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for the government for you with all its young maurice and show a quick recap our top stories now shining a light on the web of international terror a russia publishes a declassified list of people and groups it says a financing extremism in the north caucasus. and the eurozone woes take a turn for the was a sports school that gets downgraded to junk status panic spreading everywhere that . germany is reportedly planning to sell true one hundred battle tanks to saudi arabia in a move sparking a human rights concerns on condemned by opposition politicians as illegal. japan approves a second to dissolve. the recovery budget devastated communities of call out for

more psychological support the growth of the radiation levels in the area around. japan's nuclear worries are leaving anxious nations looking to their own atomic energy supplies and whether it's all worth the risk the director general excuse me of the world nuclear socio now tells us here about see how he assesses the industry's future do stick. it's great to have you with us today thank you so how much of the new production 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 share 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 essentially 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 occasion and 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 am 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 an engineer be profitable when they have to pay for storing their 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 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 particular it's all about 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 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 it can eventually 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 now 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. ations that deal with nuclear energy and i was particularly concerned and focused on the question of nuclear proliferation and 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 nuclear energy is just a 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 europe sat powerhouse continent germany a solvent sustainable economy disagrees with you they want in us out of their country and ali that my spoke to the austrian foreign minister recently and they're extremely proud and happy to be nuclear free. and you said that it's actually to

gain votes we said it was a 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 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 you see you keep telling me that it's all sane 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 was a great deal of conversation inspection and analysis application of standards of judgment 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 had 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 not the true journalist. in the. u.s. . there's wasting their time trying to get killed.

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the headlines ought to be shining a light on the web of international terror a crush of publishes a declassified list of people and groups it says a financing extremism in the north caucasus from the bureau's was took a turn up for the work stars portugal's debt gets downgraded to junk status of panic spreading over where it will all end. germany's reportedly planning to sell two hundred battle tanks to saudi arabia. human rights concerns on by opposition politicians as illegal. proves a second disaster recovery but your devastated communities called out for more psychological support amid fears growing over radiation levels in the area around fukushima. stay with us though kate is here with the latest

sporting. well i would like you for joining me for this one say often in sports news these top stories. double swoop spartak moscow splash out thirty million euros on moroccan inductions national news that stuttering season. plus a decision day three countries bidding to host the twenty eighteen winter olympics are sexy discover their fights as a career the favorites. and hot seat a suspended football chief mohamed bin hammam will face feed this ethics committee over allegations of corruption. the first to start with a new spot at moscow have made a second signing in the space of twenty four hours more often we feel that may take us a lot has to learn from belgian side standardly as for seven million euros and follows on from the signing of dutch midfielder de mint is a four x.

call center who turns twenty two last week scored eighteen goals for the action in eighty two games the belgian born one hundred this side made two appearances for the belgian twenty one side before opting to play for the moroccan national team last year spots i could be looking to bring their standard of brazilian ipsum is injured at the start of the season. and scarcella still comes just a few hours after another that it does a great story by x.p. six million euros the playmaker was part of the netherlands world cup squad in south africa alongside former tonight arey it's a used to play together and is it out now where they won the dutch late in two thousand and nine spots like a hoping they can rekindle that winning partnership last year to captain sevens in the russian premier league after winning seven and losing six of their opening sixteen games. meanwhile in the women's world cup host germany and england's top their groups will play japan and france respectively in the quarter finals german

attach their one hundred percent record at the top of group a with a full two. when i default the host went ahead so as to get a fake use. and you can bring this netted another for the germans if you break. the french movie backbone through your deli right after sixty five minutes i expect you got suckered sent off. some time and i think. i bring brass didn't make things interesting oh my god back to three two in the book from your leisure oh she bought them a baby setter is a german med i call the death so forth in germany is how it ended by japan last night. for the japanese lost to neil to ring road in group b. allen was open to the story lines often fix the mess they were going to and sixty six minutes from subs to try to sell me was the.

