it's hard to hear that we have family neighbors would think about our health but in other words we run away we ski because we're scared of radiation but there is no example in the world of something similar and the consequences are still ongoing. while those who have moved to shelters here in tokyo are facing that guilt and the pressure to move back home there are others who have lost everything cannot handle the overwhelming change and they are facing even darker demons japan already has one of the highest suicide rates in the world and following the disaster in march the government has issued a warning about a possible nationwide epidemic of depression here. organic farm us committed suicide because you know. it's. used everything they saw unfold after many. just contaminated one knife being taken off so some. suicide i'm very

sad to hear the news and many other also very much depressed a recent national survey in japan performed by dr hiroshi and his team shows that suicide rates in japan have in fact increased in the months since the disaster compared to the same timeframe in the previous two years but the demographics are not what you might expect. increased. note in the epicenter. but if you're areas because some barbers striving to hit you costs. they have no time to make suicide this disaster has certainly taken its toll on japan's economy and such constant reminders of an intense topic can harm the collective psyche of the people who live here as well because of the. tsunami disaster plus nuclear disaster many people lost their jobs or their working

on the show has crushed. so. yeah they have of so many good reasons to commit suicide causing japan's death toll to keep rising even though the initial disaster has subsided months before in japan sean thomas forty. coming out here in our to syria get serious about political freedom whether it's a gesture by president assad's government will help and ongoing violence or help him hold on to power. president barack obama has turned to the public for help in pushing through a deal on its debt he wants americans to put pressure on congress to find a compromise and a televised national address you warned that failing to raise the debt ceiling will cause incalculable economic damage bob blame republicans to the house of representatives for the lack of a deal to avoid a u.s. national default congress is just

a week to raise the fourteen point three trillion dollars debt limit before it runs out of money risking a downgrade of its credit mean higher interest rates and republicans and democrats have been locked in a dispute over whether spending cuts or tax hikes is the answer to the debt crisis matthew senior editor at the capital research center says the government needs to raise its borrowing limit and keep on spending. obama and the democrats in congress just want to keep on spending. and so they would like to see the debt ceiling raised so that they can continue to give rewards to their supporters among the labor unions and the various political organizations that are sympathetic to the democratic party's cause the u.s. is able to keep raising its debt ceiling because people investors around the world have confidence in the united states they believe that the u.s. government will honor its outstanding obligations and so as long as people have

faith in the investors and faith in the u.s. government in its credit worthiness then the u.s. could keep raising its debt ceiling the problem right now is that the debt is so high that that in itself is starting to become a negative factor that could lead to. a credit rating downgrade of the united states government if china loses confidence in. america the american government's ability to pay its debts then the u.s. will have nowhere to run to the u.s. with the only the only choice it would have would be to keep printing money to inflate the currency run the printing presses and risk devastating hyperinflation so that's about the only or the u.s. government would have to drastically cut spending and implement pretty severe austerity measures. senior editor of the capital research center washington d.c.

. all are closely following developments on the american financial scene on our web site so we can go to the latest updates and videos all of america counts down days until default wall street high flyers are bracing themselves for a rock in the rye. this life is a joke and it's so let's get it so we really is going. to ignore the problem by dressing up as superheroes and attending the annual comic con on the bench. a senior north korean diplomat has been invited to new york in an attempt to revive

the long stalled talks over his country's controversial nuclear program all discussion has been suspended since two thousand and nine the moves come just days after a top and always from the two countries sat together the first time in over two years on the sidelines of a security summit in indonesia there they agreed to renew six party talks over pyongyang's atomic ambitions however the u.s. secretary of state says before any deal can be agreed north korea must first dismantle its nuclear facilities erisa rotton co-founder of the national campaign to and the korean war says america shouldn't stand in a way of a peaceful solution. we forget that you know you can reach agreements even with people you have profound differences with the word exercises where we simulate landing two hundred thousand troops and taking over a young yang and defending against each other types of attacks only serves to amp it up and certainly the comments and expressions from the north don't help either

