the venezuelan supreme court rules delaying a good chair with his inauguration is legal supporting the government in the fight for stability in the latin american states. expressing concern the u.s. warns the u.k. again saw the referendum on a possible u.s. causing a further schism in britain's coalition government. and packs of wolves close in on residential areas in russia's republic of yuko tear forcing authorities to declare war on the deadly predator.

good evening this is r t my name is kevin thank you for being with us our top story the eleven pm moscow time the perspire moment of the inauguration date for venezuelan president hugo chavez is legal according to the country's supreme court meanwhile the country's vice president has called for people to gather in front of the presidential palace to one of the leader who said to be recovering from cancer surgery in cuba lawyer gollan she told me the country's opposition could use the president's protracted absence though to destabilize the country article two thirty . and does leave open to interpretation the issue of inauguration when the elected president cannot meet the date of january tenth before the national assembly which is the parliament what the article specifically says in a second clause is that in the case of unforeseen circumstances then the president elect will be sworn in before the supreme court but it doesn't give a date for there is another article in the constitution venezuela under which

president chavez was authorized to leave the country for more than five days back in early december in order to undergo the surgery and that article allows him to be absent from the country for it ninety days which can be renewed for another ninety days the issue is whether or not he's now incurring those first ninety days or is he under just the initial authorization nat's really way is it is going to be determined sooner venezuela because it's there's no question that the president has now been out of the country for more than a month he's been absent from the spotlight there's not really a crisis at this time the opposition is trying to say there is a crisis and there is no doubt they're calling for national strikes all kinds of protests there already asking for the organization of american states and the united states to intervene so that's going to be ongoing and yes the longer that chavez is away the more time that will give them to prepare and to further prior progress with plans to the stabilize his government and try to create some

situation where new elections can be can mean. the e.u. is back to deal designed to reduce violence by on wednesday the president of the european council herman van rompuy held top level talks in dublin after the country took over the rotating presidency list top the fish mackellar showing him first and of the people's movement in ireland patricia even to thanks for going r.t. european council president there saying island there's a special case which is why the country secured this deal on its crippling sixty four billion euro bank debt it's going to be able to retain the status of coming expect to see it eventually fall apart of countries like greece though what do you think's ahead well i think there's a lot of propaganda thrown in that position within ireland at the moment and how it is doing and i think that's basically it all took trying to keep a very disgruntled public happy because i think a lot of people are aware now that there is the army people on the street that are paying the car out of billing out german and british banks and the army people are

footing the bill and so i think there's quite a lot of discontent and i think that the objective of the e.u. propaganda machine is to ensure that people really don't the pastor very basic just sad that has been part of this whole issue of how the e.u. is actually forcing ireland to. it for reckless lending by german and other european banks but what is the solution i'm well i thought were a lot of us feel very much that it's on the taxpayer who had nothing to do with this policy issue to be for bush to cut to short the bill and clear it out as also effort by the you to keep everything looking perfect at an international level because the credit realty of your of course is paranoid because it would lose any more credibility it's going to do serious damage to the credibility of the was

a hole and at the same time you have these like britain just because i think the possibility of a referendum even indeed the possibility of withdrawal and having said that the british themselves are not part of the euro zone at least they can control their own economy but here in ireland we can't control or economy before any budget any finance minister decide the budget here in dublin but that passed by europe and i brussels so a lot of democratic ability has been removed from the people and i think this is also a concern which is why i think there's a lot of hype and then over the current presidency which is also costing by the way the taxpayer a huge amount it's jest six somewhere between sixty and seventy million that it will cost the irish taxpayer to host the e.u. presidency proper tissue of the support of a backhanded compliment i know but our lives being held up as a bit of a leading light of all the countries of the masses and i way forward islands but interested now in. china it's like the for light pull the out of the financial

ditch while it struggles going to zone house in order and what can i bring to the party albeit i know what you think about the e.u. but what can i do know can it help for the europeans. well i suppose one of the things about the irish government successive governments is that they've also always gone out in the lead and to facilitate their partners and as you say ireland has been held up as a shining light but it's not some years ago ireland we've been held up as a shining light to encourage other countries to join the european union saying i remember this and some of that her eastern european countries that you know they should join the e.u. look at ireland but with an economic basket basket case before join the e.u. another look at it than economy this is don't forget the good times but when i don't and can't to the wall there was no one within the european establishment holding them up as a kind or responsible for what happened in ireland and i think you know there are two doors that the crisis in ireland responsibility for it can be placed at and

