e.u. gives made sims and it seems the government is being dictated to by the e.u. what you do around impose crisis here are many e.u. countries and they're facing their own big struggles and there are some important questions being posed just how will the next session help serbia's economy and when unemployment in serbia is so high the promises of a better future translate into actual benefits. for ten years the serbian government has been striving towards the e.u. with promises of a better future free cheese is only ever on offer in a mouse trap the government even sold some businesses to partners in the european union where. people here no longer feel like the membership will be the answer to the country's problems and probably eve rhetoric holds nice way when continuing economic instability is affecting the lives of the population serf. belgrade. and all the meals about the prospects of serbia joining the even the obstacles it faces were up for discussion went out the sophie shevardnadze sat down with the serbian president boris tadic you watch the full intervie

e.u. . and it seems. take it to. the e.u. what you do not impose crisis here at many e.u. countries and they're facing that big struggles and there are some important questions being posed just how will you exception help said he is a condom a and when unemployment in serbia is so high that the promises of the basic teacher translate into actual benefits. for ten years the serbian government has been striving to once the e.u. with promises of a better future free cheese is only ever on offer in a mouse trap the government even sold some businesses to partners in the european union. people hit no longer feel like eve membership would be the answer to the country's problems and prairie eve rhetoric holds in this way but continuing economic instability is affecting the lives of the population so if. denigrate the prospects of serbia joining the e.u. and the optical faces were up for discussion when aussies think you should not say sat down with serbian president but i just thought it and you can watch the full interview in about fifteen minutes but here's a quick preview. exc

e.u. all serves themselves coming up later this hour. with the latest struggling e.u. country receiving a massive bailout from the alliance we take a look at the wider implications with. panel they debate whether governments will ever be able to pay off their deep debts and what happens if they fail that's all in twenty minutes time here on r.t. but here's a quick preview for you. i think we would do a medical metaphor and let's say your neighborhood and everybody knows he's been drinking and he has a drinking problem and he's been drinking for a long time and now he's starting a business having blackouts and he's ended up in the hospital and so it's a crises so everybody's gathered in the village in the waiting room deciding what to do and we have roland on one side and he's the doctor and he goes listen you know this is this is a terrible situation this man's got to stop drinking and then we have mark on the other hand who says you know i mean that's true he's been drinking too much but

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we are part of the e.u. and we would like to see that we don't see this as a mutually exclusive projects that we believe we believe in the south stream and we would like to progress rapidly a book or is a separate project but modern one. that excludes the selves three roger and i would like to i'd like to see meeting where both would be discussed as i said we have to improve the level of confidence is this questions this president slovenia was one of the countries to be consumed both by fascism and communism during world war two he actually stressed the importance of the red army and its role in liberating europe from fascism but as it seems today as if you were placed under threat especially during a recession what do you think you should do to tackle the rising fascism. i'm not sure whether the extremist movements that we see today fascist movements in the sense of the first of the twentieth century this a different movements what we now all have is a burst of dissatisfaction among people who choose third

if stopped suddenly countries started leaving the e.u. the e.u. currency. i mean effectively of course it would because the whole idea of it at this point is relying on the toys and the. also i would say the ability to receive bailout money from the other european governments at this point is absolutely intrinsically tied into the way it's structured but just you know you what you want to keep an eye on the fact that one country after another appears to be on a on a slow roast in terms of news flown in terms of word the way the market is looking at this. but my my guess would be it's likely to be a short term situation for arlen because i believe that they will be forced to take bailout money and that will put them back probably bar in portugal in terms of the country being most most closely kitty to support put this in perspective the talks about the e.u. failing what does that mean if that does happen what does that mean to the people of europe the economies of europe what are the actual implications there. well i mean this is this is the problem the not

while the e.u. may be busy fighting to save the irish economy that is the challenge too of other potential members knocking on the door to join so. get ready for talks wheels more to lose the themselves that's coming up later this summer a lot of. the air and sea has become a wasteland of sand salt and pollution i'm linda brown to join me in kazakstan to investigate how this transformation has affected the people here and how would put it down on the environment for. a russian newspaper has published new details of the joint major russian missile defense system to go stated on the sidelines of last weekend's summit in lisbon but his size would be responsible for separate sections of territory under the proposal offered by russian president dmitry medvedev so citing an anonymous diplomatic source they call may have some newspaper in moscow reports that russia would be responsible for handling rogue missiles from the east and nato will cover the west experts say this plan will allow both sides to rema

