in india all these are made of the the goal of the joint the virtual rooms the home of villains the greeks we go to the grand imperial college to george weston. so it's an old soldier mission for joe it's a duty to go. round the sun the colonel was virtually as used to retreat. the clock ticks towards tuesday's u.s. default deadline and possible catastrophic economic consequences no makers continue to become capitol hill preoccupied with party political brinkmanship over extending america's credit limit. poland admits pilot error caused last year's presidential plane crash that killed president lech kaczynski and scores of top officials much more so as of show report puts part of the blame on russia despite criticism from aviation experts. and up one hundred fifty thousand antigovernment protesters take to the trees across

israel demanding prime minister netanyahu steps down but some say the arab spring has now spread to the top tree. hello and welcome to our cheese weekly review. main story now the political game of chicken as china has put it is continuing in washington as the country heads towards a disastrous default for weeks now lawmakers have been struggling to reach a compromise deal to raise the u.s. debt limit and as artie's merino point ny reports with just hours left till the is the second deadline because intensifying for politicians on capitol hill to cut the partisan bickering and do their 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 posturing taking place but no deal as of yesterday sunday morning we did see u.s. republican leaders take to all the mainstream media saying that a deal is close shortly after we saw u.s. democratic leaders say that 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 with 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 please 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 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 talks is 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 it is americans that are going to take the brunt of this burden and overall it's the u.s. law. makers it's those that are taking the opportunity to get her to mudslinging to not come to a compromise and as a result of that there's

a bloc cloud of uncertainty uncertainty hanging over the u.s. overall foreign investors are very concerned the u.s. is the biggest lender china is very concerned about the fiscal management of the united states and the fact that there can't be a compromise or u.s. business owners are hesitating for hiring new workers because there is a lot of confidence in the 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 they're elected officials in the u.s. cannot leave they can 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 that it has already been done to the reputation and the credibility of

the u.s. economy. the president of the new york financial adviser says u.s. lawmakers only have time now for a last minute quick fix to you that's unlikely to be effective in the long run. 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 in the country but the politics has put in a person a place where we're not going to have eight ok type of compromise even if we get the most aggressive of the sides which is somewhere closer to four trillion or we'll only just imagine to bring down the debt level of the u.s. to about eight 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 the us is now the only place trying to deal with financial crisis martha does in europe are dragging more and more countries into trouble with persisting concern over the economic stability of the eurozone and the e.u. battle its problems on others. we should have amputated greece from the euro zone long ago so the greed drain has started to affect spain as the country prepares for the worst over its credit rating that abated by fears over the european deal to rescue the unstable here is a partner so we're reporting that in a few minutes. also has admitted that pilot error led to the polish presidential plane crash in western russia which killed the president lech kaczynski and scores of the country's top officials but the government commissions to lay part of the blame on russian air controllers for the disaster in april last year. how

a national tragedy has become overtaken by politics. another day another blame game poland's very own probe into last year's presidential plane crash and smolensk all got confirmed the findings of russia's investigation that the crew was almost soley responsible for the tragedy of this point there is an obstacle a tree that the aircraft collides with a fragment of the left wing used detached aircraft begins the rotation let me emphasize it's not that the tree was too high the aircraft had simply been it's a location where it shouldn't have been it seems the very things that was in the way of the plane are now getting in the way of warsaw taking full responsibility and these are not the only thing rooted in poland for failing to see eye to eye with moscow but. here's where the approach controller two thousand metres away should have told the crew to stop descending. commands should have been exactly the same moment he shows the controller was performing his duty.

such statements come as little surprise to experts with some of them saying acceptance of responsibility would be impossible for the society they've been given the truth and the truth is on bearable 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 russians signed 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 it's like super decision height you have no other choice than to raise the landing gear and go to your reserve airport the initial russian lead investigation was greeted by an avalanche 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 with well thought tactics and. i think we are 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 great all speculation regarding this plane crash but instead it 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 we know that in two months to be. interactions this report and all that

issue but if you will be. and the twin brother of the late president kaczynski was quick to prove this suggestion with a sharp round about the report. prime minister 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 polls were not conducting or even produce a reading in the investigation he's responsible for not defending polish interests imposed on or at the international forum which will get the bottom of this case as this is what we owe to those who died while opposing side he is still deciding where the responsibility which comes with a report are speculating whether this is a fair and objective investigation or an attempt to please all the players in the long lasting blame game. from warsaw in poland.

