changing here in the middle east can island break regs it find out how the emerald isle is caught in the middle of a big round between the u.k. and the e.u. plus the year of the dog in china counting the cost at this time on the. news has never been moolah vailable but the message is a simplistic and misinformation is rife the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narrative at this time on al-jazeera. i'm richelle carey and han these are the top stories on al-jazeera kurdish officials say they have reached a deal to allow syrian troops to enter a frame to help protect the city the move could see syrian forces confronting turkish troops have been carrying out an operation against kurdish fighters since last month a somber venture vegas following the story from istanbul. when it comes to fruition

this deal would not be a surprise because kurdish fighters the people whose production units are white b.g. have been in negotiations with the bashar al assad government for a number of days now sources have been telling us that there are sticking points including the man with the conscription of kurdish fighters into the city and government forces there giving up of heavy weapons by these kurdish fighters and giving up all of their military bases and manipulation is one of those some of those points that they weren't agreeing to as were being asked by the syrian government the details of this agreement have not been made public or clear is yet but goodish right to say that they've asked the syrian government to come in and help them to secure these areas against the to the should vance's if and when syrian forces enter that border area between syria and turkey called free and where the fighting is continuing with turkey has launched an operation on the raj to try and clear it from the these kurdish rights as if it is to be seen that our will to

respond because turkey has been stating that the whole purpose of this operation is to clear its border areas of fight as richard calls terrorists and when and if syrian forces take over control of these areas and allow turkey and promise to a key that they will secure these areas against any of what it calls terroristic timothy's what will be turkey's response then will it continue to carry out its offensive or will it agreed to the terms that would be offered by the syrian government. rons president hassan rouhani has ordered an investigation into a plane crash in which sixty five people died as a man airlines flight crashed in a mountainous region near its destination suge in southwestern iran the plane taking off from the capital tehran heavy fog has hindered the rescue efforts so far a russian brawn medalist has a porter left the olympic village after failing a drug test at the winter games alexander crucial netsky won bronze with his wife and mixed doubles curling he said to have tested positive for male donia that's

a banned substance that increases blood flow and improves exercise capacity in athletes he is awaiting the result of a second sample is expected later on monday doping testing and sanctioning the olympic winter games during chairing twenty eighteen is independent from the i.o.c. this fall the i.o.c. cannot communicate on individual cases while the procedure is ongoing on the one hand it is extremely disappointing when prohibited substances may have been used but on the other hand it shows the effectiveness of the anti doping system at the games which protects the rights of the clean athletes donald trump has gone on the attack over the indictment of a group of russians accused of meddling in the two thousand and sixteen us presidential election he again derided accusations his campaign colluded with the russian government on twitter and even criticized his national security advisor survivors of wednesday's school shooting in the us have announced a national march on washington to demand action on gun control seventeen people

died at a high school in florida with former student nicholas cruz charged in the murders and student organizers of the march say they want to make this shooting a turning point in the national gun debate more funerals for the victims were held on sunday. five women have been killed when a gunman opened fire at a church in the russian republic of dagestan have other people were injured in the town of kids police say a twenty two year old local man was behind the attack and he was shot dead by security services as a muslim majority region. a member of the european central bank's top policymaking council has been detained as part of a bribery and money laundering investigation in lafayette in march from save it is also head of the country's central bank has home and his office were searched obvious prime minister will chair an emergency cabinet meeting on monday he said the operations of the country's central bank will not be affected by that those are

your headlines to keep it here on al-jazeera al-jazeera rewind is next and then more news after that. hello and welcome once again to rewind i'm kemal santa maria. zuber english back in 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 side were exposed to high 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 traveled to counsel to document the human cost of nuclear tests. for centuries the horse has been being loved by the cats and people. very simple on the central asian step. but for decades now a dark cloud has hung over the spirit 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 the police. why did. this to me almost.

