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welcome back you're watching argue live from moscow here's a look at the top stories more than half of the children living near the fukushima nuclear plant have tested positive for radiation meanwhile inside evacuation zone police have arrested a gang of suspected looters accused of robbing abandoned homes. air passengers in russia are being put in danger by hooligans blinding pilots with lasers from the ground more than fifty planes have been targeted during landing this year and there are calls for police to toughen up on the menace. and new sexual assault charges against former i.m.f. chief dominique strauss kahn are filed in france as a new york case falls a. our french writer says she was attacked

a decade ago but strolls khan's lawyers say it's slander and will soon. japan's nuclear worries are leaving anxious nations looking to their own energy supplies and whether atomic is worth the risk the general director of the world nuclear association now tells r.t. how he assesses the future of the industry. gyrates it's great to have you with us today thank you so how much does it make the production to college improved since its first reactor well the history of the nuclear age goes back more than a half century and enormous changes have taken place in that period of time i think the remarkable thing about the history of nuclear energy is how safe it has been

almost from the very beginning. when we go back and see the first reactors experimentally being built in the one nine hundred fifty s. we're looking at a very very new technology and now we've had some bumps along the way that is force for sure we had three mile island in america we had sure noble in ukraine we just had fukushima but there i think the remarkable thing about this technology which is producing so much of the world's electricity is how essential least safe it has to be get to then it does not emit any emissions into the into the global atmosphere and it has only on very very rare occasions harmed anyone and meanwhile we have thousands hundreds of thousands even millions of fatalities from the extraction of fossil fuels from the surface of the earth and from the health consequences of carbon emissions so if you look at the history of nuclear technology you not only see a very safe technology but you also see

a relatively superior technology because it is essentially emissions free tell us always wondering who pays for storing the waste and how can engineer be profitable when you have to pay for storing the ways for thousands of years you know that the question of waste is i think the most fundamentally misunderstood aspect of nuclear energy most people say well nuclear energy might be ok seems to be pretty sad. but you don't know what to do with the waste let me say something that may shock you. the greatest comparative asset of nuclear power is its waste now why is this. in other major an energy forms whether it be coal or natural gas or oil what you find is that the atmosphere the global public atmosphere is being used as an enormous planetary waste dump all of those carbon particulate all of that carbon monoxide all of that carbon dioxide is going in there right now we are emitting

carbon dioxide at the rate of thirty billion tons a year which is eight hundred tons or second into the planetary atmosphere as an atmospheric waste from nuclear energy is producing a considerable proportion of the world's electricity one sixth while producing an amount of radioactive waste the sequence is the size of the fuel which becomes highly radioactive and then must be safely stored but the wonder of nuclear technology is that it can be managed it can be contained there is a relatively small amount of it and it can be very very safely stored in the immediate term when it comes out of the reactor and it can eventually be put in long term storage containers placed back into the earth in the geological repositories that are carefully selected and without any ultimate harm either to people or the environment how you sound like and grassroots environmentalists what's your job right now how would you characterize it i think when bill make the

credibility of the nuclear power industry well there are a lot of people think it's the greens versus nuclear and in fact in many green organizations anti-nuclear ism is one of the fundamental principles i'm in the nuclear power business precisely because i believe in the in my or environmental virtues of nuclear power i got into this business. when president clinton assigned me to be the his ambassador to the united nations organizations that deal with nuclear energy and i was particularly concerned and focused on the question of nuclear proliferation containing that and i did that work for president clinton for eight years but in the process i got a real education about the positive side of nuclear the the electricity generation that nuclear could bring to the world without environmental consequences and it was on that basis that i decided to dedicate dedicate their remainder of my career to promoting this clean energy technology part time with natural gas why why nuclear

energy is has to natural gas well natural gas produces a lot of waste it produces carbon dioxide emissions on a very very large scale these emissions come out of the burning of the natural gas and they come out in even more potent form they come out of the transmission of natural gas through long pipelines where the unburned gas leaks in small quantity but in the form of methane that is twenty times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide so the combination of burning natural gas and the leakage of unburned natural gas that comes through the term transmission lines makes this a very very serious liability for in terms of global greenhouse gas concentrations you know that but europe sat powerhouse continent germany a solvent sustainable economy disagrees with you they want thing it's out of their country and ali them i spoke to the austrian foreign minister recently and they're extremely proud of hat to be nuclear free. and you said that it's actually to gain

votes and he said it was undemocratic how so i was saying it was a sad it was an it's a sad result of democratic politics responding instantly and irrationally to some event halfway around the world to change the basic energy policy of europe's largest industrial economy it was certainly done according to democratic procedures. but these democratic procedures produced as democracy sometimes does a highly irrational result i'm an american i know that irrationality can come out of a political system i've seen it many times in my life and american democracy democracy does not produce great results and sometimes it produces silly results and we've just seen one and in germany what about for christina what happened there and you said you keep telling me that it's all safe i don't keep telling you that it's all safe there was an accident fukushima look what happened i mean how can how can that nuclear power be the future when it's still so incredibly dangerous for life well

