all. tonight's japan deals with the aftermath of a massive tsunami after the biggest earthquake in the country's recorded history and buildings trailers and ships have been washed away the official number of this is three hundred seventy five of that number but set the scene. to pound declares emergency as pressure rises of the focus shima nuclear plants sparking risks of radiation leak the surrounding areas been evacuated but there is no danger to the public right now. in other news the man behind

a string of deadly attacks across russia chechen warlord dock or bought off is put on the un's international terror list. and more violent clashes rocked libya as colonel gadhafi forces push the rebels back the e.u. says it's not ruling out military action increasing fears of a possible intervention. very good evening for me kevin owen you're watching r t it's now eleven pm moscow time and our top story japan is dealing with the aftermath of a massive tsunami today. number killed is now three hundred seventy five and that is a figure sadly which is even optimistic estimates suggest will rise dramatically as huge wave was caused by the biggest earthquake in the country's history with your

hand has now asked the u.n. to send rescue teams to help deal with the disaster another earthquake has also hit central japan in the past hours over there are no reports of damage from the latest aftershock item urgency situation meantime has been declared it will focus nuclear plants in the northeast of the country after it was damaged the pressure inside the reactor has been rising tonight raising fears of a radiation leak however japan's nuclear safety agency says to try and reduce the pressure on radio that through the very top may be released and that poses no risk to humans or the environment but. well just after the quake hit we had a chance to speak to an eyewitness who was in the capital tokyo. i was working at home and suddenly thoughts like sharks i didn't know what to do sit at home on leave and the moment i saw a message on the screen of my t.v. it said that in twenty seconds there would be an earthquake that i jumped up and it was shaking oh how to pass in france is what i live in

a crowded district of the city there weren't many people just only ones with parents and young parents with children yesterday my neighbor's daughter had there for me yogi quake happening we tried to call home but most of our connection was lost although the epicenter was far away from tokyo i felt like i was in a ship while it rocked it seemed like everything around we crashed it was happening all day every time i returned home it started again it's that radiation levels are . rising at the fukushima nuclear plant after a cooling system there failed following the earthquake japan's nuclear safety agency says that radioactive vapor may be released to reduce the pressure there also saying it poses no immediate danger to the public alarmingly though the situation goes both striking similarity to the build up ahead of the worst nuclear disaster in history and should not pull our correspondent leg series jet skiers more from the ukrainian capital kiev. they initially may seem very similar

incidents but in reality they're pretty much different first of all because what is now happening in japan is indeed an aftermath. a natural disaster the earthquake what happened internet of a century ago was one hundred percent handmade manmade disaster and this is of course the essential difference the other difference is the the fact that the reactor in japan is one hundred times more powerful than the one internet and in fact the two stations the two power plants in the fukushima region. produced the world's biggest joint amount of energy and this means of course that this reactor which is under threat now is far more powerful than the one in the fourth nuclear power station which exploded twenty five years ago also one of the differences is that the security system in japan at the power station is promising that should any nuclear incident occur at the station a certain doom will cover the nuclear power station preventing any leaks into the

atmosphere something which is of course missing in the soviet era as a nation and that's why the whole region the whole continent basically suffered great consequences but at the same time we also heard that. basically the ultimatum security systems went on after the earthquake most of the power stations across japan. and nobody knows whether this will be the case whether the ultimate a secure system will work should any nuclear incident occur the worst case scenario is much more grave that what happened after the truth will fall out according to several experts i've managed to have. already here in ukraine and some interviews on the internet as well basically because as i mentioned earlier the power station in japan is far more powerful than the one. this could lead to a serious contamination to a serious emission of radiation should anything i should any accident any explosion happened i thought. when you clear power station this according to some experts

from the russian academy of sciences means that the whole of the russian far east some part of china and to a large extent the korean peninsula may be affected by the possible radiation emission from this reactor in japan so far as we've heard of the government is saying that the situation is under control and also we've heard assurances from the american scientists who are saying that right now the wind is blowing westward from japan so should any accident happen then the all the radioactive material would probably find itself in the middle of the pacific not in the russian mainland or china or korea or anywhere else but indeed. you can change any minute and obviously if something happens at the station this could be far far ten times more serious than what happened after chernobyl but he's correspondent. so three hundred seventy five deaths reported so far in japan officially but that surely is expected

