germany following chancellor merkel statement that multiculturalism has failed in the country next r.t. talks to a german journalist and author on what's behind the integration dispute and where that's next. dr karp is a journalist and academic but his views have caused an outcry has been investigated by the german government has received multiple death threats. what are your issues with whenever you see a tribe. in brasilia that is untouched by a different culture everybody is going to stand up and to say you have to protect this tribe that is not affected by western or eastern or muslim or whatever culture you have to protect those people. and they're in brazil. so. what i believe is that there is a place for muslims in this world and for their culture they have a place to live in and there is a place for european and western culture to live in what i don't believe is they will live peacefully together we have a clash not only of civilizations and of religions we have a class clash of ideologies like we had a clash between communism and capitalism now we have a clash because islam is also a

thanks to r.t. talked to russia's finance minister to hear about the modernization underway as the country takes a step nearer to joining the world trade organization. can obstacles are down russia could join the wall trade organization in a few months from now but there have been many forecasts like that in the past all wrong but russia's finance minister believes this one will come true let's find out why i say anything which there have been so many predictions of the kind why do you believe this one will come true no. real work began in two thousand at that time i was head of a governmental commission to deal with a session put him in graph was the main driver the key stage was in two thousand and four when we signed an agreement with the e.u. it really seemed that we had covered more than half of the ground then in two thousand and six people signed an agreement with the us and it seemed to us that we had cover ninety percent of the way through however every time something hindered in tree in may view

the world in the last two years affecting all of us but what caused it in the first place well r.t. talked to those who claim to know the real story in the second part of our special report next. who had brought down wall street. hedge funds. back in two thousand and seven with the blues still in full swing my business partner e. o'connor attended this party just off wall street for traders under the age of thirty. it reeks of affluence. shiny cars eating food people. only clubs where the sums can be invested in complicated vehicles in secret outside the prying eyes of wall street regulators soon all of the traditional investment firms have there is no wonder so many of these young people wanted in and at the top. and i personally spent five years in a private equity and then made the decision instead of going back to business school to move over to the public side so that was a conscious decision on my part i think most people probably get involved because there is an opportunity to move up the ranks and make more money at an earlier age in hedge funds and there isn't private equity which

world within the last two years affecting all of us but what caused it in the first place will next r.t. talk to those who claim to know the real story. that. we're going to leave the i we're going to do a picket line around his house ok. let me let it go and thank her is that a relative i want to. know one of. the few smart. you would have to pick their brains on what they're preparing. for many. students. we say we live in the capital is big society but the bad mood. capitalism is our way of life the market system its highest expression our media hypes it in quasi religious terms even if its impact is sometimes quite negative and even debated in classrooms can't we agree that capitalism is an economic system a system for the production and distribution of things we need one i want to treat that not the kind you think i'm about to there have to be a legal basis for a moment that's going to operate. most of us recognize we live in an inherently volatile system problem free but so the conventional wisdom goes better than any alternative many still believe the free market is our salvation even

president to me to maybe enter the clinton oil pipeline and signed a number of key agreements as r.t. talks on point reports russia is keen to study the secrets of the chinese economic modernization miracle. three c.d.'s in three days a cascade of live dolphins and touchdowns that old russia and china to leave major projects up the ground and touch upon their strategic partnership. attention to detail has always been a chinese virtue or they may have rolled out the red carpet for the russians but their meticulous bargaining proved just as tiring as climbing the great wall of china. you know that these are serious important talks i was there are a large number of issues to discuss here. oh you know what while both the natural partners in each other for years russia and china have been haggling over the process of russian hydrocarbons but almost fifteen years to build this oil pipeline the first between the two neighbors because of the money. talks on the price of gas are still ongoing. but china doesn't want to have a pay it claims that it can offer a rapidly growing market in the future jus

r.t. . i'm talking to dr roles are a man who for many years has been an advisor to the government on european affairs and he's also a member of the bruges group which campaigns for a europe of links not chains or other and thank you very much for talking to r.t. now first of all tell me how much it costs the u.k. to be a member of the well that's both a very important question and a very tricky question to answer in the first instance the treasury wants a trick to the european union every.

