and it meant a spike in radiation levels of fuels fears at the fukushima nuclear plant as readings in a storage tank six and a half thousand times in two days. it's bye bye as far as the long time chief of america's embattled national security agency either serve you will step down after spending months or struggling with the fallout from the edward snowden the. stay inside the syrian rebellion though with the arrival of brigades and civilians a feeling besieged are to get 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 very often national so here's a firsthand what it's like for syrians to live surrounded by militants. oh. and as a barrage of blast killing at least sixty one people in iraq a new study suggests the number of victims since the american invasion is far higher than previously thought. we're live from our. headquarters in moscow this is all to you with me to the monday to our top story this. there's a worrying spike in radiation at the fukushima nuclear plant readings from a water storage tank to 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 leading to the pacific ocean it's compounded what's been a worsening situation at the plant in recent months as a really explain. two and a half years to admit the painful truth depair 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 it because 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 already had water is located on the very sea shore this is the ocean and the problem with the fukushima is that there's a leak supposedly right here so from there you've 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 a nuclear catastrophe it has had its own the last in a quarter of a century. should be treated just like chernobyl as 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 it or to keep it going because. 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 its

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 to 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 in august go. for the chairman's troubles us back of course to the quake and tsunami that rev asia japan in march of two thousand and eleven now it also took a yeah well for the japanese government to admit that a nuclear disaster was caused by the improper handling of the crisis and the plant's operator tepco now was that it could have handled the situation fog better and that could have been avoided. as well the radiation is recorded in the now in local fish and the leak has been discovered at

a storage tank with contaminated waters and when tepco initially and finally admitted to the reactors that were leaking toxic into the water it revealed that up to three hundred tons of toxic was now being of radioactive was not being leaked into the ocean every single day now robin jacob susan as a professor at hiroshima peace university says there's no immediate solution for the crisis. nobody really knows how to solve the problems it's a shame there is no nobody who has solutions to these problems that 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 in 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. well we're closely following what's happening at fukushima here and online including the effects which they're powerful typhoon had on the crippled nuclear power plant at r.t. dot com. the head of the notoriously u.s. spying agency behind sweeping global surveillance is to leave his job keith alexander is the n.s.a.'s longest serving director and has a vigorously defended the snooping programs as lawful and essential for national security now his departure next spring is likely to have been spurred by the snowden leaks as marina 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 and i think after everything that's been

released by mr snowden very a row of glee that they're looking for a face lift 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 has been nicknamed alexander the great of reference to all the employees 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 glenn greenwald who initially broke the n.s.a. spy scandal has personally promise that there are many more bombshell. exposé is to come reporting from new york where enough or not r.t. . 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 falling dozens of abductions at least twenty five journalists have been killed in the conflict difficult that it is to get inside the troubles and to explain what's happening arches where if a national made into 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 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 we have more and more years the curio justice we run the town bar so the army can enter and even if they try we are ready to resist and defend our land maija calls these are 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 four years ago months before serious protests began. we 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 functioning 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 taking part in the hellish pilgrimage to mecca and started the qur'an in saudi arabia all day as it 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 is 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 first say. the newser is linked to the outside they follow al qaida and for decisions they revert to their army or even our here our leader we have normal relations with them next we are supposed to meet with people from my 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 men were kidnappers from rema village at least nineteen for journalists to held hostage in syria right now and the price of their lives varies. these areas supposedly run by opposition fighters is in fact in the hands. of a large number of separate brigades armed groups are 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 if 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. artie's morea fanaa reports from fragmenting syrian rebel held territories. syria on the rebel group in our city. over in iraq a new study suggests the body count is worse than you may have forts one of the authors of a new study into the human cost of the us led war in iraq. by previous estimates might be conservative at best that's ahead. from great

expectations bit disappointment arlin's about to end his three year bailout from europe its european pot this strong enough to go to the break. wealthy british. because. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two causes a report. crisis averted at least for now washington's dangerous and even the responsible political circus has taken a time out with barack obama still standing however neither the president nor congress have much to be proud of the core issues at the heart of this deadlock have been dealt with washington gridlock issues like that can't be kicked down the

