i think. the. last few weeks have inflicted completely unnecessary damage on our cause us narrowly escapes to fall with congress raising the borrowing limit and ending the government shutdown but many worry the temporary fix only need will only lead to another debt ceiling crisis around the corner. a new round of austerity imposed by the two thousand and fourteen budget triggering violence on the streets of rome as protesters take on police after massive anti-government rallies across the city. japanese authorities try to dispel citizens' fear that was sparked by the radiation level at the fukushima power plant hitting a record high plus. part of the world and then over there are. games an inside look at the guantanamo bay detention facility after lawyers

for several inmates to challenge its force feeding procedure. it's four am in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story the u.s. avoided 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 raised the borrowing limit and ended the two week long government shutdown but as artie's a nice in our way reports the solution is only a temporary fix while america's creditors might need a lot more convincing now when it comes to buying u.s. debt. global market eyes were wide open while washington was shut waiting and bracing for impact. in households to come in more nuts and up she did. but at the so-called

eleventh hour congress struck a deal to deal with it later if that's what it is the agreement reopen the government and funds it in till january fifteenth allowing the u.s. to continue borrowing in till february seventh america barely avoided defaulting on their almost seventeen trillion dollars in debt brand america took a beating here sixteen days of a government shutdown halted the capital to a standstill put hundreds of thousands of workers out of jobs and the world economy on the verge of recession then surely the market's going to say we don't want to play this or we're not going to leave you money at any price the scare sparked global about given the time and time again these political crisis appeared 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 at the last minute upon the table this is the creator. the 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 ended the shutdown president obama gave his own assessment of the deadlock criticizing both democrats and republicans for dangerous brinksmanship probably nothing is done more damage to america's credibility in the world our standing with other countries than the spectacle that we've seen these past several weeks while many say obama came out victorious in the political standoff the president himself stressed there were no winners he also pointed out that americans are increasingly fed up with washington's games in not only u.s. citizens but it turned out amid the crisis on capitol hill an editorial in one of

china's major newspapers called for the quote di americanisation of the world's economy financial expert france's long things the global financial market may have greater stability if it stops looking to washington. actually there is no violent solution this is so stop gap measure and i think frankly a 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 pain and the problem is that right now you have no choice you as the. currency every second. to them a little. currency and it is. time that i am. in their shoes that can but try to devise a international currency that bring financial stability to

a big global financial market. government buildings and italy's capital saturday became a target for furious crowds angry about a round of fresh government cuts it all started as a peaceful rally with thousands marching across the city but then it turned violent as demonstrators started to fight with riot police as can all reports from rome. forty percent off youth unemployment and the worst recession since the second world war critics say that two thousand and fourteen stay 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 at the police as a result several policemen were injured arrests have also been made now tensions are high but so far thankfully sunday's protests in rome have been peaceful you've got this kind of arty rome. demonstrators camped out by one of the gates of rome say they won't leave till tuesday when they hope to get an official response to their demands italian politics expert james watson warns that more unrest could be looming with different social groups united by anger against politicians. they want to mobilize the city so lease is going on i will probably go on 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 do not like the government doesn't like the budget we will recovery budget we want a growth budget this is what they're complaining let me see 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. from there is in the same sort of situation authorities in japan vowed to dispel worries over the spread of radiation sparked by the latest toxic leak from the crippled fukushima nuclear plant country's prime minister shinzo abbay visiting a nearby port and eating locally caught fish in a bid to reassure the public according to the facilities operator a storage tank spilled a highly contaminated water into a well sounding the alarm that it may have already leaked into the pacific nuclear power expert arnold gundersen says toxics that as scape from the plant could lead to deadly diseases you know that this leak had something called strontium ninety in it ninety is

