latest news on the week's top stories on r.t. soaring unemployment and also. nationwide protests in spain the country next in line to say the ailing bureau. process against the now former head of its national interest but even more stress on the game which relied heavily on sports stars. of the russian president is away from confirming a reelection bid project well president of. hundreds of journalists.

watching all of his weekly news but first angry anti government demonstrations are sweeping spain after the third season lost the battle to impose a ban on public protests the countries are voting in regional elections today the ruling socialists expected to suffer a major losses tens of thousands of people occupy the central west of the songs through some protests have sprung up in other cities as a country struggles to overcome the recession and deal with record high unemployment his own self-worth reports its crumbling economy spain could be next in line for an e.u. rescue bailout. there's greece. and now portugal as the u.a.e. things bailout. there are now serious concerns that spain could be the next to

topple protests throughout europe i can arrange to a case even more tax. is money being plowed into rescuing others was very. thing again that in that the government getting i don't think i might write about it probably my worst forty three percent in under twenty five is that it was i didn't like the whole labor market was i was a i think that there is going to be inside this is only. the women we will listen we will be millions and if the usa is problems weren't enough there is now talk of greece defaulting on its loans even potentially exiting the year together and portugal's recent bailout is reported to be worth around seventy eight billion years but spain is the euro saint paul's largest economy the

different challenge altogether if it fails. if the situation happens in the markets we're not management buying out of speed's debt is the most catastrophic scenario for the e.u. what will the e.u. 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. then you've got to. the big question now is just how much longer can the usa continue bankrolling going bust as a spiraling debt crisis continues to escalate as a ministers are struggling to maintain a united front. for financial survival for such countries or spain would seriously injure the euro it could lead to the abuse of two currencies owns in europe a strong group of countries using the euro and the rest not using it. think in ten

years to pay down speculation that it would be the next time seats are her parents out of this province continuing great on. now portugal possibly. think i keep it. real. right. and the reality. is. that. you politicians may have been blackmailed by a financial community it's a good thing bailouts to save the banks from collapsing so clinton on economists michael ross we are living in a so-called capitalism but 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. i don't it is no other choice if we let greece 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 and not only in germany specially also in france the vents are full of fear and some people all you 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 survive now the former head of the international monetary fund has been released on bail placed under house arrest in new york during strauss kahn was detained just as he was preparing for a meeting on the plight of greece and portugal and colonies. daniel bushell reports as a rest through talks on resolving the european debt crisis and to disarray. no struggles cause no euro that's what bankers a whispering of the police charge 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 there were you got to understand that. belief that the euro could and should be saved in the face of north steel resistance from richest states stross kong live this week out of portugal germany and france insist orland raises its low corporation tax k. as he's known was the man arguing it's what is saving euro she called to me these allegations are going to be. for. the i.m.f. as an institution. is definitely going to be missed. strobes call and even persuaded greece's leader to stick with strict spending cuts despite royals on the streets here as a card to some of you heads of state in government so that made it made

a difference yes good context for example to the greek prime minister so on thursday greece asked for more loans on better terms but no heavyweights europhiles p.s.k. has gone few back another bailout. arguing that greece should leave the euro zone that has put under strain the euro china is one of the imus top backers contributing tens of billions of euros the reward it wants is an asian chief who is not likely to be used friendly strolls he has been very personally very important in getting the i.m.f. involved and assisting in designing the bailout packages but also coaxing and encouraging politicians to do the reforms necessary now you may not get the equivalent behind a person with the same kind of convictions coming from the emerging. 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. that's worse for instance as the bankruptcy of lehman in two thousand and eight with e.u. economies are there it's cool there's a team that top billing the world's leading banker comes at the worst possible time this is not just the end of a career dominant force was instrumental in rescuing the eurozone most troubled states is a risk does seem to threaten the end of the euro itself i know bushell r.t. paris. now the british military operation in iraq is ending after more than eight years the last group of royal navy training stuff pulling out on sunday let's talk more about this we're joined live by you from the u.k. by british m.p. paul flynn thank you for joining us today here in r.t. so one hundred seventy nine british lives lost ten billion pounds spent was the war

