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brink of civil war. and fears grow in japan as radiation levels at the fukushima power plant skyrocket. quite the post match celebration. an estimated 1 billion people tune in to watch india and pakistan battle it out for a place in the cricket world cup final. we begin this hour in libya, where the focus is on who might be next to defect from moammar gadhafi s regime following the resignation of one of his closest advisors, foreign minister moussa koussa is now in the uk. he s no longer willing to represent the gadhafi regime. his defection is a boost to those hoping to topple gadhafi s nearly 42 year rule. his departure comes as an intelligence source admits to cnn cia is operating inside libya, gathering information to get a better sense of the political and military situation there. on the ground, fighting is continuing to rage between rebels and gadhafi forces and the opposition has retreated between bin jawad and ras lanuf, losing much of the territory they regained. rebels try to recover from their loss. reporter: to say this front is fluid is a serious understatement. here we are yet again at the gates of aa agaajdabiya. there was talk about them reaching the town of sirte, gad s hometown but that talk seems to have evabevab evapod into though despite the fact there s a no-fly zone over libya and the coalition forces have taken out much of the army in libya in this part of the country. despite that, more ral among the rebels appears to still be high, talking about making it eventually to tripoli but that talk may be a little more than wishful thinking. i m ben wedeman, cnn, reporting from the gates of ajdabiya. it could be seen as an embarrassment, blow to colonel gadhafi. he had long been a staunch defender of the government. why did he quit now and who will follow him? anyone? nic robertson interviewed koussa when he first arrived in tripoli and explains why this defection is significant. reporter: it s a big deal. when he first arrived here, he demanded we interview him the first night. a couple weeks ago we saw him at a press conference here, mumbling almost, reading in a very unconvincing way with his head down, a statement at a press conference, refused to take questions, walked away. at that moment, gave the impression of a man who wasn t committed to the regime here. it s significant for many reasons not least of which he was a former head of intelligence, not least of which he is a one time wanted figure by european security services. this is a man whose disappearance here wasn t even known by the deputy foreign minister i spoke to yesterday. i asked him was moussa koussa coming back just yesterday, told me, yes, he ll be back very soon. officials here are absolutely scrambling this evening to come up with an explanation. they can t even get confirmation he is gone such is their information. he will be seen by senior people around the regime here as somebody who decided to jump ship at a very crucial moment. there may be others considering doing the same thing. nic robertson reporting there. let s look at what newspapers are saying about this under the headline the daily telegraph in the uk. libyan foreign minister defects to britain. mr. koussa s defection holds out hope the regime may still crack inside relieving the pressure for further military measures. in the united states, headlines, retreat from rebels, libya foreign quits. at least one long time confidantes seem to be calculating colonel gadhafi could not last. the britain newspaper headline. libya s foreign minister defects to the uk. and seems to be coalition s efforts to intimidate key members of the regime. you re watching world one live from london. change sweeps the ivory coast street by street and town by town. the opponents of the self-elected president are getting a lot closer to his stronghold. we ll bring you the latest. what razor do you use? the disposable. why the disposable? this is really quick and convenient. we have a faceoff between disposable and proglide! uh oh. ah hah. 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bin jawad. they proved not enough power. and one of its leaders fled to the uk and defected. and expecting to announce an end to syria s law. and one man battered in a city. at least 16 people were killed in the clashes there. do keep in mind, cnn can t verify the authenticity of these images. in damascus, president assad was greeted before he delivered wednesday s 45 minute speech following two weeks of violent anti-government demonstrations. france is showing its solidarity with disaster struck japan. the french president, nicolas sarkozy is going to be meeting with the prime minister today in tokyo, the official visit comes as radiation levels in ocean water near the crippled fukushima plant skyrocketed to more than 4,000 times the normal level. martin savidge has been covering the story since the tsunami and earthquake hit and joins us now. 4,000 now. it just gets worse. reporter: it s an alarming trend, no doubt. saturday, we were talking levels 1500 times the legal limit. saturday, 3300 times and actually 4,385 times the legal safety level of radio iodine in the water. officially, the government says that is not a major concern for the environment or for the health of people but it is a concern primarily trying to figure out exactly where the leak is coming from. an unnamed source of tepco to cnn says they are quite clear the leak is obviously coming from fuel but they can t say whether it s coming from reactor fuel or from fuel rods. they just can say it s clearly coming in