tightening the noose on america's controversial death penalty the e.u. plugs the flow of drugs used to kill u.s. inmates. as the eurozone faces an uncertain future with the leaders struggling to reach an accord on how to solve the ongoing economic problems we discuss the issues with an m.e.p. from the u.k. and if you coming your way right now. well today we're joined by conservative any please mr daniel hannan thank you very much for joining us first question that everyone is asking is where do you see the eurozone headed well we can now see very clearly that the euro is a recessionary instrument i mean it's making people poorer it's causing deflation and emigration in the southern states is causing tax rises in the northern states if we were looking at this completely logically we would immediately move towards an orderly unbundling of the single currency but of course the european union is not looking at it logically they come at this with so much political capital and actual capital invested that they can't bring themselves to admit that it was a mista

side and two questions on the russian side says we start with the e.u. side and then my colleague will take over for the russian sites please state your name and the media your present before addressing your question please. sebastian offer from reuters a question for mr van rompuy do you have a date yet for a next summit of e.u. leaders and what kind of progress do you expect to make on a fiscal compact by then. thank you for that question informed this morning the twenty seven member states. will convene a meeting of the european council by the and of generally beginning of february i convened that meeting after consultation with the president of the european commission the polish prime minister and the danish prime minister the current president of the council and the upcoming president of the council. on the agenda. we will have first of all the implementation of the decisions we have taken in october and in december and of course the most important one these the as you mentioned the fiscal compact and the intergovernmental treaty so the implementatio

the eurozone countries and the e.u. institutions will find themselves simply not big enough to cope with it meanwhile inspectors from the so-called troika which consists of the european commission the european central bank and the international monetary fund are looking to provide athens with a new one hundred billion euro bailout i would call it lying circus the banks who are trying to save their necks who were put on the line with bad loans to corrupt governments in. waiting and expecting european taxpayers to pay their bills especially the bonus bills sure christmas is big in europe but billing of the euro for the sake of the banks is becoming one expensive present the dozens of protests that have rocked the e.u. this year alone are a clear sign of discontent over austerity. and it's highly unlikely the new set of handouts for greece will be greeted with anything cheer. or g. germany. meantime david cameron's know the e.u. fiscal agreement received a mixed reaction at home and the prime minister enjoyed a hero's welco

probably will have less influence now in making decisions in the e.u. would have been better if the u.k. had just got on board with the rest with this was the argument of course. that we were given when the euro was launched in the first place you have to be part of it or you'll lose all the influence you know the city of london will decline and look who was right you know i mean look there is nothing less attractive in politics and saying i told you so but there is no there's one thing less attractive and that is listening to the same discredited arguments from the same shameless politicians who got it wrong who got this badly wrong ten years ago and who are now trotting out exactly the same logic what else has to happen before they accept that their logic was flawed all wish logic is flawed do you think the economic or political logic mainly the impossibility of jamming widely divergent economies into a single exchange rate and a single interest rate there is also a democratic cost it's not only a political cost last month we saw crews in two e.u. memb

. >> reporter: but while the e.u. wants to agree on when and what kind of framework will depress the protocol, others like china and the united states are reluctant to discuss any future system. time is running up. ministers have started informal talks in a bid to open up more honest discussion and get compromise. negotiations will certainly continue until the very last moment of the conference. >>> a ceremony has been held in hawaii to mark the 70th anniversary of japan's attack on pearl harbor on december 7th, 1941. about 3,000 people, including aging veterans and family members, observed a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m. on wednesday, the exact time the attack began. more than 2,300 people died in the attack. >> it is a friendship made possible by the battle that is you fought in northern japan and the u.s armed forces stood side-by-side with the self-defense force within hours of an unprecedented crisis. >> later, u.s. servicemen who survived the attack were applauded as they stood up to acknowledge their names. >>

and to save energy time between russia and the e.u. all where do you strong so how much more can we expect in the near future. that's right both sides did admit to and reiterate the ties between the two countries saying praising the successor to be a nordstrom project that's just quite recent and they say baby could be will expect continued continued exchanges especially in the energy sector although they did mention that there are difficulties as well particularly in relation to the third energy package which is a legislation of the e.u. that requires the separation of the transportation delivery and sale of gas which does become a point of contention because one of russia's russia's biggest company gazprom is in charge of all those all those processes and it would it would definitely impact the way they operate in terms of gas a live reason the e.u. although the e.u. said well they're willing to talk about and continue negotiations on how to add more flexibility so that they would take into consideration of russia's interests now anot