and closer look at the timeline of the polish presidential plane crash at our website. you'll find a transcript of the cockpit voice recorder providing these hell inside of it a tragedy that unfolded so the place to. its all 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 protesters are demanding that prime minister binyamin netanyahu steps down unless he undertakes sweeping economic reforms policy attenders the biggest demonstration in television for. all these early on in 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 they've been calling on

unity and message coming across very strongly is one by one people here can bring change a lot of criticism being leveled at israeli prime minister bibi netanyahu in fact if he's run his name is mentioned. why are you here tonight i'm here because it's just becoming a passerby to live in this country more we work we give and we give and we keep on giving and there's no end to this is the question as this is only will we have to change those because you have any thoughts on that would you say people have been inspired by the demonstrations taking place in their. cars or what is your sign saying. guzzlers on us why do you want him to go home. only to the fullest and actually be standing stray sions green inspired by the protests we saw taking place in arab world oh well i think there's a lot of influence of what happened in the ground and now syria and lebanon are and

what you see in libya also there's a lot of words of boasting about when people understand i do have the power that they can they can organize by ginger they don't need anymore to 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 take the power back to what they said he is the spirit of revolution here a number of israeli populace son singers have also been taking to the stage and one song that was sung you have of course and i'm translating the new middle east we created the storm fifty two it's up to us. between forty five and one hundred people have been killed in seaward by government forces storming the city of hama according to local human rights groups u.s. president obama has voted to has out whether to increase pressure on. regime after this fresh round of violence but it's about time the president of the arab lawyers association says what some promises it won't bring positive results president obama

says what he's saying everybody in syria and out of world will immediately respond . to the rest of the afghanistan situation all of these things are dreams are low and it doesn't you know have any comfort the aware however that 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 it rather than just making statements and changing the laws seem to be content with them in making these crazy statements well i would say you know the regime is less than a dollar not. this is our see and later in the program as oppression waves spreads across japan sending the country's already high suicide rate soaring society over radiation grips the population falling much as earthquake and tsunami. the debt

crisis raging in europe is claiming more and more economics culp's spain suffering recession and mass unemployment has now been put under review by the credit rating agency moody's and spain to national monitoring fund has one friends that it its credit rating could be slashed if it does not impose more spending cuts meanwhile the eurozone as the biggest bailout recipient of greece has been dealt another blow by one of europe's main creditors germany's finance minister has warned the he won't write a blank check to buy the bonds of failing and move also intended to deter other troubled states from believing more relief is on the way despite reckless boring and economics off the patrick young says the greens 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 bump you to 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 billing i saw their livers 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 a tool called your real meltdown. europe's economic being our 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. reports on whether membership of the euro club is failing to live up to his promises. they

say that charity starts at home well some back here may be one of the poorest countries but with pressure from the e.u. to participate in a 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 are significantly lower than in days increase people here is hey michel to tell us they barely cover their food costs with the money they receive they have to . deal with homelessness. have to reform our pension system our health care system that's 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 among hungary and probably. or for one from from through europe to be you know

if you're a club but the year isn't it seems isn't all it was cracked up simply as redrawing your of the longer i was going through the road maps of one country. of just this one country in may two thousand and the rules changed dramatically is left as of the year a gang may well now be breathing a sigh of relief in fact neighboring nonny here is saying plenty to felt the benefits slayback shop is have been heading to their check out in a bid to escape the year and we come just across the border from the bank here to the czech republic where the superstore out there doing a boom in business more and more people make the regular journey to do their shopping because the prices here is simply much cheaper people are now shopping outside the country so vacuous retail revenues have fallen dramatically and the high prices mean the tourism industries have been hit hard to certainly not the

