let's go. to the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy because the record on our. fears of a possible nuclear meltdown is the second explosion threat to wrong japan's fukushima atomic power plant it's believed more than ten thousand could have been killed in the devastating earthquake consultants in the. libyan state t.v. reports colonel gadhafi gains and immense and winning back more territory as international police grows they had to surrender power. get up his men advance on eastern libya threatening that very soon the town of being god's he will for you join me in a few moments for more. also in other news this week boosting ties are advancing

trade the u.s. vice president met gotcha's leaders not positioned in the span. of i will mark and see this is are you live from moscow japan is battling to avert a nuclear crisis amid fears another blast could hit the fukushima plant and the tsunami hit north this is the country declares a state of emergency on a second facility in the northeast region well official the trying to reduce the risk of which could trigger an explosion increasing the danger of a radiation leak small amounts of radiation have been released to reduced pressure in the reactor it's believed that process poses no health threat on saturday a powerful explosion rocked the facility it was understood to be caused by a failure in the cooling system. the reactor itself was unaffected however the area

of twenty kilometers around the facility has been evacuated more than thirty people are confirmed one hundred exposed to radiation and one hundred sixty more off to join them the devastating earthquake which has now been measured at nine on the richter scale struck japan two days ago followed by a tsunami that washed away its religious police fear more than ten pounds of people will have died and more japan's prime minister says is the worst crisis to hit the country since world war two food fuel and water are running out in some affected towns. were rushed to the tonic agency says it needs a further information about the situation. because shimon nuclear plans and that's despite close contact with the japanese crisis center meanwhile emergency services are on high alert and russia's far east a region it close northern japan and that in a good job there is in the area. michel's insecure you say that radiation levels

remain normal and russia's war is ever seen then you can't hold a 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 say cynical war trays by the emergences ministry and also by other specialized services measures radiation levels around and the bigger it is showing is jumping between two and three migrants were our 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 per hour which is sampled the figure here in. the capital of this region the russian security services are still on high alert as there are confirmed reports from visuals in japan that possibility of

a nuclear meltdown is very high in fukushima and so experts in russia are now want to bring measuring 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 becomes should be spared any fallout but what we know from japan and experts experts is that a lot depends on the weather the good news is that the weekend is now going in the direction of the pacific ocean about the weather is changeable and things could also quickly if the worst scenario takes place and if there is an explosion inside a reactor at the fukushima plant 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. 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. morrison about the latest news and they've been closely

monitoring group was 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 about a possibility of radiation contamination and they've been calling emergencies ministry of the line is almost always been easy 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 is unfolding so close in such a city to russia's bullshits in the beginning shortly after the earthquake and tsunami in japan they were mostly afraid of a natural disaster which could spirits and the northern coast of russia they are afraid of another tour novel now which could happen close to their hopes. moscow is pledging to stand shoulder to shoulder with during the crisis a plane carrying russian rescue workers is heading to japan with another due to

take off from the country's parys on monday russia also has died will experience in dealing with the nuclear threat facing japan having gone through the world's worst atomic disaster itself well earlier i spoke to our correspondent. who's in kiev ukraine and all of them are in moscow. the nuclear disaster that's taking place in 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. 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 has even the possibility of providing electricity directly from russia to japan to win the war to cable links the two countries and 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 closely monitoring the situation in russia stories but here are most seen outpourings of grief and sympathy for those people of japan the people of japan who have been caught up in the series of disasters we've seen and i'll talk memorial being established outside of the japanese embassy where people are being turning up and laying flowers to show their support for the people of japan at this time in tesco saved when i think here now i don't think has

a wealth of experience doesn't. make helping experience. help in this situation. well so far at the comparison between the chernobyl accident and the 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 in both are stations are different but the the aftermath the immediate aftermath of the last 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 most 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 a 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 experience gained in chernobyl for instance i just to give you example of what i mean the people from twenty kilometer radius zone around the nuclear plant in fukushima were evacuated almost immediately after the news broke out of of a nuclear accident at the station something which is of course that did not happen twenty five years ago in chernobyl and people from a nearby town of prepared 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 earlier i did a report with a short recap of what exactly happened twenty five years ago in soviet ukraine 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 while 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 and there was a great demand for a work force in chernobyl so everyone worked and lighted their. but this happy existence came to an abrupt end on april the twenty six nine hundred eighty six when the explosion of a reactor at the gower station the very same model 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 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 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 a sovereign ukraine proved to be an invaluable lesson for mankind to look seriously

