the last few weeks have inflicted completely unnecessary damage on our u.s. narrowly escapes to fall with congress raising the bar limit and ending the government shutdown but many worry the temporary fix will only need to another debt ceiling crisis 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 do their best to dispel citizens' fears of sparked by the radiation levels at the fukushima power plant hitting a record high. level and that. there . are team gets an inside look at the guantanamo bay detention facility after

lawyers for several inmates file suits challenging the for speeding procedure there . five am in moscow i am at treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news 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 struck a deal at the last minute that raised the borrowing 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 on. the congress and households were 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 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 going to leave you money at any price the scarce part global reevaluation given the time and time again these political crisis appear in the us

i think there would be more calls for sort of trying to reduce dependence in america in the same way as america has been trying to reduce dependency on the middle east for its oil ironically the shutdown didn't save money it cost the u.s. some twenty four billion dollars and credibility worldwide whether it's coming from the world bank whether the i.m.f. whether the leading bankers of the world or from china with now which is the americanization this was really a spectacle following a series of spectacles that has downgraded america's image worldwide to levels i've never seen a solo gentleman from say the scare was just a way to come in and save the day at the last minute up on the table this is the creator. 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 republicans and democrats for a dangerous brinksmanship 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 while many say obama came out victorious in the recent political standoff the president himself stressed there were no winners he also pointed out the deadlock a wound to the country's economy and actually increased borrowing costs the new

round of budget talks is scheduled for december but austrian school economist and academic lou rockwell thinks the u.s. government isn't interested in cutting expenses. like to see it to fall so we were ever going to get a balanced budget that forces the government to live on its income and stop borrowing if they really are worried about you know they don't have enough money what do they should shut down the n.s.a. and stop spying on everybody why don't they bring the troops home from afghanistan and iraq and yemen and pakistan and all the rest of the places stop killing people that would say could really in dollars that would solve all the budget problems the end is coming to the dollars of the reserve currency. who knows where the what's going to take its place will be some combination will be the chinese currency the russian currency brazil. you know we don't know but yes the end is coming to dollar germany because of the mother dollar printing the dollar creation of the federal reserve is is and gave the. government buildings in here to lease capital saturday

became targets for a furious crowds agri about fresh rounds of government cuts they all started as peaceful rallies with thousands marching across the city but it turned violent as demonstrators started to clash with riot police. reports from rome. forty percent off youth unemployment and the worst recession since the second world war critics say the two thousand and fourteen budget will not do enough to solve the economic problems for three days italians have been taking to the streets of 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 the 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're 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 the gates of rome said 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 different social groups united by anger against politicians. they want to mobilize the city so the sweet lease is going on and 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 didn't like the government doesn't like the budget we want and recovery budget we want a good budget this is what they're complaining about d.c.

they complain about the same thing as the employees keep going on the usual 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 worries over the spread of radiation sparked by the latest toxic leak from the crippled fukushima nuclear plant prime minister shinzo abbay visited a nearby port and ate locally caught fish in a bid to reassure the public according to the facilities operator 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 says talk to toxics about escape from the plant could cause diseases you know that this leech 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 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. now fukushima's problems started back in march of two thousand and eleven and then a earthquake and tsunami struck the northeastern coast of japan with tragic results including knocking the cooling systems offline leading to a meltdown at the plant only a year later did japanese authorities can see that the real cause of the nuclear disaster was improper handling of the situation plant operator tepco admitted the crisis could have been avoided if it had done its job better 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 now flowing into the ocean each day we also asked arnold gundersen what happened at fukushima if another earthquake were to strike he says some of the radioactive material there is barely contained another 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 sail and all that material will run across the ground surface into the ocean and the facilities some sounds the four reactors that are most damaged are you know they had serious explosions internally so it 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 stay with us here on our team we've got lots more headed your way in this score as die in another terror attack in a syrian city of hama violence or ranging from a war torn country artie's marie if an ocean goes deep into one of the rebel strongholds more to come in a few minutes. but first migrants working to make the two thousand and twenty two feet for world cup in qatar

a reality allegedly haven't been paid for months and many have reportedly died under slave like conditions a german filmmaker says he went to investigate the british media reports on the matter but was arrested after trying to interview some of the workers are these tests are cilia takes a look. do we know to organize a detour trended to fifth vote cup is coming. but the initial celebration of christie should be overshadowed by ford workers claims of maltreatment not getting paid and he did 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 desire blueness 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 she can't work i thought of going on hunger strike but my lawyers told me not to they already hurt me and hunger strike would only hurt my wife and kids enough is enough. blueness is high profile story isn't the first either. 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. deluded in the meantime continues to hope his problems will soon be resolved have to stop playing 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 o's plenty more stories online for you including this and they say leaks revealing that the u.s. has been spying for years on mexico's top officials and help washington get an upper hand in diplomatic talks and find good investment opportunities like an r.t. dot com for more on that plus. general practitioners in england getting fifty pound bonuses for predicting that patients will die within a year and placing them on so-called death lists in order to reduce the number of hospital beds the details on that on line. in syria at least

