last few weeks have inflicted completely unnecessary damage on. the us government shutdown ends with a temporary deal of economic default still concern the collapse is simply being delayed. japanese authorities race against the atom public fears sparked by a fresh radiation leak at the fukushima power plant. the fury over italy's new austerity loaded budget spills over as protesters in rome take on the police following massive anti-government rallies across the city. says the detainees hunger strike at the guantanamo bay prison continues 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 on. american nor makers gave the entire world a scare this week as their bickering over a new budget drove the country to the brink of default yet the last minute deal is only a temporary reprieve with more issues expected to rise in washington in the upcoming months as. reports. global market eyes were wide open while washington was shut waiting and bracing for impact. because i sucked in households to come in more not finished up she did.

but at the so-called eleventh hour congress struck a deal to deal with it later if that's what it is the agreement reopen the government and funds it until january fifteenth allowing the u.s. to continue borrowing until february seventh america barely avoided defaulting on their almost seventeen trillion dollars in debt brand america took a beating here sixteen days of a government shutdown halted the capital to a standstill put hundreds of thousands of workers out of jobs and the world economy on the verge of recession then surely the markets going we don't want to play this . we're not usually you money at any price 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 costs the u.s. some twenty four billion dollars and credibility worldwide whether it's coming from the world bank whether the i.m.f. whether the leading bankers of the world or from china with now which is the americanization this was really a spectacle following a series of spectacles that has downgraded america's image worldwide to levels i've never seen solo the gentleman from say the scare was just a way to come in and save the day at the last minute up on the table this is. 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 sore 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 republicans have been blaming the deadlock on each other for weeks with president obama having the last word 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 repeatedly 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 but for me asia times online believes it's becoming obvious the u.s. economic model is functioning. vereker is. there

. the united states would have to reveal his comic 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 crisis of two a book apatow ism and then we're going to get something completely different there is still don't know what it is the most important part of this story is what happened this past weekend with that story 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 u.s. dollar yes 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 currency the chinese have been at it for the past three or four years big time and now. here. japanese authorities are racing to dispel the latest radiation scan sparked by a fresh leak at the crippled fukushima facility the power plant operators says a storage tank has spilled highly contaminated water into a well from where it may have already seeped into the ocean when the country's prime minister visited a nearby port and ate locally caught fish in a bid to reassure the public resulted in a political reports because sheen has troubles 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 ago. 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 its doors to keep it going but 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 leaks 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 english go r.t. . well focus has 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 a better job or more than two years after the disaster struck a leak was discovered to the 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 all gunderson says the site is a serious health risk you know that this leak had something called strontium ninety in it ninety is bone seeker 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 stratosphere ninety into the pacific ocean. or we also asked what could happen at fukushima if another earthquake to strike and he said 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 you wouldn't take an earthquake as big as the one they had. two and a half years ago to potentially really do a lot of serious damage there. 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 online at all to. government buildings and into the capital came under attack on saturday by

a furious angered by rome's cost cutting drive to tens of thousands marched through the city denouncing the budget for next year which paves the way for more painful austerity what is going to reports. forty percent off you'll find employment and the worst recession since the second world war critics say the two thousand and fourteen 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 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 this one off r.t. . some demonstrators are now camped by one of the gates of runs and italian politics but james walston wants 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 week this is going on and will probably go on for in different ways for a long time now so many people from the employers to the trade unions to different political parties and very strong protests from. young people of various sorts who said we do not like the government like the budget we want and recovery budget we want a growth budget this is what they're complaining about at least they complain about the same thing is the employers it's an unusual situation but that's what we have to really going to be it was way over budget they'd been spending too much for too

long. and that is in the same sort of situation. you're watching the weekly here a naughty still ahead in the program this hour for you amid kidnappings of foreign journalists. in syria were if a notion it goes deep into rebel held territory and speaks to the free syrian army brigade that report is coming up off of this break. with economic ups and downs in the final month the longer the deal sank i and the rest because i take it it will be if we can also.

choose your language. because we could know in different ways still some of. the fumes that consumes you. choose the opinions that degrade to. choose to stories that impart the. truth be accessed through. 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

a truck loaded with explosives that rammed the post and detonated damages intensified after a fuel tank apart because the light the country's been locked in a tug of war between the government and the fragmented rebel groups and. made it to one opposition stronghold. the tell 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 can see its symbols of new authorities here everywhere graffiti or three stars that means free syrian army is controlling this area they syrian military cannot enter you have 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 marked peace and lawyers the curio justice we run the town virus so 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 in the gulf he only came here months before series protests began. we 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 militant. functioning instead as an autonomy armed brigade. believe in abandoned houses sleeping 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 taking part in the hellish

pilgrimage to mecca and started the qur'an in saudi arabia all that islam is 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 the judge had the law 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 first 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 a school to and i told to film from the car but it one point twist top by a group of gunmen apparently from a hostile brigade and they ask about who we are later our guards told us the men were kidnappers from remote village at least nineteen for you journalists to held hostage in syria right now and the price and then lives very. this area supposedly run by opposition fighters is in fact in the hands of an 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. 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. 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 diverged margie's morea reports from fragmented syrian rebel held territory. syria on rebel. marketing. migrants in qatar are working flat out to get the country ready for the twenty twenty two world cup the foreign population there and in the neighboring united arab emirates is well beyond eighty percent in q weight around seven out of ten workers migrants while in amman and saudi arabia is about thirty percent of the population and that means for the region as a whole almost a half of the total population come from elsewhere or he says are silly went to cattle to see how immigrants are treated there do we know to organize.

