if you compare switzerland to the european union as a whole and mentions it is as the european union would have year per year ten million ten million new permissions for people to move into the european union that's the dimensions because what's all of this so a small eight million european union more than five hundred million we have an immense immigration in switzerland and please understand the people who are responsible for the european union please understand we do have a tremendous problem and we have to solve it ourselves right we're going to take a short break now mr samaras is standing the last president of space peoples party drank force behind immigration curbing move that's recently been approved on a nationwide referendum in switzerland after the break we'll talk about the waves this latest with measures will send to act stay with us. thank you very much. winter is when the sun comes to life. a ways is palm trees are being harvested. people are waiting for the biggest event of the year. the desert festival. this is true it is very out of the. race leading camel races hav

but it is heart of europe and it also enjoys many treaties with european union to facilitate trade or many other things are not very diligent germany's foreign minister has said that this vote will harm switzerland president of the european commission warrants where citizens could lose their right to live and work in the u. was it worth it was it was the risk. yes i understand that these discussions are on now but free markets open markets and immigration that's two totally different stories and it's also obvious between russia and the european union you have to come to some kind of trade agreements but free immigration with an outside country that is strange and i'm confident the european union will understand that we have to renegotiate we have to rediscuss this problem this issue immigration from the latest measures that the european union imposed on it was scientific grants and sitting exchanges were frozen and any regrets about that i don't have any regrets at all i just have to regret within the years twenty years ago ten years ago it was totally clear cut switzerland is also mo

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered on peter lavelle the european union likes to think of itself as one of the brighter and fairer parts of the world the european commission report on corruption the first of its kind but creates a very different picture in every single member country there is corruption in some cases on a massive scale and businesses complain but to do business government connections are often necessary so what can the e.u. teach the world about corruption. cross-talk corruption in the e.u. i'm joined by my guest broken are in berlin he is a political analyst and a professor for european studies in london we have david coburn he is a u.k. independence party regional chairman and here in moscow we cross to john hello vague he is a managing partner at the group all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it david if i go to you first in london let me just read some of the high points eight out of ten believe that close links between business and politics lead to corruption a

something like a third of the budget is called walkies that's really not good enough and the european union itself as i said before is a corrupt institution every failed politician or businessman ends up in the european commission or whatever and. they are setting the example for the rest of europe one can only be surprised. i don't see why we should continue to put money at least a great britain should put money into this corrupt systems and deadly corrupt system let me go ahead john you want to jump in go ahead yeah for fairness sake where the report is done by the commission but the figure one hundred twenty is what they did and they did try to suppress into countries it did know that they used to corruption in do you countries while they suppress their that's normal direction do a bit you notice a corruption in europe itself that's misdirection like anybody any good magician you don't watch the hand that he's presenting to you you should be watching the other hand you don't see and that's what you're trying to do the moment they're trying to give a certain amount of dismissed direction

a war among the member states of the european union is today in conceivable. let us not forget the last war on the european continent broke out less than a generation ago. the western balkans. soldiers and police are still deployed there on the ground. without a european perspective for these countries a peaceful future for them would be a very remote possibility indeed. we need to continue to stand up resolutely against extremists and tendencies that still exist in europe today. we need to fight any form of hatred and terrorism and violence day by day. it is incumbent upon us, the member states of the european union to, hand down the lessons we learned from our history to future generations and to stand up for peace and the rule of law in our immediate neighborhood and in the rest of the world. what is also important in this respect is to empower others to see through their own stability and security in their region, settling conflicts peacefully if possible. britain and germany continue to work together closely to attain this goal. we shoulder responsibility

say here is the main gate or market for you right ukrainian goods sense an agreement with the european union is trying to put your brakes and if you're going to go to the union ok keep going to arial keep going. so i'm saying is that russia is expanding billions and billions of dollars to bring your crane into the eurasian union if the majority of ukrainian people don't want to do that but this policy of russia pulling i have insight into the united states involvement may bring to the breakup of ukraine that will bolster russia breaking the law again that's a new one here ok ok mark let me let me go to mark pretty terribly marcus you know it's very interesting because our history from say get our history straight ok let me when i finish wasting when you made your point it's russia's fault marcus that i go to london what do you know just take things as russia so ukraine a break we're going to europe when the ukrainian said no the elected legitimate government of ukraine said no to the association agreement what happened let's remind our viewers russia stepped in and said hey why don't we have

