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t. thank you very much for your time sir and your latest book you claimed germany didn't about after that much from the introduction of hurons and a lot of experts from other european countries could make the same claim is it any member that in your view can actually say the euro has been good for it no i don't think so as the northern states did not to profit from the euro but it didn't. harm them eyes up to no maybe the two for the future. saw them states including france. probably get it first from the credit boom which went on to. two thousand and five and the now there are being damaged by the rising. call of a common balanced if it's. by rising in terms of that. hole in course rates. which which includes. cut down on the public expenditure and. improve the competitiveness by. lowering the prices and close. to even even more harm saw they have before the. a long and complicated road so what's your recipe do you think that greece or arlen should accept the union or as some economists suggest the germination show delayed than exit the euro zone itself we have a not know their choice bu

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god the world you're watching r t thanks for being with us on the threshold of the first anniversary of the fall of tripoli libya seems to be marking the event with violence and chaos and the latest in a series of recent attacks on city shrines salafi islamists were blamed for blowing up and bulldozing a stuffed in the centuries sanctuary sectarian tensions in libya have reached new levels off to see if the religious sites were destroyed by i'm still office and government security forces this against the background of severe ethnic clashes which have spiraled since colonel gadhafi was also good most recently at least twelve people were killed and dozens injured after the fighting parties use heavy weaponry including and afghans political analyst and consultant of things in libya will only just and deeper into chaos. libya is following the same trend as all the other countries where there was a for sure jeanne we have the same scenario in iraq where the same situation in afghanistan we've got the situation in libya which again of course regime and as you would expect there will be bre

you're watching r t thanks for tuning in arabs living in israel can no longer defer military service as the only law allowing them to do so has expired and it's again prompted fears of a deeper split in israeli society as arabs who previously volunteered to serve in the defense force have been seen as traitors by many in their own community artie's policy explains. a monument to israel's fallen look more closely and you will see many of the names are of arab soldiers fighters who joined an army that many of their birth one here call the enemy. but in meetings like this across the country the mood is changing most arab israelis are saying no to being drafted into the israeli defense forces the issue is up for debate as is where we've used current military draft laws that allow orthodox jews and arabs to avoid national service. the israeli military wants to make a server not because they need us because we want to control the arab states of mind and divide us. any time for the army generals will call a party in ages and against whom will they fight against our arab and palestinian brot

you're watching r t thanks for being with us on the threshold of the first anniversary of the fall of tripoli libya seems to be marking the event with violence and chaos and the latest in a series of recent attacks on syfy shrines as a lofty slam as well blamed for blowing up and bulldozing a fifteenth century sanctuary sectarian tensions in libya have reached new levels off to see if the religious sites were destroyed by arms to lock this and government secure. forthwith this against a backdrop of severe acne clashes which have spiraled since colonel gadhafi was ousted most recently at least twelve people and killed and dozens injured after a viking partings use heavy weapons mean condemning m.p.a. propaganda political analyst and consultant peter yet things libya will only descend deeper into chaos. libya is following the same trend or so the other countries where there was a force regime we have the same scenario in iraq we have the same situation in afghanistan we've got the situation in libya which was again a force regime and as you would expect there will be breakaway groups be

watching r t thank you for joining us today still ahead for you in this hour libya marking one year since the fall of tripoli the celebration is anything but joyous it's continued travel violence threatens to send the country further into chaos. plus resentment on the rise in pakistan as the u.s. continues to blow legal lines when it comes to its deadly drone strikes. this week the case of norwegian mass murderer anders breivik reached its conclusion brevik who admitted killing seventy seven people was declared sane by judges he's been jailed now for a maximum of twenty one years for his bombing and gun rampage and also low oil island of course that was last year smoked when he heard the verdict which he says he will not appeal during his final statement he apologized for not killing even more grateful he's always insisted on his sanity and that the killings were part of his fight against the islamification of norway e.u. countries who are suffering a rise in far right activities before the tragedy but has. a reports ideas and are fueling even more hatred towards immigrants and islam. the

why this is r t thanks for joining us today coming up in just a few minutes a stairway to heaven an old idea of a soviet engineer is now being put into practice and find out about the plans to boldly build an elevator into space. wider starting with afghanistan is going to the r.t. world update now it's where five australian soldiers have died in a pair of separate incidents two soldiers were killed when their helicopter rolled over while landing just hours earlier a man in an afghan army uniform opened fire on australian soldiers at a military base killing three and wounding two other so-called green on blue attacks in which uniformed afghans turned their weapons against coalition allies have surged this year claiming the lives of at least forty five. scandal hit barclays bank is facing another fraud probe over the billions it raised from middle eastern investors in two thousand and eight but the bank is suspected of not being open enough in what it had paid to advisors when it raised more than five billion pounds of emergency capital at the height of the global financial crisis barcla

