in india because he's afraid of the move choice people to the home of the greeks we go to the grand imperial truly the taj was the bush coromandel you can tell it's mostly clear to see don't need to go and. read this in the kennel was hotel retreat . on our t.v. debt roller coaster another plan to avoid a u.s. debt default fail the vital senate vote the club still taking 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 onto russia. i. shall doing egypt up to one hundred fifty thousand i think government protesters flood the streets and squares of israel city demanding prime minister netanyahu steps down.

says r.t. live from moscow for a good morning for me kevin know when you're watching our weekly roundup of the main news for the last seven days republicans in the united states senate voted to block democrat proposals to resolve the debt crisis a little earlier 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 tuesday after that the country would be unable to make the repayments on its loans before the vote was yet more protracted baker going to american t.v. networks i think as more of that new york. sunday morning on all the talk shows here in new york we saw these u.s. lawmakers give interviews the republican saying a close deal deal is close to being reached the democrats coming on t.v.

saying that it's inching closer but there is no final agreement because the entire congress cannot agree or the lawmakers cannot agree on where to make cuts if the debt ceiling is raised so what we see is just another chapter in a long walk of of us pickering of political posturing we are seeing u.s. lawmakers get in front of the cameras day after day flight 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 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 and 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 borowitz. presidents of the financial advisory services the u.s. has no time but nothing better than a last minute deal. it's good that it's happening the way it's happening it's not very good because i mean we 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 but the politics has put no put us in a place where we're now going to have a type of compromise even if we get the most aggressive types which is somewhat

close to the four trillion we're only just imagine could bring down the debt level of the u.s. to about eighty percent level right now or should be so right now we're just talking about slowing the next celebration of the problem which is look it's better than nothing at least if they don't 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. and the drummer also continues to unfold in europe with more struggling economies being dragged in as we report. we should have amputated greece from the euro zone longer bill the great drain weighs heavily on spain the country prepares for the worst over its credit rating because of its euro zone's instability more of that in a few minutes. now though also admits its crew was responsible for last year's fatal plane crash in western russia the 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 party's election as yes he reports now on how the national tragedies become just a pawn in a political campaign. another day another blame game poland's very own probe into last year's presidential plane crash in 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 at tree that the aircraft collides with a fragment of the left wing years detached the aircraft begins there a 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 were put 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 the same moment he shows that the landing zone controller was performing his duty in an incorrect way on these three. such statements come as little surprise to experts with some of them saying acceptance of chordal responsibility would be impossible for the 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 some 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 its lights 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 and. i think we're now witnessing simply to call games to shift the blame from the polish side i was an expert in this commission and i was surprised to learn that the crew was chosen immediately before the flight such poor preparation for such a high profile flight publication of this report had been delayed for several months and was very much anticipated in poland it was meant to put a break through all speculation regarding the smolensk 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 no they're going to ones that are being. interactions this report and all that issue. will be. use it as 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 pulls prime minister to 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 but 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 opposed to society is still deciding whether to admit the brain for responsibility which comes with a report x.

birds are speculating whether this is a fair and objective investigation or an attempt to please all players in the long lasting blame game let's hear a chef ski r.t. 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. you find there what you see on your screens now but in a lot more length a second by second analysis of the interstate a commission with a transcript of the cockpit voice recorder details the space of the calls of the tragedy check it out of. israel's become the latest middle east country to see nationwide anti-government protests some one hundred fifty thousand took to the streets on sunday night after more than two weeks of rallies protesters are demanding the prime minister binyamin netanyahu step unless he undertakes

sweeping economic reforms of his policy or attended the biggest demonstration in tel aviv. will be the reaction in fifty thousand people here with the most popular chant be we demand social justice a whole new way of speakers have been taking to the stage they've been calling on unity i mean it's coming across very strongly is one by one people here can bring change a lot of criticism being leveled at israeli prime minister bibi netanyahu in fact if he's run his name is mentioned he is 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 do and we keep on giving and there's no end to this is this is the only have to change is because you have any other choice which is a people who have been inspired by the demonstrations taking place there. what is your sign saying. why do you want to go home.