in iraq really worth it. no no it wasn't no celebrations here there were no parades or marches or flags out to mark the end of the war i mean sadly it's been eight years as you say one hundred seventy nine british dead and all we see through achieved one rotten government with another rotten government the little question the telling we've seen was a monster and the world is a better place without him but the replacement maliki is in all kinds of trouble at the moment and it appears that the big the whole of the country is falling into another morass corruption abuse and he's find it very difficult to control the system. there's a sense in britain. that it was the wrong war that we went into the inquiry hasn't reported yet it is these called boarding because when the war was decided. british parliament there were over two hundred m.p.'s voted against which

is one hurdle we very rarely go to war without the full hearted consent of the british people and in this case there were great reservations that we were committing our soldiers to a battle to see their lives destroyed in the service of a foreign country it was bush's war written needn't have had a part in it at all but the final tally of eight years one hundred seventy nine days without any great achievements is one would mark one of the woods moments in our history now of course no weapons of mass destruction were ever found in iraq which was one of the really getting it. should british officials be held to account somehow for invading on somewhat hollow grounds. i think it's got to come because our i was an m.p. there the time we were under great pressure to vote for war we were told all will

be a general election you might lose your seat and the attempt was made to rile you was to pull years to bamboozle us into taking a decision that would hold all of us if we take the wrong one for the rest of our lives it was probably the most important decision that i will take it my parliamentary career and i'm happy i took the right decision i voted against that war but there were others who were persuaded to do it vote the other way and it was on the basis of an untruth a lie now we haven't had the report of the inquiry into it you to be out soon but all the evidence is saying it was an attempt made to deceive or deliberately deceive the british people and to deceive. decided and agreed with bush that he delivered britain into the war with the evidence wasn't so it was manufactured it was created simply bits of evidence were exaggerated and starmap basis we send one

hundred seventy nine british citizens to die in a war that was invading and i believe that will be the decision of history and britain has to come to terms with that and i believe the reputation of those who are responsible for perpetrating that ally would be gravely damaged when the full information is available you know why this does this really make any difference to british interventionism in general that given the ongoing backdrop of the bombing of libya and boots on the ground in afghanistan you know. i think up to the point of going into iraq for the second war british intervention had a pretty good history we went into sierra leone we went into work and and bosnia. those were soft power interventions the produce good results where the use of british military professionalism was successful we

went into afghanistan that would be sensible to go in there in two thousand and one it was disaster to go into helmand province in two thousand and six there were only two british soldiers have died in afghanistan in the first five years we were going into helmand the death rate went up to three hundred and fifty six there must be an inquiry into that but it's left us with a legacy that says that we will be very reluctant to use military power again we're very reluctant to go into libya and so very limited. commitment to libya has been we ground troops indeed but i believe that the country has lost its confidence in military intervention but some of those interventions can be beneficial but unfortunately the legacy the record of iraq and helmand province means that it be very difficult to use military intervention beneficially when situations arise in the future yes you mention libya their critics say that france's decision to live

in paris is well trying to reassert itself as a key power player could the same be said for the u.k. despite no boots on the ground as yet as you say. no the decision was influenced by one factor only and the reason it was supported in the house of commons is because on the monday were little kids taken there were threat was there from gadaffi that he was going into benghazi and he was going from house to house to move his enemies you had an army against a defenseless civilian population and the decision was taken to stop the slaughter of bengal's in the massacre of innocent people there that was the only reason it went through no they're not it will be other we gender's that we could be. suggest other countries but certainly as far as united was concerned going into libya was for humanitarian reasons ok we'll have to leave it there for now live from cardiff

was a british m.p. paul thank you for that. thank you. for the way targeting the top man find out why these georgians say they won't stop demonstrating till the president steps down. sectarian violence has been keeping egyptian capital on eggs ever since the popular uprising toppled hosni mubarak's regime christians have targeted several attacks by whistling radicals but dozens dead at a number of churches birds in the starting is going to turning out many egyptians are disappointed with the changes that are. what so far. president mubarak is gone but there is little satisfaction indicate a free egypt was. seriously unified on square three become an enemy barracks resignation so we gyptian muslims and christians under their. bed we want

