video for your media project free media gogarty dot com. the last few weeks have been like the completely unnecessary damage. the u.s. government shutdown ends with a temporary deal a vat seeing an economic default get some a still concerned a collapse has simply been delayed. if you are over a freeze new austerity loaded bantered spills over as protesters in rome take on the police calling massive on to government run is across the states and. japanese authorities a race against the atom to soothe public fears founded by a french radiation leak at the fukushima power plant. as the detainee hunger strike began tunnel bay prison continues gains a rare access to the infamous u.s.

military facility. the latest news on the week's top stories you're watching the weekly on else he would need hello and welcome to the program american lawmakers gave the entire world a scare this week as their bickering over a new budget drove the country to the brink of default yet the last minute deal is only a temporary reprieve was more issues expected to rise in washington and the upcoming months as any so now reports. 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 up she did.

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 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 usually you money at any price to scare sparked global reevaluation 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 costs 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 americanization this was really a spectacle following a series of spectacles that has downgraded america's image worldwide to levels i've never seen solo the gentleman from say the scare was just a way to come in and save the day at the last minute up on the table this. does the creation of a 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 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 past cost the country twenty whole billion dollars and demands the much needed trust of international lenders recent polls show that four out of five americans disapprove of the way congress state political crisis before the long awaited bill was passed we gauge the reaction from some of those on the other side of competent help it's really frustrating for the american people and for myself to see you know our government be so inefficient it was pretty bad. i have this it 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 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. on the republicans have been blaming the impasse on each other for weeks with president obama having the last word 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. the president repeated the brinkmanship causes the while to lose confidence in america and condemned what he called s. self-inflicted crisis congress is set to revisit the problem of the debt ceiling in just a few moments that i ask about from the asia times online believes it's becoming oath is the u.s.

economic model is not functioning. vereker is dead it their business model is unsustainable the united states would have to reveal his the whole economy financial policy 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 the crisis of trouble capitalism and then we're going to get something completely different there is still no what it is the most important part of this story is what happened this past week and with that it is at this see why a news agency calling for a d. 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 have been at it for the past three or four years big time and now they are in fifth year. and while critics debate the possible economic ramifications of washington's costly shutdown some of its past foreign policies are in the spotlight yet again a recent study suggests as many as half a million people died during the u.s. led occupation of iraq but got comment from one of the authors of this report just ahead. government buildings in a serious capital came under attack on saturday by a few or a small. consing drive that's after turns a thousands marched through the city denouncing the budget for next year which paves the way for more painful austerity. was there for us. 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 a radical protestors started throwing eggs at the finance ministry and also with bottles sticks and the 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 aims to protest against austerity measures and the heavy economic problems which italy is strongly 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 foreign for 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 huge unemployment is standing at just over forty percent and really the latest been caused by the release of the latest state budget which critics say doesn't do the souls any problems. this is all see and still ahead here the sound and kidnappings of foreign journalists fighters in syria. notional goes deep into rebel held territory and speaks to free syrian army brigades that report. japanese authorities are racing to dispel the latest radiations caspar's by a fresh air leak on the crippled with a senate seat. the powerplants operator says a storage tank has split highly contaminated water into

a well from where it may have already seeped into the ocean the country's prime minister visited a nearby port and a local court fish in a bid to reassure the public but as the. troubles owned purring so easy to contain two and a half years to admit the painful truth 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 ready with water is flowing into the pacific ocean sadly russia has a lot of experience when it comes to wiping up remnants of the nuclear catastrophe it has had its own less than a quarter of a century ago. when other footbridge should be treated just like chernobyl has a record of mostly retired put in a sarcophagus but the problem with is that they can't decide whether they want to close its doors to keep it going closing the plant doesn't seem to be an option for tepco the company operating the facility which many in japan blame for the failure to handle the fukushima crisis in fact tepco is pushing towards reopening it because she was lucky facility the world's largest nuclear power station it was shut down in two thousand and seven following reports of radioactive leak 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 call our team. most problems began when the earthquake and tsunami of ruptured the cooling systems in march twentieth levon causing. multiple meltdowns it took a whole year for japan's government to admit they need their disaster well scores by the importer handling of the city's improper rather handling of the situation the plant operator tepco admitted to the crisis could have been avoided if only it had done its job better welton two years after disaster struck a leak was discovered at a storage tank for contaminated water and when tepco finally admits there's the spill it revealed that up to three hundred tons of radioactive water was flowing into the ocean every day. spent on old gunderson says the science is

