Activist shot dead Amazon, third murder in a week (AFP)

BRASILIA (AFP) - a leader of the community who had denounced illegal logging in the Brazilian Amazon was shot and killed Friday, a church Ministry said, making him the third ecologist killed this week.

Adelino Ramos, also known as Dinho, was shot dead by a motorist that he sold vegetables in the Northwest of the State of Rondonia, Amazon, said the Group of the Catholic Church land Pastoral Commission.

The group said that received death threats during his campaign against logging in the Amazon and the remote areas of border between the States of Acre, Amazon and Rondonia.

On Tuesday, a team of husband and wife of environmentalists, Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and Maria do Espirito Santo da Silva, were killed by a State in the Amazon North of the Para Brazil, one of the most restive regions in the country due to land disputes.

The Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has ordered a federal investigation to find those responsible for the double murder.

According to the environmental group, they worked for, the pair had also received death threats on their work to preserve the rain forest in the State and prevent illegal deforestation for charcoal production and cleared pasture for cattle.

Brazil, the country's fifth largest by area, a 5.3 million square kilometres of jungle and forest - especially in the Amazon River basin - which only 1.7 million are under the protection of the State. The rest is in private hands, or of his right of property is not defined.

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Third to see students from the University of Berlin sex work (Reuters)

BERLIN (Reuters Life!) - one in three students of the University in the German capital would consider sex work as a means to finance their studies, a study by the Center for studies of Berlin said Wednesday.

Figure in Berlin, where prostitution is legal, was higher than students surveyed in Paris (29.2%) and in Kiev (18.5%), the three cities the report looked at.

The study found some 4 percent of the 3,200 students Berlin interviewed said that they had already done a form any sex work, which includes prostitution, erotic dances and performances of the Internet.

The number of men who said that they would consider sex work is equal to the number of women, the study found.

The results have surprised the authors of the study, who said that they have undertaken the study because student prostitution has often been reported, but few knew about her relationship with education policy.

"The primary motivation of students to turn to prostitution were financial incentives, namely the high salary schedules," Eva Blumenschein, one of the authors of the study and a student of 26 years at the Berlin Humboldt University, told Reuters.

Blumenschein said recent educational reforms aimed at speeding up the time of the students at the University can play a role in their search for sex work.

"It is possible that because educational reforms have increased student workload, they have less time to earn money," she said. "Coupled with higher costs of the student, in this case, student led to prostitution."

Thirty per cent of students working in the sex industry were indebted, the study found.

As compared to 18% of students who said that they would consider sex work that were indebted.

(Editing by Paul Casciato)

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Third worker died in the Japan of the troubled nuclear power plant (Reuters)

TOKYO (Reuters) - a crippled tsunami in the Japan of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant worker died Saturday, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co., said, bringing the number of deaths at the complex in three since a massive earthquake and tsunami in March.

Despite the prolonged nuclear crisis, Prime Minister Naoto Kan is set to announce at a Summit of the G8 in France that Japan will continue to use nuclear energy, said the Yomiuri newspaper.

The cause of the death of the worker was unknown. The man, the sound of the 1960s, was employed by one of the Tokyo Electric contractors and began working at the plant Friday. It has been exposed to 0.17 millisieverts radiation Saturday, Tokyo Electric said.

Maximum level of the Japanese Government for exposure to male workers of the plant is 250 millisieverts for the duration of the effort to bring it under control.

The worker fell ill 50 minutes after the start of the work at 6: 00 pm Saturday (5 pm EDT Friday) and scopes to the unconscious of medical plant room. He later moved to a hospital near and confirmed the deaths, said a spokesman of Tokyo Electric.

At the factory working conditions are harsh. Goshi Hosono, Special Adviser to the Prime Minister Naoto Kan, and a legislative decision of the Democratic Party, expressed concern the complex Fukushima work environment on Wednesday.

"I would like to spend my energy to improve working conditions." Many people have told us work (at the factory) environment is too bad, "Hosono said at a press conference.

The March earthquake and tsunami has triggered the failure of cooling plant system and caused radiation to seep into the atmosphere and the sea, which prompted Kan to review energy policy nuclear leaning of the Japan to zero.

Kan intends to tell the g-8 at the end of may in Deauville, in France, the Japan will rely more on renewable energy, but will also improve the safety of Atomic Energy and continue the use of nuclear power, clearly making the country does not withdraw from nuclear energy production, the Yomiuri said.

Engineers still have difficulty tackling the Fukushima plant. Two employees of Tokyo Electric disappeared while patrolling the plant shortly after the earthquake and were found dead.

The Government plans to soon unveil a timetable to show how it is intended to proceed with the steps related to nuclear as crisis containing radiation leakage, and enquêter investigate the cause of the accident, said the Asahi newspaper.

In what could be a fresh obstacle to bring the troubled controlled plant, Tokyo Electric said that he found a large amount of water in the basement of the building that houses the reactor n ° 1 at Fukushima plant.

It is likely that the water that has been injected into the reactor it cool a leak in the basement, an official of the Tokyo Electric said.

(Reported by Kiyoshi Takenaka;) Editing by Daniel. (Magnowski)

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