the latest news on the week's top stories and the soaring unemployment turned thirteen measures nationwide protests in spain the country next in line for a bailout to save the ailing. legal process against the now former head of the international monetary fund but it's even more stressful even view which relies heavily on support from german extremes. plus the russian president is away from confirming a reelection page and twenty twelve during an unprecedented q. and a session with hundreds of journalists.

are you watching r t without weekly news of you but first angry anti government demonstrations are sweeping spain the authorities lost the battle to impose a ban on public protests become tree is voting in regional elections today the ruling socialists expected to suffer a loss since tens of thousands of people for the key part the central with the sole square grid similar protests have sprung up in other cities the country struggles to overcome the recession deal with record high unemployment. there are further ports but its crumbling economy spain could be next in line for an e.u. rescue bailout. that's greek. portugal as the u.a.e. things bailout. there are now serious can. could be the next to topple

playtest this throughout europe at the clamoring to the case even more taxpayers' money being plowed into rescuing others was a bad. thing again. and that is that it is i don't think that my mate says that it probably was forty three percent event it's like if i thought it was i didn't like the whole lay them up at the top and think this guy was a i think that these going to be inside this is only. a million since the year is a problems weren't enough there is now talk of greece defaulting on its loans even to mention exiting the year it will together and portugal's recent bailout is reported to be worth around seventy eight billion. but spain is the u.s.a.'s full

philologist economy different challenge altogether if it fails. if the situation happens that the markets would not manage it going out of spain's debt is the most catastrophic scenario for the e.u. what will the e.u. do i think and many experts share my opinion that the e.u. will do the utmost to avoid the scenario would any cost because spain is too big to fail. then you've got a computer the big question now is just how much longer. any bank. going bust as this crisis continues to escalate ministers are struggling to maintain a united front. to financial survival for such countries a spin that would seriously injure the euro it could lead to the use of two currency zones in europe a strong group of countries using the euro and the rest not using it or thinking

that play down speculate. and see. how this problems continue. and now portugal possibly becoming do you think likely to remain very real. right. now to take. politicians they have been blackmailed by the financial community into getting bailouts since the banks from collapsing so quite honest. we are living in a so-called capitalism well this is ridiculous because the capitalism doesn't work anymore and everything and everyone every country is being bailed out so we have something. because they're told us tell us.

no other choice if we let go. of portugal bankrupt and in a capitalistic system this is normally a normal procedure then the banks will suffer and the banks will go bankrupt and as a matter of fact here in germany and on in germany specially also in france of banks are full of it and some people are you say that maybe the politicians have been let mail by the financial community in order to give the money off the taxpayer to make the banks of the life. the former head of the international monetary fund has been released on bail but placed under house arrest in new york already khan was detained just as he was preparing for a meeting with the plight of recent portugal's economy it's. television reports his arrest has thrown the talks on resolving european debt crisis into disarray. no strauss because no euro that's what bankers are whispering after police charged the now ex i.m.f.

course with the attempted rape of a hotel maid very differently the possibility that some countries could decide to leave the euro pushed out of the euro and then when you got to understand that. belief that the euro could and should be saved in the face of norse the resistance from riches states stross kong live this week out of cripple portugal germany and france insist boyland raises its lower corporation tax t.s.k. as he's known was the man. saving the orisha called to me these allegations are going to be. of the i.m.f. as an institution. is definitely going to be missed i think. strauss kahn even persuaded greece's leader to stick with strict spending cuts despite roy it's on the streets he has a very good contacts to some of you heads of state governments are. different he

has good contacts for example to the greek prime minister so on thursday greece for more loans on better terms but now heavyweights europhile d s k has gone few back and not the bailouts were arguing that we should leave the euro zone that has put under strain the euro choice is one of the i.m.f. top bikers contributing tens of billions of euros the reward it wants is an asian chief is not likely to be as europe friendly ostrosky he has been very personally very important in getting the i.m.f. involved and assisting in designing the bailout packages but also coaxing i'm encouraging politicians to do the reforms necessary now you may not get the equivalent kind of person with the same kind of convictions coming from the emerging markets. when one of the world's biggest investment banks built three years ago it triggered a global recession we're still reeling from today but it's still put driving the

