make a real impact on climate change we improve the quality of the air we breathe the food we eat are you to return we who you see important for our children to eat and if you don't take our rights we screw all forms and we get into. the state of you news and these are our top stories police have made arrests at a vigil in south london in memory of murder victim sarah ever heard the virgil was officially cancelled after a court denied permission for it to go ahead nevertheless 100 still turned out to pay their respects earlier on saturday a police officer appeared in court charged with ever it's murder. astra

zeneca has again cut its forecast for the number of vaccines it will deliver to the european union and now says it will deliver just 30000000 doses in the 1st quarter instead of the 80000000 originally agreed astra zeneca is blaming the shortfall on production problems and export restrictions. several people have been killed in demonstrations against me on mars military rulers at least one person was shot dead in the city a few several others were killed in the main city and gone where protesters defied a 9 time curfew to hold a candlelight vigil on than 70 protestors have been killed since last month's scope . the state of the news from berlin you can follow us on instagram and twitter at the daily news or visit our website d w dot com. this

week on world stores. new hope for migrants in the u.s. . women are fighting in militias in congo. that's we begin in germany where the world's 1st criminal trial on torture in syria is taking place the 1st verdicts to be denounced for the bereaved families of the victims it is just the beginning. there always fresh flowers next to add a must if is portrayed he disappeared in syria 8 years ago. the few remaining photos of him and his daughter wafa most precious possessions she's looked at m.f. hours and times trying to conjure up his presence the day it happened was away her

mother living in northern syria was on her way to visit her husband in damascus they hadn't seen each other in months 15 minutes before she arrived she called them and said i need sustain i'll be there in 15 so he said that i clean the how everything is perfect and i'm just waiting for you. just in minutes later she i've. she called him and he never responded oh. you know i mean of the day was like it says according to neighbors armed men had come to take allie mystify away. her mother and sisters had to flee syria one week later and leave him behind they still don't know anything about what happened to him. that i actually survived by leaving syria and up getting killed there maybe i have physically survived somehow. you cannot just get used to the fact

that you lost your dog in one second you know you cannot just use to the far get used to the fact that he just disappeared for nor is a. wife or his father is one of 130000 people who have gone missing in syria investigators believe most of them were disappeared in bashur prisons a german court has now convicted one former syrian intelligence officer for his role in the torture of prisoners in syria another office is trial is still ongoing when the trial began held a vigil in front of the courthouse either in mind myself and i don't mind the whole word every day that my balance was political was against your only demand that freedom justice and the state of law and for that reason has been this appeared for almost 8 years now and this is not acceptable i'm not going to be silent about that

. feels at home in berlin but says she could see herself eventually returning to syria and rebuilding the country in the meantime it's important for her to be in germany at this historic moment we are working our best. because you cannot dismiss costs and decide anything about us without us. u.s. president joe biden's plans to reform asylum laws are giving hope to many seekers who are waiting in mexican comes to enter america. every morning at sunrise crosses the bridge over the rio grande there to mexico today a mission is to help refugees to get to the other side as immigrants re fair to the

united states on this site people already know her and are called somebody asking for her help. now there is a possibility again to offer a person who is being persecuted and who has a life threat to apply for asylum. after 4 years suborder is finally opening again for immigrants qualifying for asylum many of them have been waiting in mexico for years under inhumane circumstances this is what our role as a people that care about their circumstances the fact that they're here we are people their families and they need to that oppresses the fact that they're not alone. this is why is here to guide them and assist them in the process these immigrants came together 2 years ago and created the informal refugee camp. ever since they refused to move insisting to stay as close as possible to the united states they came from haiti central america and also from parts in mexico where

