free. free. free. free. ending the european question david cameron promises britain's a referendum on leaving the e.u. . special favors for the u.k. as a precondition to staying put. jordan is left of. arab spring unrest in the country. government has hijacked the voting. between internet freedom activist aaron swartz and wiki leaks his suicide under pressure from a massive criminal case has continued investigation by u.s. secret services.

around the world online on screen live from our new center here in moscow this is twenty four hours a day britain has been promised a referendum on ditching the e.u. although it's subject to prime minister david cameron's political fortunes in the next election delivering his long awaited speech the prime minister to win a special deal for the u.k. from brussels blasting the block for diversity and disagreement. in london. did pledge to hold a referendum on whether britain should be able to leave the e.u. if the conservatives win the next general election in twenty fifteen and then he went on to warn that it was likely that britain could head for the exit if he was unable to renegotiate britain's terms of membership with brussels what it effectively he wants is that brussels hands more power back to westminster so the

u.k. has more control over its own policies particularly economic ones he said that countries will be coming as weaker because of the current situation with the european union and the euro zone crisis and the fact that countries did not have great control over their own economic policies so he wasn't mincing his words today he also went on to say that the british public felt disillusioned with the european union and felt disappointed with the lack of apparently democracy and accountability from all the directives that get handed to other member states from brussels this is what david cameron had to say there is a gap between the e.u. and its citizens which has grown dramatically in recent years and which represents a lack of democratic accountability and consent that is yes felt particularly acutely here in britain what are you saying to a lot of people did sound quite confrontational but he was also trying to stress the fact that look please don't denounce britain for having nation you style of

thinking should be encouraged and he believes that with this he might be able to make you a better place. well europe's leaders have begun reacting to the prime minister's speech with warnings of worse to come if the u.k. pushes for the exit door the main message seems to be that britain is not in a position to dictate which rules it will follow and which it won't will get live reaction from london shortly but first r.t. peter oliver is following the reaction throughout europe. well as you can imagine david cameron's speech was watched very very closely here in mainland europe and it's been greeted with concern pretty much all across the board here in germany the foreign minister it good or best of valor said that you know germany have their own problems with brussels having too much power in their opinion over domestic policy of member states however the way that david cameron was looking at going around changing not was and the way forward a similar type of reaction in france from the french foreign minister and he said

that well it was that it could be dangerous for the united kingdom if it was to go it's a load outside of europe saying what david cameron was suggesting was like turning up to play for a football team and then walk upon a rival saying no no let's play rugby essentially is that moving the goal posts martin schulz the speaker of the european parliament certainly pulling no punches he said it would be and it was ridiculous basically what david cameron was putting forward and in fact pointed the finger at back at the united kingdom saying that the u.k. always complains that decisions in brussels take too long the speaker of the parliament saying well it's the united kingdom that draws these things out and drags them out and makes them take too long essentially though the underlying message from everybody across europe from leaders across europe this seems to be concerned in particular concern that if they are cameron does and is able to negotiate these new terms for the u.k. well can everybody now to go shape their own terms within the union and willis

create a twenty eight speed european union whereby everybody just looks out for their own interests and doesn't really look out for what's best for the e.u. . and so get more on cameron's possible exit referendum with someone who's pushed for it for years joining me for that is the city of london spokesman for the u.k. independence party stephen wolf well as i say your party has been trying been asking for this praises and judging by recent support for you can i suppose you will now be trying to claim that much of this is because of you and your success. well i think it's not just you but it's actually those people who have supported ukip at the ballot box over a million people in the last european election and the very fact that we've got so many people joining us in campaigns and street stalls and delivering leaflets because they are the people that david cameron referred today in his speech those who are disillusioned with europe who are very vibrant lead in believing in democracy but actually say that europe is not democratic is

a victory for them and it's actually a victory for real democracy when a party like ukip can force the government into giving us in out referendum but he's listening to your party is listening to your supporters has an effect hijacked your campaign but what for the future you know because what's to stop me your vote is now jumping on to cameron's train as it were. well our voters won't jump on cameron's train because we know that cameron has not been exactly truthful in the way that he's dealt with these referendums in the past after all he gave us a cast iron guarantee his coalition partner nick clegg also campaigned on offering a referendum and indeed tony blair for the labor party offered a referendum on master it so the british people are fully aware that the politicians in this country offer one thing but actually then don't deliver on it ukip will campaign right up to the opportunity that we have this referendum where

