the last few weeks have inflicted completely unnecessary damage on our cause us narrowly escapes to fall of congress raising the borrowing limit and ending the government shutdown but many worry the temporary fix will only lead 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 eternal city. japanese authorities do their best to dispel citizens' fears sparked by the radiation level at the fukushima power plant hitting a new record high. part of the world and it's

over there that it gets an inside look at the guantanamo bay detention facility lawyers for several inmates file a suit to challenge its force feeding procedure. six am in moscow i'm 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 finally struck a deal at the last minute raising the borrowing limit and ending its two week long government shutdown but as artie's an isa now i reports from washington this solution is only a temporary fix while america's creditors might now need more convincing when it comes to buying us did. 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. hope to get to a. team that cynical about the. but at the so-called eleventh hour congress struck a deal to deal with it later if that's what it is the agreement reopen the government and funds it until january fifteenth allowing the u.s. to continue borrowing until february seventh america barely avoided defaulting on their almost seventeen trillion dollars in debt brand america took a beating here sixteen days of a government shutdown halted the capital to a standstill put hundreds of thousands of workers out of jobs and the world economy on the verge of recession then surely the markets going we don't want to play that . 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 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 so low as 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 the creator. 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 for citing the bill that ended the shutdown president obama gave his own assessment of the deadlock criticizing democrats and republicans for a dangerous brinksmanship probably nothing is done more damage to america's credibility and with. 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 that there were no winners he also pointed out the deadlock wounded the country's economy and increased borrowing

costs the new round of budget talks scheduled for december meanwhile beijing is calling to quote de americanize the global economy without waiting for the u.s. next default scare china expert andrew long explains the asian nation has already started taking steps. situation is changing because. as a result is mounting and the us seems to be printing money with no end in sight the us dollar has lost. its value since the. british and there was little return for. investment and then with. trade opportunities opening up of the sources of assets so china has been diversified we are seeing that china has that a special. high hong kong

to speed up the process of. the roman bay at the international currency so all signs point to the fact that the renminbi is likely to become political multiple maybe within the bank and. government buildings in italy's capital saturday became targets for a furious crowds angry at a fresh round of government cuts it all started as a peaceful rally with thousands marching across the city and turned violent when demonstrators started to clash with riot police. reports. 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 economic problems for three days italians have been taking to the streets of rome protesting against the government's economic well some are bringing along tents saying they won't leave until their voice is heard previously on saturday tens of thousands of protesters took part in a mass rally in the center of the room which started peaceful many brought their

families along and even children in clashes stories when a group of young radical of protesters started throwing eggs at the finance ministry and bottles sticks and flashes or beeper bombs as they were all too. at the police as a result several policemen were injured arrests have also been made now tensions are high but so far thankfully sunday's protests in rome have been peaceful you got this one off r t rome meanwhile demonstrators camped out by one of the gates to the city say they won't leave rome until tuesday when they expect to get an official response to their demands italian politics expert james walston warns more unrest could come along with a very different social groups uniting by the anger against politicians they want to mobilize the city so least lease is going on probably go on in different ways for a long time somebody will be employees to the trade unions to political parties

and very strong protests from. young people there it suits who should we do what like the government doesn't like the budget we will recovery. which is what they're complaining about they complain about the same thing is the unusual situation that's what we have really going to be close. they've been spending so much to try to go on and that is the same sort of situation. the japanese authorities vowed to dispel worries over the spread of radiation sparked by the latest toxic leak from the crippled fukushima nuclear plant prime minister shinzo visited a nearby port and eight locally caught fish in a bid to reassure the public according to the facilities operator a storage tank spilled contaminated water into a well sound the alarm that it may have already leaked into the pacific nuclear power expert arnold gundersen says that toxics that escape from the plant could

