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back to live from moscow these are the top stories japanese police arrest a gang of suspected looters sought to be targeting homes in the fukushima nuclear evacuation zone meanwhile there is concern over the health of those living in the area was more than half the children they are testing positive for radiation. new sexual assault charges against former i.m.f. chief. filed in france as a new york case against him falls apart a french writer says he was attacked a decade ago but strong lawyers say plans are and will soon. and there's a worry in eastern europe over pushing neighbors two thirds of all those population are anxious over remaining is increasing plans for rediff the case should remain an

activist say they're historically linked em better off together. japan's nuclear worries are leaving anxious nations looking to their own atomic energy supplies and whether it's worth the risk the rector general of the world nuclear association now tells r t how he assesses the industry's future. gyrates it's great to have you with us today thank you so how much of the new 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 turned over ball in ukraine we just had fukushima but the i think the remarkable thing about this technology which is producing so much of the world's electricity is how essential east safe that has begin to been 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've had 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 away 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. if 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. other major of 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 particular it's 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 of seconds into the planetary atmosphere as an atmospheric waste of nuclear energy producing a considerable proportion of the world's electricity one six while producing an amount of radioactive waste that 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 crafts for its environmentalists what's your job right now how would you characterize it i think when bill make me 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 points wrong with natural gas why why i need clear energy is has to natural gas coal 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 transmission lines makes this a very very serious liability for in terms of global greenhouse gas concentrations you know that europe's powerhouse continent germany a solvent sustainable economy disagrees with you they want being in south of their country and ali them i spoke to an austrian foreign minister recently and very extremely proud of has to be nuclear free. and you said that it's actually to gain votes and he said it was an undemocratic house so i was saying it was

a sad it was an exam 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 least 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 it 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 posts shut down cooling systems can survive the worst case events we can imagine what do you mean by go back the japanese made a mistake. the. 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 say 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 worldwide network of new. where 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 was a great deal of conversation inspection and 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 of focus shima was that they made a mistake and reactor design not in reactor operations but in reactor design and what happened 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 the 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 with the world will have drawn a lesson from fukushima a nuclear safety will be even stronger in the aftermath thank you very much for this interview. spending the year in iraq is now the true journalist. we still in the u.s. . they're still wasting their time trying to get killed three.

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police arrest a gang of suspected looters thought to be targeting homes in the fukushima nuclear evacuation zone meanwhile there is concern over the health of those living in the area with more than half the children they are testing positive for radiation a. new sexual assault charges against former i.m.f. chief dominique strauss kahn are filed in france as a new york case against him falls apart a french riders how she was attacked a decade ago but strauss kahn's lawyers say it's slander and will sue. and there is a worry in eastern europe over a pushy neighbors two thirds of the population are anxious over a manias increasing plans for reunification but remaining activists say they're of historical huling to better off together. and he's here with the sports of de la di andrew we're hearing that the impact chiefs are making

a big announcement. here that they will decide the twenty eighteen winter olympics to south korea hoping it's third time lucky for them being turned down twice before more not post a look back at a thrilling day in the tour de france. a lot of you watching the. other headline summer signing spot up moscow bring in dutch international desire to bolster their flagging season. finish defending champion alberto contador to win stage four of the tour de france. forces would step up next week. will start with a new spot signed dutch midfield that they may desire from i.x.

for six million euros the club's first signing during the russian premier league season break the twenty eight year old into. national won the dutch cup and lead with i.x. over the last two years and is also part of his country's well up squad in south africa he will join up the spark in a training camp in north korea where also meet former teammate they used to play together they said out where they won the dutch lee together in two thousand and nine and sparta hoping they can rekindle that winning partnership a team of currently seven from the russian prime elite after winning seven and losing six of that sixteen game. another football you city had giants into milan have unveiled their new coach local special spirit is the man to take up the reins on a two year deal several bigger names had turned down the offer the fifty three year old was sacked as general of boss last november and becomes into his fourth manager in just over a year following jersey marino rafael benitez and leonardo. if you were to take

it through to new it's a squad which hasn't lost anyone old players it's a team that two years ago once every three years maybe last year was interesting season in terms of results and you can 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 more page of pan am front respectively in the quarter finals germany kept one hundred percent record with a four two win over france the host going ahead and got a fix there and getting got another for the germans for all the right. the french did pull one back through their lead. but they then had their keeper some of each sent off and the resulting penalty was ruled by bringing. france did make things interesting when they got back to bring to you with a goal from aurora guilders. but. settled germany with