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. 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 iraq e household suggests that almost half a million people have perished as a result of conflict violence all the countries but to health care now you we are one of the surveys authors why many people still believe the level of fatalities is much lower. clearly. like in both the u.s. and the u.k. . under estimates the number of people who died in iraq as a result of that 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 part 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 track. that we were wreaking mongar they could sustain the intervention without public outcry as part of a deadly legacy left by the u.s. invasion of sectarian violence is claimed to over thousand lives through the last month the latest string of attacks in mainly shia areas in baghdad and mulder in the iraqi communities have left at least sixty one people did a may have gold piece and also told us that deeper analysis of victims would reveal even more shocking numbers. one major fly 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. the campaign is in germany say it's high time to rep up political gift giving they're demanding it claim down and suspiciously leverage donations to the americans' political party which received seven hundred thousand euros from b.m.w. the full story is on r.t. dot com. also online edward snowden says there's no way rochelle of china got any n.s.a. documents adding that he flew to moscow empty handed. the desk covers are off the u.s. government has reopened following a nerve wracking shutdown and balancing on the bridge of a default for over two weeks president obama is warning that america has suffered a major blow in 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 than the spectacle that we've seen these past several weeks. so the u.s. has bumped up its borrowing limit again as shifting the deadline for another few months of parties and he said no reports from washington on how that's fueling uncertainty and undermining confidence in america's economy and he does. 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 a hard number for me to even fathom 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's of washington or more than a foot of told with lawmakers changing accusations and pointing fingers to reach an agreement i was before the deadline a long awaited

a deal they came up with is certainly no happy ending as financial analyst makes fraud wolf explains. who learned what lesson is a big issue we didn't really get a deal we 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 reached or are reaching the limit of public and corporate patience 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 is 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. checking around the world

and some other top stories and now of policing kind of to have arrested forty people on a protest against shale gas extraction turned violent clashes broke out as offices used pepper spray on demonstrators that a three week long sit in which was blocking highway access to a franking equipment depo the protesters responded with petrol bombs as well as yes all of the water pollution locals of furious that the rights of their own land have been swept aside. isolated clashes have broken out at a rally of tens of thousands of education protesters in chile's capital or to cannon were deployed or when some demonstrators threw rocks and said barricades and why and now the nationwide campaign for free and better quality education has. a rumbled on for over two years and mass protests have often resulted in under as it's likely to be a key issue in next month's elections. classroom protest of

a different kind now in paris where hundreds of students have blocked access to their schools in protest at the forza deportation of all roma you pulled the fifteen year old girl was seized from a school bus and sent back to kosovo because officials said she entered illegally nearly five years ago there's generally wide support for the government on immigration but the teenager's treatment has sparked calls of for the interior minister to quit. the sky above sydney has been plunged into darkness by a massive plumes of smoke from infernos raging on the city's outskirts there are major bushfires blazing across australia's 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 year's wildfire season is already being called the worst in a decade. arland is on

a path to exiting its three international bailout program not the eighty five a billion euro emergency aid as a lifeline after its banks collapse in two thousand and ten but it meant a sacrifice is to pay for it such as tax rises the introduction of new levies and spending cuts in the budget the finance minister says the economy is reviving although hard times lie ahead and in handling that country's a twenty five billion euro did artie's kevin irwin earlier talk 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 all said that 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 sware as a way to have money as 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 waste 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 us 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 up next the dangers of living

with gun controls my first wife in a few minutes he. delivered torch is on its epic journey to such a. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand nine hundred two cities of russia. relayed by forging those people for sixty five thousand kilometers. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. a limbic torch relay. on r t r g dot com. splits to avoid the syrian opposition r t takes a close look at life on rebel ground is just a few kilometers from the capital damascus but it is like a state within

a state free syrian army controlling nice hair and big syrian military cannot and tear artie's morea for notion of reports from fragmented syrian rebel held territories. syria on the rebel group on arts who. writes. the. pain of the young girls cam all for the future harder. between two and three hundred million guns the united states so you can act like they're not here and keep kids away from them. the causes out is a large you know i mean this teaches them a lot of are a responsibility and simply come to pay. through the eyes of children if we can do

it for our children for our future what the country will save. this is cumberland county in south kentucky deep in the american country site far from the sprawl of. a place where alcohol is neither sold not consumed in the bible reign supreme. in a village of eight hundred people there are forty charges. this is a pious closed community get weapons are

a part of every day life here full protection and so hunting. exposed from childhood it is not unusual she to own your first gun in kinda got. how many people own guns in this village more probably to than go. with these things that are. actually not in that sound opinion of your own go not everybody is like i am in its quota way of life here you know everybody wants round here and they much else to do it but i would say you know a very high majority of country people own guns my grandson started when he was probably three or four years old so he just and i got one and hans i want to fish is sell so so when you go to kindergarten you get your first. cock yes that's what they want the family of a southern kentucky two year old girl shot and killed in her home.