if mrs. merkel wants to have a referendum on your -- if mrs. merkel wants to have a referendum on europe. >> this is not only a european story, monica. u.s. president obama has warned that the eurozone crisis could hurt america. europe is the u.s.'s biggest trading partner, and we cannot forget obama is up for reelection. a report now on the g-8 agenda and its old and new players. and all eyes were on the new man in the g-8, france's president, francois hollande. he called for growth rather than more austerity. others are waiting to see if he will push this line so strongly now that he is in power. one man hoping he will is president barack obama, who has long been calling for europe to boost its flagging economies. >> it is my great pleasure to welcome president hollande. >> europe's debt crisis is only one issue on obama's mind. he has announced move -- money to help farmers in africa in an effort to ease a food shortage. >> we are launching a major new partnership to reduce hunger and lift tens of millions of people from poverty. >> other iss

mrs. merkel was told she had driven three voters into the arms of extremists, but her allies insist her policy of cutting debt still enjoys strong support in europe. >> this policy for 25 member states is the only way out of the crisis. it cannot solve the sovereign debt crisis by allowing an even higher deficit. >> much of germany insists there should be no backtracking from austerity. pressure is mounting on berlin to act. tomorrow the new french president arrives, carrying his message said growth should be the priority, and today the spanish foreign minister warned the very survival of the single currency is at stake. in spain, protesters against austerity are continuing to occupy one of the main squares in madrid. the fear is the greek crisis is destabilizing other vulnerable eurozone countries. >> our war correspondent's official update. >> the wait goes on after a meeting with the president and three party leaders to regard all decided to agree to more talks tomorrow. one of the proposals w

if it's going to be some sort of huge controversy but let's remember only a couple of years ago mrs merkel and mr sarkozy couldn't stand the sight of each other the current field policies of mr sarkozy or indeed we see an end of his look at unix systems and mr hollande it's still on for she going to be a disaster and socialist trial in france and greece the elections have seen fascist making big gain as the sitting government takes a kicking from voters furious over economic hardship. later in the program we see how the extreme nationalist golden dawn party looks set to enter the greek parliament for the first time and the most stark example yet of voter rejection of the austerity imposed by the new leadership. and a bounty on bloody medical turn of seventeen million dollars as fugitive exiled russian oligarch and bodies a bizarre ski offers a big bucks to anyone willing to try to seize the russian leader at his presidential inauguration on monday. opposition activists have clashed with police in central moscow after defying orders to move to the officially agreed location for their rally

mr. hollande will come here talking about growth and chance her merkel will say, yeah, we want growth and you can't get growth completely by tightening the belt. we need to adjust to that. so it's a question of whether it's a revisitation of deals that have been done or simply a changing of course somewhat. >> ok, steve evans in berlin, thank you very much for that here in paris. the sun has come out, it's shining, almost like a spring day. it hasn't been cold for several weeks. let's go outside to francois hollande's h.q., because he's in there. he's holding talks with key party officials. we're expecting people to be coming and going throughout the day as he starts to form -- a government starts to form. also, of course, planning those all-important legislative elections for june, which will shape the national assembly and show where the balance of power in parliament lies, because with a socialist assembly, that will make life a good deal easier for him, and so he will try to keep that honeymoon effect going for as long as possible to take france into those legislative elections. that'

the greeks claim that mrs. merkel has been pushing them to hold a referendum. germany says that is false. as the head of the commission arrived in washington, another said that they were working on an exit strategy for greece. another firmly denied it. >> decisive action is needed by the eurozone. they cannot go on kicking the can down the road. decisive action, decisive about greece, decisive about the farm for. >> a leaders are not insured -- are not sure, but they think that with new faces around the table, the dynamic in the room might change. >> far from the economic woes of europe, facebook updated its status to public company as its shares made their debut on the stock exchange. trading got off to a brisk start, but at the end of the day the price settled near its initial offering of $30 a share. >> facebook's army of employees in menlo park california had plenty to celebrate. the gift from the stock-market, a reference to mark zuckerberg's preference for wearing hoodies. he can afford many more. he is worth an estimated $19 billion. >> on behalf of ever

