in india old geezer made a big move going to join the virtual rooms a movie that's bigger if we go to the grand imperial truly the george was to school until you can oh well it's a little closure it's a duty to go and. run this the colonel was hurt you know as used to retreat. he's just saying president obama has been ours that republican and democrat and always had reached a deal of voting a u.s. default which would have had a catastrophic economic consequences. holland admits pilot error caused last year's presidential plane crash that killed president lech kaczynski and scores of top officials but also the official report still puts part of the blame on russia despite criticism from aviation experts. and up to eight hundred fifty thousand anti-government protesters take to the

streets across israel demanding prime minister netanyahu step down but some saying the arab spring has now spread to the country. and welcome to aussies weekly review and you go shower tell main story now the threat of a disastrous us debt default has been averted at the eleventh hour with president obama announcing that lawmakers have finally reached a deal after a seemingly endless political bickering and stalemate however the political struggle is far from being over with the most important issue of how to best balance the budget being put on for a later date the announcement comes after barack obama held intense talks with democrat and republican leaders the compromise a while the world punishing us boring to continue our cheese day in exchange for more than two trillion at. in the long term spending cuts but as we're in

a fortnight reports deal they haven't reached the u.s. reputation has been tarnished. so help us avoid default debt ceiling nation default and this crisis time's running out the entire world is watching it's been a public spectacle filled with bickering grandstanding and lack of compromise i devise a debate over raising the u.s. debt ceiling created an unprecedented climate of uncertainty over america's so-called sound economy the damage been done no matter what happens now everybody really thinks the united states isn't so secure it isn't so safe even if the craziness subsides it seems to have gotten real close and who knows whether the next month next year this won't blow up again since the underlying causes economic problems are getting worse in this country for point five trillion dollars of america's borrowing is owed by foreign countries experts say washington's

mismanagement may cause investors to abandon the devalued dollar and end their partnership with america it's like being married to someone just so many of the richer you want to know what a word you. can put up with his relationship to the us will be. the only game and. he really is making noises chinese making noises you know we're alone now in our ability to be a repository of refining in the world the result could spark a replay of the two thousand eight. times washington not wall street would be responsible for the first time in history our country's aaa credit rating would be downgraded leaving investors around the world to wonder whether the united states is still a good bet. interest rates would skyrocket on credit cards on mortgages and on. which amounts to a huge tax hike on the american people as the count down new york zero all three

big reading giants moody's fitch and standard and poor's threatened america's how low triple a score unless a deal with hammered out and the fourteen point three trillion dollar debt getting higher economists say america's unsustainable budget deficits are the biggest threats to the nation it's like the batteries worn out this part of the stonework the tires are flat all of this and so what we're trying to do is say we've got a little bit of money in the bank let's pay that down but we're not doing anything to fix the economy and so we're putting ourselves in a bigger and bigger hole not just because of the dad but really because we're not creating any way to get out of that instead of the u.s. president repeatedly asked americans over the past week to join the campaign to borrow and spend more make a phone call e-mail tweet keep the pressure on washington and we can get past this

while the eyes of the world have been following the heated saga of playing out between u.s. politicians the main problem not going away is america's debt and the growing realisation that elected officials may never be capable of agreeing on how to solve it. r.t. new york. the u.s. is not the only place struggling to deal with financial crisis massive debts in europe that are driving more and more countries into trouble with persisting concern over the economic stability of the eurozone and even part of its problem is another is. we should have amputated greece from the euro zone long blue. so the greek drain has started to affect spain as the country prepares for the worst over its credit rating exacerbated by fears over the new european deal to rescue the unstable euro zone partners so we're report on that in a few minutes. and right now we also did which is that pilot error led to

the polish presidential plane crash in western russia which killed ten then president lech kaczynski and scores of the country's top officials but the government commission still laid part of the blame on russian air controllers for the disaster in april last year. reports now on how a national tragedy has been overtaken by politics. but 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 at tree that the aircraft collides with a fragment of the left wing is detached aircraft begins their iteration well 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 national here's where the approach controller two thousand metres away should have told the crew to stop descending horizon command should have been issued exactly a piece moment he shows the landing zone controller was performing his duty and encouraged me on these three such statements come as little surprise to experts with some of them saying acceptance of the 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 son of play on sunday else aviation experts echoed this opinion calling the swipes against the russian side and substantial someone 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 the likes of the decision height you have no other choice than to raise the landing gear and go to your reserve or 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 well thought tactics and. i think we're now witnessing some political games to shift the blame from the polish sign of i was an expert in this commission and i was surprised to learn that the crew was chosen immediately before the flight such poor preparation for such a high profile flight publication of this report had been delayed for several months and was very much anticipated in poland it was meant to put a break through all speculation regarding 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 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 you are terribly it will be use it or 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. prime minister to say has 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 i think international forum will get to the bottom of this case as this is what we owe to those who died while opposed to society is still deciding whether to admit the painful responsibility

