union which is a deeply undemocratic system that is failed and i think the majority in the european parliament can change next year and it's true that it will be a change in direction which i think will be a good thing. so your own popularity continues to grow i mean i grew up in paris and i remember when i was a child the national front was really a marginal party that didn't have much support and now it really has become they think france is third biggest party why do you think you've become so popular now i don't. remember the newseum the third maybe even the second maybe even when the european elections come around the number one party that i think we're really moving towards taking power that's what i want you know i'm not here is a bystander i'm here to come into power and apply the ideas that are mine and that i can see are already being applied in other countries around the world i think it's just a matter of it all coming together since a lot of french people are starting to realize that everything the national front predicted came through on the subject. the risks with imm

i think would be very unwise for good to leave the european union but that's a choice for the people of england to me that's their choice and their will just to make choice so you can see a circumstance we have the financial sector it would get more headquarters on the circumstance but i should say this goes five sets of very strong and very able and particular in the things it does best asset management long term investment trusts pension funds the long term investment or people's money or corporate money as opposed to the much more phonetic market driven. financial dealings of the of the city of london so to a great extent i should continue to do what we do best and that is to manage people's money carefully in long term investments and build up that special someone asset management which is proving so enormously successful slow with companies are melting and growing like aberdeen asset management for example but any major political transformation such as becoming independent from the u.k. knew a case really needs a lot of spending how much would it cost scotland to be independent

between the united states and the european union is that the united states isn't trying to pass our domestic laws for us it isn't subverting democracy it isn't intervening in essentially home affairs for us the european union sees virtually all aspects of policy as within its sphere of of jurisdiction why you know what's the problem with that well there's there's two arguments one is economic europe is the only continent in the world now that is in economic decline the other one is a political one we want to be able to hire and fire the people. and here in the european parliament we've lost that right ok i let us focus on their economic side for a few moments it is true that the significance for britain as a trading partner has been on the decline but obviously it's not maggie legible and the european union still remains the favorite destination for many of the u.k. aspirants and in particular for those products that are produced by small and medium sized businesses who cannot afford to despise their representatives still china india and other countries now since you are a very strong suppor

in membership i think it's seventy does i mean i'm in favor of being part of the of the european union i think independence is about control of your finances control fewer resources in the case of oil and resources in scotland but also control of your revenue if you control your revenue and therefore control your spending and how to distribute that revenue move the population then you are a genuinely independent country with independence which in the european union scotland would control one hundred percent all of its revenue base would decide how to spend its finances currently we have allowed control of less than ten percent of our revenue base in the scottish parliament therefore ten percent is not independence one hundred percent even independence within europe is independence well he want independent scotland to retain pound sterling right but if you continue to use currency without u.k. authority what scotland have a lender of last resort proposal is to have a joint parade that had to have an agreed couple see union you know stanley is as much i couldn't see as it's been the bank

integration what is so disagreeable to you about the european union well the difference between the united states and the european union the united states is trying to pass our domestic laws for us it isn't democracy it isn't intervening essentially offense for us the european union sees virtually all aspects of policy as within its sphere of jurisdiction why you know what's the problem with the two arguments one is economic europe is the only continent in the world that is in economic decline the other one is a political one we want to be able to hire. the people. and here in the european parliament we've lost that right ok i let us focus on the economic side for a few moments it is true that the significance for britain as a trading partner has been on the decline but obviously it's not maggie legible and the european union still remains the favorite destination for many of the u.k. aspirants and in particular for those products that are produced by small and medium sized businesses who cannot afford to these. their representative still china india and other countries now since yo

citizens believe that britain would benefit from leaving the european union and joining the european free trade association instead following the examples of switzerland and norway which by the way have been thriving while the european union is in economic turmoil at the same time the debate of whether or not britain should stay or leave the e.u. has been getting louder amongst british businesses now to talk about the issue i'm joined by dylan shop from business for britain didn't your organization is urging the government to renegotiate the u.k.'s e.u. membership but what's wrong with the status quo when at the moment british business is subject to huge amounts of regulation and red tape that originates in brussels not only that the great single market which was what we were sold in one nine hundred seventy three when we joined is actually restricting the amount of trade that british businesses can do with the rest of the world the fast growing economies in the middle east in the southeast asia and in south america we hear a lot of businesses complaining about e.u. regulation costin