at apparently a continuous kind of rate and also know it s not coming as a result of venting or from the air but instead, it is coming as a result of some sort of seepage or some kind of leak. they know that because they say that the levels in the ocean have been going up even though it has not rained which means the rain hasn t washed it out of the air and flushed it in the ocean. they know where it s coming from, at least the source, they just don t know how it s getting into the ocean right now, zain. it s been that way for days. even though officials are saying to people, don t worry about it, it s okay, not a threat, do people believe that or are they scared? there is some concern in the sense it s not the radio iodine they re worried about with a relatively short half life, eight days, minute report of sesium, a different animal with a longer half life and gets into the sea life and plankton and eaten by big fish and then gets into the food chain. a big concern but small levels. as far as credibility, people are having a hard time. many people now say they don t believe tepco is telling the honest truth here, especially when they keep seeing levels rising rising and concern radiation found outside the exclusion zone. there s a small village according to the iaea, they have found levels higher than normal rising. as a result of that, there is some concern by people who are saying maybe you ought to raise the evacuation area, in other words, you must take it from the 20 kilometers where it s at now to maybe 40 kilometers. the government says, no, they re not going to do that, at least not yet. martin savidge reporting from tokyo. reports of escalating violence from the ivory coast. the country has been spiraling towards civil war ever since fights broke out over the disputed presidential election. there are forces that back the country s recognized president, alassane quattara and have taken control of the capital. laurent gbagbo continues to cling to power and the u.n. put sanctions against him wednesday. we ll give you more of this struggle in the ivory coast, back to 2000, when laurent gbagbo won his disputed election. and alassane quattara, his rival was not allowed to contest it. in 2002, a coup attempt failed. a year later, 2003, gbagbo accepts a peace deal with sharing government. in 2005, gbagbo s term ends, elections put on hold, a year after from there, elections continue to be postponed. then we go to october of 2010, five years after that, the first round of presidential elections, gbagbo comes in first, quattara comes in second. a month later, we see there s a runoff taking place there in november. the election commission says quattara wins 54-46%, however the constitutional council there backs gbagbo, run by gbagbo ally, rejecting the result and declares gbagbo the winner. the u.n. endorses quattara as the winner and we see a standoff has been taking place ever since. as a result, there is a dire humanitarian situation in the country. more from the eyewitness in the city. we cannot identify him due to safety concerns there. but first, can you hear me and tell us a little bit about the situation on the ground where you are? i am in a residential area. the coast is quiet. i can tell you yesterday afternoon around places plato, quite a busy place and we had to leave suddenly because we heard many shootings around the town. right now we are afraid. i can tell you when i was coming on my way back home, i could see people working with hands up to be sure they didn t have any guns on them. right now, civilians are really afraid, afraid of what will happen. we know coming to abijan. we re more afraid of side effects than this situation because what happened to when they re going to enter some towns, you know, you ask people attacking civilians. right now, i can tell you people are really afraid. on a day-to-day level, whether in the city of abijan, is it a sense people are afraid to walk outside their own homes? exactly. it depends on the area. if you take my area, for instance, which is quite residential, i went out this morning to get some bread, so many people, cars moving around people want to get food provisions because they re afraid of what will happen and other areas of abidjan are angry people, don t really go out because those places are really hot. bout out of abidjan, i can t tell you anything, i m not there. within abidjan, i can answer questions. is the question of law and order completely non-existent? is there also a sense no one really knows who to trust? exactly, no one really knows who to trust. we can t even talk about politics, you don t even know what they think. we re really afraid, i can tell you, people are really scared. we really can t this suppression to end up quickly. if you were to try to make, i guess, people in the outside world, understand what is happening in your country, how would you describe, i guess the humanitarian situation and how desperate it is? it is really really difficult and painful for the country we really hope people will help us with this issue. the only thing we want for our country is peace. we really want peace. we ve been waiting quite a long time now. we want that, truly. in terms of what you re hearing from both the abo the gbagbo and quattara camps, what are you being told? they really want the situation to end up. there have been petitions to resign of gbagbo but that hasn t happened yet. but on the abobo side, you have many people, many young executives work for international companies and right now not happy about this situation. you have the young patriots, most of the