the. news of the week's top stories on our t.v. soaring unemployment and a sturdy measure of spark nationwide protests in spain with the country rumored to be the next in line for a bailout to save the ailing hero. tear gas and rubber bullets are the reply from the georgia before they used to thousands of valley down the street are calling for president saakashvili to step down. was the russian president veers away from confirming a real action in twenty twelve the past that's a q. and a session with hundreds of journalists.

here with r.t. coming to you live from moscow thanks for joining us now angry anti-government demonstrations are sweeping spain after the authorities lost the battle to impose a ban on public protests but the country is voting in regional elections today with the ruling socialists expected to suffer a major losses tens of thousands of people have occupied the central for themselves where in madrid similar protests have sprung up in other cities as the country struggles to overcome the recession and deal with record high unemployment as r.t. sarf earth reports with its crumbling economies spain cooking next in line for a rescue bailout. there's greece then. and now portugal as the euro is things bailout go a number there are now serious concerns that spain could be the next to topple. the

protest is throughout europe a clamoring to the pace even more taxpayers' money being plowed into rescuing others was have done that on this very. thing again. that is to come that. i don't think my banks about it probably with forty three percent of under twenty five that is why i didn't like the whole labor market was a little side was that i think that this is going to be one side this is. the woman we will listen we will be millions and here is a problems weren't enough there is now talk of greece defaulting on its loans even potentially exiting the year it will gather and portugal's recent bailout is reported to be worth around seventy eight billion. that spain is the u.s.a.'s for the largest economy different challenge altogether if it fails. if the

situation happens when the markets were not managers buying out of spain stitches 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 got a computer the big question now is just how much longer can the usa continued bankrolling going bust as the spiraling debt crisis continues to escalate as a ministers are struggling to maintain a united front noid. plan for financial survival for such countries or spain seriously. it could lead to the abuse of two car seasons in europe a strong group of countries using the euro and the rest not using it. thinking take anything take us back in the face it could be the. six hundred feet off her head

out this problem is continuing great i didn't know portugal the possibility of spain becoming the next do you think the teeth of failed remains a very real threat and right now the european i do have the reality that not to be so far apart there are the good friends. and coming up ahead of the eurozone a point just further into crisis very different the possibility that some countries could decide to move you pushed onto the euro we'll find out how the rest of the i.m.f. for a cheese could lead to europe's a pastoral economies in tatters. to georgia now where riot police have used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse anti-government demonstrators thousands of opposition members are reportedly gathered for a second day of protests in the capital tbilisi opposition leaders say hundreds of people had to arrest surviving authorities demonstrators calling for the brutal

brought of their freedoms and so suffer should be these person stop atop that's the whole region at risk according to opposition groups thirteen people were injured and several detained as police raided one of their offices in the middle of the night more clashes between demonstrators and government supporters have taken place on sunday opposition leader and over the not so says the government clampdown has entitled the people to act in self defense. government is acting like a. criminal is sacred on the demonstration which has been sanctioned by the government itself so we're putting the legislation we're not doing anything illegal so it was absolutely peaceful money because they should be pushing woodlands see begin to value should be used illegal wars against peaceful demonstrators so we have a right to protect our. so we have a right to protect all of a us we have

a right to protect our members and we have rights to leave inaudible democratic country. sectarian violence has been keeping the egyptian capital on edge ever says the popular uprising toppled hosni mubarak's regime or christians have been targeted in several attacks by muslim radicals with dozens dead and a number of churches burned and as artie's body of the national has been finding out when the egyptians are disappointed with the change the tough in a square revolution has brought so far. president mubarak but the risley from satisfaction indicate a free egypt. seriously unified on the three of square three a common enemy barracks resignation so egypt and muslims and christians turn on each other. we want justice we want equal rights. and institutions in businesses police and army and politics. for centuries the

coptic christian minority has felt discriminated in the country dominated by eighteen million muslims a revolutionary euphoria has brought the desire for change. the people have to such 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 brick thrown during sectarian clashes in baghdad a northern flashpoint as years of syrian 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 imagined some. so

