the latest news on the week's top stories and the soaring unemployment and austerity measures spot nationwide protests and spraying the country next in line for a bailout say. legal process against the now former head of the international puts even more stress. heavily on your own expense can't. trust the russian president to visit away from confirming a reelection bid in principle during an unprecedented reception hundreds of journalists.

you're watching artie's weeklies would be welcome to the program but first angry anti government demonstrations are sweeping spain off the authorities lost the battle for impose a ban on public protests the countries are voting in the region elections today we're doing social it's expected to suffer major losses for tens of thousands of people the central worth of the songs square trade center the process of sprung up in other cities as a country struggles to overcome the recession do with record high unemployment. etc first reports that it's coming economy spain next night rescue me out. that's greece. and now portugal as the u.a.e. things bailout. there are now serious concerns that spain could be next. topple

protesters throughout europe clamoring to oppose even more taxpayers' money being plowed into rescuing others was. think again. that this was going to. i don't think that my break about it probably was forty three percent of under twenty five thousand but i didn't like the whole labor market was that i was i think that this is going to be. this is. where the women we were losing when we were millions and if the year is things problems weren't enough there is now talk of greece defaulting on its loans even potentially executing the year altogether and portugal's recent bailout is reported to be worth around seventy eight billion years but spain is the euro zone's fourth

largest economy the different challenge altogether if it fails. if the situation happened the markets would not manage it buying out of spain's debt is the most catastrophic scenario for the e.u. what will the e.u. do i think and many a start 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. big question now is just how much longer can the year is a continued bankrolling there is going bust as the spiraling debt crisis continues to escalate there is a ministers are struggling to maintain a united front. for financial survival for such countries a spain would seriously injure the euro it could lead to the use of two currencies owns in europe a strong group of countries using the euro and the rest not using it. thinking take the play down speculation. her. problems in.

ireland and now portugal possibly becoming the next i think likely to remain very real and like you can i guess the reality is. that it. would. you politicians may have been blackmailed by the financial community into giving bailouts to save the banks from collapsing that's according to economic analyst michael ross we are living in a so-called capitalism but this is ridiculous because the competition doesn't work anymore everything and everyone every country is being bailed out so we have something like a bank socialism because they're told us tell us i don't it there's no other choice if we let greece bankrupt or 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 you not only in germany specially also in france the banks are full of there and some people already say that maybe the politicians have been blackmailed by the financial community in order to give the money of the taxpayer to make the banks. or the former head of the international monetary fund has been released on bail placed under house arrest in new york strauss kahn was detained just as he was preparing for a meeting on the plight of greece and portugal as economies and reports his arrest is through talks on solving european debt crisis into disarray. no straws cold no euro that's what blame 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 when you got to understand that. belief that the euro could and should be saved in the face of north steel resistance from richer states stross called lift this week's bailouts of crippled portugal germany and france insist on oil and raises its low corporation tax t.s.k. as he's known was the man all doing it's what is saving your rich economy allegations are going to be. of the i.m.f. as an institution. is definitely going to be missed. stross call even persuaded greece's leader to stick with strict spending cuts despite royals on the streets but he. says some of the new heads of state governments are made it made a difference he has good days for example to the greek prime minister so on

thursday greece asked for more loans on better terms but no heavyweights europhile d s k has gone few back another bailout. of greece 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 the reward it wants is an asian chief who's 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 than that sharia that was for instance as a bankruptcy of lehman in two thousand and eight with e.u. economies that death's door to teen warns that toppling the world's leading banker comes at the worst possible time this is not just the end of a career dominique first car was instrumental in risking the euro zone's most troubled states is a risk to seem to threaten the end of the euro itself and a bushel r.t. paris. on the way targeting the top find out why these georgia say they weren't stopped demonstrating until the president steps to help. us we report on why the days of the union flag in scotland could soon be numbered. to egypt where christians have been colored in several attacks by whistling radicals since president hosni mubarak was forced from power

a popular uprising which overturned the regime and for every it's left the religious minority feeling increasingly insecure. from washington that some of the victims of that are we are square revolution. president mubarak is gone but there is little satisfaction in duty to free egypt. previously unified on to his square through a common enemy and barak's resignation so egypt and muslims and christians turn on each other. every wants justice we want equal rights. in institutions in businesses police and army in politics. for centuries the coptic christian minority has felt discriminated in a country dominated by eighteen million muslims a revolutionary euphoria has brought a desire for change. people have to such freedom and they like it now we are kind of fed up of the situation the. 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 syrian religious tension boil over. how we know when barak was a dictator maybe he was corrupt but at least we have been able to sleep and our children were lies. we never saw that before we couldn't have even imagine something like this happening yes from this point of view i miss the old regime. are his glorified e.g. revolution in london the muslim brotherhood went on the mubarak jade's the country's only well organized political group with the president gone they moved from jail cells. in central cairo the revolution given them

