1 00:00:00,749 --> 00:00:02,250 CYANIDE SPILL ON THE ELBE RIVER 2 00:00:02,269 --> 00:00:04,800 The Elbe River will not suffer from the cynide spill, 3 00:00:04,819 --> 00:00:05,859 it cannot be said 4 00:00:05,929 --> 00:00:08,059 about a bilateral trust of the Czech and German autorities. 5 00:00:08,169 --> 00:00:11,261 Czech early warning system failed. 6 00:00:11,309 --> 00:00:13,625 Only on Monday 16th of January 7 00:00:13,909 --> 00:00:15,905 we got message from our Czech collegues 8 00:00:15,909 --> 00:00:19,377 about a spill of something on Tuesday 12th of January. 9 00:00:19,629 --> 00:00:22,000 Then turn out that it was even 3 days earlier. 10 00:00:22,010 --> 00:00:24,000 It was too long delay. 11 00:00:24,010 --> 00:00:27,170 Values of cyanides in the river in Dresden are in norm for the present. 12 00:00:27,229 --> 00:00:30,463 Killing wave is perhaps dilluted and probably it will not reach the German territory. 13 00:00:30,549 --> 00:00:31,848 Lab at a borderline profile Schmilka 14 00:00:31,849 --> 00:00:33,788 is collecting samples 6 times per a day. 15 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:35,788 They have to wait for results almost one day. 16 00:00:35,869 --> 00:00:37,745 Therefore they are interested in a reaction of the water fleas - daphnids, 17 00:00:37,829 --> 00:00:41,865 which respond to the change of water quality almost immediately. 18 00:00:41,949 --> 00:00:45,507 The organisms in this device are observed with camera. 19 00:00:45,589 --> 00:00:50,386 Change of behaviour or their death will start an alarm. 20 00:00:50,469 --> 00:00:52,063 Anglers and farmers are in alert, too. 21 00:00:52,149 --> 00:00:56,800 Restriction of angling in all Saxonia will last at least to the end of the next week. 22 00:00:56,829 --> 00:01:00,700 To eat the fish from the Elbe river is not hazardous to the life but "sicher ist sicher". 23 00:01:00,710 --> 00:01:04,539 The Germans have bad experience with the toxic spills, too. 24 00:01:04,549 --> 00:01:08,400 The Donau River close to Regensburg was polluted with toxic HCB two years ago. 25 00:01:08,410 --> 00:01:10,107 Fish from this area of the river is still inedible. 26 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:13,700 According German experts the long time impact of the spill of cyanide is not endangering the Elbe river, 27 00:01:13,710 --> 00:01:15,970 but the right answer will be known only after longer time. 28 00:01:15,980 --> 00:01:17,425 Hana Scharfová, Czech TV.