the. last few weeks have inflicted completely unnecessary damage on our cause. the u.s. government shutdown ends with a temporary deal of bussing and economic default yet some are still concerned a collapse has simply been delayed. japanese authorities race against fate our time to save public fears funk by the pressure of radiation leak at the fukushima power plant. if you are over eighteen these new austerity loaded bantered spills over as protests as they roam take on the police holding much of unfair governmental rallies across the city. and it is a new hunger strike and began tunnel of

a prison continues also he gains a rare access to the infamous u.s. military facility. the latest news and the week's top stories we're watching the weekly on else here with me here national thanks for joining us 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 get their last minute deal is only a temporary reprieve was more issues expected to rise in washington and that coming months as any so now a report. global market eyes were wide open while washington was shut waiting and bracing for impact. to. the congress and house hopes to become in more not

finished 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 the scarce part global reevaluation given the time and time again these political crisis appear 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 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. 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. democrats and republicans have been blaming the impasse on a child of four 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 stressed every piece of brinkmanship course is the wall to lose confidence in america and condemned what he called a self-inflicted crisis congress to revisit the problem of the debt ceiling in just

a few months and specter asked about from the asia times online believes it's becoming also is the u.s. economic model is malfunctioning. america is their is their business model is unsustainable the united states would have to review his the whole economy financial policy fact which is still a single 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 global capitalism and then we're going to get something completely different they're still in a 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 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 yes a century 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 corps the chinese have been at it for the past three or four years big time and now they are in fifth gear. japanese authorities are racing to dispel the latest radiation scan sponsored by a fresh leak at the crippled fukushima facility the power plants operate as a storage tank has split finally contaminated water into a well from waves may have already seeped into the ocean the country's prime minister visited and nearby port and eight locally locally called caught fish i should say in a bid to reassure the public but as. reports fukushima's trouble zoned 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 it is ready and water is flowing into the pacific ocean sadly russia has a lot of experience warfare when it comes to wiping up remnants of the nuclear catastrophe it has had its all and 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 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 august go our team. for consumers problems began when the earthquake and tsunami ruptured its cooling systems in march twenty levon causing multiple meltdowns it's

a whole year for japan's government to admit they need their disaster was caused by the improper handling of the situation there the plants operate at tepco admits it is the crisis could have been avoided if only it had done its job better more than two years after disaster struck illegal was discovered at a storage sang for contaminated water and one tepco finally admitted as this well it's revealed that after three hundred tons of radioactive water was followed into they was full of follow those flowing i should say into the ocean every day and nuclear power acts that arnold gundersen says this site is a serious health risk you know that this leech had something called strong chimney ninety in it as john should ninety is a bone shooter 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. and we also got well soft on old guns on what could happen at for another earthquake which is trying to assess some of the razor acts of material days barely contained and the number of child disaster will settle among late cutouts. 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. to a website for more dates and analysis on the for the shame

a crisis has been closely following events since the initial disaster struck extensive reports opinions and eyewitness accounts all that online at and t. dot com. government buildings and a sleaze campus all came on to talk on saturday by and here a small angered by rome's cross consing tribe that's after tens of thousands marched through the city denouncing the budget for next year which paves the way for more painful austerity cheesey corpus going off now reports. forty percent off youth unemployment and the worst recession since the second world war critics say the two thousand and fourteen budget will not do enough to solve the economic problems for three days italians have been taking to the streets of rome protesting against the government's economic policies some are bringing along ten saying they won't leave until their voice is heard previously on saturday tens of thousands of protesters to pour in the 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 of stories 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 were told 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. wrote. this is the answer and ahead for you in the program i mean the kidnappings of foreign journalists like to find is in syria notional goes deep into rebel held territory and speaks to a free syrian army brigade stay with us for that report is coming up after this short break.

according to the behind centers numbers we have more than two thousand political prisoners and 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 as terrorists. right to. st louis and i think the jury. on our reporters were there. and i. am.

here watching the weekly on r.c. welcome back in syria associated bombing a tsunami truck point has claimed the lives of at least thirty people in the central city of hama stace media reported a truck loaded with explosives around the parsed and detonated the damaged cars in terms of fired after a few park nearby called a light the country's been looks in a tug of war this one the government and the frog men to the rebel groups of his american notion and made it to one of the opposition strongholds or that's the sort of the take all 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 you can see it 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 yet root is the center of a large mountainous area in western syria known as kalam moon in two thousand and eleven local residents were among the first to support the n.t. assad campaign it seems been cut off from damascus and run by the rebels. i cover my head as all women here 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 born in kuwait and having spent two years traveling the middle east and the gulf he only came here months before serious protests began. to resist to the end we have

a plan and we have forces to make it happen. 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 as armed brigade. they live in abandoned houses sleeping pray together and claim fighting bashar al assad is their only go twice a week they hear an islamic lecture from a young man who everybody calls the shake he's taken part in the hellish pilgrimage to mecca and started the qur'an in saudi arabia all that i thought was every monday and thursday we discuss the revolution the latest military developments as well as our daily routine we discuss what's prescribed or forbidden by islam and i ask them whether the judge had the looser 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 news or a is linked to the outside they follow al qaida and for decisions

