e.u. it also has all involved which certainly hurts the economy of syria because twenty percent of the g.d.p. is on oil also ninety percent of the exports from syria goes to the e.u. mainly germany or france certainly if you put tougher sanctions on syria it will certainly isolate the country and this is the goal of these are western leaders who have said so that they do want to show that president assad there is increasingly increasingly isolated out has to be noted that of course russia has said many times in the past that it's taking a very very careful approach to prime minister putin have met his account french counterpart francois fuel and their prime minister putin had said that russia again is very careful in this scenario and also that the conflict that they're seeing in syria is certainly not one sided and by imposing more sanctions and calling. for tougher restrictions on syria it certainly seems like you're taking one side and also our foreign minister sergei lavrov again stress the big do not want to see this drama decision of the syrian story to be used as a basis for any form

and the knowledge about the mistakes made by the e.u. which could potentially make the u. region union much more powerful. move is because like we won't repeat the mistakes of the european union in our integration we're conscious or we're doing i understand who we are integrating with you know three countries sharing a common history and today will form in a common economy that is why we start not on different levels but from similar positions the european union to shorten a doctor's time which stands our situation is different i'm sure we will be able to create a solid and stable economic union. this union is being beast on the foundation of the customs union between russia kazakhstan and belarus all just three states but its future vision is much bigger just picture of content a ration of state stretching possibly from the balkans and all the way to the pacific a huge bridge between europe and asia perhaps it's too soon to talk about that at the moment since russia was in kazakhstan just put together a committee which will be working to develop this idea further but just

e.u. itself as britain clashes with germany which wants countries to surrender more control of their own financial and political decision. hello my name is kevin zero in our top story on r.t. at midnight france's foreign minister has told syria it's too late to implement long promised reforms and says tougher sanctions are now needed earlier this week the arab league suspended syrian membership and gave it until saturday to stop the violence threatening further measures heartsease terrorists and the reports now from brussels on the growing pressure from europe. tough words coming from the from illusion pig he had met his counterpart in a turkey and they both agree that syria needs tougher and stronger sanctions again you were mentioning earlier these sanctions are saying they're saying it's too late to implement any reforms at this point and this is coming on the back of the three day deadline of the arab league had given to syria to basically end the bloodshed now aside from this there's also the movement in the united nations now there are countries in germany the u.k. and france have been pushi

italian prime minister says he will resign after parliament passes economic reforms required by the e.u. which could take place as early as next week you know when it comes after silvio berlusconi want to crucial budget vote but lost his majority support in parliament as the country music closer to the epicenter of europe's financial crisis. with los angeles paramedics at full stretch it seems the city's firefighters are now the first line of response for medical emergencies serves all does need to find out why as we follow them in a special report right now on this chapel. the orange dots show hospitals that are no longer here in the green dots represent those hospitals that are still in existence here what you don't see is any new hospitals because there are no new hospitals constructed in this area. if you look at this area from a health planning standpoint. good medical care as yours is to. say i came to try to get some medical records in and security said it's close i couldn't believe it was closed and i will when i went in the security guard told me that so for sale and all they basicall

italian prime minister says he will resign after parliament passes economic reforms required by the e.u. which could take place as early as next week the announcement comes after silvio berlusconi won a crucial budget vote but lost his majority support in parliament as the country moves closer to the epicenter of europe's financial crisis. next on our team.

italian prime minister says he will resign after parliament passes economic reform and quiet for the e.u. which could take place as early as next week the announcement comes after silvio berlusconi won a crucial budget vote lost his majority support in parliament as the country moves closer yet the central europe's financial crisis. on our team acts as they see whether the pope should be heaping praise on a man who's lost hundreds of millions of dollars of people's money here and a couple of takes time. max kaiser this is the kaiser report i'm here in ireland kilkenny ireland there's a new song in ireland it goes like this on i'm looking over a three point six billion euro clover that i overlooked before yes the new president and the new minister of finance people have discovered a three point six billion euro hole in the accounting budget that they didn't see before such is the way things are going here in ireland herbert yes max this is the irish speaking the irish are going to be the irish times here three point eight billion euros in cuts and tax increases coming in budget michael noonan th

