more news today is once again flared up. these are the images and seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are today. another possible explosion of people to share a nuclear plant and the government does not rule out a potential meltdown meanwhile the radiation levels are on the rise now exceeding four hundred times the norm in some areas. it certainly isn't a global level of violence that would normally marriage intervention but some western states paint a different picture of the situation in libya calling for a no fly zone and seeking possible military intervention to reinvestigate the real situation in the country. lifting the reset to new heights the u.s.

vice president visits moscow back here before russia's world trade organization rubber ship. from our studios in moscow you are watching our teeth thanks for joining us we start with japan where officials are now warning of new threats well it seems that there is a risk of another explosion that be a fukushima power plant but the government claims it can withstand the blast like the first reactor did on saturday well japanese officials are also saying that the second reactor in fukushima could be experiencing a partial meltdown meanwhile radiation has increased four hundred fold in the region of miyagi which lies dozens of kilometers further north well it's not clear at the moment if the radiation came from the local nuclear plant or drifted out

from the facility in fukushima following saturday's explosion you just saw the government claims the radioactivity released so far there's not a pose a threat to human health well having said that the number of people admitted to hospital suffering exposure is such a be rising i made a series of aftershocks that continue to rock the. meanwhile the estimated death toll from the earthquake triggered tsunami of the miyagi province alone is believed to exceed ten thousand parties either bennett has the latest from tokyo or. actually the city is still shaking there been a number of aftershocks just this morning even one of the last one about twenty minutes ago the whole room was shaking as i walk downstairs the light fittings were shaking and it's very hard to actually walk in a straight line you're swaying and injuring a night there in a couple of aftershocks so strong in fact that we work in the uk and i could actually hear the room creaking and things falling from the roof outside so the city is still experiencing aftershocks nandan actually inflicting damage on the

city and from what i've seen that there's very little surface damage here but the transport infrastructure is definitely still suffering when trying to arrange transport now to sendai to the epicenter where the earthquake hit gaze ago. and all the trains none of the trains going to the north of the country they're not working and they're still very unsure of what actual transport links they can run with all these are shots still happening so even as far away as tokyo still suffering the after effects local authorities fear that a number of the people who have been affected by the radiation is spilled out into the atmosphere and actually rise to one hundred sixty as they actually now analyze the exposure of the people who have been evacuated from the area around the fukushima number one power plant where there is a number of reactors are still on high alert yes they one of the reactors exploded . of course is

a plane down the fears of nuclear meltdown now that are still on high alert a number of other reactors at that for pushing the number one plant and number two now out because the pressure is still very very high inside a number of the reactors and they are entering let outs diena and obviously in doing so. radiation team which is building to the radiation in the atmosphere and also to keep calling system actually on one of the reactors at that second plant was knocked out again this morning and with the other plan with the other reactors is cooling function is not working actually using pumping in seawater even around the reactor to try and cool its they've evacuated two hundred thousand people there handing out i had seen these people coming out of those affected areas because that source used to treat the radiation explosion. russia is closely monitoring the radiation on its territory closest to japan and moscow also says it's ready to help with russia having vast experience in dealing with both natural and manmade

disasters well archy's alexian a chef who joins us live from kiev in ukraine and the fallen over what is the capital for us but all the if i can go to you first news tell us how can russia says japan at this point. prime minister putin said the crush raised ready to double its gas supplies to japan as well as it's ready to send fuel if it's necessary of course many parts of japan remember i mean without electricity and energy is crucial at that point also russia can send fourteen units of hardware including seven jets they're ready to takeoff as soon as needed with two two hundred doctors and rescuers on board forty five countries have offered help to japan and japan has already accepted a number of those overseas including from countries like the united states great britain germany new zealand and others japanese ambassador here in moscow has sat

that japan is looking into that russia's offer of help as well meanwhile russian authorities are saying they're ready to help at any moment. we need to continue monitoring the situation in the russian far east as closely as possible i 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 around the clock gracious. the russian the tomic energy agency has assured that the possible emission of nuclear particles will not reach russia and that the radiation level adds other countries far east is currency normal nonetheless the russian does have the stat experience of dealing with consequences that over a nuclear catastrophe back in nineteen eighty six in the. you know bill in soviet you brain so perhaps that experience could be overseas to the japanese people in this case. going to you alexei that's how you just mentioned there the chernobyl

