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treat. crisis towards america. forty eight hours to ponder solution before the impact is felt when washington china criticizes the u.s. for the world economy. crashed in western russia it concerns politics played a pivotal role in the investigation. arab spring turns into israeli summer tens of thousands flood streets and squares in major israeli cities bonding prime minister netanyahu undertakes economic reforms.

welcome to the program there's still no consensus between us nor. the country's debt crisis as the senate fails to agree on a deal proposed by the democratic party on friday a proposal to raise the debt ceiling was passed in the house of representatives. later. remains in deadlock try to avoid default head of tuesday's deadline but washington. needs to act fast to avoid investor. this. 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 at 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 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 where u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton rushed to reassure asian leaders this week that the debt debates will be settled on time beijing as america's biggest creditor seems to be losing patience with washington's financial mess investment analyst peter schiff says china could even dump the dollar as its main reserve currency. we

can't afford bad relations with china see beijing holds the cards you know we're dancing to the tune that they play the real problem for china is that there's no way that america can pay back the money that the chinese have already loaned us politically is just not going to happen is specially when interest rates rise i'm surprised it's taken the chinese so long to figure out that they've been throwing a lot of good money after bad i don't think we're going to default i think we're going to inflate which is just as bad but you know we're going to raise the debt ceiling that improbable is the debt not the ceiling the sooner the chinese start to stop enabling on this phony economy that we have the sooner we as americans can begin to repair the damage and what's going to happen is when the dollar collapses americans are going to see a big reduction in our standards of living. later in the program we take a closer look at other struggling economies dashed hopes for some nations who are running up debt and now fighting for their own financial survival.

and in the light of the economic woes that separatist movements are gaining momentum in belgium is a chain reaction across the whole of europe. also refuses to shoulder full responsibility for the polish presidential plane crash in western russia saying russian traffic controllers also contributed to the aviation disaster the crash that killed the late president kaczynski dozens of the country's ruling elite last spring. reports many in poland are unhappy that the national tragedy has become a political weapon. another day another blame game poland's very own probe into last year's presidential plane crash and smolensk all but confirmed the findings of russia's investigation that the crew was almost solely responsible for the tragedy . at this point there is an obstacle a tree that the aircraft collides with

a fragment of the left wing is detached the aircraft begins the rich ation but let me emphasize it's not that the tree was too high the aircraft had simply been at a location where it shouldn't have been it seems the very things that got in the way of the plane are now getting in the way of warsaw taking full responsibility and trees are not the only thing rooted in poland failing to see eye to eye with moscow. here's where the approach controller two thousand metres away should have told the crew to stop descending the horizon command should have been issued exactly the same moment this shows that the landing zone controller was performing hughes duty in an incorrect way on tuesday. such statements come as little surprise to experts with some of them saying an acceptance of total responsibility would be impossible for the ball. society they've been given the truth and the truth is on bearable they can't take it now i don't think that the polish investigators think

they can pin the blame on anybody else but i do think that they are looking to pin some of the blame on somebody else aviation experts echoed this opinion calling the swipes against the russian side and substantial some claims concerning the airport all controllers they have nothing to do with the crash i've been a pilot for over thirty years and i know a simple rule if you don't see the runway or its likes of the decision height you have no other choice than to raise the landing gear and go to your reserve airport the initial russian lead investigation was greeted by a novel launch of criticism from some movements in poland they expressed doubts about the reliability of the report often based on anti russian sentiment and some experts say it is not pure emotion driving this but well thought tactics used to put it here i think we're now witnessing simply to call games to shift the blame from the polish side of i was an expert in this commission and i was surprised to

learn to the crew was chosen immediately before the flight such a poor preparation for such a high profile flight publication of this report had been delayed for several months and was very much anticipated in poland it was meant to put paid to all speculation regarding the smolensk plane crash but instead it could once again be used as a political tool experts say the timing of the publication is not coincidental this could be exploited also in the political electoral campaign because this should be known that. they had to be in. interactions this report and all that issue but if your tablet will be. even easier than the electoral campaign and the twin brother of the late president kaczynski was quick to prove this suggestion. sharp round about the report the prime minister to risk has no courage to take up the responsibility for the plane crash and has shuffled it off on to his staff

nevertheless he is responsible for all the games he played with the russians he's responsible that the poles were not conducting or even participating in the investigation he's responsible for not defending polish interests in polish on or at the international forum which will get to the bottom of this case as this is what we owe to those who died while the polish society is still deciding whether to admit the brain for responsibility which comes with a report experts are speculating whether this is a fair and objective investigation or an attempt to please all the players in the long lasting blame game. after reporting from warsaw in poland. israel has become the latest middle east country to see nationwide anti-government protests with tens of thousands of demonstrators taking to the streets in major cities protests say they'll demand that the prime minister benjamin netanyahu steps down and takes sweeping economic reforms. following the developments