to my mind european union is. reconsidering its behavior prior to signing on signing that agreement of association between. ukraine and the european union because we all remember that european union was standing firmly on the position that the mission should be released first and then they were going to sign the agreement with with unocal which so to my mind the european union was putting more obstacles on the way of the alliance but unity between ukraine and the european union the russian and. ok you know the unocal has disappeared he is free there is no government there is a revolutionary. spirit. overwhelming in the streets of kiev. do you think that the european bank will be ready money in that circumstances of course more they're waiting for the legitimate government to but when president putin says that he will cooperate with any legitimate government does that mean keeping gas prices unchanged well i don't know because i'm not working for gas from libya and these guys know the numbers much but tonight do wh

is in this week's capital for what's real and voted to shut the door to european union workers setting up a showdown with brussels as well as a potential exit from the single european market now the so-called stop mass immigration initiative was the brainchild of the right wing swiss peoples party which wants strict quotas on foreigners for switzerland to essentially abandon its free movement of people treaty with the e.u. and supporters the we've talked to say that they're worried immigration is driving up rents that it's undercutting local workers and that is burdening public services no opponents had argued that immigration caps would in fact cripple economic growth and experts do say that the swiss in column e. is. not despite for labor especially when it comes to folks who have skills to work in fields like health care and where there's a big need for skilled workers but despite the very real economic concerns despite the fact that on the one we fear is just three percent many voters were ultimately swayed by the argument that switzerland simply cannot take in any more people now

i didn't think this was such a great big deal every government whether it's european union britain america russia as well will be discussing between themselves who they would like to have in place the previous caller. previous expert talked about the government there isn't a government in place in ukraine that's the problem the country is moving towards default and there isn't a government in place it's not going to be washington or moscow or london brussels which decides which government is going to be in ukraine going to be the korean people different countries are going to have their own preferences as to who they would like all of this is just sort of fortunately part of what is a still a soviet style conspiracy theories which you still have amongst the far left and far right in the west as well that somehow the americans are beyond everything i wish that was the case but it's not the case that's not the reality the reality is very different that people are fed up with a highly corrupt person and the previous caller talked about laws and constitution you have a call that the president

moccasin let's let's get real out of the wind why you're immediately into the why should the european union in washington get involved in all of this in the first place why why can't you let the ukrainians a european ukraine both. yes of course both the orange administration and under the shank and you shouldn't go under you on the call which have been negotiating an association agreement since two thousand and seven two thousand and eight both sides have been the go cheating the other coverage dropped the last minute because he preferred the russian option of financial assistance because that was better suited for him for reelection in two thousand and fifteen he didn't give a damn about the ukraine as a country yet but he was elected probably because when the likelihood is president he was going to be given i was elected president he was elected president correct. he was elected president was elected president is elected president of ukraine till march two thousand and fifteen now he somebody who is seen as legitimate in the eyes of ukraine's know because he's destroyed ukraine's democrac

treaty because the math was wrong because european union demanded several billion euros in reform costs versus six hundred million it offered in return it was simply a math problem that wasn't going to work out after the riots broke out after does democratic opposition try to storm the government the russians made a counteroffer to present a coach but it's not a matter of who prefers what it's the issue of the russians giving the elected government which was elected in elections and there are another elections coming up so if one really believed in democracy one would venture to well replaces government in a vote on the street but it's a very good point ok good united states is exactly that it's up alexander the word was mentioned democracy so it's new in believing in democracy or she does want to throw five billion dollars at her candidates to get the government she wants because we've had elections the e.u. respected the outcome of washington respected the outcome now they say no we don't like this government anymore and you know i want to follow the money trail who's getting th

the european union's financial situation has not changed. we've got all manner of people the governing party in the uk all sorts of politicians across europe even mr tusk from neighboring poland is saying that effectively it's gonna be impossible the monies to be very lavish with phones at the same time. frankly the new ukrainian government athlete is it's effectively and lalala on the mean they're already asking for thirty five billion dollars that's up from the fifteen billion dollars that had been agreed by the us by the president has begun the cove it's just a few months ago with with russia and therefore it's really a mess. the european union bills and all how the political capital to stand on rescuing ukrainian from twenty years of economic mismanagement. given the problems in the backyard all the eurozone but ashley now let's take a look at economic situation and in ukraine diana as the judging for wages that it's in dire straits here but how much one would actually solve your problems in uk twenty billion euro zone he said is not rea

