tv [untitled] July 6, 2011 12:00am-12:30am EDT
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new health threats feared in japan this traces of radiation are found inside rides of almost half the children living near the crippled fukushima power plant. leaves a light show increasing number of whole again sir putting air passengers in russia in danger by shining lasers at pilots. and the cell phone network that signaling were the shows are india's fishermen and find that no boss are where the money is.
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anyhow in the russian capital you're watching r t a marina josh welcome to the program i mean there are destroyed homes and rotting debris survivors of japan's earthquake and tsunami are story really trying to keep their a lives together victims still queue for basic necessities nearly four months after the disaster struck while the threat from the fukushima nuclear plant keeps the beleaguered country on alert as sean thomas reports the toll on those left sifting through what remains of their communities is immense. as the waves crash against a damaged to sea wall on the japanese coast volunteers work tirelessly to clean up the debris and bring some sense of normalcy back to the area. and i want to tell people we need more help more support and figures are still here. beyond the physical destruction there is a distressing psychological factor as well as city if you want he is right on the
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edge of the twenty kilometer exclusion zone for radiation contamination in fact in a recent study by japan's nuclear safety commission forty five percent of one thousand children tested any walking into metering cities have tested positive for thyroid radiation exposure a figure that has parents appalled that we have the government has researched a great area for safety and are not concerned with a consequence since their reaction is to help the governments they face but they don't actually take care of the damage and the people here first there was the earthquake and then the devastating way with rustin and destroyed this part of the coastal city of iraq and also there are the nuclear radiation waves that are coming into this area as well the volunteers that are coming in to rebuild this city certainly have their work cut out for them but just like the city itself the people who live here the community they need to have their spirits rebuilt as well.
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again in an effort to keep the community emotionally strong organizers have brought this acting troupe in from tokyo they say their goal is to provide something beyond a simple intertainment. through that shared community experience there is a sense of hope that the city of milwaukee can indeed recover the convenience of a property close to the city hall but you see many clients come back. and with an understanding that there is still much more work that needs to be done the people here are working to keep their community together. i just want them to stay where they want and if i can be helpful that i keep doing it. and rebuilding the city one step at a time any walky city japan sean thomas or t. . when it comes to gauging the health effects of that regime anxiety over atomic energy often makes it tough for people to separate theory from fact erector general
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of the world nuclear socio tells us later that the media often doesn't help with its comparisons to tragedies like churn our. we've just seen twenty four thousand japanese citizens killed by an earthquake and a tsunami. we've seen the media. frenzy in covering the accident at fukushima which has not made it had not been responsible for a single radiation fatality i think it was a tragedy in terms of the world's understanding of the essential safety of nuclear power i also think however that it might also be educational in the long term because people have begun to focus on and as they begin to begin to focus even more clearly on the ultimate consequences of fukushima they will learn that there was relatively little damage done. demarcus breaking ranks with its neighbors in europe's open border zone by restating controls on its boundaries with germany and sweden danish m.p.
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who's been pushing for stricter immigration laws says it's the european union's biggest. the idea of open borders throughout europe has shown to be a utopia and we have had the choice out of you the european idea or reality as really into the real world we can see what comes across our borders and not least at least what is leading denmark was stolen goods have increased we cannot sit and just watch that happen the same thing we see with the euro these are actually of europe even in countries that there weren't meant to have it every year and couldn't do it in the proper way we see the e.u. idea this insecurity i can see that happening all over the place not only and we might just be the first one to take steps to avoid further problems for our country the e.u. has an idea as an ideology if your life is disintegrating. so i have this hour here
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in our sound joined up thinking in eastern europe. many we strive for and if there is sentiment in one country to become part of a stronger neighbor but how many people really want that find out in our report also. you know you give them to disarm and remember telling you actually wall don't disarm and grab a break so you're the one left responsible you look at the ruling by judge cords that the netherlands is to blame for the deaths of three muslims and distributes a massacre in nine hundred ninety five. former i.m.f. chief dominique strauss kahn hopes of a comeback are now all but dashed now that a french writer has officially filed a complaint for attempted rape is lawyers vow to suit tristen venom for slander me a whale meanwhile of a current assault charges against him in new york continue to add away these
