olympic torch relay. on the. last few weeks have inflicted completely unnecessary damage on our car. the u.s. government shutdown ends with a temporary do a lasting and economic default to get someone still concerned a collapse has simply been to the. japanese authorities a race against the atom to soothe public fears spawned by a french radiation leak up to forgive him a power plant and. also the theory over a sleaze new austerity loaded bunch of spills over as protests as in world take on the please following massive anti-government rallies across the city. as the detainee hunger strike at dawn town of

a bay prison continues gains away access to the infamous you are spared a true facility. the latest news and a week's top stories you're watching the weekly on all she was making our thanks for joining us american lawmakers gave the entire world a scare this week as their bickering over a new bunch of 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 in the upcoming months as any so now reports. global market eyes were wide open while washington was shut waiting and bracing for impact. to congress and house votes to come in and more not finished up she did. have to act on 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 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 the scare sparked global evaluation 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 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 is the creator. 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. democrats and republicans have been blaming the impasse on a shot up 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 had a brinkmanship causes the world to lose confidence in america and condemned what he called as self-inflicted crisis congress is set to get back to the problem of the

debt ceiling in just a few months the fiasco has also put the u.s. dollars position as the leading global reserve currency in question but market analyst mike ingram says the immediate alternatives to the greenback are far from ideal because no euphoria here at all there's a feeling that you know crisis has been a very good but it's really. you know we're going to be revisiting this a few months up the road and the heavens knows you know if you're a consumer in the u.s. it was already looking quite fragile and if you're a business looking to invest in the u.s. longer term you've got to wonder where you are whether you should be putting cash on the table right now that the choice is for you know treasuries and central banks globally is like trying to identify you know the most attractive horse in the glue factory because you can point to each of the major currency blocks and say there are major problems obviously we're only about twelve months in the eurozone for when we think it may be the euro is going to fall completely japan has a policy effectively of of deliberately weak yen. you left with

your left with the u.s. so there you are also some currencies where a lot less liquid japanese authorities are racing to dispel the latest radiation scare sponsored by fresh leak at the crippled fukushima facility the power plants operate as a storage tank has split highly contaminated water into a well from way it may have already into the ocean the country's prime minister visited an nearby port and eight locally caught fish in a bid to reassure the public but there's also reports from troubles and proving so easy to contain 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 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. 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 its because she was lucky facility the world's largest nuclear power station it was shut down in two thousand and seven following reports of radioactive leak after a powerful earthquake but the power giant seems undeterred by the prospect of having two malfunctioning nuclear power station on its hands maybe hoping an international effort would solve both problems at the same time it in a godless r.t. . the question was problems began when the earthquake and tsunami of ruptured its cooling systems in march twenty levon causing multiple mao downs that took a whole year for japan's government admits the nuclear disaster was caused by the improper handling of the situation the plans operator tepco admitted the crisis could have been avoided if only it had done its job better more than two years

after a disaster struck a leak was discovered at a story science for contaminated water and one tepco finally admitted to spoil it to reveal that after three hundred tons of razor axa water was flowing into the ocean every day nuclear power expert on old gunderson says this site is a serious health risk you know that this leech had something called strong chimney ninety in it john she of ninety is a bone 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 ninety into the pacific ocean. we also asked on old gunderson what could happen at fukushima if another earthquake were to strike and he says some of the radioactive material that is barely contained 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 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 don't you and a half years ago. potentially really do a lot of serious damage there. and of course we're going to head to our web site for more updates and analysis on the figures from a crisis or been closely following about it since the initial disaster struck extensive reports opinions and eye witness accounts all that online at aussie dot com. government buildings and a city's cops came under attack on saturday by a few were a small angered by

a roan's cost cutting drive that's up to tens of thousands not just for the city denouncing the budget for next year which paves the way for more painful austerity . this kind of ripple. forty percent off youth unemployment and the worst recession since the second world war critics say the two thousand and fourteen state budget will not do enough to solve economic problems for three days italians have been taking to the streets of rome protesting against the government's economic policies are bringing along tents saying they won't leave until their voice is heard previously on saturday tens of thousands of protesters took part in a mass rally in the center of rome which started peaceful many brought their families along and even children but it ended in clashes with the authorities when a group of young radical of protesters started throwing eggs at the finance ministry and bottles sticks and thunder flashes or paper bombs as they're called here at the police as

a result several policemen were injured arrests have also been made now tensions are high but so far thankfully sunday's protests in rome have been peaceful you got pissed off r.t. . and. it's hot in politics and trains are also one slow on the risk of a looming with very different social groups all united by fury against a politician. they want to mobilize the city so this is going on and probably go on in different ways for a long time now. from the employers to the trade unions to different political parties and very strong protests from. young people of various sort. like the government like the budget we want and recovery but you budget this is what they're complaining about they complain about the same thing is the unusual situation but that's what we have the greek economy was way over budget and they've

been spending too much too long and it. is in the same sort of situation. this is all see and some ahead for you in the paul graham amid kidnappings of foreign journalists by our fighters in syria also has maria for a notion of goes deep into rebel held territory and speaks to the free syrian army brigade stay tuned for that purport is coming up after this short break. it's a quick fix for a long and increasingly intoxicating addiction the u.s. may have avoided but it keeps dragging the world into an ever deeper desktop is it still possible to break this vicious cycle.

