the weight of the movie the joint the visuals the movie that's the case we go to the ground in period truly the torch was pushed coromandel you can a little closer than that you see don't need to go on a clear road as the colonel was totaled as this crew retreat. tonight on our team jet roller coaster the republican party claims negotiations in the u.s. senate are close to reaching an agreement on the debt dilemma but experts fear this could just be another round of political pingpong on capitol hill. poland admits responsibility for the plane crash that killed president kaczynski last year but the published report still tries to shift some of the blame to russia. and shadow of egypt up to one hundred fifty thousand anti-government protesters flood the streets and squares of israeli cities demanding prime minister netanyahu

steps down. hello my name is kevin i would thanks for being with us you're watching our weekly our news review of the week here on r.t. and first there's another round of political bickering in washington as the debt ceiling deadline approaches the leader of the republican party in the senate rushed to announce negotiations are close to reaching an agreement but the democrats quickly responded that a compromise is still far from certain as catch up with the latest. report i should say new york by the marina could see some mixed messages from both parties on capitol hill than so far today what is going on there as we head toward this very crucial vote. well you would think haven't that if all these u.s. lawmakers are working over the weekend they are going to at least be some consensus some type of compromise but as you mentioned sunday morning on all the talk shows

here in new york we saw these u.s. lawmakers give interviews the republican saying a close deal deal is close to being reached the democrats coming on t.v. saying that it's inching closer but there is no final agreement because the entire congress cannot agree or the lawmakers cannot agree on where to cut make cuts if the debt ceiling is raised so what we see is just another chapter in this long walk of of us bickering of political posturing we are seeing u.s. lawmakers get in front of the cameras day after day week or fight show the fact that they can't come together and agree we see an election year that is approaching and clearly the republicans and those that are opposed to president barack obama us president obama are taking the opportunity to try to put him in a very weak and in secure position in the meantime it is compromising the u.s.

economy overall and also given the one room you know the u.s. on the brink of default really before the country want to be able to make the repayments on its. big get into this. well kevin since one thousand nine hundred sixty the us has raised the debt ceiling seventy eight times the pattern of the u.s. economy and legislators and their structure here has been borrow and spend borrow and spend and what has created this uncertainty among investors among american citizens of wall street business owners is the fact that there's never been a plan in place on how to cut the deficit how to bring down the spending and stop borrowing and you know other countries foreign countries such as china the biggest lender to the u.s. are now concerned and rightfully so because the world is watching us leaders come

together and continue to do agree they can't come to an agreement on how to approach its fiscal problems how to create an environment of certainty and so this means the u.s. consumers are not spending u.s. business owners are reluctant from hiring the economy here in the u.s. still isn't doing well at all employment is above nine point two percent and to see the leaders of the u.s. not be able to come to a compromise on how to. get their fiscal books in order how to pay down this big hole that continues expanding let's remind our viewers the u.s. debt right now is that fourteen point three trillion dollars and they're going to raise that ceiling there's not a plan in place on how to bring down the debt whether that ceiling is raised or not

whatever agreement is reached that debt is still there and the u.s. has created a pattern of borrowing and spending but not so much focusing on how to pay back all the money that is being loan to it. for years of mind boggling problem to go with reviews of the latest you know the new york but you know. well the debt drama also continues to unfold in europe too with more struggling economies being dragged there and. we should have amputated greece from the euro zone long ago the greek drain weighs heavily on spain the country prepares for the worst over its credit rating because of its eurozone stablemates instability got more lead. next the warsaw admits its crew was responsible for last year's fatal plane crash in western russia had killed president lech kaczynski along with dozens of the country's ruling elite but the inquiry still led part of the blame on moscow saying that russian air traffic controllers also contributed to the disaster now it is a lecture is yes he reports notes on how the national tragedy has become a pawn in

a political game. another day another blame game very own probe into last year's presidential plane crash and smolensk all got confirmed the findings of russia's investigation that the crew was almost soley responsible for the tragedy. at this point there is an obstacle at tree that the aircraft collides with the fragment of the left the wing is detached the aircraft begins their attention 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 national here's where the approach controller two thousand metres away should have told the committee to stop descending horizon command should have been issued exactly a piece moment the show's landing zone controller was performing his duty in

a new character on the screen. such statements come as little surprise to experts with some of them saying acceptance of total responsibility would be impossible for the boys 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 and substantial some of the 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 it's like 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 and here i think we're now witnessing simply little games to shift the blame from the polish sign i was an expert in this commission and i was surprised to learn that the crew was chosen immediately before the flight such 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 quote break through all speculation regarding this millennium plane crash but instead to once again be used as a political tool experts say the timing of the publication is not the kinds of ensure this will be exploited also in the political electoral campaign because this should be no they've been doing ones that are being. put on interactions this

