we do have a role in reporting britain. britain is an importer and interesting european country. we're not part of the government. we do not report written for britain's sake. >> you can call us if you have questions for simon wilson from the bbc. simon wilson is -- covers washington and america. what are you looking at? how do you bring a different lense to it that is unique? guest: there is massive interest in america for all sorts of reasons. the raw politics, the president is one of the most important and powerful elected persons in the world. we're always interested in the race for the white house. this year, it is interesting because there are a lot of other things happening. the events in the middle east, the euro crisis. it is not as high profile at this stage in the campaign as four years ago. i have no doubt that will change in the months ahead. there are all sorts of issues we think are important. within the last hour, new jobs figures came out. the world is constantly looking to america as the biggest economy on the planet to see how that may affect the global economy

the defense policy chief explains for britain. plus how they plan to help defense expossibilities, but first a new initiative to help it grow despite deep spending cuts. the move would shift the government's policy on supporting the defense industry and mirrors the commercial aerospace growth program. prime minister david cameron announced the partnership and opened the dialogue with industry on a similar defense partnership on opening the 48th farm bureau international air show at the legendary airfield in afternoon shire where the commercial aerospace and defense industry meets every two years. joining us is peter luff. britain's ministers of defense for support and technology. mr. luff, thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> coming into office the government was very clear that whenever possible, britain was going to buy defense equipment that was off the shelf that was going to have minimal development entanglements and costs associated with it. the r and d budget was a flat level and there were those in british industry

britain had two -- this will now be solved. britain had two objectives. a significant part of the court covering pharmaceutical and life science industries will be based in london. i am pleased to say that we secured both of those outcomes. this will be millions of pounds forpoundhundreds of jobs britain. we want a budget that is focused on growth, not a focus on growth in the budget. he remembers as a whole or $3.50 euros more in debt. i made clear that without the british rebate, we would have the largest net contribution and a whole of the european union as a share of our national income. without the rebate, it would be double that of france and 100 times bigger than in germany's net contribution. the british rebate is not up for negotiation. it is is fully justified. on foreign policy, the council welcomed the eu oil embargo against iraq, which came into force yesterday, and on syria, we called for united action against the security council including the adoption of comprehensive sanctions. europe is changing rapidly and fundamentally, and it presents

britain, our foe then, and canada, othur foe then, have become our staunchest allies.e first sea lord of britain, aadmiral sir mark stan hope including one last week, he ruefully points out when in the office of the secretary of navy he is surrounded by paintings of burning british ships. and he is. we then, though, both gladly note that today we stand together as inseparable friends as we have for decades. we work together, we advance together, we fight together. we do the same with our brothers and sisters to our north with canada in war and in peace. our relationship with britain and with canada have changed, and our navy has changed as well. the mission of our fleet has expand and grown expo tentally more complex. we still keep the sea-lanes open four all that those conduct commerce, but our responsibilities spread to every corner of globe and we work in every corner of the globe with our allies from britain and canada. the challenges of the world now, both actually and potentially, are immeasurable variable and multi-dimensional ranging from conventional warfare t

s will say renegotiate renegotiation has failed it's not in britain's interests to britain it's losing more than against in the e.u. and so the withdrawal is the only viable option and then i think it would be very difficult for cameron to reject that argument because his whole position is based on the premise that you if you can't that power should be repatriated and then if it turns out they can't be then i think that they'll be very little positive case for britain to stay in the e.u. george appreciate your thoughts political commentator for the new statesman in london thank you. the law in ukraine to recognize russian as an official language in some regions has seen hundreds of people protesting kiev police fired tear gas at the angry crowds of the ukrainian parliament or rather approve them all without debate present in a covert says he'll consult experts before citing the law critics fear it will dilute ukrainian sovereignty and increase moscow's influence if russian is used in official business it's by no means the first time tempers of running high in ukraine but in recent year

britain benefits from being in the single market. because of investments on companies like honda and jaguar, we're now a net exporter of cars again. for the first time since 1976. >> businesses are worried about jobs. given the size of our trade relationship, will the prime minister show leadership and getting growth? how did he see that as being in the uk's national interest? >> i think there was good progress on the growth program. people suspected it would be part of the agenda. that is part of that. there is clear commitments to the service, to digital single market. is the british and italian agenda -- that is the british and italian agenda. >> large numbers are standing. i will not be able to accomodate them all. >> the prime minister urges integration as one solution to the problem. big civil disorder. he should be advising everyone to go back to their currency and then rebuild the currency and rebuild jobs. >> well said. >> we cann't make choices -- we can't make choices on behalf of other countries. they want a single curren

