All vote to ensure a totally Read Parliament will drive out the dirty unpatriotic opposition who in the last 5 years have sought to destroy the success of the revolution. Martinez has been told many times not to give up hope but he fears his country could slip even deeper into crisis. Im now joined by d. W. Correspondent Johan Ramirez he joins us from bogota the 100 most western nations and the venezuelan opposition called this parliamentary election a fraud and yet all indications are that president maduro will be a big winner in this election detail for us just what he stands to gain here. He is going to win the control of the National Assembly something that he that is in the hands of the opposition since 2015 it means that hes going to get control on every state institution in venice all of this is also also its involved because Nicolas Maduro is already half past the control off of the country. In venezuela but he wants to crush the opposition but at the same time hes going to lose because in the International Community he losses even more credibility so its contradictory even if he gets more control he losses because its clear that this election is not fair or look he chose the electoral authorities the people who are going to count the votes are chosen by Nicolas Maduro and he even chose the candidates that are going to are participating in this election the opposition Political Parties didnt want to participate and they called his mother what this means to the leaders of this Political Parties and put in their places leaders close to each of us knows. They are participating in this election so this is not for and they are even threaten people with not giving them a food if they dont go to vote what does this election mean for the opposition. The opposition is going to legally. Lost the control of the National Assembly from the 5th on that one this new National Assembly is going to take power but this is just in theory because in practical terms the opposition house didnt have any control of the Parliament Since 2015 when they won the election actually but in the end that moment the Justice System off of Nicolas Maduro took away all the powers of this National Assembly so for the whole period for 5 years this National Assembly. Hasnt created last hasnt legislate so as i told you before this is a symbolic i mean the National Assembly this parliament of one is lawson nothing because actually they have already lost everything your 100 years in bogota thank you yohan. Sikka look now at some of the other stories making headlines in other places around the world britains chief negotiator david frost says return to brussels for another round of last minute talks on a deal with the European Union an earlier call between u. K. And e. U. Leaders fail to resolve significant differences on trading rules after december 31st talks are expected to continue for some days. A bushfire has forced the evacuation of a town on Fraser Island off australias northeastern coast the blaze has blackened half the World Heritage listed island since it was sparked by an illegal campfire 7 weeks ago officials said more than 90 personnel and 17 aircraft are working to combat the fire. Authorities in south korea have imposed new coronavirus measures including shutting stores from 9 pm and limiting public transport they have also declared curfews for the 1st time south koreas Disease Control agency reported more than 600. 00 new cases on sunday. The german state of bavaria has announced tougher coronavirus lock down rules aimed at slowing the rate of new infections their state premier markers made the announcement after a special meeting of the bavarian regional cabinet on sunday the new measures will see people having to provide a good reason for leaving their homes and a maximum of 5 people from 2 households will be allowed to meet in public. Political correspondent julie or south delhi is with me here in the studio julia now stronger measures in bavaria could this be in fact a model for the rest of the nation. Of the various state premier has always been one for pushing for stronger measures already in the 1st wave of the pandemic has been doing it now again alongside with. And last just 10 days ago. And the state premiers have met and decided on the status quo nationwide of the restrictions currently and on a loosening over christmas and these measures were meant to hold over the Christmas Period and the next meeting is currently planned for january 4th and todays said that he thinks a meeting is necessary before christmas to already now reevaluate whether the measures currently in place nationwide are working or whether the other states and the federal government should follow his lead and decide on harsher restrictions seeing that the numbers arent really dropping significantly as you know nationwide intensive care units at some hospitals are reaching full capacity with covert 1000 patients just put this into some sort of context for us just how bad is to sit. Ration in germany the situation is definitely concerning but not yet dramatic we see especially small hospitals and hospitals in rural areas being affected and being close to full capacity but we dont see a situation where intensive care beds are full we have to keep in mind that germany is the country in europe with the highest procapital number of intensive care beds that means that obviously if they are filling up it is worrisome but there also it also means that there are more beds available and of the total of 12 about 27000. 00 around 5000. 