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 to go so. far so i'm very sad to hear the news and many other farmers are also very much depressed a recent national survey in japan performed by dr roshini and his team shows that suicide rates in japan have been found increased in the months since the disaster compared to the same timeframe in the previous two years but the demographics are not what you might expect. this is a rate increase. note.

that if you're areas because some by those striving to 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 nuclear disaster many people actually lost their jobs or their working on the show house crushed. so. yeah they have so 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 fourteen. cleanup of the stricken focused human nuclear plant has been praised by the head of the u.n. new. clear watchdog he said that radiation could be contained by the end of the

year. is a visiting the facility to assess the progress in preventing the nuclear crisis from getting worse as reactors were heavily damaged by the earthquake and tsunami earlier this year because the cool to melt and release the dangerous amounts of radiation into the environment locus have since been trying to restore the cooling system and stop contaminated water from the reactors leaking into the sea but hiroshima based nuclear energy expert robert jacobs believes the visit is a foss and the japanese government still isn't doing enough to protect 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 dealing with the actual problems that are facing us here in japan 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 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 those plants but outside of the evacuation zone for example pushing a city we know that that neither tepco tokyo electric or the government inform the public when they knew that there had been small nuclear meltdowns people were not told to evacuate at that time and in terms of the current situation there is a great deal of anger especially among parents in fukushima prefecture and nearby and. yet there is not

a comprehensive system to try to protect the health of the people in those areas so you're seeing meetings every couple of days in which government officials are being yelled out by local residents who are complaining that they're not being given enough information about the health threats to their children and their families and the situation is in many ways here in japan compounding. i know that it was a nuclear energy expert or robert jacobs in explaining the current situation in japan. you with r.t. now barack obama is calling on the american people to step up to the plate and pressure their politicians in dealing with the debt standoff congress has one week left to raise the country's multi-trillion dollar debt ceiling if it wants to avoid a potentially devastating default in a nationwide address obama warns that an american default would impact around the world he played republicans for stalling talks and refusing to accept a balanced approach republican speaker john boehner hit back accusing 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 watch and matthew bottom it 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 the debt ceiling raised so that they can continue to give rewards to their supporters among the labor unions of the various political organizations that are sympathetic to the democratic party scars 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. 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 or the u.s. government would have to drastically cut spending and implement pretty severe austerity measures for about ten minutes past the hour now here in the russian capital you with still ahead for you this hour changing the charge for arguably norway's worst peacetime atrocity please consider whether the man who admits

slaughtering seventy six people should now be charged with crimes against humanity find out more a little bit later in the program here on. polish investigators have concluded that pilot error was to blame for last year's a small 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 was previously challenged the intergovernmental panel finding which blamed the flight crew the committee pilots had ignored a warning from russian air traffic controllers to abandon the landing but poland decided to carry out its own investigation the plane that crashed during its descent into a russian airfield in poor weather conditions all ninety six on board were killed the polish investigation is expected to be published before the weekend. a senior north korean diplomat has been invited to new york for talks on how to revive stalled negotiations over its controversial nuclear program some media suggests

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 that they agreed to return to six party talks as soon as possible because it broke down after north korea's deadly shelling of the south island and what it claimed was in response to provocative. military drills the u.s. says north korea must dismantle its nuclear facilities before any deal can be reached. but pepe escobar says not only to the north has only seen the u.s. that's hostile. smacks a little bit of desperation specially because when you look at the build 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 our studio last year and i confirmed from north korean officials directly debt the state awfully is the same state of

play as it was shifty eight years ago to morrow to morrow is the fifty eight and in verse three of the armistice that did not end the north korean war for that matter of north korea south korea are still at war with each other doesn't armistice and 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 jump the gun to said ok first you get rid of your nuclear weapons you know that missiles and then with all so all is it in argo he has are going to watch 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 it 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 they do it as a bloc but the government of the americas and the view that south korea in the

minds of the young will force its to 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. you with r.t. thank you for joining us today the man who's confessed to killing seventy six people in a rampage in norway may be charged with crimes against humanity thirty two year old anders breivik has already been charged in court with terrorism which he denies the bombing of government buildings in central oslo and at the massacre at an island he was coming off friday devastated the nation one hundred thousand people gathered in the capital in a tribute to the victims says he talked of norway's leading party for failing on immigration crisis analysts say multiculturalism is a reality we all have to accept even though more pain will come. i think europe and

the world at large to to its credit has gone from and assimilationist mindset to a multiculturalist mindset night 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 there 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 their own countries we did this this synthesis of cultures is going to be a net positive for all of us but unfortunately though the frictions early on are going to be difficult as we are seeing with the brevik tragedy and we have a more reaction and analysis on the trying to be in norway at the dot com including the police in the country to face criticism for what is being seen as a slow and ill prepared response to the devastating attack and other stories that

