but, you know brussels. >> yes, brussels is chaotic. right next to the european commission, pedestrian crossings lead nowhere. stairs hit barriers or walls, like the one he shows us on his facebook page. >> i think it is important that it is not a complaint fioru -- forum, because that's not what it is about. but, of course, there are people who will say something or another has annoyed them. often, they are eurocrats. >> he has an answer if the moaners get the upper hand. he looks for an especially amusing subject his fans post on the site, like this adorable christmas decoration or this disabling parking space. they are simply belgian solutions in the capital of the overmeticulous. >> so, now you have a bit of an idea of where we work. remember to keep your eyes wide open if ever you come to brussels. that is it from us from the "european journal" team. bye for now. au revoir. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> hello and welcome to nhk "newsline." i'm ross mihara in tokyo. >>> supporters of ousted eg

but, you know brussels. >> yes, brussels is chaotic. right next to the european commission, pedestrian crossings lead nowhere. stairs hit barriers or walls, like the one he shows us on his facebook page. >> i think it is important that it is not a complaint fioru -- forum, because that's not what it is about. but, of course, there are people who will say something or another has annoyed them. often, they are eurocrats. >> he has an answer if the moaners get the upper hand. he looks for an especially amusing subject his fans post on the site, like this adorable christmas decoration or this disabling parking space. they are simply belgian solutions in the capital of the overmeticulous. >> so, now you have a bit of an idea of where we work. remember to keep your eyes wide open if ever you come to brussels. that is it from us from the "european journal" team. bye for now. au revoir. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

but, you know brussels. >> yes, brussels is chaotic. right next to the european commission, pedestrian crossings lead nowhere. stairs hit barriers or walls, like the one he shows us on his facebook page. >> i think it is important that it is not a complaint fioru -- forum, because that's not what it is about. but, of course, there are people who will say something or another has annoyed them. often, they are eurocrats. >> he has an answer if the moaners get the upper hand. he looks for an especially amusing subject his fans post on the site, like this adorable christmas decoration or this disabling parking space. they are simply belgian solutions in the capital of the overmeticulous. >> so, now you have a bit of an idea of where we work. remember to keep your eyes wide open if ever you come to brussels. that is it from us from the "european journal" team. bye for now. au revoir. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- 07/11/13 07/11/13 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] >> from pacifica, this is democ

between brussels and the u.s. . people think it's absolutely brilliant i mean like brussels will never ever be able to excuse itself to its electorate and say guys you know we we messed up you know we were completely taken for a ride by a bunch of guys who we thought were our friends how it's going to be more embarrassed here right behind us from brussels and tell you what you are you going to say do you think that the reaction we've seen from europe over the last twenty four forty eight hours or from european a you ministers do you think that in any way this is just political posturing ahead of. the the fact that they're so indignant is the part that not all of them taken as they come across. there's very little righteous posturing coming from brussels right now barroso has been in croatia for the last two days welcoming them to the globe of nations you know you haven't seen much else ashton said we raised the issue of the sidelines of a conference you know if this was could you imagine. this kind of thing was if y

until next time, from brussels, goodbye. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

until next time, from brussels, goodbye. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- 07.03.13 07.03.13 >> from pacifica, this is democracy now! fear i haveest regarding the outcome for america, of these disclosures, is that nothing will change. >> national security agency leaker edward snowden in his own words on how the united states is secretly spying on people around the globe. and then we look at a remarkable story, how

finance ministers sit down today in brussels. julia is in brussels with her thoughts and the latest. hi. >> reporter: good morn ing. as you said, the euro group working group trying to thrush out the details. v.a.t. on interest sales, that was one of the key election promises from the government. it may seem like a strange request. it is something they promise they are fighting for that. the big thing, of course, the public sector reforms cutting down the bloated public sector. one of the agreements was 25,000 civil servants to go on administrative leave and ultimately lose their jobs this year if they can't be transferred to other places. that apparently got an agreement among the troika and the greek officials over the weekend. there are just a few details still being thrashed out we've seen. ultimately what's -- what's at stake here is an 8.1 billion euro sum of money. 4.8 billion euros to come from the eu. 1.8 billion to come from the imf. ultimately they're expected to get this money, though it will come through in two separ

