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Latest five-year plan and crop report. eight or nine minutes into the news, an announcer said only two people had been killed in the incident, contradicting one news report that casualties numbered in the thousands. >> chernobyl wasnt a flash in the pan. every few weeks there would be something like chernobyl because of structural defects of the soviet system. >> officials say because it took place at the newest reactor, it is another indication of inferiority of soviet technology and they say t...

Every few weeks there would be something like chernobyl because of structural defects of the soviet system. >> officials say because it took place at the newest reactor, it is another indication of inferiority of soviet technology and they say they brought on the accident not taking the same safety precautions taken in the united states. >> chernobyl reminded the soviets they couldnt play in the game of modern technology, they couldnt protect their own people and they couldnt hide it anymore. >>...

ballistic missile test in the works. we begin tonight with high anxiety over north koreas threat to launch a satellite, a launch pentagon officials believe is to test a ballistic missile capable of launching a nuclear warhead capable of sitting the main land. weather is such that officials believe the launch could come at any time. lets take a closer look at what they are worried about. this is north korea. i want to show you new satellite images from april 9th. a clear image of the ...

Launched the invasion of iraq. that is similar to what qaddafi has. take a listen to vice admiral gortny. >> this is a integrated missile defense system much like the one that iraq had and surrounding baghdad. built on older soviet technology. but still, good capability. >> a good capability but the pentagon sources tell us that they dont expect it will take more than a few days to take out the air forces. well see the fighter jets and u.s. planes over lib yampt they will not put them in the sky...

Were some communications or talk -- to try to talk that down -- >> we are on the leading edge of coalition operations. were the united states under general hamm in africa command. hes in charge of this at this point. and in the coming days, we intend to transition it to a coalition command. >> can you say how many british ships were involved compared to the u.s. ships? >> we had one british submarine. >> and the rest were all u.s.? >> yes, maam. >> and the number of that? >> i dont have that in ...

Neptune missile system. unlike most of the armaments that are circling around here in ukraine, this is something that the ukrainians designed and built themselves. its based off of soviet technology, but it represents some real leaps and bounds. so to be able to show that they used this neptune system in action to such lethal and devastating effect against the biggest of the russian ships, the flagship ship, thats something theyre not really going to be backing down from, its just too delicious....

Soviet technology. but still, good capabilities. >> again, vice admiral gorny said they expect that while this is a pretty good air defense system similar to the one in iraq which ironically with mike emanuel the invasion was launched back on this day in 2003. we are waiting to hear more about the bomb damage asessment. >> we heard the admiral talk about qaddafis air defense. how strong are they and how long will it take to destroy them in >> in the initial hours tell take 6 or 12 hours to get t...