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a diplomatic route at the u.n. security council between russia and france over lead the air with moscow is saying french rebels breaches the resolution of the country. a new eurozone crisis as portugal's credit status is downgraded to junk by moody's rating agency says lisbon may need a bailout just two months after getting in they said billion euro one shock waves have been felt across europe with shells falling on the cost of government boring. countries come on and to easily. we have a look at how do you achieve plans to deal with the european financial turmoil and other birders on her shoulders. and despite you disaster recovery budget twenty five billion dollars people remain in desperate need not only financial assistance but also emotional support in areas devastated

by the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami. international news life or mostly this is with me thanks for joining us tell me that story now diplomats from russia and france have clashed over nature's handling of the levy a crisis at a closed door u.n. security council meeting on tuesday according to leaked reports france is the first nation a country to openly acknowledge rebels russia's foreign minister said delivering weapons to forces was a crude violation of the u.n. arms and. again it should count looks at 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 the 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 they arm the rebels according to the french for example but critics say that logical change takes us very far from the initial goal stated in the resolution which was to stop the massacre and nowhere in that resolution did it say a forceful regime change anything nato's 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 there have been reports earlier that the military has been shipping arms over the border to leave in ravelled. 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 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 french in this dispatch apart from the fact that he very clearly breaches the arms embargo that was imposed on the 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 . got 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 arab league to boost the rebellion but many libyans now think

the last thing they want is a boost to the civil war that has taken so many lives and has poor in their country apart and the other aspect that experts point out is that. 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 bloodshed any ma city is growing and the rift between the libyan people is getting deeper and more thought the bird human to human and tearing the impression is that it says nato will do whatever it takes to get the job done in libya and to get rid of gadhafi gadhafi has preferred negotiation some of what was the decision. last week. if we do need. to go there. will you need to go through the negotiation. themselves with the hope that what is going to be. easy.

because we know most of the notes months. three months what they're doing the documents the wolves will not go on. to. go on a lot and yet more controversial on supplying germany has reportedly approved the sale of two hundred tons to saudi arabia the decision has brought heavy criticism with opposition politicians saying it breaks german exports roles and a can of foreign affairs expert from germany's left wing policy d.n.a. link says the move compromises the country's position of 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 and talks about that it was saudi arabia who invaded bottom line with the way

. to fight down there in a bloody intervention in the democracy movement so it's even in the ruling party to that there was a lot of members who say we can't do this if we know that monitoring for saudi arabia to that really through our white 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 we can stop it. and coming up in a few minutes. shining a light on the web international terror publishes a declassified list of people and groups it says are financing extremism in the north caucuses. and also in the program the high tech international crime mexican drug dealers kidnap computer experts forcing them to having to buy systems in false count. rating agency moody's has

lowered portugal's credit rating to junk status is triggering the latest eurozone crisis there's been a knock on effect in ireland spain and italy with bond yields all the cost of government brings soaring while european stocks have fallen on the news moody's says portugal is on the verge of default and may need a second bailout in addition to eighty billion euro only months ago is this as the agency's ignores the facts of high income taxes announced last week the european politicians say ratings agencies have to stabilising powers and one of them ranging . like a round of rope roll an economist to the independent think tank opened europe question the logic of heaping more debt on indebted countries. the fact that. the 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

a 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 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 it looks as if germany and france are dictating this and trying to protect their banks and delay the default so the banks will be able to withstand the shock when it does come that is far from assured we've seen the rise of. 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. all these countries is yet to peak and will continue increasing next year so the eventual restructuring the eventual write downs which need to be taken to just get larger not to mention as we've already spoken about the political costs of continuing these bailouts and the austerity measures. there are among the

many challenges new i.m.f. chief christine lagarde inherits from dominique strauss kahn here resigned when accused of attempted rape on wednesday she gave a press conference in washington d.c. on her second day of the job and checks pressed hope european policymakers would show enough courage to resolve the debt crisis there and promise to continue the reforms started on to her predecessor but as christie infrasound reports some seem more interested in his problems than lead god's promises. from violence on the streets of the middle east. to protests in north africa to europe. portugal's credit rating has been deemed junk. and in greece. where unemployment hovers at about sixteen percent and the debt crisis has sparked anger nearly all of this anger stemming from poverty and failed

economic policies in the us as well high unemployment sits atop a mountain of problems like a housing crisis and slow financial growth this is the world christine legarde inherits as she begins at her new post as managing director of the international monetary fund in her first formal meeting with the press at the i.m.f. headquarters in washington she seemed optimistic in her hopes the international monetary fund is here to serve and to provide services to its hundred and eighty seven members it's not the sexiest of news stories but will be inaugural press conference for the new managing director of the i.m.f. did garner quite a bit of media attention most likely it had less to do with christine lagarde herself and more to do with the reason why she's here. campbell what lessons do you think ought to be drawn from the way the u.s. legal system handled the strauss kahn case we could be any reforms in the human

