your skeptic britain referendum by the end of twenty seventeen other bloc members appeared to lose trust in the united europe as well. syrian troops fight for control of a rebel stronghold never lebanese border believed to be a key arms supply route for opposition forces at least fifty eight people have died in the battle for the city. atomic allegations iran gives the go ahead for u.n. inspectors to visit one of its nuclear facilities and if they sign a protocol getting out the suspicions about the country's nuclear program we speak to the head of the international nuclear watchdog.

will cost a lot more studios here in moscow you know watching r.t. . to stay or to go that's the question the center stage of british politics as a pros and cons of even 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 where it's been hailed as paving a route towards change in opinion polls suggest an exit from the most likely route . what's. the matter polling center back in two thousand and seven they found that almost half the u.k. population didn't trust the european bloc with n.t.e.u. sentiment growing in recent years a similar survey in twenty twelve revealed that sixty nine percent of those who took part saying a lot of discontent. has been finding out what others in europe think about britain

. should it stay or 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 is 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 out 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. they can't leave europe never became part of it because of their own mentality and colonial past. when you know 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 aren't 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 train 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 have wondered if the u.k. as a truly became a member of the e.u. great britain the and into a cool part of europe for more than one thousand years has always been an easy with been a member of the european union so now it comes to before we have to deal with her from having promised britain a referendum on the e.u. membership it's going to be almost impossible for this government of the next to take the issue off the agenda if that split does come about it's sure to bring about changes but perhaps not too many tears from the heart of europe. peter all of a party girl in a financial doldrums and toughing austerity have been fueling dissatisfaction with policies across the continent and searchers are feeling many people in the bloc are losing faith in european project started to think they'd be better off on their own just as our city has been gauging the mood among members. oh if we're talking about

the gloomy situation here in europe it's no longer just the naysayers or the 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 that 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 youth unemployment here we've seen 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 we've seen a rise in suicide rates again in countries like greece spain and italy 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 again just an opinion of the euro skeptics or naysayers these are figures of citizens themselves creating this european union

looking at what the future holds for them and they really are. not very optimistic at all. everyone in the e.u. consider the exit polling its largest economy some say it's germany who should be. on that while. also europe was there long before britain joined in french president francois the u.k. of its pressure to reform. it is time for us to settle this question about. more stories ahead for you including family by the court of protection of the u.k. . jailed for trying to take care of her elderly father we bring you the story of one woman who was secretly thrown into prison for trying to take on the state that's coming up in just a few minutes. syrian government forces are regaining control of the city of qusayr

a strategic area long held by the rebels at least fifty eight people have been killed in the battle for what's considered a key weapons smuggling route for opposition forces near the lebanese border syrian troops have reported the end to the center of the city retaking the town's main square in minutes of building leaflets have been dropped throughout last weekend citizens to evacuate the area before the offensive which involved the shelling of the rebel stronghold the battle for the city in the contested holmes province is viewed by both sides as a turning point it could prove crucial in deciding the conflict journalist and to them as any as more on this. little girls are on the north an area of the city that is the full control over the east in western and northern side of the city. was liberated the center of center city is liberated and in a surprise the syrian army managed to make

a full circle around the city fighting position a position fight is the main achievement is to stop that line of supply chain between lebanon and syria most of the fighters 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 tactically speaking they managed to make first they started from the west front western side of the of this of the city and veteran areas they control this this phone with some fighters from lebanon some extremist group we're preparing to go to go into syria to fight with that it builds they are going to make it we're going to make it 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 five to one city or one to one part

of the city. the international arena and a national spirit has started to change with the russian american agreement. it's less acceptable it's no longer acceptable for countries to go against the american world by providing more weapons that if aleutian. in syria by this it's a kind of a green line for the syrian government forces to go into. waters that of course said no now by this no more smuggling will go on normal. weapons coming from cut off from other countries of course in the u.k. as being the stoking controversy exercising sweeping powers to decide the fate of families individuals judged on fit to make their own decisions children have been separated from their parents and some people even jailed secretive body called the court of protection. one family at the center of one of its most notorious cases when john maddox was diagnosed with dementia his children ivan and one day intended

to give him the best care they could but they clashed with social workers in their local council which took the family to the secret court of protection it will that the eight 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 and. he want to really want to go with one to the final home when he went i'm swear to god to look after him. 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 like to tell him that it didn't notice any

more they got it because of the court protection and the sickos will do whatever they want with finances in its house what works are going to be locked up in these rooms we can't write. 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 i 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 because draco would not have gone that far when i was in the chair i was frightened because the less minty of 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 more trouble meanwhile her brother and i even watched their father's health deteriorate under the strain of her absence in the end when he moved into that final home 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 lawyer is being followed the evidence is heard in private defendants often lack legal representation and until out to publicize their case when there isn't 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 interest 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 what they've done it taken away from and i keep wondering what's going on to us when we get older you know you've got to be really careful and not safe like. r.t. stoke on trent one of the commissar we take a look at the latest twist in iran's nuclear deadlock said just a couple minutes here r.t. . pakistanis have gone to the polls and elected the new parliament what will the new government do domestically and in the area of foreign policy particularly