incident how can the experience from the chair noble didn't help in dealing with a situation that's unfolding right now in japan. well bowled means the chernobyl incident twenty five years ago remains history's biggest man might nuclear disaster and indeed russia is the country this point that back that it was soviet union still russia is the country which was dealing with this problem and has a vast experience in trying to resolve this issue older methods in fighting the explosion of the nuclear plants. known to the states were worked out in russia in soviet russia in moscow and in ukraine so should the japanese side ask for the russian help sure whether any real church liquidators would be dispatched to the area because it's trying to five years lost since the zone since then since the since the fall out in chernobyl but still the experience which russia possesses in that matter would be of course invaluable indeed despite that the two incidents in

chernobyl and the one which is unraveling now in japan are different in their nature still of the methods in which you can probably extinguish the fire in the reactor and i deal with this issue trying to control it to get the control back over there we have to still they're pretty much universal even despite that reactors in japan and insurable are completely different than the ones in fact which were insured noble are not produced anymore you know this is a developing story since the earthquake hit on friday that followed by the tsunami and our nuclear emergency and the world has been watching now what about in the capital that's what other people in moscow say about what's going on in the east. well there are their versions gathered outside the japanese capital here in moscow they brought flower. is and they stewed together in grief with the japanese people outside the embassy also if you take a look at any russian social network here's what the bloggers are saying they're

writing we hope that because of their samurai nature the japanese will be able to get through this crisis others are saying that we are impressed with the strength of spirit of the japanese people and together in stand in grief we stand so that people are sending condolences in all the way they can give us a story back to you and i we're getting from japan is that there's talk of a potential meltdown going on in the plant there. just spell that out for us just exactly what does that mean. well a meltdown is about the core of a nuclear reactor going into an uncontrollable state causing a nuclear chain reaction and a possible steam explosion this is exactly what happened that your novel though. it took only forty nine seconds since the start of the failed experiment so it's not till the moment when the reactor exploded leading to the contamination and to the dreadful disaster now in my report i made a short recap of what was happening in ukraine in the soviet crane twenty five

years ago let's have a look at that report spare no effort in getting the job done this typical motto for construction projects in the soviet union also applied to the chernobyl nuclear power plant where the construction kicked off in the nine hundred seventy s. it was intended to be a dream project for soviet ukraine. the birthrate in prepared was higher than all of ukraine people were given homes and there was a great demand for a workforce. to everyone work and light good. but this happy existence came to an abrupt and on april the twenty six nine hundred eighty six with the explosion over reactor at the power station the very same otto used for building the plant spare no effort was known to be used in the clear up of the world's worst ever. manmade nuclear disasters the blazing reactor was bombarded with sand and led measures which at first seem to panic driven but which were related deemed highly

effective by the international atomic energy agency this action helped to contain the radiation and enable construction of the circle for goods and structure built around the reactor to seal it well for several months after the cast of feet the lessons of chernobyl have been learned by experts worldwide since the catastrophe and will have been of assistance to those battling the latest serious nuclear accident in japan threatening contamination with large numbers of people being evacuated because of the radiation threat something which didn't happen twenty five years ago in soviet you grain the chernobyl fallout was caused by a massive human error mistakes made by the authorities in the first hours after the blast also cost many lives but the events of twenty five years ago with what is now silver in ukraine prove to be an invaluable lesson for mankind. see reporting from kiev ukraine. christopher assignments an associate professor at

a talking university says the radiation levels around fukushima are high and children may suffer the most from the exposure. people are 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 and radiation in the vicinity where is it proximately one thousand micro secrets and that is about as much radiation as a human body shouldn't your in one year and that's been released every hour so it seems like the radiation levels in the city of the reactor are quite high the biological effects will depend on a number of factors of course this year it is a measure of biological impact rather than. just the nuclear energy so for example if you are a larger person you have a larger body mass absorbing that seem amount of radiation that suggests that the

most vulnerable people will be children and the elderly people with a smaller body mass and or more we could body. i believe got a measure of the one thousand my procedure it's was quite close to the reactor so obviously the main concern is for emergency workers firefighters and military in the area people further away are probably not at so great a risk because of course the. radiation is carried by particles in the air but the mission is geometrically with distance. to stay with our team throughout the day as to keep you abreast of all the latest developments in japan. now that's a turn our attention to libya the arab league has backed the idea of a no fly zone over the country after an emergency summit of member states agreed to ask the u.n. security council so impose the restrictions suggested by the u.k.

