market. scandal find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to cause a report on our team. tonight fears of a nuclear meltdown escalate with the threat of a second explosion at japan's fukushima atomic power plant and an emergency alert declared of another facility in the northeast it's believed more than ten thousand people could have been killed in the devastating earthquake and resulting tsunami. libyan state t.v. reports colonel gadhafi gains momentum and winning back more territory as international calls grow for him to surrender power. get up his men hands on eastern libya make meaning that very soon the town of pain ghazi will score you can mean a few moments of formal. i don't know top story that showed the week pushing the

reset button in moscow and washington post ties in the pledge to the balance of trade as the u.s. vice president lead russia's leaders in opposition here in moscow. hello thanks for joining us this hour my name's kevin zero in this is the r.t. international news channel it's now one am here in moscow and the top story the situation at the fukushima nuclear plant in japan remains grave this morning as authorities start using seawater to try to cool down damaged reactors trying to prevent a second blast facility so far twenty two people are known to have been exposed to radiation it comes as a state of emergency has been declared a second nuclear facility affected by friday's massive earthquake there says police fear more than ten thousand people may have died after the earthquake and the tsunami that followed it in the worst crisis to hit the country since world war two

artes either bennett reports now from one of the worst hit areas not far from the fukushima plant. well the worry there is concerning a second reactor at the fukushima number one concern now is that a second one has lost its cooling mechanism helping seawater around to try and cool the reactor down the temperature inside the reactor is growing very hot. there actually could start to melt which then leads to nuclear meltdown. but the main theories. but the general was then 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 a hundred thousand people already in the vicinity of 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 what we saw with people stocking up on food none of the shops actually had any chance water because people are afraid to drink the tap water here is a little being contaminated and the government has people not to do so so there's no chance of the shops a lot of people buying in of. that's in short supply as well in the worst hit area especially here and as for fuel as well. federal station most of them actually have been closed but there's one open and there's a queue of cars about a kilometer long we are stuck 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 just twenty liters each at the coast which we have going to get that's still about an hour's drive and the roads are blocked off i'm hearing damage there

is absolutely struction here and buildings are still standing but the damage is 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 change because they aren't able to go home or in sendai when the earthquake happened and so and they live quite far out makes it we can't get there because there aren't any trains there isn't any public transport functioning here and it's very few chack season cars so he will have to stay here also but many people stay year actually live in sendai but their houses that are too unstable to go back to what's more and 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 into very nice at these relief centers furthermore there is 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 there's no real assurance or guarantee of food or drinking water either so it's a very bleak outlook for them as a correspondent i have a bennett in sendai capital of the region worst hit by the tsunami well as japanese authorities try to deal with the danger of a meltdown at the fukushima nuclear plant international nuclear experts said they are hopeful that the situation is stabilizing russia's atomic agency crossed that some says however there's not yet enough information to be fully certain about the reactors safety meanwhile emergency services are on high alert in russia as far eastern region close to northern japan he's cutting a great show over as got that angle of the story. michel's insofar you say that

radiation levels remain normal in russia spore is ever seen then you can't hold lines 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 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 the bigger it is showing is jumping between two and three micros growler 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. the figure here in. the capital of this region all russian security services are still on high alert as there are confirmed reports from those

in japan that possibility of a nuclear meltdown is there a high in fukushima and so experts in russia are now monitoring measuring levels of radiation and 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 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 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 some 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 heating the clothes so. what they are afraid of now is as a part of possibility of radiation contamination and they've been calling emergencies ministry of the line is almost always easy and trying to find out what preventive measures could be taken and 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 seriously to russia's food it's even the beginning shortly after the earthquake and tsunami in japan they were mostly afraid of a natural disaster which could hit i think the north is close to russia they are afraid of another tour novel now which could happen close to their homes. to report a critical radiation level seven hundred times higher than normal have been

