reason you believe it's signed strictly from. the future. situation at the fukushima nuclear plant in japan worsens and the second explosion is reported intensifying fears of the possibility of nuclear meltdown triggered by last week's huge earthquake at least seven of missing with several others hurt after the blast which is not how i would believe piers the structure containing the reactors cool. meanwhile the country is bracing itself for another tsunami up to three meters high caused by a strong aftershock of magnitude six. sixteen hundred people have now been confirmed dead after friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami but the toll is expected to rise to over ten thousand rescue teams from all

around the world have joined the fugitive mini's emergency exit. this is also you coming to you live from moscow on our top story there is reported to have been a second blast at the fukushima nuclear plant of the reactor and also there warnings are three need to hide tsunami moving toward the north east coast of japan with residents being ordered to higher ground at least seven people are missing and several are injured in the blast or did not however damage their react so it cools contained that engineers have been using seawater to try to cool down reactors at the complex damaged in last week's quake that a catastrophic nuclear meltdown at least twenty two people have already been affected by radiation after nearly explosion following friday's devastating tremor and tsunami and he's either bennett is in sendai one of the towns worst affected by

the great. we don't know the full extent of the damage at that second blast in the third reactor the fukushima power plant number one the initial reports are that the the actual reactor sure itself bessel containing radioactive materials damage that's what japanese media. explosion was. also surrounding the reactor has collapsed. that damaged we don't know how much radiation is. it but it's the vessel itself is intact which it seems to be according to japanese media there it's not the full scale nuclear catastrophe that was. earlier today soon as it was reported on japanese radio as soon as i heard it in the taxi i was in coming back from the coast. immediately afterwards the advice was to stay inside but just half an hour ago we were. seeing the destruction and the devastation that's there as

a result of the first tsunami when we actually got told by police there so we got shouted out in order to drive back to safety as soon as possible to reach high ground because there were reports that another tsunami approaching we didn't know how long we had but the first tsunami only took nine minutes to reach the coast after the first earthquake so there was panic there and the police were setting people out as fast as possible in sendai the whole city way suffering has been is its infrastructure there's no electricity no power no heating no water and not very little. very cold last night inside here is eighteen floors and basically every single floor space is covered with lost life and it was covered with people bedding down for the night lying on sheets of cardboard about metre and a half long they've been given blankets or the damage across countries of the whole towns of being completely wiped out and the number. is actually keeps keeps rising eight hundred people alone have. died in this prefecture where i am the worst hit

me and he prefecture another eight. hundreds elsewhere in the country but could rise to over ten thousand because in pretty picture alone this one town that has ten thousand residents still unaccounted for out in the sea there is floating debris. maybe ships that are sifting through very meticulously because they. could still find some survivors a sixty year old actually found in the last few hours floating on the roof of his house floated out to sea for three days so there's still a chance of survivors. meanwhile emergency services are on high alert and russia's far eastern region close to northern japan now we're joined live by our correspondent. now they are telling us so there's another tsunami warning for japan close to the island where you are the man that was going on that. aren't you know

what i'm doing changing it to change so you can eat beans and it will both andy warhol clear from the weekend and dealt with. in the morning and look forward to the day what. we really think will be something he needed and also on on day one we want to record it wanting that you have faith in each answer and not are so quick words that engine won't let me. make one wise. point. or not that much. but he'll be shocked if you learn probably. at. the explosion at the fukushima plant report the only. true warning and. they're also well aware and we should molecule already highly likely at least

one and reimport controlled all across the region here in russia not internet or treatment or seemed pretty much already been leveled at really how for now we're now yeah that's right and of course you've heard that there's been a second loss of the fukushima plant how do you try to measure radiation today. yeah we haven't actually. been equipped i'm from i think we call a border train here and we can't be. really sure and old and radiation leverage for extremely low yet pretty year it will little you know any true beauty in any capital like. on the new york be. considered to be a. number of the thing that they were yeah maybe somewhere between the micro and our. computer for you to think apply. to. the.