and france that's our policy reports the actual situation there in libya is far from the way it's being presented. there's a lot more haggling on the international stage of the merits of intervention and a no fly zone then the bargaining taking place in downtown tripoli market shops here close only nowadays people are afraid and many of the africans who used to work here have fled the country but the argument that libya is on the brink of civil war so foreign intervention is needed still seems to ring a little hollow have been several hundred people killed but that's not a huge level of violence and certainly isn't a global level of violence that would normally merit intervention gadhafi has offered access to foreign media but only if the camera lenses stay well away from any of the opposition but it's a similar picture in the opposition strongholds up to ramadan break he was forced to close the benghazi office of his newspaper because of question from rebels you have to print their version of events he says or nothing the media. is

going through the hot places and all this it is a controlled way there are bridges and given that we will go for. the new was what they think and what they believe and many gadhafi supporters fear that while he may be winning the war with the rebels he's losing the information war like here in john zoo outside tripoli schoolgirl mona says she's puzzled and angry but i reported most an aries was shooting people in her town. and life certainly seems calm on the streets. this leadership treats civil war in libya except that it's sometimes leaves the country do you think that they will. get. the real thing as normal right now and in the future. will move

normally as for conflicts elsewhere with it it can't is climbing it's a little media coverage and even less foreign interest to intervene. there are events unfolding right now in ivory coast where there is also conflict an armed conflict between rebels and the government but nobody seems to be thinking of it it's only because fashionable attention is focused on libya the only reason they're interested in libya's oil think we'd be in iraq if their major export there was broccoli so as leaders meet in brussels to discuss the fate of a country hundreds of miles away many libyans are saying it's the inmates and they'll clean it up totally r t transue. antiwar columnist and historian abortion of knowledge from washington d.c. believes there is absolutely no justification for anyone to meddle in libya's affairs this is reminding me every day more of bosnia in the early one nine hundred ninety s. when a clear cut case for intervention couldn't be made in the public was not very much

in a mood for war so one had to be sort of created gradually by gradual involvement and it started with the you know humanitarian of the agents and observers and scouting missions and continued through the no fly zone and it ended up being full blown war several years later right now i mean walking the responsibility to protect doctrine is basically going to make it obvious to the entire world that this is a license to meddle doctrine there is absolutely normal. possible justification for the united states or even the e.u. to get involved in libya there's just nothing in their charters or just there's nothing that would justify this. probably as the deputy editor of spiked magazine in london says even the talk of foreign intervention is affecting the situation on the ground in libya. there is actually a bit of competition going on between the major western powers about who can see the super who can you seem to be the most kind of moral the most ethical on the

world so fronts of the moment is really seems to be driving things that most of the british prime minister and foreign secretary been talking about the possibility of intervention as well usually these things are a sign of things not going well for a politician's at home so they will they want to try and find some stories some issue on the world stage that can provide a bit of destruction provide them with a sense of. purpose which is lacking in the domestic sphere. think too much about the oil situation but i do think though is that even the saber rattling is going to have a very proud effect on this on the ground in libya i mean just the possibility of intervention. one on one hands mean that gadhafi is going to have to work much faster to try and end the uprising before the possibility of a rises on the other hand the rebels will now be looking at a broad for patrol resolve this conflict rather than looking for their own ability

to do with this situation and i think that's a very very bad sign as well i think that's going to make a mess regardless of even if one shot is fired from from from the west the possibility of it happening is already distorting things on the ground western powers have frozen the accounts of one market daffy and other senior figures in libya's government the u.s. alone as thirty billion dollars that's the largest amount of foreign assets ever seized in american sanctions actually as artie's there and mr reports history suggests libya may never see its money again after the international. as violence continues in libya the u.s. sends warships and more troops in that direction fueling speculation of a military intervention and meanwhile western countries may have already launched a war against colonel moammar gadhafi s north african regime contraries.

the freezing over. of. the weapons here the boring assets of either libya the country or khadafi and his family that some estimate to be almost one hundred billion dollars it's believed to be spread across the globe or you all money invested through the country's sovereign wealth fund everything from a stake in the company that owns the financial times newspaper to land near the spanish resort town of marbury are being developed into homes and a golf course to the oil company of your annex and billions of dollars of cash in brinks throughout europe and the u.s. the question now is what happens to all this money especially the thirty billion dollars the united states has frozen the most ever in the history of this country and this type of situation and essentially cut libby off from the entire u.s. banking system for now it stays put while the situation is still uncertain but what