washington's drone with growing economic dislocations in a very threatening taliban how can and should pakistan move forward and will the military continue to watch from the sidelines. least be cool language. will programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about six of the yard p. interviews intriguing story to tell you. in trying. to find out more visit our big. dog called. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

now some other news making headlines around the world this hour some five hundred members of a notorious maybe an islamist group battle police in the streets of tunis is competent on sunday even one person government ban on the hardline islamist conference on the street product and saw al sharia claimed responsibility for killing the u.s. ambassador in libyan city of benghazi last september tunis as been struggling to contain its extremist religious elements since its arab spring and twenty seven. in iraq ten officers have been killed in an attack on a police station. the gunman then led an assault on a military position before setting one for another ten police officers were kidnapped in the same province on saturday violence in the region has been mounting of the last five months between the sunni majority in the ministration.

the. us has been in the grip of extreme weather for the last twenty four hours leaving at least one person dead as many as twenty six tornadoes ripped through the country center there is forcing oklahoma's governor to declare a state of emergency with tornadoes hit along with massive hail and thunderstorms local weather service and said one of the possible destruction. pakistan's general elections branded among the bloodiest in the country's history may be over but the violence that surrounded them continues their stars before a controversial partial rerun probably politician from imran khan's movement for justice party was shot dead while the u.s. is continuing its use of drone strikes in the tribal areas to move west are critics claim civilians are often caught in the crossfire just ahead people of bell and his panel of guests at the debate crosstalk. peter says the 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 and 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 this isn't just a drone strikes are counterproductive they keep the war growing and that is the real point. a few minutes you can watch the full debate with people about it as guests on the trouble. it is ready to

go now to make inspectors into one of its facilities but only if they sign a protocol to turning their suspicions over the country's nuclear ambitions it was a message from iran's ambassador to russia to the un's nuclear watchdog want to take a look at the facility and tehran suspecting its nuclear test site political analyst sign one hundred monday told assertive that western nations on willing to compromise on the issue. for each give there must be a take in other words if iran takes a step forward dai a must also give something in return and vice versa what the iranians are saying is that part of 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 is 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 do you handed the world powers are they running in 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 constant threats made by israel are themselves

a sign that it is an irrational regime and a 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 that 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 iran and 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 which it thinks are carrying out atomic bomb research lotty spoke to the organizations director general to get his take on this latest meeting is a preview for. 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. 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 a diplomatic course and that is why we have came round of negotiations with iran to find a way to resolve the issues but 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 we have differences and we cannot 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 with these. two development of nuclear explosive devices was it absolutely sure 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. i say that iran has a case. we don't have yet the answer mr mann i have one quote from you here

we have credible information that iran continued its activities beyond two thousand coming from various sources of this information from open source. information. formation 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 interviewing you 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. i think it is except the opposite in november two thousand and eleven i shared the information that indicate possible military activity is dated to new korea we did not

draw a conclusion but we have asked iran to clarify the issue if iran clarifies the issue . international community can have confidence in runyon activities and we are ready to help them to clear. these these concerns so what i'm doing is to resolve the issue through diplomatic means. this is. what happened in the gulf war i will let the people and the stand and the the. difference. is a technical organization i mean we do not. in the politics we are fully aware that. in a very political environment anything related to nuclear is political that is why we should be neutral clinical thank you so much mr munder for your time and for

your answers thank you thank you very much. and you can catch that full interview with the chief by tuning in to our eight hundred forty five g.m.t. but up next he discusses the future path of pakistan off its troubled and often. through this. although i was born after the vietnam era i remember t.v. discussions about that buddhist monk who burned himself to death as a form of protest the commentators on the news said that people there just have a different mindset that westerners could never understand you know which is probably true but they were implying that people in the west are just different and

would never use this absolutely extreme form of protest which is also probably true until just recently with the cost of electricity exceeding the income of the average bulgarian and a new government coming to power that looks exactly like the old government that collapsed at least six ball gary and have used self-immolation as a very desperate and extreme form of protest but why kristen ghodsee a professor at bowdoin college who has extensively talked to both here and protestors claims that those who self-immolating are just incredibly desperate and cannot feed their own children and that people are actually becoming a stealth check for communism because at least that system at the people's basic needs the current democratic system from the populace is perspective according to her just cycles through a few new crooks every few years although it does get media attention and you may be feeling desperate suicide is never an answer the more living bulgarians the better ball garry's chances believe me but that's just my opinion.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle pakistanis have gone to the polls and elected a new parliament what will the new government do domestically and in the area of foreign policy particularly washington's drone war with growing economic dislocations in a very threatening taliban how can and should pakistan move forward and will the military continue to watch from the sidelines. to cross the caucus and i'm joined by marvin weinbaum in washington.