the latest news on the week's top stories are take soaring unemployment and austerity measures nationwide protests in spain the country agreement to be next in line for a bailout to save aig. legal process against the now former head of the international monetary fund but even more stress on the e.u. tried heavily on support for many strands. last the russian president's visit away from confirming a reelection bid in which during an unprecedented cubase session with hundreds of journalists.

here watching artie's we continue to feel welcome to the program but first an angry and government demonstrations sweeping spain afterthoughts is lost the battle to impose a ban on public protests countries are voting in regional elections today with the ruling socialists expected to suffer major losses but tens of thousands of people ok part of central square grid similar protests have sprung up in other cities as the country struggles to overcome the session do you record high unemployment and ses there first reports it's crumbling economy spain next tonight from rescue. that's greece then. and now portugal as the u.a.e. things play out. there are now serious concerns that spain could be the next to

topple. a testis throughout europe i can arrange to pace even more taxpayers' money being plowed into rescuing others. that if i had done that very. thing again. that this was. my breakthrough that employee was forty three percent under twenty five so that is why i didn't like the whole labor market because i was a i think that there's going to be inside this is so. overwhelming we will lose where we will be millions from here is a problems weren't enough there is now talk of greece defaulting on its loans even potentially exiting the year i gather and portugal's recent bailout is reported to be worth around seventy eight billion euro spain is the euro zone's fourth largest

economy a different challenge altogether if it fails. if the situation happened the markets would not manage it buying out of spin's debt is the most catastrophic scenario for the e.u. what will that you do i think in many experts share my opinion that the e.u. will do the utmost to avoid the scenario that any cost because spain is too big to fail. and we've got to come up you know the big question now is just how much longer can the usa continue thanks. going bust as the spiraling tech crisis continues to escalate it is a ministers are struggling to maintain a united front. for financial survival for such countries a spain would seriously in pain to the euro it could lead to the pews of two cars he zones in europe a strong group of countries using the euro and the rest not using it. thank you.

thank. god. i live in now portugal possibly. think i keep it. real and write your kid like. that. you politicians may have been blackmailed by the financial community giving bailouts to save the banks from collapsing so clinton economic analyst michael ross we are living in a so-called capitalism well this is ridiculous because the capitalism doesn't work anymore everything and everyone every country is being bailed out so we have something. because. there is no other choice if we let greece portugal bankrupt and in

a capitalistic system this is normally a normal procedure the banks will suffer and the banks will go bankrupt and as a matter of fact here in germany and not only in germany for specially also in france the vents are full of it and some people although you say that maybe the politicians have been mailed by the financial community in order to give the money off the taxpayer to make the banks of life well the former head of the international monetary fund has been released on bail but placed under house arrest in new york comic strauss kahn was detained just as he was preparing for a meeting on the plight of greece and portugal as economies and as artie's done a bushel reports is the rest through the talks on solving european debt crisis into disarray. no euro that's what pain because a whispering off the 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 we've got to understand that. belief that the euro could and should be saved in the face of nourse the resistance from richer states stross called lift this week's bailout of crippled portugal germany and france insist on oil and raises its lower corporation tax p.s.k. as he's known as the man all doing is what is saving your issue calling me think these allegations are going to be. of the i.m.f. as an institution. is definitely going to be missed. stross call and even persuaded greece's leader to stick with strict spending cuts despite royals on the streets here. some of you had stated governments made a difference he has called for example to the greek prime minister so on thursday

greece asked for more loans on better terms but now heavyweights europhile d s k has gone few back and not a bailout. should leave the euro zone that has put under strain the euro joiner is one of the i.m.f. top bikers contributing tens of billions of euro ruled it wants is an asian chief who is not likely to be used during friendly strolls he has been very personally very important in getting the i.m.f. involved and assisting in designing these bailout packages but also coaxing and encouraging politicians to do the reforms necessary now you may not get the equivalent of person with the same kind of convictions coming from the emerging markets. when one of the world's biggest investment banks fell three years ago it triggered a global recession we're still reeling from today but it's still the driving the

euro to extinction will only make matters worse the consequences probably would be higher and much oil that was for instance as a bankruptcy of lehman in two thousand and eight with e.u. economies that death's door is the team goals that toppling the world's leading banker comes at the worst possible time this is not just the end of a career domenic first call was instrumental in rescuing the eurozone as most troubled states is a risk does seem to threaten the end of the euro itself. see paris. on the way targeting the top man find out why he's georgian say they won't stop demonstrating to lead president steps down. plus we report on why the days of the union flag in scotland could soon be numbered. to egypt now where christians have been targeted in several attacks by muslim

