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we're watching r.t.u. welcome to the program let's get straight to our top story the japanese emergencies ministry says that one of the country's nuclear power plants might be going into meltdown five reactors in two plants in fukushima in the north east of the country are said to be in a state of emergency radiation levels there are a thousand times normal levels after cooling systems were knocked offline all this comes following friday's record eight point nine magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami fishel death toll from the disaster has reached over seven hundred emergency services are on high alert in russia's far east located very close to the area of the disaster are you got there you have got children has the latest from the region. where we are now in this region in the capital of the region using the supply that. it is a little over

a thousand kilometers away from the epicenter of from that one where the accident happened and of course local residents despite authorities are reporting that business goes around as usual and residents are calm they are constantly monitoring reports by ses me agencies and by russia's emergency ministry and those who live along the coastline. that is sixty kilometers away from the region's capital they are already urgently moving inland also where the fuel costs are moved who are some of those who live on the curate island species man who just we've spoken to say that their relatives and friends are reporting that waves reached to three metres and along the coast of the current island sound that is now law is following the following friday's disaster and tsunami in japan rescues of cold and residents to the coast immediately and to a shelter of. about thirty or forty kilometers the bar above the sea level this region where we are now has a very bad record in terms of say speak of t.v.

some of the world's most gruesome and disastrous quakes to place here also calling it was a nine hundred ninety five when over two thousand people were killed in an earthquake similar to the want to the recent one in japan and also in nine hundred fifty two there was a in than soviet union that was a powerful earthquake in come childhood which claimed. also lives of thousands of people so of course people here are now forced to move or in the situation go the margin see workers are saying that they will bulls update the local population on the latest and there will be enough time to vacate people leave if needed. well russia says it's ready to help japan in dealing with the aftermath of the earthquake moscow can draw on a wealth of experience in coping with both natural and typological disasters polish short time ago i spoke to artie's alexei yet a ship city in kiev in ukraine and going off in moscow. at the moment it's hard to

even start calculating the damage done by of this disaster in japan as the whole world watches these horrific pictures from the country but russia's emergencies ministry has prepared just six jets which are ready to deliver rescuers doctors medical equipment including a medical morwell hospital to the country all he's needed at the moment is a request from japanese authorities these jets have been on standby since friday on the first of all water off the president of russia. 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 seattle region were all necessary measures must also be taking to prevent damage and loss of life but tsunami has already reached our shores and we must all be consolidated time i'm now ordering the emergencies minister to present

a plan of assistance. unfortunately russia does have the experience in dealing with such catastrophes both earthquakes if we talk about just the coral islands which are right there in japan's neighborhood located just several miles away from its territories they have been hit by earthquakes previously and russia does have the experience in dealing with a nuclear disasters as well talking about the chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in nineteen eighty six so once again at the moment all is needed for these jets to take off and deliver this help to japan is an official request from the country's authorities but this there's a lot of fear about nuclear disaster because people have seen what has happened in that shower mobile how can you just tell us the experience gave from the shore mobile disaster how could this be useful in coping with the situation in japan.

well obviously on paper the experience gained in the chernobyl fallout would prove invaluable because this remains still remains the world's history's biggest manmade disaster and of course tens of thousands of people were involved in the clear up operation off to the fallout here in ukraine so should russia join the clear out of the possible nuclear accident in japan then of course specialist would bring much a lot of experience and would certainly be helpful in clearing out of this possible nuclear incident like to remind you of us that exactly twenty five years ago a full out happened in turn some one hundred fifty kilometers from where i'm standing right now in central kiev and the area around this nuclear power plant still remains a dead zone thirty kilometer exclusion zone with nobody practically nobody living there so this of course is history's biggest manmade disaster and consequences of this fallout were felt everywhere across the european continent and the radiation

