because you're going to. mass protest in japan demand the abandoning of atomic power as a country marks the second anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster in decades. fulton islanders decide whether they want to stay at the british colony in a vote in neighboring argentina slams as a silly game. and the balcony is for british war veterans war putting their mouths under the hammer to get money for food and heat. this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital welcome to the program mass rallies

have been held across japan calling on the government to shun nuclear power more protests are expected on monday exactly two years after a huge earthquake and tsunami triggered the world's worst atomic disaster in twenty five years the quake and tsunami killed almost nine hundred thousand people and crippled the fukushima plant in northeastern japan causing meltdown spewing radiation and forcing thousands of thousands to flee their homes well today all but two of japan's nuclear reactors remain switched off since the disaster the prime minister whose party fosters pro-nuclear policies to modernize the nation wants to restart those reactors and maybe even build new ones. well the demonstrators aren't convinced they say japan could easily phase out atomic power because it only counts for around sixteen percent of total power production as you can see and the chart here most of the country's allergy still comes from fossil

fuels and it's got a long way to go to improve its renewable sources but at the same time the disgraced nuclear power also proves to be the cheapest among other resources and this could be crucial for reviving the economy as fuels come at least a double prices compared to atomic energy. well at this point so let's assess japan's recovery and a struggling relationship with nuclear fuel with robert jacobs he is an expert in the social and cultural aspects of nuclear technology is an associate professor at the hiroshima peace university and he's joining us live now from japan what robert how would you assess the progress in cleaning up the radiation and in fact decommission of crippled reactors. we're currently just at the beginning of a process that will have to go on for decades so it's hard to talk about anything except preparing to begin the work of decommissioning the reactors there are still

buildings on the plant. at fukushima daiichi that human beings cannot enter there's a lot of work that cannot be done yet because the radiation levels are too high so at this point what's being done is that the grounds are being prepared for the work to come but a lot of that work is still theoretical how to remove you remove the fuel how to lessen the radiation there on the site and how to decommission the plants these are not plans that exist these are plans that still have to be created so we're really at the very very beginning of a long process well certainly takes a lot of time as we know i mean it takes years for example you live in hiroshima and only of what forty or fifty years after the nuclear bomb was dropped there i mean the city is still sort of analyzing and assessing the damage right and it takes time as we know but what about rebuilding shattered communities i mean hundreds of thousands of people remember two years ago we saw dramatic images coming out of japan and people who are left homeless by this disaster by this nami

that hit the country so almost an equal number of evacuees to due to the reactor meltdown what is being done now to help though those people i mean is the effort that there is the help that they are getting enough. no it's not nearly enough the people who are being given help are the people who are forced to evacuate from within sight of twelve kilometer area so there is some liability for them having to leave a lot of people are outside of that area and were suggested to evacuate for those who evacuated themselves there is no compensation for the people who were forced to evacuate there has been some compensation in terms of some money to live on per month some of that is in the form of a loan which is supposed to be paid back none have yet been compensated for loss of property or loss of income so there's also other aspects to the ways in which they are not being treated with the with the real devotion to their care that should happen for example in the fukushima prefecture data about some of the dos levels in

areas where people were exposed was erased from a computer database so this makes it impossible to ascertain what kinds of exposures people had this degrades their ability to understand what to expect in the future health wise and also for them to be able to press any kind of legal case . well let's now talk about nuclear nuclear anarchy and their relationship that the people of japan have with it i mean their attitude towards it and tells us specifically what's the take of the government on this issue as we know that the new government looks set to revive atomic projects at what is your prediction here i mean will japan restart its switched off reactors. i believe they absolutely will switch them on because they've invested in them and these are huge assets for the country so they will not be left idle but i don't think that's the end of the story i think there will be increasing public protests i think that there's two reasons to look at this one is that the cost of nuclear energy is not so low as it seems

that's the cost of nuclear energy if nothing goes wrong but as we can see things go wrong and if you factor in the costs of these disasters it's far from an affordable form of energy on top of that i would say that since we are really at the beginning of understanding the impact of the exposures in the contaminations regardless of what policies are chosen regardless of how strong or weak the anti-nuclear movement is at any given moment this is an emerging situation so we're going to become more and more aware of what the health impacts and health consequences and contaminations are so this isn't like a kind of political question where there's a policy and people supported or don't support it we're in a dynamic situation where people are only going to become more and more aware of the toll that this accident and the entry of this radioactivity into the eco system has taken on society and i believe that that will only reinforce until the end to nuclear movement over time well we just what you just mentioned certainly interesting because you said i mean you mentioned the economic aspects of using the