government to the european union to the european union member states because some things have happened. just not acceptable but yes you were there in brussels and many in europe expressed shock and anger over the u.s. intelligence practices but actually they haven't really given snowden much of a lending hand have they in terms of help at all. no ok but the u.s. is obviously trying to get a hand on. snarl and russia is not going into that pressure and might be enough just to further strain relations between russia and the u.s. of course but senior e.u. officials are saying that they will actually not question their american counterparts about the impact of such programs surveillance programs do you really think everything is going to be done or do you think a lot of cooperation which we're hearing about today between the u.k. and the u.s. and of course a lot of cooperation between berlin and and and america not much is going to change is it despite the fact they said oh we're going to look into it. yes but this is unacceptable i think it's also very very dangerous to see that we knew w

does the european union have any similar type leverage in terms of grants or aid? >> well, the european union along with the imf and other institutions pledged in november last year, more than $6 billion to egypt, now obviously that aid came with certain strings attached, notably the european countries wanted to see progress in fighting corruption and improving transparency and accountability. but when you look at how much of that aid came from the european union itself, maybe a billion, a billion and a quarter dollars. and when you compare that to the $12 billion which have recently been pledged by arab countries, the european money looks like a drop in the ocean. really the best hope the european union has is diplomacy and political persuasion. they'll have to bargain on the fact that egypt does not want to become more internationally isolated, and egypt does not want to isolate itself from the eu. i think that's the leverage, if you would like, that eu foreign ministers are going to try to focus on at the meeting. >> interesting. thanks, jackie. >>> the un human

. >> if i could jump in again, how about the european union measures with the freezing of some equipment that would be used to suppress people. in their view, how do you see that? >> okay, what is happening here, the west credentials are at stake. egypt has been proven now as the only democracy in the world. we've given 5,000 marchs for our democracy, and we're still on the streets non-violent. now today merkel was at the jewish holocaust sites because she's looking for re-election. the credibility of the human principles are at stake. that is why america is at the hold and europe is at the hold. not one regime can go against peaceful people calling for democracy. >> wafaa hefny, for women against the coup. >> so some different and very fluid events still going on in egypt. let's bring in our correspondent bernard smith, he's live for us from our cairo bureau. first of all, this news that the attorney general said there would be no appeal in the call to free mubarak, how much of this change when the military ousted morsi when there were repeated attempts to keep mubarak in prison wheneve

yes, we do. >> does anybody in the european union feel the way william hague does? >> it was surprising the different ways the countries responded. at the beginning, it was said that it was a massacre, and from the beginning, on the other side, france and germany said everybody has to calm down, the violence has to stop, and as it was when it started, and then hour after hour finally, everybody witnessed that it was almost a massacre and that the death toll grow -- it was ambiguous. now, some countries like denmark or germany, they have some strong statements, positions, and they will probably do something on a bilateral basis if the european union -- >> what you are sg is that this includes stop it, cut it out, and then, as the bloodshed rises, more and more countries start to weigh in. in the united states at the start of the month, a august 1, the u.s. secretary of state declares that the army was, quote, restoring democracy. as john kerry said, the military was asked to intervene by millions and millions of people. the military did not take over, to the best of

the european union still remains the favorite destination for many of the u.k. aspirants and in particular for those products that are produced by small and medium sized businesses who cannot afford to dispatch their representatives still china india and other countries now since you are a very strong supporter of localism i wonder why would you advocate something that is actually against the interest of many of the local businesses it's really not it's not against which for businesses they have all of the compliance costs they have all of the regulation.

thegeted because government is a member of the european union. i don't want to be a member of the european union. >> we will have to wrap things up. this. point about race is the focus on illegal immigration should not just be about asians and africans, and that is what it is. it is in asian dominated areas. the 3,000 pound bond is just on african and south asian countries. but many are from australia, the united states, new zealand, south africa, and they are white. but they are not being treated the same. that is why it has become a race issue. >> we are going to have to leave it there. thanks very much. you can find this program and many more ads bbc.com -- at aljazeera.com.