because of the police and actually these demonstrations green inspired trips we saw taking place in arab world well i think there's a lot of influence of what happened in the. syria lebanon or what. in libya there's a lot of influence of course that's when people understandably have the power that they can they can buy them so they don't need any more government to tell them what to do they can start throwing the government what they want. to do you know if they can they can start deciding for themselves. back to what they said is the spirit of revolution here a number of israeli populace son thing is they've also been taking to the stage and like sounded like you had high sometimes late seen and you know you've created this if you can't. fall asleep mideast correspondent there well one country that is pretty under the clouds of its own storm for some time now is still suffering

bloodshed at least forty five people were killed in syria as government forces stormed the city of president obama's about to be increased pressure on the regime after this fresh round of violence but. president of the arab lawyers association told me progress is alone won't bring positive results and president obama says what he's saying everybody in syria and in the arab world will be here to respond. the rest of the about afghanistan situation all of these things and dreams and it doesn't you know give any comfort feel and however i think the west can actually and the world can assist the syrian regime we then adds a policy of quiet contact to explain to them what are the ways that they can move into rather than just making statements and changing the laws seem to be content with condemning and making these crazy statements where i would say you know the

regime is less than a dollar not. still ahead in the program with me kevin are in an epidemic of depression sends to fans already high suicide rates skyrocketing as anxiety over radiation grips the country's population. next a debt crisis raging in europe is claiming more and more economic sculpts spain suffering recession and mass unemployment has now been put on review by the credit rating agency moody's the international monetary fund's more france meantime that it leads to impose cuts to avoid becoming europe's next debt crisis victim this is the e.u. zbig has borrowed greece is being dealt another blow by want to make creditors germany's finance minister says perlin won't write a blank check to buy back greek bonds that was a key part of last week's second bailout package a spokesman economics or the public he says greece should have been 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 so 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 solve their nearest 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 inch closer to the idea of a tool called euro meltdown. europe's economic bailout may be affecting the euro zone which is members but it's hitting the poorest hard to countries like the vacuum

crushed under the weight of europe's debt crisis right now sarah ferguson the week reported on whether membership of the euro club is failing to live up to its promises. they say that charity starts at home well some back here made you want to the poorest countries but with pressure from the e.u. to participate in a second bailout then money could soon be going to greece we can tell you what joining the euro zone brought responsibilities but not benefits in fact slovakian pensions a significantly lower than days increase people here at this hey michel to tell us they barely cover their food costs with the money they receive you have to now. you're homeless. have to reform our pension system our health care system was never enough money. 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 marker of hungary and probably always will be for the one from central europe to be you know if you're a club that the year is saying it seems isn't all it was cracked up simply as enjoying your of on the rolls and he's going through saying that one country. of just this one country in may two thousand and the rules changed dramatically days like that of the area gang may well now be breathing a sigh of relief if a neighboring no new year is a point she's had felt the benefits slave actual kids have been heading to their check out in a bid to escape the year and we come just across the border from the packets of 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 to be much cheaper people are now shopping outside

the country so vacuous retail revenues have fallen dramatically and the high prices mean a tourism industries have been hit hard say certainly not the results hopes for. him if there's joint out but every club has its leaders and what they say apparently gates even if they're the ones who got you into trouble in the states you see be a creator of all the countries that are. as good as german borns. make it possible for a greek the world so much money can maybe contributing this time it's left many of days same eager to join the euro gang feeling they're now simply being pushed around their fans back in. the economic worries 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 seat of the headquarters might be

about to split into two that's because of a growing divide between the dutch speaking north and the french speaking south and as artie's daniel bushell found out in the week the country's internal squabbles are sending a warning signal to other e.u. nations to. divorce before planning their next murray edge. of the southern region of well jim the country's been with delta fictive government for a record fourteen months french speech in the cells and flemish speaking floors in the north disagree on pretty much everything many analysts think likely outcome will see the country break into as soon as it splits with floors is complete the world will look to hook up with france for richer or poorer but mainly for richer. going it alone when you're a small region is clearly not appealing and well they say political clout is important the main appeal is money. the looniest part of france and everything but

name that we have the same language we watch french t.v. not belgian but above all our economies controlled by french firms. poll suggests that whole foods sixty percent of the french want to become one presidential front runner marine le pen last week said she would with the southern half of bill jim 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 your m.p. and we have contacted the socialist it has been confirmed to us that's in case budget would speed up then one would 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 contrary the flemish people don't know who are the popular singers or writers today in the french speaking part and vice versa alberts fears bill jim's national day last week was its last he added

