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a letter to. saddam did to go. to the colonel was her job as a retreat. to go take the world choose debut as a default deadline and possible catastrophic economic consequences lawmakers continued to call the capitol hill preoccupied with politics when it's called good friendship over extending america's credit limit more details from your. own and it made a pilot error of course last year's presidential plane crash that killed president lech kaczynski and scores of top officials but also the patroller hold still puts a lot of the blame on russia just part of criticism from a. hundred fifty thousand anti-government protest in blood streets across israel demanding prime minister netanyahu step down but some say the arab spring has now spread to israel.

and of our welcome to the program this is clever of you i mean you know tom main story now the political game of chicken as china has put it as containing washington as the country has towards a disaster as a default for weeks now lawmakers have been struggling to reach a compromise deal to raise the u.s. debt limit and as. and i reports with just hours left till august the second deadline calls intensify for politicians on capitol hill to be partisan bickering and just do that job. well what we hear and what we see are two different things in terms of what is happening in washington regarding this debt deal it's been dramatic there's been a lot of political process during taking place but no deal yet with sunday morning we did see us republican leaders take to all the mainstream media saying that

a deal is close shortly after we saw u.s. democratic leaders say there is no final agreement later on about four hours after that there was a vote in the senate where senator harry reid's plan for this debt deal was actually voted down it only received fifty votes and it needed sixty to pass that was a democratic plan at this point what we know is that the white house is holding closed door meetings with republican congressional leaders but there is a lot of division that still takes place what is being reported is that the republicans and democrats are trying to agree on a deal that would raise the debt limit in two stages that would get that would get the u.s. through the two thousand and twelve elections and that amount would be anywhere between two and three trillion dollars and at the same time they're trying to come to an agreement that where they would cut the u.s.

deficit by three trillion dollars over the next ten years the sticking point here is where to cut this spending the republicans do not want any taxes raise the democrats do not want programs such as social security medicare and medicaid to be touched so at this point what both parties are trying to come in agreement come to an agreement on are is where to cut three trillion dollars over the next decade the overall climate within the u.s. it is a climate of frustration americans are losing out but it is the americans that are going to take the brunt of this bridge and overall it's the u.s. law. makers it's those that are taking the opportunity to pick or choose to mudslinging to not come to a compromise and as a result of that there's been a block cloud of uncertainty uncertainty hanging over the u.s. overall foreign investors are very concerned the u.s.

is biggest lender china is very concerned about the fiscal management of the united states the fact that there can't be a compromise the u.s. business owners are hesitating from hiring new workers because there is a lack of confidence in leadership if the u.s. were to default on its loans this would mean a catastrophe for the u.s. economy it would trickle throughout the world and what it would mean in the u.s. is that interest rates would rise people would lose jobs it would be a replay of the two thousand and eight fiscal crisis so at this point i could tell you that the consensus is most of the most americans is that their elected officials in the u.s. cannot leave they could do a better job fighting and arguing then leading if they come to a compromise that will happen but it will happen at the last minute and some say that so much damage has already been done to the reputation and the credibility of the u.s. economy. and the president of the new york ways financial advisory service says

u.s. lawmakers only have time for a last minute quick fix to this one likely to be effective if they don't. 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 that were the country but the politics has put another 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'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 the next 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 u.s.

is not the only the u.s. rather is not the only place struggling to deal with financial crisis a massive debt think you're about dragging more and more countries into trouble with persisting concern over the economic stability of the eurozone on the eve of it the problem is not that. we should have to greece from the euro zone long ago so the greek drain has started to affect spain as the country prepares for the worst credit rating rated by fears over the new european deal to rescue the stable euro zone hard work that interesting. also has admitted that pilot error led to the polish presidential plane crash in western russia which killed than president lech a chance can scores of the country's top officials but the government commission still a part of the blame on russian air controllers but the disaster in april last year . reports now and how a national tragedy has become overtaken by politics. another day another

blame game very own probe into last year's presidential plane crash and 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 a fragment of the left wing is detached the aircraft begins the rotation 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 control the two thousand meters away should have told the crew to stop descending. commands should have been issued exactly at this moment this shows that the land in zone controller was performing his duty in an incorrect way. such statements come. it's little surprise to experts with some of

