now again this is saucy let's check the headlines at half past the hour. bringing peace special envoy kofi annan is in moscow to discuss possible solutions to the syrian crisis has no use sanctions are imposed on the arab country despite efforts by the one to secure and seize. antiwar protesters outrage in tel aviv and britain warning their forces against a potential time to run the monsters come as immense tension grows around terrence in that program as the sanctions from the us. teenage board has been shown

to have been dozens injured in countries between security forces ons and more if people found in the egyptian town of port the state hundreds of people have taken to the streets over it to get clothes on the local contraband inside that stadium in february seventeenth. and that's the headlines they up next year now see our special report made to both be with you means accidents fighting for nuclear disarmament and pretty ferocious. the nuclear age is the first sixty years oh. you're pretty can be quite can describe exactly how an underground test was. through every one zero almost you couldn't hear anything about it 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 the nonproliferation 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. disseminate agreements by not being honored . what is happening now it is that it all is in some countries are able to write a draft over international law because there isn't sufficient body of protest from they did that country then to these basic principles. french polynesia thrust into the midst of a nuclear attack. and when we accompanied them to ground zero with guns pointed ready to fire who were we going to fire at i wonder he should clearly crabs.

you have been to maybe there was a russian or american invasion unite all know and 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 activist on disarmament issues moved their activism to the environment or fighting globalization or other issues and no one could ace i think in this fight for disarmament the nonproliferation. the danger is growing with the anti-nuclear movement weight that. 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 shown 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. continue to regenerate the goals and that french polynesia responsible part of what france will become unique that is to say imagine uclear power. but to me that is disgusting and send one of them moaning was imposed on us don't cough it in we're not in fact she makes us guilty too yeah for we are victims much 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.

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 friends and the subject of nuclear testing remains taboo but this doesn't stop. christo you right now. that i'm thinking of my children's future. not so much a. tiny territory a tiny country for which we have a high percentage of people suffering from cairo it long and bladder cancer. and it's frightening to know all that. with the help of her husband the decent 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. now we suffer from the ills of a modern society yes we tell our son about our country's history but 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 and not in 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 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 what am i going to say to them when they ask what did you do to keep my country into this situation so that's what i worry about. we were of the atom bomb generation. play football cattle 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. 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 we have never agreed with nuclear testing. but we cannot agree to weapons of mass destruction this and so must 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 their comic 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 nine hundred fifty eight campaign for nuclear disarmament organized the first worldwide grassroots opposition in one thousand nine hundred eighty three under the pressure of the peace movements the two western powers and the u.s.s.r. signed an agreement banning atmospheric testing france was i'm concerned and

continue to detonate bombs suspended from big. by nine hundred seventy four forty six pierce 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 thank you for basically decides to stop all nuclear testing in the pacific soon greenpeace departs from or they find an ally in new zealand or a follow up from the french testing has been detected on its soil. new zealand five the international court of justice and wins. france is forced to renounce atmosphere testing but there is still another option the era of french underground

testing begins it will last more than twenty years 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 bombs to kill people women and children so to achieve that goal you don't need to be a perfectionist. i call him uncle so known him since i was little i never knew he worked on more. if i told my superiors i want to be protected why are they protected by inauguration shit with my khaki police uniform shorts i can't be all that. and the military personnel were covered from head to toe. what about us polynesians. us

in 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. he only wanted to play or is when some polynesians played a card about the french injecting billions here. from the force they say take advantage of it and don't korans talking nonsense. and you've got to end your association. so it's really a very young association two thousand and wasn't his uncle. last year had the president of the association earl and old ham on the radio he was appealing to young people is encouraging them to take a greater interest in the nuclear problem and then. that's how we joined the socio . nuclear tests here devastated polynesian society but not

just in terms of health the environment and other things. the structures of the society were destroyed. what does it 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 because think that's a real rift in the family even between father and son this 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