in union also e.u. has a free regime with russia but the details are still they know on the ground what do you think would be a good step the first good step in this direction but i think we need political determination first i think we need to change the political awareness about these things but india. has it they should and i think this has a patient has to be overcome freedom of movement is a human right we should never forget that russia is part of europe well certainly in a cultural sense in the political sense yes but i see certainly russia as a part of european space it has been so for centuries it's are precisely you've called for a multilateral framework to consolidate energy supplies to the e.u. markets as of today not much has been done in that perspective how do you assure you consumers of the security i think we need a much wider multilateral look because energy security depends on the most multitude of players. russia is always there russia is a key player key supplier a key partner and m

e.u. citizens as was the case for the rest of the continent being part of the e.u. is the certainty for peace and stability a normal life better away from the prairie political rhetoric and the media monks the public in serbia is vastly different in fact a recent monitoring report found that more than half the respondents now view. negatively. listen to the politicians and so focused on joining the. e.u. gives a release ultimatums and it seems that our government is being dictated to and controlled by the e.u. which you do run impose crisis here at many e.u. countries and they're facing their own big struggles and there are some important questions being posed just how will the next session help is economy how will the multicultural institutions built after a decade of war be sustained at a time when leading european politicians ahead saying that multiculturalism is dead and when unemployment in serbia is so high the promises of a better future translate into actual benefits past. many dro

lithuania was so keen on becoming part of the e.u. that they signed several documents on the session one of those was the european chancellor or national minorities it says that we can easily use our native language but now for some reason the lithuanian authorities are rolling back all the obligations to brussels. we turn to the body which oversees the use of language for on says it says no obligation was violated and that in fact vilnius had every right to persecute the use of polish. or indeed the charge of our national minorities give the poles in lithuania the rights to use their language but at the same time the document says the law of the country prevails over the chargers clauses and according to the law in lithuania we have every right to find them for using their language on signs. some poles living in lithuania suggest that this is vilnius is revenge for centuries of polish occupation authorities on the other hand refute such claims and say that a decision on the use of polish is being discussed within the country sparling

now unfortunately so it feels as though the e.u. is untouchable so a lot of people they obviously dictate a lot of things we've got an awful lot of e.u. directives that we have to adhere to there's a lot of east actually it's on the books here in the u.k. but unfortunately it's very very hard to lobby for a change i do the british people really need to speak out we need to for say that in full voice that you cannot continue to spend at the rate that it is doing while the rest of europe are really having to cut cut the fat and cut back on services that even if you do make a difference try and get the government to reconsider where they will fall homes are going to help even if it does cut itself off from the e.u. it's not going to be enough to fill the black hole that will be left behind possibly because of course of the e.u. trade benefits to well i didn't leave you a trade with britain no matter what but you are right it wouldn't make it would make all the difference but it would certainly make some difference to getting our heads

and the e.u.is yet to pass the parliament and there's mounting public uncertain that it is simply deep in the national debt crisis with a huge rally forecast for saturday in dublin portugal thought to be next on the disaster list saw a one day general strike spain and belgium are teetering on the brink here with fear of the spanish debt maybe too big to bail out all over adam from the e.u. referendum campaign believes it could sink the euro. a lot of economists there's not a school in the works is today the same that top school is almost certainly going in the bailing out and the big problem of course is spending because it's a huge country and it's not really as easy to put it out to somewhere like our island opel which will you know it's a huge country in the structure slightly different that so we could seriously be seeing a collapse of the euro and a lot of people would say that not before time but if you look at dot com in the e.u. referendum campaign we've got thousands and thousands of peop

for an insider's look at where the e.u. is heading you can watch our interview with british conservative m.e.p. in just five minutes from now in fact less than that. tackling terrorism and extremism of the main issues on the plate for the members of the shanghai cooperation organization they've come together in the capital to share and be for the annual summit the group unites russia china and for central asian nations representing over one of the hearth billion people iran india pakistan are the associate members russia's prime minister vladimir putin came to be to discuss ways to smooth economic relations and keep the massive borders of its member secure disciplines in the summit also focused on developing agricultural trade and humanitarian corporation as well as fighting the consequences of the global financial crisis yes seo is not a military alliance but its top priority is the regional security of its member states. when after some other news making headlines around the world in our world update at the stage of the d

