feel. fear a massive nuclear fallout after an explosion at the fukushima comic power plant in japan the reactor its roof collapse injuring four workers people within twenty kilometers of the plant all being evacuated. it follows japan's worst earthquake which triggered a devastating tsunami entire villages have been swept away in towns less of over seven hundred people dead with thousands of still unaccounted for. and in other news a rift in the arab league is member states malo backing

a no fly zone over libya but they're united in calling for peace duckie to go. to a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow in just one story dominating the world's attention right now and that's the result in japan a blast has destroyed part of a nuclear facility in the tsunami hit north a twenty kilometer evacuation zone is in place but all forty say radiation levels are decreasing it's also understood be explosion was caused by a faintly in the cooling system and not the reactor itself which was unaffected with the blown struck the fukushima number one nuclear plant some two hundred fifty kilometers north of tokyo the roof only. all of the walls caved in injuring at

least four workers officials say the reactor is not affected well there have been reports that three people who were evacuated from the area have been exposed to radiation the explosion follows friday's eight point nine magnitude earthquake that triggered a massive tsunami in cool scenes of devastation dozens of promises in the over seven hundred people are now confirmed but it's thought that that number could reach more than a thousand rescuers have reported scenes of shocking devastation with entire villages lost away and towns ravaged by the tsunami. and a possible radiation leak from the fukushima nuclear plant remains the biggest concern i got better she's in tokyo from thirty. the latest here is that we've just actually experienced an aftershock quite a large one the first once it's been here and for about five seconds whilst i was

sitting down my chair was welcoming is very strange experience in the last twenty four hours there have actually be around a hundred aftershocks or over that amount in fact this one was quite a powerful one it was centered around fukushima district in fact measuring six on the magnitude scale so quite a large aftershock and this is well over twenty four hours since the initial earthquake and others say this one was centered and it turned out on the focal shima district which is where the new nuclear reactor explosion took place earlier today when prompting fears of potential nuclear fallout we have heard since that there was no damage done in that explosion to the reactor itself if there was then radiation would have been leaking in that was the national fear in fact when they found cesium and radioactive iodine on the outside of the syllabus he told her that hasn't done any damage that explosion to the reactor and radiation levels have

since decreased and so much so in fact that. the authorities have been able to release some of the pressure inside the reactor because that's still very high indeed and that's still a concern it's still very hot in there as well and they need to release team to release the pressure and they've been able to do that since and without affecting the radiation levels in fact they've been dropping the fears of mainly aren't here in turkey although with fearing feeling aftershocks that and people are out on the streets here it's not because of that because they're calling their loved ones i'm told. by people here that i've met in the last since i've been here and everyone's concerned about the people near fukushima near these nearly explosion at this nuclear reactor the concern now is the spread of radiation there has been evacuations of the twenty kilometer radius. around this power plant number one where this explosion took place as a precaution because radiation is in the air and earlier today the levels of

radiation there were if you stood outside for an hour next to the plant then you would have absorbed is not radiation as you would do normally in a year also another plant is. under an emergent state of emergency as well with residents in the city being evacuated to three kilometer radius they're being back in one when in ten o'clock radius they have been told to stay inside and still the radiation. is very prevalent in those areas well the most important thing now for them is to treat those who have been exposed to the region radiation so what they're doing now is trying to distribute it i had seen because that. news is used to treat radiation sickness and then they move on to helping those who have been and still in shelters who have left their houses and this number is in the hundreds of thousands well over two hundred fifty thousand we're hearing good now left of

him left homeless and also there are millions still at three million without electricity another one million without water so that's where the next help goes that's the first step and finally then the rebuilding process begin in towns entire villages completely wiped out so it's a real big struggle for them all the ones in a twenty kilometer radius around the fukushima power plant number one where the explosion took place they have been evacuated and they're now being treated for radiation sickness receiving id not that they have got sickness but it just as a precaution and if need be they're being quarantined also in this at that power plant number two in the same area of focus shima people are being told to stay indoors within that. radius net also being told. given some advice should be have been outside and they should cover their face trying to avoid breathing in any of