is are all the ones who are against nuclear testing so all the ones who support it . it was because my classmates for example were saying oh yeah can you create testing so it's a bomb that explodes that's it. only when you hear about an activist getting arrested by the police and thrown in jail in order to be a need to get to meet them or i think that in her mind she wondered why is it always my father. give it up we don't it's true because when she wasn't joe 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 at all that. i

do didn't you know when young various trips to new zealand with my parents and i had the opportunity to meet some members of greenpeace the to think you know you can if i think they will bring me to cross 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 irritates the french military july tenth one thousand nine hundred five while the activists prepare to sail again tomorrow and france orders the sinking of their ship the rainbow warrior and the new zealand's auckland harbor. the bombing provokes an uproar from the international community and tremendous publicity for greenpeace. ten years later in one thousand nine hundred five the french president jacques chirac orders a new series of nuclear tests this time to hear the bells. remember

this actually our first illustration 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 seize. city. it was we know it was like watching a big movie screen but. if. it was very upsetting it was a feeling of pate. hate. that 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. it one person one person decided the entire future of my children. my grandchildren and my

great grandchildren. it's in c. in. january nine hundred ninety six france proceeds with this last nuclear test in polynesia 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 maker jewel and you aircraft damage so everything is being updated between now and twenty twenty. years that result from countries like the united states. some of the other western nations in the bowl being new nuclear weapons that excites the interest in countries like korea and their round 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 the 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 pressure that having nuclear weapons gives them this special status are we going to have one law one standard or we're going to have two class world increasingly countries particularly developing world are saying that they're not going to live in a two class world. system the some force where french we are in our passports was

the french but second class citizens yes second rate is do you remember what i was on said the other day. if we had been pulling michigan we'd never have had nuclear tests. if that's what it's called back than. if i think that when we have our independence. the whole truth about the tests and their consequences will come out because. they are a people who are taken for ignorant 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 . i see the camp records asked and the stands are

test which were carried out the year i was boring. if you don't know that i've had a thyroid 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 fallout swear to tech today 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. the problem exists in french polynesia either as the collective anxiety brought aboard my cycle sociological poisoning or in terms of the code of silence that has prevailed over

the radioactive fallout. here you know if there is a psychosis it's because the government created it and we want to know the radiation dose of those 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 the sadness fear of secrecy let's call it by its rightful name. the. liberal press people who live there are worried and rightly so because i think they deserve the truth many people are campaigning for transparency doesn't necessarily make you a doomsayer. in general we have a higher rate of fire with cancer as you compared to some regions it's much higher seems the more that if we have

a higher incidence of leukemia than elsewhere it's probably due to the palm. that needs 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 un college department in the hospital of people. who are you a lot this year he worked in the santa. fe repair facility for navy ships returning from the states. now i have lung cancer. he has cancer in his left lung. because he worked on more wall for a very short time only six months and the second time they brought him home because he was having trouble breathing. 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 it's my tirade. and it's starting to get bigger look yeah and later we'll 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 all you 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 to pay them while a good i'd prefer my husband to mine and the fact that 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 am waiting for someone to say clearly your illness was caused by eating too much pork too much of this or that were lost because of the nuclear testing. what have we done it has to stop and so we give you a load of nonsense and then just say bye guys don't worry 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 but it's clean. a lot of it just left behind so that's what we're talking. is not a problem when it gets into the water. supply and then could be

a problem. what is the legacy of one hundred fifty to undergo nuclear tests 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 and he said 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 pony 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 there about it indicates that in one test site has migrated quite far from the past already within

forty years. one of the additional problems that have been discovered in the last fifteen years that turned 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 that and you know we have seven hundred kilos down there. so nobody knows if more rule is stabilize. the heart of morris 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. to seven hundred kilos of plutonium buried in l.

soil. and i ask myself is whether it's worth having children see proof when they're faced with a tragedy. and that's good indeed happen. to know. you feel because from then all it would take would be a tsunami went up. when i heard him talking about the legacy. i saw my daughter. hugging and kissing me. thoughts if i don't do anything to me one day she will blame me if you put that's what motivates me to find the nuclear threat cauldron and struggle for my country's independence.

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