an explosion of the fukushima. plant in japan triggers fears of a possible nuclear fallout the reactors roof collapsed injuring foreign workers and people within twenty kilometers of the plants are being evacuated. the desperate search for survivors says japan's entire defense force mobilized after the huge tsunami swept away entire villages and submerged dozens of times over seven hundred people are confirmed dead tonight but thousands more are still to come. in other news the afghan president says nato and american troops should leave his country just days after hundred cars cousin as well as nine children collecting five killed

in separate u.s. attack. and a rift in the arab league as member states mull over backing a libyan no fly zone but they are united in calling for gadhafi to go. this is the r t news channel a very good evening for me kevin no it's now eleven pm here in moscow in the main news the world's attention still on the earthquake disaster in japan and crews are working at the fukushima number one nuclear plant in the tsunami hit north to try to prevent a possible melt the night after a powerful blast of the facility into the air and said the explosion was caused by a failure in the cooling system while the reactor itself was unaffected evacuations are under way over. a twenty kilometer radius now would be fears of contamination

the three patients at a local hospital just three kilometers from the plant have tested positive for radiation exposure they were already at the hospital when the blast occurred officials say they showed no signs of illness so far all the explosion comes after friday's eight point nine magnitude earthquake that triggered a massive tsunami that struck two parents coast and cause destruction dozens of kilometers. over seven hundred people are confirmed dead tonight in one town around nine and a half thousand people remain unaccounted for. a ten meter high waves washed away entire villages many towns were all but submerged to. each other local school governing stranded rules of the facility well a possible radiation leak from the fukushima nuclear plant remains the biggest concern i have a bet it is in tokyo for arctic. in the last twenty four hours there have actually

been around one hundred aftershocks or over an hour in fact a powerful one it was centered around fukushima district in fact measuring six magnitude scale so quite a larger 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 there is a 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 and that was the national fear in fact when they found cesium and so radioactive iodine on the outside of the silla see her there hasn't been any damage in 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 may be able to do that since and without affecting the radiation levels that in fact they've been dropping the fear is mainly aren't here in turkey or they're with fearing feeling aftershocks that people are now on the streets here but 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 and near these near the explosion at this nuclear reactor the concern now is the spread of radiation net has been evacuations of the twenty kilometer radius around this. power plant number one where this explosion took place as a precaution because the radiation that is in the air earlier today the levels of radiation there were if you stood out. for an hour next to the plant and he would

have absorbed as much radiation as he would do normally in a year also another plus is. under an emerged state emergency as well with residents in the vicinity being evacuated to three kilometer radius there be back in one when in ten o'clock the radius they have been told to stay inside because hill radiation. is very prevalent in those areas although for most important thing now for them it is to treat those who have been exposed to the radiation is that what they're doing now is trying to distribute it i had seen because that it uses used to treat radiations 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 now left of he 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 search step and finally then the rebuilding process begin in towns entire villages completely wiped out so it's a real big struggle for them and 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 heidi not that they have got sickness but it's just sick as a precaution and if need be they're being quarantined also in this at that hour one number two in that same area of focus. people are being told to stay indoors within that influencer radius now also being told. given some advice should they have been outside and they should cover their face trying to avoid breathing in any of the radiations they covered in mouth and nose cover up any expose areas of skin also

when they get inside from coming in from the outside and they should wash scrub themselves start early and avoid drinking tap water because the fear is that that is also contaminate sets. bring us up to date from tokyo where russia says its increasing energy supplies thirty pounds and i'd following a request from tokyo artie's. story russia stepped into the breach with aid for japan japan used to draw thirty percent of all of its energy from nuclear power stations and that is of course is being suffered terrible. to the situation in fukushima and of course the situation of other power plants around the country following the earthquake and tsunami russia has pledged one hundred fifty thousand tons of liquid gas to japan as well as stepping up. its trade of coal to the country there's also the possibility of providing electricity directly to japan

underwater cable which links the two countries well prime minister vladimir putin has said that russia will do everything in its power to help its neighbor to the east. this is a great tragedy for japan so i would like our corresponding ministries and all for it is to work out plans for how to help our eastern neighbors we need to do everything to increase supplies of fuel to japan because of a slump in energy generation there second we need to continue monitoring the situation in the russian far east as closely as possible i just talked to the local authorities in the region the situation there is normal both from the point of view of people's housing and radioactivity nevertheless the situation must be closely monitored on around the clock basis. following this explosion at the fukushima plant on saturday there has been concerns that we could see a full scale meltdown that would put radioactive material into the air you know the situation is being monitored very very closely in russia's far east this is due to