the radiations they cover the mouth and nose cover up any exposed areas of skin also when they get inside from coming in from the outside the nation wash and scrub themselves thoroughly and avoid drinking tap water because the fear is that that is also contaminates it's. the increasing energy supply to japan thawing a request from tokyo let's get the details from the police or all of the. police or what is not pledging to do to help. well the situation with the explosion and the problems our fukushima reactor number one is left to part in dire straits when it comes to power now they take around thirty percent of the national grid the power system in japan thirty percent of that comes from fukushima so they are in in real trouble now russia has said that they will they will donate as after a request from japan russia will donate one hundred fifty thousand tons of liquefied gas they also increase the supply of coal to japan and is also the

possibility of providing electricity to japan by an underwater cable that stretches from russia to the japanese mainland so russia recalled reacting to the request from tokyo for help when it comes to resources of course color a major major problem when it comes to the ongoing rescue work also the work going to try and contain any problems going on out fukushima and make sure that all the power stations in the area are safe and sound so russia providing that extra power . liquefied gas coal and electricity through an underwater cable no diplomatic ties between moscow and tokyo have been strained in recent times this is due to the dispute over the could ill islands that russia put it russia owns but you can says that they actually do say they own in right russia has been in charge

of the canal island since the end of world war two japan and russia have had many many disputes some of them quite public over who should have the rights to own these now this is going completely out of the window prime minister vladimir putin saying that any kind of political. problems between moscow and tokyo aren't a concern at this point is about getting help to those people that need it most and helping japan to recover from this natural disaster and subsequent you could have problems. this is a great tragedy for japan so i would like all corresponding ministries and before it is to work out plans for how to help our eastern neighbors if of course such help is needed if there is such a need we need to consider the possibility of increasing supplies of fuel to japan and liquid natural gas in particular because of a slump in atomic energy generation in japan and second we need to continue monitoring the situation in the region as closely as possible i've just talked to the local authorities in the russian far east the situation there is normal both

from the point of view of people's housing and of radioactivity. so prime minister vladimir putin promising all help the russia can give to japan as they attempt to deal with the consequences from this earthquake tsunami and then the nuclear problems that they're facing out fukushima with the risk of meltdown still a possibility there and he's right says the far east e.u. it doesn't kilometers over the sea from japan so what's the situation there like of the moment and there were any concerns in connection to what's going on in japan. well there are a russia very very close very very close to the japanese mainland and very close indeed to where this is all going on in fukushima. before very very close to the seaboard of japan and also the russian far east in seaports in the city of lot of a major port there also the island the sakhalin very very close to this very very

many people who are worried there about the potential of nuclear for out coming towards them any kind of cloud of nuclear dust now the russian nuclear monitoring services have been wanting to what they wanted to watch over the next twenty four hours very closely to see if there are any rises in the levels of radiation in those areas to make sure that those people who are on the ground there in russia's far east are safe from the disaster that occurred in the northeast of japan. we are he seeing aftershocks continue to come after this earthquake which occurred on friday that brings with it of course the risk of further tsunami waves reaching the the far east of russia the islands of the and sakhalin as well as the far east and seaboard so my colleague. has been speaking to those people on the ground in sakhalin to find out exactly what they're feeling. we're only six hundred miles

away from fukushima and residents of the city of usual supply lines to be capital of the region can believe their eyes they are literally glued to their t.v. screens what it or ingle latest news as b.'s happening so close to their borders or before they were freed shortly after friday's earthquake and tsunami in japan that there could be a chain reaction which could lead to a natural disaster is heating the supply of the region what they're afraid of now is a restock radioactive contamination despite were not in immediate vicinity. six hundred miles is not a lot at all for a radioactive cloud the local emergency is ministry keeps coming down people saying that they should not panic and that they should do spend there we can as usual though it's not really a relieve people keep calling them it's really hard to get through been trying for more than two hours when we finally could speak to a representative of the ministry is that the only question people keep asking over

and over again what preventive measures they should take to avoid contamination and where they could get their personal geiger counters to measure radioactive the levels of radiation now emergency officials say the bay will update locals on the leaders and that there will be enough time to evacuate if necessary or that was our correspondent here to put in a great show for their reporting to us from the sun alina region well the situation of the fukushima plant is drawing warring parallels with the chernobyl nuclear explosion which remains the world's worst atomic plant and it happened twenty five years ago in ukraine but the effects of the contamination are still felt today looks here to share he is in care than explains the similarities. but we see this white smoke coming from the reactor building is the only ovie resemblance which we can see between the two incidents twenty five years ago which are noble and at the

