quality debt rollercoaster another plan to avoid a u.s. debt the fold fails a vital senate vote but the clock still ticking in the countdown to choose the deadline. poland admits responsibility for the plane crash that killed president kaczynski last year but the published report still tries to shift some of the blame to russia. and shadowy egypt of two hundred fifty thousand antigovernment protesters flooded the streets and squares of israel's cities demanding prime minister netanyahu steps down.

this is r.t. live from moscow you're watching the weekly with me kevin when it's a roundup of the main news stories from the past seven days from us and first republicans in the u.s. senate voted to block democrat proposals to resolve the debt crisis a bipartisan solution is now being discussed in congress as there's only a narrow time window for the u.s. to raise the debt ceiling which expires on choose day after that the country would be unable to make the repayments on its loans before the vote has yet more protracted bickering on american t.v. networks report has more on that 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 walk of of us figuring of political posturing we are seeing u.s. lawmakers get in front of the cameras day after day week or fight show the fact that they can't come together and agree we see an election year that is approaching and clearly the republicans and those that are opposed to president barack obama us president obama are taking the opportunity to try to put him in a very weak and in secure position in the meantime it is compromising the u.s. economy overall 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 uncertainty among investors on long 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. most people perspective know what's going on capitol hill of george. presidents over financial advisory service thanks for being with us we just witnessed an audit of the failed attempt to resolve the long deadlock republican. proposal by the democrats yesterday because it was the other way around is this more of a political theater than solving problems. specific though it was entirely about political theater. the republicans in the senate were not going to let harry reid pass his approach and really the negotiations that are going on are between. the leadership in the senate and the president at this time and they

basically had to put this vote forward and basically vote it down to say that is for this doesn't go to the floor until you can go back to the president come back with a deal as they expect it will to all parties right now so specific it was all about politics really quite a waste of time having said that there is some progress in the background right now towards a more comprehensive deal right now looking at this whole story very simplistically none of these proposals on the table and dealing with the debt they instead are arguing about how to bring themselves yet more debt is just prolonging the agony isn't it. well you know look we get we had the possibility of having no deal which would have been the worst possible outcome and would have gotten us into default that fortunately is going to be averted right now what we're talking about is getting an extension that we can pay our current bills and what is on a table is essentially our proposals that will cut spending anywhere between one to

four trillion dollars over the next ten years even if we get the most aggressive type which is somewhat closer to four trillion we will only just been managing to bring down the debt level of the u.s. to about eighty percent level right now so right now we're just talking about slowing acceleration of the problem which is look it's better than nothing at least if we can get something it won't get worse and worse but as far as putting us on a good trajectory we need something somewhere closer to three to four trillion dollar over ten years range to even begin to address that well this night is bipartisan idea you talked about then combining raising the debt ceiling with also trying to build a budget cuts is a cut and you will know it's not a part has traditionally been walked before is it combining the two why is that. well you know this is the only way that they could square the circle here. you are

right combining kind of the increasing of the of the of the debt limit with some sort of a budget deal this is the first time ever that this has been brought about that we had the two thousand and ten elections this was a way for the republicans to really kind of make a case to obama and and really try to try to make their point and differentiate themselves before the elections before that's going to cause the election so look a lot of this i think is i mean it's good that it's happening the way it's happening is not very good because i think we were three to six months ago in a position where we probably could have had a more substantial deal to solve the problems. of the country or the politics has put not put us in a place where we're not going to have a type of compromise course those know how to view every story and this deadlock in washington in washington has been going over so long and everyone sees it as

a bad thing the way some would argue it's finally exposed that's been going on right under american noses for pecking. yeah that's right i think look you know i think it's a good argument to say that it's great that it's part of the public discourse that is positive the question is what is the result of the public discourse i think we put it to the public who put the discourse if we if we get and that's why i think we're getting a two and a half trillion dollar or two after three which is looks like might be on the table right now given these negotiations it's better than nothing it's you know what i think we could have had something far superior to this if we did not have the extremes the extremist wings of both parties digging in for so long now over these last three months optimist so it's a down the glass is half full not half and lisa son got a money president of a financial. thanks for joining us on live from new york there thank you. well as

the debt drama fold in europe with more struggling economies being dragged in. greece from the euro zone long ago but the greek drain weighs heavily on spraying the country prepares for the worst over its credit rating because of its eurozone stablemates instability we've got more imaginative human. next also 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 laid part of the blame on not saying the russian air traffic controllers also contributed to the disaster. reports notes on how the national tragedy has become just a pawn in a political game. another day another blame game poland's very own probe into last year's presidential plane crash race the landscape for all but confirmed the findings of russia's investigation that the crew was almost solely responsible for the tragedy some of this point there is an obstacle a tree