and their involvement in the e.u. and what does it mean for the eurozone and the global economy well the man himself nigel fragile was here earlier to talk to me more about this i asked him if a split in the e.u. is inevitable here is his take. it's happened already i think i think it happened in the early hours of last friday morning where the united kingdom a country of sixty two million people one of the really big players in the european community for the last nearly four decades found herself hopelessly isolated abused by everybody. i don't think there is any going back from well cameron's decision certainly it was not a popular one at least among his fellow members of the e.u. . do you think that he is has alienated himself from from members of the. cameron is somebody who is naturally a fairly gentle consensus politician he likes to be popular he likes to side up to agreements he went along last thursday with what he thought were very reasonable practical demands so that the united kingdom which has a very big f

the e.u. a whole. we were simply asking for a level playing field, for open competition for financial services companies in all e.u. countries with arrangements that would enable every state to regulate its football sector properly -- financial sector properly. to those who are saying we were trying to go soft on the banks, nothing can be further from the truth. we are going the respond positively to the tough measures set out in the vick car's report. there are issues about the current european regulations, so one of the things we wanted was to make sure we could go further than european rules on regulating the banks. the financial services report on rbs today demonstrates just how necessary that is, and perhaps honorable members opposite will remember their responsibility for the mess that they created. and those who say, and those who say that this proposed treaty change was all about safeguarding the eurozone and so britain shouldn't have tried to interfere or to insist on safeguards, i be

well david cameron's firm no to the e.u. fiscal agreement received a mixed reaction at home he's been defending his decision in the house of commons earlier today on monday saying the treaty lacked financial safeguards for the u.k. well for more on this some are joined by historian and author neil. did david cameron have any other choice but to go his own way the summit. well he obviously had a choice the british elite has been divided since the beginning really on the e.u. between those who value greater integration into the into the european market and it's interesting that british industrialists have been expressing concern about the problem caused by the rift division between those and on the other hand finance capital the city of london feels threatened by the possibility of an e.u. imposed tax on financial transactions now clearly cameron had a choice he could have either gone with greater integration or he backs the speculative profits of the city of london and seeks to defend the banks in the city against. taxation an

david cameron's note of the e.u. fiscal agreement was received with a mixed reaction at home and the prime minister enjoyed a hero's welcome from his conservative party but the decision deeply disappointed deputy prime minister nick clegg letter on monday cameron was trying to defend his actions in parliament gone from the u.k. out of the e.u. campaign and supported but has doubts about how the e.u. is going to work with this division in place. i think he was right to stand up to the germans and engage right to stand up to a little sarkozy but the bottom line is the facts are we are now more isolated than ever we're still be paying fifty one million pounds a day into the but now i have no influence over what so ever clearly the british people do not want fiscal review and clearly david cameron went to brussels trying to stop fiscal union and to stop the current of. the destruction of the banking sector he didn't get what he wanted so he decided to walk out of those discussions and some people say he was a bulldog rath

germany says there are no rapid solutions to the e.u. dead crisis and it could take years to overhaul the eurozone and save the single currency. also. twenty five thousand people marched through manhattan the lack of jobs and low wages echoing the mood of the occupy wall street movement. and russia's r.t.s. m i six changed clothes at zero change level as investors decide to play it safe and take profits ahead of the election weekend more on this in business thirteen twenty. hour seven o'clock friday night here in moscow this is the with me rory sushant welcome to the program russia says that a united nations report on syria is not objective or based on reality and the international community is receiving biased accounts of the events in the country the un human rights council called an emergency session in light of the findings squalling for urgent action to protect civilians in syria and condemnation of alleged crimes against humanity. reports. the doubts being raised when it comes to syria is certainly coming from russia specifically on

although the e.u. said well they're willing to talk about and continue negotiations on how to add more flexibility so that they would take into consideration of russia's interests now another thing relation to create a business is of course the accession of russia to the w t o no this will provide more liberalization definitely lower import tariffs for russia certainly the e.u. will play a very big role considering that seventy point five percent of investment in russia is coming from the e.u. so to morrow the they will rubberstamp be w t o accession and that russia has to ratify that agreement so a lot of business and trade talks happening here in brussels between the two sides . this was senior europe correspondent more news analysis on our web site r t v dot com online right now in fact as a rand becomes the target of a series of bombings and assassinations with the views of one expert who believes the so-called rogue state could just be the latest victim of the world's wheel axis of evil also mosco