it's interesting that you would say that because we've just seen twenty four thousand japanese citizens killed by an earthquake and a tsunami. we've seen the media have a frenzy in covering the accident at fukushima which has not made or had not been responsible for a single radiation fatality we have twenty four thousand citizens having died from the earthquake and the tsunami we've had a mishap a serious mishap at the fukushima power plant that has yet to produce a single fatality and yet people are using the word the phrase nuclear disaster nuclear tragedy as if something terribly harmful has occurred i'm in the at the beginning of the of the line when it comes to being unhappy about what happened at fukushima 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 by this event and this was a worst case nuclear event after for christina you said we need to go back and look at whether those post shutdown cooling systems can survive the worst case events we can imagine what do you mean by go back the japanese made a mistake. the fundamental mistake they made was deciding that the worst tsunami they might encounter would come at a certain height and that would be the worst case to nami that they would encounter and if they defended against that there there their backup cooling systems would be safe that was a mistake because they misjudged and the result was that they did not have waterproof backup cooling systems and because they did not have waterproof backup cooling systems those were flooded and rendered an operative now why is this important how did this happen you have to think of nuclear energy as the equivalent

of a racehorse that finishes running a race and then needs a cool down period the reactors at fukushima when the earthquake began shutdown they became essentially helpless on purpose but they still needed some exteriors some external resupply electricity supply to power cooling systems that would get them down from five percent of their overall heat level they had been at one hundred percent they were already down to five they needed some extra cooling to get down to normal atmospheric and ambient temperatures all nuclear power plants require that outside assistance after they have shut down and the japanese mistake resulted in those outside non-nuclear systems not being available so the great irony of what happened at fukushima is that it was the failure of non-nuclear support systems to be available after the shutdown that resulted in this meltdown

but you really believe everything that the nuclear operators tell you. i don't have to believe but we operate a system of tremendous transparency we have i.a.e.a. standards that are inforced by national nuclear regulatory about bodies all around the world which are independent bodies completely separate from the operators we have a world wide net. the work of nuclear operators who visit each other's power plants and write reports and analysis and criticism of each other so that they are all working to come up to the same standard of best practice there is a great deal of conversation inspection analysis application of standards judgement about whether people are adhering to standards that is going on on a daily basis throughout all of the four hundred thirty five power plants in the world the problem i focus shima was that they made a mistake in reactor design not in reactor operations but in reactor design and

what happened needs to happen now is that every nuclear regulatory authority in the world needs to go back and ask the question are all of the reactors under my supervision protected against worst case natural catastrophes like floods like tsunamis like earthquakes like plane crashes and that those questions are being asked right now i think they will result in some changes i don't think big changes are going to be terribly expensive i don't think they're going to take a long time to implement and i think that the the good of this is that the world will have drawn a lesson from fukushima and nuclear safety will be even stronger in the aftermath thank you very much for this interview him. twenty years ago the largest country in the world to serve to trace its books.

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hello there thanks for joining me and these are the headlines photos finished devin's pip's defending champion alberto contador to win stage for the tour de france. last time i got a bad leg forces boards to pull out next week so you put. on some a climbing spot at moscow bring in dutch international desire to bolster their liking cities. start the tour de france they were struggling to tell evans has won a dramatic stage for pipping defending champion alberto contador and a photo finish on the line in the tour de france and is now just a second behind overall latest poll who shelved the stage was a mostly flat one yesterday and there was a breakaway of five riders but they were caught by the pellets and with just a few kilometers left and then the fireworks started there was a long climb to the finish line and contador attacked with just over

a kilometer to go he couldn't shrug off the field though and it was evans who is leading is the end to the final stretch it looked like he was going to be called by contador but he hung on for his second tour de france stage win and that moves evans to begin the second of told crucial who hangs on to the yellow jersey contador is a further one minute forty seconds back in the overall standings today's stage five looks like one of the sprinters one hundred seventy kilometers of relatively flat terrain through brittany. now tiger woods has pulled out of next week's open the former world number one blaming on going leg injury although he still believes he's his best years ahead of him and that's what he said at least on his website the thirty five year old has not played competitively since suffering a recurrence of the problems his left leg at the place championship in made may his world ranking is nicely to seventeenth a study in brendan jones replace woods. at the sandwich golf course you can start the engine life will take i in football spot moscow have signed dutch

midfield that they may desire from i.x. the six million euros the twenty eight year old international won the dutch cup and league with i.x. over the last two years and is also part of his country's world cup squad in south africa he will join up with these new spartak teammates in a training camp in austria during the russian premier league mid-season break while another football in the city had giants into milan have unveiled their new coach local specialist young piano but in his demand to take up the reins in a two year deal several big names had turned down the offer the fifty three year old was sacked as general boss last november and becomes into fourth manager in just over a year following year to marino rafael benitez and the in are that. if you were to take a photo squad which hasn't lost anyone old. it's a team two years ago once every three years maybe last year was

