we're going izing a successful coalition to block western europe. in this round but going forward this could be a sign of things to come not just in terms of who normally means these institutions after all the real decisions are often mean elsewhere not but in the g seven finance ministers. in the actual policies whether it will continue to see pasties by the i.m.f. there are as one former i.m.f. insider described in the guardian talking about the can receive christine legarde of the total bank protection plan total big. player and that's been the policy so far we've seen the consequences of that increase about portugal and ireland and christine the growth comes the next. i think the short run what you expect. more of the same as long as they can sustain it it's not obvious you know greece. and the edge of. default and perhaps even leaving europe so they may not be able to maintain these policies but the trend is for them to continue to try and what do you think is behind this sort of unusual more aggressive than normal statement event that it's ref

it was called the north atlantic treaty organization north atlantic that means western europe and for real terms where is the north atlantic treaty organization active today well of course it's active in the middle east it's active in central asia it's active in north africa. nato itself is a military and economic engine that does not want to. just because of the end of the soviet empire or its promise to exist it wants to feed itself as a military operation and as a as a bloodsucker of tax money it pays quite well to its upper staff and to its contractors and suppliers it's an industry that's a one in so like government it needs a foreign enemy had its leg play along with we are north atlantic but let's go to the middle east let's go to central asia let's go to north africa and not even have the sense to change the name. you know in effect they might as well call it the middle east treaty interventionist organization or the north african european military intervention machine where north atlantic treaty organization the arrogance of the sheer arrogance that it's just simply announcin

political and economic circumstances outside of western europe. as the french media play in making sure the french people come out against the war so that there's an understanding here between the journalist corps and the palace with the president and then their understanding is you will basically follow our editorial line on foreign policy or you will not be invited or included to come back and ask questions or press conferences we will not be cooperate with you when you seek interviews now this is not published officially but it's i mean. same thing goes on in the white house and george bush the barak obama under bill clinton which is to say if you go too far out of line with. challenging our official line you know. we're going to pressure your media ownership not even to send you here anymore. you're not going to go to expose that are you not going to get on diplomats airplanes you're just going to be isolated out. of it for the most important course government your case one way of keeping french people in what you call perpetual fear is system

fly here from western europe it's so a spectacle that stalin built his prison camps here welcome to russia's new tourist cold spot your mile and minutes. nobody doubt the striking natural beauty of your mother or the exotic foreigner that they have here what does this place look like a thirst paradise to you well certainly the local authority thinks so. hoping to turn emails limitations into advantages extreme tours will give travelers a chance to go where few others have been before. there are plans afoot to rebuild the former prison camp as a memorial of the soviet urges under cold weather means the local museum houses the best preserved mammoth and then thought world of the little ones those who are scared of your mother scared of themselves the tourists we're hoping to see are the ones prepared to go i want to real jail. as the producer of ninety percent of russia's gas is not for the tourism will help its indigenous peoples struggling to make a living from the traditional nomadic reindeer herding lifestyle the locals welcome tourists hungry for experiences and souvenirs. and used to be

encourages these sorts you talk about the west then and in some growing national movements in western europe are there any connections between them and that's where i think it has different origins and even the right just movement in russia also has different oranges in western europe and in russia now it's mostly resentment against migrants against migration which breeds you know. a big unknown in the last few years in the west in ukraine in the baltics it's idea is asian although priest or get lost it's idea was asian of all it was cruel and it's also of course resentment against the soviet period of history you mentioned russia just a second ago what's the situation in russia in terms of the extreme right well unfortunately we are also more angels and we're not clean of this terrible thing also in russia there are various groups which have different origins in the last few years the strongest was the movement which was actually just you know reacted to the spread of migration especially legal migration there was a lot of racism based simply on the way people will call the way they behave