so you have both sides who need to step back and certainly begin to look at peaceful exercises of their relationship there north korea has not indeed as always indicated that for a peace treaty and formalized relations with the united states that it would give up its nuclear weapon capability that has always been on the table and we should be grabbing that as a real opportunity because up more than one hundred fifty countries have normalized relations with the north and we need formal channels to begin to deal with these things like jimmy carter and former ambassadors have been saying and our campaign along with many others are beginning to help washington move from demonization to engagement which is really necessary for any systematic change. and on the way here in r t why have one when you can have many what a growing number of russian women desperate to tie the knot some are willing to

accept being wife number two or three. wealthy british style. that's not on. their. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. brighten a few new songs from phones to freshen.

stunts on t.v. don't comb. watching artie morio processions for the victims of the twin attack on norway have been held across the country over one hundred thousand gathered in the capital to mark the deaths of seventy six people flowers and candles were used to commemorate those massacred in the shooting at an island used camp and the bombing of government buildings in oslo the man who admitted the atrocities has been charged with terrorism at a closed court hearing and will be held in isolation for four weeks at his varying graphic pleaded not guilty saying he wanted to save society from an immigrant's invasion david johnston a.c.m. partners and. gado billings at zero economic troubles increased so too will the popularity of extreme right wing parties. think the financial crisis is going to

make it much more difficult to combat the message of these far right groups in times of economic stress it is distressingly easy for people to look for scapegoats and unfortunately it's human nature to seek out scapegoats that look different than us who have different customs that os i'm very concerned that in the next half decade the financial stresses that all of europe is going to face are going to is going to help these far right groups i am concerned but it is a real trend sadly while economic hardship has not caused this i think it is likely to exacerbate what we're seeing and i think that looking at just the scandinavian countries it is actually i holding far right groups are going to gain increasing credence and popularity in the next few years throughout europe which is worryingly

close to almost a century approach and we really need to hope that our leaders throughout europe will do more to put these type of caustic ideologies back on the fringes where they belong. now some other top headlines from around the world nato airstrikes have caused a fire at a food storage complex in northern libya the blaze is in the city which is torn between colonel gadhafi forces and the rebels and forty kilometers to the east in opposition held misrata government forces burned one of the region's major fuel depo the u.n. envoy to arrive in tripoli on tuesday to see the current political situation in the capital it's. possible has sent forces to its northern border with serbia to enforce an important ban imposed last week the move has led to a rise of ethnic tensions with local serbs resisting the move but we say they have taken control of one of the border crossings but another is being blocked by locals

the ban was to counter service boycott of cost of our goods in place since it's you know let a real declaration of independence in two thousand and eight. the u.n. is to make an emergency delivery of food and humanitarian aid to somalia work stream drought has put ten million lives at risk it will be the first airlift since a two year ban on international aid was removed by somali militants several weeks ago on wednesday u.n. representatives will attend a conference in kenya to find ways to raise one point six billion dollars in aid over the next near. mosul has passed historic law allowing couples to divorce in their own country it will take effect from october after the president signs it off malta was the only country without divorce legislation and couples had to travel abroad or apply for an element through the courts or church taking up to nine years the vote is a blow to the ruling nationalist party which opposes divorce. syria's government

has adopted a draft law rival political parties to be created it could end decades of domination by president. party opposition groups have been banned since the military career nine hundred sixty three part of reforms promised by president assad to put an end to more than four months of protest against his government over fifteen hundred civilians have been killed thousands more detained since uprisings began in march however political theories benjamin barber believes the law is nothing more than an empty gesture. it is not anything but a formal and technical change the reality is this government cannot afford to have a genuine multi-party. approach because the parties that will be empowered powers that want to see the end of rule and the end of bashar assad in other words if they do more than just a formality it will lead to the fall of government believes that this is anything