close proximity but also to to that close proximity there is a risk if there was. material being put into the atmosphere that a change in weather a change of wind could take any prospective perspective nuclear. rushes for eastern cause problems there so that situation is being looked at as it stands at the moment the radiation levels normal in the far east of russia. that's being looked at by russia's nuclear watchdog to make sure that nothing untoward is going on there to make sure the people on the ground they are receiving all the correct information they glued to their radios they glued to their televisions and artie's a car to go out to have a gauge the situation on the ground. where only six hundred miles away from fukushima and residents of the city of usenets the capital of this region can believe their eyes they are literally glued to their t.v. screens i wanted tarring the latest news as the bees happening so close to their

borders well before they were afraid shortly after friday's earthquake and tsunami in japan that there could be a chain reaction which could lead to a natural disaster he chain the region but they're afraid of now is a risk of radioactive contamination is but we're not in immediate vicinity. six hundred miles is not a lot at all for a radioactive cloud the local margin says ministry keeps calming down people saying that they should not panic that they should do spend there but we can't as usual though it's not really a relieve people keep calling them it's really hard to get through vin trying for more than two hours when we finally. he 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 consumation and where they could get their personal geiger counters to measure radioactive the levels of radiation now emergency officials say that they will update locals on the

leaders and that there will be enough time to evacuate if necessary across from a culture. where the situation of the fukushima plant strong worrying parallels with the normal nuclear explosion which remains the world's worst atomic plant disaster it happened twenty five years ago and have them solve ukraine to become terminations are still being felt today. for t. is in kiev and explains the similarities. obviously this why smoke coming from the reactor building is the only ovies resemblance which we can see between the two incidents twenty five years ago in chernobyl and at the fukushima car 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 and went on to a massive secret can train 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 caused this last still the japanese government ordered the evacuation of people from the surrounding areas at the fukushima region but

this didn't happen twenty five years ago when fifty four thousand residents of the town of people next to the chernobyl power plants were kept in the town for more than twenty four hours and this of course caused some damage to them but people were subjected to a great deal of radioactive threat coming from the open reactor course these mistakes were learned some of 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 as the situation is in trouble and it's pushing one hard to friends 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. this down is all about the core of the reactor going into an uncontrollable state and that's causing our nuclear chain reaction first and then a powerful steam explosion like it happened internal 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 happen. this was a result of a failed experiment when the scientists when the personnel the fire 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 personnel pressed the emergency brake button 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 it's not been damaged according to the authorities and we hopefully think that such contamination as it happened twenty five years ago in your novel would be avoided this time with of course we have to wait and see what

happens next with all this developing story. you know or across all the latest details i spoke to. a professor of economics at the university of nottingham he told me he believes the financial cost of. consequences far beyond. i think you could see it is already you know really a terrible situation under the ideas of i c's you could use trouble really carbon. pricing is all due us because we get engineers time to join the army and it is clean just going to get you in even harder it's very difficult to assess the problem is that what you think it is the guys in the impact will be significant but i don't know if it is hidden if you recall the. big task do it in the present because what they really do is you just do it is you it looks like they were going to veto it is going to cost it lies in crises or boyo in arguing with you nose in

or. did you guys doing it is going to do this it will reduce kinds of damaging effect on the world economy but i'm pretty sure where you're just not going to cause it in the near financial crises. so let me recap for you the main developments from japan tonight work is underway at the fukushima number one nuclear plant two hundred fifty kilometers north of tokyo to try to prevent a possible meltdown after a powerful blast about facility it was reportedly caused by a failure in the pumping system not the reactor itself which we're hearing is undamaged and evacuation zone however stretching for a radius of twenty kilometers has been imposed three patients of a local hospital just three kilometers from the plant have tested positive for radiation exposure now they were already at the hospital when the blast occurred officials say they showed no signs of illness so far this comes after friday's

earthquake the biggest in japan's recorded history a massive tsunami that followed the tremor spread destruction dozens of kilometers inland killing at least seven hundred people almost ten thousand remain unaccounted for. so you look some other news today the afghan president hamid karzai says that nato and the u.s. should stop their operations in the war torn country it comes just days after karzai cousin and nine children collecting firewood were killed in two separate u.s. attacks across live now to our brussels correspondent daniel bushell you're leaving there what exactly did president karzai have to say that. well the afghan president hamid karzai as you say was furious at what he sees as a spate of killings by nato troops gave a speech his exact words were the u.s. and nato i asked to stop operations on our soil he made the call as part of an

