forensics were sent out, both of the women, but also of dominic strauss-kahn.yet, but they will be presented to a grand jury. we're being told that the grand jury is going to be listening to this case and deciding whether to vote by friday as to whether this should go forward, anderson. >> what do we now know about this young journalist in france who accused dominic strauss-kahn of assaulting her, is she considering pressing charges? >> she's connected to a lawyer. she's looking into the charges. she's been quoted as saying she should have gone forward with this at the time it occurred. the big question now, is everybody is watching to see whether other women step forward to say something similar happened to them. when you have something high profile like this, there's always a possibility it could trigger a waterfall almost, anderson. >> sonny, what's the next step in terms of the legal process? >> as deb mentioned, i'm hearing also that the grand jury has been convened and is determining whether or not they will indict him. may 20th is the control date, and t

dominic strauss-kahn is able to leave his jail cell and can go outside for an hour a day.rrections officer. inside, he's allowed to periodically walk around his housing area corridor where he can watch tv. >> everything is difficult. and the most difficult thing i think for any particular person is to deal with the dehumanization, because you're just one of 13,000 people, and to deal with being cut off from the outside world. >> in his first day at likers, he had one visitor. inmates can have up to three people per visit, not including attorneys who are given access to their clients any given day. mary snow, cnn, this morning. >>> still ahead, bernie madoff is serving more than 100 years, but his assets are up on the auction block. >>> and don't you hate it when people talk loudly on their cell phones in a restaurant or on a plane? tonight, this story winds up one woman on the "ridicu-list." a 16-hour cell phone conversation. we'll tell you where she was chatting it up. [ male announcer ] in 2011, at&t is at work, building up our wireless network all across america. we're

dominic strauss-kahn is a french citizen who must be judged like the others, so we hastily await the outcome. >> first of all, it's a question of credibility. the fact that he fled speaks for itself. it's not the situation itself. the situation is dealt with. a crisis situation should be managed and a man who is supposed to have strong shoulders to manage a government must be able to face this situation, not run away. it's obvious. >> and the well-known anchorwoman wife of dominic strauss-kahn is telling people she doesn't believe for one second the charges leveled against her husband. irrespective of whether those charges are ultimately prove be to be true or false, a great deal of damage has already been done to one of the world's highest flying political personalities. >> dominic strauss-kahn won't be heading up the imf while he's facing these sexual charges. john lipsky will be stepping in as managing director. here's a quick look at what the ims does. the fund is like the world savings and loan. it has around $650 billion to lend to 200 member countries. the u.s. contributes $7

. >> un juez en nueva york decidiÓ hoy que dominic strauss-kahn puede salir en libertad con una cuantiosas estrictos. >> una de cal y otra de arena para dominic strauss-kahn. los miembros del jurado investigativo decidieron por mayorÍa que la fiscalía tiene suficiente evidencia como para iniciar un juicio en su contra y formalizar los cargos. una hora despuÉs un juez de la corte estatal le otorgÓ la libertad despuÉs del pago de una fianza de un millÓn de dÓlares 5 millones en bonos. deberÁ permanecer bajo arresto domiciliario y portando un billete de seguridad con un vigilante las 24 horas que tendrÁ que pagar el acusado. los fiscales insistieron en que pudiera intentar escaparse. >> los abogados dijeron que maÑana podrÍa salir en la libertad condicional y su esposa y su hija asistieron a la corte hoy aunque el acusado todavÍa permanecerÁ en la cÁrcel esta noche aquÍ en nueva york. >> la corte le va a avisar al acusado formalmente que es sujeto de la fundaciÓn, ellos van a leer pÚblicamente los cargos, Él tiene que dar una declaraciÓn de culpabilidad. >> hoy tambiÉn la junta directiva del

