problems is more europe ok but a lot of people on the ground are saying enough europe how do you square the circle well you need leadership of course the anxiety tells you i go back to the place where i feel comfortable the comfort zone is the nation state so far of course you have to ensure that there is a solution with more europe and not even more trouble i strongly believe in an economic crisis if i'm going to america lentil on the end. of the names of the leaders are say we need to more coordinate these things people would agree and you make policy by policy you see that north africa immigration is not an italian problem so you don't make a national competence but european you see that foreign policy cannot be national nationally let's say steer the only but european wide and step by step people will understand that this solution is more europe ok let me tell you how do you explain people in spain for example when there's fifty percent unemployment for young people the you need more europe. well you know i think if the spanish people look at the successful of europe that's where th

but steve israel feels that europe he's supporting basically supporting israel. and also the break has promised states cross-talk with stay with us. we've. seen. too many speak our language. programs in documentaries in arabic in school here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks about seventy odd p. interviews intriguing stories are you. been trying all te arabic to find out more visit our big teeth don't call. the world. science technology innovation all the latest m l m m's from around russia we've got the huge earth covered. and it contains. only. one. following welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle separate but equal more and more europeans are rethinking the pillars of the modern nation state there is wide agreement that the sovereignty of states must be respected but what about the growing issue of self-determination if a population wants to create their own state.

war party which is basically the democrats in the republics in the west but also some parties in europe as well so all deletes will fight it it's the decline of the roman empire you could you could see it's in slow motion but it's also the sure turbo accelerated version and we have to ask this question to our friends in beijing by the way because for them this is the chinese century so what are they putting in place in terms of not emulating all the mistakes committed by the west especially for these past one hundred years and is there going to be a chinese century that is chinese century chinese characteristics i don't think so but then we're going to talk about it soon ok alexander when you come in on this go ahead well i just don't think the west is in the climate quite on the contrary we are the most dynamic economic structure that exists on the face of the earth we tracked more foreign direct investment in europe alone than all the brics together india china russia and brazil and if one talks about the chinese century let's just look at a couple of elections that just took place ev

i do not want less europe, i want more europe.ith a single economic defense and political framework. unfortunate, europe has taken a different route. the bu accurates of europe have developed a policy of austerity, disastrous when applied to economies that were already in trouble. we have seen what happens in greece where we are still close to a civil war. naturally, i objected to this policy at the heads of state of government when they were presenting proposals, especially when i have to defend the italian interests. for example, i vetoed and suspended the council heads of state when i was presented with the fiscal impact. this is my position. i could not agree with them when they imposed homework to greece which i was in total disagreement with or when they proposed the token tax which we stupidly adopted. and it is clear that financial transactions will migrate to companies that do not have a total impact. i also disagreed when european banks were ordered to account for the government bonds that they have in their balance shee

but in europe our inequality that we have here maintains a dynamism and actually social mobility. in western europe these days is higher than it is in the united states or in other societies for that matter ok pepe what about the welfare state cannot survive all this yes in scandinavia exactly it's it does survive in scandinavia it's not going to survive in the club med countries and if you compare their social services to the countries in the north the lags behind them france which is more or less the middle term between the maddin the scandinavians you know will survive but how they're going to pay it they don't know sarkozy didn't know and obviously the a pathetic francois hollande also doesn't know how to pay these bills so the problem is and when you when you see the bric countries where social services and help for the poor it's legs away behind even the club med countries in europe that's even more complicated like in brazil for instance if you are poor if you don't have private social security you have to go to a state hospital and you spend like six months or eight months

economic structure that exists on the face of the earth we tracked more foreign direct investment in europe alone than all the brics together india china russia and brazil and if one talks about the chinese century let's just look at a couple of elections that just took place everybody followed the us elections it was a very tight race between president obama and mitt romney in france we had a new president elected and people followed that in russia there was an election but not much choice and in china there wasn't even the pretended they didn't pretend to elect a new leader they just put someone there and people don't want that people want democracy people want to say people want to play a role in their societies china does not offer that to them in the political sphere and therefore i believe for a long time coming there's not going to be a chinese century while alexander what about the middle class what it will be said about the middle class because that's the power of the west traditionally. yes i mean the middle class is very strong in the west pretty is right there are problems we ha

