with 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. soil is everything they know each other good soil. 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 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 the. rate increase.

but. because some barbers striving to. have 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 plus nuclear disaster many people actually lost their jobs or their working on the show was 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 has subsided months before in japan sean thomas or t.v. . well the clean up at the stricken focus shima nuclear plant has been praised by the head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog well. seven of the radiation could be contained by the end of the

year. is this it in the facility to assess the progress in preventing the nuclear crisis from getting worse. reactors were heavily damaged by the earthquake and tsunami it caused the corps to melt at least dangerous amounts of radiation into the environment workers have been since trying to restore the cooling system and stop contaminated water from their reactors leaking into the sea but you know she love based nuclear energy expert robert jacobs believes the i.a.e.a. visit is a farce 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 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 what's now preoccupying 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 who she misty. nuclear energy expert robert jacobs and hiroshima they are explaining the current situation in japan. and barack obama is calling on the american people to step up to the plate and a pressure their politicians in dealing with the debt standoff well congress has a week left to raise the country's multi-trillion dollar debt ceiling if it wants

to avoid a potentially devastating default in the nationwide address obama warned that american default would impact around the world while he blamed 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 locked in a dispute over whether spending cuts or tax hikes is the answer to the debt crisis washington watch our matthew beta says the government needs to act fast to avoid an investor exodus. 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

because 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 and 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 us 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. meanwhile the mighty are on the brink across in europe as well ratings giant moody's is warning powerhouses germany and france that there be a lot of greece could see their own credit ratings downgrade at all that's after greece's score dropped to just one notch above default last week a national analyst fabi demasi believes banks are the only winners from the greek bailout we are rescuing greece we were rescuing our long we were rescuing. maybe italy or spain someday but the truth was we were rescuing german or french or british banks hold the debts against these countries and basically if you want to bring your holes in order and to consolidate public finances you have you have to tax wealthy people you have to tax the banks.

benefit that and who have caused the crisis basically this threat that we will loose a lot of taxpayers' money because. we could really experiencing and european union this is not working so far. and still to come in the hour of peace under threat we discover whether the plans of palestinians to declare an independent state could force israel to scrap a key agreement. and we asked whether it over five long sought to go see a chanson scrapping the controversial nuclear program. because of oil has sent its special forces to the serb populated north after a tit for tat trade bad cost to flare up police seized control over one border crossing while the other two are being blocked by local serbs a possible us move has been widely condemned by the un and the e.u. among others and it's feared it will stoke ethnic anger kossovo proclaimed its

independence in two thousand and eight when it unilaterally split from serbia some six hundred thousand serbs still live in the region but they refused to recognize costs of its sovereignty because of those independence has been a bone of contention between serbia and the e.u. which is pressing belgrade to recognize costs of a before it can become a member of balkans politics expert marco gossett told r.t. that the real puppet masters are further afield. you should bear in mind that the. leaders could have done nothing without the ok from the us administration and we know that the us has got a massive investment in kosovo he's got the biggest military base in the world you can bomb still smack bang in the holocaust of all and so everything that. gets up to you is all surprised by washington in the first place having said that the poverty in course of all over for all peoples albanians as well as serbians is so huge that they're suffering already under this combined washington regime which is

nothing but poverty and pain and really has done nothing for the region but bring organ harvesting and polity to everybody in this region so that also is a failed slaves are fake states are mistaken experiments and this kind of expansionism over. a failure of. ethnic albanian leadership over produced for the world should not be encouraged by the world we should all oppose this we know who can stop it and it is time for the u.s. administration stopped its extremist. from even further inspire and begin to. recognize territorial area. dot com is available around the clock for you to watch the news you choose well here's a selection of what we've lined up online in new york will tell me the accuser says the former i.m.f. chief of sexually assaulted her goes public saying she wants to see dominic strauss kahn behind bars. and heroes of the world unite we report from comic con in