00 are still free the concern is also the fact that Personnel Health care personnel and specialized nurses are lacking that was a problem already before the Current Situation and now with Health Care Personnel getting sick with coated the concern is growing in this respect that Political Correspondent julia delhi thanks so much truly in his 1st major public appearance after losing the us president ial election donald trump has spread further unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud speaking at a rally in georgia were a Crucial Senate race is underway outgoing President Trump insisted he had won a 2nd term but increasing numbers of his own Republican Party or tiring of his rhetoric. The show must go on donald trump returned to the rally stage showing defiance in the face of defeat he repeated his unfounded and discredited claims of victory at last months president ial vote. In history but they say we lost the only way as they stuff the ballot for president through one. Trumps democratic rival joe biden has been declared the winner by enough states to ensure victory and more than 30 of trumps legal challenges have failed in the courts but the president sees an alternative reality i. If i lost i be a very gracious loser. If i lost i would say i lost and go to florida and not take it easy and i would go around and id say get a good job but you cant ever except when they steal and were. The rally in georgia was for republicans contesting the states Runoff Senate election in january but something trumps own party are growing weary of his rhetoric georgias republican governor has refused to take steps to override the states probe barden poll results. Georgias Runoff Election is especially critical the outcome will determine which party waives power in the senate. Switching gears for formula one now when Lewis Hamilton may have already won the world title but his Mercedes Team mate Valtteri Bottas has taken pole position for sundays sucky a grand prix in bahrain the finn claimed his 5th pole of the season but he was pushed all the way by new teammate George Russell a young british driver is standing in for hamilton who has coronavirus max for stopping of red bull starts 3rd in sundays race. Staying with formula one. Will miss the season clue. As in grand prix in abu dhabi the hand burns goes all suffered from a fireball crash in belle plane last week havent healed as planned the frenchman will now return to switzerland for further medical treatment the race would have been his last for the haas team now letters of love and longing sent from a soldier to his sweetheart during the 2nd world war have narrowly avoided being turned into paul the correspondents were spotted in a garbage dump in france and sparked efforts to we unite them with the soldiers living relatives the letters date back to the 1940 s. They were written by a soldier named pierre to his girlfriend aime in western france the correspondent sets out some of his wartime experiences. Tonight is very cold i send you tend to kisses hoping my letter finds you in good health with love from your piero. Environmental lawyer Cecile Philippi was busy on a Research Project at a recycling center when she found the nexus in a pile of old newspapers destined for popping. We realized that the letters day to turn the 2nd world war and they were all the dress to the same paris and my sentimental site to kovar and i said to myself i cant just throw them away. As if that is. The lawyer opposed to details of how i find them social media and tracked down relatives of the soldier pia including his daughter claudine. For me im quite surprised if i hadnt seen these letters i wouldnt have known that my dad had so much love for my mom we have a plan that will come about all of us its nice because it feels like theyre here with us. A voice from the war torn past now communicating again this time with a new generation. Youre watching d. W. News up next a d w documentary the atom and us im like a local ill be back with more News Headlines at the top of the hour for now for me and the team here in berlin thanks so much for watching. Kiddo to parliament. Everyone knows he was despite coming from a close family the pop star wants to become president and challenges are god does it. Give you a little story. Starts december 10th on t. W. Right now id like to bring you a different kind of story in its own way its just a dramatic as anything a writer could dream up that has to do with a new power source that our story will be out of more than 70 years ago the deadly power of the atomic bomb was reprinted as the Peaceful Nuclear energy was modern we were at the forefront of technology glamorous they were like inside a secret inside this magical world and irresistible to governments to think it was clear to france that it salvation was Nuclear Nuclear and business. Everybody in the electric utility business has suddenly decided wow we need Nuclear Power too but from the beginning the peaceful atom was dont bust safety concerns. For noone basically theyve clear that accidents could happen here very serious incident by rising costs its a. Amik lee so complex so difficult so tricky its kind of pulled under by its own dead weight and by protests. That through time leftists the school car of about 4 nil in favor of greenpeace speak honestly and today Nuclear Power is fighting to survive. This kind there is no Nuclear Renaissance thats a very town fabricated by propaganda going out and loved hated and useable to ignore the atom has changed our world this is it still. In the aftermath of world war 2 everyone was