today's top stories and a review of ruby tuesday's reading social is that the big defeats in local elections as mass protests take place across the country against soaring unemployment and the government's handling of the nation's economic crisis. and the and international monetary fund boards dominique's charles cullen awaits trial and sex charges in new york there are these these answers will vanish negotiations of the e.u. bailout which bradley's class will call towns with european leaders and. the georgian opposition calls for their day to government protests as those demonstrators clashed with police in the streets of tbilisi demanding president saakashvili steps down the country's opposition leader tells r.t.

evolution has begun. does that history or whether any treaty that applies to run for a second term remains unsold with the president giving nothing away when he's future intentions during a two hour press conference. alone welcome to the drug run this is aussie's weekly review thanks for joining us on the government protests have been intensifying across spain despite the official ban and political demonstrations as the country went to the polls in local elections the ruling socialist party has some but cruising did feed seemingly in response to its handling of spain's mounting economic crisis with ninety one percent of the votes counted in new support elections the rival conservative popular party is almost ten percentage points ahead at least thirty thousand people have been

occupying the great central square for days over the government's economic policies and civil and employment there have been nationwide demonstrations to over the crippling recession as artie's south faster pools if the situation doesn't change so. thank you that's the wife running the rest. first greece then ireland and now portugal as the euros things bail out but number there are now serious concerns that spain could be the next to topple the protesters throughout europe hammering to a case even more taxpayers' money being plowed into rescuing others. that if i had done that on this very. thing it can. mean that the government is getting i don't think my break about it probably was forty three percent in under twenty five is that what i didn't like the whole labor market opens

a little side if you think i think that there's going to be inside this is only. a million times a year is a problems weren't enough there is now talk of greece defaulting on its loans even potentially exiting the year together and portugal's recent bailout is reported to be worth around seventy eight billion. that spain is the euro zone's fulfill largest economy the different challenge altogether if it fails. if the situation happens when the markets would not manage and buying 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 that any cost because spain is too big to fail. the big question now is just how much longer can the aries

a continue bankrolling there is going bust as a spiraling debt crisis continues to escalate it is a ministers are struggling to maintain a united front. financial survival so this country's history would seriously injure you 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 ten years to play down speculation that would be the next seats up for. this. and that portugal possibly it is a mix up in the next year i think the teeth of remains a very real threat and right now the european i do and the reality. that is so far apart. that. talks of the

eurozone bailouts can be compromised by the arrest of the international monetary fund's chief on charges of sexual assault against a hotel worker in new york dominique strauss kahn has resigned over the scandal and as all six million dollar bail awaiting trial french finance minister christine legarde has emerged as the frontrunner for his job but as his daniel bushell reports the trial counsel contracts contacts with leaders who are key to helping save the ailing so far. no stroll score no euro that's what bankers 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 norse the resistance from richest states stross kong live this week's bailout of crippled portugal

germany and france insist on oil and raises its low corporation tax t.s.k. as he's known as the man arguing it's what is saving the irish economy thing these allegations are going to be. of the i.m.f. as an institution. is definitely going to be missed i think. strobes call on even persuaded greece's leader to stick with strict spending cuts despite roy it's on the streets but he. says some of you heads of state governments are. different he has good 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 and not the bailouts. should leave the eurozone that has put under strain the euro choice is one of the i.m.s. top bikers contributing tens of billions of euro the reward it wants is an asian

chief who is not likely to be as europe friendly. he has been very personally very important in getting the i.m.f. involved and assisting in designing the bailout packages but also coaxing and encouraging politicians to do the reforms necessary now you may not get the equivalent kind of person with the same kind of convictions coming from the emerging markets when one of the. world's biggest investment banks fell three years ago it triggered a global recession we're still reeling from today but it's felt that driving the euro to extinction will only make matters worse the consequences probably would be higher and. that was for instance as a bankruptcy of lehman in two thousand and eight with e.u. economies that 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 dominic's was calm was instrumental in rescuing the eurozone as most troubled states is a risk to seem to threaten the end of the euro itself and it will show aarti paris . georgian opposition groups have called on supporters to remain overnight in the capital tbilisi birth until government protests they want president saakashvili to start down and how to keep on demonstrations until he resigns around three thousand attended a rally outside a television channel scorches police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at one stage dispersed around strangers armed with sticks and a call for a day of rage and when state of fools out the government and for election as opposition leader nino butcher knives as washer described as criminal actions by the regime have said terrible. evolution is already going on and it's not still up was the government to degenerate militia and government began to terrorize people when government arrested hundreds of excellent the innocent people when the

government could be teens very seriously. lots of people would say confiscated property of the citizens and at last was a credit balance for chives peaceful money for station i would like to remind you that this money is the asians are sanctioned by the side of the government and i would like to mention one thinking that we have fighting for democracy we decided that we are continuing rally tonight too so we are keeping exist in our place he. will be ready tomorrow he will like to model it will be rabies the day after tomorrow will it the day after tomorrow he will be ready trying to pierce the will let's twenty fields it's back it's will be not a very long process so that is the we will lead in the race few dates. and eager hospital from the institute of world economy and international relations because

