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to go and. understand the kennel was a hotel retreat. on r.t. rollercoaster the republican party claims negotiations in the us close to reaching an agreement on the debt but experts fear this could just be another round of political ping pong capitol hill. also in the program 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 on to russia. and shadowing egypt up to one hundred fifty thousand antigovernment protesters flooded the streets and squares of israel cities demanding prime minister netanyahu step down.

hello this is r.t. live from moscow you're watching the weekly with me kevin no in a roundup 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 there's a narrow time window now for the u.s. to raise the debt ceiling which expires on choose day. 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 this

debt ceiling is raised so what we see is just another chapter in a long book of of us of political posturing we are seeing u.s. lawmakers get in front of the cameras day after day fight show the fact that they can 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 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 through 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 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 borrowing. last minute agreement which will change anything. they're not going to do anything serious they're going to announce something either the day before the day are but the day after and they're going to say everything is ok but in six months from now a year from now america is going to be in worse shape than it is now they're going to continue to 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 publicity for themselves they're posturing that's what politicians do the studies show that the people do a good politician so the people who are good at playground grammar school and these guys are at play ground yet again only it's with our money and it's driving america deeper into debt america's now the largest debtor nation in the history of the world this cannot go on forever yes eventually the creditors are going to say

listen no more that's the end of the line you think the problems are bad now you wait till we don't have any more credit you wait to loan currencies 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 is just not going to happen is specially when interest rates rise i'm surprised it's taken the chinese so long to figure out that they have been throwing a lot of good money after bad i don't think we're going to fall 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 the sooner we as americans can begin to repair the damage and what's going to happen is when the dollar collapses americans are going to see a big reduction in our standards of living 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 all struggling economies being dragged into who. we should have amputated greece from the euro zone long ago coming out the greek drain weighs heavily on space in the country has been the worst over its credit rating because of its euro zone stablemates instability more of that later. now though will sort of made sense 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 led part of the blame all moscow saying the russian air traffic controllers also contributed to the disaster on his election yes he reports on how the national tragedy has just become a pawn in a political game. another day another blame game poland's 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 . 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 hughes duty in an incorrect way on this day such statements come as little surprise to experts with some of them saying an acceptance of total responsibility would be impossible for the 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 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 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. 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 this

could be exploited also in the political electoral campaign because this should be known that in two months after being. parliamentary elections this report and all that issue but if your tablet will be use it or 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. 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 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. after reporting from warsaw in poland. well for an in-depth look at the timeline of the polish 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 detailed 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 paulus leader attended the biggest demonstration in tel aviv. well 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 every time his name is mentioned he is why are you here tonight i'm here because it's just becoming a possible to live in this country anymore we work we give and we do and we keep on giving and there's no end to this is the jones this is our only hope we have to change just because we don't have any other choice which is a people who have been inspired by the demonstrations taking place in their full roster of what is your sign saying. gosselin is on us why do you want him to go home or. to go on 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 and lebanon and what you see in libya also there's a lot of influence of course and that's when people understand that 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 throwing the government what they want. to do you know they can they can start deciding for themselves to take power back to you but they said he is the spirit of revolution here a number of israeli populace son singers have also been taking to the stage and one song that was done you have a chorus and i'm translating this is the new middle east we created the storm the future it's up to us. where policy is keeping abreast of the latest developments in israel forests and you can keep abreast the latest two. twitter pages r.t. underscore com that she's posting a comment on our twitter feed in her recent most. says people are back on the

streets this time of year mothers and fathers and families of the person who gives the high cost of childcare today plenty of tweets on that and of the stories of the r.t.e. the school of calm. the debt crisis raging in europe is claiming more and more economic sculp spain the 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. is biggest borrower greece is being 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 that was a key part of last week's second bailout package economics author patrick young told me greece should have been 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 nevers 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 entered closer to the idea of a total euro melt on. europe's economic bailout bird may be affecting your reserves which is members visiting the poorest countries like slovakia recipient crushed

under the weight of europe's debt crisis r t sarah firth reports now that on whether membership of the euro club is failing to live up to the 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 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 a significantly lower than days in greece people here at this hey michel 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 here is a it was such high hopes it was also kind of prestige to be the first one among

hungary and strength to get public polish polish people for the 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 always been treated that was saying but that's of one country liability just this one country in may two thousand turned the rules changed dramatically there is left out of the area gang may well now be breathing a sigh of relief the fact neighboring not only here is in countries have felt the benefits slave actual peers have been heading to their check out in a bid to escape the year and we come just across the border from the back here to the czech republic where these super store outlets doing a binning 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 so vacuous retail revenues have fallen dramatically in the high

prices mean the tourism industries have been hit hard to certainly not the results hopeful when the. is joined up 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 first place you see a created this illusion that all the countries in europe on our. homeward journey the greek bonds are as good as the german bonds saw. made possible for greek all the world so much money so they can maybe contributing this time it's left many of days at first so eager to join the year a gang feeling they're now simply being pushed around serious that i feel that i can. 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 bulge of the seat of the e.u. headquarters might be about to split into two months because of

