the last few weeks have inflicted completely unnecessary damage on our cause the u.s. narrowly escapes to fall with congress raising the bar a limit and ending the government shutdown but many worry the temporary fix will only need to another debt ceiling crisis just around the corner. a new round of austerity imposed by the two thousand and fourteen budget triggers violence on the streets of rome as protesters take on police after massive anti-government rallies across the city. japanese authorities try to do their best to dispel citizens worries sparked by the radiation level at the fukushima power plant hitting a record high. over

there. our team gets an inside access to guantanamo bay detention facility after lawyers for several a mate's filed suit to challenge its force feeding procedure. in moscow i'm at treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t the u.s. ovoid defaulting on its multi-trillion dollar debt last thursday but for a while there the world was holding its breath congress finally struck a last minute deal that raise the bar and limit and ended the two week long government shutdown but as artie's and he said now a reports a solution is only a temporary fix while america's creditors might now need a lot more convincing when it comes to buying u.s. debt. global market eyes were wide open while washington was shut waiting and bracing for impact. to congress and households to come in more nuts and

truck 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 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 dependence in america in the same way as america has been trying to reduce dependency on the middle east for its oil ironically the shutdown didn't save money it cost the u.s. some twenty four billion dollars and credibility worldwide whether it's coming from the world bank whether the i.m.f. whether the leading bankers of the world or from china with now it's de americanization this was really a spectacle following a series of spectacles that has downgraded america's image worldwide to levels i've never seen solo the gentleman from say the scare was just a way to come in and save the day at the last minute up on the table this 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 soar 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 sat down reporting from washington and he's now a party after signing the bill that end of the shutdown president obama gave his own assessment of the deadlock so that mean both democrats and republicans for dangerous brinksmanship take a listen 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 you say obama came out victorious in the recent political standoff the president himself stressed there were no winners he also pointed out that americans are increasingly fed up with washington's games not only u.s.

citizens as it turned out amid the crisis on capitol hill and editorially one of china's major news outlets called for the quote di americanization of the world's economy financial expert francis lawn the says that the global financial market may have greater stability if it stops looking to washington. actually there is no violent solution this is a stopgap measure and i think frankly the global need the financial worries we do see. and shenanigans i think china is right. for the nice nations of the global financial all of. the paint on america and the problem is that right now you have no choice do you as. the currency every cent com or to them a little bit of the currency and the. time that i am. in measures that do but tried to devise

a international currency to bring financial stability to big global financial markets. government buildings in italy's capital saturday became targets for furious crowds angry fresh rounds of government cuts it all started as a peaceful rally with thousands marching across the city and turned violent as demonstrators tried to clash with bryant police are going off reports from rome. forty percent off youth unemployment and the worst recession since the second world war critics say the two thousand and fourteen survey much it will not do enough to solve the economic problems for three days italians have been taking to the streets of rome protesting against the government's economic policies 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 rome which started peaceful many brought their

families along and even children but it 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 were told here add to 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 arty rome demonstrators camped out by one of the gates of rome say they won't leave till tuesday when they expect to get an official response to their demands italian politics expert james walston warns that more unrest could be coming with very different social groups bedding together by by anger against politicians. but i want to mobilize the city so this will ease these going on i will probably go on for in different ways for a long time not so many people from the employers to the trade unions to different

political parties and very strong protests from the young people there it suits who said we didn't like the government doesn't like the budget we want and recovery budget we want a growth budget this is what they're complaining about because 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 close. to budget they've been spending so much to try to go. that is in the same sort of situation authorities in japan vowed to dispel concerns over the spread of radiation sparked by the latest toxic leak from the crippled fukushima nuclear plant country's prime minister shinzo abbay visited a nearby port and eight locally caught fish in a bid to reassure the public according to the facility that facilities operator tepco a storage tank spilled contaminated water into a well sounding the alarm that it may have already leaked into the pacific nuclear power expert arnold gundersen the says that toxics that escape from the plant could cause deadly diseases you know that this leak had something called strontium ninety

in it strontium ninety is a 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 pond of water but it's truly frightening that we're releasing strontium ninety into the pacific ocean. fukushima's problems started back in march of two thousand and eleven when a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck the northeastern coast of japan leading to a cooling failure at the plant and there to a meltdown there only after a year of the japanese authorities finally concede that the real cause of the nuclear disaster was improper handling of the situation plant operator tepco admitted that the crisis could have been avoided if it had only done a better job more than two years after the disaster struck a leak was found at a storage tank for contaminated water when tepco finally admitted to the spill it revealed that up to three hundred tons of radioactive water was flowing into the

