citizens are unable to work and live in the rest of the e.u. i do think he is a good point i mean over seventeen million people rather work in the euro zone in may that's eleven percent of the working population i guess the practical excuse being used here is the tightening up policy may help that. well i think i think. that's what's called the lump of labor fallacy the belief that there are a finite jobs a finite number of jobs in the economy and they have to be distributed according to the evidence actually actually suggests that migrants increase the demand for labor as well as the supply of labor so when workers when british him employ employers choose to take on polish workers they're not. it's not the case that if you restrict immigration those jobs would have gone to british workers they wouldn't have existed at all so actually immigration i think in general is a win win both for the migrant and for the host country there's a school of thought isn't there the britons dragged it seals all along on the the whole european project i mean dav

should remain a part of the e.u. about a month ago he really stepped in there attracting a lot of negative commentary from euro zone leaders who said that he is blaming the eurozone for britain's own economic troubles of course although britain isn't part of the euro zone it is deeply depends. it's only here is safe for its own economic stability to greece if that that he's talking about policing measures that violate all the principles in the freedom in that in the rule of the century of the e.u. and all they that comments like this damage the trust that is really essential for keeping the year i think together underneath that can stand there. are a lot of sound after george carter well also who is an attorney and a professor of constitutional law or george thanks for taking the time to talk to us today well you're great are you insulted by this i think a rebirthing be insulted because these words are. really stupid demagogic statement and i'm referring to what we use make the demo good shit because a prime minister

the e.u. and the as involving partnerships and i can tell you formulating the names of the panel's was quite a task vitrain our colleagues here. as a, like last time i will briefly introduce our moderator who will then introduce to you the topics of the panelists. dr. weiner is the representative and senior advisor to the president and a stumble. prior to assuming her current university dr. weiner was a diplomat for more than 30 years her most recent overseas assignments was a counselor general from 2007 to 2010. earlier and would paris, moscow and cairo. in washington dr. weiner served in lebanon affairs in the near east bureau as the director of the state department operations center and as the chairman of the foreign service commission board. from 1975 to '78 dr. weiner was an instructor with the university of maryland overseas division in turkey. i would like to start by congratulating the middle east institute with turkish studies and thank you in advance for the st and panelists that are

posed on the country in return for a rescue by the e.u. . it's a pleasure to have you with us here on our t.v. today i'm live for you in moscow now the u.n. observer mission to syria expires later on friday but the security council still split over a resolution to extend it another vote is expected shortly after russia and china yesterday vetoed a western backed draft which they considered unacceptable in new york is. standing by live for us now to join us here on the program good to see you marina so what's russia claiming is at stake if indeed the observer mission is not extended today. i didn't hear your question in its entirety but with respect to the observer mission there is another showdown taking place at the security council beginning in just a few minutes there are two draft resolutions on the table from what is being reported that the security council be considering has one that was submitted by the u.k. another one submitted by the u.k. that extends the u.n. supervision mission in syria for thirty days that's final thirty days an

rages against the latest wave of austerity imposed on the country in return for a bank rescue by the e.u. . live from moscow city center this is r t with me roll received witnesses are reporting that damascus has been rocked by a large explosion that as the fighting rages into a fifth day right there in the capital about holzer also continuing throughout the country syrian state media claims that assad's military forces have won back control over the rebellious me down district right in the center of damascus meanwhile the u.n. is trying to verify reports of up to thirty thousand refugees having fled to lebanon activists claim with the army has launched attacks on border crossings with turkey and iraq which were seized by the rebels yesterday. keeping across developments for us in damascus free syrian army soldiers now controlling all four border crossings at the syrian iraqi border and the dog told officials has also said that the iraqi guards have witnessed. from the side of free syrian army soldiers from opposition fighters we also been able to see the to posted on you tube from the s

