in today's first world news story fears are growing of a nuclear meltdown in japan admits to widespread speculation that efforts to cool a tsunami hit nuclear power plant are failing to have an impact japan has begun using military helicopters and water to dump water on the crippled fukushima dai col nuclear power station to help cool the plant's reactors and spent fuel rods but water drops from helicopters has been blown off course the u s nucular regulatory commission has warned that water in the spent fuel pool at one of the plant's six nuclear reactors had pulled away entirely leaving extremely high radiation levels japan also disputed this account meanwhile the united states government has urged all americans living within fifty miles of the plant to evacuate so far japan's only issue divakar ration orders for residents living within twelve miles of the plant the bahraini government has arrested a number of opposition activists and political figures following a deadly crack down on pro democracy protests nationwide on wednesday at least six people were killed and more than one thousand wounded after state forces attacked demonstrators in the capital manama the crackdown spread throughout the country as a rainy authorities  imposed a twelve hour curfew and clampdown on travel witnesses reported helicopters firing on shiite homes and doctors been attacked while treating the wounded government forces reportedly took over branes largest hospital prevented treating the wounded saudi arabia and united arab emirates have deployed hundreds of troops into bay rain to protect the regime a key u s government ally in the middle east on wednesday president obama urged both bahrain and saudi arabia saudi arabia to exercise quote maximum restraint but refused to condemn the assault on protesters and thousands of people rallied at michigan state capital in lansing wednesday as republican governor rick snyder signed a package of anti worker bills into law the measure grants appointed emergency financial manager sweeping new powers to break union contracts dismissal elected officials and even discuss incorporate inter minister policies at least fourteen people were arrested after staging a sit in inside the capitol police using pepper spray to prevent a group of protesters entering the building while the used wisconsin prosecutor has filed a lawsuit challenging the recently approved republican backed law that strips the collective bargaining rights of most public sector employees the suit from dane county prosecutor is male hussein accuses republicans of violating the state's open meeting laws and pushing the bill through the state legislature was saying is the second was constant public official to follow a legal challenge over the anti union legislation and in florida state lawmakers have approved a measure to end teacher tenure and links hours to the results of student testing and similar measure proposed last year sparked massive fatally shooting two men with spain has been freed from prison and flown out of the country raymond davis was released after his victims families members accepted a blood money settlement of a report of two point three million pakistani government proposed a deal after the united states insisted davis is a diplomat entitle to diplomatic immunity there are reports that victim relatives were put under intense pressure to accept the settlement in washington u s department of state spokesman mark toner tonight rumors the u s government footed the bill and he said i have said all i'm going to say which is that the u s did not pay compensation to the victims families with respect pakistan for resolving the case within its own legal system as i have stated we strongly made the case throughout the process that mr davis was a diplomat and as such should be subject to diplomatic immunity but the case was resolved within their own legal system with respect that davis case has sparked outrage in pakistan on wednesday police used tear gas to disperse some two hundred protesters who gathered outside the u s consulate in lahore more protests are expected in other news from pakistan at least thirty five people have been killed in a suspected u s drone attack in north towards dean province pakistani intelligence official say the victims were taliban fighters in tunisia hundreds of people gathered in the capital of tunis to protest the visit of u s secretary of state hillary clinton her trip to tunisia is the first by a high level obama administrat referendum on constitutional changes later this week on wednesday clinton toured caro's tara here square focal point of uprising against u s backed president hosni mubarak just hours before major u s coalition declined to meet with clinton in protest longstanding u s support for mubarak right until the last days of his regime clinton meanwhile has announced she will not stay on as president obama's cabinet in any position if obama is reelected next year and palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas has offered to visit the gaza strip for unity talks with rival palestinian factions hamas the trip would mark abbas first visit to gaza since its forces were expelled in a five day civil war there in two thousand and seven palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas said to form a government of independent national figures do agree to prepare immediately i am not going to have a dialogue i'm going to agree to form a government and to agree on holding parliamentary presidential and national council p l o elections and within six months or so as soon as possible hamas has