JUAN GONZALEZ: Almost three months after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear disaster in Japan, government officials say they may evacuate more towns affected by radiation.
フアン・ゴンザレス:彼らはどうやら、モンサント製品の一つ「MON810」に特に関心があるようです。
JUAN GONZALEZ: Now, they apparently were especially interested in one Monsanto product, MON 810.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And now the miners in South America, especially in Peru and Bolivia, have always been some of the most active, radical of the trade unions.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We turn now to a controversial trade pact between the United States and eight Pacific nations that until now has remained largely secret.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: One of the biggest and most secretive trade deals in history has finally been revealed in full- and critics say it's even worse than they thought.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Later in the hearing, Alan Rusbridger elaborated on the standards he used when deciding how much of Snowden's leaked material to publish.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: WikiLeaks is back in the news after it published Wednesday part of the secret text of a massive new trade pact called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP.
JUAN GONZALEZ: Almost three months after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear disaster in Japan, government officials say they may evacuate more towns affected by radiation.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, Lori, on that food safety issue, what's the potential effect on the United States, which obviously has a long-term and pretty well-developed food safety system?
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We begin today's show in Japan, where a new parliamentary inquiry has concluded last year's nuclear meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant could have been prevented.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Lori, I wanted to ask you- some groups came out against the agreement that you don't usually associate with trade deals, like Doctors Without Borders and Human Rights Watch.
JUAN GONZALEZ: Jeff, doesn't the presence of tritium also indicate that probably other radioactive materials like strontium or cesium might also be getting- leaking from these plants?
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: The more than 600-page report urged greater safety around nuclear plants and called on parliament to closely monitor a new nuclear watchdog due to be launched in a few months.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Well, Lori, about that secrecy, even members of Congress have been severely limited in what they can learn, and that's only after the revelations about the total secrecy that this whole process began with.
JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday that European telecommunications companies have helped the Iranian government develop one of the world's most sophisticated mechanisms to monitor and control communications on the internet.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: John Kerry will attend Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings next week in Indonesia, where he will push for the completion of a sweeping new trade deal called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the largest international trade deal since the creation of the World Trade Organization in 1995.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And one of the fascinating parts of the report is that it says that at least one of the reactors may not actually have been damaged by the tsunami but actually by the earthquake itself, that preceded the tsunami, which would at least suggest major structural flaws in the design of these reactors to withstand earthquakes.
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