like this happening yes from this point of view i miss the old regime and. others glorify the january revolution among them the muslim brotherhood member and mubarak today to the country's only well organized political group with the president gone they moved from jail cells to this luxury building in central cairo a revolution given them a long awaited voice. or the radicals are triggering the transitions they saw how the revolution united people and they want to ruin that they don't want to see egypt strong and independent but i'm sure they will disappear after the parliamentary elections last summer's day in batteries cairo's poorest districts is home to millions of people surviving on just a couple of doors a day full of in the fear of revolution egypt's immune system has been a weekend dramatically economies in critical condition this ruin the country when

this happens the symptoms strike the most vulnerable first and the question now is just how far the damage. and what egypt can ever recover. rich notion of. cairo. meanwhile in libya nato has reportedly hit the capital's main port to avalon market off his residence early on sunday tripoli officials calling a weeks of bombing some triggered a humanitarian crisis the government has accused international forces of violating the u.n. that no fly zone resolution putting civilians at risk but it comes after the war crimes court announced it is seeking to arrest the libyan leader of the journalist james corbat says the case a dangerous precedent because international prosecutors don't have any evidence of gadhafi scribes. that would be easy to dismiss the international criminal court's appeal for an arrest warrant for his crimes against humanity as that is something of a forest 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 the crimes against humanity with which he was charged but i think this is actually that's a 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 genetical action in this international criminal court simply by the creed 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 boarding in infrastructure for the libyan people on the basis of 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 at least in change and it is now being supposedly justified through this very troubling president of international criminal court being able to dictate what happens within the boundaries of a sovereign country so again i think we'll see this this president used as

a way of basically allowing needle countries in nato head you want to interests to dictate their foreign policy through this court. a while still to come this hour it's time to say goodbye after more than a year since the beijing of iraq the last remaining british troops are finally leaving. after the world's eyes are iceland's most active volcano that's hurling plumes of smoke into the sky through viewer subsidence. now the former head of the international monetary fund has been released on bail but placed under house arrest in new york dominick style scada was detained it just as he was preparing for a meeting on the plight of greece and portugal as economies as artie's done the bushel reports his arrest has thrown the talks on the solving the european debt crisis into disarray. no strong cold no uro's that's what bankers 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 such. belief that the euro could and should be saved in the face of nor steal resistance from richest states stross can live this week's bailout of crippled portugal germany and france insist on oil and raise it slowly corporation tax d s k as he's known as the man arguing yes what is saving the irish economy these allegations are going to be damaging. of the i.m.f. as an institution. definitely going to be missed i think. stross can even persuaded greece's leader to stick with strict spending cuts despite roy it's on the streets that he has. some of you heads of state in government so that made it made a difference he has good cards for example to the greek prime minister on thursday

greece for more loans on better terms but no heavyweights europhiles the s.k. has gone few back another bailout. should leave the euro zone that has put under strain the euro choice is one of the i.m.s. top backers contributing tens of billions of euro the reward it wants is an asian chief who's not likely to be as europe friendly a strong. he has been very personally very important in getting the i.m.f. and world. 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 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 filled with 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 this is all this is a team that toppling the world's leading banker comes at the worst possible time this is not just the end of a career dominic's call it was instrumental in the eurozone most troubled states is a risk to seem to threaten the end of the euro itself i know bushell to paris. well we stand our board that's a question about next year's presidential election in russia that still remains an answer that's a spite a two hour long press conference with dmitri medvedev but the president spoke to journalists in his largest care what a session since taking office in two thousand and eight are discussing as are about reports on the issues discussed. one hundred thirty seven minutes eight hundred journalists seventy two questions and one man to answer and. question president

medium invaded how this first major press conference on wednesday giving many a chance to voice their questions but while some were 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 not had to park my own car so maybe i could borrow one and used it as washing machines but. it was the question of a possible second turn that everyone including the president expected the most and showing your ok those 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 serve i want to make a statement i will make it. if the mystery of whether current president of egypt 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 national clashing yes i am that my relationship with my colleague and political partner of blood to me put in is not just something that people call a tandem actually we have 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 what is ation 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 prompted him to make a very strong statement if that is a question here ya go. 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 these kinds of resolutions can be manipulated this is deplorable because it undermines the authority of the un i believe it shows according to some i'm growing unease with decisions made concerning the middle east mr medvedev appeared somewhat to regret russia's support of the resolution on libya was quite strong in saying that . the actions are probably 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 tycoon. he could of course he is released who he did injure to society that was a short question and the old short and no absolutely not the president's use however i'm likely to influence connecticut's 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 material to. parole. although he has such air possibility of war but you know these sort of things happens very rarely in any country in court in russia so i think basically a ward mediator wanted to say is that he doesn't dispute the decisions of the court might he doesn't consider this person a danger. is the press conference going to close reporters its success after nearly