a aircraft collides with a fragment of a left 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 a solo cation where it shouldn't have been there it seems the very things that got in the way of the plane are now getting in the way of warsaw taking full responsibility the trees are not the only thing rooted in poland failing to see eye to eye with moscow national here's where the projects controller two thousand meters away should have told the crew to start descending. commands should have been issued exactly at least moments from the shows the landing zone controller was performing his duty in an encounter. such statements come as little surprise to experts with some of them saying acceptance of 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 echoed this opinion calling the swipes against the russian side unsubstantial some of your 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 the likes of the decision height you have no other choice than to raise the landing gear and go to your reserve airport the initial russian 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. here i think we are witnessing some political games to shift the blame from the polish

signs of i was an expert in this commission and i was surprised to learn that 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 great through all speculation regarding the plane crash but instead it could once again be used as a political tool experts say the timing of the publication is not trying to ensure this could be exploited also in the political electoral campaign because this should be in two minds that are being. reported and all that issue but if you will be using it in the electoral campaign and the twin brother of the late president kaczynski was quick to call the 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 it got 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 but we're not conducting or even participating in the investigation he's responsible for not defending polish interests or at the international fora 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 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 let's see russia artsy reporting from warsaw in poland. and flint. a look at the timeline of the polish presidential plane crash take a look at our website. what you see there is the shore there second by second of analysis of what's on our website by

the interstate aviation commission with a transcript of the cockpit voice recorder providing a detail perspective about the pauls of the tragedy is graphic it is online at r.t. . israel's become the latest middle east country to signal wide 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 and less he undertakes sweeping economic reforms on his policy or attended the biggest demonstration in tel aviv. thank you these really 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 israeli prime minister bibi netanyahu in fact if you find his name is mentioned. why are you here tonight i'm here because it's

just becoming possible to live in this country more we work we give how we give and we keep on giving their all and there's no end to this is the first chance this is the only hope we have to change those because you don't have any other choice would you say people have been inspired by the demonstrations taking place in their. cars or what is your sign saying. go home like the gaza leaders on earth. why do you want to go home. to go on because of the full distance actually 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's happening at the ground and now syria and lebanon are and what you see in libya also there's a lot of influence of voting and that's when people understand i do have the power that they can take him or united by ginger they don't need anymore their government to tell them what to do they can start showing their government what they want. to

do you know they can they can start deciding for themselves to take the 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 like some have a song had the chorus sometimes placing a new middle east we created a storm if you chose it outright. parties released correspondent paula but one country which has been under the clouds of its own storm for some time now is still suffering bloodshed at least forty five people being killed as syrian government forces stormed the city of hama the violence sweeping syria since march has reportedly seen over a thousand people killed you and me from other. president the arab lawyers association i was shocked to find being on our to international we see continued blood ship bloodshed in syria just how long will this can this carry on. unfortunately is going to continue for a little while here because the regime in syria does not seem to believe that it

can change it talks about change but it's not doing it they're going to face even time within the next month because the month of ramadan is beginning and that's where everybody would be going to pray not just in the daytime but in the evening and throughout the night and this is the time that there will be any increase in in the demonstrations both day and night and the regime in syria seems to think it can contain it by the use of force is not doing so and less there is this change if it's not it's going to continue the bloodshed unfortunately and this is the price that is being paid by the syrian people and this is the prize journeys became paid by revolutions because the relations require this this bloodshed but at the same time the interference of the outside world in my view can be counterproductive unless it is directed proper rather than just making these statements like for

instance the usa would decide whether the president of syria was next in the sea or not everybody is asking why do the americans have to put this question anyway let alone deciding it but they seem to be doing this selectively develop with syria and libya but by the same. down there i'm not then it will be him and i have not done it with other places where there is uprising including rain forest oaks i think the world can play on all but i think the present moment it's not clear but i can see one of those reforms promised by president assad earlier on the promise is that things would change despite the fact we're still seeing tanks on the street why was there no headway made there because the changes required until now they don't simply seem to be acceptable because the change they require there must be actual change of personnel on the higher echelon of syria and the army and the

party in the government and the government is here and the party does not want to seem to be doing there in that and the second thing which they can do is to stop the use of force the use of force they think that can't stop the relation but in fact it's just fueling it more and more and we have even seen some rogue elements from the army the syrian army have sided with the demonstrations so i think we have still yet to see more as the nation you touched on the american response just no president was accused of suddenly of using torture corruption in terror and he's vowed to increase pressure on the syrian regime what kind of pressure would that be and would it work anyway. well in the first instance i think the words ring hollow when president obama says what he's saying everybody in syria and out of world will immediately respond back i one time or. the rest of the afghanistan situation

all of these things and so dreams are low and it doesn't give any comfort however i think the west can actually and the world can assist the syrian regime within exit policy of quiet contact playing to them what are the ways that they can move into rather than just making statements and changing the laws actual practical steps whereby it will satisfy somehow the people for instance reducing the use of force to move in some of the military guys some of the party members and some of the government people this may. satisfy some of the people in the streets in damascus and in syria and the rest of the cities but the regime does not seem to be doing that and the west seem to be generally speaking the world seems to be content with condemning and making peace while crazy statements well that it's you know the regime is less than it or not or what have it should be it's using use

