yes 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 know good soil for after many hours of hard work and it's just contaminated one night into you know 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 increases.

knocked. back. because some eyebrows 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 plus nuclear disaster many people actually lost their jobs or their working on the show has crushed. so. yeah they have of 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 forty. mclean about the stricken from the nuclear plant has been praised by the head. the u.n.

nuclear watchdog who said the radiation could be contained by the year end of the year yukiya amano is visiting the facility to assess the progress in preventing the nuclear crisis from more sinning reactors were heavily damaged by the earthquake and tsunami because the cores to melt and release dangerous amounts of radiation into the environment workers have been trying to restore the cooling system and stop contaminated water from leaking from the reactors leaking into the sea but hiroshima based nuclear expert robert jacobs use the i.a.e.a. visit is a farce and 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 in policy and not really in any way dealing with the actual problems that are facing us here and you and least plants are still leaching radioactivity into the environment every day into the sea and through the steam of it coming 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 the plants but outside of the evacuation zone for example who she missed. those nuclear energy expert robert jacobs in hiroshima explaining the situation facing japan. with lawmakers a loggerheads over how to pay for raising america's debt ceiling president obama is threatening to veto a rival republican plan congress has less than a week left to raise the country's multi-trillion dollar debt ceiling if it hopes to a. oid a potentially devastating default in

a nationwide address obama warned that american default would impact around the world and washington would be to blame but he criticized republican opponents for a stalled talks and refusing refusing to accept a balanced approach to the public and house speaker john boehner head back using obama of spending beyond the country's means and expecting a quote blank check the two parties have been locked in dispute over whether spending cuts or tax hikes will be the answer to the debt crisis but u.s. congressional candidate dan o'connor says in their debate both sides have ignored a key point. i think a lot of the politicians in d.c. this is both republican and democratic politicians they continue to necked all to neglect the biggest tax and that's the inflation tax this is a perennial tax and it's not it's not politically. beneficial for them to him to mention this because they benefit from this tax because it's a hidden tax and they don't have to impose and they don't even have to vote on it and this is what democrats and republicans in d.c.

they allowed to go the federal reserve to continue to print money constantly we we saw the biggest printing spree in the history of the world in the past few years we see our cost of living skyrocketing we see the cost of gas skyrocketing cost of commodities skyrocketing skyrocketing but nobody in d.c. none of the politicians want to talk about this issue it's not only obama who should be shouldering the blame i think everyone in d.c. should be shouldering the blame for this more so even the even the republican party because they want to lot of the elections last year on the platform of cutting of cutting spending and they haven't really done anything anything significant and they haven't offered any sort of significant cuts especially on the issues of defense which they're never willing to cut on what the politicians in deep in d.c. the republican democrat and democrats they just support one of the biggest bailouts in the history in american history and they're getting away with it and the american people have essentially forgotten about the bailouts but this was

a complete transfer of wealth from the government from the hands of the government into the large corporations in the banks and they've essentially gotten away with it no. meanwhile the mighty are on the brink across in europe ratings giant moody's is warning powerhouses germany and france that their ballad of greece could see their own credit ratings downgraded is after greece's score dropped to just above default last week and as your analyst fabby a damascene believes that banks are the only winners from the greek bailout we risk using greece we were rescuing ireland we were rescuing maybe italy or spain someday but the truth was we were rescuing german or french or british banks who 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 have. benefits and who have caused

the crisis basically to so threat that we will loose a lot of taxpayers' money because. we could really experiencing and european union this is not work and so from. stay with us here on our t.v. still to come peace under threat to discover whether the plans of palestinians to declare an independent state could force israel to scrap a key agreement plus. a top north korean diplomat invited for a rare talks in the u.s. we asked whether it will revive long stalled negotiations on the scrapping scrapping pyongyang's controversial nuclear program. but first kosovo has sent its special forces to the serb populated north after a tit for tat trade ban caused tensions to flare up police seize control over one border crossing while the other two are being blocked by local serbs kosovo's move has been widely condemned by the un and the e.u. among others and it's feared it will stoke ethnic anger kosovo proclaimed

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

and really has done nothing for the region but bring harvesting and pain and polity to everybody in this region so that also is a failed sleighs a fake state of mistaken experiments and this kind of expansion is. a failure of the. ethnic albanian leadership to use 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 that the us administration stopped its extremist puppets from even further expire and begin to. recognize territorial area. already dot com is there for you around the clock for all the latest news and analysis from our team here's what's online right now. it's family only now for philanthropist and investor george soros as he returns almost a billion dollars to clients and found out why online plus. heroes of the world unite we report from comic con in san diego on the biggest expo of fictions finest

fantasies. turning to israel where the country's president has denied reports little scrap all previous agreements with palestinians if they continue pursuing state recognition from the un general assembly in september israel's foreign minister had earlier threatened to back pedal on the one thousand nine hundred three oslo 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. political writer and blogger emily hauser believes it's easy says israel's threats may be 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 that we 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. agreement appears no closer between u.s. and russia on how to develop missile defense for europe despite further talks in

