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a retreat. president barack obama signed the last minute deal to raise the u.s. debt ceiling up to the senate finally votes for the measure to avoid default but critics say there's little or chair about as america so faces economic recovery. plughole reno wife took for the debt both here in washington after months of brinksmanship but the short term political victory spell doom economic doom in the months ahead. the u.n. security council resumes discussions on the resolution on syria after a bloody government crackdown on protesters in hama continues first day was more demonstrators reported killed adding to sunday's death toll around hundred russia says any two and decision must be driven by the interests of the syrian people. who is seized by the tidal wave of anti-government protests demanding sweeping

economic reforms but demonstrators complained that summer of discontent is largely being passed over by the international media. international news life this is all she was made thanks for joining us after months of political squabbling in the shadow of a looming default the u.s. can finally breathe a sigh of relief the bill to raise the country's boring limit has been signed into law by president obama. after the level of sound to you post its final hurdle in the senate confident has the latest in washington. president did come out and speak earlier he called this crisis a so-called manufactured crisis saying that it shouldn't have taken the risk of a default a catastrophe for a washington to get its after work together interesting words but of course we

can't neglect the fact that both the president as well as the both both of the political parties are all equally to blame for the big picture economic crisis that has brought the united states to this next one which now what this deal does is essentially raises the borrowing limit of the united states wolf cutting spending by about two point four trillion dollars there's a lot of sort of strings attached in order to raise that debt deal that limit and the reason that we saw this battle over this fairly routine vote the reason the debt limit keep in mind is something this country has done more than one hundred times since one thousand nine hundred eighty s. what we saw what was different this time is that this became a proxy ideological war between the republicans in congress and the democrats now of course we are entering an election year and so the republicans chose this time to sort of dig in their heels and to really fight with the democrats over issues that both sides are diametrically opposed to what do these so-called tea party republicans they're right when republicans want no taxes much lower taxes they want

very little government spending with the exception on occasion to of course defense spending democrats meanwhile want to keep spending on social programs at high levels they want to close with they call corporate tax loopholes and essentially have the wealthiest folks in the society the brunt on the economy now at this at this stage in the economic game both courses are unsustainable of course we ended up seeing this political battle erupt bringing the nation to the brink of a first ever default and the irony at the end of the day is that both sides walked away very very unhappy one of the things that this legislation does. guarantees that there will not be any more stimulus spending so in the short term there's going to be huge effects were of course dealing with a country the united states that has abysmal unemployment rate levels at nine point two percent the g.d.p. has barely been growing one point three percent over the last quarter the housing crisis is still an issue in the long term this legislation does nothing to assure

the world markets that the united states is on a sustainable fiscal path as i said earlier does kick the can down the road and so world markets are standing by they don't know exactly where the united states will cut taxes will be increased whether revenue will come in and so the ratings agencies have also sort of remained mom on this we did see fitch come out and say that essentially the triple a rating will not be threatened or the united states of course which was not the one that threatened to downgrade at any point in this crisis we're still waiting to see where standard and poor's stands on this they want to see cuts of about four trillion dollars the deal only promises about half that amount and still been silence a lot of questions and of course the biggest the biggest losers in this whole deal are the american people who are simply struggling to get along to survive in what has been one of the most catastrophic recessions this country has seen in a long long time. a national analyst upset villager hardware says that there's no

such deep division between democrats and republicans that the united front needed to face huge economic challenges will be impossible without new political leadership. there's an urgent need for resumption of economic growth the creation of wealth and particularly revenue generating jobs among the broad consumer component of the population in the united states seventy percent of the overall economy is due to the consumer element so unless the united states increases government revenues or drastically slash costs. this problem will come back with a vengeance certainly the bill that was signed today put off any further discussion about additional cuts that would go to four trillion as you mentioned for standard and poor's demands until after the elections for two thousand and thirteen for the next president or the second term about obama administration to deal with there's been so much damage to the interpersonal relationships between the democratic and

