continued to join, and since the fall of the iron curtain, the entry of russia and most of the eastern europeanountries has brought the total to 41. subsequently, the so-called european communities were born. firstly the coal and steel community, then in brussels, the european community. these were the predecessors of the european union. adinolfi: all of the countries that joined the european community were, first of all, members of the council. so it can be considered as a sort of antechamber for the european union. narrator: today strasbourg is also home to the european union's legislative branch-- the european parliament. but the capital of the european union is, in a sense, split with major administrative centers in brussels and luxembourg city, as well as strasbourg. murphy: there's a little bit of a struggle about where the future of this will go. there's an enormous expense right now associated with running back and forth between brussels and strasbourg. indeed, many of the parliamentary committees meet in brussels. then they have to get on a train with their tons of documents and get on

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investigation is the difficult economic situation in the euro zone are mainly talking about eastern european countries and the problem is the when they join the european union the e.u. took liabilities to subsidize those economies but apparently someone in the european commission decided that we must assume part of this burden i mean that europe wants to maintain its political influence and things that we should pay a little to says this but that is not a constructive approach. really for russia the apec summit is not so much about the business deals it's about building bridges on the sidelines of the forum president vladimir putin held negotiations with new zealand to form free trade zones and although it may sound surprising as they're not exactly the most significant trade partners from moscow china has also done the same thing because it sets a precedent for the deals and now is the right time because russia is a fresh w t o member pledges to boost transparency cut tariffs and fight protectionism. answer national markets. the only one trading this hour and there was. when it comes to the

subsidizes economies of eastern european stations probably it is that this moment in time that someone in the european union decided to shift part of the burden subsidies burden to us united europe wants to preserve its political influence and want us to pay for it this is a constructive spirit your results go but if you want to ensure that the troops come secondly. even the east acknowledged you put it to their attack no logical no serious goes back in the solvent days so you existence of. the wrong side between and used to supply to those countries the energy. market values non market prices. you couldn't describe that as markets relations market driven relations special a trend we started talk about great on the market of on the basis of market principles and the pricing formula has been changed and became market oriented i believe we need to be guided by the realities of today mordant russia maybe they're never committed and there's not planning on undertaking additional commitments. that would help to regulate anonymous of those countries for non market measures thirdly we would b

budapest could ask for up to fifteen billion euros to shore up the country's crumbling budget many eastern european economies are in difficulty trapped between uncertainty in the euro zone and the global financial. and staying with european problems let's join katie from the business does kilo there katie hi karen yeah we're going to dive into the european markets and see what's happening there because there has been a report from germany and france that they've disagreed on when to introduce the banking union for the area and that's where the food. the mock is of the moment as it is even though the footsie on the donkey is just that as well as other concerned about the strength of china's economy as well as tall missy how all of that is affecting the european markets as well the european current say it isn't due to drop playing and that it's really as the dollar ramps up against it we can see is dropping one twenty nine seventeen just meanwhile the ruble is out she makes this and i let into our investor jim rogers he recently said he's interested in buying into the very bold. economic school says

your commission is new right now looking into gas problems a so-called monopoly position on the eastern european markets is based on the economic problems in the region and that basically europe now wants to transfer some of this economic burden onto russia and a rather peculiar and taunting i would say question that led. and was asked to comment on his recent stop the he made prior to the apec summit and that was your model in russia to teach a flock of cranes to fly south he was using a hang glider and the journalist said that basically it's created a whole wave of internet jokes and a comparison also was made to russia's electoral race that only sixty three percent of the grades the sighted to follow putin and the others decided to go somewhere else and this is what he had to say not all the queen's fallujah mediately only the weak ones. from it i must admit it's also the leaders fault the pilots found the not all the koreans follow. if you fire is too fast and too high he can't keep up there are also birds who don't fly in a flock even if they aren't part of the flock they're part of our pop

commission is new right now looking into gas problems a so-called own monopoly position on the eastern european markets is based on the economic problems in the region and that basically europe now wants to transfer some of this economic burden onto russia and also another question which was hot on the lips of pretty much every journalist i've spoken here to was fund the immense amount of money which was spent on organizing this forum that is twenty billion dollars and well you know to say that these expenses are absolutely justified because more than half was invested into the region itself this is long term investment this is infrastructure a gas pipeline to the primordial region and even the bridge that you're seeing right behind me is also of course a very important long term virgin investment and symbolizes basically russia's transfer a shift towards asia and a rather peculiar and i would say question that let him approach and was asked was about a stop that he made before coming to a package in the future and some of our viewers may know stopped in russia and the region in order to. have

buddha post kudos for up to fifteen billion euros to shore up the country's crumbling budget many eastern european economies are in difficulty between uncertainty in the euro zone and the global financial gloom. now starting with finance let's join katie and see what's happening in the business world this hour kitty over to you carol where you just mentioned gloom i'm afraid those moral but if we look at the numbers the markets very much speak for the european situation there's a plethora of news releases today coming out and the like to spend a grease talk about eminem but up packages we've also got the news that germany of false disagreed a went to introduce a banking union for the year at and added to all of that a report about the strength of the chinese economy that's all having its toll on the markets as you can see the foot over a cent in negative territory this hour and all of that need is feeding into the euro as the dollar ramps up against investors really heading for the safer haven in these uncertain times meanwhile we've got the ruble is still performing mixed gets the last bit of cur

