relationship with the european union we do not want to be within this political superstate united states of europe with its flag of its own its parliament and its president and all of that we don't want that we want a perfect amicable friendly trading arrangement with the you just like switzerland has. but we don't want the politics you know that is really submerging our country way of doing things our judicial system and our culture within this that we don't want and we don't need that i was you say we are the largest trading partner britain is with the continental e.u. we are in the prime position to actually have a perfectly respectable and very amiable free trade agreement free trade agreement many are saying that we've only seen the beginning of protests against austerity measures. on the streets are you one of them or do you think it's going to fizzle out in two thousand and eleven and i think it will get worse and i do fear you know you have some extreme problems in greece in spades in portugal with very high unemployment where like in spain you're almost approaching you know one in every t

countries together very different economies together under one state to state effectively the united states of europe with quite an element the soviet union. i am a member of european parliament but i think european parliament is not a true parliament is a bit like a supreme soviet or as bad as the former soviet union but. elements all of this so there are parallels with yugoslavia i'm afraid but it is extremely dangerous as we've seen with the euro to force such divergent nations together i think the tensions you create economic and political opera family dangerous but surely you're not predicting that he will end in a pleasant concert i certainly hope not but you know i've been involved in the peace process in northern ireland i worked in government and i've seen what happens when democracy fails and i believe democracy is failing in the european union because national sensitivities are being overridden we saw it in our learned how they said no to those in treaty and then they were invited to get the right answer and they had to have another referendum and they said yes and look at the mess that un

campaigned about keeping neutral there was a huge debate united states we weren't prepared and it was a tragic result of the ravages of world war one on europe that the united states did come out as a more dominant power relative to the destruction of europe after world war one but look what happened after world war one look what happened after world war two the united states' role in rebuilding other countries other former enemies was specific and peter i think i think obviously we should all learn more about history but i would say that that policymakers in the united states who thought about the importance of protecting the sovereignty of russia's neighbors who thought about the importance of nato enlargement knew well the massive contribution of the citizens of the soviet union during world war two and knew well of the ravages that stalin brought on russia's neighbors afterwards and i think that those two things made the importance of what president bush and clinton and george w. bush talked about as far as a importance of a europe whole free and it peace and the exciting thing the third point the exciting thing about about the united st

our interest as we have several interests one of the relationship that the united states and europe have is obviously very close our economies are fully interdependent. there are millions of european jobs that are with american companies millions of american jobs that are with the european companies. that a an energy secure europe and a strong europe economically is in our interest just as an energy secure united states is in this in europe's interest for the same reason a lot of the work that we do with the e.u. relates to matters such as energy efficiency new technology. g.'s the kinds of things that will benefit both the united states and the e.u. and by the way we're dealing on the same issues with russia as well as part of the energy working group that's part that is part of the by national commission between the united states. and russia the presidential binational commission so these are important issues for all of us to work together and we are we also just to complete the answer to the question. we feel strongly that it's important that there be more resources developed in the c

of american jobs that are with european companies. that a an energy secure europe and a strong europe economically is in our interest just as an energy secure united states is in this in europe's interest for the same reason. a lot of the work that we do with the you relates to matters such as energy efficiency new technology. g.'s the kinds of things that will benefit both the united states and the and by the way we're dealing on the same issues with russia as well as part of the energy working group that's part that is part of the by national commission between the united states. and russia the presidential binational commission so these are important issues for all of us to work together and we are we also just to complete the answer to the question. we feel strongly that it's important that there be more resources developed in the caucasus and central asia and russia as well. that. the more the more resources that are developed it's going to be better for world markets the united states won't get a molecule of gas from the caucasus or central asia probably not a molecule of gas from russia although it's possible we could at some point be getting l. a

of. relations in the very difficult circumstances in which we are living secondly we do not want to become member states or for united states we want to become a member states of europe and you know we are leaving the europe and we are going to continue i forsee in that direction but no one can make very strange or not the future condition symptom so frequent as in kosovo. because of the intention to become a member state the future puno be should that the pro-choice european union countries very much take into consideration our relations with the russian historical relations very close relations and culture relations no one can make any problem seem death respect this is not changeable policy and be sure of the serbia is going to be very very close partner of russia true future and future history and we should have and continue to have special little course i have extremely close relations with your president to your prime minister we have a very very good conversation and we agreed on many many issues that we are going to continue our force in that direction so this is a quote from your end. that balkan integration into the day all the way to settle disputes and we

