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little business. you all. should feel just yet people. who partied with editors question. asked. washington. to do much. was lots of things to. praise really are coming from but there were. us human. stories it's a simile is he supposed to get on the.

even i said i wanna make you understand that you. don't know how much ella say or sasha. by my parents that either say yes she got back into your home. 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 9th largest in the world with a sparse population of only 15000000 people a region the size of built in the northeast part of calixto new the city had so many politicians was selected. it was called the public on. any mileage. out of which a star or them. at

the water commission of biological. centers. i should probably busy. just. read. but had yeah sure. sure. there's a clear bill or in there with it or did it tory or what but you know because it started with your girl might need to do a serious go say use it arms or the law was mostly stick to the particular who of mr moore they do it with a pretty good stewardship don't need to dana go in the out of their way to see the

puzzles nitwit suitable as deal or that dumb as a stance that they lift owed him a bill personally certainly to any piccoli 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 would. work with. you well is that what you mean you. are. looking. for your body but you're. not really when you provide. the cities each. feel it cannot stop

immediately the last minute you. the leisure time will pass by and it be the simple life is completely one up can you even though nestle knew each of us he simply got all of us from our going to snoop tolka and we financially them our society 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 and when you. on august 29th 1949 the soviet union exploded its 1st nuclear bomb. the polygon proved to be the perfect test site. when you passed away and they promised p.p.s. here. something you took a look at there's a walkman at the ear off to get the seeing you chris at the top of the

economy the one we just are in and when he can make up what you need to get around here in the solution for that if you set up a push through with that we see a press release like year just because their products here that was to the machine your machine you. see here me though it was said here. but those are more at the outset and i was toast for the torah but in the doing that just in the software that i was out of auschwitz i said you were but yes because i saw us we should switch laying their gear. he wanted some products here but he has the ear. as a river into a couple who are on year poor medial schooling him. across a probably doesn't mean year so here are you on the phone not a number of dismissal never the impetus we're going to see you go i just missed it

moment years ago but i'm guessing they won't look at you that's right we had facetious you cannot do for i see of that's come across that was possible here was the morning sun i'm up and she knew. you could have them by then you caught up in dealing me nationally you won. oh shit they split that football about that i mean only gable here wishing to put the actually of us just chill out yet they have to be met. it probably will. if it is all struck. by you probably agree. but really when you. notice because. it was if. she spoke at yourself 3 you really were a young lee has come under you know. you believe particularly.

if you're remiss but it is a quick look. if you do pretty well. but only look at look at the stupid what which actually what your. lovely people. the cancer people are still pondering many better questions and 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 1950 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 1957 last by michelle it worked as a political question for. the 10 year but the. one that many of the young we traded by got their richard braddock gun that they did you got but a slam it would be valid but i think by the way but more and more yeah you might appear. even the us was huge in the murphy law they got the after mafia bill the mulla evolve completely but this one got the act of congress that if the you look at culture the. fish can only. guess to put him there you're. a good they're going to look at the. idea in the law

as there was a problem it was not you just. get that when you see jim worded year for you in your ears james that's in a year result. dr brown chernoff was finally signed he had a medical team investigating the effects of radiation and to sleep in the public eye. serious health problems from anemia to high incidence of cancer schizophrenia which sometimes resulted in suicide and cover. the report was duly sent to moscow and then disappeared. dr bounty hunter was forbidden by law from traveling anywhere near the polling on. the years go by there was next to me. or you only me and he go only yes or a bit shapely at that. in the 1950 s. a research institute with

a large staff of medical experts was set up in sydney pelletier to study the effects of exposure to nuclear contamination. and there's an illicit broach of a bookseller's the just been set on them is did it. begin this just in the in the bill is a. good bet. it is in the store basically at them. simply has to be a sewer them to do it for the sheer good that of water. but biskra and it has the same year. of checkerboard but it would it says dish that there will. no. water say has come so use if they are going to get there with another one of them but the one near st. nick you for process. will go to do that that you scared by needs

a center. there is deeply serious confuse it over to that that not just sit. here there are plenty. literature there's the muck you couldn't you have the time is still the really critical mass. dr gooses 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. until august because of what they were mr smith goes to the ceiling year with at a group of go at it a year most nights to a body or with enough joyously that all of the girls which in you. give you have to divide as a percentage the coby of the divide as if it will start at the go we're closer than in your security way the. doctor who says team 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. which is to just yes they yell or. so that charity cheat that they are put through it is that that particular loser elena's that so many people actually just get milledgeville so thirst would go to absolute they were live. to 90 way and leave the meaning yet even though it was there when the a pit bull the girl their lead here they see me have a dorea good use of your dog immediately visit a body bomb if you're going to see video at the shrubberies or slow cooked or meal put your what at the ready on study of see what it was it will see it but the more thought emotion of sort of the early kotori bit stale civil court regarding the 70

and. it wasn't just cancer villages were treated as human guinea pigs. ordinary soviet soldiers were also victims of their government's relentless determination to produce weapons of mass destruction. the suspect then you get a lot of that is that all your denials through store. is syria that he chooses to get into as it were but it is the. i'm the most elite d.p. in. the dark i mean the from the get the budget but the idea that we needed to win but i would give it is but then but the leadership will change it's. just not style apostle much not all but no paula will not miss to do good or for the other way but of government with germany and your newsgroup. which was

