the european union in nato. they have influence and they have their own opinions and russia is not a total indifference to their positions i think that's a danger and should also take account of the russian stance it's an open secret that the arrangements we are trying to reach are related to other organizations including nato and the european union at the school do you think that the document . mean we have a bombshell effect or is it just routine politics. the russian president is not the only person who thinks about how to build relations inside the european union inside of the greater europe so to speak from the point of view of restoring imbalance of interests there are other leaders who are thinking about that everybody knows about. the eighty as nicolas sarkozy was borat a so-called concept of security from russian colleagues with regards to the creation of the common european perimeter of security in the various levels of security within a vast european space and that is why in this respect all president

give about this is not important to europeans europeans for one reason only this way they see want security. in afghanistan they actually spend money and personnel for this atlantic solidarity so it doesn't really go well with the european lot you need to remember ship which. thank you very much for being. just reminded that my guest here in the studio today was meeting and i was in the russian representative to nato and that's if the now from all of us here if you want to have yourself a spotlight or if you have someone in mind who you think i should into next time line at al going off at. r.t. and let's keep spotlight interact we'll be back with more from stan comments on the what's going on in and outside russia until then stay on our t.v. and take care.

while europeans cry out getting crushed by tax cuts troubles in the u.s. can't seem to coax americans into. a mountain of trouble ahead for moscow's garbage problems but trash piles up the city says it can get you cycling fans off the ground. next tonight is the euro on the brink of collapse and should the strong countries of the eurozone ditch the weaker ones and these other questions to well known british euro skeptic john. today i'm talking to the right honorable john edwards he's a member of parliament and also lead to all of the conservative policy group on economic competitiveness he was also someone who was instrumental in keeping britain out of the eurozone john redwood thank you very much for talking to r.t. now you're a euro skeptic explain to me your reasons for that but i'm skeptical about how much european government we need and want. as a british democrat i believe that most of the big decisions should be taken by an elected parliament in the united kingdom and as many decisions as possible should be dedicated to individuals farmers and lower

puts these questions to a member of the european parliament that is coming up next. i'm talking to roger helmer who's a you're a skeptic member of the european parliament he's very eminent he opposes to further integration with the european union and also supports renegotiating many of the e.u. case treaties with the right to have a thank you very much for talking to r.t. first of all how would you characterize the u.k.'s relationship with the e.u. there's a big question we have always been reluctant members of the european union when we joined it we were told that it was merely a trading operation we had a referendum i voted in favor if i had known then what i know now i would have voted against. but we have this unfortunate feeling that on the one hand we don't like it very much we resentments and on the other hand many people think it's a long way away it doesn't affect me very much so let them get on with it. in fact of course it does intimately affect the lives of all of us and huge swathes of policy areas are decided in brussels not decided in the u.k. in my vi

european parliament's divided over washington's demands to provide more personal data use it isn't so it says it can root out potential terrorist traveling to the us the requirements include fingerprints and d.n.a. samples and cross border payments. and alleged russian gun runner victor borge is awaiting a decision on his extradition to the u.s. after a thai court in the way for the handover the family of the so-called merchant of death fear for his life and say he may be forced into a confession. is a euro on the brink of collapse and should the strong countries of the eurozone ditch the weaker ones are his lore and it puts these questions to a member of the european parliament. i'm talking to roger helmer who's a you're a skeptic member of the european parliament he's very eminent he opposed to further integration with the european union and also supports renegotiating many of the u.k.'s treaties with the right to have a thank you very much for talking to r.t. festival how would you characterize the u.k.'s relationship with the. there's a big question we have always been reluctant m

