wants of another possible explosion at the fukushima nuclear plant and the government does not rule out a two time chilled meltdown we will radiation levels are on the rise of now exceeding four hundred times the norm in soft 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 a possible military intervention investigate the real situation in the country. lifting the wii south to new heights the u.s. vice president visits moscow backing the bid for russia's world trade organization

membership. coming to you live from our studios in moscow you're watching our teeth thanks for joining us now japanese officials are warning of new threats in the country well they fear there's a risk of another explosion at the fukushima power plant but remain confident it can withstand a blast like the first reactor did on saturday well the government is also saying that the second reactor in fukushima could be experiencing a partial meltdown meanwhile radiation has increased to four hundred fold in the region of the yagi which lies in dozens of kilometers further north well it's not clear at the moment if the radiation came from the local nuclear plant or drifted from the facility in fukushima balding site. explosion officials claim the

radioactivity released so far does not pose a threat to human health having served out the number of people admitted to hospital suffering exposure is said to be rising amid a series of aftershocks that continue to rock the country meanwhile the estimated death toll from the earthquake triggered tsunami in the miyagi province alone is believed to exceed ten thousand. moscow says it is ready to help tokyo with russia having vast experience in dealing with both natural and manmade disasters well earlier i spoke to are. from kiev in ukraine and i thought that no vehicle in the capital for more. prime minister putin said the crush raised ready to double its gas supplies to japan as well as it's ready to stand fuel if it's necessary of course many parts of japan remember me 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 now forty five countries have offered help to japan and to japan has already accepted and 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 the rushes over 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 to 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. russia does have this sad experience of dealing with the consequences over a nuclear catastrophe back in one thousand nine hundred eighty six in that you know

in soviet ukraine so perhaps that experience could be obese to the japanese people in this case. are going to you alexei i tell you just mentioned there the churn noble incident how can the experience from of the tree no sort of help in dealing with the situation that's unfolding right now in japan. well belding's teacher noble incident twenty five years ago remains history's biggest man might nuclear disaster and indeed russia is the country despite the fact 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 a nuclear power. to this day two were worked out in russia in soviet russia in moscow and in ukraine so should the japanese side ask for the russian help i'm not sure whether any real charitable liquidators would be dispatched to the area because it's twenty five years since the zone since instance the since the fall out

into your global but still the experience which russia possesses in the aftermath 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 deal with this issue trying to control it to get the control back over the reactor still there pretty much universally even despite that reactors in japan and internet well are completely different than the ones in fact which were insured or are not produced anymore they were this is a developing story since the earthquake hit on friday then followed by the tsunami and now a nuclear emergency the world has been watching now what about in the capital of the party what do the people in moscow say about my what's going on in the east there when feed the japanese embassy here in the school the book flowers and the stoop to get in grief with the japanese people also if you take

a look at any social network ove russia here's what the bloggers are saying we hope that because of their sam right nature the japanese will be able to get through this crisis the others are writing we are impressed with this train of spirit of the japanese people together in grief we stand with them so that people are sending condolences in all the ways they have cable just going back to you alexei the latest we're getting from edge of pan is that there's talk of a potential meltdown going on in the plant there and just spell that out for us a meltdown is just exactly what what does that mean. with a meltdown is about the cool. of a nuclear reactor going into an uncontrollable state causing a nuclear chain reaction and a possible steam explosion this is exactly what happened the trouble though ensure no bullets only forty nine seconds since the start of the failed experiment so it's still 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 your brain 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 when construction kicked off in the nine hundred seventy s. it was intended to be a green project for soviet ukraine. and the birth rate in prepared was higher than all of ukraine people were given homes then there was a great demand for a work force in chernobyl so everyone worked and lighted. but this happy existence came to an abrupt end 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 plants where no effort was known to be used in the clear up of the world's worst ever manmade nuclear disasters a blazing reactor was bombarded with sand and lead measures which at first seemed