what is really in western europe going to do about the palestinian demand for freedom and recognition of an independent state and september so if the if there is special relationship means cooperate and do bad things then it's not in the interest of the majority of people in either country if needs to cooperating to support democracy and human rights and policy then in diplomatic resolution of conflict then you know that's that's a special relationship that we can all support robert naiman from the u.s. just foreign policy organization thank you. well for more stories to come here still this hour on our. ten minutes time we travel to russia's republic of dagestan for rather a rare acquaintance. this path leads to a man who has walked through three same trees was thirty years biography and it is possible terms of the development of the country's history people come to visit and talk to him and his name again and has agreed to share some of his secrets to a long life with us to. get r.t. now it's just one day to go before the g eight summit kicks off in the french resort of the meeting

third eurozone country to request by tension late after greece and ireland portugal's one of western europe poorest countries that has been rocked by protests against austerity measures. amateur footage has emerged of hundreds of people holding a candle lit march in syria they've been reportedly demanding an end to the military siege in the city of daraa and other areas countries have been gripped by protests against the rule of president bashar assad is estimated more than five hundred people have been killed in the crackdown on protesters since their overall began in the mid march. and more than thirty people have been killed in poland in traffic accidents caused by unseasonably heavy snowfall one hundred thousand homes are reportedly left without electricity in many regions. but it may be remote but that's part of its attraction a new tourist destination in russia is gaining momentum steadily our facilities are welcoming visitors from all across the globe an hour he's eager on the road nerve explores the a model in the next region one of which is a most of which is beyond the arctic circ

third euro zone country to request financial aid after greece and ireland portugal's one of western europe's poorest countries it's been rocked by protests against austerity measures. hundreds of people have held a candle lit march in syria they've been reporting we didn't add an end to the military siege in the city of daraa in other areas country's been gripped by protests against the rule of president bashar assad it's estimated more than five hundred people have been killed in a crackdown on toastmasters since the world started in mid march. more than thirty people have been reported dead in the south west poland in traffic accidents caused by unseasonably heavy snowfall tens of thousands of homes have been left without power for past predict the wintry weather will continue for another few days. remoteness is its main attraction now locals are hoping to use that news had to draw visitors in make it russia's new must see location. was one of the areas where we explored. it's so far north most of us located beyond the arctic circle it's so remote it takes eight hours to fly here from west

life thousand tastes resembling their western peers these are countries that are going to continue to grow. if not rapidly least moderately while the rest of europe and united states seems to be mired in crisis the truth is that the middle class and the rich developed west is in serious trouble if current trends continue the very nature of western societies may change in the meantime the developing world will have open. very well these muscles are in a cross. ok jeff in boston i think go to you first here and researching this program so that some of these stats are just astounding the bottom fifty percent of income earners in the united states now collectively own less than one percent of the nation's wealth also for the first time in u.s. history more than forty million americans are on food stamps and the u.s. department of agriculture projects that number will go up to forty three million americans this year so i guess it's kind of a rhetorical question what is the state of the middle class particularly in the united states well i think that there is an issue but it's also possible to overstate the issue we should remember that you know being

problem in this country all three of us agree on that now all the evidence the experience of western europe the experience of medicare in the united states there is a working model for a system that works better and then there is a pipe dream and the pipe dream is a magical system where everybody somehow chooses an ideal suppose it's sort of blend of health care that works it's never existed anywhere the real choice in the real world is jeffrey calls it a command and control the system in western europe and medicare and so on which is enormously popular for command and control system you're always going to have command and control the only question is who's in command right now the insurance companies are in command of the insurance companies or the death penalty of surance companies are the utilization review the utilization the insurance companies are taking over we have a system of perverse incentives for health care providers in this country to provide more expensive service rather than better service any time we've tried to experiment with this idea of patients having seen in the game

and western europe. it's very much in these bricks. >> a good point. what do you think the big challenge is here in brazil? you talked about the inequality which is obviously an issue. but dilma, the president talked about inflation which is another issue. how concerned are you about inflation? >> i think we're all worried there is sovereign debt issues in europe. there is the deficit in america which the administration seems steadfast in not dealing with until after the election in 2013 when the rubber will hit the road and you can't kick the can down the road. and obviously north africa and the middle east and the japanese things. but in addition to, that we've seen the rise in commodity prices. interestingly, from an advertising point of view, i think we're starting to see clients reduce pricing discounts and invest the same or more in advertising. so a & p might look as though it's down, but it's the p that is down, the advertising is stable. that's interesting. the other thing in the established economy i think risk averse managements are more int