referendum campaign we've got thousands and thousands of people now signed up pledge e.u. referendum campaign dot com signed up pledge demanding that the government give us an in out referendum on our membership of the e.u. and that is growing and so it's things like that you know anyone can go in a home and sign up with their own facebook crew example it's things like that let's start and say actually we're not happy with what's going on we want change and we want to have our say we're not going to listen to the government anymore with this sort of we know better than you attitude well for an insider's look at where the e.u. is heading watch our interview with a british conservative m.e.p. that second way in just a few minutes from now here on r.t. . tackling terrorism and extremism of the main issues on the plate for the members of the shanghai cooperation organization they've come together in the capital for the annual summit the group unites russia china and four central asian nations representing over one and a half billion people iran india pakistan among the associa

well the e.u. citizens where there's a treat us like this schools won't take my son because he has lice and disease people here ask is this what the e.u.'s become with winter approaching they'll be sleeping in the cold. e.u. politicians bury their heads in the sand but only we can solve their own problems of. france to sent tens of thousands of roma back to bulgaria sweden italy denmark and germany had similar policies they use justice commissioner says it reminds her of world war two saffir is left to pick up the pieces one of the evicted told me he picks pockets to feed his family those that can go straight back to richer e.u. states member countries report rumor offenses are shooting up this lawlessness is pushing rising numbers into angry and see groups the biggest problem with the just special in bulgaria is that the crime is already a civil war. or else for a train the life of our of the people europe's ten million roma are the elephant in the corner the e.u. community usually freezes them ou

well why doesn't the e.u. investigate well let me explain something the e.u. right now is investigating criminal activity over there the anglo irish bank four hundred fifty one million dollars of illegal loans that are now parked in offshore accounts implicated are sean fish patrick david drama shown quinn the financial terrorists that are taking ireland down what's the government doing well the last we heard from them they were drinking heavily and hiding under their desks why not just investigate the criminal activity first put the financial terrorist in jail then figure out what to do with the currency now let's talk about solutions here because there are fears the contagion from moderns crippled banking system may spread but if it agrees to an easy you bailed out would not solve the problem for ireland and possibly the whole union. absolutely not in less ireland's willing to give up our sovereignty unless ireland is going to become a debt slave unless ireland wants its affairs conducted by the i.m.f. and the i.m.f. everywhere they've gone they've what they

against deep budget cuts and comes after leaders agreed to ramp up funding for the e.u. . headed to more as g twenty talks artie's been talking to the russian president's top economic sede are carted of quote the shows that the world's twenty biggest countries are likely to head off a trade war between china and the u.s. and hopes the summit will lead to more global cooperation that interview coming right up. well the time has come for another g. twenty summit would you think which issues will dominate the agenda.

a stone deal of gravel in the e.u. so it's a very powerful major state you know relationship which extraordinarily the people of europe which people of britain are totally unaware of i want to create a much more valid us and accountability between e.u. legislation which overrides national legislation and the people who are religious late fall but unfortunately that in britain the british media is totally. oblivious to what goes on in brussels and when i asked my friends in the british media why don't you cover what's going on in brussels it says it's like watching paint dry so if they want excitement guts and circuses where they go to the house of commons but politics is not entertainment duties considered business of how to govern. various interests and it is very sad really that. this relationship between the govern and the governors is so orpik in europe do you think it's possible at this stage to then take that power and give it back to the individual countries but i think that'll happen in time because the constru

they're well funded till 2011, but the e.u. wants them to take this because it is at the moment island problems are a thorn in the e.u.'s side, if you will, and it's destabilizing the rest of the eurozone, so some big problems. but we'll talk more on this on the world business report in 20 minutes' time. >> aaron, thanks very much. an airplane belonging to qantas was returned to sydney following technical problems today. it's the second safety incident in two weeks, but it involves a different bolt on a different type of plane. an electrical problem in a cockpit instrument. qantas tries to maintain its image as one of the most safest airlines. againee's presidential election runoff is still too close to call with most of the votes counted. the veteran opposition leader is thought to be slightly behind the former prime minister. the poll is supposed to end nearly two years of military rule. after many delays, voter registration in january's referendum on the possible independence of southern sudan has now begun. it follows a fra