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alleged victim is suing a newspaper which called her a prostitute after legal investigators began questioning her credibility french history professor roberts the rats he says and even if it is completely clear it is political careers over. i don't think it's political sasa nation i think it really is a case of political suicide i really think that the mistrust con is that the origins of this case it's significant that the storm going on some mother who is a fairly important figure in the socialist party and who urged her daughter back in two thousand and three not to say anything about the attack has now come out of the closet and insists that stress can and is sexual habits have been long known among social as long amended but nobody said anything about their own so he may emerge
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a free man but whether his freedom is going to lead to the elisa a is a completely different story and a number of women in fact are appalled that the elephants which is what they call which they call the grand old men of the socialist party are plotting their clash in one another on the park right now because it seems to be on the verge of of being liberated from new york city's judicial system mobile phones are increasingly sophisticated these days but there's one years you might die at considered catching fish and in trawler crews used to rely on luck for a good catch but it's reiterate in our reports it's a different kind of network that's funding their fortunes. more than kamar wraps up his engine for a day of fishing off the coast of carolina a southern most state in india that was a little bit of i studied in school until the seventh grade but then i had to leave school because we were not economically well off so i had to help my dad fishing
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kumar's one of thousands of fishermen in the state who wake up at one o'clock in the morning to earn a living for decades fishermen like him are for life on mars and prayer to find a good catch but all that has changed since the introduction of the mobile phone in the state more than ten years ago but. if the fish is not available where we go fishing fisherman in other parts of the sea called us and tell us where we might be able to find a good catch og then we go to the particular place. in addition because of the new ease of communication kumar is able to find out how much demand is that is local market and the prices that buyers are offering in order to determine where to sell his fish today he is making double the amount of money he was making before he started using a mobile phone he now owns his own boat and says he is able to send his three daughters to college n.p.r. has the fastest growing mobile phone market in the world in the most growth is
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happening in a rural area what may be seen as a convenience in the west is being utilized by indian fishermen revolutionizing their business and turning them into entrepreneurs and business men in their communities most of these fishermen have been doing this work for generations and never imagined they'd become so tech savvy and watch their fathers and grandfathers come home from sea several times with no fish at all but today that never happens you know about a little bit of there's a lot of difference between the times when we used to go fishing that would stick and now when we go fishing with engine but the arrival of the phone it's become easier for the studies show that mobile phones aren't just empowering the fisherman in the community more competition means better prices for consumers on average they fallen by four percent it's a new quality of life for the people of this community who never dreamed that they would escape poverty. most fishermen they're illiterate but we want to give a proper education to our children and that is possible because of the earning we
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get from the fishing business there's no doubts that mobile phones that have helped . providing new opportunities by advancing their tradition with technology preassure either our teen carola india. and you can call our website for more features and analysis of our stories here is what's online at r.t. dot com right now. don and prison officials are blamed by human rights investigators for causing the custody death of a whistleblower lawyer. sergei magnitsky plus. delivering john kerr russian postal workers are caught stealing from parcels making off the wait list trash.
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she told column. the. machine would be soon much brighter than the. sun move from place to crash and so. these firms don't tsotsi don't come. you're watching are three live from moscow airliners are they are most vulnerable during takeoff and landing and now there is an increasing threat from the ground from a beam of light more than fifty planes in russia have had lasers shown into the cockpit this year dazzling pilots just when they need all their concentration you can do in a chopper reports on the police hunt for the whole against behind a potentially lethal lasers. very clear
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proof that the devil of a laser and they are i can be a major distraction i guess the food bill are pushed on our knowledge and it commands in these kind of. the consequences could be catastrophic if someone is targeted but flying an aircraft with hundreds of passengers on board blinding pilots by laser beams has become an increasing new sins in russia with over fifty attacks registered since the beginning of the year the latest incident was this not . when the pilots of a tupolev passenger ally in a arriving from istanbul were dazzled by popple green lights aimed at the aircraft by some out of the ground just plates and not a problem. but nothing but b.s. it's only a matter of time before that accident occurs. despite the huge danger pilots
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are attached with the most powerful and far reaching green lasers and during the most risky stage of a flight landing. it was around two in the morning we were at eight hundred meters above the ground when i spotted that a green beam of light was talking about our cockpit if it was thicker it would have closed the landing strip to us to avoid risk we learned it automatically. but not all are crossed and learned on autopilot and even if they do those in the course the need to remain in control and be able to see. the effect of a laser beam on a pilot can be compared to that of lightning a blind. potentially lethal laser guns imported from china can be bought in russia for as little as one hundred dollars firing a laser beam as far as five kilometers they can burn through paper and even plastic . in the u.s.
