we do know that for example qatar has offered has made the latest offer to the syrian rebels which amounts to one hundred million dollars and of course there is also talk from the united kingdom where william hague has already said that he thinks the u.k. should step up their aid if the words. towards the syrian rebels as well and he is talking about something in the amount of roughly one thousand in a half million dollars and that would include armored vehicles body armor search and rescue and disease prevention coming to the syrian rebels and really countries not seem to shy away from offering it to them john kerry he's expressed confidence that weapons are going to the right people so who then of the so-called right people taking u.n. peacekeepers hostage and that actually should be the first question that should come to mind because obviously when john kerry is talking about the right people he hopes that the aid does not go towards the hard line islamic jihad azour which as

reports show there is plenty off in syria and these are the types of people that the u.s. guitar saudi arabia and the rest of them have been supporting and given them plenty of aid they have offered them basically everything they have on the table. well to some other international news in brief. greek british and italian authorities believe that seven international hostages being held in nigeria have been killed they were kidnapped by the extremist group in the north of the country last month workers from the u.k. greece italy lebanon and the philippines were allegedly killed in retaliation for joint british nigerian military attempts to rescue the prisoners william hague the british foreign minister has condemned the deaths as cold blooded murder. afghan president hamid karzai has accused the us of colluding with the taliban as washington held secret talks in qatar and while u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel has denied any negotiations with the group. to suspend the discussions over a year ago only in american statements shaky and erratic the afghan government has

been pushing for the taliban to return to the negotiating table an attempt to pacify mounting tensions or u.s. led troops pulled out in twenty fourteen on saturday two suicide bombs went off as an american defense secretary arrived in kabul to meet government officials. at least fourteen people have been killed and thirty eight injured after a passenger bus veered off a fog shrouded highway in southern peru the accident occurred at dawn as the bus was traveling from the beach resort city come on a regional capital and i keep police say the bus driver appeared to have lost control of the vehicle causing it to plunge off the cliff when two hundred meters. on protesters in azerbaijan had been caught in onslaught of rubber bullets and want to travel as far by police as they marched against the practice of hazing in reno army protesters one of many spot the sudden death of

a soldier and general principle as criminally announced a heart attack was the cause of death or investigation where other soldiers have since been arrested. north korea has demanded an apology from its neighbor in the south off the soles threats that pyongyang with vanish from the earth launches a nuclear attack a secluded nation says it considers the statement an open declaration of war follows the north's official nullifying of all non-aggression pact and scrapping the hotline to seoul in an angry response to the latest round of un sanctions imposed this week on the tit for tat exchange started on thursday when the u.n. adopted a resolution tightening financial restrictions on north korea the young responded by threatening the u.s. with a preemptive nuclear strike which washington said it would be able to repel such an attack martin drole from the korean friendship association says washington's getting tactics minutes the chances of disarmament dialogue. it's clear that the

united nations security council particularly is interested only in maintaining the current balance of what the german interested an independent nations requiring you to really find themselves even in the face of the lack of any kind of peace treaty because of the fall of the united states government not only looking into been pursuing peace ever since the armistice agreement was signed while we can expect is that the united nations will continue to fully north korea which is effectively happening all of those it's really just showing shit they don't like the fact that north korea is asserting itself in world politics and who is north korea playing word games with nobody not practicing retiring with other countries their own their own. showing auction of their joint action they have so for the united states to think that they can continue to provoke the d.p. r. k. without any kind of consequence obviously american journalist putting your foot down and saying that's not going to be able to continue without some kind of or spot that's only reasonable since the d.p. r. k.

asking the world to treat it with dignity in order to have peace with dignity. this week china opened its annual national people's congress in beijing where this year's gathering is seen as more important than most or c. the ushering in of the country's leaders for next five years on the list of priorities is economic growth along with the pushing through of a large increase in defense spending china experts from not in the university as new leaders focus on the militaries because of washington's policy in the region the new chinese president xi jinping is a much more self-confident confident assertive and nationalistic person it and therefore we are likely to see a china much more assertive in the next ten years in terms of what is described as the american people it back to asia the chinese see these as

