second explosion rocked japan's of pushing a nuclear power plant while fears of the radiation leak his sister and nine people have already been exposed and some one hundred and seventeen miles it's a bit evacuated from within a twenty kilometer radius of the facility. libyan state t.v. reports colonel gadhafi gains the men soon winning balcony more territory as international calls grow him to surrender power. get up his men advance on eastern libya threatening that very soon the town of ping ghazi will store you could mean a few moments. also in other news this week feasting at times in advancing

trade the u.s. commerce president met with his leaders and opposition in moscow a. very warm welcome to see this is our live from moscow on our last have as japan is battling to avert a nuclear crisis i mean fears another blast could hit the focus. in the tsunami hit north well officials are trying to reduce the risk of a meltdown which could trigger an explosion increasing the danger of a radiation leak small amounts of radiation have been released to reduce pressure in the reactor it's believed the process that poses no health threats were on saturday a powerful explosion or rather the facility it was understood to be caused by a failure of the cooling system while the reality itself was unaffected around one

hundred and seventy thousand people who live within twenty kilometers of the facility husband every few aged nine people tested positive for radiation exposure at a now being monitored. the devastating earthquake which has now been measured nine on the richter scale strong japan two days ago following a followed by a tsunami that washed away in my village is a police fear more than ten thousand people may have died in what japan's prime minister says is the worst crisis to hit the country since world war two rescuers report scenes of astonishing it devastation food fuel and water are running out in some effect to tell us. all rashes atomic agency says it needs a further information about the situation japan's fukushima nuclear plant was despite so close contact with the japanese crisis meanwhile emergency services are

on high alert in russia as far east as the region close to northern japan are do you say you're going to be in the area. michel's insecure you say that radiation levels remain normal in russia sport is ever seen when you can't hold lawns in fukushima was hit by an explosion begun warning touring levels closely we can even check the radiation levels for ourselves this is the so-called geiger counter this is used in professional states michelob or trace by the emergences ministry and also by other specialized services it measures radiation levels around and the figure it is showing is jumping between two and three micros for hour these is way less than the average in moscow for example and also as a comparison a passenger flying on a plane from moscow to vladivostok receives as many as twenty two microns ferrara which is sampled. here in the highlands of the capital of this region all russian

security services are still on high alert as there are confirmed reports from officials in japan that possibility of a nuclear meltdown very high in fukushima and so experts in russia are now wanted to measure 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 fallout what we know from in japan and x. rays is that a lot depends on the weather the good news is that the weans is now going in the direction of the pacific ocean about whether it's changeable and things can also quickly if the worst scenario takes place and if there is an explosion inside a reactor. of land that would mean that radiation would be spreading in waves and these region of russia is the closest would be the closest to the epicenter of the nuclear tragedy usual surprise 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. morris i got 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 close . what they're afraid of now is as a part of possibility of radiation contamination and they've been calling emergencies ministry the line is almost always been using and trying to find out what preventive measures could be taken i mean you told me that as they watch news reports they can't believe their eyes that these disaster scene is unfolding so close in such a vicinity to russia's interests if in the beginning after shortly after the earthquake and tsunami in japan they were mostly afraid of a natural disaster which could it's the northern coast of russia they are afraid of another chernobyl now which could happen close to their homes. or moscow is

promising to do its best with the crisis having dealt with the world's worst nuclear disaster will russia has likely experience in this area and that's crossing a line to our cross to those yet assisting in fear of ukraine all over he's here in moscow for us first let's cross over to peter what how will russia they're able to offer japan. well as we speak alice the russian emergencies ministry plane is getting ready to head off to japan containing rescue workers they will help with the healing with the fallout from this disaster the sequence of disasters that have that hates to part over the past few days will be helping rescue is seeking for those trapped under rubble from the from the earthquake and also trying to rescue those that have been caught up in the terrible scene armies. they took they were treated by that earthquake now the nuclear disaster taking place at fukushima is

also taking main focus for russia we heard from. there in russia's far east talking about the what's being done there to make sure that it's all ok well one of the main problems that's come from that's the problem the disaster at the fukushima nuclear reactor is that thirty percent of japan's energy is derived from nuclear power that is severely depleted at the moment as you can imagine judy the situation with that nuclear reactor as well as the precautions being taken over other reactors in the country so russia has pledged one hundred fifty thousand tons of liquid gas to help the situation there to get power turned back on certain places they're also going to increase the supply of coal to the country and is even the possibility of providing electricity directly from russia to japan through when i under water cable links the two countries a power of course a very important commodity when it comes to japan trying to get itself back on its

