japan is devastated by a massive tsunami alimta the biggest earthquake in the country's reported his three buildings and ships the washed away and at least ninety coming people obviously dead but the number rising at least. countries across the pacific region including russia is following a strong tsunami and love but the threat appears to be fading with why reporting no major damage. and news of the great causes japan's nikkei still get to tumble it was said to close out of five week lows that biggest shock wave across global markets so the public seems to be easing out right now on that it's what the

minutes of our business was. and in all the news maybe is good finding more bodies of consciousness kind of gets out in school says push the rebels about the course of the time season rockets. played so on the e.u. stand divided over libya was song to mold the resignation of colonel gadhafi to all those urging foreign countries to stay out join me to a new cultural for all the latest from both schools later in the call it's. a very warm welcome gee this is r.t. lonely for a month with me alice have it now before we cross to japan let's begin with some breaking news this hour see you explosions there a residential area of northeastern moscow as it relates is one of us now from our city sara is live in the capital for us. tell us what you know. well these two

explosions went off in the apartment look behind me here now it was a little confused as to exactly where the take stations took place the latest. one take place all the grief of a guy and the other one of the guys that there was some reports that perhaps one was within a car lives of kabul but we know that the bombs were the equivalent of two hundred grams. nails and other two shrapnel now no one was hurt or injured or killed. to the building but it's just days. later it happened in another part of. that explosion took place at a bus shelter the federal security academy and. investigators now believe that the two explosions and one a wednesday ok perhaps the link explosions contain similar components and it's

still looking to see whether. there are unconfirmed reports that it was a cutie officials actually lived in this apartment building something that is against me looking out as to who's behind it again after the blast the wednesday the unconfirmed reports that investigators consider that it was like the terrorists are a little cool to. radical radically. he said but we know that investigators believe at the moment there's a possibility that the last wednesday on the tick stations today. case there are many thanks for keeping something to better breaking news a car bomb in northeastern moscow. so to japan now where the northeast of the country house by a major tsunami cools by a massive earthquake the largest in one hundred. eight point nine. quake

off eastern coast of east that massive ten. miles in the causing huge amounts of damage ninety five people are reported dead and that figure is conservative and is rising all the time with police recruiting there are hundreds of bodies have been found drowned in the city of sendai the capital of the worst hit region a passenger train is also missing meanwhile tsunami warnings have been lifted for some densely populated asia pacific countries like indonesia and taiwan big work previously fault because of the earthquake and tsunami it has gone through russia's could all islands there were hawaii but without any major impacts. we managed to speak to two witnesses all of the devastating earthquake here in tokyo when it hits . he said i

don't your. continued quite a long time at all you know you have laid about the lack of a man however. so i do know what it took to your going to be in south africa to sell out and four hundred a kilometer away from tokyo it's not on. and we're still not clear how much damage and. we've heard that there was an anomaly because the cost was on around evolutionally it is announced forty seven already killed as though he expects a number. increase of them usually expected now as stops. people living side effects but it continues in a couple of minutes and then it continued seven times in one hour or so because i mean next. month you know not so you know about the time they think so perri

area can program actually to praise it is into our experience the same types of us years ago japanese government and really experts were expecting and we can see of our scale is. years so last time was nineteen seventy eight so actually happens i was expecting i believe and central government and local government in that region was ready for this is us. so russia is a far east was hated spieth an army there not on the scale seen in japan the main risk now it appears to be from off the xargs let's get the latest from asking the purpose can offer a yes or is there any danger for the population of the carolina. while the crew islands are right there in japan's me before i go to just several miles to the north of japan and previously one of these islands has been hit by a we have around three meters high that surrounds the plate

a one story building but thankfully nobody was injured there and no local infrastructure was damaged but nevertheless authorities have evacuated around eleven thousand people in the suffer alina region in the far east to higher ground and have to clear a street off emergency in the entire region and are truly on the high words before emergency services and rescue services are at their monitoring the situation and i think that's the scene type of the situation as in the entire northern pacific region or is there any remaining risks to russia's mainland earlier on friday their war reports of possible tsunamis getting russian assurance now these risks have a decreased and nevertheless russia's president has ordered all a local emergency services there in the far east to get ready for any type of the

