euro skeptic britain. referendum by the end of twenty seventeen command was a hit to lose trust in a united europe as well. syrian troops fight for control of a rebel stronghold of the lebanese border believed to be a key supply route for opposition forces at least fifty eight people have died in the battle for the city. and atomic allegations iran that gives the go ahead for u.n. inspectors to visit one of its nuclear facilities but only if they sign a protocol. about the country's nuclear program we speak to the head of the international nuclear watchdog.

international news twenty four hours a day you're watching r.t. . well to stay or to go that's the question at center stage of british politics as a pros and cons of e.u. membership are thrashed out a draft a bill on an in out referendum recently issued by the ruling conservative party says it must be held before the end of twenty seventeen it's been hailed as paving a clear route towards change their opinion polls suggest an exit from the e.u. is the most likely route let's take a look at a survey by the eurobarometer polling center well back in two thousand and seven they found almost half of the u.k. population didn't trust the european bloc with anti you sentiment growing in recent years a similar survey in twenty twelve revealed almost seventy percent of those who took part were euro skeptic lottie's peter all of a has been finding out what others in europe think about it britain starts. should

it state all should it go britain's future in the e.u. is getting serious air time at home that we're better off out now whether britain should remain in the gate for britain to leave the european union to those that britain would leave behind think about an e.u. with no u.k. britain it's important but the truth is of course you are could survive without britain it still would be european union it would be still a very large market it is possible it is thinkable we can have a european union without britain among germany's euro skeptics there's a grudging respect for their british counterparts challenging brussels bureaucracy however they fear they could be in for more of that bureaucracy should the u.k. leave it will probably have a backlash for the european thinking and then they may think well now we have these oddballs and we can go even further with the way of centralizing everything and even overregulating more than we have already and how do the german people feel

about britain looking into divorce. if they want to go than they should if they don't use the euro it's not really. i couldn't care less but if that's what they want then we'll just continue without them. we can't leave europe never became part of it because of the iron mentality and colonial past. when you're going to be able to they are not in the euro zone if they want to leave i say go for it i'm not sure what they'll get out of. those germans that say that they are concerned whether the k. remains in the european union or not they find their infer something of a shock should the united kingdom opt for independence because if the u.k. were to leave the single market would shrink by fifteen percent and a three hundred billion euro worth of annual trade would face extra costs and this

would affect of course everyone those in german chancellor angela merkel's own party of wondered if the u.k. as a truly became a member of the e.u. great britain and into a core part of europe for more than one thousand years has always been uneasy with being a member of the european union so now it comes to the fore we have to deal with the from whole thing promised britain a referendum on e.u. membership it's going to be it's almost impossible for this government of the next to take the issue off the agenda if that split does come about it should to bring about changes but perhaps not too many tears from the heart of europe. peter all of our party. financial doldrums and toughing austerity have been feeling dissatisfaction with the ease policies across the continent searches revealed many people in the bloc are losing faith in the european project starting to be better off on their own. gauging euro skeptic mood among e.u.

members. so if we're talking about the gloomy situation here in europe it's no longer just the naysayers who are to so-called euro skeptics who are voicing their pessimism ordinary citizens across europe have now been starting to change their minds really on this entire european project if you look at a couple of recent surveys one is the pew study it shows that right now less than half of the european citizens support this entire a european project that they're even optimistic about it it's at forty five percent right now down from sixty percent the last year and this of course has largely to do with the entire economic situation we've seen dismal numbers come out this week putting nine out of seventeen euro zone countries in a recession and if you look at one of those countries which is france it is also one of the two poor countries at the very foundation of the creation of this union seventy seven percent of the french feel of that economic integration has been bad

for their economy but more business within the e.u. has undermined their own economy and if you look at the biggest concern of a citizens here it is the lack of jobs at seventy eight percent and that is not surprising considering that the e.u. has reached record unemployment rates and still continuing to rise also the second is a public debt they're worried about this whole debt crisis that has continued for about three years now next is rising prices people's purchasing power have really less of their own able to afford basic necessities as well as the rich and poor gap now also we look at the huge unemployment here we see that going up above fifty percent in countries like greece and spain and the optimism really has gone down into the most pessimistic countries really france and italy not seeing any future for the young people this is according to a recent gallup survey these numbers really just confirm what we've already seen from stories of individuals across europe we've seen

