in india or he's available in the movie joyce he who kills the some of us the greeks we go to the grand imperial trilogy the torch was the coromandel you can a with a child it's mostly sedated to go and. read this and the colonel was hotels as a retreat. on r.t. rollercoaster the republican party claims negotiations in the us sell it so close to reaching an agreement on the debt dilemma when experts fear this could just be another round of political ping pong capitol hill the latest ahead. also in the program poland that mitt responsibility for the plane crash that killed president kaczynski last year but the published report still tries to shift some of the blame on to russia. and shadow in egypt up

to one hundred fifty thousand anti government protesters flood the streets and squares of israel cities demanding prime minister netanyahu steps down. hello this is r t live from moscow you're watching the weekly with me kevin now in a round up of the main news stories of the past seven days from us and voting is you to start any moment in the u.s. congress on the crucial debt deal but it comes after another round of political bickering in washington as a narrow time window now for the u.s. to raise the debt ceiling which expires on tuesday. as the latest from new york. 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 the debt ceiling is raised so what we see is just another chapter in a long ball of u.s. figuring of political posturing we're 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 since one thousand nine hundred sixty the u.s. has raised the debt ceiling seventy eight times the pattern of the. economy

and legislators and the structure here has been borrow and spend borrow and spend and what has created this uncertainty among investors among american citizens on 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 boring. last minute agreement which. they're not going to do anything serious they're going to announce something the day before the day our budget 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 spin and drive us all deeper into debt we've been doing this for forty years it's not going to go anywhere they're trying to get complicated for themselves they're posturing that's what politicians do the studies show that the people who are good politicians are the people who were good it playground in grammar school and these guys are

a playground yet again only it's what our money in a struggling america deeper and it yeah america is now the largest debtor nation in the history of the world this cannot go on forever yes benchley the creditors are going to say listen no more dads the end of the line you think of problems of bad now you wait till we don't have any more credit you wait to learn the current his collapsing you wait till interest rates are going through the roof and inflation is going through the roof it's not going to be a pretty picture there's going to be social unrest it's going to be a mess. america's biggest credit to china seems to be losing patience with washington's debt ceiling deadlock he was secretary of state hillary clinton rushed to reassure asian leaders this last week that the issue would be settled on time but investment analyst peter schiff says china could even dump the dollar as its main reserve currency now. we can't afford bad relations with china see beijing holds the cards you know we're dancing to the tune that they play but 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 especially when interest rates rise i'm surprised it's taken the chinese so long to figure out of even 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 this sooner the chinese start stop enabling this phony economy that we have this sooner we as americans can begin to repair the damage and what's going to happen is for the dollar collapses americans are going to see a big reduction in our standards of living because we're not going be able to consume all these consumer goods and all the resources that we consume today because the price is going to be much higher. and the debt continues to unfold in europe with more struggling economies being dragged to who. we should i'm pitted to greece from the euro zone long ago coming up the greek drain weighs heavily on spain the country has for the worst over its credit rating because of its eurozone

stablemates instability more of that later. now though with or admits its crew was responsible for lost his fatal plane crash in western russia that killed president lech kaczynski along with dozens of the country's ruling elite but the inquiry still laid part of the blame on moscow saying that russian air traffic controllers also contributed to the disaster of these election reports somehow the national tragedy has just become a pawn in a political game. but another day another blame game and very own probe into last year's presidential plane crash and smolensk all but confirmed the findings of russia's investigation that the crew was almost solely responsible for the tragedy . i disappoint there is an obstacle i treated the aircraft collides with a fragment of the left the wing is detached the aircraft begins their iteration 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 but. here's where the approach controller two thousand meters away should have told the committee's top 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 and these three such statements come as little surprise to experts with some of them saying acceptance of cool 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 sun 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 russian load 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 simple little games to shift the blame from the polish side of 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 it once again be used as a political tool experts say the timing or for publication is not coincidental sure this could be exploited also in the political electoral campaign because this should be no they've been doing months to be. interactions this report and all that issue but if you're terribly it will be use it or 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 of prime minister two sketches no courage to take up the responsibility for the plane crash and has shuffled it under his staff nevertheless he is responsible for all the games he played with the russians he's responsible but the polls 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 opposed to 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. after the reporting from warsaw in poland. well for an in-depth look at the timeline of our post presidential plane crash take a look at our website. for the second by second analysis by the interstate aviation commission with a transcript of the cockpit voice recorder providing a detail perspective about the cause of the tragedy it said r.t. dot com. has rails 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 of his policy or attended the biggest demonstration in tel aviv. obviously i'm fifty thousand people here with the most popular chanting we demand social justice a whole array of speakers have been taking to the stage they've been calling on unity and it's 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 you try his name is mentioned he is god why are you here tonight i'm here because it's just becoming possible to live in this country anymore we work we give and we give in we keep on giving and there's no end to this is the first chance this is the only way we have to change is because we don't have any other choice which is a people who have been inspired by the demonstrations taking place there as well as their what is your sign saying. guzzling is on us why do you want him to