which comes with a report experts are speculating whether this is a fair and objective investigation or an attempt to please all players in the long lasting blame game let's hear a shot ski athey from warsaw in poland. and for a closer look at the timeline of the polish presidential plane crash visit our website. ah and you'll find a transcript of the cockpit voice recorder providing a detailed insight into the tragedy and sold it so i ask it of home is the place to go. israel has become the latest middle east country to sing nationwide antigovernment 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 the prime minister binyamin netanyahu steps down unless he undertakes

sweeping economic reforms on his policy agenda is the biggest demonstration in tel aviv. these early on in fifty thousand people here with the most popular chant we demand for 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 you try his name is mentioned. why are you here tonight i'm here because it's just because you need to live in this country anymore we work with. you and we keep on giving and there's no end to this this is this is the only role was to change those because you. would you say people have been inspired by the demonstrations taking place there. what is your sign saying. why do you want him to go home. alone because of the reasons that should be the

same inspirations green inspired to protest we saw taking place in the arab world well i think there's a lot of influence of what happened in the. syria and iran and what we see in libya there's a lot of. when people understand i do have the power that they can. get i didn't care they don't need any more good government to tell them what to do they can start throwing the government what they want. to do you know if they can they can start deciding for themselves. back to what they said is the spirit of revolution here a number of these really popular song singers have also been taking to the stage and like some different than you had the courage to translate saying you're going to leave we created this. between forty five and one hundred people have been killed in sea where by government forces storming the city of hama that's according to local killing white scrapes u.s.

president obama has vowed to increase pressure on the regime after this fresh round of violence but on the tough president of the arab lui's association says western promises alert won't bring positive results president obama says what he's saying everybody in syria and out of work will be easier to respond by one time or the rest of the afghanistan situation all of these things and dreams are low and it doesn't give any comfort however i think the west can actually and the world can assist the syrian regime with policy why it's contact that's playing to them what are the ways that they can move into the rather than just making statements and changing the laws seem to be content with condemning and making these crazy statements well i would say the regime is less than most or not. and

later on the program a depression of waves spreads across japan sending the country's already high surf side rates soaring as a society over radiation rates the population falling martyr's earthquake and tsunami. that as quiet as raging in europe is claiming more and more economic scalps spain's suffering recession and unemployment has now been put on review by the credit rating agency moody's international monetary fund has warned france that its credit rating could be slashed if it does not impose more spending cuts meanwhile the euro zone's biggest bailout recipient greece has been dealt another blow by one of europe's main crevasses finance minister has warned the you want to 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 a reckless pouring so makes author patrick young says greece should have been pushed out of the euro zone long ago. this is typical of contagion we've been

talking about it for weeks we have you know when you get some degree of illness and it goes through the body ultimately you have to decide when to amputate it and the truth is we should have amputated greece from the euro zone long ago there are fundamental huge problems going all the way through the euro zone and we don't have any leaders who are willing to give us a sustainable solution we've got the situation at the moment where provincial libraries in northern germany are being closed because the money isn't there because it's being used to fund people in the mediterranean i think german voters are going to get very angry about it but very very soon and i actually think the political will is not there amongst the people so endlessly people billing their saw their new voters it's going to be a huge problem because ultimately the contingent 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 troll called your real meltdown. here of second only. maybe 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 its promises. they say that charity starts at home also invite 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 days increase people here is hey michelle to tell us they barely cover their food costs the money they receive they have to. deal with homelessness we have to reform our pension system our health care system this is not never enough money. back in two thousand and nine when