a rise in suicide rates again in countries like greece. and we've seen on employment skyrocketing poverty among young people children here in belgium has just gone up as well as a result of a lot of parents losing their jobs so these numbers are just confirming the kind of pessimism that is across europe it's not just an opinion of euro skeptics or naysayers these are figures of citizens themselves creating this european union and looking at what the future holds for them and they really are not very optimistic at all. for more on europe's future including the e.u. doesn't need britain french president francois alone the brace the youth puts pressure to reform the pool. meanwhile another expert says it's generally the we don't know the euro currency found out why at r.t. dot com. more

news today. again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. more stories ahead including family splits by the court of protection of the u k. jailed for trying to take care elderly father we bring you the story of one woman who with secretly thrown into prison for trying to take on the state that's coming up in just a few minutes. behind bars for his beliefs bringing the story of an israeli man to serve in the army in protest against the state's policy that's coming up. syrian government forces are regaining control of

the city of a strategic area long held by the rebels and the east fifty eight people have been killed in the battle for what's considered a key weapon smuggling route opposition forces near the lebanese border where syrian troops have reportedly entered the center of the city and taking the town's main square of. leaflets had been dropped throughout the last week citizens to the area before the offensive which involved the shelling of. battle for the city in the heavily contested province is viewed by both sides not only point to prove crucial deciding the conflict and call journalists. the rebels are on the north an area of the city that is the full control over the east in western. side of the city that was created the center of simplicity is debated and misapplied the syrian army managed to

make a full circle around the city fighting the opposition position fight is the main achievement is to stop that line of supply. and syria most of the fight is guarded from different areas and syria in order to gather in course sokol said become the capital of pollution this operation move very slow but it's wise for the studies traditionally. managed to make first they started from the west from western side of the of the city and then areas they controlled this this zone with some fighters from lebanon some extremist group were preparing to go into syria to fight with that a bull's going to make they were going to make a kind of a bigger front in order to fight and expand. the fighting line between government and opposition by this now we have limited the. one to one part of the city the

international arena and international has started to change with american agreement . it's less acceptable. acceptable for countries to go against them by providing more weapons but that if aleutian. in syria by this it's a kind of a green line for the syrian government forces to go into. a which is of course said now by this no more smuggling will go on no matter. what is coming from cut off from other countries a quarter the u.k. is going stoking controversy exercising sweeping powers to decide the fate of families and individuals judged unfit to make their own decisions children have been separated from their parents and some people even jailed secretive body called the court of protection want to put a boy care one family at the center of one of its most notorious cases. when john

maddox was diagnosed with dementia his children ivan and wanda intended to give him the best care they could but they clashed with social workers and their local council which took the family to the secret court of protection it will get the eighty year old lack the mental capacity to make his own decisions and needed to live in a special care home he didn't want to be in a home basically told he didn't want to be in a home. he wants to either want to go with one to the final home when he went i'm swear to god to look after him but. the court makes rulings on behalf of citizens deemed to one well to be responsible for their own affairs it has power to take control of assets and separate family members all in secret wonder and i've been one to allow to take their father out of the state run facility or even discuss his living arrangements with him but he kept on asking me

want to go. but i didn't want to tell him that it didn't mean i was any more they got it because of the court tension and the sickos will do whatever they want with finances in its house what works are going to be locked up in these rooms weeklong . i don't feel free in order to mount a legal challenge to the secret court ruling wonder took her father to see a solicitor one day tried to draw attention to the case but was sentenced to prison for contempt of the secret court so instead of caring for her father like she wanted to she had to spend two months in here in the company of criminals or cried the fierce two days i was in the prison i cried because nobody you treated like an ardent criminals and if you go in there you really cannot challenge the question as to whether somebody has mental capacity or not without talking to them and she was in prison firstly for taking her father to see

a solicitor in birmingham. which makes it sound quite draconian well in a sense it's worse than dr drew conan because draco would not have gone that far when i was in the chair i was frightened because the less minty a phone calls so i was afraid to speak to dad. because i'm the commission's report on is and also you know in case i got a more trouble meanwhile her brother ivan watched their father's health deteriorate under the strain of her absence in the end when he moved into that final loom that was the end of him and he wanted it wanted still loved him anything i said you've got to know this she divorce. she's put herself in prison port. observers say the difficulty with justice behind closed doors is that no one knows if the law is being followed the evidence is heard in private defendants often lack legal representation and i want to allow to publicize their case witness and it is giving the state too much power to intervene in people's lives preventing people