go home. alone because of the full distance a patch of these demonstrations green inspired by the protests we saw taking place in the arab world well i think there's a lot of influence of what's happening at the ground and now syria and lebanon are and what you see in libya also there's a lot of words of posing that when people understand i do have the power that they can take and i were denied by ginger they don't need anymore their 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 i think that their power back to what they said is the spirit of revolution here a number of israeli populous son singers have also been taking to the stage and my son was going to have a hard time translating the new middle east we created the storm if he chose it's

up to us. policy is keeping abreast of the latest developments in israel forests and you can keep abreast the latest to. twitter pages r.t. underscore cause she's posting a comments on our twitter feed in the most. says people of back of a story of your mother's father's influence with because of the high cost of travel . today plenty of wheat and bad and of a story out of drafty the school called. the debt crisis raging in europe claiming more and more economic sculp spain are suffering recession of mass unemployment is now being put on review by the credit rating agency moody's and the international monetary fund as one fronts that it needs to impose cuts to avoid becoming europe's next debt crisis victim may be time the e.u. the biggest borrower greece's big dealt another blow by one of its main credit is going to finance minister says berlin won't write a blank check to buy about greek bonds that was a key part of last week's second bailout package economics or for profit young told

me greece should have been pushed out of the euro zone a long time ago this is typical of contingent 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 fundamentals 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 there so there never is it's going to be a huge problem because ultimately the contingent is going to hit and i really do believe that after last week's events unfortunately we only inch closer to the idea

of a tool called your real meltdown. europe's economic bailout burd may be affecting your reserves which is members visiting the poorest countries like slovakia respond crushed under the weight of europe's debt crisis sarah firth reports now that on whether the membership of the euro club is failing to live up to the promises. they say that charity starts at home while some back here 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 benefits in fact slovakian pensions are significantly lower in days increase people here is hey michel to tell us they barely cover their food costs with the money they receive you have to. deal with homelessness. have to reform our pension system our health care system was

never enough money. back in two thousand and nine when slovakia joined the here is a it was such high hopes it was also kind of prestige that we did for one america hungary and republic. we have a first one from sun for europe to be you know if you're a club that the year using it seems isn't all it was cracked up to be as we join your of on there was. saying vote for one country. just this one country in may two thousand and four and the rules change dramatically pays less than a severe gangly well now be breathing a sigh of relief if a neighboring norm here is saying countries have felt the benefits slayback shoppers again heading to their check out in a bid to escape a year and we come just across the border from the packets of the czech republic

where the superstore outlet doing i've been in business more and more people make the regular journey to do their shopping because the prices here is simply much cheaper these people are now shopping outside the country so vacuous retail revenues have fallen dramatically and the high prices mean the tourism industries have been hit hard certainly not the results hopeful. when we first 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 states you see be a creator of all the countries that are. as good as the german ones. made it possible for greek. the world for much of my move back in may be contributing this time it's led many of days at first so eager to join the euro gang healing they're now simply being pushed around. i think that back in. and as revealed in the week the economic woes

are also putting other e.u. countries and romance pressure from within and it's leading if is the very heart of europe could be left broken belgium the seat of the e.u. headquarters might be about to split into two that's because of a growing divide between the dutch speaking north of the french speaking south as r.t. to a bushel reports now the country's internal squabbles are sending a warning signal to other e.u. nations. divorced before planning their next murray which would not well load be of the southern region of build them become trees it would build to fictive government for a record fourteen months french speech. and flemish speak you floor in the north disagree on pretty much everything. but most likely i'll come and see the country break into as soon as it splits with floor does complete the world will look to hook up with france for richer or poorer moodley for richer. going it alone when

