day's top stories are a view of the week massive protests it sprayed with soaring unemployment threatens to put the country in line financially with bring sun to portugal. and now with the former head of the international monetary fund dominic straus can no longer of the top the fears the future of you play loud could be in jeopardy. also georgia's opposition leader tells r.t. a revolution has begun as the streets of tbilisi are turned into a battlefield but people demanding president saakashvili step down. and the question over dmitri medvedev plans for another term in office remains unanswered is the russian president holds back during a two hour long q.

and a session. hello it's midnight here in moscow you're watching the weekly from our roundup of the week's top stories with me kevin now in and first anti-government protesters are massing in spanish cities despite the official ban on political demonstrations ahead of elections the country's finished casting ballots in regional polls with the ruling socialist party said has suffered major losses over thirty thousand people have occupied woodridge central square to protest the government's economic policies and skyrocketing unemployment people also come out onto the streets in other cities too including barcelona valencia and seville as the country struggles to overcome the crippling recession and is not the sort of first reports now if the situation doesn't change soon spain could be next in line for the e.u. rescue package. first greece then ireland and now

portugal as the usa is bailouts go a number there are now serious concerns that spain could be the next to topple the protesters throughout europe a clamoring to a case even more taxpayers' money being plowed into rescuing others. that have had time that i. think. that this government. i don't think might break that employment with forty three and under twenty five that is why i didn't like the whole labor market and this guy was i think going to be the inside this is tell me. where the women we will stay where we will be millions in the year is a problems weren't enough there is now talk of greece defaulting on its loans even

potentially executing the together and portugal's recent bailout is reported to be worth around seventy eight billion year spain is the euro zone's fulfill largest economy different challenge altogether if it fails. if the situation happened in the markets would not manage it going out of spain's debt is 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 only cost because spain is too big to fail. then you got to. the big question now is just how much longer can the year is a continued bankrolling there is going bust as aspiring debt crisis continues to escalate there is a ministers are struggling to maintain a united front. for financial survival for such countries as spain with serious. 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 or thinking to need to play down speculation. thanks eat. out problems continue i am now portugal. it is. do you think it remains very real and like your care like the reality that is the stakes are a part of the dreaded euro zone bailouts could have compromised by the arrest of the international monetary fund's chief on charges of sexual assault dominique strauss karnes since resigned it is in a new york is in new york trial for a trial as mr cristina gardening times emerged as the front wanted to take his job but as i see it only a bushel reports next without the i.m.f. ex chief europe's financial revival now hangs in the balance. no strong cold no

euro that's what because 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 you pushed out of the euro and then when you got to understand that. belief could and should be saved in the face of nor still resistance from richard states stross can lead this week's bailouts of crippled portugal germany and france insist on oil and raises its low corporation tax t.s.k. as he's known was the man or doing it's what is saving the irish economy allegations are going to be. of the i.m.f. as an institution. is different than going to be honest i think. strauss kahn even persuaded greece's leader to stick with strict spending cuts

despite royals on the streets but he has. some of the new heads of state in government so that made a difference he has contacts for example to the greek prime minister on thursday greece asked for more loans on better terms but no heavyweights europhiles the s.k. has gone few back another bailout. we should leave the euro zone that has put under strain the euro china is one of the top backers contributing tens of billions of euro who ruled it wants is an asian chief who's not likely to be as europe friendly as. he has been very personally very important in getting the i.m.f. involved and assisting in designing these bailout packages but also coaxing and encouraging politicians to do the reforms necessary now you may not get the equivalent of person with the same kind of convictions coming from the emerging

markets when one of the. oulds biggest investment banks fill three years ago it triggered a global recession was still reeling from today but it's filled with driving the euro to extinction make matters worse the consequences probably would be higher in national you that was for instance as a bankruptcy or fleeing into sales and it's with e.u. economies at death's door there's 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 risking the euro zone's most troubled states his the risk does seem to threaten the end of the euro itself. see paris. in georgia riot 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 demanding president saakashvili steps down opposition leaders say hundreds of people have so far been arrested one of

georgia's opposition parties twenty fifth of a day of rage designed to force the government to resign or saturday thousands march through georgian cities saying they've been robbed of their freedoms and that sucker is very presence in power the whole region at risk according to opposition groups thirteen people are injured and several detained as police waited one of their offices in the middle of the night opposition leader burjanadze says the government's criminal action said the revolted motion. evolution is already going on and it's not because the government began the chilean government began to terrorize people like government ever escaped convicts. absolutely innocent yeah it probably doesn't make it beats very seriously. that some people would say confiscate property of the citizens and at last when secret. peaceful magic this nation i would like to remind you that this many patients