cause deadly diseases. you know that this leech had something called strontium ninety in it ninety is a bone seeker and it causes leukemia in huge quantities so now when he gets to 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 in march two thousand and eleven when an earthquake and tsunami struck the northeastern coast of japan leading to problems at its cooling station in the in. the nuclear station and causing a meltdown there only after a year to japanese authorities concede 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 a better job more than two years after the disaster a leak was discovered in 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 each day we also ask understand what could happen at fukushima if another earthquake were to strike he says the radioactive material there is barely contained and another disaster could set off another catastrophe they have a thousand tanks and they're all held together with plastic almost like you put on the swimming pool so if there's a moderate earthquake the plastic pipes will fail and all that material will run across the ground surface into the ocean the facilities 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 to potentially really do a lot of serious damage there. stay with us here on r t plenty more still to come including score is it dying in yet another terror attack in the rest of the syrian city of hama i mean violence raging in the war torn country artie's marie if an

ocean heads deep into one of the rebel strongholds more to come in a few minutes on that. but first migrants working to make the twenty twenty two futile world cup in qatar a reality allegedly haven't been paid for months and many reportedly died under slave labor conditions there a german filmmaker says he went to investigate the british media reports on the matter but was arrested after interviewing some of the workers are these tests are still your reports do we know to organize. detour trended to fifth vote cop is coming. but the initial celebration of christie should be overshadowed by ford workers claims of maltreatment not getting paid and even 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 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 his club then we fused to give him an exit visa unless he dropped the case. when i went to the trying bunol 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. blueness is high

profile story isn't the first either if qatar doesn't change its ways to save it 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 they ended my career mentally i don't see myself playing have to see what to do with my life. aren't. always plenty more stories are click away at our t. dot com including this n.s.a. leaks revealing that the us has been spying on top mexican officials and had help washington get the upper hand in diplomatic talks and find good investment opportunities like r.t. dot com for the full story plus. general practitioners in england getting fifty

pound bonuses for predicting which of their patients will die within a year and putting 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 killed after a suicide truck loaded with explosives rammed into an army checkpoint outside the city of hama according to state media after the vehicle blew up a nearby fuel tanker caught fire and that set off a series of other 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 who seize control of some parts of the country artie's wary of a notion of 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 it is like a state within a state and having its own security forces police and even the. symbols of new

authorities here every way graffiti or three stars free syrian army is controlling these areas big syrian military cannot and yet 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 campaign scenes being told from damascus and run by the rebels i cover my head as all women he did because we had top. 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. 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 armed brigade. they leave an 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 taking part in the hellish pilgrimage to mecca and started the qur'an in saudi arabia all day as it 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 qaida affiliated radical islamic groups openly operating in syria like no no no no no we have no relation with the nusra we say. 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 media attention being among journalists is seen as something prestige. he's. 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 and they ask about who we are later our guards told us the man who are kidnappers 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 or 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 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 on the rebel group. lawyers for several one ton m obey inmates filed a new appeal to challenge force feeding at the facility they claim it's an inhumane

practice that violates human rights center religious freedoms a mass hunger strike and of protesting intrusive searches and indefinite detention at the camp started in february that in a low the number of participants has fallen sharply since then scores among one hundred sixty four detainees currently held at the detention center are refusing food r t again a rare access to the facility here is the first in a series of reports by honest us it sure can. 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 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 headed to the lodging area now it's about a twenty minute ferry ride one side of the bay area where the airport is. several rebranded insists 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 one of the native states toria springs in the lodging area were taken to is like any typical hotel with palm trees and a marina right out the window first impression this can't be the place that has been casting a long shot. in america's human rights image for over a decade where torture allegations hunger strikes and force feeding have been making headlines i remember when i moved here i thought i would just see like people in orange jumpsuits and fences everywhere but i mean the families all stay on one side and the rest kind of happens on another the other side as where total of seven hundred seventy nine detainees of america's war on terror have been kept since two thousand and two a total of one hundred sixty four now remaining at a whopping eight hundred thousand taxpayer dollars for a detainee per year even though more than half of them have been cleared for

