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welcome to our twenty two hour news live from nashville our town main story for russia and france have clashed over nato as humbling over the libya crisis at a closed door u.n. security council meeting on tuesday according to reports france is the first nato country to openly acknowledge all the rebels russia's foreign minister said delivering weapons to forces that rule was a crude violation of the un. said the roots of the dispute. it was a meeting behind closed doors so no official statements but we do know that there was a discussion and russia says such actions violate the arms embargo that was imposed on libya and the weapons supplies also breached the un mandate that was given to establish a no fly zone and protect the libyan civilians the u.n. authorization was given in the middle of march and since then nato bombings have killed scores of libyan civilians undermining the goal of the operation speaking of goals western powers have their logic of understanding the goals of the operation

they say in order to protect the civilians they need to get rid of gadhafi in order to get rid of gadhafi they need to weaken his strongholds which means intense bombing of the country and that's what the forces are now actively engaged in but by all means alone they say will not bring it desirable and to the conflict which is ousting khadafi so there needs to be action on the ground but the u.n. resolution explicitly says no foreign troops on the ground in any form and that's why the rebels according to the french for example but critics say that logical change takes us very far from the initial goal line resolution which was to stop the massacre and nowhere in that resolution did it say a forceful regime change many say nato actions were meant to stop a massacre have brought about a lot of destruction not to mention that it's a direct and now a long lasting involvement in a civil war and there have been reports earlier that the military has been shipping arms over the border to leave in ravelled and the. military is very much influenced by washington as we know but those reports were never officially confirmed france

was the first to acknowledge weapons supplies to the rebels in libya we're talking about rocket launchers assault rifles machine guns and anti-tank missiles there are several aspects that analysts point out in france in this dispatch apart from the fact that he very clearly breaches the arms embargo that was imposed on one their radical elements among among those rebels was wild and there are unlikely to from mercy for their opponents and those arms supplies most certainly inflame the situation even more and the way it was done the weapons were parachuted from planes . you know got a hold of them it could be kids it could be criminals but it seems nobody cares as long as it's the rebellion and that's the phrase used by the french as the reasoning behind the airlift to boost the rebellion but many libyans now say the last thing they want is a boost to the civil war that has taken so many lives and has torn their country apart and the other aspect that experts point out is that such make it almost impossible for the two sides to sit down and talk and find some kind of a political solution because of the constant blotch that any ma city is growing and

the rift between the libyan people is getting deeper and also the very humanitarian in pearlescent says a naysayer will do whatever it takes to get the job done and leave you and get rid of gadhafi gave. us what was the decision. last week. if we do. include old negotiation with. you you need to go through the negotiation. that what. we're going to show you because we know that the monitors the notes months. three months. in the documents the wolves. will induce them. to go on a lot. and to get more supply now germany has reportedly approved the sale of two

hundred tongues to saudi arabia this vision has brought heavy criticism with opposition politicians saying it breaks german export rules and a can of foreign affairs expert from germany's left wing party did says the move compromises the country's position on democracy and human rights. we know that even in the ruling party there's a lot of opposition against this because you know it was this government in the past couple of months that went to egypt went to. always say that we have to promote and support the movement for democracy in the arab world and everybody here knows of talks about that it was saudi arabia who invaded was going with the way. to fight down there and a bloody intervention the democracy movement so it's even in the ruling party to that there was a lot of members who say we can do this if we know also that monitoring for saudi arabia to that really through more whites violator then we lose any kind of credit

in the arab world so don't do it but whether the government or not will make you turn we will see you when you heard the first demonstrations today i hope that there will be a larger movement and then yes maybe you can stop it. and coming up in a few minutes shining a light on the web of international terror russia publishes a declassified list of people angry it says are financing extremism in the north caucuses. and controversial aspirations they can paint from all day but to become part of romania is made with mixed feelings in both countries. rating agency moody's has lowered portugal's credit rating to junk status triggering the latest eurozone crisis there's been a knock on a faction ireland spain and italy with bond yields well the cost of government pouring soaring while european stocks have fallen on big knees says portugal is on the verge of default and may need a second bailout in addition to eighty billion

a year only months ago has been says the lisbon says the agency is ignore the fact that high income taxes announced last week the european politicians say ratings agencies have destabilising pal is and all of them a rainy day and like rooper all and economies to the independent think tank open europe question. you know what you've got heaping more debt on debt it can change the fact the egg now looks like the political will need a second bailout some point in the future and that it could default put it in the same sort of financial problem sector as greece and it could have the same sort of financial market response as a greek default so obviously there are similarities but we do have to assess these countries on their independent characteristics the alternative is that there will be a default in these countries at the moment the real approach just seems to be delay it for as long as possible looks as if germany and france are dictating this and they are trying to protect the banks and delay the inevitable default so the banks