scenario and has a very old guard the country will do anything necessary anything possible to resolve any type of force situation develop and if it develops to be the mediator first also ordered russia's emergencies ministry to get ready to help japan in this horrific disaster. of course we're ready to help our neighbors in overcoming the effects of this severe earthquake a state of emergency has a. being declared on our soil on the coral islands in the seattle region is what we're all necessary measures must also be taken to prevent damage and loss of life the tsunami has already reached our shores and we must all be consolidated it's time now ordering the emergency as minister to present a plan of assistance to japan. from. the emergencies ministry has prepared six the jets equipped with all the necessary gear and

with the medics and doctors rescuers on board which are ready to take off to japan as soon as japanese authorities make their official request. many thanks for keeping us updated on the situation the russians could rely lindsay got to get off that. so ninety five guests reported in japan is rising quickly one japanese news agency suggests that there are literally tens of thousands are accounted for and worse it is the northeastern city of sendai police say always day every house there has been damaged or destroyed this. was the strongest in japan since records began one hundred forty years ago science is thought to be the sixth largest ever recorded in the world experts say it's around a thousand times bigger than the quake which devastated the new zealand city of christchurch last nobs a ten meter high wall of water was sent surging through japan as

a result from urgency house out of a nuclear power plant in the northeast of japan after its cooling system failed no radiation if the report is that the area around the plant is being evacuated there was also a major damage to the capital tokyo with communications crippled well of course keep you up to date on what's happening in japan here on r.t. and countries across the pacific area including russia south america the u.s. and engineering which are have all been put on alert for any tsunamis headings their way of one of the first waves have now reached america's brain and any major threat appears to be fading for more let's cross to argue worse course for down it if you can get it what's the extent of the danger for the united states. well as of now the situation on the u.s. coast looks encouraging to you as islands of hawaii have been forced to be hit by some of the first waves of the tsunami but of course it looks it lost its power

along the way from the epicenter of the earthquake off the coast of japan there have been no reports of this structured very hawaii and of fears of a strong destructive impact on the u.s. the west coast but of course the mission and now that we know that the first little bit first waves that hit the u.s. the name of the west coast and that is the state of oregon and we can say for sure that it's not ass. as it was previously thought it would be the experts say the impact is is it really. tsunamis unlikely to cause a major any major destruction but they also say the aftershocks of it cannot be underestimated everyone is still on high alert here. been a tsunami alert this huge across the pacific region how low the impact of this.

well i was experts say eight point nine magnitude disaster it friday became towards fifth largest earthquake in the last one hundred eleven years it's been the worst of the more powerful since since a nine point zero magnitude earthquake struck the bond there are. two thousand and four causing a massive tsunami that killed about two hundred fifty thousand people in countries in the last the way in our communities and these are the so-called ring of fire which is no say my circle of earthquakes and volcanic regions that passes from south america alaska and back down from japan to the south pacific those territories remain very vulnerable to natural disasters like that. of many. he can there updating us from the states many thanks. we're turning our attention now briefly to libya e.u.

member states are demanding moammar gadhafi surrender power it's holding an emergency summit in brussels hoping to find a common approach to the libya crisis france has urged other states to follow rears in recognizing the rebels opposition burrs so far failed to gain why does support alexander bushell is following developments in brussels. the. summits here are raising pressure on gadhafi his regime upon arrival dangler merkel the chancellor of germany says that could i should go now that germany no longer recognizes the regime as the country's rulers president sarkozy of france meanwhile has called for the aerial bombardment of folk of death be held parts of libya he called on the rest of the e.u. to officially recognize libya's rebels as the legitimate rulers of that country and compared libya with somalia saying that it had no leadership anymore and that there

was no international recognition of gadhafi regime or italy's largest bank unicredit meanwhile has frozen assets held in it by libyan shareholders however there are growing concerns over the use of military force by nato the czech president says the establishment of a no fly zone strongly supported by the u.s. and u.k. means war with libya but people should not think this is a simple solution and germany's interior minister went further saying there will be no action by nato militarily for the time being represented russia strongly opposes president sarkozy's proposal to. the libyan parts of the death held parts of libya and that the foreign minister of the country says it's categorically against the unilateral use of force by anyone. well for more on the international response to the situation live there i'm now joined live by

