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understand the colonel was hotel treat. tonight on our t.v. dead rollercoaster in the last hour the plan to avoid a u.s. debt default fails the vital senate vote but the clock is ticking on the countdown to choose days deadline. paul admits responsibility for the plane crash that killed president kaczynski last year but the published report still tries to shift some of the plane to russia. i. shadowed of egypt to one hundred fifty thousand government protesters flood the streets and squares of israeli cities demanding prime minister netanyahu steps down.

live from moscow you're watching the weekly with me when it's surrounded by the main news stories for most of the last seven days first though less than an hour ago republicans in the u.s. senate voted to delay democrat proposals to resolve the debt crisis is there there's a very narrow window of time for the u.s. to raise the debt ceiling which expires on tuesday before the vote there was yet more protracted bickering on american t.v. networks. at 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. light 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 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 to 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 the 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 drain weighs heavily on spaying the country prepares for the worst over its credit rating because of its euro zone stablemates instability got a full report on that in a few minutes for. 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 a part of the blame on moscow saying that russian air traffic controllers also contributed to the disaster. jet ski reports next on how the national tragedy has just become a pawn in a political. another day another blame game poland's very own probe into last year's presidential plane crash all but confirmed the findings of russia's

investigation that the crew was almost solely responsible for the tragedy of this point there is an obstacle a tree that the aircraft collides with a fragment of the left wing is detached the aircraft begins there are taishan but let me emphasize it's not that the tree was too high the aircraft had simply been at a location where it shouldn't have been it seems the very things that got in the way of the plane are now getting in the way of warsaw taking full responsibility and trees are not the only thing rooted in poland failing to see eye to eye with moscow . here's where the approach controller two thousand metres away should have told the crew to stop descending the horizon command should have been issued exactly at the moment the shows that the landing zone controller was performing his duty in an incorrect way on. such statements come as little surprise to experts with some of them saying acceptance of total responsibility would be impossible for the polish society they've been given the truth and the truth is unbearable they can't take it

now i don't think that the polish investigators think they can pin the blame on anybody else but i do think that they are looking to pin some of the blame on somebody else aviation experts this opinion calling the swipes against the russian side and substantial some of the 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 at 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 simply to call 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 by 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 mean. that to be. 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 say has no courage to take up

the responsibility for the plane crash and has shuffled it off on to his staff nevertheless he is responsible for all the games he played with the russians he's responsible that they are not conducting or even participating in the investigation he's responsible for not defending polish interests and at the international forum 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. often. in-depth look at the timeline of the polish presidential plane crash take a look at our web site. the

part of the old song line there's a second by second analysis by the interstate aviation commission with a transcript of a cockpit voice recorder providing a detail perspective on the cause of the tragedy from check that out already it's there whenever you want to see it r t. 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 sunday night after more than two weeks of rallies protesters are demanding the prime minister binyamin netanyahu step down unless he and to take sweeping economic reforms paula slayer attended the biggest demonstration in tel aviv. well these easily a hundred and fifty thousand people here with the most popular chanting 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 every time his name is mentioned he is booed 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 their all and there's no end to this is joe jones this is the only hope we have to change just because we don't have any other choice would you say people have been inspired by the demonstrations taking place in there as well as or what is your sign saying who are going to go home guzzlers on us why do you want him to go home. to go on to the fullest and how much of these demonstrations i mean 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 lebannon and what you see in libya also there's a lot of influence of both that's when people understand they have the power that they can they can organize by them does it don't need any more the government to

tell them what to do they can start throwing the government what they want. to do you know they can they can start deciding for themselves take the power back to what they said is the spirit of revolution here a number of israeli populace some singers have also been taking to the stage and one song that was sung had the chorus and i'm translating this is the new middle east we created the storm of the future it's up to us. smitty's correspondent paula. i mean tom a country which is when under the clouds of its own storm for a while is still the same blood share this dozens of series that killed and we're continuing on to government crackdown on protesters we are very soon x. what will bring about peace for a country lot more next hour here on r.t. . next though the debt crisis raging in europe is claiming more and more economic sculpts spain's suffering recession and mass unemployment has now been put on

review by the credit rating agency moody's and the international monetary fund is one france that it needs to impose cuts to avoid becoming europe's next debt crisis victim this is the e.u.'s biggest borrowed greece has been dealt another blow by one of its main credit is germany's finance minister says berlin won't write a blank check to buy greek bonds was a key part of last week's second bailout package will spur economic support patrick told me greece children pushed out of the euro zone long 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 saw 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 your room. on the u.s. economic bailout burden will be affecting the euro zone's richest members but it's also hitting the poorest ones too hard and countries like slovakia responding crushed under the weight of europe's debt crisis r.t. sarah firth reports next 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 the second bailout their money could soon be going to greece

eight of them 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 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 a day with such high hopes it was also kind of prestige to be the first one among hungary and 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 a lisbon treaty that was saying that that's of one country. just this one country

in may two thousand there and the rules changed dramatically days left out of the year a gang may well now be breathing a sigh of relief the fact neighboring nonny here is saying countries have felt the benefits slave actual peers have been heading to their check out in a bid to escape the year ok we come just across the border fence the back here to the czech republic where these super store outlets doing a building 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 in the high prices mean the tourism industries have been hit hard to certainly not the results hopeful. when they first 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 all the countries in europe on our. homeward journey the