britain is on the verge of a web why do big brother with internet and phone providers are reading black boxes to monitor private emails or social network chats and even calls the legislation still in debate but the liberty alarm bells are already ringing over the government's hunger for a license to listen in here's a london correspondent sara for. with millions the c.c.t.v. cameras monitoring our every move with fingerprinting and facial recognition many people in britain feel that their privacy is being slowly eroded that we're turning into an oh well in states where all armies are monitored the big brother is always watching well who knows about big brother but the u.k. government looks like it could be thirty in the near future to be revealed for the black boxes which will be monitoring all our emails our telephone calls what we're searching for online even our twitter and facebook accounts other black boxes that hold the states up to a year and allow the government access to it when they were conducting an investigation the government say is a vital tool in catching criminals as th

to britain's airport at the london olympics while the u.k. is forced to draft more troops and police after security contractors bite off more than they can chew. and insulting muslim immigrants in belgium describe a new starter kit which they say is nothing more than a guide for sandwiches arriving in the civilized world. was promised next hour to discuss his britain's domestic and foreign policy with a controversial u.k. m.p. who sheds light on agendas debated behind closed doors our in-depth interview next . today i'm in the parliamentary office of george galloway m.p. who around three months ago one surprise election victory in his constituency of bradford west george galloway thanks very much for talking to us today now your election your victory was a surprise to many possibly not to you what does it take to break a monopoly of these three ruling parties to win an election in british politics and everest of a challenge because first of all the big parties command almost all of the media attention and the media is the medium through which

in one nine hundred thirty one britain came out of the r.m. in one thousand nine hundred two or argentina devaluation what you see is an initial hit and initial hit to living standards followed by a dramatic increase in growth and i think that's what would happen in greece and as its inception the year it was this thing that was supposed to promote growth and jobs what went wrong what went wrong is that it was fundamentally flawed in the first place it was a classic cars kind of old horse it over time economies to converge more people move between areas and over time that a currency union forms almost naturally if you look at what happened between era. great britain over the last thirty years the two currencies almost came to paris without anyone planning it. but to force them to and over economies that are so difficult was to invite trouble there was never any exit plan in place once country has gone into the euro they were stuck in that basically why i think that was. well i think that the architects believe that if there was no line of retr

next artie's laura smith discusses britain's domestic and foreign policy with a controversial u.k. m.p. acclaimed what some called the most sensational victorian british political history . today i'm in the parliamentary office of george galloway m.p. who around three months ago one surprise election victory in his constituency of bradford west george galloway thanks very much for talking to us today now your election your victory was a surprise to many possibly not to you what does it take to break a monopoly of these three ruling parties to win an election in british politics and everest of a challenge because first of all the big parties command almost all of the media attention and the media is the medium through which most people get their political ideas or news and secondly because you usually like a critical credibility factor people are doubtful that they would be doing other than throwing their vote away by voting for a candidate who may be closer to their cup of tea but are unlikely to win it and therefore the voters in a way taking a self-denying ordinance and the choos

britain's intelligence and security committee says the u.k. should play online criminals at their own game just two years after the launch of a multimillion cyber security program britain says it wants not only to defend its cyberspace but also to carry out hacker attacks itself what is your smith reports. if you can't be to join them that seems to be britain's new attitude when it comes to dealing with cyber attacks a new report by the u.k.'s intelligence and security commission has concluded it's not enough to defend against cyber attacks additionally the military voyage it sees should be actively declaring cyber war an enemy states attack evidently is in their view the best form of defense although in this case they're calling it active defense. there are voicing that britain should be secretly hacking into enemy systems using programs like the stuxnet virus which disrupted iran nuclear enrichment program it comes just two years after the launch of a six hundred fifty million pounds national cybersecurity programme but progress according to

so britain under the gold standard was largely panic-free. it was indeed a financial system that, as i think they said in mary poppins, was the envy of the world. and no small part of that had to do with i think the objective nature of the currency, but a part of it had to do as well with the ethos of personal responsibility that seemed part and parcel of the financial arrangements. there was no regulation of banking in edwardian england. not a single regulation on books as i understand it and the banks were solvent. today we are positively choked with legislation, dodd/frank 2,300 pages or so, and we still see -- we see the most extraordinary demonstrations of near-misses and of flat-out misses in our financial system. i think you are hard-pressed to put over the point that the gold standard was the cause of financial disruption. humanity is the cause of financial disruption. the question is, what system best contains it? and under what system and what system is the most equitable and the most given over to establishing prosperity. it seems

suggests britain should be looking to its own banking scandal before you post things judgement on others more from me in london in just a moment. as violence in syria boils despite the best efforts of peace makers it's a lack of food and soaring prices that's taking their toll on people who haven't even taken sides in the conflict. and europeans are helping their part of them in decision to reject the controversial anti piracy act which is spread widely condemned for violating internet freedom. but from our studios in central moscow you're watching archie with me and he's now it's two pm here in the russian capital our top story in athens has lashed out against the british prime minister over his remarks the u.k. could restrict greeks from entering the country the move could also target citizens of other struggling eurozone nations but athens said london should be looking closer to home to solve its own financial trouble arches laura smith reports. there's been speculation about massive waves of immigration from not just greece but from other economies that are struggling at the moment d