young people who do not have any job and sometimes make money and be like a military placement and try to work people, so i think that is the situation. but in a net shell, everybody wants peace, i think. everybody wants peace. we thank you very much. thank you for speaking with us. please do stay safe. you re watching world one live from london. take a look at this video. celebrations, dancing and cheering, that s india, as its cricket team storms to victory in the semifinal. this was no ordinary match. we ll tell you why in just a moment. that was the moment, an eruption of joy as india beats pakistan to go through to the cricket world cup final. the excitement there really at fever pitch as the game got under way. that s because the two sides are long time afternoon rivals. millions of people were glued to their tv sets to see whether india would win and they did by 29 runs. so many people didn t show up to work so they could watch this. the team is now playing sri lanka in saturday s final. imagine the scenes from pakistan with really sad and depressed, ghost-like streets, fireworks never blown but this was the joy for india. let s look at cricket s world cup by the numbers. this is the 10th tournament since the event began in 1975. it s broadcast to an audience of millions in 180 countries and territories across the globe. previous champion, australia won more than any other country, four times. west india won it twice and india, pakistan and sri lanka each won once before. the final is saturday in mumbai but hard to top wednesday s semifinal, i guess in terms of excitement or drama. definitely. look at the indian newspaper, they ve gone nuts over this, called it an epic showdown. indian fans say once they ve won this one, the final is neither here nor there, obviously, it would be a bonus to get that final. whether you re a cricket fan or not, you couldn t help but get caught up in this. the skipper won the toss and elected to bat. the hype surrounding the match was huge and the pressure could not have been any bigger. they were keeping their cool and making a decent start. the middle master was actually going for a record 100 international century. pakistan give him lifeline after lifeline, dropped him no less than four times. he fell short of that mark. he was out for 85. reas, pakistan s best bowler on the day, claims a five wicket hole but reinvigorating with 36. leaving pakistan leading 261 for victory. runs did not come easily for pakistan. going for 30, that winning post certainly looked to be a long way away. eunice kan followed his teammates back for a paltry 13 and hitting out, his wicket would prove to be key for india. a delivery left the pakistani batsman standing there perplexed. doing his best to get pakistan going again. his 56 runs would end up being in vain. pakistan finished 231 all out and 29 runs short of the sergeant set by target set by india. he did miss out making that international century but does have another opportunity to hit that mark. here are the captain s thoughts after the match. i think 260 was a good score. i won t say it was a safe score. it was important not to give away too many runs. i was quite happy with 260. i m proud of my team and they have done a great job. they re very promising youngsters. we played as a unit and no one was expecting we would play cricket like this but very happy as a captain. sri lanka have done really well so far in the tournament. we have been tested more often than not in the games that we have played, so i think it will be a very good final. the pakistani fans have to be very frustrated with that dropping it four times, a player you cannot afford to drop, more international runs than any other player in the world to his name. if you have a chance, you have to take it. you saw the two leaders, india and pakistan. you don t really see the india prime minister ever being emotional in any shape or form, quite a say itted man. he was still quite obviously jubilant. i think anyone could get carried away with that match. thank you for that. upcoming championship match and all things sports related, click on to our sports page on the web. cnn.com/world sport. firefighters could one day use wands, yes, wands to put out fires if research at harvard university proves successful. what happened is that chemical scientists used this electric wand to put out a flame more than 30 senty centimeters tall was pointed at the base. this is a me-flame flame that separates it from the fuel source and what happens when you blast it. look at this audition tape, a chance for these two guys to be a real life caveman. only this is a special kind of cave, one devoted to baseball. they are going to get to watch the entire major league season, nearly 21/2 thousand games. it is in manhattan, 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[ major nutrition ] ensure. nutrition in charge! hello. this is world one live from london. i m anita. i m zain verdee. radiation surge, authorities are saying they don t know how to stop it. radiation samples from the pacific ocean near the crippled fukushima nuclear plant have skyrocketed nearly 4,000 times the normal levels. japanese officials say fishing isn t allowed 20 kilometers from the plant and the radiation should fade over time. french president sarkozy will be meeting with the japanese president. the first leader to meet in japan since the tsunami struck on march 11th. at least 16 people have been killed in the syrian city of atikia, the center of recent unrest. the syrian government denies the claim. in a 45 minute address, assad fails to make good on