the russian government has repeatedly complained about the so-called third energy package in the e.u. which bans gas producers from owning the transit routes in particular this affects gas for. the markets toil is up but one hundred one and a half dollars per barrel for my next true this is the first time we're seeing news from places since april this year because of a decline in us. soil in the trees on the flip door narrow the price difference know that between a brent's and futures this is pressuring shares of midwest petroleum refiners which have been benefiting from cheap over the show prices over the summer u.s. stocks are lower on wednesday after the bank of england said prospects for europe's economy have worsened and company results were disappointing for example from the from the good that. was the close in europe the footsie is down by just not sure this is of course because of bank of england outlook and the dax is down for a full straight session because technologies slumped off to forecasting lower twenty twelve sales. finally the close in moscow where high oil prices didn't h

e.u. tax which he says will damage the u.k.'s competitiveness. david cameron who is being criticized as disrupting the help for the euro zone crisis. a great deal at stake in this meeting in berlin. >> yes. every day this euro zone crisis seems to become more intense. we have market pressure on italy and greece spreading to other countries like spain. this morning mario urged euro zone countries to get on with their plans for enhancing the firepower of their bailout funds and in the middle of it all, the british prime minister david cameron to see andrea merkel to see what, if anything, they can agree on. >> it's been a day with breakfast first meeting with the president of the european commission then another with the president of the european council. swirling around them all, crisis in the euro zone and how on earth to resolve it? the key may have to be found here in berlin. david cameron and angela merkel get on and agree they need you are intelligent measures to spur economic growth but there's also no disguising their disagreements. merkel

regulator evolution is not the issue which the e.u. germany and the rest of the nations need gas to sensibly reform that energy policy russia on the other hand has to sell gas to keep it budget in order so there's a. co-dependency which is a good thing for g.e. how to be happy to see european companies invest into russia and european markets open up to russian companies it's a good free market economy is good for the marketer what do you think of the recently new grades on gazprom and its partners in europe a think about your p.r. guys i think europeans need gas gas has many use it with a political uncertainty in north africa it's good to have a stable partner that you can rely on and russia is one of you you know better than anyone else for instance that written recently switched from export to engel europe needs a gas supply to maintain a stable mix of energy sources and it's climatic conditions require them to get in it's no way to get outside and also russia's gas and therefore i think opening the market up to goshen companies would

e.u. bailout which would ultimately please the global leaders hoping to prevent greece from collapsing in debt and taking the entire eurozone with it on season is and now is and can. very much conflicting reports on whether or not the greek prime minister will in fact resign some people saying because of the pressure at that meeting that took place on the eve of this summit between angela merkel nicolas sarkozy the i.m.f. and the european central bank telling him his decision to hold a referendum on whether or not to make cons to receive another bailout would it was a unilateral they pretty much reprimanded him he defended the right of his country to decide the fate of their economic situation whether or not they would default stay in the euro zone and now this morning the finance minister of the country already hence maybe things weren't born as clear in his government as it seemed when he came and presented the situation to. leaders in the g. twenty leaders saying that the referendum sent in fact have a direct effect on the euro and the greek decision so a lot of different kinds of info

from spreading their way present a better stress to ration economic union won't repeat the mistakes which e.u. countries made when integrating. under a new size of rupture within the e.u. itself as britain clashes with germany have a ways out of the debt turmoil chancellor merkel wants countries to surrender full control of their own financial and political decisions which the u.k. fears will be a blow to state sovereignty. next on r t twenty years after the collapse of the soviet union we continue our look at the past since former states have taken this time we see our lives changed in latvia which these days is a member of the european union. band aid since last tuesday independence day it's pomp and fanfare drew a scratch of any other public holiday in the country on this day the republic's top leaders down there to lay flowers and the freedom monument in latvia scarcer riga. informal events like the torch for sessions held in the evening of the same day people who see themselves as the country's true patriots marched through streets closed to traffic for the occasion of the perceptions ol

the british foreign secretary has been speaking in brussels today about ways in which e.u. countries can try to put more pressure on the assad government. >> we would offer a ban on imports of syrian crude oil into the european union. we've already adopted sanctions against 56 individuals and 19 other entities, 75 people and entities in total, including the commercial bank of syria. so, we have taken very strong measures in the european union. as i say, i think we can add to those. but i don't see any other more specific proposition that we can react to. of course, we would like to discuss things further at the united nations security council. that is a way that we can help over the coming weeks. but as you know, when we moved a resolution there in october, it was vetoed by russia and china, something that was a very regrettable mistake. >> we hope to get more later on that story for you here on "bbc world news." do stay with us. you can track what's going on in syria through the website, bbc.com/news. let's get more on another of our headline stories. the newly chosen prim

