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this is a cover in a piece on the mainland city al-jazeera investigation that's footboards board of silence this time. it's swift and three zero. zero zero i'm maryam namazie in london area top stories on al-jazeera a federal jury in the u.s. has charged thirteen russian nationals and three russian companies as part of the investigation into alleged interference in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein says the russian's
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am was to spread distrust of the political system and so discord in the united states he said the indictment did not allege that russian meddling altered the outcome of the po this indictment serves as a reminder that people are not always who they appear to be on the. indictment alleges that the russian conspirators want to promote discord in the united states and undermine public confidence in democracy we must not allow them to succeed the department of justice will continue to work a whopper to flee with other law enforcement intelligence agencies and with the congress to defend our nation against similar current and future efforts. south africa's new president cyril ramaphosa has been making his state of the nation address speaking in cape town on opposing said he would need to take tough decisions to reduce the size of the country's fiscal deficit and stabilize debt after years of weak growth from a post also said he wanted south africans to pull together to end corruption well
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one people committed to work together to find jobs for youth to build factories and roads houses clear thinks to prepare our children for a world of change and progress to build cities and towns where families may be safe productive and there may be content we are determined to build a society defined by decency and integrity that does not turn out a plan. of public resources know that. by culprits criminals of their hard earned savings of ordinary people. ethiopia's announced a state of emergency a day after the prime minister desolate and announced his intention to step down resignation which is unprecedented in ethiopia's history aims to smooth reforms an
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end on rest which is threatening the ruling party's hold on power have been a wave of strikes in towns near the capital in demonstrations calling for the release of six thousand political prisoners the government is also struggling to quell anger between the two largest ethnic groups the aroma and the both fail under represented. u.s. attorney general jeff sessions has ordered a review of f.b.i. procedures after the bureau failed to act on a detailed warning about the florida school shooter nineteen year old nicholas cruz has confessed to killing seventeen people at the marjory stoneman douglas high school police say the former student was armed with a semiautomatic rifle a gas mask and smoke grenades and he began his assault that left dozens of others injured president trump is expected to meet the victims and their families later on friday. turkey in the united states say they've agreed to normalize relations badly strained of u.s. support for syrian kurdish forces secretary of state rex tillerson said after
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meeting his turkish counterpart. in ankara that the relationship was at a base of a crisis point the two sides have agreed new mechanisms to improve their relationship starting with a joint working group focusing on the kurdish held town of man beach in northern syria. oxfam has agreed to withdraw from bidding from bidding for funding until the british government to satisfy that they can meet the highest standards expected a charity usually bids with the u.k.'s department for international development when you buy and ema the charities executive director is setting up an independent commission to carry out an urgent review told al-jazeera the commission composed of women's rights and human rights leaders would take a hard look at the agency's cultures and present culture and practice oxfam has face mounting criticism over the way it handled allegations of sexual exploitation by members of staff in haiti i'll have more on that story and everything else right
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two thousand and six and in the more than a decade since then we've built up a library of award winning documentaries here on rewind where revisiting some of the best of them and looking at how the story has moved on. today the threat of nuclear war is once more on the table with north korea carrying out a series of missile launches in recent months and back in september news emerged of an underground nuclear test in north korea which registered the equivalent of a six point three magnitude earthquake kim jong un's north korea is the only country to have carried out nuclear tests this century after the u.n. passed a resolution banning testing back in one thousand nine hundred six but the terrible legacy of testing is still being felt more than five thousand kilometers away beyond mongolia and northern china over a forty year period we're talking nine hundred forty nine thousand nine hundred eighty nine soviet union exploded four hundred sixty nuclear bombs in eastern. about two hundred thousand villages living near the test site were exposed to high
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levels of radiation often deliberately and the effects of the testing program have been passed down and intensified in generations born decades later today we are rewinding to two thousand and nine and silent bombs a film by jerry sperling who travels accounts exam to document the human cost of nuclear tests. for centuries horse has been being loved by the cats and people. very simple and the central asian step. but for decades now a dark cloud has hung over the spirit of people. between one nine hundred forty nine and one thousand nine hundred. exploded almost five hundred nuclear bombs only miles from their villages and a test site called polly la. jolla
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one piece hard on one cannot solve. the lawyer. for dust from a take. it or stand just for the one see on tickin premiums. shafts of christian court. it was inevitable that the health of the people who live so close to the nuclear blasts would deteriorate doctor saw dramatic increases in low blood pressure miscarriages skin diseases breast cancer throat cancer and diseases memory loss mental retardation and physical deformities. if that you were to believe you could be or were early he would. be good at. looking at what your career goals that all.
