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altie roller coaster another plan to avoid a u.s. debt default fails the vital senate vote but the clock still ticking on the countdown to choose days 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 shadowing egypt one hundred fifty thousand anti-government protesters flooded the streets and squares of israel cities demanding prime minister netanyahu step down.

live from moscow this is r.t. you're watching the weekly with me kevin now in 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 for 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 that expires on choose day after that the country would be unable to make the repayments on its loans before the vote was yet more protracted bickering on american t.v. networks. 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 figuring 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 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. from. told by the u.s. because no nothing. will be a good compromise. 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 there for the country but the politics is put us in a place where we're not going to have eight ok type of compromise even if we get the most aggressive types which is somewhat closer to four trillion or we're only just to 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 celebration 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 the three to four trillion dollar over ten years range to even begin to address that. now the debt drummer also continues to unfold in europe with more struggling economies being dragged in . we should have amputated greece from the euro zone long ago the greek drain weighs heavily on spain and the country compared with the worst of its credit rating because of its eurozone stablemates instability and we've got a report on that in a few minutes. more sword mid-city screw 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 moscow saying that russian air traffic controllers also contributed to the disaster. jet ski reports now on how the national tragedy has become a pawn in

a political game. another day another blame game poland's very own probe into last year's presidential plane crash in smolensk orbit 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 treaty that the aircraft collides with the frag. and of the left wing is detached the aircraft begins their taishan but let me emphasize it's not that the tree was too high the aircraft had simply been at a location where it shouldn't have been it seems the very things that got in the way of the plane are now getting in the way of warsaw taking full responsibility and trees are not the only thing rooted in poland failing to see eye to eye with moscow. here's where the approach controller two thousand metres away should have told the crew to stop descending the horizon command should have been issued exactly at this moment this shows that the landing zone controller was performing his duty in an incorrect way on these 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 and substantial. 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 its likes of the decision height you have no other choice than to raise the landing gear and go to your reserve airport the initial rush unload investigation was greeted by a novel launch of criticism from some movements in poland they expressed doubts

about the reliability of the report often based on anti russian sentiment and some experts say it is not pure emotion driving this but well thought tactics. but if you. i think we are now witnessing simple little games to shift the blame from the polish side i was an expert in this commission and i was surprised to learn to 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 put paid to all speculation regarding this millennium plane crash but instead it could once again be used as a political tool experts say the timing of the publication is not coincidental show this could be exploited also in the political electoral campaign because this should be known that in two months to be. interactions this report and all that issue but if your tablet will be. use it or even

a museum 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 skip 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 is responsible that the poles 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 the ball is the society is still deciding whether to admit that playing for 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. and for an in-depth look at the timeline of the

polish presidential plane crash take a look at our website. what you'll find online and what you're seeing on your screens now partially is a second by second analysis by the interstate aviation commission with a transcript of the cockpit voice recorder providing a detailed perspective on the cause of the tragedy it said r.t. dot com. israel's become the latest middle east country to see nationwide anti-government protests some one hundred fifty thousand people took to the streets on saturday night after more than two weeks of rallies protesters demanding the prime minister binyamin netanyahu step down unless he undertakes sweeping economic reforms artie's paullus leader attended the biggest demonstration in tel aviv obviously after him fifty thousand people here with the most popular chant being we demand social justice a whole new way of speakers have been taking to the stage in. 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 he 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 this is our only goal 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 and there are. other what is your sign saying. guzzling is on us why do you want him to go home. alone because of the police and the planet should be salman strange sions 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 to do. now syria lebannon and what you

see in libya also there's a lot of influence of both and that's when people understand i do have the power that they can take and i were denied by them does it don't need any more the government to tell them what to do they can start telling the government what they want. to do you know they can they can start deciding for themselves to go 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 it was done he had the chorus and i'm translating this is the new middle east we created the storm the future it's up to us. paula slayer well one country which has been under the cloud of its own storm for some time now is still suffering bloodshed at least forty five people have been killed in syria as government forces stormed the city of hama president obama's vote to increase pressure on the regime after this fresh round of violence but president of the arab lawyers association told me promises alone won't bring positive results. president obama says what he's

saying everybody in syria and out of world will immediately respond. by the rest of the afghanistan situation all of these things and so dreams and it doesn't you know have any comfort feel and however i think the west can actually and the world can assist the syrian regime we then policy why it's come to playing to them what are the ways that they can move into rather than just making statements and changing the rules of the west seem to be content with condemning and making these crazy statements where that it's you know the regime is an estimate or not. coming up in the program with me kevin no in an epidemic of depression sends two plans already high suicide rates skyrocketing as i desired to over radiation grips the country's population and. the debt crisis raging in