more than a attempt to stall for a while. and i do not believe it will lead to multi-party democracy and i do not believe that in the end it is going to stop the uprising in any meaningful way i would suggest that the united states and the western powers are being hypocritical they talk about change but of course they haven't really put any pressure. on syria of the kind that they have put on libya for example and i don't see any nato warplanes preventing civilian casualties i don't see anyone really moving to look for an alternative the fact is the west doesn't like bashar assad but he is the known evil and i think they're very worried about what the unknown alternative might look like so i suspect that while they will continue to posture in public and pretend to condemn the regime that they will do little to actually remove assad he

knows that and therefore he will make some nice noises about multi-party democracy and about accommodation but in reality he will hang tough and i believe that very little will change. the british ministry of the sands has apologized after one of its attack helicopters one did five children by mistake in afghanistan according to you and a number of civilians killed by nato air strikes has gone up while the dast held this year alone standing at seventy nine anti-war activists lindsey german things it's time for the alliance to admit the failure of its afghan campaign i think it will just convince more people in afghanistan the war isn't helping them but he is actually killing and injuring more and more people so isn't working isn't going to work when you have a war where the risk of growing insurgency will be all sorts of people who are victims of this and children are obviously one of the worst of the casualties the

only solution to this is to say you war isn't working it has there is absolutely no justification for the nato forces to be there and that they should withdraw the troops this is now coming up to the tenth anniversary of the war and there is absolutely no question that this war is not getting better it is getting worse it is almost certain that whatever settlement eventually comes in afghanistan it will involve the taliban in some capacity nearly everybody now recognizes this so what is the point of continuing this war the point of continuing this war is because the americans and the british and their allies kamelot admit defeat in the second country after what happened in iraq that is why they're there they in order to prop up a government that they have no real confidence in they are in order to save their own faces they are there to protect their interests they're not there to protect the

ordinary afghans and we've seen this again this week. german from the stop the war coalition air. now when it comes to the dating game in russia it's really a man's world and there are ten million more women than men in the country forcing some to turn to unconventional methods to find love even if that means a better half is more like several better quaters are the single maria reports. meet andree and father of three and has been to three and over the years ago and dre got married two years own he proposed to ghana and then again. why should i refuse any of them if i love them all really why the country's demographic realities andries site according to the latest census there are ten million more women in russia than there are mean the shortage of supply leads to the need for sharing a concept with injuries wise say they've made peace with the earth that i thought

he was kidding but then realized that he wasn't i never expected something like this happening to me but we've all got used to it you know if you love you'll understand we never fight for andrey never quarrel there is no any kind of competition either. andrey considers himself an ardent christian yet to his wife who brought up muslims the distribution of duties and conjugal delights within the household also lies in the islamic traditions but he doesn't choose the several i made the move fairly equal if one wants me to buy her something i will but i'll buy something of the same price for the other two as well as a building three houses and board three apartments that's fair isn't it or for as extraordinary as it seems and reason example is not that train of russian many man are in relationships with several women at a time of course most to keep their extramarital affairs secret. know in the morning as this may look strange i agree but we consider it better to be

a second or third wife rather than think you are the only one and be the silly mistake and the scarcity of man is also be down to their propensity to gauge in was described as unhealthy behavior alcoholism and reckless driving is cheap in a way at the country's gene pool let me tell you my story twenty eight years old reasonably smart fairly pretty and very compassionate yet i'm still single and my odds of trying the. no to get since lehman every year according to recent poll in russia forever single man over thirty there are dozens of single women still on the lookout for that prince who is search for true love becoming statistically challenging no wonder always a wondering a brute and then from russia with love is to go in strong. regional tea most going. brian may is best now as a guitarist and songwriter for a legendary rock band queen but he is also an astrophysicist and the chancellor of

a british university a little later this hour we asked dr may what makes science and music sing and harmony. it's a hard question. yeah obviously there are mathematical things in music but ironically i think the most important things in music having instinctive things so i don't quite have it works out except maybe he was your parents but yes i love pure science and i love music and they're not the same sure. certainly throughout history there has to have been connections and people who were immersed in both of them you know from beginning to divinity to. patrick more you know. it seems to be that way maybe it's an obstruction thing maybe people who like these things don't like the clutter of the world like the complications of the world that we live in you know the pieces of stuff they just like to find the

