e.u. countries might have to pay for such a bold move. germany raises a lone voice in the e.u. to usher in a new era of known nuclear power generation as chancellor angela merkel vows to close all its reactors by two thousand and twenty two but it's already created a shortfall in electricity in germany which in turn is pushing up prices germany's now importing power from france and the czech republic and it's the crisis hit poorest who will pay higher electricity because. quite understand. you know project into prices and of course always buying the industrial goods and all will be paying more for the electricity will be the rumor will be the people. around thirty percent of the e.u.'s electricity comes from nuclear generation so ironically electricity germany ends up buying will be generated at nuclear power plants the majority of european countries aren't giving up their nuclear programs switzerland is phasing it out but france which has a long and successful history of nuclear power generation sees it as a solution for the future britain sweden spain and belgium are just som

e.u. country should look after themselves. the czech republic this last week announced his backing out of the u.s. missile defense program planned for europe because it was frustrated by the diminished role that was now being offered the original plan the place of advanced radar in the country was changed for it to host a less important facility the missile shield supposed to counter potential threats from so-called rogue states like iran and north korea but the plans were facing massive opposition from russia which is concerned that its safety might be compromise they've also been protests in the czech republic itself while the outspoken critics of the project is activist thomas who says such a system would only fuel global tension. check people don't want such a thing here in this country we feel that this will actually undermine the security of both the czech republic and europe as a continent and so we think that it's completely contradictory to place such a system here in europe this system without incorporating russia wi

e.u. countries should look after themselves. greece and portugal should leave the euro to save the european union according to german ruling paul t.m.p. klaus pizza will show mr walsh what will happen if you keep bailing them out you know and you would treaties. was regulated that there must be any bailouts because. otherwise. you would. ruin the applique finances of those countries who are contributing to it. as long as each country is responsible for its budgets it has to take full responsibility and the only right answer to that is no bailout how do the bailouts affect the german economy in germany we are making a lot of efforts to keep public debt under control. we. just amended our constitution we put in there so call it shouldn't come as a dept break. which. defines the steps we have to take with our. budgets. in order to come to the zero nine and then start paying the debt back. and it is dangerous if this is. infected by. policy national policy of either you're a partner or say. well it's it is an invitation to a bigger

e.u. countries because not all of them including my own u.k. is not actually in china so we need to reinforce the political will to tackle corruption because i'm afraid i've called it the elephant in the room it's the it's the threat that everybody is aware of but we haven't done enough either talking about it or most importantly action to tackle corruption as you're saying corruption the elephant in the room but when it comes to were romania and bulgaria in the membership of the shotgun zone the decision was delayed. over those concerns of corruption but talk about the timing now why is it why is it back on the table what's changed. well it's finally up to the e.u. government to decide whether countries can join and they're meeting next week to decide but. the european parliament just has a has a role of whether they agree. but of course there has also been migration pressures other pressures are the worries about those countries joining the border freeze particularly arising for the events in north africa the arab spring which of course has b

e.u. the you see the and the troika are working together to bankrupt this country. well amid the unrest on the streets of the capital a lawmakers in the greek parliament are debating the a sturdy cuts the e.u. has repeated its warning that there is no plan b. for out this the vote itself is scheduled for wednesday. constantino a columnist for an athens newspaper believes the bailout package is a catastrophic a solution backed only by a desperate leadership. george papandreou has lost legitimacy and agrees and as a prime minister he is a dead man walking at the moment from the european union is tremendous. talk about blackmail i guess the greek government because they say that i'm listening to you for this outrageous. moral enough and there will be no more chaos and greece who will be left before. this is a bluff from european union because if we agree to goes before then we'll have a domino effect i guess the euro that will be a disaster for european union at large but unfortunately our government has not been. and this is a difficult part of the story because you se

e.u. countries should look after themselves. greece and portugal should leave the euro to save the european union according to german ruling party m.p. close pizza world mr will see what will happen if you keep bailing them out. you know and you were treaties there was regulated that there must be any bailout of course. otherwise you will. you will. ruin the rapidly clear finances of those countries who are contributing to it and as long as each country is responsible for its budget it has to take full responsibility and the only right answer to that is no bailout . how do the bailouts affect the german economy in germany we are making a lot of efforts to keep topic under control. we just amended our it's a commission we put in their so-called freedom agenda that break. the law which defines the steps we have to take with our. budgets. in order to come to the zero nine and then start paying it back. and say in these dangerous if this is going to infect that body yeah i'm going to see action a policy of either you or others. whet