grainy driven but which related deemed highly effective by the international atomic energy agency this action helped to contain the radiation and enable construction of the sarcophagus a structure built around the reactor to seal it off for several months after the catastrophe 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 so ukraine that you're not. it was caused by a massive human error mistakes made by the authorities in the first hours after the loss also cost many lives but the events of twenty five years ago and what is now silver in ukraine have proved to be an invaluable lesson for mankind. see

reporting from kiev ukraine meanwhile the emergency services are on high alert in the russian far east let's cross live to our busy couple you know grandchildren who is in the hollywood region and for us. that he can just tell us what is the situation so far and be a far east. oh tessa imagine if it shows i hear all the region are saying that levels of radiation remain normal and they've been on high alert they are constantly checking those levels average i was ever seen that was an explosion at the fukushima plant which is just six hundred miles away from where we are now we can actually check for ourselves the level of the levels of radiation around. what i'm wondering is these so-called geiger counter. measures really and levels around and the figure of these showing now is that jumping between one and two microns for hour as these counters professional used in so

cynical burra trees by the margins there's ministry at all and i'll and other specialized services well you know i do you know how much that actually means the level is much lower than the average in the capital of moscow and also at passenger on a plane flying from moscow to science a lot of our school for example receives as much as twenty two microns per hour which is time for. the camera showing now in the capital of this region. oh well of course officials are on high alert as they are receiving confirmed reports from the authorities seem japan that nuclear meltdown is there a likely you have the fukushima plant and the good news though is that as a lot depends on the weather the wind is now going in the direction of the pacific ocean but from what we know from other independent experts we've spoken to is that

weather is very changeable and things could also quickly and also if there is an explosion in case of an explosion inside one of the reactors at the fukushima plant . the radiation would be spreading in a way and the. part of russia the region is the closest to japan the coral islands for example are some two hundred miles away from from fukushima which would mean that russia could be seriously if we're talking about a nuclear disaster which hopefully will not happen ok well as the developments continue to work for what can you just give us an idea of the mood on the streets there how are they reacting to the news of what's happening in japan. people here are closely monitoring the situation and avaricious the first reports about the local shame accidents were shown on their t.v.

. actually can't believe their eyes that all this was happening in such a vicinity on saturday they'd been trying to call the emergency as ministry of the line result was busy to find out whether there is any threat to their health and what preventive measures could be taken setting from where they could get these guy great counters to measure radiation levels for themselves to anding out to buying the. right wine to pat themselves for a possible. radioactive emissions well but still a lot to balance out the people and the reaction has been different for example spoke to the director of the local space make station and use as use not afraid at all. really years ago shortly after a while actually some fifteen years ago shortly after a nuclear disaster struck another one in the ukraine he visited. years

after that with use family one of the health resorts and he says he wasn't afraid at all and years after years in his family are quite alright so he's not afraid and he's not considering moving down we're taking a flight and go we turn now the region of russia or even abroad ok well thank you very much for that update i think you know groucho reporting from russia's far east but let me just bring you up to date on some breaking news we're receiving there are reports that there have been damage to a fuel rods. nuclear plant we don't have that much detail yet as to what exactly the dab interest like or the extent of the damage but that is the latest from japan the fuel rods at the fukushima nuclear plant have been damaged it has not been avoided well let's get some. expert opinion on the situation in japan from christopher simons associate professor at the international christian university in tokyo let's assignments as i've been there saying earlier their recent report is

that there have been damage to fuel rods at the fukushima nuclear plant just as a what does that mean what kind of damage could the fuel rods be under right now we're trying to court where they're trying to call these installations as well earlier are these the ones prone to explosion because it has fuel can just tell us what it could have been. good afternoon and good evening from tokyo well yes the damaged fuel rods likely suggest because of that explosion we had yesterday in which a large amount of superheated steam escaped from reactor number one causing explosion which we saw are damage to the fuel rods in this case will not cause a fire and again this is a key difference between the disaster going on at the moment it is a disaster and a charitable incident in. ukraine where there will be the

