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squidgy al-jazeera revealing eco friendly solutions to comeback threats to our planet on al-jazeera. i'm sam is a look at the headlines here now just the other now. ethiopia's prime minister has told parliament federal forces have not killed a single civilian during the 3 week long conflict in the region. and it insists the army will not destroy the regional capital after having captured it on the weekend . that as to ground forces say they're still fighting federal soldiers near hundreds have been killed and thousands forced to flee to neighboring sudan. malcolm webb has more from nairobi for the prime minister, as we heard told, members of parliament that the government side didn't kill
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a single civilian. this is contradicted by the team p.l.s. leaders account. they say that civilian casualties have been high. they say that civilians were targeted in government airstrikes, something that the government side denies. we've also heard from the red cross in macquarie, that's the regional capital, the city of about half a 1000000 people. they say that about 80 percent of the people in hospitals there have trauma injuries or they have, they haven't said how those injuries have been sustained. but they will say said that there's a serious shortage of essential medical supplies and a shortage of body bags. a funeral service for top iranian nuclear scientists. there has been held in the capital to her and he was killed on friday. iran's leaders are blaming israel and say they all retaliate. china's foreign ministry has rejected calls from the astray and prime minister to apologize for an inflammatory tweet over war crimes allegations. the tweet sent by
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a foreign ministry spokesman depicts a fake image of an australian soldier, slashing the throat of an afghan civilian a minor. it follows a recent report into the conduct of history in special forces soldiers. the australian military has confirmed it's dismissing more than a dozen soldiers accused of killing 39, unarmed afghan civilians and prisoners. indian farmers, blocking roads in a protest against new laws are refusing to move to a government designated venue. the farmers say they're open to talks with the ministers. they say the new laws will hurt crop prices and their livelihoods. white house senior adviser, jared kush now will travel to saudi arabia and qatar in the coming days. a trip believed to be aimed resolving the dispute between the neighboring countries. it comes amid tensions in the region following the killing of a top iranian nuclear scientist. and with only weeks left in the trumpet, ministration cushion and his team have helped negotiate deals with sudan and the
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u.a.e. . to normalize relations with israel for french police officers have been placed on the formal investigation for beating a black man in paris. michel's needed stitches after the attack. it began when police fired tear gas canister into a music studio. deaths caused by malaria are expected to exceed those from covert, 19 in sub-saharan africa. this year. the world health organization says there could be more than 100000 deaths from malaria and 202-5000, nor is the lead author of the w.h.o. report and explains how the crisis is impacting treatment. it doesn't, in 2 ways it does in potentially disrupting the prevention of the disease through the distribution of the distribution or for preventive treatment. a
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lot of the african countries have responded really effectively to mitigate against those saw in terms of preventing malaria. we're doing a lot better than we had instructed in terms of treating it among those who get the disease. and that's where we, we're still struggling with understanding the levels of destructions in the countries. because malaria is a few bone disease and disruptions depend on our faces as a treatment to for our families and disrupted any level of disruptions will lead to a suspect. and we expect that given what we have seen from some of the countries that even moderate levels of destruction in africa will lead to a few more additional deaths in the region of both your headlines. the news continues here on our 0 after rewind, so stay with us. hello
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and welcome once again to rewind, i'm come on santa maria zuber english, back in 2006, 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
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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 6.3 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 1906. but the terrible legacy of testing is still being felt more than 5000 kilometers away beyond mongolia or northern china. over a 40 year period, we're talking 949989. soviet union exploded 460 nuclear bombs in eastern about 200000 villages. living near the test site 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 2009
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and silent bombs a film by jerry sperling who traveled to council to document the human cost of nuclear tests. for centuries, horse has been being loved by the catholic people. very simple, really on the central asian step. but for decades now, a dark cloud has hung over the spirit people. between 19491990, the soviet union exploded on its 500 nuclear bombs, only miles from their diligence. and a test site called the polly la jolla to me and say good
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song, good looking, good. clean those. the ball of the sea is there all over the summer boy. oh boy in the snow. but probably wouldn't hear those. i'm about to get in the best of them, but it's just a bit, but i didn't try to wash up. caught up on a lot. lot lot mcguinn was a pretty good book, but i don't need a bit of it, but it forthwith. well
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that's going to why not so little that cook is among that truck precluded the duty of president clinton just because of what a lot of times that i was on another team. bush tax cuts be tough. sell to cut costs just $1.00 piece can not solve better stand just for the 1st one. see on tickin premiums
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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 the blood pressure, miscarriages, skin diseases, breast cancer, throat cancer, new system diseases, memory loss, mental retardation, and physical deformities that you were to believe you could be, or were early. he would begin thinking what your career goals that cannot be run over the shooters. just your struggle with interesting question.