nuclear and gina said it's not really cheap as some may think it is so my question to you would be water then the reasons behind you know reactivation the nuclear plant. because the investment has been made in some ways look at it this way if a football team is paid one hundred million dollars for a star player if the star player is performing extremely badly and not scoring goals that star player is still going to be sent out on to the field every day because the investment was made there's a lot of companies in japan who've invested a huge amount of money in nuclear power plants the value of those companies is dependent on the value of those assets so if we just simply remove them from being of value to those companies their value the value of the companies and their share price will fall and the economy will dip so supporting it is very much about supporting the economy as much as it is choosing it as a viable energy source and what about alternative sources of an agenda is japan

financially ready to explore other possibilities alternatives there you said ok yet fair enough what you mentioned there does make sense and but then on the other hand other alternative sources of energy as we're saying that nuclear energy is not always safe. yes there are and a lot of that is in development now and so the question of how feasible they are and which forms will become more integrated and more used in the long term will depend on how they develop in the kinds of investments that are put into them but they're the nuclear industry had essentially slowed down in the developed world because it is not cost efficient so so that's not really a viable way forward especially when you consider that the waste needs to be contained for hundreds of thousands of years which is longer than humans have had to agriculture by twenty times and so the cost of it are very high so it's hard for me to say it's not as a person it's not an energy policy expert which are the most feasible and viable paths but it certainly will be something besides nuclear power and most like to be

something sustainable related to wave energy solar power wind power there's a variety of energies incipient in that in the environment that have not been utilized sufficiently to provide energy. right robert jagers associate professor at the hiroshima peace university thank you so much for joining us here on r t and sharing your views with us thank you very much. now for more on how japan is recovering after seeing entire towns wiped out and others abana because they are just too dangerous to live in head to r.t. dot com and also got more expert opinion bring you the latest pictures from the anti-nuclear protest and commemorative events taking place in japan.

folk and islanders are voting in a referendum on whether they want to stay a british overseas territory the poll has been dismissed as a silly game bargain tina which lays claim to the islands it says were stolen by britain almost two centuries ago british m.p. george galloway says the u.k. strategy on the focus is provocative. exercise in relation to what is a proposed stress appendage of british colonialism britain has recently upped the ante sending a prince of the royal blood prince william down there to the south atlantic we've deployed this nuclear armed submarine and we are now saying that we're not prepared to talk to argentina about anything it's quite clear that the islanders have rights

they have rights to a minority way of life that need to be gotten by international agreement but the territory itself very obviously belongs to argentina if someone came down from mars and saw them up so we are the falkland islands lie all the argentinian continental shelf and track the distance between the falklands and the united kingdom once a great colonial power no a small nearly bankrupt country off the southwest coast of europe and was told that the small nearly bankrupt country was continuing to assert that it owned these islands while the mound from mars would laugh unfortunately we're not laughing year in britain because we're continuing to foot the bill while they fought to save their nation and europe from terror any but many of britain's wartime heroes are finding that the country's

a sterile he is one battle they can't win as highly decorated world war two veterans are forced to sell their medals just to make to the ends meet sara first has a story. i fired a short burst from five hundred feet producing strikes on the border and a dull flame appeared soon it began to dive steeply exploding into the ground these are the private extracts from the flight logs of world war two night pilot brand burbridge despite being a highly skilled and decorated pilot his story has remained largely untold until now ninety two and suffering with outsiders prances in a nursing home and his family struggling with high care costs have put the incredible momentum up for sale i said that these are your medals we're selling them and there was a smile and there was a sort of recognition that. you know this this is what he. doubt that

he's probably got some understanding of. this happening the family are hoping to raise more than one hundred thousand pounds at the auction with their father's nursing home costs averaging around fifty thousand pounds a year in service it is the money will go a long way to paying for their father's treatment the items tell the remarkable story of a man he began the war as a conscientious objector but who ended it is arguably one of britain's most prolific night flies and the story goes one short absolutely true never really because you only have room for the engines hoping that mobilize will be so. pleased to see. a parachute mode. so this is prances pilots flying logbook and slowly unusually he also includes his combat reports now this

