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the kernel was her job as a retreat. the leaders of both parties in both chambers of richmond removed their will reduce the deficit and avoid default an eleventh hour deal is sealed but the domestic political bickering which brought the you out on the world to the brink of civil and economic it's going to be honest america really it's. so cold and it made some pilot error of course not cheers presidential plane crash that killed president lech kaczynski and scores of top officials but also as a photographer puts most of the blame on despite criticism from a tracks back. on adopt a hundred and fifty thousand anti-government protesters take to the streets across israel demanding prime minister netanyahu step down but some say the arab spring

has now spread to the country. and welcome to all she's a weekly review and you know main story now the immediate threat of a disastrous dead default seems to have been averted at the eleventh hour with president obama announcing that lawmakers have finally reached a deal after weeks of political bickering and stalemate that announcement comes after barack obama held last ditch intensive talks with democrat. republican leaders what increasing america's debt limit the two step compromise will permit us who are going to continue off to choose the exchange for one trillion dollars in spending cuts however the political struggle is far from over was the key issue how to balance the budget being put off for a later date when you cross party congressional committee is to be set up as part

of the deal to advice and costs including tax reform medicare and social security but as marina partner i reports the tortures and one thing road to reach an agreement has damaged the reputation of the us. has helped 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 has 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 your 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 their partnership with america it's like being married to someone to serve a year just as they were jerk you want to know what'll i do how much can i put up with this relationship the u.s. will be in for a long time the only game in the your community is making noises chinese making losers work you know we're alone now in our ability to be a repository for financing in the world the result could spar. a replay of the two thousand and eight economic meltdown except this time 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 good but. interest rates would skyrocket on credit cards on

mortgages and on. which amounts to a huge tax hike on the american people as the countdown neared zero all three big reading drawing in movies fitch and standard and poor's threatened america's hallowed triple ace or unless a deal was hammered out and the fourteen point three trillion dollar debt getting higher economists say america's unsustainable budget deficits are the biggest threat to the nation it's like the batteries worn out the spark plugs don't work 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 the debt instead of us president repeatedly asked americans over the past week to join the campaign to borrow and spend more make

a phone call send an e-mail tweet keep the pressure on washington and we can get past this while the eyes of the world's have been following the heated saga 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 marina port niall r.t. new york and. the president of new york the national advisory fund says the u.s. political leaders may have reached a deal overcoming their political differences much more quickly would have been better for them or a complete. we had the possibility of having no deal which would have been the worst possible outcome and would have gotten us into a default that fortunately is going to be averted right now what we're talking about is getting an extension so that we can pay our current bills and what is on the table is essentially our proposals that will cut spending anywhere between one

to four trillion dollars over the next ten years look a lot of this i think is i mean 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 i think we could have had something far superior to this if we did not have the extremes big stream of slings of both parties digging in for so long now over these last three months. and a modest crowd of over an economy through green chris capital even though they need it crisis has been averted big us could still see if the credit rating downgraded pushing punishing them or can people for earth possible policymaking washington may still see a downgrade of u.s. sovereign debt from aaa to double a and i don't think that it's a catastrophic catastrophic outcome but it's serious it's negative and this process

itself has and continues to hurt the faith and credit the world has in the united states it's very real me american business men and women and the american products all over the world that no longer have this sort of a halo around them of a successful place that's impressive an interesting but now may even flip over to having a negative association in which people begin to associate the united states with out of control and irresponsible policy making. the u.s. is not the only place struggling to deal with financial crisis massive dancing europe dragging more and more countries into trouble with persisting concern over the economic stability of the eurozone and the impact of its problems on others. we should bump you to greece from the euro zone long ago so the greek train has started to act spain as the country prepares for the worst over its credit rating exacerbated by fears over the new european deal to rescue the stable euro zone partner report on that and if you. will also has admitted that

pilot error led to the polish presidential plane crash in western russia which killed president lech kaczynski and scores of the country's top officials but the government commission still laid part of the blame on russian and i control it with a disaster in april last year. the reports now on 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 all but confirmed the findings of russia's investigation that the crew was almost solely responsible for the tragedy of this point there is an obstacle a tree that the aircraft collides with a fragment of the left wing is detached the aircraft begins there are taishan but let me emphasize it's not that the tree was too high the aircraft had simply 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 the moment shows that the landing zone controller was performing his duty in an incorrect way on tuesday you know such statements come as 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 this opinion calling the swipes against the russian side and substantial some of your claims concerning

