the. last few weeks have inflicted completely unnecessary damage on the u.s. government shutdown comes to an end as america default. teeth with the debt ceiling raise certainly could. only delay. the. protesters and take on the police hit the streets to vent their anger at the government's new austerity loaded budget. also. nuclear alerts huge spike in radiation levels of fukushima as readings in a storage rise by thousands of times in just two days. what's behind the.

curtain. really this is a place that. they don't ever think about. find out exactly why. we are running down the top stories of the week and today of course the week. it was. default for america this week just as the nation was about to run out of cash congress sealed a last minute deal to reopen the government and push the debt ceiling even higher and the whole world was watching the deadline drama worried it could cause yet

another global recession though the ending they got certainly wasn't all good news . this report. global market eyes were wide open while washington was shut waiting and bracing for impact. to. the congress and house votes or to come in more not to do it. but at the so-called eleventh hour congress struck a deal to deal with it later if that's what it is the agreement reopen the government and funds it in till january fifteenth allowing the u.s. to continue borrowing until february seventh america barely avoided defaulting on their almost seventeen trillion dollars in debt brand america took a beating here sixteen days of a government shutdown halted the capital to a standstill put hundreds of thousands of workers out of jobs and the world economy

on the verge of recession then surely the markets going we don't want to play this . we're not usually you money at any price the scarce part global a valuation given the time and time again these political crisis appear in the u.s. i think there would be more calls for sort of trying to reduce dependence in america in the same way as america has been trying to reduce dependency on the middle east for its oil ironically the shutdown didn't save money it cost the u.s. some twenty four billion dollars and credibility worldwide whether it's coming from the world bank whether the i.m.f. whether the leading bankers of the world or from china with now which is the americanized asian this was really a spectacle following a series of spectacles that has downgraded america's image worldwide to levels i've never seen a solo gentleman from say the scare was just

a way to come in and save the day at the last minute upon the table this is the creator. the crisis atmosphere wall street and you know the one percent or corporate sponsors all of them they're not going to allow the meltdown of the international economy well they soar for me and millions of others congress now has some more time to come up with a long term budget solution before a new deadline comes rolling on the hill they will also have to deal with damage control both at home and abroad all while trying to solve a debt problem in just three months something they couldn't do in the years leading up to this shutdown reporting from washington and he's now a party. at the two weeks of budget brinkmanship cost the us leadership a whole lot of trust from the voters but before the long awaited bill was passed we hear at odds he managed to gauge reaction from some of those on the other side of

capitol hill it's really frustrating for the american people and for myself to see you know our government be so inefficient it's pretty bad. for a little bit. don't even want to go into the patheticness of. our government i think it's very sad we are the people this is for the people and people are going to remember this idiocy and food business during the shutdown i believe president obama had a plan that he was going to take and punish the american people but he went a little too far when i was for president obama he put the blame for the lockdown squarely on the republicans he said squabbles in congress dealt an immense blow to the u.s. 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. now obama did say that the full

scope of the damage is still unknown condemning what he called a self inflicted crisis well meantime the u.s. debt ceiling is skyrocketing rose a record of three hundred twenty eight billion dollars a straight after the deal to raise the ceiling was actually put in place and with boring racing out of control america risks solution the confidence of investors around the globe pepe escobar from the asia times online he says it's now becoming clearly obvious that the u.s. economic model is malfunctioning. america is dead if their business model is unsustainable the united states would have to reveal he's the home economy financial policy in fact which is still casino capitalism driven by wall street there was a crisis in two thousand and eight and the next crisis according to the best independent economists all over the world maybe could be the last crisis off to

a bull capitalism and then we're going to get something completely different there is to know what it is the most important part of this story is what happened this past weekend with that story this see why news agency calling for a deal americanized the world of course this is not going to happen to morrow or the next few years it's going to happen by two thousand and twenty two thousand and twenty two which means the decline of the us dollar the essentials of the you won a convertible you won all over the world and basket of currencies instead of the u.s. dollar as an international reserve currency the chinese has been at it for the past three or four years big time and now we are in fifth gear. and here is one of the most dramatic moments of the crucial time vote in congress the house transcriber unleashing a rant about gold for stunning blow make is that she was forcibly removed from the