all right dimitri europe is already getting less oil of course into trance data all exports to europe will be decreased in the first quarter of the next year because things are slow there because the demand is not that great a lot despite that though experts say that the european commission got very concerned on that fact that russia has diversified its export channels and now will be able to shift its priority market from the west to the e.u. . all right thank you very much for that you look very nicely covered in snow though in this very christmassy weather in moscow so very very very merry christmas to you are you in the mood and what is it you want for christmas this. well there was it's. tough to toys that can't produce. movers the real ones but we three if you are really interested i will let you know what they were. idea thank you very much. the reason i actually asked that question is because habits and tastes for christmas gifts are changing the most popular gift this year according to the financial times is not a dollar a truck or even a video game it's everything and one ta

dimitris next with a business more signs the crisis in europe is far from over dimitri that is true because germany central bank the bundesbank has said that it now thinks the economy will not be growing as fast as it predicted before and for germany to be affected that's pretty significant is the biggest and most significant economy in the euro zone and in europe well look at the implications in the business both in a couple of minutes. download the official application itself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. it's not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch r.t. any time. gold fever. time thousands into slaves. but also month brotherhood involved in the mines and since i started working in the mine i stated i look at it. similar to nationals. a cash cow to be milked dry i think that in this country gold medal logie has an environmental cost which is an acceptable local business was labeled illegal and controlled by criminals in order to protect our lives our families and to work in peace. most but we are forced to pay protectio

out of europe. out of europe. also wants to take control of the streets and. in may two thousand and eleven. on the stand. again the leader of the blockade on protests infiltrating the mosque he lets loose in front of the troops. if you should read today in france in two thousand and eleven we too are involved in a. struggle for liberation from those who want to live with the values that are now i know our own struggle for freedom from those who want to turn our country into a muslim emirate was europe is our. was was that it was a who was and there's a special guest. as the leader of the english defense league an extremist movement currently writing hi. maggie figure in europe in the fight against islam is the leader of the english defense league. was tony robinson was. he wanted me to be privily on your pitch in england we have a john and when you're here and there's been no younger basically got to come in. was. was rocky don't contest the d.l. have the same goals it's the birth of a european network. you know sometimes you see a story. you think you unders

is graphic anybody in europe is more complicated for instance i have lots of friends in spain my son lives in barcelona for that matter so i'm in close contact what's going on inside spain unemployment rate for the new generation the google facebook generation now is fifty percent so even if you go to a good school or even a back nickel school. it is in spain after wars there's no jobs so the solution for them is to immigrate to south america over here you know any in europe is more complicated you have parts of germany which have some of the best standard of living anywhere in the world you have northeastern italy for instance which has a tradition of small and two premierships you go to a small. construction area. making clothes in gucci style in florence or making food in bali and export all over the world but it is they've been doing that for a thousand years or so and then you compare it to rome maples in southern italy it's a total disgrace day themselves and say that they live in africa and in fact so this is the problem is the inequality inside the western capitalist system a

the world is looking to germany to lead europe of the economic crisis. merkel discussed in germany's role at the world economic forum in january. >> what we do not want is a situation where we promise something we cannot do. if germany as a representative of europe promises something and market forces make it impossible to fulfil that promise, then europe is left vulnerable with an open flank. >> the chancellor has taken a cautious approach. her message -- do not ask germany to do too much. >> germany has mixed feelings. on the one side, a lot of people still have a problem seeing germany taking on a leadership role. that has a lot to do with historical concerns. on the other side, a lot of people would like to see germany take a leadership in europe, and since germany is the only country that can provide leadership at the moment, some say merkel is doing too much. others say too little. >> international media coverage swings between respect and rejection of the country's role. whichever it is, the world's eyes are on merkel. >> germany is an anchor of s

he came to report on communism in eastern europe. i met him, and we drove to berlin on the november night when the wall fell and spent the evening sitting on the wall taking added with a chisel. i got married to him a year later. >> what did it mean at the time? what did it mean when you were sitting there one that wall came down? when was it? >> 1989. people have forgotten how much fun it was. it was a very exhilarating time in history, but they have also forgotten how nervous people were. i remember sitting on the wall, and it was 4:00 in the morning, and everyone was awake, but there were hundreds of people sitting on top of the berlin wall, and there was a wall and then no man's land. they were standing there very nervous. at 4:00 in the morning everyone has drunk champagne, and they have already some the national anthem, so what you do next seven? people started to jump off the walls, and the guards would rush over and throw people back. it was not entirely as satisfying moment. i discovered as we were sitting there that east ge