euro to extinction will only make matters worse the consequences probably would be higher and national that was for instance as a bankruptcy of lehman in two thousand and eight with e.u. economies that death's door there's a team goals that toppling the world's leading banker comes at the worst possible time this is not just the end of a career double exhaust call was instrumental in rescuing the eurozone as most troubled states is a risk does seem to threaten the end of the euro itself valuable show aarti paris. well with strauss cars down for the hunt is on for the new boss of the i.m.f. economics writer agent thinks that changes at the top of the organization might scupper efforts to use alternative reserve currencies to the u.s. dollars. he's worth international monetary fund and socially dramatic way shows that the powers that be were not very happy with mr starr was promoting the special

drawing rights which in a way are the mechanism that would make the dollar suffer i think that we are going to see that whoever find we are beholden i b i am earth will keep away from it. too strongly participation in doing away with the us dollar in other words the us dollar needs to be the key currency and anything which is seen as competition for automatically puts on warning lights anything that will trigger countries to sell off the u.s. treasury bond holdings is a sign of trouble for the united states because as i say those treasury bonds us treasury bonds is what i was boehner lanky to see how his printing presses going on twenty four hours a day if that were to be stopped and if america were to start printing currency well our burgher could at least financially collapse. but on the way a vision of a troubled future ok we reform why the things you like and scotland could soon be

numbered. to egypt now where christians have been targeted in several attacks as the radicals since president hosni mubarak was forced from power popular uprising which overturned the regime in country has left the religious minority feeling increasingly insecure or. for national let some of the victims of the square revolution at. present. there is little satisfaction. previously on tahir square through a common enemy barracks resignation so egypt and muslims and christians turn on each other. that he wants justice he wants equal rights because in institutions in business it has released an army and politics in order for centuries the coptic christian minority has felt discriminated in a country dominated by eighteen million muslims the revolutionary euphoria has

brought a desire for change that people have to sort of freedom and they like it now we are kind of fed up with the situation. tensions in the past month have left dozens killed scores injured and several churches burned his muslim woman and her entire family had been welcome in liberation until her twenty four year old son was killed in the street by a greek thrown during sectarian clashes in baghdad and northern flashpoint as the years of simmering religious tension boil over. our county we now america was a dictator maybe he was corrupt but at least we have been able to sleep and our children were alive we never saw the before we couldn't have even imagine something like this happening yes from this point of view i mean the old regime and the others glorified it january revolution among them the muslim brotherhood then under

mubarak today's the country's only well organized political group with the president gone they moved from jail cells in this luxury building in central cairo the revolution giving them a long awaited voice. radicals are triggering the transitions they saw how the revolution united people and they want to ruin their own want to see egypt strong and independent but i'm sure they will disappear after the parliamentary a large. sometimes you want me in bad berries kairos poorest district is home to millions of people surviving on just a couple of thoughts a day following the pre-revolution egypt's immune system has been a weekend dramatically economies in critical condition in the country when this happens the symptoms strike the most vulnerable first and the question now is just how far the damage by and whether egypt can ever recover. rich notion

out see cairo. but i mean well in libya nato has reportedly hit the capital's main port to mark his residence early on sunday tripoli officials claim a three months of bombings have triggered a humanitarian crisis the government has accused international forces of violating the u.n. no fly zone resolution everything civilians at risk in the movement of aid ships that is the campaign rolls into its third month of journalist tony gosling says the alliance is stretching the mandate for its own benefit. nato has shown in other campaigns around the world that it starts off with this sort of pretense that they want to have a sure shot war and what it happens is it turns into a long protracted. war where actually who does run out of this the military industrial complex these massive military companies who are supplying all this weaponry tonight and the people who do best out of it and in fact both sides.