a major change in american policy that is directed against china as a less than friendly act and therefore the chinese are trying to. undermine american rebalancing and it is also the reasons for the double digit increase in china recently to re spend. on the great british pint is struggling to survive and is in danger of running dry due to rising taxes the duty on beer is going up by two percent above inflation every year forcing brits to pay up to ten times more than some europeans campaigners say freezing the tax would save thousands of jobs and help preserve beloved boozers on the sarah firth reports on why there are fears that calls for last orders could soon be permanent. something is brewing in britain with a need purchase around the corner beer is set to rise again a third of the cost of

a pint already goes to the tax man campaigners have said enough is enough and are calling for a freeze. around ten times as much as drinkers in germany so. just the rights to hold. a hold on the increase of. pubs are a time old tradition in person but fully understand their appeal we have to go three hundred miles from london here to hesketh new market a village in the heart of england's countryside and steeped in history ten years ago when the only problem is but it is the sale the people who live to a rather than risk seeing it fall into the hands of a big chain and if you need character cite it's this something a little bit different that matters into their own hands. together and pull the pub turning it into a co-operative believed to be the first of its kind in the u.k.

the pub wasn't about money but it does turn a profit but even here the big d.t. hikes are felt every time. around the corner and the micro supplies the pub is also a co-operative that is doing well in the case small approved pay half the taxes the major companies best kidney markets being lucky a mixture of good business sense and strong community spirit and the brewery and the pub have avoided the slight caused by the big g.t. escalator across the u.k. they and many others have to say lucky big businesses can afford to pick up the tax . small independent of that stuff in the last four years nearly six thousand pups the place is old thing is tens of thousands of job losses from your email section

because the only woman to sleep during most of them are actually going against the trend not falling self-reproach gradual here on here increases as we can realize i get many times the prices the service will tend to be a proper focus. brought to their school big screen savings that we just really love in a certain individual because in an environment where you can reach up to somebody and good will towards. and beyond profits it's the risk of losing a put each institution is pretty things that just say bring good pricing so what this is mark is a community it brings people together. it's more of a difference between social networking and meeting somebody in real life there is no substitute for this kind of conviviality the old crowd might be unique in britain these days talking back to a time of community that many of us have now gotten but it's a reminder to avoid some traditions best present sarah.

has got me market in cumbria. and a few minutes we hear from national faraj the leader of the u.k. independence party tells us why he believes in the shorter british politicians are disconnected from the economic and social reality of their voters stay with us for that. the month before the oscars and what annoys you with their predictions and the month after everyone complains about the results but what isn't being talked about much is the few hundred people who gathered to protest the glamour filled award show but why protest the asker's you ask. well although the film life of pi won the oscar for best visual effects effects to you that made the movie look so amazing

were the men hughes has filed for bankruptcy quickly after the film's release you know that seems like a bit of a discrepancy i mean the group that made the best visual effects in the world in two thousand and thirteen is flat broke how can that be this reminds me of how the lead creators of call of duty modern warfare two were let go directly after the release of the game which to date is the eighth highest grossing video game of all time this was done supposedly to dodge paying them the royalties that they you know earned through hard work the problem is that we live in a world where only the bottom line count making as much profit as you possibly can damn the consequences it's just good business practice they say well it might be profitable but it's bad for society and it's very bad for visual effects and videogame artists but that's just my opinion. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you say. i'm tom

parker is a big issue. choose your language. because we can we know if you. choose to consume. choose to. choose the stories that in your. choose the accent. the debate around britain's membership within the has taken center stage here in

britain and it's not going away anytime soon in the u.k. independence party all you keep is the name of a long held the view that person would be better off out and as for their leader well if you haven't heard of him yet where have you being he's the firebrand politician he once told the president herman van rompuy that he had the charisma of a damp rag his outspoken views often raise eyebrows but he seems to deflect criticism with these he is all through all the man he survived a plane crash just whatever then tell him where he can or can't make we are of course talking about nigel for us thank you very much for joining us let's get straight to you cape is the party that we think david cameron put the promise of an in out referendum on the table so that's your thunder stolen isn't it well i mean he said if he wins the next general election well that looks pretty unlikely following a renegotiation which given the temperature in brussels looks virtually impossible in five years time he's going to give us

a say whether we should remain part of the european union or there's one really big problem with that he's done it all before in two thousand and seven he gave us a cost and guarantee that if he became prime minister we have a say on the lisbon treaty and he's let us down like a cheap pair of braces on that one and frankly i don't believe them i don't trust him i want to the side of me is we don't want to wait five years let's have a referendum before the next general election if he said that i cheer him to the rooftops if we do get a referendum though where does that leave you keep. it doesn't matter what matters is we get the independence democracy and self-government of this country back the reason we're in this mess is because twenty years ago at the time of the bow street tracy tory members of parliament decided that the that the well being of their passes unity massive more than the independence of our country and i'm not going to make the same mistake with ukip what happens to you get doesn't matter the reality