there's been no freedom or democracy since president saakashvili came into power. the problem has been warnings and seen strange all for strange all five when saakashvili came to power. criticize them about another georgian public he's increasingly dissatisfied with saakashvili if he is away or cracking down on any kind of a position contrary to georgia was a country in jail for one side actually came into power during the years of the opposition and so there was freedom of speech to political party is that had different views all for internal and external policies of the contrary. really has been doing for the last seven years is cracking down on any opposition and actually has managed to alienate not only all the political parties but most of the pollution of the culture. the british military operation in iraq has come to

a close after more than eight years with the last remaining royal navy training star how he pulled out and came the same day as multiple bombings had better start 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 turns out to be nonexistent opposition to the war would be outside groups significantly in britain as a result hundred seventy nine british military personnel died in the conflict and withdrawal of most of u.k. forces got underway almost two years ago critics say british moment failed to make iraq a safer place with terror attacks still a regular occurrence and john sloboda of the iraq was a coward research projects as the u.k. has tended to ignore the casualties of this. commentators or whatever political persuasion worth of for or against this conflict are kind of united in the paper and some 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 full and detailed inquiry into the iraqi deaths that are being 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 and we should know all we can about understand that and try and ensure that in any future engagement of i would actually forces we do better in terms of saving human lives it's clear that the person 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. this is still ahead in the program breaking away from the u.k. find out if britain can resist a strong scottish call for freedom. but

a speech to america's main pro israel lobbying group aipac president obama has said they cherish state of race increasing isolation if it fails to engage in the peace process to clarify his call for a return to pre-one thousand nine hundred sixty seven borders explaining that the final boundaries of things raney and the new products state would be determined after agreed land swaps will be exact times prime minister binyamin netanyahu. but let's go next to john as america's getting tired of israel's stubbornness there is 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 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 y.b. in this country does some powerful. great damage to obama's political future and president obama was saying very clearly is that israel is isolated around the world and the palestinians are gaining your 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 yesterday the united states is this mr israel and that's the message that obama is sending today but unfortunately the message is not getting through. nato show no sign of backing down in its aerial bombing campaign media report us now operates more than sixty days in libya without official consent from congress critics say that military action is constitutionally

illegal as a breach as they were. meanwhile even officials say the bombing campaign has created a humanitarian crisis accusing nato forces of violating the un resolution under which they've taken action at the head of britain's armed forces has declared that killing kind of kodachi would be within their rules as nato already is itself a known war this comes after the international criminal court announced its sinking of arrest warrants. but journalist james corbett says a case could set a dangerous precedent and. it would be easy to dismiss the international criminal court's appeal for a an arrest warrant for his crimes against humanity as that is something of a farce especially considering that the international criminal courts the prosecutor's office now admits that not a single member of that office actually bothered to step foot in looking at some investigate behind against humanities with which he was 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 through juridical action in this international criminal court simply by fiat to crete and so the ludicrous nature of the entire operation is exposed and announced 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 a human three 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 president 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 nato has your money interests through to dictate their foreign policy through that score. check out of more on the stories we're covering at all to your home regular updates and i count your media as they're always on live for you and right now. the u.s.

state department is on the hunt for white new york resident who went around to car dealerships posing as a russian diplomat to get the best deals on luxury vehicles and also. i am not a. serious went terribly wrong about it was. so also he talks to danish director laws the wrong tree if you became persona non grata after shopping audiences of the cannes film festival with his comments on hitler trashed the whole each of you top t.v. . will he stay or will he go that's what many have been trying to ask dmitri medvedev for the twenty twelve presidential campaign in russia draws closer and the president's major q. and a session was a perfect opportunity to throw the question into the ring but he thirsts trade i count again. as the details. one hundred thirty seven minutes for eight hundred journalists seventy two questions and one man to answer and that would be

president of the middle age of how this first major press conference on wednesday giving many a chance to voice their questions but while some are serious what would you say is there a chance to give to each of our actions well deserved accommodations are you and some more light hearted. i know that your wife has to park in knots and i have nowhere to park my own car so maybe i could borrow one of his education but. it was the question of the possible second kiran that everyone including the president expected the most extreme year i give those a deal it's a decision over the 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 server i want to make a statement i will make it easy to pick you fishing in this trail but our current president reader four former president putin will run for office in two thousand

and twelve has become moscow's most evaded topic according to the diminutive h.m.n. share a lot of views but also have their differences lesser question yes my aim my relationship with my colleague and political partner about it may have put in is not just something that people call a tandem it is actually we have been working together for over twenty years and we know each other well that's why we think alike and all views on key issues in our country's development are very close we can this doesn't mean that we always think the same way we have different views on modernization and i think this process but much faster than it was getting sidestepped the most intriguing topic we needed 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 it is not as if a syria support red. lucian's on syria frankly speaking they were disregarded by

