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to go. run to the colonel was her job as a retreat. america and all make is of less than a full day dallas to find a solution for the impact is felt meanwhile washington's biggest china criticizes the u.s. for jeopardizing the world economy. a 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. bring it turns into israeli summer tens of thousands of flood streets and squares in major israeli cities demanding prime minister netanyahu undertake economic reform it's.

a very warm welcome to you this is all. between us will make his own tackling the country's debt crisis as the senate fails to agree on a deal proposed by the democratic policy on friday a proposal to raise the debt ceiling was paulson the house of representatives but the senate killed it hours at the u.s. capitol domains and dead as they try to avoid default ahead of tuesday's deadline washington matthew says the government needs to act falls 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 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. state hillary clinton rush to reassure this week that the debt debate would be time beijing and americans the big. patience with washington financial math. and china could even double the dollar as it is that college. 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 are for a loan just politically just not going to happen is specially when interest rates rise i'm surprised and 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 the problem is the debt not the ceiling the sooner the chinese start to stop enabling by this phony economy that we have the sooner we as americans can begin to repair the damage and what's going to happen is where the dollar collapses americans are going to see a big reduction in our standards of living and then to those we find out why china on the west on long term conflict not that interesting but two thousand pounds class tops out americans that they didn't think was intercepted the chinese border

. and the lies of these economic woes separatist me things are getting meds and belgium's bonking is a chain reaction across the whole of europe. will still refuses to shoulder a full responsibility for the poor this presidential plane crash and west and russia saying russian traffic controllers all say koch pointed to the aviation disaster the crash killed the night president lech kaczynski and dozens of the country's ready in the last spring and. reports many opposed to the 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 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 hughes duty in an incorrect way on tuesday. such statements come as little surprise to experts with some of them saying acceptance of total responsibility would be impossible for the polish 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 echoed this opinion calling the swipes against the russian side unsubstantial some of your 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 russian 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 hear 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 paid to all speculation regarding the 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. campaign because this should be known that the. interactions this report and all that issue but if you're a tablet 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. the prime minister to say 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 for 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 plane full 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 lost in blame game. r.t. reporting from warsaw in poland. now israel has become the latest middle east countries you see nationwide anti-government protests with tens of thousands of demonstrators taking to the streets in major cities protests to say that i'm on the prime minister binyamin netanyahu steps down on the s.c. undertake sweeping economic reforms. following developments in tel aviv where the

biggest rally took place. all these easily a hundred and fifty thousand people here with the most popular chant being 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 israeli prime minister bibi netanyahu in fact if he time his name is mentioned he is good why are you here tonight i'm here because it's just becoming possible to live in this country anymore we work and we give and we do and we keep on giving and there's no end to it that this is over stones this is our only hope we have to change just because you don't have any other choice would you say people have been inspired by the demonstrations taking place in their full house or what is your sign saying forever or until they go home and gaza leaders on earth why do you want him to go home. alone because of the full distance 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 ground and now syria lebanon iran and what you see in libya also there's a lot of influence of both and that's when people understand they have the power that they can they can organize by them does it don't need any more the government to tell them what to do they can start towing the government what they want. to do you know they can they can start deciding for themselves take the power back to do so they said is the spirit of revolution here a number of israeli populace some 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. when it's ready activists and noyon of moyle expects the authorities to employ provocative measures to tackle the growing on rest. 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 you know what we have here it's a mystery this 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 in just a few minutes. outsourcing american and iraq now it's down to the hands of mercenaries seen by many as beyond the. japan's triple disaster continues to claim lives months off to

a devastating earthquake and tsunami triggered addition to the disaster a different wave is gripping the country want to depression and suicide. credit rating agency moody's has put spain on review for a possible downgrade it's threatening to take the country's borrowing stages down a notch as it struggles with recession and mass unemployment but there is growing public. support from the. the cash in spain is going mainly down the drain at least that's the opinion of thousands of people who've rallied across the country because the from the government is controlled by the european bank and half. they don't care about the people. so the people decided it's time to voice their concerns loud and clear before they lose more than just the shirt off their back pain has one of the highest unemployment rates in the eurozone so while the

european leaders have been occasionally meeting and comfortable quarters to talk about the future of the euro and the european union itself people in the country have been demonstrating on an almost weekly basis demanding the government shape up stop talking and do something about the situation this is not just about higher wages and better pension plans with more than forty percent of young people in spain unemployed simply getting a job is a priority for those gathered in the trades central square the big part of their responsibilities from the government. because the government first of all. not to create the conditions at the beginning of the crisis to fight against the crisis it reacts very late. and on the other hand once the government involved what to do the government it's not doing their job properly what

in the note obama who are the people to wake up otherwise we'll just become slaves to the system who want to be treated as humans and they believe they can make a difference imo the government has to change things because they don't have a choice. with greece in shambles and neighboring portugal trashed by the rating agencies spain is facing not just a financial but a deepening social crisis members of the so-called indignant marches say they want their. dignity preserved but whether their calls will be heard is another issue even though squier to madrid. france has also been warned by the international monetary fund that it needs more cuts to avoid becoming the next victim all that that crisis the i.m.f. says the country's credit rating could be at risk if austerity measures i want to take care of economics or the patrick young when parents develop these problems long ago the problem is look these aren't things that have just happened suddenly i

mean the french budget deficit has been in a deficit the french budget since one thousand nine hundred seventy four this is typical of contagion we've been talking about it for weeks we have you know when you get some degree of illness and it goes through the body ultimately you have to decide when to amputate it and the truth is we should have amputated greece from the euro zone long ago we've got the situation at the moment where provincial libraries in northern germany are being closed because the money isn't there because it's being used to fund people in the mediterranean i think german voters are going to get very angry about that very very soon and i actually think the political will is not there amongst the people to endlessly keep bailing out their saw their neighbors. belgium is a hotbed of international politics in european representation at this prosperous country failing to resolve its own internal differences and as a bushel reports the countries that north-south power squabbles a sending

