to nations on an equal police and the european union in terms of related health boards we brought in a couple years ago i don't know where the professor's been and i don't know if he's keeping in touch but talking about central planning. no political party in the u.k. is in favor of central planning. all the countries all the political parties are active in parliament and westminster and indeed i actually believe in the mixed economy to one degree or another so i think that professor is completely out of touch with viewpoint on these issues in terms of the european union i think it's preposterous to suggest that if you in europe somehow you know independent friends notably did not send troops to iraq and independent scotland if we'd been in power would not have done so that's real independence not having. weapons on your soil the decision not to have them is real independence having control of. your social security system pain sions you know that is independence of having a role and in the world i mean do you see the silly seriously think we are going to all of somalia to police comm

their health care and the police both of these gentlemen are also for keeping scotland in the european union which is an institution which has a tremendous democratic deficit it has no legitimacy unlike say the united states constitution where our states joined together to make a true national union that was done by the people themselves acting in the conventions were as in the european union has been this project ever since john boehner started back in the olden days of jamming having elites jam it down on the public and they're all the elites have been consistently terrified of allowing referendums how about our scottish national party friend if this scotland achieves independence will you allow the people of scotland to vote on whether to stay in the european union and ask our labor party friend why not let the people of scotland vote on that and why not let the people of the united kingdom as a whole vote on that why should laws be made in brussels that apply to people in the united kingdom or in scotland if it's independent when the people of scotland in the united kingdom have never co

what can the european union to? one thing is certain it's not enough just to decide this humanitarian assistance however important that may be. i think that we know that the military action is not the alternative of the united nations in the european union together with others set up a political front can use all means available and imaginable. to ensure that this country which is so dependent on the outside world can be influenced. we have information which is available and must be made available. and we must show solidarity. we must bring pressure on china and the russian federation and and we must put an end to the arms trafficking toward syria and we need >> the european parliament passed a resolution the who poses new sanctions on the syrian government. it also urges cutting off of my third contact with the country. the general assembly voted to condemn the actions and calling for president bush here all of saab -- president assad to step down. on friday secretary of state hillary clinton said the u.s. is evalu

already in the european union why would they have to re reply they are to ever vote that the scottish people devore voted on that professor baines rense a very good as a lot when i was a lot of scholarship in criticizing the concept cross of the trusteeship decide which is the city of these are you currently producing as it were a nurse or can rule people without their consent for their supposed that old good why are the scottish people good enough to vote on whether they're going to be ruled from london why don't they have the right to vote on whether they're going to be ruled from brussels nobody has ever asked them to vote on that what are rightly these are issues and you did a. poll and the it was one nine hundred seventy five and you know these issues are decided let's learn. parties who stand their parties who stand who want to take britain out of the european union and they are humiliated to every single general election that happens so i think the vast majority of the british people want to stay within the european union we do have to reform the e.u. look you're right it does

achieves independence will you allow the people of scotland to vote on whether to stay in the european union and ask our labor party friend why the let the people of scotland vote on there and why not let the people of the united kingdom as a whole vote on that why should laws be made in brussels that apply to people in the united kingdom or in scotland if it's independent when the people of scotland in the united kingdom have never consented to surrender their sovereignty to a bunch of bureaucrats in brussels ok i can if you want to go you want to answer one of those questions or both is a completely separate to be i mean so many things that have been mentioned here are complete annoyances in l.a. to police i've been in politics for three years six to view the sixteen of those in the late to do it is in of and i've never had a single person come to me ask me for a lot to beating forward you seem to think i should be a focus of a political party i joined the s.n.p. because i want to go on to an equal nation among all of the see the united nations on an equal police and the european union in

parties who stand their parties who stand who want to take britain out of the european union and they are humiliated every single general election that happens so i think the vast majority of the british people want to stay within the european union we do have to reform the e.u. look you're right it does have become more democratic we have to look at strange thing there was some people in the business going to elect today. ok to kind of go ahead jump in with scala needs of voice so needs a voice in the european you know it's preposterous but luxembourg which is lying through is able to send someone to the council of ministers to talk about stretching and strong is a huge fishing industry and yet we're not ready to be presented and to suggest really that scotland would be an exception in c.c. and we can use you can see any nonsense says professor milner well kenny sailed i think that kerry twenty five years ago. william guy had any you ought to look you ought to look at what the head of the scottish fisherman's federation betty armstrong has been saying in the last twenty four hours he

