keep. the. fears of a nuclear meltdown escalating to the threat of a second explosion at japan's fukushima atomic power plant and an american style of the glad that another person lives in the north east they believe more than ten thousand people would have been killed in the devastating earthquake and resulting tsunami. even state t.v. reports colonel gadhafi gains momentum win back more territory as international calls grow him to surrender power on. gadhafi is minute advance on eastern libya a great name that very soon the town of ping ghazi will see or you join me in a few moments for more. and also in other news this week pushing the restart button

what's going to washington bruce times and pledge to advance trade and be u.s. vice president met russia's leaders and opposition elements. alone welcome to the program this is all she's a weekly review and out top story the situation of this regime a nuclear plant remains grave fears that a second blast could occur the facility rocked by friday's as great and tsunami and renee as are going to prevent a nuclear meltdown after an explosion at a reactor with twenty two people already affected by radiation leakage this as the country declares a state of emergency at a second round in the northeast also these are bennett is in sendai one of the towns the worst affected by the tsunami. 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 have been knocked out and the temperatures inside the reactions are increasing 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 they were saying that they fear that number could be much higher in the region around one hundred sixty yesterday or last night we on our way from tokyo to send i took us twelve hours because the roads around the nuclear power plant main highways going to actually from the back area they were shut off and we actually still broaching you have to go through checkpoints and only emergency vehicles were being allowed through there were civilian traffic around the accusations own on cross-country routes bypassing the radiation explosions and so now they're trying to call the call those

reactors down that are overheating see water to them and the element all around because they have to call inside what they have that was actually over one hundred degrees so it wasn't actually doing anything and it was just i was being heated up by was having inside the reactor so what they need to do now is call the actors down but they're having a real difficulty in being seawater in the end of the reactors ultimately useless if they can stop them from exploding the only explosion as happened in carte blanche as one of the reactors that happened yes that two days ago sorry on saturday we still aren't sure exactly what because that was that it was the best in the reactor itself have melted. but because there were radioactive fuel. an air trace unloading found outside the facility cesium and iodine which suggested that there had been nuclear meltdown or the beginning stages of it but then the

authorities started to say that that was the face will have actually been damaged now they're saying that the a few rods might actually started to melt and they fear that might be happening a second reaction now that's been under a state of high alert it's here hundred kilometers away in sendai that's not the fear of radiation but the fear here is actually another earthquake. the japanese local media is saying that there's a very high chance of an aftershock reaching a magnitude seven and the massive earthquake that started this catastrophe was a magnitude nine so it's going to be a very powerful one if it happens next week that happen in the next three to seven days in sendai actually in the center here in the sense that there isn't actually any damage per se to the buildings. that are it 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've spent the night because there's no commendation instead in

sendai the whole city way is suffering because its infrastructure has no electricity no power no heating no water and very little for the margin was very cold last night's inside here is eighteen floors and. basically every single floor space is covered we lost last night it was people being down for the night lying on sheets of cardboard about a metre and a half long we've been given blankets for the damage across countries the whole towns have been completely wiped out and the number of. actually keeps keeps rising eight hundred people alone. died in this prefecture where i am the worst hit and the only prefecture another eight hundred elsewhere in the country. could rise to ten thousand because in a pretty picture alone it's one town that it has ten thousand residents still unaccounted for out of the sea this floating debris. may be ships

sifting through very meticulously because they. could still find some supplies 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 there's still a chance of finding survivors. have a better reporting there from capital of the region worst hit by the tsunami as japanese authorities try to deal with the danger of a meltdown at the nuclear plant international nuclear ask that experts say they're hopeful the situation is stabilizing russia's atomic energy was out and says however that there is not yet another variation to big for the reactors safety meanwhile imagines assesses our high alert in russia's far east of region close to north and ati think it's you know russia always in the. michel's insecure you say that radiation levels remain normal in russia's for instance ever since then you can't hold lines in fukushima was hit by an explosion they didn't want to torrent

