here's an ad for schumer where radiation levels. plant are six and a half thousand times higher than two days ago. it's bought by it's by the longtime chief of americas in battle the national security agency says he'll step down after spending months battling the fallout from the admiral snowden leaks . and i think the larger blast killed at least sixty one people in iraq a new study suggests the number of victims of the american innovation is far higher than previously thought.

like from last year you're watching argue with me to long would say it's good to have your company us this morning to our top story this hour. there's a worrying spike in radiation at the fukushima nuclear plant readings from a water storage tank have rocketed six and a half thousand times higher in two days a powerful typhoon swept through japan earlier this week causing toxic waters to be released into a drainage ditch lead to leading to the pacific ocean it's compounded what's been a worsening situation at the plant in recent months as arena explains two and a half years to admit the painful truth japan needs help. we are wide open to receive the most advanced knowledge from overseas to contain the problem my country needs are knowledge and expertise the past few months have been marked by growing problems at fukushima several workers have been exposed to radiation the levels of which are reportedly at their highest since the accident in two thousand and eleven

and on top of that there is the issue of leakage this is the reactor inside it is the reactor core the actual nuclear part of the plant this is water which is used to call the nuclear course or doesn't burst in flames that water obviously has to go somewhere so it goes into a special container which is slightly below the reactor itself where eradicated water is stored and then filtered unfortunately at the fukushima plant the situation is such that this container with the ready to water is located on the very seashore this is the ocean and the problem with the fukushima is that there is a leak supposedly right here so from there you read it water is flowing into the pacific ocean sadly russia has a lot of experience warfare when it comes to wiping up remnants of a nuclear catastrophe it has had its own the last in a quarter of a century. when other before. should be treated just like chernobyl has

a record that must be retired and put into sarcophagus the problem with focus is that they can't decide whether they want to close it or to keep it going because. closing the plant doesn't seem to be an option for tepco the company operating the facility which many in japan blame for the failure to handle the fukushima crisis in fact tepco is pushing towards reopening it because she was lucky facility the world's largest nuclear power station it was shut down in two thousand and seven following reports of radioactive leak after a powerful earthquake but the power giant seems undeterred by the prospect of having two malfunctioning nuclear power station. on its hands maybe hoping an international effort would solve both problems at the same time. r.t. . right let's take a look at how all of this started we of course know that for christmas troubles stem from of course that quake and tsunami that hit them in march of two thousand

and eleven now a part of that radiation run about a term of two thousand and eleven was twice as high or when as part of the consequences of the tsunami now september twenty thousand and twelve japan shuts its last radioactive obviously to protect some of those leaks that have been course bible tsunami tapped her who's in charge of that says that is that could have been avoided in october and then that continues the levels going up and down june twenty third team badly was found in fukushima straw storage tank by july twenty third myth about reactors leaking to toxic water and now all those during this year the three hundred ton radioactive leak discovered it was robert jacobs use an associate professor at hiroshima peace university says there is no immediate solution for this crisis. nobody really knows how to solve the problems at fukushima there is no nobody who has solutions to these problems at fukushima are

unprecedented so even bringing in outside expertise all that they can do is try to problem solve there's no solution that other countries have that they can come in and. fix the reactor or rather shut down the contamination shut down the leak so even other countries coming in and bringing their expertise will hopefully bring more professionalism and tepco has shown in the last two and a half years but even those experts will be at a loss it somehow to solve the immense problems that will be facing for decades. to what kristie following what's happening at fukushima here and online including the effects a wish that colorful typhoon had on the crippled nuclear power plant that our team doctor whomp. the head of the you know the notorious us the spying agency behind sweeping global surveillance is a to leave his shop keep alexander is at the n.s.a.

