part of the reason britain has a conservative prime minister now when the conservative party in britain had been out in the wilderness since tony blair is because the current conservative leader you who see here, david cameron, he$rt win the murdoch primary. he got rupert murdoch and his media empire in britain to endorse the conservative party in the last election and that's part of why the toreys are now in power. in the united states at home there are influential rupert murdoch newspapers too. amazingly, they include the "wall street journal" now, which i have to say is still as astonishing as the day it happened. but rupert murdoch's flagship in america of course is the fox news channel. fox news is an unrivaled success in broadcast media and part of their incomparable success is due to the fact they tell their viewers don't trust anybody else. right? this is a technique that was essentially pioneered by rush limbaugh and then all of his imitators in right-wing talk radio, which is not only to just attract conservative listeners and conservative viewers by promoting conservative vie

the conservative party as a whole are really a bit schizophrenia over this whole year appreciate they've got on one side they've got all their friends the financial elite that want to go one way or the other side they are the main euro skeptic party in britain and they're being polled in the other direction so quite which side of this whole debate cameron is going to face is a really completely open question although i would guess that he will go with the financial oligarchy because he's quite out of these discussions as britain is not part of the euro zone and in a way he's butting in but i think mirco z.-e. you know this whole merkel sarkozy coalition isn't really interested in what the people want to my worry is what is the valid a-t. of a treaty of such importance when the people are on side and how much they should britain have anyway as you say doesn't even use the euro it's not in the eurozone which they should have been maybe scuppering the. well there will be year interesting mission for david came

the main players are trying to beef up support for that plan at a summit of the main conservative parties. britain's conservatives were not there after david cameron pulled them out of the grouping two years ago. of those who did attend could not be clearer. >> everyone knows that if there is no agreement by friday, there will be no signature. we need a compromise and quick decisions. >> all of the world is watching us. what they need from us is not more national problems but european solutions. >> most agree that such a solution will of all this, the european central bank. today, the bank lowered interest rates across the eurozone. -- most agree that such a solution will involve this. they banned the prospect of new financial support for indebted countries. this evening, david cameron are arrived in brussels promising to protect britain's interests here. >> these are important talks. we need the stability that is good for european countries, good for britain. we need to protect britain's interests. >> the best protection would be an end to the eurozone crisis. corks and end to the crisis

quartered by the ultra conservative party of the party and a reminder that this party has the better parents to push for religious codes and then in third position as was predicted is the coalition of liberal parties known as the drug from bloc now we are hearing reaction from israel it has called these developments to quote the israeli government very disturbing he's a defense minister and he says that he hopes in egypt without fear international treaties that it has signed in the past particularly the shaky nine hundred seventy nine peace treaty with israel the muslim brotherhood has always been to this peace treaty it has close ties with ten months and in this respect mass has issued a statement on its website commending the egyptian people for what it says clearly showing support is a must be running call in talking square remains much the same as it has been three weeks now and that is that people there simply do not believe the commitment of the promise by the government and the military the military is saying that it will step down once a new parliament is in place mixture and

of the vote creditthe also puts the liberal egyptian blocked neck and neck with the ultra- conservative party for second place. the official first-round results are expected thursday. the final makeup of parliament will not be made clear until march. >>> syriana is here to talk about a concerted move by the banks? >> that is right, and a surprise move, global central banks have agreed on a coordinated action to ease strain on the world's financial system, aiming to shore up markets and boost landings. the joint announcement was made by the european central bank, the u.s. federal reserve, and the central banks of japan, britain, and canada. stock-market prices surged following the announcement. in frankfurt, the dax jumped 4.6% in early afternoon trading, and the euro hit a high against the u.s. dollar. >>> we last saw this concerted action when lehman brothers went down. i asked the german institute of economic research if things are really that bad again. >> yes, i think so, this is true. if we look at credit default swaps, they are at an unprecedented heights. also, the interbank market has

a greek right now whether you vote at the next general election for a socialist party or a conservative party or liberal party for that matter it makes no difference because your tax rates your spending rates all of these things are now determined by three foreign officials one from the european commission one from the european central bank and one from the i.m.f. who i'm afraid of turned into an organization who exists to back up this euro project if you cannot change your destiny or your future by the way you vote you are trapped inside something that is now forcing upon you austerity measures massive cuts in public spending without the compensation of a currency the can do you value because your economy is not doing very well i think my definition of an economic prism is pretty accurate you know but some people say that if there is to be there's a breakdown if one country in the euro zone comes down it will kind of result in this disaster as a domino effect that will lead to a global economic crisis and be as far reaching as the u.s. i mean what would the breakdown of the euro mean for the

i think the conservative party polls ratings have even gone up. >> but that is a short-term reality. you can influence public opinion. you can influence what people sort of say when they are asked on tv in the street, but if they think about it, if our british colleagues think about it, they must realize that it is in the best interests to be an integral part of europe. they have an awful lot of things they can bring to the table, non-material assets, and we have a lot of things that we can bring to the table, all the rest of us. i think it is in our best, interests to try to pursue that half together, to do this european project together. >> ok, thank you very much. >> thank you so much for being with us here for our "in depth." we leave you now with the very latest in headlines.