only the e.u. and a few others are prepared to stick with it, but they only released 15% of the world's emissions. a new global treaty may not come until 2020 or even later. this afternoon, protesters tried to disrupt the conference, accusing negotiaters of stalling. but jostling with the police will do nothing to budge the biggest economy. china, india, and america, all worries that a climate treaty could restrain growth. and that's the reality. >> to make the case for a really robust and ambitious agreement. can be supported by many developing countries. unless china and india and the u.s. are onboard, we're not going to have a global solution. >> near the conference center, a new solar power station, many companies and countries are turning to green energy. but not having an international treaty makes that harder, and the talks up the road are struggling tonight. they'll run into the weekend and no one can predict the outcome. david shookman, "bbc news." >> for most of his life, harji has lived i

although the e.u. said well they're willing to talk about and continue negotiations on how to add more flexibility so that they would take into consideration of russia's interests now another thing relation to creative business is of course the accession of russia to the w t o n o this will provide more liberalization definitely lower import tariffs for russia certainly the e.u. will play a very big role considering that seventy point five percent of investment in russia is coming from the e.u. so to morrow the they will rubberstamp be w t o accession and that russia has to ratify that agreement so a lot of business and trade talks happening here in brussels between the two sides . correspondent reporting there syrian activists say twenty seven state security officers have been killed by army defectors in the southern province of there are meantime human rights watch is to release a report naming dozens of syrian officials it claims are responsible for the violent crackdown on protesters let's talk mor

germany says there are no rapid solutions to the e.u. debt crisis and it could take years to overhaul the eurozone none save the single currency. twenty eight thousand people marched through manhattan angry at the lack of jobs and low wages echoing the recent mood of the occupy wall street. parties business desk takes a look at the prospects of potential changes to the state spending and fiscal policies following the elections join us in twenty minutes so. it is now or just after five pm on friday here in the russian capital this is with me rory scene showing russia says that a united nations report on syria is not objective well based on reality the international community is that receiving biased reports on events in the country it comes as the u.n. human rights council holds an emergency meeting on syria they need to put pressure on damascus and condemn alleged crimes against humanity. as more. but doubts being raised when it comes to syria is certainly coming from russia specifically on the objectivity of the report saying that this i

a fresh rift within the e.u. britain vetoes the new treaty tightening fiscal rules for bloc members in a move that many believe is a first step in the u.k. towards the exit. liberated a button desperate for money libyan authorities plead to the un to release him billions of the country's assets still frozen money stopped at the end of the military conflict. a very warm welcome to you you're watching the weekly on a c with me will receive shine russia has seen a post-election frenzy this week with those dissatisfied with the results taking onto the streets this weekend it culminated in the biggest opposition rally in the country's recent history but despite almost predictions the event passed peacefully as. reports. now they really wish to place in the center of moscow on saturday has gathered more than twenty five thousand people that's according to the police estimate it began of the revolutionary square and there was a prevention about that particular gathering because most because it is thirty seven not allowed

fresh rift within the e.u. britain vetoes a new treaty tightening fiscal rules for but members and a move that many believe is a first step for the u.k. towards the exit door. liberated but desperate for money libyan authorities plead to the u.n. to release billions of the country's assets still frozen months after the end of military conflict that our top stories this hour. with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is . and our weekly edition president dmitri medvedev has promised that all claims of violations during last week's parliamentary election will be investigated this comes after a post-election frenzy culminated in the biggest opposition rally in russia's recent history. never has the details. this rally took place a no the central school where where over twenty five thousand people came through so they came to the a revolutionary square but of the moscow c.b.s. story it is we're not alone people together they're good that's why then they peacefully proceeded

the e.u. trade commissioner called the goodies in geneva to welcome russia into the world trade organization he warns it comes at a time when the euro crisis threatens the world with recession mr de gucht leaders are insulting each other the euro's fall into new lows how worried are you about this stage of the euro debt crisis i see that. people some people continue to fing that. sooner or later we will have serious problems with the euro. and that's obviously influencing the debate but this is simply not true i mean the euro is going to continue there to stay and europe will do everything that's a see to preserve the european union it's not a matter of choice you know it's not a matter of having different turn of this very clear cut political decision the you know is there to say full stop nicolas sarkozy's just call david cameron an obstinate kid while e.u. leaders getting personal it's not up to me to make comments on what president sarkozy is saying but generally i think one should avoid t