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struggle you notice which are almost not for the most astute looking jurors and the way we're not sure. state nurtured them, but isn't going to get it back. certainly cressy, my sister, but i told her only as soon. well, it means that man, i live, right? is a christian more than it. it's a different school to get there to complete than just run the show of its front yard treasure when they get to 200 high torch and sort of presume grimstone bit of just trying to get her to some of those on the ground there who work in the country
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but the more devastating there's that's the one who pulled the whole chain here sits in the east palace. that's a chest. the little niece you all should look to see. yes. people
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who partied with this question asked much more much today was lifted brazenly up obama, the mother of god offers us human are, you know guys like you got a story. if it's a lie, it's here. you posting it other than even i said i wanna mention a video on the last 10 years of the new year. yet i don't know how much ella say or
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sasha has a similar e.-prime against the e.s.a. is here yet if she got 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 9th largest in the world with a sparse population of only 15000000 people, a region the size of building in the northeast part of calixto, the city, and so many politicians was selected. it was called the polygon mileage out of which a star or at
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the water of biological center. there's a lot of it i should probably use or well issue josh, you read the real board here but had yeah, sure your word is jellyfish. there's a clear bill in there with that would put you more because a stunning video girl might need to do is serious because they use it arms a little. it was more sophisticated if they give mr. moore, this deal, it will appear to go on. don't need to again, you go in the out of there way to see the puzzles need to be suitable as deal in there. because a stance that they lead to toad in a bill personally showed them if the only people he knew was dissolved. the soviet
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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 pond. which you will be there with him. you are worth a look for your body for you. not only when you preserve our 3 cities, each salutes cannot stop by media last tiny 18 from the edge of our bill passed by me. and maybe the simple life is completely one up. can you even
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know nestle knew each of us, even if you believe that all of us bargain is newport and we financially them our society interest to couper more about what he has reached for his will see me through the poor thing, a fist of any i don't know how to read nobody, when you on august 29th 1949, the soviet union exploded its 1st 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 a walkman at the ear off to get the scene you chris at the top of the economy. the one we just are in when he can make up a good idea to shoot for that. if you set up a push through, put that we see
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a press release take years, but he has the products here that was to the machine your machine. you hear me though it was said here, but those are more at the edges and i was toast for the torah open to do on the chess interests of what i thought about face as i do you or other sort us bullshit in their gear. he wanted some products here, but he has the ear so we were into a couple who are on year poor, medium schooling him across. the probably doesn't mean year. so here are you on the phone, not a number of dismissal, not the impetus. we're going to see him go, i just missed it. moment years ago i thought and yes, you know, i would look at it that boiling facetious. you cannot do for i see our best
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democrat poison possible here because at the moment it's one i'm up and she knew nicole could get them by then you cause i've been doing it nationally. you one of those. i wish 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. will it will or will it get a good result for you? forever only grip us. but really when you are at the most and you can bet a quarter inch annuity motors because that shit is broken, i just really were young lee has come under really no great hearing you believe particular service, but it is a quick look at the work you do,
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but you only look and look at ways to get what you, what usually what you love. we could all move for the cancer people are still pondering. many bigger 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 cutoff was the chief radiologist in the soviet union's ministry of health. he