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in about half an hour's time with myself to join me then. in 1963 the united states and the soviet union signed a test ban treaty which prohibited the explosion of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere. to just people this is. something. of a spirit to cuba. i took to. be deceptive very. very accurate. atmospheric explosions ceased at the polygon but that didn't mean nuclear testing

halted it simply moved underground. 340 bombs were exploded in the bowels of the poly don't. you but you made the point yet at the core as to you molest vadar but xemu reported listen with just their. own as bullets logic others are well yeah they're no bomb over braswell are addictively immune thing you would years roll a bill a creature. any minute you diminished when he put it into which. you have only one of

a. kind of they are staunchly with more than weird and. others in his wallet. but on his heart might want more and more of it there were just as good phone shifted all article one i need in what i read there. school installments. says you wouldn't because what also at the time you go feel knew what was a low but when you see me of simple as that leafy woodlawn 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 a deep question mr what is an obvious level is that when that adjustable. foot of the cutter in the bridge in their time i thought them there was a lot of the really. lepani more you are still new but then i get nothing when you get to do a test let's kill him for what item would do you which is a bit interesting but silly if that was the station and asking you to leave is that we just missed them in this case to. these do some really depressed me scott. to live in or. does it.

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let it big. chunks of the day they're. very good. 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. himly. yes yes. that doesn't. know most.

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a store and here is just in the coastal town which you know it's not merely one of them is below on the no no it is just in there but it's in their new initiatives the same one this is the way that i would. say it was this year the biggest company and of. the kings of this all of it all of it a very there is a website but it's a secret and as a web summit each given what it said so much it came with that. stoppard center period they had subpoenas that took a coach non-relativistic path and i mean it's a strange name and if it's a consistent hands of. the press and they meet a medieval letter edition of a thick skull even if it's going to take my own history to see hasn't that can thomason hidden but one. east coast of syria civilian vyas there's only been civil union clearly citizens

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the decision. this was a little education for all of us are. the live prisoners. in canada. i saw them a strong national political you get off the bus throwing in years to give me your name because i started to sweat nationally school became sisters shades is a bit over mr bush with us by view material as. you know sort of took over if you want to sleep with bill and mr you still. are of course which is a statement you're a mischief. but you're cut loose leaf thank you because i should. put it off by being jewish and whether there was a just. because i start a clock or i'd not be human whether that was a bad idea upset when i'm drunk that the children should get a girl yes because of a certain posters look at the start of a sudden a civil social customs but also the promotion of it you're pushing the brady

permission like they're going to be on the atmosphere if you tell that you know you're going to secure the site yet they used what the quit the quest for just because of the website 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 cut it all not 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 an

or kashagan of are is a kazakh filmmaker who in 1900 confronted soviet officials with the facts about the polygon. that still winning out by the book. it seems to temper is what it is never out there sam is it in me but i'm most i me or me at all when you're with it's all when you. see if we 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 bust through it like years ago at 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 see news i would have probably idea 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 refused to accept any responsibility for the poisoning of the people of the polygon. in february 1900 rumors spread to underground tests of the polygon that exploded into the atmosphere. the kazakh population growth harmed. us silliman off is a beloved kazakh poet is based here everything others will never see but that most of us see it you're going to get advantage because even if the us is the only to leave us let us agree which it is little work in the movies clear what you've learned. it's quite. soon the

men are called a public meeting we don't know about or. here we think will. not get over it won't be argued. that. he would dump. me give me. a good week that also says. see a political hit him. down list get a read more. he could give be the biggest astley. this needs to. be less skilled in. business he would be a good news story good because if done what effect teach him. to play the movement towards democracy in the soviet union facilitated the nationwide protest. all the signs are all good good policy. good whiskas only

at the idea was a dumb decision yet quite deal with discussed on local book need only choice. for a larger audience of all good honest citizens movement to a successful in 1990 on nuclear testing ceased in the polygon of kazakstan. in 1902 soon after independence from the soviet union the country became a nuclear free cell. done in the past all of the sudden the. however the horror has not gone away. to. levels of radiation in some parts of the bald eagle remaining 10 times higher than normal. combat yeah but idealist yet again would you pick