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if it's going to be some sort of huge controversy but let's remember only a couple of years ago mrs merkel and mr sarkozy couldn't stand the sight of each other and therefore were left with you know a ridiculous state of play kevin the question. now. well i would say how do you think of this a law is going to get on with it then you kind of took the words out of my mouth do you think they'll be friends so you know i have to say i just listen to your correspondent ultimately i cannot possibly say that i think she's more wrong i'm sure mr hall is going to change things slightly but we've been here before mr jasper became prime minister not president many years ago we were in the middle of negotiating another e.u. treaty he came forward we got some sort of bump sure sedition all charter that said blah blah blah blah blah blah better economy blah blah blah help the workers he said through everything is change everything will be better and you know what we got but we got the same old friends we've always got ultimately the crime in this election is actually against the people runs hearts and ha

to deepen and there's often gone he's going to go into that more into its kind of coma so what mrs merkel is asking the greeks to do is mission impossible. well later the where of the nobel prize for economics scandals of arrow tells r.t. how sorry he is not the way forward for greece or the entire eurozone. the tendency which is partly through the united states but much more true in some parts of europe of too much austerity when we have. a condition of deep deficient demand massive unemployment i think the idea that you want to stimulate the economy through government spending or some other good way. is pretty clear he was interest you had not been in the euro they probably would have been able to borrow the money. that was going to lead to drachmas because they were. a nobody but they. made a mistake by not the. guy said that they have themselves a little bit trouble. overspread there was no i think is there any conceivable course they ran up with a deficit that was. during times of prosperity that was. not sustainable. in just over twenty minutes time here on our team. so i had an int

defeat we have discussed this defeat today and looked at length and the duty as we have despite mrs merkel putting on a brave front as a party loses support from the electorate the question has to be asked how can the german chancellor preach austerity to the people of athens madrid in rome when her party's policies can't even win over the people who sold off peter all over r.t. germany. spain is returning to work after it was ground to a halt on tuesday by striking teachers and students across most of the country schools and universities shut their doors angry at proposed cuts to education plans including putting students in one class slashing the number of teachers posing. jobs are concerned testers are university tuition hikes many without verification the government says the cuts are needed in this year's spending targets minister is promising reforms as the country battles in crisis the employment of almost twenty five percent belgian m.e.p. and i think this is the usa needs to learn to balance cuts with growth prospects. grow there's no i love everybody's in favor of love everybody i

despite mrs merkel putting on a brave front as a party loses support from the electorate the question has to be asked how can the german chancellor preach austerity to the people of athens madrid and rome when her party's policies can't even win over the people who sold off peter all of her r.t. germany. teachers and students in spain are returning to work after their nationwide strike action on tuesday against proposed cuts to education plans including increasing class sizes slashing the number of teachers and hikes in university tuition fees the government says the cuts on the needed to meet this year's spending targets were belgian m.e.p. it. says the eurozone needs to learn to balance cuts with growth prospects. i love everybody's in favor of love everybody in favor of growth but how to bring it about and one hand you need austerity because our budgets are bloated already for a long time many countries have too much debt on the other hand we have to be store competitiveness i make sure that and can set up companies again and the economy starts growing again but when it entered we

despite mrs merkel putting on a brave front as a party loses support from the electorate the question has to be asked how can the german chancellor preach austerity to the people of athens madrid in rome where her party's policies can't even win over the people who sold off peter all of a r.t. germany. teachers and students in spain are returning to work after the nationwide strike action on tuesday schools and universities shut their doors angry at the proposed cuts to education the plans include putting more students in one class slashing the number of teachers and imposing. their jobs another concern the test. hikes could leave many without hired cation government says the cuts are needed to see a spending targets the prime minister is a promising further reforms as the country battles a crippling crisis unemployment of almost twenty five percent belgian m.e.p. i think says the eurozone needs to learn to balance cuts growth prospects. growth is like love everybody's in favor of love everybody's in favor of growth but how to bring it about in the one hand you need austerity because

