one of you are just immigrant populations supporters of the move say a reversal of friendly policies as needed to protect locals are just as are sillier reports ahead of sunday's controversial referendum two years ago twenty two year old life was brutally cut short. that my son was at the carnival with his friend he was just standing and having a conversation when three young men came towards him and started beating him with their fists they eat him on the hit beat him until he fell and then started kicking him 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 they don't deserve to be answered so some people i mean if they cared so much money and i really think i scream it is i mean because no nomadic september. you can't keep them all out we need immigrants period. over the sure member of the swiss people's party which initiated this referendum is adamant that the answer should be yes eighty percent of the prisoners in this race prisons are foreigners it's very high every age you see our attitude in east these foreigners we have a lot of foreigners who behave from within the law who respect the law who look for themselves they are welcome here 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 a rising wave and immigration sentiment sweeping across the country and the whole of europe can you make a difference between a drug dealer who was from nigeria or from russia from india or is a swiss 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 not look whether he's white brown black or whatever what language you speak for the father of the myan the the debate is a personal one he prefers not to divulge his vote but does say this 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 though 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 tests or. r t x with some of the islanders preparing for massive protests 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 of amber violence broke out during a student protest in dublin the e.u. and the i.m.f. are expected to announce a massive bailout for ireland's crippled economy worth more than one hundred billion u.s. dollars portugal and spain insist they could handle their dad problems without external help and fears saying we also need a bailout german economist marcus kerr were told r.t.

that you are biggest economies won't be able to pay for other steps forever. the german taxpayer is no longer willing at least is very very becoming very reluctant to bail out countries like greece where the example of very bad governance and we are no longer willing is neither to bail out ireland to fuel the ailing banking sector i think this is a general incentive this umbrella which the. heads of government have created in under the minutes of the president of the european central bank. 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 push the 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 northern able to. bailout.

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 kerber a professor of political economy in berlin. well financial troubles have spread far beyond the e.u. the republic of georgia is trying to model itself after the united states in any way can and tbilisi can now celebrate just like washington it's amassed spiraling foreign debt one is being burra but where is it all going r t sarah for investigate anyone who's ever received a hefty credit card bill you know the pain of having to pay off. well judy could face an eight hundred million dollars in interest payments by twenty thirty she is 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.

in the country is considered bankrupt we are currently on top of the forty percent mark of 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 said was completely unnecessary but it was built just a couple of hundred meters away from the bridge that withstood. with the foreign debt growing 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 would generate money government will have no way of paying back what they. call this reversal we think it will be very difficult to cover such large payments from the state budget and the country may have to

refinance the debt meaning it will have to take even more money for me to national organizations and partner countries. so just what have they been spending all that money on. well i need bridge for starters which kashdan at an estimated six million dollars. then there's the presidential palaces last day in which guesses put 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 now seen as grimly ironic. expensive. to spend this money. this is really say this is really for. the comparable for the.

city in carrying such large debts to the country has also done little to improve the conditions of the population. such. as. 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 the 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. now still have for you this hour let's talk

about sex surfer what kind of condom are you i'm sorry what kind of condom are you we're asking everyone today on them. to be no. idea why it's. find out how this better bad there is helping save lives in the u.s. capitol. moscow's new mayor has promised that tackling the city's dire traffic problems will be his first priority daily gridlock cost a city over a billion dollars annually and there's also a huge cost to human health but as our governor reports moskovitz are still hopeful absolution can be found. the time when more schools streets was base empty is long gone nowadays the city's traffic jams on a tory as being the world's longest the city has become soup congested the problem has been given a top priority at the top level the mystery of the miss 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 add that to 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 year on year experts blame it primarily on a severe shortage of space durable enough for over the past fifty years the amount of road building was far from fast enough can you believe that we have three times few roads than in paris or the lack of car parking forces drivers did each 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 the road widening tolls and removing most ground level pedestrian crossings public transport also faces a major overhaul slower trolleybuses will be chased out of the city center by faster alternatives russia's very own g.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 protest from their drivers not about the harder it's going to i should be sleeping networking all the people address the gate so should we. 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 the. placing large cars and trucks with many smaller bands would trigger a surge in prices other. guys don't drive to the city on their own will burn their nerves and petrol to provide for moscow's every day life we hope they don't think paying 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 moscow's history for making scenes like this one history. r.t. moscow. what you're going to if you've got an opinion on any of our stories head over to r.t. dot com and have your say with explosive coverage videos and features there's plenty to keep you busy here's a taste of what you like right now. iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad doesn't even acknowledge israel's right to exist but find out how some jews have made themselves and loophole and they salami state. plus the story behind why russian naval bases could soon start appearing around the world in foreign citizens could begin serving in the russian armed forces all the details are available at r.t. .