radicals since president hosni mubarak was forced from power the popular uprising which overturned the regime in february has left the religious minority feeling increasingly secure. with the notion that some of the victims of the square revolution. president mubarak but there is little satisfaction indicating three egypt. previously unified on daschle to square three common enemy barak's resignation so egyptian muslims and christians turn on each other. we want justice we want equal rights. in institutions in business and police and army and politics and for centuries the coptic christian minority has felt discriminated in a country dominated by eighteen million. in muslims the revolutionary euphoria has brought a desire for change. people have to sit through them and they like it now we're

kind of fed up with the situation. tensions in the past month have left dozens killed schools 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 a northern flashpoint as years of simmering religious tension boil over. how we know mubarak 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 miss the old regime and many others glorified it jean you're a revolution in london the muslim brotherhood and 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 given them a long awaited voice at. the radicals are triggering it in terms of the people they saw the revolution united people and they want to ruin that don't want to see egypt strong and independent but i'm sure they will disappear after the parliamentary elections congress. in batteries pyros poorest district is home to millions of people surviving on just a couple of dollars a day following the fear revolution in egypt the music scene has been weakened dramatically economy is in critical condition the army is ruling the country when this happens the symptoms strike the most vulnerable first and the question now is just how far the damage might spread and whether egypt can ever. because our. original shot team cairo. neymar and libya nato has reportedly hit the capital's main ports and the market offers residence early on sunday tripoli officials claim

two months of bombings have triggered a humanitarian crisis the government has accused international forces are operating in the way i don't think i would say this election putting civilians at risk becomes off the war crimes court announced its seeking to arrest in the bin the there. pending journalist james coburn says the case sets a dangerous precedent because international prosecutors don't have any evidence some of these crimes. would be easy to dismiss the international criminal courts appeal for aid an arrest warrant for his crimes against humanity as that is something of a farce especially considering that the international criminal court's prosecutor's office now admits that not a single member of that office actually bothered to step foot in libya to investigate these crimes against humanity with which he was charged but i think this is actually something very troubling precedent in the realm of international jurisprudence where we see the idea that for all intents and purposes nato geopolitical foreign policy can now be justified through juridical action in this

international criminal court simply by fiat decreed and so the ludicrous nature of the entire operation is exposed and i'm asked for all to see in that here is a humanitarian intervention that is now literally going to be bombing and infrastructure for the libyan people on the basis of a humanitarian intervention it's supposed to help the populace again it makes no sense on its face unless it's understood that this is simply an attempt to change and it is now being supposedly justified through this very troubling president of an international criminal court being able to dictate what happens within the boundaries of a sovereign country so again i think we'll see this president do this as a way of basically allowing people to treatment needle hegemonic interests to dictate their foreign policy through that score. will he stand or won't he that's the question about next year's presidential election in russia it still remains unanswered despite a two hour long press conference and internet that it presents photojournalists in

his analysis q. and a session since taking office in two thousand and eight but he's co-chairs of the reports on the issues discussed. at one hundred thirty seven minutes eight hundred journalists seventy two questions and one man to answer and no question president immediately did how this first major press conference on wednesday getting 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 accommodation and sound more light hearted. i know that your wife is to parking lots and i've no right to park my own car so maybe i could borrow one of these that is wishing nothing but. it was the question of a possible second term that everyone including the president expected the most at issue in year goes with the decision over the presidential race is not made in this kind of format and should be made when the situation is right this will have a greater political impact and i will follow this principle so if i want to make

a statement i will make it a typical. in this trio by their current president leader 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. gnashing yes my name my relationship with my colleague and political part of got to be put in is not just something the people call a tandem and actually we have been working together for over twenty years and we know each other well we think alike and your 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 i think this process could be much faster because it was having sidestepped the most intriguing topic related still took time to focus on major domestic and international issues and archie's question about

syria conduct him to make a very strong statement he said a super serious yet i will not support resolutions on syria frankly speaking they would 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 it shows according to some a growing unease with decisions made concerning the middle east commitment ever paid somewhat to regret russia's support of the resolution on libya was quite strong in saying that. the actions. and 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 medvedev that the security council wasn't the proper forum in which

these things should be discussed with a lot of regional journalist. 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. he could of course if he is released who he'd be a danger to society was assured question and the olds who couldn't shoot and salute you not the presidents you saw other times likely to influence how difficult the sentence i don't think it means he's 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 me to be a. 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 a ward mediator wanted to say is that he doesn't dispute the decisions of the court