criminality is. a total of $25000.00 immigrants seeking asylum have been stuck in mexico for years president biden said ministration has now allowed them to wait for their hearings in the united states. for them. this is the culmination of years of waiting and for sister norma it's an honor to be part of it and free in care the most so yeah. finally this is so beautiful i'm tired it has been a day full of emotions and very exhausting and to free them with these families they have suffered a lot and now the united states is opening its doors for them. but i. was on the u.s. side n.g.o.s are taking care of them around 1009 percent have family members or friends living in the united states but this is not the end of their trip to afghanistan this long journey is just starting the goal it's not here yet in this

area meanwhile on the mexican side of the border more families who are forced to flee iraq having hoping that the new biden administration will let them in. we are in there for my family and i we had to scape because they said they want to kill us . as long as the root of the problem is not address the increase of criminal activity in mexico and central america is still going to force families to abandon their hopes. the eastern democratic republic of congo is ruled by rival militias. women are among these rebel fighters running of them experienced abuse as teenagers. we are on foot the beauty of the landscape cannot distract from the constant fear

of kidnap or being caught up in fighting. as soon as we get close the rebel militia sends an escort to take us to that base. one of them is mummify either she joined the militia almost 20 years ago after another group attacked her village the man killed her parents with machetes 6 of them raped her she was just 15 she's already been married the same group that killed her husband. i felt defeated my life had defeated me i saw what they had done to me and how they killed my family i couldn't continue my life like it had been i mean really so i decided to become a fighter and drive them out what was it. given the chance she'd shoot them on the spot she says when a former teacher began recruiting people to take revenge she joined him many in her group survived similar trus that is it's

a militia of traumatized damaged young people. they killed my father they killed everyone in my family that's the only reason i became a fighter. offer terry bench and survival they control around 20 villages in the area security for food in a deal they say is consensual but we saw our local people running in fear from them the idea of consent is complicated for everyone. it's only when we are alone that says this. i hear that other people run away from the group but i think how can i run i have no one to help me i have no land i have no one who could help me build a life. and. she would like to trade her gun for the life she had before as a farmer. should do in my shop i would have had

a good life with my husband one like other people have but that was taken away from me 7 o'clock. now she pours what hope she has in her children that they will have choices one day. despite many coronavirus cases with drugs restrictions are fairly relaxed the spanish capital is becoming the new favorite destination of what don't we return from all over europe. meeting friends and enjoying drinks in the sun a rare pastime these days but possible in madrid and that's why the spanish capital has become a refuge for young tourists from france it's so so depressing being in a country that is nothing's open it's gloomy all day you have to be back there's

a curfew it at 6 you can even see your friends there are no cafes there's no you know you can't sit down with anyone you literally can't do anything in in france. in madrid coronavirus restrictions are less strict than in other parts of europe and negative p.c.r. test was enough frenzy to mine tears to come here she didn't have to quarantine and also brought a friend i come here there's there's friends there is. amazing it's a dream come true. i dreamed that theodore stark and i u b have also pursued the students live in germany and are spending a few days here they planned the trip with friends knowing that germany has advised its population to avoid travelling tyrus countries. somehow you feel bad if you travel because other people are self isolating and you're not supposed to travel at the moment. but i don't think you can stay at home for

a whole year either. we want to see the world while we're in the prime of our lives . during the day the students explore the city in the evenings they stay at home they say they feel safer keeping to themselves others feel differently madrid's police sometimes have to break up illegal parties held after curfew with participants ignoring current contact restrictions which is ideal for this bridge of the virus this party was organized by french tourists. illegal parties also worry dr laura sons in the end they all contribute to more infections. that get in america so we already have to be very careful with family members and in our everyday lives unnecessary contact has to be avoided it. the young people we met this afternoon in madrid think both can work being responsible

and enjoying the freedoms of life we do all the p.c.r. test and everything we wear the mask when we have to we don't want to bother spanish people you know we just want to leave again and in france we're going to do that from now madrid as one of the few cities in europe that still allows some leeway though that could change at any time. we're all. looking to go beyond. take on the world. all this is where all of the stories that matter to you.