political correspondent in brussels and asked him if he believes the crisis is now behind us. >> i don't know if a major part is ahead of us. the crisis is certainly not behind us. as one who stands on the sidelines of these talks here in brussels, you can see the same old tensions. the balance between severe austerity and the need to give incentives to the public to help create wealth and growth. that is what the public in athens are protesting about -- too much austerity, not enough incentive, not enough job opportunities. certainly, this is not behind us. this economic crisis is much where it was before. that raises concerns for countries such as portugal and ireland, who are raising their way out of the bailout syndrome. if greece falls back, that could spell trouble ahead. >> staying with economic news and german exports fell unexpectedly in may. suffering the steepest incline in three and a half years -- in 3 1/2 years.

seventy five percent of our laws come from brussels they control our energy policy our agricultural policy fishing policy employment policy and all the major things that we should have as a free nation and self-governing nation of being gone so this report doesn't reflect the will of the british people it just reflects the will of the political class the status quo and we're just about fed up with it in the united kingdom and i've got a point to make here as well you know that just about fed up with it everywhere else in the european union with fed up with the political class let's rule our own countries let's run our own countries for the good of our own people well just quickly on that i mean does this study not encourage your party to rethink its stance on europe simply because it talks about a relationship that is good for both parties doesn't it. now in whose opinion in the pinion of the ordinary british working man what we used to call the man on the clapper moment bust we do not want to be governed by brussels we've developed you know a government a system of government and a

over arching the theme here is that they want to repatriate powers back from brussels to the u.k. and specifically the home secretary theresa may had says that it's a will but it will protect present proposals for britain to exercise its opt out option which is a slide into lisbon treaty on the e.u. regulations relating to just as crime and the policing now one of the most contentious parts of. these regulations is the european arrest warrant which when issued by a certain country would require another country to arrest and send that person to the country that requires that person to face justice and all of this happening on the back of that recent vote to pass through the house of commons three hundred and four votes to not in favor of that in or out referendum the case of membership in the let's get more insight on all of this from a rory broomfield is director of better off out campaign and deputy director of the freedom association all right let's get right to it for first on what have you were fighting for freedom your euro skeptic but on the other hand you have the police th

and europe and go live to our correspondent in brussels. what are you hearing? are diplomats angry? >> yes, they are. even if the commission prefers the term disturbed. that is a more diplomatic term to say what everybody thinks heir. it is outrageous. they cannot understand the u.s. behavior. what is interesting there is that the outrage goes across all parties and nations. people have asked for consequences. the e.u. commission said they will do a thorough investigation into what happened. they asked for clarification. they would do a thorough check of the e.u. buildings to check for more bugs. but that is done regularly because brussels as the headquarter of europe so to say is a popular center for politicians and lobbyists and international agents. these checks are quite regular but it will intensify the checks. >> talking of consequences there already. what repercussions could the allegations have? >> we heard about the free-trade agreement. and in the report the decision to open the talks about the free-trade agreement was only taken a few weeks ago. it was not at all supporte

i was based in brussels as a bbc correspondent and i got a call saying the one to go to america? and i thought well, i don't really know anything about america, don't know anything of its politics for a particular interest in the place. but i do know one thing and i know this from films it's quite sunni and we were sick of living in brussels. i don't know if you remember in the olden days milk came in bottles and they got clouded up in the capitol. so we thought that we would give it a go. on the basis we have frankly no knowledge and not a huge amount of interest. we decided to accept the offer of the job and i say this because my family had very young twins and we'd just been born in brussels. so we went off to the u.s. and others who had a pretty good time just after the attacks of 9/11 the next year. we thought we would give it a go. and this turned into quite liking it and quite liking it turned into liking a lot. and liking it a lot eventually turned into a loving it and we had another child was born in washington, d.c. so there was another u.s. citizen and we stayed for al