a serious health risk. you know that this leech had something called strong chimney ninety in it of ninety is a bone seeker and it causes leukemia in huge quantities so now in the pacific ocean admitted leo it gets diluted in an even bigger under water but it's truly frightening that we're releasing structure ninety into the pacific ocean. and we're also asked on old gunderson that water could happen at fukushima if another earthquake what a strike and he says some of the radioactive material that is barely contained and and another natural disaster could set off a manmade 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 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 it. head to our website for more updates and analysis on the fukushima crisis we've been closely following about it since the initial design also struck extensive reports opinions and eyewitness accounts all that's online at home. and also coming up in a couple of minutes management most could please down on illegal immigration also nationalistic fury splits into the six history's eye with the killing of a russian allegedly by a month from a suppression. or

not site to an active camp at guantanamo where patients are more svetlana's out or i'm out on the first strike never turned the world's attention to the place that some gulag of our minds. is real journalism a thing of the cost of much of the western world in the name of security challenging the official media message of the elites is often met with serious threats and reprisals whistleblowers are damned in need to feel superior consequences what remains is a deafening echo chamber warning all to get in line or else. the world. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got this huge earth covered.

you're watching the weekly. welcome by nick the u.s. led war in iraq has claimed almost toughen million lives the survey done to as the most rigorous to date came out this week and the one i was also still don't see this time going number will surprise and then in the west. clearly the public in both the u.s. and u.k. . underestimates the number of people who died in iraq as

a result of 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 forward fairly rapidly unpopular decisions tend to do this invasion and the last the public was able to attract the havoc that we were wreaking mongar they could sustain the intervention. without public outcry. the study didn't include the ongoing sectarian bloodshed that in september alone claimed more than a thousand minds and amy had also told us it's not the only legacy of the u.s. led invasion of that slip through the cracks where 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. and on r.t. dot com we've got a report that says the reason edward snowden motion to get hold of highly sensitive classified data is because the n.s.a. fails to install anti leaks software at his former workplace find out how this why agency overlooked is how why facility online. and by taking down the file sharing giant mega upload u.s. law enforcers scrubbed as many as ten million perfectly legal files all these holes and that story on our web site. in syria suicide bombing at an army checkpoint has claimed the lives of at least thirty people in the central city of hama state media reported

a truck loaded it was explosive around the post and detonated the damage was intensified after a time parks nearby caught alight the country's been logs in their side of the tunnel wall between the government and the fragmented rebel groups is more international joining the one such brigade which. crossed the syrian lebanese border every day many times a blue eyed her son is a soldier for the free syrian army lawful gerardi long enough for people to lebanon hospitals we get ammunition from there we bring. out if i just want to go to see their families our cell is a safe haven. our show is a mostly sunni lebanese village on the syrian border. along this road which appeared here in the first days of the conflict in two thousand and eleven it's possible to reach all of syria's main battlefields bring in weapons or militants and many have done in those two and

a half years. damascus has repeatedly called on foreign nations to stop supporting what it calls terrorists in syria but when these calls apparently ignored taken the capital remains the ultimate to go for all the forces find to president assad to stop it has authority the security bill that the regime created around damascus is huge and to targeted we need many fighters in advanced weapons and to be honest we don't have those kinds of weapons but what we can do is watch operations here and there to relieve the pressure on the regime for last month's attack on the village of my lower here in the southwest of the country could be part of that strategy this ancient mostly christian settlement lies in a valley surrounded by mountains on the way from homs to damascus it's loyal to the syrian authorities but surrounded by f.s.a. held villages it distractedly the only obstacle to one thousand fighters from two large syrian battlegrounds uniting. in more than a month of clashes between