should remain a part of the e.u. as a whole all whether to downgrade the relationship with brussels and has done a lot he stood back until about a month ago and then about a month ago he really stepped in there attracting a lot of negative commentary from euro zone leaders who said that he is blaming the eurozone for britain's own economics trouble economic troubles of course although britain isn't part of the euro zone it is deeply dependent on the euro zone for its own economic stability and so cameron is looking to protect that really but comments like this are widely seen as unhelpful the greeks have said that he's talking about policing measures that violates all the principles in the freedoms in the in the rules essentially of the e.u. and also that comments like this he's heard from the from the one of the foreign ministry officials would damage the trust that is really essential for keeping the eurozone together under these circumstances well we certainly will be following the story closely on live from londo

blocking a basic unemployment benefits for people who move to germany from some e.u. countries it would be to target it as an attempt to curb abuse of the system by discouraging immigration from struggling e.u. economies you can't really blame. people they are just a victimless everyone else from you can on the system in which they're living and you can only use many of those who don't tell jobs turn to the state for unemployment benefits which may be reduced if it hasn't been already due to continue to sturdy across the e.u. no substantive budget cuts have also stunted economic growth and job creation which leaves the job seeker at exactly the same spot jobless state dependent and increasingly extreme cases living in desperation to answer sylvia artsy brussels. it's not all doom and gloom according to some analysts i'm joined now by marina at the business desk while marina could it be that someone actually has an optimistic outlook at this point all of her and i wouldn't say it's a mess the eggs but it's better than there was basically we did speak to one analyst who

there's never been a situation in which one e.u. member states has been allowed to limit immigration reform for a long standing e.u. member state is it's true to say that it's transitional controls can be and have been imposed on the new e.u. members such as the european assertion countries but the premier event of people is one of the fundamental principles of the treaty and i think it's very hard to see britain being able to delegate from that it's true to say that. countries are taking a more skeptical view of immigration and certainly in times of recession. the far right party is right wing parties tend to win more supports and so that puts pressure on. moderate centrist leaders to x. the problem is that under article eighteen of the e.u. treaty. it's basically from discriminating according to nationality and so if you wanted to. controls greece you'd have to impose controls on immigration from every country and is camera going to accept a situation in which case citizens are unable to work and live in the rest of the u. i do th

spain as the public events frustrate the country's policy of more cuts in return for bank rescue by the e.u. . also name and blame israel now accuses iran is our ally hezbollah of the talking israeli tourists in bulgaria and killing six people. and welcome to our tea where we bring you the latest twenty four hours a day seven days a week on screen and online while fierce clashes continue across syria as rebels have managed to seize border crossings to a rock and one into turkey opposition fighters are now trying to build on the momentum gained by advances near the capital and wednesday's bomb attack that killed top syrian military officials artie's more if a national has the details. free syrian army soldiers are now controlling all four border crossings at the syrian iraqi border but the top official has also said that the iraqi guards have witnessed. from the side of free syrian army soldiers from opposition fighters we also been able to see the to posted on you tube from the syrian turkish border where gunmen have been shouting religious slogans and shooting bashar al assad's portrays a

meetings including the e.u. is permanent bailout fund in the so-called fiscal compact to limit debt across e.u. states and prevent future crises at the majors could get face a domestic legal challenge however a claims they undermine democracy as artist oksana boyko reports the debt debacle has sparked sharp divisions between some in germany and people from countries relying on german cash. it's a job interview with geopolitical implications and yours is family has been running these greek restaurant for almost three decades ever since they immigrated to germany hard work and self-reliance made it a success but now they are under increasing pressure to share the fruits of their labor. the problem is that in greece that. they come here and like the money in the street but we're also working very hard. working from the morning till night every day they get a dozen of calls from their greek can patch or it's with requests for money jobs of both some like. takis just walk in a restaurant owner himself he lost his bus