there is an asterisk, but i would just, you know, reiterate that some of our relationships in western europe go back many, many decades, and obviously in a historical perspective, we're still building the relationship with the russian republic day by day. but i'm quite pleased with the progress, and i have every hope for a continued success in this. let me put it this way, i haven't come up against any hard walls. >> do we have any time for the secretary? >> sure. >> secretary, if you could address the russian relationship. >> thank you, congressman griffith. i will echo everything that admiral benjamin said with respect to not having encountered any brick walls and the great depth of our partnerships in western europe, albeit the most recent partnership in asia. we have put some additional ideas in front of the russians. i can think of one additional setting. this one concerns transportation, and others concern transportation as well, having to do with securing aviation, securing airports, but also bridges, tunnels, that's a multi-mode am removal. we gave them weekend to post -- >> i'm gett

prevalence which was between one point five and one percent which is also much higher than in western europe or europe today it is less prevalent than in ukraine it's less prevalent in the studio but it is high and it is necessarily high and it's possible to prevent a lot of these cases of transmission when you see and this is so really high does that mean that if we put more money more attention to the merit we make coke the program with me we need to find it is that we really mean. that it is possible to reduce transmission of hiv and countries of. eastern africa which have far less possibilities and russia have shown it is possible so it's possible with good prevention is possible if increased access to treatment is possible by addressing the population most at risk. and we know in these countries it is mostly drug users who are most at risk of catching a trophy by doing these things that would be possible to reduce pollution. who have less resources they have achieved more what's what do we lack in russia will devotion awareness of what well there's a lot which is there in russia there i

few minutes sharing stories about the brotherhood, the rivalry and ultimately the victory in western europe that was eisenhower, bradley and patton. the brotherhood began a century ago this summer in august of 1911 at the united states military academy in new york. it began when a young cadet from kansas for all practical purposes never left the state of kansas before, met another young cadet from missouri who for all practical purposes had never left randolph county, missouri. eisenhower sent omar bradley, more familiarly known as brad, became fast friends at the academy. west point was designed to instill marshall quality and bring out the military sciences in their students, neither were particularly militant in those days. eisenhower was a notorious rulebreaker particularly when they concern cigarettes or curfew. brad was a solid soldier. he ought ranked i by the time they graduated from west point. he wasn't the kind of guy who would stand out in a classroom. he was a quiet guy. these two cadets didn't stand out in the classroom or even in a crowd but they did stand out in one place wh

portugal is the poorest country in western europe and agreed to the cash injection from the european union and the international monetary fund last week. pressure on the country is mounting. >> portugal has agreed to do some serious belt-tightening. the plan includes widespread privatization and a broad liberalization of the labour market. the european union predicts tough time ahead. >> it has always known these programs will be not any kind of sunday walk in the park. they will be very difficult and demanding. >> in return, portugal will pay its rates of about 6% on its loans. far lower than without the european union guarantees. some say they are least partly responsible for those countries receiving bailout. >> the best thing to do is take action on greece and ireland. otherwise, they get into trouble. >> especially greece. there are rumors the european union is preparing a package for athens. those reports have been denied. tax revenues have plummeted in greece as austerity measures take hold. the economy is suffering. criticism is mounting after a meeting of select finance mini

. >> historically, when people from western europe and the new world first came here, they brought withhame, typhoid and syphilis. how do we do what we do every week differently? how do we cause fear and confusion at the network, you know? that's what we're looking for. >> reporter: in classic form, while most food shows stick to italy and france, he's taken his to garbage dumps in nicaragua. >> seeing this, i don't -- not feeling so good about -- shoving food in my face. >> reporter: in post earthquake haiti -- >> we decide we'll buy the lady out. and we'll feed them. simple. fill the bellies of some cute kids. that good hearted expression of kindness. we all go back to our hotel feeling really good about ourselves, right? what happens is both predictable and a metaphor for what's wrong with so much well intentioned aid effort around the world. i try to avoid a social conscious. i try to avoid politics. i don't think that i have the gravitas, you know. i'm not, you know, i'm not a hard news reporter. i'm not looking to be. >> reporter: he's been subverting and contradicting since 2000

