in the movie joyce be the children's the i love you that's a great way to turn the brandon period truly that george was the first girl and all you can a letter to the socialist which says don't need to go locally and read this in the kernel was her job as used to retreat. the atomic agency chief makes his first visit to japan's crippled fukushima plant as a country's nuclear nightmare continues for months after a devastating earthquake and tsunami. countdown to crisis president obama appealed to the public to pressure congress into a compromise over its debt ceiling with just a week before a potential default. and a top north korean diplomat is invited to the u.s. for talks on resuming stalled nuclear disarmament to go she was just days after and was from north and south met for the first time in two years. and joint business i'll tell you to find out how its leaves them now and germany's view on how to

become the largest investors the new capacity produces on russia's electricity market. one pm in the russian capital you're watching r.t. the head of the international atomic watchdog is visiting japan's fukushima nuclear plant for the first time since march as devastating earthquake and tsunami in kenya morrow has promised to help with the recovery effort and discussed what aid is needed at a meeting with the country's prime minister as well as killing sauza as the natural disasters cause the plants reactor cores to melt and leak dangerous amounts of radiation into the environment but the i.a.e.a. chief says the workers at the plant are capable of bringing the leak under control by early next year as planned presidents evacuated from a town close to the area held a belated memorial for the dad of missing. on the no man's land but even mary of

those who survived are struggling with their own nuclear nightmare artist entente explains. a triple disaster on a scale the world has never known causing damage destruction and uncertainty forcing tens of thousands of japanese refugees to leave their lives behind and seek shelter anywhere they can some people do. the bucket but the but the problem is the minority they be they have been accused by. their classmates all you know of course by offshore. causing the. following that. if you know. there are primarily a move towards self-preservation this idea of desertion is defined by many as characteristically and in japanese and has earned those who have evacuated the dishonorable title of traitor. of course it's hard to hear that we have family

neighbors with think about our health but in other words we run away we escape because we're scared of radiation and there's 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. or going to. commit suicide because you know. everything. falls after many hard work and it's just consummated i think you

know so. far so i'm very sad to hear the news. and many other farmers are also very much depressed a recent national survey in japan performed by dr roshini and his team shows that suicide rates in japan have been found 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 the. increase. but the fear areas because survivors struggling. if they have not had to mix inside 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. disaster many people actually lost their jobs or

or their working condition has crashed. so. yeah they have a for many a good reason to commit suicide because in japan's death toll to keep rising even though the initial disaster subsided months before in japan shaun thomason orci. was more of what's happening in japan i'm joined live now from hiroshima by nuclear energy expert dr robert jacobs. robert thanks so much for being here with us now why is the head of the i.a.e.a. focusing only now so what's expected to come out of his visit. what's what's largely coming out of the visit is an endorsement of the plan of the government of japan on the road forward the so-called road map and in essence sort of a sanctifying or a blessing that everything is proceeding according to plan. what they did that the

i a did come in march although i'm on i was secretary my i was not able to come to fukushima because the dangers there but he's now toured the facility and been briefed and had discussions with the government but in essence what this is is just just trying to give a nice shine to a terrible terrible situation of policy and not really in any way dealing with the actual problems that are facing us here in japan while the tragedy that hit japan about four months ago terrified the world tell us how this situation is there are now. well there's there's different pieces to it there's been some rebuilding of the damage done by the earthquake and tsunami although that stress even somewhat slowly but in terms of the problems with the nuclear plants this situation is rather die there are still these plants are still leeching radioactivity into the environment every day into the sea and through the steam of the combing into the

air and what's what's now preoccupied many people in japan is that even for those of us that live far enough away that we thought we were not in any way threatened by the radiation from the plants we're now finding that because of insufficient oversight to the food supply and public health questions that radiation is turning up in all kinds of food products so you're finding now people in far away from fukushima areas are now beginning to realize that they're not going to be escaping the radiation because of that distance and additionally besides that there's still a rather chaotic policy about what will be happening in the areas that were contaminated near the plants but outside of the evacuation zone for example pushing a steady. rise we now some people in japan are accusing the government of holding back information about the true a scale of the disaster and earlier we saw protests in tokyo not or cities so what's happening now does that still seem to be the case do people have access to

what's going on information wise. you know it's absolutely in some ways it's getting worse we know that neither tepco tokyo electric or the government inform the public when they knew that there had been full nuclear meltdowns people were not told to evacuate at that time and in terms of the current situation there is a great deal of anger especially among parents the inclusion of a prefecture and nearby that there is not a comprehensive system to try to protect the health of the people in those areas so you're seeing meetings every couple of days in which government officials are being yelled out by local residents who are complaining that they're not being given enough information about the health threats to their children and their families and this situation is in many ways here in japan compounding. but how is everyone that had coming to grips with what happened. well the scale of the tragedy is

