i'm talking to roger helmer who's a you're a skeptic member of the european parliament he's very adamant 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 view it is making us poorer and less democratic and less free and i believe we would be better off out and

increase is really abusive it's interesting to hear what you have to say as a member of the european parliament where does that put your position because obviously many u.k. taxpayers not only are they suffering from the latest austerity measures but know having to perhaps pay for this extra demand from the european union something like nine hundred million pounds which will have to come from the british taxpayers pocket surely that's going to undermine your own role in the whole role of the e.u. from the point of view of the british taxpayer and they will lose faith in all of the european system. well listen we have voted the u.k. the fan the spark the. peace have voted against any increase i work very hard in the budget committee to block this increase but. this is this is the only thing that i can do i mean it's very difficult the most powerful political parties in the european parliament take the lead and they want to increase the budget because they want to acquire more power and then it's a very tough job for this mall or parties to be able to block this initiative and you know their inte

well another member of the european parliament roger helmer says the e.u. is going to see more unrest due to divisions within it and you can catch the four interview with the british politician next hour but here is a quick preview. i could see a long period all quite serious process rest but the political and broader economic questions are really very interesting we're seeing that the german people are becoming extremely reluctant to be the bankers of last resort for the euro zone germans who retire at sixty five don't want to keep paying money to greece where they retire at fifty eight in order to maintain a mediterranean lifestyle so these deep unhappiness. i think comes down to the issue of the euro currency the euro skeptics of the. euro the euro currency couldn't work because you had disparate economies with different economic cycles they called to have the same monetary policy of the what we call to have the same currency and frankly fall out of ten years as the euro seemed to work sort of all right and people say well you predicted all these disaste

european parliament is divided over washington's demands to provide more personal data of the new citizens in a bid to root out potential terrorist traveling to the u.s. the requirements include fingerprints d.n.a. samples and cross border payments. and alleged russian gun runner a big your book is awaiting a decision on his extradition to the u.s. after a thai court cleared the way for the handover the family of the so-called merchant of death fear for his wife and say he may be forced to confession. is a euro on the brink of collapse and should the strong countries of the eurozone to ditch the weaker ones are his lorianne it puts these questions and war to the well known british euro skeptic roger helmer that interviews coming right up. 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 e.u. case treaties with the right to have that thank you very much for talking to r.t. first of all how would you characterize the u.k.'s relationship

the european parliament's divided over washington's demands to provide more personal data of e.u. citizens so it's as a can root out potential terrorist traveling to the united states. campbell look at how one groundbreaking discovery at a russian clinic is now saving lives and giving hope to children with leukemia. you're watching are you coming to live from moscow eleven am here marina joshie welcome to the program now for years the united states was the biggest preacher of tolerance in the world and it was justly proud of its melting pot of nationalities living side by side with a little conflict but it seems that isn't true anymore with a fresh wave of xenophobia sweeping through the country has more. america is supposed to be a nation of tolerance. but bleeding through her stars and stripes. and ugliness incapable of masking protests against the construction of new mosques illegal immigration and economic reform point to a fear and frustration. an emotional climate experts say where many americans are swapping patriotism for nationalism definitely is a phobia it's a fear of t

politician and member of the european parliament and says washington doesn't want to allow the e.u. with the same access. at this point we are sending about nine ninety six million bits of financial transfers ninety million messages financial messages each month to the united states so this is billions a year and well. the european citizens turn to us to see. how is this happening at this point the flow of data is from the e.u. to the u.s. and does that theoretical possibility of diverting this is this is this where all of the data but still ethical reciprocity it's not real reciprocity and asymmetrical reciprocity it's not reciprocity have told so at this point we do not at first present with the united states we between these two run deal which was rejected by parliament and two which was approved and then with my votes against but the proved we managed to get a new rupee an overseer in washington which will be looking over the american shoulders as it were ends with the bowlers to start a search that's he or she we did not appropriate the problem is that now the european commissi

