today's top stories in a review of the week spain's highest unemployment rate in the european union sparks a nationwide protest i mean here's the one tree could follow in the steps of ireland and greeks. thousands of badly georgians are on the streets of tbilisi demanding freedom and the president saakashvili is resignation are greeted by their gas of rubber bullets instead. of russian president dmitry medvedev plans for a second term in office remains up here as in sidestep the issue during the two hour long run a session. there

with r t live from moscow thanks for joining us anti-government protesters are massing in spanish cities despite the official bout of political demonstrations ahead of elections where the country is casting ballots in regional polls with a ruling a socialist party set to suffered major losses over thirty thousand people have occupied madrid central square to protest the government's economic policies and skyrocketing unemployment people have also come out onto the streets in other cities including barcelona and seville as the country struggles to overcome the crippled recession and its artists are furth reports of the situation doesn't change soon spain could be next in line for e.u. rescue package. greece. and.

portugal as the usa is pale outspoken number there are now serious concerns that spain could be the next to topple protested throughout europe and hammering to the pace even more taxpayers' money being plowed into rescuing others was that this very. thing again. that this government. i don't think my breaks in that employ was forty three percent of under twenty five so that is why i didn't like the whole labor market was offside was a i think that this is going to be inside this is only. the women we will be saying where we will be millions in the year is a is problems weren't enough there is now talk of greece defaulting on its loans even exiting the year i gather and portugal's recent bailout is reported to be

worth around seventy eight billion. that spain is the euro things fall for largest economy the 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 the e.u. do i think in 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 we've got to come up you know the big question now is just how much longer can the usa continue bankrolling those 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 or spain would seriously injure the euro it could lead to the use of two cars he zones in europe a strong group of cars. and the rest not using. the

break down speculation. thanks for. this let's continue. i live in now portugal possibly becoming the next you think it's a. very real and right you're a kid i did. not state. that. well if spain does fall rescuing it could cost over three hundred fifty billion euros economic analyst michael ross says e.u. politicians may have been blackmailed by the financial community into giving bell outs save the banks from collapsing we are living in a so called capitalism but this is ridiculous because of capitalism doesn't work anymore and everything and everyone every country is being bailed out so we have

something like a bank socialism because. i don't it there's no other choice if we let it go or 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 on in germany your specialty also in france of banks are full of it and some people already say that maybe the politicians have been blackmailed to give the money of the taxpayer to make the banks survive. well the future of euro zone bailouts could have been compromised by the arrest of the international monetary fund's chief charges of sexual assaults dominic stars cohen has since resigned and is now awaiting trial after being released on bail and placed under house arrest in new york this artie's during a bushel reports without at the top of the i.m.f. europe's financial revival now hangs in the balance. no strong cold no euro

that's what bankers a whispering off the police charge the now of 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 richest states stross kong lived this week's bailout of crippled portugal germany and france insist on oil and raises its low corporation tax t.s.k. as he's known was. saving the irish economy these allegations are going to be. out of the i.m.f. as an institution. is different than going to be missed. stross call even persuaded greece's leader to stick with strict spending cuts

despite royals on the streets and he. says some of you heads of state governments made a difference he has good contacts for example to the greek prime minister on thursday greece asked for more loans on better terms but now heavyweights europhile b s k has gone few back and not the bailout. that greece should leave the euro zone that has put under strain the euro joiner is one of the top bikers contributing tens of billions of euro the ruled it wants is an asian chief is not likely to be as europe friendly as trials because 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 a 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 filled with driving the euro to extinction will only make matters worse the consequences probably will be higher and much that was for instance as a bankruptcy of lehman in two thousand and eight with e.u. economies that death's all this a team warns that toppling the world's leading banker comes at the worst possible time this is not just the end of a career dominique strauss kahn was instrumental in rescuing the euro zone's most troubled states is a risk does seem to threaten the end of the euro itself i know bush will r.t. paris. and still ahead in the program revolution on rest because the mubarak's regime may be gone but are egyptians and really rejoicing in life post revolution. and find out if britain can resist the strong scottish calls for freedom.

