bringing you the top news and headlines from around the world this is our team i'm sean thomas let's get right to those headlines the debt crisis rages on both sides of the atlantic as eight european banks failed stress tests for their vulnerability to financial troubles while america nears its fourteen point three trillion dollar debt ceiling. rupert murdoch floods the british media with i'm sorry messages days before a grilling by m.p.'s over the news of the world phone hacking scandal meanwhile the

fury moves across the atlantic with reports nine eleven victims of phones were targeted as continuing outrage and disgrace engulfs was once impregnable media empire. and preparation work is underway to lift a russian cruiser from the bottom of the volga river the operation is aimed at shedding more light on why the vessel sank with the loss of around one hundred thirty months of. next watch the first part of our special report about anti-nuclear activists who are trying to open the world's eyes to the danger of atomic disaster. the nuclear age is over sixty years old richard predicted he can i can describe exactly how an underground test was done and no two or three one zero almost you couldn't hear anything there was no noise at all the ground lifted up. we live

under the threat of increasingly sophisticated weapons. two thousand one hundred thirty eight states parties to the nonproliferation treaty signed on to a statement providing for an unequivocal undertaking to the total elimination of nuclear weapons it has been set back by principally the 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 south padre they are able to write a draft should over international law because there isn't sufficient body of protest from within that country ordering them to these basic principles. french polynesia were thrust into the midst of a nuclear attack. when we accompanied them to ground zero with guns pointed. ready to fire who are we going to fire at. i wonder he

should clearly crabs grab. you begin to be there was a russian or american invasion why don't know where the end of the cold 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 from disarmament issues moved their activism to the environment or fighting globalization or other issues and no one could days fighting in the streets for disarmament 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 thousand nine hundred sixty six french polynesia out of more. great secret became france's marshall islands for thirty years this earthly paradise shall come under nearly two hundred nuclear explosions but morrow also became ground zero of the anti-nuclear movement. cannot overcome the fact that our country collaborated in the development of the atomic bomb. to regenerate the goals and that french polynesia respond to be part of what france will become in leak that is to say imagine a nuclear power. but to me that is disgusting and send one of them mon was imposed on us don't go off it you not in fact she makes us guilty too yeah for real victims in which we are also responsible for what's happening to us

and for what might happen if friends were to use its nuclear weapons. and i find that unforgivable and bathroom. is really. 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 caballe. but this doesn't stop maria. bristow's right now. that i'm thinking of my children's future. some of the. tiny territory a tiny country will do for let me have a high percentage of people suffering from tyro it long and bladder cancer. and it's frightening to know all that. with the

help of her husband that he can teach her a 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 us 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 a modern society yes we tell our son about our country's history but then when he asks us. that is that in fact 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 their criticism 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. just as one of my 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 . the weaver of the atom bomb generation. play football paddle your boat 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 that 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 have never agreed with nuclear testing. but if we cannot agree to weapons of mass destruction very different from us it's not possible there's a bonus not just since the french tests we were against the american nuclear tests in the marshall islands overshot. long before france in one nine hundred forty 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 thousand nine hundred sixty eight campaign for nuclear disarmament organize the first world wide grassroots opposition in one thousand nine hundred eighty three under the pressure of the peace movements to 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 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 or a follow up from the french testing has been detected on its soil. new zealand five made the international court of justice and wins. france is forced to renounce

atmosphere testing that there is still another option the era of french underground testing begins it will last more than twenty years to blow up 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 was no chance to explode the problem is therefore to figure out and exactly what conditions it's going to explode and with how much part which is a ridiculous justification since the purpose of a bomb is to kill people women and children so to a cheetah girl you don't need to be a perfectionist. 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 i'm not in shit with my khaki police uniform shorts i can't be all that. he and the military personnel were covered from head to toe. what about us polynesians. in

the same bomb on we are tougher than they. were tougher so we can take a dose of radiation i don't know maybe it's from eating tarot or five who knows. what i deplore is when some polynesians play of a card about the french and jetting billions here. from the force they say take advantage of it and don't go around talking nonsense. and you've got to end your association tatto it's really a very young association two thousand and one wasn't his uncle. last year had the president of the association all and all ham on the radio he was appealing to young people is a hurting them to take a greater interest in the nuclear problem then. so that's how we joined they so c.h. and. the nucular tests here devastated polynesian society not just