immense and in some ways unlike the kobe earthquake in which case there was at least an end to the event so that people could mourn and people could rebuild and this is a tragedy that is ongoing and so even though the earthquake and the tsunami have passed japan is very much gripped by the ongoing nuclear crisis and there doesn't seem to be any end to that crisis in sight we know that the plants will be reaching radio radiation for at least one more year possibly several more years and it's turning up increasingly in various parts of the in part of the region so people are beginning to get more anxious rather than less anxious here in japan as the as the impact spreads and we real and most people begin to realize that the large scale impact this radiation will have on our lives here in japan as. well people all over the world that were hit by this difficulty many clear disaster especially question

the nuclear energy use was raised right after that and germany and switzerland have pledged to abandon nuclear energy now is this possible in japan could japan do the same thing it's very debated point here there are some people that say that it would be devastating to japan to abandon nuclear power and there's others that say that that's the only course available to you and so i'm not an energy expert so i couldn't say exactly how that would affect us or how japan would have to move forward however what i will say is that there is no doubt that nuclear power is not a very viable energy alternative for the future this is the first generation of nuclear plants and here at the end of their licensing we're finding that they're in terrible shape and they leave a tremendous radioactive legacy just to decommission these plants so a way forward is going to have to be found without them and it would do japan well along with other and china. for example is taking the lead in trying to chart a path to a non-nuclear energy future so. it made me take

a short hit on the economy in the short term but clearly it's the only viable long term. all right dr robert jacobs thanks very much indeed for sharing your views here with us. to other stories now 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 he warned that failing to raise the debt ceiling will cause incalculable economic damage and i'll blame republicans in the house of representatives for the lack of a deal to avoid a u.s. national default congress is just to raise the fourteen point three trillion dollars debt limit before runs out of money risking a downgrade of its credit higher interest rates republicans and democrats have been logged in a dispute over whether spending cuts or tax hikes is the answer to the debt crisis senior editor at the capital research center says the government wants to raise its

limit to keep investors. 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 of the various political organizations that are sympathetic to the democratic party's cards 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 on air 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. and 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 the us speaker of the house has had back at the president's criticism of the standoff in congress job better said he had tried to work with obama but they couldn't find common ground republicans as a solution to the debt crisis is not complicated if you spent more than you take you have to spend less and speaker suggested increasing the debt ceiling by one

trillion dollars an amount which would last about six months and trying future increases to an agreement on cuts only are closely following developments on the american financial scene on our website or go to article for the latest updates and videos like the whole of america counts down days until the fall of wall street high flyers are bracing themselves for a rocky ride. this life is a joke and it's so let's get it so we really it's going. while others of us are choosing to ignore the problem by dressing up a superheroes and attending the annual comic-con convention. a senior in north korean diplomat has been invited to new york in an attempt to revive talks over his country's controversial nuclear program the moves contest

phase after top and voice problem the north and south korea seven gather for the first time in over two years on the sidelines of a security summit in indonesia where they are going to renew six party talks over pyongyang's atomic ambitions you know if nations were halted after north korea shelled. killing fourteen saying it was responding to a provocative military drills however the u.s. secretary of state says before any deal is discussed north korea's must first dismantle its nuclear facilities pepe escobar i think the times correspondent says that going as have been at war for fifty years so peace path is needed before negotiations can start. well that makes a little bit of desperation especially because when you look at the build clause which is you can dismantle it you nuclear program first and then we decide to talk to you that's an absolute no no i was in north korea last year and i confirmed from north korean officials directly that. this state awfully is the same state of glee

as it was fifty eight years ago to morris to fifty eight any adversity of the armistice that did not end in north korea korean war for that matter the ideal logical divide and the wall of mistrust between two sides it's almost humanly impossible to find a middle ground the same is true if you have to end the war it's true and the war from the north korean point of view is a war against america is not south korea they view it as a puppet government of the americas and asia that south korea in the minds of course it's still all killed by by american troops there are. just thirty eight thousand u.s. troops but the north korea says it has a western occupation of south korea. so you start to cry i really doubt this basic difference is important it's absolutely positive and started talking so to

state department i was trying to joke that dennis said ok first you get rid of your nuclear weapons the north that pando missiles and then we talk so orders of the narco he has are going to watch them the special envoy is going to watch is going to say look our position has been the same for the best fifty eight years take it or leave it. as a times correspondent pepe escobar there. norway's prime minister says his country will remain an open society morial processions for the victims of friday's twin terrorist attack have been held throughout the nation over one hundred thousand gathered in the capital to market their seventy six people for hours and candles were used to commemorate those massacred in a shooting at an island youth camp and the bombing of government buildings in oslo the man who admitted the city's has been charged with terrorism at close quarters nearing and will be held in isolation for four weeks as very graphic pleaded not guilty saying he wanted to save society from immigrants invasion amy johnson and

partners in chicago believe that europe's economic problems being so too will the popularity of it's the right way. i think the financial crisis is going to make it much more difficult to combat the message of peace or right 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 there are 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 old thing. 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 tables caustic ideologies back on the fringes where they belong. and for more analysis reports and videos on norway's first ever terror attack head to our you tube channel all the latest on the story available for you there twenty four seven. today is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations room. polish investigators have concluded that pilot error actually was to blame for last year's miles plane tragedy according to media reports the crash in russia claimed the lives of president and much of the country's political elite or so had

