it's hard to hear that we have family neighbors would think about our health but in other words we run away whiskey because we're scared of radiation but 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 are some organic farmers committed suicide because you know the. soil is everything they have good soil for after many hours of hard work and it's just contaminated one night or two or so some. farmers committed suicide 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 time frame in the previous two years but the demographics are not what you might expect. increase that. note in the. centers. but if you're areas because some by both striving to. raf they have not had 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

conditions has crashed. 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 or t.v. . or hiroshima based nuclear energy expert robert jacobs believes the visit of the i.a.e.a. chief to fukushima is a farce he claims the japanese government still isn't doing enough to protect people from the effects of the disaster. in essence what this is is just just trying to give a nice shine to a terrible terrible situation and policy and not really in any way dealing with the actual problems that are facing us here in japan in terms of the problems with the nuclear plants the situation is rather dire still these plants are still leaching radioactivity into the environment every day into the sea and through the steam of

the cooling into the air but what's now preoccupying 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 there is a great deal of anger especially among parents in fukushima 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 at 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 issue asian is in many ways here in japan compounding. with

r.t. 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 in a televised national address he warned that failing to raise the debt ceiling will cause in calculable economic damage obama blamed republicans in the house of representatives for the lack of a deal to avoid a u.s. national default congress has just one week to raise the fourteen point three trillion dollar debt limit before it runs out of money risking a downgrade of its credit that would mean higher interest rates republicans and democrats are being locked in a dispute over whether spending cuts or tax hikes are the answer to the debt crisis matthew a senior editor of the capital research center says the government needs to raise its borrowing limit in order 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 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 have faith in the u.s. government and 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. well meantime the us speaker of the house has hit back at the president's criticism of the standoff in congress john boehner said there will be no blank check for obama because the government spending is out of control the republican believes the solution to the debt crisis is not complicated if you spend more than you take you have to spend less the speaker has suggested increasing the debt ceiling by one trillion dollars that's an amount that would last only about six months and the future increases to an agreement on cuts so that we are closely

monitoring the developments on the american financial scene on our web site of course on dot com they can get the latest updates and all sorts of various videos to a for example of the whole of america counts down days until default high flyers of bracing themselves for a rocky road. this life is a joke in it so let's get a sweet really is going. to ignore the problem by dressing up and superheroes and attending the annual convention. you with r t live from moscow where it's now at ten minutes to an afternoon a senior north korean diplomat has been invited to new york in an attempt to revive the long stalled talks over its country's controversial nuclear program the move

comes just days after top envoys from the north and south korea sat together for the first time in over two years on the sidelines of a security summit in indonesia there they agreed to renew the six party talks over pyongyang's atomic ambitions to go to holding off the north korea shell the young killing four people saying it was responding to provoke a military drills however the u.s. secretary of state says before any deal is discussed north korea must first dismantle its nuclear facilities pepe escobar asia times correspondent said that north korea feels like it's at war with the u.s. which it sees as an occupying power. well smacks a little bit of desperation specially because when you look at the build clause which is you can dismantle it you'll nuclear program first and then we decided 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 debt. this state awfully is the same state of

glee as it was fifty eight years ago to morrow to morrow is that fifty eighth anniversary of the armistice that did not end in north korean war for that matter north korea south korea are still at war with each other if there's an armistice in the north koreans are see we have to sit down in the same table with the americans and then we go to formally and the war and then we're going to discuss every scene including the nuclear program so this state department now is trying to joke they're going to just you get rid of their nuclear weapons either that or no missiles and then we talk so almost in our careers are going to watch them just special envoy is going to watch he's going to say hello. our position has been the same for the best fifty eight years take it or leave it and the war from the north korean point of view is a war against america is not south korea they view it as