fukushima power plant now days that's where the similarities and the situations are basically different simply because what caused the what caused them you know the the fallout internal was caused by a massive human error what is happening now in japan is of course the result of a natural disaster the earthquake happened which happened on friday and the other big difference and this is a very significant difference between the two events is how the government has been responding to the to the events obviously twenty five years ago the government of the soviet government kept most of the information secret from the general population in russia as well as from the rest of the world went on to a massive secret complaint to just safeguard this information and this was this is something which we cannot see today because the japanese government even though we

have conflicting reports coming from the islands off what's happening there and we have no certainty of what's caused this last still the japanese government ordered the evacuation of people from the surrounding areas the fukushima region didn't happen twenty five years ago when fifty four thousand residents of the town of tikrit next to the chernobyl power plants were kept in the south for more than twenty four hours and this of course caused some damage to them people were subjected to a great deal of radioactive threat coming from the open reactor of course these mistakes were learnt the mistakes by that made by the soviet government and this is what the japanese government is hopefully trying to avoid right now but. clearly if the situation is in trouble and of fukushima one are different despite what we can see in the pictures from the japanese television the meltdown itself the nuclear

meltdown itself is a very scary thing for all scientists as i've been calling it their worst nightmare ever indeed this meltdown is all about the core of the reactor going into an uncontrollable state and thus causing and usually a chain reaction first and then a powerful steam explosion like it happened in chernobyl this is like a rodeo it's trying to control a crazy horse because nobody knows whether you would be able to get the can react back under control or not this did not have an internal this was a result of a failed experiment when the scientists when the verse in the car station tried to lower the output of the reactor and then bring it to a temporary halt when the reactor started behaving in an uncontrollable fashion some of the personal prestige emergency brake but as we can as we can call it and just forty nine seconds since the start of the experiment the reactor exploded and that caused the fallout and the contamination of great areas all along the former

u.s.s.r. so obviously as we've been hearing from the japanese authorities right now the reactor stays intact has not been damaged according to the authorities and. we hopefully think that such contamination as it happened twenty five years ago in chernobyl would be avoided this time. christmas and that a safety professor taking planes how the design of the machinery reacts and could potentially contain the damage if the worst case scenario. this reactor is cool entirely by water. and a meltdown is simply when the nuclear materials cannot be cooled and the temperature rises in the containment area and the reactor materials themselves to the point at which they destroy the reactor that surrounds them of course these temperatures have to reach about five hundred degrees celsius for the metal and for the uranium itself probably in the order of eight hundred to one thousand degrees

celcius. good news is that that in the daiichi reactor is entirely water so and material venting into the atmosphere will likely be just steam radioactive steam in the case of chevron noble the reactor was moderated by graphite and ground. holds the radiation and spread so much further as dust and gas so. that was the significant problem with sharon no go to the neutron moderator in the airplane not react it was different and the radiation could spread much further at the daiichi site there are i believe six active reactors all of which have shut down and again i don't have all the information but at the moment it appears as though reactor building number one is the site of the explosion now this is the oldest of the six reactors at daiichi it was built in one nine hundred

seventy nine so it suggests that the oldest structure on the site was also the weakest people are being advised to stay in their homes not drink water turn off their air conditioners so it sounds like the government is apparently prefer significant nuclear event. well the european union for their gathering a team of experts look into the consequences of the nuclear power plant in japan i thought think pledging aid for the quake hit country to help deal with the vast a lot of the disaster r.t. the new bushel is in brussels for us the international atomic energy agency the un's nuclear watchdog says it's in full response mode after the accident and the thousands of people who have been evacuated from the surrounding areas in japan is that it's urgently seeking information from the japanese authorities about the reasons for the blast and says it's in constant contact with nuclear storage is

there and is ready to provide assistance when asked the e.u. countries have also offered humanitarian aid japan while it concludes its investigation is holding forth for the moment on international assistance we've seen the european commission call for an expert panel to provide reasons for this blast and the consequence is the possible fallout of course european countries e.u. countries have some of the world's largest nuclear facilities france for example a leading nuclear power and there are concerns that this should not have been allowed to happen the way they shoot a report that twenty percent of the world's nuclear plants are in areas of significant seismic activity and in two thousand and seven there was an earthquake in japan which should have acted as a wake up call experts here say. risks and threats of such an accident happening. a reminder now of the story dominating the news this hour fears of