thank you. >>> and also, dominic strauss-kahn is not just the head of the imf, but in france, many, many people thought he would be the next president. so what is the reaction like there? also, just minutes before strauss-kahn would have been out of country, how the police caught up with him just before as i mentioned the plane took off and how the cell phone might have helped to track him down. stay here. what?! sam, get your ears cleaned out. but what did he say? 42 wild italians. huh? it's a cruise for plus-size individuals. it's a commercial. that's all. i'm pretty sure he said the chevy cruze eco -- a commercial for eagle? eagles? no eco, eco, eco! it's "the chevy cruze eco gets up to 42 miles per gallon." who asked you? [ male announcer ] the amazingly fuel-efficient chevy cruze eco. turn up the volume! then...over time... become dull... and lose their luster. new tide plus bleach helps bring your whites back to bright in one wash. turning white-ish to...wow. tide plus bleach. >>>, so here is what you need to know about the story, also out of france. they arrested dominic strauss-k

a sex scandal hits the international monetary fund while the world clamors for the details on dominic strauss kahn we'll take a closer look at the i.m.f. itself the way that it's wreaks havoc on much of the developing world and we'll determine why the real scandals of the i.m.f. the ones that make the news then it's an army made up of eight hundred mercenaries and also contentious founder of blackwater is in the middle of it all will bring you details on this business dealing cluing what these mercenaries are going to do and we'll ask the bigger question here is forming an army like this legal then the war on leakers expanse this time will tell you about how the government is taking n.s.a. employee thomas drake to court but we want to know if drake is indeed convicted the president will this set and we all know that personal debt is a serious problem for many americans but could a lot of that stress and anxiety that comes with that be from those nagging and many times of the use of debt collectors so they will take a closer look at how close collectors operate and will challenge the legality

just today new york police confirmed that semen found on the maid's dress does indeed belong to dominic strauss kahn but the case of strauss kahn highlights another more important issue that of women of no power being able to fight back against men of enormous power too often a who would you believe more frame determines the killed or innocence of powerful men accused of rape which then discourages future women from reporting incidents and given the dominic strauss kahn is one of the most powerful men bankers in the world and his alleged victim is just a hotel maid from africa it's likely that this crime would have been swept under the rug too had it not been for a secret weapon that the hotel maid had she belonged to a union and she knew that she could take that brave step forward against strauss kahn because her union would protect her and her job wouldn't be put at risk and that's just what she did and now strauss kahn is headed for prison. so isn't this just another example unions check of the power of wealthy elites for more on this i'm joined by democratic strategist. erica welcome to ivy

yesterday international monetary fund charged with sexual attack at a recent poll showing dominic strauss kahn could be a favorite for france as an upcoming presidential election his arrest is likely to rock the french political arena. thousands of troops parade in russian cities to celebrate victory day but ukrainian veterans had to fight the nazis once again in a brutal attack by nationalists during the festivities. up next how russia's new education system will help youngsters adapt to changes in the country we discuss this with the education side and science minister andrei first sankoh in our exclusive interview here on our team stay with us. i don't know some corrections minister of education it's great to have you with us we used to be very proud of the soviet educational system we inherited would say that our sixth grade school student studies things that american students on study until four years into the university that's one of the reforms about what is going to change not only in the system but more importantly in the mentality. by pillock first of all we indeed used to have

you know this the head of the international monetary fund dominic strauss kahn was arrested this week in a new york on charges that he sexually assaulted a maid in this three thousand dollar a night hotel suite a judge today denied strauss kahn bail ordered him to stay in prison until his next court date on friday because arrest is the least of the worries for the i.m.f. which is struggling to contain pending financial disasters across europe economies in crisis as they come under attack from wall street short sellers greece and ireland likely request more bailout funds the i.m.f. after their banks gambled and lost back during the bush era the bailout deal was in the works for portugal and spain is trying to stay afloat on its own but with a twenty one percent unemployment rate it's looking more and more like we'll only be able to make it through with a. from the i.m.f. spain is also the site of the latest anti austerity protests over the weekend thousands tens of those protesters hit the streets to demonstrate against cuts to social programs the same cuts that are depressing the u.k.