feet very important to those people who are looking to try and find people trapped under rubble to make sure they can work at night also to make sure that those people seeking medical attention can those hospitals have the power to be able to continue to treat those people now prime minister vladimir putin has said that russia will stand shoulder to shoulder with its neighbor to the east as they face this crisis. we need to continue monitoring the situation in the russian far east as closely as possible you 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 the ground. well the authorities closely monitoring the situation in russia but he remote seen outpourings of grief and sympathy for all those people of japan the people of japan who have been caught up in a series of disasters we've seen and i'll talk memorial being established outside of the japanese embassy where people have been turning up and laying flowers to

show their support for the people of japan at this time. here now and. has a wealth of experience doesn't dealing with the time make how can we. help the situation. well so far as the comparison between the chernobyl accident and this situation unraveling in japan has been more or less figurative in fact the experts have been saying that the situations are completely different the reactors and both are stations are different the the aftermath the immediate aftermath of the disaster is different and definitely the security means that both stations are very much different but indeed should the russian assistance be needed in japan of course moscow would offer a great deal of experience because chernobyl did that the chernobyl disaster to this day remains history's biggest manmade nuclear disaster and of course tens of thousands of people from all across the soviet union back then were used in the

cleanup operation the people who are called liquidators now it is yet unclear whether any of those liquidators could be taking part in an operation in japan trying to assist the japanese rescuers on the site but indeed if they will of course that will be a very significant the chernobyl indeed left a legacy for textbooks and all the methods of fighting such nuclear incidence worked out by the soviet union still remain as the main obviously the main line for behaving in such situations as it has been happening in japan and we've already seen the first signs that the japanese government has been using the theory. again internal for instance just to give you example of what i mean the people from trying to kilometer radius zone around the nuclear plant in fukushima were evacuated almost immediately after the news broke out of a nuclear accident at the station something which of course did not happen twenty

five years ago in chernobyl and people from a nearby town of pete that had to wait for more than a day to be evacuated this was caused by both the negligence of the authorities and the attempts to organize a proper evacuation now he's in my report i did a short recap of what exactly happened court of a century ago in you and in soviet your brain and let's have a look at this 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 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. 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 of the reactor at the power station the very same motto 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 driven with which were elated deemed highly effective by the international atomic energy agency this action helped to contain the radiation and enable construction of the sort of course of good 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 series. 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 ukraine the chernobyl fallout was caused by a massive human error or mistakes made by the authorities in the first hours after

their last 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. of a devastating earthquake also triggered our fire out another nuclear power plant in northeastern japan heightened radiation levels are reporting been detected that authorities say he's actually been blown up from a focus or thought robert jacobs from the hiroshima piece says that if that's the case the twenty kilometer exclusion zone around the fukushima reactor may not be enough. the claims of the japanese government at this point is that the radiation they want to our reactor are not coming from that 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 a 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 from but as i say seeing as how the evacuation area has been ten fifteen twenty kilometers away if in the next prefecture of radiate measurable radiation was present then obviously radiation is spreading beyond the evacuated area but is on the other side of the bay from sendai it's north of sendai whereas the fukushima site is south of sendai so that would be quite a distance that would certainly indicate that if it did travel that far that there was not have been measurable radiation in sendai city itself 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 that any of the fuel had melted i

don't there's two possibilities obviously one is that dire information is being withheld in an effort to make the situation seemed 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. some news just in police in japan have confirmed the death toll from the tsunami is now at thirteen hundred thousand we've been reporting nothink is likely to rise in the coming weeks i do so with r.t. throughout the day for the latest developments in japan and do log on to our website r.t. dot com. to other news now and forces loyal to colonel gadhafi again momentum in the east amid international calls for the libyan leader to step down

