road coming into brussels. you can see there is an industry on the left and the right, but the infrastructure is really very scary for even for daily cyclists as i am. what we are quite doing and it is also quite important if you were a town, let's say, taking off with the bicycle policy is that we have been very successful in organizing events and in setting upestal programs. of course, my criticism and the parliament was like take care. you have a big responsibility because of the events and because of the educational program, you invite people to take the bicycle on the street on a regular day, you have a big risk because your infrastructure is not yet there. so that was part of the political debate. still, i am willing to defend that policy that organizing events, this is in front of a mayor bank in the heart of brussels where the employees have been invited to come to work not by a car and to have a taste, as it says, of another mobility. it is part of the european car-free day which is organized every yea

the dutch should stop babbling to the dictators in brussels, he said on monday. >> the government is doing anything that can and deteriorating conditions for seniors. >> the eu commission rejected the portrayal of the situation. >> this is basically because it is good for the dutch citizens, and decisions, by the way, have not been taken by brussels. >> the dutch finance minister, for his part, attempted to calm markets ahead of tuesday's bond sale, saying holland could still meet that target next year, despite the failure of earlier talks. >> for more on this, we asked our brussels correspondent about the reaction there to the political crisis in the netherlands. >> there is certainly dismay at what is happening and dismay at what is clearly the perception in some capitals, particularly in the netherlands, the governments are being dictated to by brussels. whatever the spokesman said just now, there is a perception, and that he is the same in france as they go through the presidential election, that voters are now casting votes on the basis of largely economic matters, austerity mea

that is not going down well with brussels. turkey is still denying that a genocide actually happened with armenia. there are a number of domestic issues like freedom of the press. reporters without borders are saying there are more journalists in present at the moment in turkey then in china. some people in brussels are saying that the chances of turkey to join the eu are today slimmer than there were 25 years ago. >> so there are more misconceptions -- there are misconceptions, rather, on both sides. how all -- how long you think turkey will have to wait? >> well, it is not going to happen anytime soon, that is clear. in brussels, people have been saying that everybody knew that 2012 was going to be a particularly difficult year in terms of turkey and eu relationships with the french presidential elections and with cyprus, as i mentioned, taking over presidency of the european union. so far, the consensus seems to be, ok, it is a good thing that we're in talks that all and let's not worsen our situation. so there is a big ent

. >> they overshadow a nato meeting in brussels designed to map out what role the alliance will play in afghanistan once foreign troops are gone. we will have more analysis from brussels and washington in a moment, but our coverage begins with what came out of the meeting in brussels. >> speaking to media at the meeting, the nato secretary general was quite clear on this point -- nato will remain committed to afghanistan beyond 2014, not as a fighting force, but to train and assist. >> it is in the interest of the whole international community to see strong and highly capable afghan security forces take full responsibility for security. >> the price tag of a mission to assist in afghanistan's army and police forces could cost around $4 billion a year, says nato. that is less than the cost of keeping combat troops there, but it is unclear how much member states would contribute. on tuesday, australia said it would withdraw most soldiers as early as mid-2013 and turned over command to local forces. a statement that caused some consternation at nato headquarters. >> as far as a australi

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troops but the problem was addressed in brussels today what exactly has been said. is indeed a lot of condemnation with regard to scandals related to soldiers or forces u.s. forces cities committed against afghan people u.s. secretary of defense leon panetta had condemned those actions but then he said that this is a young soldiers committing this acting in the heat of the moment however this is not the first start or is it an isolated case now the l a times pictures. of the soldiers posing by the side corpses we've had in the past a koran burning incident as well as absolutely zero in aiding on afghan corpses this does not go down well with the countries involved the afghan people or the american people as well and again afghanistan is in the spotlight right now but this is not the first time the u.s. has been involved in such stories iraq for example a recent video has emerged of soldiers also committing atrocities this is just the tip of the iceberg though what it comes to obstacles they have to deal with it in a can is done this is a p.r. image disaster for this

