the move saying peacekeepers weren't authorized to take sides john walker from the institute for democracy and cooperation in paris says france is pursuing its own agenda. what business is it of the west in my view none at all and yet the west in this case france but by means of the united nations has got into the habit of intervening systematically in other peoples conflicts we know that france is not neutral in this political crisis because france has said repeatedly and explicitly that it wants laurent gbagbo to step down so there is absolutely no shred of neutrality about france's position and yet these u.n. troops that we hear about are in fact of course french troops and they take orders from paris they don't take orders from the united nations they take them from paris and my concern about this intervention is that it fatally damages the authority of the united nations because nobody you know is ever going to believe that the united nations intervention in the future is neutral when we can see in a united nations intervention as in this case being used for explicitly political purposes. and that wa

in the future is neutral and we can see in nations intervention as in this case being used for explicitly political purposes. and from the institute for democracy and cooperation in paris. japanese officials say sixty thousand tons of radioactive water of accumulated in the basement of the stricken for consumer plant workers must keep feeding water into the reactors to stop them overheating which is leading to a buildup of radioactive fluid in japan as asked russia to send a waste disposal facility to the crippled nuclear station almost twelve thousand tons of load tainted water being released into the ocean to free storage space for more highly contaminated waste storage is say this poses no threat to human health or the environment nuclear industry expert. told us earlier that the situation is far from being resolved and russia's help cannot come soon enough. you know the problem is that. the amount of water is so astronomical and it's sold to change it so you know the problem becomes one of. keeping it in tanks and this stuff will stay radioactive richard three hundred years so there are between a rock and a herd and it's hardly. i know that now the russian

are being killed during a week of fighting in the country john auckland from the institute for democracy and cooperation in paris says the u.n. and france are not defending civilians but are pursuing their own goals. basically the crisis is crystallized around a rivalry between two men as you said in your report. so we're tired of what is it is what business is it of the west in my view not at all and yet the west in this case france but by means of the united nations has got into the habit of intervening systematically in other people's conflicts we know that france is not neutral in this political crisis because france has said repeatedly and explicitly that it once long ago to step down so there is absolutely no shred of neutrality about france's position and yet these u.n. troops that we hear about are in fact of course french troops and they take orders from paris they don't take orders from the united nations they take them from paris and my concern about this intervention is that it fatally damages the authority of the united nations. because nobody you know is ever going to believe that the unit

fighting country let's get more on this now and talk live to john laughlin from the institute for democracy and cooperation in paris more details and so the u.n. and allied forces are already busy as we know in libya but here they are sticking their nose into the conflict in ivory coast or what it was their business if you think. that's a very good question but the comparison with libya is quite a good one i think a lot of people around the world understand that there is a civil war going on in libya but there are two sides even to that conflict in other words that there are people who support colonel gadhafi the same is true of ivory coast the situation in ivory coast is the product of a very long protracted crisis which has been going on for more than ten years and which involved a civil war in the middle years of the last decade and it's a crisis which has numerous causes many of them deep seas he included the colonial past include immigration and so on but basically the crisis is crystallized around the rivalry between two men as you said in your report not on about war and peace to work tyler what is

neutral and we can see in the united states nations intervention as in this case being used for explicitly political purposes. when they're speaking from the institute for democracy and cooperation in paris well or do you remember that there's a lot more happening of course on our website that's our team com including there were a sponsor of all actions in. the fallout continues. controversy by us we've got the latest analysis on our web site. aiming for a baby boom with a population in decline politicians in moscow thinking of creative ways of persuading couples to start a family. i was just turning twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow you without see us give us some other international headlines now this hour the search is underway for a hundred fifty people who are missing after their boat overturned in the mediterranean it happened about forty miles off the coast of the italian island of lampedusa that's become a major landing migrants for or from north africa it's thought that two hundred hundred migrants were crammed on board a vessel or forty seven people were found alive when the boat was rescued. along with running a leak of highly radioactive water into the paci

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