you think by two thousand and fourteen russia will have a visa free regime where we are with the e.u. well let me start by saying that the e.u. ones as much as russia to half of this regime the only thing that we agreed also with russia is that we have to solve a number of issues and a number of problems before we get there. in order to do that last year the summit identifying what we have called the common steps common space steps is not anything else than those issues that we have jointly russian and e.u. officials identify are the issues that have to be solved whether they will be solved in one year or whether they will be solved on two years that we don't know in the e.u. we have never been favorable to set in days that we consider to be artificial we have always underlined that what we have to do is to work hard to try to solve those issues and in fact we are working quite hard and quite well russian experts and technical people are meet in our have been working sessions and progress has been made well diplomacy is certainly certainly always been a mystery to me while you say i know r

e.u. economy well none of these things really are good the problem is not so much whether one piece of dreadful pain or another would be a good thing it's how to best get back to sustainable inclusive prosperity which people can see is just now what we've had is particularly the last thirteen years the money supply in the u.k. and for tripled under new labor this great torrent of new money goes to particular sections of society first creates all sorts of sorts of unwanted non helpful economic activity and then the chaos sooner. later has to be revealed and that chaos was revealed for example this happened worldwide it was revealed lehman brothers but i don't want the pain but what i recognize is that the sooner we take the pain in the correction and the adjustment which is inevitable the sooner we'll get back to sustainable prosperity which is best way to to fight poverty surely the justification for bailouts is that they are a stabilizing mechanism. well people just desperately do not want pain and i include politicians and economists and that of course the public as well but really the whole

well is the e.u. pursuing the goal of a united europe at the expense of individual nations that's the question taking center stage at the latest round of peter lavelle's cross-talk coming up in over twenty minutes. of course the european union has to be based on subsidy or it's a principle which means that the decisions are made close as possible to the citizens on the other hand he only has an indication is that the case songs you think is that the case let me finish right yeah yeah of course about dontcha think that. in a case that a federal union existed with a federal strong budget that the sovereignty of the european citizens overall would be better than we have now in that crisis we are all victims at the moment because we do not have a fully fledged why it was created in my clearly question is did people join to create something like the united states you know i mean they are going to join it to create a united states of europe that it has to be discussed i'm just saying yes there is an alterna

e.u. for america's national interest these days. well i think the most important thing is britain's national interest and britain remains within the u. we can't manage our economy fully as we like we can't manage even our own foreign policy as much as we'd want because often there has to be a common e.u. position so really good an exiting the european union would allow britain to put its national interest first which is the most important thing for this country so that we can have a government who can fully respond to its citizens needs you are than having to go to brussels first before deciding what it's going to do ok before i go back to the american stand what america may or may not want the original question will britain's position be swayed by america's stance i don't think so i think the people in britain really will make their own mind up about a future we don't need what to don't need to be told what to do by someone from another country be that the united states or or all the president of the european commission for that matter

well the e.u. strongly condemns the construction of israeli settlements its members are still happy to buy products worth millions of dollars from them every year or that was artie's piece one of the reports there are growing calls to ban trade which is illegal under international law. produce of israel except this isn't israel this is the jordan valley in the west bank and this farm is deemed illegal under international law the european union imports around three hundred million dollars worth of products from here each year now a group of twenty two n.g.o.s from across europe is looking to highlight the issue and it's published a report in which it claims e.u. imports make the settlements viable because they are produced in illegal settlements which are contrary to international humanitarian law should be banned out of the european union now if this is not possible at least the consumers have to have the possibility to. to decide for themselves if they want to buy products which have been produced

in advance of a crime even happening well the e.u. has a similar requirement and one was approved by a house judiciary committee for internet service provider internet address logs and so if you ask the folks supporting these they'll say no but but it will actually do a sort of bifurcate this into two different points the first is what if anything are providers and you know email providers internet providers wireless providers required to store and the second is under what circumstances and can the cops or other government agencies get access to that and so that both sides of the debate are important but i think that's how i kind of think about them right so what is lay out the story and each of those two sides but what's happening in terms of the first segment which is the what providers are required to store right now there's no law saying that google yahoo etc have to keep email that you've deleted or searches that you've done and by the way searches like typing and typing in a murder kill things like that in google have been used