and europe and go live to our correspondent in brussels. what are you hearing? are diplomats angry? >> yes, they are. even if the commission prefers the term disturbed. that is a more diplomatic term to say what everybody thinks heir. it is outrageous. they cannot understand the u.s. behavior. what is interesting there is that the outrage goes across all parties and nations. people have asked for consequences. the e.u. commission said they will do a thorough investigation into what happened. they asked for clarification. they would do a thorough check of the e.u. buildings to check for more bugs. but that is done regularly because brussels as the headquarter of europe so to say is a popular center for politicians and lobbyists and international agents. these checks are quite regular but it will intensify the checks. >> talking of consequences there already. what repercussions could the allegations have? >> we heard about the free-trade agreement. and in the report the decision to open the talks about the free-trade agreement was only taken a few weeks ago. it was not at all supporte

>> hello from brussels and a very warm welcome to "european journal." very good to have you with us. here's what we have today -- the wave of drug tests as bulgarians demand an end to corruption. rotten conditions -- how seasonal workers are being exploited in italy. and portugal offers incentives. book area has been -- bulgaria has been a member of the eu for five years, but it is still the poorest country in the bloc. the political class is mired in criminal activities that are so blatant that a few days ago, the ambassadors of germany and france wrote an open letter, calling on politicians to distance themselves from corrupt oligarchs. people in bulgaria are also angry at the government and the high cost of living. >> it has become an early morning ritual. for weeks now, she has been making noise on the way to work. while bulgaria's parliament is in session, outside, the crowd's anger is growing. >> it is unbelievable. a bunch of people who cannot understand anything, cannot do anything, and do not want to do anything. >> these are the bunch of peopl

ofwas very interesting to me being in brussels negotiating to solution. how important it is and to send that ensured others we would be protected if they guarantee is dependable. it is part of that directive. but i think it also shows the need. underlying the pace of discussions of resolution recovery that this was that it period of be in a uncertainty that existed for so many weeks that cost of banks to suffer. banks to suffer. have been learned and are being learned. >> [indiscernible] -- is that true? you can no longer take money out and invest in other parts of the eurozone area >> the capital controls must not be for the reasons you said included in absence of a single currency. anywherepend the money just in the eurozone or around the world. great requirement for every body to understand that the controls need to be removed and temporary. you may not know because we have not had the chance to describe because it's not a formal european matter. eurozone wet in the didn't join the crisis to offer significant technical experience. helps there for a whi

i mean why is the united states spying on the european union on brussels. it's on the war on terror i mean why would we have to worry about the you know i know a lot of people european union don't like brussels but i mean why is the united states have to spy on them. i don't know presumably the united states wants to gather information everywhere they can i want to address something jim said earlier that you said that the united states and spans some sort of of loophole in their law every time someone complains about finding loopholes in the laws what they really mean is that person is acting illegally and that's one of the big problems many people have with snowden this idea of calling him a whistleblower you are called a whistleblower when you are when you are typically pointing out illegality there hasn't been any proof yet that what the united states did was in fact legal within the united states this loophole is go ahead jim go ahead but what this loophole is the united states constitution guarantees privacy in the fourth amendment for its own citizens

i mean why is the united states spying on the european union on brussels. it's on the war on terror i mean why would we have to worry about the you know i know a lot of people european union don't like brussels but i mean why is the united states have to spy on them. i don't know presumably the united states wants to gather information everywhere they can i want to address something jim said earlier that you said that the united states was found some sort of of loophole in their law every time someone complains about finding loopholes in the laws what they really mean is that person is acting illegally and that's one of the big problems many people have with snowden this idea of calling him a whistleblower you are called a whistleblower when you are when you are typically pointing out illegality there hasn't been any proof yet that what the united states did was in fact legal within the united states its loophole is go ahead jim go ahead but what this loophole is the united states constitution guarantees privacy in the fourth amendment for its own citizens