, including tea party conservatives where a potential champion, for example rick perry, whooared in the polls after he got into the race and looked like he might be the person who could unite tea party conservatives, religious conservatives and other kinds and then had a whole series of problems and then he sort of collapsed again. michele bachmann was a favorite of some of them for a while. now newt gingrich has picked up some of that support. so i think that this election has been different, say, than the last one where a very large number of religious conservatives rallied behind mike huckabee. some for, i think, anti-mormon reasons, but others simply because huckabee was an evangelical leader. >> well, but i think that it took them a while last time around for them to rally behind one candidate. they're very important in this primary season as we id. last time around about 40%, more than 40% of all gop primary voters were evangelicals and in early states like iowa and south carolina that goes to 60%. and so if want to be the gop candidate, you've got to get a significant

let's talk about the british prime minister british prime minister david cameron taking his conservative party out of that alliance the european peoples party i just spoke about i think you regret that decision. absolutely not the european peoples party is historically a federalist integration aist group that has very different objectives even when the conservative very peace were part of the group they were voting against the people one third of the time so that should give you an idea as to how divergent their opinions were all right well billions of u.k. taxpayers' money is really given in to help the struggling euro zone as we know david cameron has been saying that he may be prepared just last week to watch for more aid how is that. this time when britain is going through an awful lot its peoples they're going through an awful lot lately even use the euro. well exactly and not only did we do we not use the euro we have a specific opt out which was negotiated quite possibly some negotiating cost back in mass to act but we have long been warning of the dangers of progressing along economic

some members of his own conservative party on the right wing euro are calling him a hero, but the deputy prime minister, nick clegg, believes a veto is bad for britain. other members say they're also taking stock of friday's agreement n. france, the opposition socialist candidate for the french presidency says if he was elected next year, he would seek to renegotiate the deal. let's get more on all this. joining me now is our correspondent, naomi grimley, who's at westminster, and hugh schofield in paris. is this a credible line? is it a popular line? how many people in france are happy with the deal that sarkozy has done? >> i think we should be careful what he's saying has got nothing to do with the british argument. he's coming from a different perspective altogether, the leader of the socialists. he's saying that what's happened is tying france's ability to sort of spend its way out of the crisis, like many on the left, he believes in the solution to all of this, and he thinks that the austerity that's being dug into european institutions by friday's deal will tie the hands of future

agreement received a mixed reaction at home the prime minister enjoyed a hero's welcome from his conservative party but their decision deeply disappointed deputy prime minister nick clegg later on monday cameron was trying to defend his actions in parliament john gone from the vote the u.k. out of the e.u. campaign supporter but has doubts over how the e.u. is going to work with this division in place. i think he was right to stand up to the germans and engage right to stand up to a little but the bottom line is the facts are we are now more isolated than ever we're still be paying fifty one million pounds a day into the but now i have no influence over what so ever clearly the british people do not want fiscal review and clearly david cameron went to brussels trying to stop fiscal union and to stop the current of. the destruction of the banking sector he didn't get what he wanted so he decided to walk out of those discussions and some people say he was a bulldog rather on the political but i think now he has to go even further and asked to give the british people a friend on the subject we want le

fisa law for its owner and the brotherhood has denied this the sufis farmer is a much more conservative party and has a much stricter interpretation of islam now this is the first election that is being hold and since the former egyptian president hosni mubarak was forced to strip down that in february and the initial results were initially planned for green stay at that stage they were delayed the announcement was given that it was because the ballots by egyptians living aboard have not yet been tallied the results have been expected yesterday for this day they were game delayed at that time the reason given was because so many people had simply turned out there is a massive demonstration that is being planned for today friday in turkey square it has been a tribute to the heroes of mohamed roughnecks fees this is the street coffee three people were killed and more than a thousand people were injured in recent clashes between the army the police and protesters now there are twenty three political from the pigs who are behind today's demonstration and talking to protesters who will be out ther