reforms. the unrest left more than 70 people dead. in the ivory coast, the country has been spiraling towards civil war ever since fighting broke out over the disputed presidential election, and forces backing the president-elect, alla san quattara have taken control of the capitol. one of colonel gadhafi s closest advisors has quit in libya. former minister moussa koussa is in the uk. he says he s no longer willing to represent the gadhafi regime and fighting continuing to rage between rebels and gadhafi forces and the opposition has retreated from bin jawad and ras lanuf, losing much of the territory they gained at the weekend. so the gadhafi government is coming under more pressure from the coalition and his own circle. moussa koussa s surprise defection is a boost to the opposition hoping to topple gadhafi s 42 year rule. let s get more from phil black and nic in london. let s talk about moussa koussa. what kind of impact will that have in libya and gadhafi? reporter: it s already having a very big impact here. one of the most interesting things about this is just the day before this was announced that moussa koussa defected to britain, the deputy foreign minister here insisted moussa koussa was coming back. the day we arrived here just over a month ago we were demanded to go to an interview with moussa koussa and gave a very robust defense of the regime. a couple weeks later at a press conference, he was reading a statement with his head down like this and really didn t seem to have his heart in it, the first time there was an indication he may not be as committed to the regime as appeared on the surface. he gave the impression here he was going just across the border for something else. everyone believed he was coming back. to this moment, government officials have not yet been able to fully confirm this for themselves and not yet issued a statement. it shows you how much they are reeling in his absence. they don t know what to do. the impact will go beyond his immediate department to others who have been part of the intelligence and security establishment he was for many, many years, one of the most wanted men on libya s most wanted terrorist list oversea, a man who headed the intelligence agency here for 15 years from 94 to 2009, has a lot of skeletons in his closet. he knows a lot about the regime here. a lot of people will be wondering what information is he handing over about them? should they also be leaving the country. perhaps the biggest impact is a close confidante from moammar gadhafi and could have held him back from successes and that voice is now gone from here. this leaves gadhafi on his own track and less likely to be influence by others. it is likely what other senior officials consider doing at this time will most worry the senior leadership. let s get the other side from phil black and see how much information are you getting about where exactly is moussa koussa is, is he talking and any details from the foreign office or no? we do know moussa koussa arrived here yesterday, came of his own choice but media reports in britain suggest he may have arrived on a british government pla plane. the foreign office says he s resigning his post as foreign minister because he s no longer willing to represent the gadhafi regime abroad and they re now talking to him about that. no one is officially using the word defection here yet. if true, as nic is saying, he obviously represents a significant prize perhaps as representation of pressure that exists upon internal members of the gadhafi regime and efforts to persuade those members to switch sides, particularly so for his intelligence value. the inside knowledge he has of the regime will be of significant interest to the british government, to the western coalition in bringing an early end potentially to gadhafi and his leadership in libya. cnn s phil black and cnn senior international correspondent nic robertson reporting and giving us good perspective how this is viewed both in the uk and libya. thanks, guys. the west is hinting a deal from immunity from prosecution could be on the table if moammar gadhafi steps down and leaves libya. my colleague, tim lister and i have written on the piece. check it out at cnn.com/international. this is world one live from london. it s a story that s become all too familiar. yeah. girls lured from their homes with a promise of a better life and sold into sexual slavery. we ll speak to one trafficking victim who managed to escape from a life of sexual exploitation next from world one. let me tell you about a very important phone call i made. when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp. medicare supplement insurance card, too. medicare is one of the great things about turning 65, but it doesn t cover everything. in fact, it only pays up to 80% of your part b expenses. if you re already on or eligible for medicare, call now to find out how an aarp. medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company, helps cover some of the medical expenses. not paid by medicare part b. that can save you from paying up to thousands of dollars. out of your own pocket. these are the only medicare supplement insurance plans. exclusively endorsed by aarp. when you call now, you ll get this free information kit. with all you need to enroll. put their trust in aarp medicare supplement insurance. plus you ll get this free guide to understanding medicare. the prices are competitive. i can keep my own doctor. and i don t need a referral to see a specialist. call now to get a free information kit. plus you ll get this free guide to understanding