tree blocking a basic unemployment benefits for people who moved to germany from some e.u. countries and it's been a target as an attempt to curb abuse of the system by discouraging immigration from struggling economies you can't really blame the virtual people they are just a victimless everyone else from you can the system in which they're living on economic policies that many of those who don't have jobs turn to the state for unemployment benefits which may be reduced if it hasn't been already just to continue to steady across the e.u. now substantial budget cuts have also stunted economic growth and job creation but she is a job seeker at exactly the same spot. state dependent and increasingly extreme cases living in desperation telstar sylvia r.t. brussels. court has ruled to extend the pretrial detention of the members of a russian feminist punk rock group until january twenty third teen the three women from the band have been detained on charges of hooliganism and could face up to seven years in prison the suspects were arrested after they broke into russia's biggest

citizens are unable to work and live in the rest of the e.u. i do think he is. well control over who enters the country is just about as tight as it can be and but the methods are being questioned. if you're a terrorist and if you're smart you wipe the laptop before you cross and you have a dummy account so that no one will ever access your mail israel's overzealous border guards put many harmless tourists in a strange back on a plane home as we report in a few minutes. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. fourteen minutes past the hour and europe's internet users are celebrating the rejection by the e.u. parliament of a controversial anti-piracy treaty act that is an international trade agreement aimed at preventing large scale intellectual property theft critics claim the trade deal with threaten people's web freedom outside the e.u. act

e.u. foreign ministers released a statement monday after meeting in brussels. >> we have to continue to be very, very clear in our belief that assad has to step aside. >> the e.u. banned weapons exports to syria in may 2011, but the tighter arms embargo now requires all e.u. security officials to inspect vessels and aircraft heading to syria if they suspect the cargo contains arms or equipment for president assad's forces. foreign ministers hope this new policy will have an impact on russian vessels that have been carrying weapons to syria. the e.u. has also frozen assets and imposed travel bans on three more entities and 26 more individuals supporting the assad government. senior syrian army officers are among those targeted. >>> turkey's leaders are closely monitoring the conflict in syria. they're also bolstering the boer defenses, sending more soldrs a surface to air missiles to stop the violence from spilling into their country. nhk world reports. >> reporter: i'm at the turkish borde

only the e.u. can have for president but that's the council prenef.ion, teuroze an the e rotooereef gi fgea fal year, greater political union. as i said in the house yesterday while there is a force of logic that if you want a functioning soofthsengrencyou needodo sof seng t ian argument about how fast this will move. >> do you think it should be britain's working assmption that that's the way thingsre ingt wou hfob deoninoh n ei htt will go in that direction? >> broadly, yes, because you can see th mes towds rss u sove os inioostwrd bu iifltkn acdrct eurozone will go in, and that's what i said yesterday i think we're to show some tactical strategic patience aboutt carrelmi coievet aeal cen h y they will go. but i would assume that they will take fuher steps. so to pt it in very -- you can thinof i t dre inature ruoo onrmerty tihrve your is they can't agree anything on the project goes off the rails. option to summer in e midd prssitiomau o yiktcko the road. i suppose a lot of people will assume th

well for the meantime or spain it may be the e.u.'s fourth largest economy but it tops the ranks when it comes to the number of unemployed now almost six million people are out of work desperate to find ways to survive some are turning to other countries in the hope of finding a better life but as aunties tester us earlier reports the might of or they might have to go a lot further than just simply the neighboring eurozone states. twenty four point six million people are without jobs across the european union seventeen point four million of them in the eurozone countries with unemployment at its highest levels of the single currency was introduced in spain unemployment hit twenty four point three percent the worst rate in the e.u. and among the spanish and greek youth it's more than half statistics may paint the big picture but they don't quite show the human story real people struggling through each day like this one gary a man who came to belgium three months ago that's leaving in a street and then i never did before so it's really

the public events frustration at the country's policy of more cars and return for bank rescue by the e.u. . also name and blame israel now accuses iran's ally hezbollah attacking israeli tourists in bulgaria and killing six people. oh and welcome to our t.v. this friday with me karen terror well the un security council has agreed to disagree on syria russia and china have vetoed another attempt by western states to push a resolution threatening sanctions and use of force against the assad regime now the extension of the u.n. observer mission in syria is at stake and marine important i reports. russia has said for from the get go that he would not support any resolutions on syria that would include the potential of sanctions being imposed or even military intervention this western backed resolution that was drafted by the u.k. called on damascus to immediately seize any kind of fighting and the use of heavy weapons and withdraw from populated centers and the resolution gave the syrian government ten days to comply with those demands otherwise sanctions would be imposed. what was attached