e.u. bailout payments which the private owner says vowed to do all he can to bring greece's finances under control and promise to keep the country in the euro zone and john laughlin the director of studies at the paris institute of democracy incorporation believes brussels has escaped much of the blame for the blocs debt crisis. these people who have taken power in greece and surely to our initially have never been elected these are men who have made their entire careers through garnering an important appointment in cases like the european commission or the european central bank they have no democratic mandate at all and precisely what is so frightening about what is happening in nothing is the european union and the euro enters its death agonies because that's what i think it is is the way in which the european union really is showing and i say this without any eight hundred fifty it's true nature as a dictatorship after all it is europe which has effectively commanded these two prime ministers to leave office andrew had to leave office the moment he suggested a referendum on the get pack

fear is that there has been a lot of talk there apparently been endless meetings and suddenly which we e.u. leaders trying to solve the crisis but the solutions they've come up with haven't worked well so far in your opinion what is the best way to resolve the crisis. well as i mentioned just before the only way to bring these prices to an end is to do two things first of all to take the big quantum leap as mario draghi the new president of european central bank described it not so long ago the quantum leap it was versus a political union is the first thing you need to do and let us define very well what we mean here by political union that means that in terms of social economic and financial issues the member states of the eurozone are almost losing their an entire sovereignity that's the basic point of secondly we need plans from all the euro member countries euro zone countries we need plans in which they outline in a very credible way how they will bring under control especially the spending side of their public finances so about the eurozone states themselves there have been calls to

if the silvio berlusconi will resign only after a parliamentary proves next year's budget cuts which the e.u. requires. how to tame a leopard is just one of the unusual tasks in one of russia's most unusual nature reserves are to take you there next. promote ski region in russia's far east nine thousand kilometers from moscow the natural environment here is like no other on the planet arctic an african animals live side by side among the eight subgroups of leopards this animal is the most beautiful one of the most peaceful predator on the planet the left foot is more accustomed to sub-saharan africa but has adapted very easily to the harshness of a russian winter they have been known to attack domestic animals but have never charged to humans whisking or. looks peter the great thing in the sea of japan is famous among divers around the world even veteran divers are amazed by some of its inhabitants but diving is a journey dobby is always an adventure. local divers rarely visit to the seas the waters close to home a fall more diverse harvest so much interest than lifetimes can be spent explor

e.u. is tightening the economic screws on the syrian regime. and bargo which moscow strongly opposes or. time of the e.u. is putting more pressure on the financial institutions in the syria more specifically they put a ban a long term financial support on trade with the exception of perhaps a few industries such as food and medicine e.u. companies are now prohibited from doing business especially with syrian state banks as well as investing in sectors such as energy and oil there's already an oil embargo on syria that has been imposed by the e.u. sometime in may now e.u. officials would maintain that all of this is to aimed at cutting off financial support to the syrian government but the people themselves so the syrians the state t.v. in syria have been showing them going out into the streets by the thousands granted these are state backed protests but they are frustrated with the growing growing number of sanctions on the country because they are the ones who are feeling the pinch just as an example i was there would be our t. crew about a month ago and it was almost impossible to find

regulator retaliation is not the issue which the e.u. germany and the rest of the e.u. nations need gas to sensibly reform their energy policy like russia on the other hand has to sell gas to keep its budget in order so there's a codependency which is a good thing i would be happy to see european companies invest into russia and european markets open up to russian companies it's a good free market economy that is good for our production. what do you think of the recent raids on gazprom and its partners in europe think about the over p.r. guys i think europeans need gas gas as many uses with a political uncertainty in north africa it's good to have a stable partner that you can rely on and russia is one of the you know better than anyone else for instance that britain recently switched from export to india old europe needs a gas supply to maintain a stable mix of energy sources and it's climatic conditions require them and it needs norway to gaslight it also russia's gas and therefore i think opening the market up to national companies would be a wise move or to short the