united states imposing debt deflation this is what china is trying to get rid of and of course they're going to move much more towards the internal market simply because the market in the united states and europe is shrinking so one way or another given their productive capacity of course they're going to use that to raise living standards that's the only way that they can maintain a market for the for the policy and in a mixed economy with the government playing a role along side business to create an environment where business can serve the public interest you're going to have a much more efficient allocation of resources than you have here when the market is planned by banks with a view towards how much can we get the private sector the families the business and real estate in the debt this becomes self destructive when the whole. will collapse and you know daniel it's interesting i mean china still officially is a communist country and it does have a poet bureau part of the communist party but it sounds like wall street is the poet bureau of the united states if we disagree with michael what he does. i want to disagree a bit with what he said and the defense of the cato institute we were c

united states carry health insurance. the margin of error is plus or minus4.2%. >> word tonight that the growth of facebook is shifting from the united states and europe to developingnations. the mercury news reports tracking services say in december just 5% of facebook growth came from the united states. analysts say that may mean facebook is reaching saturation in america. it has 600 million registered users. >>> a landlord taking legal action against the auction house that sold lennon's suit featured on the cover of the abby road album. it was sold in connecticut in january. it reportedly got about $46,000. now the former landlord of the collector who sold the suit is suing to try get the proceeds of the sale to pay a 21,000- dollar rent debt. >> a massive manhunt for a suspected cop killer in new jersey ended with the capture of a suspect. police in lakewood new jersey say a tip helped them find and arrest a 19-year-old. he is a accused of friday's shooting of christopher matlos as he sat in his squad car. >> its been devastating for me. the officer's on the police department, we are a brotherhood, like one big family and -- what hurts us hurts us all. speaking

institution to work on a broad mandate of tackling the changes that are faced by advanced industrialized societies. that is a broad mandate. we work with europe and the united states and we work on how europe and the united states can work together on the major world challenges like climate change and economic trade and development, just a number of issues the program i run goes back to the early days in the first 20 years when we were primarily a grantmaker making grants to low-cal practitioners and policymakers. i started this program about four years, five years ago now, i think, time flies, to really bring in members of our marshall memorial fellowship network of which david chiu is one of our alumni. some of our past grantees and also the next crop of practitioners and local civic leaders who are really looking to change their home communities by looking abroad or looking to other cities to see what other cities are doing well and how that might be imported back home or translated back home. so the comparative dom particular policy program works primarily in the 25 cities that doug mentioned, but not exclusively in those cities. we really are looking for some

invite him to i do think of it living here i mean there's no way the united states is going and europe is going i mean seriously i think. maybe one of the options. are crossed or could be here in about fifteen minutes time or so do stay with us here on r.t. with her when you said russia spiraling out of control there are increasing calls to legalise methadone treatment to help addicts to beat their habit doctors believe this substitution therapy simply replaces one addiction with another set of further talks to both sides. in russia more than two million people to illegal drugs finding a way to combat this means a critical challenge i started when i was very young i was interested in anything that altered my state of mind and i didn't have any principles i cheated lied to install nothing was beneath me. since it's been a battle against addiction and he now works to help. others eva come there as his story is very similar to arena to prince guy is his drug addiction destroys her life it's why she went to the u.n. calling for the implementation of an opiate substitution program at the mo

of europe. and when he got back to the united states that have grand tour of europe in the spring of 1910 he received such a welcome in new york city as was not exceeded until lindbergh in the 1920s. >> rose: and he loved every moment. >> power became him. adulation became him. he loved celebrity. but he did even at that height of fame want to spend the rest of his life as a literary gentleman and retire to sagamore hill. and the pathos, the tragedy of which i speak, of which johnson speaks in that prologue is the fact that he was pulled back into politics rather against his will and is compelled to run against the presidency and at the height of their campaign in 1912 got a bullet in his chest which very nearly killed him and from the moment that bullet impacted on his ribs and landed within a fraction of an inch in of his heart, his life went into a slow and fairly inevitable tragic decline. >> rose: that was because it took a toll of his energy and spirit? >> oh, it had its physical effect but what i'm talking about is the arc of a great life. if you're writing an shakespearean tragedy you will al

challenges for especially because of course we do not want to become member states or for united states we want to become a member state of european union we are leaving a europe and we are going to continue our efforts in that direction but no one can make a very strange or not official condition symptom so frequent as in kosovo so this is a quote from your interview that balkan.

