. >>> therack obama will not visit hiroshima and nagasaki, the two japanese cities struck by u.s. nuclear bombs, when he travels to japan next month. the white house said on thursday that obama will arrive in japan on november 12th for an asia pacific economic cooperation forum summit in yokohama. on the following day, obama will meet prime minister naoto kan to discuss a broad range of matters including bilateral issues and the nuclear programs of north korea and iran. but the white house says the two leaders will not issue a joint declaration on the deepening of bilateral relations to mark the 50th anniversary of the japan-u.s. security treaty. after the talks with kan, obama will travel to kamakura city near tokyo to see the great buddha statue which he visited as a child. white house, obama would be interested in visiting hiroshima and nagasaki sometime in the future, but he does not have any more time for official business since the focus of the trip is the apeck meetings. before the visit, he'll meet the chinese president hu jintao on november 11th in seoul on the sidelines

the alien species sense that throughout japan's coastal waters to places like it this coastal farm in hiroshima prefecture. shows shelled creatures attached to the net are blue ois teysterm the mediterranean sea. they feed on them so they can't grow bigger. oyster farmers try to destroy the blue you mussels by burning them off. alien species attach themselves to smaller boats and are carried throughout japan. according to research by one university, 76 alien species live in japanese waters. >> translator: in the ideal environment, at the ideal time, these alien species have the ability to reproduce exponentially. so i don't think we can ignore this issue. we need people to understand the importance of having a diverse ecosystem in japan. and to help us protect it. >> alien species can also reach japanese waters by attaching themselves to the hulls of ships. with no laws to address this problem, steps must be taken soon to protect japanese waters from alien species. >>> the united nations is warning that the cholera outbreak in heigaiti could spre across the country which was devastated by an ea

eight month standoff higher rates of can certainly kenya and infant mortality were found here than in hiroshima and nagasaki after the atom bomb drop in world war two we found that the infant mortality rates compared with egypt . jordan about four or five times. and about ten times if you take a country who ate with us. in the last few years hundreds of deformed babies have been born in flu just general hospital doctors dubbed them the white phosphorous children. between the late ninety's and two thousand and three we had patients with nervous system malfunctions roughly three times a year at the moment we gave them three such patients a week. this child was born with one eye and with not a single day going past without a new case being registered more and more doctors here are pointing a finger at the united states that american combat operations caused environmental pollution both the us and british sides admitted that they employed banned weapons . dr abdul al floozy is also a father or at least he was until a year ago when his twelve year old son died of cancer most parents leave their babi

. >> we have a facility here that could produce a cloud of gas that would make this place look like hiroshima. >> what went wrong at bp? >> the culture of bp management has to change. they refuse to change. >> tonight on frontline, correspondent martin smith joins forces with propublica to investigate... "the spill." >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. and by reva & david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. committed to raising public awareness. and by the frontline journalism fund. with a grant from bill and cile hicks. >> the oil rig deepwater horizon exploded. >> there was growing desperation along the us gulf coast today... >> narrator: it's been called the worst environmental disaster in us history... >> 42,000 gallons of oil a day..

government said were killed the day we dropped the atom bomb on hiroshima. people like to move away from the cat's paws to the decision to attack, invade and occupy a country in 2003, that did not attacked us, they were of courts multiple perjury convictions of the vice president's chief of staff. but even that was covered over by the president's decision, george w. bush's decision, to keep cheney's partner from prison but i don't like it. i didn't like the way this war was sold propagandized is the better word to the american people. off. employment of phrases like, weapons of mass destruction, all part of a well or totalitarian vocabulary that rechristened america, our country, the homeland. something foreign to this country took over in those years 2001 to 2003, we were susceptible, of course. teed up after 9/11, and there were people in the government and pushing for it outside, i'd logs who all wanted this war and didn't care what damage it do including to our

. >> it is little known, but president ford gave the author of "hiroshima" access to the oval office early in his presidency. richard norton smith, douglas brinkley, thank you. >> you bet. >> for a dvd copy of this program call 1-877-662-7726. for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at q&a.org. q&a programs are also available as he spent on cass. -- as c-span broadcasts. .- pot casdcasts >> later, at a georgia's >> later, at a georgia's governor

that is can zing into earth with little or no notice, sometimes packing the explosive power equal to hiroshima atomic bombs. who better to talk about this than with the science guy, bill nye. we're talking about something you scientists called neos, near earth objects, right? >> yes. jon: how big do they have to be to cause this kind of a problem? >> well, it's hard to say, but let's say 10 meters, 30 feet could destroy a small city, let's say 40 meters could destroy something like portland, oregon. it could be a great concern. jon: how many are out there? that's not very big. >> no, no, and this is where we get into this thing, there are millions and millions of them and the great difficulty is you can't see them. they're so small, compared to other astronomical objects, you just can't find them, and we say all this because there was this famous explosion or air burst in conguska, in 1908 in siberia and nobody was around. you know, the earth had about a quarter as many people, and this thing exploded, way up above the forest, and knocked down trees for kill meters, miles and miles, in every d