tonight fears of a nuclear meltdown escalate with the threat of a second explosion in japan's fukushima atomic power plant out of them virgin sea alert declared another facility in the northeast it's believed that more than ten thousand people could have been killed in the gavel stating earthquake and resulting tsunami. also libyan state t.v. reports colonel gadhafi gains momentum when winning back more territories international calls grow for him to surrender power. that does mean it non-science eastern libya is making that very soon the town of benghazi will for you join me in a few moments formal. and in other news achieve the week pushing the reset button

moscow and washington post ties and pledge to advance trade as the u.s. vice president met russia's leaders and opposition in moscow. even from moscow it's eleven pm here now you're watching the r.t. international news channel my name is kevin owen and the situation at the fukushima nuclear plant in japan remains grave tonight with persistent fears that the second blast could follow causing a radiation leak and this is the country declares a state of emergency the second atomic facility affected by friday's massive earthquake and 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 he's either bennett's in the northeastern city of sendai near the epicenter of

that quake and just an hour from the fukushima nuclear plant. well the worry there is concerning a second reactor at the fukushima number one where there was an explosion that yes there the concern now is that the second one has lost its cooling mechanism being seawater around to try and cool the reactor down the temperature inside the reactor is growing very hot knows he is that they actually start to melt which then leads to nuclear meltdown so the fear the main theories of another explosion but 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 the authorities are saying they're already treating thirty people who have been exposed to radiation in the hundred thousand people already in the vicinity of both these reactors and its nuclear power plant have been evacuated further away from fukushima. prefecture

actually which we drove through today on our way to sendai where i am now there were concerns amongst the people of could be happening because what we saw was people stocking up on food none of the shops actually had any chance water because people are afraid to drink the tap water here here's a little being contaminated and the government has. not to do so. in the shops and a lot of people are buying food exact 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 but those one open and there's a queue of cars about a kilometer long that will start thirty minutes and everyone's queuing out because their fear of shortages of fuel and so they're only actually. being rationed the amount of fuel i can get by just twenty liters each going to get and still about an hour's drive and the roads are blocked off and hearing the average day is

absolutely struction here the buildings are still standing but the damage is otherwise and people. i'm 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 standing in the night because they aren't able to go home some were in sendai when the earthquake happened and so and they live quite far out makes it we can't get it because there aren't any trains there isn't any problem of transport functioning here and very few check season cars so he will have to stay here also many people staying here actually live in sendai but their houses that are unstable to go back to what's more most of sendai is actually without any power there is no electricity heating no water no gas and that's why people are making their way and spending the night at these relief centers furthermore there's no food in this town very little food and very little water and three hundred thousand it's reckoned that have been

left homeless or fled the areas where their homes once stood they've been left with nothing they'll have another six weeks without anything to go back to and it's looking very bleak for them because 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 it's no real assurance or guarantee of food all drinking water either so it's a very bleak outlook for them. because for laiva bennett reporting there from sendai capital of the region worst hit by the tsunami. the town russia's atomic energy agency says it needs further information about the situation in japan's fukushima nuclear plant and despite close contact with the japanese crisis center meanwhile emergency services two are on high alert in russia as far east a region close to northern japan has covered it which over as that side of the story. michel's insecure you say that radiation levels remain normal in russia spore is ever since then you can't hold launch in fukushima was hit by an explosion

they've been warning tory levels closely we can even check the radiation levels for ourselves this is the so-called geiger counter and this is used in professional safe nickel war trays by the emergences ministry and also by other specialized services it measures radiation levels around and figure it is showing is jumping between two and three microbes where our these is where you last 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 that figure here in usenet so highly in the capital of this occurrence region the russian security services are still on high alert as there are confirmed reports from officials in japan that possibility of a nuclear meltdown is there a high in fukushima and so experts in russia are now wanted storing measuring

levels of radiation not only in russia's but also in the arctic for example they are also saying that even in the worst case scenario become true should be spared any fallout what we know from of the planet x. 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 and what the weather is changeable and things could also quickly if the worst scenario takes place and if there is an explosion inside a reactor. 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 course on t.v. in the beginning they were afraid of another natural disaster he's seeing the close