stage television says his forces were taken to the town of radar after securing the former rebel controlled oil port of ras lanuf. or has the latest from the region. looking state television is reporting that forces loyal to the libyan leader moammar gadhafi have now retaken the oil town of great get in the east of the country according to state television this town has been to quote them clear as to other armed gangs or it is the site of a major oil terminal and throughout the day sunday they have been hit in 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 his sex this is after that he's in before they actually happen but we can confirm that definition in our ed bornstein eastwards they are encountering increasingly loosely organized rebel groups they do not have enough equipment and 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 the how much longer can that enthusiasm hold out at the same time in the oil rich port of rust in the north the latest reports there is the case of the town is in the hands of gadhafi is main we've been hearing from able groups that they have the numbers but they do not have the equipment to take on his soldiers were able groups to have well come to the call 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 meet 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 must not illegal and must not be confused with foreign military intervention they say they could duffy has lost the legitimacy to rule as you can well expect gadhafi and his regime have criticized this call from the arab league so they on the ground as gadhafi 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 the rebel groups themselves are also feeling increasingly helpless there is chaos happening here it is not very clear where. frontline is if very often shots from one point to the other 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 not concerned about the safety of the rebel groups and themselves think as he still remains the stronghold of the rebel groups we are hearing from gadhafi is known that they are making their way there and win game bengazi force to quote him any 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 there 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 and the bargaining taking place in downtown tripoli market shops here close early in our days 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 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 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 bin guy's the office of his newspaper because of pressure from liberals you have to print big version of events he says or nothing the media.

is going to the hot places and all these cities are controlled by the british and then given that we will go through. 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 we're back here in john zoom out such a pretty high school girl mona says she's puzzled and angry but reports at most an aries wishing people in her town is. right. and certainly seems calm on the streets. this civil war in libya except that it's coming from outside the country do you think that they will get. everything is normal right now and in the future it will be ok we will have normal. as for conflicts elsewhere with it if

count is climbing it's a little media coverage and even less fun than 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 exploit 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 police here are t. jones of. the washington based antiwar turn left and historian a voice of knowledge but these are not the be no justification for any country to not or in libya. 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 and the public was not very much

enabled 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 invoking 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's absolutely no 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. what the goal is the russians and boys and they say says so. to get involved in libya because they're reliant on it's all resources . that we were so used to believe 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 sphere 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. where you can see the full interview with russia's envoys in nato and justify its time here on the scene. now the u.s. vice president was in moscow this week to trade and encourage the further reset relations between the two countries while several issues that were discussing clearing libya joe biden said he was king to correct the previous administration's misstates economic ties with russia so we could've made a bet of joe biden that he hopes the u.s.

ice president won't be working on russia for world trade organization membership until the end of his career biden promised his personal support for muskies inclusion democratic strategist chris lapses says the u.s. and russia have more in common than ever. 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 the biden's trip is all about obama's trip will be all about which is that even if we have setbacks along the way the message has to be very clear to the russian people and to the american people that russia in the united states now have more in common than we we do separate that. it's us we need that russia to be part of the w t o we need a 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 the russian leadership feels about things and i'm sure that 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 there were should 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. ok let's get some more other international news making the headlines this hour and israel will build several hundred hague's if you're a settlers in the occupied west bank if mitchell an ounce and comes a day off the five israeli settlers were killed in their sleep two children and

a baby were among those starved to death it's expected palestinian militants were responsible palestinians have refused to negotiate with israel until construction was halted in the disputed territory. fourteen people behind in a tour bus. with another ten seriously injured the coach was carrying at least that's the wrong passengers flipped over slid on its size and hit a pole pole then sliced the bus in hoffa tearing the roof top oath with a vehicle where the driver told investigators he swerved to avoid a tractor trailer which sped away the vehicle was returning from a casino outside the city. tens of thousands have joined the rally in the lebanese capital beirut to protest the weapons arsenal have by has been left on the mentalists the crowds of supporters of outstanding prime minister side how really stepped down last fall to his reign as you government's collapse has been law and

its allies the cabinet and the u.n. back tribunals which is likely to implicate its members and giving countries for one thousand. op risings are continuing across the middle east this time it's six people have been killed and hundreds injured and bonnie has between police and anti-government protesters in the capitol hill thora she's used live bullets tear gas and water cannons to disperse crowds demanding the end of president ali abdullah saleh seen here will the protesters responded with a hail of rockets and life unless should. were for more on the situation in japan and other world news you check out our. websites altie dot com so with.

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