situation is situation is the furor adds can melt they can become oxidized and. roger protected by condom code and when it comes into contact with water it result is a production of a large amount of hydrogen which is of course explosive and causes a large explosion as we saw yesterday ok well yes we do need a bit more information about thank you for giving us a bit of insight as to what could have happened but the other flow of information we're getting here reports they're saying that the radiation levels in a province is now four hundred times that of normal levels now could you comment on that do you think that radiation is coming from the local nuclear plant in any argue prefecture or is it coming from the fukushima area where the air power plant

in trouble is at. yes this is quite a serious report and whether the weather to radiation is coming from fukushima daiichi reactor number one or number three which is also having problems or more locally is a very important question to sort of i would hazard to guess that it's coming from fukushima daichi number one now there are different types of radiation being released into the atmosphere different types of isotopes the good news is that a lot of the steam which extinct in the explosion from day to reactor number one building yesterday is relatively light isotopes that is ice isotopes such as nitrogen nitrogen sixteen these isotopes have very short half life span and can really cause long term damage to human helps a more serious problem is that they have also detected isotopes of iodine and

cesium in the area around the fukushima explosion these are much heavier isotopes and that means that if they get into the human body or if they get into the soil with water supply they can cause long term radiation poisoning and ok as you rightly said it has to be determined where exactly that radiation is coming from but the japanese government has been trying to as opposed to keep calm there they're saying that there is no danger for the people yet in terms of radiation but then we hear of a report of a potential melt out or radiation spread and they're also implementing evacuation plans which sort of indicate the kind of danger they think there is in the situation it's clear that they do whatever it panic but really how bad is the situation given all that is happening. yes there is this question of how much the japanese government is telling us are they holding back some information simply to

prevent mass panic i believe that this time the government is being quite open with the people and of the exclusion zone around the damaged reactor is a safe zone now if you remember yesterday the exclusion zone began at approximately three kilometers in radius and was expanded to ten kilometers and then twenty kilometers around the time of the explosion and reporters are being turned away from that reactor at distances of up to sixty kilometers in comparison the exclusion zone the famous or notorious zone around here noble is a thirty kilometer zone and i believe that the twenty kilometer zone stablished around the reactor number one is a relatively safe zone it's very important to stress again that it would meltdown is a very general word and it means very different things depending on the type of reactor in question with a sure noble disaster it was an explosion inside that reactor this was

a combination of faults in the reactor design and also unfortunately some human error a fire inside the reactor vessel or the surrounding containment vessel is i would say impossible in the case of a boiling water reactor such as fukushima daiichi there cannot be. based on the design of the reactor and what it means to have a boiling water reactor which you cannot really have a fire what they call a core fire in the vessel or the containment vessel so that is a very important point it means that even if these fuel rods melt partially and create super heated steam and nitrogen gas which can cause an explosion there is relatively little chance of an explosion of the type that occurred in sharon or ok well it's now the second day of intense attention surrounding the plan especially after the world saw an explosion coming from a nuclear plant or do you think this incident will affect the attitude towards

nuclear power. yes unfortunately i think it certainly will in terms of japanese cultural consciousness not being japanese i wouldn't want to speak for the japanese population but generally japan is very anti-nuclear certainly in terms of of course nuclear proliferation and worldwide ownership of nuclear weapons in terms of nuclear power well the japanese society is generally a very pro green or ecological society and up to this point they have viewed nuclear power as a relatively safe and green alternative. based on what's happened in the past couple of days i think it would be fair to say that there will be some reaction you might call it needs your reaction but also justifiable reaction about having nuclear reactors in this country at all but one thing i can say in favor of these

