ports it's remote communities that once year. well we've been skeptical to this project from the very start just taking more than 10 years to finish. nuclear and the radiation safety has always been talk most priority so we know that arose out of the nuclear state agency in russia has extended experience with the ice breakers nuclear are speaking as the nuclear submarines and the design of the going to come and also is based upon earlier designs weissberg years so they have experience in this field but we believe that. any new technology or prototype asters this involves certain risks and with all nuclear installations you have risks related to the human factor i took rationing mistakes can be made and the that should lead to. less than situations.

we hear from the russian authorities that it's more likely to be hit by an asteroid than a disaster for one of these floating plants but as you say it's a new design and to some degree is unproven. indeed i mean we know the. result of must take precautions and they say that it's a new variable to tsunamis but we also know that this wessel is going to be sent to the arctic to the far north where changing weather conditions and to some degree severe medical missions can become a problem for any vessel and to transport it could become a problem for the tugboats are helping in the rest of the movie because it doesn't self self propelled and at its destination we know that it's very far from emergency response capabilities which are based more to the west in russia boucle

him and that makes us worry that in emergency situation. russia would have problems responding quickly enough to any unfortunate events. could we see a situation this being a prototype if it's successful or the like it would measure success but what if it is successful can we see this being sold this model around the world we see others . well we have heard from or autumn over several really several years that this prototype is well am scientific research. object that's crude lead to more of the same type being produced of course being a troll prototype they meet might make changes to the concept going forward but acid is now we see several risks related to. this type of vessel being

most produced and. sent out in the world one thing is of course that is so enormous self-propelled wrestle with nuclear fuel on board and those seaborne does not really fit into international regulations at the current time that would be. one thing that russia has to so if it wants to move these outside their own territorial waters last year there was a situation where the academical most of was being told from the shipyard in st petersburg 2 more months to the baltic sea and along always coast and the russians decided not to fuel the vessel before it was told and due to exactly the circumstances so they. fueled it in their own territorial waters. but in different definitely we also see risks related to the fact that. the remoteness and mobility of this station is what makes it tempting to to use because we can supply

power to remote areas the same time that remoteness in itself is what we deem the biggest risk because emergency response capabilities would have troubles reaching it also if it's was situated in some ways in asia or africa for that matter and the competence in all countries that could be interested in such and such technology isn't necessarily up to speed with what russia has so that is also a concern for us. there from the below not from those and also thankful. another round of talks between the u.s. and taliban has begun in qatar is focused on ending the u.s. military intervention in afghanistan it's been going on since october the u.s. special envoy is due to visit kabul next week to meet the afghan government the afghan president insists agreements made during the doha talks will have to be vetted by his government ashraf ghani says afghanistan shares the u.s.

goal of drawing troops as soon as possible but he says they will have to be comprehensive discussions before any deal is signed. it's years ago a $5.00 earthquake hit the u.s. state of virginia and it was strong enough to crack the washington monument called $20000000.00 in damage to the national cathedral well here's one man who paving the gulf thanks to work that was. my name is sean callahan i'm a stonemason stands down carver at the washington national cathedral in washington d.c. by bases knock on the door one day and ask for a job and that's how i ended up here as an apprentice could have been 187. when i 1st came here i relished the opportunity it was very exciting and unique and over time it becomes who you are. when i came here vince plummer was the master carver i think the last one hired actually. over the years you build up a breath of dollars like a repertoire of shapes and skills so each piece you do will inform the next piece

you worked on when we had the earthquake here it was months before even got the building back open structurally what happened to us wasn't too bad it was a lot of things on the outside but we still had to shut down and assess the damage and see what was safe and what wasn't and that took some time my part of it is i'm here on the workbench hyper focused on this one piece of stone i'm always aware of how important building is to other people it's an important as a public building and as a cultural icon i'm always aware of that so i have a responsibility to put my best effort in because it's not just my work it's part of the fabric of the building and it's going to become historic hopefully it'll be around for a very long time that's always in the back of my mind i'm working on this i have a responsibility to be faithful to the work it motivates me when i see the impression it leaves on other people when they come here and visit and see that building it gives me a sense of pride that i have a hand in that of giving that satisfaction to other people that touches people

