sure is that so much lately huge musician. marc with united nations tribunals has indicted some members of the liberty she movement has pulled out of the assassination of former lebanese prime minister. with r.t. live from moscow let's do a quick recap now about top stories shining a light on the web of international terror russia publishes a classified list of people and groups it says a financing extremism in the north caucasus. and of the euro's woes take a turn for the worse as portugal's debt gets downgraded to junk status as a panic spreading over where it will all end. germany is reportedly planning to sell the two hundred a battle tanks to saudi arabia in

a move sparking human rights concerns on condemned by opposition politicians as illegal. approves a second disaster recovery budget devastated communities called out for more psychological support and fears grow over radiation levels in the area around the fukushima. nuclear leaving anxious nations looking to their own atomic energy supplies and whether it's all worth the risk the director general of the world nuclear socio should now tells us how he assesses the industry's future. gerri 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 forced for sure we have three mile island in america we had turned over all 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 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 case for storing the race and how can a dangerous or be profitable when you have to pay for storing the waste for thousands of years you know that the the question of waste is i think the most fundamentally misunderstood aspect of nuclear energy most people say the 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 assets 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 or seconds into the planetary atmosphere as an atmospheric way stop nuclear energy is producing a considerable proportion of the world's electricity one six proper do sing 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 kind of mentioned we'd 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 a grassroots environmentalist what's your job right now how would you characterize it i think when bill beat me credibility of when we can apparently straight 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 entire 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 the remainder of my career to promoting this clean energy technology platform with natural gas fired by any fair energies test 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 and 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 trim transmission lines makes this a very very serious liability for in terms of global greenhouse gas concentrations and you know that but europe sat powerhouse germany

a solvent sustainable economy disagrees with you they want thinks out of their country and ali that my spent here asking for a minister recently and they're extremely proud of that to be nuclear free. i mean sad that it's actually paying votes we said it was a democratic house so i was saying it was a sad it was it makes 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 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 deny. you see democracy does not produce great results and sometimes they produce the silly results and we've just seen one end in germany by focusing on what happened there and just 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 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 and as they do you can 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 why there 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 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 in arc or 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 to shut down 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'd 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 and really believe everything 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 inforced by national nuclear regulatory about prodigies 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 analysis application of standards judgement 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 at fukushima 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 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 and nuclear safety will be even. stronger in the aftermath thank you very much for this interview. suppose.

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psychological support and fears grow over radiation levels in the area around people she. argue with r.t. and an arcade today with the latest from the world of sports. and i thank you for joining me for the sports news and they used all the headlines . double sweet spots like moscow splashed thirteen million euros on iraq international's baseball stuttering season. plus decision day the three countries bidding to host the twenty eighteen winter olympics are sets to discover their fate styles korea the favorites. in the hot seat suspended football chief mohamed bin hammam will face keepers ethics committee over allegations of corruption. the first to start the new spot that moscow has made a second signing in the space of twenty four hours moroccan midfield that made the

call sailor has joined from the belgian side standard the southern million euros and follows on from the signing of dutch midfielder don't you desire from my x. console him since twenty two last week scored eighteen goals for years in eighty two games about. also in may two appearances for the belgian under twenty one side before opting to play for the moroccan national team last year spotlights have been working to reinforce their midfield after brazilian was injured at the start of the season. and of course they were still comes just a few hours after another thank you it is a great joy for my x. the six million euros that i make i was part of the netherlands world cup squad in south africa played alongside former teammate houri its ear used to play together at a set out where they won the dutch late in two thousand and nine spots like a hoping they can rekindle that winning partnership in moscow team apparently suddenly in the russian primarily after winning seven and losing six of their

opening sixteen games. well we want to bring on russia city have signed montenegro defendant stephan savage from porters and great on a four year deal the twenty year old who has previously have a trial as arsenal become city's second signing in three days following the arrival of galle question from the gunners salvage play for his country and asked october's goalless euro twenty twelve qualifier against england at wembley is also play for are against arsenal in the champions league. climbing wealthy for says mohamed bin hammam will face their ethics committee on july the twenty seconds to answer allegations of bribery cheering his election campaign to attempt to become president of the governing body this is branded asian football confederation president has sent a report by think investigators as we know must respond its claim time and try to offer caribbean football chiefs cash in return for their votes and caribbean football union employees the girl and jason sylvester will also appear before the