them saying acceptance of total responsibility would be impossible for the polish society they've been given the truth and the truth is unbearable they can't take it now i don't think that the polish investigators think they can pin the blame on anybody else but i do think that they are looking to pin some of the blame on somebody else aviation experts echoed this opinion calling the swipes against the russian side and substantial sum of 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 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 put it . i think we're now witnessing some political games to shift the blame from the polish side of i was an expert in this commission and i was surprised to learn to the crew was chosen immediately before the flight such a poor preparation for such a high profile flight publication of this report had been delayed for several months and was very much anticipated in poland it was meant to put paid to 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 known that in two months to be. interactions this report and all that issue but if your tablet will be use it are you. 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 say has no courage to take up the responsibility for the plane crash and has shuffled it off on to his staff nevertheless he is responsible for all the games he played with the russians he's responsible that the polls 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 society is still deciding whether to admit the brain 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 lost in the blame game. from warsaw poland. for

a closer look at the timeline of the polish presidential plane crash visit our website . you'll find a transcript of the cockpit voice recorder providing insight in that a tragedy that unfolded. the place to. israel has become the latest middle east country to see nationwide anti-government protests at its peak some one hundred fifty thousand people took to the streets on saturday after more than two weeks of rallies protests that are demanding that prime minister binyamin netanyahu steps down unless he undertakes sweeping economic reforms. and the biggest demonstration in television. well these easily a hundred and fifty thousand people here with the most popular chant being we demand a 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 as one by one people here can bring

change a lot of criticism being leveled at the israeli prime minister bibi netanyahu in fact every time his name is mentioned he is why are you here tonight i'm here because it's just becoming possible to live in this country anymore we work we give and we give and we keep on giving and there's no end to this is this is the only way we have to change those because you don't have any other choice so would you say people have been inspired by the demonstrations taking place there as well as or what is your sign saying the rewards are going to go to gaza leaders on earth. why do you want him to go home. alone because of the full distance how much of 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 had been in the ground and now syria lebannon and what you see in libya also there's a lot of influence of those and that's when people understand i do have the power

that they can they can organize but instead they don't need any more dead 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 populace some singers have also been taking to the stage and like some never sung had the chorus and i'm translating this is the new middle east we created the storm the future it's up to us. between forty five and one hundred people have been killed in syria by government forces storming the city of hama according to local human rights groups u.s. president obama has vowed to increase pressure on the regime after this fresh round of violence but a sub on the top president of the arab lawyers association says western promises alone all bring positive results. president obama says what he's saying everybody in syria and out of love with immediately respond back i want to move.

beyond the rest of the afghanistan situation all of these things and your dreams hallow and it doesn't you know you have any country however and i think the west can actually and the world can assist the syrian regime we then exist policy quiets contact playing to them what are the ways that they can move into it rather than just making statements and changing the rules the west seem to be content with condemning and making peace crazy statements when that it's you know the regime is lets them out or not. this is r.t. and coming up later in the program a depression weight spreads across japan sending the country's already high so it's had a great soaring as excited over every day asian groups the population falling marchers quake and tsunami. the debt crisis raging in europe is claiming more and more

economic sculpts spain's suffering recession and mass unemployment has now been put on review by the credit rating agency moody's the international monetary fund has warned france that its credit rating could be slashed if it does not impose more spending cuts because while the euro zone's biggest bailout recipient greece has been dealt another blow by one of europe's main creditors germany's finance minister has warned the you won't write a blank check to buy bonds the bonds of failing countries in a move also intended to deter other troubled states from believing more relief is on the way despite reckless boring and economics author patrick young says greens should have been pushed out of the eurozone although that. 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 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 library use 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 inched closer to the idea of the toll call your real melt on. europe's economic very large burden may be affecting the euro zone's richest members but it's hitting the poorest hard and countries like slovakia risk being crushed under the weight of europe's debt crisis furthur ports now and 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. i'll 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 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 joined the year is a it was such high hopes it was also kind of prestige to be the first one among her hunger and strength to get public polish people read about first one from central europe to be you know in the zero club back the year isn't it seems isn't all it