trended to fifth vote cop is coming. but the initial celebration and christie's have been overshadowed by ford workers claims about treatment not getting paid and needed that not being allowed to leave the country the international trade union confederation claims that about four thousand migrants could die before a football is kicked in twenty twenty two the worker becomes the property of the employer they are not allowed to leave the country they're not even allowed to leave the job and if the employer agrees this means that the workers have no real power no real voice to. fix up very very bad working and living conditions zire bellew nyssa knows this all too well a french football player who arrived in qatar in two thousand and seven he says he hadn't been paid for more than two years he filed a lawsuit to claim unpaid wages and says his client but then we fused to give him

an exit visa unless he dropped the case. when i went to the tribunals i never imagined that i wouldn't be able to leave the country i didn't think they would block me my wife is depressed and she can't work i thought of going on hunger strike but my lawyers told me not to they already hurts me and a hunger strike would only hurt my wife and kids enough is enough. beluga says high profile story isn't the first either if caught or doesn't change its ways i have the courage to say that in two thousand and twenty two we will have the world cup of shame the world cup of slavery bellew this in the meantime continues to hope his problems will soon be resolved i'll have to stop playing football they ended my career mentally i don't see myself playing it and then i'll have to see what to do with my life. r.t. . on r.t. dot com we have a report that says the reason edward snowden managed to get hold. highly sensitive

classified data is because the n.s.a. failed to install and software at its former workplace and found out how the spying agency overlooked its facility in hawaii also. is this what a drop in vehicle would look like if machines couldn't joy to pull off this video from a highway in china may give you an idea. for thousands of hits online and you too can check it out at the in motion section on our website. lawyers for several detainees at guantanamo bay a fresh appeal to put an end to the painful force feeding of hunger strikers at the facility handful of captors are still refusing food but being strapped into chairs and chewed daily by the u.s. military when a mass hunger strike began in february but since subsided to less than two dozen protesters against indefinite detention he has now gained rare access to the prison and here's the first in a series of reports by the stars of chicken. after a few months of people worked 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 a short hour and a half flight one largely kept under wraps with no indications of it on departure boards. the minute we landed were greeted by escorts who 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 and this is 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 ferry ride one side of the area where the airport is a suburb of the residence is but the main part of the people we have 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 with an american flag you would never feel that this is the place policy going to be native states torrijos 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 costs 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. our. turn stimulus.

for the outside activity camp at guantanamo where patients are forced that. the first strike ever turned the world's attention to the places that some. of our time. we start this hour in the egyptian capital karo where police have arrested fifty five students that's off to security forces fought to gas or crowds of young supporters of ousted president mohamed morsi the group ended up a siege then a prestigious muslim university off the 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 universities close to where islam is how to protest camp which was demolished in a deadly raid in. may of last of just half an hour but that didn't save a gay pride parade in montenegro from becoming bon and around one hundred fifty participants have been marching through the country's capital. when the. attacked by anti-gay protesters police used tear gas and buttons on the mob which responded

with firecrackers and stones countries government has recently passed a bill against all forms of sexual discrimination as part of its bid for e.u. membership. a suicide bomber has crashed his car full of explosives into a busy cafe in the iraqi capital baghdad at least thirty eight reportedly been killed and over forty others injured the day a wave of suicide attacks the security forces and government buildings claimed the lives of at least twelve people across the country iraq is experiencing some of its worst violence nears recent report far more than six thousand have died since the beginning of the year with 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 out to send a message to governments over what they see as 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 anti trashy sentiment particularly strong across the us on the other side of the atlantic europeans also campaigned

a group called young friends of the earth gathered in london to highlight words about how the younger generation could be affected by fracking one of the u.k. campaign is china 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 we know here the recent reports from the on the school economics example 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 the last very last thing we need to be doing is looking for for more fossil fuels in the extreme form and the only reason that that's going to hate is because of the why that the old and gas industry got their claws into governments across the world. when you got. to profit from extreme fossil fuels which have

a cost in terms of the environmental and social benefits of the people in the area you've been watching weekly here ninety coming off after the break it is all business round up in venture capital this is. one of your. pleasure to have you with us here on our t.v. today i'm receivership.