to rise from here one japanese news agency suggesting there are literally tens of thousands of people unaccounted for tonight worst hit is the northeastern city of sendai police say almost every house there has been damaged or destroyed this eight point nine on the richter scale earthquake is in fact the six largest ever recorded in the world and eight thousand times bigger than the quake which devastated the new zealand city of christchurch just last month it sent a ten meter wall of water surging through the results with everything in its wake tokyo was also affected many were left without electricity and stranded in the city as the capital's transit system. as we get more details of course we will. explain your way from the u.s. tsunami research center thanks for being with us tonight well we just heard in the last hour to the another earthquake reported in central japan can we expect more

tremors tonight and indeed could we expect anything is the big huge one we saw earlier on today that sparked all this. i don't sink you know because right now the event has. how many hours already so. i want to see anymore in tsunami ipac in japan. wall right now us less because we see the. weights aware because that's when i me are crossing the. ocean so they resign waves from the other the other side of the ocean so you my east. waves up to twenty four hours i would i would not worry too much so let's focus in on this how much. is mexico the u.s. state of california in grave danger or is the worst over do you think can you just

clarify. i would say it's not you would not be great danger is saying you should be aware and not guilty to each. but the damage should not be that significant. waves we forecast over the. beach has been. confirmed it's about somewhere it's like a meter or meter to two meter way so you. cause a lot of the damage but you should be aware not to go near the ocean you are so to me would think about people sight seeing these waves not be as may not be absolutely catastrophic but they certainly might be enough to wash you or over a balustrade a wash off a rock if you're fishing i guess so much reason to be careful what we heard from one eyewitness who saw the tsunami warning on television and immediately ran out of

a flood do you think the early alert system did actually save lives were lessons learned indeed from what we saw in. from our trip in two thousand and four yeah definitely definitely. some florida forecasts since the. tsunami forecast system as. much as today we can see all. around the pacific rim there are a lot that we caught up. on and ninety so we can based on those recorders for now obviously we can't give. achree forecasts too far afield like us kohls why and islands too so that today's forecast results turn out to be you very good and we almost in the air nailed it well where it wasn't any size logical information available to suggest that this huge earthquake was on the cards. yes i think so why wasn't it active i wonder.

does it mean say it again i'm just asking it was the only information available do you think beforehand that this sort of earthquake that we saw today the eight point nine that was on the cards and it might happen imminently. well for that for that trend that you meant because last year there has like chile event is about same oh maggie two we actually. expect such a big. subsume from this size so i will say because rare earth to predict so for tonight i mean now as first thing happens and i mean we can. forecast in an hour or so. ok well thanks ever so much for being on the program is appreciated your way there from the u.s. now research center in seattle tonight thank you elise thank you very much russia's

far east as we braced for any tsunamis to today with people going to higher ground earlier on r.t.c. good of course can offer the latest on what happen there. well the cool islands are right here in the neighborhood just several my miles north of japan and previously one of these islands was hit by a three metre high and tsunami bass around you kind of a one story building thankfully no one was killed or injured in that incident and the local infrastructure was not damaged as well but the authorities did manage to evacuate around eleven thousand people to higher ground in the entire region and also declared a state of emergency now the local emergency services and rescuers are or on the high alert getting ready for any possible scenario to you know of anything that is good since the similar situation in the entire northern pacific region earlier on

friday the a war we foresaw for more possible tsunamis hitting the russian course line and was when the cruel violence now of these risks have declined but there is still a possibility of aftershocks so president meeting with the device ordered a local emergency services and rescue services to be ready for any type of a situation. of course we're ready to help our neighbors in overcoming the effects of this severe earthquake a state of emergency has also been declared on our soil on the coral islands in the region were all necessary measures must also be taken to prevent damage and loss of life that 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 already announced that it's prepared six jets truly on stand my which are ready to transport

doctors and rescuers medical equipment even a mobile hospital to help japan all is needed at the moment is an official recall. just from dr billy's. bigger person off there will if you just joined us this is the news channel let me bring you up to date on the headlines from today's story the official number killed by the tsunami in japan is being reported at three hundred seventy five that is sadly likely to rise significantly the huge wave was caused by the biggest earthquake in the country's history cars buildings even passenger trains were swept away the damage is being estimated in the tens of billions of dollars tonight the capital tokyo was also affected millions there hit by power cuts and also new quake measuring six point six has hit in the last few hours it's caused the city skyscrapers to shake again and there's also concern the damage caused a nuclear plant in the northeast because of pressure inside the reactor there