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. refuses to leave his farm in the focus exclusion zone where radioactivity is 10 times higher than normal. he feeds his castle though there contaminated meat can never be eaten. what do you see zoe is doing may seem irrational but it's possible a long running battle. the battle waged by people harmed by radiation there are many examples weapon tests on bikini atoll the focus ema disaster the radium goes.

to gigi. the accident occurred on march 11th i was working at the owner gower nuclear power plant 120 kilometers north of tokyo. and i had to stay there until the 15th of march i couldn't leave on the 13th the alarm was sounded and on a cow as well because the radioactive cloud was passing through the area so i thought oh gosh the radioactivity was so intense that nobody was allowed to go outside because the exact doing measurements had to come back inside but this was a good on march the 13th i saw a huge ship out in the back it was the ronald reagan there craig really was here as a part of operation for that. sucks and blows are. dutchy is the japanese word for friends the operation was

a humanitarian mission on the part of u.s. forces to help people affected by the tsunami. on march the 13th 20112 days after the 1st explosion in a reactor at the fukushima nuclear plant the aircraft carrier u.s.s. ronald reagan was caught in the radioactive plume rising from the plant. we knew what we were responding to we knew where we were going there was a tsunami in the reactor there was something wrong with the reactors were going to it might be leaking. i think the part that we didn't know was like the severity of the cooling when what we're really going in soon so we were in it or we had access to the higher drugs so right off the bat i happened to go up and you could you could taste it in the air there the air tasted different almost like like

a metal taste almost like blood in your mouth was not blood and maybe more like a tinfoil or something like you're looking tinfoil the radiation we didn't know right away. they try to keep that from us but our alarms went off and we had to go to our d. come stations where we get screwed down and everything and no one knew what was going on so they had the nuclear people from the ship come in with a geiger counters and you just have a long line leading to the catwalk which side of the ships to get checked basically so you're not tending the entire inside of the ship here in those geiger counters you don't know you hear this sound and it's clicking and it's like why is this what's going on don't worry about it you know we were out there for for 3 or 4 days and then the captain came over the speakers and said that there was. a meltdown at the fukushima nuclear power plant. there ronald reagan had taken a position 200 kilometers north the fukushima. an easterly wind carried

radioactivity out into the pacific in several waves the aircraft carrier was trapped its $5000.00 crewmembers endured 2 days of intense radiation. and we had to move the ship because we were you know in the path and apparently it shifted right into us and we had to from there we took precautions to not as much radiation but i do remember over a few days it was a game of cat and mouse of running from the radiation obviously there was questions like oh we're going to die know what's going to happen to us don't worry about it nothing's going to hurt you you're flying that's what we were told keep doing your job your flight. hire people are going on to the deck. we are.

also struggling that occurred not good for him he got water for drinking and for showering on board was taken from the sea and filtered the museum apart from the radioactivity the soldiers absorb from the atmosphere they also poison themselves via the water they drink them locals that was probably worse than all those who thought flip on going to go up sheeple who. was also hard on the thing about radioactive radiation is that it goes through the body. light is also alecto magnetic radiation but it can't enter the body and radioactive radiation is so much more intense you don't know and there are you know they could . it's an enormous energy pierces the body. in the process some of it is absorbed by the body guard on the i.q.

issue sorry with this or that radioactive radiation damages molecules in the body and it's especially dangerous when it damages the d.n.a. all of that which carries genetic information he just gave you sooner they told us that we're going to you know. go upstairs and wash everything down by we're going to scrub all the jets around scrub every surface and. we were going to come down so we were done. directly after the 1st explosion people in the region felt relatively safe because the wind was carrying the radioactivity out to sea but on march 15th it changed direction and headed inland to tokyo exposing countless people to radiation. the disaster struck everywhere on the ground in the air at sea there was no escape people were desperate to know if there was any way to protect themselves. all

