Hello from the from our own correspondent studios at Broadcasting House in London.

You've downloaded the latest edition of the program broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

It's introduced by Kate Aide.

It could have been much worse.

Japan's former Prime Minister admits they were close to evacuating Tokyo in the wake of the

Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Also today, some small reasons to be cheerful in the Ukrainian city where police

are accused of drug dealing and syringes litter the playgrounds. We find out why no one's buying strawberries in the open-air markets of Sofia and Ljubiana,

and how a man who robbed the bank of millions is now stealing hearts right across France.

The Japanese government soon has to decide whether to reopen the country's nuclear power

plants.

They were shut down two years ago after the meltdown at Fukushima. It was revealed earlier this morning

that in the latest of a series of problems there, more than a hundred tons of

radioactive water are believed to have leaked from a faulty cooling tank.

The closures have proved costly to the Japanese economy.

Influential voices insist the plants are now safe and it's time to reopen them.

But Rupert Wingfield Hayes in Tokyo

says there are other compelling arguments too.

If the Fukushima disaster proves anything,

it's that nuclear power is safe.

It was the worst disaster imaginable.

Three reactor cores in uncontrolled meltdown.

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