of force of course everybody knows that the regime in syria is actually killing its own people back it has never done it not at least for as long as it's doing now so i think we need to address them to have them with an exit policy somewhere i'm not terribly afraid we're out of time but we really appreciate being on the program president of the arab lawyers association as you are live from the. the debt crisis raging in europe is claiming more and more economic sculp spain's suffering recession of mass unemployment has now been put on review by the credit rating agency moody's and the international monetary fund as one fronts that it needs to avoid becoming europe's next debt crisis victim this is the e.u.'s biggest borrower greece is being dealt another blow by one of its main creditors germany's finance ministers says berlin won't write a blank check to buy back greek bonds that was a key part of our three second bailout package as opposed to economics or patrick

young you told me greece should be pushed out of the euro zone long ago. and 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 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 their saw their neighbors it's going to be a huge problem because ultimately the contagion is going to hit i really do believe that after last week's events unfortunately we only entered closer to the idea of

a toll call your real meltdown. and economic woes are also putting other e.u. countries under immense pressure from within and it's needed 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 from the french speaking south and as an artist on a bushel reports makes the country's internal squabbles setting a warning signal to other nations. so divorced before planning their mixed marriage but not well lowlier the southern region of belgium the country's been with delta big government for record fourteen months fringe speech 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 flanders is complete the world will look to hook up with france for richer or poorer but mainly for groucho 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 and everything but name it we have the same language we watch french t.v. not belgian but above all our economy is controlled by french firms with polls suggest that hall for sixty percent of the french want to become one presidential front runner marine le pen last week said she would win the southern half of build them with france president sarkozy's ruling party and the opposition are already in talks to tie the knot so we have contacts with other parties with new m.p. and we have contacted the socialist it has been confirmed to us that's in case belgium would speed up then will be welcome in france. the biggest party in the northern half wants the split to experts say bill james 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 spears bill james national day last week was its last he added the crisis threatens not just every belgian puts european integration itself because. the e.u. is scared that with the war so belgium will spark up the rest of europe catalonia leaving spain scotland leaving britain we're already seeing separatist marchers in mixed rienzi towns here turned violent with guns going to take just one big clash for brussels to become sorry that's conflicts or a mass killing suffered in europe since world war two neighbors turned on each other as you could 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 eight region all that's left

are the details the new bush will see brussels will support it in a week on a land where separation brought anything but stability or peace 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 that one of the crossings attacked by masked rioters you through fire bombs torched the customs office nato peacekeeping troops had to move in to stop the violence service protested against unilateral moves by kosovo and its call for un security council meeting was projected at the last minute because expert devotion managed told us cause it was either ignoring the regulations or has been given an official approval. the decision to introduce the dream and to send a special force. direct slap in the face of the syrian government which has been nothing but a co-operative and even capitulating in the ongoing negotiations which were set up

by the e.u. this action has will either completely bypassed both here against and or has been executed with their complicity in cooperation and honesty in the who should which is worse i d e u has made things in an unimaginably worse are recognizing the 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 of any populations it has been rewarded for a. right spirit haraam of syria in march two thousand and four and it has recently shown the willingness to behave in a civilized fashion going into including the declaration of independence and now this so obviously a new mission is there to facilitate their independence contrary to international law and use the rules so obviously it is a message we are still making and it is a mess that the europeans and nato. basically the immediate need to fix.

brief least eleven people being killed in a blast in the supporters in southern afghanistan the taliban has claimed responsibility for the suicide car bomb attack in the city of glasgow over authorities say most of the victims were police officers it's less than a fortnight since nato led forces formally handed over security in the city to afghan troops. there now the volcano on the italian island of sicily is making its presence known there's been four eruptions already this month this latest is the biggest jet with flames and burning are shooting two hundred fifty meters up into the sky the flare up again on saturday morning and continued into the weekend no casualties or damage has been reported. not the same the next story though a very rare glimpse of nature's power and how that could cause in russia a bit earlier on today take a look at these amazing pictures of a whirlwind sweeping through the country's far east eye witnesses say the wind literally lifted three people off a balcony there before dropping them back to the ground tragedy though to one of

those people was killed in the fall and the winds injured at least twenty eight tall roofs of buildings up rooted trees brought down power lines overturned many cars these amazing pictures just shows how bishes mother nature can be at times at r.t. dot com. here just a couple of minutes time a documentary explores both the present and the past of the former soviet republic of lithuania one of the first to leave the union flag its ear on r.t. this sunday the thirty first of july last few hours of it here in moscow kevin i will update you on our latest headlines in just a few moments. wealthy

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