ascii art see reporting from kiev ukraine. the radiation level seven hundred times higher than normal happen recorded in nuclear power plant in japan authorities are currently investigating the claims out of affinity in on a power and initial reports that the radiation may have flown in from fukushima that right again is from the hiroshima peace institute says that if that's the case the twenty kilometer exclusion zone around the fukushima reactor may not be enough . 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 in 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 that some of 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 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 about it been measurable radiation in sendai city itself i think there's a very conflicting reports coming out on the one hand you have the japanese government claiming that there was some nothing 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 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 suggest that the situation is far from under control. we do stay with our c throughout the day for the latest developments in japan and of course you can always log on to our web site as well for more analysis on dot com. but after he was down in libya forces loyal to colonel gadhafi momentum in the east made international calls for him it to step down within media reports say rebel groups have been driven out of several key oil town. the latest from the region. libyan 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 the maclean's armed gangs brigade is the site of a major oil terminal and throughout the day sunday they have been hit he 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 appears very often preempting this text this is are they got his men before they actually happen but we can confirm that the definition in all at once and 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 for how much longer can that enthusiasm hold out at the same time in the oil rich port of rest of the latest reports there is a case of the talent 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 rebel 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 meeting 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 believe and must not be confused with foreign military intervention they say they could duffy has lost the legitimacy to rule as you can while 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 the rebel groups themselves are also feeling increasingly hopeless there is chaos happening here it is not very clear where. front line is it very often shifts from one point to be other the rebel groups 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 themselves being down as he still remains the stronghold of the rebel groups we are hearing from gadhafi as men they are making their way there and that we don't think as a 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 that feeds it of being alarmist they say that they have exaggerated the situation let's take a look there's a lot more haggling on the international stage of the merits of intervention and the no fly zone then the bargaining taking place in downtown tripoli market shops

here close. people are afraid and many of the africans who used to work here have flipped 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 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. it's going to the hot places and all these cities are controlled by the proprietors and then 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 real 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 of civil war in libya except that it's coming from outside the country do you think. there are things normal right now and in the future be ok we live normally as for conflicts elsewhere that 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 a conflict an armed conflict between rebels and the government but nobody seems to

be thinking of that it's only because fashionable attention is focused on libya the only reason. your oil we think we'd be in iraq if their major adds were 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 they miss and they'll clean it up policy r.t. jones or. a washington based on c. would turn my son has story and the boys amounted to pennies there's absolutely no justification for any country to meddle 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 in a mood for war so one had to be sort of created gradually by gradual involvement and it started with you know humanitarian have been agents in 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 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 or the need to be in russia's envoy to nato he says certain countries are pushing to get involved in libya because they're relying on its oil. 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 this factor has a most direct bearing on the speed of the west decision making regarding libya. and you can see the. voice in our time here on our. the u.s. vice president was in the city this week a big trading carriage that the reset of relations between the two countries on several issues are discussed including libya as he was keen to correct previous administrations the stakes in economic ties with russia let me leave it there with by that he had the u.s. vice president. on russia's bid for world trade organization membership until the everything's career biden promised his personal support from the inclusive. political expert from the u.s. council on foreign relations says russia and the u.s. are going forward you phrase improving time. and i think in many respects what

we're seeing here is the closing of phase one and the opening of phase two of this so-called reset phase one was all about security and high politics it was about a new start treaty missile defense iran afghanistan i mean it really came to a close when the russian parliament and the u.s. senate ratified start now i think what we're looking at is more societal contact cross investment it crosses the borders people traveling more between the two countries are trying to build the confidence that the vice president not to just talk 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 deepen its social roots. let's get some other international news back in the headlines now this hour and israel will build several hundred homes for jewish settlers in the occupied west bank the official

and elsewhere and comes a day after five israeli settlers were killed in their sleep two children and a baby were among those to death it's a suspected palestinian militants who are responsible as the means have refused to negotiate with israel until construction has halted in the disputed territory. tens of thousands of joined are rallying the lebanese capital beirut to protest the weapons arsenal held by his by the fundamentalists the ground the supporters of outgoing prime minister's side hariri who stepped down last month to his huge government collapse and its allies pulled out of the companies over a un backed tribunals which is like has implicated its members in the killing of the country's former prime in two thousand and. fourteen people have died in a tour bus aren't fluent in new york with another ten seriously injured because it was carrying at least thirty one passengers when it flipped over on its side and

has a pole that pole sliced the glass in half tearing the roof top off the vehicle the vehicle told the driver rather told investigators that he swerved to avoid a tractor trailer which sped away the bus was returning for because see no outside the city. well early this week russia's republic of chechnya has did all star not widely seen as a major step forward for the region and its leader present in that war veteran the right for a charity game against a team captained by text me that our. rules how for that arena for military conflict is leaving its body half behind in favor of sports. it must rank as one of the more curious fixtures in football history at 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 for all our fans who have been waiting 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 who would really come to play in chechnya the next day he was greeted at the airport by a sea shepherd bar a style clear off places shouting supporters. walking into the scope like seen in t. looking a little bit mused the chechens however were starting. i can't believe this is happening we couldn't even dream of an event like this happening before us come to grozny especially for this mine and 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 rahm's and cuddles father was blown up at the before the area is still subject to high levels of security

it's a threat of terrorism as it moves towards normality after years of conflict since which cause any has come a long way to go good things change every day we see new facilities being built and people understand that they have to forget the past and move on come kickoff time the stadium was bursting at the seams. brazil scored an easy first goal followed by repeated attempts by the chechens to get one back. who knows what was said in the changing room but dear of that made sure he was the center of attention. despite missing two penalties he eventually mice to get himself in the school should the game ended six four to brazil. it was a very disappointing score but what can we do our game is again we wanted to win but we lost the brazilians have shown again the brazilian team is the strongest in the world today. they were keen to stress they were only charity their visit so chechnya make world headlines again but this time the sport confirm. it will take

more than just a football must trace the structure of war on terrorism away from chechnya and the north caucasus but for now mr is a friendly competition everyone here agrees it's a step or kick in the right direction tom watson our state church to. help out thanks headlines in just a few minutes to stay with us. wealthy

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