in georgia right police have used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse anti-government protests but the opposition have rallied for a second day of the capital tbilisi demanding that president saakashvili steps down opposition leaders say hundreds of people have so far been arrested one of georgia's opposition parties called the twenty fifth of me a day of rage the government will be forced to resign on saturday thousand smart through georgian cities saying they've been a robbed of their fingers that sucker should be these processing power puts the police injured at risk but according to opposition groups thirteen people were injured and several detained as police raided one of their offices in the middle of the night opposition leader a norwegian not so says the clampdown has internal the people to act in self-defense. that women these sixteen like. females they could go in the demonstration which had been sanctioned by the government

itself so we're putting the legislation we are not doing any seem to illegal so it was absolutely peaceful money the station to push you weren't. see again level you should be used illegal wars against peaceful demonstrators so we have a right to protect ourselves and we have a right to protect all of a use we have rights to retake the amendments and we have rights to leave inaudible democratic country. or the british military operation in iraq has ended after more than eight years with the last group of royal navy training staff and now having pulled out the u.k. a joint. u.s. invasion of iraq in two thousand and three under the pretext of the strikes around the same of mass destruction but when w m d's were never found 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 well some experts say bayfield to make iraq a safer place with terror attacks still happening there on a regular basis british and people flynn says the war is a stain on british history. you always see we were praised one rotten government with another government there's no question. the world is a better place without him but the replacement. is in all kinds of trouble at the moment the whole of the country is falling into another round of corruption and he's trying to be difficult to control the system. there's a saying. that it was the wrong. choir refashion reporter yeah it is these recalls when the war was decided by. british

parliament and there were over two hundred m. he's voted against which is we very rarely go to war without the full hearted consent of the british people and in this case they were great reservations that we were committing. is a battle to see their lives destroyed in the service of a foreign country it was bush's war britain needed to head a party later told with a final tally over eight years one hundred seventy nine dead without any great achievement is one mark one of the woods moments in our history. will he stay or will he go well that's what many have been tried to ask me to medvedev as the twenty twelve presidential campaign in russia grass closer to the president's latest q. and a session was a perfect opportunity to throw the question into the ring but he threw it straight back out again are things got that he has a lot of or has that peter. one hundred thirty seven minutes eight hundred

journalists seventy two questions and one man to answer and. russian president dmitry medvedev how this first major press conference on wednesday giving many a chance to voice their questions but while some are serious what would you say is there a chance to give to each of our actions well deserved accommodations and sound more light hearted. i know that your wife is to parking lots i'm i've no right to park my own car so maybe i could borrow one is that because when she asked him about it . it was the question of a possible second term that everyone including the president expected in last. year i had 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 to make you feel in this trio whether current president

reagan for former president clinton will run for office in twenty twelve has become moscow's most debated topic according to me a minute if the two men share a lot of views but also have their differences. clashing yes my aim my relationship with my colleague and political partner of god we have put in is not just something that 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 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 and i think this process but 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 he said a super serious yet i will not support resolution. 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 authority of the u.n. but it shows according to some a 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 an easy thing about what's going on in libya and more broadly in the middle east but i didn't detect a sense from mr meant that if 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 mikhail khodorkovsky he could of course he is released who he did in georgia society that was a short question and the old some equally sure and no absolutely not the president's use however i'm likely to influence connecticut's sentence i don't think it means he is going to be released and after all it's not the president. put him in jail and i don't think it will be politically easy for material to. parole. although he has such a possibility according to war but you know this sort of things happens very rarely in any country in korea russia so i think basically what mediator wanted to say is that he doesn't dispute the decisions of the court might he doesn't consider this person a danger. as the press conference came to

a close reporters keeping its success after nearly two and a half hours with a little bit of bait the press farewell and headed back to the kremlin but the question that remains unanswered is will he stay there after twenty twelve captures are artsy moscow. l r t caught up with him if you have bit of his press secretary straight after the conference that's all at the macor explain why the president is taking his time to answer the question on everyone's lips or will have that interview for you later in the program. now egypt's fragile interim leadership is being tested by sectarian violence keeping the country on edge since the popular uprising toppled hosni mubarak's regime but christians have been targeted in several attacks by muslim radicals with churches torched and dozens killed as artie's many a financial reports many egyptians are disillusioned with the change the revolution has brought so far. president mubarak's gone but there is little