with the biggest ready to place obviously happened to him fifty thousand people here with the most popular chant being we demand social justice a whole new way of speakers have been taking to the stage they've been calling on unity your message coming across very strongly is one by one people here can bring change a lot of criticism being leveled at the israeli prime minister bibi netanyahu in fact every time his name is mentioned. why are you here tonight i'm here because it's just becoming possible to live in this country anymore we work we give and we give everybody giving and there's no end to this is. this is the only way we have to change is because. what you say people have been inspired by the demonstrations taking place there there. is. what is your sign saying you're going to go home guzzling. why do you want him to go home. alone because of the police just how

much of the salmon stations green inspired by the protests we saw taking place in the arab world well i think there's a lot of influence of what happened in the. syria lebanon and what you see in libya also there's a lot of influence of course and that's when people understand they have the power that they can they can organize by themselves they don't need anymore the government to tell them what to do they can start telling the government what they want. to do you know they can they can start deciding for themselves take the power back to you have they said is the spiritual revolution here a number of israeli popular song singers have also been taking to the stage and once something that was done you had the chorus and i'm translating this new middle east we created to storm the speech and it's up to us. it's very activist annoying you know any of my you know expects the authorities to employ provocative measures to tackle the growing unrest the government sending people here to make

provocation in order to find a reason to take this demonstration to a violent situation to give him a cause to clear this whole thing out we're not going to let them do that the for this will continue that's for sure it took sixty years to people to actually get out of the couch and come and demonstrate for social issues we haven't done it before you know what we have here it's a history this state will be remembered in history because the israelis used to be . a bad thing to the situation if the government won't listen to the sound of the people the government will fall that's basically it we can take the government send them home. well coming up in a few minutes japan's triple disaster continues to claim lives months after a devastating earthquake and tsunami triggered the nuclear disaster a different way prescription country on a depression and suicide. while grief stricken norwegians are paying their tribute

to very skilled in last week's massacre some twenty minutes in the sentiment in scandinavia is going to end. in europe the number of struggling economy seems to be increasing spain suffering recession mass unemployment has been put on review by the credit rating agency moody's france has been also warned by the international monetary fund that it needs more cuts to avoid becoming the next victim of the debt crisis the i.m.f. says the country's credit rating could be at risk if austerity measures aren't taken and the music's biggest suborn with greece has received another blow from one of its main creditors germany's finance minister says berlin won't write a blank check to buy back greek bonds a key measure agreed as part of last week's second bailout package financial journalist johan overdeveloped says the rescue package is nothing more than banks paying money to other banks. we're bailing out the banks and we wouldn't be that

soft i presume with greece if there wasn't the problem of the french and the german banks not only of these two countries but of course they are the major players in this if they were in that vulnerable to the greek situation indeed we are throwing money at the banks through greece this package will certainly not help the greek economy the greek economy needs growth and since you're in the midst of a very bad recession you oblige the country to cut spending to increase taxes then throwing some money at it is not the solution greece is now effectively in default because if you calculate on the net present value what private bond holders will given you amount to a value reduction of you come to a value reduction of around twenty percent. smaller e.u. countries that republic of slovakia also feel their economies being crushed under

the weight of the currency crisis with bailouts for eurozone member states nations like so that feeling the pinch as artists are furthur ports some say the expectations of prosperity after entering the european union have vanished. they say that charity starts at home also a vacuum may be one of the poorest countries but with pressure from the e.u. to participate in the second bailout their money could soon be going to greece we call them i'll tell you what joining the euro zone brought responsibilities but not benefits in fact slovakian pensions a significantly lower than days increase people here at this hey michel to tell us they barely cover their food costs with the money they receive we have to now. deal with homelessness we have to reform our pension system our health care system this never enough money. that back in two thousand and nine when slovakia

joined the here is a it was such high hopes it was also kind of prestige to be the first one among her hunger and changed her public policy polish people read about first one from central europe to be you know into zero club back the year isn't it seems isn't all it was cracked up to be as we joined the euro zone there was always been treated that was saying that birds of one country are a liability of just this one country in may two thousand there and the rules changed dramatically days left out of the year a gang may well now be breathing a sigh of relief if a neighboring no new year is in countries have felt the benefits slave actual peers have been heading to their check out in a bid to escape the year a we come just across the border from the backyard to the czech republic where these super store outlets doing a boom in business more and more people make the regular journey to do their shopping because the prices here is simply much cheaper with people now shopping

outside the country vacuous retail revenues have fallen dramatically and the high prices mean the tourism industries have been hit hard certainly not the results hopeful when they feel. is joined up but every club has its leaders and what they say apparently gays even if they're the ones who got you into trouble in the first place used to be a created this is the reason that all the countries in europe on our. home were generous the greek bonds are as good as german bonds saw. made it possible for greek to all the world so much money back in may be contributing this time it's left many of those at first so eager to join the euro gang healing the now simply being pushed around their fat feet back in. norwegians are standing side by side on the memories of the seventy seven victims

