the global noise to say no to all stare at a nazi protests kick off in thirty countries with europe among the loudest and angriest just as the e.u. scoops the nobel peace prize. and the week's others new other news in the turkey forces down a syrian passenger plane that suspected of carrying russian weapons of mass guessed that syria's neighbors bolster their militaries along their border. and one of the pussy riot punk band members but her two band mates continue their true years in prison for hooliganism over there because the usual stuff.

thank you for joining our tease the weekly with me karen tara while the global noise is underway a worldwide protest in some thirty countries in which crowds are calling for an end to austerity the biggest demonstrations so far have been in spain just hours after after the e.u. won this year's nobel peace prize and as i like said it ski reports from madrid things aren't looking too peaceful right now in europe. the union needs scored nudists have over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation and democracy on human rights in europe but is this the peace they're talking about tear gas fascist flags and massive furious crowds of the most common sites across the award winning continent lately protests like this will echo in thirty five countries across the world over the next several weeks the global and style serry two boys only in spain alone hundreds of thousands have been

voicing their anger ever since the government announced more painful budget cuts for next year everything with spending are is now unemployed and this grim story is pretty much the same for portugal and greece is one of the leaders of the protest movement in madrid he says people have just about had enough behind it the crises and the capitalist system right now in spain transfer private data into public that and these causes huge cuts to public spending and health system and it took a share and it's affecting millions of poor people it's producing a huge accomplishment and it's producing and whole social best composition health gold society with so many going against the system across europe at times clashing violently with the police the decision to award the e.u. with a peace prize has raised many eyebrows this is like giving

a prize to frankenstein for being the best monster created during the past twelve months there's only one contender for the peace prize this year and that's julian assange the fact that he did not win this prize is will be an eternal stain on the nobel committee no one has done more to push peace than julian assange should be getting the so war from this committee the fact that they turn to a bunch of machines and technocrats and the a hero is an embarrassment they should go back to making dynamite. this ward is even more questionable to some because of the e.u. is rather dubious peacemaking record and that moreover the current financial turmoil is the biggest danger to peace europe has been bombing libya and europe has been bombing syria you know it isn't bombing afghanistan or iraq yugoslavia a few years ago yes it is but there's they're trying to say ok guys we're giving you a whole year together europe is been spending money they don't have that's going to have to stop that is going to cause more riots in the streets more social unrest

more governments failing perhaps even countries failing and perhaps even people pulling out of the euro could lead to war again in europe in two thousand and nine barack obama won the same award having been in office for only two weeks that was before he sent more troops to afghanistan and waged war in libya but as the latest nobel peace prize award is debated worldwide protesters in spain seem to care little about the prestige than their own survival calls for independence are heard loud and clear in the country's largest and wealthiest region cut the lumia a clear indication the continent is losing that unity which the nobel committee has decided to. see reporting from madrid in spain. and it's not just a rising breakaway sentiment any kind alone around but now the very real prospect of a bailout that's threatening spain's unity and independence crisis management expert margaret balkan bogner it has been telling our. but spanish government just

reported or you know just resigned to the austerity package in twelve months to try and both jumpstart the spanish t.v. p. and cut back on expenses at the very nice the spanish economy needs at least a hundred billion euros to get back on it and as reste demonstrated even if that map is going out in the first round you may need a second round so you brought up international lenders european union in september is that ok we may be comfortable offering an unlimited bailout to countries like spain or italy here's the issue that i am that needs to help us out well when the i.m.f. and most economic offers the new c i m f o so answered the government. syria has banned turkish civilian flights from entering its airspace earlier this

week turkey intercepted a syrian passenger plane claiming it carried russian made munitions for government forces moscow says the cargo was only electronic equipment for radar stations and all of it is legal reports well the whole they pointed their guns at those hungover those from the put those on the ground then the job was done to the plane into the hole we were going through the arms in better dignity with an international scandal thrown in on top all in the name of peace at least that's the stance taken by the turkish authorities when they tried to justify forcefully grounding a syrian plane on route from moscow to damascus. we in turkey only want peace and safety in this region that is our desire we would never have an incentive to start a war on kharaj hasn't revealed exactly what was in the cargo of that plane though they do insist it was russian made a mission and technical equipment something moscow the mentally denies. there was

