but for most good results in top stories this hour a tale five nineteen european banks have failed stress tests based on a worst case economic scenario a majority of them are in spain meanwhile italy is approve the toughest thirty budget and reversing a full scale financial crisis. rupert murdoch has made a public apology for phone hacking by the news of the world is rapidly losing out eyes on both sides of the atlantic with his media empire trying to stop itself from self destructing. and preparation work is underway to lift the russian cruiser from

the bottom of the volga river the operation is aimed at shedding more light on why the vessel same for the most of around one hundred thirty nights. i'll be back with more news developments in less than half enough anonyma tell me explore the explosive dangers of all worlds ever growing nuclear arsenals that's in. the nuclear age is the first sixty years oh. i can describe exactly how an underground test was. through three one zero or more you couldn't hear anything about there was no noise at all when the ground lifted up. we live under the threat of increasingly sophisticated weapons. and two thousand one hundred eighty eight states parties to ration treaty. signed onto a statement providing for an unequivocal undertaking to the total elimination of

nuclear weapons it has been set back by princeton review united states but not alone russia france china the u.k. all have their share of responsibility. disarmament agreements are not being honored. what is happening now it is that it all is in some countries are able to write a draft shod over international law because there isn't sufficient body of protest from within that country ordering them to these basic principles. thanks tony to the rest into the midst of the nuclear test. we accompanied them to ground zero with guns pointed. ready to fire who are we going to fire at. i wonder illusion clearly crab's rob. you're going to be there was a russian or american invasion nigel no end of the cord war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared so

a lot of the people who were activists under saddam and issues moved their activism to the environment or fighting globalization or other issues and no one could ace i think in the streets for disarmament the nonproliferation. the danger is growing with 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 nine hundred sixty s. a french polynesia out of more. great secret became france's marshall islands for thirty years this earthly paradise should be 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. we gen the goals and the french polynesia is proud to be part of what france will become weak that is to say imagine a nuclear power. but to me that is disgusting. and one of them more was imposed on us don't you not in fact she makes us guilty too yeah for we are victims in which we are 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 unforgivable and.

behind this image of paradise like the secret that surrounds the testing and rips apart the people of french polynesia here the economy is dependent on france and the subject of nuclear testing remains taboo but this doesn't stop maria. bristow you right now. that i'm thinking of my children's future. not so much a. tiny territory a tiny country but we have a high percentage of people suffering from tire oid long and bladder cancer. and it's frightening to know all that. with the help of her husband that he can teach her in 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. all of it was he decided to speak out about the

nuclear issue because it's part of our contemporary history and it is disrupted our society since the sixty's. now we suffer from the ills of a modern society yes we tell our son about our country's history but then when he asks us. based on facts we were just talking about nuclear testing with the lottery yes he was wondering why they did the tests here in northern france. we explained that we are in the middle of a big ocean. and there are only two hundred thousand inhabitants. and there could use also fewer people are likely to be affected. yes. i'm ok my father is a vice president of the independence party. and he has been involved in many anti-nuclear demonstrations. this is what am i going to say to them when they ask

what did you do to get my country into this situation so that's what i worry about . we were of the atom bomb generation. play football i know you're both stance 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 because it is the doctrine that was established in the sixty's and it is still valid today. that their leaders of the church and i've been one since one thousand nine hundred sixty three have never agreed with nuclear testing. and three cannot agree to weapons of mass destruction very different from us it's not possible they are fine it's not just

since the french tests we were against the american nuclear tests in the marshall islands a washout. long before france in one nine hundred forty six the united states and then great britain chose the pacific to conduct their testing but there tomic mushroom clouds were poisonous radioactive debris fell on to the surface of the earth and threaten the health of people all over the planet in one thousand fifty eight campaign for nuclear disarmament organized by the first world wide grassroots opposition in one 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 i'm concerned and continue to detonate bombs suspended from big buildings. by nine hundred seventy four forty six bombs pierced the atmosphere of 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 this small thank you for basically decides to stop all nuclear testing in the pacific soon greenpeace departs for more they find an ally in new zealand where fallout from the french testing has been detected on its soil. new zealand five complete the international court of justice and wins. france is forced to renounce atmosphere but there is still another option the era of french underground testing begins it will last more than twenty years before i have to blow a bomb you don't actually need to do any tests once you've configured it recently well from a physicist point of view there is no chance that it won't explode the problem is

therefore to figure out exactly what conditions it's going to explode and with how much part which is a ridiculous justification since the purpose of the bomb is to kill people women and children so to achieve that goal you don't need to be a perfectionist. i call him uncle because i've known him since i was little but i never knew he worked on more. if i told my superiors i want to be protected why are they protected by him not kinship with my khaki police uniform shorts i can't be all that. and the military personnel are covered from head to toe. what about us polynesians. is not the same bomb on we're tougher we. were tougher so we can take a dose of radiation i don't know maybe it's from eating tarot or who knows.