report and all that issue but if you're a tablet it will be use it or even misuse 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. prime minister to skate has no courage to take up the responsibility for the plane crash and has shuffled it off on to 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 imposed 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 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. or for. a look at the timeline of the polish presidential plane crash take a look at our website. second by second analysis by the interstate aviation commission with a transcript of the cockpit voice recorder providing a detail perspective as you're seeing there on the course of the tragedy check that is not seen before dot com. israel's become the latest middle east country to see nationwide anti-government protests some one hundred fifty thousand people took to the streets on saturday night after more than two weeks of rallies protest as are demanding the prime minister binyamin netanyahu step down unless he undertakes sweeping economic reforms he's put a slayer ahead of the biggest demonstration in tel aviv. these early afternoon fifty thousand people here with the most popular chanting we demand for 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's done his name is mentioned he is why are you here tonight i'm here because it's just becoming passable to live in this country anymore we work we give and we give in we keep on giving and there's no end to this is the first and this is the only we have to change is because you don't have any thoughts on that would you say people have been inspired by the demonstrations taking place there. what is your sign say. that you guys are leaders on earth. why do you want him to go home. only because of the police things that can actually be seen in stations i mean inspired by the protests we saw taking place in arab world well i think there's a lot of influence of what's happening with the. now syria lebanon iran and what

you see in libya there's a lot of. words of proceeding that's when people understand i do have the power that these kids. were denied by doing so they don't need any more good government to go down the road to do they can start throwing the government what they want. to do you know if they can they can start deciding for themselves but back to you know what they think is the spirit of revolution here a number of these really populist done thing is they've also been taking to the stage and what's so different than you actually do is sometimes late seeing the new middle east we created this tool that he chose. there and she's keeping abreast of course of the latest developments in tel aviv forests and you can follow the latest on twitter and underscore where she's posting the latest comments which of these in one of the latest tweets about last night's rallies she recalls the slogans that stood most like a sad. barely implying similarities between the three leaders as they keep up to

date there are plenty of tweets about another new stories from ice tea and the spiritual. cross is raging in europe spreading more and more economic sculp scale spain suffering recession and mass unemployment snow being put on review by the credit rating agency moody's and the international monetary fund's warned france that it needs to impose comes to avoid becoming europe's next debt crisis victim used the biggest borrower greece meantime has been dealt another blow by one of its main creditors germany's finance minister says billiton won't write a blank check to buy back greek bonds and that was a key part of last week's second bailout package economics author patrick young told me greece should have pushed out of the euro zone a long time ago. 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 take it and the truth is we should have

amputated greece from the euro zone long ago there are fundamental so huge problems going all the way through the euro zone and we don't have any leaders who are willing to give us a sustainable solution 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 solve their livers it's going to be a huge problem because ultimately the contagion is going to hit and i really do believe that after last week's events unfortunately we only enjoyed closer to the idea of a tool called euro melt on europe's economic. effect euro zone which is members visiting the poorest two countries like slovakia respect crushed under the very weight of europe's debt crisis right now starting to furthur ports than on whether

bed with ship of the euro club is failing to live up to its promises. 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. i'll tell you what joining the euro zone brought responsibilities but not benefits in fact slovakian pensions are significantly lower than in days increase people here is hey michel to tell us they've barely covered their food costs with the money they receive you have to now. you. have to reform our pension system our health care system was never enough. that back in two thousand and nine when slovakia joined the here is a post such high hopes it was also kind of prestige to be the first one among

hungary and public policy. for one from some for europe to be you know if you're a club that the year is going it seems isn't all it was cracked up to be as enjoying your of on there was always been proved. wrong country. of just this one country in may two thousand the rules changed dramatically days like that of the year you gangly well now be breathing a sigh of relief that neighboring not only here is in countries have felt the benefits laid back shoppers have been heading to their checkouts in peace to escape the year a week come just across the border from the backyard to the czech republic where the superstore out there doing a building business more and more people make the regular journey to do their shopping because the prices here simply much cheaper these people are now shopping outside the country to vacuums retail revenues have fallen dramatically in the high

prices mean the tourism industries have been hit hard she certainly not the results hopeful we. joined out but every club has its leaders and what they say apparently case even if they're the ones who got you into trouble in. the e.c. be creative. or the country's on the. homeward journey of. the greek bonds are as good as the german ones. make it possible for a greek. world so much money in maybe contributing this time it's that many of days it is so you get it during the year a gang feeling they're now simply being pushed around. back in. the economic woes are also putting other e.u. countries under immense pressure from within and it's leading to fear is a very heart of europe could be left broken belgium the seat of the e.u. headquarters might be about a split into the studio a growing divide between the dutch speaking north of the french speaking south as

a gentle push all reports named to the country's internal squabbles or so in a warning signal to other emotions. divorced before planning their next marriage but not while lodhi of the southern region of belgium become true delta fictive government for a record fourteen months fringe speech he was. and flipping speaking floor in the north disagree on pretty much everything. think the most likely outcome will see the country break into a suit as it splits with floors is complete the world will look to hook up with france for richer or poorer but mostly for groucho. going it alone when your small region is clearly not appealing they say political clout is important the main appeal is money. well the looniest part of france in everything but name that we have the same language we watch french t.v. no belgian but above all our economy is controlled by french firms with polls