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interceptor when you mention a video and the last ten years of the new year yet i don't know how much ella say or sasha e.p.i. would get instead of g.-d. either so yes she got i thought very into. it was necessary of course for both superpowers to continually test their nuclear arsenal the big question was should this be done. soviet union leaders quickly zeroed in on kazakstan it's a huge country the ninth largest in the world with a sparse population of only fifteen million people a region the size of built him in the northeast part of calixto new the city had so many politicians was selected. it was called the public on.
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any mileage. out of which a star or. serial number. of the water of biological. centers. the ship operator. well humor is she just. you read the real number longer or dear but had yeah sure. your word is jellyfish or. there's a clear bill the order in there with it or did it earlier with but you more because it started with your girl might need to do a serious go say use it arms a little it was mostly stick to the stick you who are mr moore the it will appear
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to go stir up shit don't need to janie go in the out of their way to see the puzzles need to be suitable as deal or that the thumb has a stance that they leave though in the bill question a. certain nick to any people in it when he was dissolved. the soviet government poorly enormous resources into the development of nuclear weapons. an entirely new town with a population devoted to nuclear research was built on the edge of the public. that it wouldn't work with any of. you well as it would seem you. never. give up the look. for your body but you're.
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not really when you provide. the fifth each. syllable it cannot stop immediately the mustang is. the natural and we must marry and be the superman is complete woman can use the evil nestle knew each of us he simply got over us by going to snoop tolka which naturally them are certain interest to couper more lumber not to be hellishly police will simply throw total solutions than any other know how can we. on august twenty ninth one thousand nine hundred forty nine the soviet union exploded its first nuclear bomb. the polygon proved to be the perfect test site. going to bust them when they promised p.p.s. here. something new to look at there's
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a walkman at the ear off to get the seeing you chris at the top of the economy the one we just don't know when he can make up a. good idea to shoot for the things he said about push through with that we see a press release take years but he has their products here that was to the mostly a chain you. just hear me through it was said here. but those are more at the edges and i was toast cut up in the doing that just seems so what i thought about this as that you were other yes because who else will surely switch me in their gear. you want some products here because the. sorry what the internet couple who ran the air poor media was schooling him. across the probably doesn't mean yeah so here are you on the phone not noble of
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this nice little name the impetus will come to see you go i just missed it moment years ago i thought and yes you know i won't look at it that shit boiling for thier cigar doofus i see of best democrat poison put on here because at the moment it's a mobile she knew. nicole could get the money then you cause i've been doing it nationally if you want. thank you but those that i wish they split a lot of a ball about that i mean only gable here but the edge and they are registered i guess they have covered him a. really. good result. for you forever only group. but really when you were. mentioning. motors because. it was if. she was brokerage yourself really were
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young lee has come under really no great. hearing you believe particular. service but it is a quick look. if you do pretty well. but only look at look at this to what you what usually what you. look we get it. the cancer people are still pondering many better questions at what point did soviet leaders understand that their nuclear testing was poisoning the local population. did they attend to the vergers or the kazakhs merely guinea pigs in the quest to produce weapons of mass destruction. during the one nine hundred fifty s.
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same down the cutoff was the chief radiologist in the soviet union's ministry of health he was sent to the polygon as a government representative he remembers meeting with soviet officials on one particular day in one nine hundred fifty seven last by michelle it does that kind of thing that the questions will. be ten years what should. you know many of the young we've got there. richard. quickly delude you could understand me would be really fun i spy a way but more in with that yeah you might appear the nurse was in the machine or they got the aftermath of the mullah evolved but this we've got the act of congress that is but then you look at publix the. slaughter fish can and he. gets to put him there. with the biggest look at guinea
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again the lawyers the valar the movers knew tejas. get back when you see him worry dear. for you in your years j.m. that's in a year. dr brown hung off was finally signed to head a medical team investigating the effects of radiation on thursday in the public eye . serious health problems from anemia to high incidence of cancer schizophrenia which sometimes resulted in suicide or uncovered. the report was duly sent to moscow and then disappeared. dr bao. was forbidden by law from traveling anywhere near the polling on. the years go by there was next to me. are you only me i think overly yes or a bit shaped is it that. in the one nine hundred fifty s.
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a research institute with a large staff of medical experts was set up in sydney pellet in school to study the effects of exposure to nuclear contamination. on this willis brooch of a book seriously just consider the message did it. really kill list just in the in the bill is a little. in your book vision i'm still basically at the. post abusive of them to do it for the sheer good that of water. but the school and it has the same year. of chicken a book that i put over that says dish at the will which insidiousness uk know of two m. in. the border city has come so use if they are going to put up with another one and put them on near. the cookie for process.
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nuts will go to double that regular you scared by needs a center too that there is deeply serious confuse it over to that that not just need a bigger chance here that is plenty. but machine literature does the muck you couldn't you had it the time is still the really critical mass. dr goose's and his team also traveled to the villages near the polygon they found serious illnesses particularly long and breast cancers which had been very rare until the nuclear testing. years later he studied a sample of the infected population. and other gifts because of where they were mr smith goes to the ceiling with at the group a go at it a year most nights to go with enough joyously that of the girls which then you. are going to give you have to devote as a petition to the copy of the divide as it was so that the guy we're closer than in your security with
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a. doctor who says teams are provided with sophisticated equipment to diagnose the disease it's caused by radiation contamination and they kept good records which were sent to the soviet authorities but how did this research benefit the villagers . yes they yell or. so that charity cheat that they are put to it is that that particular lose almost that celebrity just didn't need it you'll see first moved out of the absolute the really . the ninety for a knee to me i didn't know it was there when the a pit bull the girl their lead here they say leave the editorial producer of your dog to mean it was already born you got going to see video it is a slow cooked or mirror image of what that the body on thirty if you were it was it
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will see it but the more thought emotion of sort of ehrlich the tory it's they are also victims of their government's relentless determination to produce weapons of mass destruction. the suspect value to the world over is that all you're doing moves through store more seriously jurists the bits of the group that is the. most ill. easy the. bulk i mean go get them would you but the idea that we need it would but i would give it is but then you can give a little chair its. most tell you. must only put some much not all but no porn or we wouldn't know mr you do good or for the other way but of government but the only you and your news roof. which was delighted to let us monday up us history when you watch and that's only
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teacher put it all. aside you were a member of that we had this special meeting about the nail and he said no. that's not the topic and you immediately this is a cover up in a piece on the mainland city al jazeera investigation football's world of silence this time the nature news as it breaks the u.s. cut the funding has cemented the feeling here that the u.s. is now part of the problem and has picked the israeli side with detailed coverage the nigerian government insists negotiations are ongoing to secure the release of the girls and hundreds of others. from around the world three decades on chileans are still thinking about abuses but this time those committed by the church. more than a century ago britain and france made a secret deal to divide the middle east between them now we can draw him. much more to where the last thing a facts of this agreement there is
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a regional set to six because it's at those borders were drawn with consulting the people who have to live with the. psych speak lines in the sand at this time on al-jazeera. hello i'm in london quick look at the top stories for you now a federal jury in the u.s. is charged thirteen russian nationals and three russian companies as part of the investigation into alleged interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein says the russians a was to spread distrust of the political system and so discord in the united states though he said the indictment did not allege that russian meddling altered the outcome of the poll
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this indictment serves as a reminder that people are not always who they appear to be on the. indictment alleges that the russian conspirators want to promote discord in the united states and undermine public confidence in democracy we must not allow them to succeed the department of justice will continue to work oh opportunely with other law enforcement intelligence agencies and with the congress to defend our nation against similar current and future efforts. south africa's new president cyril ramaphosa has made his state of the nation address speaking in cape town opposes that he would need to take tough decisions to choose the size of the country's fiscal deficit and stabilize debt after years of weak growth ethiopia has announced a state of emergency a day off to the prime minister doesn't announce his intention to step down resignation which is unprecedented in ethiopia's history aims to smooth reforms an
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end on rest which is threatening the ruling party's hold on power the u.s. attorney general jeff sessions has ordered a review of f.b.i. procedures after the bureau failed to act on a detail warning about a florida school shooter nineteen year old nicholas cruz has confessed to killing seventeen people at the marjory steinman douglas high school police say the foremost shoot was on with a semiautomatic rifle a gas mask and smoke grenades president trump is due to meet the victims and their families later on friday. oxfam's executive director is setting up an independent commission to carry out a review of the charity when we buy and ema told our jazzier that the commission would take a hard look at oxfam's culture and practice the charities embroiled in a growing scandal over its handling of allegations of sexual exploitation by members of staff in haiti we'll have more on that interview and all of our other top stories at the top of the next hour i will be back with a news hour that's in about twenty five minutes time rewind now continues on
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al-jazeera do stay with us. in one nine hundred sixty three the united states and the soviet union signed a test ban treaty which prohibited the explosion of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere. just. so there's. a spirit to cuba. i took to. be. kept. very accurate. atmospheric explosions ceased at the polygon but that didn't mean nuclear testing halted it simply moved underground.