republican leadership both at the executive branch working with congress and also within congress that it's going to be hard to get one unified front without entirely new leadership if you have this type of plan for massive cuts in federal spending it has an indelible impact on the economy itself for instance in the pentagon which is one of the largest employers in the united states so there comes a point where the cuts actually will have a significant impact in furthering recessionary trends the american people will demand results and not only legislative action another issue that's going to crop up as early as this fall is the default of the states traditionally the u.s. federal government has infused very significant subsidies to maintain the budgetary stability of many of the major states in the in the union. and fresh i'll break a violence has brought more death to syria with

a. unconfirmed reports of at least seven protests by government forces on choose day the un security council has resumed discussions on the situation after more than one hundred were reported killed on sunday by troops overseas marina partner has more details from the new. what's clear is that all members of the security council understand that the international community has to react somehow to the uprisings and the violence and the crackdown that has been taking place in syria at this point all fifteen members are trying to come to a consensus a compromise and an agreement on how to react to syria because there's a lot of differing opinions we know that western countries or the u.s. are calling for a condemnation either in the form of a resolution or a presidential statement but we know other countries such as russia say that they would not support counterproductive measures which would possibly exacerbate an already sensitive problem and those measures include any sanctions or pressure that

would be put on syria russia believes that there has to be a more diplomatic a balanced approach when it comes to reacting to what is taking place in syria. the russian delegation by some other members of the security council to do everything possible in order. to weave from the brink of a civil war. is finding itself unfortunately tragically at this point other countries such as brazil india china that have also has achieved it from supporting any kind of resolution or indefinitely sanction so at this point what all the countries are doing they're trying to come together and figure out a common consensus on how to react for over four months there has been all prizing and a crackdown taking place in syria back in mid march that's when the prizes against the president. began and it was anti-government protesters that took to the streets

demanding that he step down and over a matter of these months the protests are still continued going to the streets and some. groups human rights groups have estimated that more than a thousand people have been killed in the interim of this crackdown and fresh lively. did occur on sunday in the syrian city of hama when anti-government protesters took to the streets there there's been reports that they were shot at and there is an estimate that up to one hundred people were killed and that violence continued into monday the first day of ramadan so clearly this is a very serious situation and one of the international community is paying attention to but at this point they're divided on how to react and they're working to qantas some kind of compromise. they troubles and see where show no sign of letting western powers consider exerting even more economic pressure on damascus and james right on middle east politics because president assad's continuing crackdown on protesters during the holy month of ramadan is no coincidence. in syria the only

really effective opposition is externally in terms of organizing internally there is a huge public protesting opposition that don't want sad but we don't know exactly what they do want because there's no real political space for them to operate in now one of the reasons why assad is attacked hama on the start of ramadan is because he's afraid that ramadan provides a bigger political space within the organizational structures of mosques in this particular time of the year for his regime to be challenger he's clearly worried by that and is taking steps against what the syrian opposition would hope for is that the regime doesn't bring down the state with it that it chooses the path that mubarak can better lead to some degree old. and moving off into the political wilderness and allows for a technocratic government to essentially implement democratic reforms that have been promised over the last five months in the three speeches that he's made that would of course be a lot more attractive for them. you know without. coming out

so we're told and why the mainstream media remains numb to the one hundred thousand israelis demanding social change. our new police officer continues chasing a criminal amazingly despite being advised then car in a horrific crime. and that's that independent panel has caused a doubt on the objectivity of poland's investigation into last year's plane crash which killed ninety six people including polish president lech kaczynski the country's political elite also his inquiry agreed that pilot caused the tragedy involved here but that's key differences between the published report and the russian investigators conclusions. in general it's clear that the conclusions me the earlier one of the polish side and those made by the interstate aviation community here in moscow are similar in the sense that it were the actions of the pilots which caused this task but after the media

conference held here in moscow by the interstate aviation committee it also it's also clear that their approach to detail is different first of all the interstate committees saying that the pilots ignored the warnings from the air traffic controller and decided to attempt to land the plane anyway despite the weather conditions it is a factor that the head of the polish air force was present in the cockpit at the time when they were trying to land the plane and the interstate committee says that that alone can be viewed as direct psychological pressure whilst the polish side says the head of the air force was simply standing there monitoring the situation i was able to personally speak with the chief technical expert off the interstate aviation comedian here's what he had to say on this is a presence of the commander in chief of the forces who are truly poor from who.

