any man spike in radiation levels of fuels fears at the fukushima nuclear plant as readings in a storage tank rises six and a half thousand times higher in two days. it's bye-bye is by as of a long time chief of america's embattled national security agency says he will step down after spending months of battling the fallout from the edward snowden leaks. plot so inside the syrian rebellion the argy gets a unique perspective from within an opposition controlled area just eighty kilometers from the capital damascus but it is like a state within a state riffing off an army to fighters from the disparate groups and talks to syrians living in territories all compiled by militants. oh.

and there's a barrage of blasts like kill at least sixty one people in iraq and new study suggests the number of victims of the american invasion is far higher than previously thought. everyone welcome to you if you're just joining us here on our team you with me to run would say let's take a look at our top story this friday. there's a worrying spike in radiation at the fukushima nuclear plant readings from a water storage tank have rocketed since six and a half thousand times higher in two days a powerful typhoon served through japan earlier this week causing toxic waters to be released into a drainage ditch leading to the pacific ocean it's compounded what's been a worsening situation at the plant in recent months as

a ring of experience two and a half years to admit the painful truth 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 that 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 well for when it comes to wiping up remnants of the nuclear catastrophe it has had its own the last in a quarter of a century ago. when other pitch should be treated just like chernobyl has a record that must be retired and put in a sarcophagus the problem with focus is that they can't decide whether they want to close its doors to keep it going. 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 what we do actively after

a powerful earthquake but the power giant seems undeterred by the prospect of having to malfunctioning nuclear power station. on its hands maybe hoping an international effort would solve both problems at the same time. our team. because she was a troubles are still in the bag of course or to the quake and tsunami that ravaged japan in march of two thousand and eleven that it took a year for japan's government to admit to the nuclear disaster that was caused after that earthquake and tsunami hit and the improper handling of the crisis as well as the plant operator tepco tepco says it could have been avoided. and also that the men made a disaster of from their plan to could have been avoided two years after the crisis had radiation was recorded in local fish and illegal was discovered at a storage tank with contaminated waters and when it finally admitted to the reactor

that are leaking toxic waters it is now revealed that up to three hundred tons of water are flowing into the oceans as well as each day now robert j. cup who's and i so she a professor at the hiroshima peace university says there's no immediate solution for the questions. nobody really knows how to solve the problems at fukushima there is no nobody who has solutions to these things the problems of 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 reactors or rather shut down the contamination shut down the leaks 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 if so how to solve the immense problems that will be facing for decades more

. because they thought i was happening at fukushima here and online including the effects of that colorful thai food had on that the crippled nuclear power plant that r.t.d. dot com. the head of the notorious us a spy agency behind sweeping global surveillance is a to leave his job keith alexander is at the n.s.a. is longest serving director and has vigorously defended the snooping programs as lol full and essential for national security his departure next spring is likely to have been spurred by the snowden leaks as marina part my explains. 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 that i think after everything that's been released by mr snowden very row of glee 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 spy i 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 in a fortnight arctic. reporting events in syria is becoming too dangerous for many with the killing and kidnapping 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 and difficult as it is to get inside the tribal zones to explain what's happening artie's marie international made it to one of the rebel controlled areas 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 it symbols of new authorities here everywhere graffiti or three stars that means free syrian army is controlling this area a syrian military cannot enter your route is the center of a large mountainous area in western syria known as. in two thousand and eleven local residents were among 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 here 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 and lawyers the curio 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 years traveling the middle east and the gulf this is his parents' native town manager that arrived only years ago months before serious protests began. we resist to the end we have a plan and we have forces to make it happen. shit 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 live 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 i thought was 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 looser 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 say. the news or a is linked to the outside they follow al qaida and for decisions they revert to their army or even our hearing 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 this 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. scooted and i told to film from the car but it's one point twist top by a group of gunmen apparently from a hostile brigade and they ask about who we are later our guards told us the man were kidnappers from rema village at least nineteen for you journalists to held hostage in syria right now and the price in their lives varies. this area supposedly run by opposition fighters is in fact in the hands of a large number of separate brigades armed groups or just lone rebels. 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 as muslims do also we pay for internal security brigades for relief

aid and courts funding is not the only cost. 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. marti's morea for notion of reports from fragmented syrian rebel held territory. syria rebel group one or two. over in iraq and new studies suggest the body count is worse than you may have felt . but one of the opposite being a new study into the human cost of the u.s. led war in iraq talked about why previous estimate that might be conservative at best a hate. from great expectations bitter disappointment ireland's about to end its history a bailout from its

a european partners will ask if it's strong enough to go it alone after the break. well. it's technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered.

more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations rule the day. thanks for staying with us here on our team calculating the actual number of victims from the u.s. led war in iraq isn't easy but a new study based on speaking to iraqi households suggests that almost a houseful of a million people have perished as a result of the conflict violence all the countries battled health kate now we also one of the surveys author is why many people soon believe the level of fatalities is listen to this. clearly the public in both the u.s.