e.u. countries watch their governments full of the height of the debt crisis as prime minister silvio berlusconi resigning and greece swearing in a new head of. the u.n. atomic watchdog releases satellite images and lexus which allegedly prove iran could be building a bomb iran says the accusations are politicized. and the e.u. police investigate fresh clashes in northern kosovo after nato peacekeepers fired tear gas and ethnic serbs of a disputed border crosser. ok so you have to stay with us the sports is next with. hello welcome to sport on ard see comments eli from moscow with me ramon cost for our top stories this hour. red bull flies again subash and that's all it slows hamilton to claim a record equalling fourteenth pole position this season for the op with the grand prix. raising the bar russian men dominate the hundred five k. division at the world weightlifting championships in paris taking the medal tally to four gold silver and one bronze. and europhile russia head coach to take up a card speaks to r.t. after his side were held to a one one friended go by greece in athens. the first to formula one and red bull sebastian vettel has once again denied my client's lewis hamilton pole position by prod

e.u. council of energy. which was and from all appears from problem meant. that the energy minister stream pipelines have already been laid what top of the third one will be added and what will be its capacity we haven't yet i don't know that we currently have at least two pipelines with a total capacity of fifty five billion cubic metres could be the question of whether a third or even feel like climate living or that should be answered by european stock holders of as you know we have gazprom in the order and holland's got sunni. in germany and the s.f. winter certainly like the investors decide to build a third and fourth pipeline through a privately finals might we're not talking about things like there's a m b then it could be done i do not know whether they will make such a decision as it was not part of my will and mine of. brussels wants all russian energy companies not just gazprom to be allowed to export gas to europe what are the implications of that for gas problem and europe as. regulator repetition is not the issue. and the rest of the nations n

agrees to go silvio berlusconi will resign after parliament approves next year's budget cuts which the e.u. wires. up next iran the u.s. and muslim world relations are in focus as are t. talks to former cia officer and now historian michael sure. we're sitting down with michael scheuer the man who had served in the cia for more than twenty years up until two thousand and four at one time he was the chief of the cia bin laden unit then he went and exposed how counter affective washington's methods were in the fight against terror he looked at the u.s. through its enemies i see in fact it's the title of one of his books called through our enemy's eyes i'm very pleased to have the chance to interview you think enjoyer i'm glad to be here bin laden is gone who is washington's number one enemy now washington's enemy is an enemy that doesn't exist we're fighting and an islam make enemy that washington believes is out to kill us because we have elections because we are free because we have women in the workplace is an enemy that doesn't exist or didn't exist when bin laden was alive it doesn't ex

e.u. council of energy. which wasn't from your peers from problem and went from that interview minister to an old flame pipelines have already been laid what's what's the third one will be added and what will be its capacity we have yet still stand by it survive economically have at least two pipelines with a total capacity of fifty five billion cubic meters of big me the question of whether a third or even five like minded living or that could be answered by european stock holders as you know i have gazprom in the order and hollins consuming france's g.d.s. so as in germany and you see as if we just haven't really like to get investors decided to build a third and fourth place through a privately finals might you like i we're not talking about states mindlessly and any could be done i do not know whether they will make such a decision as it was not part of my work and i know of. brussels wants all russian energy companies not just gazprom to be allowed to export gas to europe what are the implications of that for

e.u. council of energy. which was some form or passion part i meant going from that interview minister to nordstrom pipelines have already been laid what thoughts of the third one will be added what will be its capacity we haven't yet i don't know that we currently have at least two pipelines with the total capacity of fifty five billion cubic meters of big me a question of whether a third or even likely to be living in order to be answered by european stock holders as you know we have gazprom in the order and hollins because sunni france's g.d.s. suez. and the s.f. will just have a lonely life here their investors decide to build a third and fourth place like that and finals like you like i we're not talking about state department as a computer i don't know whether they will use such a decision as it was not part of my work mine off guard. so far and brussels wants all russian energy companies not just gazprom to be allowed to export gas to europe what are the implications of that for gas problem and europe get t

agrees to go silvio berlusconi will resign only after parliament approves next year's budget cuts which the e.u. requires. and it's europe's deepening money late so that's on the minds of peter lavelle's guests up next as they ask if the euro can be fixed. q. hello and welcome to crossfire gang peter lavelle the hero of crisis without end eurozone leaders and national governments continue to be at loggerheads on how to rescue a currency that has an unpredictable future with clearly started out as a financial fiasco of the highest order is now a political disaster with few if any positive outcomes. you can. see. crosstalk the prospects for the eurozone i'm joined by robert oulds in london he's the director of the bruges group also in london we have caro well i knew he is chief executive officer at the center for european policy studies and in minneapolis we cross the clare hill she's professor at the university of minnesota law school all right folks this is crosstalk i mean she can jump in anytime you want all right robert if i think go to you first thing you know we can talk about the financia

