tonight fears of a nuclear meltdown escalate with the threat of a second explosion at japan's fukushima atomic power plant random urgency alert declared at another facility in the northeast it's believed more than ten thousand people could have been killed meat time in this devastating earthquake and resulting tsunami. libyan state t.v. reports colonel gadhafi gains momentum winning back more territory is international calls drove him to surrender power. get out give me an advance like eastern libya breaking there very soon the town of benghazi wolf for you to join me in a few moments the formal. and also in news this week pushing the reset button in

moscow and washington post ties in place to advance trade as the u.s. vice president met russia's leaders and opposition in moscow. hello it's a piano you're in moscow you're watching the r.t. news channel my name is kevin owen and this situation at the fukushima nuclear plant remains grave tonight with fears that a second blast could follow this is the country declares a state of emergency the second facility in the northeast that is either bennett is a guy the term affected by the tsunami or even to new york just now is train ride away from the fukushima nuclear plant what is the latest on the situation there. renewed fears now of nuclear meltdown maybe because what prompted those fears was earlier. a second nuclear reactor. number one it's lost its

ability to cool the the actual nuclear reactor that's now malfunctioning and what happens there is that inside the core the reactions keep still happening energy is produced and the temperatures is going out. there is that the it gets so hot. you know fortunately. please do bear with us we've lost the signal to over there as you can imagine communications are very difficult from to kind of the moment we've got a top quality satellite phone there obviously that doesn't seem to be working very well at the moment either maybe too much demand on the system will try and get back to him as and when we can a little bit later ok well russia is atomic agency says it needs further information about the situation at japan's fukushima nuclear plant that's despite close contact with the japanese crisis center and meantime emergency services are on high alert in russia's far eastern region close to northern japan sees

a carefully groucho vehicle the side of the story. michel's insecure you say that radiation levels remain normal in russia score is ever since then you care paul plant in fukushima was hit by an explosion they've been wanted to levels closely we can even check the radiation levels for ourselves this is the so-called geiger counter this is used in professional states nickel war trays by the emergences ministry and also by other specialized services it measures radiation levels around and the bigger it is showing is jumping between two and three microbes where 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 people here in usenet supply lines 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 is very high in fukushima and so experts in russia and i don't 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 the country should be spared any fallout but what we know from in japan an expert experts is that a lot depends on the weather the good news is that the wind is now going in the direction of the pacific ocean a lot of 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. morris i got the latest news and they've been closely monitoring group was on t.v. in the beginning there were afraid of another natural disaster he's seeing that closed so. what they are afraid of now is as about a possibility of radiation consuming nations 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 many 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 you wouldn't see it in the beginning shortly after the earthquake and tsunami in japan they were mostly afraid of a natural disaster which because it's the northeastern coast of russia they are afraid of another chernobyl now which could happen close to to their homes. over

there ok let's try and get our connection back to ivan bennett series of the press corps before we go back from there the moment i we lost you just audience is bear with you because of course i know our communications are difficult but we're talking about the fukushima plant you're not far from where you're about an hour's travel from it what what's the news on the ground there what are people saying about the latest situation. well the worry there is concerning a second reactor at the fukushima number one what it was an explosion that yes there is another nuclear reactor the concern now is that the second one has lost this cooling mechanism it humping sea water around to try and cool the reactor down but attempt to keep rising so what they're doing now to try and. relieve the pressure inside is to actually. controlled root controlled release of steam or with that obviously the radiation comes out as well and so now radiation is pouring into the atmosphere already we don't know exactly how much but the authorities are

saying they're already treating thirteen people who have been exposed to radiation in the cincy of these nuclear reactors both where that run explosion was and hear of another because the temperature inside the reactor is growing very hot knows fears that they actually could start to melt which then leads to nuclear meltdown. here the main theories of another explosion of the general wisdom here is concerning these reactors is that there wouldn't be an explosion on the scale of chernobyl twenty five years ago because these are and what is known as light water reactors however there is a serious chance of radiation leakage more than what we've already seen so. hundred thousand people already in and since you've both these reactors on this nuclear power plant. have been evacuated further away from. prefecture actually which we drove through today on our way to sendai where i am now. there were concerns amongst the people of. what could be

happening because well we saw people stocking up on food and none of the shops actually had any chap water because people are afraid to drink the tap water over fears of being contaminated and the governor has advised people not to do so there's no charitable frequently but shops and a lot of people buying in of it exacts in short supply as well in the worst hit area especially here and as for fuel as well we've passed a petrol station most of them actually have been closed one eye and there's a queue of cars about a kilometer long we were stuck there for about thirty minutes and everyone's queuing up because their spirits of shortages of fuel and so they're only actually being allowed rationed the amount of get by just twenty liters each no excuse of people and cars there. as you say sendai was one of the worst places one of the folk worst affected towns because it was so close to the epicenter itself can you

