fears of a nuclear meltdown escalates would have threats of a second explosion at japan's fukushima atomic power plant and an emergency declared at another facility in the north east is believed to more than ten thousand people that have been killed in the devastating earthquake and resulting tsunami. also live in state t.v. reports colonel gadhafi gains momentum winning back more territory for the international calls grabbing him to surrender power. get up his minivan saw eastern libya is threatening that very soon the tunnel in gaza will score you join me in a few moments for more. also in other news this week pushing the reset button also to washington boost ties and pledge to advance trade or do x.-rays president not

russia's leaders and opposition not. alone welcome to the program this is our seas weekly review and out top stories the situation at the fukushima nuclear plant remains gray with fears that a second blast could occur at the facility run by friday's earthquake and tsunami and battling to prevent a nuclear meltdown after an explosion at a reactor with twenty two people already affected by radiation leakage these are the country declares a state of emergency at a second plant in the northeast and that it is in the town worst affected by the tsunami either helos you so you are just hundred kilometers away from the fukushima nuclear plant and we've heard reports that radiation leaks from about could have traveled much greater distances are people on the streets at all worried. well the

main concern in the local shima prefecture around those power plants they are mentioning there is exactly that the threat of nuclear meltdown and the chance of radiation spreading in the atmosphere already we know twenty thousand people are being treated with radiation exposure and as a result two hundred thousand people have been evacuated now the threat of nuclear meltdown still remains very high though and which means that radiation could spread even more because two reactors now that fukushima power plant number one have lost their cooling systems but those are the knocked out and temperatures inside the reactors are increasing so much so that the government is saying here the reactor itself the vessel containing the radioactive material is in danger of melting if that happens then it will start leaking radioactive material will spread and that's what's already happened to some extent because they're having to relieve the pressure inside the reactors by really letting out steam but with that comes

radiation as well and so as a result twenty two people have been affected by radiation exposure they're being treated now but local authorities yesterday were saying that they fear that number could be much higher in the region around one hundred sixty and yesterday or last night we on our way from tokyo to sendai take us twelve hours because the roads around the nuclear power plant going through the main highways going to actually through that area they were shut off and we actually still road to go through checkpoints and only emergency vehicles were being allowed through we saw clinton on the road trucks carrying diggers portable toilets and many are we hear calls as well and ambulances fire trucks they are going through checkpoints but only the highways the highways are only open to emergency vehicles we have so they were diverting civilian traffic around the accusations zone on cross country routes by passing the radiation exposure so yeah i don't know what's being done what

exactly is happening at the power station context right now to deal with the crisis that. so now they're trying to call the call those reactors down that are overheating by pumping in seawater. the element all around because they have a cool inside they had that was actually over one hundred degrees so it wasn't actually doing anything and it was just being heated up by was having inside the reactor so what they need to do now is call the directors down without having real difficulty seawater in the end of the reactors ultimately useless if they can stop them from exploding so that's what they're trying to do also as i mentioned before trying to relieve the pressure inside by letting out steam the controlled release of gases inside but with the release of radiation and as i say that. prevents people from going into those areas in a twenty kilometer radius and that's two hundred thousand people so far yet again with her big japanese government has been sending mixed signals at city at this

iteration of the power plant what have they been saying and why. really exploded the first the only explosion that's happened at the junction car plant one of the reactors that happened yes that two days ago sorry on saturday we still aren't sure exactly what the cause of that was because the that the vessel the reactor itself had melted. but because there were radioactive fuels and a trace of be found outside the facility cesium and iodine which suggested that there had been nuclear meltdown or the beginning stages of it then the authorities there to say that that was the federal have actually been damaged now they're saying that the fuel rods might have gradually started to melt and they fear that might be happening at the second reaction now that's been under a state of high alerts they say that because that's what explains the. cesium and

iodine. the reason why they're sort of almost drip feeding with the information now is no doubt because they don't want to cause widespread panic what they're doing instead is. letting people know that there is a severe danger and obviously acting accordingly by evacuating people but here hundred kilometers away in sendai that's not the fear of radiation really safe here from the radiation the fear here is actually of another earthquake. the japanese local media is saying that there's a very high chance of an aftershock raising a magnitude seven and a massive earthquake that started this catastrophe was magnitude nine so it's going to be a very powerful one if it happens next let that happen in the next three to seven days. that's very disturbing indeed so you are in one of the cities worst affected by the how serious is the damaged at the moment and how are people coping.