the general population for what the european union was intended to be now i may be wrong about that. and the only way to test whether i'm right or wrong is to put it to a referendum if i lose the referendum i will of course accept the result with good will that will be you know retire from public life i'll have done my best but let's at least let the people decide well mr hamel you just alluded to the negative public sentiment you have the point here of the polls support here but when you look professional polls for example the polls a few kids businesses ninety percent of them continue supporting the membership the british chambre of commerce just recently released their annual survey that found that again it is overwhelmingly large firms that seem to ban if it from this globalization and trading with emerging markets but small and medium sized businesses still see the ear as their best approach for export growth again it looks like on the one hand you you may be the opponent of localism but on the other hand the policies that you favor seem to be. primarily benefiting big businesse

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on the question, do you think the united kingdom should be a member of the european union? in aited the conservatives divisive issue. >> mr. speaker, it is an honor for me to put forward a bill for half of our democracy. it should reside with the people, mr. speaker. and proposing this bill, i speak for many in this house and millions more outside of this area -- of this. ,ne thing defeated in this bill and does not ask for referendum until 2017. what we need is a referendum before the next election. will we get a guarantee? >> it is important that was secure the best possible deal and for a real choice of the british people. we should set a timeframe of which it should be done. that is why i am bringing it forward. time i974, the first ever voted. my son and daughter have never had the choice of making that democratic decision. that is what we should be doing today. that is why i sponsored the bill. >> she was lucky she had the opportunity to vote. as one honorable member whispered in my ear, a twinkle in the eye. [laughter] i do not have the opportunity to vote. >> minibu

union is now talking about to use guarantee scheme that's to say and in european union today nearly one in four young people under twenty five is out of a job but the idea in europe is look if you're young and you're out of school and you're out of work for four months you get a guaranteed place either at work or in education does that cost money yes it does but it costs a lot more to do nothing it costs a lot more in terms of lost production it costs a lot more in unemployment benefit payments but it's also got an enormous human cost an enormous social cost so we do have to find the money upfront as an investment don't treat it as a cost now you just mentioned universal or maybe european if you have guaranteed schemes and if i think if you followed the said here to its logical and you may end up with this system that we used to have here in the soviet union when every college graduate was guaranteed a job although not necessarily the job he or she wanted obviously that system of planned or artificially created employment wasn't sustainable in the long run. when you advocate creatio

union but now i can only sell my produce to local many markets transnational companies have flooded my country off to a. session and they sell cheap meat imported from denmark and holland his production is cheaper but they feed their pigs with expired canned meats well we feed our pigs with corn and natural food for us the u.s. session was a huge blow to the work of the poor production industries one of the examples of how an already ailing him garion agricultural industry suffered an even greater decline after joining the e.u. and the numbers speak for themselves in the late one nine hundred eighty s. there were more than twelve million pigs in hungary primarily meant for export to other countries of the socialist bloc by two thousand and four when the country became a member of the european union there was only a half of it left now ten years later the figure stands at around three million while this particular cultural sector slowed when the numbers some others like sugar production even went bankrupt what was meant to be free market competition turned sour when would have passed

s as it were and the european union and the european commission said the monitors are on holiday at the moment soon as they're back next month they'll try and report back to the british government about what they think. sheltie contribute to option rotund say live from london mr townsend thank you very much indeed for your time thank you russian response to activist seeking to turn the winter olympics into approaches ground against a long homosexuality propaganda line if you were ministry says no participants all spectators will suffer as a result of the legislation will break down the law has been causing a storm of opposition and just a few moments to start with. and while the u.s. secretary of state is currently on a comfortable trip to latin america where it seems so reasonable soothing to strain created by the spy revelations of edward snowden it was a tough task for john kerry defending washington's far reaching surveillance during talks in colombia and now his walk of shame is continuing in brazil which is apparently thinking twice before proceeding would have been done a deal to

union has you mustn't correct me i've got this right you had a duma but it had no power the european duma also has no power because the politburo in the shape of the commissars that's the official german name for the commission of the european union that is a central body which meets behind closed doors just as the russian politburo did and it hands down just as the russian politburo did directives let me take this metaphor that we used a little bit further and. the soviet politburo had all the powers to implement whatever agenda it wanted to if that lobby that marxist lobby that you're talking about is so strong why hasn't it been able to realize some of some of the policies that it has articulated because the kyoto protocol by all estimates is essentially if failure of the successive treaty has never been even negotiated so it seems to me that there is a lot. out of time but not much progress so why bother well i'll tell you the mistake they made the mistake they made on the hard left when they piled into this global warming thing because they thought it would be useful to them is