is real journalism a thing of the past in 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 damaged and made to feel severe consequences what remains is a deafening echo chamber warning all to get in line or else. this is the weekly on our c welcome back in syria so side of bombing at a nonet checkpoint has claimed the lives of at least assertive people in the central city of hama state media reported at

a truck loaded with explosives around the post and detonated the damage has intensified after a fuel tanker parked nearby caught alight the country's been looks in a time go war between the government and they fragmented rebel groups. joined a one sided brigade within an hour that. we crossed the syrian lebanese border every day many times a blue eyed her son is a soldier for the free syrian army lawful general how are you out of this for we take injured people to lebanon hospitals we get ammunition from there we bring mujahideen in and out if i just want to go to see their families our cell is a safe haven. our soul 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 with these calls apparently ignored taking the capital remains the ultimate to go for all the forces find credit and assad know to do that. 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 last month's attack on the village of malala 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 is practically the only obstacle to venton fighters from two large syrian battlegrounds uniting. in more than a month of clashes between

a islamists and opposition fighters 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 a village we can see actually the villages south of what we can see is the hotel saffir that the militants there feed holding for weeks now so right now we are on the other side of the clashes a door. 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 not. just the patients you see the prices hundreds and thousands of tourists used to just take

a look at these national these days does this to me this is where you see these trees that house them hard soldiers all 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 when i was 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 of whom have mount an f.s.a. fighter was injured in an order 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. if they strike with just ten rockets the regime of bashar al assad will fall by itself but america changed track after 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 so saying 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 haydon in the mountains and militants helpless in the face of government tanks activity and nation the country's at a deadly impasse is neither side prepared to blink first marty's morea for reports from fragmented syrian rebel held territories. syria on the rebel group. too. and on altie dot com we've got a report that says the reason i was smart and managed to get hold of highly sensitive classified data is because the n.s.a. for him to install software he's a former workplace find out how the spying agency overlooked it's why facility

online. and also is this drunk vehicle would like it if machines could enjoy a tipple this video from a highway in china give you an idea of the eye opening for scoring thousands of hits online and you too can track it out at sea in motion section on our website. lowers for several detainees at guantanamo bay have filed a fresh 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 are being strapped into trim as and chewed fed daily by the u.s. military. began in february but has since subsided to less than two dozen protesters against indefinite detention of their. gained rare access to the prison and here's the france in a series of reports by honest to say trick. 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 their short hour and a half 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 a military resume the people i work with every day they they share the same night. like they're all very proud to be here she joined the u.s. military a decade ago with no money for college at twenty eight one time to 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 very right one side of an area where you're learning. some of the residences but the main part of the evil and the detention camp are over there having given its reputation 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 where the american flag would never be that this is a place policy and a native state for us that's 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 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 a 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 of the cost what it cost to do it right we're doing it right means to those running america's most infamous detention facility and. at least beyond the picture perfect scenery all the realities of guantanamo and all reports to follow suit you're going to r.t. guantanamo bay cuba to.

work outside to adopt a camp at guantanamo where patients are forced that the outer amount or strike never turn world's attention to the place that some. of our minds. time for our world update and we begin in paris where hundreds of students have a gand been rallying against the deportation law and the schoolgirl scuffles ensued when people are tempted to break through the ring of security officers if you're twenty year old was detained by police in some parts of course of our with a family after they lost their battle for asylum in france president francois hollande trying to appease the situation or saying she can finish her studies but without her family deportation or roma in the bronx as part of a broader government run down and has included the dismantling of their house across the country. completely different picture though in the transfer of public where there is less support for minority groups around three hundred people

demonstrated in the city of all strive against the country's world the community several arrests were made after protesters attempted to march towards a district heavily populated by the group police hope to hold them back with tear gas. australian officials say new south wales is facing and a world of danger from the worst of wildfires and more than forty years a state of emergency has been declared in the region as the violent winds of story temperatures are predicted to fund the flames even more firefighters are continuing to battle the disaster which has already killed one person and destroyed more than two hundred homes conditions are expected to be their worst on wednesday with authorities drawing up contingency plans. nobel peace or c.p.s. have called old lady appeared to drop piracy charges against greenpeace activists arrested for storming an oil rig in russia's arctic and china boy go the host of worlds apart or goes head to head with the environmental groups executive director

over the organizations were sent protest. one of the things about greenpeace is that the words green and peace and equally important yes we do take very strong peaceful action but we do not cross the line into. beyond any action that can be but there's and i think that's precisely the case in point here i know that you've been arguing all along that the protest was entirely peaceful and yet from the footage that we got there is an intention there is an act of aggression you can see that the aid can argue whether it was violence or not but there is an intent to push because guards away well let me tell you that i have seen i'm not seeing your version that you are showing on television i have seen exactly what the coast guard put out i've seen a slow time version off but because when that allegation was made our took it very seriously because if we did in fact do what you say we did that because just to try to. coast guard vessel instead of what i'm saying from what i look at it it was

control of the boat that's brought about by by swells. then i would take a very negative view of it. and you can catch that episode in fool online at home and then while of right after this break it's on a boy go to start american businessman and financial expert stay with us. with the economic downturn in the final. days the deal sang night and there.

they meet and greet me. hello welcome to worlds apart it's a quick fix for a long and increasingly intoxicating addiction the united states may have avoided a deep hole but it keeps dragging the world into an average deep her dad hold is it still possible to break this vicious cycle well to discuss that i'm now joined by

an american investment broker and financial commentator peter schiff mr shift thank you very much for your time be i appreciate your being here now when i think about the kind of sick anomic relationship that the united states has with the rest of the world it reminds me of a family with an addict somebody who used to be a pretty good reliable guy but slowly but surely developed this addiction to foreign debt and if this habit is definitely getting out of hand he's behavior he's getting more and more unpredictable and the rest of the family doesn't really know what to do with that because they can't leave like that any longer but they can't leave him along as well so he's saying this is an accurate metaphor yeah i mean it's very close to me it's almost like where the in law who's overstayed his welcome you know maybe he was a welcome house guest at one point but he stays around for a long time even eats all your food in the hogs the remote and.