relight and human resources policies here do you plan any changes in them in light of the controversy over mr strauss kahn the controversy of course with dominique strauss kahn accused of raping a hotel maid in new york that case now starting to crumble after it turned out the maid had credibility problems but back to the i.m.f. or lagarde will take over the next year how couple of issues what worries you the most guarded her best to stay on message we cannot be only driven by the. hope to reduce fiscal deficits and organize fiscal consolidation in a big way whether you look at advanced economies or whether you look at emerging markets or low income countries the issue of employment. a critical one the one hundred eighty seven nation organization has already lent one hundred sixty billion dollars to cash strapped nations many of which have little hope for

paying it back. so the real questions are manifested here on the streets of some of the nation suffering the most are accepting aid from the i.m.f. has been presented at times as the only option as austerity measures are now being put into place the questions too are in the dollar and how its value may or may not change under her watch her managing the debt crisis around the world will fail at the top of her agenda as the rest of the world watches with hope first ability in an unstable world in washington christine for south r.c. . prosecuting the dominique strauss kahn sex attack case in new york has refused to stand down up to demands for the hotel worker who says she was raped by the ex on meth chief complained of a pressing needs and demining her credibility with her pools she's lied to investigators and immigration officials and has criminal links and had an ego team

meanwhile pushing to have the case back in france however a new sex attack allegation has been so many would be authorities was wrong to tristan but no one accused. of attempting to rape her during an interview eighty years ago before becoming mired in scandal is charles connell is being seen as needing french socialist party contender for next year's presidential election and opinion polls suggest hopeful french voters would support his return to politics and christopher j. k. out in these week magazine things strauss kahn's political career in france only he may be far from a. 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 strokes kron will register for that primary. which you 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

wildest kinds 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 strong scott and that's 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 russia has published a list of people and organizations involved in terrorist activities and those sponsoring them from our candidate to set tourney calls list includes more than two thousand names you know of course as correspondent. list of individuals

and companies suspected also involvement in financing of terrorism was published in this government own newspaper this morning no 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 ciccio and from and 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 work out 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 off by a chechen terrorists that are present here in this region asked of chechen rebels but now the situation has changed with russia's most wanted models being present on bill list of the world's most wanted terrorists and really this document shows how the system works and the problem. is far from being solved is an international problem. until last american now where the drug dealers in mexico have been kidnapping computer programmers to force them to have buying sisters and experts say the i.c. x. that they're also being used for credit card fraud scams to be true of latin american specialist with russian global antivirus for conspiracy law says it's a type of crime which could spread. in many cases crime isn't

a tall despite often. not less money than the drugs itself so it's another source of income for the drug dealers that kidnapped have to keep stealing money in different ways from their online bank and from that the credit card and to pass stolen money to the drug dealers we see a lot of attacks have heard that access to the biggest banks like bank of america also main your parole. and also all european union. banks from spain and also banks from germany despite of a lot of effort security efforts from the banks it's quite hard to make sure that the user. is quite protected let's say because the security on the user side depends on the user i strongly believe that the drug dealers they'll see that it's

really became profitable of virginity to them to keep abuse in kidnapped cyber criminals just keep following the same line. trying for a our website is running a slave and is well protected to say you can read more on the stories we're covering and not some of the size including. it would take a closer look at the campaign for david to become part of rumania would have been that he would make paintings in five countries. and also live eight here sold someone could dig himself out of the grave only terran teano movies check out how a lot of from central russia made it through the ground to the benches it would be can that.

almost four months have passed since they must have adequate and tsunami hit japan about ten month record structural tosk faces the country efforts have been boosted by the passing of a second imagine a budget 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 ashok told us reports now from the country. as the waves crash against a damage 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 that we need more help more supplies and things are still down tears most beyond the physical destruction there is a distressing psychological factor as well the city if you want 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 twenty five percent of one

thousand children tested in any walk and neighboring cities have tested positive for thyroid radiation exposure the figure that has parents appalled money for not that we have the government has reset the great here if the safety and i'm not concerned with the consequences their reaction is to help the government save face but 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 have got killed in an effort to keep this community emotionally strong and organizers have brought this acting troupe in from tokyo they say their goal is to provide

something beyond a simple entertainment for people on their web a certain japanese pride and in this destructive situation i would like to bring good things and present the spirit of japan's in japanese pride and by bringing people together and making people smile. through that shared community experience there is a sense of hope that the city of new balky can indeed recover the convenience of a pull to close to the city hall but it's good to see anything live is 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 walkies city japan sean thomas forty. five so the director general of the world station who blames the media for staring out

public panic in japan on the. news. thanks.

gerri 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 but we have churned overall. 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 safe it has been get been it does not emit any emissions into the into the global

atmosphere and it has only on very very rare occasion 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 an engineer be profitable when they have to pay for storing their ways 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 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 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. nuclear energy is producing a considerable proportion of the world's electricity one sixth while produce. seeing 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 ventured to be put in long term storage containers placed back into the earth in a 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 fukushima 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 say 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 resupply 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 it is.