also this frontal boundary just over western europe will produce some scattered showers for areas like france and the low countries, parts of western germany as well. another unsettled area, the black sea region as well as the southern end of the balgen peninsula, southern italy, too, scattered showers. heavy downpours and thunderstorms are going to be possible in parts of italy. as for highs, warming up in berlin, 26 high on tuesday. looking warm in vienna as well. iberian peninsula, too. 26 in madrid. 26 in lisbon. hot here for this time of year. here is your three-day outlook. >>> our lead story this hour, elevated radiation levels are again hampering the work to bring the troubled fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant under control. tokyo electric power company says it may need to slow down work at the number 1 reactor raising concerns that the overall plans to repair the plant will be reviewed. the company measured radiation levels at several spots in the reactor building on monday as part of its preparation to fill the containment vessel with water and restore a circulating cooli

. >> western europe as pretty much had a lock on the imf jobs since its creation. uropean commission has stressed the quality of the european candidates. >> if and when the question of succession arises, then europe would be able to identify many suitable candidates. >> even before the dominique strauss-kahn affair, the ministers already have enough on their plates with greece. the 17-member eurozone will not be looking beyond austerity to debt restructuring for athens. pressure is mounting on greece to sell-off national assets. >> we will have to look at measures that do not just a way on taxpayers, but once a draw in the private sector as well. >> that would see private investors for going some other money, but it is a move that could put the euro under pressure. for the moment, there appears to be lile pressure on christina to show her cards. >> from the meeting, we spoke to our correspondent in brussels. i asked him what the main points of the post-meeting press conference where. >> well, two main points. the first is that there is rising frustration in a number

spew for entertainment political controversies have been opening up around your vision for the western europe and fans have read the science there is still neighbors voting for each other in what they call a book and not the best songs win in the contest surprisingly does not guarantee the same international fame in its fifty year history they have been very few really famous winners in one thousand seventy four and soon do you own in one thousand eighty eight m. on the exceptions despite all of the controversy that's taken part in your vision is still considered a matter of national prestige in most of the participating countries. will it be your comment is it about music about sports or about politics eurovision i think i'm not really lit. so for me of course that's music in and says sport because if i do and i'm professional musician i can do in my work and i can think about something or someone other things says i really see what i feel for the singer represented russia on this here's your vision some common stuff like we'll be back shortly after a break so don't go away. more news today

they have complained why they are not treated the same way the people from western europe are treated. there was a visa waiver where if you were a citizen of the united kingdom or ireland or germany, france and so on, you were part of the visa waiver program and you could fly into the united states and show you're pressed for and enter without a visa. the arabs did not get the same treatment. the saddest complained about that bitterly. -- the saudi arabian complained about the bitterly. visa express' was an attempt to give them some of the same privileges that western europe decent -- western europeans and americans have. >> was the hardest part about writing this book? >> the gaps, i certainly knew who to talk to or some of the people to talk to on the cia secret that in process -- secret prison project. the aclu and other liberal groups and the u.s. department of justice was prosecuted in number of cia interrogators. they're not willing to talk. anything they say can be used against them in court. is the stand to lose their liberty, their homes, their pensions. they are in great leg

minutes sharing some stories about the brotherhood, the rivalry, and ultimately the victory in western europe that was eisenhower, bradley, and patton. now, the brotherhood began almost a century ago this summer in august of 1911 at the unit is its military academy in west point, new york. it began when a young cadets from abilene, kan., who, for all practical purposes, had never left the state of kansas before. he met another young cadets from missouri who, for all practical purposes had never left there. well, the cadet, dwight eisenhower, universally known as a bike, santa omar bradley, known more familiarly as brad, they became fast friends. now, while west point was designed to instill marshall qualities and bring out the military sciences and their students, neither right nor brad were particularly militant back in those days. eisenhower was the notorious will braker, particularly when they concerned cigarettes or curfews. pratt, for his part, was a good solid soldier. he actually out ranked ike by the time they graduated from west point, but he was not the kind of guy who was a standou