the united states declared war on great britain on june 18, 1812, and hostilities continued into the treaty of gent was ral ratified in 1815. it brings together representatives of the united states, great britain and canada who also celebrate the 200 years of peace that followed the war. this event is ban hour. p . >>> well, good morning, ladies and gentlemen. i'm bob schieffer, and i'll be your moderator today for the special ceremony to mark the beginning of the war of 1812 bicentennial, from enemies to allies, 200 years of peace. if i could add a personal note, i was here in this very place at the buy centennial celebration in 1976, and it was a wonderful night. i was a white house correspondent in those days, and president ford had come up for the occasion. it was the big flag up and the spotlights were on it and they -- you know, the fireworks were going off in the background, and everybody was having a good time. i looked off, and in the crowd i saw a man holding up a little dog. i thought he was holding up the dog to show it to his friends, but then i realized he was holding t

been through jeff britain should be looking through their own banking scandal before you pull through judgement on all the moves remain in london in just a moment. as violence in syria boils and despite the best efforts of peace makers it's a lack of food and soaring prices that's taking its toll on people who haven't even taken sides in the conflict. and europeans are hailing their parliament's decision to reject the controversial anti-piracy act which has been slammed for violating internet freedom. thank you for joining r t where we bring you the latest news twenty four hours a day seven days a week well athens has lashed out against the british prime minister over his remarks the u.k. could restrict the greeks from and during the country they move could also target citizens of other struggling euro zone nations but athens said london should be looking closer to home to solve its own financial trouble let's now talk live to our tease laura smith laura what is cameron trying to achieve here. well that's the sixty four thousand dollar question it seems that he's trying to appease ele

say we don't believe the ordinary people should pay the price for this crisis and we don't believe britain should be occupying other people's countries first in the ranks of those pushing for a new invasion a new occupation as mr hague is doing over syria for example at the moment we just reject that we we are paradigm is completely different and it's like in the wonderful film dead poets society when the teacher invites the children to stand on the desk and see how different everything looks once you get people standing up on those desks they can see that actually the world looks very different from that and do you think that there's a why did disconnect between politics and the electorate the people the people hold the mainstream politicians in contempt they know that the mainstream politicians hundreds. many hundreds of them almost all of them. are looting the people's pockets in parliamentary expenses which was a huge scandal. we have actually a systemic failure in britain the media is on trial the bankers are on trial the politicians have been put on trial and found guilty long ago so

this is a really good night for basketball in great britain. standing i think great britain has a chance you know to do to do some damage in the olympics and men's basketball. i think they're tough on their wall coach them and was a great player and what he's done for his country and his commitment to this program is really sensational meanwhile rafael nadal won't be defending his olympic title the spanish tennis star was due to be the flag bearer for his country in london the world number three one gold in beijing four years ago and he won't be defending his title this summer because of fitness a she's a doll stating he was not in condition to compete the twenty six year old who hasn't played since losing the second round of wimbledon to the then one hundredth ranked. elsewhere let's continue all of those russian athletes best place to bring home some silverware athletics has long provided a stream of success for both the u.s.s.r. i'm russia at the games but how is the current crop shaping up michael crunch enco reports. with forty seven sets

the last match of the day sees great britain wa. he is hoping to pass on his big tournament experience to the younger players. to go it is up to me and the most experienced players to help the under players as well. it is something i am at ease with. something i have dealt with for a number of years now. of course, you want to win every game, and we want to win the tournament. we know it will be tough. it will not be easy, but nothing is easy. the quality i have seen over the past couple of weeks, we're capable of going a long way in this tournament. >> have a look at some of the other fixtures from today. brazil plays egypt. they have not won at the olympic gold medal in the men's event yet. looking to do that in new zealand. the match already under way honduras against morocco. 21 champion, spain plays japan a little bit later on. the draw for the first hand of the men's olympic tennis has been made. that is in the past few minutes. have a look at what has happened on the men's side of things. the wimbledon runner-up faces the man

it was a real surprise in great britain. remember, they are focused on the napoleonic wars and fighting france. there's a world war that's really the focus of their attention but here on this shore our american navy is now proud. we've stood up for ourselves. the british focused a little more attention. they say you can't engage one of these american ships. they realize we build bigger, stronger ships than a typical frigate so they said you can't take on an american ship unless you have superior force, two-on-one, and there was a blockade on the atlantic coast. so much of the action of the war of 1812 moves inland to the lakes. that's not "constitution's" she's here on the coast, but eventually towards the end of the war, she does escape the blockade and meets the british one more time. this is a wonderful portrait of william bainbridge actually painted by sarah peele, one of the first female professional artists in our country, the daughter of charles wilson peele and there's a wonderful story with this portrait because it

