e.u. leaders have decided to go ahead and talk with the likes of switzerland so-called tax havens but are non e.u. members to establish some sort of a more transparent exchange of relevant of banking data and this also comes at a sensitive time for citizens there those who are asking at a time when they are having to pay higher taxes and deal with job losses those belong to the top one percent of the very wealthy of the countries get away with tax evasion and tax fraud nowi leaders have been speaking quite loudly about this clampdown on so-called offenders and a number of scandals have arisen in various countries starting with friends of a former budget minister there had to step down from his post he's been accused of having a secret swiss bank account we're talking about an amount of six hundred eighty five thousand euros there and also another politician over in greece a former minister of finance there has been accused of being involved with one of the country's largest tax scandals us about one point two million dollars we're talking about here now over in germany the boss of one of t

e.u. leaders should address the real problems for example their own unchecked spending habits. it's a shame that the politicians don't say gosh we made mistakes why don't we solve the problems ourselves what they're doing is they're trying to grab more money from their own citizens some of them may not be innocent citizens i certainly agree and they should be paying their taxes but there is a heightened awareness now because all of these countries have huge deficits but instead of cutting their spending and cutting the deficit what they're now doing is spending all this money trying to order other people around to help them collect more money but i'll ask you about tax evasion those that really the cause of europe's financial problems no it's not the problem with with europe europe's got a gigantic spending problem and you think all these countries are going down the tubes because of tax evasion no is going down the tubes because politicians keep spending money they don't have keep making promises to spend money to people that need money or that it has from money no it's massiv

the european union leaders over the past few days were saying the e.u. is a peaceful organization i think many diplomats around the world will give up on that what we need now maybe as ban ki-moon of the united nations to get the united nations is a place for peace because this is obviously england and france two p. doing the supposedly american russian plan for june geneva talks the six days of talks in istanbul among the opposition groups seem to be failing disastrously as if you were in a room with which isn't george sabra general salim idriss. is already said he's disappointed it's not going far enough the you should be shipping off their weapons right now forget about the friday deadline no i think the opposition is. divided i'm hearing that anyway they were going to come to the talks are they interested in any kind of peace or are they interested in carving out bits of syria in ways that they're proxy leaders saudi arabia and qatar are more interested in. right and lebanon's government has ordered tanks into tripoli in an attempt to quash wines bet

e.u. leaders warned of a block seven point five million young unemployed need to work soon or they will be driven into the arms of extremism.

e.u. leaders and the pressure being piled on them there have been a couple of scandals that had arisen over here one of them in france which involves general he's a former budget minister who had had to step down from his position because he had lied about having an offshore account and is also under investigation for possible tax fraud now over in germany another prominent figure who was the boss of one of the world's biggest football clubs by in munich also admitted to being involved in tax fraud and is under investigation so as efforts to increase among leaders we can possibly expect some more big names to come out as such now also recently we know that there has been a massive leak of data to the international consortium for investigative journalists now this data includes the name of some of the world's wealthiest people the politicians all the guards very public figures which reveal a lot of their wealth parked in the various offshore accounts in the world no journalist have been sifting through this information but service should be american governments leading to some sort of a glob

e.u. leaders warn that the blocks seven point five million young unemployed need work soon although be driven into the arms of extremism.

e.u. leaders warned of the blocks seven point five million young unemployed need work soon or they'll be driven into the arms of extremism. this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital and marina josh welcome to the program . now britain's confirmed it's holding up to ninety afghan nationals at its cam bastion base in afghanistan without charge it's thought some have spent more than a year in detention lawyers say the u.k.'s actions are unlawful drawing a parallel with america's notorious guantanamo bay sarah first has a story. we heard a fairly robust defense for the defense secretary philip hammond this morning when he confirmed that around eighty or ninety afghan detainees are being held in camp bastion now he said that it was observed to suggest that britain is running a secret detention facility and this comes on the back of u.k. lawyers who are acting on behalf of some of these detainees speaking out they've launched a legal action saying that some of these men have been held for up to fourteen months and that this. tention now the rules dictate that british forces are only al

e.u. leaders warn of a bloc seven point five million young unemployed soon all they'll be driven into the arms of extremism. alone nine pm here in moscow wednesday evening very good evening schieffer just joined us it's kevin owen here at r.t. from first britain has confirmed it is holding up to ninety afghan nationals of its combat student base in afghanistan without charge it's thought of spent more than a year in detention the ministry of defense says it'll be very to hand over the prisoners to local authorities once all the quote legal obligations are met but lawyers still say the u.k. is acted unlawfully drawing a parallel with america's notorious guantanamo bay sarah first got the story. he kato is here acting on behalf of some of these detainees speaking out they've luhansk legal action by saying that some of these men have been held for up to fourteen months off and that this amounts to a little detention now the rules dictate the british forces that are only allowed to hold detainees for ninety six hours unless there are exceptional circumstances for last november we still the de

