sfansespains streets. austerity continues. burma prepares for elections on sunday.ç will they be free and fair? welcome to bbc world news. also in this program, tight security ahead of expected protestsç. a loss of arab land to israel. massive budget cuts expected in spain.ç protesters and police clashed yesterday during a strike and rubber bullets were fired to disburse the crowd in bacelona. this report fromç gavin hewit protesters burned, rye oaters startedç fires. the police responded with rubber bullets. spain is currently the country causing the most concern in the euro-zone.ç the e.u. insists it must cut its budget, but the economy is shrinking. we have unemployment going up. at the same time, we haveç goto implement spending cuts. here s the0p 9ñ problem. there are around 140 evictions every day. house prices are still falling. deepening concerns about the spanish debt. euardo and mariayjjut are brother and sister, both ute of work. unem
the rest of the staff got out we re told in a convoy over land to jordan. now, the reason the u.s. is doing this, they say, is that the government has refused the syrian government has refused to address its security concerns. and what were they? well, the embassy in damascus is located right off on a very busy street. and the u.s. says there was concern after some car bombs last month that perhaps there could be the embassy could be a target of al qaeda. that bombing, by the way, was linked to al qaeda. so they decided to do this. but obviously there was a lot of concern about whether they could get out. so that staff includes as i said the remaining staff, 17 people, plus the ambassador are now out. kyra? and sort of a bit of a coins d dense here? this is right after syria and russia blocked the resolution calling for president assad to be removed from office. that is true. however, the timing is true, but you would have to say that they have been bringing this issu
civilians on it merry christmas it s not clear to me that the chinese themselves think they have a lot of leverage. rose: we continue this evening with congresswoman carolyn maloney, one of the authors of the 9/11 first responders bill. we re working on all levels. we are all. all cylinders are working. the new york delegation has made this a top priority and we re highly focused on it and all i can say, charlie, is i am so worried. because if we don t get it passed before christmas, i feel that our nine years of work for our heroes and heroines, it will be impossible to pass hit in the next congress. rose: we conclude this evening with a look at the business events of 2010 with josh tyrangiel, the editor of bloomberg business week. so what you re seeing is opportunity spreading around the world. now it s a testament to the american system. it s a testament to capitalism, but it s a new game now and emerging markets are absolutely competitive and not rising, they ar
civilians on it merry christmas it s not clear to me that the chinese themselves think they have a lot of leverage. rose: we continue this evening with congresswoman carolyn maloney, one of the authors of the 9/11 first responders bill. we re working on all levels. we are all. all cylinders are working. the new york delegation has made this a top priority and we re highly focused on it and all i can say, charlie, is i am so worried. because if we don t get it passed before christmas, i feel that our nine years of work for our heroes and heroines, it will be impossible to pass hit in the next congress. rose: we conclude this evening with a look at the business events of 2010 with josh tyrangiel, the editor of bloomberg business week. so what you re seeing is opportunity spreading around the world. now it s a testament to the american system. it s a testament to capitalism, but it s a new game now and emerging markets are absolutely competitive and not rising, they ar
ballistic missile tests and the sinking of the cheonan, the south korean corvette and now the shelling of an island with civilians on it merry christmas it s not clear to me that the chinese themselves think they have a lot of leverage. rose: we continue this evening with congresswoman carolyn maloney, one of the authors of the 9/11 first responders bill. we re working on all levels. we are all. all cylinders are working. the new york delegation has made this a top priority and we re highly focused on it and all i can say, charlie, is i am so worried. because if we don t get it passed before christmas, i feel that our nine years of work for our heroes and heroines, it will be impossible to pass hit in the next congress. rose: we conclude this evening with a look at the business events of 2010 with josh tyrangiel, the editor of bloomberg business week. so what you re seeing is opportunity spreading around the world. now it s a testament to the american system. it s a