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this is the first time since the second world war the japanese people have no trust in the government as a country's authorities launched massive radiation check ups three months after the fukushima disaster a local people are angered by the late response and a lack of transparency. a russian intelligence chief has been found guilty of treason for exposing a group of russian sleeper agents in the u.s. last summer. and venezuelan officials deny the country's leader which obviously is in a critical condition with some claiming the u.s. is instigating rumors about a cancer just destabilize his government. what you are to live from moscow high marina joshie welcome to the program the japanese government is starting radiation check ups for more than two million people living
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near the crippled fukushima plant that's part of a long term health monitoring program launched over three months after the nuclear crisis started and as r.t. has shown thomas reports confusion over where safe and war isn't the man he lose trust in the authorities. in a culture that is generally non-confrontational and obedient when thousands take to the streets of tokyo against nuclear energy it is a serious sign of discontent after this crisis it is true that the people are more conscious and we need to take advantage of it this is the first time since the second world war that the japanese people have no trust in the government the walky and coastal city devastated by the earthquake the tsunami and on the edge of the radiation exclusion zone is starting on the long road to recovery but the people living here say the government just isn't doing enough from the city hall iraq city they said different things not perfect or they said different things. and the government they said different things. they end up together or. part of the
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country. they are a part but some believe it is too early to tell what the real dangers of the situation or scientist to know that large doses of radiation given in one blast is a significant health threat but they say there isn't enough information about long term exposure to lower doses of radiation and the types of damage it can do if you check it here for a radiation level and then you check debriefs and then you take water you always feel half different values because it's so close and it's so changing so you can hardly say but it's really exceeds what a normal person would have by year one of the frightening things about this entire incident is that there are no concrete boundaries that can clearly guarantee your safety one example is this looks like a beautiful lush green valley behind me but in fact this is the very head of the twenty kilometer exclusion value that the government has set up in fact we're
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trying to get a little bit closer but we're supported by a police officer and a top. now although this is supposed to be a safe area the radiation levels here are still between seven and ten times higher than normal weather for misinformation or mis understanding the people who live in the affected areas don't always take the proper precautions hero volunteer works to clean up toxic radioactive hot spots with hardly any protection at all a problem that some say is compounded by government propaganda accentuating the benefits while neglecting to inform about the dangers of nuclear waste. the first thing the government should do is let the citizens know the real cost of nuclear energy until now the priority has been to profit from energy the p.r. machine of the government has been emphasising the benefit of nuclear energy and the citizens have been brainwashed to believe it now in the wake of an international crisis and there are allegations that the government and the power companies have worked. on a deal to help each other and that the media has been bought off the t.v.
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channels need the money from advertisement and the nuclear energy companies pay a lot with at this money they cannot survive and for that reason i have to shut up about the situation the newspapers have this problem as well a move that if true keeps the important information hidden from the people saving face for those in charge in japan showing thomas. the japanese government is pushing people to get back to normal life without creating safe enough conditions for it and that's the view of a greenpeace activist who's part of a team conducting an independent investigation into the fukushima health effects his interview is coming up in less than half an hour but here's a quick preview. right she's trying to really want to be starving because on one hand you see the japanese are forcing people and the society to be back to normal kind of sort of the work of kids go to the schools farmers start to actually plant your fields. and yet at the same time they're still extremely high. and the
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competition of both in the soil but also potentially in the food this is three months after the accident started but the japanese these japanese are very few sexually we can hold information they don't people the tools and they don't provide them with any kind of support. the man i blew the cover of a group of russian agents in the u.s. last year has been found guilty of treason by a moscow court the verdict has been announced in absentia as intelligence colonel alexander but managed to flee the country before the scandal unfolded last summer it led to ten agents including ana chapman being arrested and swapped for four u.s. spies all get your eyes are was following the case for your mosque in talks more so because you do tell us more on what seems to be a top secret court process out there. but it's hard to give a lot of information precisely because this is
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a top secret court case every single document the last time military court has looked at during the course of the trial has been labeled classified and the verdict is being read without the journalist present behind closed doors so it's difficult to divulge a lot of information but we do know that the moscow military court has found former colonel alexander. guilty of treason and deserted his country we don't yet know how. much his sentence will be but we do know that the prosecutors did ask for twenty five years imprisonment for the man and of course stripping him of any military ranks and awards that he may have received during his service. we do know. of course the man was tried in absentia as he has a left the country a little over a year ago just before the russian president's visit to the united states last
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summer reading to previous information he allegedly sent out his wife and family before he left the country but according to the information coming out of that has not been the case his wife has actually been giving evidence in court on his behalf and according to the judge he actually sent his wife message on s.m.s. message from his phone when he left the country saying mary i hope you will understand that i'm not leaving for a while i'm leaving for good so that was basically the first clue his wife had that he was planning to defect and to leave his country. to the documents that were presented in the court it is most likely that he's currently in hiding somewhere in the united states. while it's about a year or since that spy drama unfolded can you take us back and remind happened.
