Having to re - air "restrepo" after the death of filmmaker in Libya - Washington Post

Run the film nominated for an Oscar in November. The replay will include a tribute to Hetherington, said having.

The film focuses on a remote 15 - man outpost in the Valley of Korengal, called Restrepo, who has been appointed to a nurse who was killed in combat.

On 7 August, Hetherington and Junger went to "restrepo" summer TV press tour to speak Hetherington was asked what made him "need to go and do all the hard work?" and if there is "all adrenalin or something like that it is also something that you are looking for."

"It is important cover stories that gave me meaning", responded to Hetherington.

"You know, adrenaline is a small part of it, but it is not really the reason why I go back," he said. "The same for the soldiers when they fight." Soldiers fighting in the war for, ultimately, of brotherhood. Adrenaline is a part of it, but not the driving factor. ?

Shift "Idol."

Fox moves "American Idol" back to Tuesday and Wednesday evenings - but only for the final of the season.

The episode final performance will be released May 24. The night of the final results, when the winner (cough - James Durbin - cough) is successful, will be released May 25.

Why the move?

The official 2010-11 season TV ends the night of May 25. If this final season "American Idol" results show broadcast Thursday evening of the week, as he has all this season, Fox would not include the sure-to-be-big ratings show an average season of the network.

Final last season was no barnburner, and he managed to clock 24 million viewers. Fox does not have many performances that attract the 24 million viewers. Zut, Fox has no other performances were 24 million viewers.

Fox had decided to move its traditional Wednesday Tuesday hit reality series plays profile and it air rather Wednesday and Thursday to establish a beachhead Thursday evening. CBS moved its Thursday reality hit "survivor" to Wednesday, and there was much room for "Idol" Thursday.

Thursday night is important in the world of the TV broadcast - it is when film studios has really first launch their masterful way weekend openings, for example, because we apparently decide Thursday what film we'll see this weekend.

It is apparently the night decide what new car, we will go to test this weekend, and what new washer and dryer we want to look at. Weird, I know - but research networks. Put "Idol" Thursday and film studios, car companies and appliance retailers come casting, eager to reach their customers potential - and willing to pay rates ad "Idol." Everyone wins.

Oprah books Frey

Author challenged the James Frey truth and Oprah Winfrey will continue their relationship use next month when he appears on one of his very last shows that she is the Queen of the syndication of the Daytime Talk TV.

Harpo Productions of Oprah will say what day he'll show - just that it will be sometimes "in May."

Naturally, Oprah seeks to attract the largest possible audiences for its last episodes just so she can go out with a bang.

Frey will appear for the entire hour to talk about his new novel, "The Final Testament of the Holy Bible".

The last we saw Frey and Oprah together on his show, in January 2006, he was the recipient of a certain rubbed verbal. Oprah was naturally upset. First of all, it has approved the memoirs of guy, "A Million little pieces", and he had on his show to plug the book, which quickly turned to 2 million copies sold.

Then, when rumours began that Frey had partially invented history, Oprah was by him in interviews, causing experts and navel gazers to watch his onduléesnt in the eyes and write unpleasant things about his credibility.

Then, it has become painfully obvious that he had, in fact, manufactured parts of its history.

If there were, Oprah Show, with its tail between the legs while being lit in by the Queen in syndication Daytime Talk TV - after she first told his viewers, "I made an error" defend Frey and his book. In this broadcast, Frey, for the first time acknowledged that by writing "A Million little pieces", he systematically lied.

"I think that you betrayed millions of readers....". That bothers me greatly.... I think that you scamming us all, "Oprah pounding and pounding some more."

It was brilliant television.

"She was relentless," William Bastone, founder of the Smoking Gun Web site - had evisceration book Frey - said the Washington Post. "I thought it was incredible." I thought it was fabulous. ?

(In fall 2008, contacted Oprah allegedly Frey to apologize for this before the screen.)

Now Oprah has a closing performance and historical to try to achieve ratings. Frey has a new novel to connect on the second coming of Jesus in the modern era as a bisexual former alcoholic active with a prostitute friend who abandons her first child.

