being put to a public vote in a country was one of europe's largest immigration populations supporters of the move say every verse of the friendly policies is needed to protect locals are to test our ceiling reports ahead of sunday's controversial referendum. two years ago twenty two year old life was brutally cut short we. have my son was at the carnival with his friend he was just standing and having a conversation with three young men came towards him and started beating him with their fists on the hit beat him until he fell and then started kicking him on the beat him to death for no reason no reason at all they did it just for fun. details then emerged the victim was swiss the attackers were from the balkans and immigration sentiment rose giving traction to a referendum proposal to make it mandatory for foreign criminals with heavy crimes such as murder and rape to be kicked out of the country just a year after voting in favor of a law banning the building of new minarets on mosques the swiss are set to return

to the polls on sunday with another yes or no decision to make their oath of paper should no longer be in switzerland because you just don't deserve to be answered so some people i mean if they cared so much money and redirecting our scrimmages i mean freak or no mark september the ten percent of the populations born in switzerland and doesn't have a swiss passport and you want to keep these guys out i mean come on it's ridiculous over a slew or member of the swiss people's party which initiated this referendum is adamant that the answer should be yes people with a. heavy criminal currier there is no place for them in street solar that is the idea we have. a growing powerful criminality in switzerland raping. killing people and so on

and for heavy it's for against heavy cream you know they cannot longer stay in switzerland. in other words out with a black sheep a sensitive statement to make in a country with more than a fifth of its population made up of immigrants one of the largest in europe wary of a backlash from the e.u. and the world this response and released a counterproposal with amendments to the list of crimes and provisions stating that deportations must fall within both swiss and international law still either version is seen by some as another anti immigration move adding on to what's been dubbed as . the rising wave and immigration sentiment sweeping across the country and the whole of europe can really make a difference between drug dealer who was from from russia from india or resist who is a drug dealer a drug dealer a better one so i don't make a difference between someone who is doing something wrong the law should.

be for the father of the the debate is a personal one he prefers not to divulge his vote but does save. those who come to switzerland if they don't become delinquent or violent then there will be no problem other one had the very idea of a proposed law targeting immigrants has raised accusations of racism and intolerance but could also be a way of saying that even tolerance has its limits so no matter the outcome of this referendum vote many european nations will continue to face such tough questions the answers to which may keep boiling down to a yes or a no. r t zurich switzerland ireland is preparing for a massive protest in the capital dublin against government plans to cut spending and slash public sector jobs the country's police have warned some groups may organize riots and cause trouble earlier in the vampire violence broke out during student protest in dublin the e.u. and the i.m.f.

are expected to announce a massive bailout for islands crippled economy worth more than one hundred billion u.s. dollars portugal and spain insist they could handle the or debt problems without external help and it appears they may also need a bailout german economist marcus kerber told r.t. that europe's biggest economies won't be able to pay for others dance forever. the german taxpayer is no longer willing to lease is very very becoming very reluctant to bail out countries like greece. and we are no longer willing is when are the too . few banking sector i think this is a joke. center of this umbrella which the. heads of government have created in under the menace of the president of the european central bank this is so large that everybody wants to be protected and the more it's raining cats and dogs the more they want to be protected and the portuguese. prime minister and the finance minister pushed island to put themselves under the umbrella to be under the

umbrella themselves as quickly as possible this is an inflation of claims to be bailout which will ruin of the eurozone sooner or later germany is economically nor they will to. such bail out. the german taxpayer who has a word to say in all that is no longer willing to do saying something like that and that was marcus carver a professor of political economy in berlin while financial troubles have spread far beyond the e.u. and the republic of georgia is trying to model itself after the united states and anyway can and tbilisi can now celebrate just like washington it's a mask spiraling foreign debt money is being bored but where is it all going artists are furthur investigate. anyone who's ever received a hefty credit card bill the pain of having to pay off. well judy could face an eight hundred million dollars in interest payments by twenty thirty. two spiraling