union incredibly the european union don't seem to care about the fact that there's negotiations going on to deal with trade negotiations but the n.s.a. has been spying on those negotiations when we saw the bolivian president as we heard a little bit earlier on. being stopped his plane being stopped by by france italy spain portugal you have to stop in in vienna i mean this was absolutely discussed in fact i i can't. as they believe in present morality an act of war so where we're dealing with a kind of undercurrent of extreme tension and these characters. and bradley manning . as well as as well as edward snowden are all showing the public what's really going on. do you think today's developments latest developments and mean snowden has temporary responding to from the fear of the u.s. prosecution well it's incredible that he would he probably would have gone to other places if it was possible but what's happened is the west has bought off these other countries of possibilities of the one of the most fascinating aspects to all of this of course is a few days ago the russian deputy pri

union is now talking about a youth guarantee scheme that's to say and in european union today nearly one in four young people under twenty five is out of a job but the idea in europe is look if you're young and you're out of school and you're out of work for four months you get a guaranteed place either at work or in education does that cost money yes it does but it costs a lot more to do nothing it costs a lot more in terms of loss production it costs a lot more in unemployment benefit payments but it's also got an enormous human cost an enormous social cost so we do have to find the money upfront as an investment don't treat it as a cost now you just mentioned universal or maybe european schemes and if i think if you followed these idea to its logical and you may end up with this with a system that we used to have here in the soviet union when every college graduate was guaranteed a job although not necessarily the job he or she wanted obviously that system of planned or. artificially created employment wasn't sustainable in the long run. when you advocate creation of jobs by gover

union of their proclaimed aim to have me star studded removed from power so it's very strange now to hear from example for example from the british prime minister. nick clegg that. returned in a series not a regime change but just their messages just some kind of a response to the chemical attack i think it's hypocritical because we have just heard them say in some very different things it's quite clear so their russian foreign minister lavrov said several. actually yesterday that. escalation of hostilities in syria and other western intervention we were in fact. for oil any attempt to bring a peaceful resolution to the crisis in syria it's very difficult to imagine a peace conference on syria convened by a country like the united states so all members of the european union and out of the lobby which will already be fighting in syria yes that bothered i would have to let it go at that point i'm sorry i don't have enough time with you but there was a debate about his political analysts they giving us his a thoughts on what's happening in syria now the united states has some strong bac

the united states surveilling the european union and we had the reaction from from the parliament president martin childes he actually. used the opportunity to silences national critics saying this is actually proving that you know that the european union is important so being surveillance is actually showing that we met or somehow so you wasn't too unhappy about it but there wasn't much that followed we had a deal committee that was actually showing the international surveillance activities it was called the second on committee and nothing followed we had that on several hundred pages to prove that there was international surveillance even against the european union and there was nothing that followed that so i don't see that there will be a lot of activities right so they'll be all see what you're saying is that don't remember meeting they'll be mixed reaction in terms of who says what in how they approach this but i mean there's been a lot of terms like terrorism being used by the obama administration to actually justify why a lot of these surveillance ventures are still going on i think

union as the market is flooded with cheap imported produce they now say they're ready to do anything to save themselves from bankruptcy alexy yourself ski reports. at first glance it looks like an garion success story two decades ago this pharma started his business with just four pigs nowadays he sells fifteen hundred every year and couple that with several hack tears of some flour and melon fields you may think this is a lot but andrea says it's only just enough to keep his business afloat he says he'd have been far more excess if his country stayed away from the european union but now i can only sell my produce to local many markets transnational companies have flooded my country after a us session and they sell cheap meat imported from denmark and holland his production is cheaper but they feed their pigs with expired canned meat while we feed our pigs with corn and natural food for us the recession was a huge blow to all of it the pork production industries one of the examples of how an already ailing him garion agricultural industry suffered an even greater decline after joinin

it will be up to the european union to figure out how to address those differences. in egyptian security officials say that suspected militants have ambushed 2 police minibuses in sinai, killing at least 24 policemen. it took place as the vehicles for driving to a village near the border town in the volatile sinai peninsula. almostas been witnessing daily attacks by suspected militants since the july 3 ousting of president morsi. authorities closed the border crossing after the attack. correspondents visited an egyptian police hospital at the invitation of the authorities. they say several members of the security forces that the government said were injured in lashes with armed members of the muslim brotherhood. at cairo's runcible police hospital, journalists gather around the bed of awarded policemen. the doctor lists his injuries, and looting bullet wounds and burns. >> we did everything necessary to save this man. of course, some of his colleagues who were with him were also wounded. others d >>ording to the government, he is far from alone. with family by his si