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for the swedish pirate party she joins us now live from brussels tell us football is officially aimed at gathering data related to cyber attacks so what's the danger for a lot of biding users. well gathers started indiscriminately so the obvious threat is for freedom of speech kind of censorship practices that people abide also by self-censorship knowing that they're being watched by their government or by a private actor and therefore modify the way in which they would behave in which they behave this can have very damaging effects for for instance democrat democratic development and also actually the way that we construct our communities and social interactions between each other why do you think you have legislators are trying to push bills focused on citizen surveillance instead of aiming to improve the country's overall web infrastructure. i think it's actually partly a problem of money so currently we have a very strongly expanding that a geisha an industry that live off of private data from citizens or live off of being able to catalog the way people communicate with each other

brussels says one law gives the government too much authority over the appointment of judges. the other concerns the independence of the country's data protection authority. >> it would be a lot easier for hungary as well as for the european union if these problems were eliminated. because these are not just minor violations. they are about fundamental european rights and the values on which our union is based. >> in brussels on tuesday, the prime minister did agree to your demands to improve the independence of his country's central bank, a condition set by the european commission in order for hungary to resume negotiations over financial aid that the country badly needs. hungary sees that as a success. >> only a very limited number of issues will continue in this legal procedure and go probably to the european court of justice, but it is also part of the game. bonn this basis, i guess now we can really say babbitt there is a very positive results -- on this basis. >> before talks with brussels can begin, hungry's parliament must first approve the legislation limiting governm

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have opinion future -- how much power can brussels have in future? >> and anti-western german state of westphalia, -- in the western german state of westphalia, they are monitoring a group of fundamentalists on the high streets. >> the action has been criticized by politicians of most major parties and many ordinary muslims to see this as a misuse of their holy book. >> free translations of the koran. they give away copies in germany. the handouts have garnered criticism and put the group on the radar of german authorities. >> distributing the koran is not the problem. the problem is the group. it is an extremely dangerous one. >> :-based preacher is one of the -- the cologne-based preacher is one of those trying to convert people to the state. many see this as an this use of their holy book by the movement. >> this is a very fundamentalist movement and then is some. it is very backward-looking. they seek to establish a a social system that is antiquated. their view does not respond to that of most moslems. -- muslims. >> following the outcry, printe

but france's relationships with berlin and brussels have hit a rough patch the french election if you look at the campaign in france i think because on the right side there is mrs le pen this is the plan once reintroduce it for the french franc the french currency was missed all along wants to renegotiate the the the treaty on the fiscal compact income of nicolas sarkozy is no exception pledging to freeze france's e.u. funding and bringing back border controls over in the left corner shown around the rejects europe's a bunch of belt tightening pact people or an easy with the fact that they or contributing to the failed policies in other parts of the u. then people don't really understand why is it there's more and more legislation coming from the european level in member states have to adjust it for the mostly pro euro french public it's about jobs and social security just as brussels and birth then want tough cutbacks. and that doesn't rest easy with voters who gave a resounding no to giving the e.u. machine even more power seven years ago even though it's been a perfect tool to offl

cilia r t brussels. with the future shrouded in uncertainty the i.m.f. chief has set a goal to protect the world from europe christine legarde wants to erect a four hundred billion dollar financial wall around the block a planner is eighty billion dollars short with hopes that the fast growing countries known as the brics group will clog the whole result russia china in the and south africa ready to lend a helping hand but only for a bigger say over the international bank meeting today in washington and the says when the group of twenty industrialized nations will focus on that funding political analyst christophe hostiles says the i.m.f. won't be able to help europe without the brics which shows global power is shifting . not really to pay money so there is a very bad situation or a blow up of the i.m.f. it's not only a good negotiation position and it's a number one chance in fact the brics one thing is very clear without it being a say here in this institution very clearly there is no incentive for the brics nations to you know give their good money a

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decisions, but the way, have not been taken by brussels. >> to the middle east now. in the coming days pending the arrival of next week's it monitors for the truce brokered by kofi annan. >> it is said that dialogue is the only way out of the crisis. the violence in the country continues. >> plumes of smoke rising to the sky in central syria. this video hints at the region's continued instability. 23 people reported killed and in the midst of heavy shelling. just a day earlier, u.n. observers visited the city. they were hoping to check the status of the cease-fire. just after this after they left, the shelling began again. the u.n. observers are now back in damascus. the plans are to bring in reinforcements that will bring the total number of monitors to 300. germany will offer technical and logistical support. talks of already begun in new york. the u.n. hopes a more pronounced presence on the ground will bring an end to the pronounced human rights violations in syria. >> u.s. president barack obama has pledged for an end to the violence in sudan and south sudan. >>

