and as island decides whether to vote on this treaty up next we sit down with richard boyd barrett an irish politician and anti treaty campaign at this is art say. today i'm talking to richard boyd barrett he's a member of the irish parliament and a leading light in the new campaign on the referendum on the fiscal pact which thanks for talking to us tell us what the fiscal pact is the pact is a european agreement which countries are being asked to sign up to which will compel goldman's to reduce debt and deficit figures by a certain amount per year over a long period of time and what we're concerned about is that in effect big because of all of the gambling debts of banks and speculators have been put onto the books of the state that this would mean permanent austerity billions worth of colt's every year for at least a decade or more in order to meet the treaty targets and that we believe will do untold damage to the economy which is already very traumatized and impose even more so for working people on the less well off and vulnerable our society who have already been devastated by f

richard boyd barrett in just over an hour's time here on out say. a lot of me putin is heading west to talk energy and economics on the first foreign trip since being reelected as russia's president has said germany and france but the first stop for him isabella roasts relations between moscow and minsk became somewhat strained during that he had a presidency but political analyst to me which believes this will all change now. if you look at the economic ties between russia and these countries you will see a very clear picture burden is russia's biggest partner in europe and the european union is in general russia's biggest trading partner and in the former soviet union bella which is the biggest trading partner in the close of trading partners and they're going to discuss economy they're going to discuss their joint venture on production of drugs they're going to discuss privatization of the russian enterprises by russian business and i would say that quarrel. with bill it was there were more still on the line between will question and former presi

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richard boyd barrett who we've just seen talking to laura smith also gave his opinion on the austerity programs now gripping the eurozone he believes cuts have destroyed greece and ireland should stay well clear of them. i think women's main weapon in trying to get people to vote yes has been fear threats that money won't come out of the a.t.m. is that the be no money to pay pensions and social welfare so there's no positive reasons being given it's just we've got to take this austerity all the why's there will be disaster and in fact we think the disaster is happening already it's clear greece have been if you like the major victims of austerity and now they're proposing to generalize that austerity all the right across europe and it didn't work in greece what makes them think it's going to work in the rest of europe i think if we continue down the road of austerity we're about a year behind greece in terms of the devastation that is likely to be coals to the economy in our society so we think it is very very urgent that we call on hold until. the european leaders and the policy of ba

her own parliament to ratify it most of ireland's main political party supports it but not richard boyd barrett of the united left alliance because of all of the gambling debts of banks and speculators of import on to the books of the state that this would mean permanent austerity billions worth of courts every year for at least a decade or more in order to meet the treaty targets and we believe will do on told damage to the economy which is already very traumatized for ireland it seems more damaging austerity is up ahead no matter which way it turns here in dublin literally every available post in the city is bristling with referendum posters the no posters call the fiscal pact the bankers tracey the austerity packed meanwhile the yes campaign maintains it's all about stability either way the future looks bleak many seem willing to cede silver and tea in exchange for financial backup but even that's not guaranteed in a beleaguered euro is a euro smith r.t. . and more on the fiscal treaty referendum in our interview section about twenty minutes time here on r.t. . now what important is making h