e.u. country should go after themselves. greece and portugal should leave the euro to save the european union according to german ruling poll t.m.p. close pizza world is the world what will happen if you keep bailing them out. you know in the you treaties there was regulated that there must be any bailout because. otherwise you. you will. ruin the popular kid finances of those countries who are caught refusing to reach. as long as each country is responsible for its budget it has to take full responsibility and the only right answer to that is no bailout how the bailouts affect the germany choleric in germany we are making a lot of efforts. to keep public debt under control. and we just amended our constitution and put in their so-called freedom by means of dept break. which defines the steps we have to take with our. budgets. in order to come to the zero nine and then start paying it back. and say it is dangerous if this is the right if in fact it's by. policy national policy of other europe partners. in the world it's it i

e.u. countries but only if they're proven deadly e. coli bacteria. plus japanese authorities struggled to regain public confidence after the fukushima nuclear crisis i made newly diagnosed cases of radiation sickness although so much more a click away. booming opium production in afghanistan due to high international demand in years of war and destruction according to the afghan anti-narcotics minister that interview coming your way in a few moments stay with us here on r.t. . thank you. we would like to start of course with. the statistics of the production of poppies in afghanistan i guess that is always being. at the point of the blame for the community that afghanistan is products at producing a huge amount of drugs and exporting it today to the word but can you just from your point of view what do you think i mean how to tackle these problems there's no doubt that the area of plantation song with narcotic crops has increased since military hostilities started in afghanistan i believe that the war was the root cause that forced afghan people to t

e.u. . countries what we really want to make sure of is that whilst we of course respect the the legal framework within the european union when we work what we want to make sure of is that whatever specific measures are taken do not in any way undermine the economic viability of the project for the entire duration of the operations of the project we want to have a clear stable and supported legal and regulatory framework so that's what we're working well many experts by the way say that from the economic point of view the modernization of ukraine's gas pipeline system would be a cheaper solution than constructing a new underwater pipeline is it true or does moscow believe that ukraine has lost its credibility as a reliable partner. but i think in general the transit networks need modernization a good example of that is also the north stream project which is now for its first states. nearing completion to great success which will also ensure stable long term supply so a modern system and on the modern management all i can say about the ukraine situation is that it is clear that all the partners i

e.u. countries should look after themselves. and you would treaties. was regulated that there must be any bailout because otherwise you will ruin the public finances of those countries who are contributing to it as long as each country is responsible for its budgets is to take full responsibility. the right answer to that is no bailout. now at least seven the civilians in libya have reportedly been killed by a nato air strike which hit a residential house overnight and earlier the alliance confirmed it had mistakenly attacked rebel forces but the number killed in that friendly fire attack is not known but if the notion of reports from the capital tripoli and you may find some of the images in this report disturbing. residents of secrecy my district here in tripoli have been woken up by a strike in the middle of the night a mob of several moms landed here the story as you can see behind me several three story buildings as we were told at least four families have been living in the damaged houses which is from twelve to fourteen people being. under the ru

e.u. countries should look after themselves. and you would treaties. was regulated that there must be any bailout because otherwise you will ruin the public finances so for those countries who are contributing to it as long as each country is responsible for its budget has to take full responsibility the only right answer to that is no bailout. a modernized economy cured of corruption is one of the top priorities in president medvedev to do list in which he outlined russia's direction in st petersburg this week the international economic forum was staged to breathe new life into the country's investment climate and attracted some of the world's business and political heavyweights artes and he said sums up the showcase highlights. modernization based on stifling corruption dees centralizing power and government reforms all goals voiced by president medvedev at this year's international economic forum here in st petersburg where how russia is going to attempt to become one of the world's biggest and most effective economies was laid out. we shouldn't hesi

e.u. countries should take responsibility for themselves. and you would treaties. it was regulated that there must be any bailout because. otherwise. you will. ruin the public finances of those countries who are contributing to it. as long as each country is responsible for its budget it has to take full responsibility and the only right answer to that is no bailout. you with r t it's good of you to join us today and still to come in the program egypt's freedom to press the country's military rulers over the revolution that toppled president mubarak all amid allegations of army abuses sparking anger among citizens. while u.s. missile defense plans for europe have suffered a major setback prague is now refusing to take part in the system check officials say they're not happy with washington's offer as i got a shot ski reports. prague wants a bigger role in this project the project of the european missile defense shield we understand that the initial plan meant so that only a preventive missile detection system would have been placed in the czech republic while major

e.u. countries nor in northern do you cry in nor for instance in turkey which is also looking and planning to build nuclear power plants so instead of closing down leave the power plants i think we should jointly focus on the questions of safety and security. but there is a festive atmosphere here in moscow and across wasser today as the country marks twenty one years since a declared sovereignty by the collapse of the soviet union just one year later it held its first free elections which resulted in the victory of the reformist president. of reports even today memories of that bumpy road to democracy are still fresh in many people's minds. june twelve nineteen ninety one millions voted to make boris yeltsin russia's first president a watershed moment in the country's history but this was the first free election ever in russia the day after we left behind a totalitarian state and had a new job of building a democratic society that respected the rights of its people by the time the lection took place the soviet union had less than a year to live but no one knew how it would disintegrate it