Oprah and Frey: the new. It is a match made in heaven.

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In siege Misurata, nowhere to run - Washington Post

MISURATA, Libya - for the 500,000 people of this once prosperous port city, it is nowhere to run.

The city is surrounded by forces loyal to Muammar al-Gaddafi. Its snipers hid on the roofs and open Windows peer. All districts are prohibited because of the blind of artillery and mortar. Hospital is overflowing with wounded, some of these children.

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For residents, it is not only a question of whether if the fight, but how long they can survive. After life under siege for nearly two months, several reach their breaking point that Gaddafi passes its attacks and supplies are becoming increasingly rare. Bread and gasoline lines continue for blocks. Wastewater have seeped into the system of the water. Most of the city is run on generators or has no power. Cell phone service was cut.

Misurata is the last bastion of the opposition in the West of the Libya, but it is not known how long the forces ragtag rebels will be able to take in the daily aggression by the Government. The rebels, this city is a powerful symbol of resistance and a reminder that the uprising that swept the country in late February was not limited to the East. It also represents a dangerous threat to Gaddafi giving his opponents a base which is evil near Tripoli, the capital of the country.

But unlike the eastern rebels, Misurata veterans have no place to retire when they are overwhelmed by the firepower of Government. They have also just a way to source - port - but some masters of ships dared land in the regular bombings. Isolation of the city has also kept the majority of foreign journalists, even if some have arrived in recent days after a perilous journey by sea.

Without a reliable supply chain, potential combatants must wait until a classmate died so they can inherit his weapon. Most use old Kalashnikov assault, stolen rifles from a base of Gaddafi, shortly after the start of the insurgency.

Intense urban warfare

On the coastal road Monday, a Hunter held up a bottle of soda filled with gasoline and a rag soaked in diesel.

"These are our anti-tank weapons," said Ismail Kraweed, 23.

The rebels throw bombs House in vehicles to the Government, but to little effect.

Kraweed hiding Monday behind barriers of dirt shaped in the street near a marked with bullet holes abandoned gas station. Gaddafi forces preparing half less than a kilometre. The rebels are trying to generally attract Government tanks in residential areas, so that they can surround and try to destroy them.

Kraweed and colleagues veterans waiting to spring their trap, General fresh mortar shells sailed and explosions rocked the city. Tripoli Street - main street city - has become a shell of its former self, with buildings as well as it reduced to nil.

Overhead, snipers in the targets while eyes camped in the insurance building - the highest of the block - and in the adjacent Bank. Rebels said that snipers are remarkably effective, ousted from their shot in the head and chest marks. Rebels don't worry to operate at night, because snipers use night vision goggles to target everything in sight.

"We have tried to blow up buildings, but we do not know how," said Alaa el Deen Khesham, 30, a rebel fighter who, until two months ago, has worked in public relations for the Government. "" "". We threw homemade bombs, but it did nothing. ?

He looked with sadness: "We hope NATO would bomb buildings."

There are few signs in Misurata NATO military campaign to protect civilians. The fighting is all urban warfare, making accurate particularly difficult air strikes.

Among residents, anger was mounting with the international coalition for failing to protect them from the dams of Gaddafi.

"We officially let down and disappointed by NATO," said Mohammed, a spokesman for the municipal Council that uses only one name for security reasons. Does he apparently no air strikes in the region in three days for Gaddafi forces to intensify their bombing of the port and industrial city and residential areas.

"What is the mandate of NATO?" It is the protection of civilians, but civilians are dying in Misurata, "he says. "If they cannot do so, they must say that they cannot do."

The increase in the number

The Organization of the United Nations said Monday that it had forged an agreement with the Gaddafi Government to allow humanitarian aid in Misurata. But the agreement was greeted with scepticism in the city, and it is far from clear that the fighting will pause long enough for help to arrive.

In the meantime, the number of deaths climbs. Khesham has said that a friend since childhood and Hunter of fellow rebel, Salah, was killed Sunday after being shot twice: in the thigh and in the head. He was buried the same evening, after that the rebels burnt down the building from which the sniper bullets had been fired.