previously challenge twinings blaming the pilot and carried out its own best occasion the plane crashed while trying to land on a russian airfield in poor weather conditions all ninety six people on board were killed and intergovernmental panel found the crew had ignored orders to abandon the landing from russian air traffic controllers the official report of the polish investigative committee is expected to be published before the weekend. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world twenty two insurgents and three police officers have reportedly been killed during fierce clashes in afghanistan defining broke out between taliban nato and afghan forces across the volatile helmand province late on monday parts of helmand have seen a rise in violence after a responsibility for security was handed back to afghanistan earlier this month. nato airstrikes caused a fire at a food storage complex and time in northern uganda she's torn between colonel

gadhafi forces and the nato support of rebels it while forty kilometers to the east in opposition held this rotter government forces burnt one of the region's major fuel depos the u.n. envoy to leave health talks with the rebel council in benghazi on monday but the sides were unable to come up with a peaceful solution to the conflict the country's ongoing civil war started in february with nato joining in march. possible has sent forces to its northern border with serbia to enforce an import ban imposed last week the move has led to a rise in ethnic tensions with local serbs resisting the police presence is already say they control one of the border crossings but another is being blogged by locals the panelist service boycotts cost of goods in place since its you know better all declaration of independence in two thousand and eight. he wants to make an emergency delivery of food and humanitarian aid to somalia work stream drought is 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 year. malta has passed an historic law allowing couples to divorce in their own country it will take effect from tobar after the president signs it off well that was the only e.u. country without divorce legislation and couples have to travel abroad to apply for an element through the courts or church taking out to nine years the vote is a blow to the ruling nationalist party which opposes the force. love it or leave it maybe that's what life is all about rock legend brian may best known as a guitarist and songwriter for queen found self can playing suicide prior to the death of freddie mercury well in just over an hour we asked brian what brought him back from the brink. what drops you can use so.

i think what struck me was the fact that i had children and people depended on me and loved me i would like to tell you that it was a glimmer of hope but there was no i remember driving and seeing the bridge and thinking i could do this you have to somehow get outside. and trust that you can come back in as a person. i'm back with a recap of our main story shortly but before that we'll take a look what's happening in business with. soon a warm welcome to business team company has doubled first hard evidence for its british shareholder b.p. d.m.k. b.p. has paid one point six billion dollars through its british partners and the evidence overall net profit for the period stands at four and a half billion dollars almost double last year's results meanwhile b.p.

has reported a net profit of twelve point seven billion dollars for the first six months of the year that's against the loss of eleven billion in the first half of twenty ten caused by the world spill in the gulf of mexico. despite the pleas of pause expansion russia's bank is weighing up a new purchase in the express credit markets the country's largest lender is considering buying a ten percent stake in home credit b.v. by the autumn. this will be investment bt wants to buy a stake in the bank ahead of home pretty bibi's listing the i.p.o. of a twenty five percent stake is expected to raise around one billion dollars the company's key asset is home credit and finance bank in russia the bank holds a quarter of the instant credit markets. there's a reason al group and germany's eon have a finishing touches to their new power plants in siberia for an energy giants of leading investors and russia's liberalized market building new capacity than russian firms as the telepathic over explains. the generators are turning creating

much needed electricity and last year power companies built a record four gigawatts of capacity enough to power eight what of moscow and its foreign firms which provided bill lion's share of the investment and major nystrom never a bigger chip that the market is liberalize that the reserve regulatory for a market there are markets all capacity 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 their investments obligations while foreigners increased their market share for us on nine percent of capacity. but they commission seventy eight percent or for new units generators are

now asking regulators for predictability this year the russian government current price rises to fifteen percent we generate a lot of the millions but that hasn't stopped the flaking off switches if you. are a team like in markets now with reading from marginally up that's despite u.s. presidents are warning the country's a dead deadlock threatens to damage the u.s. economy the world's largest crude consumers of games and emitted a new markets open flat no much of a direction either for things like point one percent of the axis down a notch which a bank profits be the expectations or u.b.s. is fell short so therefore and this is a really looking for some kind of signals of trying i want a new order makers are losing in frankfurt. paris seems like a change of direction on the russian markets the r.t.s. is now up just point one percent when it was gaining up to one percent at the beginning of trading my sixth is down part of the set and that's a cautious trade with energy shares moving just slightly higher true for gas prong

already losing point six percent gold is gold is half a percent of the kazakh gold purchased eighty nine percent of the company from a reverse takeover. of these i've been heavily influenced by events in the u.s. and in europe you're getting his demise of alpha capital says stocks that are less affected however. i would like to single out problems burbank which our belief is not so much exposed to the true european north of view as problems. in the financial sector all this talk show performance also live some resource stories strike not attack on a roll call or wish for showing us the promise during the past couple of laws so i don't believe this starts going about about the market in the. nearest time gas problem still looks cheap but well it's a hard stalking a hot story for investors. but. a close quite cheap in comparison for international

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