arjun makhijani is an engineer specializing in nuclear fusion. he's the president of the institute for energy and environmental research. kenji kushida specializes in japanese studies at stanford university. . >> welcome back to both of you. arjun, let me start with you, how serious are the new revelations about the water contamination. >> the last time we spoke or we talked about the leak and the radiation levels that could give a worker an annual radiation dose in 12 minutes. well, more recently, there have been reports that the radiation levels near another tank are 1800 units per hour. this is an extremely high level of radiation. a few hours basically constitutes a lethal dose. so now we're talking about radioactive contamination in the tanks and the liquid stored in the tanks that are very highly radioactive so the leaks that are extremely problematic for the workers and for management. >> is this something they just discovered or what suddenly causes that much more serious amount of levels. >> the best i can understand, through all of the

disarmament and as russia has long been insisting it doesn't contain any threat of outside milledge reaction arjun he said now has more on the deal which seemed to be impossible from the outset. this is a major break for her when you think about how less than a month ago it looked like russia and the u.s. would never agree and obama was rallying support and getting ready to bomb damascus the resolution vote on syria's chemical weapons is expected friday and outlines a legally binding compliance but no threat of sanctions or military action and the five permanent members of the u.n. security council reached an agreement on thursday over the exact wording of binding and enforceable tax to eliminate stockpiles of according to the geneva according to the geneva agreement put forward by russia and the u.s. now the resolution doesn't allow for immediate chapter seven action of the u.n. charter in the case of noncompliance but it would need to be reviewed and put to a vote if that does become the case in the future here is russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov it is a signal to the resolution includes

christine lagarde defends one injury policy to arjun's katie pilgrim call for help for it and insight on when next what the world can. you as congress remains split on whether to attack syria then the latest polls show most americans oppose intervention there's been a fresh antiwar rally in washington as hundreds called for restraint from the white house. much of the public remains unconvinced over washington's claims that it has evidence implicating the syrian government in the deadly use of chemical weapons but president obama maintains he still has the authority to order an attack even if congress votes against it and the u.s. case against syria stretches beyond simply just the white house versus damascus according to political analyst chris bambery. it's no just a question of syria it is a question of iran it's a question of his ball they're kind of painting a new axis of evil if you remember way back in two thousand and three after nine eleven the original axis and we all know the present you knew right you go in there saying this is why we have to intervene in syria after obama