eastern european game are again facing off against each. coraline hurricanes out of phoenix coyotes besides crossing the atlantic to take on petersburg. in a series of exhibition plushest. takes up the story. from the past that is a perfect way to describe what's happening here today thousands of ice hockey fans in st petersburg will become the witnesses to a revival or tradition that ceased to exist along with the soviet union around twenty years ago that's right n.h.l. is back in russia and space and hopefully it's back here to say exhibition matches between russian and north american hockey teams have always been special for players and fans alike despite having a friendly status these games have always been full of intensity and then you would have been sold out long before the game. was like this more often. because there is a risk that game. over the moon as soon as. i rush to. two thousand and six stanley cup winners carolina hurricanes and scott st petersburg were first on the ice in russia was carolina's last match before the team

the europeans remain 3 up. up at the 14th.r the euros. >> playing vry long right now. 210 yards out of the rough. >> it's ga shot. s, it's a good hole. this 14th, perhaps the hardest on the golf course. >> that's afantastic shot out of that rough. >> it was a horrible angle, as well. >> he just took what they gave him and hit a perfect shotrom where he was. >> mahan with a much better angle, mark. >> he is. it's interesting, gary, the golf course playing completely different than it did couple of days ago. we had so much rain that they're not getting any rain at all on the tee shot. >> second longest course in ryder cup history, right, gary? >> yes, i think that's correct, john. and with the wet conditions, it is certainly playing the longest. >> mahan has 207 left. >> come on, baby. >> well,it's going right over the flag. hunter mahan's caddie, you can hear him say beauty. >> all the u.s. players have been welcomed very nicely here in wales. but if you take a look atome of the wording here, the translation of the welsh langua

i don't think so because the europeans are quite busy on the on this topic and. i didn't hear any sign any sign of agreement with president medvedev on this issue and we must we must also understand that the current thinking about the current situation the current secure architecture. is probably very comfortable for the europeans and it's not for sure that the want to change it. well the meeting of the three state employees ahead of the summit of nato which will be taking place in lisbon next month how will the current talks are going on now developed sort of a fact meeting and how will they prepare for that as you know my head of the meeting in lisbon i need to meet alison but also the head of the european council europeans of course and some of the waiting to take place in later this month and this is very important because right yesterday before medvedev provided to. cause an american had a meeting together and they agreed on common measures to. on economic architecture in europe on economic regulation system in europe and that was seen by european observers

which is opted out of the single currency you have countries which are part of the european economic area such as norway you have countries which have slightly less of a kind of agreement because after countries. but i've gone less less far than not such as switzerland you have countries which have got bilateral trading agreements such as canada and mexico which have a wide range of things and are very similar in style to the e.c.u. agreements accession agreements some years back without a lot of the that that the burdensome regulations and that and the provokes attach that and you go way down that there's even a special form of association for countries like north korea now i'm not saying we should have a form of association with the here that pyongyang has but what i'm simply saying is if you have ten different ways of of trading and allying and a serious ating with with the source and you to do opinion there's a mechanism in there somewhere which is appropriate for any country and he doesn't have to be for membership and how would you characterize the e.u. has relationship with th

on the way in a few minutes enjoy the silence while europeans cry out against getting crushed by tax spikes in pay cuts the same troubles in the us can't seem to coax americans into action. first though appearing to blow up school children in front of their classmates is an unlikely way of trying to convince people to reduce pollution but when british eco campaigners tried to put comedy into cutting carbon the joke backfired badly it's tongue in cheek but some of the scenes are about to see are quite gory a short film script by the british writer behind the movie four weddings and a funeral led to complaints that it was sick and needlessly violent it was created on behalf of the ten ten environmental campaigners spurred people into reducing their carbon emissions by ten percent but it's a bloody images made of one of the shortest lived ad campaigns it was pulled from cinemas just hours after being released the charity action aid which originally backed the idea said it was absolutely appalled but richard curtis said quote when you try to be funny on a serious subject it's obviously r