a warning signal to. its. subway to their divorce before planning their next marriage but not one load near the southern region of belgium the country's been without effective government for a record fourteen months free speech in the cells 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 floor does this complete the world will look to hook up with france for richer or poorer but mainly for. going it alone when your small region is clearly not appealing while they say political clout is important the main appeal is money that is the one who. is part of france in everything but name that we have the same language we watch french t.v. no belgian but above all our economies controlled by french firms. polls suggest that. sixty percent of the french want to become one presidential front runner

marine le pen last week said she would with the southern half of belgium withdraw its president sarkozy's ruling party and the opposition 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 a split two experts say bill james 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. fears bill james 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 of the rest of europe catalonia leaving to be scotland leaving a britain we're already seeing separatist marchers in a mixed community towns here turned violent with guns getting it takes just one big clash from brussels to become. that conflict killing 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 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. see brussels. well the u.s. is not going to give up its surveillance flights china despite official warnings from beijing that these actions are severely damaging bilateral relations the scandal flared up after a u. two spy plane was intercepted over taiwan and china claims it's all part of the

super house competition for energy weights also says a coin hallinan from the american based foreign policy in focus. right now the united states is the number one user of energy in the world and china is the number two and chinese or oil eighty percent of chinese energy supplies hooved by sea that you move through the straits of for months which is controlled by the american system well in move straits which controlled by the american seventh fleet chinese are very sensitive to this 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 bases that go all the way from central asia to the north pacific that's the context in which this takes place. the u.s.

with the tools it's choose from iraq and afghanistan they leave behind them of all number of private military contractors critics of the so-called the hired guns that i'm on that must know is that sing in the name of america accountable for the growing number of purported to human rights abuses on civilian deaths in the conflict torn countries but is already accounted to can reports the u.s. is in a rush to regulate private military muscle this iraqi man son nine year old allie khilnani was shot dead by private american war contractors four years ago his brain fell to the ground between my feet and on the same day dozens of other innocent iraqis were shot by trigger happy u.s. professional killers they shot like they were trying to kill everyone they can see that no one at blackwater the firm for whom the hired guns work has been punished for the massacre two other private american security companies were contracted to carry out interrogations at the notorious abu ghraib prison in iraq

a name synonymous now with her rethink human rights violations including torture rape and murder. the u.s. supreme court recently threw out a lawsuit alleging abuse of prisoners by the contractors. in afghanistan it's reported that human rights violations and it would killings are committed by security firms on a regular basis to an extent set to undermine call the show forces counterinsurgency effort they'll start firing at anything that moves they'll injure or kill innocent afghans and they'll destroy property we're getting fairly consistent complaints about them everybody knows somebody who's been shot by the contractors'. the lack of accountability has forced the united nations working group on mercenaries to push for specific international measures to regulate their activities especially now as u.s. military forces withdraw from iraq and afghanistan the number of contractors is

said to grow dramatically us. source many military and security functions to the security companies they are not related in the end not control and he says we're extremely concerned that washington is reluctant to lead an international body regulate their activities saying it will find ways to hold contractors accountable but so far the u.s. justice system has largely failed to do so for seeing around the world cases of kidnapping rape murder. and we see very very only very rare cases in which states are actually criminal investigation or prosecution or sing out of. what experts say further privatization of war is convenient for the american government because among other reasons it doesn't have to justify the deaths of troops at home the president whoever the president may be can get us

involved in conflicts only using uniform forces to do the official fighting and then thousands and thousands of contractors to do the unofficial fighting that's under the radar screen that isn't covered by the media now here is a quote we cannot win a fight for hearts and minds when we outsource critical missions took on accountable contractors and of quote that's what senator obama said before he became president but apparently as a president now he thinks differently with the contractors role in america's wars down to an increase and with the victims of their crime still begging for justice i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team. ten people are believed to have drowned after a private charter boat collided with a more barge and in the moscow river close to the city center eight bodies have now been recovered witnesses say the boat was rocking from side to side of seemed to be

out of control moments before it hit the barge the seventeen men and women on board were believed to include turkish american and russian passengers six people were rescued from the river with one survivor swimming to the shore of local press it says the boat was hired by an international men's magazine for quote party it comes just weeks after the cruise ship bulgaria sun called the volga river in central russia killing one hundred twenty two. now the earthquake that devastated japan may have happened in march but the country's death toll is still rising suicide rates of increase since the radiation crisis unfolded following a massive tsunami with the government fearing a depression epidemic could emerge thomas has been to japan to find out why so many people there are taking their 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. but the but 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 as those who have evacuated the dishonorable title of traitor. of course it's hard to hear that we have family members we think about our health but in other words we run away with gay 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. organic farm. committed suicide because. it's. used everything they saw in full after many. just contaminated one knife to take you know so. far so i'm very sad to hear the news. 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. a rate increase. note. that if you're areas because some barbers struggling to you costs. they have no time 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 lost their jobs or their working on the show house 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 subsided months before in japan sean thomas orteig. well full coverage of all top stories is available twenty four seven it. always a wide variety of content that's a bit more unusual to do these stories here a one legged sailor but not a seed dog a russian in these yes keeps an eye on the horizon before falling as he prepares to set off on a european voyage. and called it's have been rolled on moscow roads but these word reading color are all part of a glamorous event and find out more on our website just. about with a round up for the headlines in just a couple of.