chief and alleged rapist dominic strauss kahn are reaching out to the family of his victim new york hotel maid in hopes of pain them off to avoid charges against. family lives in a remote village in guinea and a payoff from strauss kahn make them rich is this the way justice should be done in america or if you're rich enough you can just buy your way out of anything i mean this village they didn't even know that she'd been raped until the reporter showed up because they have no roads no electricity well i mean he would use the ledge to have a gun is a terrible thing looks pretty suspicious that heat from what we know looks like it seems like he did that of course we believe in him somehow to go through a d.n.a. and so and so i think i think he should be brought to the what he should be prosecuted if somehow if unfortunate he gets off he's a shoo in probably to be the next president of france because this is probably got his this is ruined it for president friends i think he i think he would have been had he not better a poster of alleged rudeness or whatever dan you know this is a sociali

brafman, and william tailor who was part of the dream team, but they are going to be representing dominic straussirm run by former cia officers describes itself as a strategic advisory company, and strauss-kahn has used the services before when he was campaigning to become the imf chief. guidepost solutions is a prominent investigative firm, and we have judy smith who is a public relations consultant joining us from los angeles to talk about this. judy, you are not involved in advising dominic strauss-kahn, but if you were, what would be the most important piece of advice to him right now? >> well, i think that he's doing it. the most important piece of advice would really be to assemble this type of team that he has. he has a great attorney that is working for him. he's going to need a good group that would probably include a forensic expert based on the information that was released. he is also going to need someone that is very good, obviously, in crisis communication. someone that also knows the landscape i think that is important in france and also in the united states as well. because he ha

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until friday at the earliest, dominic strauss kahn will be a guest in an east river compound reserve for criminal defendants and convicts. >>> it's a world away from the swanky manhattan hotel where he allegedly forced himself on a maid saturday and brought himself an array of sex crime charges. reichers houses 14,000 inmates, give or take, and employs some 10,000 guards. it's made up of ten separate jails, most of them barracks. but some regular cell blocks, as well. strauss-kahn has an 11 by 13 cell himself, but he is separated from other prisoners, phones, tvs and the internet also. >>> cnn's deborah feyerick has done some digging on the forensics. what did you find? >> reporter: that's right. everybody is waiting for the result of the forensic to see, in fact, what was found at this hotel, whether, in fact, there is a direct connection to mr. strauss-kahn and the young lady who made these allegations against him. remember, she made the allegations very, very quickly, within moments of the alleged assault happening. and that's one of the reasons that police and special victims are

the international monetary fund has been charged with sexual assault with a recent poll showing dominic strauss kahn to be the favorite for france's upcoming presidential election as arrest is likely to rock the french political arena. and thousands of troops in the russian cities celebrating victory day but ukrainian veterans had to fight fascist once again in a brutal attack by neo nazi nationalists during festivities. and that's a special report on a people still dealing with the deadly legacy of war in lebanon five years ago stay with us. they're. the. into the office on top of this isn't a little so long a lot. so let's talk while wolf. take it. from. the phone thank you both the sun for this is in can go through so long over. the motion completed over. thanks. and my name is gemma far from the village about religion. and we have orange groves. ok minerals been our job since we were born and it. bears my father my brother and hired help me and the. the day after the war was over i came back with my father juke i know what has he. seen as summer had passed and then we have what are the grou

dominic strauss-kahn is set to be rained -- arraigned in new york. the maid picked strauss out of a lineup. >> the arrest went down like a scene from a movie. a politician yanked from his seat moments before his flight took off for paris. dominique strauss-kahn, now charged with three crimes. his lawyer told us strauss-kahn denies them all. his trouble started saturday when a housekeeper came to clean his $3,000 a night suite. the woman thought it was empty. police say strauss-kahn emerged naked from the bodily harm and attacked her. he she fought him off, only to be dragged back into the bathroom. she finally escaped. by the time police arrived strauss was gone. and it appeared he left in a hurry. his cell phone was found in the room. in 2004, the married father of father had an affair, and his rumor of sexual ask paids have escapade in france is known. >> he already had his sexual problem with another lady. so a second time. >> these latest accusations have touched off a political tsunami in france, where strauss-kahn was seen as having a real shot