agree to a solution to its mounting problems we decided to discuss the efforts with the british conservative party member of the european parliament that's next on our team don't go away. well today we're joined by conservative m.e.p. . thank you very much for joining us first question that everyone is asking is where do you see the eurozone headed well we can now see very clearly that the euro is a recessionary instrument it's making people poorer it's causing deflation and emigration in the southern states is causing tax rises in the northern states if we were looking at this completely logically we would immediately move towards an orderly unbundling of the single currency but of course the european union is not looking at it logically they come at this with so much political capital and actual capital invested in it that they can't bring themselves to admit that it was a mistake and so i'm afraid we risk the very thing they purport to fear which is a disorderly breakup of the euro caused by having tried to keep it together for too long an orderly break up is that relieve the cheap or at least

agreement received a mixed reaction at home the prime minister enjoyed a hero's welcome from his conservative party but the decision deeply disappointed deputy prime minister nick clegg later on monday cameron was trying to defend his actions in parliament international consultant and author adrian is on the side of the prime minister believing the loss of sovereignty the e.u. deal entails will prove to be too much for some. in this particular instance i would tend to favor the british position here because britain from the very beginning understood and we still understand far better than the european colleagues the importance of national sovereignty and the importance of having a summer in currency and what europe is now suffering many of the countries especially the smaller ones is a problem of sovereignty we will probably start seeing the euro very soon because of thing that people are realizing that the euro is a little bit like a procrustean bed bed which is one size must fit all in greek mythology course trees had made a bit he said anybody who was short of it he would stretch them out breaki

surface are newer and the brotherhood has going to have this nice lifestyle new it is a much more conservative party that has a much stricter interpretation of islam not of this is the first election that is being hold since the former egyptian president hosni mubarak was forced to step down back in february and the election results were initially planned for wednesday at that stage there were delayed the announcement was given that it was because the ballots by egyptians living abroad have not yet been tallied the results were then expected yesterday first day they were a game delayed at that time the reason given was because so many people had simply turned out so the latest word we have is that the votes are still being counted but the head of the electoral commission says if a rule be announced today friday. of all of this election comes on the back of a wave of violent protests of people demanding the village rulers step down so how tense is the country now. well the mood here certainly is volatile there is a massive demonstration that is being planned for today friday in tahrir square it has b

sophos armor and the brotherhood has good neither has the slightest on where it is a much more conservative party it has a much stricter interpretation of islam and you know this is the first election that is being hold since the former egyptian president hosni mubarak was forced to step down and back in favor he read and the election was odds were initially planned for wednesday at that stage there were delayed the announcement was given that it was because of ballots by egyptians living aboard have not here been telling you the results of an expected here today for is day they were again today at that time the reason given was because so many people had simply turned out there was a massive demonstration that it's been planned for today friday in tahrir square it has been a tribute to the heroes of mohamed roughen that's mean this is the street for three three o'clock we were killed and more of an f. hours and people were injured in recent clashes between the army the police and protesters now there are twenty three political groupings who are behind today's demonstration and talking to protest

party has twenty percent of the vote in russia they went to fair russia which is a patriotic conservative party and of course they went to the extreme right zhirinovsky party these three parties i think in comparison to mr putin's united russia. i would have thought pretty unwelcome in western china for it exactly on if i can go to you first and that. tell my viewers where you have located did actually quite well that we did very well in two different. polling stations and they were in london and in washington d.c. so young what do you think that says about these liberal parties because just as john laughlin pointed out united russia took a beating it's got certainly a bloody nose but those votes didn't go to liberal parties ok again we'll have a new duma where these liberal parties will not be having any seats you know we have to look at these think from two perspectives from overall results of course yeah because the result is not so great but from yabloko own perspective we can just see that they are almost doubled even if not triple there is also from the previous to that and from this site

agreement received a mixed reaction at home the prime minister enjoyed a hero's welcome from his conservative party but the decision deeply disappointed deputy prime minister nick clegg cameron is now defending his actions in parliament at the moment there in london well for more on this i'm joined by gerard lines he's chief economist at standard chartered bank joining us from the city of london now when david cameron set off for the summit he said he was going to protect the likes of you there in the city of london from the proposed regulations in what way was the city under threat. there was quite make trade to pick a sphere probably ahead of the summit was the imposition of a financial transactions tax so-called tobin tax some people call a robin hood tax although to be quite frank the u.k. could always have resisted that tax anyway the prime minister was very much trying to put forward. the u.k. stance on the city the ironic thing about it is that his stance the u.k. government stance in the city is pretty tough one so there are mixed feelings in the city in principle the prime minister took th