europe is claiming more and more economic sculpts spain is suffering recession and mass unemployment now been put on review by the credit rating agency moody's and the international monetary fund's warn france that it needs to impose cuts to avoid becoming europe's next debt crisis victim this is the biggest borrower greece has been dealt another blow by one of its main creditors germany's finance minister says it won't write a blank check to buy greek bonds that was part of a key agreement in last week's second bailout package has put the economics off a patrick younger told me greece should have been pushed out of the eurozone 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 euro meltdown. europe's economic bailout burden maybe affecting the eurozone richest members because also hitting the poorest ones hard to countries like slovakia risk being crushed under the weight of europe's debt crisis i see sarah ferguson the week reported on where the membership of the euro club is failing to live up to its 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 the 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 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's during the year is a it was such high hopes it was also kind of prestige to be the first one among hungary and probably polish polish people read about for the one from central europe to be you know in the zero club back the year using 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 birds of one country are liabilities of 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 if a 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 a we come just across the border from the backyard to the czech republic where the superstore out there doing a building business is 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 and the high prices mean the tourism industries have been hit hard certainly not the results hopeful. they first joined 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 the e c b a created this in all of the countries in europe on our. homeward journey the greek bonds are as good as the german bonds so. make it possible for a greek to all the world so much money so like in maybe contributing this time it's less than many of days at first so eager to join the euro gang feeling they're now simply being pushed around sarah fed i feel that i can. the economic woes are also putting other e.u. countries under immense pressure from within and it's leading to fears the very heart of europe could be left broken belgium the seat of the e.u. headquarters maybe about a split in two because of a growing divide between the dutch speaking north of the french speaking south and started on your bushel reports next the country's internal squabbles are sending a warning signal to other e.u. nations to solve to the divorce before planning their mixed marriage but not one

of the southern region of belgium the country's been with delta fictive government for a record fourteen months french speaking while looms in the cells and flemish speaking floor in the north disagree on pretty much everything many analysts think the most likely outcome will see the country break into as soon as it splits with floor does complete the world loons 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 and one of the loony is part of france in everything but name that we have the same language we watch french t.v. not belgian but above all our economy is controlled by french crims. polls suggest that whole foods and sixty percent of the french want to become one presidential front runner marine le pen last week said she would with the southern half of

belgium with france president sarkozy's ruling party and the opposition are already in talks to tie the knot we have contacts with other parties with you m.p. and we have contacted the socialist it has been confirmed to us that's in case belgium would speed up then one would be welcome in france. the biggest party in the northern half wants the split to experts say build gyms already divided people don't know any more about the other half of the country the flemish people don't know who are the popular singers or writers today in the french speaking part and vice versa king albert fears bill jim's national day last week was its last he added the crisis threatens not just every belgian but european integration itself could ignore the e.u. is scared that the divorce of belgium will spark of the rest of europe catalonia leaving spain scotland leaving britain were already seeing separatist marchers in

mixed community towns here turning violent with guns getting called to take just one big class 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 or that's lifter the details the new bush will see brussels. well next to report we brought you here from a land where separation bought anything but stability or pace violence flared up again this last week on the cost of a serbian border wednesday cause of a police seize two checkpoints to impose a ban on imports from serbia shortly after that one of the crossings was attacked by masked rioters who threw fire bombs and torched the customs office nato

peacekeeping forces had to move in to stop the violence serbia's protested against unilateral moves by possible and it's call for a un security council meeting was rejected last minute book of the acts but the boy should manage told the cost of either ignore a regulation or has been given an official approval. the decision to shoot to injure to see. and to send a special forces a cigarette slap in the face the serbian government 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 has spoken to the you completely bypassed both the europeans and you know or 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 we were spared recognizing your regime that is. 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 of been in populations it has been rewarded for

a. white spirit forum of students in march going to two thousand and four and he has basically shown the willingness to behave in a civilized fashion going into including to the region of independence and know this so honestly and your mission is that a facility near independence so 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 mediate need to fix. extensive coverage of the crisis unfolding in europe then can be found on our website. the stories we're also covering as well a pleasure boat tour of moscow turns to tragedy is a cruise. over the weekend. another sad story too from ukraine this morning the victims of two. thirty seven lives the first funerals of the details on

a website called. next for you a very rare glimpse of nature's power in the how of a kid caused in russia in the last twenty four hours who got these stunning pictures of a world when sweeping through the country's far east i would assist say the women literally lifted three people off a balcony before dropping them back to the ground where one was killed by the fall of the winds injured at least twenty eight as a tall rules of buildings are rooted trees brought down power lines and overturned many more of these amazing pictures graphically showing showing the viciousness of mother nature at times. let's take a look at some world news stories in brief now at least eleven people have been killed in a blast other police headquarters in southern afghanistan the taliban's claimed

responsibility for the suicide car bomb attack in the city of lashkar gah local authorities say most of the victims were police officers it's less than a fortnight now since nato led forces formally handed over security in the city to afghan troops. problems that now that never will cain while the italian island of sicily is making its presence known there's been four eruptions already in july and this latest is the biggest yet with flames of burning ash shooting two hundred fifty meters up into the sky the flare up started on saturday morning and continued into the weekend no casualties or damage reported so far though. 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 up but the government fears a depression epidemic now could be on the horizon r.t. shaun 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. but the problem is the minority. be they have been accused. 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 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 is no example in the world of something similar and the consequences are still ongoing. while those who have moved to

shelters here in tokyo are facing that guilt and the pressure to move back home there are others who have lost everything cannot handle the overwhelming change and they are facing even darker demons japan already has one of the highest suicide rates in the world and following the disaster in march the government has issued a warning about a possible nationwide epidemic of depression here some organic farm us committed suicide because you know for nix it's so easy everything they know each other good soil for after many hours of hard work and just contaminated one night to 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 in fact increased in the months since the disaster compared to the same time frame in the previous two years but the demographics are not what you might expect. late increase to. note. about the areas because some barbers striving to do. if 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 their working on the show has crashed. so. yeah they have a 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 or t.v. . big talk to us this morning the first of august. on the latest news headlines in just a few.