a let's do some testing season in terms of results and if you bet it was of course to be expected but this can be used as a force for motivation. meanwhile in the women's world cup hosts germany and england have topped their groups and will play japan france respectively in the quarter finals germany kept one hundred percent record with a full two win over france the host going ahead three person got to fix that and include getting got another the germans just before the break. the french did pull one back through larry but then they had their supper which sent off and the resulting penalty. by going. france did make things interesting day when they got back to the great sea with the gulf and rory yogas. but. settled germany the big goal the death forty dented germany how it ends and they will play

to look for. more japan last drink so you know i'm white but the first in the spectacular gold to. the second hour strike from such a great game key sealed the win to set up a last meeting we. set blatter has reiterated faith this commitment to pour millions of dollars into the development of football in africa the president of the sport's governing body was speaking in zimbabwe after meeting top local officials blatter how closed door talks with both zimbabwean president robert mugabe and prime minister morgan chang are high as the fate of its chief returned to south africa for the first time since last year's world cup blatter also visited a local women's football match as well as construction sites and he pitches the seventy five year old swiss was re-elected is supremely last month amid an ongoing saga of corruption allegations but he pledged that the fee for initiative. to

invest seventeen million dollars in african football even though blatter had to fend off critics. inside the india executive committee there were people in our executive committee saying now again he gives all to africa only to africa by the way he gave also to the orders a little bit less but seventy million went to africa. i just bought now and twice formula one champion fernando along as i was up to head of what could prove to be the litmus test for his ferrari team at the spaniard hopes for a good outing at the british grand prix this weekend the tally an outfit has recovered in the last three races following a bumpy start to the season but they are hardly the favorites at silverstone as eight of the competing teams are based in england including leaders red bull and second place mclaren in addition along and this brazilian teammate felipe massa produced a measurable result last year finishing forty and fifty respectively which was

rory's worst performance in over thirty years but alongside who is ninety nine points behind overall leader sebastian vettel to stick trouble this time. from the smoke we're trying. to do is fix of the circlip. i think there will be good to know who are who. we need to make sure we need to be prepared for any circumstances we. change can be very very and we need to be very. clear we are from some new parts for the curve so we are hoping. meanwhile didn't rain but it poured at the latest stage of the russian touring car championship the shadows and sure defending champion of crashed and slid into second spot in the overall standings started from

pole in nation of god but even before it became webb following an early crash in the opening session he returned only for the second race and had to settle for seventh overall we would relinquish his overall lead the muscovite was overtaken by eventual winner alexander for all of the new leader also badly damaged is c but the race was stopped after that and he was awarded maximum points and for all of went on to win the second try session in a different car. to secure a seventy two point cushion at the chop for more stages will follow before the end of the season in october. i'm fine the relations between the stones and russians living in the baltic state have been strained over the last decade however one man has come up with a novel way to get the two communities interacting again and it's through brother richard paul fleet explains how. thank you yes. there. you were in tyranny a stone you will russian on this pitch only english below don't buy this man john

sweet a former major in the british army he's been living in tallinn for the last twenty years has been trying to introduce the new sport of rugby to the youth of this baltic nation we set up italian tigers multi-sport scales. and we now get a stoning of russia's causeway so it's three balls three different ball game. and this here is our first year. and hopefully next year we will continue however the main part of this project is to try and get the russians in the stone union's playing together something which unfortunately is an all too rare occurrence unless you get children between nine and eleven meeting each other regularly not one single year every week. it's not going to happen. when a child or one someone is seventeen or eighteen makes this go on for the first time

of this league. is going to be here silliness so you must get. another important side of the project is to try and teach the children the dangers of drinking and taking drugs in two thousand and nine a staggering one point two percent of the stone in population or one in every three thousand people a contract today in china be however by getting the children involved in sports john believes he is giving the kids something to believe in keep them occupied while there's been a number of success stories over the last few years but over the last fifteen years we've brought over forty boys and girls at universities in your. particular head imbra. so you know that is for us success it's not about great rugby. you know. we use rugby is a bit of a tool people develop until one boy who's looking to follow in their footsteps is yanis one of he said finitely russian but speaks fluent dystonia goes to new stone

new language school he's only started to play rugby over the past couple of weeks but he says he really enjoys it as it gives him something to do during his three months of summer holidays. well because it's not only games like the galleys his likes to call and it's fun with simple yugoslavs improvement has been so quick he's already been named captain of the time and tigers touch rugby team however the boys could have a big treat in store for them in the autumn john is trying to organize a tours of the rugby heartland of england to play some mates in gloucester no less the biggest bonus fees kids will gain is be interaction between their respective communities which will hopefully lead to a stony and russian children playing peacefully together which of them both we don't see turned in stone you. get lots and that is always sport for the little test.

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