it's partly in the e.u. and enjoys it vantages of free trade and this decision goes against the basic principles of the e.u. so we'll have analysis to come on that one and more tensions with britain's chancellor george osborne making it clear that scotland will not be able to break away from the u.k. as well as keep the pound me while the tensions on the streets of ukraine continue as the economic situation in ukraine. in the situation is in some way connected with a desire to be independent part of an economic unity and the political tensions result from both. first of all that starts with britain right here so asked scotland gets set to decide if they want to go solo and breakaway from the u.k. george osborne state city yes vote in the referendum which also made a yes to walking away from the pound this is a direct blow to scotland's first minister alex salmond independence campaign all

it will set a currency union would cause great damage to both the u.k. and the scottish economy is costing jobs money which could result in u.k. taxpayers promising to bed out scottish banks and hedge the sterlings value in the international markets least that's what or was born is saying anyway so let's talk this through we've got george galloway right here he's m.p. for the respect party in britain so the question is to begin with do you think that mr george osborne is using bully tactics or has mr salmond pick and choose options run out which side to use it on. well i think that the sound and sight or george osborne lecturing the scottish people is difficult one for many to swallow but at the same time his message is

unequivocal and cannot be avoided it is not possible to be an independent state was using someone else's currency because the people who issue the currency as opposed to use the currency other people who will set the conditions the levels of public expenditure the rate of taxation and so on all fiscal and monetary powers must obviously remain with the country that is issuing the currency and mr sam and i think has made a huge blunder in claiming that you can have independence was using do you k. pound he ought to have had the courage of his convictions and said either the scotland would have its own currency or would join the euro zone i know why he did neither of those first of all because the euro doesn't have a particularly good name here and hasn't been going terribly well and secondly

because the example of say iceland or slovakia perhaps even better will the slovakian currency lasted for thirty seven days before the world bank and the i.m.f. moved in and effectively colonized the country was not palatable as an alternative but you can't really have an independent scotland with an english queen or u.k. pound still in nato and subject to american led military political decisions and of course also still be in the e.u. and subject to all the strictures that come with that if there is a yes in september what is the wisest case scenario if full the scottish economy. or the worst cases are race to the bottom that's the worst case for the working people at least a race to the bottom provoked by

a low tax low public expenditure for charite reagonomics regime in london forcing is scottish state to chase them all the way to the bottom to cut their taxes even lower to make the public expenditure even less to make even more people are employed and scotland would then be independent in the sense that it could fly georgia flag from edinburgh castle but the standard of living of people on both sides of the border with virtually perpetual right wing conservative rule in england shorn as it would be of fifty nine i'm anti conservative m.p.'s taken out of westminster that would be a disaster for working people on both sides of the border and it's the interests of working people that i represent i k. george galloway we'll leave it that thank you for talking to us today for a clear on where you set where you sit on the agenda that thank you very much indeed and another political and economic relationship that is on tenterhooks right

now this time it's between switzerland and the european union and this is following the swiss parliament's decision to enforce a limits on the number of foreign migrants including citizens of the e.u. the e.u. has already started to retaliate to this by ruling that an energy treaty that could potentially slash swiss household spending in the future on utility bills that has been put on hold at the moment is now the swiss who are not full members of the e.u. but part of the free movement of people and gears and us exactly what the problem is the country they staged a referendum forwarded by the right wing populist party the d c but while immigration is the reason behind the new. regulations swiss exports sixty percent of which make their way to the and these could be at risk so that's the situation

we're going to devote in this a little further hey we're going to go right now speak to hans kauffman he's a swiss politician hans hello to you can you please tell me why do you think that switzerland right now is risking the health of their exports being sixty percent as i mentioned make their way to the. i'm not very afraid of sanctions in international trade one should think about importance of switzerland for the e.u. we are a very huge net importer all of you who aspire switzerland is concerned from where i sit here nothing positive can come out of this new ruling in terms of the economics. of freight there first of all we really have three years to implement. so the downer he's already here and our.

do not see the consequences do not stop immigration read just want to control immigration ourselves that's world. is a is are not picking and choosing between parts of the e.u. that switzerland want to be involved with for example trade and parts that they don't want to be involved with in other words the free movement of people. well today's trade goes back to i think ninety seventy two has nothing to do with the bilateral agreement and repay a lot for the e.u. think about the beaked arms rebuild through the outs more than twenty billion u.s. dollars in riyadh fragged donated more than a billion u.s. dollars for the new ten counties so we do a lot for the ego and cherry picking that's simply not true i.

