japan commemorates two years since the catastrophic tsunami that caused the world's worst nuclear disaster in decades debate rages about whether the nation should ditch atomic power. or decide whether they want to stay a british colony in neighboring argentina as a silly game. and servile study israel's divide over ultra religious jews who are allowed to. post three q. to.

the company you're watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow now our top story japan is marking two years since its biggest recorded earthquake and resulting tsunami which triggered the world's worst atomic disaster in twenty five years they could have killed nearly nineteen thousand people and crippled the fukushima plant in northeastern japan spewing radiation and forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes sean thomas witnessed the aftermath of the disaster and earlier shared the most striking moments. when i first arrived what struck me the most is that the scale of the disaster was much larger than what many people may even remember in fact what you had was you had the earthquake you had the tsunami then you had the nuclear disaster and then the lingering disaster after the fact so traveling to the coast homes destroyed villages decimated and the people doing what they could to try and pick up their lives days we don't think the testers claim that it's not enough is being done to

clean up the contaminated areas so in yours i mean you visited some of the areas you saw some of the things that were being done there right after the disaster hit so what is your personal experience well the people we spoke to have a great distrust for the government they don't at that time they don't feel that they were getting all of the information that they needed to for their safety and i can tell you that from the get go there was a lot of mistrust in the government about how the situation was being handled on the ground while the disaster in japan fueled global debate over whether nuclear power should be phased out completely but can a country like japan and some of the nations actually afford such a radical measure to be looking into that side of the story. if you look at japan first of all there before the before this leak nuclear energy made about twenty five percent of japan's energy needs afterwards all nuclear reactors were suspended

some have since been restarted to try to cope with blackouts far away in germany the public politicians were horrified by what they saw unraveling in japan and that led in part to the blunders tags decision in may two thousand and eleven to end all nuclear power in germany by two thousand and twenty two in france a very different policy since the one nine hundred seventy s. france has really pushed nuclear energy as a clean and safe provider of energy it still makes up nearly eighty percent of france's and edgy needs and there although public opinion has changed slightly it's still more in favor of nuclear power than it is in japan if we look at japan again the new government is more pro nuclear energy than the previous government was

but they're going to have a big a big time trying to convince the japanese population that it is worth it one thing they have on their side is that nuclear power is demonstrable cheaper than other alternatives and fossil fuels or renewables there just isn't enough of those renewables yet to try and cover the gap forlorn how japan is recovering after seeing entire towns wiped out and others abandoned just because they are too dangerous to live in and you can head to r.t. dot com we've also got more expert opinion there and bring you the latest pictures from the anti nuclear protests and commemorative events that are taking place.

falkland 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 by argentina which lays claim to the islands it says was stolen by britain almost two centuries ago page george galloway says the u.k. strategy on the falklands is provocative. proposed to us exercise in relation to what is a proposed 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 seeing 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 it's of very obviously belongs to argentina if someone came down from mars and saw them up so we are the falkland islands live off the argentinian continental shelf and drive the distance between the falklands and the united kingdom once our great colonial powers know a small nearly bankrupt country off the southwest coast of europe and was told that the small nearly bankrupt country was continuing to assert it on these islands well the man from mars would laugh unfortunately we're not laughing you're in britain because we're continuing to foot the bill at r.t. dot com we're asking you what the next step by argentina will be if falkland islanders decide to stay british let's see how the numbers spread so far forty percent of you say that argentina will declare the vote rigged or just in it

slightly fewer think will be told to move to britain by their south american neighbor fifty percent expect argentina to announce a new referendum in five years while just eight percent believe when is aries will finally back off from its claims tell us what you think and cast your vote at r.t. dot com. some serve in the army others study 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 they are playing their part. as the story. is really prime minister binyamin netanyahu is struggling to form a government five weeks after parliamentary elections he can't get potential coalition partners to agree to 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 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 other student to thirty now 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 is soldier is not getting killed so if you are taking twenty two thousand eight hundred that were created until now for independence day until now 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 to also dogs the challenge remains how to include them in a society that is increasingly hostile to them scipio rome spends hours trying to counter israeli attack on islam 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 the last people it's not allowed to hate arabs it's not allowed to hate. right wing's it's allowed to hate her in 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 coalition there's no running away from the growing internal divide in an already divided country policy r.t. jerusalem. in syria it is suspected that rebels that are getting us training has told from member of the syrian opposition on the twists and turns in a deadly saga that shows no signs of ending we bring you part of that conversation later this hour and the battle continues the british war veterans who are putting their medals under the hammer to get money for food and eight more news after this short break. for some people extreme cold just a chilling threat to life or imminent death it's a cooling if you look you can see that the water in the rates in my body feels really warm now and this is good for you. they plunge into icy water to make

