explosion you can see not only power plant in japan triggers fears of possible nuclear fallout of the country's worst rather earthquake almost two hundred thousand people living near a big live as fifteen people have been going through and exposed to radiation with you with new fears of problems at the second reactor. japan's in times of burns feels has been mobilized in desperate search for survivors after the huge tsunami swept away entire villages and submerged towns and large areas around seven hundred people are confirmed as a figure expected to rise but dozens are still unaccounted for. and in other news

there are going president says nato and american troops should leave the country just days after khalid koser eyes cousin as well as nine children collecting firewood were killed in separate u.s. the tides. the arab league has repeatedly box and no fly zone over libya made unanimous calls for conduct heat to go out. international news live from moscow this is an see was need of all of us thanks for joining as the world's news is dominated by the ass quake and tsunami disaster in japan emergency crews and engineers are desperately working at the nuclear plans in the tsunami north to prevent a possible meltdown after a powerful blast of the facility the explosion was caused by a failure in the cooling system the roof collapsed but the reactor itself was in

a fax it for workers were injured in the blast almost two hundred thousand people living within a twenty kmita radius have been moved from their homes for fear of contamination in a while fifteen people are reported to have been exposed to radioactivity any facilities other. c news agencies also say japan's nuclear safety body has reported an emergency at a second reactor at friday's eight point nine magnitude earthquake also triggered a massive tsunami was trying to piles close don't cause destruction far inland over seven hundred people are confirmed one town almost ten thousand residents remain unaccounted for ten meter high waves washed away entire villages and submerged other towers and of vast areas. yet to be a democrat and our correspondent either bennett is in tokyo for us and joins us with the latest now there either so is that possibility that situation could get out of control that. it is still lying in the balance here rick.

now we don't have a good explosion actually because still at seriously the japanese government is playing down the fear of meltdown here with the explosion that happened yesterday at the fukushima number one plant that the actual reactor wasn't damaged. bridgie. more spread of relation because. the ranch actually it will interest them failed in radiation radioactive particles cesium and iodine what. were found was that the vessel itself the reactor had actually melted and that radioactive material was leaking out but it seems that that isn't the case that however and it's thought that at a map as an explosion reactors can actually happen on a scale of chernobyl twenty five years ago because these are what are called light water reactors so a huge explosion on that scale apparently isn't possible that's what experts are

saying but it's still a major concern this morning actually fears were raised they were a step in react to it in another of the plants at fukushima with a cooling system best bet failing and then what happens there is that the reactor again heats up and the concern and is that it could explode and actually now another concern is the pressure building up inside the reactor even if it doesn't rupture the pressure is a real concern and they actually have to relieve that pressure by letting out stephen and the potentially radioactive gas is inside as well and that's a very difficult balancing act so what they're doing now is pumping in seawater around these reactors to try and help that the radiation in the area is a still a massive concern and they've already evacuated one hundred step and teeth thousands of people in a twenty pound that first reactor that exploded yesterday at fukushima number one

plant and they've evacuated a further thirty thousand around the simple plant there either the fishing or just one of more that thinks the reactors in japan what state are they putting the earthquake disaster. but number of the reactors five actually shut down immediately following the earthquake because the power was knocked out the cool thing systems to the limit of them stopped working it back up. well said stop working and that's and they really put under stage emergency because the temperature inside the call actually started to get very hot and this is what led to the meltdown as a basis for watching two of the reactors that two of the plants very very closely pumping in seawater and all had to actually try and cool them down at and then the real key now is for them to actually relieve the pressure inside the the because

what's happening is because then it letting out steam radiation is falling into the atmosphere as well and that's what's leading to the company radiation building up in the atmosphere yes bailey said well so we're dropping that we've already heard today fifteen people that have suffered from radiation yesterday. that in in the atmosphere and local authorities actually fear that numbers and number could rise to one hundred sixty in the government was issuing in vice list based they still are. banked. well if you or if you go outside should cover any exposed theory of skin cover your face and mouth with these face masks and shit. also try to avoid that could also be contaminated all right let's move away from the nuclear story for a second how is the search and rescue operation going across the country after the massive tremor and the tsunami which followed. well i'm certain rescue operation

now is an absolutely massive on a massive scale but first concern now is to treat those people who have been exposed to radiation and that's what the senate yesterday and check that they get all the help they need and they need to check people in the who are staying in the shelters who have evacuated there or been left without any home to go back to because it was destroyed or been in from those areas now with radiation and that's about a quarter million people and they need to check that they're getting all the food and water many in there are ok and then they need to start rebuilding already this bill is still searching for survivors this do none in this brutal entire town. but the civic coast of japan and they've got navy ships out in the ocean can sift through that they breathe which is on a vast scale their entry at every little bit and checking for survivors they say