chamber explaining later she was simply doing the will of the holy spirit. we have many more new stories ahead for you here including why calculating the actual death toll of the u.s. war in iraq has proved less than simple study suggests that the real body count is worse than anybody. we speak to one of us. just ahead for you. also the story of moscow police cracking down on illegal immigration after nationalistic spilled into the city's streets over the killing of a russian. economy ministry has been attacked by furious protesters by the government's cost cutting drive thousands took to the streets denouncing the ongoing austerity measures failing to dig the country out of recession reporting ferrazzi correspondent you go

to off. at some point during this mass protest rally which has been taking place throughout the last two days really in central role a group of young radical protestors started throwing eggs at the finance ministry and also bottles sticks and the so-called thunder flashes or paper bombs as they're pulls at the police who are providing security at the protest rally as a result several policemen were injured and we understand that arrests have also been made these rallies have been going on for the past two days now and they are aims to protest against austerity measures and these have economic problems which italy is only going through according to different figures from fifty thousand to seventy thousand people took part in this event they are protesting against high taxes high youth unemployment and also one of the other sort of points of this protest was against plans to build

a high speed train line between italy and france since they say that it's going to be its construction is going to be harmful both to the environment and is going to be a threat to the health of the locals living in that area you know he's going through the worst recession since the second world war youth unemployment is standing at just over forty percent and really these latest protests have been caused by the release all for. the latest state budget which critics say doesn't really solve any problems and what we're seeing here now really reminds us that italy is still in law in the same line with the other side of the e.u. states like greece and portugal and actually for instance in portugal thousands have also taken to the streets also earlier on saturday also protesting against austerity measures. you're watching the weekly here on r t. a high radiation levels were detected around japan's fukushima nuclear plant on friday and water samples

showed radioactive elements shooting up thousands of times in just a day reaching the highest level since meltdown in twenty eleven and this is just the latest in a long line of troubles the power plant has been struggling with. reports 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 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 you read it water is flowing into the pacific ocean sadly russia has a lot of experience of offer when it comes to wiping up remnants of a nuclear catastrophe it has had its own deadly less than a quarter of a century ago. when other perfect pitch 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 leaks after

a powerful earthquake but the power giant seems undeterred by the prospect of having to malfunctioning nuclear power station on its hands maybe hoping an international effort would solve both problems at the same time it in english go r.t. . so fukushima's problems they go back about two and a half years and it's one of powerful earthquake and tsunami hit japan disabling the plans cooling systems and causing a meltdown it took the government a year just to admit mistakes by the operating company tepco led to the disaster rather than the natural calamity itself and several months later the company also admitted the crisis could have been avoided if indeed it had done its job better it was just this summer that a leak was discovered at a storage tank for contaminated water and when tepco finally admitted to the spill it revealed that up to three hundred tons of radioactive water was making its way into the ocean every single day and

a nuclear power expert on old gunderson he explained to us here at odyssey why that is so truly disturbing. you know that this leak had something called strontium ninety in it john should ninety is a bone seeker and it causes leukemia in huge quantities so now when he gets in the pacific ocean it minutely it gets diluted in an even bigger pond of water but it's truly frightening that we're releasing strontium ninety into the pacific ocean. now we also lost on old gunderson about the possible risks from natural disasters that are frequent in this part of the world he said even a slight of quake could cause yet another catastrophe. a thousand tanks and they're all held together with plastic almost like you put on the swimming pool so if there's a moderate earthquake the plastic pipes will sail and all that material will run across the ground surface into the ocean those facilities themselves the four

reactors that are most damaged are you know they had serious explosions internally so you wouldn't take an earthquake as big as the one they had. two and a half years ago to potentially really do a lot of serious damage there. and of course you can always have a website for the latest updates on the more analysis on the fukushima crisis we've been closely following the events since the disaster struck extensive reports opinions eye witness accounts as well all of that for you right now at odyssey dawn . or it's quarter past the hour here in moscow a new report on the real death toll of the u.s. led war in iraq came out this week suggesting though that almost half a million people have died as a result of violence in the country's poor health care and the study is based on speaking to randomly chosen iraqi households and is seen as the most rigorous to date we asked one of the surveys authors why many still underplay the real human