michael round now for the for constitutional rights based in new york many thanks for being with us here at our scene from has reportedly called for there we are tanks on the good parts of libya but how would international community respond to that do you think that they certainly should respond to france's court for their. regression contrarily you want charter time for international law the only way they could do something like that is through the security council they have no right you know we have no right through nato you have no right to any other institution either you are no fly zone or bomb libya or to intervene or i mean it's very very clear now nato has missions in iraq and afghanistan have partly led to the death of fountains of civilians so how credible do you think is the alliance in resolving conflicts like the one in libya if it does decide to intervene. but that is the side to intervene it's completely hypocritical i mean

the u.s. made an aggressive war against iraq without the authority of the united nations it's a classic war crime it's hypocritical for them to go into libya now and to yet have not moved an inch when israel was bombing and killing hundreds of palestinians who might not move an inch right now when there's actually a civil war going on in the ivory coast and i think it's a critical it means that they're talking out of time sides of their mouth and the reason is up let's look at the countries calling for those are oil dependent countries on libya. it only etc western europe and they're doing it obviously it is they want to control the oil of libya that's why they don't give a hang about what israel did in gaza there's no water that's why they don't care about the ivory coast but all that happens now because it is they grow cocoa beans so it's not reliable so this is completely hypocritical and it's illegal as well

can they say we're actually also thought to be getting to commit all of a civil war in an arab country right now. well that's of us are of course a political concern i mean look at the look they've done in iraq look what they've done. in afghanistan look what they have done throughout the middle east i mean supporting against their own. dictatorships and particularly supporting israel against the palestinian people so i don't think they can afford to call it a cli i mean there are in a limb in every way united states not really in every way militarily politically with the muslim world the last thing they should be doing and i think there is some caution coming from the united states the last thing they should be doing is intervening in libya right now and does naysay really have enough credibility do you think to be focusing that pressure on in libya. those who have it i'm sorry does the u.s. and its allies have enough credibility to focus their pressure on libya i don't think so i mean they're not credible anymore on this kind of mission i mean why is

the world going to largely just you know go down the drain this is like gaza right coast and yet no movement and so on their own credibility here is that one of the royal that's not very much credibility and critical you have to react in a rare as essentially a war ground invasion of another country without any authority and now we have credibility that they're supposed to go into libya there's a major incidents and i costar who is there michael ratner a president of the center for constitutional rights based in new york and events is present to us thank you. because you because the chinese have as the russian foreign affairs committee says the international community should seek reliable sources of information about libya before choosing a course of action. the problem is libya is this is a closed one and we have very few reliable sources of information of what is going on there in reality the problem is that yes they are very contradictory and they

tell you about what is going on there who isn't in charge aware of anything and the war is going to happen next so for me the most important thing create an ole for everybody for it for russia for the u.n. and for a need for the united states to get access to all the reliable information in order to take proper decisions which is not the case here for many countries and this is a chance to influence of the internal political development in libya and these countries use these uncertain situation in order to support certain political forces in libya which is for me unacceptable definitely the russian action should be definitely be on a decision by the security council and the nothing else this is number one number two is there any military operation in libya would hear of there are unpredictable consequences we do not know much of the real state of affairs of the in the. armed

forces begin and begin to need to consider this situation extremely specifically exclude well before any decision is at least as far as they're not based on the real information on the real situation in the country. that these poor things are rebels more libyans hundreds of opposition fighters than even bank are reported at hand and rockets and tank shells are prolifically or have more on the situation in the country. after a week of heavy fighting in the strategically well in fourteen town of as does a rebels there have finally been overthrown by gadhafi is for this is 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 troops are now moving from house to house carrying out a race at the same time the other focal point the closest city of ras lanuf

according to libyan state television to quote him this city has been cleansed of al qaeda supporters for several days now gadhafi is wolf planes have been pounding in particular residential areas in the east the latest reports coming out from there the japanese forces are in control there too now here on the ground while it certainly does seem as if gadhafi is main opposition 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 now the little support 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 and i've been talking to make the point