in terms of health the environment and other things. the structures of the society were destroyed. but doesn't mean to stop protests no jobs no money no economy will all starve that was the government's message. 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 just because that's a real rift in the family even between father and son 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 teenager is ample and i said to myself who are the real crazy ones that are the so-called evil ones who are against nuclear testing all the ones who supported him. because my classmates for example were saying oh yeah nuclear testing so it's a bomb that explodes that's it. for you to when you hear about an activist getting arrested by the police and thrown in jail or in the media need to get to meet them or i think that in her mind she wondered why is it always my father. if you have a lot you don't it's true liz when she was in jail it shocked me because i felt that it was too much of a sucker fights to sell anything i wonder if it was really worth it to him to make the sacrifice when others would not yes i was a little angry at all that. you

do didn't you know young various trips to new zealand with my parents a little coffee i had the opportunity to meet some members of greenpeace the group and know you can i think they will bring across the ocean to try and stop nuclear tests one can go in but it would have been so much better all if our people had risen up together in protest on messages to move. greenpeace irritate the french military july tenth one thousand nine hundred five by the activists prepared to sail again tomorrow of france orders the sinking of their ship the rainbow warrior anchored in new zealand's often harder. the bombing provokes an uproar from the international community and tremendous publicity that repeats. ten years later in one thousand and five the french president jacques

chirac orders a new series of nuclear tests this time to heat the palace. but never actually our first demonstration was in one thousand nine hundred four. and in one thousand nine hundred five in the airport. and we saw the riot police shooting at protesters. it was we know it was like watching a big movie screen. because if. it was very upsetting it was a feeling of hate. hate. the pollination people rose up together and said you know mr chirac please stop. if you just brush it away and said something my decision is final. and 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 test in polynesia which runs out to be the starting point for a long term research. the the new zealand the last tests justified an enormous investment to build new equipment new missiles new bombs the laser megajoules and you aircraft into that damage so everything is being updated so between now and twenty twenty. s. the results from countries like the united states. some of the other western nations in the bowl are playing new nuclear weapons that excites them and first in countries like korea and iran 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 and 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 guy 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 card for use with nuclear weapons so in a sense it gives the impression that having nuclear weapons gives them special status i was going to have one law one standard are going to have to class world increasingly countries critical in the developing world are saying that they're not

going to live in a two class world. system is some force where french we are in our passports also french not second class citizens yes second rate yes do you remember what you all saw said the other day. if we had been pulling nietzschean would never have had nuclear tests. if that's what it's called back then was that before i think that when we were have our independence. the whole truth about the tests and their consequences will come out. well it is our people are taken for ignorance and that has to stop polluting 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

. question is will you get me if i see the camp record and asked to stand our test which were carried out the year i was warren. and i know that i've had a thyroid 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 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 cycles

sociological poisoning or in terms of the code of silence that has prevailed over the radioactive fallout it's. your duty here you know if there is a psychosis it's because the government created it we want to know the radiation dose of those fall outs 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. because. people who live there are worried and rightly so because i think they deserve the truth they need 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 what if we have a higher incidence of leukemia than elsewhere it's probably due to the palm but that needs to be proved we have to hurry in tick. samples from people who are still life vivo the easiest way to find the people who work on more is to tour the halls outside the un ecology department in the hospital after people. you love this year he worked in the sand. to repair facility for navy ships returning from the sates. it now i have lung cancer. he has cancer in his love long. double shot record 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 two more and all three died of this yes. yes yes they died. this is

his wife she has it's my tirade. and it's starting to get bigger look here and later it will be here. easy 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 how i don't 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 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.

he the four years they have been checking me he before they couldn't figure out that i had a kidney tumor. i mean 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 well because of the nuclear testing because all of what have we done it has to stop and so you give you a lot of nonsense and then just say bye guys don't worry you can eat fish you can grow food and there's no problem with younger well yes there is a small problem but it's not serious problem it's clean. not all the plutonium is used a lot of it is just left behind so that's what we're talking most about so long as the remains underground. is not a problem when it gets into the water and when it gets to plants then it could be

a problem. what is the legacy of one hundred fifty to undergo nuclear tests some say it's seven hundred kilos of plutonium underneath merola 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 you are forced into. 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 in the ballot indicates that in one. has migrated quite far from the

test already within forty years. one of the additional problems that had been discovered in the last fifty years that turned out to be a very complicated substance chemical 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 that and you know we have seven hundred kilos down there . so nobody knows if more rule is stabilize. part of moore is beginning to cave in that's the legacy we're left with and they want to stick close the book on more go no no never.

two seven hundred kilos of plutonium buried in else oil. and i ask myself is because i want to know whether it's worth having children support when they are faced with a tragedy. and that's good indeed happened. to them. is a few tickets for now and all it will take would be a tsunami but up. this in one i heard in talking about the legacy. i saw my daughter. it came out in a kiss and we peer in and i thought if i don't do anything unusual any one day she'll blame me if you put that's what motivates me to fight the nuclear threat continue the struggle for my country's independence.

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