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premiums. shafts of question 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 the blood pressure miscarriages skin diseases breast cancer throat cancer the system diseases memory loss mental retardation and physical deformities. that you were to maybe you could be or were. early he would. begin to. think you get what you want your career well or that all. that you are not. really running all assures us your struggle with. are you covering your flesh

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a similar event would get instead of g.d. either so his yes she got married into. it was necessary of course for both superpowers to continually test their nuclear arsenal the big question was where 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 near the city and so many politicians was selected. it was called the polygon. ship in your mileage. out of which a star or. serial

number. of the water of biological. centers. the ship operator. well if you murder issue just. read the real number longer or deer but had yeah sure. the word is jellyfish. there's a clear bill the order in there with it or did it earlier with but you more because i started with your grow might need to do a serious go say use it arms are a little it was mostly stick to the stick you who are mr moore the it will appear to go stir up shit don't need to again go in the out of their way to see the puzzles need to be suitable is deal with at the top because a stance that they lead though to me

a bill question. certainly if the only people in it when he was as well that 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 political. world. which then yes. you will is that what you mean you. never. did the looking. for you nobody but you. know you when you provide. the fifth each. syllable it cannot stop the media or the mustang a team from the national army passed by me and maybe the simple act is complete

when i can use the evil nestle new religion with us he simply got all of us by going to snoop and we financially them are a thousand interest to couper more he went out to the. police was silly and threw the whole thing offense to many i don't know how 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. hear. something new to look at there's a walkman at the ear off the at the scene you chris it probably could be the one we just don't know when he can make up what you need to get

a right here in the us to shoot for that if you set up a push through put that we see a press release take hear us because the air products here that was to the mostly young chain you. hear me through were city of la but those were more at the edges and i was toast cut up in the two in the chest interest of what i thought of auschwitz as that you were other yes because to us bullshit. in their gear. it was some sort of theatre because the. was a river into a couple who ran year poor medium schooling him. across a probably doesn't mean yeah so here are you on the phone not a number of businesses will name the impetus we're going to see you go i just missed it moment years ago when i thought of death you know what look i get that shit boiling facetious you cannot do for i see our best come across that poison

post on here because at the moment it's on them up and she knew. nicole could get them by the new cause appealing naturally you want. thank you for those that. they split that verbal about that i mean only gable here but the edge and they are registered yet they have covered in a. really. good result. for you. but really when you. notice because. it was if. she spoke at yourself really where young lee has come under well you know. 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. the chasm people are still pondering many bitter 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. same down the chernoff 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 worked as a political question for. the ten year but the. one that many of the young we traded by got their. richard. delude you could put a slimy with people early but i spy a way but more in with the yes but you may to be. the nurse who was in the machine or they got the aftermath of the mullah evolved but disregard act of congress that is but then you look at public. slaughter. and he. gets to put him there. with a buddhist look again. i do know as there was a bubble it was not you just. get that when you see dem worried

for you in your ears j m that's in a year. dr bahnhof 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. 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. and there's a list broach of a book seriously just consider the message that it. will really kill lists just in the in the bill is a little too good. in your book vision i'm still basically at the. post abusive with them to do it for the sheer good that of water. but the school and it has the same year. of secular world but all it would it says dish at the will which insidiousness uk know of the image. of what if he is going to use if they are going to put up with another one of them but they're willing near. the cookie for process of. nuts will go to double that they're doing that they like to scare bernie. center.

can say is it able to do that not just need to change here that really. it sounds like written by machinery it's not really there is the most you couldn't you have the time is still the really critical mass. dr goose of 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 what they were mr smith goes to the ceiling with at the group took a go at it a year most nights to deal with enough joyously that of the girls which in you. give you have to divide the world as a percentage the could live the divide as it was so that the guy we're closer than in your security with 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 . to. the yes they yell or. that that charity cheat that they are put to it is that that particular lucilla's that celebrity just gained nearly she'll say thirst would go to the absolute they were the. first in the lady for a knee to me i didn't know it was there when the a pit bull the girl there each year they see me have a dorea good use of your dog immediately was it about a book you got going to see video at the shrubberies or slow cooked or mirrored what at the very on study of the war it was it will see it but the more thought emotion of sort of erlich the tory it's tail to be accorded good in the seventy and . it wasn't just cancer villages were treated as human guinea pigs. ordinary

suited soldiers were also victims of their government's relentless determination to produce weapons of mass destruction. the suspect then you get to the world over is that all you did we was through civil war will syria even just see gets it as it were but it is the. i'm almost still deep. dark i mean go get them would you but the idea that we need it would but i would give it is but then given little chair it's. not style apostle much not all but no paul or we wouldn't miss to do good or for the other way but of the word but the only you and your newsgroup. but you is going to hit some of those monday opposite history when you watch and that's only for