but he doesn't consider this person a danger is the press conference came to a close reporters impeded its success after nearly two and a half hours meeting in a bit of break the press farewell and headed back to the kremlin but the question that remains unanswered is will he stay there after trying to. catch our moscow. r.t. caught up with me to maybe press secretary straight after the conference the tire team a covert explained why the president is taking his time to answer the question on everyone's lips have an interview for you later in the program. to georgia now where riot police are using tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse and government demonstrators around one hundred opposition members have gathered for a second day of protest in the capital tbilisi and many more are said to be on their way to join the rally was initially the site of the people have been arrested by the forces on saturday and thousands marched from tbilisi calling for the cause

cycles for me to step down immediately the status of their. freedoms the same circles for his presence of the top of the holy bris. position groups of thirteen people were injured and several detained as police raided by their offices in the great anti-government rallies have been violently suppressed in georgia several times. something komisar iceland is spewing ash the world's eyes are on the trees most active volcano but hurling fumes of smoke into the sky after years of silence. queen elizabeth the second visit to ireland this week an attempt to rekindle ties between london and dublin music came amid a rising tide of nationalism in scotland were m.p.'s are even considering parting ways in the u.k. . starting pistol sounds in the race for

independence for scotland the scottish national party now has the surprise majority in parliament and their hell bent on a referendum on breaking away from the u.k. gained control over a resource responsibility for the problems with the center of the country and we'll 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 are 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 numbered scotland's ditching the united kingdom would mean the u.k. treasury lost valuable 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. the s.n.p. supports 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 they'll get a great deal of sympathy from others and even those who don't want the u.k. to break up say it's a sense of wanting to reclaim individual nationhood that striping the movement in argument. it's not going to rip you richard it's all about whether you feel as i do that we are scottish and british if you want to be and remain part of a union which i think will serve scotland well for over three hundred years the s.n.p. still has work to do if it wants scotland to pray her way even the most optimistic

polls show only around forty percent of scots would vote yes and on the streets of edinburgh people are divided the oil industry and say we'll get. all the oil because they don't want this we've got money generally not. the day to other people well the school itself. was a scrub and. oh if you. have action that. would be pretty at all very. little you know enough about it to. think for could boot. the s.n.p. has time to bring the on shore ground it's putting off a referendum until the second half of it spidy a government it would be the beginning of a new era for scotland which has been independent since seventeen zero seven but

it's always retain just strong and distinct national identity something the s.n.p. will be playing on my door and its policy. with british military operation iraq is ending or eight years the last group of wrong navy training staff are pulling out on sunday you can join the us invasion of iraq in two thousand and three on the pretext of the strong saddam hussein's weapons of mass destruction and it turned out he never had any war but out of favor with only runs to be ok with forces withdrew two years ago want to lose an engine something none of us personnel to the war. contributor to better so as to produce campaign in iraq that's a record see. why now why so suddenly with only four days' notice prior to the withdrawal 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 with this was drawn from iraq is what has been achieved and was it worth iraq might have become the country that u.k. wanted to see what is a country that iraqi people want to live in constant violence and stable government poverty and unemployment people suffering from the rise diseases caused by the use of depleted uranium in the border us together with there was draw from iraq u.k. has decided to decrease its mission in afghanistan by four hundred soldiers they will be coming home through the course of this year but there are thousands of others around the world as british m.p. paul fleeing rightly put it in the chambres last week the government should ask themselves who will be the last soldier they will order to die for

a mistake. way to national news we're covering for you today suicide attacks have stormed the government building your gun it's north east of the capital kabul and they say there are at least three men armed with machine guns holed up in the traffic police headquarters at least three people reported killed afghan forces are surrounded the building and want the launching of from a sort of fear of detonating a suicide vests from such a suicide bombing that killed six people and wounded twenty six richard hospital because of the. syrian security forces have shot dead at least eleven people during a mass fear of anti-government protesters killed there even if we risk the crackdown is going to political paralysis and it's the only sweet president assad's regime it's under oath to the international media. since the uprising began to consider

making it impossible to verify the rights of its brothers officials. to landslides hit in a relation of killed sixteen people all but one of the children a tragedy happens just south of the capital one of the. other people were pulled from up to four meters of sludge a landslide struck just some of the children finish their lunch break very heavy rainfall. and. chrysler's most active volcano erupted after being silent for seven is a large plume of smoke and ash is stretching into the air over experts states are rushing to cause the kind of widespread destruction witnessed throughout europe last year when another country's volcanoes went out of this flight and has been imposed in the area. you can check out our website at r.t. dot com for more stories from the bottom of the earth to the stars firstly the

ferrari worlds and our to sean thomas experiences and i feel much as antarctic base . brands of the past and the future of space exploration from driving a former on trump one hundred years ago for latest tricky tasks and all that kind of that article. headlines are coming up next i do stay with us here on alt.

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