war. but why. there's no return to worry people are really better because knowing that whatever we chiefly had been reporting before that what we even from what we could have been going in with the ocean and. local weather and war is i think a little bit more right now where. there are very few don't look like candlelight. and. so forth people are watching you know or think only glory. so i understand that people are pretty much concerned in the brush as far east at the moment about these with a radioactive contamination i want to say also as he's what are they doing to to to

deal with the situation. there is a little too much in prison ministry holder quitting today i hope so those of us will get life insurance. vishal reaction promptly imagine to the minute street. scene takes place these are going to close and i have to work with the my. wien floor it controls up the radiation level and they match your eight hundred on something i've got every half an hour. they and what information they get from their equipment. been holding but i haven't heard anything on the director of the local agency about it cannot be warning any clue for the rest of the code the been relatively quiet or quiet with this reaction from the american minister and on the question was. he from. all

right. we understand that. some people are pretty much concerned about this situation with the second tsunami lost on the island of so highly in the well for the moment. is that he say these the weather has changed is that right. you have a right to know and as you know i'm sure in the people we have seen a lot of hunger do you remember what we might see that i think we cannot forget i'll be returning with rick perry. in terms of the people reading it russia's most dangerous region where people leave because of the pond then feeds your way and most of the people who eat here thing of course we. wait. they might. get

a decent hour and they want to get on with it was. the matter with you for not going over to problems people were killed and we heard some very fierce stories about how old people really were buried alive on their feet and for the people well the reaction has been made it hurt. real people here that they are you i called them danger of the quake and you know other question that they had never dealt with anything like there. will be permitted doctor because actually pretty much all when you talk to the margin that you get through this is not what the one hundred percent or. so but i also. recall one thing when it's all when you hear and i was very much right in the coverage of the unfolding tragedy. it much better and the. wider. on national.

identity here. local news channel and i think we're no contribution to the are. we talking. the baby workin. the e.p. and they all managed to majorly hold management of the hotel where we're at any. one they have a lot and leave it on the only big could be one. and it was a letter from their. forty eight so yes they were choosing the new clue. but from all the national network and greater amount that you're not i would think. local but i don't see that much and you can look at least the part. of the local bar that

you know you're right he's going to grandchild reporting there from someone in you so you know thank you very much indeed. and some more on the situation the tragic situation in japan when i was joined by a white an international liaison officer the citizens need grain from asian sense in talking so now that they have so there's been a second blast so the need to plan said. just how big is the threat of radioactive contamination not just for japan but for the wider world. we understand that the blast at the moment has not breached the containment of the reactor. which is very fortunate that's the current situation as reported by a government. company. to contain a bridge. whether it's. breached with force through

a. vapor explosion steam explosion or hydrogen explosion and the prevailing winds as to how far that gets carried and how not. so there are many ifs but you can't rule it out at this stage. full scale worst case scenario and of course there are several other nuclear power plants that are in danger as well and if one goes off in a way then we're worried about the impact that might have on other ones so this is the second disaster we're now had of the same site do you think the situation there is only going to get worse can relieve the authorities when they say they are in control just. not in control they don't know what is happening inside the reactor they're working frantically they're risking

their lives the people in near. ok looks like we lost philip white. we did apologize for that. problem hopefully we'll fix it for you and bring him back shortly but at the moment as we've heard earlier there's been another explosion of the atomic power complex in northeastern japan meanwhile crews are fighting to cool down the overheated radioactive fuel rods at the plants to avert a catastrophic nuclear meltdown and kristof assignments a professor at a top university explains how an explosion might occur and what the worst case scenario could mean for local residents. the 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 incident the situation is the furor adds can melt

