but they have the same in britain. margaret thatcher challenged the government from 74 whose conservative government was a disaster characterized by a huge year terms. she said it was the most socialist government in british history. so it was a harsh debate and tough. but she won because she stayed with the certain principles and of the renewable happened because conservatives right now cannot avoid this. it's their destiny. they are going to inherit this mess. they run out of people's money. they run out of other people's money. so we should welcome this debate and not worry about too much of the harsh rhetoric. >> the problem is they were both arguing about the same thing in economics. here they are interested in one set of issues and you've got people on the other side who can only seem to think about abortion and birth control where there is no connection between the two sets of issues in different worlds almost. >> is it any different than president ronald reagan? we were able to resolve them and so i think we wi

is on the up in that britain is but britain isn't in the euro and that's that that's one of the key aspects of course france is also got developing economic problems as well as a political problems so economic crisis in the european union is spreading it really does seem to be only germany that's benefiting for the time being there is ever going to be a jewel to the deaf ear if you're saying there are one and the use just too big to turn around the not going to listen we've heard this before from britain they haven't listened is britain really going to pull out any time soon. well that can happen if the politicians are forced into giving us a referendum david cameron is committed to hold a referendum in twenty seventy he has committed previously to hold a referendum on the lisbon treaty but got out of that one this time we mustn't let it happen need to make sure that there is a referendum because the british membership cannot continue without the consent of the british public it's a key democratic principle that there should be a referendum is pretty much established and the labor p

welcome to the kaiser a florida imax keyser britain's clowning community fears its good name has been tarnished after incidents of people in clown costume scaring members of the public the copy cat craze believed to have been started by a man known on facebook as the northampton clown involves people dressing as the circus characters to surprise passers by in public places. i know what you're thinking you're thinking that sounds a whole lot like the terrifying clowns of westminster george osborne with his big red nose and floppy feet scaring citizens into taking on ever more debt for fear of quote missing out on the property ladder or the equally horrifying stephen king like clowns of ben bernanke m.r. carney wearing their big red frizzy wigs and staring menacingly in through your window at night pointing teeny tiny scored goals at the bankers who are plundering your bank accounts in the national wealth yes these horrid clowns are scaring people off clowns altogether oh what a tragedy stacy yes max in fact you mentioned the clown of westminster george osborne we have an image here fro

proud of britain's tradition in taking refugees. why don't we look again and say that britain will actually participate in this program and take a few hundred refugees? there isot think disagreement between us. the problem i see is that some countries are using this system therefore, iaying fulfilled my obligations. when you have half of a 9 million population that risk of -- at risk of displacement, the notion that you will take a few hundred people, that is not fulfilling your obligations. whereas the massive amount of aid that britain is putting forward, the second-largest in the world, i think is playing the most important role. as i have said to him, i think there are individual cases where we should be looking. i am happy to look at those arguments and those issues. system cannot solve the problem of syrian refugees. feel that we are gradually inching forward on this issue. let me be clear about this. excuse for be an failing to provide aid. about are not talking either providing aid or taking vulnerable refugees, we are talki

britain was the u.s. largest creditor at the time. france is even more interesting because france -- britain had been the historical enemy of france. the napoleonic wars were not that much earlier. france saw a united united space -- united states as a potential counterweight. it was not so much in france's interest are even though napoleon talked about it all the time. but i think linkedin was really good at recognizing what these interests really were then not doing something to mess it up. reseeding crisis after crisis. we see it in his response to the mexican crisis, at the beginning of the war, and his caribbean policies. that was the biggest thing in my view. >> right. the hopes of the south rested on king cotton and that after lincoln blockaded the coast the manufacturing districts and britain and france were hurting. there were not getting -- they were getting come from other sources but there were not getting the raw material that they were once getting from the self. so the above seven states mend that the power of king cott

is not eating going along with the former tory policy of saying britain is not working we guarding the labor policy so here we're having britain is not eating that's right in duncan smith yes it was a politician here found that insulting so he's like a big fat baby stormed out of parliament who. can't he's got the boot so there's a man so going back to this headline of mortgage rise will plunge a million into perilous debt they say more than a million homeowners will be at risk of defaulting on their mortgages and losing their properties in the wake of even a small rise in interest rates. a bombshell analysis reveals borrowers who have failed to pay down their mortgages when interest rates have been at record lows now face being overwhelmed by perilous levels of debt when the inevitable rate hike comes so they're saying that even like a small rise to three percent would see over one point one million spending more than fifty percent of their income on their mortgage payment. well they are home equity line of credit yes the home equity line of credit or he lock this is what is the so-ca