a go down fourteen then to germany how it ended and they would thank you for. well just lost it including you white got the first in a spectacular go to. the second half strike and so you see all the way in to set up a last state meeting. blatter has reiterated faith his 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 held closed door talks with both zimbabwean president robert mugabe and prime minister morgan chang a high as the return to south africa the first time since last israel blatter also visited a local women's football match as well as a construction site for new pitches the seventy five year old swiss was reluctant

to speak for support of my last month and made an ongoing saga of corruption allegations but he pledged that the fee for initiative holds firm to invest seventy million dollars in african football even though blatter had to fend off the critics . inside the executive committee there were people in our two. good do for me to say now again he gives all to africa only to africa by the way he gave all to add to the orders a little bit less but the seventy million still went to africa a struggling codell evans is one of dramatic stage four of the tour de france pipping defending champion alberto contador and a photo finish on the line and is now just a second behind overall leader for who shot the stage was a mostly flat one 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 and contador attacked with just over

a kilometer to go he couldn't shrug off the field though it was evans who is leading as they entered the final stretch it looked like he was going to be caught by contador but he hung on for a second tour de france stage win and that moves evans to within a second of thought who shoved who hangs on to the yellow jersey contador is a further one minute forty seconds back in the overall standings today stage five looks like one of the sprinters one hundred seventy kilometers of relatively flat terrain for brittany. now the news tiger woods has pulled out of next week's open the former world number one blaming an ongoing leg injury although he still believes his best years are ahead of him or at least that's what he said on his website the thirty five year old has not played competitively since suffering a recurrence of the problems in his left leg a place championship in mid may as well ranking is nice that the seventeenth straight in brendan jones replace woods at the sandwich golf course starts on july the fourth take. i now the city which will host the twenty

eighteen winter olympics will be announced today with people yank considered the slight favorite after losing out to vancouver and then sought cim previous speeds the international olympic committee will make the announcement in durban in south africa a little later the south korean bid has done its best to lobby last minutes of paul . promoting the country amp young young as a place where people can enjoy winter sports the other cities in the heart of the twenty eighteen games and munich germany and annecy in france they are also making final presentations the i see before the winner is announced today. by just course now and twice for me one champion fernando alonso is upbeat ahead of what could prove to be the litmus test for his ferrari team as the spaniard hopes for a good acting at the british grand prix this weekend the italian outfit had recovered in the last three races following a bumpy start to the season but they are hardly the favorites at silverstone as

eight at the competing teams are based in england including leaders red bull and second place mclaren in addition along the way on his brazilian teammate felipe massa produced a measurable result last year finishing fourteenth and fifteenth respectively which was ferrari's worst performance from over thirty eight but along with his ninety nine points behind overall lead to sebastian vettel the trouble this time. from the smoke. triumph and so for. produced picks of the circlip. i think it will be good to know who are who we can do we need to make sure that we need to be prepared for any circumstances. change. and we need to. go and i think we have. some new parts for the car we have proper performances. finally relations between stony and russians living in

the baltic states have been strained over the last decade however one man has come up with a novel way to get the communities interacting again and it's through rugby that you bump or fleet expect for. what. you were hearing you knew me russian in this speech and. english below down by this man john sweeney 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 sports of greg b. to the youth of this baltic nation we set up. seven tigers sports scales. and we now get a stoning of russia's cause so if three balls three different ball game. this year is a first year. hopefully next year it will continue however the main part of this project is to try and get the russians in the stone us 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. one a child or one someone of seventeen or eighteen makes this go on for the first time of this league. is going to be your 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 have contracted h.i.b. 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 got 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 development tool it was developmental one boy who's looking to follow in their footsteps as young as twelve. he said finitely russian but speaks fluent a stone you 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 gay it's not a girlie his likes to call and it's fun it's simple yugoslavs improvement has been so quick he's already been named captain of a 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 rugby heartland of england to play some nights in gloucester no less the

biggest bonus fees kids will gain is be interaction between their respective communities which will hopefully lead to a stone union russian children playing peacefully together richard on both we don't r.t. turned in stone you will bring to the end of the sport for the moment some rain will be here in a few seconds time said.