talking about the war some and terrifying capabilities of Nuclear Fission what really changed the climate was the speech given by president eisenhower in december 953 at the United Nations which he called atoms for peace. I made today. Im more than 25 times as powerful as the weapon with what they have tommy a does. It begin with a lot of gloom and doom and then he circles around in ends with this beautiful happy tale of how Atomic Energy is going to bring blessings and health and prosperity to the world this greatest of Destructive Forces can be developed into a great movie for the benefit of all vain talk the president s speech was immediately transmitted to 70 or overseas posts by the us press service or that comment is good to start and misinterpret americas proposals atoms for peace quickly became internationalized the propaganda around atoms for peace included traveling exhibits where people could go and see little nucular artifacts and these exhibits would attract throngs of people around the world the exhibit in west berlin was visited by a quarter of a 1000000 people including thousands from the soviet though. In india Prime Minister nehru came to view of the exhibit and shared the experience with thousands of his countrymen. Of all the countries that were targeted for atoms for peace propaganda none was more important to the American Government than japan. On the 1st day of november 19th 55. 00 United States that it will be an exhibition opening to be a part tokyo. The United States and exhibits to japan it promoted the work of japanese scientists in Atomic Energy worse atoms for peace helped sort of send this message that hey were the good guys its what helped whitewash the bad odor created by hiroshima and nagasaki. The general public was being encouraged to look on the bright side so to speak by demonstrating that. Or was this enthusiasm burgeoning all over the world was it propaganda or was a policy the answer is it was both it was at the same time an effort to influence Public Perceptions to change the way people talked about nucular energy and the other hand it was a serious genuine initiative to spread what they saw as the benefits of atomic power throughout the world the potential of civil Nuclear Power suddenly was seen as a global beacon of progress every country involved wanted to take part in the development of this this new gleaming future of Atomic Energy and get off the Nuclear Power was one of the technologies that distinguished you as a high tech country rather than an average one from to shift or if you were a young scientist or engineer graduating college in the 1950 s. In the United States of america you were in a pretty sweet place. Scientists had stepped forward as the new wizards warlocks the magicians who were going to bring all these wonderful things to the future. They were like inside this magical world you know that the scientists that did study this were really fascinating people and they were part of this very very elite group of special people. The british set up the 1st Civil Nuclear plant out cold or hole in the u. K. Appropriate there the such a very important event the queen came to perform the ceremony of the big switch on a definite lead in the 2nd Industrial Revolution has been taken by. The British Government was triumphant as being the 1st nation to launch a Nuclear Power program britain saw itself as the pioneer of Nuclear Power we were the 1st with a Nuclear Power station and that technology let the well but others went far behind france will begin producing nuclear. Energy and take its place as one of the great atomic nations alongside the United States the us s. R. And. Im going to going to tell you when to god came to power after world war 2 that his main concern was to restore francis former glory as a world power. To solve it in october 945. 00 degrees signed an official order to create the Atomic Energy commission to make but frances reactors were not only for producing electricity. The 1st Nuclear Power site in france was presented as a prototype for Electricity Generation and that was what all the fanfare was about what you do when you now the public can see what has made france a player and the industrial utilization of the atom. In reality and from the very beginning the medical reactors were designed to optimize the production of weapons grade plutonium. Pulled a whole wasnt a power reactor its purpose was to produce weapons grade plutonium material to electricity was a useful byproduct and in fact that that was not connected to reactor atoll. Governments were not the only ones being opposed to miss each. Companies were getting in to General Electric was really instrumental in them so they do a lot of work laying out a comic book they have filmed and it was all done with white collars with exciting little characters lets start by meeting a leading authority on the subject dr. The public mood was galvanized by the new atomic power stations springing up the reactors actually became Tourist Attractions in and of themselves at my school there was a Lookout Point where tourists could go and view models of the reactor and see the whole site. But few felt the thrill quite so much as those on the inside. I felt proud to wear the pride when i look back i think yeah obviously i think that. We felt we were the forefront of technology. It wasnt only braga water country as a whole it was raising their hand out and saying we can make it. 50 years gone by since then even had a lot of hay and one of my jobs was to test materials for stay fx and used to climb inside