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on the. video. teaser line. and already says feeds now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. all right i welcome back here with r t let's check out some of the world's main news for you this hour a military aircraft carrying eighty one people on board has crashed in the south of the country state t.v. news says seventy eight were killed three severely injured when the hercules transporter went down in mountains north of the border with western sahara bad weather and low visibility are thought to have caused the crash. the u.n. security council is holding an open debate on the middle east including palestinian plans to declare statehood of the united nations later this year earlier israel threatened to pull out of the oslo accord if the plan went ahead the nine hundred ninety three agreement is the main road map in resolving the conflict it's thought

that over one hundred countries are promising support for the palestinians in september as for. police to its northern border with serbia to enforce an import ban imposed last week the move led to a rise in ethnic tension as local serbs resisted the police presence. control over the border crossings but another is being blocked by locals about which to counter service boycott of goods in place since its unilateral declaration of independence in two thousand and eight. violent clashes in afghanistan's helmand province of killed thirty five most of which were insurgents the fighting broke out between taliban nato and local forces as militants try to regain territory lost to the u.s. led coalition parts of helmand seen a rise in violence since security control was handed over to local forces earlier this month. there is a manhunt underway in russia and it's women trying to snare themselves

a husband men aren't exactly an endangered species here but women really do outnumber them considerably. now reports on the demographic. suspicious sharing. meet andree a father of three and has been to three and other years ago andrei 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 andries side including to the latest census there are ten million more women in russia than there are mean the shortage of supply leads to the need for sharing a concept that andries wives say they've made peace with their worth and i thought he was kidding but there realize that he wasn't i never expected something like that happening to me but of all the used are you know if you love me you'll understand we never fight for andre never quarrel there is no 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 but he doesn't use the silver of course what i made the move fairly 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 i've built in three houses and bought three apartments that's fair isn't it over as extraordinary as it seems and rees example is not that train of russia many man are innovation sheeps with several women at a time of course most to keep their extramarital affairs secret. know in the morning as 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 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 time the. no to get some sleep much every year according to recent poll in russia forever single man with thirty thousand of single women still on the lookout for that prince who is search for true love becoming statistically challenging no wonder he's a wandering a brood and then from russia with love is to go in strong. regional t. . twenty years ago one of the world's legendary rock bands all the ground to hold the death queen's flamboyant front man freddie mercury was undoubtedly a pivotal moment but a guitarist and songwriter brian may tells us later that the show did go on and freddie's influence never faded. it's like

a family member you lose them but you don't quite reason because you take them with me. and we were so long to get that. you get that closeness with somebody particularly in a creative environment i don't think trainers are going to do it or even success but in the creative environment you learn to to know what somebody else might be thinking you might not always be right but you have a feeling so i still feel that roger does as well and particularly it applies more if we're working as queen and we think what would freddie say and you probably would say this. you know 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 pretty and roger so i mean for a while i didn't want to you know i was very. it was a point you know the grieving process where i just didn't want to talk about queen didn't want to feel that it was there even except it's history but i sort of got

through that and now i regard it is part of my life which will never go away and it shouldn't go away because it's so big part of what i worked to create to fashion. and i do stick around here in our studio will be talking to our brian may a little bit later here on the program russia and the u.s. have been trying to find a common ground on nato as plans for a european missile defense talks in washington the alliance is steaming ahead with the project despite objections from moscow we can all talk to russia's envoy to nato the heads of the russian delegation to the u.s. are dimitri. thank you for joining us today so russia wants a joint missile shield in europe or guarantees that the system won't be aimed against it nato has been very cool on both of these ideas is there any progress at your talks with u.s. officials today. when we don't get to go where you are well. we

are engaged in negotiation with both the military and diplomats on the highest level but i just came back from the command center of nato. and we basically finished up. with the general assessment being that. the russian federation. insists upon receiving certain going ts that the missile shield created by the need states in europe will not be aimed against russia's strategic nuclear potential there are two scenarios here. number one such a missile shield could be created with dissipation from russia and i can tell you that the american military based in colorado springs have confirmed that it would be possible to create a system for early warning against their ballistic missiles in europe using