foreign debts. the level of debt has doubled over three years there is an international norm saying that if a country's external debt which is sixty percent of g.d.p. than the country is considered bankrupt we're currently at over the forty percent mark if georgia continues this it is entirely possible that we will find ourselves in that situation. external debt is now a major concern for the country and the government has come under heavy criticism for borrowing so extensively one of the main criticisms has been the government's heavy investment in construction projects such as the freedom bridge which many people have that was completely unnecessary but it was built just a couple of hundred meters away from the bridge that withstood. with the foreign debt who are laying the country's economic potential needed to be growing to. that with wine one of its only strong export products and

a lack of investment in areas that will generate many government will have no way of paying back what they. think it will be very difficult to cover such a large amount of payment from the state budget and the country may have to refinance the dead meaning the country will have to take still more money from the international organization and partner countries so just what have they been spending all that money on. well the need bridge for starters which cash down at an estimated six million dollars and. then there's the presidential palaces last day in which guesses put at between twenty one thirty two million dollars. and a number of other controversial projects including a glass monument and a raid which totaled two hundred nine million dollars. the glass buildings which were symbols dreamed up by president saakashvili to portray a new chance parents government and grimly ironic.

to spend this money. this is really say this is really for. the comparable for the. city in carrying such large debts that the country has also done little to improve the conditions of the population. such. as being. expenditure so. economists say this foreign debt is now one of the most serious problems facing the country the georgian government say they've used the money to rebuild the country and forge a bright future but for taxpayers that it seems carries

a multi-million pound price tag that they'll be paying off for a long time to come so fast. so i have this hour here in our team let's talk about sex. search what kind of condom are you i'm sorry what kind of condom are you were asking everyone today on them. to be i've no idea why it's. find out how this better banter is helping save lives in the u.s. capitol. how moscow's new mayor has promised that tackling the city's dire traffic problems will be his first priority daily gridlock cost the city over a billion dollars annually and there's also a huge cost to human health as our call reports muscovites are still hopeful a solution can be found. the time when more schools streets was based empty

is long gone nowadays the city's traffic jams on a tory as being the world's longest this city has become so congested the problem has been given a top priority at a top level the minister of the ms plan has some good points if at least half of them realize they have found to be fewer traffic jams. that could save a cabbie like yaroslav up to three hours per day going nowhere the time he would no longer spend breathing in exhaust fumes. of course you won't get a heart attack from one traffic jam co-edit if it's several times a day for many air i was at that other adverse factors and your body will wear so much faster the problem was born in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's when many of moscow's major roads were planned back then hardly anyone imagined a moscow family owning two or even three cars. despite all recent efforts the speed

of traffic has been dropping on year experts blame it primarily on a severe shortage of space here but when that's over the past fifty years the amount of road building was far from fast enough can you believe that we have three times fuel rods than in paris. the lack of car parking forces drivers to ditch their cars on the sides of the already congested roads and this is the old way of tackling a problem the new mayor promises a different approach his draft plan suggests among others road widening tolls and removing most ground level pedestrian crossings public transport also faces a major overhaul slow a trolley buses will be chased out of the city center by foster alternatives russia's very energy p.s. glow now satellite system will also be used to monitor jams while traffic cops will be replaced by automatic. all these cameras and monitors only cover forty percent

of the city far from enough say the police the system needs updating and modernizing none of which can happen without a serious injection of cold hard cash the mayor is now looking for ways to raise the billions of rubles needed for the changes not everyone though is happy with the scheme a suggestion to ban trucks from the city during daylight has sparked protests from their drivers not about the hard work going to him should be for sleeping networking all the people everest at night so should he. ironically the time saving move could end up costing people more retail companies in moscow claimed it would be impossible to deliver goods at night while replacing large cargo trucks with many smaller bands would trigger a surge in prices other. guys don't drive through the city on their own will burn the nerves and petrol to provide for moscow's every day life we hope they don't

think being the trucks will mean heaven as follows cause it won't. but most traffic experts agree the mayor's proposals are reasonable as long as it's not just a publicity stunt and the money is found to solve the problem. and succeeds his name will shine in history for making scenes like this one history. artsy moscow. and you've got an opinion any of our stories had a column and have your say with exclusive coverage videos and features there are plenty to keep you busy and here's a quick taste of what's on line right now. in the iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad doesn't even acknowledge israel's right to exist but find out how some jews have made themselves a new home in these lawmakers state. plus the story behind why russian naval bases could soon start appearing around the world and foreign citizens could begin serving in the russian armed forces all the details.