is not eating going along with the former tory policy of saying britain is not working we guarding a labor policy so here we're having britain is not eating that's right in duncan smith yes he's a politician here found that insulting so he'd like a big fat baby stormed out of parliament who. can't. so there's a man so go back to this headline of mortgage rise will plunge a million into perilous debt they say more than a million homeowners will be at risk of defaulting on their mortgages than losing their properties in the wake of even a small rise in interest rates a bombshell analysis reveals borrowers who have failed to pay down their mortgages when interest rates have been at record lows now face being overwhelmed by perilous levels of debt when the inevitable rate hike comes so they're saying that even like a small rise to three percent would see over one point one million spending more than fifty percent of their income on their mortgage payment. well they are home equity line of credit yes the home equity line of credit or he lock this is what is the so-called recovery is based

doors to romania and bulgaria immigrants lifting seven year old restrictions and causing many in britain to worry about a possible influx. but in games lead to serious injury even death with us police dealing with the spread of random attacks on members of the public reportedly as part of gang initiation. eight pm in moscow i met reza good to have you with us our top story this hour thousands of security officers flooded the russian city of volgograd after two terrorist attacks in two days they're trying to find those responsible and stop a possible third act of terror from taking place suicide bombings claimed the lives of thirty four people leaving dozens injured doctors still fighting to save the lives of two critically wounded young girls who are brought to moscow for special care or reports. russian children's clinical hospital it's one of the best such hospitals in the country and the girls are both being treated here now the nine year old received her injuries during the first blast that took place in volgograd on the twenty ninth of december both the girl and her mother have sust

told be available evidence is that the migration to britain has been a net positive both in terms of cultural enrichment and economic investment if you just take the health service for one example we are a national health service we would be nonexistent with migrant labor all levels of skill nurses doctors can solve the clinicians we have to remember that one point six million britons british nationals are working through the u. and they enjoy the benefits of that so if we start setting up you shouldn't draw benefits from migrants we can expect a quid pro quo. we monon your opponents is the tough economic challenges are becoming more and more extreme still to come on r.t. right wing groups are gaining ground from the u.k. to greece and their voices are set to get louder with key european parliamentary elections looming in the spring. also the olympic city has new tracks and not just for the athletes this time stay with us for a look at the newest addition to sochi is infrastructure that will whisk sports fans to the venue in super quick time. a new form of violence has hit the street

is not eating going along with the former tory policy of saying britain is not working we guarding the labor policy so here we're having britain is not eating that's right in duncan smith yes it is a politician here found that insulting so he's like a big fat baby stormed out of parliament who. can't he's got the flu so there's a man so go back to this headline of mortgage rise will plunge a million into perilous debt they say more than a million homeowners will be at risk of defaulting on their mortgages and losing their properties in the wake of even a small rise in interest rates a bombshell analysis reveals borrowers who have failed to pay down their mortgages when interest rates have been at record lows now face being overwhelmed by perilous levels of debt when the never double rate hike comes so they're saying that even like a small rise to three percent would see over one point one million spending more than fifty percent of their income on their mortgage payment. well they are home equity line of credit yes the home equity line of credit or he lock this is what is the so-called

by the institute of public policy research dismissed these as symbolic gestures saying that britain can cope with very many and ample garion migration according to the paper instead of a law making the public the government merely needs to implement some minor contingency measures in order to help schools and housing stretch this deadline has been known about for precisely seven years so the idea that we should be rushing around panicking about it now it's completely absurd it's the duty of not just government but all over the years to be response but they seem to explain the facts which are on the whole i'm arguing for considerably less likely to claim benefits rather than the persons remaining in diplomats to say that their citizens are deeply offended by that portrayal as scroungers and criminals in the u.k. press they point out that most of their citizens are hard working and will contribute to british society something that economists here a happy to back up it's quite important for politicians to step back and explain that this is not the end of the world but on the whole immigrat