western europe is the weakest spot for new terms of growth. is they a reflection of the european economy and some of the debt questions that are happening with governments? >> i would say that france is behaving relatively well. we posted 4% growth, organic growth for the last nine months. probably the worst is more in southern europe, so spain and greece, which are the most -- >> tom: those two countries are in the crunch of the debt crisis that's going on in southern europe. do you see your company being impact bid that through this year into next year? >> i consider that there is no sign of improvement in those two countries, spain, i would also add portugal. but fortunately what we can see is that the situation is improving in northern europe, for insans the u. k., the spirit market is growing. so germany is also very well, not to forget about eastern europe, which is absolutely booming. >> tom: have you been growing the company through acquisitions, certainly over the last decade, back in 2001 you bought a good chunk of seagrams wine and

but the influx of new countries challenged western europe's domination and coincided with a loss of credibility part, due to voting patterns that rob them being based on musical achievement were transapparently political, culminating in russia's 2008 win, a victory in no small part, due to support from their newspapers. >> russia. >> russia! >> in 2009, in an attempt to restore credibility, a change was brought in, with each country's vote being decided equally between the public and a panel of experts. and while some say the problems with the system haven't been completely eradicated, winners in the last couple of years have been seen as succeeding on their merits rather than because of political voting. >> a reminder of our main news again. pakistan's parolment has called for an end to u.s. strikes on its territory and for an independent commission to probe the raid by u.s. troops that killed osama bin laden. the call came after a joint sitting of parliament which lasted more than 10 hours. there's plenty more on the "bbc news" website. >> hello, and welcome. >> see the news unfold. get the t

it is like having half a dozen police cars patrolling all of western europe. >> i do not know if theyre winning or losing. we deliver our mission. i would hate to think there was not the navy out there. i think it would be like the wild west. >> it is not long before they spot a speed boat. more than 600 miles from land, they believe it must be pirates. the captain since in the marines to investigate. -- sends in the marines to investigate. here's the problem. the two somali's on board claim to be fishermen. without hard proof, it becomes a rescue operation. they are taken on board and will have to be treated as guests. no doubt later. at night, we track a mother ship that has tried to attack a merchant vessel. it is a break. they prepare to open fire on the downed skiff. there is a complication on the horizon. >> this is the merchant ship that came within a mile of the suspect. vessel. they're now being escorted to safety. in doing so, she has given away her position. weapons aimed and loaded, cornwall returns for an attack. as they prepare to open fire, there is movement on the deck

>> the main difference between the middle eastern regimes and the united states or western europe isthat we live in democracies where people can reasonably say they have a voice. in a country like egypt or iran or wherever, people have a lot less of a voice or no voice. so a lot of the frustration you see industries are from people who want to have input, who had just been denied it systemically. and i think that's one difference. you to hear these sentiments from some people are activists in this country, particularly in the tea party movement, that the government is to close shop, people being reelected from safe seats and what we need is rotation at the top term limits or something like that. but it is channeled differently. it's not channeled into, you know, occupying the mall in washington and sitting there building camps and calling for the resignation of the president. although i'm sure there's some people who would be willing to do that. it is channeled into political activism through the system that we have. and that seems to be sufficient if you look at the results of the l

we don't we wanted us to these countries really organizing a successful coalition to block the western europe. in this round but going forward this could be a sign of things to the car not just in terms of. institutions after all the real decisions are often made elsewhere not by the head but in the g seven finance ministers. in the actual possibly russia and brazil are countries there suffered tremendously under i.m.f. pasties and children one thousand nine hundred ninety when they went through crises much like the crises they do greece is going to and they eventually pulled out of the i.m.f. framework temporarily suffer tremendously but they're. both countries that are restoration of growth so these are countries that if it actually repudiated the it place of the international monetary fund and. their natural leaders for a move against these. now three years from the u.s. financial meltdown nobody in the stoutest man or a banking industry has a blame for it and i actually spoke to a prominent investigative journalist to find out if this leaves the door open to a new crisis. if you could lit