suggest that whole thing 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 bill germany 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 n.p. and we have contacted the socialist it has been confirmed to us that's in case belgium would speed up then what would be welcome in france. the biggest party in the northern half want to split two experts say already divided evil 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 in your

trails the e.u. skeered the wars of belgium was quiet of the rest of europe catalonia leaving spain scotland leaving britain we're already seeing separatist marches in mixed community towns here turned violent with guns getting called just one day a clash for brussels to become serial that's conflicts or a mass killing not suffered in europe since world war two they've turned on each other as you can slove a broke up and the determination of regional identity is not to be underestimated for its unionists say they have the flag and everything else worked elts to become . twenty eighth regional orbit slipped to the details the new bush will see brussels. next to a land where separation brought anything but stability of peace and violence flared up again in the this week on the kosovo serbian border a wednesday cause of

a police seized two checkpoints to impose a ban on serbia imports from serbia shortly out of that one of the cross and with attack by mass rioters soon as you can see the problems and polish the customs office make a peace keeping forces that are moving to stop the violence so we have protest against unilateral moves by kosovo and it's called for u.n. security council meeting with rejection of the last minute bulk of the export of oil has caused those either ignoring e.u. regulations was given an official approval. of the decision to see more of you and to send a special forces a cigarette slap in the face the serbian government which has been nothing but quite a cuban even capitulating in the ongoing negotiations which were set up by the e.u. this action is looking for the completely bypassed all the europeans and you know who has been executed with their complicity in cooperation and honesty in notion which is worse the e.u. has made things in an unimaginably worse than recognizing your regime there is oh

there's actually no interest in any sort of dialogue it came to power through violence it has conducted widespread and cleansing its original you're not nobody in populations who has been rewarded for a. like spirit forum of students in march two thousand and four and he has to be seclusion in the willingness to behave in a civilized fashion and in the two we can we can reach an independence and know this so i see you wish a serious facility here even in so contradictory international why do you see the rules so obviously there's a message here so making it is a message that europeans and. basically media we need to fix. this is our team from moscow next few a very regular basis of make sure is power bringing however to russia just a bit earlier on today we've got these stunning pictures for you of a whirlwind sweeping through the country's far east as they would get one street and well why would this is say the wind literally lifted three people off

a balcony before dropping them back to the ground but tragedy two one of them was killed by the. winds injured at least twenty eight people. buildings up rooted trees brought down power lines and overturned many cars it's really stunning pictures scary stuff available r.t. dot com where while you're there you can also find full coverage of all of the top stories as well online right now for you the pleasure boat tour in moscow that turned to tragedy is a cruise that sinks after colliding with a barge it's left nine people dead overnight because more of that it's a very unfortunate story also more sad news ukraine mourns the victims of two coal mine accidents that's claimed thirty seven lives the first funerals of now been held find all the details on our website r.t. dot com.

it may be nearly six months since the earthquake and tsunami devastated you pan but the number of dead connected to the tragedy continues to rise because suicide rates are on the up there and the government fears a depression epidemic could be on the horizon r.t. shaun thomas reports. 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 do. barker. the but the problem is they are a minority they be they have been accused. classmates all you know of course by offshore. causing. that. you can make is not. primarily

a move towards self-preservation this idea of desertion is defined by many as characteristically in japanese and has earned of those who have evacuated the dishonorable title of traitor. of course it's hard to hear that we have family neighbors we think about our health but in other words we run away we escape 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 some organic farm us committed suicide because you know. soil is everything

very good soil for after many hours of hard work and it's just contaminated one night you know so. it's a sight and 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 ten years but the demographics are not what you might expect. increased. but the fear areas because survivors struggling to do you can thrive. and they have no capital 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 there are. many people who actually lost their jobs or their working on the show was crushed. so. yeah they have a for many a good reason to commit suicide. causing japan's death toll to keep rising even though the initial disaster subsided months before in japan shaun thomason over two painful memories in japan six months on ok let me take you through some of the top international stories now in brief the activists say syrian forces killed sixty two people in raids across the country mostly in hama it comes after government tanks stormed the volatile city reportedly leaving dozens dead on friday another violent crackdown several claimed a further twenty two lives across the country since the anti-government uprising

swept syria in march activists say police violence has killed more than a thousand demonstrators. mt etna the volcano on the italian island of sicily is making its presence though there have been four eruptions already in july and this is the biggest yet the flames and burning as shooting two hundred fifty meters up in the sky the flare up again on sunday morning and continue the weekend ok a little taste of damage you've been reporting so far. so if you're just over fifty minutes tonight where kate's got some news of a memorable day for one mclaren driver of the hungaroring graham praise that's coming up shortly then here on r t live from moscow this sunday evening the thirty first of july with me having a look at the headlines for you in just over a minutes time.

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