the labor ministry blocking a basic unemployment benefits for people who moved to germany from some e.u. countries and it's been a target as an attempt to curb abuse of the system by discouraging immigration from struggling e.u. economies you can't really blame the individual people they are just a victim as everyone else from an economic system in which they're living on the economic. many of those who don't have jobs turn to the state for unemployment benefits which may be reduced if it hasn't been already due to continue to sturdy across the e.u. no substantive budget cuts have also stunted economic growth and job creation which leaves the job seeker at exactly the same spot jobless still dependent and increasingly extreme cases living in desperation to answer sylvia artsy brussels. and even those who are employed are having to face the grim reality that they will have to give more of their salary towards tax let's cross now to our business desk . marina with us today now marina you've been speaking to analysts and economists about this what are they saying about the situation some a

greece's immigrant influx is worse than any other e.u. country is poorest border with turkey that's where ninety percent of all those seeking refuge and to europe and in a country that's circling the drain and nationalist rhetoric is flooding into mainstream politics i think that the. only good here are the eventual groups minute hardest insists it's an e.u. wide problem which hardpressed greece ends up paying for twice with a doubling to our agreement what happens is once one illegal immigrant has been caught. you know in another place in europe he's going back to that country that he entered europe with and ups that means they end up in greece. pleads for support of refugees just people coming the danger for them is not the trouble they're fleeing from the extremism but entering j.q. griese aphids. and you can head online for all the stories we're covering here here's what else i discovered. the gas station truck and the crash of one very lucky escape for this motorist filling up his tank took a near fatal twist. also a migration myster

greece's immigrant influx is worse than any other e.u. country is poorest border of turkey where ninety percent of all those seeking refuge and to europe and in a country that circling the drain and nationalist rhetoric is flooding into mainstream politics i think that the. me that here are the eventual group minute targets that insists it's an e.u. wide problem one which hard pressed greece ends up paying for twice with a dublin two agreement what happens is once while you're going to mcgrath is going to court. in there in another place in europe he's going back to the country that he entered europe from the good and. the means the end up in greece well athens pleads for more e.u. support the refugees just keep on coming the danger for them is not the trouble they're fleeing from the fire of extremism they're entering j.q. greece r.t. happens all right or ten minutes past the hour here in moscow where u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton as on a tour of southeast asia this week to make some friends and make some money she's made the h

pleads for more e.u. support the refugees just keep on coming the danger for them is not the trouble they're fleeing from the extremism but entering j.q. greece athens and you can head online for all the stories we're covering there here's what else you can discover. a gas station up truck and a crash of one a very lucky escape for this motorist filling up his tank a near fatal twist. also a migration mystery hundreds of pound ones one shot dead on the shoreline leaving scientists baffled by animals die. trying minutes past the hour now and a sigh years spacecraft carrying the next crew for the international space station successfully blasted off from the baikonur cosmodrome early on sunday the international team will spend about four months and orbit the details now from artie's to bang not say in kazakhstan. well now contant down the. hall sheedy of the age of pan as well as yuri malenchenko of russia as well as all sunita williams all the united states and it's almost a list of all right now. let's go

but europe's internet users welcomed the e.u. parliament decision to reject a controversial anti piracy treaty act which is an international trade agreement is aimed at preventing large scale intellectual property theft critics claim the treaty with threatened people's web freedom outside the e.u. actor has been signed by the us canada japan and several other countries i call it kevin owen talk to those k. from the pirate party u.k. he says the reaction by the e.u. parliament is historic victory for citizens over lobbyist. despite the wild claims that the copyright lobby is there was no actual proper evidence to show that act was going to help anyone either in terms of jobs or in terms of growth for the economy ok the question for europe at the moment as it stands do you think we'll ever be a pan global set of rules coming into place i think what's really clear is that it was a fundamental mistake to try and mix so many different things together but also equally it's a fundamental mistake to try and negotiate such a treaty behind