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following the story from istanbul. turkey has been stating that the whole purpose of this operation is to clear its border areas of fighters richard calls terrorists and when and if syrian forces take over control of these areas and allow turkey and promise to a key that they will secure these areas against any of what it calls terrorist activities what will be turkey's response then will it continue to carry out its offensive or will it agree to the terms that would be offered by the syrian government iran's president hassan rouhani is ordered an investigation into a plane crash in which sixty five people died there are some in the airlines flight crashed in a mountainous region near its destination in southwestern iran heavy fog has handed rescue efforts so far. russian bronze medalist has reportedly left the olympic village off to failing a drug test at the pyong chang winter games at xander to show and it's one bronze

with his wife and mixed doubles curling is said to tested positive for male don't e m a banned substance that increases blood flow and improves exercise capacity in athletes he's awaiting the results of a second sample expected late on monday donald trump has gone on the attack of the indictment of a group of russians accused of meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election he again derided accusations his campaign colluded with the russian government on twitter and even criticized his national security advisor. survivors of wednesday's school shooting in the us have announced a national march on washington to demand action on gun control seventeen people died at a high school in florida from a student nicholas cruz accused of the mood as more funerals for the victims were held on sunday five women have been killed when a gunman opened fire at a church in the russian republic of dagestan five other people were injured in the time of kids of the security forces shot dead

a twenty two year old man they say was behind the attack as are the headlines rewind is up next. 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. a futuristic oldest. so there's. a spirit to cuba. i took to. be deceptive. atmospheric explosions ceased at the polygon but that didn't mean nuclear testing

halted it simply moved underground. yet three hundred forty bombs were exploded in the bowels of the polling on. you but you made the point yet at the core as to you more or less what dark but xemu what it doesn't with chester. illness bullis logic others and while you're there no bomb over braswell addictively immune thing you would years roll a bill a creature. with an interior minister and he put it into. you know one of

a. kind of they are staunch to get more than we're going. to see his mullah. without his her might with more and more of it they were just as good phone she did all that they can none i need even what i had. school installments. says she wouldn't welcome her sort of also but attending a field knew what what's. when you see me of supporters of the leafy woodlawn went to the table with i didn't astonish any afine.

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say we've just. gotten over scott that there's a business to mobile left the building was to 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. better man than just putting down any further you must of course no longer middle understand we're going to look. it up into what messed me up for people around us was we're going to flip over strong and all looking forward for you so you better hold upon something to put on for the good job a miscommunication or to want to disconnect but so it better to a new so you're going to do so so i said you start them. or something in congress are going to through should be between two parties who are to.

let it to their theory. or thought you found. some good news out there thirty again there's thirty. two left. 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. dubbed. but that doesn't.

prevent support the bridge the. divide they're growing would you decide to. look at the border without the geneva agreement you're going to split that. this back in and image. but you know not only ditty but you know who are the first dallas eras that it's easier. to lose put on your idea. that you know when you believe. the. atom nor. in this we have media where. the clip gives you who are going to submit it. to give you some it is strictly

a store and it's just in the down which you know it's not merely one of them is below on the no no it is just an average in there a new image has the same one this is the way that i would. say it was this year very good company and of. the case of this of mattel if you take their resume it supports a secretary in the summit each given what it said somebody would. stop at center today they are subpoenas that. nominatives the bethany station a moment if it's advances the hands of. the press and they meet and revitalization of a thief scam even if it's going to take in my own history to say he hasn't the control isn't hidden but one. east coast of syria civilian finest resonate in civil union clearly so arsonists

resisting political have to see the need for streets nearly causing me. my postage scanning me and if you persist in egypt but it's caught on the steep inescapable process that in his face just simply. don't give him group conviction things are going to disappear mr newberry replied cripps hearing. and blog on the initial raudonikis to see who was really. truth quick question it is just that honest necessity you know democratic strategists because as governor of the take over. take your. pick let's throw the c b a colony of the.

