last few weeks have been like to completely unnecessary damage on. the u.s. government shutdown ends with a temporary deal of hurting and economic default yet some are still concerned the collapse has simply been delayed. japanese authorities race against the outcome to soothe public finance sparked by a fresh radiation leak at the fukushima power plant. the fury over its loaded budget spills over as protesters in rome take on the police following massive anti-government rallies across the city. last 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 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 and he said reports. global market eyes were wide open while washington was shut waiting and bracing for impact to. the congress again house votes to become more nuts and she did. have to act on it. but at the so-called eleventh hour congress struck a deal to deal with it later if that's what it is the agreement reopen the

government and funds it in till 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 scare sparked a global valuation 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 americanized asian this was really a spectacle following a series of spectacles that has downgraded america's image worldwide to levels i've never seen the gentleman from say the scare was just a way to come in and save the day after 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 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 deadlock on 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. 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 but this from the asia times online believes it's becoming obvious the u.s. economic model is mold functioning. america is. their business model is unsustainable the united states would have to read. his.

comic financial policy fact which is still a pseudo 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 off to a bull capitalism 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. this see why news agency calling for a de 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 center of the year one a convertible you one 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's operator says a storage tank has spilled highly contaminated water into a well from where it may have already seeped into the ocean while the country's prime minister visited a nearby port and ate locally called fish in a bid to reassure the public but not easily in additional reports for consumers troubles proving so easy to containing. two and a half years to admit the painful truth needs help. we are wide open to receive the most advanced knowledge from overseas to contain the problem my country needs are knowledge and expertise the past few months have been marked by growing problems at fukushima several workers have been exposed to radiation the levels of which are reportedly at their highest since the accident in two thousand and eleven and on

top of that there is the issue of leakage this is the reactor inside it is the reactor core the actual nuclear part of the plant this is water which is used to call the nuclear course or doesn't burst in flames that water obviously has to go somewhere so it goes into a special container where eradicated water is stored and then filtered this is the ocean and the problem with the fukushima is that there is a leak so from there you read it water is flowing into the pacific ocean sadly russia has a lot of experience warfare when it comes to wiping up remnants of 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 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 it 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 a our team. well focus problems began when the earthquake and tsunami ruptured its cooling systems in march two thousand and eleven. causing multiple meltdowns it's a whole year for japan's government to admit the nuclear disaster was caused by the improper handling of the situation the pilots operator tepco admitted the crisis could have been avoided if it had only done a better job for more than two years after disaster struck a leak was discovered at a storage tank for contaminated water and when tepco finally admitted that 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 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 that we're releasing strontium ninety into the pacific ocean. we also asked on i'm 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 plastic almost like you put on the swimming pool so if there's

a moderate earthquake the plastic will fail and all that material will run across the ground surface into the ocean and 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 potentially really do a lot of serious damage there. you can head to our web site for more updates and analysis on the focus shima crisis we've been closely following events since the initial disaster struck extensive reports opinions and eyewitness accounts are all online at all. government buildings and it's a nice capital came under attack on saturday by fear a small band by rome's cost cutting drive that's off the tens of thousands marched through the city announcing the budget for next year which paves the way for more painful austerity. reports. forty percent off you'll find employment and the worst

recession since the second world war going to see 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 ten 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 throng which started peaceful many brought their families along and even children but ended in clashes with the of gordie's 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 and now can't buy one of the gates of rome and italian

politics expert james walston wants more unrest could be looming with very different social groups all ignited 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. from the employers to the trade unions to different political parties and very strong protests from. young people. who said we do not like the government like the budget we want a recovery budget we want to growth budget this is what they're complaining they complain about the same thing is the unusual situation but that's what we have the real economy was. over budget and they've been spending too much too long and there isn't the same sort of situation. you're watching the weekly here naughty

still ahead in the program this hour amid kidnappings of foreign journalists. in syria. goes deep into rebel held territory and speaks for a free syrian army brigade that report is coming up after this break. we speak your language. or music programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you. use a little tonnage of angola's keep these stories. here. in the spanish to find out more visit.

more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images cold world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are the day. 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 exposure to the post and detonated damages intensified after a fuel tanker parked nearby quarterlife the country's been locked in a tug of war between the government and the fragmented rebel groups and alters

marie if an ocean 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 free syrian army is controlling this area a syrian military cannot enter your route 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 halt the n.t.'s out 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 shari'a law tribunals and normal courts we have moved east and

lawyers the curial justice we run the town by ourselves the army can't 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 people series 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 us. the military was functioning instead as an autonomy armed brigade still even abandoned houses sleeping prayed together and claimed fighting bashar al assad is their only goal twice a week they hear an islamic lecture from a young man who everybody calls the shape 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 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 newser is linked to the outside they follow al qaida and for decisions they revert to their army or even our hearing al-qaeda leader we have normal relations with them next we are supposed to meet with people from my 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. scooted and i told to film from the car but it's 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 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 the 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 to 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 financial reports from fragmenting syrian rebel held territories. syria on the rebel group in our city. on our website hartley dot com at the moment we have a report that says the reason edward snowden managed to get off to get hold of highly sensitive classified data is because the n.s.a. failed to install anti leaks software but his former workplace spying agency overlooked its why. and also is this for vehicle would look like if machines could enjoy a tipple or two in this video from a highway in china may give you an idea. what he just scoring files of hits online and you too can check it out of the in motion section on our website. 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 for the captives a still refusing food but being strapped into chairs and chewed fed daily by the u.s. military when a mass hunger strike began in february but has since subsided to less than two dozen protesters against indefinite detention and has now gained rare access to the prison and his first in a series of reports. after a few months of people work to get cleared to visit the base the trip to get. 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 they they share the same idea like they're all very proud to be here she joined the u.s. military a decade ago. no money for college at twenty eight one time the 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 going to see the logic area now it's about a thirty minute ferry ride one side of the one on the bay area where the airport is and several other rebadged insists but the main part of the evil b. and the detention camp are over their head and given its reputation guantanamo isn't quite what we anticipated as we approach the meeting area it's sad