and that's a yahoo he describes germany as a good friend but this country's relations with the european union haven't been particularly warm recently and artie's policy here has more. when european parliament president martin shorts touched down in jerusalem recently he experienced the cold shoulder of israel's right he was heckled while dressing the parliament and accused of telling lies surely more fairly was among those who walked out on the poor and ashamed of being. plenty of world leaders spoke here just recently french president hollande said very harsh things on the need for a police state and we needed to walk out of. shorts later acknowledged he was mistaken about some of the figures of palestinian versus israeli access to water although the figures are far from equal now it says fellow countrywoman angler merkel's chance to face the firing line. that day in my mind and in my part is mind this illusion is not to have two states rather the solution should be that in the land of israel there will be only one country and i hope that uncle merkel is coming to talk and not to pressure us

skeptics are constantly saying about the european union and it also may serve to discourage people from the scene in the election in any european election at all oh well they think if i if i don't really know enough of someone telling me i don't know enough then maybe i won't bother to vote but we'll have to see how that pans out come may. for an in-depth discussion of interacting statements i'm joined by two guests from london one steven wall from the u.k. independence party spokesman for the city of london the other peter wilding founder and director of british influence that's a campaign to keep the u.k. in the e.u. thank you very much gentlemen for joining me here so first question to stephen do you agree that the brits don't know enough to vote in a referendum on e.u. membership no i don't agree and i think today vivian redding should hang her head in shame and be completely embarrassed embarrassed on two fronts first calling the people of britain too ignorant to be able to understand the issues to vote and also she said that brits are too lazy compared to e.u. migrants i believe t

the european union has no right . to using violence as you call them europe is familiar with we have to fight all extremist forces including those in ukraine this is very important. to hate violence and extremism need to find a compromise and restore peace. now about those who are russian foreign ministry is calling extremists and it refers to as nazis well let's have a look at some of the leaders of ukraine so-called revolution for example alexander the is a man of a radical views he's actually participated in the chechen war he went to the caucuses was fought on the side of the terrorists and prided himself on the fact that he personally had several tanks and armored vehicles and despite that he still managed to run for the ukrainian parliament a couple of years ago again he's one of the leaders of alter nationalist movement and then there's also a leg who is essentially one of the three leaders of the of the my done of the independence square movement and he is openly not just for civil but also to submit it making

was overwhelming with the european union. and he said wait, there were hundreds of thousands of people in paris demonstrating against same-sex marriage. ... >> it is a tendency on the part of the russian government to question the consistency of what the u.s. does and the sincerity of it and to point out that, you know, what russia does is different from what the u.s. does. that is a general framework. we get into these arguments and that is why there's part there is part of this relationship. one of the analogies that they like to sometimes use, i don't know

is initiative is not compatible with the treaties which are signed between switzerland and the european union so this will lead to. the erosion of the preachings they will be. finished and there is in this very very slowly. because entirely on the european market. now french foreign activists rallied in paris against the all female protest group femen accusing it of provoking the country's christian community hundreds gathered in the center of paris calling on famine to shut down its headquarters in the french capital and return to ukraine full story on the web site for you right now at odds he dot com. also while you're there the story here it's revealed just exactly how edward snowden managed to get his hands on such a vast amount of classified n.s.a. data find that story as well on the web site right now. right see. first street. and i think you're. on a reporter's twitter. instagram. a new e.u. report this week pointed to a wave of corruption sweeping through the block brussels believes that losses thanks to shady deals amount to billions of euros their estimation that corruption costs in

this initiative is not compatible with the treaties which are signed between switzerland and the european union so this will lead to. the erosion of the existing treaties they will be. finished. switzerland is in is very very real and. because it depends highly on the european market for now ponds of immigration are still a minority but opinion polls have shown the initiative gaining traction there could of course always be a surprise at the ballot box and we'll simply have to wait and see for this evening's results to find out what morning in zurich switzerland i'm lucy capital. and on and the charge of the hour have been killed on russia's somehow an island in the far east of the country after a shooting inside a cathedral a gunman armed with a rifle opened fire injuring six other parishioners the suspect who was detained a right out of the incident was an employee of a private security company investigators are trying to determine the motives of the twenty four year old shooter. on more international news this hour two others of a bangladesh clothing factory have been de denied bail after th

