no but still should image of an air force general sky the c.s. lobby and sky talked insulters historical hotels of escape culture in the city and sky called smalls melancon media has a good up until some strength for mr tropicana hotel. this is r.t. from moscow i'm kevin o. in the main use an explosion at the fukushima atomic power plant in japan triggered fears of possible nuclear fallout africa stating of course the reactors roof has collapsed injuring four workers people within twenty kilometers of the plant to begin from their home. was severed from of course a huge tsunami which swept away entire villages and submerged bass barriers over seven hundred people are confirmed dead tonight thousands more are still

unaccounted for. in other news the afghan president says nato and american troops should leave his country it comes just days after hamad karzai cousin as well as nine children who were collecting family killed in separate u.s. attack. on the arab league has backed a no fly zone over libya as member states decide to ask the u.n. security council to impose an instruction the league is united to calling for colonel gadhafi to go meanwhile libya's still gripped by chaos while rebels come under more pressure from forces loyal to the. belly of our colleague spoke to christopher simons he's a professor at the international christian university in tokyo he shares his thoughts of a somewhat the rection the nuclear incident from japan my take now. no the situation is quite dangerous it seems as though hopefully it will not be serious as chernobyl. but after

a school entirely i was watter. 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 celsius. the good news is that that in the daiichi reactor there. is entirely water so a material venting into the atmosphere will likely be just steam radioactive steam in the case i'm sure noble the reactor was moderated by graphite and. holds the radiation and spritz much further as dust and gas so. that was the

significant problem with sharon noble the the neutron moderator in the airplane that reactor was different and the radiation could spread much further just to give us an idea for those of us who never seen a reactor when the roof of a reactor collapses what exactly does that mean does it mean that the whole facility is breach of the core of the reactor there has been breached is in danger . enough not necessarily now you have to remember that at the daiichi site there are i believe six active reactors all of which have shut down it appears as though reactor building number one is the site of the explosion now this is the oldest of the six reactors at that age she was built in one thousand seven hundred nine so it suggests that the oldest structure on the site was also the weakest keep. being advised to stay in their homes and not drink water turn off their air conditioners so it sounds like the government is preparing people for

a significant nuclear event he just said that people were asked to a not drink of water then what what are their options there you mean tap water is that's what we're seeing that's right that's right that suggests that the government. is taking precautions but it seems as though they're suggesting that as the radioactive steam which is venting from building number one cools and i was here of course it's the it's night now as that steam condenses into liquid water it will enter the water supply carrying. radioactive iodine and cesium isotope with it which treat contaminated people in the vicinity of the biological effects will depend on a number of factors for example if you are a larger person you have a larger body mass absorbing that same amount of radiation that suggests that the most vulnerable people will be children and the elderly people with

a smaller body mass or more we could waddy. i believe that measure of the one thousand might perceive or it's was quite close to the reactor so obviously the main concern is for emergency workers firefighters and military in the area of people further away are probably not at so great a risk of course the. radiation is carried by particles in the air. diminishes geometrically with distance so hopefully the levels ten kilometers away or twenty kilometers away are not nearly as high at the moment what else can the government do how have they been having this and what else can they do is it going to be a show that power is it going to be an issue of machinery what does it entail to contain it. something like this. yes when there is an accent question it's difficult to answer out without knowing exactly what's happening on the ground the

military and the firefighters who are in the city working on this problem are certainly specially trained to deal with this kind of emergency. i could imagine that they are attempting to cool. the remaining reactor core using a high pressure washer if the roof of the building is off there and that water will simply vaporize into radioactive steam in the amount of water required to cruel the reactor core will be significant and unfortunately emergency workers in the vicinity will be receiving. quite dangerous levels of radiation. at this point the best thing that the public can do what a government can do for the public is to move people as far away as possible and they will we have the whole world watching what's going on in japan memories of chernobyl come up and have been

a repeat said now what is the effect for the rest of the world some have been mentioning it's an issue of the wind to carry radiation of the seas being a contaminated what exactly is the impact the implication of such a disaster on the rest of the world. well hopefully the first of all hopefully this disaster will be compared to chernobyl relatively we can hope for relatively small scale disaster as i mentioned only one out of a six reactors at fukushima dai ichi seems to have exploded or not the reactor itself or the building around it yes of course depending on the prevailing winds and the road and the sea conditions that radiation will be carried elsewhere in the worlds. i don't want to speculate without having more facts but i would personally like to be cautiously optimistic that given the nature of this

reactor given the fact that it is a light water boiling water reactor cooled only by water without this radioactive material we don't know. it either not carried too far or that the effects of that damage will be will be contained and this from not be a situation comparable to charitable when radioactive dust clouds reached europe north america and japan is that the cost of it was me that say three tectonic plates it's definitely prone to earthquakes and you have a nuclear power plants for my first question is can it has been decided it's been designed to withstand such quakes and the second question is is the risk is that such a great risk to how the nuclear power plant in the first place in a country like japan. yes the question of whether or not going to japan should have nuclear power is of course the upper most in many people's minds tonight of