greek bonds are as good as the german bonds saw. made possible for greek. 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 feeds back in. the economic woes are also putting other e.u. countries under immense pressure from within its leading in fact affairs the very heart of europe could be left broken belgium 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 and the french speaking south as are two done a bushel reports next the country's internal squabbles are sending a warning signal to other nations. some weight to their divorce before planning their next 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 while looms in the cells and flemish speaking flanders in the north disagree on pretty much everything many analysts think the most likely outcome will see the country break into as soon as it splits with floor this 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 and while they say political clout is important the main appeal is money. 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 withdrawn its 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 of 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 a continual o.p.m. calles the e.u. is scared that the divorce of belgium will spark of the rest of your. catalonia leaving to be in scotland leaving a britain where releasing separatist marchers and mixed community towns here turned violent with guns getting called it takes just one big class for brussels to become

serial that's conflicts or a mass killing suffered in europe since world war two neighbors turned toward each other as you can slow of your broke up and the determination of regional identity is not to be underestimated fridge's unionists say they have the flag and everything else worked out to become france's twenty eighth region all that's left are the details the new bush will see brussels. and also from us in the way we reported on a land where separation brought anything but stability or peace violence flared up again this week on the kosovo serbian border on wednesday cause of a police seized two checkpoints to impose a ban on imports from serbia shortly after that one of the crossing attacked by masked rioters threw firebombs told the customs office later peacekeeping forces had to move in to stop the violence so protest against unilateral moves by kosovo and its call for un security council meeting was rejected at the last minute

balkans expert abortion manage says kosovo's either ignoring the regulations will give fish. the decision to introduce the tree in. the end to send a special forces this is direct slap in the face of the syrian government which has been nothing but quadrant you've been even could picture. in the ongoing negotiations which were set up by the e.u. this action is looking to leave you completely bypassed all the europeans and nato has been executed with their complicity in cooperation and honesty in no condition which is worse d'you has made it seems even and imagine if we were spending not easing your regime there is. absolutely no interest in any sort of dialogue it came to power through violence it has conducted widespread and cleansing it serves another. no nobody in populations has been rewarded for the. white spirit. in march two thousand and four and it is basically sure the willingness to behave

in a civilized fashion opening to to lead to their creation of independence and no this show honestly. this is their independence contrary to international law and. so obviously this is missing here so making it isn't is that the europeans and media. basically media need to fix the next not bad weather in russia very bad weather very reg'lar most of nature's power bringing however to a little part of the country earlier on today take a look at these mazing pictures of a whirlwind sweeping through the country's far east eyewitnesses say it would literally lifted three people off a balcony before dropping them back to the ground again very sadly one of them was killed in a photo editing tragedy when the wind is injured at least twenty eight it tore rooms all buildings up rooted trees brought down power lines and overturned many cars more of these amazing pictures of r.t. dot com and if you check those out you might be in for these stories as well along

with the coverage of all the rest of the news of course. again and really unfortunate story again a pleasure boat to remorse go to the tragedy of i take cruise the psycho after colliding with the bridge it's left nine people dead we've got more we have the aftermath of another sad story as well on line for us ukraine mourning the victims of two coal mine accidents claim thirty seven lives the first peoples of. the cold war the hot and the rest of the arctic don't call. the u.s. will not give up its surveillance flights near china despite official warnings from beijing that the actions of a really damaged bilateral relations scandal indeed flared up after a u. two spy plane was intercepted over taiwan which china claims as its territory it's

all part of the superpowers competition for energy routes says khan helen from the american based foreign policy in focus. right now the united states is the number one user of energy in the world and china is the number two and chinese or a zero zero eight percent of chinese energy supplies hooved by sea they either move through the streets or from what's which is controlled by the american system eat oil in move through the election rates which controlled by the american seventh fleet chinese are very sensitive to this and they they worry about the fact that the united states could sort of put it on their energy john miller again this is part of a worldwide competition for energy resources between the number one and the number two powers now energy users in the world and the fact that the united states has pretty much surrounded most of china with bases that go all the way from central

asia to the north pacific that's the context in which this takes place well news in brief now at least eleven people have been killed in a blast at the police headquarters in southern afghanistan the taliban's time left on his ability for a suicide car bomb attack in the city of lescott gap local authorities say most of the victims were police officers knows less than a fortnight since nato led forces formally handed over security in the city to afghan troops. now that near the volcano on the telly knowledge of sicily is making its presence known of being for eruptions already this month and this is the biggest one yet with flames and burning out a shooting two hundred fifty meters up into the sky the fair up again on saturday morning and continued into the weekend no casualties or damage have been reported so far. 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. 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. be they have been accused. of course by offshore. causing. people. not. primarily a move towards self-preservation this idea of desertion is defined by many as characteristically in japanese and has earned those who have evacuated the

dishonorable title of traitor. of course it's hard to hear that we have family neighbors would 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 some organic farm us committed suicide because you know the. soil is everything they know a good soil for after many hours of hard work and it's just contaminated one

night to go so. far so 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. increased. note. but if your areas because some divers are struggling to the. right and 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 a for 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. the pain continues now just over fifteen minutes and i can't say she got laid a sport run for you with a serious case at the top of the russian premier league current childhoods and it's like getting as we find out shortly here out see this sunday in the thirty first of july with me kevin headlines coming up shortly.

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