there was the impacts of twelve years of nuclear testing in the marshall islands included increased rates of thyroid and other cancers and the permanent exile of people from their home islands . in one thousand nine hundred six as part of a deal to give the marshall islands independence the us paid one hundred fifty million dollars later an independent tribunals awarded more than two billion dollars to victims of the testing program less than four million was it a paid. the tribunals office in the capital merger zero is no longer operating with most claims unresolved sitting in files gathering dust. the us government policy on the nuclear weapons legacy in the marshall islands is to simply downgrade in dismiss health hazards as not exist or significant. johnson is the publisher of the marshall islands journal the country's only newspaper for three decades he's been a passionate advocate for the local people his wife darlene kaiju was a famous nucleus of five who died of cancer and age just forty five it really makes us wonder if marshall i don't wonders will ever get justice from the nucl

there was the impacts of twelve years of nuclear testing in the marshall islands included increased rates of thyroid and other cancers and the permanent exile of people from their home islands. in one thousand nine hundred six is part of a deal to give the marshall islands independence the u.s. paid one hundred fifty million dollars later an independent tribunals awarded more than two billion dollars to victims of the testing program list than four million was if a paid. to tribunals office in the capital murder oh is no longer operating with most claims unresolved sitting in files gathering dust. the u.s. government policy on. the nuclear weapons legacy in the marshall islands is to simply downgrade and dismiss health hazards as not existed or in significant. johnson is the publisher of the marshall islands journal the country's only newspaper for three decades he's been a passionate advocate for the local people his wife. was a famous nucleus of five who died of cancer aged just forty five it really makes us wonder if marshall islanders will ever get justice from the nuclear weapons tes

there was the impacts of twelve years of nuclear testing in the marshall islands included increased rates of thyroid and other cancers and the permanent exile of people from their home islands . in one thousand nine hundred six is part of a deal to give the marshall islands independence the u.s. paid one hundred fifty million dollars later an independent tribunals awarded more than two billion dollars to victims of the process testing. graham less than four million was if a played. the tribunals office in the capital mudd zero is no longer operating with most claims unresolved sitting in files gathering dust. the us government policy on the nuclear weapons legacy in the marshall islands is to simply downgrade and dismissed health hazards as not existed or in significant. johnson is the publisher of the marshall islands journal the country's only newspaper for three decades he's been a passionate advocate for the local people his wife. was a famous nucleus of five who died of cancer aged just forty five it really makes us wonder if marshall islanders will ever get justice from the nuclear

here's abc's gloria riviera. >> reporter: in these vast ocean waters -- >> the marshall islands, it's so isolated from the rest of the world. it's a beautiful place. >> reporter: from high above, the island of mejuro. it's hard to see there is a battle going on below. a fight for survival between man and nature. >> it's really life or death for us. >> reporter: the marshall islands, the front line of climate change. after hours of flying over dark blue pacific waters, through the clouds land appears, a mirage-like vision. a tiny nation of islands and atolls located halfway between hawaii and australia. we've traveled here to the marshall islands to see a nation on the brink of extinction. the most extreme predictions say as soon as 2030, sea level rise could make this place uninhabitable. we're on the made road, a two-lane highway. are we going to make it? yeah. it's really narrow here. from this road, just a matter of feet, water. the capital city of majuor is 300 feet wide in most places. this thin strip of land is home to over 27,000 people. this is your front yard? >> yeah. >> rep

." >> reporter: in snapshots, the marshall islands look like paradise, a pacific archipelago of coral atolls midwayween hawaii and australia. but what pictures don't tell you is that a third of t island's population has left for the united states. and why leave their island home? the president of the marshallla s, dr. hilda heine, explains. there've been people wh leave for education, for health purposes, for jobs, and i'm sure there are people who are leaving because of the threats of climate change. >> reporter: climate change is a big issue here, much in the news recently, as punishing kinged tides co with persistent drought have wreaked havoc on dwindling fresh water supplies. mong climate experts, and many here who keep rebuilding their sea walls against the warming,g pacific, is that the islands are sinking if not disappearing. >> so of course people are looking for better things, and they think that anything in the united states is better than what we have here. we're competing with the strongest country in the world. >> reporter: there's another reason they're moving to the un

there was the impacts of twelve years of nuclear testing in the marshall islands included increased rates of thyroid and other cancers and the permanent exile of people from their home islands. in one thousand nine hundred six as part of a deal to give the marshall islands independence the us paid one hundred fifty million dollars later an independent tribunals awarded more than two billion dollars to victims of the testing program less than four million was it a paid. the tribunals office in the capital merger zero is no longer operating with most claims unresolved sitting in files gathering dust. the us government policy on the nuclear weapons legacy in the marshall islands is to simply downgrade in dismiss health hazards as not exist or in significant. johnson is the publisher of the marshall islands journal the country's only newspaper for three decades he's been a passionate advocate for the local people his wife darlene kaiju was a famous nucleus of five who died of cancer aged just forty five it really makes us wonder if marshall and wonders will ever get justice from the nuclear w

