response. in this room is available in cinema tell to a period when for children recently. the. arts of japan are being swamped by and may just an army are being struck by the competition the strongest quake on the ground thousands are fleeing ground as powerful aftershocks continue as considerable damage and the entire pacific region is on tsunami other as. a powerful earthquake in japan is affected the country's fragile economic recovery infrastructure is paralyzed with even for your own sony hold their operations will bring you more on that in our business bulletin. just he still says retake key areas from rebel groups the locals warn it is that media exaggeration is stoking foreign intervention nato seats are moving closer to

libya's shores joy need for you sneer in a few moments for more. of our warm welcome to this is ours the line from moscow with me alice said that our top story now northeast japan has been swung by a major tsunami an entire pacific region is now on alert it was caused by an eight point nine magnitude earthquake that struck one hundred thirty kilometers off the eastern coast sending a reported ten minutes a wall of england causing more widespread devastation thirty two people are confirmed dead but that number is expected to rise with the wave has also reached russia's could all islands to the north reportedly around a minute. high in japan c.

one hundred people have acoustically been washed away with several others missing in japan sendai city takings been all but shut down with five injuries widely reported millions are without electricity international airport is also closed or twenty powerful aftershocks have been recorded since the first quake which was the strongest ever recorded in japan and the thick biggest ever an earthquake has now been felt in a whole line measuring it's all points guy tsunami waves expected within a few hours. well for more on the effects it sat having in the pacific region including russia's far east let's talk to our correspondent and he said now any so what's the latest information that we're guessing from russia's the hollin region. most nami i'll arm

sounded in softening region which includes of course the real islands which are very vulnerable in terms of these tsunamis hitting russia's shores already three waves high have hit the poor line is reaching up to three meters high although there's been no damn is no facilities our buildings affected no victims reported authorities are taking this very seriously and are taking very serious cautions a state of emergency has been declared and somehow love and thousand people are being a back who waited to safety to higher grounds in russia suffering region now a state of emergency has been declared by guy said in the russian president has already ordered russia's the head of russia's emergency services to start thinking about what was to come to to in fact also help japan get through its devastation. of course we're ready to help our neighbors in overcoming the effects of these severe earthquake a state of emergency has also been declared on our soil on the coral islands and

the whole region is what we're all necessary measures must also be taken to prevent damage or loss of life that she normally has already reached our shores and we must build a consolidated time bomb now ordering the emergencies minister to present a plan of assistance to japan. now other cautions being taken our maritime vessels that were docked in puerto making their way out to open seas and tsunami cleanup forces are on standby throughout russia's far east region i just read out further tsunami certainly does loom as those aftershocks continue to take place in japan i . say i will be crossing back to you they said for more on the effects that the tsunami is having on the sakhalin region. ok well we spoke into the heads of a russian seismology station located just a hundred miles from the japanese shore. of young gave us his assessment of

the third generation on the grounds. there have been several shocks with a magnitude higher than six points now the tremors are becoming weaker although just now we've registered a six point two shot to the east of a lot of aftershocks are coming from that area luckily they're not so powerful as we hold the tutti in this region is going to subside in the next few hours. well let's turn to developments over in libya now to through a few minutes where colonel gadhafi his forces are pushing rebels out of more cities hundreds of opposition fighters are back after reported attacks with rockets and tank shells paula in the capital with all the latest for us. after a week of heavy fighting in the strategically oil imports in town our as is aware rebels there have finally been overthrown by gadhafi forces the latest reports we have from the town is that the city center is quiet that most people have deserted

their hoods and that gadhafi is troops are now moving from house to house carrying out a race at the same time the other focal point the safest city of ras lanuf according to libyan state television to quote him this city has been cleansed of al qaida supporters for several days now gadhafi is wolf planes have been pounding in particular residential areas in the east of the latest reports coming out from there to death his forces are in control there too now here on the ground while it's ok does seem as if gadhafi is men are pushing back and winning the battle here on the international stage it's the rebels who are really coming out in the front just yesterday france was the first country in the international community to officially recognize the rebels as the voice of the libyan people the legitimate voice of the libyan people as you can imagine this is angered people here particularly in tripoli where i've been speaking to people they are confused and they are angry with the international community's response three dutch marines who