out of europe. out of europe. also wants to take control of the streets i was here. in may two thousand and eleven. on the stand. again the leader of the blockade on protests infiltrating the mosque he lets loose in front of the troops. if you should read today in france in two thousand and eleven we too are involved in a. struggle for liberation from those who want to live with the values that are now i know our own struggle for freedom and who want to turn our country into a muslim emirate was europe is our home was. was was was was was. and there's a special guest. tommy robinson is the leader of the english defense league an extremist movement currently riding high. ranking a figure in europe in the fight against islam is the leader of the english defense league. tony robinson i. want to read it made me really on your pitch in england we haven't shown and when you need it and there's been no youngest eventually got come in. was talking to ten media have the same goal it's the birth of a european network. i'm . ok. wealthy british style it's time to look for. mark

what's going on in europe? how serious is this? are we really at the beginning of what might become a war? i said i haven't a clue, but if you want to send me there i would be delighted to go. and so i went over there for the better part of a year, floating around in that part of the world. i thought myself, quite extraordinary what was seen in germany especially. and i would like to ask, perhaps i could start with rick burt, and ask him to answer a simple question as you lay the groundwork year. were we really dealing with a serious strategic threat from the soviet union? >> well, that's a great, that's a great question. i think if you look at the deployments that you were just talking about of the ss-20, the western military district of the soviet union, in a broader context, a broad modernization and build up of the russian nuclear forces, marvin, i think not only viewed as a threat militarily, but it was also viewed in a word we used to use at that time, also viewed as a threat, a political threat, decoupling. security in the u

europe is the main problem for europe because if you look at the global face, danone was able to positive 1.1% for the first three months of the year excludeing europe. at the same time in europe, it was 0.6% contraction. that's a problem for danone, the economic crisis in europe. the company is facing increasing pressure from some of its shareholders include nelson phelps. he believes that the share price of danone has a significant growth potential, something like 60% over the next two years. which is much higher than the current share price where at 51 euros this morning. danone is trying to save 200 million euros. that's the only number we really know for sure at the moment and that's the main response to the pressure from its shareholders. over to you. >> thanks very much. staying with france for just a second, the finance minister is commenting about the agreement that the euro group reached on the banking up. it's integrity is good for the agreement and as we focus on greece today, conditions are in place to disburse the next tranche of aid to greece totalling 43 billion euros. >>>

but frankly the conservative party is united on europe. we're all opposed to this increase in the budget. i support it absolutely. >> if their prime minister achieves a freeze in the european union budget, he would have done something that no other prime minister has managed to achieve. >> and all just happening on these bunches when the hot prime minister says he is going to achieve something, there are those somewhat self-indulgent seeking to set an even higher hurdles. it is unreasonable and it's unfair. and if this party hopes to be in government the next general election, it's just got to gate grip and stop supporting the prime minister. >> but despite that impassioned plea when it came to the vote the government was defeated by 13. david cameron was due to set out his views in the middle of january. i'm pleased to say that the processor is with me. just how close did we come on that deal on the e.u. budget in new york? >>the zeal was very early done but the germans blocked it in because they were so afraid of the president of the eur

frankly i grew up in a europe that was divided from east to west and i'm now living in a europe that is divided from north to south and never at any point in the history of this union has there been. more discord and rancor that we currently got among more moderate forces there are concerns the peace prize is being used as a political football i think this award basically does a lot of discredit past people who've won this prize i mean it demonstrates a sort of heavy politicization of the use of this award and now it's been suggested that this year's winner of the peace prize picked it up more for not having done something as opposed to having food the peace around the globe it seems like they got the prize more because there hasn't been any war in europe for many decades rather than having done anything specific i think as long as civic institutions like the nobel prize continue to lose their legitimacy in their spirit through political favoritism and these prizes are always political but such a blatant and obvious political favoritism in maneuvering i think it actually takes someth

a special day for europe. the european union collect the nobel peace prize in oslo. >> the thousands of jobs under threat. carmaker opel halts production at one of its biggest plants in germany. >> and will he or won't he -- mario monti's back and forth on resignation casts uncertainty over italy's economic and political future. >> we begin the show with what has been a day of celebration for the european union. >> the three senior figures representing the eu have been in the norwegian capital, oslo, to collect the nobel peace prize. it was awarded to the 27-member bloc for six decades of promoting peace, democracy, and human rights. >> however, not everyone is happy. some have asked whether the price is justified at that time when the eu is mired in economic and financial -- the prize is justified at that time when the eu is mired in economic and financial crisis. desmond tutu says it is an organization based on military force. >> coveted award was accepted with pride by the eu's 3 president, martin schulz, h