and when commander. if possible exact. we can see that several times he informs who was. doing some of the actions of the pilot more so as a technical investigation definitely considers these to be psychological so. another issue very important here is that the polish committee concluded that the airstrip itself was not ready to receive the plane or the. interstate aviation committee that airstrip is certified to see planes even though there were minor defects the soul we could not have possibly a word to the plane crash be interesting to me is also why they are an independent international body while the investigation conducted by poland was being done by

a committee questioning its objectivity. reporting that attended the village of protest camp and central square part of demonstrations by one hundred and fifty thousand israelis against the government angry over the cost of living and housing. reports while the western media has been keen to highlight. has been very quiet on the people power to have. tens of thousands on the streets of israel angry today and protesting for change but is anyone listening when it comes to a lot of the foreign media want to see more of an action movie and this has been very violent it's been very hadn't been violent at all it's been very positive. well into week three the largest demonstration in israel in over a decade and how did a.b.c. c.b.s. and n.b.c.

cover it they didn't a younger woman set up the tent while the editors of france twenty four b.b.c. and sky coughed up just a few meager seconds perhaps not even that interesting to. back. in the studios ok there's a protest well what exactly is a protest a social protest for the revolution it's not the same kind of story that they're used to it's not as big and dramatic some of the bigger revolutions happening around the middle east and i mean it isn't surprised by the worldwide lack of media interest he's worked in the israeli press for decades reporting from media both foreign and local there is a box that the international media has put israel in and the israeli palestinian conflict was sort of israeli lebanese and syrian conflict and anything that doesn't kind of further into that. type of of news item which is unfortunate the street has been dubbed your corner by some of the people here an

optimism perhaps the base to bring down the government in the way the neighbors in tough this square. but where is the cameras there were nonstop here they put you absent that just makes hundred wayas and others angry for nine days she's been camping here furious that she can't make ends meet as a university student it makes me feel sad that when egypt decided to stand up and say we've had enough and eleven and they. decided to say we've had enough the media was all over there i haven't seen anyone from c.n.n. or from fox news or any other big news channel here and it's really sad we also deserve a chance to be heard out but without foreign media very few people around the world will even hear what protestors here. it's a missed opportunity as a crucial time just weeks before palestinians plan to announce the very own state policy on t.v. tel aviv. nato has sent hundreds of extra troops to kosovo with rising tensions in

the north between corso police and ethnic serbs violence erupted last week when they were in the breakaway province and ethnic albanian police to enforce a ban on said in imports and. then a canadian film director things the serbs will end up being forced to make concessions. they're sending five hundred fifty more german troops and one hundred fifty more austrian troops. they would not be sending troops into kosovo if they didn't estimate that the situation could explode into a larger conflict and considering that the international community has an interest in solving the so-called north kosovo issue it would not be unreasonable to suggest that they are trying to sort of fix this issue as fast as possible and i strongly believe that if force is necessary to do what they have planned they will use it this escalation of violence of course is not helping belgrade because. the people

of serbia. see this as a provocation and it is making their sentiment against reaching a compromise. not very favorable for tried your side so i think this is not definitely helping anybody whatever the both sides are urged to negotiate it is mostly for the reason to get the serbs to accept something rarely or albanians ours to make concessions to serbian serbia has already made many because sessions of the so-called republic of course so they recognize their documents their i.d.'s their license plates so i think calling for the albanians to negotiations is another call for serbs to accept more things that are just leading to serbia recognizing kosovo . and check out our. stories an eye catching video is watching news you want twenty four hours a day here's a taste of what's mine for you right now. a terror attack in russia's far east and five year old has been injured after a small box left in

a kindergarten playground exploded when she opened it. and the legendary russian military having helped me is coming back to the front line in afghanistan but this time it's a travesty of the facts check out of the audience. here at some other news around the world. leaders have given the government the go ahead to start talks with the u.s. about american troops staying in the country to train local sources beyond this year's departure deadline is politically charged with a senior minister stressing that u.s. troops might still go by the end of this year two thousand and eight agreement violence continues however with twenty three people by car bomb outside a catholic church in to cook to other bombs were also describe it outside the christian targets in the ethnically and religiously mixed city. pakistani authorities have called in more security forces to contain political and criminal