medicare. and the advantages don t end there. choose from a range of medicare supplement plans. that are all competitively priced. we have a plan for almost everyone, so you can find one that fits your needs and budget. with all medicare supplement plans, there are virtually no claim forms to fill out. plus you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medicare. and best of all, these plans are. the only medicare supplement plans endorsed by aarp. when they told me these plans were endorsed by aarp. i had only one thing to say. sign me up. call the number on your screen now. and find out about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan. you ll get this free information kit. and guide to understanding medicare, to help you choose the plan that s right for you. as with all medicare supplement plans, you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medicare, get help paying for what medicare doesn t. and save up to thousands of dollars. call this toll-free number now. cnn s launched an initiative we re calling the freedom project and the goal is to expose the trade on human life. we focused on one aspect, the trafficking industry. how big an industry is trafficking worldwide? according to a 2005 world labor report, 1 million 390 thundershowers people we thundershowers 1,390,000 people were forced into labor. so many girls were forced into prostitution in a foreign country by those she trusted. this woman considers herself lucky because she got out. reporter: laura is not her real name. we are not revealing her identity and we are altering her voice for her own safety. she told us at 17, her boyfriend sold her into sexual slavery. took my self-respect. i thought that i m nobody anymore. you know, they beat me up and they raped me. and then these guys, you know the customers, they treat the me like an animal, you know, i was just a thing they can have fun with. reporter: what s more remarkable, it happened in sweden, known for tough anti-prostitution laws. the head of police investigations says on surveillance tapes traffickers lament the lack of customers in sweden, avoiding the country because it s simply not profitable enough. if you take the street and you have the girls on the internet, you will find it s maximum in this 2 million city, 2 million people living here, you can find maximum 130 prostitute prostitutes. reporter: that s really in credit incredibly low. reporter: this is the district, no neon signs and on a night like this, only a handful of girls working the street. it s evidence sweden s laws against prost institution aypro laws are working and it is not against the girls selling sex but those buying. if you didn t have the demand of buyers, you wouldn t have this. they re the link of the human trafficking trade. reporter: more than 70% of swedes support the law and norway adopted similar legislation and others like denmark are debating it. it doesn t come cheap. in the last two years according to the swedish justice ministry, sweden spent $45 million fighting prostitution and trafficking. it wasn t always a popular idea. we were so much in 1998 when we took this legislation regarding prohibiting men from buying sexual services. i was told you can t do that. it s impossible. people could not even get into their minds they could have any effect on trafficking. now, i get the impression that people many people have stopped laughing. reporter: yet as an in this undercover video from sweden s tv 4, sex is still for sale here. what s different today is where the women or girls come from. not from sweden. where are you from? reporter: swedish authorities say most of these women are trafficking victims brought here against their will from poor countries and tricked or forced into selling their bodies, like laura. she came from a baltic state. the man she trusted as a boyfriend took her to sweden promising to get her a cleaning job. when she got here, she and another girl were locked into an apartment with blacked out windows like this one uncovered in a police raid, supplied by their traffickers with food, alcohol and drugs. laura managed to escape but with no money, she resorted to selling her body once again. i became alcoholic. after that, i become homeless. because i said to myself, it doesn t matter how you have to live but you are never going to sell yourself again. i hated myself for what i did. i was at the street, i was six months pregnant. i didn t know where to go, what to do. it s a pattern of destruction that s been with them when they were sold the first time, maybe 13, 14 years old. most of these women only 13, 14 years old the first time they were trafficked. you re not mature, not adult, don t know how is life, you don t know. most of the stuff is in the other room. reporter: sweden pays in part for laura s rehabilitation placing her and her baby in this safe house for trafficked women. all the available spaces here are full. on the walls, the pictures of the children that live here trafficked alongside their mothers or born here, like laura s. i just want to say that i hope don t be so stupid, don t believe anything what they say. the guys there, they just want to use you, you know. i don t know how to explain it. i don t know. reporter: words of warning from the safety of laura s new home in sweden. cnn, stockholm. let s take a look at human trafficking by the numbers. according to the state department, there are more than 12 million adults in prost instituti prostitution and forced labor worldwide. there are 1.8 trafficking victims per 1,000 people in asia. we ll be right back after this short