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round the city the colonel was fortunate to retreat. on our debt rollercoaster 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 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 netanyahu steps down.

hello my name is kevin i would thanks for being with us you're watching our weekly news review of the week here on our team and first there's another round of political bickering in washington that is 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 in new york could see so 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 heaven that if all these u.s. lawmakers are working over the weekend there would 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 make cuts if this debt ceiling is raised so what we see is just another chapter in this long book of of us bickering of political posturing we we are seeing u.s. lawmakers get in front of the cameras day after day 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 our goal is to give it to the one room on the brink of the full meaning before the country want to be able to make the republicans on its debt.

such a big country get into their state. well kevin since one thousand nine hundred sixty the u.s. 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 among 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 u.s. leaders come together and continue to disagree they can't come to an agreement on how to approach its fiscal problems how to create and environment of certainty

and so this means that 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 unemployment is at or 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 with remind our viewers the u.s. debt right now is that fourteen point three trillion dollars in there fighting 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 loaned to it. to go with the ladies you

know the mule but you. debt drama also continues to unfold in europe too with more struggling economies being dragged in. we should have amputated greece from the euro zone long ago the greek it 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 that 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 how it is a lecturer at jet ski reports next on how the national tragedy has become a pawn in the political game. 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 the 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 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 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 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 could

put it. 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 this 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 the. being. parliamentary elections 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 with a sharp round about the report the prime minister to escape 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 and 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 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 lasting blame game. r.t. reporting from warsaw in poland. while for. 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 the transcript of the cockpit voice recorder providing a detail perspective as you see there on the course of the tragedy can check that it has not seen before dark to 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 protesters are demanding the prime minister binyamin netanyahu step down unless he undertakes sweeping economic reforms are his paulus leader ahead of the biggest demonstration in tel aviv all these really 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 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 if he 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 and we give and we do and we keep on giving and there's no end to this is. this is 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 there. what is your sign say. like the gaza leaders on earth. why do you want him to go home. alone because of the police there and it should be salman strange sions mean 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 there to. syria lebanon iran and what you see in libya also there's a lot of the. words of that's when people understand i do have the power that they can. organize by doing so they don't need any more good government to go their own

work to do they can start throwing the government what they want. to do you know if they can they can start deciding for themselves. back to what they said is the spirit of revolution here a number of israeli populists on thing is i've also been taking to the stage and like something that was done you had the chorus and i'm translating the new middle east we created the storm if you chose to talk to us. paulus leader there and she's keeping abreast of course of the latest developments in tel aviv for us and you can follow the latest on twitter underscore com where she's posting the latest comment which of these in one of the latest tweets about last night's rallies she recalls the slogans that stood most like a sad. apparently 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 school call. the debt crisis raging in europe is claiming 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 the use of biggest borrower greece meantime has been dealt another blow by one of its main creditors germany's finance minister says berlin won't write a blank check to buy 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 amputate it and the truth is we should have amputated greece from the euro zone long ago there are fundamental 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 neighbors 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 total euro meltdown europe's economic bailout bird may be affecting the euro zone which is members visiting the poorest two and countries like slovakia respect crushed under the very weight of europe's debt crisis right now sara firth reports that on whether membership of the euro club is failing to live up to its promises. they say that charity starts at home will soon vacuum may be one of the poorest countries but with pressure from the e.u.