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a sadies claim 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 the syrian crisis is one of the opposition leaders explained so you are taiz arabic channel. 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 seen 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. an 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 and

a cult will have it so hello to 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 a government which is going to be formed in istanbul and it is considered to control so-called free districts most will not really 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. i one line for you do you still think of hitler as evil personified well not in austria where a sizeable number of people in a poll think the nazi leader wasn't all that bad plus the high ranking bulgarian priest before selling his pricey rolex watch the paid church bills was a good deed but his cash strapped congregation things otherwise we'll tell you why .

they fought to save the nation and europe from tyranny but many of britain's wartime heroes are finding that the country's or sterrett to use one battle they can't win as highly decorated world war two veterans are forced to sell their medals just to make ends meet sarah firth has their story i fired a short burst from five hundred feet producing strikes on the. flame appeared to me 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 bronzes in a nursing home and his family struggling with high care costs have put the incredible memento 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 things were his so i have no 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 and that is 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 he wended it is arguably one of britain's most prolific night flies and the story goes one short absolutely true he never really because you only have room for the engines hoping that maybe lives would be so. pleased to see. a parachute emerge from everything so this

is prances pilot 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 there 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 and he looks planes there's that recognition that that's part of his life of the. people so quickly so. yeah i think it's yes the elderly care needs to be more funding for for our elderly care so that they don't have to sell all their possessions and all their that what they fought for of their home you know in order to pay for that i think that's the

hardest thing british spectrum is 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 their 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 any time say every year in the u.k. they're a key paid. for for their country but in a nation where everything else is only added to the number of leading from brown fervor to story is an important reminder that the rest of the year away from the

ceremony and the cameras and money versus facing personal challenges that by and large go on to serve our. turning to some other international news now one of the key suspects in the gang rape of a medical student on a bus in delhi last december which nationwide rage has been found hanged in his jail cell singh's lawyer believes the apparent suicide must involve foul play things father claims his son had been raped by other inmates repeatedly threatened by prison guards. venezuelan opposition leader. has confirmed he'll run for the presidency to replace late leader hugo chavez who used his announcement to accuse the government of using chavez's death to push the candidacy of nicolas maduro the opposition leader's main campaign themes for the april fourteenth poll are high crime and poverty as well as the government devaluing the currency by more

than thirty percent. security in egypt seems to be at it shakiest says police officers across the country go on strike despite ongoing street violence officers accuse the government of using them as political pawns their action follows trouble at the weekend after death sentences were upheld over the twenty eleven portside stadium riots true reports. so i got to the 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 this is. the government has forgotten our main needs 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 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 she replaced 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 face the death penalty and a further five or seven licenses residents here say that the army will not protect them as the local authorities bow to pressure from the capital that's a funeral for protesters killed during the recent clashes on the spicy founder of the green eagle's culturist saeed's football fan club says the police used excessive force against local demonstrators treating them was to make counterparts

in cairo he believes the death sentences are for the proof the city is being targeted toward site 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 for. esther's 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. i will be back in just over half an hour with the latest news for you before that i want to enjoy our documentary surviving a cult. the month before the oscars and what annoys you with their predictions and the most after everyone complains about the results but it is a big talked about much as the few hundred people who gathered to protest the glamour filled award show but what protests the asker's you ask. well although the film life of pi won the oscar for best visual effects effects to you that made the movie look so amazing rhythm and hues has filed for bankruptcy quickly after the

film's release you know that seems like a bit of a discrepancy i mean the group that made the best visual effects in the world in two thousand and thirteen is flat broke how can that be this reminds me of how the lead creators of coal of duty modern warfare two were let go directly after the release of the game which to date is the eighth highest grossing video game of all time this was done supposedly to dodge paying them the royalties that they you know earned through hard work the problem is that we live in a world where only the bottom line count making as much profit as you possibly can damn the consequences it's just good business practice they say well it might be profitable but it's bad for society and it's very bad for visual effects and videogame artists but that's just my opinion.

this was a routine train following its regular route from one siberian city to another. in the vestibule of the last carriage a man was smoking a cigarette. as he turns to go back to his compartment he pulled open the door and stepped into emptiness. a moment later he found himself lying on the track there was a crackle of frost of the air it was forty below zero and he was wearing just a t.

shirt sweat pants and slippers so began his struggle against extreme cold. inside this climate change where the temperature was ten degrees below zero the volunteer has been in there for about half an hour this experiment his condition is gradually deteriorating he's on the verge of the early stages of hypothermia his body temperature has fallen by about a degree in a huff and a shiver is approaching fast canal the second stage follows his pulse rate will plummet shivering uncontrollably kill experience a very slow reaction to blood will gradually be drawn back from his limbs to concentrate around his vital organs brain lungs and liver. blood vessels in the extremities will contract blocking the bloods access festa fingers then two arms and leg.