of last week's shooting and bombastic and. the moral concept was how do you suppose main cathedral the crown prince of norway how can that innocent attending the gathering prosecutors meanwhile say the suspected killer and this breivik was planning to attack other targets putting boil pattison headquarters and being labor party police believe he was unable to produce explosives in time breivik has expressed strong views against muslim immigration your point to some sentiment is growing support across the continent. i think what this is tat really highlighted is your changing and you're been changing for a while but it's been relatively economically stable influx immigrated so you know you're across the border in norway in particular had a pretty you know d.c. in two thousand to two thousand and ten what you're seeing now is with a decrease in living standards with you know a lot more confusion particularly in the lower classes about job security you're

going to see a lot more focus on immigration so our blame i'm immigrants maybe you're going to see you know a pretty strong extremism on both both ends of the spectrum i think you're going to see a lot more islamic extremism and i think you're going to see a lot more break really extremism particularly in this in any in countries most norwegians probably didn't know that was twenty five percent immigrant who were riding they were lot more in statistics now i think you're going to be you know people saying well gosh this guy was a crazy lunatic but we had another pretty serious problems you know we do actually and i think you know i think you will see a lot about you know people tend to be you're more right wing and right i mean groups definitely say yeah clearly don't shoot children but he was he had what. belgium is a hotbed of international politics and european representation of this prosperous country seems to be failing to resolve its own internal differences that's artie's it down bushel reports the country's north south power squabbles are sending

a warning signal to other e.u. nations. some wait till they're divorced before planning their next marriage but not well known near the southern region of belgium the country's been with l.t. fictive government for record fourteen months french speaking while looms in the self's and flemish speaking flanders in the north disagree on pretty much everything many analysts think the most likely outcome will see the country break into as soon as it splits with flanders is complete the world looms will look to hook up with france for richer or poorer but mainly for richer. going it alone when your small region is clearly not appealing and while they say political clout is important the main appeal is money and when the loonie is part of france in everything but name it we have the same language we watch french t.v. not belgian but above all our economy is controlled by french firms. polls suggest that whole foods and sixty percent of the french want to become one presidential

front runner marine le pen last week said she would wear the southern half of belgium with france president sarkozy's ruling party and the opposition are already in talks to tie the knot we have contacts with other parties with you m.p. and we have contacted the socialist it has been confirmed to us that's in case belgium would speed up then one would be welcome in france. the biggest party in the northern half wants the split to experts say build already divided people don't know any more about the other half of the country the flemish people don't know who are the popular singers or writers today in the french speaking part and vice versa king albert fears bill jim's national day last week was its last he added the crisis threatens not just every belgian but european integration itself. the e.u.

is scared that the divorce of belgium the rest of europe catalonia leaving spain scotland leaving and britain we're already seeing separatist marchers in mixed community towns here turned violent with guns getting called to take just one big clash from brussels to become. that conflict mass killing suffered in europe since world war two neighbors turned on each other as you go slow over your broke up and the determination of regional identity is not to be underestimated frige unionists say they have the flag and everything else worked out to become france's twenty eight region all that's left are the details of the new bush will see rossi's. the thought of the russian u.s. reset could soon be reversed by cold war era attitudes that was a comment from russia's envoy to nato for this week's talks with senators in washington nature of gazans visit was part of russia efforts by russia to revive

talks on a common missile defense system in europe. question republicans needed to present russia less an enemy america once the creation of its own shield something should have. done that point in every direction tended target. time was running out first and then about eighteen before the us presidential election because i'm told r.t. that right. it's adamant it's personal space interests protected. but there are questions that remain that 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 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. the earthquake that devastated japan they have happened in lot of countries the death toll is still rising suicide rates have increased since the radiation crisis unfolded massive tsunami the government here in a depression epidemic could emerge but thomas has been to japan to find out why so many people there taking their own lives. a triple disaster on a scale the world has never known causing damage and destruction and uncertainty forcing tens of thousands of japanese refugees to leave their lives behind in seek

shelter anywhere they can some people do. but the problem is the minority. be they have been accused. of course by offshore. causing. people. not. primarily a move towards self-preservation this idea of desertion is defined by many as characteristically in japanese and has earned those who have evacuated the dishonorable title of traitor and of course it's hard to hear that we have family members we think about our health but in other words we ran away whiskey 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. committed suicide because. everything. good soil. after many. just contaminated. so. i'm very sad to hear the news and many other also very much depressed a recent national survey in japan performed by dr hiroshi 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. increased. note. but. because. striving to. they have not have to make society. 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 a for 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 to. back with a roundup of the headlines in a couple minutes. if you're followed up on my death better than this.

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