certainly no armaments on this plane and they simply could not have been any ideals the aircraft was carrying a cargo that was being shipped from a russian supplier to a legitimate customer in a legitimate way it was a cargo of electrical supplies for radar stations this is jewel purpose equipment but it is not barred by any international conventions surely neither do turkish officials say where they received the tipoff about the suppose it weapons on board some of those have their suspicions this is washington telling prime minister who says he's so independent to go in and go for it down the use the f. sixteen s for all its peace mongering talk and righteous outrage over russia's supposed on willingness to help out in peace efforts in caracas peers to be surprisingly open when it comes to supporting one side in the syrian conflict the rebel fighters it is supporting the rebels it's allowing the. large quantities of

ammunition and rockets. to enter syria. lebanese journalist unifor was described what she believed to be an arms delivery on the border between turkey and syria yannick in the scene was the real barbed wire a dark clean filled with all of trees armed men and in flashing lights from the trucks packed with weapons syrian group takes its share in leaves i was asked not to fill but the immensity of the scene with the journalist you know was interrogated for days by turkish officials before being released when she was back in lebanon should realize the incriminating pictures she'd filmed on the turkish theory. border had been wiped while she was in custody some believe still itty towards president assad has little to do with the situation in syria and everything to do with your new arms ambitions i was devilish in this country as a major political player turkey's preparing itself for its one hundredth

anniversary twenty twenty three it was the whole campaign of a very ambitious platform of how turkey is building for alliance is going to position itself as a global power lies establishing itself as a regional boss threatening a full lot war with syria and openly violating iraq just seventy by bombing courageous spaces not exactly what bond with all feats of diplomacy so in turkish officials to speak of peace and stability in the region their words are drowned out by the sound of an exchange of fire with their neighbors in tel aviv in a ghost r.t. the pentagon confirmed on thursday and sent its troops to jordan with some one hundred fifty u.s. officers now stationed near the border with rest of syria washington claims it's to bolster jordan's military capabilities if its neighbors conflict escalates political analyst though rockwell believes america is trying to intimidate damascus jordan has long been a better call it a satellite the us is not actually an ally it's

a province of the us and so why is the us putting in these troops are first of all to imply that some of syria is threatening jordan which of course is not true syria's got their hands full with the us inspired rebels who were trained by the way in turkey at a us air force base for the law passed several years before this all started so this is just a way to juge gin up the tension to bring on more trouble i don't i think it's true the u.s. will not use its troops to invade syria but will try a libyan strategy of simply bombing people endlessly from the air very possible. ahead this hour encircled and still cut off from basic but i don't sense to be. a libyan opposition stronghold enduring an ongoing sea state its residents pleading for international rescue we tell you why. there's one of the pussy riot protesters this freed on appeal r.c. ask who's really benefiting from the publicity that's just sad.

it always amazes me the lengths that people go to for things that are pointless people camped out for a week waiting for a new i phone that will be archaic by next year when the next one comes out every black friday many thankfully not all americans celebrate this holiest of shopping days by waiting outside of a wal-mart in the early morning to fight over trendy plastic gifts for their children that they're too young to appreciate hey even i'm willing to sometimes wake up early in the morning to drive downtown and be twenty five bucks for parking to watch a football game under cations but just imagine a world where we actually were willing to wake up early and stand a big crowd for something say more important than some stupid gizmo or the sake of

our favorite sports team just imagine iraq and that world would be yet maybe standing around some protester collecting signatures won't do anything we can't be naive enough to think that big corporations will bow to ten people with signs bought spending days worshiping at the altar of the i phone it's certainly won't improve your country but that's just my. more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. for asians to rule the day.

sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear sees some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big show. today's news in the week's major headlines lot from our team and moscow wednesday saw a turning point for the pussy riot protesters when one of the group was freed on probation although her two bad mates will stay in prison they had been jailed for religiously motivated hooliganism and august after their performance on russia's main orthodox cathedral arches polly boy has the story. a media frenzy one

that breaks out any pussy riot court hearing the same old faces as supporters and critics gathered for the herring after emerging from her successful appeal everyone wanted a piece of the one band member released on probation but you know so much save it remain tight lipped even how you lawyers to do the talking. about the storm i'm happy that i managed to help a person but i just did my job. last week the now freed band member fired her original legal team her new defense change strategy arguing in court that their client didn't take part in the now notorious punk prayer in most cases maine orthodox cathedral she was in fact chewed out by gods before she got the chance to join her band mates and their so-called protest start that argument was accepted by the court some trial observers believe that the strategy of the original pussy riot

defense team wasn't to reduce the women sentences but rather to expose flaws in russia's judicial system for all the world to see by switching to lawyers that focused on her personal case some might say that she walked out of court for a while her fellow band members went back to jail so. i think she decided to get some real lawyers they weren't before you know to humiliate russia in the face of the worst but to actually free her one major russian. says they've been flooded with calls from foreign promoters offering to organize a pussy riot world tour that could earn up to six hundred million euros western and russian celebrities have called for the women's release and international considers them prisoners of conscience free pussy riot t. shirts are all the rage. that's the way you attract attention. they always looked at. famous pop stars around the world look at the way but don was dressed look at that they'll look at all the others. we can do as well as that or we can do

something different and they hated the idea of going into the cathedral and seeing their blasphemous songs because that. would in fact be something reduce with the media circus in full swing and the constant requests pouring in brand percy riot isn't set to go away any time soon polly boyko r t moscow. investigative journalist charming das lang says they resulting popularity in vandalism in the wake of the brown's trial raises a big question over who is really benefiting from the sentence. let's not forget was else is going on around the world around this case because it has got loads of problems at the in a way you know part of the punishment is to stop these people cashing in on the free publish to the you know this probably there's been two prizes awarded to these people one from the lennon oh no fun which is

a prize for peace which i find incredible since this has been such a divisive case the other is the luther prize which has been awarded boy the city of wittenberg which is where protestantism started and what's happened is the city has awarded the prize for the people of the city and they are protesting against that saying you know we don't actually endorse this sacrilege i think there's something really a bit sad about an organization that defines itself what opposition to the church and it's quite clear through this court case that's what this is about we've even had the disintegration of all three dogs crosses across eastern europe in different parts of eastern europe in support of pussy riot so this is actually about i think an attack on the cathedral an attack on the church. the scars of the iraq war remain and they are still visible on the faces of its children hard line read how a recently revealed report shows that british and american ammunitions being linked to a sharp rise in birth defects after the u.s.

led invasion. was how's this for a marine corps ukraine's training our own dolphins and reviving an old soviet project to patrol the scenes with military. download the official r.t. application so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from our. t.v. is not required to watch r.t. all you need is your mobile device watch r.t. any time. sunday is election day in russia with millions of people deciding on candidates ranging from regional has to local officials for the first time in eight years voters care to directly choose their governors as medina a question of our reports. this day russian voters are judging for themselves who takes charge of their regions now more than twenty two millions of russians are

expected to arrive at the polling stations and choose from an unprecedented number of candidates what is so interesting about those days is that it was introduced to a following last december's ways of government protests the biggest in russia's recent history people during the protests were demanding changes to the current election system they also wanted to bring back direct regional elections into see more representative song be opposition in parliament at the time than president repeated davis scrapped the old system regional officials hand-picked by the government and also made it easier for a new political parties to emerge giving a more competitive complection to the local elections just as the introduction of elections for regional governors is now being implemented gradually and this is a very important step in the creation of the. situation is giving more responsibility. and. officials just as i said