essence of life so maybe pure science is in some way close to the essence of nature and you think it's close to the pure essence of human being. that interview will become your way very shortly before the we'll take a look at what's happening the world of business was to me a tree. good morning and welcome to the business update on our. group and germany's have put the finishing touches to the new power plants in siberia the foreign energy giants other leading investors in russia's liberalized market building more new capacity than russian firms the taliban took over has this report. the generators are turning creating much needed electricity last year power companies built a record for gigawatts of capacity enough to power a quarter of moscow and its foreign firms which provided the lion's share of the

investment major milestone have already begun. the market this liberalize that there really is a regulatory framework there are markets all capacity the and then are g.e. what we wish is to progress with this in making it more functioning russia opened its power sector four years ago privatizing most generating capacity during the crisis some russian firms failed to meet the investment obligations while foreigners increased their market share for us on nine percent of capacity. but they commission seventy eight percent of new units generators are now asking regulators for predictability this year the russian government curbed price rises to fifteen percent we generate a sale lost the millions but that hasn't stopped the flaking off switches prime minister brazil started something new to the rate doesn't sell promising for you

that build all the more in return for more gigawatts that's going to be a good business our team. from gigawatts to crude oil is trading near a two day after u.s. president warned the country's debt deadlock presents a damage to the u.s. economy and therefore the world's largest crude consumer may start demanding less world. record stock markets now in asia higher so curious stocks with financials recouping the most is the session a submission financial group is adding three quarters of a percent this can on as i think two percent after hiking the full cost for this year and gains in hong kong which is up around one percent by the bank. moscow two hours still ahead of the opening bell on monday the russian markets finished flat next and you may just wonder selling pressure on the crude prices but gold miners surged on higher demand for precious metals. well russia could use of

struggle to continue last week's good performance you're going to get the capital says all eyes on whether the u.s. can conjure up a plan to solve its debt situation. well the markets are still waiting for a decision on the u.s. debt deal so we do paul that lawmakers will come to some definite solution because the worst thing we know happened the market is that no one is no one knows what's going to happen on all goosed when there is some deadline for the as that deal. also people are expecting a crucial friday date on the u.s. economy we've got three of us back ten years to do peter advance by one point eight percent and but also people expect some slowdown in the consumer spending all in all waiting for two issues macro economic data which will inflows all the markets across the world and also the u.s. debt deal. will be back in fifteen minutes time with an update marina's next with

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backwards marc you live in moscow these are the top stories the international atomic agency chief makes his first visit to japan's crippled fukushima plant the consequences of the nuclear nightmare has seen a rise in the suicide rate in the four months since the devastating earthquake and tsunami. president obama appeals to the public to pressure congress into a compromise over its debt ceiling just a week is left before the u.s. could potentially default for the first time in its history. and

a top north korean diplomat is said to travel to the u.s. for talks on resuming stalled nuclear disarmament negotiations it comes days after envoys from the north and south met for the first time in two years and agreed to renew six party talks. next. interviews legendary queen guitarist and songwriter brian may she caught up with the maestro who also happens to be an astrophysicist after a symposium of astronomers in the canary islands well next he shares his memories of working with freddie mercury and gives insight into how music and the stars help wife here on earth. it's great to have you with us today sir. so recently i was going through the glass

bead game of. about music and what he says about music is that except it's art it's also true power over nations and human souls and then many people say that exactly why music is compared to exact sciences like math. so i never really got that because i finished product conservatory and i always failed my math class now you as a man of music and science can tell me how music is related with science or exact science like math for example it's a hard question. for multiple things in music but ironically i think the most important things in music are be instinctive things so i don't know quite how that works out except maybe gives you a balance but yes i love pure science and i love music and they're not the same sure but. certainly throughout history there has been connection.