thirty people killed after a suicide truck loaded with explosives or rammed into an army checkpoint outside the rest of city of hama according to state media after the vehicle exploded a nearby fuel nearby fuel tanker caught fire setting off a series of 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 have seized control of some parts of the country parties wary of an ocean and managed to enter a city held by one of the rebel groups that tell you next to the syrian 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 seize symbols of new authority is 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 support the assad campaign its scenes being cut off from damascus and run by the rebels i cover. in 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 people series protests began. will resist to the end we have a plan and we have forces to make it happen sure 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 live 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 jets had the los or a and then qaeda affiliated radical islamic groups openly operating in syria like no no no no no we have no relation with the news we are f.s.a. but the news or a 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 him from the car but it's one point twist top by a group of gunmen apparently from a hostile brigade they ask about who we are late our guards told us the man who are kidnapped varies from remote village at least nineteen 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 the knowledge 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 just as

christians have to pay so-called duty this is our input into society we go to church and pay if muslims do also we pay for internal security brigades for relief aid and courts for the situation in your brood is critical a shortage of food in everything we are besieged. trapped in their own country where more than two years of deadly conflict has only seen fractions and goals increasingly divergent parties morea for national reports from fragmenting syrian rebel held territory. syria on rebel group. lawyers or several guantanamo bay inmates filed a fresh appeal to challenge for speeding at the facility they claim it's an inhumane procedure of violating human rights and religious freedoms a mass hunger strike aimed at protesting intrusive searches at indefinite detention at the camp started in february though the number of participants has fallen sharply since then still some scores among the hundred sixty four detainees

currently held there are store accusing food our team gain access to the detention facility here is the first in a series of reports by our. after a few months of people work to get cleared to visit the base the trip to get moma hop and escape from the big apple to fort lauderdale in florida and from there are short i don't have. 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 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 going to see the logic area now it's about a twenty minute ferry ride one side of the one on the bay area where the airport is . several rebranded answers 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 interesting to notice that to be unsuspecting this place looks just like another tropical island with an american flag you would never feel that this is a place housing one of the native states torrijos residents 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 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. 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 as they see it you're going to party guantanamo bay cuba. where sounds like an act of camp at guantanamo where patients are forced that in the aftermath of their strike never turned the world's attention to the place that some gulag of our time a new round of attacks in iraq has killed at least fifty people and injured dozens more a suicide bomber crashed a car full of explosives into a busy cafe in baghdad leaving at least thirty eight dead in forty wounded earlier that day a wave of assaults on security forces and government buildings claimed the lives of at least twelve more people across the country iraq experiencing some of the worst violence in years according to recent data more than six thousand people died there since the start of the year even more shockingly a new report suggests almost half a million were killed as

a result of war related violence and loss of infrastructure between two thousand and three and two thousand and eleven the study thought to be the most rigorous to date we asked one of its authors why many people still downplay the human cost of the war. clearly. like in both the u.s. and u.k. . under estimate the number of people who died in iraq as a result of that war and that's been true for a long time and i think it's the result out of a very specific deliberate. strategy on the parts of the coalition forces to keep the public thinking that the death toll is low these for fairly rapidly unpopular decisions to do this invasion and alas the public was able to track havoc that we were wreaking mongar they could sustain the an intervention without public outcry. out of 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 morsi the group ended up in a besieged besieged in a prestigious muslim university after stone throwing protesters blocked the road many of the school students back morsi and his muslim brotherhood it's the second day of unrest in the area the school is close to where islam is how to protest camp which was demolished in a deadly raid in august. and it made the egyptian unrest an incident has claimed the lives of at least three people and injured nine in a southern cairo suburb or a gunman opened fire at a christian wedding ceremony as people were leaving the church police are investigating the shooter's motives. bushfires continue raging out of control in southeastern australia new south wales the worst hit state and stickler an emergency after blazes damaged at least two hundred homes the situation feared to get worse with dry winds and soaring temperatures predicted in the next coming days

hundreds have been evacuated to safety one man was killed while trying to protect his house officials call the fires in the region the most serious in four decades. in south sudan rebels rated three cattle camps killing at least forty one people scores more wounded as attackers fired automatic weapons when they stole thousands of livestock violence in remote regions of the country torn by ethnic rivalries has spiked after south sudan it gained independence from sudan in two thousand and eleven. thousands of activists in more than twenty countries took to the streets to speak out against shale gas drilling saturday the drive to draw attention to the process of fracking and its potential long term effects on the environment. this was a scene from one anti fracking protest that turned violent canada friday members of the country's indigenous population also set up a blockade to prevent shale gas exploration on their lead 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 jointed on saturday there were peaceful demonstrations across the u.s. and anti fracking sentiment across the atlantic in spain and a group called the so-called young friends of the earth were in london highlighting worries about how shale drilling they worry could affect future generations activist emily worth the corporate says the corporations drilling are doing everything they can though to prove that people shouldn't fear fracking. as millions of dollars trying to educate the general public through advertising to believe that fracking for every last drop of oil and gas is good for us and likewise they've spent tons of money through lobbying and campaign contributions to try to convince elected officials that the highest level as you i think are being lobbied to believe that this is and this is something that they should be behind and they often use what we call green washing to make it seem like you know natural

gas just that it's cleaner when in fact this is the multinational oil and gas industry and their big their basic motivation is to generate profit for their shareholders and they will do that regardless of what their costs are to local communities who are affected by this process and the larger cost to all of us through what could be a long term threats to our drinking water as well as catastrophic climate change. what you're seeing here are scenes from one of the largest street brawls to hit moscow in recent years it broke out early 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 and a rally the crowds to attack a vegetable market mad mostly by migrant laborers hundreds of people were detained and police later arrested more than one thousand migrants at the market also 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 earlier coming up

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