. what they are afraid of now is as a part of possibility of radiation contamination and they've been calling emergencies ministry the line is almost always 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 scene is unfolding so close in such a vicinity to russia's huge it's even the beginning shortly after the earthquake and tsunami in japan they were mostly afraid of a natural disaster which could hit and hit the northeastern coast of russia they are afraid of another chair novel which could happen close to their homes coverage over reporting first there were crucified him to cool down the overheating of fuel rods at the fukushima nuclear plant it's considered key to averting disaster as they contain radioactive materials because of a simons is a professor of

a tokyo university he explains how an explosion might occur and what the worst case scenario could mean for local residents. but damage to the fuel rods in this case will not cause a fire and again this is a key difference between the disaster going on at the moment though it is a disaster and a charitable incident the situation is a few rods can melt they can become oxidized and the rods are protected by zirconium our loike coating and when it comes into contact with water they result is the production of a large amount of hydrogen which is of course explosive and causes a large explosion as we saw yesterday whether the radiation is coming from fukushima daiichi reactor number one or number three or more locally is a very important question to sort of i would hazard to guess that it is coming from fukushima daiichi number one now there are different types of radiation being

released into the atmosphere the good news is that a lot of the steam which exists in the explosion from daiichi reactor number one building yesterday is relatively light isotopes and these isotopes cannot really cause long term damage to human health and more serious problem is that they have also detected isotopes of iodine and cesium in the area around the fukushima explosion and these are much heavier isotopes and that means that if they get into the human body or if they get into the soil or the water supply they can cause long term radiation poisoning and wasco is pledging to stand shoulder to shoulder with tokyo during the crisis a plane carrying russian rescue workers is heading to japan with another due to take off from the country therese on monday and as election year is escapades next for tehran is no stranger to bailing with the nuclear threat facing japan having first hand experience of the world's worst atomic disaster during the soviet era.

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 work force and you're not so everyone worked and waited. but this happy existence came to an abrupt and on april the twenty six nineteen eighty six with the explosion of the reactor at the power station the very same motto use for building the brands they are no effort was known to be used in the clear up of the world's worst every man made nuclear disasters but blazing reactor was bombarded with sand and led measures which at first seemed very driven which were later deemed crazy 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 ukraine but your novel fall out 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 proved to be an invaluable lesson for mankind let's. see reporting from kiev ukraine. stay with r.t. throughout the day if you can for the latest developments in japan and log on to

our web site. on. so you look at some other news now forces loyal to colonel gadhafi gaining momentum in the eastern beat international calls for him to step down libyan media reports say that rebel groups have been driven out of several key starting to pull asli is got 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 him clear instead of armed gangs grid it is the site of a major oil terminal and throughout the day sunday they have been hit the 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 sex distance of the duffys 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 so 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 noon 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 was not illegal and was not be confused with foreign military intervention they say they could be has lost illegitimacy to 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 made 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 they were able beats themselves also feeling increasingly hopeless there is chaos happening here it is not very clear where. frontline is it very often shots from one point to the 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 much concerned about the safety of the rebel groups themselves because he still remains the stronghold of the rebel groups we are hearing from gadhafi his name there they are making their way there and never ending bengazi force to quote him well then 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 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 closed only nowadays 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 they have been several hundred people killed but that's not a huge level of violence and certainly isn't a global level of violence that would normally marriage 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 wearables you

have to print their version of events he says or nothing media. is going through the hot places and all these cities are controlled by the bridges and given that people go through. they knew 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 we're not hearing john zoo outside tripoli a schoolgirl mona says she's puzzled and angry i reports at most and he's was sitting people in her town. it's yours. right. and life certainly seems hard on the streets. this means of tweets in libya except that it's coming from outside the country do you think they will be. everything is normal right now and in the

