be very clear meltdown let's play it with the threat of a second explosion at japan's fukushima atomic power plant and then about the crowd at another facility in the north east it's believed more than ten thousand people that have been killed in the devastating earthquake and results are. only demonstrates lieven point kind of down to gay men so when entire north dakota tree and international calls the world to him surrender. it appears millionaire vance on eastern libya great making that very soon the town of ping ghazi will score you need a few moments so more. and also the other news this week pushing the research parts of the moscow to washington greece times and pledge to advance trade as the u.s.

science rather than demand russia's need is an oppositional start. hello and welcome to the program this is our series weekly review and the situation of the fukushima nuclear plant in japan remains grave as authorities started using seawater to cool down damaged reactors trying to prevent a second loss of the facility so far twenty two people are known to have been exposed to radiation it comes as a state of emergency has been declared as a second nuclear facility affected by friday's massive earthquake this as police fear more than time thousand people may have died after the ass quake and tsunami that followed it when the was crisis to have a country since world war two well jeez i have a bennett report 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 the second one has lost its cooling mechanism that helping seawater around trying to cool the reactor down the temperature inside the reactor is growing very hot. there actually could start to melt which is then least a nuclear meltdown or. 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 hundred thousand people already in the vicinity of both these reactors and its nuclear power plant have been evacuated further away from the. 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 was

people stocking up on food none of the shops actually had any chap water because people are afraid to drink the tap water here over fears of it being contaminated and the governor has people not to do so. to the shops and a lot of people buying in bulk of. that's in short supply as well in the worst hit area especially here and as for fuel as well we passed a petrol station most of them actually have been closed but it has gone 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. rationed the amount of fuel or get just twenty liters each at the coast which is going to get still about an hour's drive and the roads blocked off i'm hearing. absolute destruction here several things 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 change because they aren't able to go home some are in sendai when the earthquake happened and so and they live quite far out makes that we can't get there because there aren't any trains there isn't any public transport functioning here and there's very few checks season cars so he will have to stay here also but many people stay year actually live in sendai but their houses are to 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 nights at these relief centers or furthermore 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 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. either there's reporting that from sendai account as well of the region worst hit by the tsunami and there's just unease authorities trying to deal with the danger of a meltdown at the nuclear plant international. visitation stabilizing russia's atomic energy agency was asked and says however that there's not enough information to that for the reactor safety so meanwhile and that is a sad says on high alert in russia aspire east region close to northern japan because you know gotcha always in the area. michel's insecure you say that radiation levels remain normal in russia spore is ever since then you can't hold

lawns 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 states nickel gora trays by the emergences ministry and also by other specialized services it measures relation levels around and it is showing is jumping between two and three micros per hour this 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 robert which is sampled the figure here in. 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 there a high in fukushima and so experts in russia are now wanted to measure 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 the country should be spared any fallout but what i know from the planet experts experts 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 reports on t.v. in the beginning they were afraid of another natural disaster he's seeing that

close. what they are 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 and many told me that as they watch news reports they can't believe their eyes that these disaster is unfolding so close in such a vicinity to russia's interests in the beginning shortly after the earthquake and tsunami in japan they were mostly afraid of a natural disaster which could hit and the northern coast of russia they are afraid of another chernobyl now which could happen close to their homes. crews are fighting to cool down the overheated fuel rods or because she may nuclear plant this is considered key to averting disaster as they contain radioactive materials and christopher simons a professor at the talking university explains how an explosion might occur and