was cracked up simply as rejoined euro zone there was a lisbon treaty that was saying that birds of one country are a liability of just this one country in may two thousand there and the rules changed dramatically days left as of the year a gang may well now be breathing a sigh of relief if a neighboring nonny here is saying countries have felt the benefits slave actual peers have been heading to their check out in a bid to escape the year a we come just across the border fence the back yard to the czech republic where these people store outlets doing a building business more and more people make the regular journey to do their shopping because the prices here would be much cheaper with people now shopping outside the country so evacuees retail revenues have fallen dramatically in the high prices mean the tourism industries have been hit hard to certainly not the results hopeful when they feel. joined but every club has its leaders and what they

say apparently gays even if they're the ones who got you into trouble in the first place you seem to be creating. all the countries in europe on our. homeward journey there the greek bonds are as good as german bonds so. make it possible for greek to all the world so much money flow back in may be contributing this time it's left many of those at first so eager to join the euro gang feeling they're now simply being pushed around surf i think he said back in the us under strain but the country which has as its headquarters belgium is literally at breaking point it's on the verge of splitting between the flemish speaking north under french speaking south and as are all reports although you countries all be watching developments carefully for fear they could be repeated at home. saw to their divorced before planning their next marriage but not one of the

southern region of belgium the country's been with relative fictive government for a record fourteen months french speaking 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 a soon as it splits with floor this is complete the world looms 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 when the loonie 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 economies controlled by french firms. polls suggest 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 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 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 fears bill james national day last week was its last he added the crisis threatens not just every belgian but european integration itself. 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 in

mixed community towns here turned violent with guns getting pulled it takes 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 slove a 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 eight region all that's left are the details of the new bush you'll see brussels. and check out our website stories and let's have a quick look at all you can find on line right now about state policy on the border where the pleasure but in moscow turns to tragedy with nine dead tapes and following a collision with that barge. and ukraine grieves for thirty seven miners have died in two coal mine accidents and the first thing holes have that howard for more

details on this story and lots more about our web site it's our team. and right now a very rare glimpse of nature's power and the have a good cause in russia we've got stunning pictures over whirlwind sweeping through the country's far east in which one person died and i witnessed as say the wind literally lifted three people off the balcony before dropping them back to the ground and where one was killed by the wind how they did at least twenty eight as a true very small buildings and very few trees and brought down power lines and overturned many cars and more of the stunning pictures are available for you at r t v dot com. and in brief news from the rest of the world at least eleven people have

been killed in a blast at the police headquarters in southern afghanistan big time the band has admitted responsibility for that suicide car bomber time in the city of la garde most of the victims were police officers that force night since nato led forces formally hundred of the security in the city to up the troops. on the mound at play a sicilian has erupted again after four episodes of a chaotic activity this month flames and burning ash have been shooting two hundred fifty metres up into the sky in all it's the strongest of the recent eruptions the latest activity began on saturday morning and continued into the weekend now casualties or damage have been reported so far. japan is struggling to cope with this psychological consequences of tsunami and earthquake with an already high suicide rate rising even further since the catastrophe the government is concerned the country could be in the grip of a depression epidemic with many worried by radiation fears after the nuclear

disaster which followed thomas reports now from. a triple disaster on a scale the world has never known causing damage and destruction certainty forcing turns of thousands of japanese refugees to leave their lives behind and seek shelter anywhere they can and some people do. but the problem is the minority. be they have been accused by. 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 before nick. is everything they have good soil for after many hours of hard work and it's just contaminated one night to go so. far so i'm very

sad to hear the news and many other farmers are also very much depressed a recent national survey in japan performed by dr hiroshi 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. rate increase. in the. center. but if you're areas because some barbers striving to you costs. if they have not had to suit 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 crushed. so. yeah they have of so many good reasons to commit suicide causing japan's death toll to keep rising even though the initial disaster subsided months before in japan sean thomas or t.v. . you're watching our see very shortly we'll explore a traditional american way of money making or boating hunting but before that and i'm dado the main news for you in just a few minutes time.