actually thought it was the best deal they were going to get and he faced a revolt among conservatives, some tea party member, conservative members in his own conference and had to fight on. that fight is now over. >> woodruff: todd t is so unusual to see this kind of open split among republicans to have the top republican in the senate going in one direction, the house speaker going in another direction. how do you account for this? how did this happen? >> well, i think what you are seeing is a reprieve of some of the same dynamics that we've seen during this 111th congress, republican house leadership. john bayne certificate an institutionalist. he's been in the body a long time. he's an establishment republican. he was swept into power with the help of-- with tea party members and other freshman conservatives who have a-- who are reform-minded, to put it in the mildest way possible. some of them, you say behind the scenes want to tear the house down. they don't care about the way things are done normally, if they don't like a deal f they don't like the speaker at the table with joe bideen or harry

actually behind the scenes all the time nick clegg and the liberal party had done a deal with the conservative party that they were actually going to increase tuition fees so no wonder young people actually feel betrayed many of them voted for the liberal democrat party in the first time they were ever allowed to vote here in britain and actually found a deal or been done behind their backs now these youngsters are not stupid they can see when you've got a crooked corrupt and rotten political class and it's about what i would call kind of checkerboard politics where you've got all the three main political parties have something going for them however small tiny on a large majority of what i was political parties are doing it why don't you hear from barry. i'm not sure if you can hear me i don't want to thank us because we have our special new year's coverage and we're getting closer to midnight here in moscow trying to garden live earth all on the line from bristol. december in moscow usually it seems the streets filled with snow but first short while. this year it was protests against russia's parl

that is not to say they cannot take votes away from the conservative party, and possibly other partiesstly the conservative party which might aid the conservatives' opponents. but the issue itself, what britain should be doing with the european union, is a very hot- button topic. for years and years, the so- called euro skeptics, the journalists, critics, bankers, politicians, who argued that the kind of integration that brussels was calling for would end up producing an unholy mess, were ignored and laughed at. it is now -- now these critics are seen as profits. is there going to be a european superstate with perhaps just 10, 12, or 16 countries and then a european alter ring? if you were to put it in american terms, you would have a united states of europe, and then you have out lawyers like guam -- outliers liked guam, and they would be like britain, poland, hungary, romania, some of the lesson of all european countries. host: this tweet from peter -- guest: that is a very interesting question. when i began the piece, i did not actually know that much about thatcher, and i had not r

party movement. it tends to be made up of old people. we know it's conservative people, right? ot the most racially diverse thing in the world. but in a pronounced way it's also senior. in the new book "the tea party and the remaking of republican conservatism," harvard government and sociology team who studied the tea party movement found active participants in the broader circles of tea party supporters come from similar social backgrounds. although not every active tea partyer is a senior citizen, most are middle-aged and beyond. a key social characteristic. older, middle class white people, tea partyers are better cushioned against economic upheaval than younger americans, especially minorities. lots of older middle class people in the tea party. another key conclusion of the new book studying the tea party is the tea partyers for the most part know what medicare and social security are. they're not dumb. they get those are government programs. if you've seen the guy holding the sign that says keep the government hands off your health care, it's probably photo shopped. most

eastern officer honor and the brotherhood has denied this the slightest honor it is a much more conservative party it has a much stricter interpretation of islam and there is a massive demonstration that is being planned for the friday in this where it has been a tribute to the heroes of one hundred. years of the street with the few who keep were killed and more than a thousand people were injured in recent clashes between not only the police and protesters now there are twenty three political groupings who are the high end of today's demonstration and talking to protesters who will be up there in tahrir square they say that the large turnout at the polls is simply an illusion people have that the situation will improve there for as long as the military the ways and how it nothing in egypt will change until the rallying point among the demonstrators the term here has not changed and that is that the military needs to step down immediately over the past few weeks we've seen some of the worst clashes in recent months that would be interesting to gauge the kind of anger and the kind of response comin

received a mixed reaction at home and the prime minister enjoyed a hero's welcome from his conservative party but the decision deeply disappointed deputy prime minister nick clegg later on monday cameron was try to defend his actions in parliament more on that i'm now joined by john gaunt from the vote you hay out of the e.u. campaign i thanks for coming on the program today so one of the loudest opposition voices to david cameron's decision comes from his own deputy prime minister nick clegg he says it's bad for britain is it bad for britain. well this is good and it's bad isn't it i think he was right to stand up to the germans and engage right to stand up to little sarkozy but the bottom line is the facts are we are now more isolated than ever we're still be paying fifty one million pounds a day into the e.u. but now i have no influence over it whatsoever so i can see both sides the argument clearly though he's moved towards the u.k. towards the door marked exit which is good news i think you should now go the whole hog and give the people of the united kingdom their democratic right let's