wave went just far as reaching the eastern coast of the united states back then twenty five years ago. of course experts are now speculating so should any nuclear incident happen in japan now whether the consequences will be as serious as during the trouble full out and many agree that as long as the reactor in japan is at least ten or twelve more time times more powerful than the one internal the consequences could be much more serious and much more grave than twenty five years ago in ukraine. the plant in fukushima looks to be a weak link in a chain that could read the situation to a worst case scenario. they may not have the capability of cooling this reactor. it would appears to be the case is that the batteries even a backup generators are not working and if that's the case then they're going to have to flood the reactor core and if they do that it's highly likely they'll be

major radiation releases i've seen also and some of the reports indications that the pressure inside the containment is twice the design capability now that means that the only way they can prevent the containment from blowing is to release radiation outside the stacks that means that the gases are going to go out radiation is going to go out that's why they're evacuating people three thousand people is a lot of people who graduate especially in a situation where the country is already under extreme stress so this is a serious situation one of the really worrisome things is that the eight point nine shock may have weakened all of the reactors and if they if that's weakened the reactors and this an aftershock or another earthquake could do substantially more damage this point by the way is forty years old it's a very old reactor and it's a double edged sword because number one it means it's weaker structurally and

number two there's more radiation inside the reactor because it's accumulated over forty years this is this is about the worst case scenario a cabin cancer specialists and nuclear waste that beyond nuclear says that the situation is a ticking bomb and japanese authorities have little time left. it could lead to a catastrophic release of radioactivity at this point it seems like it's a controlled so called release of radioactivity but the indications are that things are not under control and they're simply venting the radioactive steam to the environment to prevent an even greater catastrophe of the containment building rupturing breaching the cooling is not happening in the reactor core and the longer that goes on the figure i've heard is just over ten hours perhaps to melt down at that reactor they need to restore cooling to the core and again the pools are another concern the pools need to be cooled within a day or two they also could boil away all the cooling water and then decades of

waste in those pools could catch on fire and that is a massive amount of radioactivity even more than is in the core the cancers that would be caused by the exposure to this radioactivity may take years or even decades to develop but those latent cancer fatalities are very much. possible and would be caused by the radioactive exposure. well following the earthquake in japan we spoke to the director of the russian institute of space device engineering. told r t that disasters like this can only be predicted to a certain degree of accuracy. as an ism and i regret to say there is no way to predict with a high degree of accuracy ninety percent of the earthquakes in this or that part of the world but so however we can see that seven hours prior to the quake in tokyo you can see the precursor to the change in the disturbance concentration on a sphere over japan but we could not tell exactly when it was going to happen either in seven hours is it. already three days in

a year. because instead of really forecasting with some or other degree of accuracy nationally in trying to issue in order to minimize the chance of going to some solution. we'll keep you up to date on the developing situation in japan right here on our team will be speaking to our correspondents who is who are in various locations that will be interviewing guests throughout the day so do stay with us for that well for articles and much more you can head to our web site that's our t.v. dot com and you'll find all the stories we're talking about as well as blogs and top videos and a lot more. now turning our attention to libya where rebels and pro-government forces are continuing their battle for power as government troops gain momentum and supporter celebrate some feel their victory could be hollow for the country now abandoned by the nations that were once its friends artie's policy or went to the western part of the country where people are celebrating colonel gadhafi is victory

despite warnings of premature joy and fears of a civil war. this is as it is that we at least you know some of the fiercest clashes between pro and anti-government forces here in libya the city is now sunni in the hands of gadhafi his men and every way you look good at least because gadhafi and his supporters is present is almost in this to meet with parents and young children looking around everyone congratulating each other people in the international community are making up still in need but also the scene of this town gadhafi east son saif gadhafi says the troops will now be marching me wait keeping donzy and once because he feels the government is very confident it will this country will soon be back in the class of more money to death he says the international community to face it wants to do it in brussels it's a very different reality here on the ground. some european leaders have expressed a clear support for the opposition but many libyans fear western countries are more

worried about money than their safety over the balance of power constantly shifting from the opposition to the government there's a lot of confusion and chaos on a border is in the rebel stronghold of benghazi where people are losing hope and they feel that by the time help arrives it might be too late. case the annan abashed the uprising in eastern libya is like most of its power to suppress young impulsive and irreverent to the regime like these twenty two year old who had never held a gun before but a long used it but this doesn't mean that my father showed me how to use it a few weeks ago i'm ready to die for my country and many in gaza proclaim their readiness to sacrifice their lives for their liberation struggle now these heroic rhetoric is becoming a real prospect as the pro-government forces edge closer a bloodbath seems old with an avoidable international deliberations on what to do about believe we have rising has been going on for so long that many people in gaza

