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 farm us committed suicide because you know for nick. is everything they know each other good soil for after many hours of hard work and just contaminated one night going to you know. some. farmers committed suicide 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. a late increase.

note in the. back. is because some divers struggling to. live 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 fukushima nuclear plant has been praised by the head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog who said radiation it could be contained by the end of the here

yukio model is visiting the facility to assess the progress and preventing the nuclear crisis from getting worse focus 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 well workers have since been trying to restore the cooling system and stop contaminated water from the reactors leaking into the sea but the base 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 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 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. that was nuclear energy expert robert jacobsen hiroshima explaining the current situation in japan. now with lawmakers at loggerheads over how to pay for raising america's debt ceiling president obama threatens to veto

a rival republican plan well congress has less than 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 american default would impact around the world and that washington would be to blame he criticized republicans for stalling talks and refusing to accept a balanced approach while republican speaker john boehner hit back accusing obama of spending beyond the country's means and expecting quote a blank check well the two parties have been a locked in a dispute over whether spending cuts or tax hikes is the answer to the debt crisis washington washer 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 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 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. it 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 meanwhile the mighty are on the brink over in europe as well ratings giant moody's is warning powerhouses germany and france that their bailout of greece could see their own credit ratings downgraded and that's after greece's score dropped to just above the default last week of financial analysts fabia demasi believes banks are the only winners from the greek bailout. risk grease we were rescuing our lawn we were rescuing maybe it'll be your spring someday but the truth is 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 who. benefit that who have caused the crisis basically to sort through it that we will do a lot of taxpayers' money because. we can really experiencing and you can you know this is not work and so for. all still to come in the hour of peace under threat we discover whether the plans of palestinians to declare an independent state could force easy to scrap a key agreement. a top north korean diplomat is abided for rare talks in the us and we ask whether it will revive long stalled negotiations and scrapping the controversial nuclear program. a constable has sent its special forces to the serb populated north after a tit for tat trade bad cos tension to flare up or police seized control over one

border crossing while the other two are being blocked by local serbs cos of those move has been widely condemned by the un and the e.u. will mock 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 a but they refuse to recognize costs of and sovereignty kosovo's independence has been a bone of contention between serbia and the e.u. which is pressing belgrade to recognize cost of zero before it can become a member of balkans expert an abortion mileage believes cost of ozark chance are inflaming the situation but it's the e.u. victory. the temp said in the first place. the decision to introduce the train boromir and to send a special forces a cigarette slap in the face of the serbian government which has been nothing but a cooperative and even capitulating in the ongoing negotiations which were set up by the e.u. is

a matter of fact the news that i've been listening to this morning indicating today that this action has completely either completely bypassed both the europeans and nato or has been executed with their complicity in cooperation and honestly i'm not really sure which is worse d'you has made it seems in an unimaginably worse by recognizing your regime that is. that has absolutely no interest in any sort of dialogue it came to power through violence it has conducted widespread ethnic cleansing of serbs and other not of any and populations it has been rewarded for a. white spirit harm of syria in march ninth two thousand and four and it has basically shown a willingness to behave in a civilized fashion and into including the corp of independence and now this so obviously a new mission is there to facilitate their independence they are contrary to international law and use the rules so obviously it is a message here so making it is a mess that the europeans and nato. basically made need to fix.

well r.t. dot com is of course available around the clock for you to watch and the news you choose well here is a selection of what we've lined up online it's family only now for a philanthropist seven vasser george soros as he returns almost a billion dollars to clients we'll find out why online plus. heroes of the world unite we report from comic con in san diego at the biggest expo a fictious finest fantasies. to israel now where the country's president has denied reports it will scrap all previous agreements with the palestinians if they continue to pursue state recognition from the un general assembly in september foreign minister had earlier threatened to back pedal on the one nine hundred ninety three also peace accord that gave a green light to forming the palestinian autonomy meanwhile more than one hundred countries have vowed to support the recognition of the palestinian state at the

u.n. even as soon as professor at san francisco university says if israel follows up on any of its threats it would put washington in a very difficult position just show that actually the mentality the idea that. colonize occupied people can only have independence. on the parameters decided upon by the occupier would make it somewhat difficult for the united states should share years has been. insisting that the. process was the path to middle eastern peace congress just passed a resolution by an overwhelming bipartisan majority that claimed that it reiterated the importance of the oslo process but ironically try to blame the palestinian authority for violating it simply by including hamas as a. member of the coalition government even though as your parties are.