military can we should both sides do well so i think that i don't think that the nato side really want to make this a sure thing at all they actually would like a long protracted conflict and they would like ultimately to take control of libya's oil and libya's finances which is what this is all about we don't see colonel gadhafi going into foreign countries invading them bombing them attacking them we don't see these long protracted was carried out by colonel gadhafi i think he's the least of our problems and we should see tony blair and george bush in the dog or the international criminal court. or will he stand we're going to press the question about next year's presidential election in russia still remains unanswered despite a two hour ago press conference with a meeting with various presidents this is the largest q. and a session since taking office and late writing scouting reports on the issues discussed. one hundred thirty seven minutes eight hundred journalists seventy two

questions and one man to answer them. question president meeting with hundreds of how this first major press conference on wednesday giving many a chance to voice their questions but while some are serious what would you say is there a chance to give to each of our actions well deserved accommodations and sound more light hearted. i know that your wife has to parking lots and i've never had to park my own car so maybe i could borrow one used educationally. it was the question of a possible second turn that everyone including the president expected the most extreme year i do those ideals the decision over the presidential race is not made in this kind of format it should be made when the situation is right as well have a greater political impact and i will follow this principle of service i want to make a statement i will make it to you to make you free in this trio whether current president

made a video for former president clinton will run for office in twenty twelve has become moscow's most debated topic according to me david if the two men share a lot of views but also have their differences lesser clashing is my aim my relationship with my colleague and political partner putin is not just something that people call a tandem and actually we've been working together for over twenty years and we know each other well we think alike and all views on key issues in our country's development are very close but this doesn't mean we always think the same way we have different views on modernization and i think this process can be much faster because it will having sidestepped the most intriguing topic related still took time to focus on major domestic and international issues and archie's question about syria come to him to make a very strong statement he said a super serious ignore the support. lucian's on syria frankly speaking they were

disregarded by the actions that some states took even though initially russia supported the first resolution and didn't veto the second what happened afterwards demonstrated that these kinds of resolutions can be manipulated this is deplorable because it undermines the all thirty of the u.n. but believe it shows according to some a growing unease with decisions made concerning the middle east its commitment have appeared somewhat to regret russia's support of the resolution on libya was quite strong in saying that. the actions are currently going beyond what he thought he was voting for. so i think internationally people take note of that because it will signify russia's increasing our knees i think about what's going on in libya and more broadly in the middle east but i didn't detect a sense from mr inventive that the security council wasn't the proper forum in which these things should be discussed with a lot of regional journalists present many questions focused on domestic matters

but one subject of great interest to the media both in russia and abroad is the imprisonment of former oil tycoon i hear a secret of course that he is released who he did danger to society that was assured that question and the old some of the public will ensure that no absolutely not the president using other rank likely to influence could there be sentence i don't think it means he is going to be released and after all it's not the president who put him in jail and i don't think it will be politically easy for midriff to. parole. although he has such a possibility according to war you know these sort of things happens very rarely in any country including russia so i think basically what mediator wanted to say is that he doesn't dispute the decisions of the court but he doesn't consider this person that they knew. as the press conference came to close reporters repeated its

success after nearly two and a half hours with a meditative bade the press farewell and headed back to the kremlin but the question that remains unanswered is will the stay there after trying to. capture it as our team lost out. but i caught up with me press secretary straight off to the conference to look over explain why the president is taking his time to answer the question on everyone's lips. before you mention the program. but meanwhile still to come this hour iceland is spewing ash again. hundreds must start to vote again awake some of these of saddam's rising smoke is starting fears of another crisis. the georgian opposition is calling for another day of protest against the country's president on saturday thousands rallied in the capital tbilisi calling for nicolas really to step down immediately

