because reports on r.g.p. culture is that so much simpler to give each musician. in the market in the nation's supply butyl is indicted some members of the liberty she has belonged to the assassination of former lebanese prime minister. and is now if you can you can hear in the russian capital you with a quick summary now if i have lines i know japanese police arrest a gang of the suspected looters thought to be targeting homes in the fukushima nuclear valuations and meanwhile there is concern over the health of those living in the area with more than half the children that testing positive for radiation. russia has released a previously confidential index of people in creeps thought to be involved in all funding terrorism in the country the list contains the names of foreigners and

international its longest organizations operating in the north caucasus. and a new a sexual assault charges against a former i.m.f. chief dominique strauss karn are filed in from the new new york case excuse me against him falls apart a french writer says that she was attacked a decade ago but strauss kahn's lawyers say it's slander and they will soon. follow japan's nuclear leaving anxious nations looking at to their own atomic energy supplies and whether it's all worth the risk the director general of the world nuclear association now tells us here at r.t. how he assesses the industry's future do stick with us. charlie it's great to have you with us today. thank you so how much as an equal

protection technology 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 have three mile island in america we have chernobyl 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 essentially it's safe it has to get to be in 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 on 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 tallis always wondering who pays for storing the waste and how kind of changes should be profitable but you have to pay for storing the waste 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 safe 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 or energy forms whether it be cold 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 per second into the planetary atmosphere as an atmospheric very strong nuclear energy is producing a considerable proportion of the world's electricity one six while producing an amount of radioactive waste with equivalent to 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 kind of 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 environmentalist 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 is a misnomer of the fundamental principles i'm in the nuclear power business precisely because i believe in the in our 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 better create dedicate the remainder of my career to promoting this clean energy technology part time with natural gas fired by any fair energies as to natural gas well natural gas produces a lot of waste and produces carbon dioxide emissions on a very very large scale because emissions come out of the burning of the natural gas and they cannot be an 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 you're upset powerhouse germany a solvent sustainable economy disagrees with you they want in your out of their country and ali them i spoke to the austrian foreign minister recently and very extremely proud of happy to be nuclear free. i mean fact that it's actually to gain votes they say was and democratic house so i was saying it was a sad it was in its 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 to 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 do not. you see democracy does not produce great results and sometimes it produces silly results and we've just seen one and in germany i'm focusing on what happened there and you

keep telling me that it's all safe i don't keep telling you that it's all safe it was an accident fukushima look what happened i mean how can how can the nuclear power people future when it's still so incredibly dangerous for night 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. frenzy in covering the accident at fukushima which is not made but had not been responsible for a single radiation fatality we have twenty four thousand citizens having died from the earthquake and a 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 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 fukushima you said we need to go back and look at right there those posts shut down cooling systems can survive the worst case events we can imagine but if you mean by go back the japanese made in the state. the fundamental mistake they made was deciding that the worst tsunami they might encounter would come at it at a certain height and that would be the worst case to nami that they would encounter and if they defended. hence that there there are 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 ruling systems those were flooded and rendered an operative now the 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 reactors at fukushima when the earthquake began shutdown they became essentially helpless on purpose but they still needed some exteriors some external resupplied electricity supply to power cooling systems that would get them down from five percent of their overall heat level they'd been at one hundred percent they were already down to five they needed some extra cooling to get down to normal atmospheric an 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 and you really believe everything that they think they are operators tell you i don't have to believe it we operate a system of tremendous transparency we have i.a.e.a. standards that are enforced 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 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. conversation inspection and analysis application of standards judgment about whether people are hearing 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 nuclear safety will be even stronger in the aftermath thank you very much for this and came.

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a french writer says she was attacked a decade ago when strauss calls more so you'd slobber and they will serve. those are the headlines when i was talk about sports here and the money is being splashed all around in russian football isn't moscow the latest to boost their score during the mid-season break a couple of goal scoring midfielders have joined their ranks i've got the details in just a second great. hello there you're watching the sport here on r.t. and these are the headlines. double sweet spot of moscow splashed thirteen million euros of moroccan and internationals to bolster their flagging season. plus the day three cities pitting to host the twenty eighteen winter olympics between a young young yank their favorite. and lame tiger

a bad leg forces words to pull out of next week by the championship. you start a new title spot at moscow have made a second signing and the space of twenty four hours moroccan international haiti cassella has joined from belgian side standard b.h. to seven million euros and comes on the back of dutchman fielded demi is a signing from i.x. the six million seller signed scored eighteen goals in eighty games for stranded andy's eight thank you he is a belgian born moroccan i'm turned out for the belgium under twenty one side before opting to play for moroccan national team last year but i have been looking to reinforce their midfield after brazilian midfielder it's in the in queue at the start to see. uncle sam his deal comes just a few hours after another midfielder to agree to join from i.x. the twenty eight year old dutch international is part of his country's world cup squad in south africa longside former teammate audi they used to play together. he said maher but they won the dutch league in two thousand and nine spot hoping they