recorded of the second nuclear power plant in northeastern japan authorities are currently investigating claims at the facility in our initial reports of the radiation may have blown in from fukushima to robert jacobson hiroshima peace institute told us that if that is 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 rig the reactors at that site but are actually from fukushima number one from the explosion at fukushima number one so this is boring as well because if this is true this would indicate that the radiation from fukushima has reached quite a distance from the plant itself the claims are that the radiation levels were high briefly and then went down and this from correspond to the timing of the explosion in fukushima but as i say so you saw 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 it is on the other side of the day 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 open measurable radiation in sendai city itself i think that there's a very conflicting reports coming out on the one hand you have the chinese 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 seem better than it is and also to avoid panic but the other perhaps more likely scenario is that the government is

not quite certain of the state of affairs in the reactors and so you're finding conflicting reports coming out from different spokespeople but either either scenario certainly suggests the situation is far from under control. for its part moscow 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's far east on monday and those are his electorate jeff skilling explains now russia is no stranger of course to dealing 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 apply 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. 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 and you're not so everyone worked and waited there but this happy existence came to an abrupt and on april the twenty six nine hundred eighty six with the explosion of the reactor at the power station the very same motto used for building the plants where 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 but which related deemed highly effective by the international atomic energy agency this action helped to contain the radiation and enable construction of the circle for 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 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 your crane the journal will 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 with what is now so over in ukraine prove to be an invaluable lesson for mankind. r.t. reporting from kiev ukraine. will do stay with us if you can for the latest developments in japan you can also get the latest too on our web. cited r.t. dot com. when we take you through some of the top news stories now and forces loyal to colonel gadhafi gaining momentum in the east made international calls for him to step down libyan media reports say that rebel groups have been driven out of several key oil terms hardy's poor sleep is the latest from the region. libyan state television is reporting that forces loyal to the libyan leader moammar gadhafi have now retaken the oil town of brega 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 hitting clashes happening there but we haven't as of yet been able to independently verify these state television reports and the cost state television has been faulty in its reporting it based very often preempting the sex pistols of the duffys men before they actually happen but we can confirm that the definition in all it wants 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 well how much longer can that enthusiasm hold out at the same time in the oil rich port of the rest of the latest reports there is a case of the talent is in the hands of gadhafi is mean we've been hearing from

able groups that they have the numbers but they do not have the equipment to take on his soldiers rebel groups to have well come to the core from the arab league for a no fly zone to be implemented over libya this call came saturday when the foreign ministers of the arab league meeting in cairo they have mouth called on the united nations security council to implement a no fly over the country but they've made the point that this mess is not illegal and must not be confused with foreign military intervention they say that it definitely has lost its 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 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 ships from one point to be either the rebel groups here 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 as he still remains the stronghold of the rebel groups we are hearing from gadhafi as men there they are making their way there and then when being ghazi forced 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 close those people are freed 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 have been 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 lens has stayed well away from any of the opposition but it's a similar picture in the opposition strongholds dr ramadan break he was forced to close the benghazi office of his newspaper because of pressure from liberals you have to print the version of events he says or nothing the media. is going to the hot places and all these cities are controlled by the providers and then given that we will go through the. 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 will not hear injuns all outside tripoli schoolgirl mona says she's puzzled and angry by reports at most an aries with seating people in her town is normally it's hers. right. and life certainly seems hard on the streets. of tweets simple all in libya except that it's coming from constantly to the french do you think that they will still get. there are things normal right now and in the future it would be ok we live normally as for conflicts elsewhere with counters climbing is a 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 and nobody seems to be thinking of that it's only because fashionable attention is focused on libya the

only reason or. rather your oil 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 the image and they'll clean it up policy r.t. jones on. and the world for the online newspaper the daily bell believes nato member states a pretty huge pressure on libya and so we're now at a crossroads between islamic fundamentalism or a western style government. there's quite a bit of speculation is to act actually who is who is pulling the strings of what's happening in libya i think what you're going to see here is a secular style western government that will be introduced post. but that that will fail i believe within a very short period of time and i believe that is when we will see a more fundamentalist islamic type of government that will surface and take power it should be a natural democratic shift within the middle east or in any of these countries if