of course is we're a party with a plan for what we should do once we leave the european union but that isn't the issue the issue is are my children going to grow up in a country that they can call their own people winning the battle proving to the basis public that ukip can be a serious credible party. well i think you look at the opinion polls if you look at our performance and recent by elections you know people are voting for us just on the constitutional question of europe they're voting for us because of our stance on open door immigration they're voting for us because of our starts on wind turbines they're voting for us because we're a party that believes that social division has become wider and wider with the abolition of the grammar schools there are lots of actually very strong and positive reasons why people are voting ukip let's talk about immigration the coalition has said they're getting serious about it yes you're absolutely right david cameron was in india he said the there will be no upper limit i repeat no upper limit on the number of indian students that can come to britain and then

settle there after of course he also. not only endorses rumania in bulgaria i'm having full access to the u.k. labor market and social security system after twenty fourteen now even that's not enough for david cameron david cameron wants turkey to join the european union with the free rights of access for another eighty million people so that's why david cameron is on immigration he is encouraging open door immigration in fact just in the same way that tony blair did well what do you say to the criticisms that your fees on immigration are fueling prejudice well that's complete you know and i just resent that reject that and if people are deeply prejudicial against those from overseas they can go vote b.m.p. don't vote for us go vote for the b.n.p. if that's how you feel if you're like ukip and you know you wish people in romania and bulgaria well but you don't think that total unlimited open door is

a responsible thing to do at a time of twenty two percent youth unemployment then come a vote for you what are your concerns regarding immigration when it comes to winning in bulgaria never in our history until two thousand and four have we ever had a complete unlimited. open door you know ever since nine hundred five we've had an immigration policy in britain something like thirty to fifty thousand people a year for that fifty year period came and settled in this country over the last seven years it's now between five and six hundred thousand people a year nothing like this has ever happened in our history and i think the great danger would remain in bulgaria is that we're dealing with countries that are several times poorer than poland latvia lithuania are the ones that accessed the u.k. back in two thousand and four and you know there is a risk that over the course of the next few years very considerable numbers of people will come and frankly i don't think our labor market or our social security

system can bear it do you think is the right need t. attach this. remaining immigration at the beginning of the next year. i honestly believe. that even though i doubt the sincerity of cameron's pledge on a referendum the what he's done he's let the genie out of the bottle you know we are going to have over the course of the next few years a very big open honest debate in this country about whether to remain part of the e.u. one not and i predict that the key issue on which this will will be open border immigration that is going to become the number one issue i want it comes to a referendum that above everything else is what people are going to vote on these say you're standing up for the basis people well yeah but i think you know particularly you know unskilled labor. you know they are having a very very difficult time and equally quite a lot of skilled labor is having a difficult time because of massive price on the cutting you know i do understand

that if you are a big employer then open door immigration's a very good thing because you can get people to pick cauliflowers far more cheaply you can get people to work on building sites and save yourself some money and that does push down wage inflation in this country i accept that i understand that but on the other hand. if that is directly putting people into a situation of unemployment then why is it maybe good for the big employer it certainly isn't good for the country these say you stand up for everyone but what exactly by that well i think there is a feeling i share it that we now are run by a political class of people they all go to the same schools they all go to the same oxford colleges they all take the same degrees they all marry each other sisters and they all finish up having gone from research offices straight into parliament you can't put a cigarette paper between them in terms of policy they have no hobbies or interests or what denny's he used to call him i mean they don't even collect stamps leaves

people you know they spend their weekends sitting around together talking about politics they are utterly disconnected from the thoughts hopes and aspirations of the ordinary working family in this country and i think we as a political party are far more in tune and idea name for making comments like that and you have firebrand character do you think they are politician. i think of myself as a politician i was in business for twenty years i only got into politics because i felt the entire political class were taking us down a road towards a united states of europe that would mean that not only our democracy but actually our place in the world would be severely diminished and so i got into this and indeed in this very town that we're sitting in today recently i was ukip first of a candidate and i stood in the byelection in the twenty years ago and i i believe even more strongly that if our politicians were out of touch twenty years ago when