it is in russia and the rest of russia it is celebrated on a night where in western europe and some parts of america in america as well it is celebrated on the eighth and we can now hear from my colleague laura enmities in london about some of the evacuees from great britain who had to flee germany bombings during the second world war a trip down memory lane for seventy nine year old james roffey it was this street where he was born and where his family lived until war broke out frightened and forced to evacuate to the countryside james was just eight when his life with changed forever. you were to school every morning with things you told to try with. enough sandwiches and things to last you for the day. that was it i don't need to get to school. today. until one day. they didn't we went to school. things different happened started. with hundreds of others including a sister and brother he walked from school to his local station their parents weren't allowed to walk with them parents were issued with a list of the things that their children could take with them when they were evacuated t

not see it through this round we don't and we really were a successful coalition to block the western europe you know in this round but going forward this could be a sign of things to come out not just in terms of who nominally decent to she's after real decisions are often made elsewhere not by ed but in the g seven finance ministers. in the actual post russia and brazil are countries there suffered tremendously under i.m.f. pasties children ninety eight ninety ninety s. when they went through crises much like the. greece is going through today and they eventually pulled out of the i.m.f. framework it separately suffered tremendously but then both countries had a restoration of of growth so these are country said if it actually repudiated the advice of the international monetary fund and still there are natural leaders for a movement against these boxes you will guard see now three years since the u.s. financial meltdown nobody in the establishment or banking industry has stood trial being away and he spoke to an investigative journalist to find out if this leaves the door open for a new cr

wet weather in the us and dryness in western europe are driving the recent rise futures jumped seven percent on one day and last week the biggest single day dollar gain a more than seven months and are now up for ninety one percent on the year so this is important because that region which we now see the uprising is happening and it was many said caused by inflation and in particular in wheat prices so tunisians for example eat more we than anyone else on the planet they eat on average four hundred seventy eight pounds per person a year compared to americans which hundred seventy seven pounds and cyclist who's won it down there and i love it too good couscous cool of a coup screws and beat it but here's the thing about it you see these oil rich nations around the world like on the bed with american central planners back and i think seventy one degrees the petrol dollar standard when the us went off the gold standard paper the vietnam war it's everything was rosy for a while i mean they had oppressive regimes and dictators but you know the price of gas and food was commensurate with t

the reason it is celebrated in the ninth and the ninth of may in russia is the eight of may in western europe and in america is due to the fact that the surrender of nazi germany was signed at a time on the eighth of may in germany which meant that it was actually the ninth here in russia and that's why it's celebrated on the ninth however in some of the countries closest neighbors in fact those countries they were liberated by soviet troops during world war two the red army troops are viewed as an occupying force in fact so nationalists in russia's closest neighbors actually forced alongside the nazis as a legacy of a chef. ukraine is divided once again over its wartime history a bitter scandal has erupted in the west of the country over the soviet red banner an exact replica of the one with the reichstag in one thousand nine hundred forty five as the nazi regime collapsed when the ukrainian parliament passed a law to allow the soviet red flags fly on victory day this year along with the country's national flag it sparked outrage for among some who view the soviet era as a time of oppression

and if you tight monetary policy at a time when we're seeing fiscal policy tightening bite in western europe we're going to see fiscal policy tightening in the u.s. and you course we're likely to see at some point in the future a japanese financial crisis we're seeing the chinese economy slowing down under the burden of monetary policy designed to tighten conditions there to dampen their inflation issue it seems to us that the risk in russia in the near term could very well be towards a slower rather than a faster economy. the price of oil has slipped by around thirteen percent since its highs of one hundred twenty four twenty five dollars per barrel in march is chief economist for russia and c.i.s. believes there's nothing to stop it hovering around a hundred dollar level. this little. consumers and producers to give you one fact on the supply side after the recent. unrest social unrest promotes africa in the middle east many governments and invest region have to increase their social spending so their budget is going to be broken even from a price of about hunger. this is true even for sau