the airport or controllers they have nothing to do with the crash i've been a pilot for over thirty years and i know a simple rule if you don't see the runway or it's like that the decision height you have no other choice than to raise the landing gear and go to your reserve airport the initial russian 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 get the point if you ski here i think we are now witnessing simply school games to shift the blame from the polish side of i was an expert in this commission and i was surprised to learn we did 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 this 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. campaign because this should be known that the. interactions this report and all that issue but if your tablet will be. even easier is it in the electoral campaign and the twin brother of the late president kaczynski was quick to prove this suggestion with a sharp round about the report. 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 they were not conducting or even participating in the investigation he's responsible for not defending polish interests and at the international fora 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 full of 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 lost in the blame game. our reporting from warsaw in poland. and. a closer look at the timeline of the polish presidential plane crash visit our website. and you'll find a transcript of the cockpit voice recorder providing a detailed insight into the tragedy as it unfolded so with a place to grow that. 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 prime minister binyamin netanyahu step down unless he undertakes sweeping economic reforms paul asli attended the biggest demonstration intel of the fore. 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 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 a person need to live in this country anymore we work and we give and we give and we keep on giving now and there's no end to it that this is the last chance this is army we have to change just 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 of. the gaza leaders on earth why do you

want him to go home. alone because of the distance how much of these demonstrations i mean 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 ground and now syria and lebanon 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 good government to tell them what to do they can start telling their 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 one song that was sung you have 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

a 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 value to increase pressure on the regime this fresh round of violence but as. 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 you know have any you can't just be aware however and i think the west can actually and the world can assist this syrian regime within exist policy of quiet contact to explain to them what are 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 let's the majority not. this is all here later in the program. depression waves presents your plan sending the country's already high suicide rates soaring as a sign here of the radiation grips the population fording not years after quake and tsunami. the debt crisis raging in europe is claiming more and more economic scalps spain suffering recession and mass 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 received and griese has been dealt another blow by one of europe's main creditors germany's finance minister has warned he won't write a blank check to buy buy 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 wreckless boring economics or her patrick young says greece could have been

pushed out of the year as 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 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 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 the total your real melt on. so the year is under strain but the country which has its headquarters in belgium is literally at a breaking point it's on the verge of splitting between the flemish speaking north and the french speaking south. bushell reports other e.u. countries are there watching developments carefully for fear they could be repeated at. subway to their divorce before planning their next marriage but not one load near the southern region of belgium the country's been without effective government record fourteen months french speaking in the cells and flemish speaking flanders in the north disagree on pretty much everything many analysts think the most likely outcome will see the country break into as soon as it splits with floor this is complete the world 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 and well

they say political clout is important the main appeal is money and one who. 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 firms. polls suggest that whole from 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 withdrawn its 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 and 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 a 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 of vice versa. fears belgium's national day last week was its last he added the crisis threatens not just every belgian but european integration itself. scared that the divorce of belgium will spark up the rest of europe catalonia leaving spain scotland leaving britain where reducing separatist marchers and mixed community towns here turned violent with guns getting pulled it takes just one big clash for brussels to become sir. that's conflict killing suffered in europe since world war two neighbors turned on each other as you go broke up and the determination of regional identity is not to be underestimated french unionists say they have the flag and everything else worked out to become france's twenty eight region all

that's left are the details. see brussels. check out our website. and. my life right now. the tragedy. sign following a collision. praying praying for thirty seven miners died in two coal mine acid and families have been held. and also to dot com a very rare glimpse of nature's power and the havoc it caused and russia we've got starting pictures there where whirlwind sweeping through the country's far east in

which one person died and die witnesses say the wind literally lifted three people off the balcony before dropping them back on the ground where one was killed by the fall so the wind was ing has injured at least twenty eight tore roofs of buildings uprooted trees brought down power lines and overturned many cars and more these stunning pictures are available at r.t. dot com. now news from the rest of the world this hour at least eleven people have been killed in a blast a police headquarters in southern afghanistan the taliban has admitted responsibility for the suicide car bomb attack in the city of lashkar gah most of the victims were police officers it's less than a full size his nato led forces formally handed over security in the city about going trades. and at main sicily has erupted again up to four episodes of volcanic activity this month flames and burning have been shooting two hundred fifty meters up into the sky in rules the strongest of the recent eruptions the

latest exhibited 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 marjorie's 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 at the demick with many worried by radiation fears after the nuclear disaster which followed sean thomas reports now from japan. 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.

classmates all 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 of those who have evacuated the dishonorable title of traitor. of course it's hard to hear that we have family members would think about our house but in other words we ran away whiskey because we're scared of radiation but there's 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. organic farm us committed suicide because you know the. soil is everything they have good soil in full after many. it's just contaminated one night. so. far so i'm very sad to hear the news. many other also very much depressed a recent national survey in japan performed by dr roshini and his team shows that suicide rates in japan have in fact increased in the months since the disaster compared to the same timeframe in the previous two years but the demographics are not what you might expect the. rate increases. note. but if you're areas

because some barbers striving to you costs. and they have not had 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. nuclear disaster many people lost their jobs or working on the show was crushed. so. yeah they have a so many good reasons to commit suicide. causing japan's death toll to keep rising even though the initial disaster has subsided months before in japan sean thomas or teed up. with you in just about five ten minutes and before that a chat with legendary rock star brian my. guest in washington broadcasting live

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