violence in karate chop just three hundred people have been killed in the southern city of in july alone one of the deadliest months in the country in decades much really fighting has been carried out by. the pool to buy one of the main political parties decision has a long history of ethnic and religious violence. israel's prime minister binyamin netanyahu has agreed to discuss a possible return to pre-one nine hundred sixty seven borders with palestinians the country has been occupying land in the west bank where palestinians hope to build their own state says that cigs day will be now spent for those benyamin netanyahu is consistent rejection of the same proposal put forward by barack obama in may in return the palestinians would be expected to drop their bid for statehood at the un when you recognize israel as a jewish state. and police in britain have released incredible c.c.t.v. footage showing a policeman chasing a suspect despite being flung in there after being hit by

a speeding stood and caught a high powered b.m.w. crashed into his patrol car sending the policeman flying but amazingly escaped without injury he wasted no time getting him to his feet to chase after the man who nearly killed him and officers arrested lee adams and charging him with dangerous driving failing to stop at the scene of the next of. and resisting arrest so he pleaded guilty and won't be behind the will for a while as his son's almost. next we take you back in time and space to a famous opponent sitting mission which failed to land on the moon because of a technical failure however all three crew members did return safely to earth and. caught up with the mission to his memories of that space flight.

jim well it's a great pleasure and honor to have you with us sir it's nice to be here now you've started out for the moon twice without ever landing on it is that fair while the first time was deliberate. we were merely going to test out the navigation of the communications look for suitable landing spots for the people who would make the

first lead and thirteen of course was supposed to be the third lunar landing and as you probably know we had the explosion and so we had to go around the boat and come back home again fortunately we were successful in doing that. jr moon walk in your dreams oh yes i've been before the flight i would try to figure out what i would be doing there at a place called from mile but after i came back i never really dreamed about it after that i mean once i was you know safely back on earth i just forgot about it when you spoke about the moon you spoke of fast loneliness dallas and inspiring. to get homesick to join to go back. no as a matter of fact we were around the moon and eight and going to run on thirteen and we were still sort of attached to the earth but we didn't have this idea of being you know. away from the earth and separated from the earth and although i have to

admit that when we look back at the earth and we could put our thumb up to the window and everything behind our thought our earth was was disappeared and everything that we'd ever known was behind our thought it was that sort of a musical feeling a feeling of how insignificant really we all are back on earth if i could put my thumb up and hide everybody. and of course that incredible shot of the earth rights you guys went to france to show us they aren't i think for everyone it has a special personal meaning what does that shot signify to you. while i think of that one photograph which was not over here my personal impression of what we saw but to everybody who saw that picture and it's perhaps one of the staples photographs of the last century. again that we are

a. spaceship here on earth ever all astronauts whether we want to be or not and we have to live and work together if we are to survive because you guys were very religious all three of you on apollo eight we had very strong religious convictions right well we did but we were not that religious to know that. you know that that we were violating the sanctity of heaven. because god is with us on earth as it is with us just two hundred forty thousand miles away around the moon and so as a as a better fact you know on the way we were read the first ten verses of genesis probably the old tested but we did that because it reality the old testament was the basis of the three basic religions. on

earth islam christianity and judaism and so when we were thinking about what to say being the first three people around the moon what can we say and we said lady who was the wife of a adieus paper reporter said read for the first verses this will appeal to most of the people who will be listening to you. and most of the earth is not christian it's other religions too so that's what we did to appeal to the greatest a lot of people that were listening to us when i think of austin arts who retire now you are a successful businessman but many of them couldn't really find their place in life after that they are retired from active duty a lot of them suffered clinical depression alcoholism why is that why is it that when asa notes retire they can always find the right way on earth. well

i think it's very similar to that old saying that after you've been peri what else is there you know. it is it's a high point in everybody's life and then when that high point stops and you go back to living a normal life again a lot of times it's hard to recover because many people will say yes i understand what you did but what can you do for me now and so. to be successful you have to always look forward not to look backward yes i went to the moon twice i've made four spaceflights that was of the past what am i doing now what how can i satisfy my life and enjoy life and see things and so a lot of us of course travel to look at the earth after we've seen it so far thank you very much for this interview my pleasure take care.