while european countries are fighting to slash their budgets the european union itself is often more cash that's running billing larger states which resent paying for the problems of smaller nations they're pushing for strict new penalties including the loss of voter rights for countries which break the budget rules about lisbon treaty amendments is set to dominate a meeting of heads in brussels and very soon very soon will come back to our top story with more details on that. a pakistani born american has been arrested for carrying around surveillance on the washington d.c. metro was part of a suspected terror plot for two med is accused of providing support to people he believed were al qaeda members but who were actually f.b.i. agents and u.s. counterterrorism officials said there's no indication ahmed was ever in touch with real militants but still the incident has helped to stoke fears of so-called homegrown terrorism in the u.s. and does artie's marine airport found out critics say the f.b.i. may not be fighting terrorism so much use and trapping vulnerable humans. may two thou

now you're a euro skeptic explain to me your reasons for that well i'm skeptical about how much european government we need and want. as a british democrat i believe that most of the big decisions should be taken by an elected parliament in the united kingdom and as many decisions as possible should be dedicated to individuals families and lower levels of government within the united kingdom so i am skeptical about the need and purpose of a lot of european government at the measure nine level if something requires global agreement with and our systems for global treaties and global agreement global government if something needs a national government we have the institutions it's quite difficult i think identifying those things that really require a european level of government as well the debt crisis and resulting unrest that we're seeing in the eurozone at the moment do you think that's a precursor to a total collapse of the what those countries in western europe that wish to create a bigger country called europe are obviously right to try and create a single currency as well as other s

there's a big question we have always been reluctant members of the european union when we joined it we were told that it was merely a trading operation we had a referendum i voted in favor if i had known then what i know now i would have voted against. but we have this unfortunate feeling that on the one hand we don't like it very much we resentments and on the other hand many people think you're it's a long way away it doesn't affect me very much so let them get on with it. in fact of course it does intimately affect the lives of all of us and huge swathes of policy areas are decided in brussels not decided in the u.k. in my view it is making us poorer and less democratic and less free and i believe we would be better off out and do you support at this stage a referendum on being and if it were possible well i think we should stall with the referendum that every major political party in britain promised us which is the referendum on the lisbon treaty what they're now saying is well it's been ratified it's too late no it isn't too late we should have a referendum saying do you accep

and two time european belt holder versus another. and it certainly grabbed the fence attention with the rivalry being extremely close it was in a school of flame press the judges just that little bit more than annoying the level of the competition is very high so i didn't set out soley to win gold i was simply attempting to do as well as possible and test myself in the one hundred killers all the belts were very tough and as for the final are telling myself i know each other pretty well when we meet we call it the bone to bone fight meaning to opponents who are equal and it was only tactics which gave me the edge in this one of us i mean it often turns into eye catching in a move back matt action when it comes to women's fights in nearly flawless on board . this mission does the we were on the subordinate overcame hope bone and from bulgaria maria. elation it's been a tough and very long awaited victory for me i have finally beat her and being on home soil definitely helped me when. medals was the hardest russian sunblock pictish inn

the treasury writes a check to the european union every fortnight to the sum of a two hundred million pounds now that's not the whole picture because that is basically that's the gross contribution some of that money comes back as part the overall net deal over which the treasury has a pair of limited say so that's not necessarily well spent however. if you factor in the direct and indirect costs associated with the you membership the overall bill for business and for the country could be as high as two hundred billion pounds a year the problem is that nobody knows this because there has not been a cost benefit analysis if you say you membership so there's a huge question mark there which taxpayers alliance and other organizations are campaigning to get the answer to where does that money get well a lot of it doesn't come back into the into the u.k. because the u.k. is after germany the second largest contributor to the the budget certainly in net terms and along with a small number of northern european countries it's one of the one of the few which are overall net contributors a coun

i was reporting there the european union is demanding an additional nine hundred million pounds from the u.k. it comes with largest public spending cuts since the second world war were announced in the country thousands of protesters took to the streets of london saying it will condemn the u.k. to years of brutal unemployment while for more on this joined by martha and pearson who's a member of the european parliament and former chief accountant to the european commission thanks very much indeed for joining us now how come then the european union wants to increase its budget when most of its member countries are suffering economically. while the simple answer i can give you is that they live in another words really because they don't realize what the people in the different member states are going to do and they just want to cover their ambitions they justify the increase in that they have acquired new competences because of the lisbon treaty. people who were not consulted at least in the u.k. about the ratification of the lisbon treaty and now they are poised to pay the price of thi