same with football and fever says mohamed bin hammam will face their ethics committee on july the twenty second to answer allegations of bribery cheering his election campaign to attempt to become president of football's world governing body this is branded asian football confederation president has been sent to report by fee for investigators and has been asked to respond its claim time and try to offer caribbean football chiefs cash in return for their votes and caribbean football union employees debbie miguel and jason sylvester will also appear before the hearing allegations against a fee for vice president jack warner were dropped when he resigned from all football activities. well meanwhile fever's reelected president sepp blatter says football's governing body will continue to invest in africa the swiss held the closed door talks with zimbabwean president robert mugabe and miners that labor trying to arrive is the first time bass 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 for new pictures and

said fifa has pledged to invest seventeen million. dollars in african football still holds. inside the india executive committee there were people in our executive committee saying now again he gives all to africa or lead to africa by the way he gave also to the orders a little bit less but the seventy million still went to africa. now if you want to football's biggest rivalries some substantial backing has been thrown behind cristiana really although as world cup holder set us is says he rates as well madrid teammates better than barcelona's fifa player of the year lionel messi the ray allen spain goalkeeper is in beijing for promotional and charity reasons and he will donate items for an auction for holding football and in the chinese capital israel prepare to match tour of the asian nation next month because this is likely to retain the captaincy for that trip and beyond after he rebuffed loomis questions

a mania is trying to strip him of the role he will survive in vocal support for ronaldo which however comes as no surprise. unless choosing between messi and cristiano ronaldo i would say i will go for christian no as he's not only my teammate but also a friend i have to admit that they currently have both the best footballers in the world and they're both very ambitious and given all their effort to play football for themselves and for their respective teams but anyway the two best players i would choose christian know. his. now the city which will host the twenty eighteen winter olympics will be announced this wednesday with south korea's pyongyang china considered the slight favorite after losing out to see vancouver and then sochi in previous rounds the international olympic committee is set to make the announcement in durban in south africa the south korean bed has done its best to lobby last minute support and is promoting the country. as a place where people can enjoy winter sports the other cities in the heart of the twenty eighteen games are munich in germany and annecy in france the three cities

are also making final presentations the i.o.c. for the winner is announced just a few hours time. but a sports now and twice formula 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 outing at the british grand prix this weekend the italian outfit has recovered in the last three races following a bumpy start to the season but they are hard at the favorites austin as eight of the competing teams are based in england and is red bull and second place with fire and in addition along there and his brazilian teammate philippe massa produced a miserable result last year fourteenth and fifteenth respectively which is for obvious worst performance in over thirty years was a long slow who is ninety nine points behind overall leader sebastian vettel has to stick to trouble this time out. to the fullest not. truck in terms of. characteristics of the circuit and i think there

will be good to know what we can do and we need to make sure that we need to be prepared for any circumstances when receivers for me come grainy come. change condition of servitude every day and we need to be ready to go and i think are we are but in some of the new parts for the car so we are hoping i will perform offensively. relations between a stone ians and russians living in a stone you have been strained over. last decade however one man has come up with a novel way to guess the two communities interacting again through rugby which upon portraits has no. ready yet. yet. you won't hear any of soon you'll russian on this pitch any 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 sports a grade b. to b. u.

of this baltic nation we set up for italian tigers multi-sport scales cards and we know get a stone in a russian school play so if three balls three different ball game. this year is a first year. and it hopefully next year will continue however the main part of this project is to try and get the russians in the stone used playing together something which unfortunately is an all too rare occurrence unless you get children between nine and eleven meeting each other regular not one single year every week it's not going to happen. one a child or one someone who's seventeen or eighteen makes this go on for the first time of their sleep. having their syllabus so you must get. another important side of the project is to try and teach your 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 development tool people developmental one boy who's looking to follow in their footsteps as young as twelve he said frankly 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 his malegaon slightly girlies his life to paul and respond to this simple yourselves 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 the interaction between their respective communities which will hopefully lead to a stone you know in russian children playing peacefully together richard don't r.t. turned in stone you. finish one. that is what is the newly unveiled yachts to take part in the fast approaching vol the ocean race the latest mano hole vessel to come into being is team abu dhabi's entrant for the world's longest race around the globe that is kicking off in less than four months on october the twenty ninth

seven crews are taking part of this time mass and templates on six continents before completing the race on july the seventh. but you'd walk a has waited for more than a year for the new york to be designed the britain must not be proud as a full can spread its wings which is the national symbol of the mountain. and that's all news from sports desk.