complaining about what's been done to them is never right the government's faced a barrage of criticism over the practice of secret justice justice secretary chris grayling has said i have written to the president of the court to ask him to look at what steps can be taken to increase transparency while continuing to protect the interests of vulnerable adults but john maddox never got to go to his home or to his family he died in january of this year it's worried me what they're doing that taken away from is why i keep wondering what's going on to us when we get older you know you've got to be really careful. not safe like. artie stoke on trent. iran is ready to allow atomic inspectors into one of its facilities but only if they sign a protocol detailing their suspicions over the country's nuclear ambitions was the message from iran's ambassador to russia to the un's nuclear watchdog you want to

take a look at the parchin facility near term iran suspecting it's a nuclear test site or political analyst side mohammad marandi told us earlier that western nations on willing to compromise on the issue. for each give there must be a take in other words if you run takes a step forward a must also give something in return and vice versa what the iranians are saying is that part of a chain which is a military complex is it's fine with iran for the i.a.e.a. to inspect at site but the iranians wanted to be done within a comprehensive framework otherwise if the iranians allow the i.a.e.a. inspectors inside there's no reason to prevent the americans from giving when they find nothing then the americans will say no well it wasn't that building it was another building in the parching site that you need to see and this story will go on forever and ever so the iranians are saying let's sign a comprehensive agreement and then we will allow you into the side and return you

have to give something to us if it is proven that there is nothing there that is dangerous or suspicious then the i.a.e.a. must give us a sign of approval so it's very easy from the perspective of the iranians to resolve but i say chief is basically someone who is controlled by the united states he was installed by the united states and he is one willing to resolve the situation would you say this is why didn't it did the world powers they runyan talks in kazakstan last month and who would you say is the more stubborn of the two sides the other side because of the situation that western countries have brought about as unable to make a decision and to move forward to constant threats made by israel are themselves a sign that it is an irrational regime and hostile regime and the fact that the united states and western countries support it every time it makes a threat against the iranians again shows the iranians that western countries do

not behave rationally when it comes to iran israelis who would lose militarily as well as politically because the international community aside from the west. they would recognize israel as the aggressor state and they would cause further instability in the region which does not serve the interests of the united states or israel so the iranians really at this stage don't take any threat of military attack as serious but it does see it as a sign of israeli in human behavior. anything related to nuclear is political that is why we should be neutral. but with a new round of talks over the rainy nuclear issue on the horizon r.t. speaks to the i.a.e.a. director general we have a preview of that later in the program. making headlines around the world this hour some five hundred members of

a notorious libyan is the mist are killed at least in this recent easiest target on sunday you can one person dead the government's ban on a hardline islamist conference on the street. claimed responsibility for killing us and western european city of benghazi last september tunis as been struggling to contain its extremist religious and since its arab spring. ten people have been killed in an attack on a police station the military position in rush hour in iraq a gunman first assaulted the police station in offices and the command then went on to assault and burned down an army position balance in the province has been mounting over the last five months between the sunni majority in the ministration. the u.s. has been in the grip of extreme storm weather for the last twenty four hours even at least one person dead as many as twenty six tornadoes ripped through the

country's central areas forcing oklahoma's governor to declare a state of emergency tornadoes hit along with the massive you know and from the storms the weather service in a range of possible destruction. ok stone's general elections rounded among the bloodiest in the country's history may be over the violence that surrounded them continues to stand before a controversial partial rerun of a prominent politician from iran khan's movement for justice party shot dead while the u.s. is continuing its use of drone strikes in the tribal areas to the northwest critics claim civilians are often caught in the crossfire just ahead people are better than his opponent of guests and to the debate in cross talk peter this is a government which has permitted the toll of. the various elements of the insurgency to have sanctuary and to be able to come across that border so if

you're going to provide that kind of safe haven there's a price to pay first of all when they talk about sanctuary and allowing them to go back and forth across the border can we keep the mexican border absolutely secure so we completely stop people from crossing that border and the people crossing here are just crossing because they're hungry you know so i don't think that we can expect any more from the pakistani government and military than we can from our our own in terms of keeping our border secure furthermore i think. that drugs are counterproductive they keep the war growing and that is the real point. few minutes he can watch the full debate with people about his guests on trouble pakistan don't miss. now an israeli man is caught in a cat and mouse game with his country's authorities as he repeatedly refuses to

