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go. round to the colonel was a hotel retreat. as a default crisis hurtles towards america only forty eight hours to find the solution before the impact is felt meanwhile washington's biggest lender china criticizes the u.s. for jeopardizing the world economy. polish probe reluctantly acknowledges pilot error caused last year's presidential plane crash in western russia amid concerns politics played a pivotal role in the investigation. and arab spring turns into israeli summer tens of thousands flood streets and squares in major israeli cities prime minister benjamin netanyahu undertakes urgent economic reforms.

you're watching our weekly review welcome to the program. there's still no consensus between u.s. lawmakers on tackling 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 but the senate killed it hours later. remains in deadlock as they try to avoid default ahead of tuesday's deadline investor and author jim rogers says political games are driving the country into a deeper recession. they're not going to do anything syria. they're going to announce something if the day before the day ah but the day after and they're going to say everything is ok but in six months from now a year from now america is going to be in worse shape than it is now they're going to continue to spend and drive us all deeper into debt we've been doing this for forty years it's not going to go anywhere stocking shay's it out you know that does

your leverage is near its all time i what kind of crisis is that when the financial markets are all fat and happy and most people well i mean yes there are people that are better despondent and suffering right now but that's not a crisis america's the largest debtor nation in the history of the world it's just getting worse for us secretary of state hillary clinton rushed to be a show asian leaders this week but the debt debate will be settled on time magazine as and that is because credit seems to be using patience with washington and i mean this to peter schiff says china could even dump the dollar as its main reserve currency we can't afford bad relations with china 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 it's just not going to happen 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 the problem is the debt not the ceiling the sooner the chinese start to stop enabling 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. and later this hour we find out why china and the u.s. in conflict over another issue the two superpowers clashed to an american surveillance plane intercepted china's coastline. and i know it was separatist movements are gaining momentum in belgium is a chain reaction across the whole of europe. also refuses to show the full responsibility for the polish presidential plane crash in western russia saying russian traffic controllers also contributed to the

aviation disaster the crash killed the late president elect kaczynski and dozens of the country's ruling elite last spring was artie's. ports 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 in 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 there are taishan 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 at this moment this shows that the landing zone controller was performing his duty in an incorrect way on this day such statements come as little surprise to experts with some of them saying an acceptance of total responsibility would be impossible for the society they've been given the truth and the truth is unbearable 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 echo this opinion calling the swipes against the russian side unsubstantial some of the claims concerning the airport or 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 it's like of the decision height you have no other choice than to raise the landing gear and go to your reserve airport the initial rush unload 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 you purport if you can. i think we're now witnessing some political 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 a break through 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 show

this could be exploited also in the political electoral campaign because this should be known that in two months to be. interactions this report and all that issue but if you're a tablet it will be. even easier is it in the electoral campaign and the twin brother of the late president kaczynski was quick to prove this suggestion with a sharp round about the report to the prime minister to scare has no courage to take up the responsibility for the plane crash and has shuffled it under his staff nevertheless he's 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 and at the international forum which will get to the bottom of this case as this is what we died while the polish society is still deciding whether to admit the painful

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. r.t. reporting from warsaw in poland. and. 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 to say they'll demand that the prime minister benjamin netanyahu steps down they see on the take sweeping economic reforms parties follow the developments in television but the biggest rally took place. all these easily a hundred and fifty thousand people here with the most popular chanting we demand a social justice a whole new way of speakers have been taking to the stage they've been calling on unity and 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 he is 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 do and we keep on giving and there's no end to this is this is only what has to change just because you don't have any other choice would you say people have been inspired by the demonstrations taking place there. what is your sign saying. you guys are leaders on earth. why do you want him to go home. alone to the fullest and how much of these demonstrations green inspired by the protests we saw taking place in 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 those and that's when people understand i do have the power that they can they can organize by them does it don't need any more good government