break. welcome back. you are watching world one in london. coming up at 6:00 a.m. in new york, 8:00 p.m. in tokyo. pro-gadhafi sforsz aforces are continuing to drive rebel forces out of libya. the opposition lost control of ras lanuf and bin jawad. and the u.s. president has signed a secret order to allow the american government to support rebel troops. the white house is refusing to comment. there is no end in sight to japan s nuclear nightmare, radiation levels surged to new highs in ocean water near the damaged fukushima plant. samples taken near the plant show radiation levels 4,000 times higher than normal. and officials say they don t know how to stop it. on a mission of solidarity, due to meet with prime minister of tokyo, to show support for the people from the french president. it was thought bashar al assad would announce end to emergency law in place nearly 50 years. amateur video on youtube shows at least one person badly wounded in the city of sti ocit. at least 16 people were killed there in yesterday s clashes. cnn can t verify the authenticity of these images. the president spoke for 45 minutes on wednesday but made no mention of reforms in syria after two weeks of violent anti-government demonstrations. there were reports of violence in the ivory coast. the country has been spiraling towards civil war ever since protests broke out over last year s disputed presidential election. forces backing the recognized president alla say in quattara have reportedly taken control of the capital, u.n. and incumbent leader, lord gbagbo on wednesday. let s look at what is trending on social media. at number three, prince harry. he joineded a group of 30 servicemen for a 380 kilometer walk across the north pole. his goal is to raise money nor wounded soldiers. we will be walking only for the first five days. the trek is expected to last four weeks. number two, the main story people clicking on, flash flooding in thailand, one of the most read stories in cnn.com. floods swept through eight provinces killing at least 21 people and leaching 700,000 people affected. that story is getting a lot of concern from our viewers and online. at number one, more than just a game, indian fans have taken to the streets and social media to celebrate their team s win over pakistan in the cricket cup world final. loads of comments and plenty of analys analysis of the game online and depressed pakistani cricket fans as well. jennifer delgado is at the world weather center where she is keeping her eye on a system in northern australia. what s going on there? we have a tropical cyclone watch in place for the northern territory. we have a system there, now an area of low pressure, moving through pulling in a lot of moisture and bringing very heavy rainfall through parts of darwin. you can see anywhere in green, the area we re dealing with potential for flooding. by saturday, we could see this developing into a tropical cyclone. if you put this in the atlantic, it would be a tropical storm. yes, we ll be dealing with potential for winds but the heavy rainfall, anywhere you see in red, is the heaviest rainfall and we will continue to see that as we go through today and tomorrow and potentially saturday and sunday. you can really get an idea and see visually, hard to see that circulation coming together as we go 48 hours out. we see winds roughly around 74 kph. it s not just darwin dealing with flooding and queensland and rainfall totals impressive. 423 millimeters of rainfall and 202 millimeters from mackay. last year, parts of queensland dealt with flooding. update you thailand, the area of low pressure is weakening. still spinning on top of the malay peninsula but a lot of moisture is tapped out, moving to the west and as zain mentioned to you, thousands of people have been affected by it. to give you an example how much rainfall we re talking three feet of rain, 1,000 millimeters since friday alone. keep in mind that is the rainy season. what can we expect the next two days, scattered showers out as the low moves to the west, it will still take quite a while before we start to see that rainwater receding. back to you. jen, thank you very much. we want to talk more about the libyan foreign minister and supposed defection, british foreign officials are not actually calling it a defection. he is now in the uk. the british foreign minister, william hague has been calling on perhaps immunity for moussa koussa now in the uk. they have been in contact with him since last week before he flew to london. this is what mr. hague had to say. moussa koussa is not being offered immunity from international or british justice. he is voluntarily talking to british officials at the moment including members of british embassy in tripoli now based in london and our ambassador, richard northern. as i say, we will release further details. that was the british foreign minister, william hague talking about libya s foreign minister and will not be getting immunity according to mr. hague. one of the things we will watch in the next few days, if anyone else jumps ship. you re watching world one london. thank you for joining us. ahead on america morning, rebel forces reteething, outgunned by gadhafi s forces and our country has cia operatives on the ground. and radiation turning up in milk in two u.s. states, too low to cause health concerns here but the discovery has epa ramping up testing. he s back. the terminator who gabecame governor and now the governator, arnold schwarzenegger s new gig. and chocolate prices, will it hit a high by easter? 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