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a former lebanese prime minister. up. and is now at two thirty pm here in the russian capital he went on see a quick summary now if i had lines police arrested a gang of a suspected looter thought to be talking homes in the fukushima nuclear if you ations on meanwhile there is concern over the health of those living in the area but more than half the children that testing positive for radiation. rushes it released a previously confidential index of people in groups thought to be involved in all funding terrorism in the country the list contains the names of foreigners and international islamised organizations operating in the north caucasus. and a new a sexual assault charges against a former i.m.f. chief dominique strauss kahn filed in france. case excuse me against him for

a french writer says that she was attacked a decade ago but lawyers say it's slander and they will soon. follow japan's nuclear leaving anxious nations looking into their own atomic energy supplies and whether it's all worth the risk the director general of the world nuclear situation now tells us here about see how he assesses the industry's future to stay with us. it's great to have you with us today thank you so how much of the nuclear production technology through 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 here 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 lease safe it has begin 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 callus always wondering who pays for storing the waste and how can engineer be profitable when you have to pay for storing a 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 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 per seconds into the planetary atmosphere as an atmospheric waste from nuclear energy is producing a considerable proportion of the world's electricity one six while producing an amount of radioactive waste that sequent 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 a convention would be put in long term storage containers placed back into the earth in 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 or going to. nations 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 the remainder of my career to promoting this clean energy technology part time with natural gas why why me claire

energy is best natural gas or oil 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 thinks out of their country and ali that my spoke to the austrian foreign minister recently i'm very extremely proud and happy to be nuclear free. and you said that it's actually gain

votes and he said it was a democratic house 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 doug democracy sometimes does a high. 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 an 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 saying 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 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 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 it 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 but if 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 it 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 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 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 resupplied 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 it 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 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 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 at focus shima was that they made a mistake in reactor design not in reactor operations but in reactor design and

what happens 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 but 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. the closer. to the republic of north pacific where the area is occupied by

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suspected of. living in the area with the children that testing positive for radiation. of people and groups thought to be involved in all funding terrorism in the country . the new york case against him falls apart a french writer says she was attacked a decade ago but strauss calls morris a good slaughter and they will serve. those are the headlines when i was talk about some sports here and money is being splashed all around in

russian footballers and moscow the latest to boost their squad 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 the use of the headline. double sweep spot out moscow splash thirteen million euros all moroccan and dutch internationals to bolster their flagging season. plus the day three cities getting to host the twenty eighteen winter olympics with being a young young young favorite. talk i got bad leg forces words to pull out of make sweet open championship. we start with a new service 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 does a signing from i.x. the six million seller signed scored eighteen goals in eighty games for standard and he's only twenty he's a belgian born moroccan until and for the belgian 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 sin was injured at the start to see. uncle said 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 alongside former teammate abby used to play together. said alkmaar where they won the dutch league in two thousand and nine sparta hoping they can rekindle that winning partnership the team is currently seven from the russian premier league after winning seven and losing six of their opening sixty games.

meanwhile in the women's world cup hosts germany and england have topped their groups more page of pan am front respectively in the quarter finals germany kept one hundred percent record with a four two win over france going ahead they're prepared to get a fix and into getting got another for the germans just before the break. the french did pull one back through moody lot identity but they then had their keeper suckerfish sent off and the resulting penalty by going to france did make things interesting when they got back to see where they go roy yours yes. but bobby said germany with a go at the death for to you then to germany how it ended and they would take your hand in the quarter. logic and loss to england so you ellen white got the first in the spectacular goal it was. the second half strike and substitute great yankee

sealed the win to set up a last day wait for a. knife if a says mohammed 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 fee for investigators and has been asked to respond it's claimed a man tried to give carroll brain football chiefs cash in return for their vote card being football union employees debbie mean girl and jason sylvester will also appear before the hearing allegations against fe for vice president jack warner were dropped when he resigned from football team while the fish re-elect president said. blatter says football's governing body will continue to invest in africa he helped close to. president robert mugabe prime minister morgan stanley high is the first time black is returned to south africa since last year's world cup you also

visited a local women's football match as well as construction sites we need pictures and said think this pledge to invest seventy million dollars in african football. the last of. the inside of india executive committee there were people in our executive committee. mark again he gives all to africa all it to africa by the way he gave also to the orders a little bit less but december did millions it went to africa now another use the city which will host the twenty eighteen winter olympics will be announced today with pyongyang considered the 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 winter sports the other cities in the half 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. tiger woods 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 achilles plays championship in mid may his world ranking is now stick to seventy 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 training brendan jones to down the chance to play because his wife is expecting. lebanon's has won a dramatic stage four of the tour de france pipping defending champion alberto contador in a photo finish on the line and is now just a second behind overall leader the 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 it was a long climb to the finish and contador attacked with just over a plummeted to go and he couldn't shrug off the field though 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 that moves evans to within a second of thought who shot you hangs on to the yellow jersey contador is a one minute forty seconds back in the overall standings today's stage five looks like one of the sprinters though one hundred seventy kilometers of relatively flat terrain three britany. motor sport now and twice formula one champion fernando alonso is head of what could prove to be the litmus test for his ferrari team as a spaniard hopes for a good acting at the british grand prix this weekend the italian outfit is recovered in the last three races following a bumpy start to the season but they are hardly the favorites in silverstone as

eight of the competing teams are based in england including leaders red bull and second place in the tyrant in addition along though in his brazilian teammate felipe massa produced a measurable result last year finishing fourteenth and fifteenth respectable which was ferrari's worst performance and they were thirty years but along the way he was ninety nine points behind overall a disability battle aims to speak trouble this time. from the smoke. triumph and so for. them. to be sticks of the circlip. i think it will be good to know who are who. we need to make sure we need to be prepared for any circumstances it would rain we come. change can this in a seventy every day and we need to be very poor and i think we had a million and some some new parts for the curve so we had. to this i'm finding relations between the stains 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 two communities interacting again and it's through rugby rich and poor fleet backsplash. yet. you won't hear any assume all russian on this pitch only english below don't buy 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 a grade b. to b. u. of this baltic nation we set up. seven tigers multi-sport scales cause we know get a stone in a russian scholars play so if three balls three different ball game. this year is our first year. hopefully next year we will continue however the main part of this project is to try and get the russians in the stone unis playing

together something which unfortunately is an all too rare occurrence the less you get children between nine and eleven meeting each other regularly not once a 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 obviously there's going to be silliness so you must get the murder 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 brought over forty boys and girls at universities in your. particular. so you know that is for us success it's not about great rugby. you know we use rugby development tool people's 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 know 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 not the girlies his likes to call a response to this simple yugoslavs improvement has been so quick he's already been named captain of a talent 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 summits in gloucester no less the

biggest bonus bees kids will gain is be interaction between their respective communities which will hopefully lead to a stone you know russian children playing peacefully together richard don't r.t. turn in stone you. cannot brings us the end of the sport when we've got the weather coming.