welcome to red capital it's been a week of tensions that sort of with the swiss government voting for immigration limits you citizens which would be ok if the country is partly in the e.u. and enjoys it vonage is all 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 their desire to be independent part of the neck and a unity on the political tensions a result from both so first of all it starts with britain right here so as scotland gets set to decide if they want to go solo and break away from the u.k. george osborne states that a yes vote in the referendum would 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 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 at least that's what all is 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 bullying tactics or has mr solomon's pick and choose options run out which side to use it all. 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 whilst using do you keep pound he ought to have had the courage of his convictions and said either that 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 were 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 i have 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 risk to the bottom provoked by illo to slow public expenditure or fracture right 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 zone 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 fifteen 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 at 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 tender hooks 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 to zurich right now speak to has kaufman he's a swiss politician hands hello to you can you please tell me do you think 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 the 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 version 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 that. is a is are not picking and choosing between parts of the 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 days' trade goes back to i think ninety seventy two has nothing to do with the bilateral agreement and repay your lot for the e.u. think about the beach towns rebuild through more than twenty billion u.s. dollars and we are afraid donated more than a billion u.s. dollar for the new ten counties so we do a lot for to e.u. 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 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 theses are 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 the a gate but they didn't one immigration you know thing that that could cause much 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 their 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 we heino still sat on. you are but not all are highly skilled not all of the immigrants are from the e.u. so we are for problem as far as infrastructure is concerned. also our social network and if you look at the criminality 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 reclaim continue all right hands we leave it there thank you ever so much for taking the time to talk to me i really do appreciate your 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 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 fifteen billion dollar loan from russia 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 chalet so one of course is all the football clubs allow me f.c. has been kicked into financial liquidation the players are now free to join other clubs allow the twenty eight million dollars. russia is not just

come out of fashion after the us has set a date for plans to cut nearly twelve percent of its workforce this year the job cuts will begin in may get you measures to improve the company's. 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 way your i trust this is due to insufficient results and accusations of money laundering as well as come from the top to fifty russian bags may have their licenses restored in twenty forty holding 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 year 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 provincetown not bonuses the bankers guys i gave up until they were getting on the 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. thank. you thank.

you. america is joining me. today in park and the bar was very good for you. and much much. only on us and. that's obviously one of the rationales for the continuation of nature they want to sell the american hard tech weaponry across. the rest of it to new countries new new markets expanding markets because most of these countries are. rationale is still much more political and strategic than sort of the economy the bug and between the europeans who wants to go with the united states remain committed to their security and the united states who want to see european story we know that we are like you just i could jump in and ask you could if i could jump in

and ask you i mean they want washington because they want the american taxpayer to pay for it because the united states pays the vast majority of the bill for nato so this is free riding that's what they want do you no no no they don't want they're not the security of this is really an evolution they want someone else in times of austerity particularly now with the american taxpayer picking up the american defense industries would be more than happy to do it. forty six minutes after the hour now almost a year after a burst pipe line in central arkansas caused a massive oil spill people in the area are still dealing with the aftermath

officials say homes are safe for a living but locals claim they're suffering from knowledge and dizziness from inhaling toxins on a daily basis they say moving away is easier said than done though as our he's got each. 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 see through the. all of the where the ground was dry it would kind of guess incased it

and then 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 they have just small children you don't have to look at the kids in in twenty years when they get to 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 so i would say that the number of homes sold in mayflower has dropped by least fifty sixty percent but arkansas 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. from canada soil sends to 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 but there's a lot of us that have been forgotten we're just collateral damage in mayflower i'm going to check on our team is we thousands of web sites and activists worldwide took part in a campaign called the day we fight back a protest action against surveillance and the growing powers of intelligence agencies they mark thirteen months since the suicide of internet freedom poster boy aaron swartz a tragedy that many believe was provoked by the response of u.s. authorities that it was facing thirty five years in prison and a million dollar fine for downloading academic journals for the civil liberties advocates now pushing for congress to reform legislation considering it too harsh

there from the electronic frontier foundation so there's a lot to be done before politicians realize such tactics aren't acceptable. unfortunately the government has changed its perception here. there's been there was a proposal last year in the u.s. legislature called. the biggest concerns that we have. parents lost still has an advance to the point where it works past or where it can be signed 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 it until really politicians who don't have a great grasp of how technology works understand that this kind of persecution isn't acceptable. to our world updates now in egypt's restive sinai peninsula least three south korean tourists in

a bus driver were killed in an explosion officials say the vehicle was going from a local monastery to nearby israel when it was attacked more than a dozen other tourists were injured in the incident militants in the area have been increasing their attacks and egypt's president morsi was toppled by the country's military last july. a bomb explosion on a train in southwest pakistan has killed at least eight wounded twenty blasko several wagons to the rail and ethnic separatist group operating in the area say they carried out the attack last week the same insurgents blew up three gas pipelines cutting supplies to millions of homes. six people arrested in the u.k. after police told an anti fracking rally to leave their protest site activists at the barton mosque camp have been campaigning for the last few months against drilling for shale gas in the area recently energy company i gas was granted permission to explore potential reserves beneath the ground there with protesters raising the alert over its effect on the environment.

clashes erupted between kurdish demonstrators and police in several towns across turkey confrontations turned violent as officers used tear gas and water cannons to break up crowds who fought back with fire bombs in iraq's allies were staged tomorrow or rallies were staged to mark fifteen years since the kurdish leader was jailed for life for treason. bahrain's interior ministry says a policeman as died of injuries suffered in a bomb explosion during friday's anti-government protests authorities of also arrested more than two dozen opposition riders in clashes on the third anniversary of a pro-reform uprising the gulf nation has been cracking down on dissent since the original revolt with about ninety people killed demonstrators are blaming their sunni rulers for human rights abuses and refusing to negotiate with the government campaigner dr ro also fawaz who's president of the bahrain nursing society told us how activists are treated in bahrain. 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 we end 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 they 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 must have been excessive use of tear gas they're still hitting women they are at using it for but in the country and they 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 fire and 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. and when the day the south african opposition was struggling to make their voice heard in a protest against corruption crime and poverty the nation will hold a general election in may but tensions already boiling with some warning of

a looming security crisis all asleep reports. we're 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 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 tool for a better life better way of the. crime crime that crime and their few

places in south africa today we quantum is more rampant or poverty more in demick than alexander 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 is quite frightening situation for us but if. we 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 with excess

hear hear. and truthfully. here you can say real. brothers up to us to mean. that at least since i don't have the feeling and understaffed and according to a new poll the staggering eighty three percent of south africans believe they're also corrupt which means the good guys and his partner often put their lives on the line without sufficient backup do you think. it will make any difference to ration . we can only hope. 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. and xander township

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