margetts why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy cause a report on our. today's top stories in the review of the week from nancy emergency crews are struggling to lift a russian cruiser from the bottom of the volga river after their first attempt failed the operation will provide answers to the catastrophe that claimed one hundred twenty nine nights. britain's top cop quits as the focus of the ferrari over the phone hacking scandal surrounding the u.k. press switches to the police comes as former news international c.e.o. rebecca brooks was arrested earlier in the day. libyan rebels now full diplomatic recognition from washington with an access to colonel gadhafi has assets frozen in

the u.s. and iran nato has intensified attacks on the capital tripoli in the method to oust the libyan leader who fails never to me. plus intercontinental cash crunch america faces up to the possibility of people of europe's debt crisis contagion piles more pressure on the euro u.s. congress needs to raise the debt ceiling to avoid financial disaster while it is on the verge of leaving a bank now. but up next you can 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 that's our special report. the nuclear age is over sixty years oh richard pretty cookie guy can describe exactly how an underground test was done. through every one zero almost you couldn't hear anything at all there was no noise at all the ground lifted up. we

live under the threat of increasingly sophisticated weapons. in two thousand one hundred eighty eight states priorities to going from information treaty signed onto 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 that able to write a draft should move in international law because there isn't sufficient body of protest from within that country ordering them to these basic principles. french polynesia was thrust into the midst of a nuclear attack. we accompanied them to ground zero with guns pointed. ready to fire who are we going to fire at i wonder he

should be crabs. yep we're going to be there was a russian or american invasion vital no 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 or no one today is fighting in the streets for disarmament nonproliferation. it 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 meaning the great secret became france's marshall islands for thirty years this earthly paradise showed 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. and continue to regenerate the goals and that french polynesia is prone to be part of what france will become in me that is to say imagine nuclear power. but to me that is disgusting and send one of them mon was imposed on us don't give it you not in fact she makes us guilty too yeah for we are victims but we are also responsible for what's happening to us and for what might happen if france were to

use its nuclear weapons well and i find that unforgettable and. 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 france and the subject of nuclear testing remains taboo but this doesn't stop maria. risto mood right now. that i'm thinking of my children's future. to some of the. tiny territory a tiny country will do for which we have a high percentage of people of south from from dire oid long and bladder cancer. and it's frightening to know all that. with the

help of her husband get a haitian 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. all of. us we decided to speak out about the nuclear issue because it's part of our contemporary history thems and it has disrupted our society since the sixty's. and 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 to bury some facts we were just talking about nuclear testing with a lottery yes he was wondering why they did the tests here and not in france. we explained that we are in the middle of a big ocean in cuba and there are only two hundred thousand inhabitants. and there could use also fear of 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 as what am i going to say to them when they ask what did you do to get my country into this situation and that's what i worry about . we were the atom bomb generation. proof play football got all your boats down it's on have a good time don't worry avoid 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 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 destroyed so must it's not possible the violence 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 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 to 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 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 bank of your base decides to stop all nuclear testing in the pacific soon greenpeace departs for more a find an ally in new zealand or a fall out from the french testing is detected on its soil. new zealand privately the international court of justice and women's. brands is forced to renounce atmosphere testing there is still another option the era of french underground

testing begins it will last more than twenty years. 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 explodes 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 a bomb is to kill people women and children so which 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. it i told my superiors i want to be protected why are they protected i'm not given shit with my cocky police uniform shorts i can't be all that. and the military personnel are covered from head to toe. you know what about us polynesians in what about us in

the same calm on we're tougher. we're tougher so we can take a dose of radiation i don't know maybe it's from eating tarot or who knows. disclosure diplo the only one i deplore is when some polynesians play of a card about the french and jacking billions here. from the frauds 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 just thousand and one wasn't his uncle. last year head to the president of the association all and all ham on the radio he was appealing to young people is a region them to take a greater interest in the nuclear problem many. so that's how we joined the socio.