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sales of such devices are banned russian legislators are also considering outlawing them and toughening punishment for this advance those some are shining a spotlight on the police calling for more action a question of import of everyone's waiting for a new laws but there's no excuse for police and action on the ground of our current legislation is good enough is allows for the arrest and imprisonment of such fools for up to ten years in prison or could anyone have over a million police officers in the country who are supposed to take care of the problem take helicopters and knives scopes and patrol the skies and do something as of now there has been only one arrest in russia for in-town surely targeting an aircraft with a laser or the suspect still under investigation at something to down a plane by other means would be classed as terrorism public concern and russia's wising about the potentially equally serious risk from laser louts and their high tech hooliganism it's in
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a grouch over all right steve. relatives of three bosnian muslims who were killed in this represents a massacre during the bosnian war have lined a lawsuit against the netherlands dutch just haven't ordered the government to pay compensation if they comes to worse support staff for the dutch un peacekeeping force and were among the muslims who took shelter and the un protected enclave amana were executed by bosnian serbs after peacekeepers forced them out of the compound along with thousands of others more than eight thousand bosnian muslim man and boys were killed in july nine hundred ninety five i was in a particular political analyst based in belgrade says it's the un who is responsible not benevolence. the soldiers were under un made a mandate there's no question about that now on the other hand i think maybe somebody is trying to shift the blame from the u.n. to a member state and this is tricky business because at the end of the day we have some
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lawsuits other lawsuits not this one against the united nations itself and it's going to a european court because the dutch courts refused to rule against us so this may be somebody is trying to shift the blame over to holland rather than the us because if the new one is liable to one lawsuit it may be liable to lawsuits all over the world we also have families of service claims who are victims of muslim forces from serbia in the in the period of nineteen ninety two to ninety ninety five also suing the dutch states themselves also for failing to provide protection. from what was supposed to be a demilitarized area and sort of didn't need and this militarization never actually took place if one looks at the testimony of hundreds of dutch soldiers who pushed to fight as to what happened in seventy eight so you could see that they were actually put in a quite a difficult position and politics are being played high politics with people's lives you know you get
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a mandate to disarm and then they're telling you actually well don't this and then bellbird breaks out and you're the one left responsible. let's take a look at some other stories from around the world an american woman has been acquitted of murdering her two year old daughter casey anthony would have faced the death sentence if she had been convicted of the first degree killing she was found guilty of lying to investigators and will be sentenced on thursday and that is daughter caylee disappeared three years ago with her body later found in the forest near her grandparents' home. britain's most read newspaper the tabloid news of the world has been accused of hacking into the mobile phone of a murdered girl in a deal for exclusive stories thirteen year old million dollar disappeared ninety years ago near london before being found dead a man who's already been jailed for phone hacking allegedly deleted messages remotely from her phone healing thoughts hope to her parents that she was still
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alive and it's here it was before. major advertisers such as ford have started pulling out advertising from the newspaper. there's a growing risk for google will need a second bailout according to a major credit ratings agency but the government says its latest a scary measures have not been taken into account portugal greece and ireland were all given bailout loans to give them time to mend their economies but greece has already been forced to negotiate more financially. activists in romania are campaigning for unification was neighboring moldova by next year they say they're restoring justice because the two countries were historically united but as our chefs to reports the motives may not be quite so pure. from photo exhibitions to rallies in both progress and creation now since two thousand and nine some movements in romania have been complaining to win back what they see as their land
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. since april it's been impossible to miss colorful stickers like that in towns and cities across romania bessarabia is romania they say believing that the land which is now the sovereign state of republic of moldova must again be under bucharest control and indeed it was until the nineteenth century which is always passed hand several times with the collapse of the u.s.s.r. moldova declared independence becoming a member of the united nations we counsel of europe and the world trade organization now in alliance of more than thirty n.g.o.s in romania say these achievements will be sacrificed in the name of reunification by reunification i. will of the romanians from the two states from romania republic of moldova one state because for the. fact we are separated unjustly and we want to leave this historical. truth bucharest official line is that