take a look at some other stories from around the world and funerals have been held in south korea two marines killed by the north or tillery shells earlier this week it comes as the south gears up for joint military drills with the u.s. starting on sunday has issued new warnings against the war games calling them pardonable provocation south korea reported the second round of artillery fire in friday or one of its islands in the yellow sea. a senior official has reportedly blamed british secret services for bringing a fake taliban commander into peace talks with u.s. officials and president hamid karzai has refused to comment on the reports in a man who claimed to be a high ranking militant. is thought to be

a shopkeeper from pakistan the identity of a fake or only a mystery this guy. will has left the u.s. led coalition red faced after large sums of cash were handed over to the fraudster . a gunman has opened fire on a campaign rally in taiwan killing one and critically wounding the son of a former taiwanese vice president the shooting took place at an elementary school and it comes on the eve of the local elections for mayors and local officials will be elected in five major cities the suspect is in police custody. after receiving a bit of a beating in the midterm elections president obama has suffered pain of a different kind during a basketball game he was elbowed in the mouth during a friendly match on thanksgiving and obama was pictured nursing his wound with an ice pack the injury required twelve stitches but the president's doctor says he'll make a full recovery. france a famous confectionery has created a giant chocolate christmas tree to raise funds for

a nationwide charity event it took a month to create a ten metre high tree that will be decorated with chocolate and santas pieces of chocolate will go to people who donate money for research into new or muscular diseases. what's actually transmitted diseases on the rise the government in the us has come up with an action plan to tackle the problem it's launched a crusade against yesterday's by encouraging greater use of contraceptives but as a christian reports the biggest hurdle can be helping people get over feeling awkward about the subject. it's a simple question really. what kind of condom are you i'm sorry what kind of condom are you were asking everyone today on them. to be i've no idea. what it what kind of condom are you. that's kind of personal. the washington d.c. department of health is trying to make it well not so personal so they've launched

a campaign they're calling the rubber revolution through her hear the word revolution they think change. in the city were three percent of people are hiv positive higher rate than any other city in the country dr numb to come onto elias says change is needed we are having ads on t.v. on the radio media mix media facebook twitter on the side of buses we have text messaging people can text and ask for where free condoms are they can go get it their website uses bold in your face seventy's style lettering you can even take the quiz to see what kind of condom you are that is if you don't already know what kind of condom are you. small on what kind of what kind of condom are you on them. before the tick because. you know but as the washington d.c. health department urges people to have as many condoms as possible the police

department here well there are different story several accounts of people arrested for being fact workers in this city the police told them they simply aren't true many of these on their person to be just another average person looking to get lucky. in this city with the big phallic symbol in the sky at its center many here are just far too awkward to talk about sex and condoms and what kind of condom are you but some have already submitted videos that have been posted on the website. so why then when everyone knows why people should have safe sex aren't they people think that they're too big comments will be tight the words missing that people think that the moment in our ads address that as well people think that it shows that they don't trust their partner and we try to address that as well this is fact remains when the situation gets dire as it has here local government hopes

a few of these will make all the difference in washington christine for zero r.t. . now the appearance of an armored vehicle on the streets of lot of us stock in russia's far east had some locals fearing world war three have begun but it turned out the owner had simply rolled into town for a little shopping bigger punk often bought the decommissioned military monster three months ago and it's now registered as a tractor didn't say how much the seven ton vehicle cost him on cough has already pimped his ride. as leather seats in a soundproof cabin the happy owner says the personal carrier will last a lifetime. the art of drinking and serving tea who plays a major cultural role in china and that influence has spread all over the world martin andrews has been learning all about it in this week's moscow out. welcome to the club of culture it open sixty years ago and the value is more than four hundred

t.v. arises depending on the time of the season but the focus is on chinese traditions and relaxation and the average tea ceremony can take of the two hours. and there's no smoking drinking on mobile phones allowed inside here. or in the couple to the. most. perfect land in moscow out in about ten minutes time here in r t before that will take a look at what's happening in business with kareena. hello and welcome to our business program good to have you with us policies to stimulate growth on the best way to ensure the economic recovery fault according to the