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a version change drollest of. the military a prisoner. in canada. a slogan a strong national political you get a bus throwing in years to give me your name because i started to nationally school became zester shares a bit where mr bush with us believe in materialism. you know sort of took over you wouldn't sleep with bill and mr still. are of course which is a statement you're a mischief. which will cut you thank you because i should. pull it off by being the gentian whether there was just. because i start a clock or i'd not put him there was that i was away for the upset when i'm drunk it's just so sad get a girl yes because of these posters to look at the start of a sudden a civil social cause a flood but also to promotion of your pushing the greedy permission i was going to

see on the atmosphere at the time that you know you're going to secure thirty so if you're out there you'd watch the quit the course for just as a better word so i have got to go cause. it's in my sleep if you but knew your waters there sure for me to wear it at a video on you but you gonna tell not usually a sit in there as he could tell what it was usefully simple that's pretty good. so beautifully szell's 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 a kazakh filmmaker who in one thousand nine hundred confronted soviet officials with the facts about the polygon. that still running out of yet. it seems to temper is what it is now back to some music to me but i was danny or me at all. but it's all when you. see if you look to those to know. this attitude has not changed much in the russia of today he really did pass of is a senior radio chemist in st petersburg what years later. the royal dykey is a got the object like you've got my dear it would look like yours across syria that are all you. can imagine or news is news when you look probably on your believe. the kazakstan government hands are barely adequate pensions small payouts and free

health care to the victims of radiation contamination. but the russians categorically refuse to accept any responsibility for the poisoning of the people of the polygon. in february one thousand nine 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 is a beast here everything others will never see but that most of us see it you're going to get advantage but even if that removes the first is that i don't see him yes let us agree which it. it's looking

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a sign of. the good bargain. here was because only at the edge it was a dumb decision you're quite deal with discussed on book need only choice. good . luck 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 cell phones son of a patent followed the sun. however the horror has not gone away. to. levels of radiation in some parts of the bald eagle remained ten times higher than normal. the bad yeah but idealist yet again why did you pick up. a brunette beauty. there

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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 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 or quakes 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 quake in the

people's republic of china. this has been proposed to have been 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 a reservoir way exploiting 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 issue the most is that i mean i think of earthquakes i think of somewhere like california or for example japan well. one would have to say oklahoma because the state of oklahoma in the united states. used to not be very seismically active a tall they were just 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 that quite database is completely freely available to everybody from w w w dot induced earthquake. org but what we think loaded in it is not just earthquakes or earthquake sequences that were 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's the database 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 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 for us to join us again next week and also check out the rewind page at al-jazeera dot com for more films from the series i'm come on santa maria thanks for joining us so you can see.

in two thousand and eight traveled across the united states discovering what it was like to be both a patriotic american and a devout muslim can you be muslim and american you hope to be american first i didn't have much appreciation for why it would be a big deal that a muslim to be elected to the united states congress but ten years on mort has changed rewind islam in america at this time on al-jazeera. when it's just been a rubbish toher across the levant and iraq and iran you can see from the swirling cloud something's going on in fact is a mixture of two systems give a lot of rain in lebanon eighty one millimeters in lesson for me for us in tripoli and the winds were up as well and you see the winds are still quite strong on this chart as a low pressure area fronts wrapped around it but i think most of the rame probably

would have been fine to fall and east of baghdad on the iranian border and still that's where the concentration of tires in fact it's still there tail end of it come monday with it it's now at height and more especially up to the caspian now you see more rain and snow falling which leaves the side of the beirut and into tripoli the temperatures rising laugh because the wind direction has changed it's dropped on the sun has come out it's made quite a big difference the weather for the south as well baghdad's temperature remains in the teens but equally kuwait's dropped cool down so it's riyadh and by this time so will behind. temperatures still twenty seven but the wind direction is changed on the gulf now i mean trees in the breeze on the direction gives you a bit of a breezy day still twenty five it's war look at the potential strikes on the western side of society once again with picking up some dust but i will see if dust storm or two even in mecca.

more than a century ago britain and france made a secret deal to divide the middle east between them now we can dora. but to want to wear the last thing a facts of this agreement there's a regional center to sikes because it's at those borders were drawn without consulting the people who have to live with the. psych speak our minds in the sand at this time on al-jazeera. oh. syria.