r.t. moscow. talks bad as expected that money.benefits rather not a grazing the infrastructure of porridge you countries on the other. run an expert in u.k. your relations in our. thoughts or other and thank you very much for talking to r.t. now first of all tell me how much it costs the u.k. to be a member of the e.u. well that's a both a very important question and a very tricky question to ask and so in the first instance the treasury writes a check to the european union every fortnight to the sum of eight hundred million pounds now that's not the whole picture because that is basically that's the gross contribution so that money comes back as part of the overall net deal over which the treasury has appeared limited so that's not necessarily well spent however. if you factor in the direct and indirect costs associated with you membership the overall bill for business and for the country could be as high as two hundred billion pounds a year the problem is that nobody knows this because there has not been a cost benefit analysis

r.t. . i'm talking to dr. who for many years has been an advisor to the government on european affairs and he's also a member of the bridge group which campaigns for a europe of links not dr other and thank you very much for talking to r.t. now first of all tell me how much it costs the u.k. to be a member of the well that's of both a very import.

r.t. . i'm talking to dominic robb he's a conservative m.p. who claims that successive new labor governments made what he calls an unprecedented just salt on british liberty dominic rob thank you very much for talking to r.t. now you've written a book called assault on liberty what do you mean by that well i think if you look at the individual measures we see whether there are proposals to extend pre-charge detention control orders identity cards some very intrusive surveillance powers used not just for serious stuff like counterterrorism so that most people would understand but things like surveillance of bins following children home from schools to. check. things like that i think we've seen a whole so shift in the relationship between the state in the citizen and that's what we need to change it is a bit of a dichotomy there isn't it the government have to be seen to be protecting.

dominic rob thank you very much for talking to r.t. now you've written a book called assault on liberty what do you mean by that well i think if you look at the individual measures we see whether there are proposals to extend pre-charge detention control orders identity cards some very intrusive surveillance powers used not just for serious stuff like counterterrorism so that most people would understand but things like surveillance of bins following children home from school . things like that i think we.

r.t. exclusive. talksto venezuelan president hugo chavez and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a couple of minutes. british soil it's time to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger. global financial headlines. welcome back here with our team here's a look at the top stories of the we californians governor schwarzenegger feed a return visit to president piano in moscow this week he tried out the capitals metro and tweet of with the russian leader as well discussing the key business of driving russia's knology sector. and the join to growth in the russia's euros is finding drug addiction by kidnapping drug abusers and forcing them into rehab the extreme method is one of the public's for him but also jail time for three members . and fifteen intrepid explorers are setting up a hole in the arctic they will spend the next year on a drifting ice floe collecting evidence to prove a large part of its tap resources belong to russia. but as well as leader mark h

r.t. . the be. i'm talking to roger helma who's a you're a skeptic member of the european parliament he's very many opposed to further integration with your opinion and also supports renegotiating many of the e.u. case treaties with the e.u. not to have a thank you very much for talking to r.t. festival 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 resent all the nonsense on the other hand many people think well europe'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 m

r.t. kabul. talking about the u.s. strategy in afghanistan canada's rondo an analyst from the international crisis group believes washington has had no clear idea what it's doing there from the word go. there are a lot of disagreements in the u.s. government with the state department with the u.s. military i was other sections of the u.s. government there's no real cohesiveness to the policy and that's become extremely problematic on the ground here in terms of rolling out a counterinsurgency strategy it's been the military has been at the forefront but of course counterinsurgency is more than just guns and being on the front line it's more about you know providing governance building institutions it's unclear whether or not united states really knows how much money time blood sweat and tears will have to be invested in order to bring this country up to a place where it can be stabilized to some extent. just days ahead of parliamentary elections a fresh wave of violence has flared in kyrgyzstan a mob stormed the headqu

r.t. . docs or other and thank you very much for talking to r.t. now first of all tell me how much it costs the u.k. to be a member of the e.u. well that's a both a very important question a very tricky question to answer in the first instance the treasury writes a check to the european union every fortnight to the sum of eight hundred million pounds now that's not the whole picture because that is basically that's the course contribute.

and political advisor talk to us at r.t. because it star was furious when such a baron cohen's comedy bore out became a worldwide hit in two thousand and six but now a filmmaker is striking back at the movie that's made his people loving stock around the world and his ego god knows got the story. i'm not a lover of. this so my god say i haven't heard that that this right down of because. they said oh no. not the. four years after the top grossing years film about the hapless cows like t.v. reporter because it sounds premier comedy director has come up with their past. hiding behind their freedom of speech and democracy westerners insult our nation demeter seem backward it's all lives and i was shaking back the new film centers on an american keen to discover the real kazakstan after seeing the original movie where he meets boris brother only briefly mentioned in such a baron cohen's film my brother in law and a very a funny. together the tune gauge in various high jinks. in our film below gets married to a donkey. the payoff

r.t. . today i'm talking to the president of. thank you very much for this opportunity. you once called former u.s. president george w. bush the devil what would you call the current president. didn't look cool.