that would bring them bankrupt in the coming future that would be a complete disaster for the european union and for the euro and that can happen because of the political move and union actually had a very good. the relationship in terms of the economy and trade with iran it was retrieved. in the last twenty years the connection of that has been lost after the iranian revolution and the situation was improving until we came to this new tension that has been in my view to a great extent artificially created. on the first anniversary of the ousting of former president hosni mubarak egypt's activists have called for a general strike to ramp up the pressure against the ruling military council they want me council to step down immediately saying they are blocking reforms the military said it would accept any ultimatum and will transfer power in june presidential elections are scheduled many people fear they will remain in power beyond this date carbines journalist bill true says egyptians have every right not to trust the military. people are unsure about whether they'll actually transfer. and so

parliament per se of course we're looking at the richest parliamentarians in the whole of the european union these are people who are making way way in excess of ten to fifteen thousand u.s. dollars per month once all of their expenses are in and ultimately what they do is not going to matter one iota because in every possible respect greek is greece is not a tragedy and it is due and the reason for it doesn't matter who can go to our state with a reasonable way that they are going to be able to implement whatever austerity they're talking about this weekend against such a backlash of public opinion and given the fact that we've got elections coming up and here and for anybody who reads the opinion polls they'd make very very same good reading if you're one of the european union creditors because what we're talking about is the communists the hard left their polling thirty five percent the existing people who are in the cabinet and stayed in the cabinet and of agreed to this austerity package that we're never going to see being implemented their polling low single figures. ultimately greek's

the european union's economic and political structures. early entry into europe was the wish of the new democracies. it would help to stabilize them politically and smooth their transition to market economies. it would ratify the post cold war settlement in europe. given the stormy past of that region, inhabitants are said to produce more histories than they can consume locally. every should wish to see it settle economically and politically inside a stable european structure. why was this not done? why was every obstacle put in the way of the new market democracies? why were their exports subject to the kind of absurd quotas that have until now been reserved for japan? why is there still no room at the inn? the answer is that the european union was too busy contemplating its own naval. both the commission and the majority -- [ applause ] both the commission and the majority of member governments were committed to an early beating of the european union. that is, centralizing more power and the supernational institutions. they felt a wideni

serbia could do more to improve its chances of joining the european union.ave to wait and see what brussels decides. >> thank you for joining us. >> while china might be reticent on buying eurozone bonds, it is very happy doing business here in europe. >> we have a report from madrid to lookism investments that chinese firms are making there. >> this industrial straight -- stayed near madrid dates back to the 1970's but almost all the companies operating here are chinese. chinese wholesalers started moving in to around 10 years ago. now, more than 400 businesses to sell clothes, domestic products, and electronic goods to retailers. he is one of the few who are prepared to let us look behind the scenes. he says business is healthy at the moment, even if there is no growth in spanish sales. >> the market has become more and more saturated, but the demand for these kind of an expensive goods is growing in germany and holland. customers come in once in awhile. they shop, and of the take entire truckloads' back with them. >> the chinese wholesalers do not get all

think about all your members and you need to be inclusive and at the moment the problem with european union is that although initial stages in its inception was going to be an inclusive union giving to the less developed member states opportunities to develop sort of structural funds through the financing that the commission of the law established back in the eighty's and we now move to a union which is basically dominated by two if not one country doing whatever they want keeping the common currency low because we need to put that into the equation germany right now has significant exports because their currency the euro is a is a low current yet the most guys are very much going to dawlish mark i'd like to go to people here it's an old car and see it's a long car and see actually four of the four of the four germany very high current see for. golding greece and ireland ok there's a bit of that was a sort of activity difference here i want to say here just to be really provocative here and i don't want to be mean spirited at all but it looks like the germans won the second world war in eur

this was a very proudly pro- european country and largely still is. 25 years in the european union. it set up with the euro in 2001. that was seen as validating greece with european credentials. in the last few months, there's been an increasing wave of anti- german sentiment. germany has been its paymaster general. that is a troubling change here in greece. this country is changing fast. the grease that many people here once cherished is changing -- the greece that many people here once cherished is changing fast. the political party has lost that trust from a large majority of greeks. >> simply understandable. thank you very much. mark lowen in athens. we can get a sense of how people are coping with the measures in greece. we can now speak to an athens resident. thank you very much for speaking to me. explain to me how your life has changed in the last few months. >> it is pretty hard to explain. there are two things that bother me. i guess every person in my generation and the ones to come -- basically, they have taken all hope for the future from hesperia these numbers -- from u

you could bring them bankrupt in the coming future that would be a complete disaster for the european union and for the euro and that can happen because of the political move and union actually had a very good relationship in terms of the economy and trade with iran it was in the last twenty years the connection that has been lost after the iranian revolution and the situation was improving until we came to new tension that has been in my view to a great extent artificially created. you know without trying to count the sound despite mounting civilian deaths and plans for an early withdrawal of the number of nato as tribes in afghanistan creasing so explain why interest. and hear of herself as well as on a product seized by washington of treason they say is a nomination for the nobel peace prize. and transparent that's how people russia want to see that coming presidential election in march polling stations across the country are being equipped with webcams void any wrongdoing but a group of pro acts of civil has decided using technology alone is not enough the corpus going off explains how

