day's top stories and review of the week on r t massive protests in spain where soaring unemployment threatens to put the country in line financially with greece ireland and portugal. and now with the former head of the international monetary fund government stress can no longer at the top of the future of the e.u. bailout stood be in jeopardy. georgia's opposition leader tells r.t. a revolution has begun as the streets of tbilisi have turned into a battlefield but people demanding presidents psychos but he steps down. and the question over to me to my brothers plans for another term in office to remains unanswered as the russian president holds back during a two hour long q.

and a session. ten pm suddenly we're watching the weekly from our roundup of the week's top stories with me kevin no in first anti-government protesters massing in spanish cities despite your fishel ban on political demonstrations head of elections the country's casting ballots in regional polls with the ruling socialist party said to suffer major losses of thirty thousand people have occupied madrid's central square to protest the government's economic policies and skyrocketing unemployment people have also come out of the streets in other cities including barcelona valencia and seville as the country struggles to overcome the crippling recession and as artists are first reports next if the situation doesn't change soon spain could be next in line for an e.u. rescue package. there's greece then. and

now portugal as the year is things bailouts go it numbed there are now serious concerns that spain could be the next to topple. playtest this throughout europe i clamoring to replace even more taxpayers' money being plowed into rescuing others. was that i. think again. that this was. i don't think that it. was forty three hundred twenty five that it was like the whole labor market was this side was a i think that this is going to be. this is only. the women we're saying where we will be million for the year is same problems weren't enough there is now talk of greece defaulting on its loans even potentially exiting

the year altogether and portugal's recent bailout is reported to be worth around seventy eight billion year but spain is the euro zone's fourth largest economy bit different challenge altogether if it fails. if the situation happened the markets would not manage it buying out of spins 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 you've got to come up you know the 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 here is a ministers are struggling to maintain a united front noid. for financial survival for such countries a spain would seriously injure the euro it could lead to the use of two currency

zones in europe a strong group of countries using the euro and the rest not using it. thank you continue to play down speculation would be the next. n.c.t. it out if problems continue greece i live in now portugal the possibility of being becoming the next you think likely to. be real read and write your kid like in the reality of the sake. of the. eurozone bailouts could be compromised by the arrest of the international monetary fund's chief on charges of sexual assault. since resigned it is in new york awaiting trial french finance minister christine lagarde to merge does the front one of the save his job now result he's done a bushel reports without the. financial revival now things in the balance.

no strong cold no euro that's what pain because a whispering off 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 nor still resistance from richer states called live this week's bailout of crippled portugal germany and france insist boyland raises its low corporation tax t.s.k. as he's known was the man or doing it's what is saving the irish economy these allegations are going to. of the i.m.f. as an institution. is definitely going to be missed i think. strauss kahn even persuaded greece's leader to stick with strict spending cuts

despite royals on the streets but he has a good card to some of the heads of state governments made a difference he has good contacts for example to the greek prime minister on thursday greece for more loans on better terms but no heavyweights europhiles p.s.k. has gone few back another bailout. 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 who is not likely to be as europe 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 pile of person with the same kind of convictions coming from the

emerging markets when one of the. oulds biggest investment banks fill three years ago it triggered a global recession we're still reeling from today but it's filled with driving the euro to extinction make matters worse the consequences probably would be higher and not sure that was for instance as a bankruptcy or fleeman in two thousand and eight with e.u. economies that this cool this city walls 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 was instrumental in risking the euro zone's most troubled states is a risk to seem to threaten the end of the euro itself the new bush will see paris. in georgia drive police have used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse anti-government protests the opposition of rallied for a second day in the capital tbilisi and mali 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 may a day of rage designed to force the government to resign on saturday thousands marched through georgian cities saying they've been robbed of their freedoms and the quote has really is presence and power puts the whole region in this according to opposition groups thirteen people were injured and several detained as police waited one of their offices in the middle of the night opposition leader nina burjanadze says the government's criminal action set the revolt in motion. evolution is already going on and it's not because i think government in general should reign government begin to terrorize people in government to risk it convict self absolutely innocent people by government it beats very seriously. lots of people when they confiscate property of the citizens and at last when secret.

peaceful manifestation i would like to remind you. this many patients sanctioned by the side of the government and i would like to mention one thing he said we have fighting for democracy we decided that we are continuing rally tonight too so we have keeping this. place he. will be ready to model to model it will be ready the day after to model it the day after tomorrow he will be writing thank you if you will like trying to keep the back it will be not very long process so they will be late in the race here. well there are fears now the situation in georgia could turn bloody if the government take further action to suppress demonstrations your whole cloth from the institute of world economy to international relations told me democracy in the country came to an end when suckers really came to power we need to understand where these events are heading we have to look a few years back. people haven't followed the story might think that it's yes to

this problem solve one of those riots started yesterday but actually a problem has been boiling since strange all force which all five when saakashvili came to power has criticised them or not and you know georgian public is increasingly dissatisfied with saakashvili because he is a way of kraken down on any kind of a position contra freedom in georgia was complain to all for months artificially came into power during the years of the opposition movements of there was freedom of speech and the political party is the difference to use both for in china and external policies of the conscious but what saakashvili has been doing for the last seven years is cracking down on any opposition and actually he has managed to alienate not only all the political parties but most of the pollution the conscious . speak to me better still to come on the program breaking away from the u.k.