course yes these these reactors have been built for any eventuality not only earthquake but some kind of. external damage from. this some sort of accident whether. externally impacts from a car or airplane these reactors are built to last now as i mentioned these daiichi reactors are quite old now they're approximately forty years old the oldest one was built in one nine hundred seventy nine and i believe the number six reactor was completed in the early one nine hundred eighty s. . the technology the earthquake prevention and earthquake proofing technology such as it is has moved on since then and as you as you've seen the effects of this very powerful earthquake on tokyo have been. wait a minute we are very fortunate that japan has incredibly strict building codes and

unlike the situation in kobe it seems as though these codes have been followed and buildings in tokyo and other parts of japan have resisted the quake and nuclear reactors will have been built to even stricter standards so these and these fukushima daiichi reactors will be built to contain to withstand rather the impact of a significant tectonic event a problem in this case does not seem to be the structure of the reactor itself rather the fact that the for some reason the electricity supply provided by the backup generators the back of diesel generators failed and now these generators would be onsite they would be very close to the reactor and i don't know what would cause them to fail other than the the transmission lines to the reactor or the earthquake damaging the diesel generators and sells improvements can always be

made and the new generations of light water reactors are certainly safe. i would say i am out of two minds about whether japan should have a nuclear power in terms of current global environmentalists situation it's a better alternative than fossil fuels but of course given today there are significant dangers in a country such as a parent thank you very much for it taking after your time christopher assignments from international christian university in tokyo hungry for the full story we've got it for us the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. they've been. nice. and the d.v.d.

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the top stories tonight an explosion at the fukushima atomic power plant in japan triggers fears of possible nuclear fallout after a devastating earthquake the reactors roof has collapsed injuring four workers people within twenty kilometers of the plant moved from. japan's was spread of a tremor causing huge tsunami which swept away entire villages and submerged vast areas over seven hundred people are confirmed dead but thousands are still unaccounted for. you know the news the afghan president says nato and american troops should leave his country this comes just days after how many cars ice cousin

as well as nine children were collecting firewood were killed in separate u.s. attacks. on the arab league has packs a no fly zone over libya was meant to stay inside the us a un security council composed of the structure of the league is also united in calling for colonel gadhafi to go meanwhile libya is still gripped by chaos rebels come under more pressure from forces north. i'm kevin allen thanks for being with us more news in full for me in fifteen minutes on our table it's sport next you didn't see. thank you for joining us this is sports today i mean you know neal these are our headlines this hour. the longest ever russian football season has kicked off with a story was told on saw it for carlos is next to cross those are the first teams in

action this year. would head we catch up with newly reinstated russian basketball coach david blotz who shares his thoughts on the challenges that lie ahead for the cheap cars and seven european champions. a new go stateside the national football league begins its lock up the team owners feel true reach agreement with the future. and historic russian premier league season has kicked off on crusted are still shaking off the rust as they open the extended campaign where games will be played throughout the winter until may next year a good story for the newly promoted cross the boys the so the russian outfit earning a point away to near neighbors to see the little scoreline chances well they were few and far between the genome a stadium with the best opportunities for both sides not coming on some last few moments

a free kick from new brazilian signing the legendary roberto carlos well kept up by the russians are shot stopper right before the final whistle milner would finish. the no six meanwhile have won the first game of the new season the side who normally missed out on european football last season beating. one nil leandro doing the necessary from the penalty spot late on a school world game played in brawls need to be on living conditions of sport tax bill. her story of the season has also wrapped up claiming the early growing rights in moscow beating vietnam or the real women lead free no that almost lost her grip on the three points after a fierce the number rally three to have it. over in any and manchester united or into the semifinals of the f.a. cup alex ferguson's charges getting one over their all rivals arsenal are old for

offering to fill the space for a fiery ninety minutes probably with the silver and we're really getting picked on signage on track for a record twelve feet across and earlier both in became the first side to reach the final for calling out for a way to birmingham a last minute pull from chung is going lead making all the difference in the first two. brings us to the constable hockey league playoffs who are both visiting teams lokomotiv. headwinds in their conference semifinals in lafayette adama reka the teeth in game three of their series amazing clash this lock in which he finding the net eight times with the llama scoring for themselves but the series now is moving two games to warm in favor of local new outland twelve and scott in the moscow region did news for the roots in this one as well you know the score to disappear just birdman meaningly also take the true one lead in the best of seven notch series and. the russian people received