greece's immigrant influx is worse than any other e.u. country is poorest border with turkey that's where ninety percent of all those seeking refuge and to europe and in a country that train and nationalist rhetoric is flooding into mainstream politics i think that the. good here are the groups minute tartus that insists it's an e.u. wide problem which hardpressed greece ends up paying for twice with a dublin two agreement what happens is once one. has been caught in there in another place in europe he's going back to the country that he entered europe with and absent that means they end up in greece while athens pleads for more e.u. support the refugees just keep on coming the danger for them is not the trouble they're fleeing from the fire of extremism they're entering j.q. griese r.t. athens. and a greek economist at yanis varoufakis believes that racial hostility is being spurred on by nationalist rhetoric that is coming from the very top we've seen it in the thirty seventh when there were people lose hope. this begins the acts and ou

and the e.u. . in yugoslavia and in libya and in syria these are all governments who have refused to be very obedient servants of washington and the e.u. and that's what we are in a to a sense and through to a flat regime change and that's the only immersion in syria is regime change the only mission in syria was regime change and yugoslavia their mission was to overthrow what is name. which. came milosevic again and again you see what change that's what they do for a living nature they gaijin regime change anything else is just. so soaking the whole bush and then they killed and bomb wherever they go and this is not a peace mission now when you've killed tens of thousands and afghanistan tens of thousands and how who knows how many thousands and libya and how many want to be in syria this is not a peace mission this is simply the stronger of the e.u. and and the us right george you want to respond to others aren't there. there is a lot there if we look at what exactly happened it work what occurred

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spain and ireland a sportive e.u. imposed a stary even powerhouse germany has joined in the crunch a local newspaper reported seeing a leaked directive from the labor minutes. blocking basic unemployment benefits for people who moved to germany from some e.u. countries it's been a target it is an attempt to curb abuse of the system by discouraging immigration from struggling economies you can't really blame the individual people they are just a victimless everyone else from economic system in which they are living on the economic policies that many of those who don't have jobs turn to the state for unemployment benefits which may be reduced if it hasn't been already due to continue to steady across the e.u. a substantive budget cuts have also stunted economic growth and job creation it's this job seeker at exactly the same spot. state dependent and increasingly extreme cases living in desperation just are still here r t brussels and a just a couple of minutes until the r.t. world update for an hour moscow court has ru

and cyprus reportedly needs around ten billion euro deep spending cuts forced by the e.u. bailouts have caused violent protests from greece spain portugal and italy and now moving on to the currency markets the euro is trading lower against the dollar and the russian ruble finished next to the currency basket was losing value to the dollar and it is gaining to the euro now moving onto wall street let's see what's going on there it has started both fourth of july trading session will be losses but now the nasdaq managed to rebound thanks mainly to moderately upbeat unemployment data the dow is still in the red as you can see there here in russia the r.t.s. and m i six finished the day a lower after posting games on wednesday the my cigs gave into the downward pressure pretty much at the end of the trading session closing down more than half a percent and you can see there and now on two week good prices a mix this hour brant is climbing above the one hundred one dollars a barrel and fears that norway's oil output could be sharply hot after staff loyal its biggest world comp

summit to give brussels the power to pump e.u. taxpayer money into failing banks that will all without governments having a say something that fiscally conservative germany had staunchly opposed but was forced to relent over that it is a spain and italy were especially happy proclaiming eight breakthrough this week also saw the ratification of europe's new bailout cash fall and deficit laws but european parliament member nigel faraj doubts merkel gave in to anything she didn't agree with. it is perfectly clear that the brussels machine does dance to the german tune and smaller countries are very frightened of going against really in the end what angela merkel says the focus always is on germany you know will merkel blink or not what germany is saying is that all the member states of the euro zone should abolish their democracies should abolish their independence surrender their birth rights and give it all to a super bureaucrat to push on to a full fiscal union to a full political union indeed to the union that will be absolutely

