what we need is a japanese culture member to get in or else. another radiation leak strikes japan's fukushima power plant as the operating company says highly contaminated water may have reached the ocean. shake up of the n.s.a. the u.s. spy agency's longest serving chief is due to step down after months of damage control following it was snowden's revelations bus. just 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 locals say they feel besieged by vital brigades battling for control. of the temp here in moscow when it was kevin watching r.t.

alarm bells go off its 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 suspect some of the water may have already sent into the ocean that's on top of countless tons of already reached the pacific during previous leaks well oceanic currents may no mean the fallout from the original meltdown will stretch far beyond japan massive radioactive plume creeping along the seabed will reportedly reach american shores next year plus global currents could potentially scatter contamination from fukushima across the whole planet fish and sea birds are also contributing to the spread of radioactivity. as more the calamities gripping the battered power plant 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 this is the ocean and the problem with the fukushima is that there is a leak so from there it is ready and water is flowing into the pacific ocean sadly russia has a lot of experience warfare when it comes to wiping up remnants of a nuclear catastrophe it has had its own death the last in a quarter of a century. or another before. should be treated just like chernobyl has

a record that must be retired and put in a sarcophagus the problem with focus is that they can't decide whether they want to close it or 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 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 it in august go our team. well fukushima's problems began when that earthquake and tsunami of course ruptured his cooling system back in march twentieth eleven causing that wolf meltdown it then took a whole year for japan's government to admit the nuclear disaster was causing an

improper handling of the crisis the plant's operated tepco admitted the crisis could have been avoided if it only had done a better job more than two years after the crisis hit a leak was then discovered of the storage tank for contaminated water and went to go finally admitted that spill their village 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 even for this 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 of fukushima are unprecedented so even bringing in outside expertise all that they can do is try to problem solve there's no solution that other countries have that they can come in and. fix the reactors or rather shut down the contamination shut down the 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 as to how to solve the immense problems that will be facing for decades. when you get more states analysis on the friction crosses my website been closely following events since disaster struck we're going to use that extensive database of reports opinions an eyewitness accounts just a click away at r.t. don't call. the head of america's national security agency credit would have been credited with a major expansion of the organizations covert surveillance operations that you to quit early next year army general keith alexander who's the n.s.a.'s longest serving chiefs come under intense pressure since whistleblower edward snowden revealed the vast scale of government snooping artie's want to put nie it's got 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 puryear 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 failings and i think after everything that's been released by mr snowden very heroically 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 spot i has been nicknamed alexander the great a 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 a bombshell. exposé is to come reporting from new york where enough or not r.t. . in syria government jets have bombarded the eastern city of daraa follows the killing of a top military commander he was shot by

a sniper during clashes between the army an opposition forces and while reporting on the war in syria become increasingly dangerous with attacks on journalists forcing warm water for the country of his reform for notion of managed to get into one of the rebel held strongholds 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. security forces police and even the army can see symbols of new authorities here everywhere graffiti or three stars free syrian army is controlling this area the 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 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 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 series protests began. will 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. they leave in abandoned houses sleep and 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 shake he's taken part in the hellish pilgrimage

to mecca and started the qur'an in saudi arabia all that i thought was every monday and thursday we discuss the revolution the latest military developments as well as our daily routine we discuss what's prescribed or forbidden by islam i ask them whether they have had the los or a and qaida affiliated radical islamic group openly operating in syria like no no no no no we have no relation with the nusra we have a say 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 being among journalists is seen as something prestigious. courted and i told to film from the car but it one point twists topped

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 fourteen journeys to held hostage in syria right now and the price and then lives varies. this area supposedly run by opposition fighters is in fact in the hands of a large number of separate brigades armed groups or just lone rebels 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 it 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 group on arctic coming up anti fracking rage in canada the people who say no to the shell gas revolution but with pepper spray a baton as we look into why fracking continues unabated despite fears of its environmental and.