san diego and the biggest expose of fiction spineless fantasies. the latest threat to middle east peace is a promise to punish the palestinians if they go ahead with plans to declare statehood at the u.n. in september it's considering canceling the landmark one nine hundred ninety three oslo accord which is the main road map in resolving the middle east conflict well the u.s. is among the countries refusing to support the palestinians moves towards recognition political writer and blogger emily hauser says israel's threat is self-defeating. this is an internationally recognized bilateral agreement it's not israel breaking up with her boyfriend you can't just cancel something this is there's not. a mind trick that can be done oh this accord was never there however having said that what it will achieve is very little it will it will only make its own position more isolated more difficult to negotiate out of it's kind of odd to me that israelis

and the israeli government refuse to acknowledge the ways in which we and i say we because i'm israeli american the ways in which we have violated the agreement from i mean the end can hardly gone dry we have not once stopped building in the territories we have not once top adding israelis there and building bypass roads so is violence breaking the agreement yes but so are building settlements so are running bombing raids and running raids into the centers of town you know israel has continued with military incursions into areas that were supposed to be entirely under palestinian security control from the very beginning so yes both sides have broken the accords time and again but israel for israel to pretend that they have not is. just gross dishonesty. a senior north korean diplomat has been invited to a new york for talks on how to revive stalled negotiations on its controversial

nuclear program well suddenly to suggest he's already on his way to the u.s. while the move comes just days after a top nuclear all voice from the north and south korea got together for the first time in over two years that's during a security summit in indonesia well there they agreed to return to six party talks as soon as possible negotiations broke down after north korea's deadly shelling of an island belonging to the south and what it claimed was in response to provoke of military drills the u.s. says north korea must dismantle its nuclear facilities before any deal can be reached he'll leave for the campaign to end the korean war told r.t. the u.s. will do all its katty to keep its influence in the region. the u.s. military needs justification to maintain its troops in the northeast asia region so that it can pursue its real interest which is to contain china's expansion of power in the region and also to continue to sell its weapons systems and demonizing north

korea as an axis of evil country conveniently provides that kind of justification the u.s. has been trying to strengthen its alliances with south korea and japan in increasing military exercises in the region building missiles to defense systems and in the extra inexplicably linking south korea and japan and systems with. but the reality is north korea does not provide a threat to south korea or the u.s. and the reality also is that the u.s. and south korea are facing an economic crisis where their tax dollars can be better spent on rebuilding their domestic economies and unproductive war games that have already cost us lives on the korean peninsula last year there is one thing that distinguishes north korea from other nuclear weapons states in the world and that is that it is the only country that has said that it's willing to give them up in exchange for a guarantee that the u.s. will not attack. and north korea has been very consistent and has said that everything is on the table as long as the u.s.

is this year but it has to be a process of mutual disarmament you can't realistically expect north korea to simply give up its only deterrence capability unless the u.s. is also willing to take steps and an end to its provocative war games that simulate the collapse of the north korean regime is a good start. well agreement appears no closer between the u.s. and russia on how to develop missile defense in europe and that's a spy further talks in washington this tuesday nato says the system is designed to protect the european continent from countries like iran or russia fears the project is aimed at its military by this offering alternatives the u.s. is plowing ahead with its plan despite objections from the kremlin russia's envoy to nato was out the tuesday's talks said afterwards who told r.t. that washington has to overcome its divisions. if you 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 an answer to 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 that 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 that'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 somebody else's bodyguard sitting in your bedroom he's been sent to provide your security who's going to like that so if our suggestions are rejected and it's understood that iran is just

a reason to have the plan while russia's nuclear potential is the real target then russia will come up with its own military response which nobody is going to like. but jailed associate of convicted oil tycoon hey of how the ski is being considered for parole in northern russia but president special say plotted. does not just serve release well the guard current jail questioned his conduct in custody and say he's not fit for release or that's despite his previous president moscow giving him a positive reference the hearing will resume on a wednesday but all negative and his former business partner. were jailed for fraud and tax evasion in two thousand and five they've already served half of the terms should be released twenty sixteen. and some of the world's other made news right now the man who's confessed to killing seventy six people in a pigeon in norway may be charged with crimes against humanity thirty two year old