particular one you can see describes one of his exceptional achievements during the war where in one night alone he shot down four enemy german planes now that was absolutely remarkable and was described by a fellow night flying eighth as one of the most exceptional sorties flown during the war in from now when he looks at planes there's that recognition that part of his life of all of this. i think is yes the elderly care needs to be more funding for. care so that they don't have to sell all their possessions and all their what they fought for of their home you know in order to pay for that i think that's the hardest thing british spectrum's do you receive a tax free pension but with sky high living in care costs and often that's simply

not enough. shockingly and it's estimated that ex service personnel account for around one in ten of the u.k.'s homeless politicians are criticised for abandoning but shien's in the hour of need leaving it to charities to pick up the slack and we have hundreds of people who contact veterans and their dependents who contact us every year who need help with care looking at the ageing population it's not likely that those the number of people we help would go down and the time say every year in the u.k. they're a key they paid for the people inside for their country for the nice and well everything goes for that only added to the number of veterans leaving the brown fervor to story is an important reminder that for the rest of the year away from the ceremonies and the cameras and many verses that turns a facing daily personal challenges the bun love go on the to serve us

a london. in syria it's a specter the rebels there are getting us training are going to member of the syrian twists and turns in a deadly song that shows no sign of ending would bring you part of that conversation later this hour. and there's a bite in israel over whether the ultra religious should serve in the army like everyone else to claim it's the jewish intellect that we are fighting to protect. her.

wealthy british style. that's not hard to find right in front. of the. markets why no scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy cars a report on. this is our combat security an edge it seems to be at its shakiest in months as police officers across the country go on strike the spying going street violence officers accuse the government of using them as political pawns and false trouble at the weekend in the wake of court rulings upholding death sentences over the board cites stadium riots beltre reports. court so i got to security headquarters is a powerful reminder of the past five days of bloody clashes between anti-government

protesters and security forces in a bid to quell on rest a day ahead of the contentious verdict on last february's football riots the government removed the police and put the city security in the hands of the army activists here say a military takeover will only antagonize the situation and is an example of president mohamed morsi ignoring their demands. in the metal the government has forgotten our main needs or the rights of the people and those who have been killed in the port side is not going to be more secure with the withdrawal of the police but it won't help us at all the ports are you know officers are supposed to be in the street and taking care of the country that's what we asked for with the police leaving there will be chaos now the people will have to secure the city themselves tension between protesters and the police has been high since last year's riots and when the minute you place them on the city streets there was an initial optimism but that all changed off the court's decision the atmosphere changed on saturday

when the verdict confirmed that twenty one people will. the death penalty and a further five will serve a nice instances residents here say that the army will not protect them as the local authorities bowed to pressure from the capital that's a funeral for protesters killed during the recent clashes and the spicy founder of the green eagles ultras saeed's football fan club says the police used excessive force against local demonstrators treating them worse than their counterparts in cairo and he believes the death sentences are further proof the city is being targeted towards saeed has been persecuted for the last thirty years and president mohamed morsi is keeping the status quo created by the last regime the president wants to wrong the people of portside and instead satisfy the cairo old tribes who are widespread across the country now there is a risk of everyone being racist towards portside aid the military for their part to

maintain they are protective peaceful force and that portside protesters have not been singled out they say police are merely responding to the level of violence from those attacking key government buildings meanwhile on the banks of the suez canal protesters burn tires to prevent boats from ducking saying they will escalate acts of civil disobedience until there is a fair trial with further violence on the horizon this could be the toughest challenge yet for morsi and his military true for r t puts. across what's happening on the ground in egypt and you can follow her for the latest details on twitter. a syrian rebels are reportedly receiving training from the u.s. in their fight against president assad it's claimed to be taking place in jordan and some americans involved are in military uniform but some members of the divided

