The people in charge of Fukushima Daiichi say damaged to fuel rods could complicate their efforts to decommission the nuclear plant. Emergency medical teams rushed to a corner of thecapita deal with the bloody aftermath of two explosions. The blasts happened near the Iranian Embassy, killing at least 20 people. Its the latest attack thats believed to be a result of the civil war in syria. Lebanon staterun news agency is reporting that along with the dead, the explosions wounded about 100 others. Lebanese media say the blasts happened within minutes of each other and that one of them was caused by a car bomb. The Iranian Embassy is situated in south beirut, which is controlled by Lebanons Shia Muslim Militant Group hezbollah. Iran supports the group, and hezbollah is supporting troops loyal to syrian president Bashar Al Assad who have been fighting against rebel forces. The friction between hezbollah and sunni muslims in lebanon has intensified since hezbollah sent combatants to syria e
Officials at Tokyo Electric Power company or tepco say the advanced system is the key to their plans to purify the contaminated water. The company aims to decontaminate thousands of tons of stored wastewater by march 2015. Eng year in they say chemicals may have corroded their system so they ep enforced it with corrosionproof material. Workers will begin a test run of one of the systems on friday. They plan to start the remaining two systems by mid november. The filters not remove all radioactive isotopes but they expect they can treat 500 tons of contaminated water every day. Tepco is struggling to deal the radioactive buildup of water but on the other side of the country it faces a different problem. We have this report from the Largest Nuclear power plant. The utility is trying to persuade the governor to support restarting two of the seven reactors. Tepco says they want their approval for government safety checks to the reactors. The two men met on wednesday. Wednesdays meeting. Th
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Desperation along europes only land border with africa u. W. Goes to the spanish territory of say utah following migrants determined to get across this heavily fortified border and reach europe. And the Big Business Of High Tech Fauna reporter gets into the swing of things as the Worlds Largest event for computer and video games opens here in germany well see whats pushing peoples buttons this year. I brought thomas thanks so much for being with us dramatic developments in the u. S. Where two of president trumps closest associates have either pleaded guilty or been found guilty of criminal offenses the most potentially damaging for the president the statements of Michael Cohen. President toms former personal lawyer
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