every day it's something that grabs you in your soul and you you want to be a part of it. coming up next in sports justin thomas find some of the $60000000.00 to a championship so help the best. thing

is time to sport now here's joe j.t. thank you and then cricketers have begun day 2 of that that ashes test against australia bowl a job for ought to put them in a strong position on the opening day taking fics wickets as

a strike while out for 179 says he's boyd by the home support. so for us army. what everyone. if you give it is that much more noise. to local and. appreciated as well but it's been a shaky start for the hosts on day 2 at headingley with england at the crease their 25th 2 with josh hazelwood taking both wickets including captain joe root for tuck sure one can be more recharging 44 for 6 on day 2 of their 2nd test against new zealand before rain and did play the country sports minister is announced that the team won't play test matches in pakistan later this year 2 tests had been scheduled for october but after a security review herron fernando said they will now be played in the u.a.e. however he said $31.00 day matches are being played as part of an 8 day toll would

be just the 2nd time official one day matches have been played in pakistan since the sri lankan team bus was attacked by gunmen in the hall 10 years ago the davis cup tie between pakistan and india scheduled for the middle of next month has been just because of the recent tensions over the disputed region of kashmir in a statement the international tennis federation said this is an exceptional circumstance while the 1st priority of the i.d.f. is the safety and security of athletes officials and spectators the time has been rescheduled for november we'll continue to monitor the situation in pakistan and the davis cup committee will reconvene to re-examine security situation in france all the time there are some big names in golf tied at the top of the top championship leaderboard after day one in atlanta fed ex cup points leader justin thomas started with a 2 stroke advantage in a change to the format from last season but he struggled on the 15th as his ball went into the water that allowed sunda shuffler to grab

a share of the lead at 6 under par. also the top is p.g.a. champion brooks kepcher who birdie 3 of his last 4 holes the winner on sunday will get golds biggest prize of $15000000.00 us. 2016 told champion rory mcilroy is a shot for the back up to sioux perp round of 66 while last year's winner justin rose almost made an eagle on the 1st he's 8 shots behind the leaders in a tie for 30. japanese player in the 30 man field today he met c m a sits in 7th place after a very lucky break on the 7th green his ball appeared to stop on the lip but was patient and it paid off 20 seconds later. it shows that good things come to those who wait. out for my heavyweight champion tyson fury says he tasted death during

a mental health crisis that took him to the brink of suicide fury says he fought back and is now passionate about helping others who are suffering. going to turn my wife around from 420 pounds of weight to suicidal thoughts on a daily basis to not want to live anymore to get back to the top of 3 heavy weight champion of the world again so it's like it's almost it's a crazy story there's always a lot of people out there is a worse position than you are on about how low it gets i think about the lowest point in life because the only other place beyond what i was is death. almost taste death to come back to this this level again it's definitely been a blast and on the 2nd return journey there is much to come to help others in needy positions are there as much as account to spread the word on battlefields smashed. these final tennis major the u.s. open gets under way in new york on monday serena williams is looking to put her

outburst during last year's final behind her as she chases a record equalling 24th grand slam title williams will play former world number one maria sharpe over in a glamour 1st round match up both players have had injury concerns this year williams has been forced to withdraw from her last 2 tournament's with back problems sharp overs had her playing time limited by lingering shoulder injury. over on the men's side defending champion novak djokovic will be up against spain's roberto bias by ana in the 1st round but could meet roger federer in the semi's after the pair were both put on the same side of the trough. a former major league baseball world series winner links to a dominican drug trafficking and money laundering ring insists he is innocent ok here to tell who played for 12 different teams in his 15 year career appeared in court on thursday after being arrested in want to 40 rates carried out across the dominican republic 3 time all-star louis castillo is among 16 others implicated.

