commentary there from robert jacobs with the hiroshima peace university discussing the rising radiation levels at the fukushima plant. fifty years ago mankind could hardly imagine we would one day be able to stare down in our planet from above but on april twelfth one thousand nine hundred eighty one here he did garron was propelled not only to the stars but also to global fame when he became the first man in space or he says are still you visited the place where history was made. i'm here in baikonur where many significant events of space history had taken place not least of which was the first successful manned space flight well it all began here because on this day fifty years ago cosmonaut yuri good got aboard his bus took one capsule and blasted off into space all that launch pad where he had taken off from is now called the good god in start it's the very same launch pad used by the a so used to make twenty one crew when they left for space on april five going to the international space station they were of course in a spacecraft that much of you to go got into mark this anniversa

leukemia and infant mortality have been found here then after the it tommy bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki the u.s. and the british military admitted widespread use of depleted uranium in bombing bosnia in one thousand nine hundred ninety five for a legacy south today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal it got toward medical confirmation all around pollute. arac the health effects of the radium are there and we see it throughout iraq are saudi arabia kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans and again now we're seeing a movement into a libya dr dog rocky who was a leading specialist in the cleanup after the gulf war says there is no way of actually decontaminating affected areas i was given a written memorandum to lie about the health and environmental protection or a mission he unself was exposed to depleted uranium almost all of the members of his team are now dead some theory that the suffering of those bombed in areas where there will be no western troops will go unnoticed and i think happens in. i suspect you just because you stand there and find

that was what it take us on hiroshima police investigate a single rising. from the clouds. for four years ago kind could hardly imagine we could one day be able to stand on a top planet from above. earth nine hundred sixty one current was propelled to the stars but also it's a global fame and he became the first man in space so it's a place where history was made. i mean in baikonur where many significant events in space history had taken place not least of which was the first successful manned space flight well it all began here because on this day fifty years ago cosmonaut utica got aboard his bus took one capsule and blasted off into space well that launch pad where he had taken off from is now called the good god start it's the very same launch pad used by the a so used to it may twenty one crew when they left for space on april five going to the international space station they were of course in a spacecraft that had the image of god to mark this anniversary well since then a lot of there's a long list of achievements in terms of space exploration what's different coun

and tsunami hit the country leaving more than thirteen thousand people dead robert jacobs from the hiroshima he sensed says there is no clear path toward resolving the situation. the dangers are extremely severe right now and one of the problems is that the level of danger and security is still uncertain unknown you still have three plants in the corps in partial meltdown you have forth each spent fuel on getting off quite a bit of radiation and at this point there is no clear path towards resolving it ending this situation so it's really the stream only dangerous but if we could end up with a complete meltdown of several of the reactors or we could end up with just an ongoing release of radiation for a few months out in a good scenario at this point i think that a from the start that it's going to been very close to such trying to make it appear as though that since it is smaller they are noble. they kept the evacuation zone two smaller than that of chernobyl and tried to keep it not to lower the net if you know and i think that largely to do with public perception. but ultimately because t

all the time we have available now are talking to a source a professor of nuclear history of the hiroshima peace and thank you. well it may have been a quarter of a century since the unthinkable happened but time hasn't lessened the consequences of the china lost you can watch our documentary from the dead streets surrounding ground zero streets that will stay silent for hundreds of years that's coming up later in today's program. this side project it's. twenty five years ago on the entire fifty thousand project nation over a gradient down a brief yard was evacuated with three hours. which now it wants to be heard recently some people started receiving posts notices telling them to beat up letters at this post office in. the stories of the world's long gone it. does have to be totally. leaving the diaries of the ghosts of archie. you without a lot from moscow now it's only says it will join the allied airstrikes on colonel gadhafi as army in libya this is a leisurely refusal to take part in the bombings this comes after café his compound in tripoli was hit by nato i want monday temporarily

the game between the hiroshima carp and the tokyo swallows may look like any other season opener, except this is anything but. this is all for charity. >> i think this strikes the right balance between trying to move forward but also getting money to people. >> reporter: the regular season actually starts this week. it had been delayed. partly out of respect. and partly out of necessity. most of the stadiums in the north are badly damaged, this pitcher told us. including the one in his hometown. but for one afternoon, with the score board dimmed and the stadium lights off to save electricity, the game went on. echoes of a happier time, served up, one pitch at a time. lee cowen, nbc news, tokyo. >>> back in this country a big afternoon at the masters tournament in augusta, georgia, as tiger woods came on strong. nbc's bruce beck joins us with more. bruce, as tiger was making his run today, we saw the whole twitter universe explode with interest. people thinking they were seeing the old tiger woods. were they, in fact, seeing the guy they used to know? >> i think, lester, they saw flashes