that's right i'm in sendai actually in the center here in the center there isn't actually any damage per se to the buildings most of the damage is on the coast which will be heading to very shortly this morning i'm actually sitting inside one of the relief centers where i spent the night because there's no commendation inset in sendai the whole city way is suffering is infrastructure there's no electricity no power. no water and very little food was very cold last night inside this building it's the governmental offices of the new yankee prefecture so it's a very strong building this is why it's the relief center is deliberately structured to withstand earthquakes. as one of the stronger than that's what's been chosen this relief center inside here is eighteen floors and. basically every single floor space is covered we lost last night it was covered with people bedding down for the night lying on sheets of cardboard about a metre and

a half long they've been given blankets we didn't actually have any blankets to sleep on and it's very cold and the because it was just literally so many people here there are thousands and thousands of people. who come here because they haven't basically got any home to go back to the moment some were stranded here because they were in sendai when the earthquake happens and they're on way from home there's no transport links trains none of those are working there are no taxis so they can't get home or they don't have a home to go to you can see it's destroyed or they do have a home to go to in sendai but it's massive steel. structures that are left standing in even in the center of the city aren't secure enough for people to go and live in and not inhabitable yet they still need to be checked so that's a massive concern that people are still here especially with this threat of a really great but i've spoken to people and asked what they feel about a scared it what what are they going to do if there's another earthquake need to

see something they can do that so that's what they've prepared for all along you know it's a massive real very realistic threat here in japan and they'll just treat it the same way they treated the last one three days ago that there's nothing they can do they know the drill it happens and that's why they're staying here that is ready to ride it out. for the latest a nation at about damage across the country either. well the damage across countries is sort of the whole towns have been completely wiped out and the number . is actually keeps keeps rising eight hundred people alone. died in this prefecture where i am the worst hit me and he prefecture another eight hundred elsewhere in the country but there are a few back would rise to over ten thousand because in me and prefecture alone this one town that has ten thousand residents still unaccounted for and so there it is.

operation is going on the tsunami white shout everything it's just a sea of mud on land which will be going to you later today so be able to update you on that and bring you pictures pretty soon as possible out in the sea there is floating debris that navy ships are sifting through very meticulously because they think they could still find some survivors a sixty year old man was actually found in the last few hours floating on the roof of his house floated out to sea and he's been there for three days so this still a chance of finding survivors but the damage is very severe in the. real cost of the damage is actually still. not and still not clear it's only just becoming. becoming clear now of course we're looking forward to seeing your latest pictures and updates and what's been the reaction of the international community to these huge tragedy for japan. but the international community is pouring in a and it has

been for the last three days everyone is all hands at the pump all across the world it seems ninety different countries to lend their support and send rescue teams and aid to japan including. one plane is. out of the current two more on its way already and china as well the u.k. the u.s. germany have sent teams. rummaging through. sniffer dogs they try and. search for survivors but after say the true extent of the damage is only just becoming clear and the worry is that it could be compounded even more number and fresh threats of another earthquake magnitude seven striking in three to seven days and another aftershock of a magnitude six attention in this area within four weeks and as i say the food supplies here and all the infrastructure is compatible and please be knocked out if

one's been evans but i want food they can and we met a man on the way to sendai last night seventy kilometers away he had driven all the way from sendai seventy countries to go shopping for food food drink and and supplies to take it back home to sendai because all the shelves here are empty but the eight supply the aid supplies are coming in the rescue operation and relief operation is in full swing here all over at great factories of empty their supplies all across the country and all means making sense as quickly as possible to these relief centers here where people are surviving on very little this morning we had. the morning rations darktown as a cucumber and a bread roll and everyone was queuing up for that and the next question they don't know when that will be coming but it's on its way because everyone's giving what they can across the country and across the world. almost over but it isn't sendai

one of the city's worst affected by the tsunami either thank you very much for that report and we'll be talking to you later. as germany's authorities trying to deal with the danger of a meltdown at the fukushima nuclear plant international nuclear experts say hopeful the situation is stabilizing russia's atomic agency also says however there's not yet enough information to be full it certain about the reaction safety meanwhile emergency services are on high alert in russia's far east a region close to northern japan. is in the area. michel's insofar you say that radiation levels remain normal in russia spore is ever since then you can have whole 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 say cynical water trays by the emergences ministry and also by other specialized services it measures

radiation levels around and it is showing is jumping between two and three micros where our these is way less than the average in moscow for example and also has a comparison a passenger flying on a plane from moscow to vladivostok receives as many as twenty two microns per hour which is sampled the figure here in the highlands the capital of new supply lines region well 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 are now and wanted to measure 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 and upon an expert experts is that a lot depends on the weather the good news is that the weekend is now going in the

