work when things seem to go against the european union's viewpoint they're dropping in technocrats we could argue that this is all because of huge economic problems in terms of the technocratic element but of course what's happening is the groundswell of those on the streets the people in bucharest for example in romania who are protesting today are protesting because what they see is a european union that is not delivering its side of the deal and the deal is free trade and jobs and ultimately there is economic chaos within the european union at the moment driven from the euro zone and that is not to the advantage of coalition citizens which makes them certainly very uneasy at night where there are certainly some that have said that the issue of croatia joining joining the e.u. could be the first case in the history of rats actually jumping onto a sinking ship tell us here at r.t. why does the e.u. even want new members in these ongoing tough times. but you know that's a very very interesting question because actually within the european union i'm not entirely convinced that they

well i'm puzzled by it because the thing is iran isn't selling its oil to the european union it will be selling it to somebody else that person will then need to import less oil from elsewhere and that will be freed up for the europeans i mean oil is pretty much oil and so if the same amount is going into the world market the same os coming out i don't see that a whole lot of speed achieved now if you get into a scenario where they start trying to stop arabian oil exports altogether and then the iranians might want to attack saudi oil fields this gives the west a big incentive for a preemptive attack if the temperature rise on that show and i know john let me go to a short break we'll go right back to you after the short break after a short break we'll continue our discussion on the future of red state with our team. and. the official. to go on the phone only pulled talk from the. one. on the good. video on demand. and on recess feeds now in the palm of your. question. the so. to say. it's just so. if. we. save him if you see. him in. the south. welcome back to cross talk you know all

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again, the european union is one economic space. there isn't any duty there are not any borders, anything. -- there are not any borders, anything. doing business with germany is, of course, like doing business between two states within the united states. >> do you think the eu is going to survive? right now it is in a big crisis, isn't it? >> again, we would need another show. >> what would you think? >> i sincerely think that the european union as a project will survive and it is a good project because it has really taken away all of the trauma from the past. as i said, we used to have a little bit of discussion with germany. there was tension between germany and france after the war. and all of these tensions and recriminations are all gone within the european project because people can travel, do business, steady, and there are no borders. so this is really like making us all equal. that is good. >> that is good -- the good news. >> some of the integration of policies and processes were a little too politically motivated. that so

well i'm puzzled by it because the thing is if iran isn't selling its oil to the european union it will be selling it to somebody else that person will then need to import less oil from elsewhere and that will be freed up for the europeans i mean oil is pretty much oil and so if the same amount is going into the world market the same coming out i don't see that a whole lot of spin achieved now if you get into a scenario where they start trying to stop arabian oil exports altogether and then the iranians might want to attack saudi oil fields this gives the west a big incentive for a preemptive attack if the temperature around that show and i know john let me go to a short break i'll go right back to you after the short break after a short break we'll continue our discussion on the future of rent space with our team. to. i am. were shot four times in total. war as it were the. story of the boys are still in my body. and those people should be allowed to defend themselves wherever they are guns in the hands of law abiding decent people are not a problem national rifle association there's a

well i'm puzzled by it because the thing is if iran isn't selling its oil to the european union it will be selling it to somebody else that person will then need to import less oil from elsewhere and that will be freed up for the europeans i mean oil is pretty much oil and so if the same amount is going into the world market the same coming out i don't see that a whole lot has been achieved now if you get into a scenario where they start trying to stop or any oil exports altogether and then the iranians might want to attack saudi oil fields this gives the west a big incentive for a preemptive attack if the temperatures are going to show and i know john i'm going to go to a short break i'll go right back to you after the short break after our sjoberg will continue our discussion on the future of iran's faith with our team. to. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom hardy welcome to the big picture. if you

a common space analogous to the european union and now his new idea for you are always in the union itself part of this is political but i think the economic logic behind reintegrate integration is an excuse in this capable particularly of globalization actually means anything right maybe i would do you think about that because one of the one of the criticisms of the c.i.s. is that it tries to be too many things at one time it focuses on trade economic security there's some elements of the military but obviously in a sense of self defense nothing like nato whatsoever and really they and they can in the criticism is that it wants to be a european union want to be but probably the current commonwealth of nations you know would look again at the u.k. experience is probably more to the mark but still the criticism is that it wants to be all things to all people all the time and that makes it very muddled. no doubt but that is the nature of these sorts of transnational integrative processes. if you look and put in address this in his remarks after his. article he pointed out that this is a mult

republican electorate well i'm puzzled by it because the thing is if iran isn't selling its oil to the european union it will be selling it to somebody else that person will then need to import less oil from elsewhere and that will be freed up for the europeans i mean oil is pretty much oil and so if the same amount is going into the world market the same us coming out i don't see that a whole lot of spin achieved now if you get into a scenario where they start trying to stop arabian oil exports altogether and then the iranians might want to attack saudi oil fields this gives the west a big incentive for a preemptive attack if the temperature rise on that show and i know john i'm going to go to a short break i'll go right back to you after the short break after a short break we'll continue our discussion on the future of red state with our team. in. wealthy british style. is not on the title of. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds or report on. you know how som

