today's top stories and a review of good we made his ruling social is a big defeat in local elections as mass protests take place across the country against the soaring unemployment and the government's handling of the nation's economic crisis. under the axe international monetary fund was dominique charlestown awaits trial on alleged sex charges in new york there are fears he's absence will damage negotiations of the e.u. bailout by his personal contacts with european leaders. the georgian opposition calls for a third day abounded government protests presidents traders clashed with police on the streets of tbilisi demanding president saakashvili steps down the country's

opposition leader tells r c a revolution has begun to. plunge the mistral what whether to make plans to run for a second time remains unsolved with the president giving nothing away of his future intentions during a two hour press conference. and a very warm welcome to the program this is our weekly review of our timings story antigovernment protests have been intensifying across spain despite that the short ban and political demonstrations as the country went to the polls in local elections the reading socialist party has suffered bruising to feeds similarly in response to its handling of spain's mounting economic crisis with ninety one percent of the votes counted in municipal elections do you. conservative popular

party is almost ten percentage points ahead at least two thousand people have been occupying the dreaded central square for days over the government's economic policies and soaring unemployment and they have a nationwide demonstrations over the crippling recession our first reports if the situation doesn't change see spain could be next in line for any you rescue package . that's greece then ireland and now portugal as the year is saying is bailouts go a number there are now serious concerns that spain could be the next to topple the protesters throughout europe i clamoring to even more taxpayers' money being plowed into rescuing others. to go ahead and that very. thing again. that is because. i don't. think that it.

was forty three hundred twenty five that is why i didn't like the whole labor market was a little side was i think that these are going to be sad this is only. the women we were listening with the millions who if the year is things problems weren't enough there is now talk of greece defaulting on its loans even potentially accepting the altogether and portugal's recent bailout is reported to be worth around seventy eight billion year spain is the euro zone's fulfill largest economy a 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 that you 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 to big . you lead out of. the big question now is just how much longer can the

usa continue bankrolling those going bust as the spiraling crisis continues to escalate there is a ministers are struggling to maintain a united front. of financial survival for such countries a spain could seriously injure the euro it could lead to the abuse of two currency zones in europe a strong group of countries using the euro and the rest not using it. thinking tony is the breakdown speculation be the next one see her. this problem is continuing greece ireland and now portugal possibly it is the same becoming an experience in countries that remains a real threat and right now you're a kid like this and the reality is not so far apart there are.

talks on the euro zone bailouts can be compromised by the rest of the international monetary fund's cheap on charges of sexual assault against a hotel working new york dominique strauss kind of has resigned over the scandal and his own six million dollars bail awaiting trial french finance minister christine legarde has emerged as the frontrunner for his job but there's also his daily bushong reports trials counts conference where he using leaders who are key to helping save the ailing you are so far. no strobes cold no euro that's what because the whispering of the police charged the now. 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 their way you got to understand that. belief that the euro could and should be saved in the face of nor still resistance from richer states stross kong led 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 all doing it's what is saving your issue calling me think these allegations are going to be. of the i.m.f. as an institution. is definitely going to be missed. stross call even persuaded greece's leader to stick with strict spending cuts despite royals on the streets here as. some of you had state governments so that 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 d s k has gone few back and not the bailout. greece should leave the euro zone that has put under strain the euro joiner is one of the top backers contributing

tens of billions of euro to ruled it wants is an asian chief who's not likely to be as europe friendly it's true. 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 behind a person with the same kind of convictions coming from the emerging markets when one of the. biggest investment banks fell three years ago it triggered a global recession we're still reeling from today but it's filled the driving bureau treat stiction will only make matters worse the consequences probably would be higher and not sure that was for instance as a bankruptcy of lehman in two thousand and eight with the e.u. economies that 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 dominique source code 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 noble through to paris. georgian opposition groups have called on supporters to remain overnight in the council for a third day of anti-government protests they want president saakashvili to step down and how to keep on going to stray shrines until he resigns around three thousand attended the rally outside a television channel headquarters he's fired tear gas and rubber bullets at one stage to disperse demonstrations armed with sticks and that's been a call for a day of rage on wednesday to see how the government and elections opposition leader. she describes as criminal action by the regime said it will hold in russia . evolution is already going on and it's not up to us the government in general the finland government. to terrorize people like governments here to risk

it convict self absolutely innocent people by a government that beats very seriously. lots of people would say confiscate property of the citizens and at last when secret ballot four times peaceful manifestation i would like to remind you that this many of his patients are sanctioned by the side of the government and i would like to mention one thing that we have fighting for democracy we decide. we are continuing rally tonight too so we are keeping this. plane if. we would be ready to model to model it will be ready the day after to model will it be up to tomorrow it will be ready thank you we have to pull the transit gives back it will be not very long process so we will exit in the race you. know from the