live from moscow now britain's government is moving to distance itself from brussels with m.p.'s planning to ditch roughly two thirds of e.u. impose regulations on the police force and the justice system but home secretary theresa may sound as u.k. will have to do some of those rules later on well let's get more on this from artists as our affiliate has a so what does britain actually want from its relationship with the e.u. . well the overarching theme here is that they want to repatriate powers back from brussels to the u.k. and specifically the home secretary theresa may had said that he wants to with who will prepare present proposals to work for britain to exercise its opt out option which is a drive in the lisbon treaty on the e.u. regulations relating to just as crime and the policing now one of the most contentious parts of. these regulations is the european arrest warrant which when issued by a certain country would require another country to arrest and send that person to the country that requires that person to face justice that those in favor of that opt out of exerc

i mean why is the united states spying on the european union on brussels. it's on the war on terror i mean why would we have to worry about the you know i know a lot of people european union don't like brussels but i mean why is the united states have to spy on them. i don't know presumably the united states wants to gather information everywhere they can i want to address something jim said earlier that you said that the united states has spent on some sort of of loophole in their law every time someone complains about finding loopholes in the laws what they really mean is that person is acting illegally and that's one of the big problems many people have with snowden this idea of calling him a whistleblower you are called a whistleblower when you are when you are typically pointing out illegality there hasn't been any proof yet that what the united states did was in fact legal within the united states this loophole is go ahead jim go ahead but what this loophole is the united states constitution guarantees privacy in the fourth amendment for its own citiz

i mean why is the united states spying on the european union and brussels. it's on the war on terror i mean why would we have to worry about the you know i know a lot of people european union don't like brussels but i mean why is the united states have to spy on them. i don't know presumably the united states wants to gather information everywhere they can i want to address something jim said earlier that you said that the united states has found some sort of of loophole in their law every time someone complains about finding loopholes in the laws what they really mean is that person is acting illegally and that's one of the big problems many people have with snowden this idea of calling him a whistleblower you are called a whistleblower when you are when you are typically pointing out illegality there hasn't been any proof yet that what the united states did was in fact legal within the united states this loophole is go ahead jim go ahead but what this loophole is the united states constitution guarantees privacy in the fourth amendment for its own citizens

for me one is brussels is absolutely. prepared to deal with an organization like the united states and in any serious way the european union doesn't have a spying agency you know they probably never thought they might need one bless them so first takeaway there is i think you've been absolutely humiliated and it's illusion to be a major negotiation block on the world stage secondly you're never going to know if i how can we ensure that the u.s. rolls back prism you believe john kerry would you believe barak obama the point the point is you never know about anything surely we as citizens are it seems are so disempowered in this day and age and as high technology day and age where governments have so much more control and power in fact to listen in on us and i think the biggest lesson here is for brussels because the u.s. certainly spies and all countries spy like you've been bringing up. on russia. but not probably with tapping i russia you sort of think it was in the kremlin in the you know the government buildings in bei

yes, we can reach an agreement here in brussels. it's the implementation risks that we face in greece. after the agreements yesterday, actually, the mayor of athens was attacked by protesters. so we know what's happened with the coalition over the last couple of weeks. it's actually splintered as a result of trying to enforce these job cuts. implementation risk around greece is the key issue going forward. but ultimately what we are expecting today is to see this tranche of money agreed probably going to come in tranches broken down ultimately over the next couple of months. the carrot and stick approach as far as greece is concerned. but good news as far as this is concerned. ultimately a number of analysts i've spoken to about this ultimately were going to be looking at an adjustment to this bailout process irrespective of what the troika is saying today as we go into the next review in the autumn, ross. >> look, also we -- the portuguese prime minister reshuffling his cabinet over the weekend as well. is there going to be any eas

spiegel reported that eavesdropping also took place at an eu building in brussells around five years ago. the german magazine says such conduct but the cia was in an nsa document which snowden had taken with him. the president of the european parliament, smartin schultz, said if this is correct it will have a severe impact on relations between the eu and the u.s. schultz also demanded full clarification and further information from the u.s. government as soon adds possible. is now snowden is wanted in the u.s. for espionage. he has asked for asylum in ecuador and is hold up in an airport. joe biden asked the request be turned down. corea told biden his country couldn't consider the request until snowden arrives in ecuador or shows up at a diplomatic mission. he told biden it would be in accordance with ecuadorian law. >>> thousands of residents are still waiting to go home. vast tracks of land are still waiting to be restored. and more than half of the fishing ports must be rebuilt. people in northeastern japan still face challenges following the 2011 disaster. but step by step, they