find out if you can resist the strong scottish calls for freedom right. three. british military operations they did after more than eight years in iraq with the last group of all navy training staff now being pulled out it comes is this the same day as a series of terror attacks in the country's capital baghdad killing at least sixteen and you could join that the u.s. invasion of iraq in two thousand and three under the pretext of destroying saddam hussein's weapons of mass destruction but when w m d's were never found the war fell out of favor with the british public even more so the death of one hundred seventy nine soldiers during a conflict most of the u.k.'s military forces withdrew two years ago many experts say they failed to make iraq a safer place though with terror attacks still happening there on

a regular basis i spoke to john sloboda co-founder of the research project rock body count he told me the u.k. keeps ignoring the other casualties of the. commentators of whatever political persuasion work for or against this conflict kind of unites people or and so we've all casual treatment of the cost of this we believe that this will not be laid to rest properly until there is a fall in detail of inquiry into the sort of people caused whatever benefits may have accrued to so people in iraq and it's a highly contested people who died absolutely the ultimate losers of this conflict we should all be. sure that in any future of our military forces we do better in terms of human lives it's clear that person considers itself a major player in the world and. it means putting its troops and forces around the

world we very much hope that in conflicts it's currently engaged in such that. it pays more attention to the civilian casualties which it claims politically and trying to avoid but it so far has shown itself willing to. let me stay or will he go that's what many have been tried he was to be very it was the twelve presidential campaign here in russia draws closer the president's latest q. and a session was a perfect opportunity for them to throw the question into the ring but he threw it straight back out again. reports. one hundred thirty seven minutes eight hundred journalists seventy two questions and one man to answer a. question president anything he did how this first major press conference on wednesday getting many a chance to voice their questions but while some were serious which is is there a chance to give each of our actions well deserved accommodations and sound more light hearted. i know that your wife has to parking lots and i have no right to

park my own car so maybe i could borrow one of his education but if. 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 to win a presidential race is not made in this kind of format it should be made when the situation is right as we have a greater political impact and i will follow this principle in the serve i want to make a statement i will make it easy to pick a few feet in this tree of whether current president is or for former president putin will run for office in twenty twelve has become moscow's most evaded topic according to media minute if the chairmen share a lot of views but also have their differences. and i am glad my relationship with my colleague and political partner 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 the views on key issues in our country's development of 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 than it was getting sidestepped the most intriguing topic when it if still took time to focus on major domestic and international issues and archie's question about syria conjured him to make a very strong statement he said as if by syria i will not support real. solutions 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 demonstrates 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 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 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 embury of 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 there. he is released who he did danger to society and of course that was a short question and the old some of the people calling sure that no absolutely not the president you saw other i'm likely to influence critical sentence i don't think

it means he's going to be released and after all it's not the president who put him in jail and i don't think it will be politically easy for me to really have to. parole. although he has such a possibility according to all. these sort of things happens very rarely in any country in court in russia so i think basically the word mediator wanted to say is that he doesn't dispute the decisions of the court but he doesn't consider this person i think it. because the press conference reporters it's success after nearly two and a half hours we've been in the days of bait the press parallel and headed back to the kremlin but the question that remains unanswered is will he stay there after twenty twelve. years are our teeth moscow. glossy caught up with me to events press secretary straight after the conference in the wake of telegenic over explained why the president is taking his time to answer the question on everyone's

lips we've got that interview for you coming up again if you've not seen already today in about ten minutes time what up. nato is aerial campaign in libya showing no sign of backing down much like colonel gadhafi the u.s. is now operating without official can said from congress which makes america's military action in the country constitutionally illegal meanwhile aaa officials. have told ready to get a humanitarian crisis accusing international forces of violating the u.n. resolution and putting civilians at risk that are britain's armed forces is said skilling colonel gadhafi would be within the rules as nato readies itself from the long war becomes after war crimes court said it seeking arrest warrants for the libyan leader but journalist james colbert says the case sets a dangerous precedent. it would be easy to dismiss the international criminal court's appeal for aid an arrest warrant for his crimes against humanity as that is something of

a farce especially considering that the international criminal court's prosecutor's office now admits that not a single member of that office actually bothered to step foot in libya to investigate been 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 the needle geo political foreign policy can now be justified through juridical action in this international criminal court simply by fiat to create it and so the ludicrous nature of the entire operation is exposed for all to see invent here is a humanitarian intervention that is now literally going to be bombing infrastructure for the libyan people on the basis of humanitarian intervention that'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 regime change and it is now being supposedly justified through this very troubling precedent of an international criminal court being able to dictate what happens within the boundaries of