slovakia joining the year is a day with such high hopes it was also kind of prestige or to be the first one hunger for public knowledge or if people read about for one from some for 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 rejoining your of on there was always been pretty good with saying that that's one country. just this one country in may two thousand firm the rules changed dramatically days left that severely gangly well now be breathing a sigh of relief it may bring not only here easing countries have felt the benefits slayback shoppers have been heading to bear checkout in peace to escape a year and we come just across the border from the backyard to the czech republic where the superstore out there 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 vacuums retail revenues have fallen dramatically and the high prices mean the tourism industries have been hit hard certainly not the results hopeful when the. joined but every club has its leaders and what they say apparently gates even if they're the ones who got you into trouble in the first place you see be creative. all the countries in europe on our. homeward you know the greek bonds are as good as german born so. made possible for a greek. so much money can maybe contributing this time it's led many of days it was so eager to join the euro gang feeling there now simply being around their fair back in the years under strain but the country which houses its headquarters in belgium is literally at breaking point on their word it splitting

between the flemish speaking north and the french speaking south and as are his daniel bushell reports i think you countries will be watching developments carefully for fear they could be repeated at home. to the divorce before planning a bit mixed marriage but not well lowly of the southern region of build your own country build to fix you government for a record fourteen months fridge speech in the cells and flip speaking floor in the north disagree pretty much everything. lloyd com will see the country break into as soon as it splits with flawed business complete the world will look to hook up with france for richer or poorer but mainly for groucho. 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. alone 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 economy is controlled by french firms with polls suggest that hall for sixty percent of the french want to become one presidential front runner marie le pen last week said she would with the southern half of bill jump with france president sarkozy's ruling party and the opposition are already in talks to tie the knot so we have contacts with other parties with you m.p. and we have contacted a socialist but it has been confirmed to us that in case belgium would speed up then what would be welcome in france. the biggest party in the northern half wants the split to expose 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 in the french speaking part and vice versa albert is bill james national day last week was its last he added the crisis threatens not just every

poll journal but european integration itself and. the e.u. is scared that the wars of belgium was work of the rest of europe catalonia leaving spain scotland leaving britain were really seen separatist marches and mixed community towns here turned violent with guns getting called to take just one big class for brussels to become sorry that conflicts almost killing not suffered in europe since world war two neighbors turned on each other as you can slow over your 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 will see brussels. check out our website our set up call for more stories and videos and

let you know how to quickly get what you can find online right now. a bafta party on board a river pleasure. to tragedy with nine dead after it sank following pollution with a more. grain grieves for thirty seven mind it's had died in two coal mine answered in the past the first two year olds have been held so nobody else of this story lots more of course our website. and also you can find it all to dot com a very rare glimpse of nature's power and they have a good cause in russia we've got stunning pictures of the world wind sweeping through the country's far east in which one person died and eye witnesses say they would literally lifted three people off a balcony before dropping them bunch of the ground one was killed by the fall so

the wind was injured has injured at least twenty eight as a tour roofs of buildings uprooted trees brought down power lines and overturned many cars more these stunning pictures are available at our home. and in brief news from the rest of the world this hour 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 chicago are most of the victims were police officers and it's less than a fortnight since nato led forces formally hundred over security in the city to our good troops. mount etna in sicily has erupted again after four episodes of volcanic activity this month planes and burning out have been shooting two hundred fifty meters out into the sky and all this trying to stop the recent around the latest activity began on saturday morning and continued into the weekend no casualties or damage have been reported so far. compounded struggling to cope with

the psychological consequences of martyrs tsunami and earthquake with it already high it suicide rate rising even further it's as 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 sean thomas reports for us from the time. 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 they are a minority they be they have been accused. classmates you know of course by offshore. causing.

not. the primarily a move towards itself preservation this idea of desertion is defined by many as characteristically ungentlemanly is and has earned of 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 that there is no example in the world of something similar and the consequences are still ongoing. well those who have moved to shelters here in tokyo are facing that guilt and the pressure to move back home there are others who have lost everything cannot handle the overwhelming change and they are facing even darker demons japan already has one of the highest suicide rates in the world and following the disaster in march the government has issued a warning about a possible nationwide epidemic of depression here some organic farmers

i mean so so because you have been on it for months so he's everything is very good soil for after many. it's just contaminated one night you know so. it's inside out i'm very sad to hear the news. 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 been found increased in the months since the disaster compared to the same time frame in the previous two years but the demographics are not what you might expect. since a rate increase. in the. centers but the fear areas because some barbers struggling to get a new class or are. they have no can't do something to mix inside this disaster has

certainly taken its toll on japan's economy and such constant reminders of an intense topic can harm the collective psyche of the people who live here as well because of the. tsunami disaster last year korea these are many people actually lost their jobs or working on the show has crashed. so. yeah 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 color t.v. . jazz and out the back with the headlines in a couple of minutes time stay with us father.

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