satisfaction indicate a free egypt. previously unified on the sleeve square through a common enemy barak's resignation so egyptian muslims and christians turn on each other. we want justice we want equal rights. in institutions in businesses police and army and in politics. for centuries the coptic christian minority has felt discriminated in a country dominated by eighteen million muslims the revolutionary euphoria has brought in a desire for change. people have to sit freedom and they like it now we are kind of fed up with the situation. tensions in the past month have left us and skewed schools injured and several churches burned his muslim woman and her entire family have been welcoming liberation and to her twenty four year old son was. killed in the street by

a greek thrown during sectarian clashes in nevada and northern flashpoint as the use of simmering religious tension boil over. we know mubarak was a dictator maybe he was corrupt with the police who have been able to sleep and our children were alive we never saw the before we couldn't have even imagine something like this happening yes from this point of view i mean the old regime and the others glorified it january revolution among them the muslim brotherhood then joined mubarak today to the country's only well organized political group with the president gone they moved from jail cells and this luxury of building in central cairo the revolution given them a long awaited voice. radicals are triggering the transitions the revolution united people and they want to ruin and i don't want to see egypt strong and independent but i'm sure it will disappear after the parliamentary election

because congress. in batteries chiros poorest districts is home to millions of people surviving on just a couple of doors a day following the fear revolution egypt's immune system has been weakened dramatically economies 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 the. reflection of our cairo. nato's aerial campaign in libya is showing no sign of backing down and watch like colonel gadhafi where the u.s. is now operating without official concept from congress which makes america's military action in the country constitutionally illegal meanwhile tripoli officials claim that bombing some already triggered a humanitarian crisis accusing international forces of violating the you read

resolution and putting civilians at risk of trance forecast urge or also love to says that the you and itself is a greater allow it because the coalition to violate its merits. the un is nothing more that it's all of a barrack look at they have pocker see coming at a united nations as they go ahead and invade libya with their humanitarian bombs i mean how could people be so ignorant ept and uncaring that dropping bombs on moammar gadhafi is home oh they call it is calm now his command and control center it says house this was supposed to be a humanitarian mission while at the same tie they turn a blind dog i see what's going on in the ivory coast with millions of refugees what's going on in the sudan and what's going on in yemen and bahrain it's the club they only prosecute who they want to prosecute and when you're a member of the club you're excluded it's the united states' policy of going after

those they don't like doing business with as opposed to those they are doing business with that are actually committing even why heinous crimes. independence is is something many in edinburgh have been dreaming of for a very long time well now with the recent election victory of the country's scottish national party this may become a reality artist or emma looks at what sovereignty would mean for the celtic nation . the starting pistol sounds in the race for independence for scotland the scottish national party now has a surprise majority in parliament and they're hell bent on a referendum on breaking away from the u.k. gained control of resources from responsibility for the problems with peace in our country and to be able to stand up and speak to the issues that matter to us. charge at home and making sure that we have a voice abroad revenues from oil and gas in the north sea 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 for 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 e.u. the s.n.p. would support other european movements in their own struggles printer pendants including wales and northern ireland if they so choose for the people of those countries to say what we want to do we would never support to 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 say it's a sense of wanting to rip. plain individual nationhood that striving the movement of the argument. so by the root. it's all about whether you feel that we are scottish and british that we want to be and have been part of the union which i think serves scotland well through for three hundred years the s.n.p. still has work to do if it wants scotland separate away even the most optimistic polls show only around forty percent of scots would vote yes but on the streets of edinburgh people are divided the oil industry and you know say build people still on what all the oil is they don't want this we can get it done generally not. to other people well the school in itself preferred skulkers of either for i. was

for scotland as much as opposed to. it it's all for the seizure of power off your own shortly should i have a from the village room the refrain that had already run me. do we know enough about it to it's ok to do a lot of things that i could do it 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 toth of it 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 and its own at a. truck out more of the stories we're covering on air up dot com with regular updates and eye catching videos always online for you and here's some of what you can enjoy right now the u.s.

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