the reactor they were my main structure inside the docks and everything and test all of the welds looking rather like a super version of a plastic macintoshes and use your design for workers that were tons atomic clock once you are inside them. All it remains is to pump in compressed gas or the way i can breathe easily. Be dressed up like a mitchell in man with a special crowley thing with a number legal code supplying a add to my body so thing and breathing and i wish i was right microphones and then climbed through every part of the reactor in the boilers we were not to because people from coal plants used to come to us and said oh i see neat clean isnt it wonderful this Clean Environment you live in i could psyche to an old cult thought out start doing exactly what you know used to come out black. Across the Atlantic AmericanUtility Companies with e. Q. To invest in Atomic Energy. It seemed like there was no risk and building a Nuclear Power plant because the price was low and they invent dollars westinghouse and General Electric guaranteed that price and then comes the gold rush where everybody in the electric utility business is suddenly deciding wow we need Nuclear Power too. But not everyone shares that enthusiasm. To. See. If there was a plan to build a reactor a kid a good day california protests 1st started from local people who are just concerned about the view but then people will begin to do a certain amount of homework. And they began to get concerned by radioactivity released from the plant in normal operation there was also more particularly the possibility of an accident involving a Nuclear Plant which might release a lot more radioactivity the public didnt in fact really know that there all had already been a number of significant industrial accidents in Nuclear Installations in canada in switzerland in the u. S. And in the u. K. There was a very big fat it would scale ive never tell i discovered when i went to patent i was talking to the japanese minister said he said to me how do you. How you getting on with dating with the contras the 5 and i survive fishel what 5 we didnt want to bother you but a step. But he could they actually persuaded the local Electricity Company to abandon the plant and this was the 1st time that a Nuclear Proposal of this kind had actually failed because of opposition by the public and it was going to be the 1st of many i remember when i 1st went to the states as a minister i was told that they had a policy of 2002002000 Nuclear Power station by the 2000 but the local opposition says strong that they couldnt build them there were some Nuclear Scientists and engineers who helped this opposition we had to marvelous General Electric engineers who quit and became whistleblowers i testified on the nics Quality Assurance program that the Quality Assurance on a toaster was greater than that for the instruments to control the Nuclear Power plant on the other hand there was inadvertent support the very pronuclear director of the Oak Ridge National lab weinberg oh hes harbored concerns he thought that there should be one Nuclear Plant here and one Nuclear Plant there that it would be better if we had 6 in one Nuclear Reservation so that you could use what he called the small number of very competent scientists and engineers to manage it. Just as the opposition was growing stronger global and suddenly make Nuclear Power look a lot more appealing. In 1973 the big middle east producers cut off Oil Shipments to major consuming countries bargo was lifted the price of foreign oil had jumped from 3. 00 to 12. 00 of our times higher than before. This nation one thing they can have all the energy we need now dont write an editorial on this youre really going to catch it from your readers because it scares you. They think of the bomb they think of the possibility that one is going to blow up my house and san clemente is just 12 miles from the Southern California edison Nuclear Power plant its safe it produces good power its clean coal and the United States which 1st the secret. Is behind where it ought to be and the develop a Nuclear Power nixon proposed a huge expansion of Nuclear Power in the name of getting america out from under the boot of opec but even with nixon suppose there was one pressing problem the cost of every reactor. And the Nuclear Power plant surrounding it those costs were doubling every 2 years doubled and then it doubled again. Let me just when the price of oil quadrupled and it was quite a shock lucia look at their cost 68 percent of an atrocity came from all the good that you behold we had i think the money oil crisis began it became clear to france that it salvation was nuclear it didnt. Need why you clear power for electricity. The only area where you could easily replace oil was an actress ditties because in 1973 we already have of us generation of Nuclear Reactors and act only clear spurred on by the oil crisis the french government moved quickly to build more Nuclear Power plants it didnt have to worry about public opinion. You could do what you when it comes to decisions and its just a small group of people making them from the media folks you know from the Atomic Energy commission shields basically top administrators quiznos the state representing the people that pay for all of it all rants if you have the authorization to build a Nuclear Plant and that was it in the us things were a little more complicated. Than you see us it was very fragmented there were at around 2800 different Electricity Companies if you dont they kept changing the designs in a in