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three hundred forty bombs were exploded in the bowels of the poly don't. know what they made the point yet at the core as to you molest vadar but xemu what it listen with just that. it's own as bullets logic others are well yeah they're no bomb over braswell or a dick to me in real thing you would years roll a bill of pretty. much any minute you diminished when he put it into which. you have only one of a. kind of they are staunch to get more than weird and.
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others in his wallet. but are to his heart might want more and more of it there are just as good phone shifted all article one i need in what i read there. school installments. says you wouldn't because what it also what the thunder feel knew what whatsoever oh brother when you see me of supervision of the free will and went to the table with i didn't astonish any of the knee. that's in there was a study with a shock to the as a man with
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a deep question mr what is an obvious level is that when that adjustable. foot of the cuts are only bridging their time at that time there was a lot of the debris that. lepani him or you are still new but i get nothing when you get to do a test lets kill him through whatever you would do. but generally it's at the cia station and asking you to leave is the biggest mistake in this case to actually keep. these deucedly depressed me scott. to live in or. does it. say we just. got nervous got that there's
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a business to mobile left the building was through less than a. dozen with the sub yes the chairs to it that didn't need to nest on such. fun feet here's a. gentleman just putting down any further you must of course no longer middle understand what i'm doing i'm going to be talked into what messed me up for people around here says we're going to trip over strong and well look what we're going to force you better hold upon something to put on for the good job a miscommunication or to want to disconnect for what it got into a mistake and when i'm going to argue so surprised you so i can. shove it in congress are going to stooge before to produce your. letter you need to dig
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a. tunnel it's out there thirty again there's thirty. very good. one are there. today the greatest tragedy the kazakh people face is the ill health of their children. the dire effects of the radiation contamination are seeping down from one generation to another. him they. are just yet. that doesn't. know most. of. the presidents upon the bridge the. divide you're growing would
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you decide to work and then your cause of. trauma. would have the geneva agreement you're going to split that. this speculation image. but you. believe d.t. but you know what would of us dallas. east hasn't told us addictively was put on your idea. that you know when you believe. in this we have needed where. the clip gives you who are going to submit it. to give the summit in that.
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store a new piece just in the town which here it. is below on the no notice just in there but it's in there a new image has the same one this is the way that i would. say it was this year the u.s. company and of. the kings of the sort of middle of it a very there is a way it supports a secretary in the soviet summit each given what it said somebody came with a stop at cent of pity the subpoenas that. normally to pursue paths and i mean it's a strange name and if it's a chance of staying for. the past and they meet on revitalization of the city school even if it's going to take my own minister to say he hasn't taken thomas and hadn't put them on. east coast of syria ends of a given yes yes and i believe i am clearly. resisting political enough this is the
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new patrice millet causing me. my prestigious granting me air india position but it's caught on the steep inescapable process that in his persistent click on a. group can be tricky. to decide on the menu very rich quick scenery. and blog on the initial raudonikis to see who's reading your truth question it is just that honest necessity you know democratic strategists because as governor of the takeover. take your. pick let's do this would be a colony of the. model of the study of those studies there should.