have been missing for quite some time now have finally arrived safely in athens the two men and the one woman were captured by libyan forces off to a botched evacuation mission now the latest report from the international red cross is that the country is in the midst of a civil war but again speaking to people here moving around you simply don't get that sense on the ground and many libyans that i've been talking to make the point that the foreign media tends to exaggerate the situation often putting drama ahead of reality let's take a look. there is a lot more haggling on the international stage over the merits of intervention and a no fly zone and the bargaining taking place in downtown tripoli market here close really now days people are afraid and many of the africans who used to work here a fled the country and the argument that libya is on the brink of civil war so foreign intervention is needed to ring a little hollow there several hundred people killed but that's not

a huge level of violence it certainly isn't a global level of violence that would normally merit intervention gadhafi has offered and sister foreign media but only if they can millions to stay well away from any of the opposition but it's similar picture in opposition strongholds to ramadan break he was forced to close the benghazi office of his newspaper because of pressure from rebels who have to print their version of events it is all nothing very media. is going through the hearts. and all these cities are controlled by the british and even the people there for. what they think and what they believe and many gadhafi supporters fear that while he may be winning the war with the rebels he's leaving the information war that here when john zoo outside compete with google mona says she's puzzled and angry i reported missionaries shooting people in the town is teachers from.

the right to her. normal life and life certainly seems calm on the street. as for conflicts with the differences clearly in this media and even in his own interest. there are events unfolding right now in ivory coast where there is also conflict an armed conflict between rebels and the government but nobody seems to be thinking about it's only because fresh obliteration is focused on libya the oil reserves is that of. your oil think we'd be a rock if the big there was broccoli as leaders meet in brussels to discuss the fate of the country hundreds of miles away the libyans are saying it's a big mess and built. well let's go to japan now and the tsunami that's sweeping through the northeast right now the government house confirms some thirty two deaths with the number expected to rise i

just need your logical agency says the earthquake is the strongest in the country's history since official records began certainly in the late eighteen hundreds it's also the six worst reported in history does considerable destruction two hundred people have been washed away so far buildings cars and ships were also swept by the raging waters several are missing in sendai will it follows the eight point nine magnitude earthquake which sent a ten meter high wall of water and across the. perfect third wave also which russians could on the north reportedly around three meters high well there are several fires along japan's eastern coastline as well

and the four million homes are thought to be without power one blaze is in the turbine building of a nuclear power plant in the northeast. the work is there say there is now a radiation leak as well the prime minister is awarded an emergency response team to tackle the disaster with air craft scrambles to the worst affected areas in a tsunami warning was extended also to a number of pacific southeast asian and latin american nations including russia indonesia new zealand and chile so far reaching ramifications communication is crippled and taking that international airport has been closed and the entire pacific region is on alert as we were saying a four point five magnitude earthquake has struck hawaii as well as well braced for the tsunami to reach its shores. well for

more insight on japan's earthquake i'm now joined by kevin mchugh he's the director of the a strain of the logical sense of many thanks for being with us here on r.t. the earthquakes often happen in series don't they so how do you see the worst or could they be mortar can all be surprised if there was a quake in this region certainly. we have no information that will allow us to. this is a very serious earthquake and i think it stands alone for japan. this is indeed a very serious earthquake but this is a region accustomed to such environmental activity it is part of the pacific ring of ripple kino's and also how prepared are places which are lovely in this region. as you say this is the magnitude or grown or earthquake. to occur in this part of

japan since about eight in mali one. that's roughly one hundred twenty years so people are fairly well prepared nothing craftily twenty three earthquake and a japanese government put a lot of money and a lot of people into studying earthquake. most. this earthquake is probably. their design earthquake. looking forward to this is quite a long time they're not looking forward to it in the sense that i can't wait for designing buildings and systems and structures to withstand years down there recently will find the tsunami has done most of the damage and at the moment there's no way to put out of warning of a tsunami when they are so close to the coast technology is just isn't up to it and i think a lot of trouble with mobile phone systems so at the moment i think the best people can do is if they feel a strong earthquake like this they ought to move to the least ten meters above high

water mark and so well as we've been saying this is an eight point nine magnitude earthquake the big if we think that in japan's history will sadly since records began and we were just seeing some of these very dramatic pictures that have come out of the out of the country there supermarkets in disarray you mentioned there the mobile phone network closing down how prepared are people there and how common are earthquakes like this one in the region. well as you said it's the biggest. that's not played in ninety years and seismographs were invented and incidentally they were invented in japan so they had a long history of recording earthquakes what's critical about this sort of quake is that the fault occurred on the pacific plate broken ruptured and thrust and so about ten million. honshu was about five hundred kilometers long so this is a huge section of the pacific plate boundary that's broken off and that's what gave