washington this tuesday nato says the system is designed to protect the european continent from countries like iran but russia fears the 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 out of way to nato was at the talks afterwards he tells r t washington has to overcome its inner divisions. but 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 have 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. gerald associate of convicted oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky is being considered for parole in northern russia but prison officials say platon lebedev doesn't deserve to be released the guards are legit as current jail questioned his conduct in custody and. he's not fit for release because despite his previous prison in moscow giving him a positive reference the hearing will resume on wednesday and his former business

partner michael were jail for fraud and tax evasion in two thousand and five they've already served half their terms and should be released in twenty sixteen. senior north korean diplomat has arrived in new york for talks on reviving stalled negotiations on its controversial nuclear program the move comes just days after top nuclear on boys from north and south korea got together for the first time in two years during a security summit in indonesia they agreed to return to six party talks as soon as possible you know she broke down after north korea's deadly shelling of an island belonging to the south in what it claimed was a response to provocative military drills the u.s. says the north dismantle its nuclear facilities before any deal can be reached here leave from the campaign to end the korean war tells our teeth the u.s. will do all it can to keep its influence in the region. the u.s. military needs justification to maintain its troops in the know what he's danger 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 and when you provide that kind of justification the u.s. has been trying to strengthen its alliance of south korea and japan in increasing military exercises in the region building missile defense systems and any extra goodwill in extruded linking south korea and japan and systems with it. 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 economy and on provocative war games and they've 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. it has said that it's willing to give them out in exchange for a guarantee that the us will not attack it and north korea has been very consistent

and has said that everything is on the table as long as the us is the fear but it has to be a process 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 to its provocative word games that simulate the collapse of the north korean regime is a good start to turn now to some other stories making headlines across the globe lawyer of anders breivik the confessed attacker says his client is in the sane but that it's too soon to establish a defense the thirty two year old has been charged in court with terrorism but may yet face charges of crimes against humanity the reason police have now named some of the seventy six victims of last friday's twin attacks the bombing of government buildings in central australia and massacre at an island youth cabot devastated the country around one hundred fifty thousand people gathered in the capital to pay tribute to the victims. a moroccan military aircraft carrying eighty one people

on board has crashed in the south of the country state t.v. news says seventy eight were killed three severely injured when their hurt hillary's transport went down in the mountains north of the border with western sahara bad weather and low visibility are thought to have caused the crash. violent clashes in afghanistan's helmand province of killed twenty four people most of which were insurgents the fighting broke out between taliban nato and local forces as militants tried 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. coming your way shortly legendary queen guitarist and songwriter brian may he speaks with archie sophie shevardnadze about life not about life with the stars not only working alongside famous front man freddie mercury but also in his other life as an astrophysicist that's coming up after the break.

it's great to have you with us today sir thank you so so recently i was going through the glass bead and your eyes about music and what it 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 that because i finished product 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. yeah they're all mathematical things in music but ironically i think the most important things in music are the instinctive things so i don't know quite how that works out except maybe 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 have been connections and people who were immersed in both of them you know from leonardo da vinci to. patrick moore.

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 and i had a little kind of argument with him in a 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 good you've spoken about the loneliness state you experience after each performance. and study 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 loneliness that they experience when they're out there in space. say

some music in your opinion give you that comfort of loneliness. you know maybe they do for a moment you know maybe ironically you can maybe that's what makes you more aware of loneliness because you glimpse this content it's wonderful. togetherness we people are 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 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 quite lose them because we did. you

know and we 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 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 me and pretty and roger have you spoken to some of the brilliant brains our times 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 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 of all the people who were on 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 ricky rang me thank you very much for this interview him.

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two thirty am in moscow the. deadly aftershocks suicide rates in japan so for a survivor struggled to come to terms with the devastating earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands this is the un's atomic watchdog says radiation to the stricken fukushima plant could be contained within months. president obama threatens to veto a rival republican plan to fund a debt ceiling increase and agreement must be reached within the week to avoid the u.s. defaulting on its loans. tension rises in coast. well as police and ethnic serbs

face off at several border checkpoints over a tit for tat trade bad the un any use a pristine as heavy handed approach could stoke ethnic hatred and the republican. bounty hunters a bit around for centuries but even they're having to adapt to changing times special report coming up but by the rest all times of the weapon ok he would be on the stomach and then i got the weapon ok that's one now that was left handed i had to be prepared for either hand if it was his right hand if its right hand same thing ok if it's his right hand ok i push i grab don't fight it. this is a very special school in sacramento. the deer it takes just a few hours to train people into bounty hunters it was really what i'm wearing right now is exactly what i wear when i'm working the streets if you instructor is

a native american called rex miniature contract is the area of expertise is bounty hunting for people who are going to be taking their twelve hour course this weekend they started friday night walking at five o'clock am sunday to get the ticket but my class is actually closer to eighty four small some anybody can take part in this training assume these freshly trained hunters will be scattered throughout the city on the trail a fugitive. in southern california who i trained in pretty licensee and on the streets. we also have a student of mine who has taken this class in the past she's been out with us once before in two separate arrests and she will be continuing her training because one of the things that we do that's different from the other delegation providers is that we don't just train them in the bounty hunting aspects. we also take them out streets and train them to be.