you look back at the history in 17, around 1770 in britain. the legal system was beginning to undertake strong condemnations of slavery. there was one famous case, somerset case in 1772 where slave owners from the united states brought their slaves with them to england, and one of them escaped. there was an effort to -- his owner wanted him back, it's my property. and it went to court and went to lord mansfield, famous jurist, who ruled that slavery so odious, that was the term that he used, that it cannot be tolerated on english soil. crucially, it could be tolerated in the colonies. but that's another story. [laughter] but not on english soil. and the united states, the founders of the country were almost all slave owners. and they could see the handwriting on the wall. if the colonies remained under british rule, probably these laws would apply here, and they'd lose their property. that was surely a significant element of the revolution. and it runs right to the present. i mean, right to this moment the civil war is still being fought. simp

that's why we are helping in all the ways to get britain building. what we are seeing, tried to is he is now having to jump around all over the place. it started off with the deficit reduction wasn't going to work. now he can make that argument. and it was we needed plan b. he can make that argument. next the cost of living but yesterday we saw inflation fall to 2%. what we see as a government that's got a long-term economic plan and an opposition that hasn't got a clue. [shouting] >> can i welcome the government youth commitment that my local community is benefiting of the potential of shale gas? can encourage the prime minister to do more to british companies and the scientific careers to do more -- [inaudible] legitimate concerns that both technology and the potential incremental impact? >> i think my honorable friend is absolutely right to raise this and to make the remarks that he does. i think that shale has a huge potential for our country. figures ar on that it would recovered just 7% of the reserves, that would provide us with gas in this co

and britain today, and britain today there are 13 million people living in poverty. that is a shocking figure. and what is scandalous is that the first time ever the majority of those people are living not in jobless families but in working families. lets his explanation? >> the explanation for this is what the institute for fiscal studies have said. they said this, wages have increased much less quickly than inflation. as i say that is not surprising. we had the biggest recession we had in 100 years. it would be astonishing if household incomes haven't followed and earnings haven't followed to the fact is we are recovering from the mess that they left us. [shouting] every week he comes here, every week he comes here and raises a new problem that he created. we have the betting problems they may have the banking problem, then we have the deficit problem, and now with the cost of living problem. he goes about setting fire after fire and then complains when the fire brigade are not putting out the fires fast enough. [laughter] why does he start with an apology for the

britain and france went to war in 1898. britain and russia would, came close to war in 1906. there were other causes. the balkans were particularly dangers because of where they were. there were a number of interest met. rather like the middle east today oppressed the south china seas today, not just local interest. in the balkans unite us as a very active local nationalisms, and these were becoming more vociferous rather than less. what you also had were great power interest. you have the russians, i think what sort of sentimental stuff mostly the pants law stuff. and a warm water port which is much more important. and the straits going to the black sea into the mediterranean were hugely important for russia. over half its grain exports went that way. it was vital, a vital sort of passageway for the russians. vignette austria-hungary seeing served as an existential threat which had to be destroyed before helped to destroy austria-hungary. you are germany and italy. they had a sort of combination of very dangerous local rivalries with outside powers being dragged him. >> robe

that is why we are helping to get britain building. what we are seeing is he is now having to jump around all over the plight -- all over the place. it started with the deficit reduction not going to work. now he cannot make that argument. then it was we needed plan b. he cannot make that argument. then it was a cost-of-living. yesterday, we saw inflation fall to 2%. we have a government with a plan and an opposition that does not have a clue. >> can i welcome that my local community has benefited from shale gas? can i urge the prime minister to do more to encourage open and the scientific community to do to settle legitimate concerns that residents have over the technology and the attentional environmental impact? friend is right to raise this and make the remarks that he does. i think that shale has a huge potential for our country. seven percent of the reserves would provide us with gas for 30 years. we have got to do a better job at explaining the benefits and talking frankly about the process. there is a huge amount of myths that

the help from britain is vital, says britain.e obviously, many of the refugees are victims of torture, sexual violence, both women and men, and there are people with special medical needs, and britain has the train doctors, the psychologists, the other facilities to care for this small number of people. she is escape from a jail in damascus, where she said she was tortured and raped again and again by policeman. even here in jordan, she does not feel safe. >> i want a country that will respect me as a human being. of course, britain is a country that respects human rights and will take care of me. what more can i ask for? >> others are struggling to cope. britain offering to help some of the worst cases is comforting, but some refugees do not want to stray far from serious, which is their home despite the hopelessness of the situation there. many hope to be turned one day. in syrian war has no end sight. this syrian refugees will keep coming. as their suffering goes on, the rest of the world, britain included, may be asked to do