defeat we have discussed this defeat today and looked at length and their duty as we have despite mrs merkel putting on a brave front as a party loses support from the electorate the question has to be asked how can the german chancellor preach austerity to the people of athens madrid and rome when her party's policies can't even win over the people who sold off peter all of her r.t. germany. but teachers and students in spain are returning to work after the nationwide strike action on tuesday schools universities shut their doors angry a proposed cuts to education plans include increasing class sizes slashing the number of teachers and imposing longer hours on those who retain their jobs i'm concerned protesters are university tuition hikes could leave many without higher education but government says the cuts are needed to this year's spending targets the prime minister is promising further reforms as the country battles a crippling crisis unemployment of almost twenty five percent. says you need to learn to balance cuts with growth prospects. growth is like love everybody's in favor of lo

it's going to be some sort of huge control over city but let's remember only a couple of years ago mrs merkel and mr sarkozy couldn't stand the sight of each other and therefore you have two politicians neither of whom realistically have got a chance of putting france on the right economic truck i'll be bringing you more coverage from france as the voting progresses with plenty of analysis and opinion on the crucial outcome and what it means for the country. police involved brain detained the head of the country's center for human rights without explanation now bill or as well known for his firm opposition to the ruling regime was arrested days before an interview with the world's top whistleblower julian a son is due to air on r.t. they civil rights leader was already facing charges of participating in protests against the government and was returning to bahrain for a sunday court hearing the uprising has been ongoing for fourteen months now with the predominantly shiite population of protesting against the sunni ruling dynasty more insight now on live from omar to solve the political analys

if it's going to be some sort of huge controversy but let's remember only a couple of years ago mrs merkel and mr sarkozy couldn't stand the sight of each other and therefore you have two politicians neither of whom realistically have got a chance of putting france on the right economic truck. well let's now get more reaction from these results from france joining me now is alex korbel spokesman for the contra points dot org a news website mr corbell so it seems that in the first round sarkozy a received a forty eight point two one percent that is the lowest number of votes sitting president has received in the history of france what were the failures that led to such a poor result. well i think from the beginning because he was seen as a meddling too much we saw rich people and so it was a stay of that was like a big weakness for him during his ease reelection campaign but also he's like. the bottom line of these monday it was disastrous he didn't make the economic reforms that he promised and the few that he actually made. where really. really lukewarm and and the treaty so successful so

if it's going to be some sort of huge controversy but let's remember only a couple of years ago mrs merkel and mr sarkozy couldn't stand the sight of each other the current failed policies of mr sarkozy or indeed we see an end of his liberty and existence and mr hollande conceded it's still on for she got to be a disaster just as a ready made putin prepares to take office a russian fugitive is offering big money for his arrest exiled russian tycoon a bar as a bizarre scheme is reportedly offering a bounty to anyone who detains putin at the you know gratian bonded to ivor bennett has details from london. what is plan is to have putin arrested for what he calls the illegal seizing of power so he's offering up a bounty what used to be fifteen million rubles but now one new source in russia is claiming that he's increased that ten times to five hundred million rubles which equates to around seventeen million dollars and he's offering that anyone basically any member of the public who'll arrest the president elect whom he calls a highly dangerous creature criminal ahead of his inauguration on m

there is a deep and it is often gone and he's going to enter more into its current coma so what mrs merkel is asking the greeks to do is mission impossible. this is r.t. now russia and china have been singing from the same song sheet quite a lot recently now sort of rauf is the latest to join the charm offensive the russian foreign ministers in the region to talk up common interests jang sin from the peking university says it makes sense for both sides to continue working closely together. every major global power really benefits from us from global stability both countries but entire world stands to benefit from a peaceful resolution to the crises in syria and what's happening right now between israel and i riyadh so both countries sent about it from each other i would say if you were to say who but it's more than what was said but it's actually china because you could argue that russia the russian economy is self-sufficient whereas china very much is it its economic growth it's very much dependent on global stability and global economic growth you could argue that after the fall of the b