a growing divide between the dutch speaking north of the french speaking south resorted to a bushel reports now the country's internal squabbles are sending a warning signal to other e.u. nations. some wait till they're divorced before planning their mixed marriage but not one load near the southern region of belgium the country's been with delta fictive government for a record fourteen months french speaking in the self's 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 flanders is complete the world will look to hook up with france for richer or poorer but mainly for richer. going it alone when your small region is clearly not appealing they say political clout is important the main appeal is money when the loonie is part of france in everything but name but we have the same language

we watch french t.v. no belgian but above all our economy is controlled by french terms. 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 wear the southern half of bill jim with throngs 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 wants the split to experts say bill jones 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 write their stood in the french speaking part of a vice versa elbert spheres bill james national day last week was its last he added

the crisis threatens not just every belgian but european integration itself. see you scared of the divorce of belgium will spark of the rest of europe with catalonia leaving spain scotland leaving britain we're really seeing separatist marchers in mixed towns here turned violent with guns getting called it takes just one big clash for brussels to become serial that's conflicts or a mass killing 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 for its 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 of the new bush will see brussels. well now to a land where separation brought anything but stability or pace violence flared up

again this last week on the kosovo serbian border on wednesday kosovan police seized two checkpoints to impose a ban on imports from serbia shortly after one of the crossings was attacked by masked rioters who threw firebombs and talk to customers employees nato peacekeeping forces that are moving to stop the violence so it is protesting against unilateral moves by kosovo that its call for a un security council meeting was rejected at the last minute balkans expert says kosovo is either ignoring the regulations or has been given unofficial approval. to introduce e tree in. the end to send a special force. this is a cigarette slap in the face the syrian government which has been nothing but cooperate you've been even picture leading in the ongoing negotiations which were set up by the e.u. this action is looking to be either completely bypassed the europeans and you know or has been executed with their complicity in cooperation and i honestly don't know who should which is worse the e.u.

has made its unimaginable you were spared recognizing your regime that is. that has absolutely 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 intervening populations has been rewarded for a. white spirit forum of syrians in march two thousand and four and he has basically shown the willingness to behave in a civilized fashion even opening to including to the creation of independence you know this show honestly if you wish is that if this is. their independence contrary to international law you see the rules so obviously it is a message here so making and it is a mess that the europeans and nato. basically mediate need to fix. some other international headlines in brief in a world update activists say syrian forces are killed sixty two feet in 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 another violent

crackdown is said to play and a further twenty two lives across the country since they are the government uprising swept syria in march activists say police violence has killed more than a thousand demonstrators. but that number of the volcano on the italian island of sicily is making its presence known together have been for eruptions already in july and this one is the biggest yet with flames and burning ash routing two hundred fifty meters up into the sky the flare up began on saturday morning and continued into the weekend no casualties or damage or been reported. a very regular basis of nature's bringing to russia a little earlier on today we've got stunning pictures of a whirlwind. we've been through the countries far east eyewitnesses say that the wood literally lifted three people off a balcony before dropping them back to the ground tragically when one of them was killed by the pharaoh and with his injured at least twenty eight of his tail gave up rooted trees brought power lines and overturned many cars got more of the stunning pictures of the viciousness but the nature at times available to call.

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 sean thomas reports. a triple disaster on a scale the world has never known causing damage and destruction and uncertainty forcing tens of thousands of japanese refugees to leave their lives behind and seek shelter anywhere they can some people do. but the problem is the minority. be they have been accused. classmates 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 ungentlemanly is and has earned 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 we escape because we're scared of radiation but there's no example in the world of something similar and the consequences are still ongoing. while those who have moved to shelters here in tokyo are facing that guilt and the pressure to move back home there are others who have lost everything cannot handle the overwhelming change and they are facing even darker demons japan already has one of the highest suicide rates in the world and following the disaster in march the government has issued a warning about a possible nationwide epidemic of depression here. organic farm us committed suicide because you know. soil is everything

they know each other good soil for after many hours of hard work and it's just contaminated one night into you know so some. farmers committed suicide i'm very sad to hear the news and many other farmers are also very much depressed a recent national survey in japan performed by dr roshini and his team shows that suicide rates in japan have been found increased in the months since the disaster compared to the same timeframe in the previous two years but the demographics are not what you might expect the. increase. in the. back. is because my birds striving to. have they have not had to make suicide

this disaster has certainly taken its toll on japan's economy and such constant reminders of an intense topic can harm the collective psyche of the people who live here as well because of the. tsunami disaster plus nuclear disaster many people actually lost their jobs or working on the show was crushed. so. yeah they have so many good reasons to commit suicide. causing japan's death toll to keep rising even though the initial disaster has subsided months before in japan sean thomas over to. every penny counts to say don't waste the saving power could make a difference to his soul find out more about that than our monthly technology update on the air shortly tonight you're watching our team with me kevin i would tonight this sunday evening the thirty first of july i'll update you on the headlines in just a few moments time. welcome

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