site is a den of clear cutting begins next explosives are used to blast away the earth and serial polson. then machinery including massive shovels called drag lines ruby over which is then deposited at an adjacent valleys called valley fills a mountaintop removal coal mining can bring down the elevation of a peak hundreds of feet sites are often thousands of acres in size but i think it's our latest action rather than let's work and resume. in the spring of two thousand and five a group of activists college students and local citizen conservation groups joined together to oppose the widespread increase in mountain top removal mines throughout southern appalachian training the group called their campaign mountain just this summer there was going to be kind of this renewal of coal mining in tennessee and some of those mines are going to be you know mounds of removal mines. you know we were like hey this is you know now we're dealing with this issue too it's not just an issue in kentucky and west virginia like hey let's put something together and kind of up the level of opposition to this i

brought down the country's best selling newspaper police have arrested his former press spokesman polson he was the news of the world editor when it's alleged to have intercepted phone calls from murder victims and dead soldiers. israel on high alert as pro palestinian activists want their gaza aid flotilla. turning to air travel after their ships are held in greece hundreds have been blockaded from boarding planes in europe on their way to tell us. after decades of wars and bloodshed southern sudan is preparing to break free and go it alone peter lavelle's i guess discuss now whether it's already running the risk of failure before it even flies its first flag of independence coming your way. it is. a low and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle after decades of conflict and war south sudan is said to become an independent state on july ninth as the world intice to pay for this event there are lingering questions surrounding the viability of this new oil rich country has south sudan failed even before it's established. to cross-talk the future of south sudan i'm joined by my guests in

vivian polson is a spokesperson there at the site. the scene in oslo and the scene at the island, tell me how the red cross is responding to the crisis? >> there has been the red cross out all night searching for people, and helping in the rescue mission. we have also had around 30 people trained in support helping the victims in the shooting nearby, in a nearby hotel where relatives and the youth have gathered. this is something that we will continue to do for a long time. we are opening up red cross centers across norway because these are people that will need help for a long time. >> the -- do we know how many of the youngsters are still on the island, or has the island now been evacuated? >> i am not sure. i know they are still searching for missing people, and i know there are still missing people, but i am not sure how many people are still there. the police are still on the island searching. >> you say, of course, which is usually in these situations psychological and social support is being given, but what sort of reports are