is on the front line in the battle against rising sea levels the marshall islands encompasses more than two million square kilometers of ocean i mean it's the united nations these are world leaders from all over and it was the first time that i was able to share something that i was i cared about you know something about the islands and what she shared was a poem about climate. change dear much of a poem addressed to her infant daughter who are a seven month old son rise of gummy smiles you are bald as an egg and bald as the buddha you are thighs that are thunders shrieks that are lightning so excited for bananas hugs and our morning walk along the. dear much if. i want to tell you about the lady lounging in the gloom lounging against the sunrise men say that one day that lagoon will devour you they say it will not the shoreline too at the roots of your bread fruit trees gulp down rows of the walls and crunch through your island shattered bones. don't cry mommy promises you no one will calm and devour you no one. no one's moving no one's losing their home no one's going to bec

the marshall islands is a tiny pacific nation with a very big problem. thanks. once ground zero for america's cold war atomic testing it's been left with a toxic radioactive legacy. now rising sea levels threaten to swallow the islands and if that happens deadly nuclear waste will be released into the ocean. and steve check out on this episode of one when we investigate how one of the world's smallest countries is paying for the actions of a global superpower. we're halfway between australia and hawaii. in the middle of a seemingly endless pacific ocean. below us chains of mostly uninhabited islands that together form the nation of the marshall islands. which is not a castle no doubt the british army right. now much of my life was carried out some think it's history. spread over two million square kilometers of the central pacific the marshall islands is a scattering of more than a thousand islands and eyelets. few people have heard of in a we talk but it's the ground zero of us nuclear testing in the pacific. the welcome sign he said what we've come to see but

is on the front line in the battle against rising sea levels the marshall islands encompasses more than two million square kilometers of ocean i mean it's the united nations these are world leaders from all over and it was the first time that i was able to share something that i was i cared about you know something about the islands and what she shared was a poem about climate. change dear much of a poem addressed to her infant daughter who are a seven month old son rise of gummy smiles you're bald as an egg and bald as the buddha you are thighs that are thunders shrieks that are lightning so excited for bananas hugs and our morning walks along the. deer much if. i want to tell you about the lady lounging in the gloom lounging against the sunrise men say that one day that lagoon will devour you they say it will not the shoreline to at the roots of your bread fruit trees gulp down rows of the walls and crunch through your island shattered bones dear. don't cry mommy promises you no one will calm and devour you no one is drowning no one's moving no one's losing their homeland no

if it were really it we're not talking just a marshall islands we're talking. sweet ocean. i think it's really telling. that the ocean is rising and it's and it's is making this nuclear waste leak out because in a lot of ways this climate change issue has also been revived revitalizing a lot of conversations about our nuclear legacy every time someone talks about climate change you can't ignore our nuclear legacy is while it's linked. is a poet and climate change activist. she's proud of her heritage. it's my home it's where i'm from that's where my family's from my ancestors they've been here for thousands of years and and there's also just nothing like you and your else and it's a part of why. you have. a rising leader of a nation kathy jett no kid you know was invited to the twenty fourteen united nations climate change summit in new york to speak about how. the front line in the battle against rising sea levels the marshall islands and compass is more than two million square kilometers of ocean i mean it's the united nations these are world leaders from all over and it

so no fires were caused by directed energy weapons and the marshall islands flooding is caused by an orbital directed water weapon. and the antarctic ice shelf is collapsing because of the way too many penguins. which is caused by an orbital directed play what happens. fires penguins. and people just requires just where the plane was camp from. there also happens to be a new major report coming from thirteen federal agencies and three hundred leading scientists saying that climate change will shrink the u.s. economy greatly and kill thousands. you'll notice that that article actually comes from c.n.n. which means even c.n.n. is now getting beyond their usual when it's hosted a bank but when one person who believes in science and another person who eats pine chips. and coming up after them we're going to talk about the latest mass shooting and one arm of the bank between someone who says it was bad to kill all those people and someone who says how many people who were. just. recently killed or lied to them examined got through. the debates and after that should the u.s. fire tear gas

with secular the marshall islands are not going underwater due to climate change as brilliant people on the internet pointed out this month climate change is never a cause is any of the recent and. precedent in california fires part of a california fire season that is a bit longer and harsher and more intense than ever before were not caused by climate change they were caused by orbital directed energy weapon. this was pointed out by numerous blogs drawn in crayon. so the fires were caused by directed energy weapons and the marshall islands flooding is caused by an orbital directed water weapon. and the antarctic ice shelf is collapsing because of the way the too many penguin. which is caused by an orbital directed pay would laugh at. it just fires penguin yeah runny eyes and people jolly big question is what if i were cared for up there also happens to be a new major report coming from thirteen federal agencies and three hundred leading scientists saying that climate change will shrink the u.s. economy greatly and kill thousands. you'll notice that that article actually comes from c

really we're not talking just the marshall islands we're talking the whole suite of. counting the cost two thousand and eighty the year the u.s. and china by trade tariff poca gregg's it could be used to everyone and opec will review the year that was as new dynamics to shaping the global economy. counting the cost on the. hello again peter will be here in doha with your top stories from al-jazeera there are fears more tsunamis could hit the indonesian coastline as a volcano which triggered the weekend's devastating wave continues to erupt at least two hundred eighty one people died in the disaster the country's second this andrew thomas the coastline of province which was worst hit by the tsunami. listen carefully over the noise of the waves a regular allowed to boobs. that's not wind hidden in the gloom forty seven kilometers out to sea and krakatoa volcano is still erupting it has been for months but on sunday the eruptions triggered an underwater landslide that caused the tsunami that led to this hotel's line to the sea front here some workers in guest saw the wav

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really were not just the marshall islands we're talking. sea ocean. a ceasefire takes effect in yemen small city of data with only scattered reports of fighting. hello welcome to our jazeera live from doha dennis also coming up china's president says his country will not be dictated to by anyone as the communist party celebrates forty years of free market reforms.

