eight pm here in moscow tonight another radiation leak strikes japan's fukushima power plant as the operating company says highly contaminated water may have reached the ocean. a shake up at the n.s.a. the u.s. spy agency is longest serving chief stepped down after months of damage control following edward snowden's revelations plus. eight metres from the capital damascus but it is like a state within a state are two reports from the heart of the syrian rebel movement were locals say they feel besieged by rival brigades battling for control.

and if you just joined us this is our top story than the saving alarm bells have gone off for japan's crippled fukushima nuclear plant once again where record high radiation levels have been detected the plant operator tepco says a storage tanks leak contaminated water into a ditch where readings are now twelve thousand times higher than they were just a day ago tepco suspects some of that water may have already seeped into the ocean as of course on top of the countless times that may have already reached the pacific during previous leaks well oceanic currents mean the fallout will stretch far beyond japan a massive radioactive plume will reportedly reach american shores next year contaminated fish and sea birds are also contributing to the spread of radioactivity at his regular has more on the calamities gripping the fukushima plant two and a half years to admit the painful truth to plan 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 the last in a quarter of a century. or another perfect pitch should be treated just like chernobyl as 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 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 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 home. being an international effort would solve both problems at the same time it in

a balanced go r.t. . well for she was problems began when the earthquake and tsunami ruptured its cooling systems back in march twentieth eleven causing that melt it took a whole year for japan's government to admit that the nuclear disaster was caused by the improper handling of the crisis the plant operator tepco admitted the crisis could have been avoided if only it had done a better job more than two years after the crisis hit the leak was then discovered in one of the storage tanks for contaminated water there are many of them where i went tepco finally admitted the spill it revealed that up to three hundred tons of radioactive water was flowing into the ocean every day nuclear expert robert jacobs says there's no quick fix for the ongoing crisis either 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 of 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 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 as to how to solve the immense problems that will be facing for decades. get more updates from analysis on the fukushima crisis on our website we've been closely following events there since that awful disaster struck we've got extensive database of a poll and i would have succumbed just a click away at. 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 general keith alexander who's the n.s.a.'s longest serving chiefs come under intense pressure since will supply edward snowden revealed the vast scale of government snooping. on the story. 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 at 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 he spearheaded has more to fifty for 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 had 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 exposes to

come reporting from new york marina for nine r.t. . will let you know just over an hour of breaking the senate's also probes the role of the spy chief from the events that preceded his depart ship is a clue. 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 that 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 has happened to him because he's too powerful and so that was back in march not collecting any data on us citizens and then we have yeah we're collecting data but it's only the method 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 on the war in syria is becoming too dangerous for many now with attacks on journalists who see more and more to avoid the country the latest a team from sky news rabia went missing on thursday that followed dozens of other abductions to at least twenty five june this is been killed since the start of the conflict nevertheless ots information of monies to make it into one rebel held city . 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 is symbols of new authorities here everywhere graffiti or three stars that means free

syrian army is controlling this area a syrian military cannot enter yet root is the center of a large mountainous area in western syria known as kalam moon in two thousand and eleven local residents were very much 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 the noirs 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 people series protests began. to resist

to 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 function instead as an autonomy armed brigade is still even 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 pilgrimage to mecca and started the qur'an in saudi arabia all the 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 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 are f.s.a.

but the newser is linked to the outside they follow al qaida and for decisions they revert to their army or even our here e al-qaeda leader we have normal relations with them next we are supposed to meet with people from island. 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 a 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 and they ask about who we are later our guards told us the men were kidnappers from remote village at least nineteen for your journey so held hostage in syria right now and the price and then lives barings. this area supposedly run by opposition fighters is in fact in the hands of an 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 marti's morea for national reports from fragmented. syrian rebel held territory. syrian rebels. see. coming up empty fracking raging canada the people who say no to the shale gas revolution i met with pepper spray but as we look into why fracking continues

unabated despite fears of its environmental impact. crisis averted at least for now washington's dangerous and even the responsible political circus has taken the time out was brought 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 it 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. today. again in canada police arrested around forty people protesting against shale gas exploration it's after clashes broke out as authorities try to dismantle a highway barricade officers reportedly used pepper spray on demonstrators who fought back there was molotov cocktail setting several vehicles and like you had rested new brunswick follows two weeks of protests activists are demanding that a local oil and gas company there stop fracking in their area saying it would

devastate the environment probably an anti fracking campaigner and the ship one is that the race for oil profits those becoming more extreme than ever. what you've got is a situation where they're going for ever more extreme forms of fossil fuel in a situation where you know we know you know there's been recent reports from the london school economics which show quite categorically that we need to be leaving two thirds of the known fossil fuel reserves in the ground if we're going to prevent catastrophic climate change but be in the car use over the last very last thing we need to be doing is looking for for more fossil fuels in the extreme for when the only reason that that's going to hades is because of the why the be all and gas industry has got their claws into governments across the world you know. when you've got a capitalist system. to short to profit from extreme fossil fuels whatever cost in terms of the long term the environmental and social benefits of the people in the area.