a long awaited voice that. the radicals are triggering their 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 elections congress. in batteries cairo's poorest district is home to millions of people surviving on just a couple of thoughts a day probably in the pre-revolution egypt's immune system has been a weekend 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. and whether egypt can ever recover. original. cairo. but meanwhile in libya nato has reportedly hit the capital's main port in the market off its residents and on sunday tripoli officials claim the

bombings have triggered a humanitarian crisis thank you as international forces of violating when they fly zone resonation civilian lives at risk but i'm tempted to go shake peace and voice of the met with the russian foreign minister. sergei lavrov for tripoli is ready to halt fighting only if the opposition raised its arms and later starts its air raids representatives of the libyan rebels are expected for talks in the russian capital on monday. perhaps the university of kent in the u.k. . told r.t. the pressure from moscow could be key to finding a diplomatic solution. we haven't really seen enough evidence that the gadhafi regime is prepared to lay down its weapons and stop its own campaign and of course it's very difficult with claims and counterclaims but for the moment i think to get out lacks any credibility no one in the regime. at the moment i think can be trusted and in that sense it's very hard to see how this can come about with more

pressure from countries like russia on because there are things will be able to move in that direction but i would have thought that the rebels will want to visit moscow in order to increase their own international legitimacy of course we know that the rebels have been seeking diplomatic recognition from around the world but getting recognition from from the west from countries like france and others won't be enough they know they need the support of the security council permanent members like like russia and ultimately also china as i would have thought there have a strong interest in visiting moscow meeting with the russian foreign minister. now will he stand that's the question about next year's presidential elections in russia it still remains unanswered despite a two hour long press conference with me trying to get the president spoke to journalists and he's not askew a session since taking office in two thousand and eight or to his country over reports on the issues discussed. that's one hundred thirty seven minutes eight

hundred journalists seventy two questions and one man to answer and the president imitated how this first major press conference on wednesday getting many a chance to voice their questions but while some are serious which is is there a chance to give to each of our veterans well deserved accommodations and sound more like hearted. i know all of that your wife has to parking lots of nora to park my own car so maybe i could borrow one because that is when she actually. it was the question of a possible second term that everyone including the president expected the most extreme year i do those with the decision over the presidential race is not made in this kind of format it should be made when the situation is right is will have a greater political impact and i will follow this principle observe i want to make a statement i will make it easy to pick a few in this tree of whether current president ridge or for former president

clinton will run for office in twenty twelve has become moscow's most evaded topic according to a minute if the two men share a lot of views but also have their differences letter pushing yes my name my relationship with my colleague and political part of the timea putin is north is 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 our 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 getting sidestepped the most intriguing topic when it it still took time to focus on major domestic and international issues and archie's question about syria competent to make a very strong statement i said is it a serious yes i will not 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 un it shows according to some a growing unease with decisions made concerning the middle east is committed 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 unease 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 journalists present many questions focused on domestic matters

but one subject of great interest in egypt both in russia and abroad is the imprisonment of former oil take their course he is released who he did in georgia society that was assured that was true and the only to the people who ensured no absolutely not the president you saw other i'm likely to influence who gets a 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 me if to. parole or course keep although he has such a possibility according to war but you know these sort of things happened very rarely in any country in korean version so i think basically award 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 going to close reporters debated it success after

nearly two and a half hours meeting in the days of break the press there and headed back to the kremlin but the question that remains unanswered is will he stay there after twenty twelve cashiers are artsy moscow. caught up with a major regret as press secretary straight out of the conference that's how you took over playing the why the presidency is taking his time to answer the question on everyone's lips and sing for you next hour. to georgia where riot police are using tear gas and rubber bullets to this government demonstrators hundreds of opposition members have gathered for a second day of protest in the capital to this thing many more said on their way to join the rally well position leaders say hundreds of people have been arrested by the cycling thousands of troops have been sent home from across arkansas and to step down immediately their instructors claim they've been robbed of their freedom

so it's the civilians present subject the whole region at least one to opposition groups. and several detained by police raided one of their offices but. that is suppressed in several times in recent years. queen elizabeth the second visited the republic of ireland this week in terms of weekend or ties between london and dublin but visits came amid a rising tide of nationalism in scotland where m.p.'s are even considering parting ways with the u.k. team of the emirates reports from. its starting pistol found in the race independent scotland the scottish national party now had the surprise majority in parliament and their hell bent on a referendum on breaking away from big u.k. gain control over resources responsibility for the problems facing the country. and to be able to. 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 numbers 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 e.u. the s.n.p. would support other european movements in their own struggles for independence including wales and northern ireland if they so choose its people of those

countries to say what they want to do we would never support violence in any shape or form clearly a for the country's wish to pursue an agenda then the guilt of sympathy for losses . 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. it's not by the rupee richard it's all about whether you feel as i do that we are scottish and british we want to be part of a union which i think scotland will for three hundred years the s.n.p. still has work to do if it wants scotland break away 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 about you know not see you before school. well this week you got.