all banking transactions within europe well greta rush he's a politician and member of the european parliament joins me now live from brussels thanks very much indeed for joining us here on r.t. now the the so-called swift deal allows the u.s. access to the new citizens banking history now is the u.s. really after other information and if it does get that information how well would that data be protected. well if i were an investigator trying to. you know collect intelligence out of several kinds of data i would i would like to have a talk i would like to have bank data travel as we see with the passengers names records also well why not biometric later and also e-mails phone calls etc but i am not an investigator i am a politician so i am a representative and i know that's hundreds of millions of european citizens five hundred millions well who like to give their pin codes. to even their best friends and now at this point we are sending about nine ninety six million bits of financial transfers ninety million messages financial messages each month to the united states so this is billions a yea

john il awarded his son kim jong un and other family members top post the former leader of the european parliament delegation to north korea glim forte says all these appointments could mark a whole new era for the country's foreign policy it looks you know if you're a generational change and not merely the if you're the signaling of who eventually will succeed kim jong il there are certainly people in japan within within the former ruling party the neo cons there and people within the united states administration not all of them there are tensions in there who actually find it very convenient that it needs to be deployed after michelle defense in japan which obviously deters the north koreans with the same time pressure on the chinese to move more money into their military. well according to a new us poll the majority of americans don't trust the country's news media find out why one hour's time when our teams laurie harshness hits the streets of new york in this week's the resident. but i just don't feel like we're getting all the facts and there are some facts that should be out there that the

i'm not going to take on a lot less than ten minutes from now we're asking a member of the european parliament whether the euro is on the brink of collapse before that the business updates is next with you. for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. hello and a very warm welcome to the business news the investment for more free to be capital brought together experts on finance and building businesses the two day event addressed two main issues turning moscow into a world financial center and diversify the russian economy will bring you the highlights. all politicians and business people seem agreed that russia's economy needs to diversify but doesn't that say there is no single path. what we call the best prediction for an economy is scenario seventy eight if the oil price remains at seventy eight dollars per barrel they caught i mean is likely going to the period of stagnation in the brush and if like stagnation of the seventy's and eighty's that is this will happen if there are no serious economic reforms being undertaken right n

management a member of the european parliament claims the euro is to blame for most of the continent's current economic woes. i think the euro is teetering on the edge this is a manifestation of it this is a massive problem and you can throw hundreds of billions that it is they're trying to do but it's beyond that now i mean the real underlying problem is you're trying to force together all these different types of column is doing very well others are very weak and you cannot force them together under one common currency call the euro the euro's the problem it's just unsustainable this as a say you know they're throwing hundreds of billions of euros that it and the germans are paying through the nose and you know the majority of germans now want to leave the euro and that's conceivable that we recreate all the national currencies or certain strong currencies leave although we currently one or the other. the biggest country in south america one of the wells and just imagine economies is getting ready to elect a new president brazil's hugely popular outgoing lee the. can't take part havi

let's stay with the story now and talk to alexander a german member of the european parliament joining us live from frankfurt so we saw you saying a lot of financial concerns inside the eurozone tell me this so germany and france got their way and convince the e.u. to consider changes to the lisbon treaty is this a case of the strongest countries bullying others to get their way. well it certainly is not the best example of cooperation if you have two member states running ahead and then expecting that twenty five others are going to follow instead of trying to find a common approach together with twenty seven member states and one has seen the reactions at the council so far that it is not very welcomed what germany and france are trying to do at the moment are now. money you cause break ups in every part of life do you think the united europe is heading for a political divorce perhaps well it is not a political divorce but it certainly is a political question how serious we are about tighter sanctions when certain countries might endanger the eurozone as a whole and when we're trying

the european commission the european parliament. in the us following the arrest of. people who. are members. which today looks at the magic of metal changes.

when i told him what i really thought of the european parliament he said "my god it's worse than i thought." but we recognized we could work together. not just lots of shared values, like wanting a country that is more free, more fair, more green, more decentralized. but a shared way of trying to do business. reasonable debate, not tribal dividing lines. give and take. respect when you disagree. trust. a sense that politics shouldn't be so different from the rest of life, where rational people do somehow find a way of overcoming their disagreements. nick clegg is not just sitting in government trying to win a few concessions here and there. the liberal democrats are proper partners, getting stuck in, making big decisions, shaping what we do and taking responsibility. that's why we can form a proper government and you can be proud of what we've done together. [applause] now i know there will be compromise and i know we'll have to do things we might not like. next may, there'll be a referendum on electoral reform. i don't want to change our voting system any more than you do. but let's not w