action by the sago. and i would like to mention my thinking that we have fighting for democracy we decided that we are continuing rally tonight to sell we have teams this. place if. we will be ready to model who will lead to model if we leave the radio the day after to model will expect to be up to chin model he will be right the twenty fifth will extend to keeps its back it'll be not very long process so we will exit in your risk few days. worth here's the situation in georgia it could turn bloody if the government takes further action to suppress demonstrations a small group of coffees from the institute of world economy and international relations he told me democracy in the country came to an end when strikers really came into power. we need to understand where these events are heading we have to look a few years back. and people who haven't followed the story might think that it's

a guess to this problem so those riots started yesterday but they actually had the problem has been boiling since strange all forced which all five. came to power. is pretty. nuts and you know georgian public is increasingly dissatisfied with saakashvili if he is a way of cracking down on any kind of a position contra freedom in georgia was completely all for once artificially came into power during the as your position there was freedom of speech and the political part is the different views calls for internal and external policies of the conscience but really has been doing for the last seventy years is cracking down on any opposition and actually has managed to alienate not only all the political parties but most of the police and the conscious of the british military operations ended after more than eight years in iraq with the last group of royal

navy training staff now have been pulled out event two places a series of terror capital baghdad killing at least sixty in the u.k. joined the us invasion of iraq in two thousand and three of the pretext of destroying sort of the same weapons of mass destruction when w m d's went out of the war fell out of favor with the british public 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 many experts say they failed to make iraq a safer place with terrorist attacks still happening on a regular basis jones is co-founder of the research project iraq body count he told me the u.k. keeps ignoring the casualties of this. commentators or whatever political persuasion weapon for or against this conflict. kind of united in a clearance and even casual treatment of the iraq the cost of this we believe that this will not be laid to rest properly until there is

a full and detailed inquiry into iraqi deaths that are being caused whatever benefits may have accrued to some people in iraq and these are highly contested the people who died are absolutely the ultimate losers of this conflict we should know all we can about that understand that and try and sure that in any future of our military forces we do better in terms of saving human lives it's clear that britain considers itself a major player in the world and that means putting its troops and forces around the world we very much hope that in conflicts it's currently engaged in such as afghanistan and libya it pays more attention to the civilian casualties which it claims particularly in libya that it's trying to avoid but it so far has shown itself willing to do. so will you stay or will he go that's what many have been trying to ask do we. need twenty top presidential campaign in russia draws closer the president's latest q. and a session there thought was a perfect opportunity you'd think for the question of the rig but he threw it

straight back out again at his reports. one hundred thirty seven minutes eight hundred journalists seventy two questions and one man to answer and. question president meeting he did have his first major press conference on wednesday evening 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 veterans well deserved accommodation and sound more light hearted. i know that your wife has to parking lots and i've no right to park my own car so maybe i could borrow one that is wishing. it was a question of a possible second term that everyone including the president expected the most extreme year i did those with the decision over the presidential race is not made in this kind of format it should be made when the situation is right is without a greater political impact and i will follow this principle serve i want to make

a statement and i will make it. the mystery of whether current president reagan for former president clinton will run for office in two thousand and twelve has become moscow's most it 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 of the timea putin 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 all views on key issues in our country's development of very close to this doesn't mean we always think the same way we have different views on what more ization i think this process could be much faster. having sidestepped the most intriguing topic with it it still took time to focus on major domestic and international issues and archie's question about syria countered

him to make a very strong statement he said as i perceive it yes 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 or thirty of the u.n. but it shows according to some a growing unease with decisions made concerning the middle east. have appeared somewhat to regret russia's support of the resolution on libya was quite strong in saying that. the actions are clearly 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 you can discuss with a lot of regional journalist. presents 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 heard of course he is released who he did injure to society that was a short question and the own through be equally sure and no absolutely not the president's use however i'm likely to influence the 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 the media to. put all their costly although he has such a possibility of accordion to war but you know these sort of things happens very rarely in any country including russia so i think basically a ward mediator wanted to see is there and he doesn't dispute the decisions of the

court but he doesn't consider this person a danger because the press conference came to a close reporters to begin its success after nearly two and a half hours with even a bit of break the press farewell and headed back to the kremlin but the question that remains unanswered is will he stay there after twenty twelve cashiers are artsy moscow. r.t. caught up with me to have his press secretary straight after the conference the talented work over explain why the president is taking his time to answer the question of my rules lips and got that interview for you in about ten minutes time tonight. at a speech to the pro israeli lobbying group apac president obama has said that israel will face growing isolation without a credible middle east peace process it her fight his call for the jewish state to return to pre-one nine hundred sixty seven borders saying agreed land swaps would determine the final boundaries of both israeli and palestinian states after peace israel rejected the plan but medical analyst john mearsheimer says americans