the crisis threatens not just every belgian but european integration itself because . the e.u. is scared that the divorce of belgium will spark of the rest of europe catalonia leaving spain scotland leaving britain we're really seeing separatist marchers an excuse me towns here turn away went with guns getting called it takes just one very class for brussels to become serial that's conflicts or a mass killing not suffered in europe since world war two they've turned on each other as you can slow via broke up and the determination of regional identity is not to be underestimated fridge 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 of the new bush you'll see brussels. well also in the week we brought you a report from a land where separation brought anything but stability or pace violence flared up

again this week on the kosovo serbian border a wednesday cos of and police seized to check just impose a ban on imports from serbia shortly after that one of the crossing attacked by masked rioters and through fire bombs torched the custom for nato peacekeeping forces had to move in to stop the violence so this protest against unilateral moves by conference call for un security council meeting was a get to the last minute focus acts but a voice of knowledge told us kosovo is either ignoring the regulations will be given an official. leave. to see. an end to sent. fortune's says this is direct slap in the face of the syrian government who has been nothing but cooperate you've been even capitulate in india on doing negotiations which were set up by the e.u. this action is looking for the either completely bypassed or the europeans 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 and imagine we were spared recognizing your regime that is i did has absolutely no interest in any sort of dialogue it came to power through violence it has conducted what for different times and it serves another no no then in populations it has been rewarded for a. white spirit hologram of syrians in march two thousand and four and he has repeatedly shown where we can behave in a civilized fashion in the opening to include the region of independence and know this show honestly and your mission is serious and we keep hearing again it is contrary to international law you use the rules so obviously it is a mess if you are still making and it is a mess that the europeans and nato. basically needed need to fix we're going to have coverage of the crisis unfolding in europe on our website our taito com other stories have got of a small thing for you a pleasure boat tour in moscow over the weekend turned to tragedy as a cruise this sinks collided with

a barge it's left telling people about the latest on also trying to in ukraine mourning the victims of two coal mine accidents but claim thirty seven lives the first funerals are not going to help this two story tonight about t. don't know. if if. if if if if. of nature's power and public it caused in russia in the last twenty four hours you got these amazing pictures for your world with the swipes of the country's far east i would insist said we literally lifted three people up the bulk of the usual drop in back to the ground very sadly one of them was killed in a for a reason to use twenty eight twenty four you can see the ruins of buildings trees brought down power lines and overturned many cars all of these a stunning pictures of the viciousness of mother nature at times available about si

dot com. good news now in brief but peace american people have been killed in a blast at a police headquarters in a southern afghanistan but taliban claimed responsibility for the suicide car bomb attack in the city of. local authorities say most of the victims were police officers it's less than a fortnight since mid to late forces formally handed over security of the city to afghan troops. trouble about that no the ok on the italian island of sicily it's making its presence known now has been for eruptions already in july and this latest what is the biggest yet with flames and burning are shooting two hundred fifty meters up into the sky the flare up again on saturday morning it continued into the weekend no casualties or damage reported so far. it's may be nearly six months since the earthquake and tsunami devastated you pat but the number of dead connected to the tragedy continues to rise suicide rates are on the up and the

government is worrying about the pressure epidemic that it says could be on the horizon r.t. shaun thomas reports. a triple disaster on a scale the world has never known causing damage destruction and uncertainty forcing tens of thousands of japanese refugees to leave their lives behind and seek shelter anywhere they can some people. parker. but the problem is very minor and they be they have been accused by. classmates all you know of course by offshore. causing. found that. we can not be. there 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 neighbors would think about our health but in other words we run away we escape because we're scared of radiation that there is no example in the world of something similar and the consequences are still ongoing. well 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 farmers committed suicide because you know the organic farm us soil is everything very good soil for after many hours of hard work and it's just contaminated

one night. so. far. and i'm very sad to hear the news and many other farmers are also very much impressed by a recent national survey in japan performed by dr roshini and his team shows that suicide rates in japan have been frankly 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. insincerely rate increase. either thirty percent that but if you're areas because some barbers struggling to get. out and they have no can't do something to make society 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 last year these are

many people actually lost their jobs or working on the show was crushed. so. yeah they have so many of them through commit suicide because in japan's just told to keep rising even though he initially disaster subsided months before in japan sean thomas forty. it watching on t.v. this very early monday morning the first of all guests with me kevin knowing they saw a very shortly we're going to be exploring a traditional american way of money making or bunty hunting us coming up shortly after updating the headlines for you it's now one twenty eight hoffer am in moscow .

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