the longest serving director and has a very grisly defend of the snooping program as lawful and essential for national security is it next spring is lucky to have been spread by the snowden leaks as more in about my experience. the man who has made indiscriminate global surveillance and data gathering part of the fabric of america is leaving his position general keith alexander director of the national security agency is reportedly stepping down from his reign within the next six months it would be hard to deny that this unexpected exodus would be happening if not for whistleblower edward snowden general alexander's eight year tenure at the n.s.a. came under a worldwide criticism earlier this year after snowden a former n.s.a. contractor revealed details about the n.s.a.'s global gathering of telephone e-mail and social media data foreign embassies the united nations and even heads of state were allegedly targeted by america's dragnet surveillance political activist and

author eugene per year says general alexander's resignation is more like a fall from grace i think that the revelations from snowden are playing a big role here i mean i think for them to say that this is just sort of a random thing is is sort of absurd i mean it seemed like just a few months ago that keith alexander was being fed it is this great important general who had done all these big things and i think after everything that's been released by mr snowden very heroically that they're looking for a facelift initially general alexander defended the n.s.a.'s domestic spying practices saying the phone surveillance program he spearheaded has thwarted fifty four terrorist plots or events as it turns out that number was a gross exaggeration last week the n.s.a. director admitted he lied now america's top spot has been nicknamed alexander the great a reference to all the influence and power he has amassed during his tenure but many say that changing the face of the n.s.a. will likely prevent journalists from continuing to report about america's

questionable surveillance practices when greenwald who initially broke the n.s.a. spy scandal has personally promise that there are many more bombshell. exposé is to reporting from new york where enough or not arctic. reporting events in syria is becoming too dangerous for many with the killing and kidnappings of journalists are forcing more and more to stay away from the conflict a team from sky news arabia went missing on thursday following dozens of abductions at least twenty five journalists have been killed in the conflict difficult as it is to get inside the troubles to explain what's happening are very few national made it to one rebel controlled area but tell your brother next to the syrian lebanese border is just eighty kilometers from the capital damascus but it is like a state within a state that has its own security forces police and even the army can see its symbols all new of soldiers here everywhere graffiti or three stars that means free

syrian army is controlling this area the syrian military cannot enter your brut is the center of a large mountainous area in western syria known as. in two thousand and eleven local residents room on the first to support the n.t. assad campaign it seems been cut off from damascus and run by the rebels. i cover my head as all women he do because we are told this is an area under islamic law. we have civil and local councils we have shariah law tribunals and normal courts we have more teeth and lawyers the kerio justice we run the town by ourselves the army can enter and even if they try we are ready to resist and defend our land my judge calls these his land but in fact he only came here relatively recently born in kuwait and having spent two years traveling the middle east and the gulf this is

his parents' native town budget that arrived only years ago months before serious protests began. to resist to the end we have a plan and we have forces to make it happen. this is who he's talking about the self-styled free syrian army but these fighters don't work with other militants function instead as an autonomy armed brigade. they leave in abandoned houses sleeping pray together and claim fighting bashar al assad is their only goal twice a week they hear an islamic lecture from a young man who everybody calls the shaikh he's taken part in the hellish pilgrimage to mecca and started the qur'an in saudi arabia all that often is every monday and thursday we discuss the revolution the latest military developments as well as our daily routine we discuss what's hollow and what's her what's prescribed or forbidden by islam i ask them whether the judge had the law and then qaeda affiliated radical islamic groups openly operating in syria like no no no no no we

have no relation with the nusra we have a say in the news or is linked to the outside they follow al qaida and for decisions they revert to their army or even our here e al-qaeda leader we have normal relations with them next we are supposed to meet with people from a list but when our armed guys learn of the. they do all they can to stop us the groups controlling the area are not only fighting assad they compete with each other even for media attention being among journalists is seen as something prestigious. school did and i told to feel from the car but it's one point wrist top by a group of gunman apparently from a hostile brigade and they ask about who we are later our guards told us the men were kidnappers from rema village at least nineteen forty journeys to held hostage in syria right now and the price and then lives varies. these areas supposedly run

by opposition fighters is in fact in the hands of a large number of separate brigades armed groups or just lone rebels with different ideologies and the only food and weaponry and these are locals who pay the bills. we as christians have to pay so-called duty this is our input into society we go to church and pay it muslims do also we pay for internal security brigades for relief aid and courts funding is not the only cost for the situation in your brood is critical a shortage of food in everything we are besieged. trapped in their own country where more than two years of deadly conflict has only seen fractions and goals increasingly diverged three functionality from rebel controlled syria. over in iraq a new study suggests the body count is worse than you may have thought.

the result of a very specific deliberate strategy on the part coalition forces one of the authors of a new study into the human cost of the u.s. led war in iraq talks to our. previous estimates might be conservative at best that's just a hit. i think that. the reply. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy albers its role. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been a hydrogen lying handful of trans national corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once told us about my job market and on this

show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem trying to fix rational debate and a real discussion of critical issues facing america to find the book deal ready to join the movement then walk away from the big picture. of the book. it was terrible take on a very hard take on it once again here is a plan why has he ever had sex with her rick perry number. one.

