the entire truth wins or eternal torture it's no good i would international. to cheat every dream lawyer told him told them. today's top stories are under review of the week is spain's ruling socialist is that the big defeats in local elections as a mass protests take place across the country against soaring unemployment and the government's handling of the nation's economic crisis. does the ex international monetary fund falls dominic's charles can always trial and sex charges in new york there are fears that his absence will damage negotiations over the e.u. bailout supported by his personal contacts of european leaders. the georgian opposition calls for a third day of government protests as demonstrators clashed with police on the streets of tbilisi demanding president saakashvili steps down because his

opposition leader tells r.t. evolution has begun. because the mystery of whether dmitri medvedev plans to run for a second term remains unsolved with the president giving nothing away of his future intentions during a two hour press conference. and welcome to the program this is our scenes weekly review of our top story on to government protests have been intensifying across spain despite their fishel ban on political demonstrations as the country went to the polls in local elections the ruling socialist party has suffered bruising defeat seemingly in response to its handling of spain's mounting economic crisis with ninety one percent of the votes counted in municipal elections the rival conservative popular party is almost ten percent. points ahead at least thirty thousand people have been occupying the great

central square of days over the government's economic policies and soaring unemployment nationwide demonstrations to over the crippling recession as artists have found three pauls a visitation doesn't change say spain could be next to live for any rescue package . first greece then. and now portugal as the euro is a growing number there are now serious concerns that spain could be the next to topple protestors throughout europe i can bring to a case even more taxpayers' money being plowed into rescuing others was. think again. that the government. i don't think that my break about it. was forty three hundred twenty five that is why i didn't like the whole labor market because i was

i think that this is going to be. this is. the woman we were listening when we were millions and the year is a 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 years but 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 buying out of spins debts 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 you. got a computer the big question. now it's just how much longer can the usa continue

bankrolling those going bust as the spiraling debt crisis continues to escalate ministers are struggling to maintain a united front noid. financial survival for such countries a strain would seriously. 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. think in tunis the breakdowns because they said it was fun to see her. problems continue. and now portugal the possibility of spain becoming the next series in countries that still remains a very real threat right now you're ok and i do and the reality. is. there. talk the euro

zone bailouts could be compromised by the arrest of the international monetary fund's chief on charges of sexual assault against a hotel working new york comics fans can has resigned over this scandal and his own six million dollars bail awaiting trial french finance minister christine legarde has emerged as the frontrunner for his job but his actions donald bush reports trask contacts with easy leaders were key to helping save the euro so far. no strong cold no euro that's what bankers a whispering off the police charged the now course with the attempted rape of a hotel maid very differently the possibility that some countries could decide to leave the euro pushed out of the euro and then we've got to understand that common interest can believe that the euro could and should be saved in the face of nourse the resistance from richer states stross kong live 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 the irish economy i think these allegations are going to be. 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. some of the new heads of state government so that made a difference he has good card debts 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 another bailout. 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 the reward it wants is an asian chief who's not likely to

be as europe friendly a strong he has been very personally very important in getting the i.m.f. 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. biggest investment banks filled three years ago it triggered a global recession we're still reeling from today but it's still the driving the euro to extinction will only make matters worse the consequences probably would be higher and national you know that was for instance as a bankruptcy of lehman in two thousand and eight with e.u. economies that this is all this 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 strauss kahn was instrumental in rescuing the eurozone most

troubled states is a risk does seem to threaten the end of the euro itself. see paris. there with child care and the downfall the hunt is on for the new boss of the i.m.f. economics writer. is that changes at the top of the organization might stop efforts to use alternative reserve paris's to the u.s. dollar. because having left the international monetary fund for such a dramatic way shows that the powers that be were not very happy with mr stiles was promoting the special drawing rights which in a way are the mechanism that would make the other suffer i think that we are going to see that who are vying. for the helm at the i.m.f. will keep away from getting the strip too strongly participation in doing away with the us dollar in other words the u.s. dollar needs to be the key currency and anything which is seen as competition automatically puts on warning lights anything that will trigger countries to sell

off the u.s. treasury bond holdings is a sign of trouble for the united states because as i say those treasury bonds us further ones is what allows boehner langley to have his printing presses going on twenty four hours a day if that were to be stopped and if america were to start printing currency well america could at least financially collapse. this is all see i'm still ahead in the program. revolution unrest hosni mubarak's regime may be gone but are egyptians really rejoicing in life post revolution. georgian opposition groups have called on supporters to remain overnight in the counter told police that for a third day of anti-government protests they want president saakashvili to step down and have vowed to keep up demonstrations until he resigns around three thousand attended a rally outside a television channel headquarters police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at one