agreed to meet with abbas the talks are announced after prostin is held parallel national unity rallies in the west bank gaza earlier this week a new study is warning that eight hundred thousand people will contract cholera in haiti this year according to the medical journal the lancet the figure is double the predictions of united nations agencies on the ground and the u s environmental protection agency has introduced a first ever national standard for emissions of mercury and other pollutants from coal burning power plants e p a says the new standard could help prevent thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of cases of disease each year utilities business groups and congressional republicans have slammed the new rules saying they represent a war on american industry regulation comes as republicans continue to advance a measure that would prevent the e p a from regulating emissions of greenhouse gases the bill cleared the u s house energy and commerce committee this week and republicans say they expect to bring it before the full house within the next month and former chicago police commander john birch has reported to a north carolina prison to begin serving a four and a half year sentence for obstruction of justice and lying about torturing prisoners and to making confessions berge was convicted in june following longtime accusations of overseeing a systematic torture of more than one hundred african american men his trial was criticized as being too lenient by focusing not on the torture itself but for lying about it as burgess since begins one of those prisoners allegedly tortured under his watch it's been released after twenty five years behind bars bars the prisoner eric kane confessed to a murder after what he calls torture by burgess's officers and that's it for the world news today now another thanks to one of our underwriters who support your only visual video news media in nevada county you guessed it it's us t v t v news christopher deli catering company has brought its delicious for the police blotter pictures in a blotter not from these actual events but use for visual aid only grass valley police department on tuesday seven twenty six a m caller from one hundred block of dorsey drive reported an incoherent man at eight twenty five a m a caller from four hundred block a certain w reported the man had urinated on a bathroom door and was stomping around two fifty two p m a call from eleven hundred block of east main report straight reported the man was trying to get into a business in at seven o seven p m the man was reported as entering the hundred block of glass  saying that there had been a murder in a building and to our six p m caller from one hundred block of porter the man came in and threw a penny on the counter yesterday there was a person outside screaming for an hour zero nine pm call from three hundred block of bennett street ported in on line theft for eleven pm and man count reported counted thirty seven cars were driving without using windshield wipers during heavy rain and six fourteen p m a woman reported her neighbor possibly was tampering with her vehicle tires six twenty pm man from racing pine street forty three people were yelling and flagging him down for money and six twenty one p m call from twelve twenty seven a m call from certain way reported a woman shoplifting who was arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance and one fifty a m call from one hundred block of mill street reported a man with a black guy had been kicked out of a bar and was trying to force his way back in he was cited on suspicion of violating probation and nevada county sheriff's office on tuesday eleven thirty eight am calling from eleven thousand block zero zero circle reported the theft of an a t m card by a juvenile and three thirty six p m a call from seventeen thousand block a shelter court reported five or six people in a physical fight involving bats daughter's export friend was pushing her daughter around he was arrested on unknown charges and the vatican city police department on tuesday one thirty four p m a caller from seven hills school reported vandalism to the campus today's local news headlines collection agency owner to pay one million and last an anti war activist to headline peace rally in today's first local store and by this color of the union in that it county civil jury ruled against former owner of the local collection agency awarding one of its clients more than one million dollars in damages fisher turner and first filed a suit against m g m collections in two thousand and eight the suit which eventually was amended to add owner deborah newby after the corporation filed for bankruptcy recently ended in an award for the towing company nobody will be in court in may for a debtors examination a hearing to garnish the earnings of her husband is set for april twenty second and newbies troubles might not  a criminal investigation has been forwarded to the nevada county district attorney's office and is being reviewed to determine whether criminal charges will be filed they were taking collection accounts collecting money and not given it to us return keep the commission twenty five percent to forty percent with their expenses to be paid out of what they collected if the case went to trial the court an attorney cost would be deducted in one thousand nine hundred a new contract that increased in jem's commission to forty five percent although fisher said in court she did not approve that change fisher said the collection side of the towing business had no continuity with a lot of