rise to the big tsunami so the tsunami only one hundred one hundred k. east of sendai didn't take an exam to reach there it's a big earthquake now it's seven years since the asian tsunami tragedy how much better our people in the region are predicting the disasters and minimizing their own impacts. well that's a good question and i think the answer to it you would get a different answer from different sides knowledge and think we've certainly learned better with quakes we know where they happen we know that they will be larger earthquakes right around the pacific rim and if you call the. question is when will an earthquake of a particular size seven and i think we're no closer to that than we were one hundred years ago can be quite honest and it's probably an intractable question and i think we shouldn't focus on trying to predict instead we should focus as jeff and

north americans have done so successfully is designing to withstand earthquakes it's a different approach oh yes and so rather than probably try and design systems they don't fail when you quake happens ok joining us live from camera that was kevin mchugh director of the australian air science particle said. thank you. some of the news now and european leaders are holding a second round of emergency talks over the libyan crisis may so has announced around the clock surveillance of the countries and space and that is drawing up plans for a no fly zone the organization is waiting for the go ahead from the united nations security council before moving forward on his no bullshit smaller developments between you and nato in brussels. france has officially recognized becoming the first major power to recognize libya's rebels as the legitimate rulers germany has

distanced since itself from those views but there is a general falling in line with seeing here all of the major powers behind a common front italy which had been one of the most. desirous of more diplomatic talks before any military action was taken of course it's suffering from the thousands of refugees fleeing libya just across the coast of the mediterranean and it will of course suffer more if war unleashes an even worse humanitarian crisis malta is refusing to back libya's government i think government and britain is calling for colonel gadhafi to stand down of course that comes in the wake of a b.b.c. team reportedly being detained and beaten by members of that regime now we're seeing a difference of opinion here but most states all falling in line in that they're pretty neutral pretty neutral but as we've seen in the past for example in iraq when the u.s. and the u.k. which are leading this action as world want to do something pretty there's pretty

much not much we can do to stop them let's listen in to the head of nato he says that their forces are on standby it has been decided to increase the presence of. nato maritime assets in the central which are reigning in these ships it will improve nature oshie to ation or awareness our message today is. nato is united nato is vigilant nato is ready to act it's a list president says the country will quote any decision that is supported by the u.n. the e.u. and nato and that is the position of the states here today also the arab league being an organization that people got the backing off because the worst thing they want is for popular opinion to go against any foreign military intervention of course you've got france calling for immediate strikes on colonel gadhafi held

areas so the situation is moving ahead quite fast. causing back to our top story now in the majors an army has struggled in northeastern japan sending a ten meter high wall of water inland which is causing widespread devastation it was caused by an eight point nine magnitude earthquake that struck one hundred and thirty kilometers off the pacific coast several aftershocks have been felt since i say far thirty two people are confirmed dead but that number is expected to rise for all three waves have also reached russia's kernel islands to the north reportedly around up to three meters high in japan three hundred people have reportedly been washed away with several others missing in japan stand by for the damage was also felt as far away as tokyo which was all but ground to a halt and fison injuries why glee reported now that international airport has been

shut down and there's a tsunami warning for the entire pacific region and as quake has been felt in hawaii is well known during some four point five on the richter scale it's now preparing to be struck by a destructive wave within the next few hours. ok let's cross parts of libya now in the effects of the political turmoil that the fighting is picking up pace leaving the country's ravaged all industry in the firing line both sides are striving for total control of production but without damaging it there apparently to get their way and as long as these that planetoid the reports and pushes might not care who supplies through oil so long as the campaign. an oasis of stability in the scorchingly bin desert the country's all industry that prior to the uprising was churning out around two percent of the global oil output has also fallen victim to the unrest to brokers

the last major oath facility levy still maintaining its regular for a shins and sending all to the world markets just last week tankers departed from base all terminal one carrying a million barrels of oil that was bound for china and the other one with fixed hundred thousand barrels and board is now on its way to italy the kid deep in the east group was one of the first cities taken over by the rebels being far from the front lines spared this facility much of the damage that has befallen similar plans in the west and allowed it to operate pretty much as normal the only visible change is the rebels tricolor that replaced the green levy and flag of the guard corps the plant's management now reports to the opposition leaders in ghazi we are working no but have given us the we we see. what we would love to model because. we cannot work we would be hard to know maybe with somebody would bomb.