a blot that the government of the americas and asia and that south korea in the minds of beyond young of course is still all killed by by american troops there are thirty six to thirty eight thousand u.s. troops but the north korea says it has a western occupation of south korea so no less you start to i really doubt this basic difference is important it's absolutely impossible to even start talking trying to apply to the chinese gets even more complicated because china at once the status quo to go on i would say forever they don't want korean reunification they sink that that korea would be in the extreme. later if it's unified in northeast asia they prefer sayings as they stand at the moment as long as u.s. doesn't have full spectrum dominance ideas of trying to control the yellow sea so you know what you can see that you know there's problems going to take like that

one don't missiles virtually everywhere that. that's asia times correspondent pepe escobar speaking right there while you are with r.t. and on the way why have one when you can have many for the growing number of russian women desperate to tie the knot some willing to accept being wife number two or even a wife number three. know as prime minister says his country will remain an open society meantime more processions for the victims of friday's twin terrorist attack happy and healthy throughout the nation over a 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 youth camp and the bombing of a government building 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 and has a bearing a pretty thick pleaded not guilty saying he wanted to save society from an immigrant's

invasion david johnson of a.c.m. partners in chicago believes that as your of economic troubles increase 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 there are as i am concerned that 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 eye opening for all 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. for more analysis reports and videos on norway's first ever terror attack just head over to our you tube channel and all the latest on the story available for you twenty four seventh's. news today. these are the images. now sixteen minutes past the hour here in the russian capital polish investigators have concluded that pilot error was to blame for last year's small plane tragedy

that's according to media reports the crash in russia claim that the lives of president lech kaczynski and much of the country's political elite also had previously challenge the findings blaming the pilot and carried out its own investigation the plane crashed while trying to land on a russian airfield in poor weather conditions all ninety six people on board were killed governmental panel found the crew had ignored orders to abandon the landing from russian air traffic control is the official report of the polish an investigative committee is expected to be published before the week. or let's get some other top headlines now for you from around the world this hour twenty insurgents and two police officers have reportedly been killed during fierce clashes in afghanistan the fighting 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 after responsibility for security was handed back to afghanistan

earlier this month. nato airstrikes of cost of food storage complex in. northern libyan city torn between colonel gadhafi forces and nato supported rebels meanwhile forty kilometers to the east in opposition held misrata government forces burnt one of the region's major fuel depots the u.n. envoy to libya helped 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 back in march. kosovo 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 the authorities say they control one of the border crossings and another is being blocked by locals the ban was to counter serbia's boycott of cars of our goods in place since its unilateral declaration of independence in two thousand and eight.

the un is to make an emergency delivery of food and humanitarian aid to somalia where extreme drought has put ten million lives at risk it will be the first since a two year ban on international aid was removed by somali militia and 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. has passed historic law allowing couples to divorce in their own country will take effect after the president signs it off was the only e.u. country without divorce legislation and couples have to travel abroad for an announcement through the courts or church taking up to nine years the vote is a blow to the ruling nationalist party which opposes divorce. and now from divorce to unconventional marriages when it comes to the dating game in russia it

real. she is a man's world there are ten million more women than men in the country forcing some to turn to exotic means of finding love even if that means a better half is more like several better quarters artie's single maria financial reports. meat and drink a father of three and has been to three and other years ago andrei got married two years own he proposed again and then again. why should i refuse any of them if i love them all really why the country's demographic realities andris side including to the latest census there are ten million more we win in russia than there are men the shortage of supply leads to the need for sharing a concept with andries wives say they've made peace with their worth i thought he was kidding but then realised 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 andre 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 and he doesn't do that so i made the move feel 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 of building three houses and bought three apartments that's fair isn't it or for as extraordinary as it seems and rees example is not that train of russia many men are in relationships with several women at a time of course most to keep their extramarital affairs secret. though in the morning 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 bitterly mistaken 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 a 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 time than. altogether since lehman every year according to recent poll here in russia forever single man over thirty there are dozens of single women stay on the lookout for their creams their wounds search for true love becoming statistically challenging no wonder always a wondering a brood and then from russia with love is to go in strong. regional tea most going. to love is just around the corner now love it or leave it and maybe that's what it's all about life in that regard a rock legend brian may best known as the guitarist and songwriter queen actually found himself contemplating suicide prior to the death of freddie mercury just

