india oh she's available in the movie the joint the hotel rooms some of the that's the gateway hotel the grand imperial truly the taj was the. socialist there to see don't need to go and. read this in the kennel was her turn to retreat. suicide rates rise in japan as people struggle with the aftermath of disaster meanwhile the atomic watchdog says radiation at the stricken fukushima nuclear plant could be contained within months. dark days ahead president obama now calls on the public to pressure congress into a compromise on of voiding default admitting america's verging on a catastrophe caused by washington. and a north korean diplomat who's invited for a rare talks in the u.s. to try and revive long stalled negotiations on scrapping pyongyang's controversial

nuclear program. with r.t. live from moscow imo reception and welcome to the program it took just a few minutes for an earthquake and tsunami to devastate swathes of japan a tragedy that will take years to recover from and for some people it's simply too much to deal with the trauma of thousands of lost lives entire towns are leveled and the threat of nuclear catastrophe. reports on that worrying rise in japanese suicides. 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. evacuate but the the

problem is they are minority they be they have been accused by. their classmates or you know of course by offshore. causing. found that. the people. not. there primarily a move towards self-preservation this idea of desertion is defined by many as characteristically in germany is and has earned those who have evacuated and the dishonorable title of traitor. of course it's hard to hear that we have family members we think about our health but in other words we run away we escape because we're scared of radiation that 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 i mean so so because you know. he's everything they know it's a good soil for after many hours of hard work and it's just. one night to go so. far. 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 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 their. rate increase.

in. centers you just go to a center but pay for your areas because my bros struggling to get you costs. 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 if we are disaster many people actually lost their jobs or their work congress or house crushed. so. yeah they have a for many good reasons to commit suicide causing japan's death toll to keep rising even though the initial disaster subsided months before in japan sean thomas forty . the cleanup at the stricken fukushima nuclear plant has been praised by the u.n.

nuclear watchdog which said that the radiation could be contained by the end of the year yukiya amano is a visiting the facility to assess the progress and preventing the nuclear crisis from getting any worse for seamus reactors were heavily damaged by the earthquake and tsunami because the call was to melt and release dangerous amounts of radiation into the environment workers have since been trying to restore the cooling system and stop contaminated water from the reactors from leaking into the sea but hiroshima based a nuclear energy expert wrote a check of the believes of the i.a.e.a. visit is a farce and the japanese government still isn't doing enough to protect the people . 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 to dealing with the actual problems that are facing us here and and least plants are still leaching 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 that 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 misstating and in terms of the current situation 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. syria's

so you are 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. the nuclear energy expert robert jacobs in russia explaining the current situation in japan. perec obama is calling on the american people to step up to the plate to pressure their politicians in dealing with the that standoff congress has a week left to raise the country's multi trillion dollar debt ceiling if it wants to avoid a potentially devastating fourth in a nationwide address obama warned that an american default would impact around the world he blamed republicans for stalling talks and refusing to accept a balanced approach republican speaker john boehner hit back using obama of spending beyond the country's means and expecting a blank check republicans and democrats have been locked in

a dispute over whether spending cuts or tax hikes is the answer to the debt crisis washington what matthew vitamin says the government needs to act fast to avoid an investor exodus. obama and the democrats in congress just want to keep on spending. and so they would like to see that 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 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. would be 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 or the u.s. government would have to drastically cut spending and implement pretty severe austerity measures. you would not see it's good to have your company today and still have you this hour changing the charge for arguably norway's worst peacetime atrocity please consider whether the band with its slaughtering it seventy six people should now be charged with crimes against humanity.

public investigators concluded that pilot error was to blame for last year's plane tragedy this according to media reports the crash in russia claimed the lives of president lech kaczynski and much of the country's political elite also a previously challenge to the intergovernmental panel finding which blamed the flight crew the committee found pilots ignored a warning from russian air traffic controllers to abandon the landing but poland decided to carry out its own investigation the plane crashed during its descent into a russian airfield and poor weather conditions all night and six people on board were killed the polish investigation is expected to be published before that week. a senior north korean diplomat has been invited to new york for talks on how to revive a stalled negotiations on its controversial nuclear program some media suggest he's already on his way to the u.s. the move comes just days after top nuclear envoys from north and south korea got together for the first time in over two years during

a security summit in indonesia they agreed to return to six party talks as soon as possible because asians are pro go after north korea's deadly shelling of the young p.r. island in which a claim was in response to provocative going to treat drills the u.s. says north korea must dismantle its nuclear facilities before any deal can be reached asia expert said that would be tough as the north has always seen the u.s. as being hostile. smacks a little bit of desperation especially because when you look at the build cause which is you will dismantle it you'll nuclear program first and then we decided to talk to you that's an absolute no i was in north korea last year and i confirmed from north korean officials directly that this it awfully is the same state of glee as it was fifty eight years ago two more two more is that fifty eight any adversity of the armistice that did not end in north korea korean war for that matter of