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i'm told i even sparkle about things like brussel spouts. >> stephen: how would you sparkle about a brussel sprout? >> are you kidding? oh, my god, brussel sprouts, and they're roasted. that's a real turn-on. >> stephen: are you going to yell through this entire interview? >> no. really by sparkle we mean what is it that makes your heart sing? >> stephen: you know what would make me sparkle? if we could sing a little song together. >> i don't think so. >> stephen: you've also written a series of books about "dumpy the dump truck." >> those are for very young, young men. >> stephen: very young. "dumpy the dump truck" spoke to me. >> really? >> stephen: how does dumpy learn how the take a dump? >> well, he just does that automatically because that's what he is. but don't go any further. >> stephen: ever thought about extending the series to other objects? are rusty the trombone? >> no, we haven't got there yet. we have a lot of other books, but we haven't done the trombone yet, but good idea. >> stephen: yeah. trombone nobody wants to play. [laughter] because it's all rusty. >> rusty. >> step

harking back to the cold war as brussels moves to boycott the twenty twelve championship in ukraine this over the case of jailed yulia timoshenko. the founder of wiki leaks prepares to take center stage once again as the host of his very interview show right here on our. quiz is the new president. who was swept to power by a popular uprising. worldwide news live from the heart of moscow this is are with me rule. in syria a third bomb blast has reportedly rocked the city of live just hours after eight were killed and dozens wounded in twin explosions the government and the opposition both blaming each other for orchestrating the attacks now the united nations warns the ongoing violence threatens the peace plan it helped to broker the head of the expanding u.n. observer mission to syria says the road map is futile unless all sides observe a cease fire meanwhile damascus is preparing to hold nationwide parliamentary elections in just two weeks time but the u.s. and its allies are still calling for regime change jordan a base prefer a louche syria fell out of favor. playing by its own will.

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why did you have to go to brussels? >> they invite mead to come over. i'm going to be speaking with both the secretary of state and the secretary of defense. we'll have a joint interview tomorrow at nato headquarters right outside of brussels. i'm in brussels right now. i just got off the plane literally, secretary panetta's plane. we flew in from andrews air force base early this morning and just got here ready to do this show. there's a big nato defense ministerial and foreign ministerial joint meeting tomorrow to deal with the future of afghanistan which is the subject, obviously, close to my heart and close to the viewers' hearts. more than ten years the u.s. troops have been stuck in afghanistan. u.s. spending is hard to believe, $2 billion a week, more than $100 billion a year to maintain about 90,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan. a lot of them are supposed to stay through the end of 2014. major decisions are going to be made tomorrow here at the nato summit. also in chicago, there's a big summit coming up in may. so we're all over that and i'm look

what everything really changed between paris and brussels. europe for. for. europe for the bankers. europe for trade of europe for. business oh is it a europe of citizens of europe of social rights and the rest of the continents watching too knowing that whoever its next partner is the honeymoon phase is out of the question to answer celia archie brussels and stay with r.t. on sunday for our extensive coverage of the french vote without votes from paris and expert opinion. and the currency crisis. cuts. tragically integration. who will be left standing with the people speech. the french election on r.t. . with the future shrouded in uncertainty the i.m.f. chief has set a goal to protect the world from europe christina guard wants to erect a four hundred billion dollar financial wall around the block the plan however is short of eighty billion dollars with hopes that the fast growing countries known as the brics group will plug the hole and brazil russia china india and south africa are ready to lend a helping hand but only for a bigger say over the international bank meeting now in

sylvia archie brussels. the i.m.f. here is on plan however still needs eighty billion dollars more and the hope is that a fast growing countries known as the brics were up will make up the shortfall russia has pledged billion u.s. dollars bought a long way the rest of the emerging economies once a greater say in how it spanned meeting today in washington ministers from the group of twenty industrialized nations will focus on their funding brazil russia china india and south africa are expected to come up with the eighty billion but ask for a bigger sway over the international bank. president christine legarde was optimistic that a compromise would be reached but commenting on the plan of vestment advisor patrick young doesn't have much faith a move will help save the euro zone. this is absolutely a counter killer some for the euro zone there is no way no matter how hard large the sea of guards are no matter how big it is that the i.m.f. is currently assembling nobody can afford to pay for entirely in government debt it