in a mclean person and i have my money in a clean way and all of you know it that is what the press and that is in my biography i am innocent i've earned my money cleanly. and england of just lost another wicket morry burns out for 9 in a now 253 or more sport later julie thank you very much bill see you later that's all for me for this news hour much dennis's back in 6 months. since my privilege to name al jazeera english the broadcaster of the year the country has a fighting each other and we've been told that we can on the field yet he says the

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hello welcome to al-jazeera live from doha i'm martin denis also coming up a day after saying iran could work with french proposals to save the nuclear deal its foreign minister is in paris for talks. south korea scraps an intelligence sharing pact with japan as relations worsened as a trade in wartime history. and environmentalist a calling it a potential should noble on the floating nuclear reactor that's on its way to the arctic. air is being called an international crisis in the pressure is now piling on brazil over record fires at a burning through the amazon forest the french president emanuel mccall he wants urgent talks at this weekend's g. 7 the irish prime minister has threatened to block a trade deal between the e.u.

and south american nations unless brazil takes action and the german chancellor angela merkel she's added her voice calling it an acute emergency kustra begins our coverage. dramatic video captures the fury of the flames eating away at the world's largest rain forest this is just one of several 1000 fires currently consuming swaths of the brazilian amazon and the world is watching we're very concerned about these fires both for the immediate damage that they're causing and also because sustained force is crucial in our fight against climate change the amazon produces 20 percent of the world's oxygen that's why it's called the planet's lungs but environmentalist warn if the burning continues at this rate the rain forest will transform to a landscape resembling the african savannah and rather than produce oxygen the

antidote to global warming the former rain forest will humid carbon instead in brazil sister e. was soon difficult situations but for the 1st time we have this kind of situation that was created almost with official encouragement from the government environmental groups a rancher's and log or started the fires to clear the land. they blame brazil's president. as a candidate he promised to give businesses access to natural resources to restore the country's economy as president he's gutted funding for brazil's environmental and foresman agency and he now says without offering evidence that environmental groups set the fires themselves the world. now the amazon is bigger than europe how can you fight criminal fires in such an area it is clearly criminal how can you do it you need to catch them in the act otherwise there's nothing you can

do now non-governmental organizations are losing money money that came from germany and norway they are unemployed now so they are trying to overthrow. the hash tag pray for amazonas has been trending on twitter. and other world leaders have reacted as well our house is burning literally tooted french president emanuel macron it is an international crisis he's called the members of the g. 7 summit to discuss the amazon fire at their upcoming meeting this weekend. castro al-jazeera washington but across the border in bolivia the government's call for cooperation with neighboring countries to contain wildfires that are raging in the east while the 650000 hectares of already being destroyed environmentalist say 500 species of wildlife are risk soldiers have been sent and president havel morales is created an emergency cabinet to deal with the crisis will follow and

elwood is associate professor of conservation science at the university of the west of england that's in bristol and he says the damage being done is far worse than most people realize. the rain forest provide about 20 percent of the world's oxygen but it's so much more than that that the species that live that their connections the networks everything from funky and bacteria to insects and other arthropods like millipedes and centipedes that the little things that run the world have to fit together they're a bit like a symphony orchestra and you can't expect it's like taking away members of the symphony orchestra and expecting it to still be able to play beethoven's 9th symphony it's just not going to work when we destroy elements of biodiversity we cut the throats that bind this network together and so any time any moment this entire thing could crash when the nutrient cycling and the things like the busy leaf litter being cycled into nutrients in the soil he's just stirring starts to

start crashing and the ecosystem itself or begin to crash and that's what's really dangerous when you lose biodiversity because by diversity is nature's defense mechanism it's nature's insurance plenty of species means that functions can still continue but if you take those away you destroy the inch you destroy mother nature's insurance mechanism and that's what's happening now now iran's foreign minister is expected to meet the french president emmanuel macro in paris within the next hour or so to see if they can salvage the 2050 nuclear deal jadzia reset on thursday that terror on is willing to work with european partners after the u.s. pulled out last year let's go live to paris now and correspondent then again barbara nadeem so this meeting seems to have come about as a result of a french proposal do we know anything more about it. well we seem to know the bare outlines because president mike home wednesday said