is treasures its legal tentacles as well as the e.u. as a new report shows washington can potentially x. is there any european citizens private information stored online shielded by an antiterrorism law. you're watching r t a live from moscow with me to on monday good to have you with us this afternoon egypt seen as some of the bloodiest street battles assumes an uprising against president morsi began two weeks ago at least life people have been killed and hundreds injured as pro and anti morsi protesters clashed outside the presidential palace tanks and armored vehicles were deployed to the scene after sporadic fighting continued into this morning the violence that started when thousands of the president's supporters moved into crush a sit in obvious opponents karo based reporter bell drew says the violence has also spread outside the capital. one member of tahrir square where scenes. there have been. on the square here behind me on the side the presidential. as i type reports the caches have broken out during the day but basically we'

e.u. has been trying for well over ten years now to implement something called the european neighborhood policy which is essentially a kind of nafta the north africa that there was the free trade agreement between us and mexico ok ok let me just ask you this back to the constitution in the main argument against against the keystone is that it favors that is an instant betrays the revolution and meanwhile the reason is themselves that a document would ensure democracy which of those arguments holds more weight. i don't think it will bring about democracy and remember that the moses mandate is actually quite weak in the first round of but he got less than a quarter of the votes in the presidential election i'm talking about here in the second round he just straight over fifty percent and that was when he was up against canada and widely regarded as representing the former regime. so his mandate is we keep trying to do is attempting to shore up his legitimacy with this constitution so he can claim a mandate it's interesting that they have the vote in the going on now the second round of constituti

well if the e.u. are pursuing the goal of united europe at the expense of individual nations that issue take center stage in latest edition of people crosstalk just around their five minutes here r.t. . of course the european union has to be based on subsidy or it's a principle which means that the decisions are made close as possible to the citizens on the other only or is that indication is that the case song truth is that the case let me finish or i go ahead yeah yeah of course about dontcha think that. in a case that a federal union existed with a federal strong budget that the sovereignty of the european citizens overall would be better than we have now in that crisis we are all victims at the moment because we do not have a fully fledged. my question is did people join to create something like the united states yeah i mean they have been going to they joined it to create a united states of europe. that it has to be discussed i'm so i'm saying yes there is no alternative to that and if they don't

brussels well america london boris johnson has called the euro a calamitous project calling for a national referendum on whether britain should be in or out the idea of a separation from the e.u. is gaining momentum in the u.k. let's not discuss this with old he's the director of the group think tank well this is coming from the london mayor is a high ranking conservative he's talking about paring down the relationship between the u.k. and the e.u. is this putting a lot of pressure there bearing in mind his position does it put a lot of pressure on the prime minister there and you can a moment. yes it does indeed many people see obvious johnson as a future prime minister of course some people don't like the idea of him being prime minister many people in the conservative party do and he's actually a political phenomenon norman in this country he's won the london he's been a twice elected mayor of london which is quite an achievement seeing as he's a conservative and london usually has a bias towards the labor party's over here to be successful here does mean a lot and some people think that he he will be a future leader of the conservative party perhaps even a conservative pr

dozens of combat jets to the united arab emirates as well as other gulf states the prospective deal is seen as a sign of support for a regime which the e.u. earlier slammed for human rights abuses as well as torture in addition to the jets prime minister david cameron said britain might station strips in the u.a.e. after pulling out from afghanistan the u.k. is also trying to prolong its military presence on existing bases in bahrain and qatar geo political analyst patrick henningsen says it's not poor to see britain's alterio motives. the justification for this massive build up in the middle east especially in the gulf states and. the west is basically blaming iran saying that because iran's pursuing nuclear ambitions there's no proof of any to the weapons programs as such they're blaming iran for a possible nuclear arms race in the region that's a quote from david cameron only days ago so you can circumvent of iran it's certainly not a geo political you know number one priority and i think they've achieved that militarily but you know the question is. is this going to be a real military standoff or we looking at it a cold war situation

