last few weeks have inflicted completely unnecessary damage on the us government shutdown ends with a temporary deal of economic default still concerned the collapse is simply being delayed. japanese authorities race against the atom public by a fresh radiation leak at the fukushima power plant. to . the fury of. a loaded budget spilled over as protesters and take on the police following massive anti-government rallies across the city. as the detainees hunger strike at the guantanamo bay prison continues. to be

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 world this week 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 he said nellie reports. global market eyes were wide open while washington was shut waiting and bracing for impact when the. congress adjourned house her to come in more nuts and she did monofocal pick a. team that silicone. but at the so-called eleventh hour

congress struck a deal to deal with it later. that's what it is the agreement reopen the government and funds it until january fifteenth allowing the u.s. to continue borrowing until february seventh america barely avoided defaulting on their almost seventeen trillion dollars in debt brand america took a beating here sixteen days of a government shutdown halted the capital to a standstill put hundreds of thousands of workers out of jobs and the world economy on the verge of recession then surely the markets going we don't want to play this . we're not 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 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 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 is the creator. 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 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 a 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 deadlock 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 stressed repeated brinkmanship causes the world to lose confidence in america and condemned what he called a self-inflicted crisis congress is set to revisit the problem of the debt ceiling in just a few months from now pepe escobar from the asia times online believes it's becoming obvious that the u.s.

economic model is functioning. america is in debt is their business model is unsustainable the united states would have to review 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 to know what it is the most important part of this story is what happened this past week and with that it's all real at this see why news agency calling for a de americanized war 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 year one 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 has 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 spawned by a fresh leak at the crippled fukushima facility the power plant operators as a storage tank 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 facilities that in english the reports fukushima's 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 real. core the actual nuclear part of the plant this is water which is used to call the nuclear course or doesn't burst in flames that water obviously has to go somewhere so it goes into a special container where iraqi and water is stored and then filtered this is the ocean and the problem with the fukushima is that there is a leak so from there they read it water is flowing into the pacific ocean sadly russia has a lot of experience 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 footbridge 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 like a 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 our team. well fukushima's problems began when the earthquake and tsunami ruptured its cooling systems in march two thousand and eleven causing multiple meltdowns it took a whole year for japan's government to admit the nuclear disaster was caused by the improper handling of the situation the plant operator tepco admitted the crisis could have been avoided if only it had done its job better well 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 on goodness and says the site is a serious health risk. you know that this leak had something called strontium ninety in it ninety is bone cheaper and it causes leukemia in huge quantities so now when it gets in the pacific ocean it minutely it gets diluted in an even bigger water but it's truly frightening now we're releasing strontium ninety into the pacific ocean. we also asked on what is going to some 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 a plastic pipe 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 potentially really do a lot of serious damage there. and you can head to our web site 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 online at r.t. dot com. government buildings in italy's capital came under attack on saturday by a furious mob angered by rome's cost cutting drive that's off the tens of thousands

marched through the city denouncing the budget for next year which paves the way for more painful austerity but if you go to personal 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 protesting against the government's economic policies are bringing along tent 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 from 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 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. . some demonstrators are now camped by one of the gates of rome and italian politics expert james walston warns more unrest could be looming with very different social groups all united by fury against the politicians they want to mobilize the city so this is going on probably go on in different ways for a long time should. be employers to the trade unions to different political parties and very strong protests from. young people there it sort of should we do not like the government. we want a recovery but you budget this is what they're complaining they complain about the same thing is the unusual situation that's what we have to really go to because.

they've been spending too much too long. there is in the same sort of situation. still ahead for you in the program this hour in the weekly amid kidnappings of foreign journalists followed as in syria ortiz where if a notion that goes deep into rebel held territory and speaks to a free syrian army brigade play with us for that reports it's coming your way after this short break. according to the. numbers we have more than two thousand political prisoners and right now of course if you look at the system what the behind the government is

trying to do is they're trying to label many of these prisoners as terrorists. first struck. and i think the church. in syria a suicide bombing at a point has claimed the lives of at least thirty people in the central city of hama state media reported the truck loaded with explosives or demanded opposed to the detonation the damage was intensified after a fuel tanker by quarterlife the country's been knocked in

a tug of war between the government and it was a fragmented rebel groups. made it to one opposition stronghold. you know with if you tell your brother next to the syrian lebanese border it's 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 associates here everywhere graffiti or three stars that means free syrian army is controlling this area they syrian military cannot enter root is the center of a large mountainous area in western syria known as. 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. will resist to the end we have a plan and we have forces to make it happen. this is who he is talking about the self-styled free syrian army but these fighters don't work with other militants function instead as an autonomy as armed brigade. they live in abandoned houses sleep and pray together and claim fighting bashar al assad is their only goal twice a week they hear an islamic lecture from a young man who everybody calls the shaikh he's taken part in the hellish pilgrimage to mecca and started the qur'an in saudi arabia all that includes 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 i ask them whether they have had the los or a and then qaida affiliated radical islamic groups openly operating in syria like no no no no no we have no relation with the nusra we say. the newser is linked to the outside they follow al qaida and for decisions they revert to their army or even our here e al-qaeda leader we have normal relations with them next we are supposed to meet with people from a list but when our armed guys learn of 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. courted and i told the film from the car but it one point twists talked by a group of gunman apparently from