have a similar agenda on creating a more -- european union. if mr.ameron wants to discuss in those terms. if he talks about repatriating powers, negotiating treaties, just one member state, i don't think he will get anything. >> howard, the e.u. could do less but do it better. that is a line that came out of a briefing that i read this morning. that sounds like a good idea. do we need to leave the e.u. to get a better outcome? >> is it possible that we can negotiate a better outcome from within. it seems the risks we're taking in going to that extreme is quite significant. >> well, i think risk is a word that comes up in order to promote people's fierce. if you look at some of the most prosperous countries in the world, highest g.d.p. per capita, high eths wealth per capita, like switzerland, norway, countries like australia. emerging countries like israel. singapore. they are prospering because they have flexibility and they can pursue economic policies, which are in their country's interest in order to promote growth and jobs. do we want to be asso

skeptics are constantly saying about the european union and it also may serve to discourage people from the scene in the election in any european election at all oh well they think if i if i don't really know enough of someone telling me i don't know enough then maybe i won't bother to vote but we'll have to see how that pans out come may i discussed reading the statements and the attitudes to them in british society with stephen walt from the u.k. independence party in peter wilding founder of the pro british influence group. today vivian redding should hang her head in shame and be completely embarrassed and barrister on two fronts first calling the people of britain too ignorant to be able to understand the issues to vote and also she said that brits are too lazy compared to e.u. migrants i believe that she should apologize to the people of this country for the statement she's made today well that comes from a guy whose party leader nigel farage started the year off by saying thirty million remaining in a bulgarian immigrants are knocking on the door of the u.k. first of all thirty m

this initiative is not compatible with the treaties which i signed between switzerland in the european union so this will lead to. the erosion of the existing treaties the will be. there finish them and then switzerland is in is very very and. because it depends highly on the european market well for now ponens of immigration are still a minority but opinion polls have shown the initiative gaining traction there could of course always be a surprise at the ballot box and will simply have to wait and see what is evening's results to find out when putting in zurich switzerland i'm lucy captain of. the lie an act of protest or threat of war the pentagon sounding the alarm over iranian warships approaching us maritime borders look at r.t. dot com for the full story. for us notorious anti immigration go home or face arrest campaign backfires on its mastermind details i want to force the u.k. immigration minister resigned just a click away. stablish life interrupted by a subpoena a british couple fighting extradition to the u.s. on charges of fraud and embezzlement archy's tessera so you want to se

he was in brussels talking to the european union. he has complained about european and u.s.officials were doing and demonstrations. he complained about two things. he complained that european officials and the u.s. assistant secretary of state to say nothing about insulting john mccain pleaded to the anti-government crowd's and were creating a strong impression that the united states and the european union were resentment of its own government traded they felt this was inappropriate and subsequently they would never be allowed into the united states or in the european union. the second complaint was that american officials european union officials were blaming -- claiming ukraine was overwhelmingly for the european union because of the size of the -- there were hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against same-sex marriage but the socialist government said wait a second. we have won the election and we have the majority of the legitimately elected parliament. we decide what is in the best interest of the country not the size of the crowd. ..

there's nowhere is for them to go because all the old timers used they remain very loyal to the european union they would never speak against brussels and therefore the voters are actually almost forced to join or support these extreme parties ok danish member of the european parliament martin messerschmitt mr messerschmitt thank you very much indeed for your time and sharing your perspective with us. now a quick recap now our top story of a fresh round of violence that has flared up in k.s. . demonstrators have broken through police lines the opposition side three accidents have been killed and seven are critically injured that the thirty seven law enforcement officials also heard rioters are attempted to and making their way to the parliament and there were also reports of grenades being thrown at the headquarters of the reading policy and it comes just a day after an amnesty for opposition protesters came into force of course we'll be bringing you more on this developing story at the top of the next hour and coming out for you next a look at how drug companies are being accused of creating

but what's happened here is that the foreign ministers of the european union, poland, germany, and france, basically talked to the president and talked to the protesters and they helped broker this union. the incredible violence that we've seen in recent days, i think have made it clear to president putin that this cause is lost. so what we've seen in the last several hours really is that president putin is backing down. he now seems to be willing to work toward a diplomatic resolution and i think putin has played had his cards very cleverly up to this point. the president has not been irrelevant and the president and the european union appear now to have gotten the upper hand. >> rich. >> i think this president of the united states says consequences in the international context, everyone around the world laughs up their sleeves. pat is absolutely right. he's had no impact on this whatsoever. it's been mortgage facts on the ground where the president of the ukraine has been wavering back and for the since november between the european union and russia and the fact that he seemed on the ve