. >> members of the european parliament are up in arms over the sudden change of direction on sanctions for countries that breached deficit rules. they were especially disappointed that chancellor merkel succeeded to france. >> the self determined directive is an attack on the institutions of the eu. >> there is a parts from the beach and some beautiful hotels, there is a casino. maybe we should [unintelligible] >> on monday and tuesday, the german chancellor agreed with the french president on significant changes to deficit sanctioned procedures. germany had wanted the european commission to impose immediate and automatic sanctions on countries that agree to the deficit limits. now sanctions will require a six-month grace period and a qualified majority of euro zone government. the commission president says the only want from progress on the issue. >> was the clear. the overall results must present a real change from the current situation. >> critics say the euro will stable honorable even under the new regime in a week's time. the 27 leaders will discuss the changes in brussels. >> th

to oppose the european parliament wished to increase the eu budget by almost 6%. >> adding that is completely unacceptable at a time when european countries including the united kingdom are taking a tough decisions on their budgets. we do not believe they should be spending more money on themselves. 6% is not acceptable. i have built an alliance with my colleagues to put a stop to that and see if we can do something better. >> but it is scenes like those seen on the streets of athens earlier this year that are likely to preoccupy the. the eu only reluctantly agreed to bail greece out. it seems that the eu is trying to come up with a way to make sure a crisis of this kind never happens again. germany and france have their own plan. countries with excessive debt would have their e you voting rights taken away. most controversial, the idea that changes would have to be made to the treaty that bind the eu together. the german chancellor standing by her believe today that some modification might be required to ensure that any future rescues pose less of a threat to the u.s. and its currency. the l

samples and banking details members of the european parliament argue the measures will help in the fight on terror. up next our special report this time we meet folks who are getting back to basics find out why they're turning their backs on the bright lights of the big city to be at one with nature stay with us. out in the countryside every day hard work is far more valuable than creature comforts here the people have no use for the latest high tech handheld devices consume a crazes. they build what they call ecological settlements to live in harmony with the natural environment so well they simply escaping big city life for a short break or are they fully rejecting modern civilization ecological settlements a refuge for misfits and down costs or a place for the independent and strong minded of these people moving to be the economic crisis or to escape from themselves. that is already committed early on some is an important time for a few that's when he begins collecting honey from his forty bee hives as he pulls out each heavy honeycomb he suggests that bees may be in nature's original

european parliament's divided over washington's demands to provide more personal data of citizens so they can root out potential terrorists traveling to the u.s. for requirements including fingerprints and d.n.a. samples and cross border payments. and the u.s. sees a spike in islam a full week rather rican hate crimes as american society prostrated bike anomic hardships is also split by racial tensions many fear of the country previously known as the biggest feature of tolerance in the world is now swapping patriotism for nationalism. so we have lines here in our team is continues at the top of the hour time now though for our special report where we meet those getting back to basics find out why people are turning their backs on the bright lights of the city to be of one with nature. out in the countryside every day hard work is far more valuable than creature comforts here the people have no use for the latest high tech handheld devices consumer crazes. they build what they call ecological settlements to live in harmony with the natural environment so while they simply escaping big

europopn parliament and peas are are saying -- european parliament mp's are saying they need to be involvedin this could be a long, drawn-out process. but the hope is this can be achieved, that the lawyers can come up with a way of putting this permanent crisis mechanism into the treaty as the german chancellor wants without having to go down the road with major surgery on the existing treaty, which would require parliamentary approval across europe. >> what are the risks involved reworking the lisbon treaty? >> the big danger is if there is any sort of slim opening of the door for a treaty change, there will be those who will say, look, while we are at it, let's look at other things. this is always the risk. when the tree is reopened, it is fair game. -- when the treaty is reopened, it is fair game. they may look at other issues. that is why e.u. leaders want to avoid setting up a convention which brings mp's into it and almost invites people to say, let's make a more thorough revisal of the lisbon treaty. that would be a real negative for your's long-term future. this lisbon treaty took n