cost of the war. clearly. like in both the u.s. and u.k. . under estimate 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 risk of a very specific deliberate. strategy on the parts of the coalition forces to keep the public thinking that the death toll is low these forward fairly rapidly unpopular decisions to do this invasion and the last the public was able to track havoc that we were wreaking mongar they could sustain the intervention without public outcry and iraqis are struggling to survive through daily violence in a bitter sectarian divide a part of the deadly legacy of the invasion their thursday was the worst day this

week and scattered attacks in baghdad and have crossed the country claiming at least seventy seven lives amy hagopian also told us here at our to you that deeper analysis of the iraq war could reveal even more shocking numbers. one major flaw 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. or thanks for joining us here on r t today thousands rallied across the globe demanding a ban on shale drilling on saturday activists in over twenty countries came out to send a message to governments over what they see is the danger of environmental disaster in canada protests held over the past week ended in violence and dozens of arrests

i just from other countries joined in later the anti fracking sentiment particularly strong across the u.s. and on the other side of the atlantic europeans also campaigned a group called young friends of the earth gathered in london to highlight wires about how the younger generation could be affected by fracking and one of the u.k. campaigners and the heba he says the system will always put profit before the environment. what you've got is a situation where they're going for ever more extreme forms of fossil fuel for the situation where we know you know the recent reports from the school you cannot accuse all show quite categorically that we need to be leaving two thirds of the non-fossil fuel reserves in the ground if we're going to prevent catastrophic climate change being the case you know over the last very last thing we need to be doing is looking for more fossil fuels in the extreme pool and the only reason that that's going to hades is because of the why it will be all and gas industry has got their claws into governments across the world you know. when you go.

to profit from fossil fuels whatever cost in terms of the long term the environmental and social benefits of the people in the area this is r.t. migrants in working flat out to get the country ready for the twenty twenty two world cup or the foreign population there and in the neighboring united arab emirates is well beyond eighty percent in kuwait around seven out of the ten workers migrants in oman and saudi arabia it's about thirty percent of the population that means for the region as a whole almost a half of the total population come from somewhere else. or went to qatar to see how the immigrants are being treated. do we know to organize. trended to fifth vote cop is kind.

but the initial celebration of christie should be overshadowed by ford workers claims of maltreatment not getting paid and even that not being allowed to leave the country the international trade union confederation claims that about four thousand migrants could die before a football is kicked in twenty twenty two the worker becomes the property of the employer they are not allowed to leave the country they're not even allowed to leave the job and if the employer agrees this means that the workers have no real power no real voice to. fix up very very bad working and living conditions zire bellew nyssa knows this all too well a french football player who arrived in qatar in two thousand and seven he says he hadn't been paid for more than two years he filed a lawsuit to claim unpaid wages and says his club but then we fused to give him an exit visa up unless he dropped the case. when i went to the tribunals i never

imagined that i wouldn't be able to leave the country i didn't think they would block me my wife is depressed and she can't work i thought of going on hunger strike but my lawyers told me not to they already hurt me and a hunger strike would only hurt my wife and kids enough is enough. blue this is high profile story isn't the first either. doesn't change its ways have the courage to say that in two thousand and twenty two we will have the world cup of shame the world cup of slavery believe this in the meantime it continues to hope his problems will soon be resolved i'll have to stop playing football they ended my career mentally i don't see myself playing and then i'll have to see what to do with my life. r.t. . right on screen and online clicking and checkout all we have for you right now is dot com for example an immigration lawyer in the u.k. is left bemused after receiving a get out of the u.k.