demonstrators claim they've been robbed of their freedoms so that's what his presence at the top was the whole region at risk earlier reports claimed open the television center but a crowd tried to storm the building from london that's a coverage of the protests going to organization thirteen people were injured and several detained as police raided one of the offices of the night branch the government rallies have been a part of the suppressed unfortunate several times in recent years. queen elizabeth the second the visits are in this week and it tends to rekindle ties between london and dublin as it came amid well isn't tied to nationalism in scotland were in peace or even considering parting ways with the u.k. or reports from edinburgh. starting pistol sounds in the race for independence for scotland the scottish national party now has a surprise majority in parliament and their hell bent on

a referendum on breaking away from the u.k. gain control of a resource responsibility for the problems with the center of country and to be able to stand up and speak to the issues that matter to us. charge at home and making sure that we have a voice abroad revenues from oil and gas in the north sea worth an estimated twenty one billion dollars to the u.k. treasury every year scotland says the reserves are in their waters it's hard to imagine the u.k. would let the oilfields go without a fight particularly as westminster wouldn't be legally obliged to honor a yes vote of the scottish people the union jacks days flying outside the scottish parliament could be numbers scotland's ditching the united kingdom would mean the u.k. treasury lost pile you will oil and gas revenues and it could be the inspiration for historically less peaceful independence movements in europe like the basques

and the northern irish to follow suit and further destabilize an already weak you the s.n.p. would support other european movements in their own struggles for independence including wales and northern ireland if they so choose it's for the people of those countries to say what we want to do we would never support violence in any shape or form clearly if other countries wish to pursue an agenda then the deal of sympathy . and even those who don't want the u.k. to break up say it's a sense of wanting to reclaim individual nationhood striping the movement system argument. richard it's all about whether you feel as i do that we are scottish and british if we want to be part of a union which i think it serves. through for. years the s.n.p. still has work to do it wants to break away even the most optimistic polls show

only around forty percent. yes and on the streets of edinburgh people boil in the street and say. is that my world this week got. it generally not. to other people. and as much as. it is over the future or how often or in short we have action that. would be pretty not at all. what i could boot. the s.n.p. has time to bring the onshore ground it's putting off a referendum until the second half of its government it would be the beginning of a new era for scotland which has been independent since seventy seven but it's always retain just strong and distinct national identity something the s.n.p.

will be playing on mike's newer and its policy. now the british military operation in iraq sending off to more than eight years the last group of navy training staff are pulling out on sunday u.k. joining me here since rachel brought two thousand and three on the pretext of destroying saddam hussein's weapons of mass destruction what it down for how many the war faster favor with. u.k. forces withdrew two years after losing in cincinnati that's. contributory. campaigning about the little legacy. why now why so suddenly with only four days' notice prior to that was true well the answer is simple the growing dissatisfaction of british people with the british involvement in the british

government felt it needed to do something very quickly so it ticked off one of the boxes iraq done but the most important questions that come to mind will base withdrawal from iraq is what has been achieved and most of what iraq might have become the country that you came wanted to see but isn't the country that iraqi people want to leave and constant violence and stable government poverty and unemployment people suffering from the rise diseases caused by the use of depleted to run you in the border it's together with it was drawn from iraq u.k. has decided to decrease its mission in afghanistan by four hundred soldiers they will be coming home over the course of this year but there are thousands of others around the world as british m.p. paul feeling rightly put it in the chambres last week the government should ask themselves who will be the last soldier border to die for

a mistake. or it's not news that we're covering for you today suicide attackers have stormed the government building in afghanistan these two of the capital kabul the host provinces army commander says there are at least four armed men the holed up in the traffic compound afghan forces have surrounded the building not launching a full assault for fear of detonating its arkan's suicide vest. suicide bombing killed six people in the prince's six. hospital in kabul. syrian security forces are dead at least eleven of the central city during the last funeral i think of the protesters. some interest from the crackdown that's been turned a little prayer. an assistant stalemate between the present regime and its opponents most of the international media has been banned from the country since the uprising began three months ago making it impossible to independently verify it's not just

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