a competitive frenzy to try and get ahead of the other guy and that meant that the construction times for Nuclear Plants just blew. And i way to do business feel the business. Frances ambitious Nuclear Program was becoming the largest in the world the United States could only look on and one. Point on clearing the time that france or. 58 reactors the americans cancelled 202 still. I was the difference in value felt. Meanwhile frances next door neighbor had i think Nuclear Issues to contend with. In the 1970 south west germany saw the growth of one of the largest movements against Nuclear Energy in western europe possibly you know well you know this or this about all of us this month people were concerned because they started hearing that in the areas around reactors rise when there were unexplained illnesses or environmental changes or the. Concords fairly or the. Now almost indoors and you have to remember that germany had a past marked by war and it was hard as a cold war in which Nuclear Weapons plays an important role. And if so there was a lot of insecurity and this was intense and thats why Atomic Energy he would just told me to give them. The real point of origin protests and a very small south German Village shift when you power station was supposed to be built. With the little. Green local Citizens Initiatives tried to stop it or in the end the only option they had was to occupy the Building Sites where the ball plots. They marked the site they brought in tens of thousands of people too many really for the police to handle and set up a camp. With a lot of guitar singing in public classes and free love and all that sort of thing. Yeah yeah. Itll be. When youve got wine makers from the kaiser students journalists and experts all talking to one another experience this counter expertise is the foundation of the german Antinuclear Movement and it started here. The deals peaceful teachings gave way to much obvious sayings. Wherever there were plans to build a reactor there were huge protests and they often lead to clashes with the police in full bore for blocked off in 1901150000 people gathered for an illegal demonstration in february in the freezing cold. Start for the greatest music the state reacted completely disproportionately the high use tear gas they sent hundreds of policeman by helicopter went through the crowd beating people who couldnt believe we were firing friends sgt we still want allowed onto the site cuts in demonstrations with a bit of food are forbidden to demonstrate and protest is on both sides of the atlantic had been sounding the alarm about the prospect of an accident at a Nuclear Plant the industry dismissed steffy its until early one morning in much 1979. Came in to work. The commissioner in writing by me john heard your courage and sure i go upstairs i really discover that. Harrisburg pennsylvania an accident at a Nuclear Power plant a spokesman said that a feed water pump broke down this morning automatically shutting down a 3 mile Nuclear Power plant. People think that emergency reserves. When youre only going to operate a room you know in fact everything going to slow down cause you tremendous uncertainty to go before it gets. The information was contradictory meters are really very high radiation has pursued these meters was the room the overwhelming feeling yours is the forward moving from the information forward it was very much unexpected. Whose it was feeling was it was worse than anything route one could have imagined have been some near serious accidents but not one like 3 mile island and when that happened i think the whole the whole framework fell apart it could no longer climbing that Nuclear Plants war so i. Think that was a very defining moment. They. Are. Going to face activists so activists are nothing new for them to deal with in the eightys we had this sort of. This this inevitable march towards a future and at the same time we were looking at a situation where there was this wheezing puffing planted when scowled and which was pumping out 2000000 gallons of contaminated material into the r. C. Every guy i mean now things just joe i mean it really was and we had to address it in some way at 1st light green peas were already up and about. The plan was simple to block one of the discharge pipe but stop is like thats what i had a confidential briefing with depression a set. You know were going to bring the pipe up we have bunks ready well go and stop the discharges and somehow that got leaked and being a fellow then you that we were going to do it right at this moment should have been to the punch theyve obviously. Known precisely what weve been going through for the last week or so very heavily on this point and its impossible for us with 2 weve got at the moment to block. It was a balancing act all of us to try to deal with them sensibly but in the end to use the law if necessary to stop them doing things which i felt the dangers and i needed to be tell they were not to be on the law any more than where you were and so i was a bad times. Advocates of the fuel or power and opponents of Nuclear Power just didnt speak the same language it wasnt that one of them had a monopoly of facts and simply interpreted the evidence differently they saw their range of concerns differently the n. F. L. Who decided that they would no longer use the name windscale for the facility they would call it so a field which is the name of the Little Village were it originally been built ironically soon after the name change was announced b. N. F. L. Was accused of having radioactivity on the shoreline and leaks in at least 2 of their facilities i was tempted to go and tackle a safety issue and then i was told no be positive about the good things which nuclear will bring. And that was the start of the idea that this dissenter 100. 