in india close he's available in the movie joyce be able to see the movie that's the gateway to the grand imperial. george was. you can a letter tell the socialist sit don't need to go and. read this and the colonel was hurt as this guy retreated. the atomic agency chief makes his first visit to japan's crippled fukushima plant as the 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 one week before potential to force. and top north korean diplomat is invited to the u.s. for talks on it resuming stalled nuclear disarmament negotiations just days after envoys from the north and south met for the first time in two years and business

news russia is expanding its privatization programs to completely sell off fourteen state companies by the year's twenty seven c. on that in twenty minutes. just after three pm on tuesday here in moscow you with r.t. and some showing the head of the international atomic watched over his visit in japan's fukushima nuclear power plant for the first time since march of the devastating earthquake and tsunami. 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 thousands the natural disasters caused the plant's reactor cores to melt and leak dangerous amounts of radiation into the environment 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 residents evacuated from

a talent close to the area meantime held a belated memorial for the dead and missing on the irradiated no man's land but even many of those who survived are struggling with their own nuclear nightmare sean thomas reports. a triple disaster on a scale the world has never known causing damage and destruction and uncertainty forcing tens of thousands of japanese refugees to leave their lives behind and seek shelter anywhere they can something to do. evacuate but of but the problem is the minority they be they have been accused. classmates all you know of course by or. causing. if. not. primarily a move towards self-preservation this idea of desertion is defined by many as

characteristically an in japanese and has earned of those who have evacuated the dishonorable title of traitor. of course it's hard to hear that we have family neighbors we think about our health but in other words we run away we escape 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 it guilt and the pressure to move back home there are others who have lost everything cannot and all 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 and everything.

good soil for after many hours of hard work and it's just contaminated one night and you know so. far so i'm very sad to hear the news and so 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 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. insincerely rate increase. nope. you know. that's the fear years because survivors struggling through their. life they have no camp 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 the real disaster many people actually lost their jobs or working on the song has crashed. so. yeah they have so many good reasons the comments causing japan's death toll to keep rising even though the initial disaster has subsided months before in japan sean thomas forty. meantime hiroshima based nuclear energy expert robert jacobs believes the visit of the i.a.e.a. chief to fukushima is simply a farce it 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 leeching radioactivity into the environment every day into the sea and through the steam of the cooling into the air which 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 if 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 at that distance there is a great deal of anger especially among parents in fukushima prefecture and nearby that there's 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 information is in many ways here in japan compounding. about seven minutes past the hour here and most of you with a hearty president barack obama has turned to the public for help in pushing through a deal on his debt he wants americans to put pressure on congress to find a compromise and i thought of us national address he warned that failing to raise the debt ceiling will cause any calculable economic damage well obama blamed republicans in the house of representatives for the lack of a deal to avoid a u.s. national default congress has just a week now to raise the fourteen point three trillion dollars debt limit before it runs out of money or saying a downgrade of its credit. i mean higher interest rates republicans and democrats are being looked in a dispute over whether spending cuts or tax hikes is the answer to the pet crisis matthew futterman the senior editor at the capital research center says the

government needs to raise its borrowing limit in order to keep on investors the obama and the democrats in congress just want to keep on spending. and so they would like to see the debt ceiling raise 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 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. meantime the u.s. the speaker of the house says hit back at the president's criticism of the standoff in congress john boehner said there will be no check for obama because the government spending is out of control and 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 is suggesting increasing the debt ceiling by one trillion dollars that's an amount that would last only about six months and then tying future increases to an agreement on cuts but we are closely following developments on the american financial scene on our web site of course our team dot com i'm going there for the latest updates and videos. from all over america counts down days until the fourth wall street high flyers are bracing themselves for a rocky road right. this is the job get it so let's get it so we really is going. in the u.s. are choosing to ignore the problem by dressing up as superheroes and attending the annual comic con in.

now at ten minutes past the hour here in moscow 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 the move comes just days after top envoys from north korea and south korea sat together for the first time in over two years on the sidelines of a security summit in indonesia agreed to renewed six party talks over pyongyang's atomic ambitions because your actions were halted after north korea shelled a young p.r. island killing four people and said it was responding to provoke military drills however the u.s. secretary of state says before any deal is discussed it must first dismantle its nuclear facilities but pepe escobar and asia times correspondent believes that north korea feels like it's at war with the u.s. which it sees as an occupying power. well it makes a little bit of desperation specially because when you look at the mean bill cause