. >> alan: dominic strauss-kahn, the former head of the internon monetary fund, is now her house arrests luxury building in new york city while he awaits trial on sexual assault charges. he is under 24 hour guard at the empire building building in lowt tap. his neighbors said they would never have known he was there if it weren't for the media frenzy outside the building. >> i thought they were filming a movie. when i left the building, we were really bombarded with the press, and i had no idea. we had no idea. the residents really did not. >> alan: a judge ordered strauss-kahn to wear a monitoring bracelet on his ankle, and an armed guard is watching him at all times. he has been charged with sexually attacking a maid in his hotel suite a week ago. >>> a nasa first. the pope gave a blessing to the crew of the space shuttle endeavour. >> dear astronauts, i'm happy for this opportunity to converse with you. >> alan: pope benedict xvi bestowed a historic blessing on the astronauts. his blessing cluedded a wish for a swift recovery of the comonder's wounded life, gabrielle giffords. endeav

dominic strauss-kahn is one of the most powerful men in the world and a potential candidate for president of france. tonight he is under arrest in crew,. >> the arrest went down like a scene from a movie, a high powered international banker yanked from his plane seat moments before his flight took off for paris, now charged with three crimes. >> attempted rape, and unlawful imprintment. >> his lawyer says strauss-kahn denies them all. his trouble started when the housekeeper came to clean his suite. the wyoming thought it was empty. strauss khan emerged naked from the bathroom and attacked her. she fought him off before he dragged her into the bathroom again. by the time ploiption arrived straws was gone, detectives found his cell phone in the room. this is not the first time straws kahn has been in trouble. in 2008 this, married father of father had an affair, later admitting an error of judgment. his rumors of sexual a paid,es ask escapades have been rumored in for instance. >> he already had a sexual problem with another lady. >> these latest accusations have touched off a political ts

police say dominic strauss was pulled off an air france fright to paris this afternoon at john f. kennedy airport shortly after leaving the manhattan hotel. the maid told police she entered his room at 1:00 p.m. and he tried to sexually assault her and she called police. he is the managing director of the imf and has not been charged. >> mike huckabee says he will not run for in the 2012. he made the announcement moments ago on his show. only three republican candidates have officially declared their running for in the 2012. that's ron paul, newt gingrich and mitt romney. speculation about a dozen other continues. 45% of republicans say they're dissatisfied with the g.o.p. candidates, up from 33% two months ago. >>> president obama has ordered several steps aimed at increasing oil production. those measures include extending existing oil leases in the gulf of mexico, and off the alaskan coast. the government will hold more frequent lease sales in alaska's oil reserve. the president admits these steps won't immediately bring down gas prices, topping $4 a gallon. an oil industry gro

for dominic strauss-kahn, his lawyer tells a different story saying that the forensic evidence will not support any sort of forceable encounter and he says that mr. strauss-kahn is going to plead not guilty, but he is in a jail cell in rikers island, and in solitary, and this is a man who should be in europe in the head of the financial crisis vis-a-vis, he is now left alone and isolated from the general prison population, because they are concerned about his safety. they are keeping him in a unit that is to himself and again trying to sort out and think about what happened. t.j. >> okay. thank you, deborah feyerick. we appreciate you as always, and as she was just talking about there, this man was sitting in a $3,000 a night hotel room not too long ago. and you know where he is sitting right now? one of the most notorious prisons in the country. coming up next, an inside look at rikers island. we're adding new cell sites... increasing network capacity, and investing billions of dollars to improve your wireless network experience. from a single phone call to the most advanced data downl

dominic strauss-khan the head of the international monday monetary fund is accused of forcing himselfl maid in a luxury suite in a times square hotel last night. he was on a plane back to france when officers pulled him out of his first class seat and presented the allegations. he says nothing happened. >>> the government will continue to push for an extension of sales taxes and vehicle fees due to expire in july. republican lawmakers have been standing firm against the extension but some in the business community are pressuring republicans to agree to an extension. democrats like san francisco assemblyman tom ameano agree. >> reporter: whatever backtracking they can do with republicans that we can cobble the boat together to go forth because without the tax extension we're in a lot of trouble. >> the governor is expected to raise tax rates for the 4 years rather than the 5 he originally wanted. >>> more than a thousand firefighters will be hired to fight fires. they expect low humidity and higher temperatures to drought grass and make wildfires more prevalent this summer. they'll hir

