defined by many as characteristically in japanese and has earned those who have evacuated the dishonorable title of traitor but of course it's hard to hear that we have family neighbors with think about our health but in other words we ran away whiskey 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 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. good soil full after many hours of hard work and it's just contaminated one night

going to 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 timeframe in the previous two years but the demographics are not what you might expect. this is a rate increase. note. that if you're areas because some are birds struggling to you costs are rife and 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 actually lost their jobs or their working on the show has crashed. so. yeah they have a 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. meantime here based on nuclear energy expert robert jacobs believes the visit of the i.a.e.a. chief to fukushima is simply 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 and and 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 but 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 there's 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 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 intuition is in many ways here in japan compounding. the seven minutes past the hour here in moscow you with auntie 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 televise national address he warned that failing to raise the debt ceiling will cause incalculable economic damage well obama blamed republicans in the house of representatives for the lack of a deal to avoid a u.s. national to fold congress has just a week now to raise the fourteen point three trillion dollars debt limit before it runs out of money risking a downgrade of its credit. i mean interest rates republicans and democrats have been a locked in a dispute over whether spending cuts or tax hikes is the answer to the debt crisis matthew vod i'm the senior editor at the capital research center says the government needs to raise its borrowing limit in order to keep on investments 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. meantime the us speaker of the house says 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 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 teeth dot com go there for the latest updates and videos. from all over america counts down days until default wall street high flyers are bracing themselves for a rocky ride. this is a joke and it's so let's get a sweet release going. in the u.s. choosing to ignore the problem by dressing up as superheroes and attending the annual comic con.

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 south together for the first time in over two years on the sidelines of a security summit in indonesia they agreed to renewed six party talks over pyongyang's atomic ambitions negotiations were halted after north korea shelled a young island killing four people and said it was responding to provoke a 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 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 i think it's max a little bit of desperation specially because when you look at the bill to cause 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 that. the state of play is the same state of glee as it was fifty eight years ago to morrow to morrow as the fifty ace and inverse of the armistice that did not end the north korean war for that matter north korea south korea are still at war with each other doesn't armistice and in the north koreans are saying we have to sit down the same table with the americans and then we going to formally and the war and then we're going to discuss everything including the nuclear program so this state department now is trying to joke they've got us in tokyo first you get rid of their nuclear weapons either that or no missiles and then we talk so all those in an article he has are going to watch them just special envoy is going to watch he's going to say look our position

has been the same for the best fifty eight years think 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 you know and which of course is still all cuba by and 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 from the point to the chinese gets even more complicated because china wants the status quo to go on i would say forever they don't want korean reunification and they see that that korea will. in the extreme leap later if it soon to find the north east asia they prefer sayings as they stand at the moment as long as us 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 like like that bundle missiles virtually everywhere that. asia times correspondent. speaking to us earlier while on the way here on r t why have one when you can have many but the growing number of russian women desperate tie the knot some are willing to be accepted as wife number two or even wife number three. polish investigators have concluded that pilot error actually was to blame for last year's small against plane tragedy that's 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 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 an 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 for you here on artsy 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 parts of helmand have seen a rise in violence after responsibility for security was handed back to local forces earlier this month. because of it has sent forces to its northern border with serbia to enforce an import ban imposed last week the move has led to a riot and ethnic tensions with local serbs resisting the police presence both already say they control one of the border crossings but another is being blocked by locals about was to counter the boycott of course of goods in place since its

unilateral declaration of independence in two thousand and eight. a moroccan a military aircraft carrying seventy people has crashed in the south. 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 on this as we get it here an artsy. malta has passed an historical or 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 divorce legislation and couples had to travel abroad or apply for an announcement 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 it but if it believes he's got supporters not only in norway but also abroad and insists his operation is under way as planned his client also confessed that he took drugs to help him carry out the mission efficiently the lawyer conceded that brevik is unlikely 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 a.c.i.m. partners in chicago believes that as europe's economic troubles increase so too with the popularity of extreme right wing parties. i 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 but it is a real trend sadly while economic hardship it's not because this i think it is likely to exacerbate what we're seeing and i thing. 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 and for more analysis i reports and videos on a noise massacre just head over to our you tube channel and 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. from the streets of canada. showing up for asians a rule today. and so good to have you with us on this tuesday you with alex here live from moscow now where 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 to turn to exotic means of finding love even if that means a better hough is more like several better quarters he's single or a financial reports. meet andree a father of three and has been to three and other years ago and dre got married two years on 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 women in russia than there are men the shortage of supply leads to the need for sharing a concept with injuries wise 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 andree never quarrel there is no any kind of competition either . andrey considers himself and howden to 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. of the ceramic with what i made the move fairly cool 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 i've built in three houses and bought three