a fresh rift within the e.u. britain vetoed the new treaty tightening fiscal rules in a move that many believe is a first step for the u.k. towards the exit door. liberated and but desperate for money libyan authorities pleaded to the u.n. to release billions of the country's assets still frozen months off to the end of the military conflict that. a very warm welcome to you you're watching the weekly on t.v. with me. president dmitri medvedev has promised that all claims of violations during last week's parliamentary election will be investigated this comes after a post-election frenzy culminated in the biggest opposition rally in russia's recent history. of our joins us live with more details on. so hectic week following the election tell us more about what's been going on here in moscow. well the rally that to go place on saturday was a really us you saw the culmination of the whole postelection frenzy thoughts within us seeing for the last just seven days and of this rally to placing us the central school where

the e.u. as a whole. we were simply asking for a level playing field, for open competition for financial services companies in all e.u. countries with arrangements that would enable every state to regulate its football sector properly -- financial sector properly. to those who are saying we were trying to go soft on the banks, nothing can be further from the truth. we are going the respond positively to the tough measures set out in the vick car's report. there are issues about the current european regulations, so one of the things we wanted was to make sure we could go further than european rules on regulating the banks. the financial services report on rbs today demonstrates just how necessary that is, and perhaps honorable members opposite will remember their responsibility for the mess that they created. and those who say, and those who say that this proposed treaty change was all about safeguarding the eurozone and so britain shouldn't have tried to interfere or to insist on safeguards, i

and with the e.u. so i don't see any spillover there at my view. thank you. >> michael powell on key issues affecting the cable and telecom industries. >> host: well, it's been about eight months since michael powell has been president and ceo of the cable association, and now, mr. powell, thank you for being on the communicators. >> guest: my pleasure. thank you for having me. >> host: what's the biggest policy issue facing you in 2011? >> guest: it's not that easy to answer because increasingly a lot of the principle issues that we're focused on are a consequence of convergence on what's coming out of the web so if you add up the issues we've been heavily foe c'sed about, a lot -- focused about, a lot of them are connection with web issues. take privacy, an important issue driven by the headlines associated with facebook or google, but yet they have implications for the infrastructure providers as well. cyber security is an important issue to us and growing more significant by the day, but that also grows out of our anxiety about an ever-increasin

how much do you expect russia's trade with the e.u. to go up by isn't exactly the same i believe because. the chinese have been doing. from a historical point of view this is tremendous is developing an economy which is very much across the board. russia's economy yes and much more focused on a more limited number of sectors and i think it really depends upon russia which direction they take him to take that action off modernizing the economy off being involved also in new sectors and probably the agreements to get into the euro will be more food for them but that's up to them energy prices in russia are much lower than in the e.u. how this despondence be resolved we have. a scheme in accession whereby they will have to call to market prices over time. so that is not only is only a by the way but once you are member of the euro you have to go to market prices and you cannot have a double pricing you trade commissioner karel de gucht thank you for speaking with l.t. . francis three shifts and this is products on the price of healthy eati

and attend the e.u. ten days now before the new year cutting down with ten of our correspondents looking back at this year's landmark stories i reminisce about events they witnessed first hand. witness. to history in the making. testimony. ten stories that shaped two thousand and eleven. about ten minutes past the hour here in moscow russia is the sixth state duma the lower house of parliament has held its first session after a heated debate so to get out of this can from the ruling united russia party was chosen as the speaker it comes as protests continue against the election some two weeks ago sparked by allegations of vote rigging let's cross live now it was. over and over for more details on this hello to both of you starting with you first or so we know the name of the new speaker and now tell us how with the elected we believe there were some some fiery debate in the process it was very intense rhodri heated debates and raised voices could be heard before the voting and with two hundred eighty five

germany says there are no rapid solutions to the ongoing e.u. debt crisis sun it could take years to overhaul the eurozone the single currency. twenty thousand people marched through manhattan angry at a lack of jobs and low wages echoing the mood of the recent occupy wall street movement. it is now a six pm on friday here in moscow you're watching on t.v. with me rory sushant russia says that a united nations report on syria is not objective or based on reality and the international community is receiving biased accounts of events in the country now the human rights council called an emergency session in light of the findings scolding for urgent action to protect civilians in syria and condemnation of alleged crimes against humanity silly reports. the doubts being raised when it comes to syria is certainly coming from russia specifically on the objectivity of the report saying that this is unilateral prejudicial and biased reports about events at the un human rights council is getting especially because it's coming from about two hundred witness