why technocratic experts who wouldn't have to worry about public opinion would be able to take the tough decisions and of course you know there is no such person as

the wise disinterested expert they all have their prejudices they all have their assumptions and freed from the constraints of public opinion they were able to get on with creating an almost autocratic system which has stayed in large measure in place to this day which is why you know when people vote against it that is seen as the beginning of the argument rather than as it would be in a proper democracy the end of the argument you've recently released a book under the title a dear marriage which is about the relationship between the e.u. and the u.k. why did you decide to open the subtitle is britain and europe is not a is not a. for marriage guidance peace although well it's an interesting one i read the review of a work by a marriage guidance counselor i didn't read the book but i read the review said something fascinating. it said that a relationship can take a lot of arguing that rouser not a bad thing because if you are arguing with your husband or wife it suggests that

you care enough about his or her view that you want to change it it's when the rowels give way to contempt when the stormy sessions fall silent and give way to scorn the relationship is over and i think something similar has happened even in the time that i've been an m.e.p. when i was first elected constituents would write to me very angrily and say outrageous that the budget is an approved outrage is that all the money is being spent on these agricultural and foreign aid boondoggles outrages that the system is so undemocratic and now what you get much more often is a kind of you know what you expect the whole system is rushing and that's when you realize that the marriage is over and i think it's just a question of time and how we how we negotiate the most amicable divorce we have even gone as far as to cool the relationship between your right craps and ordinary those is abusive yes in the sense that the ordinary vote if you like the vote i mean will not go in the order of if the vote is seen as an inconvenience is seen as a problem when i think back to the way in which the french and dutch referendums

were greeted six years ago. every single speaker with two exceptions in the entire european parliament stood up to say how do we get around this problem you know why did they get it wrong how do we how do we really educate voters you know i was reminded of those that eerie poem by bertold brecht where he says would be therefore be easier to dissolve the people and elect another in that place and that it didn't occur to anybody that the people have spoken and that therefore the politicians should listen talk to me about your assertion that it was brussels backed coups that toppled george papandreou in greece and silvio berlusconi in italy what proof do you have of that well in two countries a an elected prime minister was removed from office and replaced with a technocratic who had never stood for office in his life not just a technocrat pretty or crashing in greece it was the former head of the euro at the former vice president of european central bank in italy it was

a former european commission mario monti who as well as appointing yourself this prime minister appoint himself finance minister giving a whole new meaning to the phrase the full monty and didn't have a single elected doesn't have a single elected politician in the italian government now both in the case of the property most administration in greece and the monti administration initially we were told that these were national governments that was the phrase used and yet the whole purpose of these governments was to push through a program that would be rejected by the nation in a general election so if you like that the the last shreds of pretense were said to the velvet glove was taken off of the iron fist underneath you then had what was always implicit but is now explicit which is apparatchiks in brussels ruling directly. through apparatchiks in rome and in athens with the people and their elected representatives cut out altogether i saw last week that mario monti said he might seek a second term to remove him seeking

a first from your description it sounds terrifying easy for brussels to do that what steps see your across have to take these were civilian jumpers ok it is true that the lesser of constitutional propriety was observed in the sense that the parliament in both cases indorse the new government that's the case with every dictatorship starting from the podium they always manage to get the parliamentary vote in their favor the reality is that we're dealing with administrations that have been imposed on countries because keeping those countries in the your was thought to be more important than allowing them to vote for the policies they want we do appear to be drawing nearer to a referendum on whether the u.k. should stay in the european union what would it take do you think for the government to take that final step well politicians in my experience feel the heat before they see the light i don't think any political party likes referendums to be honest because politicians are instinctively mistrustful of a process whose outcome they can't control nonetheless they all see that there is

big public demand people want to be consulted they feel that it's a huge issue in what country they want to belong to and that it's insulting and wrong not to allow people the referendum which all three parties were recently promising and all three have managed to crawl back from i'll go so far as to say that the party which gets there first will probably win the next election and the people who feel strongly about this may be a minority but they are not an insignificant minority and it's a vote determining issue for a chunk of the electorate. and so. i've almost i suppose like a kind of game theory like a prisoner's dilemma my the party desperately wants a referendum but neither can afford to let the other get there first what kind of referendum dean support is simple in or out or a more complex construct i think ultimately there will have to be an in out referendum i think it's the only one that makes sense you can't offer people something that you haven't yet negotiated or something that isn't in your gift to deliver i mean if you had a referendum and said wouldn't it be great if we opted out of all the following