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our culture is european and world trade relationship mostly with the european union more than sixty percent of foreign trade on the other hand russia is bigger than europe. your asian country because most over its territory is in asia there is also quite an important side of the russian life but in my mind for russia the most promising geopolitical reintegration is europe pacific like one more country in the world which is here a pacific and that is the united states you pretty much answered my question but if we were as of now to say where do russia's priorities lie can it face to the east and the west equally our priorities are east and west russia is european or. asian some people say russia is just an independent central power some say that russia should be part of the western community. some say that russia should look eastward or southern southward. my feeling is russia can build on its relationship with the west but it is quite unrealistic to assume that it can become part of the west goes integrating into the western community in the e.u. it means membership in the un nato w

ten percent of the british economy which is our exports to the european union but actually cover one hundred percent of the u.k. economy eighty percent of its internal ten percent is to the rest of the world so one hundred percent of the economy is paying the price of ten percent of all of what it's meant to regulate so that's one perspective the second thing is if you just look at the not the the cost of the regulations but the simple physical cost and the membership fee that is the equivalent of forming a chain along appear and dumping a block of gold off the end of it every one hundred seconds. it's a gold ingots every hundred seconds just cast into the watery depths and in terms of schools and hospitals which is something desperately needs to upgrade what about that now it's about a new hospital every three days i think it pays for the world family in two days i think it's something like every five days is the equipment to repairing every single cathedral in england and when we were doing the research for a book of ten years on which it looks hypothetically at where the u.k. woul

well obviously peace and stability on the european continent and the wider sense sense beyond the use borders isn't possible if these two major powers on the continent the you on the one hand in european countries e.u. member states leading you remember socialist france and germany and on the other hand russia don't don't find a positive way to manage the political situation political tensions economic dynamic on the continent and we've seen a very good example of that during. the crisis in fact a bloody crisis such as the russian drug war russian children war which was only two years ago but also over issues like gas deliveries and the destruction of them and the whole tensions over ukraine so the last two years have shown how vital it is for moscow and e.u. member states but true to manage their relations positively all of those points you've mentioned is exactly why russia has been pushing for changes in the european security structure and it really does want to have a greater say in strategic issues because at the moment it feels very left out as you talk about peace and stability

coming your way in a few minutes enjoy the silence while europeans cry out against getting crushed by tax spikes and pay cuts the same troubles in the u.s. can't seem to coax americans into action. a giant leap forward in the science of electronics which would have been possible were not for a strip of sticky tape party speaks the colleagues of the new russian nobel physics prize winners. the first of the appearing to blow up schoolchildren in front of their classmates is an unlikely way to try to convince people to reduce pollution but when british eco campaigners tried to put comedy into cutting carbon the joke badly backfired it's tongue in cheek but some of the scenes you'll see here are point gauri the short film scripted by the british writer behind four weddings and a funeral led to complaints that it was sick and needlessly violent it was created on behalf of the ten ten environmental campaign to spur people into reducing their carbon emissions by ten percent but it's a bloody images made it one of the shortest lived ad campaigns it was pulled from cinemas just hours after bei

europeans who are deeply angry over getting their welfare benefits cut taxes a hike are making their voices heard with loud protests across the continent they say they don't want to pay you for the mistakes of politicians and bank is the latest demonstration saw thousands of remaining teachers protest in bucharest demanding better wages and investment in education it's another country desperate to cut its budget deficit is trying to do it by slashing public sector wages by twenty five percent but on the other side of the atlantic americans are facing similar struggles and they are showing the same passion and fury at his press freedoms and why europeans are doing better trying to protect their pockets. it's october two thousand and ten and while things aren't looking too good americans and europeans have reacted to the tough times very differently about this story unfortunately you can't tell from this but only with mass struggle can there be a positive development for the benefit of foreigners or for us to try and make sure country maintains their liberty in the freedom that we had