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was sent to the polygon as a government representative. he remembers meeting with soviet officials on one particular day in 1957. last by michel, it worked as a political question through brittania, but what there are many of the young we traded by got their richard credit gun that they did you got but a slimy were people but i think by the way, but more and more. yeah. you might, if you the nurse 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 shishkin annie guest. a pretty me with a buddhist look at gaining again the law as the violence that the move was not
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get back when you were a dear for you in your ears j. m. that's in a year dr. brown was finally signed to head a medical team investigating the effects of radiation on the public eye. serious health problems from anemia to high incidence of cancer. schizophrenia which sometimes resulted in suicide cover. the report was duly sent to moscow and then disappeared. dr. brown 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 1950 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 as well as bridge of abuse. it was the
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just concept of them, which did it really kill this just in the, in the bill is a little bit it is in them stalkers. you create them simply post abuse over them to do it for the sheer good that of water. but b. school and it has the same year of secular bull that i put over that says dish that i will watch insidious the shark know of 2 m. in the water. say it's come so use if they are going to put up with another one of them put on near the cookie for process who will go to double that lead you like you scare bunny? it's a center that there is deeply serious can say use it of that not just need
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a bigger chance here. that is plenty. it's a machine. it's literature. there's the muck, you couldn't you have 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 the lady squares of what they were mr. smith goes to the ceiling with at the globe. her go at it. a almost nonstop idea with enough joyously you could look at the gossip which in your uncle. again, if you have to divide us up to show the couple of the divide, as it was said 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,
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which were sent to the soviet authorities. but how did this research benefit the, villagers to the u.s., they yell or so that charity cheat that they are put through it is that that particular loser almost a celebrity just didn't need it. you'll see thirst would go to actually, there were really just a 94 in me. me, me, me, i didn't know it was there when the a pit bull, the girl, their leader here they see me in the editorial producer of your dog to mean it was, it was a bomb. it got going to be videoed, push the breeze, or slow cooked, or mirrored what that the body on study of see what it was, it will see it. but the more thought emotion of sort of ehrlich, the tory, it's, they all see record a good in the 70, and it wasn't just cancer villagers who were treated as human guinea pigs.
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ordinary suited 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 you did was truthful. moral is syria and he just said it said that as it were, but it is the almost silly v.p. they mean go get them, would you? but the idea that we needed to win, but i would give it is but then, but the leadership will change its ways tell you must either postulate or not. but no paula bloom, mum is to do good or for the other way. but of the robot. the only your most roof, but you still laugh at some of those money up us history when you watch and that's only for others of us prefer d.d.
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about rough the mushroom and me we human you make you work. that's what the machine you're so pretty you. but the extra much you know when is are you? but surely we're not born stupid. you measure me? are some of us going for them in all of them. a blue bird your pretty sure to do to you too small to put only when you know michel saw the mirror make you glad you sure. the way or the gloves are gone. when you got up to your so much illusion problem. vause reports gene you, you're a young boy. so that would be good just been said are going to stay in is that all the excel that can use the system we did in those us that in the dealing need. there's a new with them deal of don't store which it is
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protect the people for the profit episode, one of the full hail the lockdown on al-jazeera. i'm sam is a dam in doha with a look at the headlines here in al-jazeera. if the o.p.'s prime minister has told parliament federal forces have not killed a single civilian during the 3 week long conflict in the tigre, a region, and that the aftermath insists the army will not destroy the regional capital michaela after having captured it on the weekend. that's as to ground forces, say they're still fighting federal soldiers near mccully. malcolm webb has more from nairobi, the prime minister, as we heard told members of parliament that the government side didn't kill a single civilian. this is contradicted by the team p.l.f.