a message from the british border agency tens of thousands of texts were mistakenly sent out as part of a campaign telling illegal immigrants to go home. and from deep space to deep water this. chunk of meteor right. a russian lake bed we've got a video of the celestial sailors rescue and. in motion section. in the meantime on the program allegations of abuse force feeding in a two hundred day hunger strike. prison is rarely out of the news now on t.v. though has been granted special access to the infamous u.s. jail here's an associate with a first hand look across the fence. after a few months of people work to get cleared to visit the base the trip to get mobile . from the big apple to fort lauderdale in florida and from there are short i don't have flight one largely kept under wraps with no indications of it on departure

boards. the minute we land were greeted by escorts who stay with us every step of our trip the special guantanamo joint task force media team. one of them sergeant rebecca wood far from the stereotypical face you might imagine working at a place like this controversial military base as we soon learned the first of many surprises this is a really big break for me in my career from my military resume the people i work with every day day they share the same idea like they're all very proud to be here she joined the u.s. military a decade ago with no money for college a twenty eight one time the most her second deployment you've heard about it like several movies but you don't really and this is a place that people forget about only they don't ever think about it getting to the main part of the base is a slow pace trip we have to wait for a ferry to take us across the bay and are taken to visit a beach first one of a handful of scenic. expect here we're headed to the lodging area now it's about

a thirty minute area right one side up on an area where there are. several repressive insist but the main part of the people and the detention camp are over there at a given its reputation guantanamo isn't quite what we anticipated as we approach the meeting area it's interesting to know that to be unsuspecting this place looks just like another tropical island with that american flag you would never think that this is a place policy going to the states for us that's the lodging area were taken to is like any typical hotel with palm trees and a marine are right out the window first impression this can't be the place that has been casting a long shadow in america's human rights image for over a decade where torture allegations hunger strikes and force feeding have been making headlines i remember when i moved here i thought i would just see like people in orange jumpsuits and fences everywhere but i mean the families all stay

on one side and the rest kind of happens on another the other side as where total of seven hundred seventy nine detainees of america's war on terror have been kept since two thousand and two a total of one hundred sixty four now remaining at a whopping eight hundred thousand taxpayer dollars for detainee per year even though more than half of them have been cleared for release but we are in a remote location that factors into the cost the cost what it cost to do it right what doing it right on means to those running america's most infamous detention facility and what lays beyond the picture perfect scenery all the realities of guantanamo in our reports to follow and. guantanamo bay cuba. where the outside to active camps have gone in madrid where patients are forced that in the aftermath of the strike never turn the world's attention. that some.

of our. let's get some other global headlines for you briefer on r t it's time for the r.t. world update now to paris we go where hundreds of students rallied in support of a deported roma schoolgirl i had come to spot an announcement by president francois hollande that she could return to france but without her family the protesters surrounded by police marched through the city's main streets chanting slogans and waving banners at least one person was arrested after trying to break through the ring of security. and there's less support for minority groups in the czech republic and the city of us that are for over three hundred protesters demonstrated against the country's roma community and they attempted to march towards a district heavily populated by the group of police managed to stop them with tear gas. and watching t.v. a commuter train slammed into a platform injuring at least eighty people in the capital born on salaries it is

yet to be determined why the locomotive failed to stop at the same railway station just last year fifty one people were killed in a similar crash. police in moscow are promising weekly roundups of alleged illegal immigrants in the latest raid seven hundred people were detained as russian nationalists pressure the government on the issue it all started with a peaceful protest of local residents over the murder of a twenty five year old russian who was going home when an unknown man of courage and attacked and killed him in response things grew wildly after an angry mob of nationalists and football fans demolished a vegetable market where many immigrants work on tuesday the suspect was found and arrested and caught the azerbaijani national pleaded not guilty to murder saying he was acting in self defense i mean by john has accused russian or thora to use of succumbing to hysteria calling it a case an ordinary street crime. a list of the voice of russia radio station he

explained why he thinks tackling illegal migration in the country is particularly difficult. for us this is a very. unpleasant wake up call for that also just because of the problem all the legal migration needs to be handled part of the population of one says visa regime . all the formal conscious of the soviet union but that's going to be difficult because unlike kind euro sound like colombia for the night the states or on like algeria and leave. you know the former republics of the soviet union full meaning the kids are part of the same country with russia and there are a lot so humanly speaking we know so how will these visa regime affect these things of course negatively that's why the authorities sound very reluctant to introduce this kind of these are regime. well thanks for joining us here on r.t. today just a moment on katie pilbeam it's nearly time for

a business round up in venture capital that's just around the corner. but if you're both drama in washington d.c. ali face i think you're right you don't need. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure.