look the global financial headline. was a report. to the. japanese media is reporting fuel rods of the fukushima nuclear plant have been damaged the government meanwhile still isn't ruling out a potential meltdown on board the now possible explosion the facility radiation levels are on the rise now exceeding four hundred times the norm in some parts of the country. with colonel gadhafi is false is closing in on rebel strongholds in libya the daily lives of many people are slowly returning to normal but some western states paint a different picture calling for no fly zone and seeking possible military intervention. and lifting the resets to new ideas the u.s.

vice president visits north go back in the bid for russia's world trade organization membership. for one well this is our japanese police say the death toll following friday's mega quake and tsunami has now exceeded one thousand people but fears remain it will easily be ten times that it all comes amid warnings of new threats in the country officials of fear there's a risk of another explosion at the fukushima power plant could remain confident it can withstand the blast like the first reactor did on saturday but the government is also saying that a second reactor in from sheba could be experiencing a partial meltdown meanwhile radiation has increased four hundred fold in the. my

aggie which lies of thousands of kilometers of further north it's not clear at the moment that the radiation came from the local nuclear plant but all drifted up from the vicinity in focus following saturday's explosion officials that claim the radioactivity released so far does not pose a threat to human health but having said that the number of people admitted to hospital suffering exposure is said to be rising and it is a series of aftershocks a continue to wrong country the japanese prime minister has been addressing the situation and he said that twelve thousand people have been rescued so far he calls the aid the hardest time for the country since world war two we wall the emergency services are on high alert at russia's far east r.t. as you can get a job or gauge is the situation for us in the struggling region. shows insecure you say that radiation levels remain normal in russia's for instance ever since then you can't help launch in fukushima was hit by an explosion they've been monitoring

levels closely we can even check the radiation levels for ourselves this is the so-called geiger counter this is used in professional safety called war troops by the emergences ministry and also by other specialized services it measures really should levels around and the bigger it is showing is jumping between two and three micros for our this is where you last than the average in moscow for example and also as a comparison a passenger applying on a plane from moscow to vladivostok receives as many as twenty two microns per hour which is called the people here in usenet the capital of this is how you reach him all russian security services are still on high alert as there are confirmed reports from officials in japan that possibility of a nuclear meltdown is very high in fukushima and so experts in russia are now mourning storing. your levels of radiation not only in russia but also in the

arctic for example they are also saying that even in the worst case scenario the country should be spared any fall out what we know from in japan an expert expert says that a lot depends on the weather the good news is that the weans is now going in the direction of the pacific ocean but the weather is changeable and things could also quickly if the worst scenario takes place and if there was an explosion inside a reactor at the fukushima plant that would mean that radiation would be spreading in waves and these regional russia is the closest would be the closest to the epicenter of the nuclear tragedy usually surprised us where we are now is only six hundred miles away from fukushima and russia's coral islands are some two hundred miles now people of course have been more assertive about the latest news and they've been closely monitoring reports on t.v. in the beginning they were afraid of another natural disaster he's seeing the coast

so. what they're afraid of now is as a part of possibility of radiation contamination and they've been calling emergencies ministry of the line is almost always easy and trying to find out what preventive measures could be taken for residents here and so have been reacting differently to the latest news maybe a really new warning to bought a possibility of a radioactive contamination they calling them urgent says ministry desperate to find out what they should do to protect themselves and their families prevented majerus could be taken starting from where they could get their personal geiger counter to measure radiation levels to getting going to the nearest grocery store and buying bottles of red wine men told me that as they watch news reports they can't believe their eyes that these disaster in fukushima is unfolding so close in such a big city to russia's borders in the beginning after shortly after the earthquake

and tsunami in japan they were mostly afraid of a natural disaster which because it's the northern coast of russia they are afraid of another chernobyl now which could happen close to to their homes. says it's ready to help take care with russia having lost experience in dealing with both natural and manmade disasters well earlier my colleague spoke to our season next year cesky from here in ukraine and is having enough from the capital from. 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 me without electricity and energy is crucial at that point also russia can sound 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 offers including from countries like the united states great britain germany new zealand and others japanese ambassador here in moscow has sat down at the japan is looking into the russia's over over how 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 talked to the local authorities in the region the situation there is normal both from the point of view of people's housing and radioactivity nevertheless the situation must be closely monitored on around the clock basis the russian does have the sad experience of dealing with the consequences of over a nuclear catastrophe back in nineteen eighty six in that you know bill in soviet ukraine so perhaps that experience could be obese to the japanese people in this case. are going to you are let's say that's how you just measure their future a noble incident how can the experience from the true and noble sort of help in

dealing with a situation that's unfolding right now in japan. well means the chernobyl incident twenty five years ago remains. history's biggest manmade nuclear disaster and indeed that russia is the country despite that 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 all the methods in fighting the explosion at a nuclear plant. to this date 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 chernobyl liquidators would be dispatched to the area because it's twenty five years since his own 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 the reactor 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 obl are not produced anymore now in my report i made a short recap of what was happening in ukraine in the soviet to crane twenty five years ago let's have a look at that report spare no effort in getting the job done this typical molto 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 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 work force internet so everyone worked and lighted. but this happy existence came to an abrupt and on april the twenty six nine hundred eighty six with the explosion of the reactor at the power station the very same motto use for building the plants bear 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 lead measures which at first seemed very driven but which related deemed crazy effective by the international atomic energy agency this action helped to contain the radiation and enable construction of the circle for gas 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 soviet you graeme 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 in what is now sovereign ukraine have proved to be an invaluable lesson for mankind alexi russia r.t. reporting from kiev ukraine i'll talk to robert jacobs of research as they see a professor of nuclear history and how sad for her seems told r.t. he believes the current situation suggest the japanese authorities are far from in control of the situation. the damage to the fuel rods. primarily means nothing of the fuel rods in the melting of the fuel rods is what releases higher levels of radiation so any damage to the fuel rods is this is what we're trying to avoid in all cases so if any damage to it does increase significantly the amount of

radiation that will enter the environment the claims of the japanese government at this point is that the radiation they want to go reactor are not coming from the reactors at that site but are actually from fukushima number one from the explosion at fukushima number one so this is boring as well because if this is true this would indicate that the radiation from fukushima has reached quite a distance from the plant itself the claims are that the radiation levels were high briefly and then went down and this would correspond to the timing of the explosion in fukushima but as i say seeing as how the evacuation area has been ten fifteen twenty kilometers away if in the next prefecture if radiate measurable radiation was present then obviously radiation is spreading beyond the evacuated area i think that there's a very conflicting reports coming out on the one hand you have the japanese government claiming that there was some melting of the fuel in the number three reactor at fukushima number one site and then you say you also have reports that

they are they were in error when they said that any of the fuel had melted i don't there's two possibilities obviously one is that dire information is being with how old in an effort to make the situation seem better than it is and also to avoid panic but the other perhaps more likely scenario is that the government is not quite certain of the state of affairs in the reactors and so you're finding conflicting reports coming out from different spokespeople but either either scenario certainly suggests the situation is far from under control. stay with austin throughout presence and computer possible the latest developments. japan. turning our attention now to libya where government forces are said to have regained control of the not the key area the oil town of but i gather it's in the eastern part of the country which has been mostly rebel controlled a lot and correspondent paula is in the capital for us with all the latest poorly

it seems that colonel gadhafi schools are gaining a men so your there on the ground what can you tell us about what's happening right now. but looking state television is reporting that forces loyal to the libyan leader moammar gadhafi had now retaken the oil town of great get in the east of the country according to state television this town has been to quote him clearly armed gangs brigade is the site of a major oil terminal and throughout the day sunday they have been hit clashes happening there but we haven't as of yet been able to independently verify these state television reports in the past state television has been faulty in its reporting it based very often preempting the secretary says of they got his name before they actually happen but we can confirm that the definition in our air bornstein eastwards they are encountering increasingly loosely organized rebel groups they do not have enough equipment they lack leadership and until now what really has been

a unifying factor which is enthusiasm is slowly starting to the way people are asking the question for hum much longer can that enthusiasm hold out at the same time in the oil rich port of rest of the latest reports they suggest that the talent is in the hands of gadhafi is mean we've been hearing from able groups that they have the numbers but they do not have the equipment to take on his soldiers and call it seems that the whole world is debasing and they fly zone over libya was the latest on grounds. well as could be expected rebel groups to have well come to the core from the arab league for a no fly zone to be implemented over libya this call came saturday when the foreign ministers of the arab league. in cairo they have now called on the united nations security council to implement a no fly over the country but they've made the point that this mess is not illegal and must not be confused with foreign military intervention they say they could duffy has lost a villager to miss each rule as you can well expect gadhafi and his regime have

criticized this call from the arab league so be on the ground as good duffy's forces make advances they are losing the war on the international front very much the feeling that they are being abandoned by the former friends but at the same time to be able people themselves are also feeling increasingly hopeless there is chaos happening here it is not very clear where the front line is it very often shots from one point to be either the fear that any kind of foreign involvement whether in the form of a no fly zone or in any kind of humanitarian assistance or anything else will be motivated by self interest of the united states and the european union that they will not really be acting in the interests of libyan people much concerned about the safety of the rebel groups themselves being down as he still remains the stronghold of the groups we are hearing from gadhafi is named that they are making their way there and that when going bengazi force to quote him well they're in a kind of disruptions and all the kinds of fighting that we've witnessed over the