a radiation leak in japan remain after a massive explosion of the fukushima one a nuclear plant some two hundred fifty kilometers north of tokyo it's understood the blast was caused by a failure in the cooling system and not the reactor itself which was not damaged well officials say radiation levels have pulled and since the explosion and there's no lead it danger but within the past few hours there were not the earthquake this time measuring six hit the area where the plant is located is an evacuation zone has been imposed searching for a radius of some twenty kilometers but there are reports that three people who were evacuated from the area have been exposed to radiation if allah is friday's eight point nine magnitude earthquake which triggered a massive tsunami that spread destruction dozens of kilometers inland over seven hundred people are now confirmed dead but that number is expected to rise

significantly in one coastal town around neither the half thousand people remain unaccounted for. well it's great if you look now at some other news the arab league's member states remain divided over how to deal with the libyan crisis they held emergency talks on whether to put their weight behind calls for a no fly zone over the troubled country sources say they're likely to back such a move by the e.u. red e.u. leaders have also shown support for libya's transitional national council but stopped short of officially grech it rising any rebel thoresby the arab league and the e.u. stay resolutely committed in a calling for colonel gadhafi to step down the confusion and kill says continues in libya amid the constant shift in the balance of power well ours is exam of the week it is in the rebel stronghold and girls the working people feel that any help would arrive two legs. bloated eastley and abashed in the

uprising in eastern libya is like most of its pretty supplants young impulsive and irreverent to the regime think these twenty two year old who had never how the gun before let alone used it to stop them with 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 add closer a bloodbath seems old with an avoidable international deliberation to know what to do not believe in uprising has been going on for so long that many people in benghazi no longer hold that county will come and say that they're killing to alan on their last hold as the gaddafi forces are closing in on the battlefield the friday prayers in gaza you were the most passionate so far city residents turn

their counts to the skies that many hold would have been declared and no fly zone by now. has more coffins arrived from the front line high spirits have given way to sense of abandonment to several weeks of encouraging statements from western capitals many here feel deceived i'm sorry to see that already mr obama we expect that the of the work got the kind of liberty looking for liberty for the people's you look for money first because you got your money first. a little creep would kill every day on everybody everywhere live in while in the cities arches and mobilizing their best resources to goose morale this song has become a non-official hymn of the rebellious you. know yes.

sure. good rain upon his people is just one of many themes that local caricaturist have adopted for their visual a fanciful intro to exit visions like this one and now on display in almost every rebel controlled seat here believe the leader has unexpectedly unleashed unprecedented creativity in his people. as he had their own north signs of people leaving these guys the partially because some 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 it's very hard to say what the balance of forces is how many people are for free how many are against him and indeed whether that situation is changing many people within libya.

because very few that it's a repressive government. following the examples in tunis syria egypt to seeking freedom of speech for me freedom of organization and wanting a democratic form of government. ironically it wasn't that more and more and get out the began his quest for power forty two years ago a young revolutionary he overthrew the king in a bloodless coup with cause for liberation and an end to tyranny those who are calls him now even younger and demanding the same things but that's where many fear historic parallels my there and that's a boycott r.t. been guys the. now the head of the russian state duma foreign affairs committee says the international community should see reliable information about libya before choosing its course of action. the problem. of this. close.

and we have very few reliable sources of information on what is going on there in reality the problem is that yes there are very contradictory and the god what is going on there who isn't in charge of anything and what is going to happen next so for me the most important thing great know for everybody for for russia for the union for a needle for the united states to get access to all the reliable information in order to grow poor 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 the decision by the security council and the nothing else this is

number one number two is there any military operation in libya want to hear of unpredictable consequences we do not know much of the real state of affairs within the early be an armed force it be an end begin to be need to consider this situation extremely specific well before we take any decision is at least as far as they're not beast on the real information on the real situation in the country if you look on her web site r.t. dot com for more news on the developing situation in japan and all the other news we're covering here on alt. for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.

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