passed could ask for up to fifteen billion euros to shore up the country's crumbling budget many eastern european economies are in difficulty trapped between uncertainty in the eurozone and the global financial gloom. and speaking of gloomy euro zone leaders aren't clashing on ways to solve the debt crisis katie is about the business to talk to us through the markets response katie what's happening and yeah will is those disagreements between euro zone leaders on the ways to tackle the crisis they are having probably not surprisingly a negative impact and that's really as wool suit remains in the red for that second trade so without further ado let's have a look at the figures and see what's happening just now we can see they also in negative territory both the dow jones and the nasdaq just both apple and facebook are leading the declines in the tech sector let's get on to europe because reports that germany and france disagreed on the when to introduce the banking union for the euro area are taking a set as well as data from china and germany all adding to those stocks falling in london and fran

budapest could ask for up to fifteen billion euros to shore up the country's crumbling budget many eastern european economies are in difficult t. trapped between uncertainty in the eurozone and the global financial believe me. all right well the days of business news just ahead here on r t it's not just a bit after twenty four minutes past eight and i. would be soon which brightened a few songs from feinstein question its. stance on t.v. dot com. rage and creative. elegance and full and public speaking. a few european bodybuilders against millions which immigrants. may not seem so serious. but this could be a real threat to. european extremists. the friendship vision of russia has started again after two hundred years up with the. jet the approach of polio has arrived from overseas to lead the army i have to really take my time to prepare myself to get it right. the bloody battle near moscow is going to start over. james brown will reveal the victor the soldiers are back to do it all again. but you know version twenty twelve on our team. by that welcome to business clashes between euro zone leaders

which has been long subsidizing eastern european nations and now wants to put the burden on to russia and he says this is not a correct approach but he called the relationship as very far from being a trade. right i'm pretty sure that more analysis will be expected a little bit later from what he had to say at they've made thank you very much dimitri medvedev in the city of that people start for the apec summit. right well one of the major talking points of light in their visit to the far east was his time to lead a flock of white siberian cranes in flight the russian president joined a project to save the endangered. as well as disguising himself as one to help the cause but i want to special costume if you are micro light to show the cranes the way to asia well at least for a short while at the final news conference of the apec summit one of the journalists asked to comment on the move and compared it to leading a country. fried. not. immediately only the weak koreans don't follow immediately thank you i must admit it's also the leader of the pilots from the north koreans from the m

who could ask for up to fifteen billion euros to shore up the country's crumbling budget many eastern european economies are trapped in difficulty between uncertainty in the euro zone and the global financial gloom our business update is coming up after a short break to stay with us. i never thought i could earn a living this way. natale issue of oil is the norm or should test small arms so those photos to machine building plant not are the source to count of all the weapons she's fired over the past twelve years. i got so used to it sometimes my friends ask me to join them at the rifle range and i say no wait i'm so tired of shooting. the planet's history goes from making firearms doing world war two to ballistic missiles from nuclear submarines during the cold war the bulk of the soviet industry was moved here in the 1940's to flee the advancing germans cells here also became the heart of soviet military production closed off to foreigners for hoffa's century it thrived on the massive moods of the soviet military when the u.s.s.r. collapsed but life here was shaken to the core but some adapt

delegates are women we are a mixture of african-americans asian americans just panic americans eastern european americans americans whose ancestors came over on the mayflower i mean we really look like america and you look at the republican convention when i think i counted four or five african-americans about and mostly white males and that's why i say you just look at it and you see the difference in our approach to america well and i was a fairly white state and you know kind of a bellwether state many regards here you're the senator from iowa i'm curious you know the conventional wisdom is that mitt romney has to win sixty one percent of the white vote in order to win the presidency. and you were just talking about the diversity or scene at the d.n.c. . can president obama poll forty forty one percent of the white vote. absolutely both men and women by the way yes and there's no doubt in my mind he will because. you know it's the middle class that's going to decide this election. and i think when middle class independent voters. who haven't kind of made up their mind yet and they're kind of

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so vera, ran into pro-german fatherland very shrewdly plays that card to try to get eastern european jewish immigrants in new york to be pro-german or at least anti-allied and this refers to, my beloved jews, nicholas icann on the left holding a shield with a jewish captive. this referred to the fact that during world war i on the eastern front, the czarist troops would often go to jewish villages and sort of drive the jews out towards the german lines, almost like a human shield as they move for a word so that the germans would shoot the jews and fewer czarist soldiers. so they are trying to mobilize, again, mobilizing hearts and minds in new york throughout the war is an ongoing business. the germans in addition to propagandizing for their cost covertly are sabotaging new york in a certain sense before we joined the war because by 1915, wall street and the railroads and the manufacturers who have headquarters in new york are selling armaments, weapons, supplies, food, credit and so one hand over fist to the allies so that really in the western front, on the western front with the f

it's the kind of thing where if you are going to tell a pollock joke you don't say eastern europeans.ou go pollock. that's the joke. you know, you get specific. comedies about being specific. i'm just sad that you guys have a harlem. we don't have a harlem. we have south central. it sucks. you guys have apollo theater and bill clinton's office and the globe trotters. >> bill: it's not a ghetto anymore. harlem has upgraded considerably. >> i know. you should come down to it south central you get shot by south koreans. >> i have been down there. i know what the situation is. >> you would blend right in. >> bill: low rises not high rises and this and that. >> it's your core audience i don't want to offend them. >> bill: you, adam carolla you didn't say anything wrong with the stern thing. you probably would have done it yourself, right? >> sure. why not. you pick a group and have fun with them. you mock them. we have a black president, so that's why they are focusing on african-americans. >> okay. so you and jon stewart hanging out at the emmys which stewart won. did he win for best hair