great. dream. the. last few weeks have inflicted completely unnecessary damage on our call. the u.s. government shutdown ends as america escapes default by a whisker but the debt ceiling will raise has some worried that's kept tough for you has only been delayed. purchases an isolated take on the police says dozens hit the streets to vent their anger at big government's new austerity loaded budget. also this week nuclear alert a huge spike in radiation levels at fukushima as readings in a storage tank to rise by thousands of times in just a day. on doors behind the barbed wire going ton i'm ok also he gets

unique access inside the notorious prison. heard about it like several movies but you don't really it is just a place that people forget about like they don't ever think about it. means this stop of the detention camp to find out why they to come they drop that. the latest news on the week's top stories this is their weekly here what else he with me here national thanks for joining us. it was a near miss from 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

the whole world watched the deadline drama worried it could cause another global recession and the ending big old wasn't all good news he's a nice and now explains. global market eyes were wide open while washington was shut waiting and bracing for impact. because i sucked in households to come in more nuts and she did. but at the so-called eleventh hour congress struck a deal to deal with it later. that's what it is the agreement reopen the government and funds it until 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 humiliate you money at any price the scare sparked global reevaluation given the time and time again these political crisis appeared in the us 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 it's de americanization this was really a spectacle following a series of spectacles that has downgraded america's image worldwide to levels

i've never seen so low from say the scare was just that a way to come in and save the day at the last minute up on the table this. is the creation of a crisis atmosphere wall street and you know the one person or corporate sponsors all of them they're not going to allow the meltdown of the international economy well they sure fooled 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. the u.k. data is skyrocketing already it rose a record three hundred twenty eight billion dollars as soon as the deal to raise the ceiling was and place and the three weeks of bunch of brinksmanship calls the

u.s. government a lot of transformed voters before the long awaited the bill was passed we gauge the reaction from some of bo's in the other side of congress who. it's really frustrating for the american people and for myself to see you know our government be so inefficient it's pretty bad. i have the shutdown was my job 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 people are going to remember all this idiocy and foolishness 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 as for president obama the hey put the blame for the low down squarely on the republicans and 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. obama said the full scope of the damage is still unknown condemning what he called as self-inflicted crisis and there are just a few months left before congress will place the debt ceiling problem again james midway from the new economic foundation says america's political system appears i'm able to do what needs to be done it does look like a quite seriously dysfunctional political system and certainly first ordinary americans already view it is quite seriously dysfunctional the big ten and judging by the opinion polls to blame the republicans in particular for this dysfunctionality but it's very obvious that you can't run the world's largest economy on the basis of lurching from crisis to crisis i mean this is this period we're going through now is itself the result of a temporary resolution to reaching the debt ceiling this year back in may so yes it's a deeply deeply flawed political system and that will be registered and he's being

registered around the world you'd be find people less and less to treat us treasury bills on the dollar itself as a safe haven somewhere that's guaranteed to be where you can put your money put your savings put your wealth and it will hold its value over time. and here's one of the more dramatic more than sort of the crucial nighttime vote in congress the house transcriber unleashed a rant about god and freemasons before stunned lawmakers that she was forcibly removed from the chamber explaining later she was doing the will of the holy spirit . italy's economy ministry has been at times by here is protest angered by the government's cost cutting drive thousands took to the streets denouncing the ongoing us measures for failing to dig the country out of recession this colonel was there for. 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 throwing bottles sticks and these so-called thunder flashes or paper bombs as they're called here 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 they've been going on for the past two days now and they are aimed to protest against austerity measures and the heavy 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 extremely 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 italy'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 of the latest state budget which critics say doesn't really solve any problems and some demonstrators and i camped outside one of the gates of rome and thailand politics expert james walston won't know unrest is coming with very different social groups all united by discontent with the government's plans. but i want to mobilize the city so this was this is going on probably go on for in different ways for a long time now certainly people from the employers to the trade unions to different political parties and very strong protests from. young people of various

sorts who said we do not like the government like the budget we want a recovery budget we want to growth budget this is what they're complaining about they complain about the same thing as the employer and usual situation but that's what we have the real economy was way over budget and they've been spending far too much for too long in action there is in the same sort of situation record high raising levels were detected around japan's fukushima nuclear plant on friday 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 struggled with as a rino going to scour ports 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 iraqi and 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 they read it water is flowing into the pacific ocean sadly russia has a lot of experience to 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. or another before. should be treated just like your noble as