they took us into the exchange rate mechanism and signed the maastricht treaty they're even further out of touch today we leave. ukip get what they think fighting for what happens to our trade with all countries i said he was i'm absolutely convinced that my favorite rock of producer will want to go on selling many many cases for kerry. i'm absolutely certain that the sate is want to go on selling their cars from big showrooms in london and remember that the last year that we have trade figures for we traded with the european union at a deficit of forty six billion pounds a cumulative trade deficit over the last five years alone of two hundred billion sterling we are one of the e.u.'s biggest export markets in the world and we get this rubbish put out by mandelson and. hazell tion and all these ghastly people telling us that if we were part of the european union all economic activity between britain and the e.u.

would say it's absolute rubbish no where in the world do you need to be in political union to buy and sell widgets from each other it's arrant nonsense see thing that should be building tabling for the country thanks china for example. dave cameron was in india with a great big travelling circus supposedly the biggest ever trade mission the british prime minister has ever been on and whilst it's true that we can do trade with india the one thing that cameron could have put on the table to really secure. vibrant exciting trade relationships with ships with india he was incapable of doing he wasn't able to go to india and say right let's have a tariff free trade deal between our two countries and we can't do that because we're trapped in this completely outdated concept of a european union's customs union we are banned the world's largest trading nation

and we have banned from making trade deals in any other part of the world it's really funny because you know we're told oh you must be part of a big block we'll look at switzerland it's a total of a country in terms of population and yet the swiss have more trade deals with the major not e.u. economies around the world than we do in the pen and says. what does independence. it means that you govern your own country it means the british people at general elections put people into westminster and it's those people and those people own the decide what employment regulations are the decide what our overseas trade policy is that decide what we should be doing about britain's looming energy crisis and that that parliament is able to take those key decisions and at the end of a four or five year period we the british people can assess them we can boot them out and we can pick somebody else with a completely different manifesto and one of the reasons why general election debates in britain are now limited basically to schools and hospitals is because on virtually every other area the legislation that is made at brussels level cannot be

changed by a british government or british parliament it's narrowed in political debate in this country as a defender of independence the scottish independence referendum well i can't understand anything out examiner said the twenty years because isn't he the scottish nigel for as you call it you know he's a con job isn't it because he's been saying we could leave westminster and be an independent state in the european union well i'm sorry you know you cannot be an independent state and be part of the european union and actually sat. his position has changed i mean now he wants to keep the pound he wants to keep the queen and he seems to be quite pro military cooperation as well and even his independence in europe line has now been dealt a fatal blow by mr barroso i never thought i'd ever say anything nice about mr barroso bars he has said that if scotland leaves the u.k. replies it would have to reapply to join the european union and sign

a treaty that committed scotland to joining the euro and the scottish people looked at that and said no thank you very much indeed so i think the independence referendum in twenty fourteen you know i very much doubt that more than twenty twenty five percent of people will vote for independence and we can then have a proper debate about the relationship between scotland and westminster personally i'm pro more devolution you know i've got no difficulty with the f. word the federal structure within the united kingdom but i think the scots should actually be raising more of their own money and spending more of their own money as prime minister oh it's pretty unlikely isn't it i mean look you know here we are we are third in the opinion polls we're above the lib dems we've made huge progress i very much believe that in the european elections of next year we've got a serious chance of winning those elections nationally i think it unlikely that we're going to the biggest party in westminster in twenty fifteen. but what we could well do is we could well catalyze some sort of realignment of british

politics whilst we draw our votes from across the spectrum it is pretty clear to me that the conservative party is now going through i think just just about its deepest crisis in history there are two distinct wings of the conservative party they don't agree with each other on virtually anything and i think if you get gets much stronger than it is today we could see something really new and really quite exciting in british politics thank you very much for joining us thank you. live. my juggling job to. do hack work and get caught when

lobbyist money and lawmakers are combined together that's where the problem of corruption comes from. i don't know the document's. keep up a smart look. there is also. another well behind that which is how to influence these situations steer clear of provocations don't answer any question. came into the office and found banners hanging around the office and lots of strange faces around someone and said what's what's happening will somebody please tell me what's going on and they said oh we've come to occupy your building. possibly they want to do a confrontation possibly they wanted me to ring up the police to have the police come in through the mount but it didn't seem to be

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