and immense a spike in radiation levels of fuels fears at the fukushima nuclear plant as a reading in a storage tank six and a half thousand times higher in two days. it's bob by a sponsor as of a long time chief of america's and battled national security agency says he'll step down after spending months struggling with the fallout from the edward snowden leaks. inside the syrian rebellion with the rival armed brigades and civilians feeling the seized 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. primary international also hears a first hand what it's like for syrians or to live surrounded by militants.

and does a blast kill at least sixty one people in iraq a new study suggests the number of victims assistance american invasion is far higher than previously thought. along from us this is our g.t.o. with me would say it's good to have your company with us let's take a look at the top story this hour. there's a worrying spike in radiation at or 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 the drain age of digital leading to the pacific ocean it's compounded

what's been a worsening situation at the plant in recent months as a renewed explains 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 cool the nuclear course or it 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 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 warfare when it comes to wiping up remnants of the nuclear catastrophe it has had its all and the last in a quarter of a century. or another before ph should be treated just like chernobyl has a record that must be retired and put in a sarcophagus the problem with 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. . troubles of course bag of from the earthquake and tsunami that rev a judge a pan in march of twenty eleven now it took a year for japan's government to admit that the nuclear disaster was caused by the improper handling of other crisis and that the plant's operator the plant operator tepco which it says could have been avoided now two years after the crisis hit the radiation is recorded in local fish and a leaky discovered at a storage tank with contaminated waters and when tap co finally admits to the reactors that are leaking toxic water it is revealed that up to three hundred tons

of radioactive water are flowing in for flowing rather into the ocean every day rather jacobs use an associate professor at hiroshima peace university says there's no immediate solution for the 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 if so how to solve the immense problems that will be facing for decades the sheema were closely following what's happening at fukushima here and online

including the facts which are that colorful typhoon had on the crippled we can have plans that are to dot com. they had all the notorious 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 vigorously defended the snooping program as lawful and essential for national security his departure next spring is likely to have been spurred by the snowden leaks as marina my experience . and who has made it 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 puryear says general alexander's resignation is more like a fall from grace i think 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 being 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 head of 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 expo. reporting from new york marina for night r.t. . and this one is she said to apologize also under the microscope in our tease of breaking the sat you can watch the full show in just over two hours from now but here's a quick preview. you know after all those tours of duty that combat zone of checking people's facebook likes and their yahoo address books you can understand why he wants some down time it's pretty ridiculous because what they initially told us at

first back in march james clapper the director of national intelligence told congress that they're not collecting any data at all on u.s. citizens clearly a wide perjured himself before congress should be in jail based on our existing laws but of course nothing is happening to him because he's too powerful and so that was back in march not collecting any data on u.s. citizens and then we have you know we're collecting data but it's only the met a data don't worry about it guys go back to do whatever you do before car dash in kanye west or together disco focus on that stuff and then it comes out that oh they're actually harvesting hundreds of thousands in a single day hundreds of thousands of people's address book contacts people who have no connection to terrorism or crime and by the way people who are u.s. citizens. reporting events in syria it's becoming too dangerous for many with the killing and

kidnapping of journalists forcing more and more to stay away from the conflict a team from sky news arabia went missing on thursday following dozens of directions at least twenty five journalists have been killed in the conflict a difficult as it is to get inside the troubles there is to explain what's happening is maria financial made it to one of the 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 seize symbols of new associates here everywhere graffiti or three stars that means free syrian army is controlling this area they syrian military cannot enter root 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 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 motifs 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 budget 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 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 of this 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 qaida 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 heerey al-qaeda 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 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 one point wrist topped by a group of gunman apparently from a hostile brigade they ask about who we are later our guards told us the man 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 need 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. artie's morea for reports from fragmenting syrian rebel held territories. syria on the rebel group. they were in iraq a new study suggests the body count is worse than you may have thought now one of those a new study into the human cost of the u.s. led war in iraq talks to r.t. about why previous estimates might be conservative at best and that's a hit. from great expectations too big to disappoint been ireland's

about to end its three bailout from its european partners but ask if it's strong enough to go it alone some to the bank. this immediately though shall we leave that may be. part of the scene motions to the. whole of the. issues that no one is that still with the guests that deserve answers from. politics.