apartments that's fair isn't it wolf. as extraordinary as it seems andries example is not that strange russian many men are in relationships with several women at a time of course most to keep their extramarital affairs secret. 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 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 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 tying the knot to get in slimmer every year according to recent poll here in russia forever single man over thirty there are dozens of single women still on the lookout for their prince with their wounds search for true love becoming

statistically challenging no wonder our eyes are wondering abroad and the from russia with love mantra is to go in strong regional shanty moscow. love it or leave every 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 prior to the death of freddie mercury in just over an hour's time we asked brian what brought him back from the brink. what stops you killing yourself. i think what stopped me was the fact that i had children and people do need to pay and they don't mean 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 now 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 again. and the

interview is our next hour here out so you will have it back with a recap of our top story shortly but first it is the business news with dmitri. and i see you in a warm welcome to business and see russia is looking forward to expanding its privatization program to spur economic growth first of all as president vice prime minister by big. laid out the new plan in an article in the better mr newspaper to get more details let's cross live to business i think money in a coffee and there's you marina what's new in the privatization blueprint. well the not courting to this latest plan the government should be completely private size of fourteen companies including the roots hydro ever also that but that doesn't mean given the full control the states will retain a golden share which means it will have the rights of veto any strategic decisions made by the companies and when it comes to infrastructure companies the government

will decrease its share and i'm going to 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 diverse structure companies one of the most significant is. now how is that privatization going to go. well when it comes to transnational government owns about seventy eight point one percent share and it's fun to say just over three percent what about four hundred million dollars and all of these privatization efforts of course are being pushed by price then to meeting with the idea there has been encouraging companies to privatized and he called earlier plans to mow this and this demanded to see more privatization in the country he said that so far it's been a slow process and there have been a lot of missed that lines just last year they managed to complete only ten percent of the planned sales and the deadline for these new suggestions is twenty seventeen

all right so money thank you so much that was business outcomes correspondent money and of course we're voting on the expansion of the privatisation. while company to an k.b.p.s. doubled sort of first time dividends for its a 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 half 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 flat not much direction still seen flat to negative by just

a notch. bank profits did beat expectations well 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 up half a percent the my six down by a notch keeps changing all the time the picture moved to some of the biggest movers and the with energy shares the pictures also makes gazprom is up point two percent lukoil down point three percent it 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 gold is up point six percent but softer kazakh gold purchased eighty nine percent of the company through a reverse taker. despite a pleads of pause expansion russia's v.t. 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 b.v. by autumn because 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 in russia the bank holds a quarter of the instant credit markets. it's only as an l group and germany's eon have put the finishing touches to the new power plants in siberia for an energy giants of the leading investors in russia's liberalized power market building more new capacity than russian firms that have been 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 is liberalize

that the reason regulatory frame are there are markets are capacity and then are gee 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 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 that's a nobody over business our team kind of excellence in the headlines with rory to stay with us.

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back you with us from moscow on. the top stories the international atomic agency chief makes his first visit crippled at fukushima plant the consequences. have seen a rise in the suicide rate in the four months since the devastating earthquake and tsunami. president obama appealed to the public to pressure congress into a compromise over its debt ceiling just a week before the u.s. could potentially default for the first time. they talk north korean

diplomat is heading to the u.s. for talks on a resuming stalled nuclear disarmament to go show comes days after envoys from the north and south met for the first time in two years and agreed to renew six party talks. right there's a whole bunch of us to say here on our team but don't go anywhere next it's a finance guru max keiser and his co-host discussing the latest a financial scandals i do stay with r.t. for the cause report. max kaiser. this is the kaiser report are you psychotic. well statistically one of you or i should be psychotic if you look at this first headline next an unprecedented one in sixty six americans is

a diagnosed psychotic outselling even common drugs to treat high blood pressure and acid reflux anti-psychotic medications are the single top selling prescription drug and the united states and they have quite nice names like zyprexa sarah quel abilify. this is part of the campaign to breed more goldman sachs bankers because psychoanalysis means that you lack empathy and you need to be completely devoid of empathy to do your job effectively at goldman asset stripping corporations and disenfranchising the population and doing trade to any thought whatsoever about your actions what they might have on the effects of society at large and their breeding psychos the other way they've been able to do this is similar to what you see with the economy because economics of course is also a soft science and what's happened here.