dozens of combat jets to the united arab emirates as well as other gulf states but a prospective deal is seen as a sign of support for a regime that the e.u. had earlier slammed for human rights abuses as well as torture in addition to the jets the prime minister. pardon me the british prime minister david cameron said that the country may station its troops in the u.a.e. this after pulling out of afghanistan the u.k. is also trying to prolong its military presence out of those two bases in bahrain and qatar two political analyst patrick henningsen says that it's not hard to see britons all teary or motive. justification for this massive buildup in the middle east specially in the gulf states area of the west is basically blaming iran saying that because iran is pursuing nuclear ambitions though there's no proof of any of their weapons programs as such they're blaming iran for a possible nuclear arms race in the region that's a quote from david cameron only days ago so the in circle meant of iran is certainly a geopolitical scale if you build one priority and i think that they've achieved that you know militarily but you know the question

a very very few progressive insane members of congress on the other side as in this case well last month the e.u. adopted a resolution urging all member states to accept this act interestingly enough the french ambassador here in most case had the powers is to stay out of it do you think other countries will follow france's late my hope so i mean there's a socialist government so-called anyway in paris and at the very least they have to appear to not be hard core cold warriors even though the soviet union doesn't exist anymore but an interesting backdrop is the t p p meeting this going on in the new zealand right now where they're looking to open up trade in the pacific basin and particularly dealing with issues of copyright piracy and other things that the u.s. says you cues china of repeatedly and yet you don't see the same kind of vitriol being pointed at china which may well be because china owns so much of the u.s. this paper at this point that they be sort of pointing their finger at the boss what about canada that's said to be in the process of drafting something very similar again yes ru

e.u. in two thousand and nine. well christmas on the streets literally where he poured on new york's hidden homeless as america splashes out billions on christmas decorations and it's all. blustery union in spacey i assessed welcomes its latest crew man after a two day journey with a spacewalk and war and then a hundred scientific experiments i have stories coming out after the break. on the edge of human capabilities. struggling with a dream to. play out to become the first. force told him. i. she could laboratory tim kirby was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and worry that this is why you should care watch only on the r g dot com. welcome back you're watching r.t. life in moscow in the spirit of christmas isn't just a good feeling it's all multi-billion dollar industry lights tinsel decorations all make for a pretty sight but sometimes the obscure those less fortunate ideas marina

e.u. states among others not like this idea well i think. we have to divide our political and economic issues here because. internet is it is a kind of a global economic model for certain companies most of them are located and the store equally based in the u.s. definitely i care is that it is not for profit but we have kind of a. tier one operators we have big market players as google has facebook and many many others that are probably concerned about the some some some potential change in the business model and i believe that this this must media. reaction was mostly based on the on the on the push from those global corporations to to now a void any any possible economic model change i think it was a kind of a major factor for their part. of google's their example but there's this facebook there's there's many others they are they seem to be terrified of actually sex regulations they say this is a very bad thing it's going to increase censorship the regulation is totally unnecessary if these proposals you say that they're nothing revolutio

e.u. be stripped of the prize is pretty well over explain just what the people are unhappy. who are poor little children. will one day live in a nation where they will not be deterred by a call about him but by the content of back character. the one it can be probably would have become a glorious turkey ham be assassinated however the nobel peace prize is only awarded to a living person this is when it tests trying to react especially when it comes. the finances the announcement the european union was to pick up the twenty twelve gongs sparked heated debate the award was being discredited particularly after the outrage at whose picked it up recently so see what has the e.u. done over the last twelve months to convince the nobel committee it's worthy of such a prestigious award. it supported regime change in foreign countries and several member states indulged in violent crackdowns on demonstrators outraged by the failure of the government's. skeptics come in but it devalues the whole concept of the nobel peace prize and what's really happening is that the european union is h

