or other issues and no one today is fighting in the streets for disarmament nonproliferation. the danger is growing will the anti-nuclear movement wake up. america was not the only western power to consider the pacific islands far enough from home to use for practicing nuclear war in one thousand nine hundred sixty six french polynesia at all the more meaning the great secret became france's marshall islands for thirty years this earthly paradise under nearly two hundred nuclear explosions but more also became ground zero of the anti-nuclear movement. cannot overcome the fact that our country collaborated in the development of the

atomic bomb. general de gaulle's and that french polynesia is proud to be part of what france will become to make that is to say imagine uclear palmer. but to me that is disgusting and. then moment was imposed on us don't go off it you might in fact she makes us guilty to begin yeah for we are victims but we're also responsible for what's happening to us and for what might happen if france were to use its nuclear weapons. and i find that on forgivable and bad. behind this image of paradise lies the secret that surrounds the testing and rips apart the people of french polynesia here the economy is dependent on friends and

the subject of nuclear testing remains taboo but this doesn't stop maria. bristow mood right now. that i'm thinking of my children's future. not so much to protect the. tiny territory a tiny country will do for but we have a high percentage of people suffering from thyroid long and bladder cancer. and it's frightening to know all that. with the help of her husband that he should teacher and mother of two uses the internet to broadcast an image of her country one that is rather different from those in the travel agency brochures. but he didn't create as he decided to speak out about the nuclear issue because it's part of our contemporary history and it has disrupted our society since the sixty's. now we suffer from the ills of modern society

yes we tell our son about our country's history but then when he asks us. but his son fact we were just talking about nuclear testing with the lottery yes he was wondering why they did the tests here and not in france or we explained that we are in the middle of a big ocean. and there are only two hundred thousand inhabitants. now could do so so fewer people are likely to be affected. yes. my father is a vice president of the independence party. and he has been involved in many anti-nuclear demonstrations. just what am i going to say to them when they ask what did you do to get my country into the situation it's on that's what i worry about.

the atom bomb generational. battle your boat down it's on have a good time don't worry about anything else will look after your country. france is keeping its nuclear arsenal because it needs the nuclear deterrent to discourage various threats to its vital interests. is the doctrine that was established in the sixty's and it is still valid today. that the leaders of the church and i've been one since one thousand nine hundred sixty three we have never agreed with nuclear testing. but we cannot agree to weapons of mass destruction. it's not possible. to find it's not just since the french tests we were against the american nuclear tests in the marshall islands.

long before france in one thousand nine hundred six the united states and then great britain chose the pacific to conduct their testing but their tomic mushroom clouds were poisonous radioactive debris fell on to the surface of the earth and threaten the help of people all over the planet in one nine hundred fifty eight campaign for nuclear disarmament organized the first worldwide grassroots opposition in one thousand nine hundred sixty three under the pressure of the peace movements the two western powers and the u.s.s.r. signed an agreement banning atmosphere testing france was unconcerned and continue to detonate bombs suspended from big buildings. by nine hundred seventy four forty six bombs pierced the atmosphere a french polynesia the word environment was still alien to the french however this was not the case for greenpeace but the campaign against the french was conceived during the first campaign against the united. states because the united states was

testing nuclear weapons but was testing them underground and france was still testing weapons in the atmosphere. in one nine hundred seventy one small thank you for a base group decides to stop all nuclear testing in the pacific soon greenpeace departs for more they find an ally. from the french testing has been detected on its soil. and. france is forced to renounce atmosphere testing but there is still another option the era of french underground testing. it will last more than twenty years. you don't actually need to do any tests once you've configured it recently from a physicist point of view there is no chance that it explodes the problem is therefore to figure out exactly what conditions it's going to explode and with how much which is a ridiculous justification since the purpose of

a bomb is to kill people women and children so to achieve that goal you don't need to be a perfectionist. because i've known him since i was little but i never knew. if i told my superiors i want to be protected why are they protected. the police uniform shorts. all that. and the military personnel from head to toe. polynesians. the same. we're tougher. so we can take a dose of radiation i don't know maybe it's from eating. diplo what i deplore is when some polynesians play the card about the french injecting billions here. with

a force they say take advantage of it and don't go around talking nonsense. and you've got to end your association. it's really a very young association two thousand and one wasn't it don't go. ahead to the president of the association all and old ham on the radio he was appealing to young people is a region them to take a greater interest in the nuclear problem. so that's how we joined the socio. nucular tests here devastated polynesian society not just in terms of health the environment and other things. but the structures of the society were destroyed. what does it mean to stop the tests no jobs no money no economy will all starve that was the government's message.