we will say we are the only party that truly believes in getting out of the european union and that's why we will are the party you should vote for under you the party that really explains to the british people what it's all about do the british people really understand if that referendum does happen what the actual issues are and why it is that britain should be putting out of the e.u. because many politicians of course can confuse them and cloud the issue in their favor. well that's that's again but actually their game has actually been kind of defeated because people are fully understanding when young women who have now having to face higher insurance bills because the european union are saying that insurance companies can't treat them differently to men when when people who are reaching their pension ages the men realize that they're getting lower pensions because the european union has a directive that says they must be treated equally so women through insurance companies every single day people in britain are seeing the european directors affecting very on an individual basis affecting their pockets and because of that

they know the arguments themselves they know that their energy bills are rising because of the european union's requirements that we have to pay for green energy so yes the public in this country know that there is a problem out there they understand the arguments and they're not going to be fooled this is ok those are the level of arguments those are the domestic arguments even but what about britain's standing no e.u. leader reaction there in britain is already facing isolation surely they'll be serious diplomatic fallout here also economic fallout stew because many are saying this is not the time this is going to create economic uncertainty for the country. but again we've heard this before haven't we will they said that we would be in huge problems if we came out of the they said that business would not actually invest in the u.k. unless we join the euro this isn't going to happen and we're not going to hit believe the false promises and the false concerns that european politicians and big

businesses are actually going to throw as i mean there's an unholy alliance that seems to be forming between old conservatives with large corporations with members of the labor party who will want to frighten the people of this country to say that they can't survive on their own but we're still the sixth largest trading nation in the world germany needs is more than them because there's more people employed injured in europe actually sells products the today you're to great britain and also there is that the difference between trade they actually get more out of it than we do from them we get more in our g.d.p. terms from trading with the rest of the world will be talking a lot more about this over the next year or two thank you very much indeed stephen moore city of london spokesman for the u.k. independence party great to hear thoughts thank you great great thank you very much the result of reckless politics all an unavoidable onslaught u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton faces need to listen in on what she thinks led to a deadly attack on an american consulate in libya and garvey last year. that's

still to come but first jordanians have been heading to the polls today after the king announced early parliamentary elections spurred into action by two years of arab spring protests but the chorus of critical voices as the country is still as far from any real change as it was back in two thousand and eleven and they claim that the government is bound to rig the ballot kabanov is in jordan. many here say that the reforms simply are too few and too late now there have been some efforts for example to make the elections more open this is the first time that outside election monitors are going to be observing the vote here but at the end of the day the new parliament just still not going to be able to pass legislation freely and can be dismissed at any time by a royal decree now the biggest source of discontent here is a new election law which critics claim is rigged in favor of pro-government candidates by allowing favoring in fact

a larger number of rural tribal representatives who are largely seen as being loyal to the government in fact of the one hundred fifty seats available in this parliament only twenty seven can go to candidates from national parties and the muslim brotherhood is the largest most popular and the biggest political party here in jordan and has really been the driving force behind the boycott of this vote and the opposition but of course discontent isn't just limited to the islamists many regular jordanians here feel that corruption has continued to be rampant and are quite frustrated with the economic situation in this country and that is why we see a lot of voter apathy it really is a major test of whether these small incremental changes by the monarchy are going to be enough to placate the opposition from the people who we've talked to in fact the leadership of the muslim brotherhood says that it simply won't go enough in fact this election is frankly only the opening salvo in what is likely to be many

months of unrest here in jordan because the new parliament is likely to be seen as being toothless by much of the population that's going to set up a very difficult future of four four four four jordanians who feel like their interests are not being represented by the government they want more representation they want more freedom and they want to warn of a say in the future that their country takes they don't necessarily feel that the steps taken by the government so far. to provoke that more importantly the economic situation is really going to be the determining point in whether the arab spring essentially really unfolds here in jordan much of the unrest has been caused by for example food and fuel subsidies and those are only likely given. the measures that are being imposed by the i.m.f. at the moment so it really doesn't look like things are going to be calming down anytime soon. before the election we talked to the incumbent prime minister who

said that the opposition should have used much shrewder tactics and his full interview is coming up later this hour. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu may have won the general election but he's done so by the skin of his teeth defying almost all predictions the biggest winners were to the center with concerns over house prices seemingly trumping nuclear threats and reports it may lead netanyahu desperate enough to turn to the extreme right for help. the voting here might be in secret but what's no secret is the result there was never really any doubt that prime minister netanyahu would win another term in office but the knot on paper isn't matched by the anger on the street. machine and we know that never knew who brought about a deficit of thirty nine billion dollars who's going to cut the welfare social education and health budgets this is what the next four years will look like. an