most of the data comes from hiroshima. that was a one time radiation.it was like a large doze that the population got. here, there's a continual dosage. people continue to digest it because of the iodine and plutonium that came from chernobyl and now the japanese plant. we don't know what the long term effects are. we're looking at an experiment where we have to watch the environment and the population for hundreds of years to know what the effects are. this is a very, very cruel experiment. because it enters the food chain and the food chape starts with a deposition of the radiation and works its way up through grass that the cows eat, concentrated in the milk and the children drink the milk and in the meat then, chickens, cows, and grains which we'll show pictures of in a few minutes. we're at the top of the food chain. again, we don't know the long term effects of it. this leakage comes through the conversion of fuel, and there should be another arrow here, a diversion to nuclear weapons because that's another big source of radiation we all have gott

radiation into the air in fact greenpeace claims two hundred times the amount of radiation combined of hiroshima and nagasaki well eight and a half million people in the crane and bell roofs were exposed high levels of radiation and people here in ukraine and around the world remembering those affected and of course those lives lost just to give you an idea of the extent of the tragedy thirty two lives were lost immediately as the accident took place some thirty more in the weeks and months that followed and let's not forget those six hundred thousand or so liquidators who worked to put out the fire and take care of cleanup in the aftermath now it's important to say that in total the number of deaths that potentially result from the accident vary enormously the world health organization puts it at four thousand greenpeace at two hundred thousand and an independent russian publication at nine hundred eighty five thousand so at almost a million larches correspondent alexei yourself he has been following and reporting on chernobyl its aftermath over the past couple of years he now takes us back and

give you an idea greenpeace claims that the amount of radiation it was two hundred times that of hiroshima and nagasaki put together well commemorations are taking place in that exclusion zone and alexi yourself ski is there. but never see the exclusion zone being so crowded as it is today during the anniversary of the explosion at the chernobyl nuclear power plant now we witnessed the solon ceremony with presidents with the middle russia and the ukraine here the korean counterpart for the article which laying flowers and and saying a couple of words about how difficult this loss was how difficult the liquidators job was to clear the aftermath of the chernobyl fallout. of a huge amount of citizens from ukraine and russia. put in to deal with the aftermath of this tragedy and if we should should we should be it's the government so gratian to people truth we need would need to go back there and the government is doing the right thing just meters away where i'm standing right now from the epicenter of all evil and should all be infamously known pipe of the fourth block of the chernobyl nuclea

leukemia and infant mortality of things found here then after the it tomic bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki the u.s. and the british military admitted widespread use of depleted uranium in bombing bosnia in one thousand nine hundred five for a legacy today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal we've got trodden medical confirmation all round pollution a rock with the help a picture of the radium earlier and we see it throughout iraq or shortly rater kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans and again now we're going to move it into a libya dr dog rocky was a leading specialist in the cleanup after the gulf war says there is no way of actually decontaminating affected areas i thought i was going to remember around a lot about the health and environmental protection re-emission he himself was exposed to the cleated uranium almost all of the members of his team are now there some theory that the suffering of those bombed in areas where there will be no western troops will go unnoticed and i was in. libya expecting this because it was going to find a cat and.

leukemia and infant mortality have been found here then after the it tommy bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki the u.s. and the british military admitted widespread use of depleted uranium involving bosnia in nineteen. ninety five for a legacy felt today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal we've got trouble medical confirmation all round pollution or rock but the health effects of the radio and we see it throughout iraq or saudi arabia kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans. again now we're moving into a libya dr dog rocky was a leading specialist in the cleanup after the gulf war says there is no way of actually decontaminating affected areas are probably going to remember around a lot about the health and environmental protection are a mission he unself was exposed to depleted uranium almost all of the members of his team are now dead some fear that the suffering of those bombed in areas where there will be no western troops will go unnoticed. i suspect just because you don't find it and people just sort of saying hey look everybody is here with fence

amounts of radiation into the air greenpeace claims two hundred times the combined radiation of hiroshima. and nagasaki in fact it's estimated that some eight and a half million people across ukraine russia and bella ruse were exposed to high levels of radiation of course at the immediate time of the accident thirty two lives were lost some thirty more in the weeks and months to come but in total the number of deaths that are present potentially result directly from the accident a very enormously i just want to give you an idea of some of these figures the world health organization has the figure at four thousand greenpeace has it at two hundred thousand so you can see the difference in statistics a russian publication puts the number at nearly one million well our correspondent alexei yourselves he has been reporting extensively from chernobyl over the past couple of years he now takes us back to a small soviet town that was once filled with dreams but quickly became a town full of like caps. twenty five years ago the town of prepared was a place any soviet person could dream off high sa

leukemia and infant mortality have been found here then after the in tommy thomas were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki the u.s. and the british military admitted widespread use of the radium in bombing ostomy nine hundred ninety five where a legacy fell to the day with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal medical confirmation all round flu. iraq that the health effects of the radium are there and we see it throughout iraq or saudi arabia kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans and again now we're seeing it moving into libya dr dog rocky was a leading specialist in the cleanup after the gulf war says there is no way of actually decontaminating affected areas if i was going to remember around a lot about the health and environmental protection re-emission he himself was exposed to depleted uranium and almost all of the members of his team are now dead some fear that the suffering of those bombs in areas where there will be no western troops will go unnoticed happens in business i suspect just because it's there. and then you start saying hey look everybody is dying here