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leaders account. they say that civilian casualties have been high. they say that civilians were targeted in government airstrikes, something that the government side denies. we also heard from the red cross in macquarie, that's the regional capital, the city, about half a 1000000 people. they say that about 80 percent of the people in hospitals there have trauma injuries or they have, they haven't said how those injuries have been sustained. but they will say said that there is a serious shortage of essential medical supplies and a shortage of body bags. a funeral service for top iranian nuclear scientists mufson a bizarre, there's been held in the capital tehran, he was killed on friday. iran's leaders are blaming israel and say the tally 8. china's foreign ministry has rejected calls from the australian prime minister to apologize for an inflammatory tweet over war crimes allegations. the tweet sent by a foreign ministry spokesman depicts a fake image of a straining soldier,
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slashing the throat of an afghan child. it follows a recent report into the conduct of a stray and special forces. soldiers you're straining military has confirmed. it's dismissing more than a dozen soldiers accused of killing 39, unarmed afghan civilians and prisoners indian farmers, blocking roads in a protest against new laws are refusing to move to a government designated venue. the farmers say they're open to talks with ministers . they say the new laws will hurt crop prices and their livelihoods u.s. drugmaker more than one has announced it's asking american and european regulators for emergency use of its covert, 19 vaccine and 3. by now in 1963, the united states and the soviet union signed a test ban treaty,
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which prohibited the explosion of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere. but she just finished a sphere i took to be very deceptive for iraq, which is 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 are still human,
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less vadar. but xemu before you can assume a chast that is a mass ballistic. others are well yeah, they're no bomb over braswell are addictively immune thing. you would years roll a bullet pretty much any minute you diminish. only put it into parts in b.c. . you have only one of it or not they are staunchly with more than we're going to see. his mullah
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put on his heart might want more and more of it. there were just as good phone shifted all of the non-i media on what i read there school instruments says she wouldn't because what all side with the thunder feel knew what was over. oh, brother, when you see me of supposedly free will and went to the temple with i didn't astonish any of any that's in there was a study with a shock to the man with a deep question, mr. what is an area? and i was there when that adjustable foot of the cutter only bridge in their time at the time there was a lot of the debris that lepani more. you are still new,
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but they're not yet. nothing will get to do with just let's kill him for whatever will do. but generally it, at least in the asking you to leave is the biggest missed live when it comes to these do some really depressed me to wonder? what does it say we can easily never, scott, that there's a business to mobile left. the building was too, unless there's a dozen with of us the chairs to it that didn't need to nest as a fun seat. here's
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a gentleman. just put it down any further, you must, of course, no longer the middle of the body. so i'm going to get talked into what messed me up for people around here because we're going to trip over strong wall looking forward for you. so you better hold before coming, but i'm for the good job, a mess going to cause me to want to disconnect, but so it better to michigan when i'm going to but i'm just so sorry for you. so i can come to the company and congress are going to stooge before to produce you or to let it to the big parties. are
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there other to do their very good. one are 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? yes yes. but that doesn't the most admit it. it appears upon the streets to divide your crew. it would you do set the record in your closet of geneva women. you're going to spit that
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dish back in an image, but only ditty. but you know, what would of us dallas interstates are easiest to lose, put on your idea that you know, when you believe in this, we have new video where the clip gives you who are going to submit it or give you some it is strictly a store and is just in the down which here it's not merely, one of them is below on the no, no it is just an aborigine, a new initiatives, the same one. this is the way that i would say it was this year. they're
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a good company and of the case of the sort of middle of a tech there, there is a way, it's a participatory and as a web summit, each given what it said, somebody stop at center today. 'd or subpoenas that nonnegative pursue paths and i mean it's a strange claim and if it's a consistent hands of not touched on the meat amoeba tradition of a thief scandal, even if it's going to take in my own history to see hasn't gotten thomas and hidden, but one i wish list of serious civilian finest years and i believe i am clearly seriousness resistant. political have faces and you've just recently because of making me or my postage scanning me, i'm in your position, but it's got on the steep inescapable process that in his persistent click when
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you group conviction says ok order to deceive us. the new bridge collapse in the rain and blog on the initial raudonikis to see who is really pretty quick question. it is just that honest necessity. you're a democratic strategist said governor of the takeover. take your pick lets the civil colony of the model of the started as they should but one which has now concluded by me, me 2 and others who have more muscle than water. do you have
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a spot on the blue or don't want to just died in the war? that was one of life's most involved. want to just not support what you want to just not support him while you get chills. just all talk or want to kill the world. well don't you know uncle yells out all that quickly get all of them one, get the 12 that cannot or need to come up because just a little you probably have to single. let me give you simply must be a lot more than just for me. this was a little education for all of us are the live prisoners in canada. i saw them a strong national political. you get to bustling in years to give me your name
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because i started to, nationally, school became sister. ships is a believer, mr. bush with us by unitarian. as you know, sort of took over you wouldn't sleep with bill and mr. still are of course resisted nephew or mischief which will cut you. thank you because i should pull it off while you gentian. whether there was just because i started like i'd not but you know what that was about it for the 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 construct, but also the promotion of it. you're pushing. the greedy permission i was going to see on the atmosphere is that if you are going to secure the site yet, they used what the quit the course for just because of the website i have come to go, cause it's in my sleep. if you buy your motivation for me to wear it at the video,
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you probably gonna cut it all more. usually assume that i see what it was usefully simple. that's completely gone. 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 a is a kazakh filmmaker who in 1990 confronted soviet officials with the facts about the polygon that's still going out by the book.