summit to give brussels the power to pump e.u. taxpayer money into failing banks without governments having a say chancellor merkel strongly opposed this move but was forced to give in after insistence from spain and italy their leaders proclaimed a breakthrough this week also saw the ratification of europe's new fiscal pact which sets even tougher budget rules another ferrars the u.k. independence party's leaders says that merkel had a only reasons for making these concessions. it is perfectly clear that the brussels machine does dance to the german team and smaller countries are very frightened of going against really in the end what angela merkel says the focus always is on germany you know will merkel blink or not what germany is saying is that all the member states of the euro zone should abolish their democracies should abolish their independence surrender their birth rights and give it all to a super bureaucrat to push on to a full fiscal union to a full political union indeed to the union that will be absolutely dominated

bailout which has imposed vicious spending cuts on other eurozone states slovakia's is an e.u. bailout colby ruled out of the fitch want to house one of the weakest banking markets in central and eastern europe and the country's finance minister i did a bailout will only be needed if the lenders problems get bigger. the persians from brown's traditionally strong markets from spain and italy are in profound crisis says europe's number to call make a p.s.a. after announcing sales in the first half swung into the red after a bright start euro contagion of all the losses on thursday as well please confirm to us that it will bid for half of the piece stake in its russian or within the next two weeks its shares all soaring on the news and the euro's retreating to the dollar over that worrying euro zone data is near three year lows two major currencies and they're. wrong to have exposed her country to those risks hundred seventy two economists have written an open letter to the chancellor saying she's open germany up to huge hits in the e.u. states by agreeing a banking union mrs merk

reeses immigrant influx is worse than any other e.u. country is a porous border with turkey that's where ninety percent of all those seeking refuge and to europe and in a country that's circling the drain and nationalist rhetoric is flooding into mainstream politics anything that the lads waylaid the here are the votes of groups minutes hardest insists it's an e.u. wide problem which hardpressed greece ends up paying for twice with a doubling to agreement what happens is once one illegal immigrant is been caught in there in another place in europe he's going back to the country that he entered in europe and absent that means they end up in greece all athens pleads for more you support the refugees just keep on coming the danger for them is not the trouble they're fleeing from the fire of extremism they're entering j.q. greece r.t. happens. and you can had a line for all the stories we're covering for you guys so i don't hear what else you can discover a gas station a trunk and a crash but one very lucky escape for those motorists for wh

danielle the e.u. economy is shrinking even faster than previously thought of the services sector including hotels and banking which dominates europe's economy has just contracted for thirteen months in a row in italy is also contracting in france and spain while germany unexpectedly stagnated rather than grew that worries traders that the euro crisis has now moved to europe's biggest economy germany all e.u. markets of this hour europe is russia's biggest trading partner and e.u. news is hurting markets here in the benchmark index is holding just over fourteen hundred points at the moment the euro's swung into the red on the ruble those markets lower the euro's also shedding to the dollar in a bad day for the single currency. around one hundred dollars a barrel losing some of yesterday's gains lights we still over eighty six dollars per barrel this hour now hong kong swung into the red in the last trade over in the hands saying off to china's business activity index fell sharply and twenty percent of

unbalanced decisions that are not serving the public interest in a recent report found that in the e.u. commission straight enterprise department expert groups that give crucial policy shaping advice are made up mainly of corporate representatives while farmers for example have a tiny zero point one percent share of the voice i and j. hope this adds a bit of volume to their cause in the moccasin it's always a good idea. whatever a proposal you have to come to brussels and to organize a protest if you if you do it of course in a peaceful way but is that the sign of democratic health just one of the biggest corporate lobbies in the e.u. finds no fault in business as usual a decision or. legislation or policy which is sort of biased black or white into either totally environmental totally corporate interests not exist yet these people would certainly disagree they say in the end it's hardly ever the people who persistently take to the streets that run the real show. does or so you're r.t.d. brussels and then a look now at some other stories from around the world thousands have marched to