another radiation leak strikes japan's fukushima power plant as the operating company says highly contaminated water may have reached the ocean plus. just take two kilometers from the capital damascus but it is like a state within a state are two reports from the heart of the syrian rebel movement where local say they feel besieged by a rival brigades battling for control. and shake up adds the n.s.a. the u.s. spy agencies the longest serving chief is due to step down after months of damage control following edward snowden's revelations.

this is already coming to light for moscow with me marina joshing. fresh alarm bells have gone off at japan's crippled fukushima nuclear power plant where record high radiation levels have been detected the plant's operator tepco says a storage tank has leaked contaminated water into a ditch were readings are now twelve thousand times higher than they were just a day ago tap co suspects some of the water may haue already into the ocean as our genes are in english to reports this is just the latest in a series of calamities to strike the now infamous facility 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'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 the nuclear catastrophe it has had its own less than a quarter of

a century. or another before pitch 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 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 you do actively after a powerful earthquake but the power giant seems undeterred by the prospect of having two malfunctioning nuclear power station on its hands maybe home. being an international effort would solve both problems at the same time. r.t. africa's problems began when of the earthquake and tsunami a ruptured its cooling systems in march twenty seventh causing a meltdown it took

a whole year for japan's government to admit the nuclear disaster that was caused by improper handling of the crisis which the plant's operator tap co says could have been avoided two years after the crisis hit radiation was recorded in nearby fish stocks and a leak was discovered at a storage tank for contaminated water and when tepco finally admitted the spill it revealed that up to three hundred tons of radioactive water was flowing into the ocean every day. nuclear x. bird rubber jacobs says there is no quick fix for the ongoing crisis which he thinks will last for decades. 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 is 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. and even get more updates and analysis on of a crisis on our website we've been closely following events since disaster struck and i have an extensive database of reports opinions and eyewitness accounts all that is just click away at r.t. dot com. now reporting on the war in syria is becoming too dangerous for manny with attacks on journalists forcing more and more and to avoid the country a team from sky news are a big deal went missing on thursday and that followed dozens of other abductions at least twenty five journalists have been killed since the start of the conflict

there were the last r.t. summary for national managed to make it into one rebel held city. hello yeah brad 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 is symbols all new authorities here everywhere graffiti or three stars that means free syrian army is controlling this area a syrian military cannot enter your brood is the center of a large mountainous area in western syria known as kalam moon in two thousand and eleven local residents were among the first to support the n.t.'s out 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 motifs and

lawyers the curio justice you 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 born in kuwait and having spent two years traveling the middle east in the gulf he only came here months before serious protests began. we resisted the end we have a plan and we have forces to make it happen sure 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 go twice a week they hear an islamic lecture from a young man who everybody calls the shape he's taking part in the hellish program edge to mecca and started the qur'an in saudi arabia all details on the street every monday and thursday we discuss the revolution the latest military

developments as well as our daily routine we discuss what's prescribed or forbidden by the. i asked them whether the jets 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 are f.s.a. but not in the news or 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 been among journalists is seen as something prestigious. school to do and i told to feel from the car but it one point twist top by a group of gunmen apparently from a hostile brigade they ask about who we are later our guards told us the men were

kidnappers from remote village at least nineteen forty journeys to held hostage in syria right now and the price and then lives there is. 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 with different ideologies and the only food and weaponry and these are locals who pay the bills just 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 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 divergent parties morea for national reports from fragmented syrian rebel held territories. syria on the rebel. marksman. now the head of america's national security agency credited with a major expansion of the organization's covert surveillance operations is due to quit early next year army general keith alexander and his anastasia longest serving chief has come under intense pressure since whistleblower snowden revealed the vast scale of government snooping is more important now has the details. 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 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 passed word into 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 promised that there are many more bombshell exposes to come reporting from new york marina for nine r.t. . now later breaking in the sand also turns its attention to the spy chief and the events that proceed to his departure here's a 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 or congress should be in jail based on our existing laws but of course nothing has happened to him because he's too powerful and so that was back in march not collecting any data at all on u.s. citizens and then we have you know we're collecting data but it's only the metadata 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.

and half a million people are now believed to have died as a result of the nato invasion of iraq we asked one of the authors of a new study of the war just what lies behind that staggering figure that report is just ahead here on r.t. . crisis averted at least for now washington's dangerous. 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 none 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 road. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. welcome back a new study based on a visits to households all over iraq has concluded that almost half a million people have lost their lives as a result of the u.s. led invasion either through direct violence or the collapse of the health care system r.t. spoke to one of the surveys authors who says the staggering figure or come as

a surprise to many in the west clearly the public in both the u.s. and u.k. . underestimates 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 parts coalition forces to keep the public thinking that the death toll is low these forward fairly rapidly unpopular decisions tend to do this invasion and the less the public was able to track the havoc that we were wreaking mongar they could sustain the intervention. without public outcry. well the study didn't take into account the sectarian tit for tat that continued after the needlepoint cleaning our thousand lives in september alone amy hagopian

told us that it's not the only thing that fell through the cracks. 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. but it may come as a surprise that even in the twenty first century mankind has yet to read itself of slavery but how many people exactly are held in servitude on our planet today. on our website r e t v a call we've got a staggering report that says the number of modern day slaves across the globe exceeds the population of a country like that is way. down a tropical storm reveals a huge player of oil was in the sands of the louisiana beach three years on from