they revert to their army or even our heerey our leader we have normal relations with them next we are supposed to meet with people from a list but when our armed guys learn of this they do all they can to stop us the groups controlling the area are not only fighting assad they compete with each other even for media. attention being among journalists is seen as something prestigious a school and i told to feel from the car but it one point wrist top by a group of gunman apparently from a hostile brigade they ask about who we are later our guards told us the men were kidnappers from rema village at least nineteen forty journeys to held hostage in syria right now and the price and then 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 only food and weaponry and these are locals who pay the bills. we as christians have to pay so-called duty this is our input into society we go to church and pay it muslims do also we pay for internal security brigades for relief aid and courts for the situation in your brood is critical a shortage of food in everything we are besieged. trapped in their own country where more than two years of deadly conflict has only seen fractions and goals increasingly divergent parties morea for reports from fragmented syrian rebel held territories. syria on the rebel group. and let's not discuss the sation in syria with karin look felt she is a journalist and has reported extensively on middle eastern affairs mr.

welcome to all see it's great to have you with us today so you've just recently come back from syria can you describe to us what your witness there. well the situation is not contained better to be honest. in terms of the space people are flooding into the city it's into the areas where it is still safe if you want to travel overland you have to take a lot of precautions and you have to check several times before you actually get the trip so it was. very difficult to get you know of course and we know that rebels have been stepping out of that directions of journalists as well where we are talk on sunday about being there excuse me can you repeat i am the question is about the about journal is that the rebels are stepping out there at doctrines of journalists have you been concerned that. yes you are concerned about this

every day you don't think about it when you step into a taxi or when you take a bus when you walk from one place to live. you have to be very careful but i must tell you the cases of back to journalists and this is what we hear about we don't hear about you don't you know you know dozens and hundreds of people who are from civilians most in the audience who have been kidnapped all over the place be it in psuedo be it in damascus. or in the countryside so hundreds of civilians have been killed mainly for criminal rooms and sometimes for political reasons but these are the cases we don't hear a lot about. and we also just heard from our correspondent in syria and she spoke to a free syrian army brigade and they say that they don't need they do need help from the west but they're not getting it do you agree. you see there are so many

different armed groups actually i spoke to somebody from the united nations and he told me that when we speak about the free syrian army we actually have to speak about free syrian. we have dozens if not hundreds of groups some of them definitely do good work and do get money and get intelligence information from foreign so all just you know i think many small bill neely who are spread out over the place maybe they don't have enough funding so they are trying to get enough people to get money to get weapons or sometimes to get food or medicine. right. maybe least journalist thank you so much thank you weber shaded thank you. lawyers 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 esther were fusing food but some are being strapped into chairs and tube fed daily by u.s. military a mass hunger strike began in february but has since subsided to less than two dozen protesters against indefinite detention and he has now gained rare access to the prison and he is the first in a series of reports by anas to say. after a few months of people work to get cleared to visit the base the trip to get mobile hop and a skip 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 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 of 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 twenty minute ferry ride one side of the area where the airport is. several replies and says but the main part of the people and the detention camp are over there were 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 where an american flag would never be that good since the place policy going to the native states or u.s. presidents 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 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 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 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 in our reports to follow suit you're going to r.t. guantanamo bay cuba. where the outside active camps have matan in melbourne where patients are forced that the moment you're a man or strike never turns the world's attention to the places that some have to go a lot of hard times. and we'll start our world this hour in the egyptian capital cairo police that have five ten shots at crowds of supporters of ousted president mohamed morsy the group ended out besieged in a prestigious muslim university of to some star throwing protesters blocks the road

many of its students block morsi and his muslim brotherhood is the second day of unrest in the area the university is close to where islam is precious count which was demolished in a deadly raid in august. that may have lasted for just half an hour but that didn't save a gay pride parade in montenegro from becoming violent around one hundred fifty participants hunt been marching through the country's capital but. when they were time to buy and to gay person houses riot police used tear gas and bottles of the most responded with fire from stones the country's government has recently posted below against all kinds of sexual discrimination as part of its bid for the ship. and up next to investigate one of the worst oil spills in history the big fix is just ahead.

you know when i look more and more into it i find that there were a lot of myths of exaggerations about what happened at russia during the soviet era however what 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 dissident 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 hell but it 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 all the are usually trivial this celebrity case actually sets a dangerous legal precedent but that's just my opinion. the after the b.p. spill dr ron came to the museum and were in bury teria which is forty miles from the gulf and about one hundred fifty miles from the wellhead the oil and

dispersants have come into here yesterday the wind blew really hard this table got this cloudy gritty glaze on look at that that's just what's on the table before we even start the interview. was b.p. about to repeat the same strategy that exxon used with the valve these oil spill this pack of confidential documents were uncovered as part of the toxic tort lawsuits that followed with some of the workers who realized that their sicknesses lingered lingered lingered these documents are very incriminating and they show that thousands of workers actually did in fact get sick from exposure to a number of chemicals including to be toxic. axons chief medical advisor dr kind of cool it's a memo to x. on and at the very end here you see the intent we do not need a health hazard a value.