new feeler tests here devastated polynesian society not just in terms of health the environment and other things. 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. if you were against 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 but it's nice 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 than you and i said to myself who are the real crazy ones and that

is are all the ones who are against nuclear testing so you know the ones who support it. because my classmates for example were saying oh yeah can you clear testing so it's a bomb that explodes that's it. only the when you hear about an activist getting arrested by the police and thrown in jail for the enemy to get to meet them i think that in her mind she wondered why is it always my father. if 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 sacrifice 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 about that. do

didn't you know when young various trips to new zealand with my parents a little conflict i had the opportunity to meet some members of greenpeace to going to know you clearly i think they were really to cross the ocean to try and stop nuclear tests and but it would have been so much better all if our people had risen up together in protest on messages to move. greenpeace irritant the french military july tenth one thousand nine hundred five while the activists prepared to sail again to morrow of france orders the sinking of their ship the rainbow warrior anchored in new zealand often harder. the bombing provokes an uproar from the international community and tremendous publicity for greenpeace. ten years later in one thousand and five the french president jacques

chirac orders a new series of nuclear tests this time to heat up else. remember this actually our first demonstration was in one thousand nine hundred four. and in one thousand nine hundred five we were both in the airport. and we saw the riot police shooting at protesters in cities. if. 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. this appalling asian people rose up together and said you know mr chirac please stop. be 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. sits in c. in. january one thousand nine hundred six france proceeds with this last nuclear test. what turns out to be the starting point for a long term research. lead the news is the only last tests justified an enormous investment to build new equipment new missiles new bombs the laser megajoules and you aircraft coming so everything is being updated between now and twenty twenty. only interest is the result from countries like the united states. some of the other western nations and of opening new nuclear weapons that excites the interest in countries like korea and around 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 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 acquire nuclear weapons is illegitimate leaders would be fooling themselves if they think that this type of 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 the impression that having nuclear weapons gives them this special status i was going to have one law one standard we're going to have to class world increasingly countries critical in developing world are saying that they're not

going to live in a two class world. system the same force where french we are in our passports are also the french but second class citizens second rate that is do you remember which all sunset the other day. if you had been pulling michigan would never have had nuclear tests this is why that's what it's called back than it was lovely oh i think that when we have our independence. the whole truth about the tests and their consequences will come out because. well it is our people are taken for ignorant and that has to stop polluting we are not ignorant. 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.

measurable if i see the camp recording test stands our test which were carried out the year i was warren. if you and i know that i've had as pirate problem for two years now. and i wonder if it's connected to the nuclear tests. this is interesting. 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 it's a defense secret so there's no information at all. 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 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 fallouts they tell us there were one hundred ninety six of them with no health consequences or the truth has to be told and 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 thyroid 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 missing but that needs to be proved we have to hurry and tick. samples from people who are still life vivo the easiest way to find the people who worked on more is to tour the halls outside the oncology department in the hospital after people. look over you a lot this year he worked in the sin. repair facility for navy ships returning from the states. and now i have lung cancer. he has cancer in his love long. 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 we had three brothers who were two more and all three day yes. yes yes they died. and this is

his wife she has it's my tirade. and it's starting to get bigger look yeah 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 how i don't want to say that we should be criticizing. it. can 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 prefer my husband to mine and his illness has gotten worse and i'm going to lose him so it hurts i don't care about money and yes that's the way.

he did the four years they have been checking me he before they couldn't figure out that i had a kidney tumor. you know. i'm waiting for someone to say clearly your illness was caused by eating too much pork too much of this or that they were lost because of the nuclear testing because all of what have we done it has to stop them and so we give you a load of nonsense and then just say bye guys don't worry of it you can eat fish you can grow food and there's no problem. well yes there is a small problem but it's not serious it's clean. not all the plutonium is used up 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 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 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 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 us government in. indicates that in one test site has

migrated quite far past already within forty years. one of the additional problems that had been discovered in the last fifteen years turned out to be a very complicated substance chemical so the behavior is very difficult to characterize and it made my great faster into 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 it's stabilize. the heart of moral 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.

said to seven hundred kilos of plutonium buried now soil. and i ask myself is because i wonder what it's worth having children see poor when they're faced with a tragedy. and that's good indeed happened. to them. is a few tickets for name all it would take would be a tsunami but up. this one i heard him talking about the legacy on did i. do my so my daughter. came in and kissing me. and i thought if i don't do anything unusual to me one day she would blame me issue but that's what motivates me to fight the nuclear threat cauldron and struggle for my country's independence.

culture is that so much of it is a huge music issue on the back when libya is still in the same age as bombing campaigns and to take the case of only hardened political facts something.

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