emotional speech highly critical of the organization and its allies as a whole comes after visiting survivors of an air raid in the east of the country where he saw. the legal for a one year old child potato yet she cried on seeing those scenes just a few days ago no troops killed because i was cousin in another night raid in kandahar and that follows just recently nato admitting it killed nine children in a similar raid and just before that another sixty five civilians afghan officials alleged were killed an investigation is under way there the spokesman for the afghan president clarified that because i meant that civilian deaths should stop but this is being seen as a highly critical and embarrassing moment for nato the u.n. says that almost two hundred civilians were killed by loot so you know afghanistan

last year alone yes what is the empire going to be on. relations with nato now do you think that could be fourteen pullout date made me brought forward. absolutely that's what's being discussed here in brussels at the moment nato faces an increasing barrel of criticism not only from its own allies but in afghanistan as well the mood of the population are already highly uncertain merica is turning toxic it wants civilian deaths to stop the population says that the attack should come on the borders where they believe the real danger is and not in villages throughout the country and need to refrain from officially responding to cause those comments here but off the record american officials have said they are very angry about what they see as a public slap in the face for nato and its allies or i don't know your correspondent thanks for bringing us up to date of brussels. john reese is an

activist from the u.s. u.k. based rather stop the war coalition he told me he expects the afghan president to demand the complete withdrawal of foreign troops from his country now. it would hardly be surprising given what he's just experienced to be honest he's just experienced is what's. experiencing over the last ten years of war and occupation. a moment too soon if he is calling. us troops to get out but i think just today actually news coming out of washington looking for open ended time scale. you really do have to say this problem hasn't been solved by good. looking or we can go to the nearest twenty years. should i think really be clear you know there is no military solution to the situation solution lawyers in.

the west. are always looking for one. another to use the arab league countries have reportedly but the idea of a no fly zone over libya came during emergency talks as the member states decided to ask the u.n. security council to impose the restriction the u.k. and france have been pushing the idea but have so far failed to win firm international backing the arab league and the e.u. say resolutely committed to calling for colonel gadhafi to step down the confusion and chaos continues in libya meantime today amid the constant shift in the balance of power i think it's on a boy because of the rebel stronghold of benghazi where people there feel that any help that arrives now is simply going to be too late. he's in an air bashed in the uprising in eastern libya is like most of its purchase appends young impulsive and irreverent to the regime think these twenty two year old who had never held a gun before let alone used it that is the number 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 ragin is to sacrifice their lives for their liberation struggle nowadays he writes rhetoric. is becoming a real prospect as the pro-government forces adds closer a bloodbath seems old with an avoidable international deliberations and more to do not believe in uprising has been going on for so long that many people in god being no longer holding that count will come and that they're feeling to now on their last hope as the gadhafi forces are closing in on the battlefield the friday prayers in gaza you were the most passionate so far the city residents turned their palms 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 say that's all right mr obama we expect that you are the real got the car and the liberty looking for liberty for the peoples you look for money first because you got your money first. the little group would kill every day of every night everywhere in while in the cities arches and mobilizing their best resources to boost morale the song has become an unofficial heman of the rebellious new. ones no. good duffy preying upon his people is just one of many things that local caricaturist have adopted for their visual or fanciful interest to exhibit 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 yet there are no signs of. people leaving with the partially because some i really finding themselves in a catch twenty two situation leaving 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 there how many people are for free how many are against him and indeed whether that situation is changing many people within libya have turned to. his government because they feel that it's a repressive government that they're turning now 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 was in ghazi that more margaret

duffy began his quest for power forty two years ago a young revolutionary he 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 this theme things but that's where many fear historic parallels might and. r.t. been guys the lead. was thrown with the unrest across the arab world police in yemen have attacked anti-government demonstrators the two people were killed police used by bullets to gas and water cannon to disperse protesters a group of around ten thousand and four makeshift camp in the center of a covered all sanaa weeks of demonstrations against the thirty two year rule of president ali abdullah saleh have left about thirty. israeli military has launched a massive manhunt after five members of a jewish family were killed in the west bank settlement

a family including three children was stabbed to death by an intruder who broke into their home according to israeli media a palestinian militant group has claimed responsibility but it's unclear if they carried out the attack will it for. officials said they had made arrests but wouldn't provide details of the tour buses overturned in new york but i'm sure it's close at least thirteen people in the seriously injured eight thirty two were on board and it crashed into the guardrail and flipped on its side before smashing into your pole the driver of the bus told local police that the truck clipped his vehicle causing the accident where national transportation safety board said it's not a ploy to sixty members to investigate crash your car but it's. for the latest on the situation a news coming out of japan and indeed the rest of the world check out our website said something running twenty four seventh's for your r t dot com if you're not media t.v. this is the r.t. international news channel from moscow my name is kevin zero in thanks for being with us headlines just ahead.

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