america is back in business is the government gets restarted after a two week long stalemate that could have cost the country about twenty four billion dollars the highly anticipated deal however doesn't solve the major political issue is financial 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 rules and revisit this later type of deal their 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 portions of the republican party and there are a bunch of those and 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 then we suffer to get somewhere if that's not true then we just suffered to suffer more in the future and i certainly hope the second one is not how it works out well fears over to push divest to pull forty three billion dollars out of u.s. space funds making it the largest one we dip in over two years is now at about ten minutes larry king speaks to the man who witnessed the previous shutdown from the speaker's seat in the house of representatives. your wife who is the wonderful lady has a new book out called yankee doodle dandy and i'm going to relate this to the current situation that 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 mass 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. it may come as a surprise that even the twenty first century one can get to rid itself of slavery but how many people exactly are held in servitude on a planet today good question we've got the answers on our website a staggering report that says the number of modern day slaves across the globe exceeds the population of

a country the size of it is way lower it's online from and a tropical storms revealed a huge layer of all of the sounds of a louisiana beach three years on from the b.p. oil disaster there are more about that too from us. dutch police say first his break in at an apartment block that houses russian embassy staff in the hague was most likely an ordinary burglary the incident started to frictions there between the two countries sparked by recent attacks on both russian and dutch diplomats to see catherine off 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 a housing sort of embassy they discovered traces of unlawful entry into one of the

employee who lives there from the embassies administrative technical staff is currently on holiday so now the big question of course is whether there is 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 l 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 greenpeace activists including two dutch citizens who are on board a dutch flagged ship campaigning against drilling in the arctic so a very strange escalation of diplomatic conflicts here. from the news a brief tonight in afghanistan a suicide bomber has blown up a car outside a heavily fortified residential compound on the outskirts of the capital kabul

woman and up to four children reportedly killed in that attack which was then followed by an exchange of gunfire between guards and insurgents who fled the scene the compound known as the green village houses international security contracts as well as you would employees the country see the surge of military attacks as nato forces prepare for the next year in paris students still block again truces to the schools and the ongoing protest of the forced deportation of a roma girl the fifteen year old pupil was detained by police during a school trip and deported but to call. over with the family because officials said they've been denied asylum in france the incident prompted calls for the nation's interior minister to resign over. hundreds of activists protesting against the alleged unlawful treatment of migrants in germany of now clash with police in hamburg a rally in the city center was blocked i'm surrounded by security forces for almost two hours it comes a day after a similar protested berlin where crowds gathered in support of african migrants to boat sank recently the mediterranean over four hundred people drowned. urgency

services and soldiers in laos still looking for the fuselage of the a.t.r. plane and over twenty bodies two days after it crashed into the mekong river all forty nine on board wednesday's domestic flight are presumed dead the aircraft ran into bad weather it was as it was preparing to land at a nearby airport. island set to leave its international bailout program says the country's prime minister the eighty five billion euro emergency aid came after the banks collapsed in twenty ten but it meant tax rises and spending cuts to qualify for it and even when relieved of the bailout burden there are still the years of punishing austerity ahead for ireland richard boyd barrett a member of the irish parliament for the people before profit alliance thinks the public and the government worlds apart. the government are living in a different planet us to the one and have visited by ordinary citizens the latest bogus is the seventh austerity budget and yet again it is really been very vicious

in the cults that have been imposed on some of the most vulnerable sectors of our society this time particularly young people who are his their social welfare entitlements for where his very hard even though there are no jobs for them which will mean many of them will just leave the country in fact at the moment about forty thousand people are leaving the country a year they've also his very very hard and medical cover for pensioners and for the crime actually sake which is going to mean actual pain and suffering for some of the most vulnerable sections of our society had to held but just has been absolutely slaughtered so we're talking about a society that has really been crucified. socially and economically by a star and the economy is absolutely strangled there's no serious signs of each on the recovery we have mass unemployment we've been to enormous housing crisis so i think we will be counting the cost of this bank bailout for decades unless we

change policy while talking accounting the cost up next as promised is larry king oscon how america can solve itself the debt limit problem that's after the break. the olympic torch is on its epic journey to such. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand one hundred top two cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand coming. in a record setting trip by land air sea an outer space. a little thick torch relay. on r t r.

splits to fight the syrian opposition r t takes a close look at life on rebel ground it's just a few kilometers from the capital damascus like a state within a state free syrian army controlling. the searing misery and tear artie's maria fanaa reports from fragmenting syrian rebel held territory. syria on the rebel group on our. prices in washington 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 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 yeah it anytime and you tell them you know you had some amazing guest during those years and i learned a lot they were great days david what's going on you get the house to. pass what the senate is going to approve that's my guess no 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 lew challenging him to pursue alternative solutions to the debt ceiling have you heard back i haven't but part of this is and is that conversation we actually started with secretary geithner a couple years ago. take one step away from the politics is there such a thing as default and others using default as a political leverage and let's actually just deal with debt management when president obama leaves office we will hold about twenty two trillion dollars of u.s. sovereign debt in some fashion or other we need to start building a strategy of how do we manage that type of debt load particularly when interest rates start to move on us. and do you see that happen where you see it going well.