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reunification of the two nations can only happen if the post soviet state becomes an e.u. member but politicians in moldova have expressed concerns that president a cesspool would not wait for that eventuality and will instead at some point in the future expand his country's borders to absorb moldova the remaining president. the government clearly said that within twenty five years from now. will integrate . here under the. european integration for many of its actions is actually discrediting the whole calls of the european integration because for most of the people of european integration is definitely not integration. analysts in the moldavian capital say the last few years have served as a clear proof of this intention. after the change of power in tween minds of those
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who remain in media outlets. this includes several major t.v. stations in the papers we believe their main instrument is. the construction of the. next year which marks two hundred years since book arrest last dish now for the first time the action twenty twelve movement is planning a massive information offensive on mobile with population action twenty twelve says it is not founded nor officially supported by bucharest and that their mission is peaceful to form the people of the need to restore the greater romania if the majority of people from romania and from the republic of moldova decide to they want to reunification history is a taking possible. if that's the case then it's hard to imagine any reunification in the near future especially with up to forty percent of romanians agreeing that love to have bessarabia back but almost two
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thirds of moldova's population wants to remain so for. lexie rushes to be artsy with the view from bucharest in romania and kishan our republic of moldova. and next hour here in our city will bring you more insight into what life is like today in post soviet states well explore karega sandwich last year saw a violent revolution and ethnic conflict on its way to democracy. twenty years ago in the largest country. disintegration. but how did you come. to teach began the journey. where did it take. we have today business is next. hello and a very well welcome to your business update russian companies are getting more and
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more eager for foreign cash public offerings have more than doubled compared to the same period last year and have raised ten billion dollars but some listings have been cancelled due to the stormy market conditions and with kumble from london capital group says there is no need to worry as that is a long line of companies waiting for the markets to come down. we've certainly seen from the market's point of view a large sign of relief in the respect that greece has passed as such there are two measures it is unlikely to default regardless of what s. and p. say so dance important from a sentiment point of view and some of the russian companies that have pulled their i.p.o. . could very easily return later in this year possibly in two thousand and twelve. so there's there's hope that the i.p.o. market will continue to recover and of course so far we've seen the i.p.o. i.p.o.
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valuations hit the high that they hit in two thousand and seven. and a quick check on the markets precious metals are catching their breath after tuesday's rally and you asked you to be invested in march for safe haven gold prices added over thirty dollars an hour on tuesday there because one day gain eight months. and oil is trading near a three week high on speculation that's pretty interesting to beat you out of decline for a week four point five the u.s. energy department will be released on thursday and this is just it could show that stockpiles dropped two and a half million barrels last and across asia china is drugs are being pulled down by a bull from a strategic shareholder in the bank of china and the china construction bank will sell its stake some befalls that raise up to three point seven billion dollars from the sale bank of china is losing over four percent and china construction bank is
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currently dropping over three percent japan's nikkei is trading in the black financials are limiting broader gains arctic blast bank shares lost ground overnight the russian markets will start trending in less than two hours time the figures that you see on the screen are choosers closure of both the r.g.s. and the mice it's finished around cool. percent in the black on tuesday or wednesday by mining and just stocks. on inflation russia for the past six months over here has talked five percent because price increases were in cereals and beans which became almost twenty percent more expensive and non-food bacco is up twelve percent and ten traditionally inflation russia grows faster in the second half of the year part of the work is still expected to be around seven percent five years and. russia which is not having a good start to the week but cause this creature expects ones to h.p.
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dell in comparison because investors are gearing up for news coming later this week the training remains of words we're seeing the emerging markets and the cia index actually has had a nice rally over the last week any data coming from the u.s. again like last week the worst friday we had. data and now they are going to be a. market moving but then you have on thursday actually if you import the seizures and data coming out there is industrial production data coming out of germany in the u.k. which is important and then you have interest rate decisions going out of the european central bank people expecting about twenty five i think basis points up and then you have the bank of england also making a decision which is expected to be the same so for was a trade we expected to be a writer they were going based investors they got a bit of a breather and waiting for thursday data and also friday especially on employment of coming out of the u.s. . but perhaps not the business gotten more market analysis in less than ronald's
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