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says r t live from moscow for a good morning for me kevin owen you're watching a weekly a roundup of the main news for the last seven days and 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 there is yet more protracted bickering on american t.v. networks. as more of that. 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 pickering 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 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 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. presidents of the financial advisory is the u.s. has no time but nothing better than a last minute deal. 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 has put no put us in a place where we're not going to have eight ok type of compromise even if we get the most aggressive of the types which is somewhat closer to four trillion or we'll only just be 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 they 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. and the debt 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 long ago the great drain weighs heavily on spain the country prepares for the worst over its credit rating because of its eurozone state 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 that killed president lech kaczynski along with dozens of the country's ruling elite but the inquiry still led part of the blame on moscow saying that russian air traffic controllers also contributed to the disaster it is a lecture is yes he reports now on how the national tragedies 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 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 a tree that the aircraft collides with. that the fragment of the left wing is detached the aircraft begins there are taishan but let me emphasize it's not that the tree was too high the aircraft had simply being 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 least moment this shows that the landing zone controller was performing

hughes duty in an incorrect way on these day such statements come as little surprise to experts with some of them saying acceptance of total 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 echoed 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 it's like of the decision height you have no other choice than to raise the landing gear and go to your reserve airport the initial russian load investigation was greeted by a novel launch of criticism from some movements in poland they expressed doubts

about the reliability of the report often based on anti russian sentiment and some experts say it is not pure emotion driving this but well thought tactics. you know what if you. i think we're now witnessing some political games to shift the blame from the polish sign 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. parliamentary elections this report and

all that issue but if your tablet will be. even easier is it in the electoral campaign and the twin brother of the late president kaczynski was quick to prove this suggestion with a sharp round about the report to the prime minister to sketches no courage to take up the responsibility for the plane crash and has shuffled it under his staff nevertheless he is responsible for all the games he played with the russians he's responsible that the poles were not conducting or even participating in the investigation he's responsible for not defending polish interests and at the international forum which will get to the bottom of this case as this is what we owe to those who died while the polish society is still deciding whether to admit that playing full responsibility which comes with a report experts are speculating whether this is a fair and objective investigation or an attempt to please old players in the long lasting blame game. 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. and. you find there what you see on your screens now but in a lot more length is second by second the analysis of the interstate aviation commission with a transcript of the cockpit voice recorder writing a detailed perspective of the cause of the tragedy check it out dot com. israel's become the latest middle east country to see nationwide anti-government protests some one hundred fifty thousand took to the streets on saturday night after more than two weeks of rallies protesters are demanding the prime minister binyamin netanyahu step unless he undertakes sweeping economic reforms are his policy or attended the biggest demonstration in tel aviv. all these really happened to him 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 if he time 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 only what has to change just because you don't have any other choice would you say people have been inspired by the demonstrations taking place there. what is your sign saying. because the leaders on earth. why do you want him to go home. alone because of the police and how much of these demonstrations i mean inspired by the protests we saw taking place in the arab world. well i think there's a lot of influence of what happened in there to. syria lebanon iran in one. in

libya there's a lot of influence of course that's when people understand they have the power that they can. buy them they don't need anymore their government to go there what to do they can start 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 populists young singers have also been taking to the stage and my son if you had why i said i'm translating this new middle east we created this the future. mideast correspondent there well one country that's been under the cloud 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 hama president obama's vowed 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 in the arab world will immediately respond. by the rest of the afghanistan situation all of these things and your dreams and it doesn't give any comfort however i think the west can actually and the world can assist the syrian regime with a policy a quiet calm to explain to them what are the ways that they can move into this rather than just making statements and changing the laws the way seem to be content with condemning and making these crazy statements whether it's you know the regime is less than a dollar not. still ahead in the program with me kevin now in an epidemic of depression sends to families 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 of mass unemployment has now been put on review by the credit rating agency moody's the international monetary fund's board france meantime that it leads to impose cuts to avoid becoming europe's next debt crisis victim this is the e.u. zbig is borrowed greece is being dealt another blow by one of its main creditors germany's finance minister says berlin won't write a blank check to buy back greek bonds and that was a key part of last week's second bailout package i spoke to economics author patrick young early he says 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 solve 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 the total euro melt on. europe's economic bailout may be affecting the euro zone which is members but it's hitting the poorest hard to countries like slovakia crushed under the weight of europe's debt crisis right now r.t. sara firth in 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 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 it on 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 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 money never enough money. that back in two thousand and nine when slovakia joined the year is a it was such high hopes it was also kind of prestige to be the first one america hunger and strength to get public polish polish people for the one from central europe to be you know if you're

