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to go. run to the colonel was photo retreat. the clock ticks towards tuesday's u.s. default deadline and possible catastrophic economic consequences lawmakers continue to be held accountable he'll preoccupied with party political brinkmanship over extending america's credit limit. poland and made a pilot error caused last year's presidential plane crash that killed president lech kaczynski and scores of top officials but waltzes of the show report puts part of the blame on russia despite criticism from aviation experts. and up to one hundred fifty thousand anti-government protesters take to the streets across israel demanding prime minister netanyahu steps down but some say the arab spring has now spread to the country.

hello and welcome to our 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. falls with just i was left till the second deadline because intensify 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 prospering taking place but no deal yet the 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 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 they'd 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 the spending the republicans do not want any tuxes 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. is a climate of frustration americans are losing out but it is the americans that are going to take the brunt of this burden and overall it's the u.s. law. makers of those that are taking the opportunity to pick are two to mudslinging to not come to a compromise and as a result of that there's been a bloc 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 and the fact that there can't be a compromise 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. 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. the president of a need. to reset it says u.s. no makers only have time now for a last minute quick fix deal 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 that were the country but the politics has put most put us in a place where we're not going to have a 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 the us is not the only place struggling to deal with financial crisis massive data from europe are

dragging more and more countries into trouble with persisting concern over the economic stability of the eurozone and the eventual its problems are not is. we should have amputated greece from the euro zone long ago so the greek drain has started to affect spain as the country prepares for the worst of its credit rating that abated by fears over the european deal to rescue the stable here is a partner so we'll report on that in a few minutes. more so 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 to hear cesky reports now on how a national tragedy has the kind of a taken by politics. another day another blame game poland's 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 the fragment of the left wing is detached the aircraft begins but let me emphasize it's not that the tree was too high the aircraft had simply been at a location where it shouldn't have been it seems the very things that got in the way of the plane are now getting in the way of warsaw taking full responsibility and trees are not the only thing rooted in poland failing to see eye to eye with moscow. here's where the approach controller two thousand metres away should have told the crew to stop descending the horizon command should have been issued exactly at this moment this shows that the london controller was performing his duty in an incorrect way. such as little surprise to experts will. 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 echo this opinion calling the swipes against the russian side and substantial some claims concerning the airport or controllers they have nothing to do with the crash i've been a pilot for over thirty years and i know a simple rule if you don't see the runway or its likes of the decision height you have no other choice than to raise the landing gear and go to your reserve airport the initial rush unload investigation was greeted by a novel launch of criticism from some movements in poland they expressed doubts about the reliability of the report often based on anti russian sentiment and some experts say it is not pure emotion driving this but well thought tactics. but if

you. i think we'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. a problem until elections this report and all that issue but if your tablet will be use it or even easier 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 to the prime minister to have 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 is responsible that the poles were not conducting or even participating in the investigation he's responsible for not defending polish interests in polish 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 polish society is still deciding whether to admit the plane for responsibility which comes with a report experts are speculating whether this is a fair and objective investigation or an attempt to please all the players in the long lasting blame game. after reporting from warsaw in poland. and 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 a detail inside of that a tragedy that unfolded so altie dot com is the place to go. 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 protesters are demanding that from minister binyamin netanyahu steps down unless he undertakes sweeping economic reforms policy attenders the biggest demonstration in television for us. obviously 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 is one by one people here can bring change a lot of criticism being leveled at israeli prime minister bibi netanyahu in fact every time his name is mentioned he is good why are you here tonight i'm here

because it's just becoming a passerby 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 the first chance this is our only hope we have to change those because we don't have any choice so would you say people have been inspired by the demonstrations taking place in their full service of us or what is your sign saying. gosselin is on us 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 happened in the to do 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 the government to tell them what to do they can start throwing 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 is the spirit of revolution here a number of israeli populists on singers have also been taking to the stage and one song that was sung had a 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 voted to has vowed rather to increase pressure on. regime after this fresh round of violence but it's about time the president of the arab lawyers association says western promises alone won't bring positive results president obama says what he's saying everybody in syria and out of world will immediately respond. by the rest of the afghanistan situation all of these things

and dreams are low and it doesn't have any country however i think the west can actually and the world can assist the syrian regime with policy of quiet contact to explain to them what the ways that they can move into rather than just making statements and changing the laws but the west seem to be content with condemning and making these crazy statements when i would say you know the regime is next to my door 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 as an aside here the radiation grips the population falling much as earthquake and tsunami and. the debt crisis raging in europe is claiming more and more economics culp's spain suffering recession and mass unemployment has now been put on review by the credit rating agency moody's and the international monetary