mission pretty good you take three months for free. range free. free. free. world free volunteer video for your media project and a free radio down to our t.v. dot com. you're watching archie for more international news now calculating the actual number of victims of the u.s. led war in iraq isn't easy but a new study based on speaking to iraqi households suggests that almost half a million people have perished as a result of conflict violence or the country's abetted health care now we asked one of the surveys authors why many people still believe the level of the teletubbies is much lower clearly the public and 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 of the coalition forces to keep the public thinking that the death toll was low these were fairly rapidly unpopular decisions to do this invasion and the less the public was able to track havoc that we were wreaking longer they could sustain the intervention without public outcry. as part of the deadly legacy left by the us invasion sectarian violence has claimed over a thousand lives in the last month the latest string of attacks in mainly shia areas

in baghdad and northern iraqi communities have left at least sixty one people dead amy hagopian also told us that a 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. campaign is in germany say it's a high time to wrap up the political gift giving they demanding a clampdown on suspicion eleven donations to angela merkel's political party which received seven hundred thousand euros from b.m.w. the full story is. also online ad what snowden says that there's no way rochelle all of china got any n.s.a. documents adding that to he flew to moscow empty handed.

but does covers are off and the u.s. government has reopened following a nerve wracking shutdown unbalancing 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 than the spectacle that we've seen these past several weeks. america has already gotten a thumbs down from china its dugong agency has slashed the united states' credit rating by one notch to a minus the same level as brazil and panama bumping up the boring limit again for

another few months didn't solve the debt problem the agency said it took washington while that a fortnight of stubborn talks to reach agreement hours before the deadline a long awaited deal they came up with this certainly no happy ending a financial analyst 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 leader 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 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 suffered 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. investors have pulled out forty three billion dollars out of the u.s. space money market funds this week because of the earlier this week now it's the largest a one week a decline in two as an indication of the high costs of the budget bickering and the federal still larry king has been grilling the man who was in the house of representatives the hot seat last time there was a shutdown and here here's what newt gingrich had to say in politico later on. your wife calista wonderful lady has a new book out called yankee doodle dandy and i'm going to relate this to the current situation that my book deals with the american revolution the founding fathers how do you think they would react to what's going on in two thousand and

thirteen in washington we are close and i talk about it because in her book alice the elephant introduces forty year olds to american history and we were we were literally trying with the fact that when the founding fathers needed to write the constitution they want to philadelphia they locked themselves in for fifty five days no press conferences no public attacks no leaks fifty five days of hard work i think if the president and the congressional leadership would spend fifty five days together we wouldn't be in the mess we're in they'd have found some common solutions and i think it's fair to the we have degenerated from serious people doing serious business to kind of politics we have today. second around the world and some other top stories now police in for canada have arrested forty people upset a protest against shale gas extraction turned violent clashes broke out as offices used pepper spray on demonstrators at a three week along sit in which was blocking highway access to

a fracking equipment the protesters responded with petrol bombs as well as he has water pollution locals are furious at the riots over their own land have been swept aside. isolated clashes are broken out at a rally of tens of thousands of education protesters in chains capital water cannon were deployed and some demonstrators threw rocks and said very caves on fire and the nationwide campaign for free and better quality education has rumbled on for over two years and mass protests have often resulted in unrest it's likely to be a key issue in next month's election. classrooms protests of a different kind in paris where hundreds of students blocked access to their schools in protest at the forced deportation of a roma pupil the fifteen year old girl was seized in front of her fellow two pools and sent back to kossovo because officials said she and to illegally mian five

years ago there is generally wide support for the government on immigration but the teenager's treatment has found holes for the interior minister to quit. the sky above a sydney has been plunged into darkness by massive plumes of smoke from in firdos a raging on the city's outskirts of their major push by is 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 as wildfire season is already being called the worst in a decade. ireland's on the way to exiting is a three year international bailout program the eighty five billion euro emergency aid came after its banks collapse in two thousand and ten but it mended tax rises to new levels slashes of pensions and of cutting down the minimal wage of our as

finance minister says he's got a twenty five billion euro war war chest to pay next year's bills but the country still owes much more money than it earns artie's kevin owen earlier talked to one irish politician who told us that the country is. great expectations of joining the e.u. where in just a fight 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 sware as a way to mourn 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 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 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 and also piling massive bank dash on our shoulders up next the dangers of living with gun controls my first rifle in just a few minutes you know watching art. as

it splits divides the syrian opposition party takes a closer look at life on rebel ground is just an aid to kilometers from the capital damascus it seems like a state within a state free syrian army should fall in place as they do in military cannot and tear our t's morea fanaa reports from fragmenting syrian rebel held territories. syria on the rebel group on arts. deliberate torch is on its epic journey to such a. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand nine hundred ton two cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand killings. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. a limp torch relay. on r t r two dot com.

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