e.u. financminiers agreed to give the european central bank oversight of eurozone banks, as well as banks in other e.u. countries that choose to opt-in. the european commissioner for economic and monetary affairs said the agreement was an important step forward for europe. >> last night's decision on the single supervisory mechanism for euro area banks is a breakthrough towards a true banking union, which is significant and crucial in order to restore and reinforce confidence in the european economy. >> sreenivasan: the banking superviser role must be approved by the european parliament, but the position could be up and running by march of next year. separately, finance ministers agreed to give greece its next bailout payment of $64 billion. in return, greece has agreed to reduce its debt load by buying back devalued bonds from private investors. the european court of human rights issued a landmark ruling today condemning the c.i.a.'s extraordinary renditions programs. it ruled that a german car salesman khaled el-masri was a victim of torture and abuse for four months at the hands of the

well european union's three presidents have received this year's nobel peace prize on behalf of member states the e.u. has been given the award in recognition of fostering peace but even before the prize was hand-out the decision sparked did nation throughout europe several previous winners wrote an open letter to the nobel foundation demanding that it will be stripped of the award ahead of sunday's ceremony hundreds marched through the norwegian tapetum in protest of the institute of democracy in cooperation police peace is one of the last things you should know what is. there has not been peace in europe for the last sixty years as the president of the european council said everybody knows that there was a war against yugoslavia in one thousand nine hundred ninety in which european states e.u. member states participated very fully they attacked you. so one cannot say that there has been peace in europe since them in any case if we look further afield with syria the european union's policy the actual policy of the european union as an organization nevermind its member states has been in my view to f

purposes only the country is suffering under severe sanctions as well as other trade restrictions from the you ask canada britain and the e.u. on his marina and i went to tehran to find out how people there feel about their nation's standoff with the west. a three decades of pride followed by three years of. women sue remember her future husband a young physicist she immediately knew he'd come a long way indeed she went on to become one of the runs leading nuclear scientists do it all ended one sunny morning do you read two thousand. and. eleven. the war and then i heard a terrible explosion i rushed to see what happened he was lying like this. i called must must must. must i thought he was just scared then i turned to him there was no face just blood in tissues he was the first victim in a gruesome trend associated with his work since two thousand and ten at least three other nuclear scientists have been murdered in iran doesn't want care gosh they were working hard so their country didn't need to beg other nations for know how that we have the right acquires this knowledge and feel independent very nice women soon as husb

well so to come nobel peace prize laureates don't believe the e.u. deserves to stand side by side with past winners previous recipients of the money in the law restricts of the award and its buddies and fits with what i do mind. plus the us closes the door to high tech innovators who brought the smart foreigners previously spearheading the countries it's from the finnish all that's coming up after a short break. a lovely quiet morning a family gently sleeps in district heights maryland when fifty armed f.b.i. agents storm the house and guns drawn despite the family pleading that they were unarmed the law enforcement agents opened fire on a weaponless teenager my asian huli thankfully sholay suffered minor flesh wounds but the key issue is that it remains unknown as to why the house was stormed so here in america for no reason guys in black uniforms storm someone's house all alone and some rounds and left with no justification or explanation yes the family still doesn't know why this happened the f.b.i. is remaining silent you know i understand that t

well let's and writer. good afternoon to you now germany abstained from the un verge on palestinian statehood but it didn't go as far as other e.u. states who called in israel embassadors to protest against the settlement plan how do you describe berlin's approach to israel at this stage. well first of all as you already mentioned in your question germany spain from the u.n. vote germany didn't vote for the palestinian cause which is in a pretty good. use for a vote so first of all germany of spain germany didn't turn its back against. the protests from german politicians against the settlement politics right now are in my opinion more or less symbolic because they are telling the protesters they are not defined or noticing that this is a violation of the peace plan off the middle east but we will have to wait until the end of the baby if this political shit big if it's really culprit if this protest follows a political action we have to see the difference of our protests and that this political action to be honest i don't think that there will be any political action coming out of the order of protests. now israel is facing inc