iran is switched on its first nuclear power plant the country's atomic chief says electricity produced by the russian built bush era reactor will be connected to the national grid within a month or two ali akbar salehi was quoted saying that iran is the cover of the plant and fuel rods are in the core now russia finished building the power plant last summer and is responsible for making sure the country uses the reactor only for peaceful purposes iran's nuclear program has caused an international outcry amid fears it is planning to produce nuclear weapons. while take a look at some other stories from around the world and in seoul south korea for military personnel clashed with police as they rallied to show their anger at the country's response to artillery shelling by the north x. soldiers want to. to be punished for the attack which killed four people including two marines tensions between the koreas remain high as the us and the south are planning large scale military drills set to begin on sunday pyongyang has issued

new warnings against a war games calling them an unpardonable provocation. a somali born american teenager has been arrested over an alleged plot to carry out a car bomb attack at a crowd a christmas tree lighting ceremony in portland he was detained after making a phone call which he believed would detonate the device the bomb was a fake supplied by undercover agents as part of a long term operation. the u.s. has briefed a number of foreign governments about the expected release of diplomatic files by the whistleblower website wiki leaks the cables are thought to include private assessments of foreign leaders and could erode trust in the u.s. as a diplomatic partner the website says the publication will be seven times larger than the pentagon files related to the iraq war it published in october the white house condemn the release of warrants it will put lives at risk. 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 key local elections were mayors and local officials will be elected in five major cities the suspect is in police custody. and a forensic famous confectioner 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 deer and santas pieces of chocolate will go to people who donate money for research into neuromuscular diseases. with sexually transmitted diseases on the rise the government in the us has come up with a national plan to tackle the problem it's launched a girl say against s t d's by encouraging greater use of contraceptives but as a christian for 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 anything change. in a city where three percent of people are hiv positive higher rate than any other city in the country dr none to come on to elias says change is needed we are having ads on t.v. on the radio media mixed media facebook twitter on the side of buses we have text messaging people can text and ask 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 one sir what kind of what kind of condom are you on them. before you protect the condom 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 have too 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 companies will be tight their words i think that people think that the moment and 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 trying to 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 zone r.t. . and the appearance of an armored vehicle on the streets of lot of us thought in russia's far east had some locals fearing world war three had begun but it turned out the owner had simply rolled into town for a little shopping bigger punk off bought the decommissioned military monsour three months ago and it's now registered as a tractor he didn't say how much the seven ton vehicle cost him on coffee as already pimp his ride and it now has leather seats and a song proof cabin happy all the personal carrier will last a lifetime. time now for the latest business news with karina don't go away.

hello and welcome to our weekend business program policies to stimulate growth of the best way to ensure the economic recovery doesn't falter according to the president of the world bank that's a view that appears shop at olds 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 cuts the wars. much of the debate is talked about the current account imbalances and sort of rebalance scene 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 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 remove 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 will remain predominant but you're going to have the role of the yeah and the euro sterling and over time the chinese currency agreement be that isn't ready yet because it's not open capital account 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 stay

in the key financial institutions like 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 bank's 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 america 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 have served the u.s. government at the state department treasury i personally believe the united states needs to engage in the international community can you gauge 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 there are traditions you would never find the u.s. 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 dimmer 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. let's talk let's take a look at how the russian markets closed on friday they were in the red after advancing the previous day to its highest level in more than two weeks that is the only eight percent lower as you see here adam isaacs close down over a quarter of the sat most of the blue chips finished in the red bucking the trend with gazprom that at one point two percent black. now the week has been volatile for the russet 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 the weakness of europe on concerns that ireland is experiencing serious problems and europe will have to help them with with the situation but then we saw

the growth the own wednesday just before thanksgiving day in just a russian market full of this in general situation is changing that's for sure we saw someone to money entering russian markets and we saw the bias 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 decided to cut complex next year by ten percent which was taken by the markets very positively and the market also expects that bloke of about three point five percent will be bought out by the colombine and that's also very positive for the market because problems were very well beat this week and that gives me kind of hope that 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 that's a business wrap up of the week but you can always find most stories on our website

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a look at the top stories a vote for intolerance of crime crackdowns. 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 it led to calls to keep foreigners who committed crimes such as murder or rape out of the country. biting off more than you can chew georgia flourished in bankruptcy governments plunged into debt partly due to a series of large scale vanity projects charged to the taxpayer georgians wants to focus on improving living conditions instead. and it's all about the money in moscow as a mere six ways to span the city out of traffic gridlock but not everyone is happy with his subject.