i mean the european union itself is a corrupt institution from beginning to end but they haven't added to their books for some nineteen years about every failed politician in any european country when he's finished making a mess of its own country then she was who often get a job with the european union the fact that we now have a number as part of the sales strategy of the european commission to motivate people like us to sit in studios and to reflect how we can deal with an urgent problem of corruption that certainly exist but it's not out of the nature of the european union it has been existed for centuries the report is done by the year e.u. commission but the figure one hundred twenty is what they did try to suppress into countries in india no they think it is to corruption in do you countries while they suppress their that's normal direction and deliberate do you notice that corruption in europe itself that's misdirection like anybody any good magician you don't watch that he's presenting to you you should be watching the other hand you don't see and that's what you're trying to

billion euros a year may have been done in in a back handed deals over half of the people in the european union half of the over half of those who were surveyed have said they think the corruption within the union was growing now what has raised a few eyebrows an issue to garner a few column inches is just who's put forward this study need the e.u. commission or an unelected body they're also the body that has been accused of putting forward some of the more ridiculous laws and rules and regulations inside the european union that always make a few headlines whenever they do but they also haven't they also haven't looked into e.u. institutions and the fact that they claim to do that may well regard may warrant further investigation into seeing just what it would have been if it had been if they had been looked into as well put from what we have the forty one page report it says that seventy six percent of people who were surveyed within the european new european union said that corruption was widespread twenty six percent of those said that they had been directly affected by corruption. and sixt

that there's a demand or here it's the it's the ukraine that has demanded from the european union for many years a closer relationship both politically and economically i mean the european union does not go around looking for countries to save the request came from ukrainian political elites from civil society from france from society as a whole they want to have this engagement with the e.u. and they want to have the relationship but what we have seen and i've learned from president a new crate and his government no one other than one of the big problems here is that it is a divided country it's a divided country our xandra can you address that here because again you know we we have these differences in eastern west and that's what's happening in care of right now is giving plenty of people good reason to say hey you want kiruv you want my dog you can have it because a lot of people are dissatisfied with the kind of political slogans and ideology that is spewing out from care of right now and they don't want to have anything to do with it. well exactly because of course from the

bomb dismissing the european union's role in ukraine so that would be great i think to help glue this thing and have the u.n. help glue it and you know be you the state department has shifted into damage control refusing to confirm the authenticity of the audio while admitting that victoria nuland has apologized to her european allies for the profanity she's apologized for a comment to she's not admitting she made which is itself a confirmation that the comment wasn't indeed made but will she hasn't apologized for is the plans to midwife a new government in ukraine you know the words she's she's apologizing for you but she's not apologizing for trying to overthrow a government in kiev calling it popular democracy the diplomatic scandal hit as nuland arrived in ukraine for her second visit in less than two months back in december she was walking around independence square handing out snacks to protesters this time around the assistant secretary of state promised to feed the country with financial support if necessary political reforms are implemented at a press conference nuland refuse

a very hypocritical approach to politics it's especially by the european union and by the european states they say they fight against extremism in. the european union they fund extremists and support extremists and also i think it will play in the end. despite what is widely seen as a victory over the regime that might done remains intact with that right sector standing firm some of its members may leave independence square soon though possibly landing jobs in the revamped into real ministry one parliament forms a unity government on thursday a looksee were set ski on course in from kiev in ukraine. plagued by un rast ukraine faces the danger of financial default and is in desperate need to have help from donors the twenty billion euros the e.u. as promised can actually be mounted by greece as it struggles to get back on track brussels has so far kept absent waiting for a third bailout installment it's also about four billion more than the e.u. plans to spend on supporting growth and fighting soaring unemployment this year analyst gordon hahn says it will be very difficult for the e.u. to

so is but it does undermine relations with the european union and the immigration crisis disgusting detonate as iran will address suspicions that it may have worked on designing an atomic weapon the test is in bosnia call for snap elections in the wake of riots sparked by anger over corruption and unemployment. the second round of un sponsored peace talks between the syrian government and opposition begin today in geneva the tickets for both sides of the ride to the discussions which are expected to last five days but there's no sign peace with their new best of the round one last time there wasn't even if the deal humanitarian relief that tibetan movement on the pc with a transitional government. however since then some ace has been allowed into the besieged city of homestead evacuations culminates in six hundred people being caught out on sunday by the un and syrian red crescent. they get footage from inside the sticky said scores of women children and older men carrying a few packs of possessions is that the un vehicles. holmes is one of the first areas to rebel against the government to