neighborhoods i highlighted the need to achieve stability and security as well as democracy and market oriented economy this is the aim of e.u. supports we didn't the eastern partnership program especially as regards ukraine moldova and georgia clue will come that the elections in georgia open up new opportunities to improve bilateral relations and work toward stability in the southern caucasus on the basis of the respect for territorial integrity it is particularly important to address the protracted conflicts i also raised the importance of moving forward in the five to talks on the conflict in transnistria and expressed concerns regarding development in our god look at how but by working together the european union and russia can make a decisive contribution to global governance and regional conflict resolution to global economic governance in the g. eight and in the g twenty and to a broad range of international regional issues i would like to congratulate president putin for taking over the chairmanship of the g twenty i am pleased that in the sentiment that president putin and the european union have discussed all thes

e.u. has allowed sweden to continue to sell them. well, from alternative tobacco products, we turn to alternative energy. in the world of energy, the holy grail is a power source that's inexpensive and clean with no emissions. many start-ups in silicon valley are working on it. and one of them is bloom energy. they want to put a little power plant in a box literally in your backyard. for nearly a decade, the company had been unusually secretive about its bloom box. but in february 2010, its inventor, k.r. sridhar, invited me to take a look inside his much talked about but never before seen creature. what could this power? >> this could power a u.s. home. average united states home. >> entire house? >> entire house, 24/7, 365. >> something that small? >> the way we make it is in two blocks. this is a european home. the two put together is a u.s. home. >> [chuckling] 'cause we use twice as much energy, is that what you're saying? >> yeah, and this will power four asian homes. >> so four homes in india, your native country. >> absolutely. fo

e.u. had called on to stop on the mass torture of the wrong message just well geopolitical analyst patrick henningsen says that there's on on now terry a motive behind the sale. justification for this massive build up in the middle east especially in the gulf states area the west is blaming iran saying that because iran's pursuing nuclear ambitions although there's no proof of any to the weapons programs as such they're blaming iran for a possible nuclear arms race in the region that's a quote from david cameron only days ago so the encirclement of iran is certainly not a geo political scale number one priority and i think they've achieved that militarily but you know the question is. is this going to be a real military standoff or we looking at it a cold war situation were we just posturing militarily geopolitically looking for some bigger conflict down the road perhaps in a few years. well with iran all but surrounded in the middle east is certainly taking sides the lebanese group a militant group of law has joined the fray selling to rain missiles on israel and american bases at the to

tens of thousands of people gathered for protest rallies well here i said we're just talking about a few hundred people. at the leaders of the e.u. have accepted the nobel peace prize on behalf of the bloc despite widespread opposition the union was recognized for its efforts in promoting peace on the continent but people in oslo protested in the streets while several laureates demanded the e.u. be stripped of the prize artie's peter all over explain just what the people are unhappy with. remark or little children. will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of about them but by the content of back character. the one that candy probably would have become a laureate to the home being assassinated however the nobel peace prize is only awarded to a living person but this is when a test such trying terror especially when it comes to finances the announcement the european union was to pick up the twenty twelve gongs sparked a heated debate the award was being discredited particularly after the outrage it was picked it up recently see what's the e.u. done over the last twelve months to convince the nobel c

e.u. countries not only of their economic independence but also their political sovereignty what's your what's your take on that well i think it is a very very intense debate of course now because of the moment we just had the the the summit on the budget but actually the from my point of view this is looking at trade and investment and what creates jobs we need to focus on the five european union is a large single market five hundred million people it is the biggest one in the world and the opportunities within it are enormous which is why i encourage british companies to look at the opportunities there it's why is trade minister spend time in brussels for a fuller implementation of the single market as also by the way for free trade agreements around the world with european union part of the markets can the u.k. opt out of the european union are politically while staying very closely integrated economically or it's not part of this government policy it walked out of the repeating union we're not a member of the european the euro zone that's clear and. we believe we have a good and sound reason for not being a memb