they've already found three thousand people and they've rescued him from underneath buildings and months that they really are but already that the police are saying actually that they feel that nine hundred people have died and they fear that number could rise as well and. because there are thousands of people still missing that wind line tight out is where it's the way it's called minamisanriku ten thousand people there still unaccounted for so the search and rescue mission is still very much on getting in here either the i told here and it was shaken again and again or the jail situation where you are. well it's still actually shaking and we still feeling aftershocks just in the last hour of felt throughout shops here with the bed and the chair and everything in the room shaking downstairs and the light fittings the shit it is blown around five seconds when all

. sway that's a very on no the feeling and those were happening throughout the night was. powerful enough to wake me up actually in like it here the room itching. trains. very much affect the transport links they're not working and by the and one of the plans by any stretch of imagination that i've been trying to arrange transports to send i want to and it seems very difficult to get out of tokyo actually the metric system here is fucking bunch. normally but the overground and they're going up north actually it's all part of the radiation or to the epicenter of where they have great happen. right our seas either ben is reporting that from talking ivan thank you very much indeed animals but see you later. relies heavily on nuclear energy and with the millions of people that are left without power russia is offering to help also says it's now working on

a raised terror says following a request from talkie oh also he's pulled out of the. russia's stepped into the breach with energy aid for japan japan used to draw thirty percent of all of its energy from nuclear power stations and that of course has been suffered terrible. to the situation in fukushima and of course the situation at 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 through an underwater cable which links the two countries 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 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. second we need to continue monitoring the situation in the russian far east as closely as possible or just talk 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 a round the clock basis. following this explosion at the fukushima plant on saturday there has been concerns that we could see a full scale meltdown which puts radioactive material into the air now the situation is being monitored very very closely in russia. this is due to close the close proximity but also close proximity there is a risk if there was clear material being put into the atmosphere that a change in weather changing wind could take any prospective first perspective nuclear cloud towards russia's far east and 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 has been looked at as a by russia's nuclear watchdog to make sure that nothing untoward is going on there to make sure that the people on the ground there are receiving all the correct information they glued to their radios they're glued to their televisions and artie's a country they've got to have a gauge the situation on the ground. are only six hundred miles away from fukushima and residents of the city of usual supply the capital of the civilian region come believe their eyes they are literally glued to their t.v. screens and wanted tarring latest news as these happening so close to their borders or 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 a huge change the society in region what they're afraid of now is a risk of radioactive contamination despite we're 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 that they should do spend there but we can't as usual though it's not really a relief 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 latest and that there will be enough time to evacuate if necessary. to nuclear catastrophe have been for question a car plant has not really raised that warning paros with a tour normal now done in ukraine in one thousand eight hundred six however ass's an exterior shots being cleared explains the two explosions are of quite

a different nature. obviously 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 chernobyl and i think bar plants 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 governments 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 campaign 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 loss 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 crete 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 the people were subjected to a great deal of radioactive threat coming from the open reactor of course these mistakes were learned the mistakes by that made by the soviet government and this

is what the japanese government is hopefully trying to avoid right now but oh. clearly if the situation is internal and fukushima one are different despite what we can see in the pictures from the japanese television the mill down 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 down is all about the core of the reactor going into an uncontrollable state and thus causing a 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 kit reactor back under control or not this did not happen internal this was a result of a failed experiment when the scientists when the personnel of the power 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 stacie intact is not being 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 but of course we have to wait and see what happens next with a whole this developing story. of the universe. will have consequences. i see because paris already you know pretty untenable situation i'm going to find is all crises trouble. crises is over the last two or three years and it's time to join amir and it's crazy it's going to. be even

harder it's great if you're going to exist in france so in pick a destabilizing the impact will be significant but i hope it simply didn't need to be called. the dust in question because they meter is just an easy it loves to morrow in the middle east is going to cost the lives in prices or oreo in other words who knows and also the disgusting to go into a central lady's constant meeting if we don't know what we don't know me but i am going to see where it is not going to cause it in one zillion financial crises. and remember with the story dominating the news this hour work is underway at fukushima number one nuclear plants two hundred fifty kilometers north of tokyo to prevent a possible mile down after a powerful blast at the facility it was reportedly caused by a failure in the pumping system not the reactor itself which was undamaged