release but we are in a remote location that factors into the cost it 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 our. cuba. where the outside to an active camp at guantanamo where patients are forced that on the terms of their strike never turn the world's attention to the places that some . of our clients 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 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 claimed the lives of

at least twelve people in 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 reports suggest that almost half a million died as a result of war related violence and loss of infrastructure between two thousand and three and twenty a lot of 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. . 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 risk 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 forward fairly rapidly unpopular decisions tend to do this invasion

and the less the public was able to track the havoc that we were wreaking mongar they could sustain the an intervention without public outcry tearing out of some of the stories making international headlines in cairo police arrested fifty five students this after security forces fired tear gas tear gas at crowds of young supporters of ousted egyptian president morsi their group ended up the siege to a prestigious muslim university after a stone throwing protesters blocked a road many of the school students back morsy in the muslim brotherhood it's the second day of unrest in the area university is close to where islamist had a protest camp that was demolished in a deadly raid in august. i mean that on arrests a separate incident claimed the lives of at least three people and wounded nine in a southern cairo suburb gunmen opened fire at a christian wedding ceremony as people were leaving the church police are investigating the shooter's motive. bushfires continue raging out of control in

southeast australia new south wales the worst hit state declaring an emergency after blazes damaged at least two hundred homes situation feared to get worse with dry winds and soaring temperatures expected in the coming days hundreds of people have been evacuated to safety one man was killed while trying to protect his house officials call the fires the region's most serious in forty years. in south sudan rebels raided three cattle camps killing at least forty one 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 spiked after south sudan 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 they tried to draw attention to the process of fracking and its potential long term effects on the environment. as was the scene in the fracking protests that turned violent in canada friday

members of the country's indigenous population set up a blockade to prevent shale gas exploration on their land authorities used pepper spray and rubber bullets to break them up and arrested dozens several police cars also set on fire the rest of the world joined in saturday there were mostly peaceful demonstrations throughout the u.s. there were anti fracking sentiment across the atlantic in spain and a group of cold so so called young friends of the earth gathered in london to highlight worries about how shale drilling could affect the future generations and other u.k. campaigner and each says the industry will put profits before the environment. what you've got is a situation where they're going for ever more extreme forms of fossil fuel in a situation where we know you know this week maybe she pulls with it on the school you can over show quite categorically that we need to be leaving to foods of the fossil fuel reserves in the ground if we're going to prevent catastrophic climate showing but 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 pool and the only

reason that that's going to hate is because of the why that the old and gas industry has got their claws into governments across the world. when you go. to profit from fossil fuels which have a cost in terms of the. twins and social benefits of the people in the area russia's first wear and winter olympics will open in just under 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 bear the torch as it travels across almost all of russia on a route to in sochi destination it will be the longest ever torch relay in the history of the winter games the flame storm is quite a ways to go before it can eliminate the opening ceremony of the olympics february seventh it will travel down to the bottom of the world's deepest lake by col and also reach the summit of europe's highest mountain elbrus. worlds apart with oksana

boyko coming your way next stay with us. time to reset this sucker the global financial system is complicated time to rebuild something better something less corrupt perhaps in fact this three architecting of the global financial system is happening right now as i speak these words doesn't matter whether you like it or not it is happening why the research well the former french prime minister dominique de villepin the reason they said the u.s. has used its three phenomenal privileges to put the financial stability of the whole world at risk.

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hello welcome to worlds apart it's a quick fix for a long and increasingly intoxicating addiction the united states may have avoided a deep hole but it keeps dragging the world into an average deeper dad hold is it still possible to break this vicious cycle well to discuss that i'm now joined by an american investment broker and financial commentator peter schiff mr chef thank you very much for your time be i appreciate your being here now when i think about the kind of sick anomic relationship that the united states has with the rest of the world it reminds me of salman.