past month will come to an end here in tripoli the situation remains calm and quiet people here have accused the international community and the foreign media that feeds it of being alarmist they say that they had exaggerated the situation let's take a look. there's a lot more haggling on the international stage of the merits of intervention and a no fly zone demagoguing 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 is that libya is on the brink of civil war so foreign intervention is needed still seems to ring a little hollow there have been several hundred people killed me. 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 stayed 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 rebels you have to print big version of events he says or nothing the media. is going through the hot places and all these cities are controlled by robbers and then given the people. what they think and what they believe and many gadhafi supporters fear that while he may be winning the war with the vehicles he's losing the information will back here in john's outside tripoli schoolgirl mona says she's hustled and angry by reporter mercenaries was shooting people in her town is. right. and life certainly seems calm on the streets this please have tweets civil war in libya except that it's coming from france leave this country do you think that they will. everything

is normal right now and in the future they will move normally. as for conflicts elsewhere with it count is climbing it's a little media coverage and even less fun in interest to intervene there are events unfolding right now in ivory coast where there is also a conflict an armed conflict between rebels and the government but nobody seems to be thinking about it it's only because fashionable attention is focused on libya the only reason there it is that of libya's oil think we'd be in iraq if their major ads were if 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 a mess and they'll clean it up pulis the r.t.e. chancellor. and he will call on them to historian of points of knowledge from washington d.c. police there about suddenly no justification for anyone to meddle in libya's.

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 and 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 doctoring 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. when just an hour's time i talk to russians and boys and they to meet the goals and he says certain countries are pushing to get

involved in libya because they're reliant on its oil resources. so you civilian i think if libya were just a banana growing country there would be so much interest in his domestic situation including in the humanitarian spear 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 this factor has a most direct bearing on the speed of the west decision making regarding libya. the u.s. on its part that it was in high spirits but here a visit to moscow earlier this week his main goal was to encourage the continued reset that's when the countries on libya understand and he made it into the discussions the majority of the visit was focused on boosting trained the talks may

have been on serious issues but the lead for certainly life but it means that of joking with joe biden that he hopes the u.s. vice president working on russia's bid for the membership all the way to the end of his career the russian leader was promised that washington is doing all it can to make exceptional happen democratic strategist chris locklear says the u.s. needs russia's support and this visit 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 then obama's trip will be all about which is that 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 than we do that separates us we need that russia to be part of the w t l we need to free trade with russia i think that that messages being sent to anything the united states does it would

clearly take into account how the russian government the russian leadership feels about things and i'm sure that the vice president biden is making that very clear 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 a 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. let's get more and other international news breaking the headlines this hour and our. story the markets

rally in the lebanese capital beirut dymov the disarming of hezbollah fundamentalists the crown's the supporters of outgoing prime minister saad hariri he stepped down last month after his munition government collapsed and its allies all down as we count on a safer u.n. tribunals which is likely to implicate its members in the two thousand and five killing of hariri father when he was serving as premier. at her if it told us in new york has claimed the lives of fifteen people and still recently injured another ten because even is carrying at least as you want house edges when it flipped over slid on its side and hit a hole about paul's size the bus that hoffa along with the windows tearing the roof top off the vehicle the driver has told investigators he swerved to avoid a tractor trailer witnesses claim the boss had been traveling at high speed but the vehicle was returning from a casino outside the city. now earlier this week russia's republic of chechnya

hasted all star maps widely seen as a major step forward for the region a team of brazilian football veterans arrived for a charity to get the team captained by chechen leader the idea of. explores how a former marine at the military conflict is heaving its bloody behind in sharing a new side all hangs despite. it must rank as one of the more curious pictures in football history but a press conference late the night before church's leader ramzan kadyrov spoke of his excitement at the arrival of the opposition it's a real holiday all are found to be more eating for this event for such a long time it's an exciting day and i know that many of those who left the republic years ago coming back to enjoy the match but many reporters there doubted a team of brazilian veterans could really come to play in chechnya the next day he repeated at the airport where c. showed a style to tear off places shouting supporters. walking into this cult like seen in

the brazilian team looking a little bit mused church and so over static. i can't believe this is happening we couldn't even dream of an event like this happening before i've come to grozny specially for this much but i think it will raise the sad memories of the past and everything will be great. five years ago this match would have been unthinkable because new was in ruins after two military campaigns from the mid one nine hundred ninety s. following an insurgency it was in this very stadium that runs on cut her off father was blown up a decade before the area is still subject to high levels of security as the threat of terrorism as it moved towards normality after years of conflict said which cause me it's come a long way that the girls did things change every day we see new facilities being built and people understand that they have to get past and move on from kickoff time the stadium was. bursting see brazil scored an easy first goal followed by

repeated attempts by the chechens to get one but. who knows what was said in the changing room but the idea of it made sure he was the center of attention. despite missing two penalties he eventually my eyes to get himself to school should i be game ended six ports of brazil. it was a very disappointing score but what can we do a game is again if we wanted to win but we lost. again because ian team is the strongest in the world today for a little doubt they were keen to stress they were only charity their visits to chechnya make the world headlines again but this time the sport and. it'll take more than just a football must trace the specter of war and terrorism away from chechnya in the north caucasus but for now the spirit of friendly competition everyone here agrees it's a step or kick in the right direction tom watson our state church. you're watching

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