a club that the year isn't it seems isn't all it was cracked up severely as we join the euro zone there was a lisbon treaty that was saying but that's of one country liability just this one country in may two thousand turned the rules changed dramatically days left out of the year a gang may well now be breathing a sigh of relief if a neighboring nonny here is in countries have felt the benefits slave actual peers have been heading to their check out in a bid to escape the year and we come just across the border fence the back yard 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 vacuums retail revenues have fallen dramatically and the high prices mean the tourism industries have been hit hard certainly not the results hopeful when they feel. has 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 you see a created this in all of the countries in europe on our. homeward journey the greek bonds are as good as the german bonds saw. made it possible for greek to all the world so much money like in maybe contributing this time it's left many of days at first so eager to join the year a gang feeling there now simply being pushed around sarah fat feet back in. 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 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. some wait till they're divorced 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 looms in the self and flemish speaking flanders in the north disagree on pretty much everything many analysts think the most likely outcome will see the country break into as soon as it splits with flanders is complete the world 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 when the loonie is part of france in everything but name it we have the same language we watch french t.v. not belgian but above all our economies control where french firms. poll suggests that whole foods and sixty percent of the french want to become one presidential

front runner marine le pen last week said she would wear the southern half of 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 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 writer stood in the french speaking part device for so king albert's 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 we're already seeing separatist marchers in mixed 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 could slove a broke up and the determination of regional identity is not to be underestimated french 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. 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 on wednesday cause of and police seems to check to impose a ban on imports from serbia shortly after that one of the crossings attacked by masked rioters you threw fire bombs and torched the customs office nato

peacekeeping forces have been moving to stop the violence so obvious protest against unilateral moves by constable to call for un security council meeting with or get to the last minute welcomes acts but a boy should manage told us kosovo is either ignoring the regulations has been given sufficient upon. the. sea dream or an end to send. she forces this is erect slap in the face of the syrian government which has been nothing but quadrant you've been even capitulate even in the ongoing negotiations which were set up by the e.u. this action has completely either completely bypassed both the europeans and nato or has been executed with their complicity in cooperation and honesty in no condition which is worse d'you has made it seems even an unimaginably worse than 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 widespread and

cleansing of serbs and of your no no then in populations it has been rewarded for a. white spirit forum of syrians in march two thousand and four and he has basically shown the willingness to behave in a civilized fashion even going into including to the region of independence and know this so honestly and your mission is there to facilitate their independence contrary to international law and use the rules so obviously it is a message here so making it is a mess that the europeans and nato. basically made it need to fix it we're going to have coverage of the crisis unfolding in europe on our website r.t. dot com other stories have got of a smalling for your 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 they got the latest on that also tried to in ukraine mourning the victims of two coal mine accidents that claimed thirty seven lives the first funeral for now been held just two stories tonight about tito.

may choose power and the how the kid caused in russia in the last twenty four hours we've got these amazing pictures for you of world. swept through the countries far east i would insist say they would literally lifted three people up a balcony before dropping them back to the ground very sadly one of them was killed in a four hundred twenty eight tours you can see the ruins of building a little trees brought down power lines and overturned many cars more these a stunning pictures of the viciousness of mother nature at times available at our team dot com. good news now a brief beast eleven people have been killed in a blast at a police headquarters in a southern afghanistan the taliban claimed responsibility for the suicide car bomb

attack in the city of lescott guy local authorities say most of the victims were police officers bits less than a fortnight since nato led forces formally handed over security of the city to afghan troops. trouble about that near the volcano on the italian island of sicily it's making its presence known now has been for eruptions already in july and this latest one is the biggest yet with flames and burning ash shooting two hundred fifty meters up into the sky the flare up began on saturday morning it continued into the weekend no casualties or damage reported so far. it's maybe only 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 it depression 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. but the but the problem is the minority they be they have been accused by. classmates you know. of course by or. 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. committed suicide because you. want to. use everything very good soil. after many. tests contaminated. to know so. i'm very sad to hear the news. man. the 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 timeframe in the previous two years but the demographics are not what you might expect the. late increase. not in the. center. but the areas because some barbers striving to the. right they have not had to sit through 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 for many

a good read on the commit suicide causing japan's death toll to keep rising even though the initial disaster has subsided months before in japan sean thomas forty. you're watching r.t. this very early monday morning the first of august with me kevin i know in this hour very shortly we're going to be exploring a traditional american way of money making or bounty hunting is coming up shortly after updating the headlines for you it's now one twenty eight half am in moscow.