emetic package and a maverick i'm scared to death i really am it will be a disaster very simply he's going to rob us of the chance to fulfill true zionism in israel. netanyahu is hands will be tied trying to keep a lid under mystic anger half of his radios are more concerned about the economy then making peace with a person in his or dealing with iran's nuclear ambitions but it's precisely these issues that see is wrong on the coalition course with the international community. continuing to build new settlements. daily not weekly. this is really a very powerful signal to the palestinians to the. community that is not willing to move for the long road of two state settlement the settlement was founded nearly thirty years ago by just fifteen families it's since grown fifty fold at a rate of about one hundred families

a year for the world to tell me that if i'm going to build a summer home or want to have kilometer of course on my house is an obstacle to peace is absurd the sects are such that jews came back to their land the sexercise church that we as a population are growing i am not willing to the former house for what. for what peace mission yahoo has vowed that the days of uprooting jews are behind he needs the support of the settlers and right wing parties if his coalition is to succeed a gamble american president barack obama has reportedly warned will lead the country down the path of isolation it's no secret netanyahu and obama don't see eye to eye and not just on what's happening within israel's borders i think the issue of iran will come back. it will not surprise i think anyone in israel if we'll see an israeli or during the next year or two for mitt and you're always

seen as a critical threat do is work into. the issue of palestinian issue and so now begins the obvious task of coalition building it could take weeks of bargaining a negotiation before the final make up of the new government is declared if netanyahu stays true to the polls he could be on course to give israel the most hard line government in its history policy archie television. protecting israel from the perceived threat of the iranian nuclear program is among netanyahu is top priority as he's advocated a military attack on iran's facilities in the past however during his third term you have very little support for such an attack that's according to given levy is a columnist at the israeli newspaper ha'aretz. itany i always very devoted to this issue and he believes almost in a religious way that he's here to say the state of israel in the jewish people from

the danger of iranian bomb but he will heavy. more difficult this time because at least on this topic he will find fewer partners who would support it because i think that this kind of adventure without the minister of defense old barak who supported the then will look most probably in the coming government tell you how we find himself more easily to barack obama second. no doubt that he will not let this happen but you know it does not react all raising very racial terms saw i wouldn't exclude the because that i was so devoted about it. can be up to eighteen minutes past the hour this is r.t. coming to you live from our studios here in moscow the news continues after this short break stay with us.

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continues here on our t.v. high profile internet freedom activist who took his life earlier this month after he was prosecuted for alleged hacking could have had close links to wiki leaks it was one group came forward with surprise revelations on aaron swartz for more on this talk to blake he's worked on a number of stories on internet and. i should say internet freedom now aaron swartz is possibly a source for weekend how might that affect perceptions of him and the pressures he faced. it's not going to change the perceptions now it's way too late for that. the

fact that a young man a young genius many will say was driven driven to kill himself by prosecutorial overreach on the behalf of the massachusetts attorney general it's too late for this to change anything about anyone it's much much too late for that but it really shouldn't come as that much of a surprise when you look at all the pressure that was applied to aaron schwartz from the department of justice during the last few years if you look at how how well they targeted him and singled him out it shouldn't come as a surprise that you know there may or may not have been a connection between him and wiki leaks but the fact that that connection did exist at least that's what he was telling us now that dick should not. raise eyebrows from anyone should you know just learn to accept and stop targeting information activists where you've been covering a number of stories on information and internet freedom and spoken to many activists what do they think about the situation that aaron swartz found himself in . i mean if you look at aaron's family if you look at aaron's friends and if you look at other online activists and information activists across the board the

response it's kind of been the same i mean obviously it's tragic and unfortunate you know erin apparently committed suicide a few weeks back but people are saying that this was not necessarily because of his depression it was because of like his father actually said at the funeral last week prosecutorial overreach the justice department was going after someone who they didn't like what they were doing aaron swartz was trying to distribute information he was trying to distribute knowledge and he was trying to do it all for free and that was something that the corporations and the government was not happy with and we're seeing that this was more than just a case of depression this was a case where someone was actually under under the weight of the entire u.s. government for years and years and people are saying you his friends his family other online activist tim berners lee the inventor of the world wide web actually said at aaron's funeral last week that you know this was someone who was singled out by the government. i mean. with his

efforts he stopped and he became a target a political target ok and that's why all these things happened to him there is no reasonable. cost behind the going off to young like that in the fashion that it's political and that's a brief extract from an interview that we had with him he himself is facing prosecution for tell us more about. kim dot com it's been over a year now almost a year exactly since kim dotcom this mansion in new zealand was raided by the authorities in conjunction with an f.b.i. investigation and the department of justice says that kim dotcom by operating the file storage site may go up to lewd participate in this vast conspiracy that duped hollywood in the music and movie industry out of half a billion dollars by letting people share files freely over the internet now it's been a year now and kim dotcom has released