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it seems to dump it is what it is now that the sam is it to me, but i was danny or me at all when you put it. so when you talk 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. yes. leo. bust through it like years ago at the object. like you've got my dear. it would look like, here's a question for you 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.
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in february 1800, rumors spread to underground tests of the polygon that exploded into the atmosphere . the kazakh population growth harmed. silliman off is a beloved kazakh, poet is based here everything others will never see, but that most of us says you're going to get damaged. but even if that removes the force, is that on those who leave us, let us agree which it is little work in the movie script what you've learned, it's quite soon, the men are called a public meeting. we don't know about your beer, but if it will not get over, it won't be argued that it would
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bug me give me a good week that also signifies serious political. him coming down the list, get a read on a kid, be it. the biggest astley office needs to be less skilled in business. he would be a good new board could, could have started what effect teach him to play the movement towards democracy in the soviet union facilitated the nationwide protest. all designed the good policy. good whiskas only at the idea was a dumb decision. a quote deal with discussed on local book need only choice. good luck. good, honest citizens, movement to
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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. a lot of the sudden the however, the horror has not gone away. levels of radiation in some parts of the bald eagle remained 10 times higher than normal. the bad yeah. but ideal is yet again. why did you pick up a brunette beauty? but i watching it was so quiet again at a party played out of my life now with your other mom, the premier a year bill is a postcard your reward? e-r. marvelous lago, my guns get that you got me granted. sometimes not coming when you guys are,
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but using your method, i'm just the money doesn't follow. doesn't close on to a little news to a lot of all of us to not get to the all of the on the other side of a lot of the i'm sure, but a lot of the hour was almost similar to the of course we were to believe you only to me, the other worst of simplest of this i'm alone is this the most recent years rule that they're not a prick of probably similar of the mr. i don't know any horse with
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scars and will pull them up her chair and wait to see what it's of them to quit and wish
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silent bombs a disturbing reminder of the long term consequences of nuclear testing. but since
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that film 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 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 second 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
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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 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
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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 jet thermal reservoir or something like this. of course is great economic benefit, but there's always a downside there, industrial accidents,
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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 somewhere 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,
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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 waste water. oklahoma has gone from being completely off the map when it comes to earthquakes, 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. org. but what we think coded in it is not just quakes or earthquake sequences that we're absolutely 100
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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 dice 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 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 say in 2008, 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 have to be american 1st. i didn't have much appreciation for why it would be
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a big deal that a muslim india look to the united states congress want, has changed. rewind, islam in america on al-jazeera. the cool breeze blew up through argentina, dropping temperatures and prompting these big showers. or tonight, still hanging around in the north, to be honest, need to be quite big thunderstorms temps. behind. not surprising though they should be. montevideo is 18, for example, by blanket surats coming up $27.00. once more, the wind has died down. now those shares they wander around,
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will probably run up into paraguay, but a sense in still hangs on to 36 degrees. more help for rain, maybe is that spreading through the western side of brazil and a good part of peru as well. but the seas no rain at its heavy seas showing up around costa rica to some degree, panama, mostly costa rica, and then coming in with that northerly breeze into mexico. that frontal system is quite active. and regenerates likely flooding into vasco in this part of mexico because the system keeps moving down. eventually through billy's into honduras again, but doesn't a particularly heavy. now it's costa rica is a place to watch in the us, all the work is going on in the east and the eastern states. this is rain and this is the cold tucking, which is snow. now there is some snow, a little bit stuck into the cascades, but that's the place to watch. i suspect with the code eventually leaking cross to the east coast.
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