international world economy and international relations there's been no freedom or democracy since president saakashvili came into power. the problem has been boardings the scene strange all force which all five. came to. criticise them. the georgian public is increasingly dissatisfied with saakashvili because he is away or freaking down on any kind of a position contra through them and georgia was very concrete injury all for one side actually came into power and during the. opposition movements of there was freedom of speech and the political part is the different views calls for internal and external policies of the contras. has been doing for the last several years he's cracking down on any opposition and actually he has managed to live in age not only all the political parties but most of the pollution in the conscious. still ahead in our reveal that we are ripping

a story that should the nation find out the case of cannibalism and irrational kept sort of later in our program. the british military operation in iraq has come to a close after more than eight years of the last remaining royal navy training start having pulled out it came the same day as multiple bombings had died killing at least sixteen people the u.k. joined the american invasion of iraq in two thousand and three supposedly to destroy saddam hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction which turned out to be nonexistent opposition to the war and be outside greece significantly in britain as a result one hundred seventy nine british military personnel died in the conflict and whose joy of most of u.k. forces got under way almost two years ago critics say british involvement failed to make rock a safer place with terror attacks still a regular occurrence trying to slow down the iraq body count research project so the u.k. has tended to ignore the casualties of this war. commentators of whatever political

persuasion with of for or against this conflict are kind of united in the people are and so you can encourage your treatment of iraq the cost of this and we believe that this will not you know to rest properly until there is a fall and be told inquiry into the iraq you know sort of being caused whatever benefits may have accrued to some people in iraq and these are highly contested people who died are absolutely the ultimate losers of this conflict and we should know all we can about that. and try ensure that in any future engagement of our military forces we do better in terms of state and 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 pays more attention to the civilian casualties which it claims particularly in libya than it's trying to avoid when it so far has shown

itself willing to do. in a speech to america's main priorities were low being green bay packer present a bramah. state of risks increasing isolation and fails to engage in the peace prices clarified his call for a return to pre nine hundred sixty seven borders explaining that the final boundaries of police radio and a new palestinian state would be determined after the great alliance holds the exact details of those times prime minister. rejected the idea. that america is getting tired of israel's stubbornness. 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 serious 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 the american presidents face is that you can't put any pressure on israel because the lobby in this country has some powerful way to do great damage to obama's political future and president obama was saying 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 as true as the united states and says this is for israel and that's the message that obama is sending to young but unfortunately the message is not getting through. nato is showing no sign of backing down its aerial go on the campaign in the us now or praise him for more than six today from the bay without a shark inferred from congress critics say that military action is constitutionally illegal as

a breach as they will powers act meanwhile even officials say the bombing campaign has created a humanitarian crisis accusing nato forces of violating the un resolution under which they take an action they had of britain's armed forces have declared that killing kind of it would be within their rules as nato ratings itself for a long war it comes after the international criminal court and now states seeking arrest warrants what they need in the theater but journalist james corbett says the case could set a dangerous precedent. it would be easy to dismiss the international criminal court's appeal for a 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 can investigate crimes against humanity with which he is charged but i think this is actually that's a very troubling precedence in the realm of international jurisprudence where we see the idea that for all intents and purposes and you know geo political foreign

policy can now be justified to put them through juridical action in this international criminal court simply by the creed and so the ludicrous nature of the entire operation is it's a lose their own mask for all to see in that 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 precedence 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 and. or had your money interests dictate their foreign policy through the score. god nor in the stories we're covering it are too dark on regular updates and i catch in videos are always online for you right now read about the throughout the state department is on the hunt for

former new york resident who went around car dealerships posing as a russian diplomat to get the brats to use all about sri vehicles aren't. there in london it's. fair to say this went terribly wrong there are and was. so hot he talks to danish director laws one cheer became persona non grata after shocking audiences at the cannes film festival were his comments on hitler ashley hall interview at our teeth dot com. well hysteria will he go that's what many have been trying to ask the retributive the twenty twelve presidential campaign in russia draws closer the president's latest q. and a session was a perfect opportunity throw the question to the ring but he threw it straight back out again after his country nose out of a high thirty's hail. one hundred thirty seven minutes eight hundred journalists seventy two questions and one man to answer. russian president dmitry medvedev held

his first major press conference on wednesday giving me the chance to voice their questions but while some are serious was reduced is there a chance to give to each of our veterans well deserved accommodation. and sound more light hearted. i know that your wife is to parking lots and i've no right to park my own car so maybe i could borrow one that is less wishing. it was a question of a possible second term that everyone including the president expected the most extreme year and he goes with the decision over the presidential race is not made in this kind of format and should be made when the situation is right is without a greater political impact and i will follow this principle so if i want to make a statement i will make it. the mystery of whether current president radio four former president putin will run for office and twenty twelve has become moscow's

most it be a catholic according to the median age of the two men share a lot of views but also have their differences. yes my name my relationship with my colleague and political partner putin is not just something the people call a tandem 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 could be much faster . having sidestepped the most intriguing topic mean that it still took time to focus on major domestic and international issues and archie's question about syria contra him to me a very strong statement he said as a syrian 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 un. it shows according to some a growing unease with decisions made concerning the middle east is committed have appeared somewhat to regret russia's support of the resolution on libya was quite strong in saying that. the actions are currently going beyond what he thought he was voting for. so i think internationally people take note of that because of all 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 to the media both in russia and abroad is the