Khesham was born in Germany, and spent part of his childhood in Boise, Idaho. He has two houses in Tripoli and a sports car. But it has everything to fight with the rebels in Misurata.

Towards the end of the day of Monday, he visited Hikma hospital, which was overflowing with wounded and dead.

"Martyrs how many?" today he asked, his eyes turn red. A doctor checked: one was killed and 26 wounded.

"You know who." Khesham asked.

"No," the doctor said.

"It's the hardest part", Khesham said, as he sought to keep a cool head. "I know that these people fighting and my childhood, and have much when they die."

As Khesham left, four people were carted in with gunshot chest wounds. Around him, leg man was destroyed by an explosion, and others were crying, shouting with God.

Fadell@washpost.com

Denyer by Simon corresponding to Tripoli, Libya, contributed to this report.

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In the mixed signals, Japan rate nuclear crisis at the highest level of severity - Washington Post

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TOKYO - Japanese authorities issued contradictory assessments Tuesday about the severity of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, with Prime Minister Naoto Kan saying that the situation is improving "step by step" and a senior official from the operating power company warning of further mass radiation releases.

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The mixed signals provided a backdrop to a decision earlier in the day by Japan's nuclear agency to raise the severity rating of the nuclear crisis at Daiichi from Level 5 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES), indicating an "accident with off-site risk""," to Level 7, a "major accident" it by with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

The reassessment came amid reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency that the plant is showing "signs of recovery early" goal remains in critical condition. The upgraded severity reading does not reflect a recent deterioration at the plant. Rather, it suggests Japan's evolving understanding of the damage that occurred there one month ago and the contamination that has been leaking since.

The most severe radiation leak occurred in the 48 hours after a March 15 hydrogen explosion at the unit 2 reactor, Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said. Nuclear experts said Tuesday that the government Quel too long to upgrade the INES rating, given the vast amounts of radiation being released.

"Monitoring data available shows that, in my view, the government probably knew around March 16, 17 or 18 that it would reach Level 7," said Hironobu Unesaki, a professor at the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute. "their response has been extremely regrettable." "the government is being very careful not to cause unnecessary panic, but they are being too cautious."

At a news conference in Tokyo to announce the new INES rating, Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy chief of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, emphasized that radiation released from Fukushima Daiichi amounted to less than one-tenth the total released from Chernobyl. Later in the day, Kan said radiation levels around the plant were steadily dropping.

Those calming messages, though, were forfeits at another separate news conference, during which an official from Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant's operator, said company's concern was "that the amount of leakage could eventually reach that of Chernobyl or exceed it."

That stark assessment reinforced apprehension that this nuclear emergency ultimately will cause greater problems than those first predicted by the government, which has played down long-term safety concerns and only Monday expanded its mandated 12-mile-radius evacuation zone.

On Tuesday, Kan defended the government's response, saying that its decision to recategorize Fukushima as a Level 7 event "does not show that we delayed or underestimated the nuclear situation."

A Level 7 accident, according to the INES scale, is typified by a "major release of radioactive material with widespread health and environmental effects." The scale was established by the IAEA about 20 years ago, but its guidelines leave much room for interpretation, nuclear experts say.

The new rating follows a recent report by Japan's Nuclear Safety Commission estimating the total amount of radiation released by the facility. Since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, damaged reactors and spent fuel pools at Fukushima have released 370,000 terabecquerels of radiation into the environment, the commission reported. That's 14 times less radioactivity than was released at Chernobyl. A becquerel is the measure of the radioactive decay of one unstable atom; terabecquerel is a trillion becquerels.

Denis Flory, deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the INES rating does not dictate responses to accidents. A higher ranking from the Japanese government early in the incident would have made no. difference in the government's actions, which have included an ever-widening evacuation zone and close monitoring of food, milk and water, he said.

"the fact it was a 5 until now only means that [the Japanese government] had not evaluated the quantity of radioactivity released," Flory said.