brussels introduced duties on chinese imports last month. those fees will help levelhe playing field for struggling german companies. but for many businesses, the move comes too late. >> lithuania is one of the eu's smallest and newest members. but it will be setting the agenda in brussels for the next few months. >> the country has just taken over the eu presidency and has been hosting senior european officials. >> the church bells ring a total of 28 times in lithuania's capital -- once for every country in the european union. for the next six months, lithuania will hold the eu council presidency. the eu president described it as an historic moment for europe. >> this shows how far we have come since the iron curtain went down and europe was unified. your inspiration for freedom and independence is now linked to the european project. >> the maximus freedom and peace, and that is the maxim for lithuania as well, located on europe's eastern frontier. once to use its presidency to improve relations between the eu and other eastern european cou

on behalf of the team here in brussels, let me thank you for watching. please do join us at the same time next week if you can. until then, auf wiedersehen and bye for now. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

on behalf of the team here in brussels, let me thank you for watching. please do join us at the same time next week if you can. until then, auf wiedersehen and bye for now. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- 07/25/13 07/25/13 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] >> from pacifica, this is democracy now! >> when they hit murderers of ,hildren, when revealed camps when they were going to be hit by cruise missiles, he was on that day they decided to arrest me. isabdulelah haider shaye free. he up and held in prison for years at the request of president obama. shaye

brussels introduced duties on chinese imports last month. those fees will help level the playing field for struggling german companies. but for many businesses, the move comes too late. >> lithuania is one of the eu's smallest and newest members. but it will be setting the agenda in brussels for the next few months. >> the country has just taken over the eu presidency and has been hosting senior european officials. >> the church bells ring a total of 28 times in lithuania's capital -- once for every country in the european union. for the next six months, lithuania will hold the eu council presidency. the eu president described it as an historic moment for europe. >> this shows how far we have come since the iron curtain went down and europe was unified. your inspiration for freedom and independence is now linked to the european project. >> the maximus freedom and peace, and that is the maxim for lithuania as well, located on europe's eastern frontier. once to use its presidency to improve relations between the eu and other eastern european c

brussels introduced duties on chinese imports last month. those fees will help level the playing field for struggling german companies. but for many businesses, the move comes too late. >> lithuania is one of the eu's smallest and newest members. but it will be setting the agenda in brussels for the next few months. >> the country has just taken over the eu presidency and has been hosting senior european officials. >> the church bells ring a total of 28 times in lithuania's capital -- once for every country in the european union. for the next six months, lithuania will hold the eu council presidency. the eu president described it as an historic moment for europe. >> this shows how far we have come since the iron curtain went down and europe was unified. your inspiration for freedom and independence is now linked to the european project. >> the maximus freedom and peace, and that is the maxim for lithuania as well, located on europe's eastern frontier. once to use its presidency to improve relations between the eu and other eastern european c

as one who stands on the sidelines of these talks here in brussels, you can see the same old tensions. the balance between severe austerity and the need to give incentives to the public to help create wealth and growth. that is what the public in athens are protesting about -- too much austerity, not enough incentive, not enough job opportunities. certainly, this is not behind us. this economic crisis is much where it was before. that raises concerns for countries such as portugal and ireland, who are raising their way out of the bailout syndrome. if greece falls back, that could spell trouble ahead. >> staying with economic news and german exports fell unexpectedly in may. suffering the steepest incline in three and a half years -- in 3 1/2 years. fewer orders from the euro area, germany's biggest export market, indicate the eurozone the crisis is still aecting the bloc's largest economy. >> these unexpected results were compounded by the slowdown in china as well. the german chamber of industry and commerce is predicting just 2% export growth this year. last year, the figure was 3.7