stage dispositive as traitors armed with sticks that's been a call for a day of rage and when states of the south of the government and for early elections opposition leader you know but you know that said what she described as criminal actions by the regime has set a revolt in motion. evolution is that it will be gone and it's not up to us as a government to be generalization when the government began to terrorize people when government raised six hundred still absolutely innocent people witness government to be teens very seriously of the lives of people when they confiscate property of those the citizens and at last was a group more times peaceful money because they should i would like to remind you that the city is the shipyard sumption by the side of the government and i would like to mention one thing that we have fighting for democracy we decided that we

are continuing rally tonight too so we are keeping cease in our place even. we would be ready to tomorrow legal it tomorrow if need be ready the day of the jamaat a little later the day after tomorrow he will be ready trying to perhaps he will let's turn to keeps its but it will be not a very long process so that is the we will lead in the race here against and we go who know from the inside it a world economy and international relations says there's been no freedom democracy since president saakashvili came into power. the problem has been boarding the scene strange all force all five. came to power his predecessor's them about another georgian public he's increasingly dissatisfied saakashvili if he is away or cracking down on any kind of a position of contradiction georgia. can train to all for once i personally came into power during the years of the opposition there was freedom of speech the

political part is the different views all for internal and external policies of the country 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 of the conscious. the british military operation in iraq has come to a close after more than eight years but the last remaining royal navy training started having pulled out again the same day as multiple bombings had baghdad 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 rule of the outside groups significantly in britain as a result one hundred seventy nine british military personnel died in the conflict and was draw of most of u.k. forces got under way almost two years ago critics say british involvement failed to

make iraq a safer place with terror attacks still a regular occurrence chancellor bodo of the iraq body count research project says the u.k. has tended to ignore the casualties are they swarm. commentators or whatever political persuasion were for or against this conflict are kind of united in something even casual treatment of iraq the cost of this and we believe that this will not be laid to rest properly until there is a fall and be told inquiry into iraq you don't sort of been caused whatever benefits may have accrued to some people in iraq and these are highly contested people who died 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 engagement of our military forces we do better in terms of 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 that goes to libya pays more attention to the civilian casualties which it claims particularly in libya that it's trying to avoid when it so far has shown itself willing to do. it is speech to america's main program being group a president obama has made sure of state risks increasing isolation of it fails to engage in the peace process and he clarified his call for a referendum to return rather to pre nine hundred sixty seven borders explaining their final boundaries of both the israeli and a new palestinian state would be determined after agreed land swaps not the exact frontiers of those times prime minister binyamin netanyahu earlier rejected the idea and political analysts join amir charmers america's getting tired stubbornness of israel's. there's no question that the united states is well beyond patience with netanyahu and with israel more generally behind closed doors

the united states is furious with israel deaconess that 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 has some power for. grave damage to obama's political future when president obama was saying very clearly is that israel is being isolated around the world and 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 is just for the united states and disastrous for israel and that's the message that obama is sending today but unfortunately the

message is not getting through and for more on the israeli palestinian peace process check out our website i'll see the home and here's what's houses lined out figure right now. it's reporting need i pointed out collided leading threatening to carry out terror attacks in london in revenge for a salad and got instead saying the u.k. they're proud of. must be crushed also. find out how to wash your hair a zero gravity we caught up with an american astronaut gearing up for another mission into orbit and more on the challenges of dating life in space tito. well it's a well that's what many have been trying to answer as the trying to twelve presidential campaign in russia draws close than a president slate has to q. and a session it was a perfect opportunity to throw the question into the ring but he through its tried by couch again catarina. one hundred thirty seven minutes eight

hundred journalists seventy two questions and one man to answer and. russian president dmitry medvedev held his first major press conference on wednesday giving many a chance to voice their questions but while some were serious what would you say is there a chance to give to each of our veterans well deserved accommodation 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 that is watching us in the way. it was the question of a possible second term that everyone including the president expected the most extreme year i do 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 as well have a greater political impact and i will follow this principle serve i want to make a statement i will make it. the mystery of whether current president it is or for

former president clinton will run for office in twenty twelve has become moscow's most it be a topic according to admit if the two men share a lot of views but also have their differences and the ship question yes my in my relationship with my colleague and political partner put in is not just something that people call a tandem actually we have been working together for over twenty years and we know each other well we think alike and all views on key issues in our country's development are very close but this doesn't mean we always think the same way we have different views on modernization i think this process can be much faster because it was carrying sidestepped the most intriguing topic minit it still took time to focus on major domestic and international issues and archie's question about syria pounded into me a very strong statement he said as if by syria yes i will not support. lucian's on