a hostile brigade and they ask about who we are later our guards told us the man were kidnappers from rema village at least nineteen forty journeys to held hostage in syria right now and the price and then lives varies. this area 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 own need food and weaponry and these are locals who pay the bills. we as christians have to pay so-called duty this is our input into society we go to church and pay it muslims do also we pay for internal security brigades for relief aid and courts 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 national reports from fragmented syrian rebel held territories. syria on the rebel grip on our city. on r.t. dot com we have a report that says the reason edward snowden managed to get hold of highly sensitive classified data is because the n.s.a. failed to install software his former workplace the spying agency overlooked it's in hawaii also. this is called a drunk vehicle would be like if machines could enjoy a tipple or two this video from a highway in china may give you an idea the eye opening footage and scoring thousands of hits online and you tube can check it out that in motion section on our website it's. laws for several detainees at guantanamo bay a fresh appeal to put an end to the painful force feeding of hunger strikers at the facility of captives still refusing food but being strapped into chairs and chub

fed daily by the u.s. military and the hunger strike began in february and since subsided to less than two dozen protesters against indefinite detention marty has now again rare access to the prison and here's the first in a series of reports by and 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

a military resume the people i work with every day day they share the same idea like they're all very proud to be here she joined the u.s. military a decade ago with no money for college a twenty eight one ton a most her second deployment you've heard about it like several movies but you don't really it is just a place that people forget about only they don't ever think about it getting to the main part of the base is a slow pace trip we have to wait for a ferry to take us across the bay and are taken to visit a beach first one of a handful of scenic locations you wouldn't really expect here we're going to see the logic area now it's about a twenty minute area right one side of an area where the airport is. several revised answers but the main part of the people the and the detention camp are over there have 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 united states or against the lodging area were taken to is like any typical hotel with palm trees and a marina right out the window first impression this can't be the place that has been casting a long shot. in america's human rights image for over a decade where torture allegations hunger strikes and force feeding have been making headlines i remember when i moved here i thought i would just see like people in orange jumpsuits and fences everywhere but i mean the families all stay on one side and the rest kind of happens on another the other side as where total of seven hundred seventy nine detainees of america's war on terror have been kept since two thousand and two a total of one hundred sixty four now remaining at a whopping eight hundred thousand taxpayer dollars for 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

we're 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 and r.t. guantanamo bay cuba. where the outside active camp at guantanamo where patients are forced that in the interim or strike never turn the world's attention to the places that some. of our time. we saw the world update the sound the egyptian capital car where police arrested fifty five students to security forces tear gas and crowds of young supporters of ousted president mohamed morsy the group ended up the seeds in a prestigious muslim university ofter stone throwing protesters blocked a road many of its students back morsi and his muslim brotherhood it's the second day of unrest in the area and the university is close to where islam is had

a protest camp which was demolished in a deadly raid in august. it may have lost it for just half an hour but that didn't save a gay parade in montenegro from becoming violent and around one hundred fifty participants would be marching through the country's capital. when. they were attacked by anti-gay protesters police used tear gas and buttons on the mall which responded with firecrackers and stones the country's government has recently passed a bill against all kinds of sexual discrimination as part of its bid for membership . the suicide bomber has crashed his car full of explosives into a busy cafe in the iraqi capital baghdad at least thirty seven people have reportedly been killed and over forty others injured in the day a wave of suicide attacks on security forces and government buildings killed at least twelve across the country iraq is experiencing some of its worst violence in years recent report more than six thousand since the beginning of the almost

a thousand deaths last month alone. thousands rallied across the world demanding a ban on shale drilling on saturday activists in over twenty countries came up to send a message to governments over what they see as the danger of environmental disaster in canada protests over the past week and environments and dozens of arrests activists from other countries join in later with the anti fracking sentiment particularly strong across the u.s. on 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 says the system will always put profit before the environment. what you've got is a situation where they're going for ever more extreme forms of fossil fuel in a situation where you know we know you know the recent reports from the london school of economics for example which 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 that being the case you know that you know the last the last thing we need to be doing is looking for for more fossil fuels in the extreme for when the only reason that that's going ahead is because of the why the be all and gas industry got their claws into governments across the world and you know. when you've got a capitalist system. to profit from from extreme fossil fuels. have a cost in terms of the long term environmental and social benefits of the people in the area. you've been watching the weekly or not he'll be back with a news team with more for you in just over half an hour from now in the meantime any sonali notes in american exceptionalism and its many legacies that's in a special report just after this short break.

you know as i look more and more into it i find that there were a lot of myths and exaggerations about what happened at russia during the soviet era however one really bad rumor seems to be true if you were an outspoken advocate against the soviet status quo then you could be considered insane and be locked away until the psychiatrist convinced you that khrushchev was brilliant scary stuff but sadly famous grammy award winning singer lauryn hill might be living the life of a soviet does that right now she was convicted of failing to pay five hundred thousand dollars in taxes but strangely according to the international business times she was ordered to undergo psychiatric counseling because she believes in conspiracy theories related to the music industry hill 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 is 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 olympic torch is on its journey to such. a one hundred twenty three days to go through to some other towns and cities of russia. relate to fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand kilometers. in a record setting trip. air sea others face.

olympic torch relay. on our t.v. . sets america. can accept american exceptionalism as a testimony to american exceptionalism and exceptionalism the united states is indeed exception america is exception.