twenty years ago our this country. today. where did it take. lives on our t.v. suicide rates rise in japan as people struggle with the aftermath of disaster and meanwhile the atomic naushad says radiation of the stricken fukushima nuclear plant could be contained within months. dark days ahead president obama now calls on the public to pressure congress into compromise on avoiding default admitting america's verging on a catastrophe lost by washington. and a top north korean diplomat is invited for rare talks in the u.s. to try to revive the long stalled negotiations on scrapping the controversial

nuclear program. eight pm here in the russian capital you're watching r.t. thanks for joining us now we took a 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 and tired towns leveled and the threat of nuclear catastrophe largely sean thomas reports on the 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. the bucket. but the

problem is the minority they be they have been accused. classmates or you know of course by offshore. causing. if. not. they will primarily a move towards self-preservation this idea of desertion is defined by many as characteristically in japanese and has earned of those who have evacuated the dishonorable title of traitor. of course it's hard to hear that we have family neighbors or think about our health but in other words we run away we escape because we're scared of radiation but there is no example in the world of something similar and the consequences are still ongoing. while those who have moved to shelters here in tokyo are facing 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. or going to. commit suicide because you know the. soil is everything very good soil for after many hours of hard work and it's just contaminated. you know 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 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 the. increase.

in the. centers. but the fear areas because some by those struggling to you costs. they have not had to mix inside this disaster has certainly taken its toll on japan's economy and such constant reminders of an intense topic can harm the collective psyche of the people who live here as well because of the. tsunami disaster plus there's a real disaster many people actually lost their jobs or their working on the show has crashed. so. yeah they have a for many good reasons to commit suicide. just to keep rising even a little disaster subsided months before. or two. of the

cleanup at the a stricken fukushima nuclear plant has been praised by the head of the un a nuclear watchdog who said radiation could be contained by the end of the year. of yukiya amano is visiting the facility to assess the progress in preventing the nuclear crisis from getting worse because she was reactors were heavily damaged by the earthquake and tsunami it caused the corps to melt and release dangerous amounts of radiation into the environment or workers have since been trying to restore the cooling system and stop contaminated water from the reactors leaking into the sea but the russian mob based a nuclear energy expert robert jacobs believes the i.a.e.a. visit is a farce the japanese government still is not doing enough to protect people. in essence what this is is just just trying to be of a nice shine to a terrible terrible situation and policy and not really in any way to ealing with the actual problems that are facing a syringe and least plans 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 relatively out of policy about what will be happening in the areas that were contaminated near the plants but outside of you know actuation zone for example pushing a city we know that neither taco tokyo electric or the government inform the public when they knew that there had been 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 going 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 are 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 situation is in many ways here in japan compounding. that was nuclear energy expert robert blake of c n n hero she might explain the current situation in japan. now barack obama is calling on the american people to step up to the plate and pressure their politicians to dealing with the debt standoff congress has a week left to raise the country's multi-trillion dollar debt ceiling if it wants to avoid a potentially devastating default well in a nationwide address obama warned that america default would impact around the

world he blames 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 quote a blank check republicans and democrats have been a lot in a dispute over whether spending cuts or tax hikes is the answer to the debt crisis a washington watcher matthew vaden 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 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 or the u.s. government would have to drastically cut spending and implement pretty severe

austerity measures. you're watching our t.v. and still to come in the program couldn't turn to politics worse and the missile defense made between a 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 somalia splaying tragedy according to media reports with a crash in russia claimed the lives of president lech kaczynski and much of the country's political elite warsaw previously challenge the intergovernmental panel finding a witch willing be a flight crew be a committee found 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 airfield in a poor weather conditions all ninety six people on board were killed by 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 a stalled negotiations on its controversial nuclear program well some media suggest he's already on his way to the u.s. and the move comes just days after top nuclear envoys from north and south korea got together for the first time in over two years that's during a security summit in indonesia there they agreed to return to six party talks as soon as possible it goes down after north korea's deadly shelling of an island go along to the south in what it claimed was in response to provoke the military drills the u.s. says north korea must dismantle its nuclear facilities and therefore any deal can be reached last now erica weingartner who's visited north korea as a consultant on international humanitarian affairs thank you very much for being on the program with us now what will north korea's visit to the u.s. be enough to convince the country to return to the negotiation table. itself

very much. will be convinced north korea has wanted to get. this with the u.s. for quite some time. and so they will definitely see this as a very positive signal from the obama administration which. has practiced what they call the strategic patience in other words mainly ignoring north korea in terms of direct involvement in. it and in talks so this is a first step but the u.s. has also outlined numerous steps that north korea will have to take before they will actually agree to restart. and get back into the six party talks all right well they are there giving them a quite a number of conditions right well in south korea and the u.s. are also planning