the european union has made borders less and less important. we have the single market and for people your age it's normal. you have always been in that situation. you have always seen it's not always been like that. trust has also made the euro possible. and of course we had to trust each other when we widened europe. we had the german reunification. we accepted new countries. and now we are all the same members of the same history. we are now 28 member states. we know that the rest of the balkans want to join us. therefore, it's all the more important that we all trust each other. that everybody makes an effort, so that that trust remains. the berlin statement of 2000 that i mentioned earlier is still important. we want to transmit to the next generation this happiness, this luck of being together and of the europeans. the european union has always been a very peculiar structure. it's not always understood on the other side of the atlantic. but it is not a classic image. but now we are in a world that is constantly changing. we are part and p

it also means that the european union, the european commission in particular will try to much more robustly monitor what is going on inside, sending and technical inspectors, trying to speed up progress on things like tax evasion, privatization, promises greece has made in the past, but from the european inspectors, promises they have not kept. this is all pretty painful for the greek ministers, because they say they are doing an awful lot already. >>> the bank of england says they have promised august $80 billion into britain's struggling economy. it is the basic example of what is known as quantitative easing. business leaders have welcomed the decision. the money is intended to encourage banks to increase their lending to businesses and stop them from slipping into recession, but also means that pension funds will receive lower returns from investors -- investments in government bonds. >>> in syria, its sixth successive day of shelling by government forces. >> that is right, activists say the latest attacks have killed at least 50 people. i people have pretty much despaired of getting an

turns up the heat on iran over its nuclear program the european union has announced a series of financial sanctions including plans to stop importing oil from july meanwhile iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad announced that the islamic republic would soon revealed major advances in its nuclear program he also warned that europe was playing a risky gang by cutting off trade with iran because you consumers uptown for around twenty percent of iran's oil output. the spanish ambassador to iran said that sanctions will hurt this country more than any other european state and agreed based journalist mike yani of morocco says the e.u. embargo serves only the interest of the united states. what we're seeing here is not this station that comes actually from the european countries to spain never want to do some bar go to to prove to be put in place this is something that comes externally from the united states pressure on the european union i mean it's not just displaying a mutually also greece imports lots of oil from iran it could be hard hit in a way that would bring them bankrupt in the coming

citizens and or european union leaders i would hear a statement to back any attacks we saw with lethal consequence in aleppo twenty eight dead in december forty four dead in damascus this is this is getting out of hand this is getting dangerous. on the first anniversary of the ousting of former president hosni mubarak egypt's ousted is have called for generals try to ramp up the pressure against the ruling military council they want the council to step down immediately saying they're blocking reforms the military said it won't accept any ultimatum and well transfer power in june when the presidential elections are scheduled but many people fear they will remain in power beyond this date and kyra based journalist about truth says egyptians have every right now to not to trust the military. people are unsure about whether i actually transferred power in june so far the military the ruling military council has yet to fulfill any of its promises that said since it came into power also just generally on the streets we're seeing massive human rights violations towards protesters people expre

the european union has adopted sanctions against the syrian central bank it's the latest effort by the e.u. states to put pressure on damascus for some perspective on this we're joined by middle east politics professor jeremy salt from bill kent university in on current turkey so these latest measures are aimed at isolating the syrian regime but even further but what's the danger that they could hurt the people more than the government. definitely will be hurting the people i think the most important event that's taking place in the last few days is the conference that was held in tunisia by the so-called friends of syria and this was devised as an alternative to the un security council where of course russia and china issued a veto that the purpose of that conference was to come up with a framework for intervention in syria most probably through the setting up of a humanitarian corridor but the conference actually filed because all the fifty or sixty countries were represented there they would not agree on armed intervention in syria even though saudi arabia in particular was calling

european union actually had a very good relationship in terms of the economy and trade with iran it was retrieved in the last twenty years the connections that have been lost after the iranian revolution and the situation was improving until we came to these new tension and he's not just to spain and italy also greece imports lots of oil from iran and it could be hard hit in a way that would bring them bankrupt in the coming future that would be a complete disaster for the european union and for the euro and that can happen because of these of these political move it has now become an economic issue and can have even more. destructive effects if the iranians decide to say cut of the strait of hormuz or even if they now decide to beat europe to it by. by by cutting off their oil now because we need this time to find alternative supplies if they cut the supply now we want to be able to find them there will be a huge recession in europe. and financial troubles prove a health hazard in the united states as manufacturers gamble on america's caffeine dependency often with disastrous re