e.u. leaders can't. well this is one of these fancy ideas which are generated on the occasion of these summits which don't prove or generate any real substantial results it is an idea to talk about and will serve the function of giving some food for the press but it's nothing which really makes it the institutional decadence of europe. which which serves to overcome the institution decadence of europe which of which we are witnessing at present marcus thanks ever so much marcus kerber the professor of public fun and some political economy on the line. china has flatly denied allegations that it hacked into designs for u.s. military hardware including blueprints for the world's most expensive fighter jet but washington isn't taking any chances and is said to be beefing up its cyber security capacity for a future cyber war the obama administration's pledged indeed to spend three billion dollars in twenty thirty to stave off online hacker attacks forty teams of american cyber agents that we've formed of whi

e.u. leaders warn that the blocks seven point five million young unemployed need work soon all be driven into the arms of extremism. and over again even if the choice is kevin i would no doubt th key to nine first is ours i just mentioned. britain's confirmed it's holding up to ninety afghan nationals has come past in base in afghanistan without charges though some spend more than a year in detention the minister of defense says it will be ready to hand over the prisoners to local authorities once all the quote legal obligations of met but lawyers still say the u.k. has acted unlawfully nonetheless drawing a parallel with america's notorious guantanamo bay sarah first got the story tonight. kalo is here acting on behalf of some of these detainees speaking out they've launched a legal action saying that some of these men have been held for up to fourteen months and that this amounts to a little detention now the rules dictate that british forces are only allowed to hold detainees to ninety six hours unless there are exceptional circumstances the last november we saw the defense secretary. chan

e.u. leaders are handling europe's economic crisis in an out spoken interview with the "financial times "newspaper european union faced a morale crisis as much as an economic one and called on the european central bank to do more to promote growth. ♪ >> when michael higgins was inaugurated no one expected a timid presidency with the report of a public intellectual present higgins wouldn't be muzzled by office. he credittesed the dominance of market economic and warned if itunt tackled the e.u. could face what he called a crisis of leth macy. in today's comments in the "financial time "the president higgins warned of the problem of relining on one dominnic economic model and claiming a more varied approach was needed he also criticized the e.c. b. claiming its policies had driven unemployment and seen investment and demand fall. haidz remarks from president higgins strasberg speech, but does it go beyondiot constitutional line. >> differenting views from academics. >> he may have crossed it. she more or less giving the alternative policy for the one popular or not is being followed that is the busi

e.u.'s financial leaders portugal one of the country's worst hit by the debt crisis with almost eighteen per cent of the populace unemployed artie's peter all reports. europe's politicians insist that austerity is essential but what effect does that austerity have upon the everyday people to whom it's inflicted upon. i went to meet a family just outside of lisbon who are feeling the pressure of portugal's financial failings. we use to take certain things for granted hard water lights now have to watch everything we use families in financial straits like this want to becoming a common occurrence as the gap between the middle class and the breadline narrows in one of europe's purchased countries. my husband lost his job now will live on see the eggs and whatever work he can get as a day laborer those savings are running out with two daughters and one grandson the effects of portugal's financial plight is being felt through generations of this family and it's leaving its mark i'm twenty years old people my age should be planning for the future but there's no work the way things are now i have n

accusing its leaders of splintering the e.u. from within. the gay rights parade in the georgian capital tbilisi attacking the activists who needed help to escape the area. russia's mediation efforts in syria the un faces obstacles from. rebel forces that.

the leaders from the e.u. and france as well as international donors are gathering today here in brussels to drum up and get aid and support for mali a country which has been dealing with the radical islamist militants as well as a political crisis for the last couple of years now now the french foreign minister law fabulous' had said that the aim of today is to raise some one point nine a billion euros a to give to the country in what he calls a quote unquote an effort to build democracy dialogue and development now we know that france has been very much involved in the country especially in the beginning of the year when it launched a military operation into the country saying that they were there to fight off islamist militants away from key cities now france is also in the middle of withdrawing some four thousand troops from the country however it does plan to keep about a thousand troops in says in what is seen as a long term a kind of posting in the country would this is in contrast to what has been told