know by only preventative measure against damage by radioactive substances is to ingest iodide those who cause that go some way towards preventing fire oid cancer. it's the only thing there is the usual. sort of they also say although there was a supply of potassium iodide tablets in fukushima they were not distributed to its residents so that was a serious crime against the people. on march the 14th. to number 3 exploded the mayor of me her real and his deputy decided to give iodine capsules to all their residents. was the only town in the region to do this and it did so without permission from the district administration which consistently played down the danger. the disaster had all the hallmarks of

the nuclear industrial complex as failings the withholding of information the passive and submissiveness on the part of the authorities towards the plant operator coupled with ignorance and incompetence. in such cases taking potassium iodide tablets is the thing to do. but we received absolutely no information about the situation and more the level of radiation. your focus shima prefecture told us nothing. that i could not depend on the state or government institutions to protect those affected no information was coming from above. so i followed news from abroad so i could at least hear the forecasts about the

release and spread of radioactive plume in the atmosphere. and in desperation i started to prepare for the distribution of iodine tablets. on march the 15th reactors number 2 and 4 exploded in short succession. the workforce at the plant was evacuated the 17000 residents of me how really got there iodine and a short time later the prefect got in touch with the man. the children who need a little not fishel in charge chided us because we had distributed potassium iodide to everyone and asked who had instructed us to do so a lot and we said it had been our decision he then told us to get the tablets back . because the prefecture had not authorized distribution you the national we told

him that the pills had already been handed out and it would be impossible to get them back. we just ignored it he doesn't stop we stop the. world i don't tell is supposed to you're supposed to take them as it's happening or before it happens right so they brought us the forms the sign that says that they gave us either but it never happened let alone when those forms came about it was way after the fact so you know if you would have gave us those titles at that time would have no effect on have done anything for us they brought us out of the mess that acts and they just sat us all down at tables i want to hear we're going to give you these papers just sign on says that we gave the idea and tablas to sign it and we'll talk about it later and i was sitting there i was like i'm not signing this you just have to do it i don't have to do anything but you have to sign it and

i just gave the paper and i walked away i'm not signing it but so many people were there that we have to do we have to sign it and they just sign away you know we you know we didn't get it. they won't talk to most of the commanding officers took potassium iodide tablets the ronald reagan is nuclear powered so of course it's a quick with a dust senator so the top brass knew full well how high the level of radiation was no it's all bullshit what they should have done was inform their soldiers and take appropriate safety measures his you know. what the crew one told thing was that they continue to drink filtered water and remain exposed to radiation so i'm going to ask and i want to know don't lie to me i want to know if i'm going to be ok i want to know if my future is going to be ok my children are going to be ok i need to know these things and then you go to the v.a. to ask can i get a check just one check just me one time you tell me come back when something falls

off what happens if my kids are falls are you going to check me that or go you know what i mean like i i just want to know what's the truth. everybody here was affected by that whether they knew it has been affected by things like that because they've been testing with nuclear stuff here since the fifty's in the sixty's and they've been. radiation why while on top of your people why people. 25 of those on board the ronald reagan during the operation have since died in 201-5400 former crew members who had fallen ill the company that operates. these 4 marines left for health reasons the authorities have not acknowledged any connection between their exposure to radiation onboard the u.s.s. ronald reagan and their illness. on

march the 1st $954.00 the u.s. detonated a hydrogen bomb on bikini. it was far more powerful than expected almost a 1000 times as powerful as the atomic bomb that destroyed hiroshima. a japanese fishing boat. who was at work in the nuclear fallout the boat's name means lucky dragon but for the 23 men onboard exposed to intense radiation with 0 protection this was the least lucky day of their lives. less than 9 years after the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki japanese civilians were again subjected to the deadly effects of atomic power.