what the was concerned mario could mean for local residents. and 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 the charitable incidents the situation is a few rods can melt they can become oxidized and the rods are protected by zirconium our lloyd coating and when it comes into contact with water the result is the production of a large amount of hydrogen which is of course explosive and causes that 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's 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 takes in the explosion from the h.-e. reactor number one building yesterday is relatively light isotopes these isotopes cannot really cause long term damage to human health the more serious problem is that they have also detected isotopes of iodine and cesium in the area around the fukushima explosion these are much heavier isotopes and that means that if they get into the human body or if they get into the soil or water supply they can cause long term radiation poisoning. roscoe's pledging to stand shoulder to shoulder with talking during the crisis a plane carrying russian rescue workers is heading to perm now with another jeep takeoff from the country's far east on monday and there's an excel you know task explains that russia is no stranger to dealing with the nuclear threat president upon 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. 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 lighted 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 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 but blazing reactor was bombarded with sand and lead measures which at first seemed crowley driven which were later 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 crane the chair noble 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 and what is now sovereign ukraine have proved to be an invaluable lesson for mankind. r.t. reporting from kiev ukraine. stay with us here for the latest developments are not our web site. and other news now that forces loyal to colonel gadhafi are

gaining momentum in the east and made international calls for him to step down libyan media reports say rebel groups have been driven out of several key all towns pulis here has 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 great debt in the east of the country according to state television this town has been to quote the maclean's of the armed gangs brigade is the site of a major oil terminal and throughout the day sunday they have been hit 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 sexists as arkadelphia mean before they actually happen but we can complete in fact a definition in our everyone from eastwards they are encountering increasingly loosely organized rebel groups they do not have enough equipment and they lack

leadership and until now what really has been a unifying factor which is enthusiasm is slowly starting to the way people are asking the question the homage longer can that enthusiasm hold out at the same time in the oil rich rest of the latest reports they suggest that 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 equal meant 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 mess is not illegal and must not be confused with foreign military intervention they say they could duffy has lost the legitimacy to rule as you can well expect gadhafi and his regime have criticized this call from the arab league so 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 the rebel groups themselves are also feeling increasingly hopeless there is chaos happening here it is not very clear where. the front line is it's very often shots from one frame to the other the able gives fear that any kind of foreign involvement whether in the form of a no fly zone to go in any kind of humanitarian assistance or anything else would 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 is men are making their way there and then when being 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 gets take a look there's a lot more haggling on the international stage of the merits of intervention and a 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 to flip the country if you're going into libya is on the brink of civil war so foreign intervention is needed still seems to ring a little hollow there 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 up to 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 bridges and given that people go through the. what they think and what they believe and many did up is a cautious fear that while he may be winning the goodness of medals he's losing the information that here in john's outside happy schoolgirl nowness issues are hustled and angry by reports of mercenaries with teaching people in her town is making sure is. right. and mike says he seems harm on the street. this civil war in libya except that it's coming from constantly to this country do you think that they will be civil. the reason is normal right now and

a future it may be ok we would normally as for conflicts elsewhere with countries planning this 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 about it it's only because fashionable attention is focused on libya the only reason urges that have with the oil we think would be in iraq if their major war there was broccoli so as leaders nation brussels to discuss the fate of a country hundreds of miles away many libyans are saying it's been a mess and they'll clean it up policy r.t.t. . and a while when the online newspaper the daily bell believes nato member states are causing huge crushingly bins are now at a crossroads between islamic fundamentalism or 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 would be introduced post. but that that will that will fail i believe within a very short period of time and i believe that is where 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 to or not and some would say the culture is basically what's been driving this revolution to begin with and 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 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's 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 military in the population who do not wish to have any foreign intervention at all there are others who would probably like to see it happen. western powers have frozen that parents of not that kind of think is in the biz government the u.s. or learn from them don't as they love to stand on to for an absence of the senate off the america but as in the list of course history suggests to me that i may never see a plan. well as violence continues in libya the u.s. sends warships and more troops in that direction fueling speculation of a military intervention and meanwhile western countries may have already launched

a war against colonel moammar gadhafi as north african regime most countries consider. freezing over. as an act of war for the weapons here the foreign assets of either libya the country or could often his family that some estimate to be almost one hundred billion dollars it's believed to be spread across the globe or your money invested through the country's sovereign wealth fund everything from a stake in the company that owns the financial times newspaper to land near the spanish resort town of marbury are being developed into homes and i golf course to the oil company of your annex and billions of dollars of cash in drinks the right europe and the u.s. the question now is what happens to all this money especially the thirty billion dollars the united states has frozen the most ever in the history of this country and this type of situation it essentially cuts libya off from the entire u.s.