legal process against the now former head of the internet for monetary puts even more stress on dominic strauss kahn was a strong lobbyist for mccain but i doubt i could just. bluster the russian president of three years away from confirming a reelection bid twenty and twelve during an unprecedented with a section hundreds of journalists in china that it also said that moscow won't support the u.n. resolution on syria to see the libyan about its misused and. special report exposing corruption and criminality in afghanistan where billions of dollars in america's schools and drug initiatives ended up in the wrong hands that's next to nothing. the anti-drug official never attempted to find out how those quick fortunes were made. so who could do it. why not the anti-corruption commission. it was led by a childhood friend of president karzai. a few months ago in september two thousand and eight the commission was dissolved when something went very wrong this was my. second shift office right here. empty. so basically people in two different images i had some foods heartland sell for people today cal

expectations but it's not as flat european stocks closed in the black helped in part by the news that dominic strauss kahn has resigned as head of the international monetary fund chairs in air france k l m are up two percent after the airlines find back into profit in the latest financial year and then sees p.l.c. is down three point seven percent in london though and they have to leave the footsie one hundred index following the i.p.o. of glencore the world's largest commodities trader and here in moscow the markets have closed in the black thursday bouncing back from the losses of a lot of the last three weeks as have a look at some individual moves on the my six gazprom was down today despite the company's increase export forecast for this year beating analysts expectations better mine n l m k was up that's his credit rating agency fitch lifted its rating to a triple been minus. and t n k b he was in the red the company is continuing to suffer from the fallout of the collapse deal between rosneft and b.p. . russia's biggest airport on the deal of a well placed twenty percent of its shares in the i

into disarray after they had of the international monetary fund was charged with sexual assault dominic strauss kahn was arrested in new york on accusations of committing a criminal sexual appetites of rape and unlawful imprisonment of a hotel mate he is due to appear in court monday after forensic tests are carried out and will plead not guilty to marry former french finance minister is a front runner to beat nicolas sarkozy at the next french presidential election but french politics expert says his hopes of landing the top job are now effectively over. he wasn't going to announce his candidacy for the clinton twelve presidential elections and i think these allegations will come as a huge blow for french socialists who saw him to succeed. next year's presidential elections and i don't think at this stage. kind of will even think of running for president because i think will prove extremely difficult to juggle i think actions of sexual assault. and rape with a presidential campaign i think. president sarkozy is an obvious candidate to benefit from from the scandal although he's very low in the

has been charged with sexual assault but a recent poll showing dominic strauss kahn to be the favorite for france's upcoming presidential race the arrest is likely to rock the french political arena. and thousands of troops parade in russian cities marking victory day but ukrainian veterans had to fight fascist once again in a brutal attack by neo nazi nationalism during festivities. and. coming up an enigmatic figure julian assad has managed to do what few of ever done and reveal government secrets but who is the man behind wiki leaks our investigation takes a lot of it up. the website that's kept upping. the last period through. its name is chile and such then i think that that is where the tension and much of the bag which exist utterance and. he says he has a dream a world without secrets the first step in the fall of the institute to get information out of the real world today anyone can find out what information the government the military and bankers of kept under lock and key secrecy is the biggest. is wiki leaks the dream of an idealist or a tool to manipulate global politics

men accused of rape which then discourages future women from reporting incidents and given the dominant strauss kahn is one of the most powerful men bankers in the world and his alleged victim is just a hotel maid from africa it's likely that this crime would have been swept under the rug too had it not been for a secret weapon that the hotel maid had she belonged to a union and she knew that she could take that brave step forward again strauss kahn because her union would protect her and her job wouldn't be put at risk and that's just what she did and now strauss kahn is headed for prison. so isn't this just another example of unions putting a check on the powerball few leads for more on this i'm joined by democratic strategist erica erica welcome i do fear great to have you with us other women who have come forward since this revolution revolution saying that they had been. stayed silent in the face of similar activities including one who was a french journalist a woman who was french journalist does this show that the immigrant made the new york hotel with a union behind her has more power t