referendum campaign we've got thousands and thousands of people who have now signed up pledge e.u. referendum campaign dot com signed up pledge demand in the government give us an in out referendum on our membership of the e.u. and that is growing and so it's things like that you know anyone can go in a home and sign up in their own facebook crew example it's things like that that people start and say actually we're not happy with what's going on we want change and we want to have our say we're not going to listen to the government anymore with this sort of we know better than you attitude. meantime british conservative m.e.p. inodes diverse says it's the political elite that wants to maintain the european union while ordinary people have no use for it at all. to create a country where the people who are creating the country for have no more particular desire to have a country called europe created so the elites want a country called europe created and they're stealing on ahead with it but the people not caring the people and one day there could be such a train wreck. over this who

all of adam from the e.u. referendum campaign says ordinary people are being made to pay for downing street so that decision making. people angry enough they're actually doing something about doing something about their anger fed up with with a government that is basically saying you know we've got no choice but to do this no choice but to do that and really what the government is saying actually is we know better than you and your opinions don't matter and these students who seem through that finally and so hopefully you know this snowball and other people that at the moment for example are unhappy that we're prepared to give billions away to other countries just to kind of try and shore up their credit rating rather than invest it in education and transport and jobs back here perhaps they will start to take to the streets and you know something more will develop from it what would help the austerity measures of course some people would say would be for example leaving the e.u. . we spend forty eight million

it's time for the e.u. to go back to the drawing board before it's too late that interview is next. i'm talking to no good steve a member of the european parliament he thinks that the entire constructs of the european union is broken. thank you very much for talking to our team now first of all how do you characterize the relationship with the u.k. and they meant well it may not be really obvious to many people but in the you know in the shared about seventy five percent of the vegetation that a person in the u.k. lives under or even in hungary oids tobacco or literary of the store deal of travel in the e.u. so it's a very powerful legislative relationship which extraordinarily the people of europe and people of britain are totally unaware of i want to create a much more valid us an accountability between e.u. legislation which overrides national legislation and the people who are religious late fall but unfortunately that in britain the british media is totally. oblivious to what goes on in brussels and when i asked my friends in the british media why don't you cover what's going o

although we're talking about wasted money but now the e.u. countries are slashing benefits and jobs to save money and yet taxpayers have to support failing economies abroad now should they be doing that. of course i mean this is a massive issue for all of us at the moment if you know i'm here in london in the u.k. we've seen our government absolutely slash public spending and of course when we're in such sort of times of economic difficulties this is essential now what i am our prime minister did recently is sort of reiterated to the e.u. that the budget must follow the economic capacity of its member states and of course whether it is their team member states then the must follow and that is very important but like has said just before we do need to support the four member states but we need to do it in practical ways for example spending so much of the budget on subsidising farmers is not really the way to to make us grow them to make our economies more competitive we need to seriously look at our priorities we need to seriously invest in t

lives under all in in hungary oyster backyard or literally a study of all of the weather in the e.u.so it's a very powerful legislative relationship which extraordinarily the people of europe and people of britain are totally unaware of i want to create a much more valid and accountability between even education which overrides national legislation and the people whom we legislate for but unfortunately that in britain the british media is totally. oblivious to what goes on in brussels i mean i ask my friends in the british media why don't you cover what's going on in brussels it says it's like watching paint dry so if they want excitement gods and circuses well they go to the house of commons but politics is not entertainment it is considered business of how to govern the various interests and it is very sad really that this relationship between the govern and the governors is so a pick in europe so i think it's possible at this stage to then take that power and give it back to the individual country but i think that's a happening time because the construct which has been created the

impose crisis here many e.u. countries and they're facing their own big struggles and there are some important questions being posed just how will it. help serbia is a condom. how will the multi cultural institutions built after a decade of war be sustained at a time when leading european politicians saying that multiculturalism is dead and when unemployment in serbia is so high the promises of a better future translate into actual benefits past. drawing. many groups to bring down. any changes the government has also come under heavy criticism from opposition parties for the ill militant selling a state assets in the privatization be the last decade. for ten years the serbian government has been supporting me with promises of a better future but free cheese is only ever presented in a mouse trap the government even sold some business is to partners in the european union. industry monopolies have crippled many businesses such as this small dairy farm in belgrade from cow to cart milk production serbia is now no lo