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for me one is brussels is absolutely. prepared to deal with an organization like the united states and in any serious way the european union doesn't have a spying agency you know they probably never thought they might need one bless them so first takeaway there is i think you've been absolutely humiliated and it's illusion to be a major negotiation block on the world stage secondly you're never going to know if i how can we ensure that the u.s. rolls back person we do believe john kerry would you believe barack obama the point the point is you never know about anything surely we as citizens are it seems are so disempowered in this day and age and as high technology day and age where governments have so much more control and power in fact to listen in on us and i think the biggest lesson here is for brussels because the u.s. certainly spies and all countries spy like you've been bringing up. on russia. but not probably with tapping my russian you sort of saying here's in the kremlin in the you know the government buildings

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as one who stands on the sidelines of these talks here in brussels, you can see the same old tensions. the balance between severe austerity and the need to give incentives to the public to help create wealth and growth. that is what the public in athens are protesting about -- too much austerity, not enough incentive, not enough job opportunities. certainly, this is not behind us. this economic crisis is much where it was before. that raises concerns for countries such as portugal and ireland, who are raising their way out of the bailout syndrome. if greece falls back, that could spell trouble ahead. >> staying with economic news and german exports fell unexpectedly in may. suffering the steepest incline in three and a half years -- in 3 1/2 years. fewer orders from the euro area, germany's biggest export market, indicate the eurozone the crisis is still affecting the bloc's largest economy. >> these unexpected results were compounded by the slowdown in china as well. the german chamber of industry and commerce is predicting just 2% export growth this year. last year, the figure was 3

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as one who stands on the sidelines of these talks here in brussels, you can see the same old tensions. the balance between severe austerity and the need to give incentives to the public to help create wealth and growth. that is what the public in athens are protesting about -- too much austerity, not enough incentive, not enough job opportunities. certainly, this is not behind us. this economic crisis is much where it was before. that raises concerns for countries such as portugal and ireland, who are raising their way out of the bailout syndrome. if greece falls back, that could spell trouble ahead. >> staying with economic news and german exports fell unexpectedly in may. suffering the steepest incline in three and a half years -- in 3 1/2 years. fewer orders from the euro area, germany's biggest export market, indicate the eurozone the crisis is still affecting the bloc's largest economy. >> these unexpected results were compounded by the slowdown in china as well. the german chamber of industry and commerce is predicting just 2% export growth this year. last year, the figure was 3

it's outraged a number of politicians in brussels. the german spokesman is now calling for clarity on the allegations over the nsa. the spokesman says europe and u.s. are partners and they need some trust. spying on friends is unacceptable. the cold war is over. so the german foreign ministry is going to summon the u.s. ambassador about those reports concerning the nsa. we'll see what happens there. >>> still to come, top pay for top execs. a new report shows ceos are still being rewarded even amidst calls by some to rein in the size of their paychecks. >>> a recap of the headlines. asian markets reversed early losses, shrugging off disappointing chinese pmi, also boosted by solid japanese business data. >>> not a bad day for mark carney in his first day of bank of england governor. manufacturing grew at the strongest pace in over two years from june. >>> tough talk from eu officials who want answers from the u.s. government following reports washington is spying on brussels. >>> yeah, the german government is asking for the u.s. amba

i mean why is the united states spying on the european union and brussels. it's on the war on terror i mean why would we have to worry about the you know i know a lot of people european union don't like brussels but i mean why is the united states have to spy on them. i don't know presumably the united states wants to gather information everywhere they can i want to address something jim said earlier that you said that the united states has spent on some sort of of loophole in their law every time someone complains about finding loopholes in the laws what they really mean is that person is acting illegally and that's one of the big problems many people have with snowden this idea of calling him a whistleblower you are called a whistleblower when you are when you are typically pointing out illegality there hasn't been any proof yet that what the united states did was in fact legal within the united states this loophole is going to go ahead but what this loophole is the united states constitution guarantees privacy in the fourth amendment for its own citizens

i mean why is the united states spying on the european union on brussels. it's on the war on terror i mean why would we have to worry about the you know i know a lot of people european union don't like brussels but i mean why is the united states have to spy on them. i don't know presumably the united states wants to gather information everywhere they can i want to address something jim said earlier that you said that the united states was founded some sort of of loophole in their law anytime someone complains about finding loopholes in the laws what they really mean is that person is acting illegally and that's one of the big problems many people have with snowden this idea of calling him a whistleblower you are called a whistleblower when you are when you are typically pointing out illegality there hasn't been any proof yet that what the united states did was in fact legal within the united states its loophole is go ahead jim go ahead but what this loophole is the united states constitution guarantees privacy in the fourth amendment for its own citizens y