day three of the world economic forum, and all eyes on britain this morning. >> all on britain.o a lot of eyes, and this would seem to happen in the last 24 hours, sort of concerns or questions about the emerging markets turning into concern. you have what's happening in argentina with the currency. are we able to trust a lot of the numbers coming out of china? how much concern is there about what's happening in the emerging markets with currencies? that seems to be driving the conversation today. we'll see if there's any instability later on as the day progresses, and perhaps we'll get into more macro themes. of course, we have a lot of big interviews to bring you here when we're going to wrap the cameron interview that francine is preparing for right now. guy? >> looking forward to that. yeah, the rand is about to break through a key level, 11. we're watching that very, very carefully. just before i let you go, hans, and i would be remiss if i didn't do this, what did you get to last night? >> real shoe leather, trying to get a sense for what's happening in emerging markets, a

reform or declined britain's treasury chief warns the european union that the u.k. will quit if nothing's done to fix the blocks flagging competitiveness. warping the web the u.s. communication giant empowered to govern internet traffic gets the go ad to let some online services jump the queue the expense of others. for the am mosque is watching r t international a marina joshie welcome to the program of the second and final day of voting is underway in egypt on whether to accept another a new constitution critics say yes result will serve to secure the military's grip on future governments the ousted muslim brotherhood refuses to take part calling it a sham referendum that puts the army before the people violence during day one of the ballot killed eleven people are bell trees and kyra. dictions that once again in the polling stations for a second day on this referendum on the constitution the people behind it so are this interim government and also the military and then the people who stand to gain the most if this is a yes votes and if there is a high ten outs in

a man in charge of britain's finances has given the e.u. addressing don't telling the brussels behemoths stick leininger needs an urgent overhaul george osborne was addressing a fig tank on europe when he also was that the u.k. will pull out if the e.u. fails to reform itself is not is laura smith. said europe's like a burning building with no exits basically he sees the political block as falling behind india and china overspending on welfare becoming less and less competitive essential in the economic and political bloc in decline domestically of course here in the u.k. the e.u. is losing popularity people say it's very expensive increasingly power hungry and also the originator of an awful lot of red tape but also one central message today was that the u.k. is not pushing for reform for its own sake oh no it's pushing for reform for everybody else's sake for europe's sake as a whole so he was talking about the tabling of legal challenges a year period course of justice he said it's not time to european but in fact it's a way of preservin

welcome to the kaiser kaiser britain's clowning community fears it's good name has been tarnished after incidents of people in clown costume scaring members of the public the copy cat craze believed to have been started by a man known on facebook as the northampton clown involves people dressing as the circus characters to surprise passers by and public places. i know what you're thinking you're thinking that sounds a whole lot like the terrifying clowns of westminster george osborne with his big red nose and floppy feet scaring citizens into taking on ever more debt for fear of quote missing out on the property ladder or the equally horrifying stephen king like clowns of ben bernanke m.r. carney wearing their big red frizzy wigs and staring menacingly in through your window at night pulling teeny tiny scored down to the bank. or plundering a bank account of the national wealth yes these horrid clowns are scaring people off clowns altogether oh what a tragedy stacy yes max in fact you mentioned the clown of westminster george osborne we have an image here from william bonzai he was star

were promised a coward seeking to renegotiate britain's membership in the e.u. and to hold an in out referendum by twenty seventeen what would all those from the new liberal bruges group think tank told me there's no point waiting there because europe's not going to reform itself i'm very pessimistic about the chances of the e.u. changing it's been created since nine hundred fifty seven it's about ever closer union it's about more regulation it's about less powerful nation states more powerful and unaccountable bureaucracy it is not going to change in a timeframe that the government has given it the british membership cannot continue without the consent of the british public it more than eighty percent say they want to vote and you know vote on our. membership of the you but of course is absolutely fundamental to our economy as well because at the moment having to pay billions each year to brussels e.u. red tape is holding back the british economy as well as other european nations as well it's not a you know economic benefit so things are really must change you

to growth so meanwhile there's a lot of placards are circulating that say britain isn't eating kind of a swipe going back to the old our labor tory conflict going back a ways where labor isn't working if every member that was there the rallying cry for the tories here's one is called britain isn't eating so how do isn't there a huge disconnect because you can say that the growth of that growing fast enough arse not growing that all but you're still talking about growth whereas in this economy in britain there's a whole a whole portion of the economy now that's just sinking into homelessness and poverty and it's really really splitting apart your thought well we certainly have seen growth over the last couple of cool sizzles three quarters actually that's comparable to the growth that's. the year the government inherited in two thousand and ten or if you remember when it cameron actually at that time said the economy was bankrupt so what we have here is an economy that's growing slowly driven by house prices food that the chancellor has created it's helping people in the south of englan