they can become oxidized and the rods are protected by zirconium alloy coating and when it comes into contact with water a 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 reactor number one or number three or more locally it is a very important question to solve i would hazard to guess that it is coming from fukushima daiichi number one now there are different types of radiation being released into the atmosphere a good news is that a lot of the steam which exclaimed in the explosion from reactor number one building yesterday is relatively light isotopes these isotopes cannot really cause the long term damage to human health a more serious problem is that they have also detected isotopes of iodine and cesium in the area around the fukushima explosion or 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. all right the second reactor blast at a nuclear plant did not damage the reactors contain there were reports from japan saying the possibility of radioactive release remains low and eleven were hurt with those earlier missing all accounted for and it is going to need to seawater into the reactor to prevent catastrophic nuclear meltdown across japan an estimated two thousand bodies have been recovered but it's fear the death toll could reach as much as ten thousand is also in use three need to hide tsunami is moving toward the northeast coast of japan with authorities evacuating thousands of residents and the . japanese are pledging to stand shoulder to shoulder was talking during the crisis a plane carrying russian rescue workers it's heading to japan with another due to

take heart from countries far east soon and as a mix of your trust explains russia is no stranger to dealing with the nuclear threat facing japan having first hand experience of the world's worst atomic disaster during this soviet era. trip down memory lane expanded from gold to the thirty kilometer chernobyl exclusion zone in ukraine but every visit and emotions twenty five years ago what is now a preview what's his home before the chernobyl falwell changed everything. you know i didn't come here just to take photos of it still feels like home. i spent my best childhood years here along to cheer me up and even those who've never been here before come and feel they can be pretty silly want to come back here. alexander is one of hundreds of thousands whose address changed after april the twenty sixth one thousand nine hundred eighty six the variation is one of youngest

districts in the late one nine hundred eighty s. houses sprung up here literally overnight many of those who had to leave their homes in the chernobyl area found their home here a total of three hundred thousand people had to be resettled from the contaminated land this new life came at a high price for some reason the soviet authorities meddled with the evacuation from the contaminated zone fifty thousand people residents the town just three kilometers from the exploded reactor were subjected to a great deal of radiation the town's former deputy mayor says this dreadful mistake was caused by a mass confusion which followed the last. of those who asked the question don't quite understand what it takes to evacuate as many as fifty thousand people you simply can't do it in one hour or in two hours ago we brought thirteen hundred buses here from kiev and we had to inform people bring them together and in the

first place we had to understand whether we actually needed the evacuation even specialists in the first stages didn't know whether they were reactor was destroyed a quarter of a century since the disaster the thirty kilometer area around the plant is a nuclear wasteland the full hour period for radioactive particles is believed to last several thousand years so this land would hardly ever be inhabited again however some like this elderly man were not put off by the radioactive threat and decided to return after the soviet union collapsed. when i was moved here they gave a. not enough to make a living that's why we returned. here and we grow. the sides more people come to there's a curse post-boy all the time many stop worrying and some food money. as the news of a nuclear incident at the fukushima plant in japan broke out the first thing the authorities did was to evacuated residents within twenty kilometers off the facility twenty

five years ago people of the affected area were less fortunate the reaction of the japanese government suggest that the lessons of chernobyl have decades later been learned. reporting from kiev ukraine. and now we are able to bring you back our guest mr philip wide and internationally is an officer who designs new play information scenting talk low so let's carry on without talk mr white said he said the authorities are not in control about the situation so from your point of view do you think this equation there is only going to get worse we don't know we'll get worse or better we could get worse and there's a significant danger. if it gets worse we're very concerned about the interior terrible mixture of quake and tsunami and

a nuclear accident the same time because it makes it very difficult to evacuate people it makes very very difficult to handle the situation because the infrastructure has been seriously damaged or we've been warning in particular scenario where you have this double whammy as a market called of this combined disaster but the government unfortunately has not listened to us. could have done more to prevent colds going on or the plugs. i think that. any of japan's nuclear power plants are at risk of this situation and i don't think once you have built a nuclear power plant particularly in an earthquake ereal. you have already created the situation for this to happen you can make safe plants you can improve all sorts of. emergency measures but you need.