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milan and mrs. merkel on the austerity versus growth debate? >> the first question, with respect to oil, as i said, one of the designated sessions during the course of the g-8 will be on energy and climate, and they'll about broad discussion there again with the president discussing his, all ate bov strategy for energy development, and they'll be discussions on improving energy sufi, security also addressing climate changes as you would imagine. with respect to the other situation, the leaders -- i don't have any announcement for you on that. the leaders will certainly discuss that situation. the leaders, and we have been engaged in an ongoing way in monitoring the global oil situation, particularly in light of the sfechanges. we'll continue that monitoring. i'm sure the leaders will discuss the range of options they might have before them. at this point what i can tell you is i don't have any announcement here, but it will be, i'm certain, a topic of discussion. no. well, the oil markets generally. i don't want to say anything specific about w

despite mrs merkel putting on a brave front as a party loses support from the electorate the question has to be asked how can the german chancellor preach to the people of athens madrid in rome when her party's policies even win over the people of. peace are all of a jimmy. a russian and thirty plane with twenty three people aboard as crash landed in the czech republic enduring seven military aircraft caught fire at an air base near prague reports citing russian defense ministry sources suggest the planes front wheels may not have lowered fully on the landing all those injured are thought to be russian military personnel with one in serious condition the plane was on an inspection flight in czech airspace under the open skies agreement between nato and former warsaw pact countries and allow surveillance of military facilities of member countries as a confidence building measure. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe. aid workers have been kidnapped by gunmen in northeastern afghanistan two female doctors three afghan translators abducted while traveling o

session is going to deepen and there's often gone he's going to be more into its current coma so what mrs merkel is asking the greeks to do is mission impossible. the violence in syria and iran nuclear program will dominate talks as russia's foreign minister of business china the two countries generally see eye to eye when it comes to global matters chain from peking university says it makes sense for both sides to work so closely together. every major global power really benefits from this little stability both countries but entire world stands to benefit from a peaceful resolution to the crises in syria and what's happening right now between israel and riyadh so both countries benefits from each other i would say if you were to say it's more than what was said but it's certainly china because you could argue that russia the russian economy is self-sufficient where china very much is it it's economic growth it's very much dependent on global stability and global economic growth you could argue that after the fall of the berlin wall the united states start to retain. just proportionate and reall

going to be some sort of huge control over seating but let's remember only a couple of years ago mrs merkel and mr sarkozy couldn't stand the sight of each other and therefore you have two politicians neither of whom realistically have got a chance of getting france on the right economic truck still coming up in the program we do want to make a quick if you want to make a quick buck out of the account you're a senator of the russian president you just have to detail the metaphor to bring him to a certain exiled russian oligarch that's right because of speed increases his bounty tenfold to seventeen million dollars as the president elect for paris take power. opposition activists have clashed with police and central moscow after defined orders to move to the original a great location for their rally the anti-government protest the march of millions was timed for the blood to mete putin's presidential inauguration are going to school as the details. the police have managed to restore order on bolotnaya square most of the protesters have now left the area but i must say at some points it was p

is going to deepen and there's often gone he's going to be more into it's kind of calm so what mrs merkel is asking the greeks to do is mission impossible. jail ukrainian opposition leader you let's go has been moved from prison to hospital for treatment the former prime minister has been on hunger strike for nineteen days claiming a cease tend to move higher authorities are hoping this will defuse a growing diplomatic crisis threatening to overshadow the year two thousand and twelve football championship. as well from here. now we have it officially confirmed that ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko has been delivered to a hospital in her reported spinal hemorrhage will be treated it is interesting that it will be treated stoli by a german doctor now has insisted that no ukrainian doctor has access to her treatment it's unclear whether she is just mistrustful or she is afraid of her life something her daughter has been reporting now there's been lots of control over c. preceding this transportation of. a hospital now for several weeks she had been claiming that she will not