syria frankly speaking they were disregarded by the actions that some states took even though initially russia supported the first resolution and didn't veto the second what happened afterwards demonstrated that these kinds of resolutions can be manipulated this is deplorable because it undermines the all thirty of the u.n. but 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 currently 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 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. he could of course he is released who he did injure to society that was a short question and the old some will be equally sure no absolutely not the president's new server i'm likely to influence who got a 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 nigeria to toward parole. although he has such air possibility according to war you know the sort of things happen sperry read in any country in korean version so i think basically award mediator wanted to say is that he doesn't dispute the decisions of the court but he doesn't consider this person at the angel. as the press conference came to

a close reporters debated its success after nearly two and a half hours with him in the days of break the press there well and headed back to the kremlin but the question that remains unanswered is will he stay there after twenty twelfth's captures are artsy moscow. and r.t. caught up with dmitri medvedev his press secretary straight after the conference but tell it to mccall explained why the president has taken his time to answer the question on everyone's lips that is coming up next how. it was fragile interim leadership is being tested by secretary of violence keeping the country on the edge there's a popular uprising toppled hosni mubarak's regime christians have been targeted in several times by muslim radicals with churches torched and dozens killed and has autism area for national reports many egyptians are it is an illusion and with a change the revolution has brought so far. president mubarak's government

but the reason even the satisfaction in the teton free egypt. previously unified on the square through a common enemy barak's resignation so egypt and muslims and christians turn on each other. we want justice we want equal rights. in institutions in businesses believe in oregon in politics. for centuries the coptic christian minority has felt discriminated in a country germinated by eighty million muslims the revolutionary euphoria has brought a desire for change. people have to sit through them and they like it now we are kind of fed up with the situation. tensions in the past month have met dozens killed schools injured and several churches burned as muslim woman and her entire family had been welcome in liberation until her twenty four year old son was

killed. in the street by a brief thrown during sectarian clashes in baghdad and all the flashpoint as the use of syrian religious tension boil over. we know mubarak was a dictator maybe he was corrupt with at least to 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 miss the old regime. but others glorify the january revolution among them the muslim brotherhood then down to mubarak today to the country's only well organized political group with the president gone they moved from jail cells to this luxury building in central cairo the revolution given them a long awaited voice that. radicals are triggering the term they saw how the revolution united people and they want to ruin that they don't want to see egypt strong and independent but i'm sure they will disappear after the parliamentary

election campaigns. in batteries chiros poorest district 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 a weekend 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 was and what egypt can ever recover. refresh our team cairo. time now to check some other headlines from around the world up line bothered by the u. 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 west bank's dictator said be blind to its thieving leave thirty days and granting immunity could lead to civil war i live and work in

a fair. european arab and bassett has heard wanted him to accept big deal to be freed after being trapped for hours in embassy by armed mob around one hundred seventy people have died since january in demonstrations with more protests today. iceland has imposed a local fly by night and close its main airport after the country's most actually volcano erupted and covered nearby villages and farms and even reached the capital harbor experts eight hundred likely to cause widespread disruption to have traffic like last year when they rupture of another volcano led to the closure of a large section of european air space. iran says it has arrested thirty people allegedly linked to a spy network run by the u.s. central intelligence agency it said big network how to operate out of american diplomatic missions in the u.a.e. malaysia in turkey the report we read was state heaved didn't prove any further details but claimed the agents had been asked to spy on iran's research institute

nuclear programs and other sites. american corvettes and soviet era volga is were the kings of the road in moscow for a classic car rally and rates were for their owners the magnificent machines are not just a means of transport they are a way of life actually is a good. report. let's examine these cars on the country's shopping streets we have it almost there is this about a combination. of people come together at least sunday in the first time truck most of the loop shop out plastic we can't rally but this has become an annual event organizers had their systems all day watch making and you're a company for about cars from us cadillac suncor about still some of it made told us to get out there. in this rally some of the participants of the rally true being to each car and examines collectors like d.j. tele group tell me more about you have you see what is it or is it it's

a chevy camaro ninety sixty nine three hundred sixty engine almost four hundred horsepower upgraded to almost five hundred. well it's one of the unique cars in moscow since moscow is not really a muscle car city not like los angeles suppose. how did you get it what's the story the purchase this story goes through the early two thousand the car was boarded and . then we upgraded the court with some wish to ration and this is kind of the car moscow most of us are not really used to see so once you get on the streets you get hundreds and hundreds of people looking at taking pictures so if you want to be a superstar this is the car you need to get from moscow. thank you. these cars are useful pieces all cars had a history of our driving that is actually quite a challenge quite an equipment rivals and growth is what makes this rally so

particularly interesting and maybe i'll give also is actually improved quite a challenge for those used to automatics both course lease rally is not about who comes first second it's all about who has the rarest been to each car the most expansive cheating and whose lives are actually compact soup with those obvious car . to say hello back in a few minutes but they were here the headline states and. the .

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