that's causing a problem after the pressure is rising raising fears about possible radiation leaks japan's nuclear safety agency says there is no immediate risk to humans all the environment we will of course keep you fully up to date on what's happening here on the r.t. news channel your moscow. and other news chechen warlord vocal more of his now on the un's international terrorist list it means the security council has now put him alongside the world's most dangerous man let's get a handle on this story out is going to terms in washington d.c. for us. talking about already being put on the international wanted list now is on this one to what are the ramifications of that what does it mean being on a double this. god having you're right the u.s. state department has previously put the man on their list of most wanted terrorists and now the u.n. has acknowledged that he is one of the most dangerous terrorists in the wall than

a threat to the whole of the international community let me give you a better sense of who this man is god all martyr is the leader of the al qaeda linked islamic caucuses emirates as a terrorist group that operates in russia he took credit for the deadly suicide bombing that the dumber datable airport in moscow in january this year of the attack killed thirty seven people and wounded scores more and then also valves to kill more civilians he he released a video just days ago saying that he also claimed responsibility for the moscow's metro suicide bombings last march in the attack on the passenger train a little bit over a year ago dozens of people were killed as a result of those attacks so the u.n. has now included marfin to the list of the land al qaida and taliban sanctions committee now what that means for sanctions in visage asset freeze travel ban and arms embargo for individuals and entities associated with the taliban and al qaeda and the market is now one of them. only tonight due to bomb blasts of moscow few

hours ago. to a couple of days ago as well go a lot inside a couple of days ago thankfully no casualties of either of those events that there are reports of more of a responsibility for both the attacks can you expand on that would we know. haven't exactly just a few days ago on march the ninth a blast took off near the academy of russia's security service the f.s.b. in moscow no casualties have been reported and just days later at this friday we heard about these two explosions in a residential area in moscow again no casualties reported a group of militants posted a video claiming responsibility for the attack on march the ninth and saying that they acted upon the order of door kumar investigators suspect that he was involved in the leader's two explosions in moscow as well many security services executed experts believe that terrorist groups operating in russia get funding from abroad some of the members are known to have been trained of rock and if you take the

deadly bombing at the airport those times of attack could busiest international airport in russia that there's clearly clearly knew that only russian nationals were going to suffer we had french italian nationals who work caught up in this in the attack of the perpetrators they don't seem to care about nationality there and that really underscores the international dimension that these tragic attacks have of the last year and a health russia has seen a number of horrendous terrorist attacks but only recently has the u.s. and the west in general started to see it as part of international terrorism not just watch as the mass the issues but the rhetoric doesn't always been like this for a long time the west would see that terrible things that terrorists are done in russia as part of some rebel separatist movement but now it's very much clear to everyone that those thugs are a stretch to call for all of the international community. in washington thank you for bringing us up to date. turning our attention to libya the european union saying that it's keeping

a military option open and it's demanded the surrender of power but emergency summit in brussels e.u. leaders showed political support for libya's opposition council but they did stop short of official recognition bushell's been following those events. e.u. leaders at the summit here in brussels have backed libya's opposition council will fall in short of officially recognizing the rebels as the legitimate rulers of that country it comes off the angle of merkel the chancellor of germany so it could definition go now and she go longer recognizes him as the country's ruler but there are growing concerns that have not been stopped by this summit of military force in libya the czech president said that even the imposition of a no fly zone over libya has backed by the u.s. and u.k. means war with that country with all the consequence is that would entail and germany's interior minister went further saying that there is no prospect of military intervention be it by nato or the e.u.