fund has warned france that it its credit rating could be slashed if it does not impose more spending cuts meanwhile the eurozone as the biggest bailout recipient 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 back 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 green should have been pushed out of the eurozone a 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 to 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 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 inch closer to the idea of a toll call your real melt on. europe's economic 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 way to europe's debt crisis on reports on whether membership of the euro club is failing to live up to its promises. they say that charity starts at home while some 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 joined the year is a it was such high hopes it was also kind of prestige to be the first one among hungary and probably polish polish people 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 to be as we joined euro zone there was

a lisbon treaty that was saying that of one country liability just this one country in may two thousand turned the rules changed dramatically there is left out of the area gang may well now be breathing a sigh of relief if a neighboring not only here is in countries have felt the benefits slave actual peers have been heading to their check out in a bid to escape the year a we come just across the border from the backyard to the czech republic where 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 so vacuous retail revenues have fallen dramatically and the high prices mean the tourism industries have been hit hard certainly not the results. 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 in europe on our.

homeward jenna's the greek bonds are as good as german bonds so all these. make it possible for greek to all the world so much money the market 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 their fares are said back in. the us under strain by the 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 the french speaking south and the reports i think you countries will be watching developments carefully for fear they could be repeated at. song to the divorce before planning their mixed marriage but not well lowly of the southern region of belgium the country's been with delta fictive government for a record fourteen months french speak in the cells and flemish speaking floor in

the north disagree on pretty much everything many analysts think the most likely outcome will see the country break into as soon as it splits with floor does complete the world lose will look to hook up with france for richer or poorer but mainly for richer. going it alone when your small region is clearly not appealing they say political clout is important the main appeal is money and one of the loonie is part of france in everything but name that we have the same language we watch french t.v. no belgian but above all our economy is controlled by french friends. polls suggest that whole foods and sixty percent of the french want to become one presidential front runner marine le pen last week said she would with the southern half of belgium with france president sarkozy's ruling party and the opposition are already in talks to tie the knot we have contacts with other parties with you m.p.

and we have contacted the socialist it has been confirmed to us that's in case belgium would speed up then one would be welcome in france. the biggest party in the northern half want to split two experts say belgium's already divided people don't know any more about the other half of the country the flemish people don't know who are the popular singers or writers today in the french speaking part and vice versa king albert fears bill jim's national day last week was its last he added the crisis threatens not just every belgian but european integration itself in your pm calles the e.u. is scared that the divorce of belgium will spark of the rest of europe catalonia leaving to be in scotland leaving a britain where releasing separatist marchers and mixed community towns here turned violent with guns getting called to take just one big clash for brussels to become

sir. that's conflicts or a mass killing not suffered in europe since world war two neighbors turned on each other as you can slow via broke up and the determination of regional identity is not to be underestimated frige unionists say they have the flag and everything else worked out to become from. twenty eight. live. so check out our website for more stories and videos and let's have a quick look at what you can find online right now. a birthday party onboard a river pleasure boat in moscow turns to tragedy with a nine dead sign following a collision with a more barge. and ukraine grieves for thirty seven miners who died in two coal mine accidents as the first funerals have been held and for more details on this story and lots more going to our web site.

and also a very rare glimpse of nature's power and they have a good cause 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 fall so the wind was injured has injured at least twenty eight as a tour roofs of the buildings uprooted trees and brought down power lines and overturned many cars more in these stunning pictures are available at. 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 gah or that most of the

victims were police officers it's less than a fortnight since nato led forces formally hundred over security in the city of afghan troops. mount etna in sicily has a role today again after four episodes of volcanic activity this month flames and burning which have been shooting two hundred fifty meters up into the sky is. it's 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 marchers 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 group of a depression at the demick with many worried by radiation fears after the nuclear disaster which followed thomas reports an awful trip. 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 problem is the minority they be they have been accused by. their classmates you know. of course by offshore. causing. the 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. everything they know a good solid for after many. just. one night to go so. i'm very sad to hear the news and when. 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 been found 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. great increase. note in. either thirty eight percent but the areas because some are both striving to the. right they have not had to sue 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 lost their jobs or their working on the show was crushed. so. yeah they have

a for many good reason the commit suicide causing japan's death toll to keep rising even though the initial disaster has subsided months before in japan sean thomas or t.v. . and you're up to date as supporters were here in just over fifteen minutes and before that a chat with the legendary rock star brian may was our interview guest broadcasting live from the center of moscow and to go there welcome here our day here on the latest headlines in just a few months and stay with us.