the b.p. oil disaster learn more about it dot com. america is back in business as a government gets restarted after a two week long stalemate that cost the contrary about twenty four billion dollars the highly anticipated d.i.y. word does not solve the major political issue as financial analyst next 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 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 won't go on forever for two reasons one because i do think that 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'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 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. now fears of a default pushed investors to pull forty three billion dollars out of u.s. based funds making it the largest one we did in over two years larry king spoke to the man who witnessed the previous shutdown from the speaker a seat in the house of representatives. your wife calista a wonderful lady has a new book out go yankee doodle baby 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

talking of 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 had spent 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 sad that we have degenerated from serious people doing serious business to the kind of politics we have today. you can catch the full program politicking with larry king later this hour here on r.t. and dutch police say thursday's break in an apartment block that houses russian embassy staff in the hague was most likely an ordinary burglary the answer then has added to frictions developing between the two countries since both russia and dutch diplomats came under attack or just listen often of brings us the details. well

it's hard to say whether this is a case of diplomatic tit for tat or just pure coincidence but an apartment housing russian diplomats in the hague was apparently broken into late thursday we do have more details from the russian foreign ministry spokesman let's take a quick listen employees from the russian embassy in the netherlands came back from work on the seventeenth of october to their apartments located in the house sort of embassies territory they discovered traces of unlawful entry into one of the employee who lives there from the embassies administrative. is currently on holiday so now the big question of course is whether there's any connection between that break and when days assaultive a senior dutch official here in moscow in that case two men posing as electricians broke into the diplomats home they beat him up and then reportedly drew a heart in lipstick on a mirror with the acronym g b t for a lesbian gay bisexual and trans gender this follows of course the arrest earlier this month of

a russian diplomat on suspicion of mistreating two young children also claims he was beaten and custody the dutch officials had apologized for of that detention as well now all this of course coinciding with rising tension over russia's jailing of the peace activists including two dutch citizens who are on board a dutch flagged ship campaign against drilling in the arctic so a very strange escalation of diplomatic conflicts here. and more international news in brief now we begin in canada where police have arrested around forty people protesting shale gas exploration clashes broke out after authorities tried to dismantle a highway barricade officers reportedly used pepper spray on demonstrators who in turn hurled petrol bombs setting at least five vehicles on fire the incident comes after a two week long protest by activists and they are demanding local oil and gas company just stop fracking in the area saying it would damage the environment. in chile a mass student wrote asked how the salmon into violence about eight hundred

thousand people marched in the capital santiago de. a man to school and university tuition fees out of more say in education policy and the one up next month's presidential election water cannons were deployed after demonstrators for the wrong riot police and said barricades and fire nationwide campaign to reshape the education system inherited from the initiated fater ship has been intensifying over the past two years. meanwhile in paris there's been a different sort of rally students block and reaches to their schools in protest and to force to protection of a roma girl the fifteen year old pupil was detained by police during a school trip and deported to cos it was her family because officials said they have been denied asylum in france the incident prompted calls for the nation's interior minister to resign. hundreds of activists protesting against the alleged unlawful treatment of migrants in germany have clashed with police and

. they're rallying the city in the city sandra was walking and surrounded by security for forces for almost two hours it comes a day after similar protests and berlin where crowds gather in support of african migrants those two boats recently sang in the mid to reign over four hundred people drowned in those incidents. are the saudi arabia has turned down a seat at the un security council accusing the international community of failing to and the war in syria and that's just hours after the country was granted a place as a nonpermanent member for the first time the gulf monarchies have been pushing for a military intervention in syria worth it supports opposition forces but its anger boiled over when the u.s. called off the strikes against the government and agreed to a deal wow in the country's chemical arsenal to be dismantled. ireland's set

to remove its international bailout program says the country's prime minister the eighty five billion euro emergency aid came after the banks collapsed in twenty tan but it manned tax rises and spending cuts to qualify for it even free of the bailout terms there are still years of punishing us territory to have for the irish public to pay off the nation's debts and the pan irish m.p. told my colleague kevin allen that the country's great expectations of joining the e.u. were unjustified one of a major reasons why we're in this mess is because people didn't listen to people like and cochran who when we joined the euro said step we're all laughing t.j. bush is full engine tears and how right she was and it created a situation where all our public finances were swears a money 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 eat how can you see positives in a situation where they were called 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 jarred 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 if you 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 and coming right up as promised as larry king asking how

. america can solve its debt limit problem watching r.t. . deliberate torch is on its epic journey to structure. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand nine hundred ton two cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand kilometers. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. a limp dick torch relay. on r t r g dot com.

as it splits divides the syrian opposition party takes a close look at life on rebel ground is just a few kilometers from the capital damascus it is like a state within a state free syrian army that foley's area big syrian military cannot and tear parties morea fanaa reports from fragmenting syrian rebel held territories. syria on rebel group on arts. dramas the chance to be ignored to the. stories of others to refuse to notice. faces change the world light snack. food picture of today's leaves no politician from around the globe to look to. fifty. prices

in washington as the political turmoil continues a congressman at the center of the storm joins us republicans on his when 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 shutdown former speaker of the house newt gingrich who has some strong words for washington all next on politicking with larry king. live taking on larry king a lot going on in washington we'll go straight to capitol hill and talk to someone at the center of 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.