the european parliament is divided over washington's demands to provide more personal data of the e.u. citizens in a bid to root out potential terrorists traveling to the u.s. the requirements include fingerprints d.n.a. samples and cross border payments. now ended russian gun runner of the book is awaiting a decision on his extradition to the u.s. after a thai court cleared the way for the handover the family of the so-called merchant of death figure for his wife and say he may be forced into a confession. plus time now for a special report where we made those getting back to basics find out why people are turning their backs on the bright lights of the city to be a one with nature. out in the countryside every day hard work is far more valuable than creature comforts here the people have no use for the latest high tech handheld devices consumer crazes. they build what they call ecological settlements to live in harmony with the natural environment so while they simply escaping big city life for a short break or are they fully rejecting modern civilization ecological settlements a re

doing very well it's practically eighty odd percent of new laws now come out of the european union not domestic parliaments so from their point of view it's all fine and their problem is always that there isn't enough european union not that there's too much of it but they don't have enough power so they see every crisis as an excuse for demanding more power to solve the problems that they created in the first place or a general. batton a member of the european parliament thank you. you're welcome. well let's have a brief look at now at other stories making headlines around the world this hour and more than three hundred forty people have been confirmed dead following a tsunami in indonesia thousands of people have attended funeral ceremonies for the victims already over four hundred people are still missing and are feared to have been swept away by the giant wave nevertheless rescue teams are still hoping to find survivors after reaching the worst hit areas a failure of a tsunami warning system is being blamed for the scale of fatalities. un chief ban ki moon's issued an ultimatum to me in mars' military

european parliament and peas are are saying -- european parliament mp's are saying they need to be involved in this could be a long, drawn-out process. but the hope is this can be achieved, that the lawyers can come up with a way of putting this permanent crisis mechanism into the treaty as the german chancellor wants without having to go down the road with major surgery on the existing treaty, which would require parliamentary approval across europe. >> what are the risks involved reworking the lisbon treaty? >> the big danger is if there is any sort of slim opening of the door for a treaty change, there will be those who will say, look, while we are at it, let's look at other things. this is always the risk. when the tree is reopened, it is fair game. -- when the treaty is reopened, it is fair game. they may look at other issues. that is why e.u. leaders want to avoid setting up a convention which brings mp's into it and almost invites people to say, let's make a more thorough revisal of the lisbon treaty. that would be a real negative for your's long-term future. this lisbon treaty took

two because it consists of seven points we presented this plan to the european commission the european parliament nato our partners in the us in afghanistan and here in pakistan the plan calls for a comprehensive approach first of all this huge problem should be officially recognized as a threat to international peace and security in other words this is a separate problem that kills more than one hundred thousand people each year hundreds of millions of people suffer from this problem which everyone has been talking about for almost a decade second as i just said we need to eradicate opium poppy and the international security assistance force which is in afghanistan today under the un mandate and therefore has assumed responsibility for the future of afghanistan should play very active role in our medicaid in the crocker then of course afghanistan needs economic eight we need to rebuild its infrastructure by the way the legal afghan economy today operates mostly thanks to the hundred forty two industrial facilities that the soviet union built there as far as i'm aware no new facilities have been

during the passage through the various committees and european parliament, there was heavy lobbying from the industry that put out most of the provisions that would prevent the sort of thing. four years after the directive came into force in proves to be a lame duck. >> you are saying the industry itself got into the u.n. of putting in to do -- got into the way putting in measures? >> very vociferous elements representing the small sectors that were very or vociferous and over the top. you cannot put all of this burden on this. the reality that these dams, they are constructed over many decades of minerals. always changes of personnel, there is loss of information so they're very much a field -- have a failure of an average of once a year somewhere in the world. because it is built over many decades, it is not like a water dam built in one single project. they are patched over years. that is the problem. this is well known but the industry was great resistance to take more preventive measures. >> thank you very much. the president of the philippines ordered former -- formal charges be fi