a military drills and disputed seas next month which as we have seen in the past the north always flies provocative so why do you think the south and the u.s. just keep on. well. one of the difficulties that the both u.s. and so korea will face in the next year is that the elections are coming. it will not be very helpful in either of the other countries if there was what are you. military incident with north korea we've also heard this week that north korea is planning a rather major. military exercise on the western sea shore which is exactly the place where all of these incidents have happened before so this situation is becoming rather serious in terms of military confrontation and it would help obviously if there were some talks in process. because

usually when north korea is a buzz the talks. i do with the usa or south korea or indeed in the six party talks the provocations have not happened so i think there is. only g. that is building up in all of these countries. trying to interrupt you but this by the talks that you were saying earlier that even the north in the north was actually willing to talk to the u.s. but from the perspective of the west north korea is often cited as a threat and and as muses a reason that it needs comprehensive missile defense so how much of a threat really is the country's nuclear capability. personally i don't think it is a threat in the sense north korea would use or to attack so korea or japan or any other country for north koreans this is. something this is very much the

sense of. they don't want to be attacked believe rightly or wrongly i think wrongly in any case they believe having nuclear weapons or even the threat of nuclear weapons will safeguard them from attack ok well thank you very much for your insight there eric weingarten who's visited north korea as a consultant on international humanitarian affairs thank you. well you can go to r.t. dot com for more comment on where north korea's nuclear program is heading plus a lot more to well here's what's online today the new york hotel maid who accuses the former i.m.f. chief of sexually assaulting her goes public saying she wants to see dominique strauss kahn it behind bars. and heroes of the world unite we report from comic-con and sadly a go on the biggest axwell of fiction finest fantasies. kossovo has sent its special forces to serve populated north after

a tit for tat. trade data cost to flare up police seize control over one of border crossing while the other two are being blocked by local serbs because of those move has been of widely condemned by the un and the e.u. among others and it's feared it will stoke ethnic anger possible proclaimed its independence in two thousand and eight when it unilaterally split from serbia while some six hundred thousand serbs still live in the region but refused to recognise casa vest sovereignty because it was independence has been a bone of contention between serbia and the e.u. which is pressing belgrade to recognize possible before it can become a member of joining us now is political analyst alexandre pocket she's in the serbian capital right now thank you very much for joining us now all of us are publishing this cross border trade dispute it's threatening to descend into something far worse isn't it what does this tell us about the current levels of tensions over there. well first of all the tree dispute is really one sided because

it's already has those so-called costs of all actually used to do a trade ban on all imports from serbia and most important to post of all. whether they come from serve you're not have to go through territory of serbia so actually this is one sided. and this is seen a deliberate and by the course of the serbs as. pressure from the government to push to not to make them actually accept. there's. their rule in the in the so-called independent course of the single entry this even if this ends in a stalemate or temporary peace other tensions will remain ok but wouldn't cost of a be aware that using its police to seize control of a checkpoint could inflame the situation there. but you know i think they're very well aware and even. the true western government in serbia and its president. made

a remark couple days ago when this all the. started the year clearly from prishtina would not have brought this measure without some sort of at least tacit support from western powers and i think they were mainly in the united states so this was something that was actually calculated to bring about further pressure on belgrade because the believe government there may be a campaign issue right we single issue is e.u. accession and so they realize from the west especially from brussels and washington they can always blackmail them and they can put as much pressure on them as they need to because they have no other recourse here's talking about pressure from the west and we've actually been seeing nato peacekeepers already moving in now how deep are fears of this conflict with outside involvement now. well we have site involvement and because of already as you said we have nato peacekeepers of course are going we've had them since one thousand nine hundred ninety so actually

we. have almost as what we have in kosovo and actually it's the western forces that are. in charge impossible without them and without a word to here of france who got the western diplomats rightly nothing is done to knock them to now does not do anything so i think that's. why don't they also want to as the cause of those actions right have been could double to nationally do you think it will face any penalties. i don't think so i don't think it will face any family gives i think right now they're going to try to make an equal sign because. they're trying to say that this action didn't succeed so now they're going to try to restart the negotiations that start. really non-stable he'll be in control instability ok well thank you very much for your analysis there political analyst side excited profits from start. the agreement. no closer between

the u.s. and russia on how to develop missile defense in europe despite further talks in washington this tuesday when nato says the system is designed to protect the european continent from countries like iran or russia fears of project is aimed at its military might and is offering alternatives the u.s. is plowing ahead with its plan despite objections from the kremlin russia's envoy to nato was out of tuesday's talks and afterwards he told r.t. that washington has to overcome its inner deficiencies. if you look at the world there are questions that remain unanswered if missile threats against europe come from the south why is the us placing part of its military infrastructure in the north close to russia's borders this is the question that we can't get and. when we ask for 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 the conflict but we're not interested in that what's important for us is