challenges for especially because of course we do not want to become member states so if united states we want to become a member state of european union we are leaving the europe and we are going to continue our efforts in the direction but no one can make a very strange or not official condition symptom so frequent as in kosovo so this is a quote from your interview that balkan integration into the e.u. is de only way to settle the disputes and we should all be integrated into europe and look for pragmatic ways out single tenney's the now why do you think it's possible to settle the issue that one country couldn't solve on its own with a.

of this war. cool are in the united states and in europe and i think it would do for the standing of this becausethere is a bit of a feeding around ok you go to big guys in small countries you won't go to big guys in big countries take a look down at some other stories making headlines across the globe in ireland the green party leader has quit the coalition government and called for the march and general election to be brought forward john gormley says his party's patients had to run out after weeks of political turmoil in the country but promised to support next week's finance bill from opposition benches the latest resignation comes a day after prime minister brian cowen stepped down as leader of his party made pressure due to the country's economic crisis. at least ten people have been killed in a series of bombings across the iraqi capital baghdad more than thirty others were injured five car bombs appear to be part of a coordinated attack targeting police and shia pilgrims in you're a busy road in the city officials say the attacks were designed to show that iraq is unable to provide securi

of this war. iraq war are in the united states and in in europe and i think it would do an awful lot for the standing of this because there is a bit of a feeding the rand ok you go off to big guys in small countries you won't go after big guys in big countries. want to take a look now at some other headlines from around the world the south fifty three members over deposed two museum president's family have been arrested in front of the country these are crimes against the interim leader earlier promised to live up to the people's with all their good work i live in a total break from the past violent demonstrations continue in the capital the ousted president supporters refusing to recognize the man government or the hundred people who died during the rest. of us congresswoman gabrielle giffords is expected to be moved to a rehabilitation center almost two weeks off her attempted murder officials say she is now able to stand with assistance and is very to begin the next phase of her recovery two thirds of a shot in the forehead during a public event outside a grocery store in the city of tucson arizon

of mostly u.s. stocks versus international. where are they goinging to get the best returns this year? >> i would avoid europe. i would concentrate on the united states. and i would put a small component of my equity investing in the emerging market area where you are seeing large growth coming from the brazils and coming from indias and other nations that are exhibiting very strong consistent growth. >> susie: let's talk a little bit about etfs. they're so popular. you have the ishares. they have huge u.s. growth. where is the next big growth going to come from. is it going to be overseas? >> atfs have not enjoyed the same success overseas as it has in the united states. but we are beginning to see more and more companies, more and more individuals look at etfs as a component of their portfolio investing. >> susie: there's a lot of controversy about etf fees. if your competitors cut them, would you? >> we have periodically looked at fees. we have lowered fees at times. but we don't look at fees as the major component that drives an individual to invest in an eft -- etf. >> susie: municipal bonds have been a controversy. recently a number of financia

we see that a lot of your business is in the united states and europe where the economies have been pretty weak. you have a low profile in china. are you goinging to be stepping up your business in china especially since a lot of the china is closing a lot of its out of date aluminum plants? >> well, this is the worldwide market so it's not about just going present there. but it's also about importing selling to china. we sell about a billion, i would say, in china and to china. so part of it is what we manufacture there. and part of it is what we have there. china is important for us in the market. and we continue to see 15% growth, 21% growth, last year 15% growth, next year this year basically 2011. but we also continue to see substantial growth in what we would call the emerging markets from india, indonesia, southeast aisha, brazil, those are markets that we do believe will continue to grow fast. >> susie: now klaus, the company recently said that its reopening the three plants here in the u.s. in new york state and washington state, hiring -- 60 people to meet demand. will we see mor