you're a small region is clearly not appealing they say political clout is important but main appeal is money. alone as part of france and everything but name it we have the same language we watch french t.v. not belgian but above all i recall means controlled by french firms. poll suggests that whole foods 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 children with bronze 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 want to split to. save 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 in the french speaking part and vice versa king albert is bill jones national day last week was its last he added the crisis threatens not just every belgian but european integration itself because the north korean trails e.u. is scared of the divorce of belgium laws work of the rest of europe catalonia leaving spain scotland leaving britain we're really seeing separatist marches and mixed community towns here turned violent with guns getting it takes just one day 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 slow via 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 from. twenty eighth region orbits lift of the details the new

bush will see brussels. well now to allow to a separation brought anything but stability or pace violence flared up again this last week on the kosovo serbian border or wednesday cause of a police seized two checkpoints to impose a ban on imports from serbia shortly after one of the crossings was attacked by basque rioters who threw firebombs of talk to customs office and nato peacekeeping forces that are moving to stop the violence so it is protest against unilateral why call for both sides call for a un security council meeting with projected at the last minute bulk of export it has cost it was either ignoring the regulations was being given an official approval. the decision was to see more of you and to send a special forces this is direct slap in the face of the syrian government which has been nothing but cooperate you've been even. in the ongoing negotiations which were

set up by the e.u. section is. completely bypassed. or has been executed with their complicity in cooperation and honesty in notion which is worse has made unimaginably we're still recognise in your vision there is. no interest in any sort of dialogue it came to power through violence it has conducted widespread and cleansing of serbs and of your not been in populations he has been rewarded for a. white spirit on him of fury in march two thousand and four and he has basically shown were willing to behave in a civilized fashion going into including corish of independence and know this so obviously your mission is seriously looking during the pendency contrary to international law do you see the rules so obviously it is a message here so making it is a mess that the europeans and nato. basically media need to fix.

other international headlines of grief in a world update activists say syrian forces have killed sixty seven raids across the country mostly in hama it comes after government tanks stormed the volatile city reportedly leaving up to one hundred dead on friday in a violent crackdown said to claimed a further twenty two lives across the country since the anti-government uprising swept syria in march activists say police violence has killed movement them straight. but that near the volcano on the italian island of sicily is making its presence known again there have been four eruptions already in july and this one is the biggest yet with flames and burning are shooting two hundred fifty meters up into the sky the flare up began on saturday morning and continued into the weekend no casualties and damage is being reported. very reclusive nature is bringing havoc to russia a little earlier on today we got stunning pictures of a whirlwind sweeping through the country's far east eyewitnesses say that the wood literally lifted three people off a balcony before dropping them back to the ground tragically where one of them was

killed by the. injured at least twenty eight at this. hour proving trees brought power large and overturned many cars got more of the stunning pictures of the viciousness of mother nature at times available at r.t. dot com. it may be nearly six months since the earthquake and tsunami devastated japan but the number of dead connected to the tragedy continues to rise because suicide rates are on the way up now 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. the bucket but the problem is the minority they be they have been accused by.

their classmates you know. of course by offshore. causing. the people. who. are primarily a move towards self-preservation this idea of desertion is defined by many as characteristically jeff unease and has earned those who have evacuated the dishonorable title of traitor. of course it's hard to hear that we are family neighbors we think about our health but in other words we run away we escape because we're scared of radiation but there's no example in the world of something similar and the consequences are there i'm going. 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. committed suicide because you know beating for nick. is everything. good soil. after many hours of hard work and it's just contaminated one night going to go so. far so psyched out 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 in fact increased in the months since the disaster compared to the same timeframe in the previous two years of the demographics are not what you might expect a. great increase that. not.

you know thirty percent that back a few years because my brother's struggling to get it. they have not had to make since i this disaster has certainly taken its toll on japan's economy and such constant reminders of an intense traffic can harm the collective psyche of the people who live here as well because of the. tsunami disaster last year disaster many people actually lost their jobs or their working on the show has crashed. so. yeah they have a for many one 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 t.v. . every penny counts to say don't base a saving power could make a difference to his soul find out more about the now monthly technology update on

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