invest in the army and he's in blank says his resistance is a legal protest against israel's aggressive policy towards palestinians. has been following the story of the conscientious objector. there should be some way out not like this just going to prison david bland son is in prison and he's broken these radio records for the number of times he's wasted and try and as a conscientious objector by law every israeli citizen or woman and man has to serve an idea this is the place where once you receive your point patzer come to register ready to serve out your two to three year draft made him blanks been here nine times already and that was to tell them he's not willing to join. were supposed to be inducted into the army in november and since. he went there and refused to serve and then he was sentenced to ten days i think at the time and since then he is released from prison who. goes back and again refuses to serve so far natan spent

a total of one hundred fifty days in prison his crime refusing to be part of what he says is an occupying army the army does not acknowledge this kind of objection not even as a conscientious one and so if. recruit comes to the army and says i refuse to say that they will be tried and then when they go out of prison if this keeps on refusing they will be tried again and again in theory the number of times an object can be tried is endless ask more oil rothmann after spending a little less than a month in prison for if using to serve he spoke to an army psychologist and was declared mentally unfit for service as a way to prevent further time i felt like my statement had been made and i had said what i needed to say and wanted to move on whereas not i think really really wants to continue going through this until at some point the military recognizes his

right to refuse and i have so much respect for him the idea of to trying to be interviewed by our t. that same test this written statement it says exceptions to minute. draft i'll grant you due to health related issues religious reasons place of residence and more civilians who do not receive exemption from the i.d.f. but will feign from following the law face the consequences of their actions this holds true in the case of nathan blank as well as a matter of conscience everyone has to make this isn't like this for himself. so i can't judge what he feels i think the general question of the occupation is is a serious concern for many people in this country and he's just taking it to its logical end as is the army it's chosen to use native blank as a warning to others considering following in his footsteps he remains incarcerated for how long and how many times he'll be back inside is anyone's guess policy r.t.

tell of if. there are none to u.n. officials are to kick off another round of nuclear talks in vienna on tuesday the tenth meeting since early last year. he wants to resume inspections of terrans facilities and should things occurring out atomic bomb research well r.t. spoke to the organizations director general to get his take on this latest meeting isn't pretty. on may twenty first in vienna six party talks on iran's nuclear issue will be held these talks were inspired by the international atomic energy agency and to discuss the upcoming negotiations in vienna and many other issues were joined by the director general of the organization mr yukiya amano many thanks for finding time for this interview with us thank you for inviting me now let's jump straight into the fray on iran about the talks in vienna. i've heard many opinions that these

talks would hardly bring any resolution to the matter of the ongoing stalemate which has been going on for many years now what is your opinion do you think that the west is actually interested in facilitating any kind of peaceful solution i believe that all other countries are very much interested in resolving the outstanding issue related to iran by diplomatic means of course the i.a.e.a. is determined to do its best to resolve for the funding issues diplomatic talks and that is why we have had ten rounds of negotiations with iran to find a way to resolve the issues the fact is that until today we have not yet reached agreement but will continue if we just had

a meeting with iran on the fifteenth of may. it was a very intensive meeting but still we have differences and we could not reach agreement with one of the latest reports by the international atomic energy agency says that iran does not provide the necessary cooperation with the agency does that give any grounds to suspect that iran is actually having a nuclear weapons program in the come. three we are not saying that iran has nuclear weapons or iran. decided to develop nuclear weapons but we have pieces of information that indicate that iran was involved in. the development of nuclear explosive devices was it absolutely certain that iran had a nuclear weapons program or a nuclear explosive devices program back in the days and is there any indication that things happening right now basically it's

a yes or no question do you believe that iran is still involved in nuclear weapons program. that iran has a case too. we don't have yet the answer mr i have one quote from you here we have credible information that iran continued its activities beyond two thousand and three where is this information coming from various sources of this information from open source. information. of information coming from some ten countries so we have various information and we do not depend on one piece of information i had this question asked several times on twitter when i said that i will be in syria new today. do you think that such a passage in the language between the west and iran happening at the moment can create an opportunity for something like in iraq the scenario in iran i think it is exactly the opposite in november two thousand and eleven i shared the information

that indicate possible military activities. through nuclear we did not draw a conclusion but we have asked iran to clarify if iran clarifies the issue. international community can have confidence in these and we are ready to help them to clear. these. concerns so what i am doing is to resolve the issue through diplomatic means. this is exactly what happened in gulf war i will let the people and the stand in the the. difference. is a technical organization i mean we do not you.