before the single voting day takes place for the first time in the last eight years and gives russians an opportunity to choose for themselves who they believe is worth the governing. now some more headlines from around the world today gunmen have opened fire at a mosque in a remote nigerian village killing at least twenty people the attackers targeted the worshippers as they left after prayers muslim extremists boko haram are suspected of the massacre they're known for targeting fellow muslims who do not follow their strict form of islam. a fireworks show in eastern china has ended with a blast that injured over one hundred people the display went tragically wrong when rockets misfired and exploded into a crowd of onlookers none of the wounded have life threatening injuries but five people have to say in the hospital thousands were attending the show to mark the

opening of an international industrial exhibition. more attorney as president has been injured after his own patrol shot at him by mistake troops opened fire at the presidential motorcade as he was returning home from a trip the leader was slightly injured but later peered on t.v. to say he's fine after the incident the friendly fire as the government called it sparked assassination of rumors that the president has refuted. the libyan opposition stronghold is facing an ongoing seizure and residents are calling for international help the conflict in bani walid it's already killed ten people in serious of armed confrontations this week the siege began when the national congress sought to arrest the suspected murderers of the man credited with capturing colonel gadhafi but residents didn't hand them over all supply routes were cut off leaving people there without access to vital necessities was partially

lifted on wednesday allowing the red cross access to the city journalist james corbett believes the current chaos is a common result of a violent regime change. it just goes to show that it deeply divided the country right. tribally ethnically in terms of geography it's a it's a deeply divided country and there are a number of different problems that are playing itself out politically in libya right now and this just goes to show once again that that not only is libya ungoverned to a large extent at the moment but it is perhaps given its current political state and governor bill in this particular instance we have that the prime minister being voted out in a vote of no confidence because he was unable to form a cabinet and basically this is due to both the pressures from the people themselves there was a popular protest movement basically saying that each individual city was complaining they were under represented in this proposed cabinet and you have the political dealings with the major parties behind the scenes including an offshoot of the muslim brotherhood which is trying to get into

a greater position of power in the country so there's a lot of power politics playing out and there's no easy solution on the horizon for the people and we're really the country is descending into a type of chaos that is really the predictable result of this type of regime change through violence that we've seen time and again throughout the past decade from afghanistan to iraq to libya and potentially now toward syria in a few minutes with the peace prize drowned out by protests what every pm explains what's going wrong with the system. as his day starts at five am even earlier in the winter tending to a flock of three hundred sheep in the mountains and pains of. thirty five years old it wasn't the life he jumped having studied accounting but i'm familiar with dictated that he would take on the care of these animals after his father. he's

just made camp at their winter farm stage setting up his ute the traditional two fenian round tent made of diskin. back amongst his family and his job is a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving extremes of plus to minus forty degrees celsius it's just that i miss them there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone my sister works with my mother my mother is seventy five she's very old and i miss mountains when i'm in town and i spend a lot of time here probably most of us simply carrying out the work that his father did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries and that's half the problem it's hard work and many people don't want to come into the industry now and it's really fit there could die out altogether. it's difficult to manage everything alone i used to have people who helped me but they

were no good they didn't take care of the sheep with all their heart they hurt the cattle dogs. with more people leaving than coming to the countryside the region's government is having to act making the life of the herd and more attractive than promising largest subsidies for produce and livestock and organizing cooperatives for the sale of day products to ensure the herd it gets a higher fair price i sympathize with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life in the public's capital. but he no longer wishes to join them he enjoys his pastoral way of life and looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm with more time on his hands he says matter of fact you can start to look for a new wife. today i'm talking to daniel how about who's

a conservative member of the european parliament who's about to bring his euro skepticism to the heart of brussels mr howard 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 amazing 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 by if supreme power wielded by twenty seven people were immune to the ballot box that would be regarded as an outrage. 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 and 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 specially 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 and 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 experts 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 day marriage which is about the relationship between the e.u. and the u.k. why did you decide to do it in 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 work by a marriage guidance counselor didn't read the book but 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 on approved outrages 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 they have even gone as far as to cool the relationship between your a craps and ordinary those is abusive yes in the sense that the ordinary voter if you.