to tell them what to do they can start throwing the government what they want. to do you know they can they can start deciding for themselves to take power back to you so they said is the spirit of revolution here a number of israeli populace sun singers have also been taking to the stage and one song that was sung had the chorus and i'm translating this is the new middle east we created the storm the future it's up to us. plus their reporting that israeli activists and oh yeah and if well 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 us 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 now

what we have here it's a mystery this state will be remembered in history because the israelis used to be . 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 . coming up a few in the program cross border trouble serves protest against and date taking over border crossings with a concert in mourning victim to territorial unrest throughout the week but also. japan's triple disaster continues to claim lives months after a devastating earthquake and tsunami triggered the fukushima nuclear disaster a different weight is gripping the country in a depression and suicide. in europe the number of a struggling economy seems to be increasing spain suffering recession and that's unemployment that's being put on review by the credit rating agency moody's for answers so being told by the international monetary fund that it needs cuts to

avoid becoming the next victim of the debt crisis i left says the country's credit rating could be risky for sturdy measures taken. because part of greece has received another blow from one of its main predators germany's finance minister says well write a blank check to buy greek bombs to measure agreed as part of last week's second package of financial journalists your hand over the belt sends the rescue package is simply 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 to compete but of course they are the major players and if they were. truly greek situation elite were throwing money at the banks through greek 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 blige a 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 the private bondholders will given you amount to a value reduction or you come to a value reduction over around twenty percent. smaller e.u. countries like the republic of slovakia also feel their economies being crushed under the weight of the currency crisis with bailouts for eurozone member states nations like the back you know feeling the pinch as r.t. sara firth reports some say the expectations of prosperity after entering the european union have disappeared. 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

written on them and 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 home michelle 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. back in two thousand and nine when slovakia joined the year isn't it was such high hopes it was also kind of prestige to be the first one among her hunger and changed her public policy or if people read about first one from central europe to be you know in the zero club back the year isn't it seems isn't all it was cracked up to be as we join the euro zone

there was always been treated that was saying that birds of one country are liabilities 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 in fact neighboring nonny here is saying countries have felt the benefits slave actual peers have been heading to their check out in a bid to escape the year and we come just across the border from the backyard to the czech republic where these superstore outlets doing a building 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 in the high prices mean the tourism industries have been hit hard certainly not the results. well when the fed is joined 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 sense of place you see be created this is the reason that all the countries in your own are

. home with jenna's the greek bonds are as good as german bonds so. make it possible for greet. the world so much money so i can maybe contributing this time that's left many of days at first so eager to join the year a gang feeling then now simply being pushed around. he said i can't. norway could have witnessed even more bloodshed last week i said springfield the man who admitted the recent shooting and bombastic was reportedly planning to attack other targets for palestine the headquarters of the ruling labor party the to have been part of this expands meanwhile crowds have been gathering in downtown austin a. long. time rob because expressed strong pains which are described as good or excellent and i'm not telling me these radical views

triggered outrage and home and of course the nation however there are some commentators who stand to. support. i think what this attack really highlighted is you're changing and you're been changing a while but it's been relatively economically stable influx integrated so you know if you're supporting norway in particular had a pretty decent two thousand to two thousand and ten what you're seeing now is with a decent 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 immigrants 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. and even in countries where most of norwegians probably didn't know that was twenty five percent immigrate but we're friday they do a lot more statistics now i think you're going to be you know people saying well

gosh this guy has created a lunatic but we have another pretty serious problem too so we go and i think you know i think you will see a lot of you know people tend to be more right wing and right i mean groups definitely say yeah clearly don't shoot children but he does he try to get what. belgium is a hotbed of international politics representation however this a prosperous country seems to be failing to resolve its own internal differences as a party to help national reports the country's north-south power squabbles are sending a warning signal to other e.u. nations some weight to the divorce before planning their mixed marriage but were lowered near the southern region of belgium the country's been with elton fictive government for a record fourteen months french speaking while loons in the self and flemish speaking floor 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