banking system for now it stays put well the situation is still uncertain but what is certain the president of the united states is now in control of this money which gives him a powerful tool. deal about this money or some of this money. out of the forward. whatever that. is trying to accomplish those things it's all a belt control and profit. an empire an empire where the greatest profits come from the military contracts and the oil contracts so. they will work overtime to. their interest to enact these sanctions the u.s. president declared the situation in libya quote an unusual and extraordinary threat to u.s. national security and foreign policy that's not typical considering there is not

a clear aggressive action libya has taken against the u.s. as for libya's financial interests analysts say you could look at the history of countries such as iran their assets were frozen in the wake of the one nine hundred seventy nine hostage crisis their money that was seized from iran back in one thousand seven hundred nine has still you know not been returned to the iranians so it's basically time for a plunder play you know if we can take it away from them we will the money is used most often to pay for the settlements of lawsuit against a leader or a government or to recoup losses khadafi can likely case that money could buy we took their nuclear capacity away made promises but even with up to them a claim that was a great victory for peace and now we're in a situation where it's clear that oil is at stake the future of the massive sums of money reach for libyan oil is now with uncertain is a divided country it came from loring mr r.t.

new york. and to the trade rep who was in russia then going to nato says some countries are pushing to get involved in neighbor 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 spear 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 to consider a full interview with russia's envoy tonight in less than ten minutes time here on ars he says that. before i thought president polls and also this week to boost

trade and encourage the further theft of relations between the two countries while several issues were discovered this constant pleading leave it joe biden said he was keen to correct the previous administration's mistakes in economics night with russia which predicts that if joe biden backed the heart of the us and won't be working on russia's big trade organization membership to the end of his career biden probably it's personal support from inclusion democratic suffocates chris left it at the u.s. and russia have more in common than that. i think that the existing relations are on a track moving forward no matter what the little disruptions are and i think that's very important and i think that's part of what this trip is all about and then the obama's trip will be all about which is that even if we have setbacks along the way the message has to be very clear to the russian people into the american people that russia the united states now have more in common that we view as we do that separates us we need that russia to be part of the w t o we need to free trade with

russia i think that that message is being sent to anything the united states does it will clearly take into account how the russian government the russian leadership feels about things and i'm sure that vice president biden is making that very clear to. the russian leadership that whatever we do in libya we're going to try to make sure that we cooperate with you and we're not in conflict with you the other thing of course is that we're coming up to the tenth anniversary of nine eleven i don't think it's lost on the american people that the russian people have been victimized by islamic terrorists and we share that in common and i think the metaphor for that is this idea of a missile defense although it's aimed at states why go around others i think that it's a symbol that we stand united against terrorists and that's another thing so while we might disagree on things like libya i think going forward the relationship moves forward no matter what the little setbacks might be. on the other international

news making the headlines at least one person has died and over one hundred have been injured in government protests in yemen after police opened fire in the capital six more were killed on saturday demonstrating burns to you as president. thirty two year rule we're told as we're also been bothered with tear gas which caused further injuries has been continual and rest against the dictator since february. u.s. state department spokesman p.j. crowley has quit following criticism he made over the treatment of bradley manning the soldier who is awaiting trial for allegedly supply a vast trove of secret information to weekly leaks the senior aide is believed to have resigned under white house pressure after telling its small group at a university that fly that manning's treatment was ridiculous counterproductive and stupid private manning is confined to a window that cell for twenty three hours a day and does not allow the people of blankets at night at

a press conference on friday president obama showed john let's turn to the point that manning was being mistreated and that the pentagon had. it's a row will build several hundred homes the church settlers in the occupied west bank the announcement came a day after five israeli settlers are stuff to death in their home two children under a baby were among those killed with palestinian extremists expected palestinian leaders have refused to continue talks with israel until new settlement construction which breaches international law is halted. by you're watching r.t. live from moscow will keep you updated with the latest news coming out of japan under you can also find the latest online at home of the next headline update coming up here in just a few moments. with

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