other people would. prefer. just gotten. as much as close to. zero if you. have mentioned that. they're all very. true enough. to think that it could put. the s.n.p. have trying to bring the onshore grounds it's putting off a referendum until the second half of it spite the government it would be the beginning of a new era for scotland which has been independent since no seven but it's always retained and thinks national identity something he will be playing on might know and it's policy. with more international news that we're covering for you were the sorrow six people have been killed and dozens injured in

a series of bombings across baghdad officials say at least eight explosions took place during the sunday morning rush hour last went off in the neighborhood city in the east and in the west and ones that claim is nonsense if all the attacks. ukase ritual peroration in iraq will officially come to an end later today while navy pulls out its remaining personnel. and join the u.s. invasion in two thousand and three the pretext of destroying saddam hussein's weapons of mass destruction when it turned out he never had any thought out of favor with the british public as the u.k.'s military forces withdrew two years ago and something none of its personnel died in the. suicide attackers have stormed the government building in afghanistan east of the capital kabul for this say there are at least three men armed with machine guns. in the traffic police headquarters at least three people reported to be killed afghan forces have surrounded the

building. full of sorts for fear of detonating a suicide vest on saturday a suicide bombing killed six people twenty six it's a military hospital in trouble. rice wins most active volcano has erupted after being silent for several years a large plume of smoke and ash is stretching into the air over experts say it's unlikely to cause the kind of disruption you had last year or rather the country went up a. flight that has been in the area. a gruesome story of murder dismemberments and cannibalism that gripped the russian capital this week after police arrested a man suspected of killing and eating. well things. dismembered body parts discovered around moscow the man accused of

a chilling murder that sent shivers through the russian capital manages a smile for the cameras as he's led away. well. i was cleaning the rubbish bin and the container was full so i tried to press it down. it was then i saw a box covered in plastic bags i tried to move it and saw some hands sticking out. now police are confident that they have their man the suspect is quite calm and composed he describes what he did in great detail not showing a hint of repentance or regret he says that the victim totally deserved that nicholai should been is charged with killing. a homeless man down on his luck invited the shut ins home to share a drink and most gruesome discovery the suspects claimed to have cooked and eaten the part of his victim the manager of the apartment block was present at the arrest but didn't want to be identified. i came to the door asked him to open it but he

wouldn't so we kicked it in and first he claimed he hadn't done anything then police found a liver in his refrigerator tests showed it was human after that he started telling the truth about what happened he couldn't remember half of it because he was drunk when he did it the victim he remembered was from rostov and had recently got out of jail and didn't have a home to go to invited the man to his apartment he would invite anyone who offered to buy him alcohol showed that in was already notorious in this part of western moscow residence knew of his bounce of drunken m t social behavior as well as tales of torturing a dog to death but his neighbors still can't believe something like this happened on the doorstep he was overpaid it we just can't believe this this person has lived next to us for so many years and all of a sudden he does this he's a sick person he's a schizophrenia and then it turns out he's killed and eaten someone shudder and told the arresting officers how he killed the god of fate part of his body and then

scattered his this embodied remains around the sun thrown into rubbish bins some cast in. for the river and others left out in plain sight like here in this park where you got those legs were found a registered schizophrenia shoved it in had been treated for his mental illness as well as spending time in prison his mother lives in the same apartment building told me how her son had come to her saying he had killed a man after hearing that a man's hand been discovered nearby but she didn't believe him then you've used all of you i don't believe it he did it i don't believe that he killed anyone i don't believe that he could cut someone up i don't believe that he could be this i don't believe any of that has always been different when he was at school he set himself against the whole class and all the teachers in the teachers gave him a marquee thought it was unfair next time he just wouldn't ride the tester told

mental health professionals believe the severity of his illness coupled with his alcoholism mentee should have been undergoing extensive monitoring and treatment at the time he claims to have killed and eaten his victim respectively you can't close clinics for mentally disabled people but nobody listens to the opinion of practicing doctors and in consequence we have an increased number of patients with mental disabilities an increased number of crimes committed by mentally disabled people tick this cannibal it's a vivid illustration of what i am talking about shackled to police officers and appearing to cooperate with the authorities charged being looked calm as he was led back to his flat he'll remain in custody until psychological tests determine whether he can stand trial peter all of a r.t. moscow. a recap of our main stories is coming up next stay with us here.

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