paint a picture of just what you're seeing around you what you've seen on the drive to that town what it's very difficult for us not involved in it not there where you are to try to get a perspective of how bad the damage is. i think we've lost over bennett. we've only just arrived literally in the last half an hour now either continue hello yes we can still. ok i think i'm back now yes sorry we're having. we're having trouble with the signal here because the networks got very intermittent and general infrastructure here instead is very poor we've only just arrived but the buildings that we've seen are built. for have been told by the government spokespeople here and they are saying that the coast which we have been to get that's still about an hour's drive and the roads are blocked so from hearing the damage days absolute destruction here the buildings are still

standing but the damages is otherwise and people are actually now at a relief center there's plenty of these dotted all around the city and on the floor the floor is covered with people lying on cardboard bedding down with blankets many spending the night because they aren't able to go home some are by when the earthquake happened and they live quite far out make simply can't get it because there aren't any trains there isn't any transport functioning here and there's very few taxis and cars so he will have to stay here also many people staying here actually live in sendai but their houses that. are stable to go back and see what's more most of sendai is actually without any power there is no electricity. no water no gas and people are making their way and getting a nice. relief centers furthermore there's no food in this town very little and very little water and. other relief centers food is being provided three times

a day they can say just twenty maybe they couldn't get any food here and so that's a major concern now for the relief operation one taxi driver we came across we actually have about going to south side of sendai where we have to swap taxis because you can go any further and when we had he actually. made a trip seventy conses south of sendai purely to go through just such is the shortage of basic necessities here and psychologically either. how are people coping shortly after this happened we're hearing stories that people were pretty candid taking it as best as they could in this stride because i guess they've had so much training for this so many drills for tsunami but this the scale of what's happened is unprecedented it really is horrendous there how are they coping with loss their families some of these people have lost all their possessions just what are you seeing around you.

exactly people are pretty devastated obviously they don't know what to do what i've just been speaking to and so one of the government spokespeople in cyber who's trying to help people most of them an hour's sleep they're trying to come to terms with it really they don't really know what to do because many people he said simply won't be able to go back to any form of home for another six weeks and it's thought the art of shocks here will eat and carry on last for another thought. and for the people thousands of them in this about three hundred thousand it's reckoned that have been left homeless or fled the areas where their homes wants to be left with nothing they'll have another six weeks without anything to go back to and it's looking very bleak all they've got is literally a patch of cardboard around one and a half meters long and a blanket and that's all and there's no real assurance or guarantee of food or drinking water either so it's a very bleak outlook and scientists are also predicting aren't they that there

could be a high chance of a second quake maybe a seven on the richter scale so i guess people do have some shelter a kind of afraid to go back inside and sleep because they never know when the next quake might strike and it's very cold there at the moment at night as well isn't it . yeah it's very cold here it's around zero degrees actually. and many people are hearing it but not inside in sendai but in the worst hit areas they're actually having to spend a night on the street. unbelievably that's the third night in a row now with very little warm clothing and who will drink. what's the problem again is people are fearing going back to their homes even if they are still standing even in this city in sendai because as you say fears of more aftershocks we had one last night actually a magnitude six they may actually do the major earthquake two days ago it was eight

point nine even that was pretty powerful and they say that after it will continue for another all weeks we did. hear though today the tsunami warnings have stopped they were right about. here and but for the last forty eight hours since that initial tsunami hit the one it was thirty three in time destroyed everything in its way that carried boats cars and buildings along with it inland. since then that was the tsunami warnings have got three levels they've now been be creating repeat graded periodically and finally finally want to lift it seems that. is a major aftershock are dissipating. people definitely are very afraid to actually go back to their twenty to twenty year other shelter and they've already got. us being until they guarantee their safety. and the team over in sendai for r.t.

thank you take care of yourselves well i will catch up with you later. well moscow's pledging to stand shoulder to shoulder with tokyo during the crisis a plane carrying russian rescue workers is heading to japan with another jew to take off from the country's far east on monday russia's also got vital experience in dealing with the nuclear threat facing japan right now going from the world's worst atomic disaster itself early mccauley gallus hibbard spoke to our correspondents a luxury jet ski in kiev ukraine and peter oliver in moscow. the nuclear disaster taking place in fukushima is also taking main focus for russia we heard from me 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. nuclear reactor is that thirty percent of japan's energy is derived from nuclear power now that is severely depleted at the moment as you can imagine gita 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 said 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 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 here thirty's closely monitoring the situation in russia stories but here in moscow this scene outpourings of grief and sympathy for those people of 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 will be turning up and laying flowers to show their support for the people of japan but this time in tesco say between now and let's say one has a wealth of experience doesn't isn't dealing with serious automake how can experience. to help in this 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. experts have been saying that the situations are completely different in reactors and both power stations are different but the the aftermath the immediate aftermath of the exhaust 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 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 did 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 your crane spare no effort in getting the job done this typical multo 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 sorbet ukraine. 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. 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 use 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 the blazing reactor was bombarded with sand and lead measures which at first seemed driven but which were later deemed highly effective by the international atomic energy agency this action helped to contain the radiation and enable construction of the circle for good 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 crane 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 silver in ukraine have proved to be an invaluable lesson for mankind. r.t. reporting from kiev ukraine was trying to get more insight now into the dangers facing japan's atomic power plants which run by sean burnings and a new energy consultant mr burnet believing that japan's nuclear state of emergency the second nuclear plant affected by the earthquake the only go facility in the north east of the country just serious as you see it you think the current situation is there. well i think that we should teach each reactor site in order that the crisis fukushima daiichi one two and three reactors is very serious we've had it confirmed at the three reactors now operating i think you see much. one two and three are all suffering cool feel yours reactor one as you know part of

