saying 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 some organic farm us committed suicide because you know the. soil is everything they have good soil for after many hours of hard work on 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. increased. note. about the areas because some barbers striving to. if 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 last year korea disaster many people actually lost their jobs or 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 design. subsided months before in japan sean thomas over to. clean up at

the stricken fukushima nuclear plant has been praised by the head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog he said that radiation could be contained by the end of the year. is visiting the facility to assess the progress in preventing the nuclear crisis from getting worse. reactors were heavily damaged by the earthquake and tsunami this year because the cause 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 their reactors leaking into the sea but hiroshima based nuclear energy expert robert jacobs a believes the i.a.e.a. visit is a fosse that the japanese government still isn't doing enough to protect its 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 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 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 fukushima 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. 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 there's not a comprehensive system to try to protect the health of the people in those areas 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. it was a nuclear energy expert robert jacobs in hiroshima explaining the current situation in japan. you with r.t. it's good if you join us today now barack obama is calling on the american people to step up to the plate to pressure the 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 avoid it potentially devastating default in

a nationwide address obama warns that an american default would impact around the world believe people aimed at republicans for stalling talks and refusing to accept a balanced approach meantime republican speaker john boehner hit back kucing obama of spending beyond the country's means and expecting a blank check of republicans and democrats have been locked in a dispute over whether spending cuts or tax hikes is the answer to the debt crisis washington watcher matthew 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's cause the u.s. is able to keep raising its debt ceiling because people. stews 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 or the u.s. government would have to drastically cut spending and implement pretty severe

austerity measures. you would still to come for you in the program here could internal politics in the missile defense stalemate between moscow and washington we got the latest comment from russia's envoy to nato in just a few moments. 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 also a previously challenge to the intergovernmental panel finding which i blame the flight crew 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 crashed during its descent into a russian field and pull weather conditions ninety six killed the polish resignation is to be published before. 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 a 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 to go broke down after north korea's a deadly shelling of the south island and what it claimed was in response to provocative retreat drills the u.s. says north korea must dismantle its nuclear facilities before any deal can be reached and to exploit that they escobar says that will be tough as the north has always seen the u.s. as hostile. acts a little bit of desperation specially because when you look at the build clause which is you will 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 you know i

confirmed from north korean officials directly. this state awfully is the same state of glee as it was fifty eight years ago to morrow to morrow is that fifty eight and in verse three 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 if there's an armistice and the north koreans are saying we have to sit down in the same table with the americans and then we go to formally and the war and then we're going to discuss every scene including the nuclear program so this state department now is trying to joke they're going to said ok first you get rid of their nuclear weapons either that bomb dog missiles and then we dock so or was it in our good years are going to watch the special envoy is going to watch is going to say look our position has been the same for the best fifty eight years to get or leave first you have to end the. 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 the government of the americas and the zeal that south korea in the minds of young work force is still all killed by by american troops there are thirty six to thirty eight thousand u.s. troops but the north korea says it as it has a western occupation of south korea so no less you start to look i really know this difference is important it's absolutely impossible to even start talking. now what do you go to r.t. dot com for more comments on where north korea's nuclear program is heading a lot more waiting for you on line as well the top of the some of the other items now the new york hotel maid who accuses the former i.m.f. chief of sexually assaulting goes public she says she wants to see dominique strauss kahn behind bottles. and heroes of the world unite we report from comic-con in san diego on the biggest expo were fictions of financial fantasies and

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machine on the dot com. or i just could have you with us today it's r t live from moscow it's quarter past the hour now russia and the u.s. in washington have been trying to find common ground on nato's plans for a missile defense shield in europe it's all during talks in washington says the system is designed to protect the european continent from countries like iran but russia fears the project is aimed at its own military by the u.s. has been plowing ahead with the plan despite objections from the kremlin russia's envoy to nato was at use days talks afterwards he told us here at r.t. the washington has to overcome its. so. there are questions that remain unanswered if missile threats against europe

come from the center of the us placing part of its military infrastructure in the north close to russia's borders this is the question we can't get an answer to when we ask legal guarantees that the system is not aimed at russia we're told there's a big conflict between republicans and democrats in congress and they start to explain that conflict but we're not interested in why it's important for us is that the u.s. is behind this project and they should provide security for all the partners. right now let's check out some of the other main news from around the world this hour the man who is a confessed to killing seventy six people on a rampage in norway may be charged with crimes against humanity thirty two year old anders the brevik has already been charged in court with terrorism which she denies the bombing of government buildings in central oslo and the massacre at an island youth camp last friday devastated the nation one hundred thousand people gathered in the capital in tribute to the victims whatever it says he targeted norway's leading party for failing on immigration. military aircraft carrying

eighty one on board has crashed in the south of the country state t.v. news says seventy eight were killed and three severely injured when their transport went down in the mountains north of the border with western sahara bad weather and low visibility are thought to have been behind the crash. of over sent police to its northern border with serbia to enforce an important in post last week the move led to a riot and ethnic tension as local serbs resisted the police presence say they control one of the border crossings but another is being blocked by locals the ban was to serve as a boycott of course of our goods place since its unilateral declaration of independence in two thousand and eight. the un security council is holding it open to. based on the middle east including palestinian plans to declare statehood at 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 over one hundred countries are promising support for the palestinians in september. well there's a manhunt underway in russia right now and it's women trying to snare themselves a husband men aren't exactly an endangered species here but women really do outnumber the men maria phenomena now reports on the demographic die lever sparing some suspicious sharing. i meet him dreaming of a father of three and has been to three and other years ago and dre got there late two years ago and then again. gosh you know i refuse any of them if i love them all really why the country's demographic realities andris side according to the latest census there are ten million more women in russia than there i mean the shortage of