getting tired stubbornness of israel. there's no question that united states is well beyond patience with netanyahu and with israel more generally behind closed doors the united states is furious with israel because israel is pursuing a policy that is not we american national interest this is disastrous for us and that's why obama wants a two state solution to the problem that obama faces like all american presidents face is that you can't put any pressure on israel because the lobby in this country does so powerful that it wouldn't do great damage to obama's political future when president obama was seen very clearly is that israel is being isolated around the world and the palestinians are gaining the upper hand in terms of world opinion and what's going to happen here is that it's going to be israel and the united states against the rest of the world this is just the united states and this is this for

israel and that's the message that obama is sending today but unfortunately the message is not getting through. before more on the israeli palestinian peace process check out our website our team go home what if this is where else to go live for you it's reported that a newly appointed al qaeda leader is threatening to carry out terror attacks in london in revenge for some of the. same the case quote the backbone of europe must be crushed we've got more on that story tonight online also if you don't come funded out of wash your hair exhibit of gravity have a thought about it what he thought and more about it we caught up with an american hearing up for the mission of war for more on the very many challenges of daily life in space something you never think about take the. nature's aerial campaign in libya showing no sign of backing down much like colonel gadhafi the u.s. is now operating without official consent from congress to which makes america's

military action in the country. constitutionally illegal meanwhile tripoli officials claim the bombings have already triggered a humanitarian crisis accusing international forces of violating the un resolution and putting civilians at risk the head of britain's armed forces said the killing colonel gadhafi would be within the rules as nato but is itself for a long war all this comes off the war crimes court said it's seeking a rest warrants for the libyan leader to journalist james cole but says the case president. 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 farce especially considering that the international criminal court prosecutor's office now admits that not a single member of that office actually bothered to step foot in libya from investigate the crimes against humanity with which he's 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 geo political foreign policy can now be justified to put me through to ridicule action in this international criminal court simply by decreasing and so the ludicrous nature of the entire operation is exposed in unmasked for all to see and hear 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 precedence 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 president used as a way of basically allowing needle countries and needle hedge of money interests through to dictate their foreign policy through. but what else is. a part. time. it's about the

pastry. world news now though four people have been killed and five others wounded in a terrorist attack in pakistan's largest city you could archie reports say several blasts and gunshots were heard as militants fought with troops at an aviation place an aircraft we was taught as well during a time militants in pakistan were promised further attacks to avenge the killing of some of them are. iceland has imposed a local flight ban and closed its main airport after the country's most active volcano erupted ash soon covered nearby villages and farms and even reached the capital however experts say it's unlikely to cause the widespread disruption to traffic like last year when the eruption of another ok no led to the closure of a large section of european air space. iran says it's arrested thirty people allegedly linked to a spy network won by the us central intelligence agency it said the network

operated out of american diplomatic missions in the u.a.e. malaysia and turkey the report read on state t.v. didn't provide any further details but claimed the agents had been asked to spy on iran's research institutes nuclear programs and other sites. the yemeni president refused to accept the gulf nations plan to hand over power. said it would push the country towards a civil war the document could be his resignation within thirty days in exchange for immunity around one hundred seventy protesters calling for political reforms of being killed in a wave of anti-government demonstrations since the unrest began. a lighter note american corvettes and soviet era volcker's were cruising the streets of the russian capital today instead of the models which usually rule the road proud owners of classic cars were showing off their vintage wheels before taking part in a retro race but it is a country which over was among the spectators here in moscow. colette's advantage plus all the countries such as shopping street here have an almost irresistible

combination. of. people together at least sunday in the first time truck most of the loop shot plastic we can't rightly call this has become an annual event organized at their systems all the watchmaking and you're a company for fast cars from us cadillac somehow that still some of it made told us together their participation in this rally some of the participants of the rally. car and exeunt collectors like d.-day tell eager tell me more about your beauty what is it what year is it it's a chevy camaro ninety sixty three ninety six engine almost four hundred horsepower upgraded to almost five hundred. well it's one of the cars in moscow since moscow is not really a muscle car city not like just suppose. how did he get it what's the story to

purchase this story goes through the early two thousand the car was imported. from back then we upgraded the car with is a mystery and this is kind of the car moscow most of us are not really used to see so once again on the streets you get hundreds and hundreds of people actually looking taking pictures so if you want to be a superstar this is the car you need to get. to maybe. think you. face karzai small pieces all the time in history by trying that is actually why challenge but next quick man's rivals and rights is what makes this rally so particularly interesting how many will give courses actually prove quite a challenge for those used to automatics both course nice rally it's not about who comes first i will come second it's all about who has the rarest been to each car the most expansive cheering and whose looks that actually can pass you with those

car. so fun wheels there now a few minutes time we hear from is from prism of religious media spokes person we ask her about his plans for the future also in sport legendary boxer and favor with fans all over the world roy jones jr was floored by russia's best fighters saturday night rumors of the details on that in twenty minutes how do you stay with us not so the palms out here on our team from moscow.

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