these are no longer holding get out will come and sat there feeling to now on their last hope as the gadhafi forces are closing in on the battlefield friday prayers in ghazi really the most passionate so far city residents turn their palms to the skies that many hold would have been declared and no fly zone by now. as more coffins arrive from the front line high spirits have given way to sense of abandonment of just several weeks of encouraging statements from western capitals many here feel deceived i'm sorry to see that photo of mr obama we expect that the real democratic and liberal looking for liberty for the people's you look for money first got your money first. a little it would kill everything and everyone everywhere he while in the cities arches immobilizing

their vast resources to boost morale the song has become a non-official him of the rebellious youth oh. yes. that's what. the. rain upon his people is just one of many themes that local caricaturist have adopted for their visual or fanciful improved to exit visions like this one and now on display in almost every rebel controlled seat here believe be a leader has unexpectedly unleashed unprecedented creativity in his people. as yet there are new signs of people living with god the partially because i really finding themselves in a catch twenty two situation living now may be seen as betraying the opposition staying for too long may lead to persecution later on. ironically it wasn't been

gazi that more margaret duffy began his quest for power forty two years ago a young revolutionary hero overthrew the king in a bloodless coup that calls for liberation and an end to tyranny those who oppose him now even younger and demanding the same things but that's where many fear historic parallels my dand accent avoid r.t. bin ghazi. all rising pressure for a no fly zone to be imposed over libya will draw western countries into a conflict they don't want to be involved in or that's the view of our military contributor get equal shot we would generally speaking. there were very good case against a no fly zone doesn't hold water don't get me wrong i'm not trying to go the united states into the no fly zone operation over libya but i have to point out that for

the u.s. air force navy told gun writers to impose a no fly zone over their contested area all along they leave and coastline would be just a piece of cake and every new it's a real professional especially u.s. air force veterans know it better than anybody else and the most important reason reach ideas robert gates will explain away in his forthcoming memoirs why he was against the no fly zone that he didn't want the united states to step into the trap the c.i. a played against the soviet union in their ghana stand when the short term regime change operation conducted by the soviet union later evolved into a full scale counterinsurgency for almost ten years anybody knows anything about the law of unintended consequences and especially in the context of the cold war

a most successful operation against the soviet union in afghanistan it is him robert gates as the former chief of central intelligence agency. well going to our developing story that we're covering on our t.v. japanese emergencies ministry says that one of the country's nuclear power plants might be going into a meltdown of five reactors in two plants in fukushima of a north east of the country are said to be in a state of emergency the radiation levels there are a thousand times normal after cooling systems were knocked off line of this sort this followed friday's record eight point nine magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami well it has to be said that. the company operating those plants they operate at six in the north east they have shut down the units when the earthquake hit the reactor score still remains hot and needs cooling and it's the cooling system that has not been working and evacuation had been ordered when the emergency

. evacuation plan was announced by the government about fifty one thousand residents living within the danger zone have been evacuated according to the a nuclear safety commission the official death toll from the earthquake and tsunami has a reached over seven hundred but that number is expected to rise emergency services are on high alert in russia's far east it's located very close to the area of the disaster to the north of tokyo. we will be updating you on this story throughout the day so do stay with us again for just a recap the japanese nuclear safety commission saying that the possibility there is a possibility of a meltdown it was a nuclear power plant in fukushima that's in the north east of the country. the united nations security council has included russia