the actions that some states took but almost even though initially russia supported the first resolution and didn't veto the second what happened afterwards demonstrated that these kinds of resolutions but it can be manipulated this is deplorable because they don't live modestly or thirty of the un but it shows according to somebody 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 uneasiness 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 the order of regional journalists present many questions focused on domestic matters but none subject of great interest in egypt

both in russia and abroad that is the imprisonment of former. leader released who he did in such a society that was assured that it was true and the old same with absolutely sure no absolutely not the president's use of reclined likely to influence him back with a sentence i don't think is going to be released and after all it's not the president who will put him in jail and i don't think it will be politically easy for material to do or the role. although he has such a possibility according to war you know these sort of things happens very rarely in any country in court in russia so i think basically what 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. is the press conference scheme to keep reporters u.p.d. its success after nearly two and

a half hours we've been in the debate the press very well and headed to the kremlin but the question that remains unanswered is will he stay there after twenty two outs. r.t. moscow. and also equal time with dmitry medvedev spurs secretary straight out of the conference and the explained why the president is taking his time to answer the question on everyone's lips and we'll have that interview for you around ten minutes time. and now on to some more headlines from around the world iceland has imposed a local flight close the main effort of the country's most active volcano ruptured ashton uncovered nearby villages and farms and even reach the capital however experts say the likely to cause widespread disruption to atrophy like last year when the eruption of another ball kaino led to the closure of a large section of european air space. iran says it has arrested thirty

people allegedly links to a spy network run by the u.s. central intelligence agency said the network has operated out of american diplomatic missions in the u.a.e. malaysia and turkey to report rebel state t.v. didn't provide any further details but claims the agents the agents had been asked to supply iran's research institutes in nuclear programs and other sites. planned out to buy a b u r z u. political crisis just collapsed after president ali abdullah saleh refused to sign a deal to step down the west dictator said the client would be seeking power with those thirty days on the ground immunity would lead to civil war earlier the american and several european an impasse that has long to him to accept that you have to be freed after being trapped for hours and overseen by an armed mob around one hundred seventy people. dyke there was genuine demonstrations within the class that's today. at least in the pakistani navy personnel have been

killed and now i'm going to add in a four hour firefight after a group of militants stormed a base outside camacho the country's largest city that's how it has also used rockets to destroy its abatements aircraft housed at the base no group has claimed responsibility by the pakistani taliban which is allied with al qaeda has vowed to retaliate for the death of osama bin ladin three weeks ago. in scotland independence and something many in edinburgh have been dreaming of for a very long time now with the recent election victory of the country scottish national party this may become reality lore and it looks at what sovereignty would mean for the celtic me. the starting pistol sounds in the race to independence for scotland the scottish national party now has a surprise majority in parliament and their hell bent on

a referendum on breaking away from the u.k. gain control over all resources responsibility for the problems with peace in our country and to be able to stand up and speak to the issues that matter to us. taking charge at home and we can feel that we have a voice abroad revenues from oil and gas in the north sea worth an estimated twenty one billion dollars to the u.k. treasury every year scotland says the reserves are in their waters it's hard to imagine the u.k. would let the oilfields go without a fight particularly as westminster wouldn't be legally obliged to honor a yes vote of the scottish people the union jacks days flying outside the scottish parliament could be numbers scotland's ditching the united kingdom good 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 you the s.n.p.

would support other european movements in their own struggle spring to penzance including wales and northern ireland if they so choose for the people of those countries to say what we want to do we would never support or condone violence in any shape or form clearly a for the country's wish to pursue an agenda they will get a great deal of sympathy for losses 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 striping the movement this is an argument that it's not whether it be rich a group it's all of it whether you feel as i do that we are scottish and british but we want to be and are being part of the union which i think you serve scotland well for over three hundred years the s.n.p. still has work to do if it wants scotland separate away even the most optimistic polls show only around forty percent of scots would vote yes and on the streets of

edinburgh people are divided the oil industry and the other do not say will be for strong but all the oil is denying all of this so we can go. on a journey not so. easy that to other people would rather scorn the self defense caucus of eyes of. the way this is called and as much as i'm close to the. thing that because of either feature or oh if your own shortly should have mentioned the village. would be freaking out all day one make. sure you know enough about it it's ok to do a lot of things but i could do it one way or the other the s.n.p. has time to bring the onshore ground it's putting off a referendum until the second half of its five year government it would be the beginning of a new era for scotland which has been independent since seventeen zero seven but it's always retained a strong and distinction national identity something the s.n.p.

will be playing on with all its might know and it's all at sea edinburgh. and in a few minutes we'll hear from president and better media spokes person and ask her about his plans for the future that's after a recap of the life stage you. wealthy

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