have a plan inside these buildings they take the waste and recycle it into usable nuclear fuel called mox it sounds great in theory but the reality is very different there is an existing plant at sellafield berkeley output has been a tiny fraction of what it was supposed to do and it cost an enormous amount of money cables leaked which leaks to us described it as a big industrial embarrassment to watch elephant the majority of the sellafield plutonium stockpile is british but managers was so confident it would work they took plutonium from other countries promising to send it back as fuel a major customer was japan which now says it would buy the mox fukushima has changed the landscape because there is now a growing concern in japan about the whole new clear. business in particular the business in recycled fuel. and the purpose of what's plans of sellafield it was to make sure it would be sent back to japan using japanese kitani and even before for the. processing plant field was considered one of the biggest disasters in british industrial history producing just ten percent of its planne

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in the american sky metro just up the central sky streets it's walking distance from moscow's main mox opposite the hotel. the most obvious is the it's a true hidden away source surrounded by statues and fountains it's a peach rest area to relax in it's also where we are meeting this week. so it's your first year here in the russian capital yes as a chef and yesterday. i got the job back in london when i was working there and so i know you will and i am what you think of arson capital how do you think it would look before you came here i had mixed. you know seen from communist and. thinking it might be a bit grim and i like it as it is pretty dry best in my mind so it's a pox and restaurants cafe coaches next play dates and i just i'm really enjoying being here actually and i'm really as for the ip center or the heart of the capital yeah yeah i mean if you're going to end around the center you very much and one problem with the golden ring is. being with the traffic it's horrendous the traffic a pretty bad i mean if i go on the school run in the morning which is a little bit outside it

unusual time in the developed quite a lot during the time it comes to what do you think explains the mox difference in its effectiveness from say nine hundred forty one it to for example the battle of stalingrad in which it secured a stunning victory one of course the technical reasons that the red army in the midst of war is retraining. and of course it's the worst possible time to do it but they are doing it and to give them credit this begins to make a difference they transfer their industry as they get them up and running and certainly by the end astonishing that better try and better equipped but the germans still from the do both and i believe there was just the science or the technical side germany could very well have won it either in one nine hundred forty one nine hundred forty two but it was the love of the model and it was this extraordinary determination to carry on fighting that the germans underestimated to hit wanted a short sharp shock and quick campaign was crucial but it didn't work out like us are told that he thought it would all be over and he was not alone off to t

american skier natur just up the central to prescott street it's walking distance from moscow's main mox opposite the hotel that's the most obvious of the if that is true hidden away says surrounded by statues and fountains it's a pitch rest area to relax and it's also well wait a minute. speaks. to me high fees to me surge of bust year here in the russian council yaks who worked as a chef and yesterday. i got the job in london when i was back in marin but why not send you off and i am what you think of arson capital how do you think it would look before you came here i said mixed. you know see communists and perrineau thinking it might be a bit grim and i like it as it is pretty dry best in my mind so it's a pox and the restaurants cafe coach just exploded and i just i'm really enjoying being here actually and i've become a golden ring really is for the ip sensor or the heartbeat so off the carpets and yeah yeah i mean it's going to air around santa you very much and diplomat raised alone with the golden ring is that would be going to the traffic it's horrendous the traffic a pretty bad

and this thing is this is a question about what is democracy and what is democracy for i think the mox full of people not for financial institution it's as simple as that. now some other world headlines and in spain protests against budget cuts are also taking place tens of thousands marched through the streets of madrid and other major spider cities in rallies against austerity measures social spending cuts and last of unemployment the economic crisis in the country has left more than a million families with no income led to youth unemployment nearing fifty percent on monday groups all over spring start a long march to the capital expressing their anger with the situation. washington has confirmed it's holding talks with. secretary robert gates to scarborough to act as a very preliminary and said greater military pressure was necessary earlier afghan president hamid karzai also confirmed cations of the taliban comes as u.s. prepares to begin withdrawing troops from afghanistan next month. a mother's decision to use the internet instead of a doctor to help a dying baby has sent shock w