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be one but has now been the blue chip minute by minute and others who have. more muscle than water do you have a spot on the blue or the altar just died lord on that one i supposed plenty of want to just like support what you want to just that i support him will just suit just all talk or. want to kill the world. well then you know i'm going out a lot quick as a. ball of them to engage the club that cannot or need to come up because discussion. shifted you. probably right through single media gives a flea. market in. some of the glycerine. once was
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a little education dollars for. the military a prisoner. in canada. a slogan a strong national political you get off the bus throwing in years to give me your name because i started to nationally school became sister ships is a bit over mr bush or the us by reality of us. you know sort of took over if you want to sleep with bill and mr still. are of course which is a state next year of mischief. which will cut thank you because i should. pull it off by being jewish and whether there was just. because i start a clock i'd not put him there was that i was away for the upset when i moved from the film should get a couple years because of the posters the look of the start of a sudden a civil social collapse last but also the promotion of your pushing the greedy permission i was going to see on the atmosphere is that if you are going to secure
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thirty side yet they yield what the quit the course for just because of the word so i have come to go cause. it's in my sleep if you but knew your motivation for me to wear it at a video on you but you gonna kill more usually assume that i see what it was useful simple that's completely gone. soviet officials have long blamed the poor health of the polygon villagers on anything but exposure to nuclear contamination it was the fault of poor diet inadequate sanitation a harsh climate and the faulty genes of the kazakh people from time immemorial and her kashagan of us is
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a kazakh filmmaker who in one thousand nine hundred confronted soviet officials with the facts about the polygon. that's still winning out by the book. it seems to dump it is what it is now that they're seven is it to me but i'm most i me or me at all when you put it so when you. see if we talk to those to know. this attitude has not changed much in the russia of today yuri do bass of is a senior radio chemist in st petersburg what years later iran bust through it like years ago at the object like you've got my dear it would look like here's a question over there or you. or news is news when you see our news i would have probably idea believe. the kazakstan government hands out barely adequate pensions small payouts and free health care to the victims of radiation contamination. but
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the russians categorically refused to accept any responsibility for the poisoning of the people of the polygon. in february one thousand eight hundred rumors spread to underground tests of the polygon that exploded into the atmosphere. the kazakh population girl armed. silliman off is a beloved kazakh poet it is here everybody sing the others will never. to put the most on the set you go go get it done list the president of. the hill in yes let the screwy. chat it's looking a marvelous clue about your ranch. it's quite. soon the men are
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called a public meeting we don't know about or. here we think will. not get over it it won't be argued. that. he would but. give me. a good week that also should. see a political give him the whole. damn list get a read on. he could give be the biggest asshole on the slate still. less skilled in. business he would begin a new thought he could could have started what effect teach only to place the movement towards democracy in the soviet union facilitated the nationwide protest. all the signs. are. here was because only
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at the idea was a dumb decision you put your vis cost on local book need only choice. for a larger audience not good honest citizens movement to a successful in one thousand nine hundred ninety on nuclear testing ceased in the polygon of kazakstan. in one thousand nine hundred two soon after independence from the soviet union the country became a nuclear free sounds fun of it during the past a lot of the cylinder. however the horror has not gone away. the. levels of radiation in some parts of the holy ghost remain ten times higher than normal. yeah but idealist yet again why did you pick up. a brunette speaking. there watching it was so clear the guy not
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silent bombs a disturbing reminder of the long term consequences of nuclear testing but since that film first to add a new field of research has emerged as a member i mentioned the north korean nuclear test at the start of this program the one which registered as the equivalent of a six point three magnitude earthquake well it wasn't a natural earthquake of course but just eight minutes later and a little over five kilometers away there was another earthquake a real one measuring four point one real in the sense that it wasn't a bomb but it definitely wasn't natural it's what's known as a human induced earthquake and there are a lot more of them then you might think and we're going to discuss that now with professor julian folger who's compiled a database of more than seven hundred quakes which were probably caused by human
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activity professor it's a pleasure to have you with us can you talk me through that. second earthquake which i described there in north korea iran and what it was this earthquake which was eight minutes afterwards it could have been simply a geological fault that had been induced to slip or it could possibly have been implosion of the huge cavity that's formed by the test it's well known that this occurs it's been observed many times for example at the nevada test site with american nuclear testing and following these tests there's such a disruption of the local stress fail that swarms of earthquakes often occur what's been to your knowledge the biggest of these human induced earthquakes the biggest earthquake which has been proposed on scientific grounds to have been human induced is the two thousand and eight magnitude seven point nine when trying a quake in the people's republic of china. this has been proposed to have been