north korea south korea are still at war with each other and there's an armistice in the north koreans are seeing we have to sit down the same people 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 . help first you get rid of your nuclear weapons that are there and don this is and then we talk so or visiting north koreans are going to watch that this special envoy is going to watch is going to say look our position has been missing for the best fifty eight years stake it or leave first 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 the view it has a puppet government of the americas and the view that south korea in the minds of course is still occupied by american troops there are thirty six to thirty eight

thousand us troops but the north korea says it has a western occupation of south korea so let's you start to cry really this basic difference is important it's absolutely impossible to even start talking with r.t. live from moscow about a man who has confessed to killing seventy six people in a rampage in norway may be charged with crimes against humanity thirty two year old and as a political has already been charging cord with terrorism which he denies the bombing of government buildings in central oslo and massacre i don't island a youth camp last friday it devastated the nation eight hundred thousand people gathered in the capital meantime a tribute to the victims says he talked to talk of norway's leading party for failing on immigration but crisis analysts say multiculturalism is our reality we all have to accept even though more pain will come to i think europe and the world at large to to its credit has gone from any assimilationist mindset to

a multiculturalist mindset and i think now we have to go to what i would call a medical sure all mindset we all need to embrace the idea that there is no no should no longer be separate cultures we are merging into a global culture which is going to require change from both immigrants and native born people living in quote unquote meron countries we this this synthesis of cultures is going to be a net positive for all of us but unfortunately though of the frictions early on are going to be difficult as we are seeing with the graphic tragedy. we've got more reaction and analysis on the tragedy in norway at our dot com including police in the country faced criticism for what's being seen as a slow and ill prepared response to the devastating attack and in other stories now at r.t. dot com our heroes of the world unite we report from a comic con in san diego in the biggest expo of fictions finest fantasies you can

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dot com. right now a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital let's check out some of the world's other main news now here on art see the u.n. security council holding an open debate on the middle east including palestinian plans to declare statehood of the united nations later this year earlier israel threatens a pullout of the oslo accord if the plan went ahead the nine hundred ninety three agreement is the main road map and resolving the conflict is thought over a hundred countries are promising support for the palestinians in september's vote . police to its northern border with to enforce an import imposed last week a move led to a rise in ethnic tension as local serbs resisted the police presence there already say they control one of the border crossings but another is being blocked by locals . boycott of cars of our goods in place since its unilateral declaration of independence in two thousand and eight. violent clashes in afghanistan's helmand

province have killed thirty five people most of which were in. surgeons but the fighting broke out between taliban nato and local forces as militants try to regain territory a lot of the u.s. led coalition in parts of helmand have seen a arrives in violence security control since the security control rather was handed over to local forces earlier this month. a moroccan a military aircraft carrying seventy people has crashed in the south of the country twenty six people have reportedly been killed four injured when the transporter went down in a mountainous region just north of the border with western sahara bad weather and low visibility are thought to have caused the crash. well it's true that not every girl is lucky enough to fight her prince but it's even harder for russian women with census figures showing they outnumber men in vast numbers were often our reports on the demographic by limo that's leading to an unusual method of making

sure many of them are. meet andree a father of three and has been for three and never used again andrei got married two years and he proposed again and then again. why should i refuse any of the middle i love them all really why the country's demographic reality is andree site including to the latest census there are ten million me we were in russia then there are mean the shortage of supply leads to the need for sherry he concepts that andries wise see the piece we were 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'll 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 who brought up muslims the distribution

of duties and conjugal delights within the household also lies in the islamic traditions. of the. 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 and three houses and bought three apartments that's fair isn't it. as extraordinary as it seems andries example is not that train russian or any man are in relationships with several women at a time of course most to keep their extramarital affairs secret. these 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 digitally mistaken this cassidy of man is also play down to their propensity to gauge in what's described as unhealthy behavior now who is and reckless driving is cheap in a way at the countries who 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 some sleep met every year according to recent poll in russia forever a single man over thirty thousand of single women see on the lookout for their prince there who is search for true love becoming statistically challenging no wonder i always are wondering abroad and then from russia with love is to go in strong. regional shanty moscow. memory or i'm sorry but i'm just not interested. right now or do without you live from moscow twenty years ago one of the world's legendary rock bands or ground to hold the death of queen's flamboyant front runner freddie mercury was undoubtedly a pivotal part but it's hardest on songwriter ryan about cells are to you later the show did go on and influence has never faded. it's like a family member is them but you don't quite know it because you take them. away

with so long to get. you get that closeness from somebody particularly creative and but i don't think famous anything to do with or even success but in the creative environment and you know you learn to to know what somebody else more than thinking you might not always be right but you have the feeling that so i still feel that and roger does as well you know it particularly it applies more if we're working as queen and we think what would produce a year of would be would say this. year he's. part of the creative process because he's part of what we are because we really chiseled this thing out all together me and john and freddie and roger so you know i mean for a while i didn't want to you know i was very. it was a point you know a grieving process where i just didn't want to talk about we didn't want to feel that it was there even you except as history but i sort of got through that and now i regard it there's a part of my life which will never go away and it shouldn't go away you know