staffing changes but in two thousand and eight she started going through the confrontations with debra newby led fisher to file a lawsuit are filed to get information she said after months of work fisher found that over a thirteen year period her took company had sent seventeen hundred files to m g m that added up to more than two million in collectible debt i started looking at some of the files went to court and saw the judgments were satisfied but i didn't get any money she said it was a very time consuming process in one example presented as evidence in the court case and jim had collected seventeen hundred dollars on a file in two thousand and seven but paid fisher joined nothing in all  telling less than one thousand dollars between one thousand nine hundred seven and two thousand and six with nothing paid out after july two thousand and six newbie claim most of the monies collected had gone to pay her overhead costs normally we would get seventy percent but they were taking our seventy percent and paying their overhead cost fisher said they weren't giving us the money we were due fisher filed suit in november two thousand and eight alleging breach of contract fraud and conversion of funds for personal use and requesting the whole thing has been linked to fisher said we had to dispose newbie five times to get answers out of her she was so evasive that was their tactic trying to get us to spend as much money as they could so we give up the case went to trial d end of january and jury returned verdicts of conversion damages and punitive damages against him jim collections and he gets newbie totaling one million ninety two thousand five hundred sixteen dollars porton thing for fisher was to be able to hold deborah newbie personally accountable if they were to be able to recover any of their losses since the corporation had ceased to function said fisher's attorney craig diamond we are pursuing collecting the judgment fisher said that includes file in a motion killer saturday is the eighth anniversary of bombing that began the invasion and occupation of iraq with protests taking place across the united states including san francisco los angeles chicago and washington d c with so many high profile rall search for major cities why did internationally known peace activist cindy sheehan choose to appear in grass valley i've been invited to many places for this weekend she had said i chose nevada county because my focus is inspire is inspiring and motivating more local activism the national and international actions are so sporadic if you do something locally it helps people get motivated and reenergized and brings people out she and vaulted into the public eye after her son casey sheehan was killed during his service in iraq war it will fourth two thousand and four she said she initially questioned the urgency of the invasion of iraq but did not become active in anti war effort until after her son's death she had helped found gold star families for peace in january two thousand and five then started an extended anti war protest at a camp outside president george w bush's crawford texas ranch beginning in august of two thousand  camp casey to international media attention and made she and one of the most visible faces of the anti war movement she had ran unsuccessfully for congress in two thousand and eight against nancy pelosi and currently has a weekly radio show and website cindy sheehan soapbox she also frequently speaks at events across the country she him is no fan of president barack obama and lamented the complacency of peace activists who believes his presidency would affect policy changes that complacency and a lack of real results has derailed some of the momentum of the peace movement she said the policy hasn't changed from one administration to another she added i know people get discouraged by that it's important to go to the smaller communities and tell people that even though national policies might be glamorous the place you're going to have more effect is in your community she also had many americans who are against the iraq war voted for obama under the some sort of mistaken notion he was going to end the war sheehan said people are so tired of bush they wanted to believe the next person was going to be better when she had find inexplicable is that she calls the lag time between the fantasy and the reality i was disappointed in a stubbornness of people who supported him to not criticize or analyze his policies she said people shouldn't have taken a break his policies were almost identical and in some cases worse it's not about the president it's about the system pushing her car since obama's inauguration has been really lonely and difficult she had said adding i've had to work twice as hard with half the resources but the grassroots peace movement is starting to pick up steam she said they're starting to wake up and become angry and disillusioned i see that happening from the grass roots activist to the major anti war organizations but she has stressed that it's not enough for activists to participate in a few marches we need to brainstorm some new strategy she said it doesn't appear that marching one day a year is going to help anything it seems like the people who are becoming reactive are stuck in a paradigm that hasn't stopped or ended the war we need to brain bank or friday and saturday and other times check the website schedule and we are streamed daily on nevada county t v dot org and video on demand there and also our website j v t v dot org and grass valley television dot com and rural counties television network dot