will be able to withstand the shock when it does come and that is far from assured we've seen the rise of anti euro and tea parties particularly in finland with the true friends and with upcoming elections in germany and other countries it's likely that we'll see similar results in these countries people growing very tired of underwriting the bailouts for these other countries the debt in all these countries is yet to peak and will continue increasing every next year so the eventual restructuring the eventual write downs which need to be taken will just get larger not to mention as we've already spoken about the political costs of continuing these bailouts and the austerity measures. got plenty more pictures of the surrounding the bailouts at our website including dramatic footage from athens a one of our correspondents becoming called top and divine and showdown between protesters and police and continuing to report through the clouds of tear gas. and also on the line how to find the secret to eternal life gold all the advice you

need if you want and like to live forever all that and more it. russia has published a list of people and organizations involved in terrorist activities and those sponsoring them from. tiny cults police includes more than two thousand names now in north caucuses correspondent medina thirty tales. list of individuals and companies suspected also involvement in financing of terrorism was published in this government own newspaper this morning you know this document was a previously confidential but now part of it is open to public now companies that are present in this list are located in different countries and basically across the globe there are companies that are based in egypt in afghanistan in somalia and

even in germany and the united states in terms of individuals the also come from a significant range of countries from the countries of the middle east from african countries from germany the united states and from russia russian citizens primarily komo from of the republics of the volatile region of russia's north caucasus from chain. done there are also some well known names in this list some well known groups like the most in brotherhood. and russia's most wanted terrorist. you know this document shows that some kind of a not or has been created that connects countries with each other and that the problem of terrorism has become an international issue now several years ago the world thought. was that our present here in this region asked of chechen rebels but now the situation has changed whether russia's most wanted. being present on the list of the world's most wanted terrorists and really this document shows how the

system works and the problem off attorney is far from being solved is an international problem. dominique strauss kahn is a difference who is described as productive a meeting they've had with prosecutors in new york where he's accused of sexually assaulting a new york hotel maid pushing to have the case against the ex on the cheap dropped off to the credibility of his account accuser over reports to investigators and immigration officials and criminal links back in france however. a new sex attack on a geisha haue bene formally launched with the with or she's with right to tristan but no one accusing strauss kahn of attempting to rape her as she tried to interview him eighty years if that before becoming might is candles charles khan was being seen as a leading french socialist party contender to run in next year's presidential election opinion polls suggest hopeful french voters would support his return to

politics and christopher d.k. of newsweek magazine thanks charles cause political career in france only may be far from that. certainly a huge story it's dominating all the news it's dominating all the lead up to the presidential elections next year there's a socialist primary that's supposed to be taking place there's even questions about whether strauss kahn will register for that primary which he would have to do before the thirteenth of this month other people think there's a conspiracy against him maybe a conspiracy that involved even the president of france nicolas sarkozy all of the while discussions of claims and counterclaims are being made right now and it is completely dominating the political life of the country in truth it doesn't look like he could pursue the presidency that would really be a strange new twist in this but he does want to have a political career and there are various possibilities that will come up over the next year or two or three there's a very good chance that there will be a socialist president although not stroll scott and that if he is cleared or at

least of all the charges are dropped against him could serve in that president's cabinet he could also run for president of the european union there are a lot of possibilities that he probably believes are open to him and that might well be if he is absolved of these charges. activists in very many out campaigning for rain if occasion with neighboring moldova by next year they claim they are pursuing historical justice because the two countries used to be one but as. poor as they were mixed feelings about the planet with many moldova remaining basing outpost. from photo exhibitions to allow bradley's in both book arrest and creation now since two thousand and nine some movements in romania have been combining to win back what they see as their land. since april it's been impossible to miss colorful stickers like that in towns and cities across romania bessarabia is romania they say believing that the land which is now the sovereign state of

republic of moldova must again be on the book arrest control and indeed it was until the nineteenth century which saw we toss hands several times with the collapse of the u.s.s.r. moldova declared independence becoming a member of the united nations the council of europe and the world trade organization now an alliance of more than thirty n.g.o.s in romania say these achievements would be sacrificed in the name of reunification. of the romanians from two states from romania and republic of moldova to be one state because. we are separated unjustly and we want to. bucharest official line is that reunification of the two nations can only happen if the both soviet state becomes an e.u. member but politicians in moldova have expressed concerns that a president a cesspool would not wait for that eventuality and will instead at some point in