president of the world bank it's a view that appears shoplifts odds with the austerity measures being brought in across europe correspondent pool caught up with robert zoellick in st petersburg this week to discuss the recovery trade. much of the debate is talked about the current account imbalances and sort of rebalancing aggregate demand that has a worthwhile role but i think it needs to be combined with a growth agenda so not only talking about shifting the existing growth but how do you build future growth this is a lot of focus is on infrastructure development where we saw with china in the ninety's ever seen in other developing countries investment infrastructure today can create jobs but also bottlenecks for future productivity growth but this is going to be true for the developed countries too they're also going to have to have their structural reforms in the in the currency area i think you're moving towards a system where the dollar dominance what you're going to have the role of. the euro

sterling and over time the chinese currency that remedy that isn't ready yet because it's not open capital and over time the question is how will they move to that issue so the currency issues i think reflects some of the lack of confidence in the nature of the overall economic recovery and again to put that on the right track i personally think the pro growth solutions are the most important do you believe that the u.s. is actively devaluing its currency no i don't think it is now the currency may go down but i don't believe that's the government policy if the traditional developed economies in the west want to motion players to play a more active role and here i'm thinking of the. shouldn't they have agreed to. the key financial and. at the i.m.f. and world bank i think that's a natural course of development of this new system that we just talked about i mean so part of this is you're moving from a g seven g eight world to

a g twenty world which has those countries at the table another part is that over the past couple years we've been able to shift some of the voting shares so that developing in transition countries at the world bank now represent about forty seven point two percent of the vote we added another chair on our board for sub-saharan africa just as important and that is the staffing so for the first time in the banks history the level right below mine the three managing directors are all from developing countries our chief economist is from china so i think these are part of the evolution at the same time is developing countries play a larger role they also have to assume responsibilities and that's part of the tension you see whether it be climate change trade growth currencies do you think you'll be the last american to leave the world bank first off those are questions obviously for the shareholders to decide i'm just trying to do the best in my term second it was very interesting how you stated it if you open it up to broader

process i hope you're not precluding but if you say i'm the last american that would preclude it but i think that's an important point because just from my own perspective you know while i've served the u.s. government at the state department treasury i personally believe the united states needs to engage in the international community to engage in multilateral institutions my worry is more sometimes the trends towards isolationism so i think it's healthy when the united states has a role in these institutions now their tradition she would never find us head of the secretary general of the un other institutions or say for regional authorities so this is what international politics will be about i do believe from my point of view i've tried to strengthen the role of the emerging countries both in senior management and in terms of the voting power and equally important treating them as clients so the age of sort of trying to tell countries what to do is gone. and most important clothes in the red on friday have to advancing on thursday to its highest

level in more than two weeks the r.t.s. fan is down nearly a percent on the mises calls over a quarter of a percent lower most of the blue chips finished in the red bucking the trend with gas pump and at one point two percent higher. now the week has been volatile for the russian markets with investors worried by debt problems in europe it's thought it's with decent growth in international markets but. tuesday we saw a sharp decline in all markets and actually that was driven by korean problems and second. you wrote on concerns that island is experiencing serious problems and europe will have to help them with would be sufficient but then we saw the growth on the wednesday just before thanksgiving day in just a russian market followed that in general situation is changing that's for sure we saw some long term money entering russian markets and we saw the buyers probably first time in many many months i would say industrial which is very very important

because from looks very interesting i think the board is saudi to thoughts complex next year by ten percent which was taken by the market very positively and the market also expects that bloke about three point five percent which i would buy to come by and that's also very positive for the market. were very well beat this week and that gives me. hope that said december will be stronger and i think the markets will be expecting the budget expenditures growing in december and that's will cause the markets move further up at least it will give them a good very good support. and those were the highlights of the week but you can always find most stories if you log on to our website that started out comments last business thanks for watching.

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welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow these are the top stories a vote for the intolerance or crime crime down switzerland from paris for a referendum on whether to deport immigrants caught committing serious crimes this comes after the murder of a local man who was beaten to death by a group from the balkans and it led to calls to kick for a nurse who have committed crimes such as murder or rape out of the country. and biting off more than you can shoot ga flirts with bankruptcy as a government is plunged into debt are they doing a series of large scale vanity projects charged to the taxpayer georgians once a president a focus on improving living conditions instead. as all about money in moscow as the way mayor seeks ways.