results hopeful. when they first 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 see be created. all the countries are. more generous the. german bonds. make it possible for a greek. or so much money to like him maybe contributing bestowing it left many of days at first say eager to join the euro gang healing they're now simply being pushed around. back into. the u. is under strain but a country which has as its headquarters belgium is literally a breaking point it's on the verge of splitting between the flemish speaking north and that french speaking south and those are the reports other you countries will be watching developments carefully for fear they could be repeated at home so

divorced before planning their mixed marriage but not while lowly of the southern region of build them become please be with belts effective government for a record fourteen months for. the cells and fluid speaking floors 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 floors is complete the world will look to hook up with france for richer or poorer but moodley for richer. going it alone when you're a small region is clearly not appealing 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 economy is controlled by french friends. 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 bill jump with bronze president sarkozy's ruling party and the opposition are already in talks to tie the knot we have contacts with other parties with you n.p. and we have contacted the socialist it has been confirmed to us that's in case belgium would speed up then we would be welcome in france. the biggest party in the northern half wants to split two experts say bill james already divided people don't know any more about the other half of the country and flemish people don't know who are the popular singers or writers in the french speaking part of vice versa king albert is bill james national day last week was its last here did the crisis threatens not just every builded puts european integration itself but. the e.u. is scared of the wars 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 called to take just one big class from 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 frige 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 will see brussels. so check out our website call for more stories in the tears and let's have a quick look at what you can find online right now. i passed a party on board a pleasure boat in moscow tends to trash nine dead signs following a collision with a more barge. algy crane greeks for thirty seven miners have died in two coal

mine acid and as the first king holes have been held and for more details on this story and lots more i want our website after all. if. you. and also a very rogue glimpse of nature's power and the havoc it caused in russia so we've got stunning pictures of a whirlwind sweeping through the country's far east in which one person died and i witness is say the wind literally lifted three people off a balcony before dropping them back to the ground one was killed by the force so the wind was ingrid has injured at least twenty eight as a tour groups of buildings uprooted trees and brought down power lines and overturned many cars more on these stunning pictures are available at our t.v. awkward for you. news from the rest of the world at least eleven people have been

killed in a blast at a police headquarters in southern afghanistan the taliban has admitted responsibility for the suicide car bomb attack in the city of lashkar gar most of the victims were police officers it's less than a fortnight since nato led forces formally hundred of its security in the city about going troops. mount etna in sicily has erupted again after four episodes of volcanic activity this month flames and burning which have been shooting two hundred fifty metres up into the sky it was the strongest of the recent eruptions the latest activity began on saturday morning and continued into the weekend no casualties or damage have been reported so far. japan is struggling to cope with the psychological consequences of marches an arm in the quake with an already hired suicide rate rising even further in the catastrophe the government is concerned the country could be in the group of a depression at the demick with many more worried by radiation fears after the

nuclear disaster which followed and she's shown thomas reports on. 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. barker. but the problem is the minority they be they have been accused. classmates all you know. of course by offshore. causing. the of i'm. not. there primarily a move towards self-preservation this idea of desertion is defined by many as characteristically in japanese and has or it is those who have evacuated the dishonorable title of traitor. of course it's hard to hear that we have family

neighbors we 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. committed suicide because you have to be organic. soil everything they know each other good soil for after many hours of hard work and it's just contaminated one night you know so. it's

inside out and 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 timeframe in the previous ten years but the demographics are not what you might expect. increased. nope. you just go to a center but if you're areas because suburbs struggling to hit you can thrive. and they have no capital to make society this disaster has certainly taken its toll on japan's economy and such constant reminders of an intense traffic can harm the collective psyche of the people who live here as well because of the. tsunami disaster last year. many people actually lost their jobs

or their working on the show was crushed. so. yeah i thought that they have so many good reasons to commit suicide. causing japan's just told to keep rising even though the initial disaster subsided months before in japan shaun thomason over to. europe today to supporters we're here in just about fifteen minutes and before that a chat with the legendary rock star brian may. gets saved all casting life from the center of moscow and to go very welcome here on the latest headlines in just a few months and stay with us.

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