is certain the president of the united states is now in control of this money which gives him a powerful tool look. at a deal about this money or some of this money. you have to move forward. whatever the. portents. things it's all a belt control and profit. an empire it's an empire where the greatest profits come from the ordinary contracts and the oil contracts. they will work overtime. they are interest to enact these sanctions the u.s. president declared the situation in libya quote an unusual and extraordinary threat to u.s. national security and foreign policy that's not typical considering there is not a clear aggressive action libya has taken against the u.s. as for libya's financial interests analysts say you could look at the history of

countries such as iran their assets were frozen in the wake of the one nine hundred seventy nine hostage crisis their money that was seized from iran back and seventy nine was still you know not good returns to the iranians so it's basically time for a plunder play you know if we can take it away from them we will the money is used most often to pay for the settlements of lawsuit against a leader or a government or to recoup losses khadafi can likely kiss their money could buy we took their nuclear capacity away made promises didn't live up to them claim that was a great victory for peace and now we're in a situation where it's clear that oil is at stake the future of the massive sums of money reach for libyan oil is now as uncertain as the divided country it came from lauren lyster r.t. new york. later this hour r.t. talks to russia solve voice who made so dimitri rug was in he says certain

countries are pushing to get involved in libya because they are reliant on its oil resources. i think if libya were just a banana growing country there wouldn't be so much interest in his domestic situation including in the humanitarian severe of course libya is a big enough energy supplier to europe certain countries like italy for example are heavily dependent on libyan deliveries others are not so much dependent but either way libya's share is considerable we know that nato for example puts energy security matters at the top of its main agenda for this reason i think that the. specter has a most direct bearing on the speed of the west decision making regarding libya. the us vice president was in high spirits when he arrived on a two day visit to moscow earlier this week his main goal was to encourage the continued reset between the two countries to libya understandably made it into the

discussions the majority of the visit was focused on trade well the talks may have been a serious issues but the mood was certainly light between medvedev joked with joe biden that he hopes the u.s. vice president won't be working on russia's bid for w t o membership all the way to the end of his career of the russian leader was promised that washington is doing all it can to make the accession happen from a crowd of strategist chris left athena says the u.s. needs russia's support and this is this if highlights that. i think that the existing relations are on a track moving forward no matter what the little disruptions are and i think that's very important and i think that's part of what biden strip is all about and obama's trip will be all about which is even if we have set backs along the way the message has to be very clear to the russian people into the american people that russia in the united states now have more in common that we do that separates us we need that russia to be part of the w.t.r.

we need to free trade with russia i think that that message is being sent to anything the united states does it will clearly take into account how the russian government leadership feels about things and i'm sure that the vice president biden is making that very clear to to the russian leadership that whatever we do in libya we're going to try to make sure that we cooperate with you and we're not in conflict with you the other thing of course is that we're coming up to the tenth anniversary of nine eleven i don't think it's lost on the american people that the russian people have been victimized by islamic terrorists and we share that in common. and i think the metaphor for that is this idea of a missile defense although it's aimed at states like iran and others i think that it's a symbol that we stand united against terrorists and that's another thing so while we might disagree on things like libya i think going forward the relationship moves forward no matter what the little setbacks might be. a political expert from the

u.s. council of foreign relations says russia and the u.s. are evolving and their relationship is changing and at passing more issues. and i think in many respects what we're seeing here is the closing of phase one and the opening of phase two of the so-called reset phase one was all about security and high politics and it was about a new start treaty missile defense iran afghanistan and that really came to a close when the russian parliament and the u.s. senate ratified start and now i think what we're looking at is more societal contact cross investment that crosses the borders of people traveling more between the two countries and trying to build the confidence that the vice president just talked to security is obviously going to be there both in north africa and trying to get us russian cooperation on missile defense but i think we're now seeing the relationship broaden out in deeper in its social roots and let's get more and other

international news making the headlines this hour reports claim up to six people have been killed and hundreds injured in violent clashes between police and as the government protesters in yemen the authorities stormed a makeshift camp of thousands of demonstrators in the capital they used live bullets tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowd or the protesters responded with a hail of rocks and live ammunition the demonstrators have been camping in the area for weeks now demanding the end of president ali of the last thirty two year rule. horrific to a bus accident in new york has claimed the lives of fifteen people and seriously injured another ten well the coach was carrying at least thirty one passengers when it flipped over slid on its side of a pole well that will slice the bus in half along the windows tearing the roof off the vehicle the driver told investigators he swerved to avoid a tractor trailer but witnesses claim the bus had been traveling at high speed or

the vehicle was returning from a casino outside the city. that's all for this hour you're watching live from moscow all the. back with the headlines in a few minutes to stay with us. from

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