syrian opposition say military support from abroad is only deepening syrian crisis as one of the opposition leaders explained to artie's arabic tell. oh good two of them and i want the opposition to be united for at least we would know who to negotiate with but unfortunately there are many small armed groups we are trying to establish contact with the most rational and far seeing opposition representatives who respect international humanitarian law and the basic constitutional principles that unite us as syrians whose actions aren't based on religious beliefs or malicious murders there's much. aside what is your view on the main political problems of the syrian crisis for example the preservation of assad's presidency civilian death and their position being supplied with weapons when the cult will have it so hello to them well first the arms supply should be stopped completely both for the rebels and for the syrian army second concerning the presidency we

need time syria needs a boat ten to twenty years a parliamentarian ism to eliminate the idea of destroying one person and the role of the president so we can see that the majority of syrians support our program that will redistribute power from the president. so fun to afraid of clashes with the government which is going to be formed in istanbul and it is considered to control so-called free districts mostly now you have. we are far from it still i think that if a project starts with the french foreign minister statement and then was discussed in istanbul's lobbies over three months the project doesn't have any future it is likely to be a farce and it will actually be much better if it is not realized at all because it won't gain any support or respect they still don't have a worthy candidate for prime minister they don't have any political modesty the

correct way of thinking or political experience. what you are just now take a look at some other stories from around the world these crowds in pakistan's are calling for better protection of religious minorities after around one hundred seventy christian homes were torched it was sparked by a route between two neighbors were non muslim was accused of blasphemy for allegedly insulting the prophet mohammed and angry mob then turned on christian residents one hundred fifty riders have been arrested and face charges of arson robbery theft and terrorism. as well an opposition leader and the prius has confirmed he will run for the presidency to replace late leader who charges used his announcement to accuse the government of using childish deaths to push the candidacy of nicolas maduro the opposition leader's main campaign themes for the april fourteenth poll high crime and poverty as well as the government devaluing the currency by more than thirty percent and. now one of the five man accused of

the gang rape of a medical student on a bus in delhi last december has committed suicide in jail ram singh who was the driver of the bus was found hanged prison officials said the five men were held in isolated cells after other inmates try to attack them the vicious assault on the girl sparked nationwide outrage with demands that the culprits face death. some serve in the army others studies theology and that's causing growing frustration among secular jews in israel over the ultra religious refusing to do national service but the deeply orthodox say the are playing their part also has the story. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is struggling to form a government five weeks after parliamentary elections he can't get potential coalition partners to agree because stumbling block whether or not ultra religious orthodox jews should serve in the i.d.f. the religious parties are certainly beginning to understand things have changed

they're going to find themselves challenged on many fronts military service is going to be one of them and as a result they will have to conserve their political capital to fight on the things they care about most most ultra religious jews have never been in the israeli army and religious political parties have never been pressed on the issue like they've been now but january's parliamentary elections saw new players coming to the fore who mr yahoo needs in his coalition if he's to form a majority government but they're insisting the religious played a part. like this woman who spearheaded a campaign with other like minded israeli mothers they're fed up with what they call an injustice that the children should serve one others don't we fail to know that the something is very unfair that we are going to give our children to the army not knowing if we are going to get them back in fifty percent of the mother or the new. do not have to warry because their children do not go to the army iran is

twenty eight years old married with two children while others his age were doing their national service he was here starting far from being apologetic he feels the contribution he makes is as important if not more. of the backbone of the jewish people and i think my obligation first of all is to preserve the jewish intellect and the jewish mind for our city for this country's sake and for the generations to come and yes while i might be not putting my life at risk and also contributing to this country's security they also say which doesn't make any sense for me that for each student that study the torah if soldier is not getting killed so if you would take the twenty two thousand eight hundred that were created until now for independence day and to know what does it mean if you didn't study enough. but the frustration among secular israelis who make up most of the population goes beyond

just army service they complain ultra religious jews don't work or pay taxes while receiving disproportionate government support just about every city in israel has a religious neighborhood like this one in ten israelis is all too also doubts the challenge remains how to include them in a society that is increasingly hostile to them scipio rome spends hours trying to count israeli and tekken ism towards the ultra religious she blames the media and the growing divide between the secular and orthodox communities all of the minorities here are protected but there over there that's people it's not allowed to hate it's not allowed to hate. right wing's it's allowed to hate the community it's ok the problem is the article she writes are read only by those in her community far away from the politics being forged on the national stage whether netanyahu eventually chooses to include religious partners or leave them out of his

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