which is you can dismantle it you'll nuclear program first and then we'll decide to talk to you that's an absolute no no i was in arcadia last year and i confirmed from north korean officials directly that. the state of really is the same state of play as it was fifty eight years ago to morrow to morrow is that fifty ace any adversity of the pardon mysterious that did not end in north korean war for that matter north korea south korea are still at war with each other there's an armistice and the north koreans are saying we have to sit down at the same table with the americans and then we are going to formally and the war and then we're going to discuss never saying including the nuclear program so the state department now is trying to joke that got us into forced you get rid of your nuclear weapons either to happened on missiles and then we thought so or does it in our careers are going to watching this special and what is going to what is going to say look 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 puppet government of the americas and asia that south korea in the minds of course is still all cute died 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 positive and start talking from the point of view of the chinese gets even more complicated because china wants this battle spall to go on i would say for ever they don't want korean reunification they sink that that korea will. in the extremely bleeder if it still is fired in northeast asia the interesting is the stand at the moment is long as us there's

a full spectrum dominance ideas of trying to control the yellow sea so you can you can see that you know they're struggling to. build the missiles where. asia times correspondent. speaking to us earlier well on the way here on r t why have one when you can have many but a growing number of russian women desperate to tie the knot some are willing to be accepted as wife number two more even wife number three. publisher best it is concluded that pilot error actually was to blame for last year's small against plane tragedy because according to media reports the crash in russia claimed the lives of president lech kaczynski and much of the country's political elite also had previously challenge the findings blaming the pilot who carried out its own investigation the plane crashed while trying to land on a russian airfield and 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. it's a quarter past the hour now here in the russian capital let's check out some other top headlines from around the world from here on our team twenty two insurgents and two police officers have reportedly been killed during fierce clashes in afghanistan the fighting broke out between taliban nato and the afghan forces across the volatile helmand province late on monday part of helmand have seen a rise in violence after responsibility for security was handed back to local forces earlier this month. because it was sent forces to its northern border with serbia to enforce an import brown imposed last week the move has led to a rise in ethnic tensions with local serbs resisting the police presence say they control one of the border crossings but another is being blocked by locals bad was

to counter because of boycott of cause of goods in place since its unilateral declaration of independence in two thousand and eight. more often a military aircraft carrying seventy people has crashed in the south of the country c one thirty plane went down in the mountainous region of. just north of the disputed western sahara territory reports say bad weather and low visibility could have caused the crash rescue teams are currently working at the scene more more this as we get here an artsy. also has passed an historic lore allowing couples to divorce in their own country it will take effect from october after the president signs it in malta it was the only e.u. country without him to force legislation and couples have to travel abroad or would apply for another month through the courts or church that could take up to nine years the vote is a blow to the ruling nationalist party which opposes divorce. the lawyer of the man

who killed dozens of people in a twin a terror attack in norway has revealed chilling details of his discussions with anders breivik he says a great believes he's got supporters not only in norway but also abroad and insists his operation is under way as planned as quote also confessed that he took drugs to help him carry out the mission efficiently the lawyer conceded the grave is likely to be declared insane 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 david johnson of ac and partners in chicago believes that as europe's economic troubles increased so too were the popularity of extreme right wing parties. i think the financial crisis is going to make it much more difficult to combat the nessie 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 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 we looking at just the scandinavian countries it is actually ideal having a quarrel rate we're going to gain increasing credence and popularity in the next few years throughout europe which is worryingly close to almost a centrist 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. and are for more analysis our reports and videos on a noise my psychiatrist had over to r.t. you tube channel all the latest on the story available for you at the click of a button twenty four seven.

more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world is seeing from the streets of canada. operations around the day. it's a good to have you with us on this tuesday you're with art you live from moscow now or when it comes to the dating game in russia it really is a man's world there are ten million more women than men in the country forcing some type of exotic means of finding love even if that means a better heart is more like several quarters artie's single or a financial reports. need sundry a father of three and husband of three another using andrei got married two years and he proposed again and then again. why should i refuse any of them going up the

mall really why the country's demographic realities andries side excluding to the latest census there are ten million new women in russia than there are mean a shortage of supply leads to the need for sherry a concept that injuries wise see they've made peace with well worth i thought she was kidding but then realized that she 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 understand we never fight for andree never quarrel there is no any kind of competition either. andrey considers himself an ardent christian yet to his wife's abroad of muslims the distribution of duties and conjugal delights within the household also lies in the islamic traditions. of the ceramic with what i mean to move feel equal if one wants me to buy her something or will the old boy something of the same price for the other two his world