welcome to the program russia and the e.u. should get rid of all barriers to commerce and become a free trade zone worth trillions of dollars in an article written for a german newspaper mapped out his vision for a one massive market for doing business stretching from lisbon to vladivostok russia's prime minister was writing it had a meeting with germany's chancellor and many of its top industrialists is going off has more. well the skies over the european economy continuing to darken the hands of some of germany's more successful and influential companies are brainstorming in order to find a way to for move forward in the current economic situation in europe at the fourth economic forum in berlin russia's prime minister vladimir putin is also going to attend the forum and he didn't come empty handed just previously he published on article in the. newspaper the one which is actually organizing the forum calling for closer cooperation between the european union and russia and let's face it russia has the resources the e.u. has

but that's in the e.u. rather let's talk about what happened in berlin today with the economic and financial summit taking place where you are the russian prime minister vladimir putin suggesting that europe needs to break down its economic barriers so russia can step in and assist what is a financial crisis across the e.u. could russia help and is this an example of russia offering a helping hand and got and kind of ride to the rescue of europe here do you think. i think having in mind russia's being in the rescue of europe is a little bit farfetched but i despite being very critical of the russian government's attitude as far as the rule of law is concerned i think russia historically in the future is a natural ally to germany and it's a natural ally to europe we cannot think of europe without thinking as well of russia russia is effect a matter of fact a political matter of fact and i've always advocated the strongest the closest possible ties not only between germany and russia but between russia and th

week russian energy minister schmutz co described the present state of relations between russia and e.u. in the energy sector as a lack of trust well is there a chance that this lack of trust may be may be overcome next february when the e.u. summit on energy will be held. in spite of all. uneasy. events around corporation i would like to inform recently during the meeting for me state and get a president mr miller it was agreed that a special working groups will be created between gus barone and the european commission which will be duplicated two major topics one will be catered to infrastructure projects. and already in february it will make a presentation to european commission it was all aspects of this project and our understanding was that this presentation will be done in the presence of our major customers with the ridges the also come when turned over to on such a ration as they waited to them and the second one which i hope will happen middle of next year. base those workloads is second the working group is that you created to the nation or gas as a fuel of the twenty first c

will rule charlotte foreign companies use its gas pipeline system as the e.u. demands when you're suspended for this point is not up for discussion we have strict national los completely gordon monopoly control of the gas transport network was on the world's most inefficient uses of energy you'd go so far as to say saving energy is now your number one target and energy efficiency today is a work key priority who waste four times more energy than to europe or japan because both homes and industry get power on the cheap it's affecting our competitiveness today they're changing energy is becoming a significant part of domestic and industrial costs or when you log in energy efficiency will maintain that we can make energy savings of forty percent by two thousand and twenty but private companies must raise those improvements not government as happens in some other countries. now let's take a look at the markets asian stocks drop on tuesday amid speculation that a bailout for ireland will fail to step in europe's debt crisis the m.s.c.i. is a pacific index lost one p

now the e.u. is energy commission and says europe will avoid another freeze out this winter ukraine which transits most of russia's gas to the e.u. has started a fresh pricing row with gazprom fears of two thousand and nine when a similar spot cut the supply to thousands of the homes but after the meeting and not the gossip craig and paul says. says this time they're ready. you know something positive from surprises stephen hawking ninety seven. really examining believe only mechanism and we have to trust them more and more trust gifts in those dialogues and so i'm sure you. cannot avoid seeing any part in the rises in games between boston and new. there's a growing energy investment standoff between russia and the e.u. and as you minister sergei smart course says it boils down to brussels gas problem cause if the beds the gas giant from buying into e.u. energy pipelines so foreign firms can do the same in russia but interview far to rule that out. but these sore point in our relations guess proem

the e.u. right now is investigating criminal activity over there at the anglo irish bank four hundred fifty one million dollars of illegal loans that are now parked in offshore accounts implicated in our john fitzpatrick david drumm shown quinn the financial terrorists that are taking ireland down in less ireland's willing to give up its sovereignty unless ireland is going to become a debt slave unless ireland wants its affairs conducted by the i.m.f. and the i.m.f. everywhere they've gone they've they've brought destruction and economic mayhem you know they're licking their chops waiting to get in there to cause havoc pay themselves a huge freeze give bonuses to their colleagues of crony capitalists and terrorist bankers and ireland is quitting in its boots and the government unfortunately in our lives not standing up for the people it's abdicated its role as representative of the people the i.m.f. and the and the e.u. and the e.c.b. caused ireland's crisis so why are you going to them to ask