union. most of them enter through poland. >> going for a simple stroll is an activity that abdul has come to appreciate. up until eight years ago, he lived in the russian republic of chechnya. he decided to flee from poland where he and his family could be safe and free from the intimidation they experienced in chechnya. >> i left because i had to save my life and those of my family. back then, everyone on the street was treated like a terrorist. you could be arrested at any moment. then they would demand money for your release. if you did not pay, you would be found dead later. that is why we fled with my brother and my whole family. >> abdul was arrested or times by arraignment security operatives, and four times, money was paid for his release. electric shocks. he tells us he has scars all over his body, and he can no longer fully control his right hand. he was warned that the next attention would be his last. that's when he decided to leave. >> i hope my children could lead normal lives.

can't say enough about the support of the european union in developing the infrastructure. without a gas distribution network energy independence in lithuania would be impossible. >> up until now a company has been responsible for lithuania's gas distribution system. its biggest shareholder is the world's largest gas producer. the russian energy giant was able to maintain a monopoly on the country's gas supply until this august when a lithuanian company took over control. that's thanks to the e.u.'s third energy package. the legislation forbids gas companies from operating both distribution and transport networks, preventing energy giants from dominating the european market. but that's rankled many in moscow. at a brussels summit in early 2011 the russian president, vladimir putin, sent the first warning shot across the bow. >> this so-called third energy package is very damaging to our energy companies. that's a fact, especially because it's de facto and an expropriation of our property. >> but the e.u.'s energy department in brussels doesn't seem concerned about putin's r

bulgaria is one of the most corrupt countries in the european union. today, a new candidate is being presented for the head of bulgaria's to intelligence agency. it is the prime minister's second try. on june 14, opposition took to the streets to protest his first candidate. the old governing party had to give into the pressure on the the streets. now it is boycotting parliament, but the demonstrators also blame it for bulgaria's problems. >> they did not really do anything. they just pretend to do their job. >> she meansb borizov on the right, the former prime minister, seen here talking with his interior minister, is now under investigation. the conservatives, long deemed discussion partners for the you, are also accused of corruption. >> i cannot confirm a single case of such practices. that's why i say where we govern, i can guarantee that they do their work perfectly. >> some say this is a lie. boris often self is accused of dirty business. that why she and her husband come to demonstrate everyday. >> bulgaria is the only country where the mafia h

bulgaria is one of the most corrupt countries in the european union. today, a new candidate is being presented for the head of bulgaria's to intelligence agency. it is the prime minister's second try. on june 14, opposition took to the streets to protest his first candidate. the old governing party had to give into the pressure on the the streets. now it is boycotting parliament, but the demonstrators also blame it for bulgaria's problems. >> they did not really do anything. they just pretend to do their job. >> she meansb borizov on the right, the former prime minister, seen here talking with his interior minister, is now under investigation. the conservatives, long deemed discussion partners for the you, are also accused of corruption. >> i cannot confirm a single case of such practices. that's why i say where we govern, i can guarantee that they do their work perfectly. >> some say this is a lie. boris often self is accused of dirty business. that why she and her husband come to demonstrate everyday. >> bulgaria is the only country where the mafia h

party has sent a letter to the european union it with an appeal to step in and do something about the growing islamist danger of the group is a syrian affiliate of the kurdistan workers party and its head mohamed is joining me live here on our team now to take this conversation a little bit further a big hello to you from moscow thanks for joining us today when it comes to a war zone it's so difficult to verify the reports coming out of syria what do you know at this point about the plight of your fellow kurds that we have of. the war. viewers really the situation in syria is getting war. by attacking this reporting. by those groups look we've got out of. we since the three months we have. and also of course. there were along for two months of our. players called suno or in africa. began. to involve you in or before and then. started in. what was if i if i can jump in for i'm terribly sorry to interrupt you here but the jihadists were previously focused on toppling the assad government why if they now switch to attacking kurds it's all a bit confusing. who would really be well maybe a