the last few weeks have inflicted completely unnecessary damage on. the us government shutdown ends with a temporary deal of economic default yet some are still concerned a collapse is simply being delayed. japanese authorities race against the. public fear a fresh radiation leak at the fukushima power plant. the fury of. protest is in. police following massive anti-government rallies across the city. as the detainees hunger strike at the guantanamo bay prison continues gains rare access to the

infamous u.s. military facility. with a look back at the top stories from the past seven days and the latest developments this is the weekly. american lawmakers gave the entire skin 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 with more issues expected to rise in washington in the upcoming months and the reports. global market eyes were wide open while washington was shut waiting and bracing for impact. in households who do 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 in till january fifteenth allowing the u.s. to continue borrowing in till 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 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 dependency in

america in the same way as america has been trying to reduce dependency on the middle east for its oil ironically the shutdown didn't save money it cost the u.s. some twenty four billion dollars and credibility worldwide whether it's coming from the world bank whether the i.m.f. whether the leading bankers of the world or from china with now which is the 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. this is the creation of a crisis atmosphere wall street and you know the one percenter corporate sponsors all of them they're not going to allow the meltdown of the international economy well they soar for me and millions of others congress now has some more time to

come up with a long term budget solution before a new deadline comes rolling on the hill they will also have to deal with damage control both at home and abroad all while trying to solve the debt problem in just three months something they couldn't do in the years leading up to this sat down reporting from washington and he's now a party. democrats and republicans have been blaming the each other for weeks with president obama having the loss would 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 repeated brinksmanship causes the world to lose confidence in america and condemned what he called a self inflicted crisis this is set to revisit the problem of the debt ceiling in just a few months but he's from the asia times online believes it's becoming obvious the

u.s. economic model is functioning. america is. their business model is unsustainable the united states would have to reveal his 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 past independent economists all over the world maybe could be the last crisis off to a bull capitalism and then we're going to get something completely different to the know what it is that most important part of this story is what happened this past weekend with. this see why 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 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 this year. japanese authorities are racing to dispel the latest radiation scare spawn by a freshly cooked the crippled fukushima facility the power plant operator says a storage tank has split should say has spilled 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 ate locally caught fish in a bid to reassure the public but authorities are being a good listener reports because she has troubles on 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 well for when it comes to wiping up remnants of the 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 its doors to keep it going to be 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 to malfunctioning nuclear power station on its hands maybe hoping an international effort would solve both problems at the same time it in english go r.t. . well for his problems began when the earthquake and tsunami ruptured its cooling systems in march two thousand and eleven causing multiple melt. it took a whole year for japan's government to admit the nuclear disaster was caused by the improper handling of the situation well the plant operator tepco admitted the

crisis could have been avoided if only it had done its job better more than two years after disaster struck a leak was discovered at a storage tank for contaminated water and when tepco finally admitted the spill it revealed that up to three hundred tons of radioactive water was flowing into the ocean every day nuclear power expert are all goodness and says the site is a serious health risk. you know that this leech had something called strontium ninety in it ninety is a bone seeker and it causes leukemia in huge quantities so now when he gets in the pacific ocean admitted lee it gets diluted in an even bigger pond of water but it's truly frightening that we're releasing strontium ninety into the pacific ocean. we also off on what could happen at fukushima if another earthquake were to strike and he says some of the radioactive material

there 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 it 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. when you can head to our website for more updates and analysis on the fukushima crisis we've been closely following events since the initial disaster struck extensive reports opinions and eyewitness accounts all that's right now but altie dot com. government buildings and the city's capital came under attack on saturday by

a furious mall banged up by cost cutting drive itself to tens of thousands marched through the city denouncing the budget for next year which paves the way for more painful austerity auntie's you got this kind of 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 problem so 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 throng 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're cold 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've got this kind of r.t. . this is the weekly headline from moscow still ahead for you in the program this hour amid kidnappings of foreign journalists by and to south fighters in syria griffen ocean it goes deep into rebel held territory and speaks to the free syrian army brigade stay with us from that report it's coming your way after this short break. it's a quick fix for a long time to increasingly toxic a picture the u.s. may have avoided. but to keep striking the world into an ever deeper debt is it still possible to break this vicious cycle.

is real journalism a thing of the past and much of the western world in the name of security challenging the official media message of the elites as often. with serious threats and reprisals whistleblowers are damned in need to feel severe consequences what we may need is a deafening echo chamber warning all to get in line or else. in syria a suicide bombing at an army checkpoint has claimed the lives of at least thirty

people in the central city of hama state media reported the truck loaded with explosives rammed the the post and detonated the damage was intensified after a fuel tanker parked nearby a quarter like the country's been locked in a tug of war between the government and the fragmented rebel groups that bodies were if an ocean a joint one such brigade. we cross the syrian lebanese border every day many times a blue eyed her son is a soldier for the free syrian army not for joe how are you out of this for we take injured people to lebanon hospitals we get i mean nation from there we bring mojahedin in and out if i just want to go to see their families our cell is a safe haven. our cell 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 bringing weapons on 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 go for all the forces fighting president assad in the interest of the security bill that the regime created around damascus is huge and to targeted we need many fighters and advanced weapons and to be honest we don't have such kinds of weapons but what we can do is launch operations here and there to increase the pressure on the regime for 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 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 not a low level it's we can see actually the village itself is what we can see is the hotel saffir that the militants have been posing 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 and. it was really makes you think the price is hundreds of thousands it's just used to just take the loot that is natural these days does this

to me this is where you see these trees that house 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 a bomb have mounted 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 government 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 two

marks on hold it didn't please everyone. 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. with army forces traveling to combat fighters he didn't in the mountains and militants helpless in the face of government tanks artillery 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 territory. syria rebel group. when i joined live by. the director of the damascus center of strategic studies it's been a deadly week in your country with major attacks on army checkpoints could this increased pressure on assad forces be seen as quite significant well.