for the time being russia strongly opposes the aerial bombardments of the held areas of libya as proposed by president sarkozy of france and the country's deputy foreign minister says it opposes any union that's true use of force against anyone we can now hear from russia's envoy to nato which are regarding. first of all relevant committees which should gather the facts only the facts on the table of the un security council that can lead to any serious discussion on the matter so far there have been no such facts we have only been journalist reports from the conflict zone on the whole we consider the situation very complex and it very much resembles the civil conflict there's a real danger we militarily intervening in the affairs of a foreign state in which we garvey thanks to the west if it could easily become the most popular figure in the islamic world with an air of martyrdom around him so skepticism against direct military intervention against libya is growing stronger

colonel more now gadhafi says he will fight back against any foreign military intervention even rebels have said they would not like to see that as it may turn the tide of public opinion against them so there's considerable horse. to duty it's a military intervention both outside the country and within it as well. so your correspondent daniel bushell there will meantime colonel gadhafi forces are pushing rebels out of more libyan cities hundreds of opposition fighters are moving back after reported attacks with rockets and shell tanks tank shells rather artie's pulis lir has more from the region. this is. just. it's just it's just it's just it's almost. you know it was funny but i think those.

are the. ripples of the whole not just. the last one of the toughest times it's that this is. what's been. constant this is the last one that says. what you. want but. it would. have drawn a lot of. 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 have been 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 access to foreign media but only if the camera lenses stay well away from any of the opposition but it's a similar picture in the opposition strongholds up to ramadan break he was forced to close the benghazi office of his newspaper because of pressure from rebels you have to print a version of events he says or nothing right. media. is going to the hot places and all these cities are controlled by their probably does and then given that people go for it. they knew 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 war like here in jones who outside tripoli schoolgirl mona

says she's puzzled and angry by reports of mercenaries was shooting people in her town this nearly eight years. and life certainly seems calm on the streets. this fleet of tweets of civil war in libya except that it's coming from what's families of the century do you think that they will peace that will. things normal right now and in the future. will move normally as for conflicts elsewhere with it if count is climbing it's a 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 of that it's only because fresh nable attention is focused on libya the only reason is that with libya's brother your oil you think we'd be in iraq if

their major ads were there was broccoli so as leaders meet in brussels to discuss the fate of a country hundreds of miles away many libyans are saying it's the inmates and they'll clean it out policy r.t. jones all. well be back with more coverage of our top story the massive tsunami in japan shortly the death also the growing reported now to be three hundred eighty five figures to rise significantly sadly more on that later the events of course also a knock on effect in the world of business as catch up with the mono for round of of that as. pan's economy is set to suffer significantly after being hit by one of the biggest earthquakes in its history along with the massive blackouts the country's infrastructure is paralyzed some companies like toyota sony honda nissan the wall already halted operations now it's too early to gauge the exact economic impact japan's central bank has stepped up efforts to provide liquidity however

japanese stocks reacted negatively on friday with major losses posted in the final minutes of trading benchmark nikkei ended at a five week low showing almost two percent he had also lost ground reaching its lowest level in two weeks against the dollar but after that it regained some of the losses hong kong stocks also fell as the best the sorghum shares across sectors never quite comes a day after the dow's biggest one day drop since august that was on first therefore there was a modestly negative opening in the u.s. on friday at first but now we're actually seeing some positive movement both the dow and the nasdaq have come back into positive ground point six percent despite worries about the one you well well continues to fall as japan's refiners shut down processing plants japan is the world's largest crude consumer therefore that one half dollar for light sweet also for the russian stocks declined for a third day because of that drop of oil russia's main revenue and it's

a bald after the earthquake in japan the r.t.s. ended friday's trading down roughly one percent whereas the myself close to seven percent. the russian equity market had a relatively challenging week we started off at fifty two week highs with oil prices a fifty 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 that me we will prices stay elevated for higher than. longer than expected and thirdly their concern about the economic followed from this giant earthquake in a country and tsunami in japan could lead to other news making headlines in russia shareholders and that it is clear to all that voted on friday to elect a new board with the results expected to strengthen tycoon we're going to turn into position in the battle for control over the world's largest nickel miner on

thursday business daily betterness the said time in had raised his twenty five percent stake in the company thirty eight percent it was just two major shareholders that interest and roussel owned by elected have been vying for three years to gain control over the nickel producer sources they both put on it and that it may hold talks on ending their feud after the meeting but official results of voting are not due until monday and gratian was that it has become the first state corporation to complete its reorganization on friday the company successfully really registered as an open joint stock company and that's a change in status will help the company be more efficient and focus on cheating business results that's it from the business desk for friday's business news coming up next the cabin is up with the headlines are going.

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