had a rocky army of a draw is found twenty two murdered shia pilgrims in the country's western province of victims were headed to a shrine in syria when the air bus was stopped by armed gunmen they were taken to every most desert area and executed their attacks and shia pilgrims have claimed hundreds of lives in recent months. france's national electricity provider says an explosion of the nuclear side poses no risk of a radioactively blast described as an industrial accident not a nuclear one killed one person injured four others it start to have been caused by a fire in the sides radioactive waste storage facility. we have to date but see what's happening in the world of business with you. alone very well welcome to the business of day the ruble is trading close to its lowest level against the u.s.

dollar for eight months investors are concerned europe's system debt crisis could hit demand for fuel and spec to hinder russia's economic growth russian currency has lost more than one cent against the greenback in the last twenty four hours one dollar now costs more than thirty rubles just by russia's relatively healthy budget and this is just the ruble will weaken further as risk appetite around the world remains low. russia's largest lenders burbank is seeking to diversify its business and buy a life insurance company the plans of position is. a subsidiary of german insurance major. all this business has been moved to another russian subsidiary early on sly still holds all the necessary licenses making it an attractive target. and french banking majors thought it as generalists to get rid of every tenth employee we in as russian subsidiaries the move is a part of a global strategy to reassure investors the bank can handle its exposure to risky

huge debts so the visioneer all is looking to cut costs globally by five percent and raise four billion euros from the sale of assets the decision comes ahead of an expected downgrade of the bank's credit rating by moody's investor services. and russia's leading mobile operator m.t.s. is entering the banking business its parent company system are which also owns m b r g bank plans to turn the financial problem into a retail play using m.p.'s brant starting from a poke at the mobile operator will provide m.t.'s money cards in all its three thousand six hundred schools can't holders will be able to use all the banking services of m b r g the bank expects the number of cards issued to exceed fifteen million by two thousand and sixteen. the russian post will soon provide consumer loans along with its traditional shipping services starting from october russian post will provide short term loans ranging from sixteen to three hundred dollars

the company has a wide network around forty thousand branches throughout the country analysts say this could help the state controlled company competes with majors like spare bank and bt b. . which brings us to the markets well there's rising per second day on speculation crude supplies could decrease last week and the u.s. after storms offshore production branch is trading at just under one hundred thirteen dollars a barrel and light sweet is covering it eighty eight dollars a barrel. after modest gains in early tuesday straight britons could see and the german decks are again in the red and so those who optimize move around as investors focus on the weakness of the global economy. and positive sentiment seem to dominate the early morning trade on choose d. in russia with the us is tracking the u.s. and asia higher. than the rise it's quickly reversed those borders against with the latter slipping under fifteen hundred points let's take a look at some of the individual share moves in the my six most energy majors are

down despite strong accrued both gazprom and gross enough to losing a one percent this hour and bank st petersburg is also in the red despite posting stronger than expected results it's not top of the profit quadrupled to one hundred forty eight million dollars. tile markets are having a say in russia's privatization right russia's state run shipping giants of can float says it will hold an initial public offering no later than this second quarter of next year the government plans to raise between seven hundred fifty million and one point two billion dollars by floating a twenty five percent stake in the company. in other news russia will delay aerial gas and coal price increases until next summer prime going to. that low energy consumption in the summer time will make the hikes milder than in generate the move is seen as an attempt to tame inflation accelerated at the start of the year by

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well when one deals with war for us to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that are done not just human damage but damage the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amount of damage gone viral bombs by napalm boy you come from saddam's whether it's hard sonic booms a factory moring mammals or it's the burning oil field syria and iraq or it's stroy coral reefs in the pacific for ramming purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva convention says nineteen forty nine states that care shall be saved in war

to protect one's life against widespread long term and severe damage to the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions protocol one has. taken exception to that. too much bryson move on sloan from phones to pressure in some.

stunts on t.v. don't comb. welcome back you're watching our t.v. live from moscow these are the top stories amnesty international calls on all sides in the libyan civil war to prevent human rights violations but short lived jubilation after the fall of gadhafi some even say they're now being abused by those who fought for their freedom. at a time when the u.s. is tightening its fiscal belt floors in private jails and seek more revenue from cash cow prisoners the arts use of lobbying to expand the american justice system and increase the number of citizens behind bars. ukraine considers all galatea of

day trips to the contaminated area around her novel the side of the world's biggest nuclear disaster tourist business were banned over allegations they provided healthy profits to train officials. a constant companions in any war are lost lives and destruction or the impact on nature often goes unnoticed well that starts you focuses on the environmental footprint of war. displacement is another of war's consequences the forced migration of civilians has profound impacts on the natural environment this image was taken in one thousand nine hundred six after the tens of million government decided to close camps for rwandan refugees the column of refugees in this photo stretched for twenty seven miles for the rwandan border. these women are i.d.p.'s

internally displaced persons although they have fled the genocide and jar for problems they have not crossed the sudanese quarter and are not considered refugees under international law collect wood for cooking they must risk being attacked by the gender we need government backed arab militia men will target the sudan's black population. with their heavy demand for would sudan six million internally displaced persons and further stress the landscape already degraded by climate change into certification. internal displacement is a growing problem in iraq an estimated two million civilians have been displaced since the start of operation iraqi freedom i.d.p. camps have sprung up in 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 to 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 a demand on resources it creates a demand on infrastructure and ultimately displacement undermines the peace process in the vietnam war which the vietnamese cause the american war. there's a clash there was a clash between the very highly technological society in a largely agrarian society. i think we have a lot of arrogance we thought we would really go in and take control of the work we were needed to blow up and do basically what we wanted.