while i was at the e.u. on the other just our own governments and the patients and what they took but i think it looks like that more and more pressure is going to be put on the organizers taxpayer to squeeze the budget tighter tight and already you know people are extremely concerned about the amount that they're having to pay cuts cuts cuts all the time and increased costs of living and i think that eventually people are going to like the greeks of course have to start saying a cold on a minute how much more can we pay and only pay at their lunch and i think that there is this tendency within the european union has an interest. but on a good faith and i mean you have countries like a stone you know which is recently joined the euro at a time when the or recent crisis it begs the question flying what a country charge at such a crucial time when it looks like the euro is in serious trouble and i suppose the answer to that is that it's similar to that propaganda machine for the euro to show

the international community will look at can be so bad in countries like a stone we are lining up to join haven't set up there are other countries surrounding it like denmark and that who are grateful i think for the fact that they didn't join the euro the big. at the moment. members of the eurozone and how they are going to actually. read it or across all of the germany is very unhappy at doing at the moment there is a shift in germany it bailout should go to referendum there patricia thank you for your thoughts i know which i just know you said was your first time doing a television interview you're a star at it couldn't stop you fishermen from people's movement in ireland really appreciate it thank you. ok good. now the army is top economist blanchard admits he was wrong about earlier austerity forecasts admitting failure to see the grave consequences which the financial measures brought on weak e.u. countries such as greece and i.m.f. working paper says the fund significantly underestimated any potential increase in

under an employment market for polly a london based financial advisor wealth manager told us regardless so these later statements the people will end up paying for government mistakes the reality is of course the most waste and governments which includes most of the the southern european countries the level of state involvement in the economy has grown substantially over the last few years and what happens is of course that any significant austerity measures will have a massive impact on our on the economy what there's been is debt accumulation that same in the u.s. and most of most of europe marries continuing massive accumulation of of sovereign debt. for example like this was a plan. through the european central banks through the

germans and the. community has imposed these these massive austerity measures on european peripheral countries and of course it's not the people's from. the government. it's not the people's fault but the banking system has failed and needed to be but it's the people who do you read through high taxation and. enjoy these massive austerity measures. what amid the is ongoing economic troubles washington says any possible u.k. break away from the union is not in america's interest not subject to the heated debate surrounding a possible u.k. referendum on the mountain we don't know the system but in a couple of minutes time i would also call my discussion on the afghan president karzai stripped to the u.s. says he attempts to settle a milestone the sticky issues between kabul and washington.

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live from moscow this is tape you can referendum on an exit is not in america's interests that's according to president obama's assistant secretary on european and your asian affairs the statements calls for the divisions that within britain's coalition government it comes as promised david cameron prepares to make a speech on the future of european policy later this month. the respect. we've always known that the u.s. prefers the u.k. has a close relationship with the e.u. because when it wants something done it's britain that it calls this kind of direct

challenge to the government over europe to involving itself in internal bush's affairs is something a little bit new the u.s. is warned of the dangers of holding a referendum on europe for the u.k. and it has called for all out in the coalition government although that's not a difficult thing to do these days david cameron the prime minister has played it out saying it's just an opinion but kleck nick clegg his deputy has said that it is a big issue that the u.k. is valuable to the e.u. us precisely because it has a close relationship with the european union and of course his party does stands against anything that distances person from the now i felt that the main issue for people here given that there's an increasing lack of support for britain's membership of the european union would probably be just that the us taking it all in so i went out to ask them they have concerns and i can understand because they were saying we'll agree similar values should. we represent them and.

clearly. we take notice but equally i don't. fully understand. the implications for britain i don't think it is because i mean we are a different kind of teaching them so you know i think we should make the decision and those people in the streets they're seeing it as a question of sovereignty now with me as gerald batten who's a member of the european parliament we've always known haven't we the u.s. prefers that the u.k. has a close relationship with the union so what difference does it make now that they've said i think the difference here is that they're actually interfering in british politics i think there's a difference between you can on some a country having a view about other countries foreign policy and stating that but i think this is a bit different this is a direct attempt to interfere in. domestic policies and they're trying to frighten the british people by saying you know we'd lose influence and jeopardizes our