know many are ask a politician he should really give me in details. information reached cherry's he thinks about normally then very run out of ideas reach the exceptional for free trade but these free trade we have since ninety seventy two and has not nothing to do with. agreement on the free movement of labor and as far as the other four freedoms are concerned like freedom of capital flows everybody knows does not really working hands can i just question that because say for example if france so jon benet said that they too wanted this kind of an on a range offense so they wanted to do trade with a.j. but they didn't one immigration jeannot thing that could cause months of problems so that everyone had the same contact to switzerland had then the e.u. would be in big trouble than i you know about they have smaller portion of

foreigners in that county only about nine percent we are a fair twenty three percent and we have a lot of foreigners reach. becomes race so we really have an author and problem and three high north. you are but not all are highly skilled not all of the immigrants are from the e.u. so we have a problem as far as infrastructure is called journey. all sold our soul shall need to work and if you look at the criminology seventy percent of the inmates of the prisons are foreigners so we have a problem and we just want to call drolly and i would very long to break to sort out their problems and then we can call the new all right hands we leave it there thank you ever so much for taking the time to talk to me i really do appreciate it

credit rating agency fitch has downgraded the ukraine to triple c. rating this rating is reserved for vulnerable a condom is a means kiev is now lower than greece the agency cites political instability as well as economic factors to justify this downgrade our foreign debt is one hundred and forty billion dollars right now that's nearly eighty percent of the country's gross domestic product the country is still battling riots on the streets and ever since president yanukovych refused to sign a trade treaty with the e.u. and instead in december turned to russia for monetary aid but the fifty billion dollar loan from archer has been put on hold until a new government is formed all right let's now dive into the corporate world with see what's been moving and shaking russian companies this week challenge so one of course is all the football clubs allana f.c.

has been kicked into financial liquidation the players are now free to join other clubs allow the twenty eight million dollars. russia's largest come out of fashion after bass has set a date for plans to cut nearly twelve percent of its workforce this year the job cuts will begin a huge new measures to improve the company's. the condition this is ahead of the soon to be completed merger will run on the alliance and two more russian banks have lost their licenses this weight year i trust this is due to insufficient reserves and accusations of money laundering as well as come from the top to fifty russian bags may have their licenses restored twenty forty following the twenty nine last years the center by continues its quality. and staying with banks and just last week we were questioning if the banking industry was becoming more moral

now this suggestion was spotted by barclays chief jenkins waving his million dollar bonus well the latest from the financial giant is that twelve thousand people worldwide will lose their job this shit this is due to profits plummeting by thirty two percent but the reward for investment bankers was up thirteen percent so this is perhaps why mr jenkins thought it was wise to skip that juicy but as i'm sure there would have been a bit of a backlash had he not done so start profits not bonuses the bankers guys i gave up i thought they were getting on to get about it all right i'm going to be on twitter this week of course you can join with that i'll be keeping you up to date with the business but i would like to have a fantastic week and thanks for watching. well

for british times it's hard to. go to the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy. reports on our nato a deadly alliance without a clear mission decades after the end of the cold war this washington led alliance continues to exist and expand in a big adventure in afghanistan and behind me jeanne change in libya nato now look somehow in some way to absorb ukraine which is a ghost gambit. i know c.n.n. the m s n b c news have taken some slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be. true. that was funny but it's close and for the truth from the might think.

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welcome back watching our to international and almost a year after a pipeline burst in central our kansas arkansas causing a massive oil spill the people there are still dealing with the aftermath and officials claim the area is safe to live in but locals are suffering the long term effects of inhaling toxins on a daily basis and for them moving elsewhere is easier said than done as are teens got it she counts find out. almost a year after two hundred thousand gallons of heavy crude spilled onto their streets residents of mayflower in arkansas are striving to leave the town here in mayflower for sale signs are everywhere almost every house on the street is on sale before the spill this was a place where people wanted to move in to enjoy the beautiful nature around many didn't even know there was a pipeline running on their houses and now they just want out many have already left and jerrel one of them i tried to stay here i tried to just be away you know

as much as i could but if it rained i could not stay here because it would all seep through the the all again you know out there where the ground was dry it would kind of i guess in case it in when it rained all those vapors would come back she says like many other residents of mayflower she started having constant headaches and coughing after the spill i have friends that live just behind me that are still here that don't have a place to go that small children you don't have to look at the kids in in twenty years when they get sick or find out something's wrong and they say well why didn't we leave mom when everybody healthfully well some people just aren't able to pick up and leave like that exxon wrote back to us saying that a unified command comprised of exxon representatives as well as officials from the state and federal environmental services has deemed all areas affected by the mayflower spill now safe to live in but many of the residents don't buy it and

their homes are not selling i would say that the number of homes sold in mayflower has dropped at least fifty to sixty percent but arkansas oil spill is only a fraction of a new oil pipeline leaks it's estimated that between two thousand and eight and two thousand and twelve u.s. pipeline spilled an average of more than three point one million gallons of hazardous liquids per year plans for the keystone x.l. pipeline a massive project that would. stretch from canada soil since two refineries in texas have caused many to worry that they may become collateral damage in the way of big oil like the residents of mayflower arkansas there's a lot of us that have been forgotten were just collateral damage in mayflower i'm going to check on r.t.e. now this week over six thousand websites worldwide took part in a campaign known as the day we find back the call for internet freedom as part of a global fight against master valence and excessive powers wielded by intelligence agencies and also commemorated the death of