stream which also rejected. the government the whole. it would mean that the united states would need it need to effectively support israel's action therefore announce the marry a resolution that the united states is the guarantor for. a senior north korean diplomat has been invited to new york for talks on how to revive 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 a top nuclear all voice both from north and south korea got together for the first time in over two years that's during a security summit in indonesia and there they agreed to return to six party talks as soon as possible negotiations broke down and north korea's deadly shelling of an island belonging to the south and what it claimed it was in response to provoke a military drills but the u.s.

says north korea must dismantle its nuclear facilities before any deal can be reached from the campaign to end the korean war told r.t. that the u.s. will do all that 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 at defense systems and in the extra good in extruded 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 weapon 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. tackett and north korea has been very consistent it has said that everything is on the table as long as the us is the fear 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 us 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. all agreement appears no closer between the u.s. and russia on how to develop missile defense in europe and that's despite further talks in washington this tuesday nato says the system is designed to protect the

european continent from countries like iran russia fears the project is aimed at its military might and is offering alternatives but the u.s. is plowing ahead of its plan despite objections from the kremlin russia's envoy to nato was at tuesday's talks and afterwards he told r.t. that washington has to overcome its inner divisions. 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 all 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. there were jailed associate of convicted oil tycoon. is being considered for parole in northern russia but prison officials say does not to serve release well the guards at current jail questioned his conduct in custody and say he's not fit for release that's the spite of his previous prison in moscow giving him

a positive reference the hearing will resume on wednesday but on the bit of end his former business partner may have other called ski were jailed for fraud and tax evasion in two thousand and five well they've already served half of the terms and should be released in twenty sixteen. that's look at some of the world's other main news right now 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 of the bombing of government buildings in central all slow as well as the massacre of an island youth camp last friday devastated the nation thousands of people gathered in the capital in tribute to the victims. on the rock in a military aircraft carrying eighty want to 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 when their

hercules transporter went down of the mountains north of the border with western sahara bad weather and low visibility are thought to have cost the crash. the violent clashes in afghanistan's helmand province have killed twenty four people most of which were insurgents the fighting broke out between the taliban nato and the local forces as militants tried to regain territory lost to the u.s. led coalition and parts of helmand have seen a rise in violence rise in violence after security control was handed over to local forces earlier this month. shortly legendary queen guitarist as songwriter brian may well he talks to sophie shevardnadze about life with the stars and not only working alongside front man freddie mercury but also his other life as an experienced astrophysicist well that's coming up after a short break. it's

great to have you with us today sir thank you something so recently i was going through the glass bead game of has. about music and what he says about music is that except it's art it's also true power over nations and human souls and then many people say that exactly why music is compared to exact sciences like math. so i never really got there because i finished kind of conservatory and i always

failed my math class now you as a man of music and science can 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 the instinctive things so i don't equate 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 moore 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 but you 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 probably had a little kind of argument with him in the hundred minutes because he he kind of i think he felt that he proved there was no good and my feeling is that it'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 each performance. and so i 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 maybe ironically you can maybe that's what makes you more aware of

loneliness because you glimpse this country it's wonderful. togetherness with people or with the universe and then the reality is you lose it so maybe that's why maybe that's 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 bond 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 quite lose them because you take them with me. and we were so long together. you get that closeness with somebody particularly in the. environment i don't think fame as 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 that you know so i still feel that and roger does as well and particularly it applies more if we're working as queen in this or you know and we think what would freddie say and you would be he 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 and me and freddie and roger have you spoken to some of the brilliant brains our times for the past three days what do you think who do 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 i think apart from wisdom and knowledge. he has the key of forgiveness which i think saved his country completely from

a blood. and i think people 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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paul come back here's a recap of the main stories we're covering on r.t.e. suicide rates in japan are rising as people struggle with the aftermath of the earthquake disaster meanwhile it's thought radiation at the fukushima nuclear plant could be contained within months. in the u.s. president obama threatens to veto a rival republican plan to fund a debt ceiling increase and agreement has to be reached within the week to avoid america defaulting on its loans. and

a top north korean diplomat is invited to new york to revive the long stalled talks on scrapping the country's nuclear program it's just a few days since north and south korean envoys agreed to a shooting at discussions. and next on our t.v. it's the kaiser report do you stay with us. or are you psychotic. statistically one of you should be psychotic if you look at this first headline lax 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 goldman asked of 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 their 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 psychiatrists.