imprisonment of. course he is released will he be a danger to society that was assured question and the old some will be equally sure absolutely not the president's new server i'm likely to influence who don't give a sentence i don't think he's going to be released and after all it's not the president. and i don't think it will be politically easy for me to really have to. they're all there of course although he has such a possibility according to war but you know these sort of things happened very rarely you know any country including brush or choice in greece or italy award mediator for wanted to say is that he doesn't dispute the decisions of the court but he doesn't consider this person of interest is the press conference came to close reporters its success after nearly two and a half hours with the image of

a debate the press farewell and headed back to the kremlin but the question that remains unanswered is will he stay there after twenty twelve. our team moscow. undersea caught up with regret it is for a secretary straight out of the conference in a corner explains why the president is taking its time to answer the question on everyone's lips and or how that interview and around ten. let's check some other news stories from around the world iceland have opposed the local flight and closed its main airport out of the country's most active volcano erupted and covered nearby villages and farms and even reached the capital harbor experts say and likely to cause widespread disruption to air traffic like last year when the eruption of another led to the closure of a large section of european airspace. iran says it has arrested thirty people

allegedly links to a spy network run by the u.s. intelligence agency it had been network operated out of american diplomatic missions in the u.a.e. malaysia and turkey the report writer and state t.v. didn't provide any further details but claimed the agency had been asked to spy on iran's research institute nuclear programs and other sites. up while bugged by the us e.u. and arab states to and yemen's political crisis has collapsed after president ali abdullah saleh refused to sign a deal to step down the western backed dictators said the plan which would see him leave power with the thirty days and grant immunity would lead to civil war american and several european arab and battered as you had wanted him to accept to do you had to be free i had to be freed after being trapped for hours in an embassy by a number of mob around one hundred seventy people have died as genuine interest with more protests today. a story of dismemberment and cannibalism horrify big russian

capital this week or two weeks police have been finding human body parts in a mosque area before discovering ahead on saturday she's peed all over has been following big gruesome case. dismembered body parts the school that around moscow the man accused of a chilling murder and should is through the russian capital manages a smile for the cameras as he's led away. well. i was cleaning the rubbish bin and the container was full so i tried to press it down. it was then i saw a box covered in plastic bags i tried to move it the source and hand sticking out. and now police are confident that they have their man having it we're going to in fact no charges have been served yet against him we have filed an application to the court to have him arrested for ten days he's now suspected not accuse mind of murdering a man and later dismembering the body the suspect is quite calm and composed he

describes what he did in great detail not showing a hint of repentance or great he says that the victim totally deserved that nickel i should put in is charged with killing of a homeless man down on his luck and bite at the shell but it is home to share a drink the most gruesome discovery the suspects claimed to have cooked and eaten parts of his victim the manager of the apartment block was present at the arrest but didn't want to be identified. i came to the door asked him to open it but he wouldn't so we kicked it in at first he claimed he hadn't done anything then police found a liver in his refrigerator just showed it was human after that he started telling the truth about what happened he couldn't remember half of it because he was drunk when he did it the victim he remembered was from rostov and had recently got out of jail and didn't have a home to go to invited the man to his apartment he would invite anyone who offered to buy him alcohol shut in was already natori is in this part of western moscow

residence knew of his bouts of drunken behavior as well as tales of torture and a dog to death but his neighbors still can't believe something like this happened on their doorstep he was a little bit we just can't believe there's this person has lived next to us for so many years and all of a sudden he does this he's a sick person and he just gives a panic and then it turns out he's killed and eaten. someone will shudder and told the arresting officers how he killed the god of eight part of his body and then scattered his this embodied remains around the city some thrown into rubbish bins some cast into the river and others left out in plain sight like here in this park where you got his legs were found a registered schizophrenia showed that in being treated for his mental illness as well as spending time in prison his mother lives in the same apartment building told me how her son had come to her saying he had killed a man after hearing the man's hand had been discovered nearby but she didn't

believe him when you get your look you i don't believe that he did it i don't believe that he killed anyone i don't believe that he could cut someone up i don't believe that he could eat this i don't believe any of that has always been different when he was at school he said himself and gets the whole class and all the teachers in the teachers gave him a mark he thought was unfair next time he just wouldn't ride the tester call mental health professionals believe the severity of his illness coupled with his alcoholism mentee should have been undergoing extensive monitoring and treatment at the time he claims to have killed and eaten his victim respect if you can't close clinics for mentally disabled people but nobody listens to the practicing doctors and in consequence we have an increased number of patients with mental disabilities and an increased number of crimes committed by mentally disabled people to this

cannibal it's a vivid illustration of what i am talking about chuckles of police officers and appearing to cooperate with the authorities charged being looked calm as he was led back to his flat he'll remain in custody until psychological tests determine whether he can stand trial peter all or r.t. moscow. a very optimistic story for this hour i'll back in a few minutes with a review of the headlines.

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