a new project but he's saying that this whole new project he wants to do it's called mega everything is encrypted in its way for people to take information whether it's just a simple word documents or m.p. three these are movie files and to share them with others but while doing it all privately through encryption and you know i spoke with him and he was telling me that this is something that is actually necessary given the state of affairs today where the government is watching everyone no matter where you are no matter what you're doing. to america producer andrew thanks very much indeed for joining us live from washington. what kind of there is considering extending its commitment to the french intervention in mali including sending in troops for just to support that's up to the u.s. it's early and the u.k. also boosted their backing for the operation i did morgan an expert on the west africa believes that paris clearly underestimated the sunnies of the telescope in. this is a very strange and very diverse and very kind of collide coalition of people you

have the hard core of the al qaeda the islamic magreb fighters now they are very very hard and fighters that have been out there for almost a decade they know the region very very well you know the desert is that absolute home you also have the rebels who basically decided to put their faith in aid yeah garley is this islam this leader of this strong man who's basically seduced a lot of twelve into joining his islamist cause now they'll be at home and they know the desert that's their territory their soup pfizer's they specialize in this kind of hit and run a real attack to sell strike very fast and then they'll disappear into the house or possibly even over the borders and we know that the attack on javelin this town about four hundred kilometers northeast of bamako was launched from across the border in marketing and that will be

a huge problem for the for the for the kind of france so it's. libya bases limits are accused of helping the deadly hostage taking in algeria which came in response to france's actions in mali well in the next hour peter lavelle asks is cross-talk guess whether the west is on a massive campaign against islam islam as a whole and just where that could lead. knighted states is involved in about fifty four countries on the continent of africa right now finding people that maybe six months to six years down the road turn out to be. document the bad guy so we are creating little fires all over africa and i don't think that you night it states taxpayer is fully aware of this and would fully be on board with the idea that our ever dwindling resources are going to pay for all of these. incursions that we're relationships.

across to come your way in the next u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is testifying to congress about last year's deadly attack on the u.s. consulate in the libyan city of benghazi republican members grilled her on the lapses in security the for the american ambassador that were joining us live with more details is a tease just because i'm not going to how heated the questioning so full of being and what do the secular state have to say. well bill what i found most interesting we heard a secular state acknowledge that the revolutions in the region have led to the spread of extremism on the revolution she said it's been a great opportunity for the united states but it is also a great swept the us certainly seize the opportunity when they made the revolution in libya happened because it was mostly due to the u.s. foreign powers that the rebels there were able to take over hillary clinton cheered

when that happened and generally up until the tragic attack in benghazi in september and the murder of the u.s. ambassador there this is ministration had only had libya checked as a foreign policy success and what's happening in the region now of course looks anything but success we actually heard that in hillary clinton's testimony as she talked about the spread of extremism the spread of weapons into a region and a new opening in the war on terror just a matter of hours it's personal benghazi did not happen in a vacuum the arab revolutions have scrambled power dynamics and shattered security forces across the region instability in mali has created an expanding safe haven for terrorists who look to extend their influence and plot further attacks of the kind we saw just last week in algeria. she also talked about how the u.s. needs to help the governments in the waging to deal with their security to build

institutions all of this in the context of this expanding war on terror so to anyone who expected a smaller u.s. footprint in the region that's probably not going to happen from what we heard today if anything one could expect a bigger u.s. footprint in the region. thanks very much indeed that's going to come on that. iran's foreign minister has said he wants talks on his country's nuclear energy program to be held in cairo egypt is reportedly welcome the suggestion that iran and the other six involved in the talks including russia china and the u.s. all say they want dialogue to begin again world powers are calling for curbs on iran's nuclear activities. up to four few people even killed in northern iraq after a suicide blast at a mosque the attack targeted the funeral of a relative of a politician whose killed a day earlier so the militants are often blamed for that type of violence as the country suffers from ongoing sectarian bloodshed. extremely low temperatures are

creeping across america's upper midwest after what's been dubbed a deep freeze started on saturday at least four deaths of reportedly been caused so far in the ski resort is closed because of the cold snap had swept down from canada shocking even a part of the u.s. that's familiar with cold winters forgot to say it's from ohio to maine could suffer on wednesday. the ski resort of dallas is buzzing with business right now after the annual world economic forum kicked off there a little earlier. the prestige gathering is even more important for russia this year which is warming up to host the next g. twenty summit well more on the power doubles agreements and handshake deals in r.t. business something that will be right after this short break this is r.t. live in moscow stay with us.