and. it was. one of the beauties of the political. thanks for staying with us here on our team now calculating the actual number of victims from the u.s. led war in iraq isn't easy but a new study based on a speaking to iraqi households suggests that almost half a million people have perished as a result of that conflict violence all at the country's better health cave we are still one of the surveys office why many people still believe the level of

fatalities is much lower clearly the public in both the u.s. and the u.k. . underestimates the number of people who died in iraq as a result of the war and that's been true for a long time and i think it's the result of a very specific deliberate. strategy on the parts coalition forces to keep the public thinking that the death toll was low these were fairly rapidly unpopular decisions to to do this invasion and the last the public was able to track havoc that we were wreaking mongar they could sustain the intervention without public outcry. right as part of deadly legacy left by the us invasion sectarian violence has claimed over a thousand lives during the last month of the latest string of attacks in mainly

shia areas in baghdad and northern iraqi communities have left at least sixty one people dead amy egle p.n. also told us that deeper analysis of victims would convene even more shocking numbers. one major flaw of the study is that households who experienced a great deal of violence were very likely to leave the country and we are pretty sure we missed a lot of people who might have told us about deaths because those people have left so we think our count is actually low. campaign is image germany is say it's high time to wrap up political gift giving are they demanding a let down on suspiciously leverage donations to gather mirco political parties which are received seven hundred thousand yours from b.m.w. the full story is an art teacher com. the online edward snowden says this and no

way russia or china got any n.s.a. documents adding that he flew to moscow empty handed. right to the dust covers are off and the u.s. government has reopened following a never wrecking shutdown and balancing on of the verge of a default for over two weeks but president obama is warning that america has suffered a major blow and the fiscal battle is far from. the last few weeks have inflicted completely unnecessary damage on our economy we don't know yet the full scope of the damage but every analyst out there believes it's slowed our growth probably nothing is done more damage to america's credibility in the world are standing with other countries than the spectacle that we've seen these past several weeks so the u.s. has bumped up its borrowing limit again shifting the deadline from another few months artie's

a nice than our imports from washington on how that's fearing uncertainty and undermining confidence in america's economy and. the u.s. government is now up and running after a sixteen day shutdown america just barely avoiding default on their almost seventeen trillion dollars in borrowings at the very last minute now the deal funds the government until january fifteenth allowing the u.s. to continue borrowing until february seventh so we now have a new deadline but the same problem obama and other officials seemed confident a more long term solution to the budget crisis can be found by the end of the year the rest of the world not so confident the global economy was bracing for the worse here a chinese rating agency has downgraded the u.s. maintaining a negative outlook as revenue in g.d.p. failed to keep up with america's massive debts according to some estimates the debt limit would need to be increased another trillion dollars to get through two thousand and fourteen that's on top of the already seventeen trillion dollars in

debt i don't know about you but that's hard number for me to even fathom now president obama admitted that the shutdown was a self-inflicted wound to the economy and that he'd done is what has been steady and confident financial growth but at least the u.s. has probably learned a lesson from this crisis right well when vice president joe biden was asked if there's any guarantee there won't be another government shutdown down the road he said there's no guarantee of anything. right it took washington more than a fortnight of stuff and talks with lawmakers trading ickes ations and pointing fingers to reach agreement before the deadline the only way to deal they came up with is certainly no happy ending is financial and there's a mix of fraud explains. who learned what lesson is a big issue we didn't really get a deal we've got to kick the can down the road and revisit this later type of deal the risks are still huge they're still very much there but i do think however that

this will go on forever for two reasons one because i do think that we have reached or are reaching the limit of public and corporate patients and the other one is you can only do this much damage to yourself publicly for so long before you're so damaged that the world doesn't care and your economy isn't strong enough to lose that much money i do think there's a possibility here that the more reasonable portions the republican party and there are a bunch of those the more moderate forces the democratic party can work together to cleave off the influence of some of the more destructive forces that we've seen come to the fore here in the last couple weeks if that's true that we suffer to get somewhere if that's not true that we just suffered to suffer more in the future and i certainly hope the second one is not how it works out. checking around the world of some of the top stories now police in canada have arrested flooding people off of this against shale gas extraction turned violent clashes broke out as officers used pepper spray on demonstrators and a three week long sit in which was blocking highway access to