dozens of combat jets to the united arab emirates as well as other gulf states the prospective dinner scene is a sign of support for a regime which the e.u. earlier slammed for human rights abuses and torture in addition to the jets prime minister david cameron said britain might station its troops in the u.a.e. after pulling out of afghanistan u.k.'s also trying for long its military presence in existing bases bahrain and catarrh to your political analyst patrick henningsen told me it's not hard to see britons on tearing down. the justification for this massive build up in the middle east specially in the gulf states area the west particularly blaming iran saying that because iran's pursuing nuclear ambitions or there's no proof of any to their weapons programs as such they're blaming iran for possible nuclear arms race in the region that's a quote from david cameron only days ago so you can circumvent overread it's certainly well it's your political skill number one priority and i think that they've achieved that you know militarily but you know the question is. is this going to be a real military stand or are we looking at a cold war

s the siberia pacific ocean well pipeline it will now directly send from siberia to asia the multi-billion dollar project that has worried the e.u. as it is a sign that russia is turning more towards the east in its energy strategy that outlook of course. this is russia's largest infrastructure project in the country's modern history it took tranced after six years and more than twenty five billion dollars to build the pipeline the extended pipeline now connects siberian oil fields and a port on the pacific ocean and it means that russia will be able to increase its all the exports to asia one of the most dynamic global markets the us china and japan that consumer most oil from the e.s.b. all pipeline will now be able to buy even more but the raiders say that the pipeline capacity will be increased to fifty million tonnes a year in the future from the current thirty million tons this will be almost as much as russia's western pipeline is pumping to europe for over russian oil exports to europe arctic reasoning according to trans data they will continue to decrease in the first quarter of the next year but that's because they don

e.u.? does he agree with this? as he repudiated? and what we say to the others when he goes to summit tomorrow? >> well, i do agree with my honorable friend on this one and not with his president barroso, for this reason. that it is the national parliament that provides the real democratic legitimacy within the european union. when we are discussing banking union, it's at this house that we should account, when we're discussing the union budget it is this house the represent our taxpayers that we should account. and i always bear that in mind when i'm negotiating as it will be tomorrow at the european council. >> can the prime minister confirm the autumn statement reveals the government is now borrowing 212 billion pounds more than it previously planned? >> well, i wouldn't take this from the honorable lady if her plans were to borrow even more. the point is, i know that the party opposite was desperately disappointed that the office for budget responsibility predicted that borrowing would come down this year as well as last year. but that is the fact. >> the prime minister has rightly said that we are

e.u. doesn't deserve the prize and why the whole nobel institution made no need to rethink. mark for. one day eleven they may well not be deterred by the call about them but by the content of back our one hundred one it candy probably would have become a glorious. however the nobel peace prize is only awarded to a living person this is when it tests trying especially when it comes to finances the announcement the european union was to pick up the twenty twelve gong sparked a heated debate the award was being discredited particularly to the outrage it was picked it up recently well to be frank inside the united states i don't think very many people pay attention to the nobel peace prize anymore large numbers of americans were stunned when yasser arafat received the nobel peace prize many years ago president obama was given a prize for reasons that no one understood see what's. done over the last twelve months to convince the nobel committee it's with the of such a prestigious award. it supported regime change in foreign countries and several member states indulged in violent crackdowns on demonstrate is outraged b

e.u. cooperation should be defined by choice not forced by necessity that europe sees future ties with russia indeed it is a view that second by president putin as well as in brussels for talks with the blocs leaders for the first time since his return to the kremlin. a lot of speculation happened before the summit that this will be a meeting of confrontation rather than a corporation but it actually turned out absolutely the opposite scenario all these speakers. started off by saying that the trade turnover between the e.u. and russia has grown significantly now it's exceeding three hundred billion euros a year and this is a good sign but both sides expressed their willingness to make it a corporation by choice not by necessity our relation as a huge potential that can still be explored as we have proposed to president putin we should drill for an interdependent spend their society into an interdependent space shows but clearly the biggest contradictions still remain in the issues of the energy supplies from russia to the european continent i'd like to remind you is that the e.u. still has a certain accusations and certainly has some things they say