the future expand his country's borders to absorb moldova the remaining president. a couple of months ago clearly said that within twenty five years from now. we will integrate. under the. european integration romania but it's actually is actually discrediting the whole concept of the european integration because for most of the people the european integration is definitely not integration with. analysts in the mobility and capital say the. last few years have served as a clear proof of this intention. after the change of power in two thousand and nine lives of romanian media. those include several leaders t.v. stations and. we believe the main organization in the deconstruction. next year which marks two hundred years since bucharest last for the first time the

action twenty twelve movement is planning a massive information offensive on population action twenty twelve says it is not funded nor officially supported by bucharest and that their mission is peaceful form the people of the need to restore the greater romania. people from romania and from the republic or. do you. think it could be possible. if that's the case then it's hard to imagine any reunification in the near future especially with up to forty percent of romanians agreeing they'd love to have bessarabia back but almost two thirds of population wants to remain sober and. see reporting from book arrest in romania and republic of moldova. what's happening in the post soviet republics later in the program we'll explore in central asia so

a violent revolution an ethnic conflict on its way to becoming a parliamentary democracy. almost four months have passed since the massive earthquake and tsunami hit japan but a mammoth reckon struction task for it faces the country efforts have been boosted by the passing of a second to matches about it of almost twenty five billion dollars but it's still not enough as well as financial assistance traumatized survivors are also in desperate need of emotional support as sean thomas reports from the country. as the waves crash against a damaged to sea wall on the japanese coast volunteers work tirelessly to clean up the debris and bring some sense of normalcy back to the area. i want to tell people we need more help more suppliers and things are still on tears most beyond the physical destruction there is a distressing psychological factor as well the city of the walk he is right on the edge of the twenty kilometer exclusion zone for radiation contamination in fact in

a recent study by japan's nuclear safety commission forty five percent of one thousand children tested in the walkie and neighboring cities have tested positive for thyroid radiation exposure a figure that has parents appalled. at all we have the government has resets the great ear if a safety and are not concerned with the consequences their reaction is only to help the government's a face that they don't actually take care of the damage and the people here first there was the earthquake then the devastating a wave which rushed in and destroyed this part of the coastal city of it walking also there are the nuclear radiation waves that are coming into this area as well the volunteers that are coming in to rebuild this city certainly have their work cut out for them but just like the city itself the people who live here the community they need to have their spirits rebuilt as well that that my

god again in an effort to keep this community emotionally strong organizers have brought this acting troupe in from tokyo they say their goal is to provide something beyond a simple entertainment for their web a certain japanese pride and in this destructive situation i would like to bring good things and present the spirit of japan and japanese pride by bringing people together and making people smile. through that shared community experience there is a sense of hope that the city of a walkie can indeed respond or a convenience store mccall to close to the city hall but it's good to see anyone clients coming back. and with an understanding that there is still much more work that needs to be done the people here are working to keep their community together . i just want them to stay where they want. and the fact can be helpful that i keep doing it. rebuilding the city one step at a time any wonky city japan sean thomas or t.

. and in the wake of the crisis japan is going to stress test all of its nuclear power plants to determine how well their reactor is going to withstand further natural disasters the move is also aimed at assuring people that the facilities that save us he spoke to the director of the world nuclear say station who blames the media for staring at public panic in japan and this interview is coming up in just a moment. john

rich it's great to have you with us today thank you so how much does it make the 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 had three mile island in america we had sure noble 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 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 it into serbia traffic it will have to pay for storing a waste for thousands of years you know 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. other major of 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. nuclear energy producing a considerable proportion of the world's electricity one six while producing an

amount of radioactive waste the 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 kind of venture to 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 the climate 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 very 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 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 post shutdown 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. first 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 that 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 inoperable 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 thank you very much for this interview. twenty years ago in the largest country in suitcases and that's. what i've been trying. to teach began the journey. where did it take them. the close up team has been to the republic of north ascension where half the area

is occupied by nature preserve. this time our team goes to the region where men flock from all over the world to add a few centimeters to their self-confidence where young families are not hesitant about having a senior citizen in their family and where one man's utopia turns into a real village of the shining sun welcome to the cool gun region russia close up on r t.