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Radiatiation detected in Japanese fish localized to small coastal area
Concerns are elevating over the environmental fallout from Japan’s earthquake. With toxic water spilling into the ocean from nuclear reactors at Tokyo Electric Power’s plant, the Japanese government has created a radiation safety standard for seafood.
How vulnerable is the sea life and world-renowned seafood off Japan’s coast? Today on American Morning, Dr. Timothy Mousseau, radiation ecologist and professor of biological sciences at the University of South Carolina, explains radiation’s effect on marine life.
Mousseau, who studied the wildlife impact after the Chernobyl nuclear accident, says the radiation detected in fish in Japan is localized to the area around the Fukushima plant. Should American diners be concerned?
Al Qaeda expands presence in Yemen amid unstable government
Yemen has become increasingly unstable and violent in recent weeks as the future of President Ali Abdullah Saleh remains uncertain and 40,000 protesters march in the capital city. Tuesday Yemeni protesters and military and pro-government gangs clashed in several areas, with at least six killed and hundreds more injured.
The United States has said it has no intention of stopping its military aid to Yemen, despite the unrest. The aid supports Yemeni counter-terrorism efforts against al Qaeda’s influence in the country, where the group has active operatives.
Today on American Morning, Paul Cruickshank, CNN terrorism analyst and alumni fellow at New York University’s School of Law, explains how al Qaeda is expanding its reach in Yemen while the President is distracted.
Are U.S. authorities worried by what al Qaeda could achieve with a greater stronghold there?
Freed New York Times journalist: 'We were in survival mode'
Lynsey Addario was one of four New York Times journalists captured by Gadhafi's forces in Libya on March 15.
Addario was beaten and sexually assaulted before ultimately being released on March 21. A photographer, Addario has worked in the Muslim world for 11 years. Lynsey Addario and her husband Paul de Bendern, India Bureau Chief for Reuters, talk to Ali Velshi about what they went through.
Libyan woman claims she was raped by Gadhafi's militia men
Eman al-Obeidy said she wanted the world to know about Gadhafi's brutal regime when she stormed into a hotel housing foreign journalists Saturday and told the reporters she had been raped by 15 militia men. But, as she tried to tell her story, al-Obeidy was quickly manhandled, and forced out of the building and into custody.
The incident begs questions about the treatment and role of women in Libya and the greater Muslim world. Mona Eltahawy, a columnist on Arab and Muslim issues, talks to American Morning about al-Obeidy's story and women's rights.
Sen. Durbin: "What we are seeing today is encouraging in Libya"
In response to President Obama's speech on Libya Monday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) says the no-fly zone is working and says, "What we are seeing today is encouraging in Libya".
Sen. Durbin will also be holding hearings on protecting the civil rights of American Muslims Tuesday, just a few weeks after Rep. Peter King's (R-NY) hearing on the "radicalization of American Muslims".
Sen. Dick Durbin talks to American Morning's Kiran Chetry about Libya and the hearings.
Complications at Daiichi nuclear plant intensify
As concerns over leaking radioactive materials from the Fukushima Daiichi plant persist, workers continued Tuesday to try to cool the plant's reactors with water. But, the situation has become more complex as workers must find somewhere to dispose of the contaminated water used to cool the reactors. Additionally, highly toxic plutonium has been found in the soil surrounding the plant, causing concern.
Joe Cirincione is the President of the Ploughshares Fund, a public grant-making foundation focused on nuclear weapons policy. Cirincione talks to American Morning about the situation in Japan.
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