because the voices of good we've seen these major attacks on army checkpoints just over the weekend things have got very deadly there always seeing increased pressure now on assad's forces that could be seen as significant. if i understood your question i didn't understood very well your question because the voice is very bad really but anyway and i was to do your your question that. you are speaking about the prashar which is now we can see on the different parties in. syria for the geneva second as in those two. yes ok well let's talk about then the geneva two conference this major piece an issue to of how cooperative will our sad be in that conference.

let's speak frankly. now we are hearing about. twenty three twenty four of the next month but anyway now with there is a contradiction the mr a lot of you talked about convinced opposition i couldn't understand what he meant and if he mentioned what kind of opposition i think is here we have a national opposition and the very end of the day the discussion it's not all the of. the the. future of syria but the future of the region we should talk about the stopping of financing and sending. to groups. or other groups and this responsibility should should put on the shoulders of some of the states and this is the main mission of the geneva beside

the speaker of the full. with the government or transitional government i think. any other speech about the. government with a full mission if it's includes a syrian constitution so a lot of question to discuss but the end of the day i think if they are looking to interfere in some security agencies or are we i think it's difficult to do that by one of course it takes two sides on the ground it takes two sides to reach a decision and it's interesting you're saying that even at that conference i'll be talking about a transitional government there so signs of cooperation there from the government side but what about the rebels how cooperative do you think they will be in this. there is no current. i think the syrian government will go to geneva without

condition but the first question to go forward in syria it's to stop the violence how we will stop the violence we will stop the violence or through first of all. financial financing and. this is the first condition without stopping terrorism and there is to groups we cannot do anything in politics we cannot do anything in the economy and we cannot either do anything with the review jews which is the important question now what is your i think a lot of question but the main question is how will stop this violence anyone in the congress i think from opposition or. or there are these states in the region can recognize who is supporting the issue or al qaida or these. people who are. being. one or more toward three thorns in innocent people this is the first

question which we should sort of after that we can go whatever they want for the constitution or for. for the other question it's all been for discussion but between the syrians themselves not between syria and other states in the region but some of the damascus center of studies thank you very much indeed for being with us live here on r.t. . lawyers for several detainees at guantanamo bay a folder for appeal to put an end to the painful force feeding of hunger strikers at the facility and full of captives the still refusing food but being strapped into chants and chub fed daily by the u.s. military and thus hunger strike began in february but has since subsided to less than two dozen protesters against indefinite detention lotty is now again rare access to the prison and here's the first in a series of reports by and i started. 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 there are 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 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 headed to the logic area now it's about a twenty minute very 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 at a 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 with an american flag you would never feel that this is the place policy going to be made of states torrijos the lodging 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 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. or 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 costs what it cost to do it right we're doing it right on means to those running america's most infamous detention facility and what lays beyond the picture perfect scenery all the realities of guantanamo in our reports to follow. our. work outside active camp at guantanamo where patients are forced that the outer

amount of our strike never turned world's attention to the ways that some. of our time. we start. in the egyptian capital karo police there are crowds of supporters of ousted president mohamed morsi the group ended up a siege in a prestigious muslim university after studying for a test is blocked a road many of its students in the city and his was the brotherhood the second day of rest in the unit. close to where islam is had a protest camp which was demolished in deadly raid in august. and may have lost it for just. a gay pride parade in montenegro from becoming violent and around one hundred fifty participants had been marching through the country's capital. when they were attacked by anti gay protest. that's right police used tear gas and buttons on the mob which responded with firecrackers and the

country's government has recently passed a bill against all kinds of sexual discrimination as part of its bid e.u. membership. thousands rallied across the world demanding a ban on shale drilling on saturday activists in over twenty countries came out to send a message to governments over what they see is the danger of environmental disaster in canada protests held over the past weekend in violence and dozens of arrests activists from other countries joined in later in the anti fracking sentiment particularly strong across the u.s. and the other side of the atlantic europeans also campaigned a group called young friends of the earth gathered in london to highlight worries about how the younger generation could be affected by fracking one of the u.k. campaigners and heber says the system will always put profit before the environment but what you've got is a situation where they're going for ever more extreme forms of fossil fuel in a situation where we know you know the recent reports from the school you cannot accuse all show quite categorically that we need to be leaving two thirds of the

non-fossil fuel reserves in the ground if we're going to prevent catastrophic climate change but be in the car use over the last very last thing we need to be doing is looking for for more fossil fuels in the extreme for the only reason that that's going to hate is because of the why the be all and gas industry has got their claws into governments across the world. you know. when you've got a capitalist system. to profit from from it's from fossil fuels whatever cost in terms of the long to mental and social benefits of the people in the area. well tonight here in moscow i'll be back with more with a news team in just about half an hour from now the meantime it is a weekly business roundup in venture capital after a short break.