a programmer aaron schwartz seen by many as a champion of online freedom and he took his life thirteen months ago while facing thirty five years behind bars for downloading academic journals and manic claim that an anti hacking law was unfairly used by the authorities and they are hounding of the activists and civil liberties advocates are now pushing for congress to reform it part of hands from the electronic frontier foundation says there's still a lot to be done before politicians realize such tactics are unacceptable unfortunately the government hasn't changed its perception here there's been there was a proposal last year in the u.s. legislature called erin's law that would address some of the biggest concerns that we have. lost still has an advance to the point where it works past where it can be cited and in fact we've seen proposals to to make our computer crime laws even

harsher and so that's something that we need to keep working on idol related politicians who don't have a great grasp of how technology works understand that this kind of persecution isn't acceptable. in the rain a policeman has died of injury suffered an a bomb explosion during friday's anti-government protests over two dozen opposition rioters were arrested in clashes on the third anniversary of a pro-reform uprising campaign a doctor so far is also the president of the bahrain nursing society described how activists are treated in her country there's a lot of injuries such as child gun which people which the ministry of interior is using against the people in bahrain broken bones head traumas and some of them of course they're very bad wind up we have to send them to the hospital to be treated but you know for a fact once they go into the hospital they will be interrogated there are all

different kinds of people they are in jail at the present time with the political prisoners to such as eleven photographers there are journalists seventy sportsmen and human rights defenders there still mess of an excessive use of tear gas they're still hitting women they are at using everybody in the country and they will have to stop all these attacks on the villages and the home raids on a daily basis and the tear gas that they're using and detention of our men then you think kids in the country then we will say there is a good deed and let's talk and we sit down and talk. every look now at some other news making headlines this hour in venezuela police used tear gas from crowds of opponents and supporters of the president as dueling rallies once again brought mayhem to central caracas a week of street on the rest has already seen four people killed in the eastern part of the capital hundreds of youngsters protested over the deaths of two students at a demonstration president has announced

a police manhunt for the hardline opposition leader leopoldo lapa us who he blames for orchestrating the worst anti-government addressed since last year's post-election riots. seven hundred far right protesters have held a march in the western czech city of kharkiv ari the activists many of whom were bussed in from germany gathered to commemorate the anniversary of the world war two bombing of dresden demonstrators held a memorial and lit torches while dozens of police officers were deployed to secure the area the rally sparked a counter demonstration with banners reading nazis out of our town. clashes have erupted between kurdish demonstrators and police in several towns across turkey the confrontations turned violent as officers used tear gas and water cannon to break up the crowds who fought back with fire bombs and rocks the rallies were staged to mark fifteen years since a kurdish leader was jailed for life for treason. violent storms have

whips northwest france killing one man and leaving one hundred thousand homes without electricity they elderly victim slipped on board a cruise liner being a buffet of by powerful winds off the coast of brittany six regions across the northwest have been placed on high alert. on wednesday the south african opposition were struggling to make their voices heard and a protest against corruption soaring crime and widespread poverty tensions are boiling over as a nation seems to be edging towards a security crisis our disposal reports. we were about to enter one of the most dangerous townships in one of the most dangerous cities in the world this is the south africa that mandela left behind you never know what to expect when you go out in the street some days will be quiet some days you just up and down there are a lot of downs in south africa now days away from the cameras all is not well in the land of mandela twenty six year old constable corrode burma later knows it all

too well for five years he's been patrolling the streets of johannesburg to try and instill some sense of order. and now we are entering. there's a large majority of. poverty. a lot of the purely artistic to for a better life or a better way of. crime where i am right and the few places in south africa today where crime is more rampant or poverty more in demick than alexandra township twelve kilometers northeast of johannesburg it was once the headquarters of the african national congress and the same to of anti-apartheid activism but it's as if time has stood still here many residents feel forgotten by mandela south africa it is quite frightening situation for us to. really make the best effort

this borning township is home to nearly a quarter of a million mostly black south africans sixty percent of them are grindingly poor and unemployed as we drive along the stench of mounds of garbage overwhelms us the stats are sobering each day on average more than fifty people are murdered in south africa another fifty attempted murders take place more rape happens here in a country of fifty two million people than in india a country of one billion the police are struggling to cope. except hear hear. if you can't answer that truthfully. yeah you can say real sufficiently trained. but it's up to us. to obtain the training and the police inside the cavity of the building and understaffed and according to a new poll a staggering eighty three percent of south africans believe they're also corrupt

which means the good guys like a robber and his partner often put their lives on the line without sufficient backup do you think that state will make any difference to the right situation. we can only hope. for to those days but. the residents of alexander though are too busy battling the daily reality to worry about what life without mandela will bring twenty years after he came to power they still waiting on promises of jobs and economic prosperity policy r.t. and xander township south africa about war the national news in just a few minutes for you so don't go away. interview.

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and i saw the thriller steals a show in sochi with arch rivals russia and the united states facing off in a close fought battle decided on. a russian pilot jailed in the us says he's in a critical condition and may not live beyond the weekend while moscow's pleas for medical intervention are ignored. also this week the second round of syrian peace talks has broken off with the opposition pushing for regime change in western powers blaming president meanwhile serious conflict in team used to spill over into lebanon and your interview. with piers. r.t. visit a radical stronghold word jihad us forces are trained to fight the government in syria.