fund is currently searching for a new managing director following last week's resignation of dominic strauss kahn over a sex scandal france's finance minister christine lagarde tops the list of contenders however the fastest growing economies in the world also known as the drakes countries are calling for a non european and critics say they are the man certainly has grounds. this is an important first step we may not see its fruit of this round we don't we wanted us to these countries really organizing a successful coalition to block the western europe. in this round but going forward this could be a sign of things to the car not just in terms of. institutions after all the real decisions are often made elsewhere not by the head but in the g seven finance ministers. in the actual possibly russia and brazil are countries there suffered tremendously under i.m.f. pasties and children one thousand nine hundred ninety when they went through crises much like the crises they do greece is going to and they eventually pulled out of the i.m.f. framework temporarily suffer tremendously but they're. bot

that of the international monetary fund charged with sexual assault with a recent poll showing dominic strauss kahn to be the favorite of france's our coming presidential election is arrest is likely to rock the french political arena . thousands of troops parade in russian cities to celebrate victory day but ukrainian veterans had to fend off trashiest once again in a brutal attack by neo nazi nationalism during press dimity. stay with the second world war the battle for berlin lasted two weeks three and a half a million troops from both sides soviet and german took part in the fight what was it like to be part of the battle r t investigates next. berlin the rash dog home to germany's parliament it was right here the final fight of world war two took place. there ever fewer surviving witnesses to the events of those days soviet veterans will never forget what happened sixty five years ago showed us gun fire corpses flame that's how the right start look by the end of april nineteen forty five on. the pitch. german soldiers fought for every piece of footage and really tried to stands to the las

monetary fund remains in custody in a new york jail after being refused a one million dollar bail dominic strauss kahn pleaded not guilty to raping a hotel maid but the judge said he was a flight risk the sixty two year old who was arrested on saturday was used as a favorite for france presidential elections and twenty well he has played a crucial role in organizing rescue packages for use troubled colonies. pakistan will return the degree of the unmanned helicopter which went down during the raid on osama bin laden's compound the chopper is thought to have it was a secret stealth technology and the american seal team tried to destroy it some parts were later gathered by pakistani troops. well and there are the glass that are cape canaveral yesterday has successfully reached the orbit starting years sixteen day mission that will reach the international space station on wednesday delivering a two billion us dollars cosmic ray detector that scientists help will help of the star of the origin of the universe the flight was initially scheduled in april but was postponed due to problems power unit the

if you remember dominic strauss kahn only a few months ago had said that there should be a change in the global order specially since india and china over the last three or four years have been the world's largest economies and it's india and china that have. the word out of the economic slump that it has been in the last few years one of the world's most powerful organizations the international monetary fund has the power not only to receive countries but to plunge them into despair take russia for example some say their condition played a crucial role in bringing about the default of one thousand nine hundred ninety eight which left thousands of people penniless and desperate i remember when the soviet union broke up and the i.m.f. and the rest of the g seven prescribed economic advisors to the new russia and it was completely disastrous this complete. of the russian economy at the time completely destroyed russia in several ways and i think that's what the i.m.f. has done to several other economies bailing out greece and as you know bailout for portugal italy and spain are also on

to disarray after the head of the international monetary fund was charged with sexual assault dominic strauss kahn was arrested in new york on accusations of making a criminal sexual act attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment of a hotel maid is due to appear in court monday after forensic tests are carried out and will plead not guilty to merit former french finance minister is a front runner to be nicolas sarkozy of the next french presidential election a french politics expert interviewer and danny says his hopes of landing the top job are now effectively over. he was indeed going to announce his candidacy for the clinton twelve presidential elections and i think these allegations will come as a huge blow for french socialists who really saw him as the great hope to succeed president sarkozy in next year's presidential elections and i don't think at this stage the next horse kind will even think of running for president because as it will prove extremely difficult to juggle allegations of sexual assault. and rape and with a presidential campaign i think president sarkozy is an obvious can