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 the revolutionary euphoria as broad a desire for change that people have this of freedom and they like it now we are kind of fed up of the situation. tensions in the past month have left dozens killed scores injured and several churches burned as 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 so how we know mubarak was a dictator maybe he was corrupt but at least some 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 glorify the january revolution among them the muslim brotherhood banned under mubarak the days the country's only well organized political group with the president gone they moved from jail cells to this luxury building in central cairo the revolution given them a long awaited voice the. radicals are triggering the transitions they saw how the revolution united people and they want to ruin the. i don't want to see egypt strong and independent but i'm sure the rules disappear after the parliamentary elections. in bab rose poorest district is home to millions of people surviving on just a couple of dollars a day following the revolution egypt's immune system has been weakened dramatically

economies in critical condition and his role in the country when this happens the symptoms strike the most vulnerable first and the question now is just. by and whether egypt can ever recover. rich notion of. cairo. nato has reported the capital's main portal his residence only on sunday could be officials claim weeks of bombings of the humanitarian crisis has accused international forces of. resolution civilians at risk. of journalist tony goes. 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 but they want to have a sure shot war and what if it happens it turns into

a long protracted. war where actually who doesn't want out of this the military industrial complex these massive military companies who are supplying all this weaponry to nato 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. we're going to press the question about next year's presidential election in russia still remains unanswered despite

a two hour long press conference with the major advantage presence of journalists in his largest q. and a session since taking office in two thousand and eight. reports on the issues discussed. that's one hundred thirty seven minutes eight hundred journalists seventy two questions and one man to answer them. question president meet him and he did 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 actions well deserved accommodations and sound more light hearted. i know what your wife has to parking lots are marginal right to park my own car so maybe i could borrow one of these the dissolution question what if. it was the question of a possible second term 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 this will have a greater political impact and i will follow this principle of service i want to make a statement i will make it public. industry of whether current president madrid or for former president clinton will run for office and twenty twelve has become moscow's most debated topic according to a minute if the two men share a lot of views but also have their differences. yes my aim my relationship with my colleague and political partner putin is not just something that people call a tandem 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 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 than 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 a super serious yet i will not support resolutions 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. as it shows according to some a growing unease with decisions made concerning the middle east this comment that have appeared somewhat to regret russia's support of the resolution on libya was quite strong in saying that. the actions are going beyond what he thought he was voting for. so i think internationally people take note of that because it will signify russia's increasingly uneasy 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 to the media both in russia and abroad is the imprisonment of former oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky he could of course if he is released who he did danger to society that was a short question and the own through the be equally sure that no absolutely not the president you saw over i'm likely to influence him because 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 to be of two to parole for their course although he has such a possibility according to war but you know these sort of things happens very

rarely in any country including russia so i think basically the award mediator wanted to say is that he doesn't dispute the decisions of the court much he doesn't consider this person a danger because the press conference came to close reporters depleted its success after nearly two and a half hours with him in the debate the first farewell and headed to the kremlin but the question that remains unanswered is will the stay there after twenty twelve . moscow. but he caught up with the major negative press secretary straight out of the conference that's how you took over explain why the president is taking his time to answer the question on everyone's lips that would happen to me for you later in the program. to georgia now where riot police have used tear gas and rubber bullets to this anti government demonstrators hundreds of opposition members over gathered for a second day of protests in the capital tbilisi many more are said to be on their

way to join the rally. interests and friends of people who've been arrested by the forces on saturday thousands marched through to be supported ready to step down immediately the street is claiming they will do the freedom and say circus really is presence at the top it's the whole region that this would be opposition groups thirteen people were injured and several detained as police raided one of their officers and it's actually government rallies have been violently suppressed in georgia several times in recent years. most or internationally as we're covering for you this hour. thirteen people have been killed dozens injured in a series of bombings across that officials say at least eight explosions took place during the sunday morning rush last went off in the neighborhoods of so this city in the eastern there in the west there and yet claims possibility for the attacks. syrian security forces have shot at least eleven people in less than two government

protesters killed earlier today some analysts brutal crackdown even for political paralysis and stalemate between the president assad's regime its opponents the international media has been banned from the country since the uprising began two months ago making it impossible to independently verify this were activists get it officials. suicide attackers of storm the government building in afghanistan east of the capital kabul police 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 have surrounded the building but are not launching a full assault detonating it because suicide vests on saturday a suicide bombing killed six people twenty six of them in for months but when caught. iceland's most active volcano has erupted

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