the viewer to become a burning building with no exits the full board declined britain's treasury chief warns the european union that the uk will quit if nothing is done to fix the club's flagging competitive . call. most of its twenty third of mourning be the key to this. his auntie. the top story than that of the american airstrike in afghanistan has claimed more civilian lines like to stick to the least seven children and woman those details out from the president's because i'm self. the attack took place on tuesday night apparently in the central pa one province north of kabul but because of money just been released. cardiff is on a scroll that name and told me the lesson he doesn't have afghanistan's interest in ending the bloodshed of hockey thing. this is directly tie a shoe when seeing disputed between the afghan government and u s government is trying to negotiate an agreement on what can happen to us forces after twenty fourteen one don't be allowed to do the afghan government doesn't want us to unilaterally engaged in military operations in afghanistan a busy one and all. thi

britain. he did against him angry gets them anxious but we have the ability to spell that right sue wee wee. in a we need to make sure that we take measures to prevent people exploiting our benefits system. i'm completely in favor of the time. come on in faith is the right man and putting up a sign that says no to the migration britain britain's benefit from migration. in eighty countries today. if they want to succeed to the key singer countries go to the east and the mind by that is. that means you'll create a view in the third of your educate your people feel welcome in new energy and ideas from liberal said migrations be good for britain i agree can read it we shouldn't have of benefit system pm so we need to take action. but we shouldn't let that. and that as it will morph into an argument that says immigrants about the food for our country is at his stats in one last question but to postpone on these ads very eyes and asked me that he was the social democrats. what do you think to some p

britain. >> welcome back. this sunday, thailand is expected to hold a controversial election that the prime minister hopes will confirm the legitimacy of her government. >> protests against her had been raging in the country since november. it's the latest round in what has been eight years of tensions that largely split the country along class lines. >> with all of the unrest, there are concerns about the credibility of sunday's vote. >> the thai prime minister is showing no signs of giving up. she is determined to see sunday's polls go ahead, despite calls from the election commission to postpone them. >> advanced voting has already been disrupted by protesters, and the main opposition democrat party is boycotting the polls. its leader has urged people not to vote in sunday's election. some protesters have threatened to lay siege to polling stations, given how few opposition candidates are running, she's expected to win the vote comfortably. if the elections go ahead, that is. the opposition is calling for a

argentina invaded, britain humiliate. not able to recover the islands that's the end of her political career. it would be a lasting hurt to are britain. she sent the task force. she needed -- and in logistical terms. the reagan administration was pro british. you get the weapons come ought of the back door even early on. it was a serious problem for the united. they didn't want latin america destabilized by communism. there was a big faction in the administration that felt it strongly. mr. reagan was trying to sort of strike the balance, if he could. and he would have liked, of course, a deal rather than actual combat. and mrs. thatcher was determined not have a deal. yet, as i shoe -- show in the book she made big concessions along the way. making the calculation she had to do that in order satisfy world opinion and hoping against hope that the times wouldn't be clever enough to accept it. that hope proved correct. it came late that the united states as they put tilted to britain. and it was always a struggle. it was rar

mission in the world so where's britain's global standing now. well i think there are very very serious problems that need need to be asked what happened in august when the british parliament voted against an intervention in syria this made it very very difficult for the british to intervene indeed some commentators including some supporters of the government think it would only be possible now for britain to be intervening in. direct column such as gibraltar all the fault lines venus off the coast of argentina so in the way britain strategic of going to war in afghanistan and iraq have been shown to be complete failures and i think it does raise very serious questions about british foreign policy we've been claim that we have a special relationship going back decades with the united states but the simple truth is the united states doesn't really need british the british military aspect of it operations and therefore it is quite a turning point for the british military in british foreign policy and it's one that the government is reluctant to acc

it was easier to be one in britain than in america because basically already had stopped. but he was. he was one of the first signatories of the wilberforce petition, and so on. burke recognizes the different societies exist in different circumstances. certainly part of his argument is about the particular genius of what he called the english constitution, which is not a written constitution by the whole system that include an important class of employment that he thought had its merits. he was not a defender of the status quo per se. he was not an opponent of all change to the -- he had done it himself. he came from what we would think of as a middle-class family and not just a middle-class come by at an irish middle-class family. and natively to the upper tiers of the british political system. and wanted the way to be open to other people to do the same. but he did live there was a kind of stabilizing influence of the aristocracy that made the british open to his way of thinking about free society in ways that were essential. he thought the french could have saved the sy