a bone seeker and it causes leukemia and in in huge quantities so now when it gets to the pacific ocean admitted lee it gets diluted in an even bigger pond of water but it's truly frightening that we're releasing strontium ninety into the pacific ocean. through she was worried started started back in march of two thousand and eleven that was when he huge tsunami and earthquake struck the north eastern coast of japan knocking the plans cooling systems offline and leading to a meltdown there only a year later did japanese authorities can see that the real cause of the disaster was improper handling of the situation plant operator tepco a bit of the crisis could have been avoided if only they'd done their job better more than two years after the disaster a leak was found at a storage tank for contaminated water when tepco finally admitted the spill revealed that up to three hundred tons of radioactive water was leaking into the ocean every day. well we have plenty more for you online at r t and still to come

soccer slavery kateri being called a slave state over how it allegedly treats migrant workers or getting the country ready to host the two thousand and twenty two world cup we examine the claims plus scores die in another terror attack in the syrian city of hama i mean violence raging in the war torn country artie's worry if an ocean airheads deep into one of the rebel held strongholds more on that in a few minutes. with economic ups and downs in the final months. sang i and the rest because i think it will be a great week on me. do

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slave like conditions a german filmmaker says he went to investigate the british media reports on the matter and was arrested after interviewing some of the workers are these tests takes a closer look do we know to organize. detour trended to fifth vote cop is coming. but the initial celebration and christie's have been overshadowed by ford workers claims of maltreatment not getting paid and either 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 trying to a 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 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 his club then we fused to give him an exit visa up 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 hurt 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 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 have to stop playing football they ended my career mentally i don't see myself playing i'm going to have to see what to do with my life. r.t. . i mean there's always plenty more a click away for you would r.t. dot com including this and say links reveal that the u.s. has been spying for years on mexico's top officials watching it the upper hand in diplomatic talks and find good investment opportunities like an r.t. dot com for the full story plus. general practitioners in england have been getting fifty pound bonuses for predicting which 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 on line. in syria at least thirty people have been

killed after a suicide truck loaded with explosives or ran into an army checkpoint outside the city of hama according to state media after the vehicle blew up a nearby fuel tanker caught fire setting off an even more blast earlier another suicide attack claimed the lives of sixteen soldiers outside damascus the capital still held by the army remains the main target of opposition fighters who have seized control of some parts of the country artie's marias an osha to enter a rebel held city. tell you next to the syrian border 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. new authorities here everywhere graffiti or three stars that. area big syrian military cannot and you have root is the center of a large mountainous area in western syria. in two thousand and eleven local

residents were among the first to. 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 in the gulf he only came here months people 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 militants

function instead as an autonomy as armed brigades. they leave 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 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 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 have a say in the news or is linked 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 me to. attention being among journalists is seen as something prestigious. scooted and i told to film from the car but it one point twist top by a group of gunmen apparently from a hostile brigade they ask about who we are later our guards told us the man who are kidnapped varies from remote village at least nine hundred forty 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 just lone rebels with different ideologies and the only 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. 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 fragmenting syrian rebel held territories. syria rebel. lawyers for several one ton of moby detainees have filed a fresh appeal to challenge force feeding at the facility they claim that it's an inhuman procedure that violates human rights and religious freedoms a mass hunger strike aimed at protecting and protesting rather intrusive searches and indefinite detention at the camp started back in february but the number of participants has fallen sharply since then still scores among one hundred sixty

four detainees currently held at the detention center store if using food are to gain access to that hunch invisibility here is the first in a series of reports by anastasio. after a few months of people work to get cleared to visit the base the trip to get mobile hop and the skiff from the big apple to fort lauderdale in florida and from there were 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 a 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 lodging area now it's about a twenty minute ferry ride one side of the area where the airport is. several replies and says but the main part of the people the 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 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 or u.s.