reactors is these light water reactors are incredibly safe and the fukushima daiichi reactors are very awards and if we knew versions of these reactors are built in japan it is likely to be redundant safety systems in them the emergency cooling systems and shotgun systems will be far better than the ones that are in the damaged reactors now so i think there is a future for nuclear power in japan but it would be better if there were other alternatives such as wind and solar and tidal power but those technologies at the moment simply cannot provide a sufficient amount of power for a country such as japan so while there may be a sudden this or a reaction against nuclear power i think the government will probably continue to use nuclear power in this country again that comparisons have been drawn would be a chair noble tragedy yourself and said that they are different says it's not differences in the way that two of the chain reactions from the two incidents are

unfolding but are there lessons that can be learned from the a turn over tragedy that could be applied it to the situation in japan. yes perhaps there are not lessons specifically which can be learned from the chair noble disaster that's principally because the reactor types are so different material the reactor was a very different type of reactor moderated by these as i mentioned yesterday these graphite rods now or moderate by graphite whereas the fukushima reactor is a very well for nuclear reactor quite a simple design a very simple and easy to control his side which is cooled by highly pressurized water however as you say there are certainly lessons to be learned a major lesson i'd say which can be taken from this disaster is that the emergency backup system that is the pumping system which pumps high pressure water into the reactor to cool reaction after the control rods are fully inserted and the reactor

is essentially shut down what they say or what they say is scrounge that is an emergency shutdown after the reactor is scrammed you must continue to pump a large volumes of water into the reactor vessel to cool the reaction now these generators these backup generators which drive those water pumps failed and they should not have failed there are probably two to four backup systems independent backup systems in each reactor at fukushima daiichi i would guess because it's an old reactor i don't have the specific a sign of that reactor i would guess there are probably two independent backup systems that reactor what they call the c.c.'s the emergency control systems and those did not work they should have worked and after those generators failed the reactor had to switch to emergency battery power which in turn failed so there was a problem of some kind with the backup systems and the emergency control systems

whether that was caused by great damage or tsunami damage i don't know and i don't think that is generally known at this time. so therefore the most important lesson which can be drawn from this disaster is the need for redundant backup systems the backup systems are reliable they do work they have a very simple procedure they are simply large high pressure water. and if you have enough of them independently powered by gasoline or diesel generators then they should not fail i will thank you very much for your insight and giving us a bit more detail christopher sirens from international christian university in tokyo thank you thank you all do stay with r.t. throughout the day as we keep you abreast of all the latest developments in japan. well let's now go to a libya the arab league has backed at the idea of a no fly zone over the country after an emergency summit of member states agreeing

to ask the u.n. security council to impose the restriction suggested by the u.k. and france because r.t. spotlessly are 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 it 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 dr ramadan break he was forced to close the benghazi office of his newspaper because of pressure from liberals you

have to print their version of events he says or nothing of the media. is going to the hot places and all these cities are controlled where there are bridges and then given that he will go through. the new laws what do you 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's outside tripoli schoolgirl mona says she's puzzled and angry by reports that most an aries was cheating people in her town is. right. and life certainly seems calm on the streets. this leadership tweet this civil war in libya except that it's coming from constantly this country do you think that they will. get.

things normal right now and in the future. will move normally as for conflicts elsewhere with it it can't is climbing is 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 you're interested in libya's brother your oil think we'd be in iraq if their major export there was broccoli so as leaders mission brussels to discuss the fate of a country hundreds of miles away many libyans will say it's the inmates and they'll clean it up policy r t. the us vice president was in high spirits when he arrived on a two day visit to moscow earlier this week all his main goal was to encourage the continued reset between the two countries while libya understandably made it into

the discussions the majority of the visit was focused on a boosting a trade for the talks may have been on the serious issues but the mood was certainly light. joe joe biden he hopes the u.s. vice president won't be working on russia's bid for w.t. or membership all the way to the end of his career or the russian leader was promised that vasant and is doing all it can to make the accession happen. and you're watching r t live from moscow more news coming your way i'll be back with the headlines shortly.

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