crisis averted at least for now washington's dangerous and even irresponsible 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. in afghanistan a suicide bombers blown up a car outside a heavily fortified residential compound on the outskirts of the capital kabul

a woman and up to four children were reportedly killed in the attack which was followed by an exchange of gunfire between guards and insurgents the country saying a surge in military attacks of late as nato forces prepare for that would draw in twenty fourteen times always presidential candidate in next year's election the country joins me now from kabul sir very pleased in the program this compound has been a top before i gather it houses foreign security contractors as well as u.n. employees is this a message to them head of the forthcoming nato pullout do you think. well this is a continuation of all the problems that have persisted in this country for many years and very peculiar that as we get closer to the election some of these attacks are are also increasing in frequency and this is a question that the leadership of this country has to answer why why why we're trying to reach an election season these things are increasing it's not just

a coincidence i think that there are hidden answers that we have to find where they are are we going to see more of or they're not sure fear. i'm afraid the increase has been very very evident in the past few months and as the nato troop pullout gets closer it's dates or. frequency of these attacks and of course the election season coming up and getting closer to us these frequencies will all be more and more and i think we've seen an increase difficulty and of course the big question washington kabul no trying to work out how many. of the nato forces the americans will be there when this official pullout happens next year but of course a lot of people to be staying behind to ensure peace to ensure security still there's a big question mark over how many that's going to be isn't it. actually

the big question is that if the election. is held on time in april nato has not made a public announcement how many troops will be leaving by april and how many will be left behind and what role they will play because their combat role is over and they will not be here in a combat role so it's a question but the biggest question is that the people of afghanistan are asking every time foreign countries come to here to this country whether legally or illegally they leave behind a regime that is void of public support and mass support and this time it's not not any different and if we can hold a good at election to replace this regime with a more transparent regime that has public support then they will be able to guarantee stability otherwise the instability will increase and unfortunately the

flames of this instability will grow further out outside afghanistan beyond afghanistan to central asia and even russia and then europeans and americans will feel it later but the sort of the lesions and russians will feel it first have lessons been learned after iraq. i don't think superpowers or so-called super powers. have a very good memory even if they see something they seem to see that they are invincible they seem that they're invincible and and these lessons don't apply to them and this has happened many many times in history and no one wants to learn from history unfortunately we keep repeating our mistakes looking ahead to the elections in april next next year what sort of afghanistan does sometimes i leave behind or will you leave behind then. mr karzai is not leaving an afghanistan that will be remembered as a stable afghanistan and afghanistan that our government has public support

a government that has been able to attack a bigger problems the people are suffering from which is poverty lack of jobs corruption lack of rule of law there may be some of the some some achievements but these achievements have not been because of this government these a few achievements have been because of the mass inertia of the presence of the international community and the global push towards. towards certain issues such as freedom of speech women's rights or some technological advances in the communication era area or and the in the media area these are not a government made achievements these events that were here because of the presence of the international community this government has not produced anything that is sustainable or tangible daoud sultanzoy thank you for being on r.t. . 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 offices reportedly used pepper spray and demonstrators who fought back with molotov cocktails setting several vehicles are like the unrest in new brunswick follows two weeks of protests activists are demanding a local oil and gas company stop fracking in the area saying it devastates the environment prominence and the fracking campaign and the shiver one that the race for oil profits though is 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 the recent reports from the london school of economics for example 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 being the case 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 ahead is because of the why the be all and

gas industry have got their claws into governments across the world you know. when you've got a capitalist system. to short term profit from extreme fossil fuels whatever cost in terms of the long term environmental and social benefits of the people in the area. america is back in business is the government gets restarted after the two week long stalemate that cost the country about twenty four billion dollars u.s. economist richard de wolfe told me the way out of the financial gloom lies through taxing big businesses. if you can help get this economy out of a continuing recession which really ought to be called what it is which is a depression you could get it out the government could spend the money to get us out which is the only way we're going to get out and it would not have to borrow

more money would not have to have a deficit and therefore would not have to worry about a debt ceiling if it did the one obvious thing which is to tax corporations and the rich in the united states simply at the rates they were required to pay back in the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's borrow less tax the people you borrow from more and you would have three quarters of this problem solved without all the theater and without all the harm done by these political hacks who refuse to deal with this issue in an honorable way of fears of that default pushed investors to pull forty three billion dollars of u.s. based firms making the largest what we dip in over two years larry king spoke to the man who witnessed the previous shutdown from the speaker's seat in the house of representatives. 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 talking with the fact that when the founding fathers needed to write the constitution they want to philadelphia they were 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 sad that we have degenerated from serious people doing serious business to the kind of politics we have today.