areas but remained in the free market will you know idea whether the e.u. is going to give you that and so you that that's a meaningless question unless the renegotiation is already being completed by then and that's how i think it it should happen let me be is generous as i can do people want to stay in and is fair about this is like and. if the problem is timing and what is going to emerge from the eurozone crisis because that's what we're told no one now admits to being against the referendum in principle well that well they're now saying is now isn't the right time we've got to see what emerges fine if that's the case then pre-announce now and pretty legislate now for a referendum to take place in the say twenty sixteen ok that's plenty of time you've then got four years you supporters of membership to come back with a deal that you reckon you can sell to the british people. and the fact that you preannounced that referendum means that all of the other member states also understand that if you don't get the deal that you can sell to the country the alternative is that we leave and we negotiate something differently from the

outside i think if you did that then it is even possible that you could succeed in getting something along the lines of a swiss deal without calling it leaving i mean if it then becomes a presentational question whether you call it associate membership or whatever but what is absolutely certain is that if our own civil servants and if the other member states do not understand that it's either a renegotiation or exit there will be no significant improvement in our terms of membership the result of a referendum is by no means a done deal is it was if people vote to remain in the e.u. or perhaps worse still if they don't go to tool as has happened in the past in european elections i have absolutely no idea how people would vote i mean having just been excoriated in the european union for its lack of democracy it would then be rather hypocritical of me to say well i only want a referendum if i think i'm going to win it you know the point is almost everybody in public life approaches this question by guessing at the outcome and then trying to work back you know ok if you think people are going to vote to stay in and you

want to stay in your four if you look surely somebody should stand back and say is this right in principle on an issue of this magnitude isn't it just the right thing to do to let the country decide i mean if we if we pestered everybody with a vote on the precise method by which they return the members of parliament how can we now turn around and say that they're not allowed to vote on whether those members of parliament get to run the country what about was all three parties saying which is you know we've got this crisis going on our main priority should be to reduce the deficit we don't have the time with inclination now to talk about having me referendum is wonderful isn't it we were told for twenty years that now was not the right time for a referendum because europe wasn't an issue and now it will never sarong time because europe is an issue you know the eurozone crisis and all this i mean it's the ultimate. yes minister argument you know a perfectly good idea in principle minister but perhaps now is not the most propitious occasion if not now when you know the eurozone crisis has wrecked the

premise on which we joined it's falsified our membership terms europe is collapsing as a share of our exports the rest of the world is increasing almost by the minute as a share of our trade. the reason that we went in in the first place in the early seventy's in the argument have been deployed for nearly forty years has now been made redundant by the collapse of the eurozone economy and the mulish insistence of the euro zone governments on accelerating all the policies that have created the crisis that now is the time for us to raise our eyes the more distant horizons and remember is the world daniel had on thank you very much thank you. if you're passing through rushes to be a region you really can walk on the wild side thousands of kilometers of unspoiled countryside make up an area where it's still possible to live off the land such

spectacular scenery makes it a paradise for fisherman and provides a business opportunity for hunters there are defined hunting seasons in russia but lax enforcement means many animals are killed out of the allotted times which can leave young animals orphaned and unable to survive the heart of just u.s. forest provides a sanctuary for the most famous beast in russia it's home to a group who rescue often bear cubs and raise them when they're old enough to fend for themselves the cubs a target taken to a remote location and released back into the wild but it's not just bears who find a haven here this is wolf island here wolf pups have been captured by hunters or bought from zoos have a second chance at life and conservationists have a unique opportunity to observe them. these wolves are all around four months old and they'll stay in this area for up to three years and most will go back to the wild for good just viewing them from the car was an experience in itself but then

after a bit of a bumpy ride came an opportunity i just couldn't pass up and this is what i was hoping for when i heard i was coming to a place called wolf island a chance to get close and personal with the locals and it's these guys are going to act as foster parents for the next generation will come here using the old rules as surrogate parents has already proved a successful technique that they would every place infant wolves with one year old wolf cubs his parental instinct is totally shaped and they take them as their own cubs it's going to continue to take time and money to rehabilitate the wolfs reputation in russia but the keepers here hope their research and dedication will mean that wolf island remains a place where visitors can truly understand the cool of the wild.