and if you were against the obama then your father or uncle worked at the site and they didn't want to protest against the bomb. that's a real rift in the family even between father and son that it seems i became aware of when i was about twenty four. my father went sort of crazy. he said take your wife and daughter and get out i don't want to see you anymore. and i was a teenagers and all and i said to myself who are the real crazy ones that. are the ones who are against nuclear testing all the ones who supported. it because my classmates for example were saying oh yeah nuclear testing so it's a bomb that explodes that's it.

only when you hear about an activist getting arrested by the police and thrown in jail and don't get to meet them i think that in her mind she wondered why is it always my father. if we don't it's true when she was in jail it shocked me because i felt that it was too much of a sacrifice to save anybody i wonder if it was really worth it to him to make the sacrifice when others would not yes i was a little angry about that. do . various trips to new zealand with my parents i had the opportunity to meet some members of greenpeace no you couldn't and i think they will bring to cross the ocean to try and stop nuclear tests. but it would have been so much better

if our people had risen up together in protest all messages to move. greenpeace irritates the french military july tenth one thousand nine hundred five while the activists prepare to sail again tomorrow of france orders the sinking of their ship the rainbow warrior anchored in new zealand's auckland harbor. the bombing provokes an uproar from the international community and tremendous publicity for greenpeace. ten years later in. nineteen the french president jacques chirac orders a new series of nuclear attack this time to he. actually our first demonstration was in one thousand nine hundred ninety four and in one thousand nine hundred five both in the airport. and we saw the riot police shooting at protesters cities such as the city. it

was weird it was like watching a big movie screen. give it if you. can see it was very upsetting she was a feeling of hate. hate. let the polynesian people rose up together and said you know mr chirac please stop. you just brushed it away and said something my decision is final. one person one person decided the entire future of my children. my grandchildren and my great grandchildren. it's in c. in. january nine hundred ninety six france proceeds with this last nuclear test in polynesia what turns out to be the starting point for long term research. in the last tests justified an enormous investment to build new

equipment new missiles new bombs the laser megajoules and you aircraft so everything is being updated to between now twenty and twenty. only interesting thing is the results from countries like the united states. some of their worst during their shins in developing new nuclear weapons that it excites the interest in countries like korea and around who want to join the nuclear club. two thousand and six is a landmark year the united states the united kingdom france russia and china all we invest in their nuclear arsenals the message is clear it is necessary to their security on the other hand the same countries keep telling non-nuclear nations that acquiring nuclear weapons is illegitimate leaders would be fooling themselves if

they think that this type of system can continue we are still living in the system that emanates from the end of the second world war five countries in the security council have special powers and it's even more problematic that these five countries are also the five countries with nuclear weapons so in a sense it gives the impression that having nuclear weapons gives them this special status i was going to have one law one standard are going to have to class world increasingly countries particularly developing world are saying that they're not going to live in a two class world. force where french we are in our passports also french but second class citizens second rate is do you remember what i said the other day. if we had been telling me sheehan would never have had nuclear tests. well that's what i was called back then. well i think that when we have our

independence. the whole truth about the tests and their consequences will come out. quality people are taken for you. ignorant that has to stop. and we are not ignorant. today we want the truth and we're going to get it for always maintained that their bombs were clean that they were exploding clean atomic bodies but in two thousand and six they conceded to some follow up throughout french polynesia. i see the camp recording test and the stands are test which were carried out the year i was boring. he. and i know that i've had a problem for two years now. and i wonder if it's connected to the nuclear tests. this shows that one hundred

and ninety six radioactive follow it's were detected in french polynesia. but we don't know the dose. and they're not telling us but they know. in france it takes time for things to be made public particularly with respect to nuclear testing it's top secret it's a defense secret so there's no information at all. exists in french polynesia either as the collective anxiety brought aboard by psychos sociological poisoning or in terms of the code of silence that has prevailed over the radioactive fallout. here you know if there is a psychosis it's because the government created it we want to know the radiation dose of those follow they tell us there were one hundred ninety six of them with no health consequences the truth has to be told that after years and years of this

atmosphere of secrecy let's call it by its rightful name. lee popular people who live there are worried and rightly so because i think they deserve the truth they meet people are campaigning for transparency doesn't necessarily make you a doomsayer. in general we have a higher rate of fire wood cancer as you compared to some regions it's much higher seems that if we have a higher incidence of leukemia than elsewhere it's probably due to the bomb but that means to be proved we have to hurry and tick. samples from people who are still alive viva the easiest way to find the people who worked on moore is to tour the halls outside the oncology department in the hospital after people.