when britain and france nearly went to war and britain and russia came close to war in 1906, 1907. the balkans was particularly dangerous because of where they were. there were a number of interests met. like the middle east today for the south china seas today, not just local. in the balkans would have series of actively competing local nationalism and these were becoming more vociferous rather than less. what you offset for great power interests that you have the russians but i think the sentimental stuff. and this streets from the black sea into the mediterranean hugely important for the russians. half of its grain exports were not that way in a great deal of fishing reg. it was a vital passageway toward the russians and then you had austria and hungary and the soviets as an accidental threat. and you had germany in the balkans and italy. so you had a combination of very dangerous local rivalries and powers being dragged in. >> robert, i would be interested because you have the perspectivr perspective. you have been in the archives and could respond as well. whether thinking thi

growth in france against one point seven percent in germany and two point two percent in britain people and businesses alike oh my god another tax and another it's not that they're too high but there are too many and a combination of all these taxes makes it really heavy taxes today really break an economy it seems that's also finally beginning to dawn on the country's leader examples out of new rule or rule taxes big game having to have a usually known for very optimistic speech in his new year address const what went wrong sounded rather concerned ok severely the economic crisis turned out to be longer and deeper than we could have predicted. the socialist leader pledged some truly liberal changes such as cutting labor costs and public spending making people talk about a new all around and new hopes of the country's recovery but critics are still vocal as they say plan is short on details and some are afraid it could simply be too little too late reflection r.t. from france. coming up in the program organic farmers in the u.s. again firm sells helpless against the. america's high cour

a massive amount of aid that britain is putting forward. the second largest in the world, i think is plague the most important role. as i've said to him, i think there are individual cases where we should be looking -- i'm happy to look at those arguments and issues. but let's not pretended that a small qoi that system can solve the problem of syrian refugees. >> i do feel we are gradually inching forward on this. mr. speaker, let me be clear about this. let me be clear about this. it must not be an excuse for failing to provide aid. of course it's not. but we're not talking about either providing aid or taking vulnerable refugee. we're talking about doing both. now given the reasonable tone of the prime minister, will he now open discussions with the united nations about britain making contributions to the program. i think colleague from all sides of the house want it to happen will he say he'll do so. >> i made clear we're prepared to listen to the argument how we can help the most vulnerable people in the refugee camps. just -- some of t

doors to romania and bulgaria immigrants lifting seventy year old restrictions and causing many in britain to warry about a possible into bags. and so on and games lead to serious injury and with you us please dealing with the spread of random attacks on members of the public reportedly as part of our gang in initiation. this is international coming to life from moscow and a very warm welcome to the program and thousands of security officers have flooded the russian city of volgograd following two terrorist attacks in just three days they're trying to find those responsible and stop a surge of terror taking place this is side bombings took the lives of thirty four people leaving dozens injured doctors are still fighting to save the lives of two critically wounded young girls who were brought to moscow for specialist treatment he's been going to now reports. i will tell you did they have russian children's clinic a hospital it's one of the best such hospitals in the country and the girls are both being treated here now the nine year old received her injuries during the first blast that took

so we think america is able to be open to immigrants because it isn't simply pretend britain. our way of life does not require that your family can trace itself continually to william the conqueror but it isn't because it is defined by abstract principles it is because it is defined by the actual lifting the existence of an incredibly free and open society that allows people to experiment different ideas and to be constantly influenced and changed and improved provided that these ideas and changes are grounded in an american idea of the free society. with the conservatives want to conserve is that whole reality and not just the abstract principles, not just what we have made of them in the present, but the combination that makes possible the free society and issue of the world and the most open. so we can still integrate if only we try to. the problem is we don't really try to. we don't try to teach ourselves and so to teach outsiders about what american life is all about. i think we have a terrible failure of assimilation in the country, but if we can address that then we don