you're watching r t thanks for being with us russian energy gazprom has joined the club of companies literally coming under attack from greenpeace six environmental activism bush one of the firm's floating oil rigs in the attic in protest against in the area despite warnings from platform workers activists managed to latch on to the rig suspending themselves off it for fifteen hours they claim they're within sprayed with water from above and retreated to avoid risk in the freezing conditions environmental campaigner christopher williams says several nations are getting increasingly interested in a slice of the offtake energy reserves and that will keep greenpeace busy. just below the arctic is up to twenty five percent of world reserves there are countries vying for control of optical oil those countries i think are pretty determined to start drilling the russian being the first one is now approaching protests from greenpeace scheldt very keen to drill have been given allows is from the obama administration to begin exploring that process it will be interesting i think to find out wh

and you're with r t thanks for being with us if you've missed anything don't worry i'll recap the headlines coming up in about a minute. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charging welcome to the big picture.

you're watching r t thanks for joining us today still to come for you in this program that of capping the cops new york police are targeted by civil rights groups after six years of spy operations on muslims who turned out to be guilty of nothing. are ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital the united nations secretary-general ban ki moon has arrived in terror on to take part in the summit of the nonaligned movement it's made up of countries that don't see themselves as part of any global power block such as nato one hundred twenty states are represented that's around two thirds of the un's members and washington and israel have called on the international government officials and the u.n. secretary general himself to ignore the summit they say that is hindering the diplomatic and economic isolation of iran which they accuse of attempting to create nuclear weapons well it deserves a bigger conversation than what i have for you let's head over to patrick henderson a geo political analyst from the web site a u.k. call and live in london such a pleasure to see you today the

this is r t thanks for joining us today still ahead for you in this hour the road to ruin we peek into the future of post revolution libya as recent islamist attacks on religious shrines triggered fears the country is about to plunge headfirst into tribal chaos and bloodshed and. no time out for athens european leaders remain on swayed by a greek p.r. blitz asking for more time to implement cuts sun to prop up its ailing economy. or to temporize the hour moscow time an average of three months for every person he killed a court this week handed a twenty one year prison term to mass murderer anders breivik for the massacre of seventy seven people last july now this is the maximum sentence possible in norway but it can be prolonged if the killer is still deemed a menace to society once the term is complete the prosecution had demanded that breivik should have been placed in a secure psychiatric unit saying he was insane but the judge ruled he was mentally sound the killer who never showed any remorse for his actions during the whole trial said he was rather satisfied with such a decision

you're watching r t thank you for joining us today iran says it's trying to help forge solutions to some of the world's most pressing issues at a summit in terror on over one hundred developing nations which don't consider themselves aligned to the u.s. they're all taking part iran says it will discuss a comprehensive package to resolve the crisis in syria it's also calling on participants to oppose western sanctions over to iran's nuclear program egypt's new president is also attending the gathering the first egyptian leader to visit iran in over three decades now the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon he's also attending despite attempts by washington to play down the summit's importance joseph chang a political analyst from hong kong city university says the u.s. is losing losing ground on an international level. the fact that the summit is now in iran and well as members of the non allied rules and states including countries like. egypt and so on certainly is very much against the first scenario the united states washington d.c. actually says understand that it is. tool excerpt press

well this is r t thanks for joining us today coming up in just a few minutes that of a stairway to heaven an old idea of a soviet engineer is now being put into practice find out about the plans of boldly build an elevator into space. now the syrian delegation has walked out on a session of the nonaligned movement currently underway in tehran they were angered at a speech by gyptian leader mohamed morsi who called president assad's regime oppressive the high hopes were put on the gathering of the states who don't consider themselves allies of major western powers and their ability to negotiate a solution to the syrian crisis as discussed the implications of this now with a journalist and broadcaster neil clark coming live on the program good to see you today sirius i report hello syria's foreign minister said that or more sees comments amount to inciting further violence in the country what do you think. well i think the problem i had we had this speech was it was so on balance i mean he didn't quit criticize the rebels at all i mean the rebels have been responsible for much of the violen

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