presidents 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 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 and going to. cuba. where the outside to an 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 has killed at least fifteen people and injured dozens more a suicide bomber crashed his car full of explosives into a busy cafe in the capital baghdad leaving at least thirty eight dead and forty wounded earlier in the day a wave of assaults on security forces and government buildings claim the wiser at least twelve people across the country iraq experiencing some of its worst violence in years according to recent data more than six thousand have died since the start of the year and even more shocking report suggests that almost half

a million people died as a result of war related violence and loss of infrastructure between two thousand and three and twenty eleven the study thought to be the most rigorous today we asked one of the surveys authors why many still downplay the human cost of the war . 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 fire fairly rapidly unpopular decisions tend to do this invasion and the last the public was able to track have nick that we were wreaking mongar they could sustain the end intervention without public outcry

turning out as some other stories making international headlines in cairo police arrested fifty five students after security forces fired tear gas at crowds of young supporters of ousted egyptian president mohamed morsi the group ended up in a prestigious muslim university after stone throwing protesters blocked the road many of the school students back morsy and the muslim brotherhood it's the second day of unrest in the area schools close to where islam is had a protest camp which was demolished in a deadly raid in august. and amid this unrest in a separate incident it's claimed the lives of at least three people and injured nineteen this happened in a southern cairo suburb or gunman opened fire at a christian wedding ceremony as people were leaving the church police are investigating the matter for the motive of the shooters. brush fires continue to rage out of control in southeastern australia new south wales the worst hit state declared an emergency after the fires damage at least two hundred homes situation

is feared to get worse with dry winds and soaring temperatures expected in the coming days hundreds have been evacuated to safety with one man killed while trying to protect his house officials describe the fires as the region's most serious in the last forty years. thousands of activists in more than twenty countries took to the streets to speak out against shale gas drilling on saturday they've drawn the attention to the process of fracking and its potential long term effects on the environment. this was the scene. venti fracking protests that turned violent in canada friday members of the country's indigenous people set up a blockade to prevent shale gas exploration on their land authorities used pepper spray and rubber bullets to break it up and arrested dozens several police cars were also set on fire the rest of the world joined in on saturday mostly peaceful demonstrations across the u.s. and plenty of anti fracking sentiment in spain as well so-called young friends of the earth gathered in london dilate concerns about how shale drilling could affect

future generations environmental campaigner vanessa vines says that fracking isn't something that can be regulated. i'm here in solidarity with the people in so-called new brunswick to make more people who are being accused of being violent and throwing molotov cocktails is possible there's an unprovoked element there we don't know with the people in romania who are being cleared from the roads the farmers by the police with the people in my community i live four miles from balkan i've had to jump over a fence to get out of the way of the police it has been absolutely appalling the way our police force who are supposed to protect life and property are being made by our government to force through corporate eco side we're not fringe environmental nutters eco freaks we are i'm a regular person who lives nearby who has looked at the uninvested research and i do not trust this it is not a bridging feel we should have kicked our addiction to fossil fuels decades ago now a few solar panels and wind few wind turbines won't sort it because we've continued

to get fossil fuels out of the ground with increasingly dangerous techniques it is unregulated will the uninvested experts and those who used to be in the industry who have turned around and now whistle blowing are saying this cannot be regulated it's not environmentalist it's regular people it's native people on the ground it's people in rural pennsylvania rural australia upper middle class middle middle england it's people across the world remaining in france germany are saying no because they're looking at the truth not what this short term political ambition and industry corporate interests is trying to force on us what we're showing you here are seen as one of the largest street brawls to hit moscow in recent years or broke out earlier this week when local residents in the south of the capital protested the murder of a twenty five year old russian man by a migrant worker nationalists in football fans quickly joined in the crowds to attack a vegetable market and mostly by migrant laborers hundreds of people were detained and police later arrested more than a thousand migrants at the market the murder suspect

a native of azerbaijan was eventually rounded up tuesday he admitted to stabbing the russian man to death but claimed it was in self-defense. coming up after a break it's our weekly business round up and your capital stay with us. it was a. very hard take i. want to get on a plane fly at that back with the earthquake there.

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