that he made proposals either to soften the sanctions on iran or to offer some kind of a credit in the words of the french president a compensation mechanism to allow the people of iran to live better he's referring to the the effects that the sanctions the reimpose sanctions are having on the iranian economy of course those sanctions re-imposed after the u.s. pulled out of the deal last year and on thursday zarif and denounced what he called reckless u.s. multi-lateralism and he said that he'd been stressing the need for multilateralism and the rule of law will the rule of law is something that paris wants to see they want to see in iran meet its obligations because recently tehran's admitted that it's breached the levels that it's allowed to produce of enrich uranium which it

says is for fuel for nuclear reactors which could potentially be used for a weapons program the approach is very different from the american approach we've seen the ramp up the pressure and we've seen the result with the tensions in the gulf that's part of it partly the background so you emanuel and his foreign minister joins adriel who will be meeting zarif later after the current meeting between the president and and mr zarif the background is that these those raised tensions but also the feeling that america's approach isn't yielding results president mccrone would like to go to the g. 7 this weekend and talk to the americans and say we've got this idea which reportedly might involve for a temporary period allowing iran to allow certain countries to purchase uranium oil as a sweetener to get them back around the negotiating table mccrone would like to float that to the americans but there's no signal yet that i the president trump or his

national security advisor john bolton a receptive to that kind of idea now being passed thinking. as the syrian army has moved into the area around a turkish observation post in northern the hama province state t.v. is reporting that government forces are just meters away from turkish troops in more wreck after capturing towns and villages in the area furnace smith has more now from antakya that's close to the turkey syria border syrian government forces are now essentially in control of all of the towns and villages in the countryside of hama province to the south of italy but leaves it countryside and the city of idlib itself still in rebel hands but clearly would be the next target for assad's forces and in the process of this takeover of this territory the syrians have come into contact with turkish of the patient post in what is supposed to be

a deescalation zone but this is clearly become an escalation zone because of the syrians are moving in to what was once rebel held countryside the turks say they are still going to keep those observation posts there there are a dozen of them that they're in agreement with the iranians and the russians but at the same time turkey is desperate to get this saves own along its border with syria implemented they're still in negotiations with the americans as to how big this saves on is how deep it would go into syrian territory about whether the turks and the americans would patrol together the americans would prefer to patrol alone turkey saying they're still having talks about form of the safe zone but no indication yet as to when it would put in place the turks are desperate for it to happen sooner rather than later. fighting has been going on for decades now in central nigeria it's fueled by ethnic and religious differences as well as the battle to secure scase scarce land and resources thousands of people have been

killed in days they've escaped help to find safety in camps barters mohamed odeh reports they are facing another terrifying threat. again accompany the city or is one of dozens dotting the expansive been with state in central nigeria its inhabitants are just a fraction 171000 displaced across the street by the end going violence between tribes in this bottle. while the comp was supposed to be a refuge for the people most don't feel safe here anymore a sharp increase in reported women and young girls is deeply wounding this community. and. i fear for my daughters there those who send their kids to go work in the city but not me the current situation is too dangerous. people here complained that become so widespread that women can no

longer live the compound accompanied a missed international in a recent report detailed how girls as young as 9 and 10 years were ben cleped at times by the very security personnel charged with protecting. news that a 10 year or displaced rape victim was delivered in a new a few days ago has sent shock waves across nigeria we met the girl and her baby girl at one of mccord's hospitals. dr educate michael help with the delivery of the 3 days of labor we need to do this is a recession because there was no we live off enough of it for so we don't miss much to mean what some units of blood and we're into it it turned into even if this social worker was one of those who brought the girl to hospital and told us that she grew up and often and was raised by her grandmother but was forced to flee how home when her grandmother called.