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indeed well just a little over a year a year ago the international media and of course the u.s. media was frenzied by the news of a so-called spy ring the boss did in the united states on the east coast ten people ten russian citizens of used of espionage for russia or brought up on charges and. a leader found guilty of being on registered agents of a foreign government they were not convicted of espionage but that didn't do much to dissuade the press from calling it a russian spy ring those ten people were later exchanged with u.s. spies currently imprisoned in russia swap was made in europe in vienna and those ten people accused of being on registered agents in the united states all returned to russia all but one a citizen of the rule of the keep the law is she actually returned to her home country we know that upon arrival here in russia most of them received very warm
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welcomes they actually met with a russian president who did say that they will be getting state awards for services to their country perhaps the most famous person out of those people is chapman of course nicknamed the russian james ball and she has become a very prominent media personality here in russia he's also a member of a youth political party so she's definitely. enjoying a lot of media attention. and that of course has been a very high profile case which is why the trial of alex on the sea of the colonel who allegedly. who basically betrayed those people working for their government and was found guilty by a moscow military court today is also receiving a lot of media attention. thanks indeed for bringing us more on this because humans are with their. stories now here in our team
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senior venezuelan officials have denied that the country's president has cancer this comes after a report citing a u.s. intelligence source saying the american leader is in critical condition after undergoing surgery in cuba chavez has been in cuba for more than two weeks by administer an official say he's being treated for. and that he will return home around a week author and research things u.s. is driving the reports in an effort to destabilize chavez's government. what we are seeing the generalized rejean change promoted by the united states britain france and even israel behind the scenes in north africa and in the middle east as a whole will now be coming very likely to latin america so i would not be surprised to see a wave of us promoted regime change in various countries in latin america from their point of view a logical country to start with you can as well and as well has very close ties
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with iran a growing movement a very strong movement within the united states at a top level to declare and classified as a quote unquote terrorist state apparently the global power elite operating from the united states and from britain is said on global regime change as they move i believe closer and closer to a more formal world government. well filler talk about the u.s. fostering regime change has appeared after the state department announced its new programs aimed at spreading democracy around the world it's going to provide finance and technology to opposition groups but it only appears to apply to those countries which the u.s. would like to see the leadership toppled or just got edged account has more of the u.s. state department now generously hands out cash and technology to dissidents throughout the world its bureau of democracy human rights and labor has announced the request for proposals on how to foster a change in a number of countries in the middle east and north africa as well this cuba the us
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claims the best of intentions saying it wants to strengthen independence civil society groups in those countries it's just been really another form of provoking regime change they're just trying to do it under a different guise under a different facade saying that somehow and with the best of intentions they're promoting democracy but in reality it's just promoting us agenda among other things the state department is financing the creation of stealth wireless networks that would enable activists to communicate outside the reach of governments in countries like iran syria and libya according to participate in the projects other programs include a so-called internet in a suitcase a powerful portable wireless transmitter that activists king used to set up their own networks in order to circumvent state control but at the same time american companies provide authorities in bahrain saudi arabia and kuwait with the technology to effectively block websites those double standards system everybody
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should be fully aware of things and understand the. us or united states government austrian regime change that's what essentially a revolution is our technology is not all the us provides to instigate change in certain countries some opposition movements get a direct cash supply. for example week it leaks cables show that the state department has for years secretly funded syrian anti-government groups in general to create a world that is more aligned more specifically more control will be aligned with the views of the united states i'm now looking at the state department website that promotes grants for those willing to bring about change in communist cuba and here is one of the requirements i'm going to read this it is preferable for these personnel to speak spanish fluently solid understanding of the cultural context and have prior experience on the island in order to maximize their