a fracking equipment day another protest has responded with petrol bombs as well as he want to pollution locals a fear is that the rights over their own land have been swept aside. isolated clashes have broken out at a rally of terms of thousands of education protesters in chinese capital which i can and would avoid when some demonstrators threw rocks and said barricades and fire a nationwide campaign for free and better equality education has rumbled on for over two years and mass protests have often resulted in under arrest it's likely to be a key issue in next month's elections. classroom protest of a different kind in paris where hundreds of students blocked access to the schools in protest at the force a deportation of all roma of a robot people the fifteen year old girl was seized from a school bus and sent back to kosovo the place of racial said she entered illegally nearly five years ago there's generally wife support for the government on immigration but the teenager's treatment has buchholz for the interior minister to

quit. the sky above a sydney has been plunged into darkness by a mess of plumes of smoke from infernos raging on at the city's outskirts there are major bushfires blazing across three lanes most populated state dozens of which are burning out of control hundreds of homes have been lost to the flames in the worst hit areas of new south wales while thousands of people have been evacuated to safety this is wildfire season is already being called the worst in a decade. arland is on a path to exiting its three year bailout which has kept the nation afloat since its banks collapse in twenty ten the irish finance minister said the economy is reviving although hard times lie ahead with the country's debt still at twenty five billion euros r t is kevin irwin earlier talked to one irish politician who told us the country's great expectations of joining the e.u. were unjustified. one of today's major reasons why we're in this mess is because

people didn't listen to people like antony cotton who when we joined the euro said step we're all laughing today bush is full engine tears and how right he was and it created a situation where our public finances were sway as. a cheap interest rates which could never have been sustained are there any positives of the three years of austerity has brought your country how can you see positives in people not having enough to ace how can you see positives in a situation where they were caught the disabled and you see a situation where you have people coming into my office on a zimmer frame looking for help and then you discover that they are the ones who are caring for someone even more sick at home we were told is when we joined up to this european monster that it would make us richer we are certainly not richer when we joined the european union we were not a still curfew when we started the european union we had our independence we

unfortunately seem to want to give away everything fortunately there are people in this country who don't want to give away everything and actually believe we should move away from the eurozone and also move out of the european union altogether and try and try a few like homes countries like switzerland and norway who manage to do quite well without europe interfering in their affairs. up next i mean option looks at an environmental disaster at the center of two decades of legal wrangling and breaking the set in a few minutes. the interview.

splits divide the syrian opposition party takes a close look at like a rebel group is just a few kilometers from the capital damascus it is like a state within a state free syrian army controlling these big steel in minutes we cannot see and tear artie's morea for notion of reports from fragmented syrian rebel held territory. syria rebel group monarchs who may disagree. but i believe america is exceptional.

let's we can. let's. look. we're suffering not from inflation as it points out we're suffering from debt deflation we have any collapsed economy where prices are not going up nearly enough to produce. enough demand in the economy so that people can be put back to work we have the highest level of sustained unemployment since the great depression ok where i don't know my parents are not everyone with

a question if you go out into the right ask the man behind the real world and you ask people whether they think whether they think wall street is a problem i think they would agree with me that wall street is a problem and go ahead i will tell you i'm in the real world i don't know what world you're in less but the real world they want the economy going they want their wages going higher they want prices lower. than the. i'm abby martin and this is breaking news that well guys it looks like we've survived the storm the shutdown is a dictionary over let's take a look at some of the top highlights. i do not like that sam i am. do you like green eggs and ham. i do not like them sam-i am the shutdown of the

government will have a negligible effect this is a slice of a slice of the government only involves the nonessentials it will have practically zero effect if you look at all the shutdowns in the past the cast of deadliest catch and other alaska crab fishers can't open their season as planned on tuesday because the government hasn't set crab quotas to put the qur'an down to get out of his nice and to figurative lake come up with his hands out. everything from ted cruz's rendition of dr seuss to a tea party loyalists demanding that obama put down his khurana yes it's been a long sixteen days but now people can rejoice government workers are due furloughed and we're even greeted by uncle biden with donuts how adorable so what did the sham of the government shutdown actually accomplish await nothing and guess what we're going to go.