that the u.s. is behind this project and they should provide security for all partners russia is very flexible if for some fabricated political reasons they rejected our suggestion to integrate our means of anti missile defense then there's another scheme they could be cooperation between two independent systems if nato wants to defend itself it's no problem but if russia wants to provide its own security so be it otherwise it's like when you come home and discover someone else's bodyguard sitting in your bedroom he's been sent to provide your security he's going to like that so if all our suggestions are rejected and if it's understood that iran is just a reason to have a plan well russia's nuclear potential is the real target then russia will come up with its own military response which nobody is going to like. let's look at some of the world's other main is right now the man who is going faster killing seventy six people in a rampage in norway maybe charged with quine's against humanity thirty two year old

anders breivik has already been charged in court with terrorism which he denies and the bombing of government buildings is such a loss low of a massacre at an island youth camp last friday devastated the nation one hundred thousand people gathered in the capital in tribute to the victims of brave except as he targeted norway's leading party for failing on immigration. a moroccan military aircraft carrying eighty one of people on board has crashed in the south of the country state t.v. news says seventy eight were killed and three were severely injured by their hair please. transporter went down and mountains north of the border with the western sahara bad weather and low visibility are thought to have caused the crash. the un security council has been holding an open debate on the middle east including palestinian plans to declare statehood at the united nations later this year but earlier israel threatened to pull out of the also accord if the plan wraps

ahead ninety ninety three agreement is the main road map in resolving the conflict and it's thought that over one hundred countries are promising support for the palestinians in september. all twenty years ago one of the world's legendary rock bands all but ground to a halt the death of queen's a flamboyant front man of freddie mercury was undoubtedly a pivotal moment but it's horace and songwriter brian may tells r.t. later 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 want to because you take them. and we were so long forget. you get that close and from somebody if you can be in the creative environment i think the framers or if you do it or you can success but in the creative room for you. to know what somebody else might be thinking you might not always be right but you have a feeling of so i still feel it and roger there's we're in

a particularly good applies more if we work in a screen and we think i would say and you would be 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 and freddie and roger so you know i mean for a while i didn't want to you know i was very you know. there 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 and accept its history but it 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 it's so part of what i would create pressure. all crean's brian may toss r.t. in less than ten minutes the before that all leaders of the world of business with kareena.

and welcome to business here in r.t. russia is looking forward to expand its provinces ation program to spur economic growth deputy prime minister eager to follow the laid out the new plan that was disclosed by the editors to newspaper he suggested for privatization of fourteen state companies by two thousand and seventeen however according to the plan the government will keep controlling stakes in infrastructure companies like russian railways and france next. the woman stood for privatization is gathering dust but it's also probably a function of the flight that we're going to freeze to do this. it's not so much about the money or there's a significant amount of money and grow them we will promise for thirty three billion dollars would be raised if we were talking about one hundred twenty of them so there's this is probably possible manipulative smoke my zation programs and for him the key here is state owned companies are more efficient can be the point is to

get the government down to the economy one hundred over to the private sector so this will have hopefully a huge impact in terms of improving productivity. and a quick check on the markets or reverse marley again celko brand has out of eleven cents investors are concerned that u.s. debt deadlock may damage the economy of the world's largest group consumer and the dead gridlock in washington is causing more worries on wall street stocks are down and u.s. lawmakers remain in a bit a stalemate over raising the country's borrowing limit industrial companies laid stocks lower after runnings reports from b.p.'s and u.s. steel raised concerns that the economy is weakening here in russia markets closed makes with the test pointing upwards and the united states in the red cross has declined for a third day raising an early game of as much as four percent all majors were among the main losers amid weak accrued rosneft and half a percent down a look or lost over a third of

a percent bucking the trend to produce gold game point three percent after cuz i told purchased eighty nine percent of the company to reverse takeover all the costs of ready to be capital wraps up today's trade. in terms of training well and the market remains very quiet and there's a largely not trying to be a change change their positioning you know this leave resolution of the situation in europe and the us the focus on ascension and in the morning i was was on the oil prices and a slightly more president within asia but later on i was the optimist disappeared as in reality there are no real buyers and view oil prices unfortunately not really translating into the prices over russian stocks it is a little bit but not to the extent she would hope and that's how it looks and it will end quote close to five percent think you know so basically no particularly serious momentum russia may place your bones on the foreign markets in two thousand and twelve deputy finance minister sergei start chalk says russia plans to boost

borrowings significantly over the next three years. with russia has an important competitive advantage it's so high that sustainability. is to cover the budget deficit by borrowings i would grow school rings will amount to seventy two billion dollars similarly in the next three years. and that's a business update for this album back with more in forty five minutes from. the.

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