can rekindle that burning partnership between maternally seven from the russian premier league after winning seven and losing six of their opening sixty gang. meanwhile in the women's world cup hosts germany and england have topped their groups and will play japan and france respectively in the quarter finals germany kept one hundred percent record with a four two win over france going ahead their push to get a fit and into getting got another for the germans just before the break. the french did pull one back through murray lloyd bailie but they then had their keeper suckerfish sent off and the result penalty was world wide during france did make things interesting when they got back to see the big goals roared yours yes. but bobby said to germany a big go at the death penalty then to germany how it ended and they will play japan

in the pool to. project a loss to england so you tell them why it got the first time the spectacular goal it was to. this second half strike the substitute right yankee sealed the win to set up a loss they need to wait for. the ins and i figure says mohamed bin hammam will face his ethics committee on july the twenty second to answer allegations of bribery during his presidential election campaign the suspended asian football confederation president has been sent to report by faith for investigators and has been asked to respond it's claimed a man tried to give carroll brain football chase cash in return for their vote carob in football union employees and jason sylvester will also appear before the hearing allegations against fee for vice president jack warner were dropped when he resigned from football team was because re-elect president. sepp blatter says

corporals governing body will continue to invest in africa he held close to all that all of them by president robert mugabe prime minister morgan stanley is the first time that has returned to south africa since last year's world cup he also visited a local women's football match as well as construction sites we need pictures and said feat has pledged to invest seventy million dollars in african football spur the last of. the insides of people in the executive committee there were people in our executive committee. begin the gives to africa to africa by the way to give also called the order it's a little bit less good to seventy million say went to africa now another use the city which will host the twenty eighteen winter olympics will be announced today with pyongyang considered a slight favorite after losing out to vancouver and then saatchi in 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 minute support and is promoting the country and pyongyang as a place where people can enjoy the winter sports the other cities in the hands of the twenty eighteen games are munich in germany and annecy in france they are also making final presentations to the i.o.c. before the winner is announced in a few hours time. so i got word has pulled out of next week's open championship the former world number one blaming and ongoing leg injury although he still believes his best years are ahead of him at least that's what he is saying on his website the thirty five year old has not played competitively since training his left knee and he pleads with a place championship in mid may as well ranking is nicely at the seventeenth but woods says he does not want to return until he is one hundred percent fit fellow american jason dufner who will place him at the open after friday brendan jones down the chance to play because his wife is expecting. shredding could elements as

one of dramatic stage four of the tour de france peeping defending champion alberto contador in a photo finish on the line and is now just a second behind overall leader call who sure the stage was a mostly flat one and there was a breakaway of five riders but they were caught by the palace 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 prolonged to go and he couldn't shrug off the field and it was evans he was 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 beat in a second of thought hangs on to the yellow jersey contador is a further one minute forty seconds back in the overall standings the day's stage five looks like one a sprint as though one hundred seventy kilometers of relatively flat terrain three threatening. motor sport now and vice formula one champion fernando alonso is update ahead of what could prove to be the litmus test for his ferrari team as i

need hopes for a good acting at the british grand prix this weekend tell you now if it is recovered in the last three races following a bumpy start to the season but they are hardly the favorites it's the stone as eight of the competing teams are based in england including leaders red bull and second place in the trial and in addition alonzo and his brazilian teammate felipe massa reduced the miserable result last year commission forty one fifty respectively this was ferrari's worst performance and they were thirty years along he was ninety nine points behind over all of this about the battle against the stick trouble this time. from the smoke i try again. produce pics of the circuit. i think will be good to know what we can do and we need to make sure that we need to be prepared for any circumstances it will suit us for me come rain or change police are going to. go for nothing

and we are but in some from newcastle because we have four pretty good performances and finally relations between the strains 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 t. communities interacting again and it's through the rich and poor free back speller . get ready. you and hearing you soon you will russian on this pitch only 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 school to greg b. to b. u. of this baltic nation we said. seven tigers sports skills cause we know where the stone in a russian school where so it's three balls three different ball game. and this year

is a first year. and it hopefully next year we're continuing a little the main part of this project is to try and get the russians in the stone unis playing together or something which unfortunately is an all too rare occurrence unless you get killed in between nine and eleven meeting each other regularly not one single year every week. it's not going to happen. one a try one so when a seven hundred eighty make this go for the first time obviously. there's going to be silliness so you must get here another important side of the project is to try and teach the children the painters are drinking and taking drugs in two thousand and nine a staggering one point two percent of the student population or one in every three thousand people have contracted h.i.b.

however by getting the children involved in sports jungle leaves he's giving the kids something to believe in keep him occupied while i have been a number of success stories out of 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. and so you know that is for us success is not about great rugby. you know. we use rob this is a bit of a pool it was the purple one boy who's looking to follow in their footsteps as young as twelve he said finitely russian but speaks fluent to stone you goes to new studio 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 mally there is not a girlie his life is simple yourselves improvement has been so quick he's

already been named captain at a time when tigers touch rugby team however the boys could have a peep treat in store for the new in the autumn kiln is trying to organize a top of rugby heartland of england to play some whites in gloucester no less but biggest these kids will gain is be interaction between their speech of communities which will hopefully lead to a student union russian children playing peacefully together which of them both we don't see turned in on its own you. cannot brings us the end of the sport in line with the weather.

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