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 our team. because she was problems go back two and a half years what a powerful earthquake and tsunami hit japan disabling the plant's cooling systems and causing a meltdown it took the government a year to admit mistakes by the operating company tepco led to the disaster rather

than the natural calamity itself several months later the company also admitted the crisis could have been avoided if it had done its job better this summer 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 day and a nuclear power expert arnold gundersen explained to us why that is so disturbing. you know that this leak had something called strong shear ninety in it as john should ninety is a bold seeker and it causes leukemia in huge quantities so now in the pacific ocean it merely it gets diluted in an even bigger under water but it's truly frightening that we're releasing structure not only into the pacific ocean. and also asked arnold gundersen about the possible risks from natural

disasters that are frequent in this part of the world and he said that even a slight earthquake could cause another catastrophe. they have 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 fail and all that material will run across the ground surface into the ocean and the 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 potentially really do a lot of serious damage there. and you can head to our website for the latest on dates and more analysis on the fukushima crisis we've been closely following about and says they disaster struck extensive reports opinions and eyewitness accounts

all that online as on c dot com. and of course more news ahead including why i counter lazing the actual death toll of the war in iraq has proved less than simple a new study suggests that they real body count as well as an anybody dares to admit he talks to one of these surveys also says that's ahead. according to the. numbers we have more than two thousand political prisoners i'm behind right now of course if you look at the system what the bahamian government

is trying to do is they're trying to label many of these prisoners us terrorists. right. we're strong. and i think that you're. on our reporters. and i. am. i. this is the weekly one r.t. let's move on now at least thirty people have reportedly been killed by a car bomb in syria the explosion targeted a government checkpoint in the city of hama the syrian observatory for human rights

reported in terms of gunfire after the blast the violence in the war torn country shows no sign of letting up and journalists are finding themselves either quarters or captured by the two sides as a few notion of found once made it into one rebel controlled area but tell your brother next to the syrian lebanese border is just eighty kilometers from the capital damascus but it is like a state within a state that has its own security forces police and even the army can see its symbols all new of soldiers here everywhere graffiti or three stars that means free syrian army is controlling this area big syrian military cannot enter route is the center of a large mountainous area in western syria known as kalam in two thousand and eleven local residents remain 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 more teeth and lawyers the curio justice we run the town by ourselves the army can enter and even if they try we are ready to resist and defend our land my judge calls these his land but in fact he only came here relatively recently born in kuwait and having spent years traveling the middle east and the gulf this is his parents' native town manager that arrived four years ago months before serious protests began. we resist to the end we have a plan and we have forces to make it happen yes 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 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 holland was around what's prescribed or forbidden by islam i ask them whether the judge 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 say. the newser is linked to the outside they follow al qaida and for decisions they revert to their army or even our here 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 the. they do all they can to stop us the

groups controlling the area are not only fighting assad they compete with each other even for media attention being among journalists is seen as something prestigious. school to and i told to feel from the car but at one point we are stopped 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 foreign journalists are held hostage in syria right now and the price of their lives varies. these areas supposedly run by opposition fighters is in fact in the hands of a large number of separate brigades armed groups or just lone rebels with different ideologies and the y'all need food and weaponry and these are locals who pay the bills. we as christians have to pay so-called duty this is our input into society we go to church and pay it muslims do also we pay for internal security brigades

for relief aid and courts funding is not the only cost for the situation in your brood is critical a shortage of food in everything we are besieged. trapped in their own country where more than two years of deadly conflict has only seen fractions and goals increasingly diverged raef nationality from rebel controlled syria. a new report on the real death toll the u.s. led war in iraq came out this week suggesting that almost half a million people have died as a result of violence and the country's poor infrastructure the studies based on speaking to a randomly chosen iraqi households and the same as the most rigorous to date we asked one of the surveys authors why men is still under play the real human cost of this war. clearly the public in both the u.s. and u.k.