special relationship and all the rest of it if we continue along this road of actually asking what's happened to our national sovereignty is gone and we'd like it back and the polite thing applied thing i would say the guy is president obama. and david cameron these big plans for a referendum are expecting this announcement within the next few weeks you'll be pleased about that what difference does this really made i think you'd have to be very naive to think if david cameron is sincere about this he's talked about a referendum but this whole thing about renegotiation is a nonsense you cannot renegotiate the terms of membership terms of membership decided by treaty they have to be done by the you know animists agreement of all twenty seven member states and twenty eight soon when croatia joint you cannot renegotiate on a piecemeal basis and nobody in the european you other countries going to renegotiate the terms or allow us to because we are one of the biggest paymasters to the you so the us is worried about nothing i think the americans should mind their own business. you know what we don't tell them how to about their national

sovereignty they shouldn't tell us which is the most precious thing we've got is the right to determine our own democratic affairs thank you very much etc but in talking to me about ministration expressing his opinion on the u.k. and i'm sure the e.u. . that was laura smith in london the future of afghanistan is up for discussion as the country's leader meets top american officials in washington ahmed cars talks with the u.s. defense and state circuitries as well as his upcoming one a one summit with president barack obama could provide answers to a wide range of crucial issues including the number of american troops in afghanistan the majority pull out in twenty four to possible role before washington has been finalized this decision on the matter doesn't rule out a complete withdrawal but scenarios not welcomed by the afghan government whoever those positions increasingly fragile are being the strengthening taliban insurgency in some thoughts on those from hillary mann leverett and for those of you with u.s. diplomats middle eastern asia why hillary thanks for being with this the obama administration send signals that it's firmly committed to

a pullout in twenty forty we know hearing that all u.s. troops could leave afghanistan can these talks really change the course of action is that what these talks are about. you know i think these talks are for the president and his national security principals to let afghanistan's president karzai down as softly as they can to let him know that unfortunately they're not going to make good on their promise to completely train. the afghan military and police before u.s. troops leave i think this this visit is about trying to let cars i know as nicely as they can that they're not going to make good on their promise to continue to defend afghanistan and train up afghanistan's military and what's the reason for this because of money. well i think money is part of it i think part of it is that president obama. after he agreed to surge the troops into afghanistan i think

pretty quickly realized if he didn't realize even before the surge that there is no military solution for the united states in afghanistan and so i think in part the initial surge of troops by the president in two thousand and nine was to give the united states some political cover to eventually do this troop withdrawal to show that we were withdrawing from a position of strength now i don't think it's turned out the way the president probably wanted it because the tall man is so clearly on the office but the idea that the president did his best he tried to send more troops it didn't work he gave it as we say in the united states the old college try and it just didn't work i think for an american population that is both battered financially and very tired of endless wars an occupation. this is something that will. basically go forward without a hitch in terms of american public opinion how is this going to go down with the no one group meeting i'm sorry how is this going to go down with the meeting.

i think it's probably going to be hard for president karzai here he came to power he was selected for his position initially in two thousand want to december two thousand and one in part with very serious u.s. backing both political political financial and military he has been assured every step of the way that the united states stood with his government financially politically militarily that we would not allow afghanistan to slide back into a taliban al qaeda launching ground so i think this is going to be difficult to hear but president karzai is not without his resources he has other allies in the region i think the afghan government has tried to build more of a security relationship for example and a political and economic relationship with china with other neighbors with iran

with india so karzai is not without without his assets but i think it will be difficult to face the reality that this time around the united states is not going to is not going to stay the course if that is any kind of please both. the. well it's something that karzai has long called for in the united states has been very has a ten very reluctant to engage in seriously which is a political deal a political way forward for afghanistan a significant substitute political process that would include the critical internal players inside afghanistan not just the taliban but the other ethnic and political groups essentially those who made up the northern alliance before nine eleven the tajiks uzbeks and others but would also include in a significant substantive way afghanistan's neighbors in addition to the united states and russia something that we had to deal with afghanistan in two thousand

and one we had this right after nine eleven the united states and russia worked very closely with the neighbors of afghanistan to overthrow that to push out of afghanistan and to set up this karzai government we worked well together but the united states i think lost track of the good model and now is trying to tried to coerce a military outcome there has failed and now the ideal way forward would be to come back to the political table to diplomacy to work with the internal players in afghanistan as well as the neighbors and russia to have a political way forward but the united states has been very reluctant to engage in serious talks in this regard both because of our antagonism toward the top but also because of our interrogators and toward the islamic republic of iran and strategically how important. are those important to washington.