but if i know you with libyan banks feel paralyzed or wires have to clean cash with the proceeds going directly to the opposition the plant also ships part of its output to other cities controlled by the rebels meanwhile elsewhere in libya oil facilities remain a danger zone. of the good afy side and rebels have said publicly they will not seek to destroy oil infrastructure the long term damage is already apparent. on wednesday every finery in ras lanuf a focal point of recent clashes was set ablaze it choose sides blamed each other for the incident. and well whether it would be better. or crucial to export that would. be looking at a couple of near steel prices continue to rise across the world the libyan

government is undertaking yet another attempt to pacify railing crowds i believe incomes patrol is now twenty five percent cheaper. decreases the fuel dries up a few to fifteen percent maybe a cent before seventeen of twenty cent even sent should be due to before revolution . to lead to today's fuel was never particularly expansive and leave the air with experts accounting for more than eighty percent of the country's normal oil output the graphic government could afford lavish subsidies but the four in the mainly western companies pumping money in had law had on the stability of believe in regime and now stand to lose out. between one point six one point seven million barrels of oil a day most of it goes to europe these are processed through big refineries were

broken warning ruslan bills that as we go to cities are under siege at least one million barrels of oil will be out of the market starting this week so that's why the u.s. and europe are still best lead be an oil is low in sulfur and she makes it highly valued in the west because the fuel produced from it pollutes less and is these leiden so we don't know that for decades kept western companies on sweet terms really good after regime environmentally conscious politically nonchalant it's not going to r.t. to broke libya. of back to our top story now back to japan and the tsunami that's sweeping through the northeast of the country right now the government save larken firm some thirty two deaths but that number is expected to rise if follows the eight point nine magnitude earthquake which sent a ten meter high wall of water inland across the miyagi prefecture

destructions widespread we know that two hundred people have been washed away with buildings cars and ships all swept by those waters will be ramifications are widespread a four point five by this huge earthquake has now struck why and we are expecting residents there to brace themselves for a tsunami to reach its shores within the next few hours and we will of course keep you updated on the developments in the pacific region well the repercussions also being felt in the world's economies and that's causing you to clean all the business deaths now with all the details on that. there are going to business here on our c.n.n. we go straight to our top story the powerful earthquake in japan is likely to affect the country's fragile economic recovery along with massive blackouts the country's infrastructure is paralyzed some exporters like the auto and saudi halted

their operations it's too early to guard the economic impact of the japanese central bank has already pledged to do everything to provide liquidity and analysts warn the country's debt could soar it's already twice the size of the national g.d.p. . this is a time when the the global economy is facing a lot of challenges we're facing the sovereign debt crisis in europe we're facing we crisis in north africa in the middle east and now of course. a huge economy are almost global scale has been hit by its biggest ever a great. because it's a it's going to a friend's growth to the costs very big and so it's going to hamper the growth for your parent it's going to take a long time to recover from this and rebuild. the paris earthquake added another blow to the market is already plagued by the middle east turmoil japanese stocks

fell with major losses in the final minutes of trading following reports of the quake the benchmark nikky and five week low thirty one point seven percent the end also lost ground reaching its lowest level in two weeks i guess the dollar following reports of its own army and sure they were badly hit shares a and s.a.g. insurance group called things girl three point two percent hong kong stocks also fell as investors sold out shows across the surface. and your stock markets dropped lower and news of japan's earthquake puts the on the dax are trading in the red markets also weighed by tensions and leading. and here in russia the r.t.s. is lower for the third day retreating point seven percent. this hour the isaacs is losing half a percent that's against the backdrop of all tumbling after an earthquake struck off the coast of japan now let's look at some individual share moves and if your stocks are higher look all across never gaining one point three percent over percent respectively otherwise it's bucking the trend is very bank that's losing

over a quarter of a percent. continues to fall as japan's refineries shut down processing plants following the earthquake off its northern coast of viator refinery outside tokyo is spreading across according to local officials and you can the world's third largest crude consumer oil prices also sliding on weak economic data from the u.s. and china as well as fresh concerns over european debt brant land is trading at one hundred thirteen dollars per barrel. is it one hundred one dollars a barrel. that's all the update for now you can always buy most always if you log on to our website dot com satirists.

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