to participate in a second bailout their money could soon be going to greece. i'll tell you what joining the euro zone brought responsibilities but not benefit in fact slovakian pensions a significantly lower than days in greece 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. that back in two thousand and nine when slovakia joined the year is going there was such high hopes it was also kind of prestige to be the first one among her hunger and public polish polish people with the first one from central europe to be you know if you're a club that the year isn't it seems isn't all it was cracked up to be as we joined

euro zone there was a lisbon treaty that was saying but that's of one country liability just this one country in may two thousand turned the rules changed dramatically days left out of the year a gang may well now be breathing a sigh of relief the fact neighboring not only here is in countries have felt the benefits playback shoppers 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 big mean 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 you know high prices mean the tourism industries have been hit hard certainly not the results hopeful when they feel. joined out 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 the e.c. be created. or the countries in europe on our. homeward journey the greek bonds are as good as german bonds. make it possible for a greek to all the world so much money so like in maybe contributing this time it's less than many of days at first so eager to join the year a gang feeling they're now simply being pushed around sarah i feel like in. the economic woes are also putting other e.u. countries under immense pressure from within and it's leading to fears a very heart of europe could be left broken belgium the seat of the e.u. headquarters might be about a split in two that's true to a growing divide between the dutch speaking north and the french speaking south as that is done a bushel reports next the country's internal squabbles are sending a warning signal to other renae she saw to the divorce before planning a mixed marriage but not one of the southern region of belgium the country's been

with delta fictive government for a record fourteen months french speaking while looms in the cells 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 this complete the world will look to hook up with france for richer or poorer but me before. going it alone when your small region is clearly not appealing they say political clout is important the main appeal is money that is one of the loony as 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. 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 with 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 fears bill jim's national day last week was its last he added the crisis threatens not just every belgian but european integration itself continue or the e.u. is scared that the divorce of belgium will spark of the rest of europe catalonia leaving spain scotland leaving britain we're 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 eighth region or that's left of the details of the new bushel see brussels. well next to a land where separation brought anything but stability of pace and violence flared up again and this week on the kosovo border a wednesday cos of a police seized two checkpoints to impose a ban on imports from said be a short way out of that one of the crossing with attack by mosque rioters soon as you can see that's when problems and torched the customs office nato peacekeeping

forces had to move in to stop the violence of protest against unilateral moves by kosovo and it's called for the u.n. security council meeting with objective of last minute bulk of the expert a voice says casa jose that ignoring the regulations was given on official approval . the decision to introduce sea. and to send a special forces this is erect slap in the face the serbian government which has been nothing but cooperate you've been even capitulating in the ongoing negotiations which were set up by the e.u. this action is looking to the you completely bypassed the european standard or has been executed with their complicity in cooperation and honesty in no condition which is worse the e.u. has made such an unimaginably were spotted recognizing your regime that is. it has absolutely no interest in any sort of dialogue it came to power through violence it has conducted widespread ethnic cleansing of serbs and of your not intervening populations has been rewarded for

a. white spirit forum of syrians in march going to two thousand and four and he has basically shown the willingness to behave in a civilized fashion in going into including to the region of independence and know this so honestly and your mission is there to facilitate their independence so contrary to international law and use the rules so obviously it is a message here so making and it is a mess that the europeans and nato. basically made it need to fix. this is our team from moscow next few a very rare glimpse 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 let's see if we get on the screen there why when 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 morely stunning pictures

scary stuff available r.t. dot com where 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 we've got more on that it's a very unfortunate story also more sad news ukraine mourns the victims of two coal mine accidents has claimed thirty seven lives the first funerals of not going to how 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 the sean 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. but the problem is the minority they be they have been accused by. their classmates all you know. of course by offshore. causing. the 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

members with 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 he. committed suicide because you know. he's everything. good solid full of many. just. one thing to know so. i'm very sad to

hear the news. 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 a. great increase to. note. these are thirty eight centers but. is because some barbers struggling to. if they have not had to sue 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 last year korea disaster many people actually lost their jobs

or working on the show was crushed. so. yeah there have been 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 forty painful memories in japan six months on ok let me take you through some top international news stories now in brief 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 said we're playing 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. mount etna 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 into the sky the flare up again. sunday morning and continue the weekend no casualties and damage have been reported so far. small for just over fifteen minutes tonight where news of a memorable day for mclaren driver of the hungary that's coming up shortly then here on live from moscow this sunday evening the thirty first of july with me in the headlines for you just over a minutes time.