well it depends i think it is important but it is not something that is the top of the agenda here the top of the agenda here is very much the islamic republic of iran and what we see is this dramatic change happening happening in the middle east and of course the rise of china but afghanistan plays on all of those issues afghanistan borders iran afghanistan has an increasingly important relationship with china and of course the predominant muslim population afghanistan has a lot of affinity with other with the other muslim populations in the middle east and then more broadly across asia so i think afghanistan will be important player in all of these and all of these drama but the united states is now i think myopically focused on trying to in a sense defeat the islamic republic of iran to roll back what it sees as this this challenge to the problem merican governments that existed in the middle east and to roll back what it sees is the right the rise of china but afghanistan has for

centuries emerged as a central player in these these various geo political games and will again do so whether washington likes it or not you know my leverage to it was trying to get political risk consultancy thank you for being on the program. top stories of. the syrian foreign ministry slammed the top international peace envoy to the conflict zone and flagrantly comes out to me said he does not see a place for president in a transitional government in visaged but international. says ritually to the decide . on friday will hold talks with russian and u.s. officials as the pros who seek to implement a road. twenty two month long syrian conflict. the people of kurdish independence are visibly found dead from gunshot wounds in paris one of the victims was the co-founder of the kurdistan workers' party known as a p k k or an armed struggle for separation from turkey forty thousand people so far been killed in the twenty five year battle for independence and chris recently become talks with the party's

leader to try and persuade the organization to disarm. scores of people have been left him wounded by two separate explosions in pakistan at least twenty one people were killed in the northwestern city of mingora when a blast struck crowds gathering to hear a speech by religious leader another explosion it is a curative include the country's east killing eleven and destroying a nearby marketplace. seeing similar attacks in recent months middle rising islamist insurgency and sectarian violence. during the region pakistan claims indian troops have killed one of the soldiers in the disputed kashmir region where tensions have been growing there for the past week it comes as india held funerals for two of its soldiers allegedly killed by pakistani forces two days ago reports that the bodies were mutilated sparked protests in the country's capital new delhi india's also some of its envoy to pakistan marking a need to ration in the sixty year long dispute over the region. russia's republic

of you q.t.s. has declared a war on wolves scores of the predators are reported to be closing in on several residential areas in the region posing a serious threat to livestock and earlier artie's tomball explained to my colleague when a gesture why the region is currently in a state of emergency. it is a very serious situation. here is a vast territory with a very low payment population but a lot of the people who live there rely on reindeer for their for their livelihood and on the horses they used to travel with those herds of reindeer and those reindeer what the wolves are desperately trying to get to driven there by hunger because they are normal foodstuffs are like hares and rabbits are a lot more scarce this year so these some of these pictures show this is a wolf in a zoo but some of these other pictures show wolves in the wild in siberia usually they would stay well away from these reindeer herds but they're being driven there by hunger it killed sixteen thousand reindeer last year that's simply too much the

numbers of wolves have reached three thousand five hundred new kuti now and the president of the republic says that's too much that the attrition rate as it were on the reindeer has reached it now too expensive they're losing too many reindeer and that's become a serious problem sure it does sound like a serious problem and like you said it probably happens because there is an imbalance of other animals in the forest and that's why the wolves are driven out of the forest and exactly closer to the people so what is the solution to the problem under the circumstances is there any at all solution is as you might probably think relatively simple just step up a hunting of the wolves a sort of a natural cole as it were of these planned cull of the of these wolves so that the president the public has really really gone for that and said said rewards will be offered to hunters six figure awards for the top three hunters the aim is to kill

three thousand of the three thousand five hundred wolves. in the next three months starting in a in a few days time and that hopefully will bring the numbers down to what experts say is it should be the natural level about five hundred wolves or not three thousand five. john bomb there a case of the wolves of the far east my cousin makes mincemeat out of the global bank as soon as you'd expect in a kaiser reports on air after this break. in his secret laboratory tim curry was able to build a new it's most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about

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welcome to the kaiser report max kaiser to be austere or not to be that is the question whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the austerity sandwich about rages stolen fortune or to take arms against the city of bank stores oh oh well since moving to london i have of course been enjoying the austerity said which let me demonstrate here this is a slice of bread and of course this is a slice of bread now the austerity sandwich is when you fill this with a slice of bread you say this would be then the austerity sandwich. that's really really.