we're seeing definitive bifurcation of northern europe and southern europe.thern europe, we are creating an underclass of long-term, especially youth unemployed that is going to give us a problem when the economies eventually start to get into balance and start to pick up. we still have this issue, even though we have tens of millions of people out of work, we still can't find the right skills and the right time. >> you mentioned the uk. the unemployment picture never got that bad in britain. so what happens now? why did it outperform? >> the uk is so different from the rest of europe. we've got london, the financial services sector, that didn't actually, in terms of job numbers, get hit as hard as the rest of europe. so the uk has been pretty resilience. that is starting to create jobs regionally all around the country. the thing we have to look at, though, is a lot of the jobs that have been created are part-time and temporary. but both are still jobs and now jobs are being created in the uk. >>. >> david there speaking with ross. >>> now, the fed begin aes

bennett is europe still taking the lead and had other countries when it comes to -- >> is europe still taking the lead ahead of other countries when it comes to climate protection? >> europe does not speak with one voice right now. germany wants to come to more ambitious reduction targets. they want increased their targets to 30%. right now, they stand at 20%. poland, in particular, is strongly opposing this. right now, europe is not speaking with one voice and cannot give any momentum to these talks. i am actually quite pessimistic that anything substantial will come out of these talks in terms of cutting greenhouse gases. >> thank you very much for joining us. the legendary jazz pianist dave brubeck has died just one day before his 92nd birthday. >> the he recorded jazz classics and he performed with the likes of duke ellington and ella fitzgerald. >> that's it for now. see you soon. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

go to europe. so how can you take all this. take of this question. to the benefit of the countries as mr browser said speaking of visit free travel travel i have already said it all i don't think there is much to add. to the human spirit but. the ball is in the corner of our european partners partners and for four years all the readmission agreements have been in force. we have taken and implemented all the decisions so on external water control so there are no questions that remain technical as settled very suggest this political question which is really hard to tackle for our european partners because the european union comprises a whole of twenty seven countries there are various approaches and bad. of course attained the development of our economic ties given that such a great trade turnover but we have to gain enough patience to move towards that came over to us said gilks. speaking of energy i have already commented on that but all i can say this that our today's discussion our our european partners have also mentioned that they hold sacred the

you look at them are prosy in the west particularly in the united states and i'm supposed to say in europe. their constitutions of these democracies we guarantee. minority groups or any other. time go ahead of constitutional guarantee so this sort of or unusual or normal life star is not going to be something that should real or it's going to get you so it's the rights of the minority that are worry and some of the liberals in egypt you know you have a right to be worried. and terry i spoke to represent savior of the muslim brotherhood freedom and justice party and he expressed confidence that the time is on the islamic fight what's your response to those who say to critics who say the sharia centric constitution betrays the they were punishing your religion a chip and sidelines the rights of minorities in your country no this is not right at all you can revise the constitution. this is not really present and they have no proof of it and the same time the president declares that if any minority or majority needs to to modify things in this constitution this can be done the sort of parliame

europe already receives 40% of its natural gas from russia. german investment and technology will be playing a key role in the project. >> it is a victory for russian president vladimir putin. they looked on as the first segments were welded together in western siberia. it is three weeks since bulgaria gave the go-ahead for the project. the last transit country to do so. >> this project has the political support of all partner countries. all have signed the contracts and taken their investment decisions. the pipeline will move huge amounts of gas. 63 billion cubic meters. >> that is how much gas sell stream is to move once it is completed by 2019. it is being routed from the black sea to italy and bypasses the current transit country, ukraine. moscow has argued with kiev over fees and gas prices for years. a feud that has often cut off gas supplies to western europe. >> south stream could soon make ukraine much more willing to compromise. kiev could even agree to some form of russian involvement in its pipeline system and its modernization. >>