i was very struck by one of the large chinese investors, britain is better than all.t was a good endorsement. >> thank you. >> prime minister, i think when you're saying you wish you could spend more time and effort on asia, some had a history of trade in this country. [inaudible] i just want to get your view. mr. gates made a comment the other day, former defense secretary of america, to ensure global reach in support of our long-term security interests and fulfilling our part with a crucial relationship with the united states navy, we must guarantee that we have high-end capability with the necessary number and mix of ships? you stated on the 31st of january, 2013, your words, your strong view was that the defense budget will require year-on-year growth beyond 2015. as a leading member of nato, no less than 2% of our g.d.p. for our defense budget, i hope you're able to confirm that this is still very, very much your view and intention and will be emphasized at the nato conference this september. >> i don't move away from the importance of our defense budget and what

simply stopped following the rules of the gold standard they did voigt some mistakes that britain. made for example they. had their currency about eighty percent from the pre pre-war parity. which helped enormously to count for the inflation that the experience but they were putting enormous pressure on the bank of england for example which was running short of gold stocks of sorts settling their trade balances in gold but there was a lot of political conflict reemerged in the one nine hundred twenty s. over the reestablishment of the goldston do you think that contributed to the great depression. absolutely the currency and trade wars of the early one nine hundred thirty s. helped to strip spread the american great depression globally and really created the environment of misery and anger that pave the path to aggression for hitler and mussolini the us treasury was very concerned about this and indeed the bretton woods conference in one nine hundred forty four was held very much to ensure that in the post-war period this type of currency and trade war would not again reemerge beca

which produced enormous political strife and britain was eventually forced out of the gold exchange standard in one nine hundred thirty one and dozens of countries and mediately followed now can you tell me a little bit about france's gold fourteen. well basically the if the french. simply stopped following the rules of the gold standard they did voigt some mistakes that britain had made for example they ballyhooed their currency about eighty percent from the pre pre-war parity. which helped enormously to account for the inflation that they'd experience but they were putting enormous pressure on the bank of england for example which was running short of gold stock to start settling their trade balances in gold but there was a lot of political conflict reemerged in the one nine hundred twenty s. over the reestablishment of the cold steel do you think that contributed to that great depression. absolutely the currency and trade wars of the early one nine hundred thirty s. helped to strip spread the man a. great depression globally and really created the environment of misery and anger

which produced enormous political strife and britain was eventually forced out of the gold exchange standard in one nine hundred thirty one and dozens of countries and mediately followed now can you tell me a little bit about france's gold hording. well basically the if the french. simply stopped following the rules of the gold standard they did voigt some mistakes that britain had made for example they. had their currency about eighty percent from the pre pre-war parity. which helped enormously to account for the inflation that they'd experience but they were putting enormous pressure on the bank of england for example which was running short of gold stock to start settling their trade balances in gold but there was a lot of political conflict reemerged in the one nine hundred twenty s. over the reestablishment of the cold steel do you think that contributed to that great depression. absolutely the currency and trade wars of the early one nine hundred thirty s. help district spread the a man. great depression globally and really created the environment of misery and anger that pave

i think that britain could have stayed out and, perhaps, what have despite its understanding. it was not a treaty, but it's understanding with france if the germans had not invaded belgium. i don't know that. and that is another thing. >> what you said. stopped in 1914-15. part of it may have been that the french forces recognize the consequences. they have already seen germany defeat. not standing under the man. they could not have tolerated that evil. >> and i think -- and the trouble was when one side fog, the other didn't. the scent of victory. i think what also happened is you get this hideous lawsuit. some of the worst losses were taken in the opening battles of 1914. very difficult then to say to the people, this is a mistake and we stop now it will all remain the same. we all know what happens. becomes very difficult. >> i want to ask one question. i want to butt end. was there, were there any during the war from either side? >> there were. they had been born secretary. and then there was this same through the pope six this -- been experience thank you very much. says

he encountered benjamin franklin the representrepresent ative of the american colonies in britain and franklin got to know him a little, very little and suggested to him that he should try going to america and starting over. payne did that and quickly became an important figure in the intellectual circles of philadelphia. he was the editor of a small magazine called the pennsylvania magazine, a writer and as the american revolution began to brew he became an important retort titian. he wrote common sense, the great pamphlet that persuaded so many people to back the cause of independence. he wrote the crisis papers and i think it's fair to call him a member of the founding generation. 10 years later less known to us americans paine went to france and became an important spokesman for the french revolutionaries. he really was a great champion and made the case for the radicalism of the revolution in france to british and american audiences. he was a real revolutionary. he was a believer in the need to break with the past in order to undo the terrible injustices that the european regimes