in the early 1980 s. sociology professor. peter got to know mrs fucci she and his son had been subjected to radiation when the u.s. detonated an atomic bomb of another sucky. was irradiated a 2nd time in 954 he was one of the fisherman near bikini. the 2 are buried next to each other in this cemetery. but it's sort of their deeds. but. you know like i mean they may have. to make this a clean a new kind of bed with him. most of. the stuff he took his own life out at sea he was 27 years old. however he wasn't

a member of the crew on the di go for. we had thought that was the only boat exposed to radiation at bikini atoll. that's what they taught us at school but it wasn't true. we were shocked to discover that apart from the tiger for cool your model there were many other boats near the art hall at the time. to do some research he and his students looked for fishermen who had been at sea near bikini asshole in 954. handed out questionnaires and around the fishing port of call and got almost $300.00 replies. the result came as a shock but the fisherman told her and his students directly contradicted the official version of events when the u.s. conducted its nuclear weapons test on bikini asshole the diago fukuyama who was

just one of many japanese fishing boats subjected to radiation. is still the best known and is now on display in its own museum in tokyo. but it is only the tip of the iceberg in fact some $700.00 fishing boats experienced the same thing or near bikini asshole in addition to $23.00 men on board the di eager for corio madhu several 1000 other fishermen were also exposed to the radiation the japanese government has never publicly acknowledged or identified them or offered them any compensation. you know. we had no idea that a nuclear bomb was going to be tested there. we only heard about it after we got back to port in japan more. color that then they are only to make the army

war college we had enough drinking water on board but we used sea water to wash our car we desperately need to get up however my master the winds were very strong and the waves were huge and if so we were often soaked through many miles from all of it in a. bikini you are ordered to and their culture with them that you need for a while we were at bikini atoll for 40 or 45 days or can you not. see war movie what are. the who you think they are oprah for today we got no information and no instructions from the government. no one said we should avoid the area because of nuclear testing. couldn't guarantee. for a day we often went back there to fish later on. of course we also ate fish 3

times a day. including the entrails. there we later learned that the entrails get contaminated 1st. or through florida. in may 9542 months after the day go for clear matter who returned to port a research vessel set sail its departure was carefully staged with a cheering crowd i'm sure. the japanese government sent the show called suma true to take measurements at bikini asshole and met the spread of radiation. samples were taken press stations and fished. sectored and scanned many many festered high levels of radioactivity especially tuna to name travel long distances

contaminated specimens were found far from the atoll. radiation levels were also tested in fishing ports in japan. engineers and white gloves examined large numbers of fish with a geiger counters. this map reveals the geographical extent of the disaster the red dots mark way contaminated fish were caught the affected area was much larger than the dangerous zone demarcated by the united states it encompassed much of the philippines taiwan and japan. the authorities said contaminated fish could not be eaten entire catches with dumped into the sea the financial losses were huge markets suddenly had no fish to sell people were scared of the radiation and of shortages of a dietary staple it was an unprecedented crisis. the fishermen demanded

compensation from the government in the meantime the u.s. continued testing nuclear bombs at bikini atoll. japan saw mass demonstrations against nuclear weapons. radiation fallout came to be known as sheen all high the ashes of death. the n.t. nuclear movement was gaining support fast and the united states was getting worried . this was after all in the middle of the cold war. if japan were to fall under soviet domination again for communism would be tremendous. to prevent this possibility. a strong well defended your plan is vitally important and necessary. in early december 954

a new government was installed in japan the us played a part in that under some of the 10th convicted war criminals and politicians who had served the militaristic regime before 945 were rehabilitated. under some of the 27 the new foreign minister. appealed to the united states for $2000000.00 the money was to pay off and silence the fisherman at the same time many former high ranking officers were released from prison on parole demilitarised after world war $2.00 japan was to have an army again. the u.s. launched a propaganda campaign in japan extolling the virtues of atomic energy both disney was commissioned to make a series of cartoon film starring the asem something amazing. the atomic age was born only the superpower which america has released from within