direction of the pacific ocean of 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 cool islands are some two hundred miles now people of course have been. morris some of our latest news and they've been closely monitoring group was on t.v. in the beginning they were afraid of another natural disaster he's seeing the close . what they're afraid of now is 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 i mean you told me that as they watch news reports they can't believe their eyes that these disaster is unfolding so close in such a vicinity to russia's bullshits in the beginning shortly after the earthquake and tsunami in japan they were mostly afraid of a natural disaster which because it's at the northern coast of russia they are afraid of another chernobyl now which could happen close to to their home. radiation levels seven hundred times higher than normal have been recorded at a second nuclear power plant in northeastern japan or sorties are currently investigating the claims at the facility in all of our initial reports the radiation may have blown in from fukushima talked over jacobs from the hiroshima peace institute says if that's the case the twenty kilometer exclusion zone around the fukushima reactor may not be enough. the claims of the japanese government at this point is that the radiation they want to go 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 would correspond to the timing of the explosion in fukushima but as i say seen as how the infatuation 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 me and actually an area that is on the other side of the bay from sendai it's north of sendai whereas the fukushima site is south of sendai so that would be quite a distance that would certainly indicate that if it did travel that far that there was about 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 japanese

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 meet 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. moscow's pleasure to stand shoulder to shoulder with talk you're in the quiet as the plane carrying russian rescue workers is heading to japan with another team to take off from the country on monday and as an executive chef he explains russia is no stranger to dealing with the nuclear threat facing japan having first hand

experience of the world's worst a time disaster during the soviet era spare no effort in getting the job done this typical more thoughtful construction projects in the soviet union also would like to the chernobyl nuclear power plant construction kicked off in the nine hundred seventy s. it was intended to be a dream project for soviet ukraine. was the birth rate in prepared was higher than all of ukraine people were given homes and there was a great demand for a workforce. so everyone worked and light good there. but this happy existence came to an abrupt and on april the twenty six nine hundred eighty six with the explosion over 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 ever manmade nuclear disasters the blazing reactor was bombarded with sand and lead

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 a 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 saugus you graeme the chernobyl thought it 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. r.t. reporting from kiev ukraine. because without heat at the latest developments in

japan and now want a website or call for more. to other news now forces loyal to colonel gadhafi had gaining momentum in the east and made international calls for him to step down we've been media reports say rebel groups have been driven out of several all tiles houses and out of the region. looking stated a vision 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 to arms 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 in the past state television has been faulty in its reporting it based very often preempting his successes of gadhafi his men before they actually happened but we can come to that 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 hum much longer can that enthusiasm hold out at the same time in the oil rich portion of the rest of the latest reports they suggest that the talent is in the hands of gadhafi is main we've been hearing from rebel groups that they have the numbers but they do not have the equipment to take on his soldiers rebel groups yet have welcomed 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 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 jaffe'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's 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 go in any kind of humanitarian assistance or anything else will be motivated by self interest of the united states and the european union that they will not really be acting in the interests of libyan people not concerned about the safety of the rebel groups themselves because he still remains the stronghold of the rebel groups we are hearing from gadhafi as men they are making their way there never again 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 heading 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 close only nowadays people are afraid and many of the africans who used to work here have fled the country a few arguments that libya is on the brink of civil war so foreign intervention is needed still seems to ring a little hollow several hundred people killed but that's not a huge level of violence it certainly isn't a global level of violence that would normally merit intervention gadhafi has offered access to foreign media but only if the camera 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 version of events he says or nothing the media. is going to go hot places and all these cities are controlled by there are bridges 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 that information back here in jones to outside tripoli with schoolgirl mona says she's out hustled and angry and i reported mercenaries was shooting people in her tone it's you it's yours. right. and so he seems harm on the street. is the lives of tweets in libya except that it's coming from constantly this

country do you think that people still. the regime is normal right now and future. will move 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 but nobody seems to be thinking about it's only because fashionable attention is focused on libya the only reason is that. your oil you'd think we'd be in iraq if the big war there was broccoli so as leaders nation brussels to discuss the fate of a country hundreds of miles away many libyans will say it's the miss and they'll clean it up police here are t. jones already. with us was president was in moscow this week to boost trade and encourage these further research of relations between the two countries while

several issues were discussed including bed joe biden said he was keen to correct the previous administration's mistakes in economic ties with russia to make him a better driver with biden that he hopes the u.s. vice president won't be working on russia's beautiful world trade organization on the ship till the end of his career i don't promise his personal support for moscow's inclusion and charles a couple turn up political expert from the us council on foreign relations. does a version of the last a great three need say that i'm pretty tight. but 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 receptor phase one was all about security and high politics and it was about the new start treaty missile defense iran afghanistan i mean i really came to a close when the russian parliament and the u.s. senate ratified start and now i think what we're looking at is more societal contact across the investment that crosses the borders and people traveling more

between the two countries are trying to build the confidence that the vice president how to just talk to security is obviously going to be there both in north africa and trying to get us russian cooperation on missile defense but i think we're now seeing the relationship broaden out in deeper and its social roots. this is i see coming to you live from moscow and look if you are doing that on the latest news coming out of japan and you can also find the latest on our web site us here at home that lines up next interested. in the.

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