it exploded yesterday liter during the night we got confirmation that reactor three had lost its cooling capacity and that led to the exposure of some of the nuclear fuel including plutonium ops fuel delivered from france ten years ago and only in the last hours we heard confirmation that unit two at fukushima dai ichi is also most suffering a cold feeling so we have three reactors on a site with six reactors half of them are effectively now scrapped and the question is what is happening to the fuel how much of it is malton or melted and it's continued to melt the japanese government recently in the last two hours have said these things going on the state is they're working on the basis that some of the fuel is continuing to melt and as you know the reporting that they're comping in seawater no into three of those reactors so that's a crisis at fukushima put her to just what i will let let let let's take off for

a minute then just trying. for a second you know they're also telling us that the containment structure in reactor one where there seems to be the biggest problem the ongoing problem is still intact so that therefore means there's been no major nuclear incident there's no. there's several layers of containment the so-called. dry will continue and that's the outer structure but clearly a section about is clearly gone including the roof section in fact if you look at the visuals you can actually see. the reactor pressure vessel. all probably within this one point five metre concrete barrier you can actually see that to do now that the smoke was cleared the question is is that one point five meter barrier in any way ruptured it which point there's a possibility of course that the material coming out of beslan is the status of the vessel they're saying we don't know the condition of the fuel in the reactor

they're assuming that it's continuing to melt a safe assumption from their car i guess so the question is if they don't know what the state of the fuel is where is the fuel where is the melted fuel as it progressed to the bottom of the great actor vessel how is that know interacting with the steel what's the significance that i'm talking about putting seawater and boric acid on these reactors at that site to try and call them down ever. how far along the chain what was that ever planned for is this like a last ditch attempt to try and solve the problem what does that mean were you doing that well i've been working on nuclear issues for twenty five years including nearly twenty years in japan and i've never heard of emergency plans to use seawater it's an imaginative solution for what clearly is a crisis and we did not have any other alternative at that point really need that decision of the boric acid is to try and control the chain reaction in the existing

fuel the boric acid acts as a neutron absorber and effectively is there we are trying to continue to control what is an existing reactor with molten fuel except it's got holes in it mr burley terms the bid against as we heard earlier on today from a shishi go to today's a former plant design and he was saying based on what you're saying there as he saw it he thought the plant was highly unstable the same and they went on to accuse the government of as he put it deliberately withholding vital information about the developments at that nuclear facility just how well grounded are those accusations do you think i would. extend those accusations to the world like you could just three in the last days you've seen representatives from the industry some of them acting as so-called independent experts from institutes that are funded by the new kids three seeing that the situation is under control all these are meant to happen it's very reassuring more nuclear power nuclear power is inherently unsafe

earthquakes are one hazard but there are many many more and i would point out on the eve of the anniversary of the twenty fifth chernobyl accident that the lesson from chernobyl is don't build nuclear power plants unfortunately many countries have not learned that lesson. ok well the show but he depended nuclear energy consultant thanks for being on the program. to other news now our forces loyal to gadhafi gave a momentum to the stupid international calls for the step down libyan media reports say that rebel groups have been driven out of several key oil has to be to were goes in russia's envoy to nato says certain countries are pushing to get involved in libya because they rely on its oil resources. for the use of 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 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 will be a serious 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. we've got that interview in a few minutes for you he was vice president was in moscow this week it was trade and encourage the further reset of relations between the two countries while several issues were discussed including libya joe biden said he was keen to correct the previous administration's mistakes in economic ties with russia dmitry medvedev joked with biden that he hopes the u.s. vice president won't be working on russia's they'd world trade organization membership till the end of his career but had promised his personal support for moscow's inclusion this is our table across the very latest coming out of japan and libya as well all the day's news also updated on our website r.t. dot com one is kevin i will bring you up to date on the very latest headlines very shortly.

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