. underestimates the number of people who died in iraq as a result of the war and that's been true for a long time and i think it's the result of a very specific deliberate strategy on the parts of the coalition forces to keep the public thinking that the death toll is low these were fairly rapidly unpopular decisions to to do this invasion and the less the public was able to track havoc that we were wreaking mongar they could sustain the end of the intervention without public outcry at least eleven people have been killed and over a dozen injured by a suicide bomb attacks across iraq today alone that makes over one hundred deaths this week iraqis are striving to survive through daily violence and a bit of sectarian divide part of the deadly legacy of the u.s.

led invasion and amy hagopian also told us a deeper analysis of the iraq war could reveal even more shocking numbers. 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. on screen and a line get clicking and get a household where for you on all see dot com an immigration law in the u.k. is less than used for receiving a gas out of the u.k. a message from the british border agency tens of thousands of tags were mistakenly sent as part of a campaign telling illegal immigrants to go. on from deep space to deep water there is hard time a chunk of meteorite has been recovered from a russian lake bed we've got video of these celestial sailors rescue in r.c.

dotcoms in motion a section for you. allegations of abuse of force feeding and a two hundred day hunger strike gone tunnel way prison is rarely out of the news now or she has been granted special access to the infamous u.s. trail and he is and is to see churkin now with her fast look across the fence. after a few months of people work to get cleared to visit the base the trip to get mobile hop and escape from the big apple to fort lauderdale in florida and from their short hour and a half flight one largely kept under wraps with no indications of it on departure boards. the minute we landed 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 ton a most her second deployment you've heard about it like several movies but you don't really it is just 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 locations you wouldn't really expect here we're going to see the logic area now it's about a ferry ride one side of an area where the airport is. several replies and says but the main part of the people and the detention camp are over there are given a circulation guantanamo isn't quite what we anticipated as we approach the meeting

area it's interesting to note that to be unsuspecting this place looks just like another tropical island with an american flag you would never feel that this is a place policy going to night and states towards the lodging area were taken to is like any typical hotel with palm trees and a marina right out the window first impression this can't be the place that has been casting a long shot. 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 it cost what it cost to do it right what doing it right means to those running america's most infamous detention facility and what lays beyond the picture perfect scenery all the realities of guantanamo and all reports to follow and going to guantanamo bay cuba. where the outside active camps have lost on a revolution some are worse than the monitor and the first strike never turned the world's attention to the places that some gulag of our times. so i'm going to national news and brief now in paris hundreds of students run it in support of a default it was schoolgirl this comes just quite an announcement by president francois hollande that she could return to france but without her family at least

one person was arrested after trying to break through the ring of security offices there's less support for minority group in the czech republic in the city of the three hundred protesters demonstrate against the country's roma community that tempted to march towards a district heavily populated by the group let's please hold to them with. up next on else he find out how america is seen to give itself the right to do as it pleases and how this affects the wider world in a special report on exceptionalism. you know as i look more and more into it i find that there were a lot of myths exaggerations about what happened in russia during the soviet era however one really bad rumor seems to be true if you were an outspoken advocate

against the soviet status quo then you could be considered insane and be locked away until the psychiatrist convinced you that khrushchev was brilliant scary stuff but sadly famous grammy award winning singer lauryn hill might be living the life of a soviet does that right now she was convicted of failing to pay five hundred thousand dollars in taxes but strangely according to the international business times she was ordered to undergo psychiatric counseling because she believes in conspiracy theories related to the music industry who wrote in her own tumblr account that the music industry is manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex. this is a strong accusation from hill but is actually irrelevant if it is true or not you see punishments are supposed to fit the crime and the crime of tax evasion should not have a punishment of mandatory counseling or as more paranoid types like me like to call it reprogramming oh they are usually trivial this celebrity case actually sets a dangerous legal precedent but that's just my opinion.