nogo award winning car many years of violence over concert unemployment and rising separatism but the who wins the peace prize amid the worst crisis ever faced. fresh anti-government protests in bahrain reportedly end in fierce clashes as police tear gas crowds and make arrests in another crackdown that's going on noticed in the world's media. meanwhile egyptians are back in talk arrear in protest at the acquittal of loyalists of president morsi is failure of stirring his first hundred days in power with scuffles erupting on both sides. thanks to the

sport update with kate. hello welcome to the sports ahead of this big night of international football and here the headlines. feel the ego denise promises to repay coach fabio capello's faith in him as he takes the all bound for this friday's world cup qualifier against portugal. while expressing what you have. to avenge here's a little pick defeat as he sets up a semifinal against the shanghai monsters. best sebastian vettel leads one point or as red bull set the pace in practice ahead at this weekend's korean girl prix. but first a football in russia kept in the garden itself has turned to manager fabio capello for showing faith in him this made me feel that has retained the armband for this

friday's world cup qualifier at home to portugal despite being dropped for the last month at his club over. which of our poor feet with ports. this russia's hardest test so far in their bid to qualify for the two thousand and fourteen world cup in brazil to magically however preparations for the game with portugal haven't been ideal for the goodness of serrano but he needs making all the headlines the twenty eight year old has been training with his elite reserves for the last three weeks of refusing to play in a league match against create a severe tov to him want to go higher salary however busy meet with the other says he is in excellent physical shape and would be ready to take on the portuguese. if it's for love and i would like to thank fabio capello for calling me up to the national team squad and i'll try to do everything to repay his faith in me in terms of his in need and i have read a lot in the press about me and i think a lot of what they're seeing is incorrect my mind isn't helping russia at the moment and after these internationals i'll go back to st petersburg and sort

everything out there capello confirm a de serve as a key player for the russian national team and will remain as captain and even despite his problems the midfielder will have his national team's head coaches full backing. gary they have been in contact with dennis and luciano splatting about the situation with a good and useful i've known for a long time that i would call up to these off as he's a very important player for the russian national team my main thoughts are about doing the best for the team if i had any concerns about his fitness then i would have sent him home russia will not have four memories about their last meeting with portugal as they were humbled by seven goals to one almost eight years ago today the portuguese have an array of attacking options in particular christiane the rinaldo italian has been paying special attention to the team's tactics and he's positive his. side will be well prepared for a potential threat they will face. we'll have a team meeting later where we will discuss our tactics and how we will approach the

game and everyone's aware of the potential threat that christiana rinaldo poses of course will be trying to stop him but that isn't always that easy when he picked up an injury in his last game against barcelona of course i was hoping it would be more serious as that would have made our task much easier. capello is aware of who will start against the portuguese but there are slight injury concerns about roman shirokov alexander case recalled and signa shared it before been training individually so it's likely that the trio will be fit. has enjoyed a dream start to head coach of the russian national team six point six goals scored and none conceded after two competitive games however of italian will face a stiff this task yet has faced the group fair as portugal and every show can get a win from bank game better state bear intentions they're trying qualify automatically for the two thousand and fourteen world cup in brazil richard on porfiry darty moscow. and how does that much do to get off in just over ten minutes

all three russians who were a dad have been declared fit both christiane are an elder son pepe stop the portugal well tell us wanted to give her another auntie's teammates had a taste of the artificial pitch at the luzhniki stadium during a short training session the wingers left shoulder didn't appear to have a him following a heavy fall in loss on this classic of barcelona while fellow madrid star has recovered from a fall my problem while reigning world and european champions spain face batteries in minsk before a vital clash against france in madrid on cheers day which could help decide which team will eventually win going by but spain insists their focus is on friday's game this week she would see them go with joint top with props. up the notion of you know we imagine how the match will go we think about how it will turn out we find the solutions that we'd like to have what you can be sure of is that we're going to go against players that are offensive and we're going to try to take the initiative of the game we have to prepare against possible attacks from them you imagine

a marriage like that and therefore we'll have players who can score goals. one elsewhere managed a city striker mario balotelli is set to miss italy's qualifier against army here in the other van after failing to recover from flu while coaches out of ten delhi will also resume the store what's with no you vendors or napoli players on the roster after you've a one there italian super cup or encounter with the two on the sunday well the european runners up italy a top group b. on goal difference from bulgaria but armenia a third is taking nothing for granted and. we know that we need to perform a top burst because a media are very well prepared to mount to be too tactical and play at a high tempo we should do our best to use the quality that we have. on tennis now roger federer will look to avenge his a little bit final defeat when the world number one takes on on the merry in the semifinals of the shanghai masters this response right. brushed aside ten seed mary

in chile approach six three six four while novak djokovic came back from two love down in the second set to beat germany tommy haas six three six three meanwhile tucson defending champion marie battled back from a set down to outlast radek stepanek the cd check displayed a lot of brits to dominate the opener six four but regroup to take the next two six two six three the world number three has now won all eleven of his matches in shanghai but the briton next place is top ranked federer. i know me well second the djokovic who played promise burdick in the last for the big serving czech as did joe wilfried tsonga in an hour and a half but it hit number nine to wrap up a six three seven six victory and stay on course for his fourth final of the season . now to four when i want to read ball sebastian vettel has edged teammate mark webber to top the time sheets in friday's practice for the korean grand prix the twice defending world champion has won the last two races to go within four points

of championship lead different on the long well the spaniard finished third ahead thomas jones but michael schumacher was this followed by ferrari's belief massa there was sadie's mco rosberg there is hamilton had been quickest in the first session because they want to finish with the faster tires. here in ohio and would try to just a momentum to have another you know very strong result here we know that the circuit should be quite good farce historically we've been competitive here so two years we've been racing here before i think we always had a very good car. try again when we won in motor g.p. dani pedrosa was fastest in practice ahead of sunday's race in japan the spaniard is thirty three points behind jorge lorenzo in the championship standings with four races to go and finished a tenth of a second quicker than his rival italy is out there that is the also was third quickest defending world champion ok stoner was seventh as your straw. he'd make his comeback after missing the last three races with

a fractured ankle. possible now and has got moscow survived to scared to make a winning starts to this year's year old league as last season's runners up edge of land the inside lior to bus fleet us seventy five points to seventy three sunny williams top scored for the home side with fourteen points and the contribution of the small forward is vital that's gone mosco were down sixty seven points to seventy one but the former denver nuggets player schooled five points in a row to give his side the lead when. they added a couple of free throws but it was still tight right until the day the test even had to the last possession a chance to win the game but they missed a three pointer on the buzzer so i released the ten time rushing champions and when your league started the army men here in the russian capital. no idea nor you should be allowed to is going to play their best when they play out we have to play better we could easily. change what it was but it's all on those we have the harder

we have to play to go. and finally current tour de france champion bradley wiggins is shocked by the u.s. anti-doping agencies report on lance armstrong but he believes cycling has moved on from the dog days of doping you saw to produce a thousand page dossier detailing how armstrong allegedly took banned substances to fuel the seven tour de france victories with eleven of his former teammates testifying against him well again says it's now his responsibility as tour champion to defend the sport and that he believes has cleaned itself up. has on me is the car window the sort of front. on to the questions pick up the pieces expect to be the voice of everyone else but army. which i'm not happy about doing reaper i understand why i have to do it my focus is always on trying to be better and competing next year again. you know almost kind of showing from the rooftops when. oh i do because she really you know that is the future of so i can this country and

that is the future of our sport and that's where it moves forward really and i would say a lot of this stuff happened maybe fifteen years ago so it's the sport has changed considerably and we're a big part of my changing that's for. that as well as well for this policy i think . the issue is that so much as i can which of course he's right on it it's of unity republicans and democrats alike tell the american people that they have a stark choice before them in this election year is this really the case. by horse. by tractor. by car for the road. as a carpenter. as

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