the european union or the iranians doing the right thing or is it a bluff. i don't think it is a love i think it is a defensive measure they could force the o.p.m. union to look for it somewhere else at a higher price because the global oil market is so all tied so trying to fly five hundred to six hundred thousand bet is which are imported by the european union will not be as easy job furthermore the gulf producers including saudi arabia are not in a positive to all of said the loss of that oil because they don't have any spare capacity to be able to provide for the european union so we are in a very. difficult situation with the oil market very very tight ok john if i can go back to you i mean really what this is all about we had tim geithner going around the world last month getting countries to cut oil imports from iran and most countries are not going to go along with it but what the what is really the plan is really about nuking iran is nuclear program or is it really about regime change for over thirty years now well after four sets of sanctions this i

if you are theater there is no political content because in reality they are both fans of the european union and they cannot do what they pretend to want to do like green just realisation saving companies you know what they're proposing are against e.u. laws you know the socialist party of the ruling union for a popular movement have ratified ninety three percent of what the e.u. proposed because sarkozy and hollande are two economic liberal candidates with very minimal differences in stands on social issues like somalia which is why i'm interested in the poor who has good poll ratings and offers an alternative to leave the european union go back to the french france and defy wall street and the other to try to pretend she doesn't exist they try to get the french into the american system they are afraid and marie le pen can make it to the second round of the presidential elections if that happens it will expose the lie of the french system with a huge amount of media effort through television shows they try to bring the french people into a situation of actually having no choice. you have al

you have two choices that are essentially the same or say you are against the european union and you're against the euro and what exactly is it that you see for france a system that you see would work better for your country. to deceive other than when you look at the reality of the past twenty years the european union has changed very little by the way if we remember back then we felt we were still having referendums on such decisions as the mass treat referendum got through but in the second referendum on the lisbon treaty the french voted no in our land they voted no it was rejected by the people but then forcibly voted in by m.p.'s. this means that the national assembly betrayed the people of fronts it does not represent the people in statistical terms that lisbon has been ratified by the national assembly overwhelmingly and when the people rejected the treaty in a referendum it is clear that this representative democracy actually represents no one at all today because the european union is scared of the people for the consulting the people who can drop the ball there's also the dem

croatia is set to become the twenty eighth country to join the european union after the proposal was approved in a national referendum the country's accession now has to be ratified by all current member nations with almost all ballots counted two thirds of voters expressed a desire to join the bloc despite the e.u. is ongoing debt crisis the turnout however just forty four percent pointed to apathy among many towards the issue of the build up to a friend and was marred by clashes as anti e.u. protesters staged staged demonstrations right up to the vote as artist on boxing reports opposition to joining the european union is not likely to end here. violent scenes in the croatia but it's the country's referendum that said to. me. to be. the protesters away they take protest is the way the situation in. the croatian capital and fighting has been going on. police are going to take people away in vans in protest is trying to stop. these protesters say the government is trying to suppress the dissenting voices they are joining with surrender croatia's independence to brussels. but in anoth

or a shop to join the european union after a national referendum marked by clashes polarized opinion and a disappointing turnout. russia's policy on internal migration falls into the focus of pm and presidential runner why we put nasty present another set of plans as part of his election program. gold has gained more than six percent since the beginning of the year in our business bulletin we'll be looking at the prospects for the precious metal. one pm of the russian capital you're watching our arena joshie welcome to the program the syrian leadership has rejected the arab league's transition plan aimed at curbing violence in the country that's according to syrian state t.v. the authorities say it doesn't reflect the will of the people and violates the country's sovereignty or the surfer as reports on what exactly the regime of jack's two. it's not for civilization that's for heavy guns the pieces by both sides which the conclusion of the report by the arab league monitors arab league they've also called on president bashar al assad to delegate power to his vice president and form a

and the european union. and as you can see here the europeans make up just twenty percent of the iranian exports so what purpose what these sanctions really serve well for some insight i'm joined by dr sara shorey and author independent consultant welcome to the show sara so as we just saw there these sanctions are meant to cripple iran by by stopping about by penalizing their exports but the european union only makes for twenty percent so what kind of a in effect what would this really have as you said european union is purchasing twenty percent of iran's oil wouldn't sixty percent of iran actually going to asian markets and for country of india china. japan and south korea totally by ninety percent of iranian oil. so actually deducting this. is not easy for iran to find a replacement for customers but iran can always offer a lower premium and better prices in compared to the same quality of crude oil and can find substitute customers china disappoint finish the first phase of building a strategy petroleum

graciously said to become the twenty eighth country to join the european union after the proposal was given the go ahead in a national referendum the country's accession now has to be approved by all current member nations with almost all ballots counted two thirds of voters expressed a desire to join the bloc despite the ongoing debt crisis the turnout however a just forty four percent pointed to apathy among many towards the issue the build up to the referendum was marred by clashes and to e.u. protesters staged demonstrations right up to the vote and as artie's to embark reports opposition to joining the european union is likely to and here. violent scenes in the croatian trumpet it's the country's referendum but certainly . this is being made behind me the police trying to push the protesters away you say take and seize protest his way six ways to miss the tense here in the creation capital and find things has been going believe well now police are going to take people away in advance of protest is trying to stop the going on. no you hear. these anti protesters say the government