european. rioting of retirement age increase while more angry protests are expected in the u.k. which has just announced its biggest social spending cut since world war two. the man believed to be behind the attack on the chechen parliament may have been a regional militant leader came to demonstrate his strength to al qaeda. and the weak human trafficking laws in india only to have shattered lives as village girls come to the big city by promises of a better life and end up in a brothel. and i'll be back with another update for you in less than fifteen minutes from now in the meantime does russia have full and open dialogue with the european union or other obstacles in the way well she's been asking a top russian diplomat who he's been giving his view on the country's foreign policy that special interview coming up next on r.t. . hi mr berndt cough it's good to have you with us today. the image of modern russia fear in many europeans where does all the prejudice come from. indeed i sometimes notice that russia in the eyes of europeans is a country that in essence continues the

hoping for closer cooperation with particularly on european missile defense and afghanistan. with more stories more developments in less than fifteen minutes from now meantime sport is next with here. great to have you with us this is sports today i'm you know these are some of our stories. solid start on the reeva's chances of ending this season the world number one remains after the russian takes care of. into the. top of the pile no russians but a hefty seventy six barcelona players make the list for the twenty. award given to the world's best footballers. on boxing tennis ball ice hockey athletics the list of sports a child can choose to do is virtually endless which is the best choice scientists believe they have discovered how to find the perfect fit for every. intriguing story and more are not coming up now eight of the world's top female tennis players are currently in doha bottling it for the w t a championships kron the kotori tournament a big one for russian. twenty six two on the verge of becoming the world's top ranked player if things go her way so maria doing h

union by the european commission, and brings together all the european ministers in charge for space in order to discuss european vision for space exploration and define what could be our priorities. it is certainly a process which will take longer than two meetings and it will not be the last one we'll see, but i think it is a starting point. we have invited also international partners, and it might become the nucleus of an initiative which might be political forum on the global level to discuss priorities and roads for space exploration. looking more completely into project and missions we have in the next year, we will be looking forward to the launch of two further launchers in theure peaian launch portfolio, veega -- vaguea, which will -- vega, which will happen earlier next year. medium and small payloads class launcher. we in the human space flight area we are looking forward to having the second launch of our a.t.v., logistics vehicle. we have an increment flight in december this year. six month stay on the space station. it will be welcoming for a.t.v.2, and other european w

their sense we discussed our relations with the european union to day president reaffirmed that the european union is our key strategic partner in a way to take this relationship between very positively and as we want this to expand it as much as possible to be sure and course nobody put it this way and this includes the promises that were long made about visa free travel in europe data shows that even though the united kingdom is not part of the zone we believe that the you know our relations to you will be able to provide more convenient so that. these were convenient conditions for our people especially those in the gauge until cheryl in educational exchanges rugrats a national weepy to special attention to the t u r elations we will need to fill in the russian nato council this is another structure that place a very important role in security affairs called russia and we would log on to see the principle that was the principle of the interviews ability of security that was declared in the russian that it causes but rather the e.u. clementon problem then regional problems of all we covere

and there is another european country bracing itself for even more austerity the u.k. government has announced its largest cuts in public spending since world war two the new plans will have the budget slashed by more than a billion pounds at a cost of a relish half a million public sector jobs the state pension age will be raised to sixty six by the year twenty twenty that's four years earlier than planned one of the hardest hit will be welfare benefits which will be slashed by seven billion pounds thousands of taken to the streets to oppose the measures but dr richard wellings the deputy editorial director at the institute of economic affairs tells me that the government should have gone even further. cut is the word on everyone's lips this week in the u.k. public sector cuts in the say put the cobra hence its spending review which will see nearly half a million jobs to go in the next four years that ans cuts to the defense budget too which will mean that the u.k. will no longer be able to mount an international military intervention on the scale of iraq or afghanist

