dungeon tina a million people marched on thursday against the president and one of the largest anti-government rallies the country sitting here is protesters accuse christina for members of corruption and glossing over tough issues not the real level of inflation currently estimated twenty five percent of the initially popular for bringing down unemployment and strengthening state finances but now deteriorating economies hertha public spending. iraq goes to the polls on saturday but the election's already been marred with deadly sectarian violence a suicide bombing that's killed at least twenty seven people in baghdad kurdish leaders are pushing for independence at the provincial ballot despite strong government objections at stake two of the most of all deposits in the country's north which both sides want to exploit is artie's lucy cuff and often. they call them those who face death passion are gone once guerrilla rebels fighting saddam for an independent kurdistan now an officially sanctioned force in iraq's

semi autonomous kurdish region the peshmerga and the iraqi troops are supposed to be on the same side after all they're citizens of one country but for more than a year now here in northern iraq the two armies have been pitted against each other their weapons locked and loaded these peshmerga soldiers are on alert twenty four hours a day they're guarding the kurdish front line of the so-called disputed territory now no iraqi soldiers are allowed beyond this point if either army advances if there's even a single misfire it could spark a new war it's a war the past more gone is ready for. we have enough forces in place and enough firepower for the peshmerga to defend against any surprises if for attacks of course we will retaliate at the heart of the disputed territory is cure kook which both baghdad and the kurds say belongs to them.

it's like a small version of iraq with sunni shia christians arabs and kurds it's disputed because all the sexy but of course the other reason is kook's oil. the oil fires illustrate the main reason that this land is so hotly contested kirkuk a sitting on an estimated ten billion barrels of oil and is responsible for a large chunk of iraq's current output that's enough to sustain an independent state should the kurds get their way and annex this disputed territory it's also enough to bankrupt iraq if the oil revenue is lost that revenue makes up ninety five percent of iraq's annual budget of more than one hundred billion dollars and there's a lot more money at stake the international energy agency says iraq could export a staggering five trillion dollars worth of oil over the next two decades the kurds and the central government are supposed to share these profits but they haven't been able to sort out how. the oil and guys it's all iraqi

people. buy calls to sion but no no there is no we'll solve acceptable and standing between all iraqis on the revenue sharing this is the key problem or oil has transformed kurdistan into a boom town and the capital of air bill construction projects dot the landscape there are luxury malls and foreign investors are flocking here the region looks and feels like a different country and for the kurds that may be the ultimate goal but for now this is one iraq divided into two you have facial between. iraqi military and. military and when you have a situation like this it causes tension and if something goes wrong it can lead to . actual fight between the two sides. blood for oil is

a scenario that no one in iraq wants to see but the army's remain in place each side carefully watching the other kurd versus arab iraqi versus iraqi lucy catherine of r t reporting from the disputed territories in iraq so a big story like that looked on continues in boston we'll bring you more when we get it for the course of the evening it's now coming up to a ten to eleven at night kind of some business then with katie pilbeam i came to know where you got news that of course the world the world finance ministers been meeting in washington also talking about cheese cheese as well so they're going to talking about growth they're really getting the global economy back on track of course but i've also got a cheesy story coming up as always i know you'll like to see like ortiz i'm going to the markets as well also got a bit of scandal too little only going to fight all that into minutes none of this is going to end or yeah here i go after the break i mean.

you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then. you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything is. hard welcome to the big picture. plums.

the international airport in the very heart of moscow. can do business with a case of building hey the saving in that mosque i rush is playing host to the g twenty summit spring missing in washington this week global finance ministers and central bank governors has some tough topics to discuss including boosting global growth investment finance and financial regulation pacing the meeting also gives russia chance to promote its national interests that a summit itself will take place in september this year in some pieces but by now the european sovereign debt crisis is putting pressure on the russian economy as the country's main trading partner of course. spoke exclusively to russia's finance minister. on the situation in europe and his take on the slowdown in the global

economy. europe is in recession today there is a slowdown in growth in other major economies we believe this trend will continue in the coming years as for the russian economy we really depend on the situation in the world the full cost was revised to two point four percent in the current year lower g.d.p. growth will certainly reduce the flow into russia's coffers however we calculated the budget in all price of ninety seven dollars per barrel the current prices being about one hundred ten dollars per barrel since the beginning of the year so now we are seeing more oil and gas revenues than was planned also is also planning to propose measures to create a financial safety mechanism in order to avoid the banking crisis that recently hit cyprus we also asked mississippi one off about how he thinks cyprus is situation was handled. the question of the so-called

haircuts is the worst way to solve that problem the deposits in individual banks should be insured this is common practice but this should not be applied to banks with responsible lending policies that can continue to operate russia is interested in settling the cyprus banking crisis not everyone takes the finance ministers critical view that a professor of international economics. disagrees and thinks people need to face up to the consequences of lending to a bank. it was the only good step. is that the for the first time use taxpayers' money to deal with failing banks instead they started to use people who have been lending to money money to banks and who should know it's dangerous if you make a loan to a bank you take

a risk you have to face the consequences do you see it as a plot turn for other european countries to fight that crisis is what we see now is the understanding that there is a right way of closing down banks and that we cannot land to countries huge amounts of money without asking whether the country will be able to pay back because the country will not be able to pay back so for the first time there is a recognition that we have to worry about that is the worst. half past the turning point now on the road to recovery politicians can always make bigger mistakes and the first decision about cyprus was the biggest mistake ever so. there are enormously resourceful in inventing mistakes number two the crisis in europe is not over. countries are stealing recession so banks

are hurting so we will have banks collapsing public debts keep rising so we will have to have public debt restructuring and nobody wants to deal with that so it's still in front of us the british and don't want to think about that but it's going to happen. so the business then i'll be back in less than two hours i haven't i will be handed a few minutes time to give you all the latest headlines to stay with us here are today. victims multiply here each day. it's very profitable to invest in colombia with that every profit out of the it is a very high return on investment. you'll know me and he said that i've been working in this area for thirty years and i've always had to pay the armed groups that they needed that is i knew the bottom of the trees have changed their name and

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tonight the uncle of the two brothers suspected of the boston bombings did nice links to chechen terrorism one of the man's dead and the others on the run after

a police shootout they've been granted asylum in the united states about a decade ago after a year in the north caucuses causton still in lockdown tonight since before dawn there's a huge manhunt underway there as locals are warned to stay off the streets. very good evening this is r t with me kevin owen it's eleven pm right now here in moscow and in boston massachusetts now three in the afternoon this friday police there are planning to carry out a controlled explosion as they chase new leads and search door to door for the second boston bombing suspect swathes of the city have been locked down all day since before dawn in fact you can see what's happening in boston right now.