blair hanging bankers won't help public anger over the financial crisis is wrong and must not lead britain to hang bankers at the end of the street tony blair says today we must not start thinking that society will be better off if we hang twenty bankers at the end of the street you have to parse tony blair a day here when he says it won't help we mange to say is it will help when he says twenty is not enough he means two hundred is a good way to start stacked a low angle. but listen to that statement there he says that public anger over the financial crisis is wrong it's not a financial crisis by the way it's a financial crime wave. well right well tony blair as we know he's going into the banking business he setting up a new super bank for the super rich the people he made super wealthy as a result of his super violation of law to invade iraq and commit a super genocide on behalf of the supertankers in the oil business of which we are a presence blood for oil tony so he's tone deaf to what the public is saying that two million people are against the war he was tone deaf he has a matter o

what's up, britain. what's up britain. sorry i didn't get back to insulting you earlier we were too busy taking salt out of our huge lake so that our food doesn't taste like [bleep]. actually that was kind of harsh. you know what, david cameron i got your back too, britain cam. i'm not-- wait. (laughter) britain cam. (cheers and applause) utah, i'm not saying you're boring, utah but the only reason you exist is to keep nevada from giving colorado herpes. >> what, what 1234 i'm sorry i can't hear you over the sound of your empire crumbling. i know yu don't have coffee, this is a state you don't want to be awake in. you will spend an eternity in hell, worshipping a false god! well that just got weird. (laughter) leviosa (cheers and applause) >> jon: if you eat at a chick-fil-a you might have noticed a recent adjustment to its menu. >> at chick-fil-a the menu offers up sandwiches, nuggets and strips but to critics these days it also includes a side order of bigot ree. >> jon: and a dipping sauce of intolerance a long with a h

. >> that will be an important test of the games' success for britain, given how much the cost of the event have spiraled. >> the olympics are coming, and for london 2012, britain has released lashed out. -- truly splashed out. it has invested about 8.7 bllion euros in the venues alone. many are in the olympic park in east london. the site has been built from scratch, and the expense that has gone into the project has made it quite controversial. this is the new olympic stadium. it will host the open and closing ceremonies as well as the track and field competition. the stadium is located next to the aquatic center with a swimming and diving -- the swimming and diving events will take place. a basketball and rita is a temporary venue that will be dismantled after the games. -- the basketball arena is a temporary venue.

britain's a black box big brother ministers mull over installing internet devices which would store people private calls chancing messages. and fresh calls in the u.s. to prosecute the world's most famous whistleblower for spying ahead of julian assange just final talk show airing here on r.t. . hello this is r t it's eight pm monday night now here in moscow my name is kevin zero in and first this hour the reports that syrian attack helicopters have bombarded a suburb of the capital damascus the rebels rebuffed the latest peace proposal for a unity government of talks between world powers in geneva the opposition insists the sad has to go the deal is to try and end the conflict that the u.n. says has now claimed more than ten thousand lives his artie's wrapping it all up for you today. i being the geneva peace proposal was the latest attempt to reconcile the divided sides in the syrian conflict with a unity government but that hope was already fading even before the delegates in switzerland returned to their homes the syrian national council s. and c. and the free syrian army the political

america sends its own agents to patrol britain's airports or the london olympics where the u.k. is forced to draft more troops and police officers it turns out the security contractors bit off a bit more than they can chew. patronize ing and insulting that's how muslim immigrants in belgium describe a new starter kit which they say is nothing more than a guide first arriving in the civilized world. the boston market started on a positive nice enough that actually how they ended the day with industrial production for the three percent for the first time the. business bulletin is. life in the heart of the russian capital this is he with me rory sushi welcome to the program syrian opposition fighters have taken their battle to the neighborhoods of damascus with reports of the city has witnessed explosions and intense daily shootouts so in the capital for us now with this report. the capital damascus since the beginning of the uprising last march has most of the time been under governmental control and the closest the fighting has ever moved has been in its suburbs in the eastern pa

he's over there in great britain.ly went over there for a fundraiser, but he wants to surround himself with the aura of the olympics. and he's connected to great britain. he said president obama does not understand our angelo saxon heritage. brian williams asked him about that. >> romney: we have a special relationship between statuses and great britain. it goes beginnings, cultural and historical. >> cenk: he took that special relationship and lit it on fire. he took the olympic torch and started--skshhh--it has been a disaster over there are there for romney why? >> the short time of' been here in london, oh do they look ready for your experienced eye rom it's hard to know how things will turn out. there were a few things that were disconcerting. the stories of the security people not having enough people, the strike and custom officials. that's not encouraging into oh that did not go over well in great britain. he's universally loathed at this point. 500,000 people we showed you in the beginning cheering against mi