that the foreign media tends to exaggerate the situation assumption drama ahead of reality to take a look. there's a lot more haggling on the international stage of the merits of intervention and a no fly zone then the bargaining taking place in downtown tripoli market shops here close only nowadays people are afraid and many of the africans who used to work here have fled the country but the argument that libya is on the brink of civil war so foreign intervention is needed still seems to ring a little hollow there are several hundred people killed but that's not a huge level of violence and certainly as. global level of violence that would normally merit intervention gadhafi has offered access to foreign media but only if the camera lens has stayed well away from any of the opposition but it's a similar picture in the opposition strongholds dr ramadan great he was forced to close the benghazi office of his newspaper because of pressure from liberals you have to print the version of events he says or nothing the media. is

going through the hot places and all these cities are controlled by their problems and then given that we will go for. the new was 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 losing the information like here in john's all outside tripoli with schoolgirl mona says she's puzzled and angry by reports that most people in her town is no good. and so he seems harm on the streets. the reason is normal right now and in the future it will be ok we would normally as

for conflicts elsewhere with it it can't is climbing this little media coverage and even less foreign interest to intervene there are events unfolding right now in ivory coast where there is also a conflict an armed conflict between rebels and the government but nobody seems to be thinking about it's only because fashionable attention is focused on libya. with your oil think we'd be in iraq if their major war there was broccoli so as leaders meet in brussels to discuss the fate of a country hundreds of miles away many libyans are saying. the inmates and they'll clean it out policy r. t. jones who. has a major and rescue operation underway in japan our top story of course there are teeth three hundred military planes and forty ships in the mission to survey the damage in the northeast of japan which is most hit by the mouse in the tsunami

caused by the biggest earthquake in nearly a century and are up a center is the city of sendai where the worst is feared for our hundreds perhaps thousands of people here official figure all the dead currently stands at ninety five but it is rising of off more from parts of the pacific are on alert weighs in with an army have hit the u.s. mainland artist sweeping through behind lion island ways of also hit russia's could all islands but neither place appears to be out for a smaller of course as we get it here on r.t. and with more on how the japanese earthquake is affecting the world surf financial markets that's cross-overs to me the business to help others japan's economy is set to suffer significantly after being hit by one of the biggest earthquakes in the last one hundred years along with massive blackout the country's infrastructure is paralyzed some companies like toyota sony nissan honda they've already halted operations to early to gauge the exact economic impact for japan central bankers

already stepped up efforts to provide liquidity japanese stocks reacted negatively with the major losses posted in the final minutes of trading on friday the nikkei ended in a low shedding one point seven percent the yen also lost ground reaching its lowest level in two weeks against the dollar for reports of the tsunami but managed to regained its positions after that month long stocks also fell as investors sold out shows of force sectors u.s. markets open in negative territory the very much still there are worries about the global. i mean the reaction is rather modest however as you can see there just point two point three percent down that's coming up day after the biggest one day drop since august european stock markets are also of course in the red in the wake of this quake reinsurers suffering the most these companies issue back up insurance to primary insurers that this is to have a large losses from disaster is exactly the case right now cheers and swiss re

munich re down around five and said that mr jeffries international estimate that insurance payments will be around ten billion dollars most of it covering real estate damage russian stocks not an exception they declined for a third day as well russia's main revenue tumbled after the earthquake in japan has ended friday's session the one percent down my six point seven percent. oil continues the russian equity market had a relatively child started off fifty two week highs with oil prices if you take two week highs and then after that risk aversion reappeared a lot of western investors are concerned about the downgrade in the credit ratings in greece and spain by moody's they're concerned about the instability in the middle east in how about me i mean oil prices stay elevated for higher than it took longer than expected and thirdly they're concerned about the economic followed from

this giant earthquake in accompanying tsunami in japan. take a look at commodities now oil continues to fall as japan's refiners shut down processing plants a fire at a refinery outside tokyo is spreading according to local officials japan is the world's third largest crude consumer prices are also sliding on weak economic data from the u.s. and china as well as fresh concerns over european that's. another story shareholders another nickel have voted on friday to elect a new board with the results expected to strengthen so i can bug him about his position in the battle for control of the world's largest nickel mine first big business big development said tidemand raised twenty five percent stake in the thirty percent and its two major shareholders' interests roussel. have been flying for three years to gain control of the mikkel producer sources say both so i don't

get it pascoe may hold talks on ending their feud after the meeting official results of voting are not due until monday all right after this short break i will be back with the latest from japan and its impact. it will be. wealthy british science it's sometimes.