levels closely we can't even check the radiation levels for ourselves this is the so-called geiger counter and this is used in professional safe legal border trays like the emergency is ministry and also by other specialized services it measures radiation levels around and the bigger it is showing is jumping between two and three microbes where our this is way less than the average in moscow for example and also as a comparison a passenger of flying on a plane from moscow to vladivostok receives as many as twenty two microns robert which is ten fold bigger here in usenet so highly in the capital of the civilians region but russian security services are still on high alert as there are confirmed reports from other shows in japan that possibility of a nuclear meltdown very high in fukushima and so experts in russia are now and wanted soaring measuring levels of radiation not only in russia but also in the

arctic for example they are also saying that even in the worst case scenario be contra should be spared any fallout but what we know from in japan and 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 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 coral islands are a sump two hundred miles now people of course have begun. morrison about the 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 the line is almost always being 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 borders even the beginning shortly after the earthquake and tsunami in japan they were mostly afraid of a natural disaster which could hit 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 of the fukushima nuclear plant this is considered a plea to averting disaster as they contain radioactive materials and christopher simons a professor talking to university explains how an explosion might occur and what the worst. could mean for local residents. 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 but the situation is a few rods can melt they can become oxidized and the rods are protected by caerleon our loike code and when that comes into contact with water it result is the production of a large amount of hydrogen which is of course explosive and that causes a large explosion as we saw yesterday whether the radiation is coming from fukushima dai ichi we actually 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 and 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 these are much heavier isotopes and that means that if they get into the human body or if they get into the soil with water supply they can cause long term radiation poisoning and that moscow is pledging to stand shoulder to shoulder with tucker during the crisis as a plane carrying russian rescue workers it's having to try with another call from the country's far east on monday and that if they are fast explains ross is no stranger to dealing with the nuclear threat facing having first hand experience of the world wants to come and disaster during the summer. spare no effort in getting the job done this typical motto for construction projects in the soviet union also

would like to the chernobyl nuclear power plant where the construction kicked off in the nine hundred seventy s. it was intended to be a dream project for soviet ukraine. the birth rate in crete guard was higher than all of ukraine people were given homes and there was a great demand for a work force in chernobyl so everyone worked and lighted there but this happy existence came to an abrupt end on april the twenty six nine hundred eighty six with the explosion of the reactor at the power station the very same ato 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 a blazing reactor was bombarded with sand and lead measures which at first seemed very driven but which were later deemed highly effective by the international atomic energy agency this action helped to contain the radiation and enable

construction of the sarcophagus a structure built around the reactor to seal it off for several months after the attack strophe 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 sorry to crane the chernobyl fallout was caused by a massive human error mistakes made by the authorities in the first hours after the blast also cost many lives but the events of twenty five years ago in what is now sovereign ukraine have proved to be an invaluable lesson for mankind alexi russia ascii art see reporting from kiev ukraine. and stay with us seek the latest developments in japan and. more. and other news forces loyal to colonel gadhafi are gaining momentum in these amid international

calls for him to step down the then media reports say rebel groups have been driven out of several key oil terms what is clear as the latest from the region living state television is reporting that forces loyal to the libyan leader moammar gadhafi have mouth retaken the oil town of bread get in the east of the country according to state television this town has been to quote them clear instead of armed gangs or it is the size 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 at this very often preempting the sex pistols i think of his men before they actually happen but we can confirm that the definition in our every once in eastwards they are encountering increasingly loosely organized rebel groups they do not have enough equipment they lack leadership and until now what really has been

a unifying factor which is enthusiasm is slowly starting to overweight people are asking the question for homage longer can that enthusiasm hold out at the same time in the oil rich point of rest in the north the latest reports there is a case of the talent is in the hands of gadhafi is named 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 court from the arab league for a no fly zone to be implemented over libya the scorpion saturday when the foreign ministers of the arab league meet 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 gadhafi 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 people themselves are also feeling increasingly hopeless there is chaos happening here it is not very clear where the front line is if very often it shifts 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 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 is now in there they are making their way there and that when they bring ghazi force to quote him well very 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 a no fly zone then the bargaining taking place in downtown tripoli market shops here close. people are afraid and many of the africans who used to work here have fled 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 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 could have he 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 rebels you have to print the version of events he says or nothing the media. it's going