two and a half hours with a with a bit of big press farewell and headed to the kremlin but the question that remains unanswered is the stay there after trying to twelve cats whereas our moscow. party caught up with me she did that as press secretary straight after the conference attire to markov explained why the president is taking his time to answer the question on everyone's lips well we'll have that interview for you next hour. and the british military operation in iraq is ending after more than eight years the last group of royal navy training staff are pulling out on sunday the u.k. joined in the us invasion of iraq in two thousand and three under the pretext of destroying saddam hussein's weapons of mass destruction but it turned out he never had any the war fell out of favor with the british public and even more so with the death of one hundred seventy nine soldiers during the conflict most of the u.k.'s military forces withdrew two years ago but experts say they failed to make iraq

a safer place for terror attacks happening there on a regular basis british m.p. paul for the says the war is a blight on british history. always a. priest one rotten government with another government question. the world is a better place with. but the replacement. is in all kinds of trouble at the moment the whole of the country is falling into another. corruption. and he's find it very difficult to control the system. there's a saying. that it was the wrong. but it is the school bullying recalls. we just call them and there were over two hundred. m.p.'s voted against which is unheard of we very rarely go to war without the full hearted consent of the british

people and in this case they were great reservation that we were committing silje is a battle to see their lives destroyed in the service of a foreign country it was bush's war britain needn't have had a party later at all with the final tally of eight years one hundred seventy nine dead without any great achievements is one mark one of the words moments in our history. queen elizabeth the second visit of the republic of ireland this week in an attempt to reaffirm ties between london and dublin on the visit came amid a rising tide of nationalism in scotland where m.p.'s are even considering parting ways with a u.k. artist laura emmet reports from edinburgh. for 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. . control of resources sports ability for the problems we face in our country and to be able to stand up and speak out in issues that matter to us. charge of hallman sure that we have a voice abroad revenues from oil and gas in the north sea our 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 from 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 last 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 from a people of those countries to say what we want to do we would never support or condone 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 losses and even those who don't want the u.k. to break up. it's a sense of wanting to reclaim individual nationhood that striving the movement an argument about identity by the ruby rich it's all about whether you feel that we are scottish and british we want to be and have been part of a union which i think it serves them well through for three hundred years the s.n.p. still has work to do if it wants scotland it's a breakaway 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 you know. you'll be first on what all the oil is doing and with this we can. generally not. be there to other people or rather school in itself cotton cattle by the. way this is called as much as close to the. thing that you can survive the future zero zero zero of your own shortly who have recently been in a room will be praying that they're all very. doing well enough to go to it's ok to do a lot of things that i could vote one way or the other the s.n.p. has time to bring the onshore ground it's putting off a referendum until the second half of its five year government it would be the beginning of a new era for scotland which hasn't been independent since seventeen zero seven but it's always retained a strong and distinct national identity something the s.n.p.

will be playing on with all its might nor am it. a look now at some other news making headlines around the world thirteen 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 the blasts went off of the neighborhoods of sutter city in the east and by yacht in the west well no one's yet claimed responsibility for the attacks. syrian security forces have shot dead at least eleven people during a mass funeral for anti-government protesters killed earlier in the week some analysts believe the brutal crackdown is leading to political paralysis and stalemate between president assad's regime and its opponents but most of the international media has been banned from the country since the uprising began two months ago making it impossible to get the president we very quiet cals from

activists and government officials. suicide attackers have stormed a government building in afghanistan and 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 are reported to have been killed and afghan forces have surrounded the building but are not launching a full salt for fear of detonating be attackers suicide vests on saturday a suicide bombing killed six people and wounded twenty six at a military hospital in kabul. i learned so verted all the international flights from the main airports after the country's most active volcano erupted it had been dormant for seven years a large plume of smoke abashed stretching twenty kilometers into the air who are experts say it's unlikely to cause the kind of widespread destruction witnessed throughout europe last year when another of the country's volcanoes went up. well check out our website that's r t dot com for more stories from the bottom of the

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