he worked dissin. to repair facility for navy ships returning from the states. now i have lung cancer he has cancer in his left lung. you know he worked for a very short time only six months and the second time they brought him home because he was having trouble breathing. you know he had three brothers who worked in all three died yes. yes yes they died. this is his wife she has it's my time. and it's starting to get bigger look and later it will be here. but i'm not saying it's because of moral or no i can't we don't have scientific proof but we have lots and lots of questions about it that's all i don't want to say that we should be criticizing. also in

addition to the serious nature of their illness if you say anything they insult you they tell you all you want is to benefit from french money. i'd prefer my husband to monitor. his illness has gotten worse and i'm going to lose him so it hurts i don't care about money even if yes that's the way. the four years they have been checking me. they couldn't figure out that i had a kidney tumor. i am waiting for someone to say clearly your illness was caused by eating too much pork too much of this or that one because of the nuclear testing. what have we done it has to stop then. give you

a load of nonsense and then just say. don't worry you can eat fish you can grow food and all that there is no problem. well yes there is a small problem but it's not serious it's clean. it's just left behind. most of that so long as it remains under grow. is not a problem when it gets into the water and when it gets in. plants then it could be a problem. what is the legacy of one hundred fifty to undergo a nuclear tests say it's seven hundred kilos of plutonium underneath more rula what does that mean. one tenth of a millionth of

a gram of plutonium can cause cancer. so it's radioactive half life is twenty four thousand four hundred years. that means it will take more than two hundred forty thousand years before it can be considered harmless. this assumption that plutonium will not go anywhere which is held by testing authorities i think in more than one country turns out to be not quite right. recent research done by the u.s. government that indicates that. has migrated quite far already within forty years. one of the additional problems that had been discovered in the last fifteen years turns out to be a very complicated substance chemical behavior is very difficult to characterize it may migrate faster into the water. than before. we have to

worry about that. you know we have seven hundred kilos down there. nobody knows if it's stabilised. the heart of more is beginning to cave in that's the legacy we're left with and they want us to close the book. no no never. said to seven hundred kilos of plutonium batteries are now soiled. and i ask myself is because well it's worth having the children will see poor when they are faced with a tragedy. and it could indeed happen. to them. is

to feel it goes on and all it would take would be a tsunami to light up. when i heard him talking about the legacy on did i did. i so my daughter you. can hug and kiss me. and i thought if i don't do anything and shoot at me one day she'll blame me that's what motivates me to find the nuclear threat three men struggle for my country sing dependence. culture is that so much of the taxpayers' money i mean it was never really created it was a currency crisis european finance ministers central bankers and politicians remain at odds on how to rescue the euro as pressure mounts.

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been using comment from around the world this is r.t. live in moscow with twenty four hours a day the u.s. along with more than thirty other nations has decided to recognize libya's rebels as the true government of the country the libyan contact group convening in turkey also said gadhafi regime is no longer legitimate and which the colonel to give up power and its car has more now from our washington bureau. hillary clinton has announced washington now accepts the transitional national council as a legitimate government governing authority of the libyan people and diplomatic recognition of the council means that the u.s. will be able to fund the opposition with some of the more than thirty billion dollars in khadafi regime assets that are frozen in american banks but it's not only that the obama administration has provided overwhelming military and political support for this transitional council the head of the council has recently traveled to washington showed his gratitude asked for more support analysts say it's no surprise that he's being propelled to power and leave the up by washington. who has studied in the us for years he has talked to the us so he's quite well connected

with the united states but help often comes with strings attached and some say the leader an opposition leader is sure to get instructions from washington on how to return the favor so to say but some experts for also point out that in an attempt to propane certain people to proper the west supports the rebels and the rebels are not a homogenous group there are all kinds of people there are some radical elements as well of former jihadist who we now see his. two thousand says he estimates one thousand we had is are among the rebels in libya one lead didn't rebel commander has openly admitted his fighters have to leave and even a u.s. military study three years ago said previously and of the second largest group of jihad is seen in the world right after saudi arabia so analysts say the support for this very diverse group which is the libyan rebels could backfire but washington doesn't seem to care as long as they have someone loyal very empowered to deal with going to talk to frank to learn.