a slimness and a position tartars on one side and governmental forces on the other dozens were killed according to government sources and the siege continued while we filmed at the scene what you can see over there is not only a village we can see actually the villages south of what we can see is the hotel saffir that the militants left in holding for weeks now so right now we are on the other side of the clashes. but from here to the hotel is territory held by the rebels after safai hotel it's the regime this is the highway to damascus but we cannot reach it because of my own rula. the fighters seized control of the heights around the village while we were filming it was still held by them. is this the basis you see the prices hundreds of thousands of tourists used to just

take a look at these national these days does this to me this is where you see these caves that house then. the soldiers of the syrian army when we were in mali alongside the army there were snipers in these very caves in the mountains around the village stopping us from getting out but i'm stuck here in this corner and we're now trying to get out of here. but while f.s.a. soldiers can hold their opponents they seem unable to make their own advances. have mount an f.s.a. fighter was injured in the newer he says they need more money and american military aid washington has conceded a limited assault on syrian military bases over august's chemical attack ghazi imo if they strike with just ten rockets the regime of bashar al assad will fall by itself. but america changed track up to moscow pushed washington to agree on a peaceful way forward pulled its warships spec from mediterranean and put its

tomahawks on hold it didn't please everyone i love seeing us all of them are liars the americans the arabs all of them i don't know how i can express it better and we're not hoping for anything from them but this. was army forces struggling to combat fighters hayden in the mountains and militants helpless in the face of government tanks activity and nation the country's at a deadly impasse neither side prepared to blink first marty's morea for reports from fragmented syrian rebel held territories. syria on the rebel group. too. lawyers for several detainees at guantanamo bay have filed a french appeal to put an end to the painful force feeding of hunger strikers at the facility a handful of captives are still refusing food but on being strapped into chairs on tube fed daily by the u.s. military. began in february but has since subsided to less than two dozen

protesters against indefinite detention he has now gained over access to the prison and he is the first in a series a report on this deceived. after a few months of people work to get cleared to visit the base the trip to get mobile and escape from the big apple to fort lauderdale in florida and from there the 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. rip 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 like they don't ever think about it getting to the main part of the beast 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 ninety minutes very right one side of the area where the airport is. several rebadge insists but the main part of the people and the detention camp are over their head and 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 an american flag you would never think that this is the place policy one of the united

states torrijos that's the launching area were taken to is like any typical hotel with palm trees and a marina right out the window first impressions 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. people in orange jumpsuits and fences everywhere but i mean the families all. the other side is where total of seven hundred seventy nine detainees of a. america's war on terror have been kept since two thousand and two a total of one hundred sixty for now remaining at a whopping eight hundred thousand taxpayer dollars per 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 only 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 you're going to want on a mobile cuba. where the outside to active cameras have walked on to know where patients are for so that the outer amount of our strike never turned the world's attention to the places that some. of our times. the largest street fight in recent years broke out in moscow this week it was instigated by russian nationalists and prompted police to promise wicklow round ups of alleged illegal immigrants had begun as a peaceful protest by locals over the murder of a twenty five year old russian reportedly by a suspect of known slavic all richer in but it descended into violence as a group of nationalist and football fans a rally to the crowds to our time a vegetable market where many immigrants work on tuesday the suspect was found and

arrested in court the as a big shiny national pleaded not guilty to murder saying he was acting in self defense meanwhile azerbaijan has accused the russian authorities of succumbing to hysteria calling the case an ordinary street crime and to be true bandish political analyst said the voice of russia radio station explained why he thinks tackling illegal migration in the country is particularly difficult because this is a very. unpleasant wake up call for their authorities because the problem of illegal migration needs to be handled part of the population of one so visa regime . are the former can't just rob the soviet union but there's going to be difficult because unlike kind eurostar like colombia or for the night the states or unlike algeria and libya are you know all the former republics of the show that union for many of you kids are part of the same country with russia and there are

a lot of human lives between us so how will be these a regime affect these things of course negatively that's why the authorities are very reluctant good produced this kind of these are regime. and coming up it's our weekly business round up in venture capital. put into the behind center's numbers we have more than two thousand political prisoners i'm behind right now of course if you look at the system.