r.t. . today i'm talking to the president of what has whalen chavez thank you very much for this opportunity. you once called former us president george w. bush the devil what would you call the current president. or less so for did not call him the devil when i said there was a smell of sulfur i mean been there maybe he was a company called the devil like other than it was him who left behind the smell of socialist no matter what bush and his era his village are an aggressive imperialist policy greatly harm the world look at the legacy he left was intention he said we will punish terrorists he was not referring to real terrorists he was referring to those who disagree with america's imperialistic policy that i feel questioned about the incumbent president when i can see two people in obama the first obama is the one i met in trinidad and tobago is a smiling man who gave many promises he promised to respect other nations sovereignty i remember his speech in cairo but there's also another obama obama the president of an empire a year on i think that unfortunately the distance between these tw

r.t. . today we're talking to the head of a service i think that mr pena thank you very much for joining us today first. on afghanistan is the number one producer all opiates in the world when we talk about the transfer of the drugs to russia what kind of amounts of drugs are we talking about. afghanistan produced about seven thousand tons of opium last year which is equivalent to seven hundred tons of heroin we believe that about thirty six of these tons end up in russia that's a lot about five billion doses and it's about thirty five percent of all drugs exported from afghanistan because in fact afghanistan exports less than half of the drugs it produces as drug addicts throughout the world are unable to consume everything that comes out of afghanistan so afghanistan stores a huge amount of drugs russia and other countries estimate it's about thirteen to fifteen thousand tons of opium so even if drug production stops in afghanistan the country will still be able to supply the international market with heroin for another twenty or even thirty years. what about the main mode of transportati

r.t. with cross talk and today peter developed his guest debate whether a global currency war is really happening and if so what could be the consequences that's next on the tea. imagine your life to a big city. girlfriend. crystal clear water. organic food. living in harmony with nature. sounds impossible. some people have already chosen. a place under the sun on our team. and you can. follow in welcome to cross not computable is it a race to the bottom countries all over the world or trying to better their neighbor and gain a leg up for their exports by cheapening their currencies if left unchecked the global economy risks not only recovery but truly devastating consequences. if you. start. to discuss currency imbalances i'm joined by martin henniker in hong kong he's an associate director at the tycoon in new york we go to daniel ten dollars or head of emerging market currency in rate strategy at bank of america merrill lynch and here in the studio with me is erich krauss a moscow based fund manager and international consultant and another member of our cross talk team you know and the hunger

r.t. with cross talk and today people of elena's guests discuss whether a global currency war is really at hand and what could be the consequences thanks for watching. and you can. follow in welcoming cross not computable is it a race to the bottom countries all over the world are trying to better their neighbor and gain a leg up for their exports by cheapening their currencies if left unchecked the global economy risks not only recovery but truly devastating consequences. and you can. start. to discuss currency imbalances i'm joined by martin henniker in hong kong he's an associate director at the tycoon in new york we go to daniel ten dollars or head of emerging market currency in rate strategy at bank of america merrill lynch and here in the studio with me is erich krauss a moscow based fund manager and international consultant and another member of our cross talk team you know in the hunger all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want martin you've been on the program before thanks for coming back are we in the middle of a currency war a glo

r.t. dot com. talkingabout websites and such like internet access is no longer a luxury of course it's rapidly become a vital resource for billions of uses the web's currently coordinated by an american organization but with virtually anyone able to access the net it's become a powerful tool that can pose a massive security threat to which is why many countries now feel it should be managed globally as a teaser let's have it reports. the world wide web all knowing all conquering it crosses borders and breaks down barriers but can something that we've allowed to become so vast ever be properly managed currently it's the united states that time off with regulating the day to day running of the web through a partnership with california based company i can bump the united nations international telecommunications union i t u wants to start playing a bigger role as well as this conference earlier this month in mexico it's me it's one hundred members decided that effective management of the internet requires a gl

