answers the phone person dead and four people injured officials earlier ward of a possible radiation leak but say no emissions have been detected well let's cross now live to paris to talk more on this with journalist most eager thanks very much indeed for being with us here on our team now as we've seen with the focus shima disaster authorities downplayed the scale of the disaster at the start now what do you make of the french authorities delay in declaring this accident i understand it took some some hours before they said anything. well it's typical of. governments of industry right now that are running. for the most concern. or any of . why because they don't want a public panic into. playing the game about the actual car from the damage from the radiation and the exposure to the community surrounding it well this is the first recorded death at a nuclear facility in france in fifty years considering nuclear power provides a vast majority of france's energy that there really is little to fear isn't there

and they are actually saying there is not a risk there is no nuclear and radiation leakage. well i'll tell you what the records show bit in fifteen i nuclear plants france operates currently since one thousand nine hundred sixty nine there has been for nuclear accidents and fifty one nuclear incidents reported officially so let's dispense and dispel with the talk about this is a safe well regulated well managed industry because the facts speak differently. we have a green party in france who have souls who have suffered so many mass defections because it's got partial funding from the socialist party what am i trying to say the so-called opposition to environmental mismanagement is in the pockets has been subsidised by a political party so they help whitewash the nature of the incidents so the french

people i'm sorry to say they've got a very very restricted and limited amount of information about nuclear accidents nuclear incidents so what this is this is sort of it's right now with this just quickly ask you i'm going to get on with this that we have therefore an impact on the perception of nuclear energy and munched amongst the french public now. well it seems from fukushima the french public has. certainly and decided that maybe nuclear energy is not safe that it can be dangerous and that it is vulnerable that is catastrophic your plant can go from an energy plant to a weapon of mass destruction if one looks at the damage and the ongoing damage caused by previous nuclear accidents in various countries so you know in answer to your question the french public is waking up but right now there is no mass movement and no organized opposition or leadership to confront the government and

this this this electorate defaults you know it this is it shows my building creasing every two years when nuclear energy was supposed to in the beginning also to be very portable and here is france the number one supplier and supporter of electricity to the world who currently has signed a contract with libya to build a nuclear plant and signed an agreement to build the biggest nuclear plant in the world in india with a record on its home soil of forty eight with fourteen accidents and fifty one incidents. well just very briefly before we finish something like seventy five percent of energy needs come from nuclear power stations there in france it's going to take a long time to develop alternatives and of course money you know the economy there is no other cheap affordable way of providing electricity so surely it's there to stay isn't it. no. it doesn't have to stay right

now seventy eight point eight percent of all atrocity generated in france is generated by nuclear power all right there is a way out and the way out is for a compromise our consumers as well to accept prove research true development and to solar and wind and other sustainable forms of energy. but we can't have a quick fix but if we continue right now the way that the way that management and storage of nuclear waste alone is going we will of the oceans the rivers and the planet which is currently going on at this point this is essentially an energy of mass destruction right now ok and i wish we had more time time isn't there always a way out ok great to hear what you have to say to various is a no secret that joining us live in paris it's if what you have to say thank you

can see. twenty six twenty seven minutes past the hour now time for the business news we. hello and welcome to business here on artsy deals worth more than three hundred million dollars have been signed during the visit of the u.k. prime minister david cameron to russia of the delegation includes blue chip companies like loral dutch shell b.p. and british airways british d.i.y. retailer kingfisher has unveiled a plan zero pair nine stores in russia total investment return to one hundred eighty million dollars also engineering firm rolls royce has agreed to jointly develop nuclear power with the russian state energy corporation. and among other notable deals the russian state now technology corp is fine forty to fifty percent off the london based pro bono bio for an undisclosed amount the financial times the

scribes the company as a new medical company launching the world's first molecular scale nanotechnology treatments problem of plants less than moscow and on this within four years. tony hayward is stepping down from the anglo russian oil firm it seeing play b.p. and that's less than a year after joining the board as a non-executive director and former chief executive officer he was fiercely criticized for his handling of the gulf of mexico oil spill is leavin supersede all their interests in the energy sector the departure comes at a sensitive time following the spell that santa drawing with so explore the arctic the alliance was broken by the russian partners in the who are now seeking compensation through the courts from the british parent company. and that's all we have time for this hour the headlines are next.