on lines of stories till it's who may come as a surprise that even the twenty first century mankind's yet to rid itself of slavery but how many people exactly are held in servitude of the day because on our website it's a grim one to a staggering report it says the number of modern day slaves across the globe exceeds the population of a comes the size of venezuela worn out online as a tropical storm is now you'll be huge layer of oil within the sands of a louisiana beach three years on from that the awful p.-p. all disaster learn more about that. concept. 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 instance that was added to frictions between the two countries sparked by recent attacks on both russian and dutch diplomats. got the story. 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 block outside or embassies territory they discovered traces of unlawful entry into one of the flats the employee who lives there from the embassies administrative technical stuff is currently on holiday 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 moscow claims he was beaten in 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 peace activists including two dutch citizens who were onboard a dutch flagged ship campaign against drilling in the arctic so a very strange escalation of diplomatic conflicts here with news in brief from ocean sea services and soldiers in laos now still the fuselage of the plane and over twenty bodies two days after it crashed into the biko river forty nine people on board wednesday's domestic flight opens you did the aircraft right about whether that was preparing to land at a nearby airport. paris students are still blocking entrances to the schools in protest of the forced deportation of a roma girl a fifteen year old pupil was detained by police during a school trip and then deported but the kosovo with the family because official said they'd been denied asylum in france the instant prompted calls for the nations of terry minister to resign. hundreds of activists now protesting against the alleged a more full treaty of migrants in germany clashing with police in hamburg this time

the rally in the city center was blocked and surrounded by security forces for most two hours it comes a day after a similar protest in berlin where crowds gathered in support of african migrants those two boats recently sank in the mediterranean over four hundred around in those accidents. now to some news from russia's northern city of motor mounts cut the cord into a report on greenpeace his official website six men wearing balaclavas broke into the grounds of the organizations office there it's security video that we've got here showing you of most purported to be instant was posted online we can't verify greenpeace claims the intruder stole a mock cage it was going to be used apparently in a protest against the detention of those thirty activists charged with piracy of the attempted storm the russian war. you keep across that story and all the others as well online r.t. dot com a web service twenty four seventh's about with more news just over half an hour's time next though suffolk zero discussing tonight america's government standoff with n.s.a.

will supply of its case coming next. the olympic torch is on its big journey to structure. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand nine hundred ninety cities of russia. really by fourteen thousand people were. sixty plus those who kill in the in a record setting trip by land air and sea and others face. a limp the torch relay. on march the march to dump cool little. splits divides the syrian opposition party takes a close look at like a rebel ground is just a few kilometers from the capital damascus but it is like

a state within a state the free syrian army is controlling these hair and big syrian military cannot and tear artie's morea for notion of reports from fragmented syrian rebel held territories. syria rebel groups. to. the local. color welcome to set the intel on sophie shevardnadze and said that you couldn't government shutdown default threats and debt ceiling is

a blogger and that has made the world question yet again how all the major mechanisms affecting the global climate to make sure that it's possible. to the task and has it ever been there for has it all in the ocean. governmental. currency wars strike threats despite as you searches for peace in conflicts have plagued the world. in times of technical progress and. the overproduction of humanity believes in poverty and neglect well be internet is a most powerful and helpful tool it's turned into a global surveillance device and another conflict zone what makes good things bad is that completely out of control or is it the meddling of the few who are weaving it to guard their own interests. and our guest today is another national security one.