to the hot places and all these cities are controlled by the bridges and then given that people go through. the new 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 with schoolgirl mona says she's puzzled and angry by reports that most people in her town is. right. and life certainly seems calm on the streets. this tweet this civil war in libya except that it's coming from thoughts leads this country do you think that the civil. thing is normal right now and the future may be ok we move normally as for conflicts elsewhere with

a bit count is climbing it's a little media coverage and even less foreign 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 is that. your oil you think we'd be in iraq if their major ads or if 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 been a mess and they'll clean it up policy arteaga john zogby. and anthony wild from the online newspaper the daily behold believes nato member states a pretty huge crush on libyans right now at a crossroads as well as long as one dimension is or western style government. there's quite a bit of speculation as 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 that the help 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 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'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 libyan 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 counts of moammar gadhafi and the significant government the u.s. has blocked so so been done as the largest amount for an answer. but as in the war and this time of course history suggests. but as the violence continues in libya the u.s. sends warships and more troops in that direction fueling speculation of a military intervention meanwhile western countries may have already launched a war against colonel moammar gadhafi as north african regime countries

consider. freezing of. war for the weapons here the foreign assets of either libya the country or khadafi and his family but some estimate to be almost one hundred billion dollars it's believed to be spread across the globe or you all 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 a golf course to the oil company vir annex and billions of dollars of cash in banks throughout europe and the u.s. the question now is what happens to all this money especially that thirty billion dollars the united states has frozen the most ever in the history of this country and this type of situation and essentially cut libby off from the entire u.s. banking system for now it stays put while 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 book. a good deal about this money or. whatever the. point is try to accomplish. the things it's all a melt control and profit. an empire that's an empire where the greatest profits come from the military contracts and the oil contracts. 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 libya's financial interests analysts say you could look to the history of countries such as iran their assets were frozen in the wake of the one thousand nine hundred eighty nine hostage crisis their money that was seized from iran back in may did serve the guy has still you know not been returned to the iranians so it's pretty strictly time for a ponder 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 kiss the money could buy we took their nuclear capacity away made promises didn't live up to their 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 it's uncertain it's a divided country it came from lauren lyster r.t. new york. the u.s.

vice president was in moscow this week to boost trade and encourage the father restart of relations between the two countries while several issues were discussed including the guidance that it was came to correct the previous administration's mistakes of economic ties with russia dmitry medvedev drugs with biden that he hopes the u.s. vice president won't be working on russia's bid for world trade organization membership till the end of his career biden promised his pastoral support for moscow's inclusion democratic strategist chris leppard tina loss and russia have more in common and. i think that the existing relations are on a track moving forward no matter what a little disruption. are and i think that's very important and i think that's part of what this trip is all about and then 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 in the united states now have more in common than we do we should we do that separates us we need that russia to

be part of the w t o we need a 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 a. states like iran and 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. now let's get more nothings

national news making the headlines around the world one person has died and one hundred have been injured in government protests in yemen after police opened fire on crowds in the capital six more were killed on saturday demonstrating for lems to do as president ali abdullah saleh so to give room protesters were also been guarded with tear gas which calls for the injuries there's been continual unrest against the dictator since mid february. u.s. state department spokesman p.j. crowley has quote following criticism of the jail treatment of bradley manning the soldier who is awaiting trial for allegedly supplying a vast trove of secret information to wiki leaks eight is believed to have resigned on the white house press shop after telling a small group at a university that private mannings treatment was ridiculous counterproductive and stupid private manning is confined to a window that southwick twenty three hours a day and does not allow pillows and blankets at night at

a press conference on friday president obama is sure that it asked the pentagon if private manning was being mistreated by the pentagon had said. israel will go several hundred homes trish settlers in the occupied west bank the announcement came a day after pointed israeli settlers were stabbed to death in their home to children and the baby were among those killed with palestinian extremists suspected palestinian leaders have refused to continue to meet with israel and to new settlement construction which breaches international law was halted. this is not c. coming to you live from moscow we'll keep you updated on the latest news coming out of dzhokhar and also you can find the latest on our website that's all to go home now the headlines are next in just a few moments. we'll. get to.

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