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triggered started off by filling a reservoir locally and because of the nature of earthquakes they just require a little jog to set them going and then they can just keep on and on and develop into a big earthquake and that is is possibly what happened on this occasion so then how careful do we as humans now need to be if this is you so you've got a database of seven hundred of these potential quakes what do we need to be thinking about more when building things or living off explosions or whatever it might be how how much more careful do you think we have to be everybody i think was surprised at the huge range of activities that can induce earthquakes and these include mining filling reservoirs building tall buildings extracting gas and oil and i could go on and on so when we build a big project we have a mine we have
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a reservoir we explore in oil or gas or jet. thermal reservoir or something like this of course is great economic benefit but there's always a downside there industrial accidents there are road accidents there's environmental damage in this kind of thing and we now realise that there can can also be induced earthquakes and this needs to be added to the portfolio of health and safety hazards that should be managed whenever a big project is undertaken do you think hydro schemes need to be perhaps rethought i mean they are a. very popular way of generating energy you'll see you know hydroelectric dams all over the world but do we need to rethink that sort of. scheme there's definitely a case for including seismic monitoring equipment when a dam is built in the reservoirs impounded and also doing geological investigations to assess what the seismic risk might be so where in the world are you seeing this
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issue the most is that i mean i think of earthquakes i think of somewhere like california for example japan well. one would have to say oklahoma because the state of oklahoma in the united states i'm used to not be very seismically active a tall they were just of a few earthquakes and very it was very rare that any of them troubled anybody. but because of the increase in the oil and gas operations there and also changes in strategies such as injecting large amounts of weight sporter. to homer has gone from being completely off the map when it comes to earth quakes to being more seismically active than california just funny do you get any pushback professor from your research people saying not just not true first of all i'd like to get on the radar screen. quite database is completely freely available to everybody from
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w w w dot induced earthquake. all but what we think coded in it is not just earthquakes or earthquake sequences that we're absolutely one hundred percent certain were induced by human activity we've included everything that has been proposed on scientific grounds so the database comes with a caveat emptor or that here is the data base here's everything that's been published and it's up to you to make your own decision about whether you believe this or that case professor jim involves or what a fascinating topic and i'm really glad we could talk to you about it thank you so much for your time it was a pleasure kemal thank you and that is it from us to join us again next week and also check out the rewind page out as a result com for more films from the series i'm come on santa maria thanks for joining us to see you again soon.
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how do you know there's a place called psycho nally in australia nor do i but here it is it's more or less eighty mile beach and that massive cloud circular will turn into tropical cyclone kelvin which will slow the strengths of the next two days and while the summer somewhere around that area producing fairly strong winds but of fast a matter i think up to full five hundred millimeters is possible in this area once again she's pregnant of flooding there you see near port hedland by sunday at the same time the big showers that were ranson queens and disappeared brisbane's a steady thirty two and it's sort of middle twenty's feticide as with the breeze
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the strong on shore breeze in melbourne for example dropping out altogether still holds inland springs at forty and purses still hovering middle twenty's pleasant enough that you'll agree as to new zealand the next two days you'll find that you see this are in the middle of the tropical cycle and still there new caledonia in the satellite picture the whole thing will kill down to watch the cook strait but in about three four days time so the immediate future might be a bit breezy at the top of no fallen of us it's fairly fog cloudy quite possibly want to show seem possible in sas and middle twenty's the next two days the first the rains showing up maybe even on sunday. the story of one of the most successful p.r. campaigns in the u.s. . study after study has demonstrated that israeli perspectives dominate american media coverage what part of this case you get through your thick head is hamas
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a terrorist organization the only thing that you're going to say is what we want and if you don't say it we're not to let you speak it would be very hard for ordinary americans to know that they're being deceived the occupation of the american mind at this time on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. and i know i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next.

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