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effectiveness in this unique operating environment and of quote sounds very much like recruiting agents but instead of doing it the traditional secretive way the u.s. does their right out in the open on their website help most often comes with strings attached many say opposition leaders in libya who now get financial and political support from washington are sure to get instructions on how to return the favor essentially their. system with. the u.s. government even if they don't necessarily think it's going to check on r.t.e. washington d.c. . well we have more on washington's less subtle involvement in other countries later this hour here as the u.s. is about to start its troop withdrawal from afghanistan we'll bring you an expert opinion on what legacy the americans are leaving behind. now let's take
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a look at some other stories from around the world here in r t a trial is over in cambodia former khmer rouge leaders on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity the four defendants are believed to be responsible for the deaths of up to two million people during their four year rule in the nineteen seventies the regime was trying to create a utopian society with people died for. disease and overwork last year the former khmer rouge member cameron dodge was sentenced to thirty five years in prison. carrying humanitarian aid bound for gaza said to depart from greece it's reported it's made up of about ten ships with some five hundred activists on board israel's government has ordered the fans forces to stop the convoy in gaza it also says foreign journalists who take part will be banned from working in israel for ten years and attempt to deliver aid to the blockade of region last year resulted in a raid by israeli forces that left nine activists dad. as greece is
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asking for more money to bail the country out of economic crisis more voices are accusing the eurozone of failing the debate among members on whether to hand over a more money is scheduled for early july but i will cross to our program is already tackling the issues. the reason we're trying to buy time though and was still trying to buy time is to allow greece to more carefully consider what exactly it doesn't want to do because greece's resumed their lives and those are both the choice to avoid being on the politicians faces that's the key issue here they don't want to admit that the euro has been a mistake so they're doing anything that they can to try and paper over the cracks and draw and hope the problem will go away you really think that you if you look a lot easier when you're like. you know you don't want to. do what you want to be very injured.
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while some u.s. officials are arguing for morally you way over how the country's combat operations in afghanistan are carried out it's despite president obama's announcement last week of plans to pull out some american troops are these military contributor he's getting believes that america should be waging an anti drug war rather than a war on terror in afghanistan. during his speech related to the u.s. forces or a configuration in afghanistan which was supposed to cover the old or new year's policy in afghanistan. president obama has never ever mentioned he's concerned or demonstrated his understanding that when it comes to ghana stands the real threat doesn't come from that i would guide or it's associate but it has
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everything to do we have narco terrorism the u.s. legacy in afghanistan will be mostly measured by the fact that it was due to the u.s. and nato occupation that ever again a stand has been turned into a narco state and the local insurgency has spread out into international narco terrorism unfortunately ju clearly kolsky who is the us president dr visor was not involved in reviewing all of the old and formulating the new us policy in afghanistan and it boils down to two pronged approach vedder's counter-narcotics strategy for afghanistan and counterterrorism for pakistan and to integrate both approaches in comprehensive counter narco terrorism strategy. and log on to our team galleries and our
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website for an exclusive set of pictures from afghanistan covering every aspect of life in a war torn country by all that on our to dot com. page it is still waiting for political and economic reform in the wake of its uprising but for thousands of people who eat out a living living at rubbish dumps around cairo it seems change is always welcome next hour our special report reveals the challenges communities face from globalization and the arrival of foreign companies. i was just thinking about my future before the foreign companies came i dreamed of owning a can cabin factory. but we have less garbage now. some
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has it or so come here make fun of me. figure out garbage boy i'm not bad like people think. i'm a good person. it's just the people don't see me. but i feel it was time people like me as. i feel people will start to appreciate us. and that brings us up to date here on our time now for the world of business.