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brussels and they don't headquarters are not particularly peaceful some might say. well what reflektor trying to do is to bring the legal look people the official policies before the courts have you tried to do that ourselves bar and i prefer civil disobedience or if they prosecute us we also have a discussion on the legality of the like the nuclear weapons policies and the military interventions before so that's a good distance behind the protests let's take a step back and look at the broader picture nato has been credited by some with bringing a fled fledgling form of democracy to libya for years has been working to bring the same to afghanistan isn't nato a successful pro peace organization. well i would hope to successful i mean nato is not for ten years in afghanistan and i don't see a lot of success libya now we see like the revenues of more than on that that's between wars or between militias so effectively you can question if the military interventions are really pretty or are we just arming the next phase in civil war but if it through the military the num

. >> to visit nato headquarters in brussels and met with eu leaders. he called for more european integration and said the union heads germany's full support. >> jaochim gauck's visit to brussels was the celebration of the european project at the headquarters of democratic europe. he received a warm welcome from the eu parliament's president. >> it is an honor and a joy for me personally. many thanks for this symbolic visit. >> jaochim gauck also met with the eu commission president who spoke about what europe means to people who grew up under non- democratic regimes. >> i was 18 years of age when democracy came to my country. i remember. i remember when it was not possible to read the books i wanted, to listen to radio, or to watch what i wanted. for my generation, europe is freedom. >> europe and freedom. for both of them, the concepts and hand-in-hand. >> it has been a long journey from eastern europe to europe. i am also deeply moved by president barack so's recollections of his youth in a different time -- president barraso's recollections. "tough

evidence in support of that regime change so who's got time answer now is washington and certainly brussels with nato the way what they know about about that ship if we follow where the facts lead in the coming days i think there's going to be a remarkable. result in investigation of exactly what's going on the syrian conflict because balancing on the brink of civil war also costing the country's economy dearly alleged terrorist destroying industrial sites under the pretext of fighting against president assad or his ex on a boyko has more from the syrian city of aleppo. a lifetime of work burned overnight. this facility is one of a growing number of businesses in syria destroyed by those claiming to advance the cause of that revolution this factory was a classic example of syrian interpreter ship one hundred and fifty employees producing textiles for furniture it was never turning out a lot of profit but provided the decision living for its people all of which is now gone north routes no warnings one evening in fabry a group of young man threw molotov cocktails into the building the owner s

live in brussels thank you. patrick young the executive director of investment for advisers although we. could be treated as a drug for the problems that highlights the very serious indeed. the truth of the matter is that i think it's difficult to keep seriously the idea of simply seeking attention through destroying our works when actually wouldn't be a great deal of a better idea to have these artists and indeed these artworks being sold so they could actually go somewhere to try to help some of the pensioners i mean it strikes me that it is a rather ludicrous protest rather say to do all draw attention to. the fundamental underpinnings of many europeans see it and that means that the us to much of the money that he would spend on the social status whether it be in art whether it be in pensions whatever it is is coming to an end europe and the euro zone cannot of ford it's socialism. this is artsy a twenty two million dollar fine the punishment for perhaps america's most controversial financial giant penalty c

back in time with one's own bureaucrats turning on brussels to no bid to escape voter fury. running battles in montreal see eighty five more students arrested in the and creasing li violent face off over a rise in tuition. oh you're watching live from moscow words four pm it's three pm in kiev and we have breaking news this hour a series of blasts hit the city of new proposed in eastern ukraine on friday morning injuring twenty seven people the latest reports put the number of explosions out for the first blast occurred around noon noon at a tram stop five people were reportedly injured as a result there the device is said to have been planted in a trash can forty minutes later a second explosion struck near a movie theater hurting some seven people next to more blasts went off in quick succession also in the city center a criminal investigation how the launch what use are casting a terror attack one of the latest live from our correspondent in ukraine a look see yourselves coming up shortly here on our team. in other news soon americans may find that every private e-mail th