hearing allegations against fever vice president jack warner were dropped when he resigned from all football activities. i mean while futures reelected president sepp blatter says football's governing body will continue to invest in africa this was held close door talks with zimbabwe president robert mugabe and the next up we're going to try new guy it's the first time glasses returns in south africa since last year's world cup he also visited a local women's football match as well as construction sites for new features such as pledge doing best seventy billion dollars in african football still holds spam faster and the inside of people in the exit good difficult to do there were people in our executive committee saying now again the gives all to africa or little africa by the way we gave also to the orders a little bit less good to seventy million still went to africa now and i'll be one of the biggest football rivalries some substantial backing has been thrown behind

cristiana although as well cup holder says he writes his way on the teammates that's been barcelona's faith yet you don't go see where and spain goalkeeper is in beijing for promotional and charity reasons he will donate items for an auction before holding a couple of the chinese capital as way out of too much to offer the asian nation next month cassius is likely to retain captain super patrick and beyond i think he will win this is a marine you know is trying to strike and that's what all of us are crowded but the support for now though probably comes as no surprise. to those of us choosing between messin chris turner and alger i would say i will go for christian not as he is not only my teammate but also a friend however i have to be accountable for best for bullet in the world and the bill for ambitious and given all the effort to play football for themselves and for their respective teams but anyway among the two best players i would choose chris channel. is. now the city which will host the twenty eighteen winter olympics will

be announced this wednesday with south korea's jong churn considered the slight favorite after losing out to going cuba and then sochi in previous periods there's a national olympic committee is set to make the announcement in durban in south africa the south korean bid 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 hat for the twenty eighteen games are munich in germany and annecy in france the three cities are also making final presentations to the i.o.c. before the winner is announced just a few hours time. i saw him now and catch all dream team scotland petersburg have appointed their newly retired start their son it is a walk as their assistant coach and says i'm stunned that we're not left n.h.l. to join the north and i'm from thirteen years ago but hip surgery prevented a forty year old playing career in april however the olympic champion is staying with sky to help

a new head coach. one of russia's richest sides were still being hard pushed to deliver the goods in the k h l not best results in the three years since the league's inception the quarter final exit in the playoffs last season opens. but in the meantime there's also been a huge signing for the army was not possible as the european powerhouse have agreed to the transfer of the continent's best player milosz play offs the twenty four year old search has yet to pass a medical for joining ty scott on a three year deal the guard is moving from greek giants olympiacos after being named both nearer league's most valuable player and europe's way out of the year entrenched and there he is the latest big name in court and arthur like the men at this stage it's funny they are also joins the club. now relations between history and russians living in a stone you have been strained over the last decade however one man has come up with another way to get the two communities interacting again through rugby which of course it has more. than. you were hearing you

soon you were shown in this speech below don't believe this man john sheet of human nature and the british. he's been living in china in for the last twenty years has been trying to introduce a new speech a grade b. to be used but this bullshit nation we set up for seven tigers multi-sport scales go up we know get a stone in a russian school where there was three balls three different ball game. this year is our first year. only hopefully next year. continue however 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 lest you get children between nine and eleven meeting each other regular no one single here every week. it's not going to happen. one day when someone is seventeen eighteen

makes this go on for the first try obviously. there's going to be silliness 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 population or one in every three thousand people have contracted h.i.b. however by getting the children involved in sports john believes he's getting the kid something to believe in and keep him occupied while 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. we are. so you know. for us success is not about great rugby. you know we use rugby this is a political. development for one boy who's looking to follow in their footsteps his

youngest love is ethnically russian but speaks fluent to stone you in 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 pretty months of summer holidays. well because it's anally games the other girlies is like you call and it's fun to be a simple yourselves improvement has been so quick he's already been named captain of the time in tiger's touch rugby team however the boys could have a big treat in store for them in the autumn kiln is trying to organize a choice of rugby heartland of england to play some nights in gloucester no less the biggest furnace these kids will gain as the interaction between their speech of communities which will hopefully lead to stony and russian children playing peacefully together richard on both we don't actually turn in stone yet. and lots

of p.t. passes one of the unveiled yachts to take part in the fast approaching although i'm sure aced the latest one how ressort come into being is to have exams and the world's longest race around the globe or that's just nothing less than four months on top of this wednesday night seven crews are taking part this time at home ports on six continents for food in the race to lie the seventh i was obviously brought here walker has waited for more than we're not designed for this now because the falcon spreading his wings which is the national symbol united. i think. well. thank. you the latest in science and technology from around the world.

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