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the marshall islands tiny pacific nation with a very big problem. once ground zero for america's cold war atomic testing it's been left with a toxic radioactive legacy. now driving sea levels threaten to small the islands and if that happens deadly nuclear waste will be released into the ocean. on this episode or want to investigate how one of the world's smaller.

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really they were not just the marshall islands we're talking to hold the solution. a ceasefire takes effect in yemen small city of the data with only scattered reports of fighting. hello welcome to our jazeera live from doha i'm martin denis also coming up china's president says his country will not be dictated to by anyone as the communist party celebrates forty years of free market reforms. new reports reveal the power and reach of russia's election meddling efforts and that they didn't end up helping to put donald trump into the white house. also the south africans who say they're fighting to save three hundred years of heritage from the developers. come into effect in the yemeni city of but there are so reports of sporadic fighting in and around this strategic port area saudi and government forces have been trying for months to capture her data from the rebels where the warring sides had agreed to a truce at peace or peace talks in sweden last week international observers are due to arrive to monitor the seas for the who data is a vital entry point for food and

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the marshall islands holds a toxic legacy from years of u.s. military nuclear testing. as the sea levels rise one of money east investigates the threat this fall out poses on al-jazeera. the syrian city in the crosshairs of competing forces after the u.s. announced its pulling out. this is from doha also coming up in the program tourists are targeted in a deadly roadside bombing placed in egypt's engine param its. security is stepped up ahead of bangladesh's general election after a campaign marred by violence. and. the kids need to go to school. we may see a man who calls himself robin hood making a living from kenya illegal gun trade. so than take his defense and foreign ministers a jew to meet their russian counterparts in moscow as confusion remains over who controls the strategic syrian city of manage the northern city has long been controlled by syrian kurdish forces but on friday the syrian army said it entered my bridge after an invitation from the kurds however the u.s. military says its forces are still in the city and have seen no evidence to back the regime'

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their fleet battle against the americans, which the japanese navy expects to take place in the marshall islands. begins, theific war navy thinks about threats to their main fleet base. an area down here, right in here, it is just northeast of new guinea. it, it is theat proposeplace that could a threat to become a major naval base. the geography is suited for making airfields. the navy thinks when they are planning for the pacific war that we have to take this in order to protect truck. in 1942.ally occupy it for at least the first half of the pacific war and into the. i will be talking about, the main interest of the japanese maybe in the pacific war is the decisive fleet battle, but also the question for them is out to severe -- secure truck. in the army's case, you look at what their interests are in the pacific war. the army was a latecomer to the pacific war. you recall the army's traditional focus on the mainland. in the pacific war, the army is interested in the initial operations to take southeast asia. they called it the southern operation and it is to take over what they called the so

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you mentioned the story about the marshall islands, another story where you have kind of an unlikelye republic of this tiny country in the middle of the pacific embracing a cryptocurrency, and it appears, getting burned on it. jason: as we heard from max, one of the most fascinating cryptocurrency stories in this issue is btm's, atm that take cash in exchange for bitcoin or other digital currencies. carol: i love this story -- meaning for customers, but also for criminals who launder money. we spoke with one of the stories authors. matt: the first one came out in 2013 and now there are about or thousand worldwide, the most of which are in the u.s.. you got about 100 in new york, and there's one on 2nd avenue right now, you can go -- not too far from our office here. they have really sprouted up, and what is interesting about this industry is although bitcoin has been basically going down all this year, another of -- a number of new machines are going up, about five a day. so they are continuing to grow. >> how does this happen in terms of the regulatory oversight? is this ok, is this

you didn't mention the story about the marshall islands, another story where you have kind of an unlikelypublic of this tiny country in the middle of the pacific, embracing a cryptocurrency, and it appears, getting burned on it. jason: as we heard from max, one of the most fascinating cryptocurrency stories in this issue is btm's, atm's that take cash in exchange for bitcoin or other digital currencies. carol: i love the story. we spoke with one of the stories authors. matt: the first one came out in 2013 and now there are about four thousand worldwide, the most of which are in the u.s. you got about 100 in new york. there's one on 2nd avenue right now. what spin interesting about this , the number of machines going up. they are continuing to grow. >> a lot of regulatory issues as we have state laws and federal laws. is if youching theme are going to start a business, if you wanted to, you have to follow, you have to make sure you know who your customers are. >> do you have to show a license? have reasonable policies and procedures to know this person is. they are going to ask you questio