missile defense shield is not a russia or live in brussels thank you. activists a gathering near a moscow court today in support of a feminist punk band whose members were arrested on hooliganism charges back in february or the court will consider whether to extend custody which expires and now in less than one week the group rushed to the altar of russia's christ the savior cathedral in moscow and performed what prosecutors claim was a blasphemous song of the five women who took part three were arrested and charged in our face up to seven years in prison performances drawing huge public response and a wave of criticism from russia's orthodox church. a twenty two million dollar fine that's the latest punishment dished out to america's perhaps most controversial financial giant goldman sachs and the penalty came after revelations the bank gave inside information to us preferred clients allowing them an unfair advantage over other investors and as always our very own kaiser report coming up next hour here on r.t. has the lowdown on that. it makes sense th

evidence in support of that regime change so who's gotten an answer now is washington and certainly brussels with nato of the world what they know about about that ship if we follow where the facts lead in the coming days i think there's going to be a remarkable. result in investigation of exactly what's going on. the political leaders of the syrian opposition been calling for foreign military intervention but that's something many people on the ground there refuse to accept as artie's acceptable reports from damascus. almost everyone in syria these days is in opposition to something ready to lash out at opponents at any moment and seventy six year old my feet mohammad is in opposition to that he says syrians are so worked up about politics that it's become difficult to make people smile but he found a way. i like dancing in the street and i like the reaction it produces in people i feel free this way. even he can't stay away from politics when i ask him about his biggest concern his sass syria should not dance to somebody else's tune. we don't need any countries meddling in our food. while

brussels in eastern ukrainian city of slowly getting back to normal after its residents were left in a state of shock by a series of bombings friday thirty people were injured ten of them children while doctors continue to treat the injured police are sifting through c.c.t.v. footage of the blast sites artie's aleck's airshows q reports from q. for some residents of new bit of skin ukraine of their regular crime joran and through the city was cut short because the police and i just got up from my chair when i heard the explosion of the doors was smashed the windows shattered all remember that when i got up there was smoke and dust everywhere and women were crying. i was selling tickets when it came out of nowhere i grabbed my knees trying to hold on there was blood all over i got out sat down on a bench and like doubt it was a powerful blast the trousers i was wearing were all covered in holes i couldn't see if my legs were injured but it's not like it's a horror of previously unseen in ukraine's third largest city for homemade explosive devices hidden in trash cans detonated one aft

who said that releasing these two prisoners is definitely a right move to improve relations between brussels and minsk and she demanded that the old political prisoners must be set free as well definitely the ties between brussels and. i have been very much strange after the events in december and the presidential election and the crackdown on the opposition in fact all heads of all diplomatic missions to. the european union left immediately all twenty seven passengers then the european union imposed sanctions umbrella was namely more than two hundred state officials and businessmen are still brought here from traveling to the european union countries as well as several companies are blacklisted from trade with the european union several companies certainly now there have been talks of more tougher sanctions to come within the next several weeks and political analysts are trying to determine whether this unprecedented move by a look at trying to releasing the two high profile prisoners is somehow connected to the possible for the prospect of tougher sanctions but while they are speculating d

you were in brussels correspondent from 2002 through 2005. the early years as the euro project developed. i would -- i would love your sense of the internal german dynamics on this but appreciate the anti-german sentiment we are saying in the south. how does the german foreign policy and economic policy react to that? we look forward to your comments. thank you. >> thank you and thanks for your patience. i know this thing -- it is 10 days old. angela merkel said -- they ask, what is your name and would international become a german. she said i am just coming for vacation. icthey know they have a problem. i also would like to talk about that. and i guess i would like to comment on that as well. i think i would address two or three basic misperceptions i have observed here in d.c. german crisis management. i think no one in germany commensurately not the delran has any plan for this crisis trade what they're doing now is they're trying to define what they did as a plan. it is a little bit unfair because no one has anticipated this. there was no

who said that releasing these two prisoners is definitely a right move to improve relations between brussels and minsk and she demanded that the whole other political prisoners must be set free as well and definitely the ties between brussels and minsk have been very much strain after the events in december twenty ten the presidential election and the crackdown on the opposition in fact all heads of all diplomatic missions to do the european union left immediately all twenty seven passengers then the european union imposed sanctions umbrella was namely more than two hundred state officials and businessmen are still prohibited from traveling to the european union countries as well as several companies are blacklisted from trade with the european union to have been talks of more tougher sanctions to come within the next several weeks so the possibility that the to the side of the possible sanctions and the release of the prisoners are connected cannot be ruled out by many experts. well go deeper into our stories that are t. dot com here's what online for you at the moment it's like you know th