ocean every day or is plenty more to come here on our looting soccer slavery being called a slave state over how it's allegedly treating migrant workers that are getting into the country and getting it ready to host the two thousand and twenty two fever world cup we take a look at the claims. and scored another terror attack in the syrian city of hama violence raging in the war torn country parties maria emotional heads into one of the rebel strongholds more on that and if you minutes. there's a media leave though so we leave that maybe. i will see motions to. play your part of the physical. issues that no one is asking with the guests that deserve answers from. politic only to.

choose your language. with oh if you're going to. choose the consumer. choose to get to the great. choose the stories to. choose the accents to. twelve minutes past the hour now migrants working to make the twenty twenty two

feet a world cup and katara reality allegedly having been paid for months many reportedly died under slave labor conditions a german filmmaker says he went to investigate these british media reports and was arrested after interviewing some of the workers are he's test takes a closer look do we know how to organize. trended to fifth vote cop is coming. but the initial celebration of christie should be overshadowed by ford workers claims of treatment not getting paid i 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 to try a job unless 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 balloonists 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 this club 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 hunger strike would only hurt my wife and kids enough is enough. blueness is high profile story isn't the first either if qatar 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 chairman of qatar's national human rights committee responded to allegations there is no slavery or forced labor in qatar there have been some problems only to the fact that there are forty four thousand businesses in the country but i can assure you that the authorities are constantly making efforts to resolve the problems in the meantime he continues to hope his poor. will soon be resolved i have to stop playing they ended my career. and don't know how to see what to do with my lawyer desiree cilia aren't. more stories a click away for you what our team dot com including this n.s.a. leaks revealing that the u.s. has been spying for years on mexico's top officials that help washington get the upper hand in diplomatic talks and find good investment opportunities put on our website for the full story there plus. general practitioners in england have been getting fifty pound bonuses for predicting that patients will die within a year and placing them on a so-called death list in order to reduce the number of occupied hospital beds

details on that are. in syria at least thirty people killed after a suicide truck loaded with explosives ran into an army checkpoint outside the city of hama according to state media after the vehicle exploded nearby fuel tanker caught fire setting off a series of more blasts earlier another suicide attack claimed the lives of sixteen soldiers on the outskirts of damascus the capital held by the army remains the main target of opposition fighters that seize control of some parts of the country or to marry if an ocean managed to enter a city held by one of the rebel groups that tell you next to the syrian border just to kilometers from the capital damascus but it is like a state within a state that has its own security forces police and even the. symbols all new authorities here every way graffiti or three stars that means free syrian army is controlling these areas the 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 see the assad campaign scenes being 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 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 and the gulf he only came here months before serious 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 militants

function instead as an autonomy 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 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 qaida affiliated radical islamic groups openly operating in syria like no no no no no we have no relation with the nusra we have a say in the news or a link to the outside they follow al qaida and for decisions they revert to their army or even our here 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'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 fourteen journeys to held hostage in syria right now and the price and then lives varies. these areas supposedly run by opposition fighters is in fact in the hands of a large number of separate brigades armed groups or just lone rebels with different ideologies and the on 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 as 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 diverged margie's morea for national reports from fragmenting syrian rebel held territory. syria rebels. advocates of several guantanamo bay inmates filed a new appeal to challenge force feeding at the facility they claim it's an inhuman procedure violating human rights and religious freedoms a mass hunger strike aimed at protesting intrusive searches that indefinite detention at the camp started in february though the number of participants has

fallen sharply since then so core is among the hundred sixty four detainees currently held at the prison our store if using food are to gain an inside look at the detention facility here is a first in a series of reports by anastasio target. after a few months of people work to get cleared to visit the base the trip to get mobile hop and a skip from the big apple to fort lauderdale in florida and from their short hour and a half flight one largely kept under wraps with no indications of it on departure boards. the minute we land were greeted by escorts who stay with us every step of our trip the special guantanamo joint task force media team. one of them sergeant rebecca wood far from the stereotypical face you might imagine working at a place like this controversial military base as we soon learned the first of many surprises this is a really big break for me in my career from my military resume the people i work with every day day they share the same idea like they're all very proud to be here