the adams mark is not one but many giant. one is the warrior destroyer another is engineers seeking to provide quantities of energy to run the world machine. in 1955 the american traveling exhibition atoms for peace was shown in more than 20 cities in japan including hiroshima and nagasaki as the u.s. and the soviet union embarked on their decades long nuclear arms race more than a 1000000 people visited the exhibition marveling at the many peaceful uses of nuclear technology. that dared tell no tales and so. the silence of the grave descended over the horrors of hiroshima and nagasaki the suffering of the survivors was forgotten the

tragedy of the fisherman harmed by radiation at bikini atoll was found in no history books. intense propaganda on behalf of our friend the asem drowned out attempts to commemorate the victims of atomic mind. radioactivity is a physical phenomenon that can both kill and cure. it was discovered by early because they and further research by p.f. and. least with the 1st to use the term radioactivity in order to describe certain properties of the elementary which they had just discovered. this excess of radium in the early 20th century had mainly to do with its use in medicine it was above all the curies and in particular pierre curie you advanced

the research there are no hope after 2 years of henry beck around one forgot some radium in powder form in his waistcoat pocket for a few hours he then said to pierre curie how there's a burn on my skin exactly where the packet of radium had been. yes one of pure q e. m o simply. so cure himself titus sashay with radium salts to his left forearm if i kind of burn appeared there too and it left a scar you just don't see at least 80 in 101 becker ellen curie published an article in which they described how radium rays cause skin burns. he got but don't really deep softball you couldn't. no you don't if you get more back the same time industries started to get interested in the fact that

radium glows in the dark well it was marie curie who had observed this shortly after the discovery of radium. she wrote about the pretty bluish light. not only excuse radians capacity to glow was soon harnessed to make luminous paint that enable one to see in the dark even unison. off its. value. to go say the story of the radium girls is one of the 1st known cases of cancer caused by ionising radiation. these young women and girls painted the faces of watches and alarm clocks with the radioactive luminous paint of a point to you they were told to use their lips to create a narrative to their brushes so they could paint fine lines if you need you see

it's easy and fast enough so that you should say oh pete. they did that and of course these particles of radium would stick to their lips which caused an otherwise very rare kind of cheema of the jawbone the tumors were enormous the girls had been poisoned by the radium you know and the consequence was meant to larry a pleasure so what that means is that they're born american which produces red and white blood cells and platelets stopped working and it killed the movie before so young guns in $192075.00 of the women sued their employer the united states radium corporation it was clear that the company knew about the danger because the engineers in charge of the girls had taken measures to protect themselves. the case never made it to trial. there was an out of court settlement instead use.

as so often in the united states the matter was sorted out with a bit of money because the women were poor they and their families said good it's better than nothing we'll take the cash and keep quiet quite too so you can own the overconcern you westerdale. up you. don't get to see the pierre curie died in 1906 in a traffic accident much later in 1905 when he was to be repaired in the pantheon he was exuberant when his coffin was opened a cloud of radon a skate showing just how contaminated he had been likened to me if he hadn't died in an accident it's clear he would eventually have died as a result of the radiation exposure just as marie curie did it because it cost the disease it was she.

women men and children were photographed in film from all sides shortly after the allied occupation of japan in 1945 the united states undertook a large scale medical investigation into the survivors of hiroshima and nagasaki they wanted to see what effect the atomic bombs had had especially barratry was established to analyze the impact of radioactivity on the body note it was a lab and not a hospital it offered no treatment to the survivors they were only observed and studied the victims were downgraded to guinea pigs. these file cards bearing handwritten annotations represent irradiated individuals and their

elements. it's a horrendous archive of cruelty and immorality coolly registering skin diseases detached retinas menstrual irregularities hair loss in niña tumors diarrhea and vomiting among many other illnesses and death the data was not published either in japan or the united states. in 1946 the united states launched a series of nuclear weapon tests. one aim was to study the effects of radiation on troops military equipment and the environment the program continued into the 960 s. . use an operation hard. and 1958 and i went through 20.