00 some of the television have on our names falls off. They are very soft i got it buster but true i glowed. Prostration shoot a generational White Christian that i was 1st. Asked limiting messages through which we could then build on it must be safe mustnt it because theyve invited us to go up go round and they are trying to be up there on this because theyre asking us to go. Nuclear previously been really in secrecy the industry had acquired a reputation for just not telling anybody anything and the result no one really trusts them so they went for a kind of kind of glasnost openness policy. And then just as the Charm Offensive seemed to be working and listen viewers of Moscow Television were watching the 9 pm news closely on monday april 28th they would have missed the brief and buried report of the Biggest Nuclear accident in history that accident that occurred at least 2 days earlier that churn noble in the ukraine chernobyl definitively ended the industrys line that there could never be an explosion that a reactor could never blow up like a bomb effectively thats what happened it blew up. The grammatical kind of course did create widespread. There was a very concerted effort by all the western governments to distance themselves as fast as they could and blame it all on Russian Technology it can be stated categorically that an accident similar to that one could not happen in a British Nuclear prostration. The reactor of the chernobyl design simply wouldnt have been allowed to operate in britain in the days following the disaster a plume of radioactive fallout drifted west would appear to the alarm of those in his. Affection after chernobyl there was a mass mysterious in germany and italy. And i know human organ can sense the danger only these machines detect it in radioactivity. I was standing in the School Playground with my geography teacher at the time who had got himself a Geiger Counter out of the pharmacy to check whether there was any high radioactivity level of course was useless because we didnt know what the normal level of whats in them amend war is from the moment the people were told dont eat game me too dont eat mushrooms on the pizza from that moment on they accept. Among the german population was completely gone that autumn before frederick to him. Thats leaving my face just completely normal and quietly and then chernobyl happens and it hits us like a bomb slicked ivy and a bomb hits us personally and president here for me for me it was a road to damascus moment to music my eyes were suddenly opened to what it all meant to be a dog in that not should have 1st we called ourselves parents against Nuclear Power but then we thought you know thats not really a good name we dont want to be against something we want to be for something and thats why we changed our name to parents for a nuclear free future. Together with other families and michelle slavic was so determined to rid their village of Nuclear Power that they made in or day should speak to take control of the local energy grid by the couldnt see here 1st there you can probably imagine that when a Citizens Initiative says were building our own Energy Company to supply the citizens of our town with electricity at 1st everyone says how is that supposed to work peter i asked my gabby so it does and and of course the Energy Provider said this definitely wont work theyll never succeed shot from the dock neat. Against all odds the initiative did succeed creating a Citizen Energy cooperative and it was your we have a vision of an Energy Supply without Nuclear Power the Energy Provider wasnt prepared to do that over in britain the Energy Market was changing all over the country ordinary electricity users would be preparing pretty well kristie Companies Share rappers. Stake should not everyone supported the conservative governments privatisation plans the postponement by 6 months of the privatisation of the electricity industry is only 6 months and still going to happen is it really that significant i think its significant because what it indicates is that the plans are a complete mess and most people already realise that their bills have gone up in order to pave the way for privatisation theyve got huge problems because they want to sell the Nuclear Industry which is going to be very difficult to sell. The cost of ultimately decommissioning station returned the site to your computer usable status had been underestimated the costs of future dealing with the spent fuel have been underestimated i think its very unwise to embark on a new program when we dont even know how to deal with the whats left over the legacy of the old when you realise that the Nuclear Industry just could not be privatized quite early on told the government we cant do it and the government said rubbish go away and think of a way that we can do it so we went away were trying this were trying that but in the end we said look we just really cant do it and so the government in the end said ok you cant do it therefore we will pull it and it was quite a momentous occasion the government did manage to sell off its power stations but soon the new private Nuclear Company also ran into. Yes the company went into steady financial declined from about the year 2000 to my 2002 it was in effect bankrupt it had to be rescued by the government with 304