a timely push last week when david blots agreed to stay on as head coach of the national team richard from porfiry called up at the moment to sell food was as candid as ever and for the camera. this season hasn't been a kind one for russian basketball but the country's representatives are new year's eve sask on him key part of the first hurdle this was pretty surprising to me only men have been one of the continent's houses over the last few years about billy's bay have been a mucky from the standpoint of cisco is just amazing the amount of injuries and and physical difficulties that they've had this year i don't know how you. how you can combat that how you can fight against that you know to lose the main players that they've that they've missed throughout the whole year particularly i'm talking about. guys from the national team you know it's just difficult to replace those guys the other hand you've got to recognize

a cesco was an eight final fours in a row or something that's never been done and i will forever will be down in the gutter maybe give them a break. however there have been a few plus points the russian league is one of the trying to dissipate in yes' and looks like say it's cause you don't mince maybe finally challenge this season as well seen a reduction in the number of foreign players plying their trade in the country which is certainly good news for russia's head coach but one thing about the league this year is that there's less foreigners less emphasis on the foreigners more russian players are getting minutes and time to show themselves and and improving and for me as the russian national coach that's a good thing. but what are some old programs still remain point guard being the key one jail holder still russia spreading position with distinction for a number of years the pittsburgh native is now thirty four and can't be relied on for much longer and black believes it's up to the country's coaches to try and find a solution to the struggling for your position is the most problematic situation in

russia and has been for many years. and this is something that needs to be not only discussed what needs to be addressed from the teaching of educational standpoint first at the lowest levels and then as we. work up into the higher levels in order to improve the likes of detroit's told them so i'm going to show off a family trying to provide a solution a point beyond i would have and no way need to be in the same class as something like cold and flu life dimitris de'monte to so ricky rubio clinton's top songs are not as it should come down billy's a country still has some way to go till it can produce play is a piece count up got some interesting theories on this by the way why there are not natural point guards in russia some of them are. educational and some of them are. cultural some of the more geographical when just to give you a small example you know. and freedom of play usually is developed on the

playgrounds and how many people are playing outside in the playgrounds in minus twenty five degrees so you know that's a geographical reason it's very difficult to find kids who are just out there playing with a bowl and playing free and developing the kind of magination and openness for the game that you find when in warm weather countries where guys just off the streets play it all the time you know it seems like a little thing but it's a big maybe one of the reasons we don't see a lot of natural point guards and it's been a lean year for russian basketball and that will continue to have to make to get a few resources he has or just disposal well it's unlikely the american israeli will find a cure for his problem position the head of the upcoming european championships and if you wayne your meaning is ongoing search will continue richard we don't see a car that's still a possible but move to the n.b.a. we're boston's big three we're done sized in philadelphia as the sixers i think

eastern conference taking celtics home reality paul pierce and kevin garnett combining for just thirty points in the close eating i need the central los carnets really set that if it's going early in this one story for jack said jimmy. in the first quarter boston do seem to lose the spring in their step down the stretch regions rondell missing a little a lot and it's pretty hard to root holliday to make it forty nine range in the third fourth quarter seeing the celtics in the state's three buckets in the sixty minutes really. points in the city of. hope for a new jersey came back from twenty points trying to force overtime and then beat the visiting los angeles clippers. are off home team left to celebrate a fourth straight win after the nets biggest comeback two years toronto saw for india while charlotte beat portland derrick rose is continuing on his strong bid

for the m.v.p. award scoring thirty four points in chicago's right of the hall. housework had been the low continues to show his affection for doubles doubles the twenty two year old extending his run up to will figure out a point. to a fifty three straight games in victory over. russell westbrook also talking up his thirteen points eleven assists helping defenders beat. the top ranking team in the league meanwhile got to witness some live pucks flying around the home arena because they had to lay in the clash with the king's son tony with those arriving that scare to take the with five trucks. america's most popular sport meanwhile has started a lockout it's the n.f.l. players' union that feeling to agree on how to divide over nine billion dollars of its profits the union has been this certified thus clearing the way for a player's lawsuit the face of the twenty eleven season will not be decided through the courts. well you know the union walked away from the mediation process today to

sort of fine. we we do believe that mediation is the dearest and fastest way to reach an agreement that works for the players for the clubs and we believe that ultimately this is going to be negotiated have to negotiate table so they've chosen to pursue the the strategy and that is their choice but we will be prepared to negotiate an agreement to get something done that is clear to the players and for the clubs. that brings us finally to rugby union where the shock of the season's six nations championship current today italy beating reigning champions france for the first time in the tournaments history seems well incredible in rome as the italians overcame a twelve point deficit with tough an arched goal to claim their coping with all the offense seventeen point man merkle burger moscow doing everything right with his gooch much to the home side as the lights elsewhere in the day wheels kept their

championship hopes alive with a hard fought six point win over the visiting card that. i'm not is all your sport thought i'll see you soon were weather is coming up in just a technical. more

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