a little three houses and bought three apartments that's fair isn't it. as extraordinary as it seems andries example is not that train russia any man are in relationships with several women at a time of course most to keep their extramarital affairs secret in the morning and this may look strange i agree which we consider it better to be a second or third wife rather than think you are the only one and we'd be silly mistaken this cassidy 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 countries who does not tell you my story twenty eight years old reasonably smart fairly pretty and very compassionate yet i'm so single i my odds of tying the knot again since leave my average year according to recent poll in russia forever single man over thirty there are thousands of single women still on the lookout for their brains with their wounds search for true love becoming

statistically challenging no wonder our eyes are wondering abroad and from russia with love is to go in strong. regional shanty moscow. love it or leave it maybe that's what life is all about rock legend brian may best known as the guitarist and songwriter of a queen actually found himself contemplating suicide at the height of his success and try out of the death of pretty much every. time we asked brian what brought him back to britain. what stops you killing yourself. i think what stopped me was the fact that i had children and people who depend on me and me i would like to tell you that there was a glimmer of hope there but there wasn't at that time 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. i

give you as our next hour here are three rather back with a recap of the top story shortly but first it is the business news to me. and there's even a warm welcome change business and see russia is looking forward to expanding insert privatization program to spur economic growth first of all as president vice prime minister by being a part and eager to fall of laid out the new plan in an article in the better mr newspaper to get more details but across life to business i think money in a coffee and lazy marina what's new in the privatization blueprint that. corning to this latest plan the government should completely privatized fourteen companies including bt the roots hydro i wrong but that doesn't mean given full control the states will retain a golden share which means the rights of veto any strategic decisions are made by

the companies and when it comes to infrastructure companies the government will decrease its share and analysts say focusing on competitive companies right now is a good move because other industries are harder to regulate and that would mean having to sell at a lower price well you mentioned did restructure companies one of the most significant is. now how is it privatization to go. build it comes to translate the government owns about seventy eight point one percent share and it's funding to say just over three percent what about four hundred million dollars and all these privatization efforts of course are being pushed by the president meeting with the idea there has been encouraging companies to privatized and he called earlier plans to mow this and this is the right thing to see more privatized ation in the country he said that so far it's been a slow process and there have been a lot of missed that lies just last year they not just a complete only ten percent of the plan sales i but that's life for these new

suggestions is twenty seventeen all right thank you so much that was business all these corporate money and of course were brought in on the expansion of the privatization. well company has doubled sort of first hard evidence for its british shareholder b.p. b.p. has paid one point six billion dollars to its british partners in dividends overall net profit for the period stands up for 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 and that's against a loss of eleven billion dollars in the first out of twenty ten which was caused by the oil spill in the gulf of mexico. it's moved to the markets now well is trading marginally up that despite u.s. president warning the country's debt deadlock threatens to damage the u.s. economy the world's largest crude consumer that's limiting gains. e.u. markets open flats not much direction still seems to negative by just the not chase

bank profits did beat expectations while u.b.s. profits fell short so banks are moving all over the place automakers are losing the most in frankfurt and in russia not much direction either the r.t.s. is out half a percent a nice six down by and not changing all the time the picture moved to some of the biggest movers and the with energy shares the pictures also made gazprom is up zero point two percent lukoil down point three percent seems investors are just being really cautious at the moment waiting for any kind of news coming from the united states about the debt ceiling progress reached on that called point six percent but softer kazakh all purchased eighty nine percent of the company through a reverse taker. this fighter please support was 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 at some percent stake and home credibility by autumn and he wants to buy a stake in the bank ahead of home credibility's listing you know if you're over twenty five percent stake is expected to raise around one billion dollars the company's key asset is home credit and finance bank and russia bank holds a quarter of the instant credit markets. it's one reason l. group and germany's eat on have put the finishing touches to a new power plants in siberia for an energy giants of the leading investors in russia's liberalized market building a more new capacity than russian firms that have a particular experience. the generators are turning creating much needed electricity last year power companies built a record for gigawatts of capacity enough to power eight one tough more skilled and its foreign firms which provided the lion's share of the investment major milestone

have already being achieved but the market is liberalize that the reason regulatory for a more credit our markets our capacity the and then are g.e. what we wish is to progress with these in making it more functioning russia open the power sector four years ago privatizing most generating capacity during the crisis some russian firms failed to me the investment obligations while foreigners increased their market share for a mess on nine percent of capacity. what the commission seventy eight percent of new units generators are now asking regulators for predicted billets in 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 and tell me all the business are to. the next and also in the headlines with the region stay

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