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austerity package and as the final stages triggering a new wave of protests and tough spending cuts the much debated fifty four billion euro program is aimed at balancing the country's projects and triggering growth. but i think that with more news stories not of elements in half an hour from now in the meantime monday evening here in the russian capital we look at the sudden casualty of war the environment which faces a bear and long term damage both from the production of weapons and combat itself to stay with us for that. displacement is another of war's consequences a forced migration of civilians has profound impacts on the natural environment this image was taken in one thousand nine hundred six active attempts to me in government decided to close the camps and refuge the column of refugees and this photo spread for twenty seven miles toward the rwandan border. these

women are i.d.p.'s internally displaced persons although they have fled the genocide in darfur province they have not crossed the sudanese border and are not considered refugees under international law to collect wood for cooking they must risk being attacked by the general meade government backed arab militia men target the sudan's black population. with their heavy demand for would then six million internally displaced persons and further stress to a landscape already been created by climate change into certain. internal displacement is a growing problem in iraq an estimated two million civilians have been displaced since the start of operation iraqi freedom which i.d.p. camps have strung up on the outskirts of measure baghdad and nineveh many lack

potable water medicine and proper waste disposal the real risk of not addressing the environmental problems is that people simply have to leave their homes if they don't have wood to burn cook with to heat their homes where they don't have water to drink they leave and you see massive displacement happening we call it environmental refugees if you will but people are leaving their homes this creates i demand on resources it creates a demand on infrastructure and ultimately displacement undermines the peace process in the vietnam war which the vietnam. the american war. there is a clash and was a clash between a very highly technological society and a largely agrarian society. i think we have a lot of arrogance thought we were going to go in and take control of the work or needed to blow up and do basically what we wanted.

one of the main reasons that i refused to carry a weapon was that i could not see any justification for the destruction of the lands at the level that i saw in infantry platoon. was mainly moved from place to place by helicopter the helicopters were fly high so as not to draw ground fire now when you're at a high altitude and you can look out on the land and see it for miles and miles and miles in the kuchi area is specially there were times and places where i would look out and see nothing but a ravenous landscape bomb craters one after the other so close together and you see little islands of green had not been donned. i grew up in

a small town in illinois. town surrounded by cornfields and fields very beautiful town along one morning river. and when i saw it from high in the sky going to structure to the land i couldn't help wondering what if that had happened to our cornfields are green fields i would we feel if that happened oh my. god again and that. was. that. i went to that word knowing nothing at all but when i saw that

level of destruction i could not and we that this was going to lead to democracy that this was a wind in the sand was going to be. put the gods of freedom i was to put every little thing i had in the war and being noble in any sense. it's. not far away in the pacific i was the tiny atoll of bikini and i'm not allowed dozens of the on

beefing of mankind i was edible thoughts. of in the graveyard of many ships opposed to navy mandated by goats figs and fight rats a way to get comic dust. army and maybe a personnel commissar to carry out that first pass to deal with the islanders who lived on a japanese mandate for twenty. nine or jamie the. united states now wants to turn this great and stop it power in something benefit. and that is experiment here. are the first step. i think it's generally the case that the greater and more durable impacts come from preparation for war rather than combat itself. but the best minds born to

support the men who march and stay on one plot but the mobilization reaches still further into the life of the nation actors must bring in the forests and trees must fall for the sawmills right for law and builders right for lumber states feel the need to be militarily prepared in the modern world that has meant building a military industrial complex building a pollution intensive industry to generate military goods one of the best examples of how the business of preparing for war can have long lasting environmental impacts is the nuclear weapons programs around the world that have been in place since the early one nine hundred forty s. wherever this is happened there has been environmental problems with radioactive

waste. which no one anywhere has satisfactorily sought. a reservation which is located in washington state and the nuclear bombs for developed their little thought was given to what to do about the waste that would result afterwards indeed now the u.s. department of energy calls hanford the world's largest environmental cleanup project hanford washington is the site where the united states has century accumulated its nuclear waste mostly from weapons work also from nuclear power and other radioactive related industries hanford was constructed in one nine hundred forty two and the top secret manhattan project its location along the columbia river provided a ready source of water for cooling nuclear reactors the hanford engineering works produced the plutonium used in the trinity test device and in the fat man released

a sucky production of plutonium intensified during the cold war and one nine hundred sixty three the dual purpose of enery after it was constructed to generate nuclear power for civilian use. your building completed nineteen. construction. and i think it very proper got every. right to. the pride of the strike. and the final chance of a life. if the great while i can assure you it will be maintained and. the like were. not at all your file is pretty much where the real. united states we are moving. and providing security for our people. it operate for

a little like this but you're right that the. since the production of tony i'm ceased in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven cleanup has been the only mission at the head for a nuclear reservation there are fifty three million gallons of high level radioactive and chemical waste and fraud stored in one hundred seventy seven underground tanks seventy of these tanks have leaked spilling of rocks and at least one million gallons of waste into the soil. after washington is a wasteland of leaking radioactive waste that will be with us for decades and decades probably centuries to come and it's currently costing us billions of dollars to just try to contain let alone clean up in truth it's never going to be cleaned up and some of the radioactive waste will remain potentially lethal for twenty four thousand years which is any way you slice it