because it's it's a big part of what i worked to create to freshen. kind of the queen's brian may talks to us in a less than ten minutes time but first it's business up i've covered. i welcome small business report here nightly thanks for joining me ross is looking forward to expand its participation program to spur economic growth deputy prime minister english of all of laid out the new plan in an article in the bed in a sneeze paper he suggests to fully private eyes fourteen state companies by two thousand and seventeen however according to the plan the government will keep controlling stakes in infrastructure companies like a russian old railways and transnet now to discuss the issue i'm joined by barry is editor in chief of business new europe magazine thank you for coming to the program

and now oh why are we seeing more companies on this product additional arrests all of a sudden yeah i mean i think this is the list for the time that expanded list in as many months i mean they coming up with more and more of the idea of the privatization was floated last year with initially ten companies but now i think we were over twenty companies i mean the number amount of money they're going to raise it's gone from someone thirty billion to one hundred twenty billion that's ten percent of g.d.p. this isn't about the money necessarily of course russia has a budget deficit and needs the money it's more about modernization of taking companies inefficient companies away from state managers and putting them into prototype solutions that i believe very much this is where russia is not in the early stages of privatization transition the state there is a crucial role for pushing the economy forward it's the army able to make aging but now russia's reach the point where more state involvement is going to be such

a mental and so it doesn't mean that it doesn't need go it's about efficiencies of our productivity gains and it's going to far as they can with the big story and straight later economic initiatives and we reach the point where we need to withdraw from the economy the street needs to get out of hand over to private managers and it's very encouraging that not only the criminal seems to realize that but they seem to be pushing harder and harder with this privatization process and i'm sure. it's just the latest in a string of very senior government officials have come out to push this program and emphasize it's going to go ahead and moreover not just so bits of the company but so completely out of some of the biggest most attractive companies in the country well the government is obviously interested in that what about the companies themselves are they interested in this privatization scheme at all and i think companies must be very happy indeed i mean i think you can divide the companies into two very distinct groups i mean there are those that are run by professionals who are interested in creating you know what are going to be world class multinational companies. would be to be. examples of those and then there are other

companies where you've got you know state. apparatus sitting in very comfortable jobs not facing any kind of competition and they're quite happy with the status quo and they're doing very nicely and so will their friends thank you very much and they don't want to be privatized and they will resist how do you how it was as well there's also people in the governments i mean you know you're going to have this debate and you haven't met any government between you know what's the appropriate level of state ownership in column e. and of course in russia you have the sort of icky fraction who are quite keen to see the state economy you know so they can see of. itself. and so they will be on ice in the states in that process you know it's possible to slow it down so i think another aspect of seeing all these lists is a little friction in the family trying to make it clear you know the fight is on and they're going to push really hard to see this through and we're seeing it on

the company side some of them ascending right is the prime minister saying but we're a special case you know we should go slowly around and do that with yeah it's harmful for the economy. to take a long time not to it's increasing but then where is that dividing line from what we're saying that some countries will be privatized some not what can be sold and which companies can be sold and which cannot when that dividing it's difficult it's a classic. i mean i should say. unusual in russia to be having such a debate as this in the old days it was just trying to get control of the companies and stop them being groped once. it's what is a natural monopoly you know work should be controlled but history i think i mean in britain we privatized with national rowing. which doesn't work very well i'm sure it is a sort of a sort of against. the railway he will not be silenced by most probably a good actor but it was a natural for the same goes for trump's next which is the pipeline where it doesn't

make sense to have two companies in competition but with other companies like the banks it's a lot more difficult and i think the second biggest bank will be fully privatized but sparing a bank will probably not be because it plays this crucial social role when everybody relies on the pension system everybody provides of it so that when they're going to look more carefully it's difficult but you know as i say it's an entirely rational reasonable debate having forwards ok but the rest editor in chief of business new york magazine thanks very much for sharing these thoughts with us thank you. and a quick check on the markets was trading marginally up better spider warning from us president at the country's debt deadlock threatens to damage the u.s. economy the world's largest crude humor now let's look at europe where stock markets are trading flat on tuesday with swiss bank u.b.s. a.g.m. chip may make a s. t. microelectronics all dropping after a disappointing results well john b.p.

dropped to have decided longdon returning from this market expectations on lower production volumes and here in russia northcott's trading makes to the c.r.t.'s pointing upwards a nice six point two percent down cautious trade there with energy shares moving slowly high up the years gold is up one point two percent after because of gold purchases eighty nine percent of the company i would take. that so business out there for now but i read more stories on our web site that he dot com slash business likes to watch. you.

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