from conflicts in colonialism culture shock and brussels bankruptcy. to the leading in french politics. down with it and we'll hear a pin parliament committee almost unanimously voted to lift your immediate chief because of alleged racist statements you made three years ago why now and why is to parliament so united in this question. that home from go on you that's the truth is that censorship reigns in france and we are hunted down in all circumstances because we express an opinion that is different from the one way track of thinking developed by the european union and also by the socialist party and the right wing parties in france i've been hunted down first saying i think it's not normal that prayers should be allowed to take place right in the middle of the street blocking traffic it was a territorial occupation that is unacceptable it's the law and get i'm being hunted down for having said that the.

from conflicts in colonialism culture shock under brussels bankruptcy. to the leading woman in french politics. and the european parliament committee almost unanimously.

is not has nothing to do with trying to protect from some terroristic acts the german ambassador in brussels will not undertake any terrorist attacks that's ridiculous so we can see that there are some other reasons too for the united states to spy on our politicians as well and so we have to stop this directly and this is what we as a new party alternative for germany want to do we want to speak out for the interests of the people of germany and we do not see the disinterested very good represented by the government and even not by the opposition at the at the very moment because the opposition the s.p.d. social democratic party has also been in charge and they all knew about this of the over the way of the americans to spy upon the german citizens and the german government ok well on the surface of it germany seems to be angered by the spying activities but let's now take a look at the situation from america's side i mean if germany and the u.s. are such close allies why do you think might washington want to spy in germany what i think they're different different reasons i mean i can i don

groups who join us live from strasburg and mr young at pink very well welcome to the program so is the brussels going to be satisfied with grog obama's comments that everyone is spying well i don't think everything is fine europeans are very angry about what's happening they were always big admirers of barack obama they regarded him as the man next to jesus christ and all this man is spying on them particularly in germany is a very sensitive issue in germany the popularity of obama is dropping by the day you'll see the savior of the european parliament which has as an institution always been in the mire of of obama are so nothing is is fine in fact obama is heading for some trouble with europe the closest ally you could think of yeah but he's only speaking the truth so isn't a hero my european country is really not involved in spying at all. well they are maybe. also involved in some sort of spying but not in this size if you look at the number of communications intercept in germany five hundred million that's really excessive and that's against all data protection in germany is not just spying

mr if i want to thank you very much indeed for your time so how will brussels or respond to this united voice that's where hearing from latin america. well this is the situation. because what the zeppelins with the flights of the president. is just showing how much and the real security decisions for europe are taken in washington and. europe is a do to partner in the western alliance as it is always been over the past six years i mean this is not nothing new. of course that is a matter of being accountable to their respective electorate to to show that they have some word to say and some dignity to defend so with they will probably try to raise their voice but at the end of the story there will be a political settlement of all this matter so that it was the european countries so dependent on washington that they do whatever they all stem so are we talking about it can only call my station here what do you think. the history since world war two shows that there is no real autonomy when there are real stakes where the western values or interests which means the american ones are. endange

to put the armed wing of the lebanese group on the terror list at a meeting of foreign ministers in brussels hezbollah is being accused of fighting on the side president bashar al assad the move required the agreement of all twenty eight european union members britain has insisted on sanctions after kids in the grip of being behind last year's attack on a bus carrying israelis and bold garia up to now brussels has resisted pressure from washington and israel to label them terrorists this is some there is some concern about staking tension in lebanon where hezbollah is an official part of the government. to other international nice starting with china where seventy five people now reported dead after a five point nine magnitude earthquake in the west of the country over four hundred are injured but no. media fear that number will rise but this was under way and several villages cut off the quake was shallow striking twenty kilometers below the surface eight towns in the remote mountainous area sustained serious damage and there has been flooding and mudslides gansu province is one of the leas