out there is brave has already been charged in court with terrorism which he denies of the bombing of government buildings in central all slow and the massacre at an island youth camp last friday devastated the nation thousands of people gathered in the capital in tribute to the victims. a moroccan a military aircraft carrying eighty one of people on board as crash in the south of the country state t.v. news says seventy eight were killed and three were severely injured when their hair killie's transporter went down in valdez north of the border with western sahara bad weather and low visibility are thought to have caused the crash. violent clashes that have gathered helmand province of killed twenty four people most of which were insurgents and the fighting broke out between a taliban a nato and local forces as militants try to regain territory lost to the u.s. led coalition parts of helmand have seen a rise in violence after security control was handed over to local forces earlier

this month. well shortly legendary queen guitarist and songwriter brian may he talks to sophie shevardnadze about life with the stars and not only working alongside frontman freddie mercury but also his other life as an experience astrophysicist well that's after a short break. it's

great to have you with us today sir thank you so so recently i was going through the glass bead and about music and what it says about music is that except it's art form it's also true power over nations and souls and then many people say that exactly why music is compared to exact sciences like math. so i never really got that because i finished kind of conservatory and i always failed my math class now you as a man of music and science can't tell me how music is related with science or exact science like math for example it's a hard question. there are all mathematical things in music but ironically i think the most important things in music are be instinctive things so

i don't know quite how that works out except maybe it gives you a balance but yes i love pure science and i love music and they're not the same sure but. certainly throughout history there have been connections and people who were immersed in both of them you know from leonardo da vinci to. patrick. you know . it seems to be that we maybe it's an obstruction thing maybe people who like these things don't like the clutter of the world and want the complications of the world that we live in you know the pieces of stuff they just like to find the essence of life so maybe pure science is in some way close to the essence of nature and music is close to the pure essence of human being to believe in god there's a man called richard dawkins there who is a very strong atheist i had a little kind of argument with him in one hundred minutes because he he kind of i think he felt that he proved there was no good and my feeling is that's not

a very scientific attitude because if you if you make a pronouncement you have to have evidence so if you say there is no good where is the evidence there is no god you've spoken about the loneliness state you experience after it's performance. and sunny you know because i've spoken to a couple of astronauts and been to the moon for the past three days and they also speak of that fast loneliness that they experience when they're out there in space . say send music in your opinion give you that comfort of loneliness. you know maybe they do for a moment you know maybe ironically again maybe that's what makes you more aware of loneliness because you clearly it's content it's wonderful. togetherness we people are with the universe and then the reality is you lose it so maybe that's why many of us why we feel lonely i do feel a lot of loneliness obviously when you think queen and see you playing next to

freddie mercury all those great hits come to my mind and then i understand that when you reach that level of success with someone you definitely have a special law and you form a special bond and i've heard you in another interview say that you still see freddie in a strange way can you elaborate on that it's like a family member and you lose them but you don't. because you take them with me. and we was so long together that. you get that closeness with somebody particularly in a creative environment i don't think famous 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 for you know so i still feel that roger does as well and particularly it applies more if we're working as queen in this or you know 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 have you spoken to some of the brilliant brains time for the past three days what do you think what you think could be or is high priest in the twenty first century the high priest of the twenty first century boy oh boy oh boy. maybe nelson mandela. because he has a very important key thing apart from wisdom and knowledge. he has the key of forgiveness which i think saved his country completely from a blood. and i think of all the people who run this planet studied under nelson mandela and we would definitely get a better planet and i think that would be more than anyone else i think he has the key primate thank you very much melissa.

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welcome back here's a recap of the main stories we're covering on our teeth suicide rates in japan are rising as people struggle with the aftermath of the earthquake disaster. radiation at the fukushima nuclear plant could be contained within a. president obama is calling on the public to pressure congress into a deal on avoiding default blames republicans for a stalling talks and refusing to compromise on a debt. at a top north korean diplomat is invited to new york to revive last salt talks on

scrapping the country's nuclear program it's just a few days since north and south korean on voice agreed to issue discussions. about a hundred years have been around for centuries but even they are having to adapt to changing times in our special report we discover who is on their hit list these days so that's coming up next. good. food. family but.

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