a long time. the united states used to stockpile chemical weapons unbeknown to most of the world in germany and in okinawa with u.s. troops in japan and those two stockpiles which were never used of course were shipped back secretly to johnston at all in the pacific and one of the world's largest incinerators was built in the middle of a wildlife refuge and that process in burning those chemical weapons from okinawa in germany took place in one thousand nine hundred two to the year two thousand john snapple has been it still is being studied but that's actually a very interesting case of a unique coral reef really in the middle of the pacific ocean it's about seven

hundred fifty miles west of hawaii that was used as a launch site for atmosphere nuclear test. vehicle for bluegill. one of a column casualties. that was a sticking. which caused the fire more competition. missile and more on the march. when at least one of the atmospheric tests with the hydrogen bomb blew up on the launch pad a good part of just now told was left with highly radioactive plutonium debris twenty years later all the agent orange that was all dumped on johnson stored as

they say on johnson that's all that really over time became a dump site from agent orange and now thirdly we put chemical weapons on john snap's all this national wildlife refuge under the fish and wildlife department has really been used and abused by the military over the ages. only a few hours upon it was wiped out in russia mo's efficient little accounting going out and it had a major before you what to do in such as shells as the people calmly waited all unaware that already descending upon them was the atom bomb. when it was all over the phone and off square miles of it all samoan but on the last of the extinction of the all chattering devastation in which was born the atomic age. radiation affects not fantastically imprinted on bones and fun it tonight presents shadows aloud outlined on

a building the design of her dress left on the body of a woman who would die in a few days in a house up from the office of. a from the activity. members of the so-called nuclear club states known to have detonated nuclear weapons either bested or foreign soil among them at least one thousand tests have been conducted disappear under water underground and in space. where retaining tens of thousands of nuclear weapons when probably a few hundred would be enough for deterrence we have nuclear weapons far in excess of any conceivable need for them as the strongest conventional power by orders of magnitude in the world for this country to say that

we need nuclear weapons what does that signal to the rest of the world. that they must be very valuable and that they probably would want to get them self's mean i think islamists any nation retain sneaky weapons other nations who want them a few years. years ago that was a real promise of hope for the poor both black and white through the poverty program then came the buildup in vietnam. and i watched this program broken and it was a rated as if it was some i don't political play thing about society gone mad on war and i knew that america would never invest the necessary energies in rehabilitation of a poor so along as the adventures might be continued to draw men and skills and money lightstone demonic destructive suction to.

the world's currently spending somewhere around a trillion you a stylus on the wall and preparations for war and this enormous division for a fraction of that amount we could have played water sanitation education good health care for everybody on the planet to chair a bit of a shift resources. any war that takes place on the matter how large or how small is enormous costs too and we're talking in lebanon today billions of dollars of cleaning up just a fifteen day war let alone you know the years and years of warfare in iraq or afghanistan or vietnam or wherever else that may take place so the costs of war really. if they're well understood and in most cases they're not but if they well understood should preclude the war to begin with the war is not worth the cost in terms of lives but also long term environmental and public health damage for

decades to come. fast and furious a particular problem in this time a concern that that climate change just run example i think illustrates that well if we imagine one if sixteen fire. find for just under one ad it uses approximately twice as much oil as he every chimeric can see does and he says game he's ok if we hear. the f. sixteen is just one machine in one branch of the military to take another example the army's abrams tank weighs sixty eight tons requires two gallons of fuel per mile all told united states department of defense burned some three hundred fifty thousand barrels of oil per day making it the world's largest single consumer the defense department uses i think somewhat over two thirds of the energy. that the

u.s. government. uses and it uses them for ships and tanks and planes and heating buildings and a whole host of other things. for probably the largest impact that all the defense effort has is a diversion of intellectual under g. and our monetary resources away from trying to solve and address some of the long term problems. in sea level is also rising and in louisiana we've been losing thirty square miles a year roughly. of land i mean if the united states were losing that to some foreign power we'd have a military out there defending him. we often ask the question where were you on september eleventh well i remember that

very curtly because i was in new york and i was there specifically to give a luncheon address at the new york times on the new book eco economy building an economy for the year. well by mid-morning that lunch was already history terrorism is a threat no question about it but on my list of threats to our future. there are there are many more serious threats climate change being an obvious one population growth being another the economy does not exist in a vacuum it is entirely dependent on the earth's natural systems and resources and if we damage and destroy those systems and resources then the economy will eventually decline and one day collapse the challenge is not to fashion a high tech military response to terrorism that will work the challenge is to build an environmentally sustainable equitable society that will do more to undermine

terrorism than any possible high tech military weapon systems we can divide us. the other exciting thing is that almost everything we need to do has already been done by at least one country. in his book claim to be lester brown used the scientific and economic studies together with data from the world bank united states government and the united nations draft a global budget was storing the earth we look at the two sort of major components of what we think it's going to take to create a sustainable future one is poverty eradication and population stabilization and then we treat those as one because we think they're closely related when we put the budgets together for eradicating poverty stabilizing population plus what we call the earth restoration budget it comes to a total of one hundred sixty one billion dollars now.