But a nuclear watchdog disagrees. Assigning a higher rating earlier may have drawn more international assistance while forcing the Japanese to expand the evacuation zone, said David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington.

"they should have made a higher ranking," he said.

Despite improving radiation readings, the plant still faces numerous risks. Thousands of tons of contaminated water have flooded key buildings adjacent to the reactors. Nitrogen gas is being injected into one unit to prevent another explosion.

In the meantime, the plant faces the constant threat of aftershocks. A 6 2-magnitude temblor Tuesday caused a brief fire, although it did not interrupt the process used to cool hot fuel rods. But a day earlier, a 6-6-magnitude quake with an epicenter just 42 miles from the plant caused a 50-minute interruption.

"We are not at the stage yet where we can let our guard down," Kan said.

Although the crisis now stands alongside Chernobyl Fukushima on the INES scale, experts note several important distinctions. No. deaths have resulted from radiation leaked at Fukushima. At Chernobyl, a single reactor exploded, killing dozens of workers, and a massive cloud of cesium, plutonium and strontium spread across Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and Europe, causing a still-undetermined number of deaths.

At Fukushima, workers have struggled to stabilize seven reactors and spent fuel pools, but so far the radioactive releases have come as byproduct of emergency cooling efforts, with the venting of radioactive steam and the leaking of contaminated water.

Technically, Japan's reassessed rating applies to only three of Fukushima's six units - our. 1, 2 and 3, which have all sustained core damage. On March 18, each of those units had been initially given a Level 5 rating. At the same time, Japan gave a Level 3 rating to unit 4; that remains unchanged. The IAEA cautioned that Japan could still change its ratings as more information becomes available.

The latest revaluation underscores the difficulty of measuring the amount of contamination released and the danger it poses. Rather than creating a hard "No. - go" circle around the plant, the government has instead singled out five towns between 12 and 19 miles from the plant for mandatory evacuation. Residents there should leave within a month, the government said.

harlanc@washpost.com

Special match Akiko Yamamoto in Tokyo and staff writer Brian Vastag in Washington contributed to this report.

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The Japan would have to the nuclear crisis of rates to the highest level - Washington Post

TOKYO - Japanese authorities provide Tuesday raise their rating of the severity of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis to the highest level, equal to that of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the Kyodo News Agency.

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Officials reclassified the urgency in level 5, "accident with off-site risk", level 7, a "major accident". The new assessment comes at a time when the International Atomic Energy Agency says the plant is showing "early signs of recovery" but still in critical condition.

Weakened reactors the constant threat of strong aftershocks and later on Tuesday morning - a magnitude 6.4 temblor - caused a brief fire at a water sampling facility near reactor No. 4 of Daiichi. The Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the facility, said that the critical process used to cool the hot fuel rods had not been interrupted, and radiation levels showed no signs of change.

An accident of level 7, function of the International nuclear and radiological event scale, characterized by a "major release of radioactive material with widespread health and environmental effects.

Previously, only Chernobyl had been given a rating of 7. The nuclear accident at Three Mile Island 1979 in Pennsylvania was assessed at level 5 incident.

Fukushima Daiichi contamination still does not match that of the Chernobyl accident, but it has already prompted the evacuation of tens of thousands of people who live in 19 miles of the plant. The Japanese Government had initially called for a mandatory evacuation in a radius of 12 miles. But the Monday Japan has expanded its evacuation zone, selection of cities in 19 miles - those with readings of radiation higher - for the mandatory evacuation.

According to the nuclear safety of the Japan Commission, Kyodo reported Monday that the plant, at a time after the March 11 earthquake and the tsunami, had been releasing 10,000 terabecquerels of radioactivity per hour. The report does not specify when these readings of radiation occurred. One out of tens of thousands of terabecquerels at the time, however, corresponding with the level of radiation leak that IAEA uses as a point of minimum benchmarks for an accident of level 7.

"This is a significant fraction of the inventory of base of a power reactor, typically involving a mixture of radionuclides in short and long life", says a document of the IAEA. "With such version, stochastic health over a large area, maybe involving more than one country should be."

harlanc@washpost.com

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