a sovereign country so again i think we'll see this as president used as a way of basically allowing needle countries in need or hegemonic interests to do. their foreign policy through this court. just. a lot more stories we're covering at r.t. probably home page r.t. dot com regular updates like catching videos always waiting for you right now read about the u.s. state department on the hunt for a former new york residence apparently went for a car dealership posing as a russian diplomat get the best deals on luxury vehicles. and. family around him. but things went terribly wrong and i was. foolish r.t. told the danish director and lars von trier became persona non grata of shockey or uses it to come film first with his comments on hitler catch the whole interview with him. in scotland independence and something many in edinburgh been dreaming on for

a very long time now with the recent election victory of the country's scottish national party that may become a reality party's laurette looks at what sovereignty would mean for the celtic nation. the starting pistol sounds in the race to 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. . control of resources responsibility for the problems of country and to be able to. go to the issues that matter to us. taking charge at home and we can feel that we have a voice a broad revenues from oil and gas in the north sea oil worth an estimated twenty one billion dollars to the 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 printer pendants including wales and northern ireland if they so choose it's for the 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. of sympathy from us. and even those who don't want the u.k. to break up say it's a sense of wanting to reclaim individual nationhood that striving the movement is

from argument. is taught by the rupee richard it's all about whether you feel as i do that we are scottish and british we want to be and remain part of the union which i think it serves. well through for three 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 and on the streets of edinburgh people are divided the oil industry and you know see. what all the oil is doing with this we've got money generally not. to other people well the scorn the self profit. as it was it's called and as much as. it's all for the feature oh if your own shortly should have mentioned that then it. would be freaking out all day one make. sure you know

enough about to get a feel for it could do it one way or the other the s.n.p. has time to bring the on shore ground it's putting off the referendum until the second half of its fight 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 and its all a see. around the world in a speech to the pro israel lobbying group a party president obama said israel will face growing isolation without a credible middle east peace process speaking in washington he repeated his call for the jewish state in return to the pre nine hundred sixty seven borders with the palestinians including mutual land swaps in order to reach peace in the conflict israeli prime minister forming a yahoo has flatly rejected that idea palestinians claim the territory of the west bank was illegally occupied by israel. iceland's imposed local flight ban and

closed its main airport after the country's most active volcano erupted ashton covered nearby villages and farms and even reached the capitol hill. experts say it's unlikely to cause widespread disruption to air traffic like last year when the eruption of another volcano lit the closure of a large section of european air space. iran says it's arrested thirty people allegedly linked to a spy network run by the u.s. central intelligence agency it said the network operated out of american diplomatic missions in the u.a.e. the lazy. the report read on state t.v. didn't provide any further details but clearly agents have been asked to spy on iran's research institutes nuclear programs under the sites. you know about and age we used to be in the driving seat and the car is no longer a luxury of course it's something almost everyone can afford but a vintage automobile is much more than transport it's a way of life that is a culprit which over reports. class a good age comes around the country is such

a shopping street you can you tell us there is this simple combination hundreds of people have gathered this sunday in the greater sun troubles local the. classic we can rally around the sounds become an annual amount organize that be a systems on the watch making and you're a company now and the rules of the rally only been which cars produced before nineteen sixty nine can take part in this rally you can see again this series here but they all are so proud to show their pride speed is still the most cohesive and are not actually taking. us by stop turn them be it is that at this expansive crap from cars from us cadillacs and part of it still some of it made both of us together there is a saying in this rally some of the persistence of the rally are true the current

collectors like. the leader tell me more about what is it or is it is a chevy camaro ninety six to three hundred six engine almost four hundred horsepower upgraded to almost five hundred. is one of the new cars in moscow since moscow is not really a muscle car city not legless angel suppose so once you get on the streets you get hundreds and hundreds of people taking pictures so if you want to be a superstar this is the car you need to get how much does it cost you to trucks everyone's eyes well in russia if you want to bring this going russia is it triples the price since the station is quite different so this is. but listen to your baby's voice.

these cars are useful pieces all parts and history about driving them is actually quite a challenge but my point man's rivals and roads is what makes these rally so particularly interesting and maybe you'll get a pulse is actually improved quite a challenge for those used to automatics both course this rally is not about what comes first a welcome second it's all about class b. rather it's been to each car the most expansive choosing and whose lives are actually compact soup with those car the whole day will be enjoying the beat up shiny going to try leaks running through the city center on these beautiful sunny weekends. very nice too and a few minutes we hear from president spokes person we ask her about his plans for the future in the sport of legendary boxer and fun favorites all over the world of roy jones jr was not the russians best fighter on saturday the three thousand one hundred twenty minutes two in fact that's how the next half hour looks on our team from moscow this sunday evening the twenty second of.

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