leukemia and infant mortality have been found here then after the it tomic bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki the u.s. and the british military admitted widespread use of depleted uranium in bombing boston a nine hundred ninety five a legacy felt today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal medical confirmation all around pollute. iraq but the help of picture the radium are there and we see it throughout iraq or saudi arabia kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans. again now we're moving into a libya dr dog rocky was a leading specialist in the cleanup after the gulf war says there is no way of actually decontaminating affected areas but i will give it a written memorandum to lie about the health and environmental protection re-emission he himself was exposed to depleted uranium almost all of the members of his team are now dead the first gulf war left one in four american soldiers they say will only around two hundred sixty veterans were tested for depleted uranium out of almost seven hundred thousand deployed for the war every time of asked to be tested

leukemia and infant mortality of being found here then actually it's comic bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki the u.s. and the british military admitted widespread use of depleted uranium in bombing bosnia in one thousand nine hundred ninety five where a legacy felt today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal because medical confirmation all round pollute. iraq that the health a picture of the radium are there and we see it throughout iraq are saudi arabia kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans and or again now we're seeing it moving into libya now after dark rocky was a leading specialist in the cleanup after the gulf war says there is no way of actually decontaminating affected areas but i was given a written memoranda lie about the health and environmental protection re-emission he in south was exposed to depleted uranium almost all of the members of his team are now there some fear that the suffering of those bombs in areas where there will be no western troops will go unnoticed and i think happens in remote villages. i suspect and. then find it has.

at this point but i can foresee in the future and that there could be problems for example after hiroshima a lot of people would not want their children to marry somebody from here. because they were worried about their teeth fixed in the search thing so this could be a problem. for the u.n. detected radiation in soil forty kilometers away from the facility but japan's government is not going to expand the evacuation zone it's still twenty kilometers why is that. that is absolutely baffling it's one of the weirder aspects of this that the japanese government seems unwilling to accept reality when it comes to serious danger outside the twenty kilometer limit actually it's not just the us results the international atomic agency has discovered it and even the japanese government's own results as published according to a. nuclear radioactivity testing facility called s p. d which was reported about a week ago announced the same results so it's obvious that people in this hamlet forty kilometers away are in danger and yet the government seems stunned shingly unwilling to move. i can only guess

like the victims of hiroshima or all those years ago there is a danger that could happen and add to the horrors they've already been through isn't it well first of all what we see is that not everybody that we believe should have been evacuated has been evacuated there is still in the twenty to thirty kilometers or a large group of people that are advised to stay indoors already indoors for three weeks and that is not a very easy way to actually live person affected a few days ago we can go we found radiation levels in the. there for really high enough to help people evacuated there the i.a.e.a. confirmed last wednesday. withdrew that applies again today these people with those kind of conflicting advice from all kinds of salts they get extra insurance and i think it would be better indeed to get those people out in a place where they can relax where they do not have to be scared of anything that could happen to our plans and keep in mind there is at the moment every fear are we still have the aftershock when you talk about aftershocks four point eight five zero five point five yesterda

leukemia and infant mortality of being found fear that after the it comic bombs were dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki the u.s. and the british military admitted widespread use of depleted uranium in bombing dossier ninety ninety five a legacy so today with cancer and leukemia rates several times higher than normal because for medical confirmation all round flu. iraq that the health effects of the radium are there and we see it's rather radical saudi arabia kuwait afghanistan somalia the balkans and again our c.n.n. movement into libya dr dog rocky was a leading specialist in the cleanup after the gulf war says there is no way of actually decontaminating affected areas i was given a written memoranda lie about to help in a bomb a party or a mission he himself was exposed to depleted uranium almost all of the members of his team are now dead from fear that the suffering of those bombs in areas where there will be no western troops will go on notice nothing happens in. all respects because. that's and it's. everybody's. nations and so forth i don't think anyone included you rhenium has the

i hope you will all urge him to stop this agreement because we are not getting it out of hiroshima that we need. sorry, i misspoke. out of fukushima. and if you noticed, it has not been on the front page of the "washington post" or the "new york times" for the past week. we need continued research. we need to initiate research on the fukushima disaster and we informatione this disaste transparent and available to everyone. one of the things that they did with an organization called belrad was to measure the radiation levels in food and also in children and to make this information available. we need to have this in place now. this is a picture of this man before he died. they were standing outside of the world health organization in geneva, saying that they need to get rid of this agreement between the who and the iaea. these are heroes as far as i'm concerned. i think that is the last one. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much, dr. sherman. now we will hear from natalia amera dena -- mironova. she speaks fluent english and fluent russian, given that she is from kazakhstan. we do