sanctions on iran is signed into law by president barack obama in january and as far as the european union is concerned they're expected to formally implement these sanctions in about six months time and that is in july. you mentioned moments ago that these sanctions are in one way or another intended to cripple the iranian economy any other sanctions deemed they might have an effect. yes of course i mean this is unprecedented not just in terms of its impact on iran or the suppose a desired results on iran but also on president it in terms of the potential economic impact on the itself especially since it is still trying to deal with the sovereign debt crisis and all in all totally the e.u. imports about twenty percent of iranian oil it is the second largest buyers and the biggest buyers within the e.u. are italy spain and greece which of course the three countries which are very much in debt and trying to get out of this debt crisis let's greece for instance is it's one third of its oil imports it makes one third of its total oil imports and it's also rely on terror watch for easier credi

foreign ministers of the twenty seven member states of the european union are meeting today and one of the most important issues on the table out of the sanctions on iran it is expected that they will pass president targeting the oil and financial sectors this will be the toughest to date and it's of course over the controversial nuclear program. long insisted that iran is on a dangerous path towards acquiring nuclear weapons has consistently denied this these talks on the back of twenty seven nations having to deal with a sovereign debt crisis for almost two years now there are countries like france for instance who really want to see. possible in a couple of months. of about twelve months so today they're expected to give the detail on the timeline somewhere between the three months that will satisfy all of the member states now the embargo will follow. passed into law by president obama in january and collectively all these sanctions are fully implemented you will see about two point six million barrels of oil taken off of international markets which is of course the markets into a

for a shop to join the european union after a national referendum marked by clashes polarized opinion and a disappointing turnout. russia's policy on internal migration falls into the focus of pm and presidential run of what in your position as he presents and other set of plans as part of his election programme. gold has seen a remarkable performance over the past decade and could be on track to become the best one choice of the year find out more from our business bulletin and. what you know if you live from moscow nine am here on marina joshie the syrian leadership has rejected the arab league transition plan aimed at curbing violence in the country and that's according to syrian state t.v. the authorities say it doesn't reflect the will of the people and violates the country's sovereignty party sarah for reports of what exactly the regime objects to . it's not for civilization that's for heavy guns play the pieces by sides that is the conclusion of the report by the arab league monitors arab league they've also called on president bashar al assad delegate power to his vice preside

president obama welcomes the move by the european union to impose new economic sanctions on iran. >> calls for calm in kenya. as the violence continues in syria, and we will have a special report. >> it is 12 noon in singapore. >> it is 4:00 in the morning in london. we are broadcasting to viewers on pbs in america and around the world. >> turkey has reacted with fury to the latest move by french law makers to condemn the mass killing of armenians by turks in 1915. the turkish and justice minister has described the vote as unjust and lacking any respect for his country. turkey's ambassador in paris threatens to downgrade diplomatic relations with france. the armenian foreign minister said the french vote would go down in history as protecting human rights. >> this is the moment french senators passed a law forbidding anyone to deny what they say was the genocide of armenians in 1915. anyone who now says it did not have been faces a year in prison and a fine of up to 60,000 u.s. dollars. turks living in france are outraged. they feel the charge of genocide is a direct insult to them.

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the european union has decided to go after it ran where it hurts. >> iran warned the european union not to do this. to make its point, a carry out war games in the gulf and threatened to close the crucial straits of hormuz. in response, the world's most powerful military has sent an aircraft carrier to make sure the straits stay open. the u.s. and iran have crash -- have clashed year before. america wants to keep the price of oil stable. >> if any limitation upon the availability of oil, one would expect the price to go upward. it is that simple. >> summit will be ready to make up the shortfall. in oman, they prepared to get ready for the shortfall. losing a source of income might be hard to bear. >> what do these sanctions mean and what is the impact going to be? i'm joined now by the president of the national american-iranian council. let's start with this threat of closing the straits of hormuz. do you think they would actually do that? >> if they cannot sell their own oil, perhaps that's a feasible calculation because they are not losing that much. but at the end of this day, the ir

that is translated into membership of the european union gracious budget would be in serious trouble everywhere you turn in croatia the e.u. is being discussed whereas most of the political class no longer question the europhiles stance public views differ widely you should know that italians will come into our sea and catch all our fish and that's our biggest creditor you know if you think of their affiliates though they told us we have to obey the e.u. has regulations those they don't want they must stop trading political target those of us here who are small family business and the european union commissions everything toward big shopping centers to some in my lady but they are not for the family members seem to think i have two sons higher employed and maybe because of that i would be prior to being raped or most of the symbols were you know there are legitimate worries about sovereignty local industry and economic well being a former state and there are still some voices in parliament that think the benefits of what joining us were the costs that we were not going with our heads