future it will be ok we live normally as for conflicts elsewhere with a good count is climbing is little media coverage and even less common 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 with libya's brother your oil think we'd be in iraq if their major export 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 out policy r.t.t. john zogby. washington based antiwar journalist and historian emotional explains there's absolutely no justification for any country to meddle in libya's affairs. 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 a you know humanitarian of the agents and observers and scouting missions and it 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 did there's nothing that would justify this. to be true goes that is russia's envoy to nato he told of certain countries are pushing to get involved in libya because they're reliant on its oil resources. 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. i just let you know if you'd like you can see the full interview with russia's envoy to nato dmitry rogozin in an hour's time here at r.t. tonight. the u.s. for president was in moscow this last week to trade and to 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 could be to a good bit of joke with biden that he hopes the u.s.

vice president won't be working on brushes for world trade organization membership till the end of his career said quote but i promised his personal support for moscow's inclusion. of political expert from the u.s. council on foreign relations he says russia and the u.s. are going through a new phase of improving ties. 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 the new start treaty the missile defense iran afghanistan and that 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 crosses the borders people traveling more between the two countries trying to play all the cards. events that the vice president was just talked 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 deeper and its social route. some of the world news for you brief at least one person has died in over one hundred have been injured demonstrations in yemen after police opened fire on crowds of the capital dozens suffered from two gas inhalation injuries violent clashes people demanding the end of president. thirty two year rule it follows the deaths of at least six protesters on saturday and the government risings in yemen if you don't go in since mid february. israel will build several hundred homes for jewish settlers in the occupied west bank the official announcement comes a day after five israeli settlers were killed in a sleep two children and a baby were among those stabbed to death that suspected palestinian militants were responsible palestinians who refused to negotiate with israel until construction is halted in the disputed. ten thousand to join the rally in the lebanese capital

beirut to protest the weapons arsenal held by has a lot of the mentalists the crowds supporters of outgoing prime minister hariri last month after his unity government collapsed as blair and its allies pulled out of the capital over a u.n. tribunal which is like a duplicate its members in the killing of the country's former premier. only this week russia's republic of chechnya hosted an all star match widely seen as a major step forward for the region a team of brazilian football veterans arrived for a charity game against a team captain by the chechen leader ramzan kadyrov barn explores how a former reno for military conflict is now leaving its bloody past behind in favor of sport. it must rank as one of the more curious pictures 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 to all our fans who have been waiting for this event for such a long time it's an exciting guy and i know that many of those who left the republic years ago are 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 at the airport by a sea shepherd barra style hero faces shanxi forces. walking into this coldplay scene in the presidency looking a little amused at the chechens however we're starting. earlier i can't believe this is happening that we couldn't even dream of an event like this happening before us come to grozny especially for this much and i think it will raise this sad memories of the past and everything will be great for. five years ago this match would have been unthinkable and he was in ruins after two military campaigns from the mid one nine hundred ninety s. following insurgency it was in this very stadium that rams and coveralls father was

blown up a decade before the area is still subject to high levels of security as the threat of terrorism as it moves towards normality after years of conflict so george grozny has come a long way at the caribbean things change every day we see new facilities being built and people understand that they have to get the past and live on something called time stadium was bursting see i was ill 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 that made sure he was the center of attention. despite missing time penalties eventually managed to get himself as to show the game ended six four to brazil. look this is a good it was a very disappointing school but what can we do again is again if we wanted to win it we lost. i'm sure you can do that resiliency but it's the strongest in the world today because it is sort of the dog they were keen to stress they were only charity

their visits or checks to make world headlines again but this time the sport can stop. it'll take more than just a football match to trace the structure of war on 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 r.c. church now. you're watching arctic when you live from moscow it's kind of you know really here tonight to keep you updated we will be bringing you all the latest we get out of japan not throughout the evening i'm here for a few hours yet for my colleagues take over because for the latest of course as well online at our table calm the next headline update coming for you in fact in exactly three and a half minutes from now. our

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