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silent bombs a disturbing reminder of the long term consequences of nuclear testing but since that film to add a new field of research has emerged member i mentioned the north korean nuclear test at the start of this program the one which registered as the equivalent of a 6.3 magnitude earthquake well it wasn't a natural earthquake of course but just 8 minutes later and a little over 5 kilometers away there was another earthquake a real one measuring 4 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 $700.00 quakes which were probably caused by human activity professor it's a pleasure to have you with us can you talk me through that. 2nd earthquake which i described there in north korea iran and what it was this earthquake which was 8 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 here been induced is the 2008 magnitude 7.9 when trying

a 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 normal 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 700 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 we explore in oil or gas or just. 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 realize 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. thing 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 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 strategy such as injecting large amounts of weight sporter oklahoma 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 1st of all i'd like to get on

the radar screen. quite database is completely freely available to everybody from w w w dot induced earthquake. start or but what we think coded in it is not just earthquakes or earthquake sequences that we're absolutely 100 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 enfold 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.

hallow it's too remarkably cold considering how far north we are in times for the clouds coming down from the north that means it should be warm there but by day the high temperatures like to be around the 22 mark and sunny 79 springs look at the breeze on the surface coming up from the south just hasn't warmed up much so tanzan in brisbane you share the same temperature if you're in perth again you share the temperature that's a cooling trends of thirst with the air of the interior it should be warmer it

certainly is going to feel quite warm in contrast to the i've been standing over deliberately to save your feelings the rather cold in melbourne and hobart where the breeze is still coming in from the south sunshine yes except here this circulation of rain is going to make it pretty miserable on the coast particularly in new south wales now includes sydney now the weather has improved throughout new zealand the slow moving very wet depression is gone out of the way you should have sunshine but it is winter and i say 1213 is pretty good looking not much of a breeze there is a bit of rain in the far south of the south island but on monday come tuesday that rains for a little bit further north and the clouds a bit more extensive it's also a little warmer but this circulation promise is something else to come.

arts. this is. hello i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up were prepared to engage in a conversation with no preconditions. the u.s.

turns down its rhetoric on iran but says it will keep up its maximum pressure campaign kasra criticizes the hardline statements on iran made it last week summits in saudi arabia. israeli settlers guarded by the security forces stream into jerusalem's most sensitive holy site sparking clashes with muslims worship puts. and a massive cruise ship crashes while docking in venice reigniting calls for them to be banned from the liquid city. and i'm we are hearty and doha with all of your sport liverpool return as kings of european football greeted by tens of thousands of fans after clinching the champions league title. the us secretary of state my bio says his country is ready to sit down with iran to discuss its nuclear program with no preconditions in

a softening of the rhetoric after weeks of escalating tensions and threats on the u.s. is ready to talk but he insisted it won't back down over what he called iranian aggression it comes a day off to iran's president again suggested to he's open to talks. we're prepared we're prepared to engage in a conversation with no preconditions we're ready to sit down with them but the american effort to fundamentally. reverse the activity of this islamic republic this revolutionary force is going to continue rosalynn jordan has more on this now from washington. the more conciliatory language from the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei all comes after several weeks of daily sometimes hourly reminders that the trumpet ministration was putting political and economic pressure on iran to change its foreign policy as well as abandon its nuclear

weapons ambitions this is a situation where the u.s. has basically put all of their countries on notice that they will face sanctions if they try to buy iranian oil this comes after the trumpet ministration has put the islamic revolutionary guard corps part of iran's elite military off apparatus on its foreign terrorist organizations list saying that the i.r.g.c. is responsible for destabilizing governments in places such as lebanon and it's been supporting the syrian government during that country's civil war and that it has been providing material and perhaps logistical support to hooty fighters in the some in the civil war in yemen this is also a situation where the u.s. has not lifted any of the economic sanctions it has imposed on iran because of its opposition to iran's nuclear program this is a situation however where there is

a growing international chorus very concerned about the potential for another u.s. led war in the middle east and it may be in part as a response to those concerns that the u.s. wants to try to reassure the international community that it's not looking to start a new war but rather that it wants to see a real change in the way that operates on the global stage. he is in town and has reaction that. ever since the united states pulled out of the 2050 nuclear deal it has widened what was already a sizable trust gap between tehran and washington so the latest comments from u.s. secretary. state mike pompei oh of talking to iran with no preconditions though a positive sign of a softer tone from washington was received here into her run by iranian leaders with a great deal of suspicion in a statement from iran's foreign ministry the spokesman abbas mousavi said for the