deep low key only what i deplore is when some polynesians play the card about the french injecting billions here. in the force they say take advantage of it and don't korans talking nonsense. i just go to endure association tatto it's really a very young association two thousand and wasn't his uncle. last year had the president oh they saw old ham on the radio and he was appealing to young people is it urging them to take a greater interest in the nuclear problem so many. so that's how we joined the association. the 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. was. if you were against the bomb 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 but 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 and that these are all the the ones who are in against nuclear testing so all the ones who supported. it was because my classmates for example were saying oh

yeah and you clear testing so it's a bomb that explodes that's it. only the when you fear about an activist getting arrested by the police some thrown in jail and not be a need to get any of them because i think that in her mind she wondered why is it always my father. if i don't it's true that when she was in jail it shocked me because i felt that it was too much of a sacrifice to sell you know 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 didn't you know when young various trips to new zealand with my parents i had the opportunity to meet some members of greenpeace the to think no you couldn't i think

they would bring a gift across the ocean to try and stop nuclear tests. but it would have been so much better all if our people had risen up together in protest on messages to move. greenpeace irritates the french military july tenth one thousand nine hundred five while the activists prepared to sail again tomorrow and france orders the sinking of their ship the rainbow warrior anchored in new zealand auckland harbor. the bombing provokes an uproar from the international community and tremendous of the city that really peaks. ten years later. ninety nine the french president jacques chirac orders a new series of nuclear tests this time to heat balance. actually our first demonstration was a nine hundred ninety four and in one thousand nine hundred five in the airport.

and we saw the riot police shooting at protesters in cities so this city if it ever was weird it was like watching a big movie screen. that if you. can see it was very upsetting she was a feeling of hate. hate. this appalling asian people rose up together and said so no mr chirac please stop. ok just brush it away and said something my decision is final. it one person one person decided the entire future of my children. my grandchildren and my great grandchildren. it's in c. in. january one thousand nine hundred six france proceeds with this

last nuclear test in polynesia what turns out to be the starting point for a long term research. media news is in the last tests justified an enormous investment to build new quick meant new missiles new bombs the laser maker jewel and you aircraft into that damage so everything is being updated between now and twenty twenty eat meat. only interesting thing was that results from countries like the and i did states and some of the other western nations in developing new nuclear weapons but it excites the interest in countries like korea and iran who want to draw in the nuclear club. two thousand and six is a landmark year the united states the united kingdom france russia and china all reinvest 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 system can continue we are still living in a 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 their pression that having nuclear weapons gives them a special status i was going to have one law one standard we're going to have to class world increasingly countries particularly golding world are saying that they're not going to live in a two class world. this summer forswear french we are in our passports most of the french got second class citizens second rate is do you remember which also said the other day. if we had been pulling michigan we'd never have had

nuclear tests this week if that's what is called back than. laughing that when we were have our independence. the whole truth about the tests and their consequences will come out because. they are a people who are taken for ignorance and that has to stop polluting and we are not ignorant. today we want the truth and we're going to get it france always maintained their bombs were clear that they were exploding clean atomic bombs but in two thousand and six they conceded to some follow up throughout french polynesia . that. is f. and i see the camp record in jest and it sent our test which were carried out the year i was warren. if you don't know that i've had

a problem for two years now. and i wonder if it's connected to the nuclear tests. so this shows that one hundred and ninety six radioactive follow its were detected in french polynesia. but we don't know the deuce. 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 research to defense secret so there's no information at all. to the problem if the problem exists in french polynesia either as the collective anxiety brought about by cycles sociological poisoning or in terms of the code of silence that has prevailed over the radioactive fallout. here if there is a psychosis it's because the government created it we want to know the radiation

those of us follow it's own they tell us there were one hundred ninety six of them with no health consequences the truth has to be told not after years and years of this atmosphere of secrecy let's call it by its rightful name come on the. little people people who live there are worried and rightly so because i think they deserve the truth they meet people 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 palm but that means to be proved we have to hurry and tick. samples from people who are still life so vivid the easiest way to find the people who worked on more is to

tour the halls outside the oncology department in the hospital of people. you love this year he worked in d.c. in. a repair facility for navy ships returning from the states. now i have lung cancer. he has cancer in his left lung. he worked on more war for a very short time only six months and the second time they brought him home because he was having trouble breathing. and he had three brothers who were to morrow and all three died of this yes. yes yes they died. so this is his wife she has my tirade. and it's starting to get bigger look here and later it will be here. but i'm not saying it's because of. you know i can't we

don't have scientific proof but we have lots and lots of questions about it that's all i want to say that we should be criticizing. it. 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 mine it his illness has gotten worse and i'm going to lose him so it hurts i don't care about money. yes that's the way. he need the four years they have been checking me he before they couldn't figure out that i had a kidney tumor. and i think you know. i am waiting for someone to say clearly your illness was caused by eating too much pork too much of

this or that while also because of the nuclear testing. what have we done it has to stop i'm sorry give you a lot of nonsense and then just say bye guys don't worry you can eat fish you can grow food and all that there's no problem. well yes there is a small problem but it's not serious but it's clean. waterborne not all the plutonium is used a lot of it is just left behind so that's what we're talking about most of that so long as it remains underground. is not a problem when it gets into the water and when it gets in. then it could be a problem. what is the legacy of one hundred fifty to undergo nuclear tests six sites 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's means it will take more than two hundred forty thousand years before it can be considered harmless you are forced into. this assumption that couponing 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 us government in the in the case that in one test site has migrated quite far from the test already within forty years. one of the additional problems that have been discovered in the last fifteen years the

proponent turns out to be a very complicated substance chemical so the behavior is very difficult to characterize and it made my great faster in the water. than before and so now we have to worry about. you know we have seven hundred kilos down there. so nobody knows if more rule is stabilize. the heart of more is beginning to cave in that's the legacy we're left with and they want to stick close the book on moral no no never. said some queued to seven hundred kilos of plutonium buried in else oil. and i asked myself is because i want to know whether it's worth having children supra when they're faced with a tragedy. and that's good indeed happen. to know. just

a few because from then all it would take would be a tsunami went up. fifty one irishman talking about the legacy that. i saw my daughter you. can hug and kiss and we peer in and i thought if i don't do anything unusual any one day should blame me if you put that's what motivates me to fight the nuclear threat cauldron and struggle for my country's independence.

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