seelig hit europe. i do want to bore your viewers with them members but american banks lend american companies rate now about $1.4 trillion from europe that number is 6 trillion, even though the european economies as a whole are about the same size as the u.s. which you call bonded debt, or come in a skit involved in commercial paper, bonds and other sources. five chilliness country, only one in europe. that means europe is top-heavy with banks. but that means is if you're a small company and you start to grow, you don't have the capital industry we have. you don't have the diverse sources of capital here. sue eventually give forest to become part of a big company. so you don't get the microsoft and apple on the scale we get in this country. so you look the 1970s. terrible decade. microsoft, apple, oracle, charles schwab, southwest airlines, fedex and others. a capital system can nurture them, get them to grow and be independent companies of the future. so again, europe is a 2%, weaker at 3.5 even thoug

greece therefore is the sick person europe. of the world. meanwhile, the united states of america is ungovernable. you have a system in this country that was created to create this country as an ungovernable state. you have congress, the president canceling each other out. how the president -- whoever the president might be -- do anything? you have china -- finding it impossible to provide a replacement for the demand that the west has done away with. so, i do not have an answer for your question. bewilderment. >> my question is about consumer demand and the extent to which the old system depended on it. if we do not have it to the same degree, could there possibly be a new economy? i cannot know how to say all of these in the right economic terms. i will say what i am thinking and see what you make out of it. its teams like all the economy's got to a point where it had to be based on growth. it could not just be sustainable. it had to grow. and that meant more consumers. so, then, that led to a lot of things ecologically that were not good

management stability would mean a probable rise in the share price now one of the champions of europe's gas pipeline is reportedly on the brink of pulling out of the project german company. has revealed that some talks to sell its stake to fellow consortium member. this has raised further doubts about the pipeline originally intended to bring gas from central asia directly to europe from all that. pool from the business desk next does this effectively mean that the the bigger project is that. well i think the fact that. germany's second biggest utility was a major force in this project it bailing out well it's very much like the end is nigh. it's especially when you consider the project was scaled down quite radically earlier this year it's already much less than its original conception now is in toolbox with the to sell it sixteen point five percent stake in the which is already a shareholder in the blue code the fact that it will be will become the largest stakeholder though i think that means little pretty much little towards the progress of getting the build started its stock in sto

and europe then pushed the free trade.he euro itself actually owes a lot to the uk's expertise. the creation of the euro, a lot of people within the euro were saying, well, you know, we're going to go ahead along and do this and we're going to do this and we're going to do that. and it was the expertise of the city of london and the british civil severalants heading the european euro projects who said actually, no, that won't work in practical terms. politicians have to live in the real world. >> and maybe to pander to people in the way that there are fears that they may have. even all of that said, how important is it for the eu that they maintain this relationship? >> well, i think the relationship has got to change. so my view is that the euro absolutely survives. ubs has always, always believed that the euro will be 17 countries. it should never have been created, you about now that it's here, it must stay intact. but the eu's relationship, that i think probably does have to adjust. because the eurozone has to integrat

wide here in europe there are many people with ties to the middle east region and they want to make sure they know exactly where their produce is coming from. are you sure this comes from spain . is a palestinian living in germany she has family in the west bank and says the israeli checkpoints mean palestinian farmers are losing out to the settlers even even the few think they get jordan they really checkpoints keep them at the checkpoints for days. and then you can't say anymore those behind the report into trade between the settlements in europe say they aren't trying to organize any kind of witch hunt we're not talking about boycotting jews over here we're not talking about even boycotting israel itself we're talking about making a difference differentiating between. legal israeli products which should be bought by european citizens as much the course the short and second products which are totally illegal and should be banned and people should not be to all of our tea. party life here in moscow twenty three minutes past the hour twenty four minutes past the hour but with more n

so they want to see these countries as the main supplies to europe this is the. and keep in mind katie also that there is another big issue and that is that at the moment there are sixteen applications pending for export of us gals to gnaw on free trade member countries and that means that senator lugar's initiative will have to wait in a very long line and i'm not sure that senator lugar unself is going to survive that wait because he himself gave his retirement speech on wednesday. interesting stuff in the in the business thank you very much in defending us on that. now off to fourteen hours of negotiations that european finance ministers finally agreed on a do to make the european central bank the supervisory body for about two hundred of the biggest banks in the region now the deal is seen as a step towards a fiscal and economic union earlier i spoke to mike ingram from b.d.c. partners and he believes it will be a long process. at the moment we don't know what metrics that the e.c.b. will actually apply to the banks but eventually fall under its supervision d