floor does complete the world loons will look to hook up with france for richer or poorer but mainly for richer. going it alone when you're a small region is clearly not appealing and while they say political clout is important the main appeal is money and one of the loonie is part of france in everything but name that we have the same language we watch french t.v. not belgian but above all our economies controlled by french firms. poll suggests that whole foods were loons 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 want to split two experts say belgians 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's fears belgium's national day last week was its last he added the crisis threatens not just every belgian but european integration itself a continual hope in the e.u. is scared that the divorce of belgium will spark of the rest of europe catalonia leaving spain scotland leaving britain were already seeing separatist marchers in mixed community towns here turned violent with guns getting pulled it takes just one big clash for brussels to become serial that's conflicts or a mass killing not suffered in europe since world war two neighbors turned on each other as you can slove

a broke up and the determination of regional identity is not to be underestimated french unionists say they have the flag and everything else worked out to become from. twenty eight. live to. see rossi's. a series of clashes at the cost of a serbian border this week led to nato forces taking over control of two crossings on wednesday kosovan police moved to seize the checkpoints previously controlled by serbs and use it shortly after one of the crossings was attacked by some to hundreds of writers through flyable torched customs office. forces from the post under attack in the process of crowds of serbs have been blocking convoys from reaching a base in the country to protest politics expert so it's possible not to have acted without the go ahead from what he calls its puppet masters in

washington. you should bear in mind that the. union leaders could have done nothing without the ok from the us administration and we know that the u.s. has got a massive investment in kosovo it's got the biggest military base in the world in can bomb still smack bang in the heart of course a lot and so everything that. gets up to is also raised by washington in the first place having said that the poverty in kosovo over for all peoples albanians as well as. is so huge that they're suffering already under this combined washington regime which is brought them nothing but poverty and pain and really has done nothing for the region but bring harvesting and pain and quality to everybody we know who can stop it and it is time that the u.s. administration stopped its extremist pop its increased enough from even further expanding into. recognized territorial area. the earthquake that devastated japan and they have happened in march the country's death toll is still rising

suicide rates have increased since the radiation crisis unfolded following a massive tsunami with the government fearing the depression epidemic could emerge sean thomas has been to japan to find out why so many people there are taking their own lives. a triple disaster on a scale the world has never known causing damage destruction and uncertainty forcing tens of thousands of japanese refugees to leave their lives behind and seek shelter anywhere they can some people. the problem is the minority they be they have been accused by. their classmates all you know 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. of course it's hard to hear that we have family neighbors would think about our health but in other words we ran away whiskey because we're scared of radiation but there's 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 some organic farm us committed suicide because you know for nick. he's everything

they know each other a good soil for 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 been found increased in the months since the disaster compared to the same timeframe in the previous two years but the demographics are not what you might expect. increased. note. back to the ferry areas because some barbers 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 was 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 or t.v. . now the u.s. is not going to give up its of valence flights next china despite official warnings from beijing that these actions us of and damaging bilateral relations scandal flared up offer u. two spy planes into saturday of a time one china claims as its territory so paths in the past competition for energy routes so says it can happen then on the american based foreign policy in focus think tank. right on the united states is the number one user of energy in

the world and china is the number two and chinese or a zero eight percent of chinese energy supplies who've by see the e.u. move through the straits of for months which is controlled by the american oil emove. which controlled by the american seventh fleet chinese are very sensitive to this and they tell us they worry about the fact that the united states could sort of put it on their energy john miller again this is part of a worldwide competition for energy resources between the number one and the number two powers now energy users in the world and the fact that the united states has pretty much surrounded most of china with maces that go all the way from central asia to the north pacific that's the context in which this takes place. now this week orthodox believers all across russia ukraine and both groups have marked more

than a thousand years since adopt interest unity the head of the russian branch patriarch kirill conducted the celebrations joined by his counterparts from georgia and ukraine tens of thousands attended a special event staged in care center of ancient russia religion started to spread across the region. ninety eight prince one took the first group of pagans in three different times the whole crystallization process took several centuries but here is two considered to be the cradle of faith in this particular. i could back up a write up of the headlines that couple minutes stay with us here. thanks .