that would bring them bankrupt in the coming future that would be a complete disaster for the european union and for the euro and that can happen because of the political move and union actually had a very good relationship in terms of the economy and trade with iran it was retrieved in the last twenty years the connection of that has been lost after the iranian revolution and the situation was improving until we came to this new tension that has been in my view to a great extent artificially created. the greek parliament has approved tough austerity measures ordered by the e.u. and i.m.f. in return for a hundred and thirty billion euro bailout the vote came amid must see us writing greek journalist. joining us now live from athens irani thank you so much for time so the parliament has approved this controversial austerity deal what's the reaction on the streets to the news now from. the greek hello make yours finally passed this austerity package it was a crucial vote and during the whole day from very early today i always have seen violence toward violence in the streets of athens it was t

citizens and or european union leaders i would hear a statement to back any attacks with lethal consequence in aleppo twenty eight dead in december forty four dead in damascus this is this is getting out of hand it's getting dangerous. you know with our sea and still ahead here it gets into the toppling of liberal aren't but instead of celebrations across each of the journals china gets people feel betrayed by the military rulers and one chinese that still hasn't caught. on to group of politically active russians take the matter of election transparency into their own hands by organizing voters believe. iran says it will soon reveal some major advances in its nuclear program speaking on the session started about zero of the islamic revolution president ahmadinejad's that iran would never stop enriching uranium iran insists its nuclear program is to serve its domestic energy needs but the united states and its allies the suspect tehran could be pursuing nuclear weapons have been piling up sanctions against the country but the mother shot warns that europe's planned all embargoed will backfir

complete disaster for the european union for the euro and that can happen because of the. political move it's now become an economic issue and can have even more. destructive effects if the iranians decide to say told the strait of hormuz or even if they now decide to beat europe to its bye. bye bye to north their oil now because we need this time to find alternative supplies if they cut the supply now we want to be able to find them there will be a huge recession in europe and civil society stepping into the front line of russian politics with the aim of keeping the upcoming presidential election fair and transparent leading figures and members of the public are joining forces and most importantly they seem to have the support of all five candidates as well as the voters are going up has the details. it doesn't take long to find videos of alleged violations during the recent parliamentary vote in russia just a couple of clicks is enough since years of these files have flooded the internet and even though most of the allegations are still to be proven in court tens of thou

this once again the united states and european union states as usual supporting al qaeda as they did in afghanistan prior to nine eleven u.s. troops and al qaeda side by side fighting against president assad of syria this really shows what exactly the americans are up to they are not protecting the interests of u.s. citizens and or european union leaders i would hear a statement to back any attacks with lethal consequence in aleppo twenty eight dead in december forty four dead in damascus this is this is getting out of hand this is getting dangerous. still ahead here on our c for you ideas is the toppling of mubarak but instead of celebrations across egypt a general strike as people feel betrayed by the military rulers and want to change that still hasn't caught. on to the political actually russians taking them out of elections transparency into their own hands by organizing of voters believe. that slate about thursday iran says it will soon reveal some major advances in its nuclear program speaking on the set inside of our sphere of the islamic revolution president ahmadinejad said

the european union has begun drawing up plans for a possible evacuation of europeans still in the country. syrians, though, can only look on as their country descends further into bloodshed. >> germany is expelling four syrian diplomats, the latest twist in a spat over alleged spying. suspected agents -- agents are suspected of acting against syrian edgerton and living in exile. >> they say the four syrians are expected actions incompatible with their diplomatic status. there is also follows the arrest on tuesday of another two syrians. >> on tuesday, by some in the syrian ambassador. i told him clearly that any activity by the syrian state against syrian opposition supporters in germany will not be tolerated. >> in recent weeks, syria opposition supporters have repeatedly demonstrated outside the country's embassy in berlin. the diplomats and their families have been given three days to leave germany. >> our political affairs correspondent joins us. give us a bit more background to this story. >> the german foreign minister implied a connection between these explosions and the arrest ear

the european union people there are a lot of the point where they do there is totally exhaust for a shift in the rest of the world as to why they should be paying for a greek economy in the greek state that is totally completely not. has been completely and utterly mismanaged for decades and ultimately tragically the greek people themselves are going to end up suffering as they already are. going to see it happens again descending into violence and staring protesters clashed with police what chance is there that the greek people will have their voices heard in this case oh look there's still a big possibility that the greek people are going to manage to succeed and essentially drive their economy street and to default and that when that's the incredible thing and of course if you're a greek trade unionist i've been to look at it from their perspective well i mean first of all a monthly salary you get fourteen of those every year if you work in greece i mean we're talking about the greek minimum wage of course it's going to be under the current proposals if they come through by something l