a few minutes now here in our to you we asked brian what brought him back from the brink. what's killing yourself. i think what stopped me was the fact that i had children and people who depended on me and people who love me i would like to tell you that there was a glimmer of hope there but there wasn't at that time you know 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 who can deal with things that. suddenly stick around for him to be there with brian may here a nazi but for now i'll be back with a recap of our main story shortly after dimitri and the business. thanks for hello and welcome to business dancing oil company b.p. has doubled first on evidence for its british shareholder b.p.

. paid one point six billion dollars to its various partners and dividends overall net profit for this period stands at four and a half billion dollars almost double last year's results however 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 dollars the first top twenty ten which was caused by the oil spill in the gulf of mexico. despite a pleader pause expansion russia's bt bank is weighing up a new purchase in the express credit markets the country's second largest lender is considering buying a ten percent stake in home credit by autumn this will be able for only investment b.c.b. wants to buy a stake in the bank ahead of home credit bibi's listing of twenty five percent stake is expected to raise around one billion dollars the company's key asset is home credit finance bank and russia bank holds a quarter of the credit market. there are some things on mel group and germany's on

has put the finishing touches to the new power plants in siberia for an energy giants are the leading investors in russia's liberalized power market building more new capacity than russian firms that helped over explains. 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 being achieved the market this liberalize that there really is a regulatory framework there are markets all capacity and then energy 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 me their investment obligations while foreigners increased

their market share for us on nine percent of capacity. but the 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 with generators see last the millions but that hasn't stopped the flaking off switches that you nobody over business our team. into the markets now starting with crude oil is trading marginally up and that's despite u.s. president warning the country's debt presence of damage the u.s. economy which is the world's largest crude consumer. q you markets open flat so there wasn't much of a direction and now that seems that the sending into the red deutsche bank profits beat expectations well u.b.s. profits fell short automakers are driving the dax down in frankfurt.

and the side of it still is the russian market the earth years going up point two percent my six going down by the same amount take a look at some the main movers on the mice so when it comes to energy stocks it's all mixed to gazprom up point two percent lukoil down point three percent seems investors are really interested in some kind of catalyst to start selling or buying gold is a point six percent after it's daughter company kazakh called purchased eighty nine percent of the company for a reverse takeover. russian equities of been heavily influenced by the events in the u.s. and in europe but you're going to get a massive alpha capital stocks that are less affected. i would like to single out problems burbank which i believe is not so much exposed to the true european not to you as dept problems looks like that in the financial sector of the stock a show of performance also some resource stories like novacek and roll collar which

have shown a nice performance during the past couple of months so i do believe the stocks got a bit better about the market in the. nearest time gazprom still looks cheap but while it's hard stalking a hot story for investors. but best it looks quite cheap in comparison to international oil and gas majors headlines are next with brewery on the do stay with us.

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stores the international atomic agency chief first visit. consequences. four months since i devastating earthquake and tsunami. president obama appeals to the public to pressure congress into a compromise over its debt ceiling just a week before the u.s.

could potentially pull the. north korean diplomats. for the first time in two years and agree. to stay with us here on r.t. . interview queen guitarist and songwriter brian may she caught up with a maestro who also happens to be an astrophysicist after a symposium of astronomers in the canary islands the next he shares his memories of working with freddie mercury and gives insight into how music and the stars help life here on.

it's great to have you with us today sir thank you for being so recently i was going through the glass bead game of passing and your eyes about music and what he says about music is that except it's artful 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 piano 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. obviously there are all mathematical things in music but ironically i think the most important things in music are the 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 you or music and then we'll pursue .