supply leads to the need for sharing a concept with injuries wise say they've made peace with the earth that i thought he was kidding but they're realizing he wasn't i never expected something like this happening to me but how they used to you know if you love live under stand we never fight for andre never the world but there is no kind of competition either. and reconsiders himself and i are going to question 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 seller of course would i make 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 both on a bill and three houses and board three apartments that's fair isn't it over as extraordinary as it seems andres 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 and the sleaze 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 we be silly mistake over the scarcity of man is also be down to their propensity to gauge in what's described as unhealthy behavior alcoholism and reckless driving is cheap in a way i think countries gene pool let me tell you my story of twenty eight years old reasonably smart fairly pretty and very compassionate yet i'm still single and my odds of trying the. no to get since lehman every year according to recent poll here in russia forever a single man with thirty thousand of single women see on the lookout for that premiss who is a true love becoming statistically challenging no wonder always no one during a brood and from russia. is to go in strong. reason. most. about why twenty years ago one of the world's

a legendary rock bands all but ground to hold the death of queen's flamboyant front man freddie mercury was undoubtedly a pivotal moment but guitarist and songwriter brian may tells us later in the show that the show did go on and freddie's influence has never faded. it's like a family member you lose them but you don't quite lose them because you take them with me. and we were so long together. you get that closeness from somebody particularly in a creative environment i don't think fame there's anything to do with 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 way and roger does as well in a particularly good 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 we 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 passion. and we talked to brian may in just over an hour's time here see for now though kareen is here with the latest from the world of business that's coming your way after a short break. hungry for the full stop we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. in

india all these available in the movie join the hotel rooms. the gateway hotel the grand imperial troy george weston. you can know what's hotel. sedated to go. rather the colonel was hotel to retreat. to business here in our take thanks for joining me russia is looking forward to expanding its privatization program to spur economic growth deputy prime minister laid out the new plan that was disclosed by bedrooms to newspaper he suggests the for privatization of fourteen state companies by twenty seven team however according to the plan the government will keep controlling stakes and infrastructure companies like russian will always and transmit. the moment for privatization is gathering. but it's also partly

a function of the fight that they're going to do. it's not so much about the money or the significant amount of money in. the regional primaries for thirty three billion dollars would be raised i think we're talking about a hundred twenty billion dollars but this is part of a modernization program and for him the key here is that state owned companies run efficiently and the point is to get the government out of the economy and hand it over to the private sector so this will have hope for the huge impacts in terms of improving productivity. well a company tank a b.p. has doubled first have to vote for its british shareholder b.p. tank a b.p. has paid one point six billion dollars to his british partners in dividends overall net profit for the period 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 full twenty ten caused by the oil spill in the gulf of mexico. a quick look at the markets now all reversed from early gains alone brand has added twenty cents investors are concerned that the u.s. debt deadlock may down into the economy of the world's largest consumer of stocks in the u.s. open mostly low as lawmakers remain in a standoff over how to contend with federal debts and also ahead of the conference board's consumer confidence index for too long the european stock markets are trading plots with giant b.p. suisse bank u.b.s. and chip maker and steve tronics dropping off two disappointing results b.p. fell two and a half percent in london after its earnings missed market expectations low production volumes here in russia markets close mixed with the artist pointing upwards and the minus six in the red all majors among the main losers amid we could

crude have ended half a percent lost over a third of a percent bucking the trend is part of the cold again point three percent off because of gold purchased eighty nine percent of the company's reverse takeover. capital wraps up today's trade. in terms of trading will the market remains very quiet in their stores. not trying to change and change their positioning. of the situation in europe and the u.s. the focus of attention in the morning was so was on the oil prices and the slightly more positive mood in asia. but later on i was to europe to visit disappeared is in reality there are no real wars and fuel prices unfortunately not really translating into the prices over russian starves it is a little bit but not to the extent you would hope and so it looks at what it will end quote close to further slightly being up so basically no particularly serious

momentum. despite a plea to pause expansion in the russia's bt bank is weighing up a new purchase and in the express credit market the country's second largest lender is considering buying a ten percent stake in home created by early autumn bt wants to buy a stake in the bank ahead of home created bibi's listing the i.p.o. 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 in the instant credit market. that's our update for this hour but don't forget you can always buy most stories just log on to our website r t v dot com slash business thanks for watching. to.

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back you are the. top stories and suicide rates in japan rising as people struggle with the aftermath of the earthquake disaster meanwhile it's the thought radiation of the fukushima nuclear plant could be contained within months. president obama is calling on the public to pressure congress into a deal on the voiding default republicans for stalling talks and refusing to compromise on. north korean diplomat is invited to new york to revive

a long stalled talks on scrapping the country's nuclear program it's just a few days since the north korean envoys agreed to resume discussions. but for now it's the. are you psychotic. well. statistically one of you should be psychotic if you look at this first headline max 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 psychosis means that you lack empathy and you need to be completely devoid of empathy to do your job effectively at goldman stripping corporations and disenfranchising the population and doing trade without any thought whatsoever about your actions what they might have the effects of society at large they're 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 is pharmaceutical lobbyist and companies have been targeting psychiatry asst in order to sell more of this product and the reason why they've gone to a psychiatrist is because this is a.