she joined the u.s. military a decade ago with no money for college a twenty eight one ton 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 ferry ride one side of the area where the airport is. several of the residence is but the main part of the people the 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 united states or us presidents the lodging area

were taken to is like any typical hotel with palm trees and a marine are right out the window first impression this can't be the place that has been casting a long shot. in america's human rights image for over a decade where torture allegations hunger strikes and force feeding have been making headlines i remember when i moved here i thought i would just see like people in orange jumpsuits and fences everywhere but i mean the families all stay on one side and the rest kind of happens on another the other side as where total of seven hundred seventy nine detainees of america's war on terror have been kept since two thousand and two a total of one hundred sixty four now remaining at a whopping eight hundred thousand taxpayer dollars for a detainee per year even though more than half of them have been cleared for release but we are in a remote location that factors into the cost it cost what it cost to do it right 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 going to. cuba. where the outside active camp at guantanamo where patients are worse than the moment in terms of their strike never turned the world's attention to the place that some. of our time. a new round of attacks in iraq killed at least fifty people and wounded dozens more a suicide bomber crashed a car full of explosives into a busy cafe in baghdad leaving at least thirty eight dead and more than forty wounded earlier that day a wave of assaults on security forces and government buildings claimed the lives of at least twelve people across the country iraq seen some of its worst violence in years according to recent data more than six thousand have died there since the beginning of the year and an even more shocking report suggests almost half a million died as

a result of violence the study thought to be the most rigorous to date we asked one of the surveys authors why many still downplay the human cost of the conflict. clearly the public in both the u.s. and u.k. . underestimates the number of people who died in iraq as a result of the war and that's been true for a long time and i think it's the result of a very specific deliberate. strategy on the parts of the coalition forces to keep the public thinking that the death toll is a lot of these fired fairly rapidly unpopular decisions to do this invasion and the last the public was able to track havoc that we were wreaking mongar they could sustain the an intervention without hardly outcry they're going to some other stories making headlines across the globe in cairo

police arrested fifty five students at the security forces fired tear gas at crowds of young supporters of ousted egyptian president mohamed morsy the group ended up this season a prestigious muslim university after stone hurling protesters blocked the road many of the school students back morsy and the brotherhood it's the second day of unrest in the area universities close to where the islamist had a protest camp that was demolished in a deadly raid in august. and amid this an arrest a separate incident claimed the lives of at least three people and wounded nine in a southern cairo suburb a gunman opened fire at a christian wedding ceremony as people were leaving the church police are investigating the shooter's motive. a gay pride parade in montenegro turned violent around one hundred fifty participants marching through the country's capital so when they were attacked by anti-gay protesters riot police used tear gas and baton is against the mob which responded with firecrackers and stones the nation's government recently passed a bill against all forms of sexual discrimination as part of its bid for you

membership. russia's first ever winter olympics will open in just one hundred ten days it's symbol of the games torch has been making its way across the country the latest destination for the relay a total of fourteen thousand people will carry the torch as it travels across almost all of russia on route to sochi it will be the longest ever torch relay in the history of the winter games the flame is still got a long journey ahead before it can illuminate the opening ceremony. lympics february seventh it will get down to the bottom of the world's deepest lake by call and also reach the summit of europe's highest mountain. after the break we take a look at one of the worst oil spills in history that's coming your way stay with us.

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 tearing 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 who could fix him 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.

after the b.p.'s bill done to ron came to louisiana we're in bear attack area which is forty miles from the gulf and about one hundred fifty miles from the wellhead the oil and dispersants have come into here yesterday the wind blew really high this table got cloudy. greedy glaze on it we get that that's just what's on the table before we even start the interview. was b.p. about to repeat the same strategy that exxon used with the valves these oil spill this pack of confidential documents were uncovered as part of the toxic tort lawsuits that followed with some of the workers who realized that their sicknesses lingered lingered lingered these documents are very incriminating and they show that thousands of workers actually did in fact get sick from exposure to

a number of chemicals including to be toxic ethanol axons chief medical advisor dr kind of cool it's a memo to x. on and at the very end here you see the intent we do not need a health hazard evaluation and should try and avoid it if possible. the health hazard evaluation is osha and nyasha coming in and saying sorry there's too many sick people here and you spiller are now labile for doing long term medical surveillance how exxon avoided it was by misrepresenting the information as colds and flu. acts on managed to successfully hide these documents from the media from the people from the sick workers from the court from the federal health care officials b.p. is following pretty closely.