there's going to be change it should be change that is and i hate that word but i'll use it anyway because it's the word of the day again but change in the middle east should be driven naturally by the people themselves they're going to get the help whether they want it or not and some would say this is basically what's been driving this revolution to begin with not to say or take anything away from the people in libya who are fighting and putting their lives on the line here to to actually make some form of a change but you know you look at what's happening in the world today and the pressure that's mounting with respect to foreign intervention being demanded especially from the western mainstream media you would have to think that the western media trumpeting such intervention is something that is heard loud and clear within libya by the libyan people as well and the people on the ground who are leading this movement they're influencing factors but i don't believe that there is necessarily a unified on the ground presence in libya that is being cohesively led by any one group or any one individual and that means also that there are certainly fundamentalists and others within the libyan population who do not wish to have any

foreign intervention at all there are others who would probably like to see it happen. voice in nato says certain countries are pushing to get involved in libya because they are reliant on its oil resources. and 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 humanitarians fear 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 the kind and believe the 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 just from what you can see the full interview with russia's envoy to nato in an hour's time again here on the t.v. news channel. the u.s.

vice president was in moscow this week to boost trade and encourage a 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 quote working on russia's bid for world trade organization the ship to be oblivious career quote live problems to his personal support for most of inclusion just captured photos he's a political expert from the us foreign relations he says russia is the us going through a new phase of improving. i think in many respects what we're seeing here is the closing of phase one and the opening of phase two of the 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 that crosses the borders people traveling more between the two countries trying to build the confidence that the vice president 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 in its social roots and it takes a top international news stories of briefings one person has died and over one hundred in government protests together of the police opened fire on crowds and six small killed the demonstrating for an end to u.s. backed president always thirty two year rule testers were also bombarded with tear gas which call further it has been continual unrest against that dictator since. the u.s. face of a spokesman p.j. crowley is quit following criticism he may. harsh jail treatment of bradley manning

was sold hughes awaiting trial for allegedly supplying a vast trove of secret information to wiki leaks the senior aide is believed to have resigned other white house pressure after telling a small group of a university that private manning was treatment was ridiculous kind of productive and stupid private manning is confined to a windowless cell for twenty three hours a day and is not allowed pillows or blankets that night at a press conference on friday president obama assured journalists that he'd asked the pentagon if private manning was being mistreated and the pentagon said no. israel would build several hundred homes for jewish settlers in the occupied west bank that announcement came a day after five israeli settlers were stabbed to death in their home two children and a paper you were among those killed with palestinian extremists and suspected palestinian leaders have refused to continue talks with israel until new settlement construction which reaches international role is halted. earlier

this week russia's republic of chechnya hosted an all star match widely seen as a major step towards forward in the region the team of brazilian football veterans arrived for a charity game against a team captain by the chechen leader ramzan kadyrov. explores how a former a rino for military conflict is leaving its bloody past behind in favor of sport. it must rank as one of the more curious fixtures in football history at a press conference late the night before chechen is leader ramzan kadyrov spoke of his excitement at the arrival of the opposition it's a real holiday for laughs 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 are coming back to enjoy the match but many reporters there doubted a team of brazilian veterans would really come to play in chechnya the next day he repeated at the airport by a sea shuttle virus style tear off basis shouting supporters. walking into this

cult like scene in the brazilian team looking a little amused at the chechens however. i can't believe this is happening we couldn't even dream of an event like this happening before i've come to grozny specially for this night 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 and it was in ruins after two military campaigns from the mid one nine hundred ninety s. following an insurgency it was in this very stadium rahm's and cut her off father was blown up a decade before the area is still subject to high levels of security in support of terrorism as it moves towards normality after years of conflict said which caused me to come a long way at the caribbean 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 the sea 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 could hear of and made sure he was the center of attention. despite missing two penalties he eventually managed to get himself as crucial to game ended six four to brazil. macpherson a little just it was a very disappointing score but what can we do a game is a game if we wanted to win but we lost the brazilians have shown again because ian team is the strongest in the world tonight for a look at though they were keen to stress they were only charity their visit so chechnya make world headlines again but this time the sport country. it'll take more than just a football must face the specter of war and terrorism away from chechnya and 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 nazi churchill. this is r t from

moscow my name's kevin zero in thanking you for being with us this half hour i will keep you updated with the latest news coming out of japan there in about three minutes time others also of course the latest out our team dot com our web site this month twenty four seventh's for you this is the r.t. international news channel from.

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