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in iraq and in afghanistan and of course most recently in libya where involvement was seen as a mox escalation in the involvement of u.k. and french nato troops very low flying so the likelihood of casualties is much increased. presence there and it does need like an escalation of involvement again as we've said so many times about libya the legality of this is extremely. we are seeing u.s. drone attacks increasing numbers of u.s. drone attacks in in yemen and the reasoning for that is. according to u.s. forces is taking advantage of what's going in going on that and moving into this power vacuum which is being created since president saleh left and went to saudi arabia for medical treatment moving into that helping the activity taking advantage of general civil unrest to grab more support more territory so that's the reason for the u.s. paying these drone attacks that's how it's justifying it but of course that power vacuum works both ways interestingly the u.s. forces the military forces used to cooperate with the president on who to attack and when intelligence kind of these kinds of territ

reforms and defeating is this is a question about what is democracy and what is democracy for i think the mox full of people not for financial institution it's as simple as that even the most optimistic observers know the euro as an intensive care you can argue about that i mean in order to save it do you think some nations do need to be cut free now or they'll going to go down with a sinking ship well i do get a share with you the idea that the euro is in the trouble but i think in the words like intensive care are not helping and first of all it's not true it's in trouble well many like the dollar has been in trouble before like these are crises and they can be solved if there is a political will to solve them there was the question is how do you sell them for what purpose if it's for public good or is it for the do goods the interest of a specific interest that's the question a lot of an osa international consultant former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament thanks for the program thank you very much later this hour as well we've got an interview with a german paid close peter velshi

reforms and the thing is this is a question about what is democracy and what is democracy for i think the mox for the people not for financial institution it's as simple as that. now some other world headlines and in spain protests against budget cuts are also taking place tens of thousands of march through the streets of madrid and other major spinal cities rally against austerity measures social spending cuts and massive unemployment. crisis in the country is there more than a million families without income and lead to youth unemployment nearing fifty percent on monday groups all over spain will start a month long march to travel to expressing their anger at the situation. a bomb threat has sparked a full scale one and turn of flight landing in washington d.c. urgency operation began after some. airport claimed there was a bomb on board a u.s. airways plane heading to the u.s. capitol. hill searched by experts who also interviewing the plane's forty four passengers so far no explosive device has been found a person who made the claim is custody. three civilians were killed and eleven wound

and this thing is this is a question about what is democracy and what is democracy for i think the mox for the people not for financial institution it's as simple as that next to mine the story of a russian mother facing criminal charges over the death of her daughter who it's alleged was not given proper care of to catch pneumonia now the case is sparked widespread outrage when it was revealed that the mother had failed to call in doctors and instead sort of vice on the internet to do a push copas been falling out why some parents prefer to avoid the services of medical institutions. aasiya was an eagle a awaited baby adored by her mother and everyone around she was a lively newborn for three months when she became ill and died within a week doctors say had been hospitalized earlier she could have had a chance of survival however us his mother julia hesitated too long and she's now facing criminal charges for negligence. you have to understand we did want to avoid unnecessary medical intrusion but we're not in a coat we cared about how children's health and wanted only the best for th

in iraq and in afghanistan and of course most recently in libya where involvement was seen as a mox escalation in the involvement of u.k. and french nato troops there very low flying so the likelihood of casualties is much increased by the presence there and it does certainly look like an escalation of involvement again as we've said so many times about libya the legality this is extremely. nor is just incredible really just over the past few months western military powers getting involved all over the middle east and africa it really is a huge amount of action going on when it comes to the issue of yemen why why if you were talking when it was known war on terror was and using these unmanned drones which are notorious for killing civilians in pakistan. and of course just what you just said they are becoming more and more involved saying all the time we don't want to get any more involved in the conflict in yemen any more involved in libya than we can help it any more involved in the middle east as a region as a whole but of course as you say we are seeing u.s. drone attacks increasing numbers