was instrumental in keeping britain out of the euro zone john redwood thank you very much for talking to r.t. now you're a euro skeptic explain to me your reasons for that well i'm skeptical about how much european government we need and want. as a british democrat i believe that most of the big decisions should be taken by an elected parliament in the united kingdom and as many decisions as possible should be dedicated to individuals families and lower levels of government within the united kingdom so i am skeptical about the need and purpose of a lot of european government at the measure nine level if something requires global agreement with and our systems for global treaties and global agreement global government if something needs a national government we have the institutions it's quite difficult i think identifying those things that really require a european level of government as well the debt crisis and resulting unrest that we're seeing in the eurozone at the moment do you think that's a precursor to a total collapse of the what those countries in western europe that wish to create

professor also thanks very much for talking to r.t. now you correctly predicted the economic crisis was your predictions for the year it's not so easy i think as long as germany underwrites the euro it will stay at least for a couple of years the german economy is still very strong so i think as long as germany has the political will to stand behind it which i which i question we should not do that but as long as we do it it will probably can go on for another four five six years and what about the german people and what is their political will in the german population to carry on supporting him.

professor also thanks very much for talking to r.t. now you correctly predicted the economic crisis was your predictions for the year oh it's not so easy i think as long as germany underwrites euro it will stay at least for a couple of years the german economy is still very strong so.

professor also thanks very much for talking to r.t. now you correctly predicted the economic crisis was your predictions for the year zero it's not so you see i think as long as strongly on the right.

while talking to r.t. a top russian diplomat responsible for smoothing relations with europe says russia's relations with nato will thrive when cold war stereotypes are dropped well the full interview is coming up in the next hour on r.t. but here's a brief preview for you. but you know what we have a full fledged dialogue with nato there have been certain unpleasant incidents of course but today we have a common understanding of the fact that we have to move forward we live on the same continent so we've been facing up to the same threats and challenges for quite some time that i think that leaders new strategic concept should be free from such a vista concepts of perceiving russia as a possible threat of work or hints about nato as a global role in the circumvention of international laws. so more world news now here in r.t. violence has broken out in the indonesian capital as about two thousand demonstrators rallied outside the presidential palace the protesters have been demanding the head of state resi

while talking to r.t. a top russian diplomat responsible for smoothing relations with europe so just that russia's relations with nato will thrive when cold war stereotypes are dropped the full interview is coming your way in about fifteen minutes time here's a preview. we have a full fledged dialogue with nato there have been certain unpleasant incidents of course but today we have a common understanding of the fact that we have to move forward we live on the same continent so we've been facing up to the same threats and challenges for quite some time though i think that nato has new strategic concept should be free from such a vista concepts are perceiving russia as a possible threat of were hints about needles global rule in circumvention of international laws. india is working to combat a sex trafficking problem which campaigners say is the most rampant in the world thousands of girls from neighboring nepal being brought to major cities like mumbai with promises of good jobs instead many become victims

r.t. spanish channel he talked about the present and the future of latin america russia and the world here are some highlights. lives are one of the reasons for the many conflicts going on in the world today but take a look at the war in iraq thousands of people are died women and children were killed that's what but the whole war was based on the lie that the iraqi government had weapons of mass destruction that's the only reason the yankee empire invaded the country but then they learned that no there hadn't been any such weapons so they designed that lie to bring wars will rock you that's the politics of the nk empire there are one hundred and one lies even today they claim we hide and train terrorists they claim we enrich here remember we got it so all they have to do now is accuse us of trying to build an atomic bomb that's the web of lies they create us a justify whatever they need to be just a bright idea. to what extent do you think latin american countries make and control their own policies today. that they want to. let in america is in the middle of a protests i'm an optimist ev

are talking to r.t. the top russian diplomat responsible for smoothing relations with europe says russia's relations with nato will thrive when cold war stereotypes are dropped that full interview is coming up in fifteen minutes but here's a preview. well we have a full fledged dialogue with nato there have been certain unpleasant incidents of course but today we have a common understanding of the fact that we have to move forward we live on the same continent so we've been facing up to the same threats and challenges for quite some time though i think that nato has new strategic concept should be free from such a vista concept of perceiving russia as a possible threat of were hints about nato as a global role in the circumvention of international laws. and the interview is actually coming up next hour right here on r.t. . well the town of a cut of about may of once been a center of economic activity and wealth for centuries in russia but it has now fallen into disrepair years of industrial activity and

s 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'd 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 resent when milton's 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 have decided in brussels not decided in the u.k. in my view it is making us poorer and less democratic and less free and i believe we would be better off out and do you support this state a referendum on being and if it were possible well i think we should stall with the referendum that every major political party in britain promised us which