islamist republic of iran wordplay and expressing a hidden agenda with the new words is not the foundation for practical actions for iran the basis is the united states altering its approach and practical behavior towards the nation of iran but mr pompei was emphasis on the continuation of maximum pressure on iran shows it is the same long running old approach that needs to be revised so the message there is that for america talk is cheap but for iran economic sanctions have been costly and continued economic pressure from those sanctions on the iranian people is unlikely to set the stage or the mood for any kind of conversation. because talking is the continuation of the process of pressure he's imposing pressure this may work in the real estate market it does not work in the last experience which was not really

optimistic and does not provide an optimistic. perspective for a future if we are to take a positive view of things then both the united states and iran have softened their rhetoric in recent weeks both sides have seemed to walk back from the brink of war but iran's leaders have said over and over again they will not negotiate a new nuclear deal with the white house of u.s. president donald trump they will not compromise on their defensive capabilities they don't want to talk about things like the ballistic missiles program so what iran's leaders will be asking themselves with regards to this latest offer from u.s. secretary of state peo is if they're not going to talk about those things and the united states is on. willing to move on its position of a maximum pressure campaign what is there left to discuss. casseroles foreign minister has told al jazeera they have reservations about the statements on iran that came out of summits held and macca last week the country's prime minister

attended the events despite the ongoing embargo of his country by several of its gulf neighbors it was the highest level contact between the 2 sides since the crisis began 2 years ago the foreign minister has now criticised the hardline statements the summit produced. and we had reservations about many parts of the statement this eliminates include 1st of only condemning iran and its coalition against it in the absence of any moderate policy to engage in their local was iran or to some of the challenges which could exist in the relationship between the gulf states and iran betweens arab states and iran. on another side we have the option of the american policy toward iran we respect policy toward iran but it is different from our policy. this statement also mentioned of the united gulf who where as

a united gulf when we have 3 gulf states locating other gulf city where is the united gulf are we deceiving our people with such statements. well kenneth katzman is a golf analyst at the library of congress he joins me via skype from awning 10 in virginia thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us so it very interesting that we had these summits taking place of the arab league in the g.c.c. in saudi arabia just a few days ago on all of this in the context of increasing tensions and heating rhetoric between washington and tehran what i suppose is striking in the information that's now emerging about the way this statement was produced is that there are clearly divisions within the g.c.c. about the best way to approach this crisis. of course and speaking of personal capacity as usual. here there are been these

divisions. to the saudis u.a.e. and back rain or very hard line toward iran and they blame iran for tried to achieve gemini in the gulf. middle east. to carry. certain america protection. to roll back iran's regional words the mug 3. don't precisely agree but generally are more according to a negotiation to wait for an overall oman to cuba is always engaged in iran very much mediator between iran and other countries including the united states so there has not been unity moment you see on iran for quite some time but all of them all 6 host united states forces solid we are long with the united states don't want to see

a confrontation between united states and iran but still busy certainly hosting u.s. forces what we must force is to. keep iran to take. and if we've got obviously development on the international level level in the regional level as well might pump a saying today that the u.s. would be prepared to engage with iran with new no preconditions this despite comments he made last year of 12 preconditions that would preclude any sort of engagement with iran so with the mixed messages coming out of washington the gulf states and particularly saudi arabia have to be wary of how they position themselves in this well mr pumping it was 12 demands last year were not conditions for negotiations there were conditions for normalization and for a new nuclear deal that they were not necessarily conditions for negotiations so what he said today more over the past few days is not necessarily inconsistent with

what's been said the problem is with the pump missed not dropped in europe the tool demands. were normal organization who are better relationships those 12 demands are it's to remove your experience then follow through with basically require terror on to dismantle its entire $979.00 revolution which of course they're not going to do so until some of those demands assault and i don't see much opportunity who are in any real negotiation with. kenneth katzman thanks. now algeria's calls to tional councillors council july's presidential election saying the 2 candidates he wanted to run will be deemed invalid it's a move protesters have been demanding for weeks after the removal of president bush to feed his government and to monaghan reports. the many old cheery and to the long

suspected what was finally confirmed by the constitutional council the presidential election scheduled for july 4th is called off nearly all the candidates who put themselves forward for the top job couldn't register because of pressure from protesters who've been demanding more reforms on the move all politicians linked to former president abdul aziz beautifully because government analysts say interim president abdul qadeer been solid and prime minister nuri diem been doing now need to listen to the 10s of thousands of protesters. they've turned out across algeria for 15 consecutive weeks demanding the resignation of anyone linked to the former government it's been sad how has to listen to it but at this it's you know they have to get that out of that eminence of the president did that but isn't the government and did they have to have a new column started to organize these elections some protesters want army chief of staff nick.