monetary fund's remains in custody in a new york jail after being refused a one million dollar bail dominic strauss kahn pleaded not guilty to raping hotel maid but the judge said he was a flight risk the sixty two year old who was arrested on saturday was viewed as favorite for france's presidential elections and twenty twelve and he has played a crucial role in organizing rescue packages for use troubled economy. shall endeavor blasted off from cape canaveral for the last time on a sixteen day mission it will reach the international space station on wednesday delivering a two billion us dollars cosmic ray detector that scientists hope will help them discover a view origin of the universe the fight was initially scheduled on april but. was postponed due to problems in a power unit nasa is about to and its thirty year old travel program and its last project shuttle atlantis is expected to launch in july. just as the u.s. comes back on its space program china has announced plans to put its own space station in orbit the sixty ton construction will be almost seven times the lighter than the internati

to take over as head of the international monetary fund it follows last week's resignation of dominic strauss kahn over a sex scandal however the fastest growing economies in the world also known as the brics countries are calling for a non european to take over the post but critics say they don't mind it certainly has grounds this is an important first step we may not see it through this round we don't and we really were a successful coalition to block the western europe you know in this round but going forward this could be a sign of things to come out not just in terms of who nominally decent to she's after real decisions are often made elsewhere not by ed but in the g seven finance ministers. in the actual post russia and brazil are countries there suffered tremendously under i.m.f. pasties children ninety eight ninety ninety s. when they went through crises much like the. greece is going through today and they eventually pulled out of the i.m.f. framework it separately suffered tremendously but then both countries had a restoration of of growth so these are country said if it actually re

might drop his projects to draw countries away from the american dollar as a reserve currency dominic strauss kahn quit as the world's top banker while in custody in new york over accusations of sexual assault. before going on from one of our top stories tonight then our team has been asking what kind of future scotland could have by breaking from britain and the senior member of the ruling scottish nationalist. today i'm in edinburgh talking to kenny macaskill who is the scottish justice minister he's a member of the scottish national party which of course recently gained enough votes to be able to promise a referendum on scottish independence within the next five years kenny macaskill thank you for talking to us now tell me first what would scotland gain from independence well being control of her own resources for you keep responsibility for the problems for fiesinger of country and to be able to stand up and speak to the issues that matter to us sort of vote taking charge at home and making sure that we have a voice abroad and how would it work economically and socially well saddam's a ri

well arty's been hearing reaction for france to be a dominant strauss kahn scandal and the majority ofpeople believe the former i.m.f. chief arrest was a set up only it's what our correspondents written on archie's twitter feed will stay on top of this story by calling also our team on their squawk. it's. the strains definitely showing us is really relations after president obama called for a palestinian state with it at nineteen sixty seven borders and his middle east policy speech about comments has angered israel's prime minister who said it would make it impossible for his country to contact itself back in september the issue of the israeli settlements of the disputed territories stalled peace talks with the palestinians and later on friday a bit of it netanyahu will meet president obama at the white house parties go to check out reports from old washington bureau. obama pushed harder for these trailers to make concessions to stop building settlements or police is suggested that israel go back to pre nine hundred sixty seven border lines and that would mean that what happens is giv

now mr madison talks have been overshadowed by news of the arrest of dominic strauss kahn has spoken out in support of giving greece a second chance so how will these absence of fact the course of the meeting today i think you know this is good news but but these to do so are should be before people are going seen girl if i go to. some other brazil is missing of course it will be us from all the louis to undo some of the. nominated intimately charge of discussion as to how those discussions but i don't see you don't need your. dogs by two or three days and do the whole thing. we can stick you. right have already as a man as professor of economics at the university of navarro thank you very much for being here with us on the program thank you my pleasure. what an arche line from moscow remember to keep an eye on our twitter and facebook page to get a very latest updates on developments there you will also find more on our developing stories as well as photos videos and polls. there are calls from within today you know a coalition to step up the bombing campaign against of the be inter

well the resignation of dominic strauss kahn has put the level financial community in a spin economic sound geopolitics right adrian salvucci says his downfall well rael plans to use alternatives to the us dollar as reserve currencies his having left the international monetary fund she 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 of the mechanism that made the dollar suffer i think that we are going to see that whoever phoned we saw a whole bunch at the i.m.f. we'll keep away from him. too strongly participation in doing away with the us dollar in other words the us dollar needs to be a 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 holdings is a sign of trouble for the united states because as i say those treasury bonds us treasury bonds is what allows boehner lanky to you can see how his printing press is going on twenty four hours a day if that were to be start and if america were