e.u. countries should take responsibility for themselves. in the treaties. it was regulated that there must be any bailout because. otherwise. you will. ruin the public finances of those countries who are contributing to it. as long as each country is responsible for its budget it has to take full responsibility and the only right answer to that is you'll be out. here with our to live from moscow is going to join us today and i still to come for you in the program here egypt's freedom of press the country's military rulers tower over the revolution that toppled president mubarak and allegations of army abuses sparking much anger among citizens. u.s. missile defense plans for europe have suffered a major setback prague is now refusing to take part in the system czech officials say they're not happy with the minor role that washington offered to them their public was originally supposed to have a radar for the shield but the obama administration offered prague less important facilities u.s. missile shield plans have met with stiff opposition from moscow with th

e.u. countries should look after themselves. the czech republic announced this week it will pull out of the u.s. missile defense project out of frustration at its diminished role in the system their original plan included stationing of raid a facility in the czech republic to counter potential threats from iran and north korea but the bush era proposals were scrapped president obama's administration leaving the tracks only with this simple airlie warning system the project is facing a stiff opposition from russia which considers it a threat states' national security and one of the outspoken critics of the project is actually see an tallish how such a system will only fuel global touch. the czech people don't want such a thing here in this country we feel that this will actually undermine the security of both the czech republic and europe as a continent and so we think that it's completely contradictory to play such and such a system here in europe this system without incorporating russia without talking to also other it world su

e.u. countries well that's. certainly true but that's just new and you've got it's right mind wants to europe to collapse. and shows the kind of peoples and the monetary system the ranking system to just will this. which will fall so i'm going to go with the. certificate for it. i think what i want to. those european nations that are not in the euro will no be much room for much more because there's the right thing trying to do. very interesting here we have to say thanks for time years if you have the editor of these our newspaper joining us live there in hamburg thank you pleasure and this is our teacups you live from the russian capital still to come this hour a woman's world at the bottom of the earth we join a russian woman. during that month research expedition in antarctica to hear why she's drawn to work in icy isolation. that story story can but first israel has been holding back millions of dollars of palestinians money leaving felons of people without any wages it's tax revenue that's supposed to be p

e.u. countries. certainly approach of oh that's just new anybody who's right mind wants the europe to collapse. and trace the kind of upheavals in the monetary system the banking system to this will this will be which will fall so i don't know what the end of the party is if it is it's a very difficult tory. i think what i want to look predict is that those european nations that are not in the euro will now be much stronger much more. there's the right thing whether they're trying to lure. very interesting here we have to say thanks for a time years if you off editor of visa newspaper joining us live in hamburg thank you pleasure. this is from the russian capital still to come this hour a woman's world at the bottom of the earth we join russia will make a journey her eleven month research expedition in antarctica to him why she's drawn to work in icy isolation. that story still to come but first israel has been holding back millions of dollars of palestinians money leaving felons of people without an

they use shan again they use the european union so they know that any legal regularized by any country of the e.u. can with these documents cage or any other country of the e.u. they say please no problem at all eighty percent of tunisians want to go to france or give them documents i would like that they will leave and that is exactly what they did a regular rice the legals and they all came to france should remain. to be allowed free movement within the e.u. as is now being discussed here in the european parliament. it will be tragic it will be an additional immigration it is obvious it will be a signal for a massive immigration more particularly a very much it was useless for nicolas sarkozy to sing and dance and go and get all the world television to say come and see i will take a moment back to a border which does not exist now they will have the possibility to come and settle as they want in france but they are a considerable number we know they are very poor people but once more france being the most attractive country in all e.u. will be up to her to face this inflow of immigration with t

e.u. is over curbing its catastrophic debt and ballooning bailout budget as other countries once they get to join the blog have second floors. but how to stop a global crisis happening again major business and political leaders have discussed just that at the international economic forum that wrapped up in st petersburg. and syria faces a third round of e.u. sanctions and with more deadly anti government crackdowns but seeing more than a dozen dead and thousands range nationwide. next getting russian gas where it's needed with no diversions spotlight speaks to the south stream pipeline boss about what that means for keeping you up up powered. hello again and welcome to spotlight the interview cheryl and hearty and i'll do another one today my guest is marcel crammer russia isn't the first thing hard into the south stream pipeline a direct and expanding gas shipping route to you but as the project is gaining momentum there's criticism in some quarters that south stream is uncomfortable and has no future what to do the project leaders have to say to that here's the c.e.o. of the south strea