one of the main reasons 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 to helicopters would 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 especially there were times and places where i would look out and see nothing but a ravenous landscape bomb craters one after another so close together and you see little islands of greenland that had not been bombed. i grew up in

a small town in illinois. town surrounded by quite fuels and feels very beautiful towns along the illinois river. and when i saw it from i in describing the destruction to the land i couldn't help wondering what if that had happened to our cornfields are going feels how would we feel if that happens often. was and. was. i went to that war 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 line in the sand was going to be. for the goddess of freedom i wast whatever little faith i had in the war and being noble in any sense. the other way in the pacific i was the tiny at all of bikini in the martial art doesn't spot body on beefing up mankind has credible thoughts go into a bit of

a god of many ships a coast a navy man don't invite goats pigs invite rats awaiting the atomic blast. army and navy personnel come i thought to carry out the first task to deal with the island as whole lived on a japanese mandate for twenty years now to james cameron the. united states are now wants to turn its great if it power in there's something for the benefit. and that is it 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 defense mimes parm to

support the man who barks and say oh one flood but the mobilization reaches still farther into the life of the nation baxter's must bring in the forests and trees must fall or the sawmills right for law and builders right for lumber states feel the need to be militarily prepared in the modern world that has been building a military industrial complex building a pollution intensive industry to generate military goods one of the best examples of how the business and preparing for war can have long lasting environmental impacts is the nuclear weapons programs around the world there's a plan in place since the early one nine hundred forty s. where ever this is happened there have been environmental problems with radioactive waste. which no one anywhere has satisfactorily saw.

i grew up near the hand their education which is located in washington state when the nuclear bombs were developed their little thought was given to what to do about the waste that would be felt afterwards indeed now the u.s. department of energy calls him third the world's largest environmental cleanup project stanford washington is the site where the united states has senshi accumulated its nuclear waste mostly from weapons work also from nuclear power and other radioactive grade industries hanford was constructed in one nine hundred forty two under 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 bomb released on august sucky production of plutonium intensified during the cold war.

sixty three the dual purpose n. reactor was constructed to generate nuclear power for civilian use the reactor building completed in nineteen sixty three. to break ground for the construction of the power plant. and i think it's very appropriate that we come in. there much as been done to build the carriage thank the united states to find a chance to strike a blow a piece of the time it can to strike a blow for a better life for the good of this is a great national anthem i can assure you it will be maintained and from the work we began today i was at my fourth from out not right for the hours worked by electricity but the fact that we live in the united states we are looking at. providing security for our people. it operate for a little like this but you know if it was.

since the production of tony 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 third stored in one hundred seventy seven underground tanks seventy of these tanks have leaked spilling proximately 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 stood 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 seoul in the pacific and one of the world's largest incinerators was built in the middle of a wildlife refuge and that process and burning those chemical weapons from okinawa in germany took place in one thousand nine hundred ninety two the year two thousand john snaffle has been and 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 atmospheric nuclear test. for vehicle for.

want of a column casualty i. know that was a sticking file which caused the fire more from ignition. missile and more on the watch. when at least one of the atmospheric tests with the hydrogen bomb blew up on the launch pad a good part of just natural was left with highly radioactive plutonium debris twenty years later all the agent orange that was all dumped on joints are stored as they say on johnson absolutely they really over time became a dump site of agent orange and now thirdly we put chemical weapons on the chance

not to 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 before it was wiped out and awesome it was efficient little petting going out and it had mates before you what to do in such as shelters the people calmly waited all unaware that already descending upon them was the bomb. when it was all over on and off scram miles of that awesome moment but on the last two to extinction and all shattering devastation in which was born yet time again. radiation effects look and has to be imprinted on goals and fun it's unlike present shadows a lot outlined on a building the design of her dress left on the body of

a woman who would die in a few days in. office of. from. members of the so-called nuclear club states known detonated nuclear weapons either best to or foreign soil among them at least two thousand that's have been conducted atmosphere under water underground and in space. we're 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 just 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 selves lean i think islamists any nation retained new weapons other nations who want them a few years. years ago about was a real promise of hope for the poor both black and white through the poverty program and then came the buildup in vietnam. and i watched this program broken and it was a radio as if it was some i don't political play thing about society gone mad on war and i knew that america would never in past the necessary bonds go in a tizzy and rehabilitation of its poor so long as that ventures like vietnam continue to draw men and skilled spend money like fund and monitor destructive suction to. the world's currently spending somewhere around

a trillion us dollars on the war and preparations for war and this is an enormous devotion for a fraction of that a man we could have played more to sanitation education good health care for everybody on the planet sets a chair a bit of a shelf or so since. any war that takes place on the matter how large or how small it is enormous costs to it 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 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.

for us if you will is a particular problem in this time a concern that climate change just one example i think illustrates that well if we're matching mine if sixteen thought. flying for just under one at a guess is approximately twice as much as he every chair merican citizen he's in he's ok if you 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 tottenham's requires two gallons of fuel per mile all told the united states department of defense burns 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 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 and or g. and our monetary resources away from trying to solve and address some of the long term problems. and the sea level is also rising and in louisiana we've been losing thirty square miles a year roughly. of late i mean if the united states were losing that to some foreign power we have the military out there defending him. we often ask the question where were you on september eleventh well i remember that very clearly 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 much was already history terrorism is a threat no question about it but on my list of threats to our future. there are many more serious threats climate change being an obvious one population growth being another the economy does not exist in the 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 rational high tech know what terri response to terrorism that will work the challenge is to build an environmentally sustainable equitable society that will do more to undermine terrorism and 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 the strong country. in his book plan b. lester brown uses scientific and you can omics studies together with data from the world bank the united states government and the united nations draft a global budget for restoring your 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 that's a lot of money it's a third of the u.s. military budget.