rivetted stressed the racial economic union won't repeat mistakes which countries made integrating. the signs of russia within the e.u. itself as britain clashes with germany over ways out of the turmoil chancellor merkel wants countries to surrender more control of their own financial and political decisions which the u.k. fear is will be a blow to state sovereignty. something completely different next for you on this channel when it comes to belting out of the emotional area russia's got a renowned track record as we hear next in an operatic edition of. great. thing. comes to. your. subject but the. moscow. hello good to see you again and welcome now this makes sense to me why don't we take a look at the author seen here in moscow many say that the russian capital base some of the best just before it's up in the world so join name of that andreas and the rest of the muskrat crew as we find out if that statement is correct something off here of the sun is busting into the main focus of the building is the glorious old fashioned style m p theater the stunning oldest story in here since one thousand five hundred peopl

e.u. council of energy minister which was an informal appears from problem end or and from that interview minister to nordstrom pipelines have already been laid what top of the third one will be added and what will be its capacity we haven't yet i don't know that we currently have at least two pipelines with a total capacity of fifty five billion cubic metres will be the question of whether a third or even fourth pipeline will be laid that should be answered by european stock holders of as you know we have gazprom on the one side and hollins got sunni france's g.d.s. suez and germany's on and b.s.f. windowsill on the other if investors decide to build a third and fourth pipeline privately financed mind you we're not talking about think financing then it could be done i do not know whether they will make such a decision as it was not part of my work line of. brussels wants all russian energy companies not just gazprom to be allowed to export gas to europe what are the implications of that for gas problem and europe. regulator reprovision is not the issue the e.u. or germany and the rest of

which you countries made when integrating. but there are new signs of rupture within the e.u. itself as britain clashes with germany over ways out of it that chancellor merkel the country to surrender will control of her own financial and political decisions which the u.k. fears will be a blow to state sovereignty. something completely different next when it comes to belting out of the emotional aria russia's scored a renowned track record as we'll hear next in an operatic version of moscow that's just a minute away. great . things. come to. you lead. some to. moscow. hello good to see you again and welcome now this make sense time program will be taking a look at the office seen here in moscow many say that the russian capital base some of the best just before it's up in the wells so joining me most about greece and the rest of the muskrat crew as we find out that statement is correct something off here of the sun is us the. main focus of the building is the glorious old fashioned style m p k so a stunning world of tourism here sees one thousand five hundred people and it's ev

sort of great lies right now has which is if we don't all agree to this magnificent suffer want it's good to be wall so is this the beginning of the end when he saves the e.u. i deduce i'm going to the end of the tall i think it may be the beginning of a new beginning which will be based on facts rather than fiction because the problem at the moment is the e.u. is based on fiction because it doesn't have political realities the whole problem of this crisis it was created by the europeans themselves because who could not have a single currency without a political union they knew they couldn't get away of the political union so they disappeared to the equivalent of las vegas and signed up to a new maybe a proposition which is to have a unified currency with no unified policies result says you have a situation and you want to take forget trillions forget billions forget hundreds of millions look at reality if you want to have a cup of coffee in central paris one of the most expensive places in the world because the same as going to. increase but if you're going to get rid of unemployment in greece you're going to have to get the price down and it's almost eve

they will lose that vote and that will bring down the greek government which may in turn precipitate a greek default on its debt e.u. ministers for their part have said that there is no alternative to the big cuts necessary to be made by greece however they themselves are staring in the face the possible collapse of the deal which is when they spend so long. how marine out which was supposed to put a line under the whole euro crisis that may well collapse if this referendum receives no uncertain. terms thank you very much for this indeed let's now have a look at those figures and we start with the markets in russia here in moscow stocks are extending early gains with both the arch off my sigs gaining and two percent a solid the song of a chuckle some of the individual show moves on the mice it's energy may just on the rise with gazprom up over two and a half percent the company's world subsidiary from next has resumed its operations in libya financial to up with russia's biggest lenders bear upon more than two percent in the black telecommunications major telecom is no exception it's the fortune that profit has plu