been charged with sexual assault attempted rape in a lawful imprisonment new york police pulled dominic strauss kahn from a plane only minutes before he was due to depart for paris and questioned him on suspicion of assaulting a hotel maid french political expert nabila ramdani says the hopes of strauss kahn had of leading the french are now effectively over. he wasn't going to announce his candidacy for the clinton twelve presidential elections and i think these allegations will come as a huge blow for french socialists who really saw him as the great hope to succeed president sarkozy in next year's presidential elections and i don't think at this stage. close kind of will even think of running for president because it will prove extremely difficult to juggle i think ations of sexual assault. and rape with a presidential campaign i think president sarkozy is an obvious candidate can benefit from from the scandal although he's very low in that poll at the moment the lowest opinion and the lowest rate in fact for any french president in the history of the fifth republic but i think that this wil

has been charged over committing a criminal sexual act attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment dominic strauss kahn was arrested minutes before his departure to paris to be questioned on suspicion of assault involving a hotel maid the thirty two year old employer we claims that attacked her in his room is where it says he will plead not guilty the imam has not yet given a reaction to the predicament involving the potential french presidential candidate . at least six passengers were killed out for a bus was hit by a roadside bomb near a garrison town in eastern pakistan according to the police twenty others were injured it's the second attack in pakistan this week on friday two powerful explosions killed at least eighty people on a paramilitary bates' taliban officials the bombing wish to avenge the deaths of the leader osama bin ladin. sixty five people were injured in cairo get an angry mob attacked a demonstration against recent muslim and christian clashes and egypt police and army troops fired in the air to disperse the crowd after rocks were thrown and vehicles torched the religious and

international monetary fund has been released from behind bars after posting a one million dollars bail dominic strauss kahn will be under house arrest and that where he will be kept under twenty four hour god a french politician denies charges of attempting to rape a maid in a new york hotel ref is now searching for a new leader the french finance minister and head of the richer bank among the candidates. the world leaders are gearing up for a g. eight meeting in france next week situation in libya and the uprisings in the middle east and north africa it will be said of attention but artie's harvest also known as the residents are sixteen from the streets of new york what else they think world leaders should be talking about. as world leaders gather at the g eight summit what do you think they should be focusing on solving collectively this week let's talk about that i think they should be focusing on. greening i mean just saving the planet and also humanity politics and more people and more communication and more troops do you think they'll do that no not one hundred years do you think that they'll b

monetary fund is charged with sexual assault in new york after allegedly attacking a hotel maid domine strauss kahn maintains his innocence but his chances in next year's presidential elections in france where he was a favorite have taken a serious not. and in russia nationwide military displays mark sixty six years since the defeat of nazi germany but similar commemorations of ukraine were marred by nationalists attacking veterans of violence erupted in the west of a country where many collaborated with the nazis against the soviet union during the war and are now seen as freedom fighters rather than oppressors. unit brings you awful latest from the world of sports. good to have you with us this is sports today plenty ahead this hour including. titanic tussles holders and he didn't miss the chance to go to softball the russian premier league after an end to end battles with title chasing group the. shanghai speedster a one hundred ten meter specialist jiang was a local proud to leave his diamond league event by breaking david aldridge eighteen race winning streak. and burning price rushes nex

bailouts could be put in jeopardy with dominic strauss kahn no longer the driving neil of the international monetary fund. thousands of abu georges around the streets of tbilisi demanding freedom and president saakashvili stressing they should return by nerve gas and rubber bullets instead. and russian president dmitry medvedev splats for his second term in office remain out here as he sidesteps the issue during a two hour largely with a session. watching r.t. live from moscow thanks for joining us now anti-government protesters are massing in the spanish cities despite the official back and political demonstrations ahead of elections where the country is casting ballots in regional polls but the ruling is socialist party is set to suffer a major losses over thirty thousand people have occupied madrid subfield square to protest the government's economic policies and skyrocketing an important people have also come out at all to the streets of other cities including a bus a lot of violence to end seville as a country struggles to overcome the crippled recession and as archie sarah furthur rep