measure altho some measure be it has some measure both if somebody wants to get very paranoid it a geiger counter what's it with what should they get well it's not paranoia it's protecting themselves as the federal government of this country tries to. downplay the magnitude of this nuclear catastrophe one of the best companies out there is called international medcom they are based in sebastopol california they have been supplying radiation monitors to the entire nuclear movement the environmental movement around the world for decades and they've helped people material the region set up their own monitoring systems they've helped people in this country set up monitoring systems around nuclear power plants because the real tool of the nuclear establishment not only here but around the world is to deny to downplay the high invisible you can't smell it can't see can't feeling can't taste it yeah it is very convenient for them and really what's at foot is a murdering of the truth i mean people are dying in japan in evacuation centers because they don't have the care they had each of these peo

. >> people returning to their homes for a brief visit were examined of geiger counter -- higher counters and a bag their possessions. they boarded government chartered buses to take them to the village there were forced to leave two months ago dream of fukushima nuclear crisis. authorities gave them just two hours -- not much time to find passports, bank stations -- bag statements, pictures and mementos. >> it is difficult to find the things i want. >> and memory of more carefree time before disaster struck. it is a short trip back to the shelters. they join the tens of thousands of japanese still living in temporary facilities. fukushima has shaken the country. the prime minister has put the country's nuclear policy under review. japan had planned to build 12 new reactors in the next two decades. that is now very much in question. >> skype has a new owner. >> some are surprised at the cost. it is official now -- computer giant microsoft has confirmed it has bought skype. it's the largest deal in the history of microsoft and is worth around 6 billion euros. that may seem like a lot to sp

. >> with lab coats, shoe covers and geiger counters, stefan matisse's underclassmates are gearing up for another day in university in dresden, where they're studying nuclear power engineering. they work with a.k.r.-2, germany's newest training and research reactor. it doesn't generate electricity and it's not connected to the power grid. it's just here to help in the study program. >> we're going to ee rate aide this sheet of aluminum. we will fix it here and put it into the reactor up to the core, up to this mark. >> in the lab students rarely address ideological issues. no one here doubts the usefulness of nuclear power, even after fukushima. >> the accident does not make the plants more or less safe. they're the same plants they were before it happened. of course, it has reminded us of the residual risks. >> for these students, fukushima is a reason not to abandon nuclear power but to develop better plants. their professors sees it that way too. he says research must continue, eastbound if germany decommissions all the of its nuclear power plants. >> it's our dutey, for no other r

among the industrial lists geiger loney called on is this man a scrap metal merchant from the turin region who only agreed to be interviewed on the condition of anonymity. said they were looking for people who had a way to get rid of its workers earlier yes the problem was they had to look for quite a few in order to fill the ship. and i would bet that one thing and how many tons can be loaded onto the ship from under her. this ship most a minute least ten thousand tons. at one hundred dollars a ton a full load could earn a substantial profit of one million dollars but scheduling only raise so much dust in his rounds of industry that he began to draw the attention of the authorities a judge in the northern italian town of asti led the inquiry the authorize the phone tapping over several months of suspected members of the network. so the. rule was to collect the waste that's what he himself told the industrialists he met at. the office said what he was doing was entirely legal i feel that i called however the point was that at that time somalia was a country that couldn't legally imports th

specifically the countdown to august 2nd, the day the treasury secretary tim geiger says he can't keep america from defaulting on its loans if we don't raise the debt ceiling. a number of republicans are challenging the notion that not raising the debt ceiling would be catastrophic. take the politics side. >> there is a technical default on the debt around the debt ceiling back in 1979, and that was just a mistake where they used to send out the checks and the checks got there a day or two late. just from that without all the politics around it and the game of chicken going on, we saw 60 basis point spike in treasury bond from that alone. so that gives us some warning that this is not something to play around with. >> let me stop you there, diane. for our viewers who don't trade-in treasury bonds, a 60 basis points increase, affect your credit cards. it affects your loans, the mortgage you're trying to get. >> would you call up your banker and say, oh, by the way, i might or might not pay on my loan in august? and i'm going to threaten you with that now and not think that that would hu

treasury secretary geiger has warned for months that the government would soon -- treasury secretary timothy geithner has warned for months that the government would soon reach its debt ceiling. he has already suspended the program that helps state and local governments manage their finances. he will begin to retire -- he will begin to borrow from retirement funds from federal workers. they are legally required to reimburse those funds. democratic line, a chase. caller: we have a spending problem, but the five big oil companies were talking to congress about $2 billion in tax relief. isn't that a spending problem? people are saying that obama- care is not bipartisan, but mitt romney past obama-care in massachusetts. host: speaking of oil, the senate bill that you might want to look up is a bill to repeal tax breaks for these large oil companies. there is no firm agreement to bring this up, but the majority leader says if he can not reach an agreement with senator mcconnell, he might call cloture to proceed with the bill at some point this week. we do expect debate on the floor of the

treasury secretary geiger has warned for months that the government would soon -- treasury secretary timothy geithner has warned for months that the government would soon reach its debt ceiling. he has already suspended the program that helps state and local governments manage their finances. he will begin to retire -- he will begin to borrow from retirement funds from federal workers. they are legally required to reimburse those funds. democratic line, a chase. caller: we have a spending problem, but the five big oil companies were talking to congress about $2 billion in tax relief. isn't that a spending problem? people are saying that obama- care is not bipartisan, but mitt romney past obama-care in massachusetts. host: speaking of oil, the senate bill that you might want to look up is a bill to repeal tax breaks for these large oil companies. there is no firm agreement to bring this up, but the majority leader says if he can not reach an agreement with senator mcconnell, he might call cloture to proceed with the bill at some point this week. we do expect debate on the floor of the