a militant leader dog modeled on its terrorist list the chechen warlord with links to al qaida is responsible for many deadly attacks across the country and he's russia's most wanted terrorist although model has been listed alongside the world's most dangerous men that's after years of resistance by the u.n. and the international community is going to make sure john has the details from washington d.c. . the u.s. bait department has previously put the man on their list of most wanted terrorists and now the un has acknowledged that he is one of the most dangerous terrorists in the wall than those threats to the whole of the international community let me give you a better sense of who this man is go kumar is the leader of the al qaida linked islamic caucuses emirates as a terrorist group that operates in russia he took credit for the deadly suicide bombing of the domodedovo airport in moscow in january of this year at 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 eula and al-qaeda and taliban sanctions committee you know what that means for sanctions envisage asset freeze travel ban and arms embargo for individuals and entities associated with the taliban and al qaida and margaret is now one of them 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

acts for his believe that terrorist groups operating in russia get funding from abroad some of the members are known to have the training of rock and if you take the deadly bombing at the normal day to airport those lines of attack the busiest international airport in russia but there's clearly knew that not only russian nationals were going to suffer we had french the tower. the nationals who were caught up in india track of the perpetrators didn't seem to care about nationality there and that really underscores the international dimension that these tragic attacks have over the last year and that health russia has seen a number of terrorist attacks but only recently has the u.s. in the west in general started to see it as part of international terrorism not just russia's domestic issues but the rhetoric doesn't always been like this for a long time the west would see the terrible things that terrorist that done in russia as part of some rebel separatist movement but now it's very much clear to everyone that those thugs are a threat to the whole of the international community. that was our washington

correspondent poor thing on the u.n. security council's decision to put the chechen warlord model on its international terrorist list let's go to some international news in brief for you this hour a federal judge has ruled that u.s. prosecutors can demand access to the twitter accounts of certain users as part of a criminal probe of the few weeks of the three in question are all close associates of the whistleblowers founder julian assange they had argued that handing over their account information violated their constitutional rights however the judge ruled that those freedoms do not shield members from legitimate government investigations the lawyers for the three say they plan to appeal. cuba has freed one of the country's leading dissidents and is letting him stay on the island other inmates jailed for crimes against state security are said to be deported to spain. to be set was arrested along with seventy four other people during an

internationally criticized roundup of dissidents in two thousand and three all of them were convicted of taking money and guidance from the u.s. and a group seeking to overturn cuba's communist system will be set to was a nobel prize nominee said he will not leave the island until it is quote free. hundreds of workers marched through the streets of rome to protest against government cuts in public spending a group of protesters separated from the main demonstration and clashed with police outside the italian senate and demonstrators quine the top of vehicles and paint out the police. or you can head to our to dot com for more news and analysis on demand a let's take a quick look at what's online of right now u.s. a vice president joe biden has been pushing the reset button in moscow on a two day visit and his talks with bloodier groups and he underlined the importance of the reset of the relations between moscow and. into loss. or check out

a special report of christian temples in iran and recorded accounts of their own life in the islamic republic to see the exclusive photo gallery just head to our web site that's arts and dark pawn. well a reminder of our top story the a japanese emergencies ministry says one of the country's nuclear power plants might be going into nuclear meltdown well this comes following friday's record eight point nine magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami thousands of residents have been moved and there are fears a leak could occur at a second plant nearby again the nuclear safety commission says that he knew a meltdown at the nuclear power plants is possible this happened after the eight

point nine earthquake has to be said that the company operating six sponsored in north east has shut down their units at fukushima but the reactors course still remain hot and is still in need of cooling after they have been shut down and it's the cooling system that has been malfunctioning and causing a lot of a state of emergency and nuclear watch has been alerted by the government there are about fifty one thousand residents who have been evacuated that's according to the japanese nuclear safety commission there is still a washington situation and one is in a danger of a meltdown according to the officials from the nuclear safety commission and a second one is in danger of a leak now the radiation level that's being reported is about one thousand times the normal levels and that is creating some fears in the government's. unfolding situation as nuclear power plants are going through the official number of deaths

in japan. as a result of the earthquake and the tsunami of there are over seven hundred now where the local reports claiming it was and are missing just a quick reminder the latest news coming in from japan the nuclear safety commission saying there is a possibility of a meltdown at fukushima plant that's to the northeast of the capital. well we will be bringing you more on our developing stories do stay with us here on r.t. . from

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