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hello and a very warm welcome to our business update russia needs to diversify its economy as oil production is not expected to grow in the next decade finance minister says the key challenge is to create an environment for non energy sectors to develop the source that would mean that the state will decrease its role in companies and give way to private investment the government is going to sell most of its shares in the key enterprises in the next three years this relates to financial energy and telecom and transport sectors. speaking out a forum for investors in moscow from where i'm joined by our. hollow tree trick which sees so what's the atmosphere like that. well of really listening to that speech of it actually could and was one of the highlights of this morning of the opening of the fifteenth annual investment conference organized by renascence
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capital and really that statement about selling the most of the shares in the key companies especially a new company was named today that's a float which will be joining the. privatization program within the next three to five years was an interesting statement so let's talk to maybe the chief economist from the nation's capital that's charles robinson he's joining us live here at the conference charles very good to see you here so what do you make of that statement from lexi couldn't about coming to join the privatisation program the more the merrier companies that have been privatized i think the. best is if you feel about . generally it has been a feeling. it's a state between the state has its own back competition and the more we have from test companies companies where the management is driven by the intention of making profits and hopefully then taxes to the government but with
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a lot of pressure that's that's what investors like to see hearing what do you make of how the privatization program has been going on so far i mean couldn't is expecting revenues to be actually increasing by twenty five to fifty percent in the second phase of the program it's it's looking good i think russia could give some advice to greece on this one at the moment they said we need to privatized it's a positive sign and we like to see that the fact that progress is being made all right what russia is seeing right now is a pretty shaky situation as i mean it well it's come down to below ninety dollars a barrel today we're seeing the budget expecting a deficit this year we're seeing capital outflows what do you make of the current situation first thing on oil it's a good thing for russia that the oil is come down it was heading up two hundred twenty hundred thirty dollars on brands in the longer run this would be a boom and bust cycle we saw in two thousand and eight we do not want to see this again in russia much more sustainable for the world economy if the if the oil prices say averaging ninety or one hundred dollars this is better global economy
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grows stronger it's a more sustainable story and that's that's how you can make proper plans for the for the future. your second point was. that there was the issue also about capital flights and they were having awful politics is playing some role here this seems to be some concern. about what will happen with the presidential election next year clarity on that would help now in the capital outflows we've seen fifty billion dollars go out of the country we're seeing the currency appreciating eight percent this year at the same time interest rates are not high enough to be attractive as inflation is high enough is that going to change. the group as we strengthening with a number of other commodity currencies. those commodities have been hard so as oil comes down yes you can expect a less strong story on the currency again that's probably hopeful no country likes to see dutch disease where you lose competitiveness and i think the russian authorities have done quite well in keeping the ruble less strong than say brazil
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which is a repeat overvalued now and they know it so i think russia is in a slightly better position that's all right charles thank you so much for your comments and for your time that was charles robinson cheaper global chief economist for the nation's capital at the races capital investment form and we will of course be bringing you more from this event will have more gas so join us in our future further both the. meter and his ankle thank you very much for this update and moving on oil is extending losses with a stronger dollar and worries about global demand has dropped sharply at the end of last week following a decision by the international energy agency to release strategic reserves on the market the move is having a direct impact on the russian market which relies heavily on energy exports w t i crewed oil is now trading at around ninety dollars a barrel its lowest for about a year whether you're a sloppiness of what a dortch a bank says the facts are likely to be short lived. i really think. these
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measures will probably. be transitory i don't think it's been a long term significant the. i think the reason why you have. a reaction from the markets is the possibility of such measures being undertaken in the possibility of them being with peter that in the future that i think is what is accounting for such a significant reaction but if things are lifted. and there's no continuous. sort of effort on the part of the developed world to try and raise will supply and i think it's likely to be a significant factor in the determination of oil prices for this year and we continue to project will prices averaging one hundred seventeen point five dollars for per barrel. has not had a check from those oil prices light sweet is trading at over ninety dollars
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a barrel while brand has slipped to one hundred three dollars per barrel. and european stocks are fluctuating between gains and losses the traders scare up herschel events this week and the greek debt crisis they also wage key economic indicators from around the world investors are looking ahead to you as data including personal income and consumption numbers to later in the day say is into positive territory just march for taxes down point four percent and here in russia the markets extending losses the negative sentiment over greek debt the r.t.s. is losing around one percent while the mice it's down twenty three percent so have a look at some of the individual show moves from the my six oil may just on among the main losers holding the downturn encouraged both. in the read more than one hundred percent banking stocks are also under pressure down point eight percent. that wraps up the business bulletin new york today. in less than one must tell you for more business stories here on our chief.
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