riya sen looks at why europeans are doing better at trying to protect their pockets. it's october two thousand and ten and while things aren't looking too good americans and europeans have reacted to the tough times very differently about this story unfortunately you can't tell from this but only with mass struggle can there be a positive development for the benefit of foreigners or for us to try to make sure country maintains their liberty in the freedom that you had in the past. countries across the globe are facing one of the worst economic disasters in recent history fourteen million americans are unemployed one in five people in the united kingdom is living in poverty and more than twenty percent of spain's population can't find work more unequal your society gets the more unequal usually continues to get because when inequality reaches anything like the levels we see in american male the sheer amount of wealth and income in the hands of the very wealthy means they can begin to buy political parties they can buy whole segments of the house and senate so now world

a important state is not pored over european security system as of today the european security system is nato. this is where we're part of it so the proposal of mediated to build common security space is to bring russia and some other countries which are still like ukraine into the common european. security decision making are you one of those politicians who believes that nato is an outdated tokenization every organization which exists is not outdated it exists. of course some missions of this organizations are somewhat old dated and some of the thinking inside nato. though data the nato bureaucracy is sometimes old data nato was created. as you may remember keep america in germany and russia. and america in the real purpose of nato but you know keeping germany down the russian dated missions but sometimes it looks like that these missions are still there you know barack obama's federal securities tragedy says that no one country even the strongest one can. actually faced while challenges alone is this one politician speaking or oil really changing a water order well i think there is

european security especially in. terms of the security structures of european union and russia among. nato that france germany and russia of poland are building a sort of architecture in this in the new reaction to the conflicts that we are facing now in the world in general and there was certain interest from. russia will also get not as he'll to free a travel. visit nicole bacon and eggs team we discussed among other if she is up woman but i hope that we also in this what the near future would find a solution for this issue. i would. conclude that we discussed a lot of the issues and it was a very effective and it was a david. and i think we should. be actually in different parts of the discussions on but we also discussed some issues about israel and i unfortunately we weren't agree on side so issues in the hope that you will be able to. take the responsibility in dealing with other countries over the world in thinking much for your attention. shaft. how did you manage. to. change the a russian i've peeing in agai

union and european politicians don't appreciate that. and i would say that really there's a lot of emotions obviously between the personalities in russia and in georgia but i don't really feel that that has overlapped too much to the european union i also feel that they're currently. this government is also different than the previous one and that the kind of kind of very strong support that he received in washington under the bush administration has also shifted now. do you think andrei that the reason for that simply just said is that is that the new book will project is really buried by the europeans. by one thing so i don't think so i mean i see more in the book of the road political issues on the economic levers of course for europe as for their budget and also be diversifying of the local all of grassroots are is very important of course for this is the economical party and the military i mean people are politic part of that is of course europe doesn't want to depend on we want to europe or mostly or more only on russia or mostly o

budget certainly in net terms and along with a small number of northern european countries it's one of the one of the few which are overall net contributors to a country like france it is much more it gets a lot more back for bang for the book. so you could you could say that a lot of it goes in terms of subsidizing and upgrading the superstructure and infrastructure of eastern and southern europe which from a british taxpayers viewpoint one has to question is a british taxpayer contributing billions of pounds a year effectively to another country's that is not proper use of taxpayers' money so you're talking about one hundred ten billion euros which is an impossible think athame people to understand what does it mean what would it buy in real terms well let's let's narrow this down a little bit more i mean a hundred hundred ten billion euros is the overall cost including all of like elations in the red tape so firstly in terms of regulations in the red tape the cost of the regulations and red tape in this is based on the commission's own official commitment commission's own osa testin