a twenty kilometer radius evacuation zone has been imposed but the latest reports from japan say that fifteen people have exposed to radioactivity near the facility the u.n. nuclear weapon says it's been told by a trip that radiation levels near the plant have fallen in with some hours friday's earthquake was the biggest since records began interpreting a massive tsunami that followed the tremors spread destruction far inland killing at least seven hundred people almost ten thousand remain and account of. on to other news afghan president hamid karzai says nato and the u.s. should still go over asians in the war torn country this comes just days after nine children collecting firewood and karzai is cousin were killed in two separate u.s. a time it's all she's done you a bushel has the details. the afghan president hamid karzai as you say was furious at what he sees as a spate of killings by nato troops he gave a speech his exact words were the u.s.

and nato i asked to stop the 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 illegal for a one year old child amputated me actually cried on seeing those scenes just a few days ago nato troops killed because i was cousin in another night raid in kandahar and that follows just recently nato admitting he had killed nine children in a similar raid and just did all that another sixty five civilians afghan officials allege for 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 that's what's being discussed

here in brussels at the moment nato faces an increasing barrow's of criticism not only from its own allies but in afghanistan as well the mood of the population already highly and to american 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. need to refrain from officially responding to causes comments here but off the record american officials have said they are very angry at what they see as a public slap in the face for nato and its allies. a lot of us from the u.k. based the war coalition says he expects the other than president to demand a complete withdrawal of foreign troops from his country it would hardly be surprising given what he just experienced but to be honest what he just experienced

is what. experiencing over the last ten years of war and occupation. a moment too soon if he is calling for the u.s. troops to get out i think just today actually news coming out of washington looking for a good time scale for staying in afghanistan where you really do have to say this problem hasn't been solved by military means or in a decade. long looking are looking very quickly twenty years. should i think really be clear you know the reason no military solution to the situation the solution lies in the hands of the people in the west. you know we're looking for what. the arab league has applied to the idea of a no fly zone over libya after an imagine to some its member states agree to ask the u.n. security council to impose the restriction the u.k. and france have been pushing the idea back not so fast on international backing the

arab league and the e.u. want kind of the data to step down confusion and tails continues only that i made the calls to shift in the balance of power and he's at some point i was in the rebel stronghold of benghazi where people feel that i did help well the right to note. bloated hasty and the bashed in the uprising in eastern libya is like most of its participants young impulsive and rather end to the regime that these twenty two year old who had never held the gun before but a long used it that has done them with my father showed me how to use in 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 all but an avoidable international deliberations on what to do about believing an uprising had been going on for so long that many people in that

being no longer hold that county will come and that they're killing to alan our last hope as they get out the forces are closing in on the battlefield the friday prayers in gaza where the most passionate so far city residents turn their palms to the skies that many hold would have been declared a no fly zone by now. as more coffins arrive from the front line high spirits have given way to sense of abandonment after 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 real democratic and liberty looking for liberty for the peoples you look for money first government first. lit up would kill every day on every night everywhere like in while in the cities

arches and mobilizing that best resources to boost morale the song has become a non-official him of the rebellious youth them tough ones. yes. but. still. good daffy preying upon his people is just one of many themes that local caricaturists have adopted for their visual or fanciful impromptu exit visions like this one and now on display in almost every rebel controlled c.g. i 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 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 me 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 margaret duffy began his quest for power forty two years ago a young revolutionary he overthrew the king in a bloodless coup with 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 dandruff. r.t. been guys the. and saying with unrest across the arab world and police in yemen one

hundred times and to government demonstrators see people were killed by police used live bullets tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters who go around town from thousands of sound and they have been the center of the. it's also not good for demonstrations against this thirty two year rule of american bad president ali abdullah saleh of the left about. the israeli military has launched a massive manhunt after five members of a jury trial who were killed in a west bank settlement that the senate including the family including three children was stabbed to death by an intruder who broke into the home according to israeli media a palestinian militant group claimed responsibility but it's unclear if they carried out that time military officials said they had made arrests but would provide. the toolbars has either turned in the bronx in new york killing at least fourteen people and series that injuring eight thirty to work

on board one of crashed into a guardrail and flipped on its side before smashing into a pole the driver of the bus told local police that the truck. causing the accident the national transportation safety board has assembled a sixteen member team to investigate the crash. the latest on the situation and news coming out of japan and the rest of the world check our web site also you got caught well this is also coming to you live from moscow thanks for watching the latest headlines coming up shortly after the break.

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