russia's which is a patient end. experience but that would require political will from washington scenario number two. would be enough for two independent. created by both a needle in russian but we still insist that the area of coverage for the needle missile shield would not surpass the territorial boundaries of need or countries that is would not allow. member states to shoot down. russian territory of course we would not favor that there's also option number three i've just been to the senate and the senate republican minority who are absolutely against any cooperation with russia so you see the menu is quite diverse right now the u.s. i mean time is pushing ahead despite calls from moscow striking a deal with poland to deploy fighter jets that moscow feel neglected and washington

are pursuing this. well we do what we're. trying to convince us that placing. a piece for strategic missiles in poland would not threaten russia's military potential nuclear potential since for technical reasons these missiles would not be able to catch up with rushes into continental ballistic missiles we're being shown various. pictures and graphs and math calculations. but i cannot answer a simple question even for myself. if there is no. military threat to europe coming from anywhere besides the southern direction then why is it would be located in the northern part of the european continent close

to russia is north western border is close to kaliningrad close to russia's strategic missile launch sites nobody can answer this question for us and when we ask them for some legal guarantees that such a missile she would not be aimed against russia we're being told about this partisan conflict between the democrats and republicans in the united states and they're telling us all those things that are there are of no interest for us. is important for us is that the united states is the initiating party of this project and they should ensure increased security not less security for all the parties involved because the united states have confirmed that there is a relation between defensive and offensive arms are now in let's move along to russia and nato those other bones of contention russia repeatedly accusing the

alliance of taking sides in the libyan civil conflict even germany which opposed to before is now funding the rebels with a. hundred million euros or dollars that is what do you make of their actions at this point. in discussing the libya containing this was outside my competence during my visits and this is an issue we keep discussing in brussels with the new leadership and i can tell you one thing that even within the north atlantic treaty organization not everybody understands what this war is about right now and not everybody understands what they should do they actually in each of their military goals of. killing khadafi this is going to be in that nobody really needs this is the west dissipating of me and someone else's military conflict and whatever sense in washington what i know from working in brussels this campaign is they're

increasingly marginalized in the political outlook sort of european and american politicians and diplomats and they will give that is so the question is who will be held responsible for waging this war for killing all those people and destroying all their property all right live from washington d c russia as our envoy to nato dimitri rocco so many thanks indeed. all right after a short break here in just a moment we'll be with kareena the business student. for the fall we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.

welcome to business here in our oil company tank a b.p. has doubled first have to dance for its british shareholder b.p. tanking he has paid one point six billion dollars to its british partners and dividends overall net profit for the period stands at four and a half billion dollars almost double last year's results meanwhile b.p. has reported a net profit of twelve point seven billion dollars for the first six months of the year that's against a loss of eleven billion dollars in the first half of two thousand and ten caused by the oil spill in the gulf of mexico. a quick check on the markets all three of us from earlier games as investors concern that u.s. debt deadlock may damage the economy of the world's largest consumer u.s. stocks opened mostly lower as lawmakers remains in a standoff over how a contend with the federal debt and also ahead of the conference board's consumer

confidence index for july a european stock markets are trading flat on tuesday with oil giant b.p. swiss bank u.b.s. and chip maker steve microelectronics all dropping to disappointing results b.p. fell to a half percent in london after its earnings missed market expectations a lower production volumes here in russia markets are trading to make. up close all majors are among the main losers this week of crude oil snifters down around point four percent well look close over is over point six percent in the red gold is up point three percent of the color gold which is eighty nine percent of the company through a reverse takeover. it's all the business for now i'll be back with more in less than one hour. for the full story we've gone to. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. in

india. the movie the joint the hotel room the home of the gateway hotel the grand imperial truly. socialist you see don't need to go and. read this in the kennel was toto retreat. welcome back you're with. stories suicide rates rise in japan as people struggle with the earthquake disaster meanwhile the atomic watchdog says radiation at the stricken fukushima nuclear plant could be contained within months. dog days ahead president obama now calls on the public to pressure congress into an agreement to avoid a default people aims republicans for stalling talks and refusing to accept

a balanced compromise to the nation's debt crisis. and a top north korean diplomat is invited to new york to try and revive long stalled. nuclear program the move comes just days after envoys from north and south korea agreed to resume discussions at their first meeting you know but. stay with us now is our exclusive interview with queens guitarist brian. it's great to have you with us today sir could you speak so recently i was going through the glass bead game of pass and your eyes about music and what he says about music is that except it's art form it's also a true power over new.