interesting to note that to be unsuspecting this place looks just like another tropical island with an american flag that you would never feel that this is a place housing going to native states koreans present 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 shadow in america's human rights image for over a decade where torture allegations hunger strikes and force feeding have been making headlines i remember when i moved here i thought i would just see like people in orange jumpsuits and fences everywhere but i mean the families all stay on one side and the rest kind of happens on another the other side as where total of seven hundred seventy nine detainees of america's war on terror have been kept since two thousand and two a total of one hundred sixty four now remaining at a whopping eight hundred thousand taxpayer dollars for detainee per year even though more than half of them have been cleared for release we are in

a remote location that factors into the cost the cost what it cost to do it right we're doing it right means to those running america's most infamous detention facility and what lays beyond the picture perfect scenery all the realities of guantanamo in our. to follow. our want animal be cuba. or the outside to active camps. where patients are forced that. are straight that return world's attention to the place that some. of our time. and we start our world update in the egyptian capital cairo where police have arrested fifty five students that's after security forces fired tear gas at crowds of young supporters of ousted president mohamed morsy the group ended up a siege in a prestigious muslim university off a stone throwing protesters blocked a road when its students backed morsi and his brotherhood it's the second day of

rest in the area universities close to where islamists had a protest camp which was demolished in a deadly raid in august. and amid the armrest a separate incident in the life of at least two persons and injured eight in the southern corridor suburb a gunman opened fire at a christian wedding ceremony as people were leaving the church police are investigating the shooter's motive. well it may have lasted for just half an hour but that didn't save a gay pride parade in montenegro from becoming violent run hundred fifty participants have been marching through the country's capital. when they were attacked by anti-gay protesters police used tear gas and buttons on the mob which responded with firecrackers and stones the country's government has recently passed a bill against all forms of sexual discrimination as part of its bid for the e.u. membership. also in our world update this hour around fifty people being killed in a fresh round of attacks in iraq a suicide bomber crashed his car full of explosives into

a busy cafe in the iraqi capital baghdad leaving at least thirty eight dead and over forty injured earlier in the day a wave of assaults and security forces and government buildings claim the rifle at least twelve across the country rock is experiencing some of its worst violence in years a recent report found that more than six thousand have died there since the beginning of the year with almost a thousand killed last month alone. thousands right 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 week ended in violence and dozens of arrests activists from other countries join in later with 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 and one of the u.k. campaigners and the child 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 there's been 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 that you know the last very last thing we need to be doing is looking for more fossil fuels in the extreme for when the only reason that that's going to hate is because of the why the be all and gas industry have got their claws into governments across the world based on you know. when you've got a capitalist system. to profit from which from fossil fuels. have a cost in terms of the long term the environmental and social benefits of the people in the area. you've been watching the weekly hearing on t.v. more to come in just over half an hour from now in the meantime off of the break we investigate one of the worst oil spills in history.

it seems like politicians can get away with anything nowadays but not all of them the former mayor of failed detroit has been sentenced to twenty years in prison after being found guilty of committing record tiering conspiracy fraud extortion and tax crimes while mayor yeah the prosecutors say he funneled millions of dollars to himself and family members all while detroit moved headstrong towards the bankrupt state it is in today this is big news not because some mayor took bribes but because he got punished the judge you could victim stated why this is such an important case she said at the very least a significant sentence will send a message that this kind of conduct will not be tolerated yes sending a message you see corrupt officials are usually cowards and they do what they do

because they feel they can get away with it when you start to put the fear of god into them they start to behave much better so the question is will the mainstream media grab the story and really use the conviction of detroit's former mayor is an example probably not but it would really help the country if they would but that's just my opinion. the story is me me me ins in iran. the british geologists discovered iran was sitting on an emotional boil and they decided they would take and they formed the anglo persian oil company and made a corrupt deal with the iranian monarchy. they guaranteed itself all iran's oil.

shortly after that the british government bought fifty one percent of the company and of the suggestion of winston churchill the british navy switched from coal to oil. the warships the projected british power all of the world were now running one hundred percent oil wrong. and that in one thousand fifteen to go ronnie and decided to take their oil. the democratically elected government of prime minister mohammad most an act nationalize the anglo iranian oil company. he banished all the british diplomats and along with them the secret agents who were plotting his overthrow so prime minister churchill asked president eisenhower to overthrow most and act on their behalf the cia and the british helped stage the coup that ended the last democratic government in iran ever. after most of that was overthrown he was sentenced to three years in the president and house arrest for life.