and 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 less the public was able to attract havoc that we were wreaking mongar they could sustain the intervention without public outcry. as part of a deadly legacy left by the us invasion sectarian violence has claimed to over thousand lives in the last month the latest a string of attacks in mainly shia areas in baghdad in northern iraq in communities have left at least sixty one people did amy agel paean also told us that deeper and

alice's of victims would reveal even motion numbers. one major flaw 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 in germany's say it's high time to wrap up political gift giving out there demanding an. eleven nations to political party which receives seven hundred thousand euros from b.m.w. the full story is on our comp. also online edward snowden says no way rochelle of china any n.s.a. documents adding that he flew to moscow empty handed.

that does covers are off and the u.s. government has reopened following and nerve of reckon shut down and balancing on the verge of a default for over two weeks president obama is warning that america has suffered a major blow and the fiscal battle is far from over 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. then the spectacle that we've seen these past several weeks. the u.s. has bumped up its borrowing limit again not shifting the deadline for another few months and it's another ripples from washington on that's fueling 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 but 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 it 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. it took washington more than a full told so as lawmakers trading accusations and pointing fingers to reach agreement before the deadline the long awaited deal they came up with is certainly no happy ending as financial analyst. 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 walls 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 there we have reach 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 portion of 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 right checking around the world and some other top stories now police in canada have arrested forty people off to a protest against shale gas extraction turned violent clashes broke out as offices used pepper spray on demonstrators at a three week long sit in which was a blocking highway access to a fracking equipment the protesters responded with petrol bombs as well as fears of all walks of pollution locals are furious at the riots that they have been swept

aside. isolated clashes have broken out at a rally of tens of thousands of education protesters and cheese capitol water cannon were deployed to where some demonstrators just threw rocks and said barricades on fire a nationwide campaign for free and better quality education has rumbled on for over two years and mass protests have often resulted in breast it's unlikely it's likely to be a key issue in next month's elections. the classroom protests all of a different kind in paris where hundreds of students a blocked access to the schools in protest at the force deportation of all roma pupil the fifteen year old girl was seized from a school bus and sent back to possible because our official said he she entered illegally nearly five years ago there is generally wide support for the government on immigration but the teenager's treatment has sparked calls for the interior minister to quit but. the sky above sydney has been plunged into

darkness by a mess of puma's of smoke from infamous and rainy raging on the city's in firdos raging on the city's outskirts rather there are major bushfires of blazing across australia's most populated state dozens of which 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 now this is wildfire season is already being called the worst in a decade. ireland is on a path to exiting its three year international bailout program the eighty five billion euro emergency aid was a tire lifeline after is the banks collapse in two thousand and ten but it meant a second is to pay for it such as tax rises the introduction of new levies and spending cuts in the budget the irish minister says the economy is reviving

although hard times still lie ahead in handling the country's twenty five billion euro debt arches kevin owen earlier talked to one irish politician who told us that 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 sweat as a money and as cheap interest rates which could never have been sustained although any positives of the three years of authorities brought your country how can you see positives in people not having enough to eat how can you see positives in a situation where they were called to disable it 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 const countries like switzerland and norway who manage to do quite well without europe interfering in their affairs. right next on larry king's on the case stay with us.

you know when i look more and more into it i find that there were a lot of myths and exaggerations about what happened in russia during the soviet era however one really bad rumor seems to be true if you were an outspoken advocate against the soviet status quo then you could be considered insane and be locked away until the psychiatrist convinced you that khrushchev was brilliant scary stuff but sadly famous grammy award winning singer lauryn hill might be living the life of a soviet dissident right now she was convicted of failing to pay five hundred thousand dollars in taxes but strangely according to the international business times she was ordered to undergo psychiatric counseling because she believes in conspiracy theories related to the music industry who wrote in her own tumblr account that the music industry is manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex this is a strong accusation from hill but is actually irrelevant if it is true or not you see punishments are supposed to fit the crime and the crime of tax evasion should

not have a punishment of mandatory counseling or is more paranoid types like me like to call it reprogramming oh they are usually trivial this celebrity case actually sets a dangerous legal precedent but that's just my opinion. arises in watching. as the political turmoil continues a congressman at the center of a storm joins us republican congressman david schweikert who has his own ideas about how to solve the debt limit problem plus the man who was in the hot seat during the one nine hundred ninety five and ninety six government shutdowns former speaker of the house newt gingrich who has some strong words for washington next

politicking with larry king. on the ticket i'm larry king a lot going on in washington we'll go straight to capitol hill to talk to someone at the center of it all congressman david schweikert republican of arizona thanks for joining us thanks for being an old time fan of my old radio show as he told us before we went on yeah it anytime and you tell them you know you had some amazing guests during those years and i learned a lot they were great days david what's going on new is that house going to pass what the senate's going to approve that's my guess now it may require a mixture of republicans and democrats and a lot of people moving away from their previous positions of no negotiations but you know we're up against the deadline we've had this sort of dance before. one of

my concerns is is this sort of the new normal. are we walking into a world now where you know if we only have two percent g.d.p. growth are we going to be having to have these sorts of fights every few months now here in washington. how do we prevent it it would actually take a handful of things because let's face it these are actually fights about resources . and you can actually look at the other extreme allergies of a president that isn't as engaged in the process and working with the members but what do you do when you have an environment where mandatory spending is going to continue to explode and yet as ga our our budget folks keep telling us we're now the new normal maybe only a two percent g.d.p. growth. you can't have both of those so it means the fight for resources are the new normal you sent a letter to the u.s. treasury secretary jack.