a risk that you can't cover completely. disaster is going to force a change in policy called japan's nuclear program and. i am optimistic that the public will force. i have absolutely no faith in the government. bureaucracy and the nuclear industry to change. their policy their approach will be gammage control to say this is a special case to say. something or other somehow or other isolated from the rest and that will be their approach or it's most likely to be here approach currently conducting a review of the nuclear policy has started last december the whole purpose of that review was to make cosmetic changes to the policy that's been around for

fifty years. co-director of my organization the information center is actually the only outright opponent on the committee of the council doing is from a view that his position of calling for. the white arrests. i really can't. right to apologize again for our technical problem and carry on so. at the moment hopefully we are able to bring you either bennett from japan can we do it now. yes we can either can you here it is yet one state. that the moment we understand you you're not far away from the nuclear plant what's

going on there. i'm going to hundred comments on the way to the north and we've heard the reports obviously that there's been a second explosion there in reactor we don't know the full extent of the damage yet but. we do you think the vessel is still intact the reactor itself is intact and the p it was in the last sort of twelve twenty four hours. because it's lost its cooling system and being malfunctioning in itself would melt down but i think that that's not the case the explosion actually occurred. as a result of a hydrogen buildup because of the temperature getting so hot water started to break and then bang created a buildup of heart in which both steve and i would be inside of it all the fuel rods but the japanese government they still don't know exactly where the explosion was all the full extent of it but they are pretty certain that they need help it

will in fact now that's the most important thing if has actually erupted then when a real sort of nuclear attack in the. sense here and it's very severe in the. radiation aide in the atmosphere we know that. this morning we're being treated for radiation exposure as a result of. this an explosion radiation exposure story act and sing and we know there's also this second explosion that eleven people have been and they've been and missing but we don't know yet the full extent of the radiation in japanese radio hearing in. march the big explosion they were warning people here in sendai undertone to the north that the winds are going from stop the north from the radiation could be blowing this way and on the streets . seems like people have taken heed. bison. or maybe they're fearing

for their aftershocks because. he building up. all the food shops that are operating it's only a little blankly any projects like that but one of the main street markets is a queue of around. two thousand people it's a kilometer long a mess and being still there hours to be able to get into the shop and buy what they can. you know either there is another thread so what about the tsunami moving to the country. we were actually out on the road. with which of the worst one of the worst affected areas are also that first tsunami that hit three days following the great whites who were there we heard from the police and the army forces another tsunami was very fast approaching suddenly it was panic whistles were being blown. all the police were running around shouting at us and forcing us

to leave and we actually eventually chased it away from metro back inland that's what you will desperation for to reach high ground and get as far away from the coast because the tsunami the one that wiped out pretty much everything in par three days ago travel the extremely fast news stream all just in nine minutes. after the big to reach the shore and it reached a prominent inland so it was a race against time we don't know whether the tsunami hit. because none of us know of the amount to go to the coast so we can't get any pictures and. we're not hearing any information but there the worry was that it was a five meter high you know i mean. we haven't heard anything more from that may have been a false alarm we do know that was a bit large. morning not will not be long ago in tokyo and so.

the pride levels would drop dropped five meters on the coast along with a pretty picture where those nuclear reactors are matters one hundred one from where i am. and that's what prompted this these fears and warnings of a new tsunami. right hopefully this second tsunami will never he's either bennett reporting there live from japan either thank you very much for that report and be careful. while the second reacted last said if you could see many of their plan did no damage the reactors container with reports on two parts saying the possibility of. reader active release remains low and eleven were hurt with those missing all accounted for engineers continue to pull seawater into the reactor to provide catastrophic nuclear meltdown and across japan a further two thousand bodies have been recovered as into the confirmed number of sixteen hundred but it's fear the death toll could reach as much as ten thousand also knew three needs a height tsunami is moving toward the northeast coast of japan with authorities

evacuating thousands of residents still without sleep the date of developments in japan under also can log on to a website called for more. today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world in seeing from the streets of canada. operations are all. wealthy british think it's time to. go.